Doug
Spaulding

Your quote from Steve Allen~
Think it rather odd, don't you?...for a man who created "The Tonight Show" on TV to say something like that. Was it the comic in him talking?

Also, it's unfair to say that today!! There are many many fine programs on television that were missing when Steve Allen made that statement. Sure, it's as cruddy as ever; and as a good as ever.

~The Supreme Court ruled against a Nativity scene in the Washington DC. area. It wasn't for religious reasons. They couldn't find 3 wise men and a virgin.
~Jay Leno "The Tonight Show"~

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....................Tact...is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

..................~Abraham Lincoln
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"The time is fast approaching when Christianity will be almost as openly disavowed in the language as in fact it is already supposed to have disappeared from the conduct of men: when infidelity will be held to be the necessary appendage of a man of fashion, and TO BELIEVE will be deemed the indication of a feeble mind."

- William Wilberforce, Anti-slavery activist, ca. 1800 (!)

Nard wrote 'Tact...is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.'

Dern tootin', smartypants! Err, MISTER smartypants.

Hey, when I highlighted Nard's quote all these previously hidden periods, or ellipsises, or whatever the heck they are magically appeared. Try it. I think he's trying to tell us something.

Spooky. But it raises the question of why you were highlighting it in the first place.

............Hey, I can do it too. Highlight this: :-]

I love senselessly highlighting things.

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Originally posted by Nard Kordell:
Your quote from Steve Allen~
Think it rather odd, don't you?...for a man who created "The Tonight Show" on TV to say something like that. Was it the comic in him talking?

Also, it's unfair to say that today!! There are many many fine programs on television that were missing when Steve Allen made that statement. Sure, it's as cruddy as ever; and as a good as ever.

It reminds me of a pig rooting around for truffles - eventually you will find a good thing! I would say the majority of television programmes on today are tripe, however.

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Originally posted by philnic:
Highlight this: :-]

Now everyone's going to be looking for hidden messages all the time, which reminds me - I think I'll go watch The Da Vinci Code!

"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!" - Da Vinci

Steve Allen wrote a pretty good science fiction story.
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Doug,

Are you familiar with "Sturgeon's Law"?

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Henry Rollins is on Carson Daly.

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OK Back on topic.

"What the mass media offer is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten and replaced by a new dish."

- W. H. Auden

Sturgeon's Law is a great quote and absolutely relevent to the discussion about quality television... and entertainment, and food. I've got a pair of dirty socks for the first person to track it down. Google should have it.

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Wikipedia has a good blurb on Sturgeon's Law, q.v:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon's_law

Cotton socks?

Matching?

You got it!

"Ninety percent of everything is crud."

I've got one very worn terry-cloth sock/nylon for you, one wool sock to get you through those freezing Santa Cruz summers, and as an added bonus for promptness I'll throw in a white cotton sock with what appears to be a small clump of dried spaghetti.

I really need to buy some napkins one of these days. And do some laundry.

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This message has been edited. Last edited by: grasstains,

Uhhh...not just now, thanks all the same.

OK. Here's a segue:

"I feel as though the entire Russian army has been marching across my tongue in their stocking feet!"

- W.C. Fields (after a particularly hard night)

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why God? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, "There's just something about you that pisses me off."
=Stephen King

"In the beginning there was nothing, and God said, "Let there be light," and there was still nothing but everybody could see it."
=Dave Thomas, founder of Wendys

"Thank God I'm an atheist."
=Luis Bunuel