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I adored Paul Lynde/
Email is very good for sustaining friendships. I have daily dialogues w/ friends all over the world w/ whom I used to correspond but snail mail didn’t have the immediacy so letters were somewhat sterile or overwrought (depending on whether you were just coasting or in the midst of some crisis.)
Will do CGar (you deceitful slime). Are you getting a cat? 😉
“(how many times do we now use email in lieu of actually talking to and meeting friends?). ”
Thousands of emails.
I felt tremendous anomie after the shooting in Fort Greene. I wanted to talk about it so badly that I sought out people in the neighborhood (talked to neighbors in the street, went for a glass of wine at Olivino to find some neighbors there) and I was so distressed to find that something so important — 5 teenagers getting shot on our street — wasn’t even enough to rally people together. Our block association is comprised of a collection of elderly women who started it in the 1960s. Everybody else is BUSY. Maybe they talked about it at Queen of All Saints, I don’t know since I had gone to another church for mass after it happened. But I thought in another time, age, wouldn’t people really have enough natural ties to one another to rally together after such a tragedy? Not now.
“And DIBS only because of the amount of buttsecks he has.”
Just because he talks about it more than anyone doesn’t mean he’s getting it more than anyone. (Although I would bet that he is).
bxgrl, even though you’ve been flirting shamelessly with benson all day (you ignorant slut), I need you and your slumlord to check your email later and get back to me, please. Just a quick question to which I think one of you crazy broads will know the answer. Thanks!
Talking about old TV shows, my brother just sent me this-
Hollywood Squares:
These great questions and answers are from the days when ‘ Hollywood Squares’ game show responses were spontaneous, not scripted, as they are now. Peter Marshall was the host asking the questions, of course..
Q.. Paul, what is a good reason for pounding meat?
A. Paul Lynde: Loneliness!
(The audience laughed so long and so hard it took up almost 15 minutes of the show!)
Q. Do female frogs croak?
A. Paul Lynde: If you hold their little heads under water long enough.
Q. If you’re going to make a parachute jump, at least how high should you be
A. Charley Weaver: Three days of steady drinking should do it.
Q. True or False, a pea can last as long as 5,000 years..
A. George Gobel: Boy, it sure seems that way sometimes.
Q. You’ve been having trouble going to sleep. Are you probably a man or a woman?
A. Don Knotts: That’s what’s been keeping me awake.
Q. According to Cosmopolitan, if you meet a stranger at a party and you think that he is attractive, is it okay to come out and ask him if he’s married?
A.. Rose Marie: No wait until morning.
Q. Which of your five senses tends to diminish as you get older?
A. Charley Weaver: My sense of decency..
Q. In Hawaiian, does it take more than three words to say ‘I Love You’?
A. Vincent Price: No, you can say it with a pineapple and a twenty..
Q. What are ‘Do It,’ ‘I Can Help,’ and ‘I Can’t Get Enough’?
A. George Gobel: I don’t know, but it’s coming from the next apartment.
Q. As you grow older, do you tend to gesture more or less with your hands while talking?
A.. Rose Marie: You ask me one more growing old question Peter, and I’ll give you a gesture you’ll never forget.
Q. Paul, why do Hell’s Angels wear leather?
A. Paul Lynde: Because chiffon wrinkles too easily.
Q. Charley, you’ve just decided to grow strawberries. Are you going to get any during the first year?
A. Charley Weaver: Of course not, I’m too busy growing strawberries.
Q. In bowling, what’s a perfect score?
A. Rose Marie: Ralph, the pin boy.
Q. It is considered in bad taste to discuss two subjects at nudist camps. One is politics, what is the other?
A. Paul Lynde: Tape measures.
Q. During a tornado, are you safer in the bedroom or in the closet?
A.. Rose Marie: Unfortunately Peter, I’m always safe in the bedroom.
Q. Can boys join the Camp Fire Girls?
A. Marty Allen: Only after lights out.
Q. When you pat a dog on its head he will wag his tail. What will a goose do?
A. Paul Lynde: Make him bark?
Q. If you were pregnant for two years, what would you give birth to?
A.. Paul Lynde: Whatever it is, it would never be afraid of the dark.
Q. According to Ann Landers, is there anything wrong with getting into the habit of kissing a lot of people?
A. Charley Weaver: It got me out of the army.
Q. It is the most abused and neglected part of your body, what is it?
A. Paul Lynde: Mine may be abused, but it certainly isn’t neglected.
Q. Back in the old days, when Great Grandpa put horseradish on his head, what was he trying to do?
A. George Gobel: Get it in his mouth.
Q. Who stays pregnant for a longer period of time, your wife or your elephant?
A. Paul Lynde: Who told you about my elephant?
Q. When a couple have a baby, who is responsible for its sex?
A. Charley Weaver: I’ll lend him the car, the rest is up to him
Q. Jackie Gleason recently revealed that he firmly believes in them and has actually seen them on at least two occasions. What are they?
A. Charley Weaver: His feet.
Q. According to Ann Landers, what are two things you should never do in bed?
A. Paul Lynde: Point and laugh
…what about lurkers/anti-OT types like
randolph and brooklyncouch?
Where do they fit into our electronic society?
In real life they’re probably hospatility specialists.
I think social networking media is dehumanizing because it does let us become isolated. In fact it almost promotes it- we can extend our reach, without extending our sociability. I read an article a few years ago that talked about how the ipod isolated people. It’s interesting because having a hearing problem as I do, is very isolating in crowds. I get angst trying to hear what’s going on around me, yet millions of people pop in their earplugs and hope not to know.