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8033. PelleNilsson - 1/1/2006 6:57:10 PM Some of you with long memories may recall the Haysweep Project that Uzmakk and I had going in this thread in the autumn of 1998.
A problem then was that I couldn't find a picture of the actual thing, but the other day I came across one.
The hay hides the multitude of 3-foot iron spikes that collect it. In his right hand, the operator holds the lever that connects to The Sacred Mechanism. We must now visualize the equipage in motion. When the time comes to dump the hay, the operator briefly disengages the lever, moves it down a notch and lifts. The tips of the spikes dig into the ground and the whole contraption turns on itself leaving the hay behind. The operator then uses the lever again to roll the spikes forward and a new hay-gathering cycle begins. 8034. Macnas - 1/3/2006 12:15:11 PM That's one poor looking nag. 8035. wonkers2 - 1/4/2006 7:20:04 PM Lord Horatio Nelson mythology dispelled by Roger Knight in his new book "The Pursuit of Victory":
Nelson did not, regretably, engage single-handed with a polar bear in the Arctic;
he did not ignore the signal to withdraw from the battle of Copenhagen by clamping a telescope to his blind eye;
his body was shipped back to England in a cask of brandy, not rum, and sailors did not reverently swig from it.
Lord Nelson. 8036. wonkers2 - 1/9/2006 1:14:43 AM The Unmasking of JT Leroy: In Public He's a She 8037. Ms. No - 1/9/2006 6:26:02 PM Has anybody here read any of Leroy's books? 8038. wonkers2 - 1/15/2006 10:14:07 PM Cap'n Dirty sez: "Here's the first line of a book in case anybody's interested in pursuing Jay's guessing game:"
"The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin."
8039. Ulgine Barrows - 1/18/2006 6:07:05 AM I still read to my son every night. We are currently on "Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane", which is a gripping story for an almost 11-yr-old. Er, and me, too. Surely a movie will follow.
So, tonight we were quibbling about the pillows AGAIN, which is part of the drill as we settle down to read. You would just have to be there, it's not a bad bicker.
Tonight, I told son in a royal voice, "I'm thoroughly ensconced in the pillows and can't possibly move, unless you spell ensconce correctly."
Little pecker did! I gave him a high-five.
And moved, among much giggling. 8040. wabbit - 1/30/2006 11:23:51 PM  Playwright Wendy Wasserstein, who chronicled the feminist struggles and successes of the baby-boomer generation in such wryly observant works as "The Heidi Chronicles" and "The Sisters Rosensweig," has died of lymphoma at the age of 55.
8041. judithathome - 1/30/2006 11:39:25 PM Bummer. 8042. wabbit - 2/3/2006 4:14:35 PM WoW, we await images and a report on your smashing success in Siena! 8043. alistairconnor - 2/3/2006 4:19:12 PM I thought your show opened in Siena in March? 8044. alistairconnor - 2/3/2006 4:30:47 PM Oh ah and if you want to send a poster for the kids...
Moulin Chorel
42140 Marcenod
is the address. 8045. judithathome - 2/4/2006 12:02:47 AM I'm shocked this didn't happen in Kansas!
No Culture For YOU!
Some parents in this prairie town are angry with an elementary school music teacher for showing pupils a video about the opera "Faust," whose title character sells his soul to the devil in exchange for being young again.
"Any adult with common sense would not think that video was appropriate for a young person to see. I'm not sure it's appropriate for a high school student," Robby Warner said after two of her children saw the video.
Another parent, Casey Goodwin, said, "I think it glorifies Satan in some way."
Tresa Waggoner showed approximately 250 first-, second- and third-graders at Bennett Elementary portions of a 33-year-old series titled "Who's Afraid of Opera" a few weeks ago. 8046. wonkers2 - 2/4/2006 12:28:44 AM Ignorance unlimited in Colorado. 8047. arkymalarky - 2/4/2006 1:51:37 AM Uh-oh. I just got through teaching Goethe's Faust in AP English. 8048. Ms. No - 2/4/2006 2:06:51 AM If the parents had any culture they'd realize that it's a morality tale they could get on board with since Faust is clearly not to be emulated and all deals with devil are bad ones.
Sheesh. Bunch of loons. 8049. Macnas - 2/6/2006 11:44:08 AM Oh for fucks sake. 8050. Macnas - 2/6/2006 11:46:41 AM "Go'in down to Southpark, gonna have myself a time" 8051. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 2/11/2006 12:08:11 AM I thought this guy's haircut belonged in this thread because of its title.
 8052. alistairConnor - 2/11/2006 1:19:15 PM Way cool! He's got to be French!
though he would probably get a hard time from the cops...
(hair would seem to be modelled on the képi worn by French gendarmes)
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