What a pleasure it is to listen to a Monty Python album
where you don't already have everything memorized. "Memory Training" is
right up there with "Word Association Football," and the dialogue between Mrs.
Particle and Mrs. Velocity is just as good as the one between Mrs. Premise and
Mrs. Conclusion. This never has been, and possibly never will be, officially
released, so it's time to look on the pirate side of life and download a
bootleg. It's only available in BitTorrent. Download
this torrent.
Despite the title, this 1981 album was
never actually released to the public for a fast buck. Andre Jacquemin, who put
together much of the Pythons' album work, cobbled this album together from
material which had been recorded for other albums (mostly the Contractual
Obligation Album) but not used. It was given by Michael Palin to the band
Motorhead as a gift, and has found its way, unofficially, into the
hands of fans, but has never been sold in
stores.
Amy Goodman: Canada's Olympic Crackdown
Going to Canada? You may be detained at the border and interrogated. I was, last week. I was heading from Seattle to give a talk at the Vancouver Public Library. My detention provoked outrage across Canada, making national news. It has serious implications for the freedom of the press in North America.
Ethan Epstein: What the Hay? (nypress.com)
Suze Orman has been touted as a 'trusted national advisor' and a sensible financial guru. But after visiting a self-help seminar, why is she pushing Hay House hokum to the masses?
Rob Fishman: Prize of the Meritocracy (huffingtonpost.com)
Goldman Sachs is, by its own account, a meritocracy -- a word first used by Michael Young in 1958. In the half-century since, we seem to have forgotten that the original work was satire.
Mark Morford: Where have you been all my life? (sfgate.com)
I have a question. It might be damn near unanswerable. It might be rhetorical, open-ended, imponderable, a bit obvious. But it also feels terrifically important, essential to a deeper understanding of how time and love and eternity function in this meek and humble terrestrial plane we call reality. Or maybe that's just the sake talking. Shall we find out?
Cathleen Schine: Growing Up Female (nybooks.com)
It is a sign of just how intelligent and generous a writer Gail Collins is that by the end of her new book, the feminist dilemma seems less an incurable virus than a challenge, one that has already been met with so much energy, stubborn courage, and radical hope, not to mention desperation, drama, and, sometimes, in retrospect, downright silliness, that we feel we are all on a human adventure, and all on it together.
Josa Young: Women Like Reading About Sex (huffingtonpost.com)
Reading about sex is all the rage for women over 45, according to Astral -- a pleasant skincare range that you buy in your local chemist (which tells you what kind of client base it has).
"Aesop's Mirror: A Love Story" by Maryalice Huggins: A review by Benjamin Moser
Her often scathing portraits of the people connected with the mirror and her ungilded reactions to them, from her resentment toward the dealer who screws her out of more than $100,000 in the sale of an antique sofa to her annoyance with the ...
The two people without invitations that crashed President Obama's first White House state dinner, Tareq and Michaele Salahi, polo-playing socialites from northern Virginia, are now offering to talk to broadcast networks about it - providing they're well paid. The Virginia couple was looking for a payment in the mid-six figures range - about half a million dollars...
Are you interested enough in what they have to say about their exploit to watch an interview of them?
Meanwhile, two senators, Evan Bayh (D-Indiana) and Jon Kyl (R- Arizona), have called for criminal charges be brought against the couple...
Do you feel that the party crashing couple should be prosecuted?
The name "avocado" also refers to the fruit (technically a large berry that contains a large seed) of the tree which may be egg-shaped or spherical.
Source
Charlie was first, but wrong, with:
It's a berry.
Déjà Vu
(My unreliable memory suggests this question has been asked before, but I'm not sure.)
Alan J responded:
Tree
Marian the Teacher replied:
fruit (berry)
DanD answered:
Well, since it looks and (somewhat) tastes like a vegetable, I'll WAG that it's really a fruit.
Sally said:
Because it contains a pit, the avocado is technically a fruit. I like this kind
better than this one
but either is good for Guacamole!
Avocado's make a wonderful (and easy) plant for the kids to grow. Place toothpicks in the center of the pit
and place the bottom half in a container of water. Pretty soon, the pit splits and out grows a plant.
MAM answered:
An avocado is technically a berry, specifically a kind of berry called a drupe (it has a single stony pit at its center).
Ken iPhoned:
Berry. Looks like a drupe but has no inner seed.
And, Joe S replied:
A fruit.
Avocado recipes
I can't believe I totally forgot to answer the quiz yesterday. The answer is Costa Rica, does it still count?
Monday's page most likely won't be posted until Monday afternoon.
