[Ads-l] "Meru" [was: healthier, n.]
Joel Berson
berson at ATT.NET
Mon Sep 7 15:14:29 UTC 2015
Jon wrote:
> I recommend the current film "Meru," a true-life, inspirational tribute to human folly.
How can one resist a review like that if one is a Schadenfreudian?
Joel
From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
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Subject: Re: [ADS-L] healthier, n.
I recommend the current film "Meru," a true-life, inspirational tribute to
human folly.
Aside from that, it brifely shows a front cover of _Outside_ magazine
from the 1990s (?1998) featuring the headline:
"Masters of Extreme."
Now in my day, that would have to have been "Masters of *the* Extreme."
JL
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> > From the movie "All About Steve" (2009):
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> > "A world that doesn't always embrace unique."
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> > > 1991 G. W. Bush (widely quoted): They were on us like ugly on an ape.
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> > > 1993 Yusef Komenyakaa _Neon Vernacular_ [Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan U.
> > P.]
> > > 8: God don't like ugly.
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> > > 2015 National Geographic Channel series: The Science of Stupid.
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> > > > "When you're living with diabetes, steady is exciting. Glucerna."
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> > > > > "Beneful. Healthy with a side of happy."
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> > > > > > http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=157882&messages=12
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> > > > > > "How can you defend against stupid?"
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> > > > > > > Memorable moments stick in the memory.
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> > > > > > > > > Another ex. of a trend in usage that begins imperceptibly,
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> > > > > > > > All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange
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