New England Off Topic and Banter as Most Brilliantly Proposed by Cape Cod MINI - Page 1058 - MINI2

NoNo · #**15856** (**permalink**) Aug 22nd, 2006, 11:59 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by GadgetGav (original)

I put them up and I can tell you they won't take all of us at once..! We could work out a rota I suppose, the one who brings the best calzones gets to spend the most time in the hammock.

Whoa! I don't know what kind of parties you throw there, Gav, but I'm not getting in the hammock with the two of you!

Pat's the one that wants to share a hammock with you.

If I bring calzones, will you stand beside the hammock to keep it gently rocking while fanning me with a palm branch?

Secco old and cranky? Never!

GadgetGav · #**15857** (**permalink**) Aug 22nd, 2006, 12:05 PM

You might have to bring the palm branch as well as the calzones. I doubt fanning you with poison ivy has the same appeal..!

retsej · #**15858** (**permalink**) Aug 22nd, 2006, 02:01 PM

Can I be naked. There is nothing better than lieing naked in a hammock wit the breeze gentily blowing past your...... urhaah sorry just daydreaming

holdenontoit · #**15859** (**permalink**) Aug 22nd, 2006, 02:12 PM

calm blue ocean
calm blue ocean..............

jwardell · #**15860** (**permalink**) Aug 22nd, 2006, 02:58 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by jcsinnh (original)

That's where you're wrong, faceless one. I was born old and cranky. Josh and his crowd need to pay homage to folks like me and Admiral Whatshername, and Mr. Timex and Mr. Sinclair, and Mel Brooks, and Noah.

I have a crowd? Wow, I'm flattered.

I would expect the "old" guy to be old-school and be the worst of the salespeople.

At the end he explained that he retired and he was just in for the day to help out. Explains why he was so laid back.

Theo · #**15861** (**permalink**) Aug 22nd, 2006, 03:40 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by jcsinnh (original)

...need to pay homage to folks like me and Admiral Whatshername...

Admiral Grace Hopper, inventor of the compiler and the first person to document a computer "bug" in 1945 (an actual moth being pummeled by an electro-mechanical relay)?

It was my good fortune to spend about an hour with her in the late 80's. I volunteered to pick her up and drop her off at Bradley Airport for her presentation to a Springfield area DPMA meeting. We had a great drive to an from the airport ("I'll provide the conversation; you drive the car!"). She was a hot ticket and had a very unique wit that did, at times, border on philosophy, but most often was intended to tear the "establishment" and "conventional thinking" into shreds.

My favorite Hopper quote was: "We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. It might help if we ran the MBAs out of Washington."

I still have the wire "nanosecond" she gave me.

Theo