Between what the old Pepto-Bismol commercial referred to as 'distress in the lower tract', and some weather-related complications, it's going to take extra long to get home, and I figure I'm gonna be mighty cranky, so, Monday's gonna be late.
Tonight, Sunday:
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH"Amazing Race 15', then a FRESH'Three Rivers', followed by a FRESH'Cold Case'.
NBC fills the night with LIVE'Sunday Night Football', then pads the left coast with local crap, an old 'Monk', and maybe an old 'Dateline'.
ABC begins the night with a RERUN'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition', then a FRESH'Desperate Housewives', followed by a FRESH'Brothers & Sisters'.
The CW offers the movie 'Deck The Halls'.
Faux has a RERUN'Brothers', followed by a RERUN'Til Death'< then a RERUN'Simpsons', followed by a RERUN'Cleveland', then a RERUN'Family Guy', followed by a RERUN"American Dad'.
MY recycles an old 'That 70s Show', another old 'That 70s Show', an old 'House', and another old 'House'.
A&E has 'CSI: The 2nd One', 'Criminal Minds', another 'Criminal Minds', and yet another 'Criminal Minds'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Green Mile', followed by 'The Prisoner'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] Britain's Missing Top Model - Episode 1
[1:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 6
[2:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 5
[3:00 PM] The Truth About Binge Drinking
[4:00 PM] Perfect Private Parts
[5:00 PM] Super Botox Me
[6:00 PM] My Big Breasts and Me
[7:00 PM] Should I Smoke Dope?
[8:00 PM] Arthur
[10:00 PM] The Truth About Binge Drinking
[11:00 PM] Arthur
[1:00 AM] The Truth About Binge Drinking
[2:00 AM] Kinky Boots
[4:00 AM] The Truth About Binge Drinking
[5:00 AM] BBC World News
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has all 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' all night.
Comedy Central has 'Jim Gaffigan: King Baby', 'Gabriel Iglesias: I'm Not Fat ... I'm Fluffy', 'Nick Swardson: Seriously , Who Farted?'. followed by the FRESH'Comedy Central's Hot List'.
FX has the movie 'Ghost Rider', followed by the movie 'Live Free Or Die Hard'.
History has 'Nostradamus Effect', 'Gangland', 'Jesse James' Hidden Gold'.
IFC -
[6:00 AM] The New World
[8:20 AM] Close to Home
[10:00 AM] Sarkar
[12:05 PM] IFC News Special
[12:30 PM] Garden State
[2:15 PM] The New World
[4:35 PM] Close to Home
[6:15 PM] The Assassination of Richard Nixon
[8:00 PM] The Weight of Water
[10:00 PM] Arrested Development
[10:30 PM] Arrested Development
[11:00 PM] The Libertine
[1:00 AM] Quills
[3:05 AM] The Weight of Water
[5:05 AM] The Assassination of Richard Nixon (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[05:30 AM] Iconoclasts - Season 3: Alicia Keys + Ruby Dee
[06:25 AM] Caramel
[08:00 AM] Kippur
[10:00 AM] E2: Design I - 104
[10:30 AM] Carbon Cops: Episode 4
[11:00 AM] Eco Documentaries - Season 2: Contested Streets
[01:00 PM] Iconoclasts - Season 3: Alicia Keys + Ruby Dee
[02:00 PM] Man Shops Globe: Man Shops Globe - 101
[02:30 PM] Live From Abbey Road - 312
[03:30 PM] In Between Days
[05:00 PM] Spectacle: Renee Fleming
[06:00 PM] Spectacle: Herbie Hancock
[07:00 PM] Spectacle: She & Him, Jenny Lewis, Jakob Dylan
[08:00 PM] Spectacle: Diana Krall & Elton John
[09:00 PM] Spectacle: Smokey Robinson
[10:00 PM] The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
[12:15 AM] Nowhere to Hide
[02:00 AM] Drama/mex
[03:35 AM] The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
[05:55 AM] Nights Of Cabiria (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'National Treasure', followed by the movie 'Alice'.
You have reached the Home page of BartCop Entertainment.
Make yourself home, take your shoes off...
Go ahead, scratch it if it itches.
The idea is to have fun.
Do you have something to say?
Anything that increased your blood pressure, or, even better,
amused or entertained?
Do you have a great album no one's heard?
How about a favorite TV show, movie, book, play, cartoon, or legal amusement?
A popular artist that just plain pisses you off?
A box set the whole world should own?
Vile, filthy rumors about Republican musicians?
Just plain vile, filthy rumors?
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better than this one
but either is good for Guacamole!
and place the bottom half in a container of water. Pretty soon, the pit splits and out grows a plant.
answered:
