Comments on: No More Smoking

By: grandmuffti

grandmuffti — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:44:28 +0000

Time travel has been a long standing issue of concern for metaphysicians!

By: froylein

froylein — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:12:29 +0000

There are time machines, but humans wouldn’t survive them. Don’t ask me about the specifics, but scientists managed to accelerate molecules and sound (a tune by Chopin) to a speed beyond the speed of light, and apparently something told them that the molecules and the tune had travelled in time.

By: Ephraim

Ephraim — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:00:51 +0000

No, actually, they are.

I get to imagine how the time machine thing would work, Muffti. It’s not supposed to be realistic. Is this what you went to school for?

By: Grand Muffti

Grand Muffti — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:08:36 +0000

Such an edumacated bunch of posters Jewlicious does not even deserve.

The memories aren’t that painful, are they ephraim? Besdies, if you had a time machine, you’d just show up all of the sudden and the relevant embodiment of missed opportunity would say ‘what’s this dude dong here?’

By: Tom Morrissey

Tom Morrissey — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:35:12 +0000

Samuel, not Josh.

By: froylein

froylein — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:30:22 +0000

Beckett?

By: Tom Morrissey

Tom Morrissey — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:34:22 +0000

CLOV (returning to his place beside the chair):
If age but knew!

By: froylein

froylein — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:20:44 +0000

Let’s found a support group.

By: Ephraim

Ephraim — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:15:10 +0000

Yes, such stories bring back painful memories. I have to force myself to not think of all of the missed opportunities in high school resulting from my utter cluelessness, just to prevent myself from bursting into tears. What I wouldn’t give for a time machine.

By: grandmuffti

grandmuffti — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:45:50 +0000

Funny eh? Muffti was genuinely confused. So was she when Muffti informed her that we had no dates.

By: Ephraim

Ephraim — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:41:19 +0000

Aha.

Now I understand why the Muffti is a philosphy professor.

By: grandmuffti

grandmuffti — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:39:10 +0000

Muffti did some bartending once. He was pretty young at the time. One night a woman said that she wanted ‘a drink and a date’ and as the restaurant was in a bar, he went off searching for what interpreted to be an odd request for a fruit.

Muffti isn’t all that bright.

By: Ephraim

Ephraim — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:51:58 +0000

“The Grfters” is a great film. Both Cusak and Anjeclia Huston are incredible.

A real downer, though.

Captain Morgan and Diet Coke?

Yecccchhhhhh….

By: Tom Morrissey

Tom Morrissey — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:39:18 +0000

This one’s really, really good. A masterpiece of latter-day film noir.

By: froylein

froylein — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:56:39 +0000

Does that mean I’ll have to watch a film?

By: Tom Morrissey

Tom Morrissey — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:50:38 +0000

Check Cusack out in Stephen Frears’ The Grifters.

By: froylein

froylein — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:42:13 +0000

Ramon, now I’ll have to google John Cusack.
Sometime when I was in NYC last year, I was shopping at Century21. I was standing in line at the check-out, pretty much loaded. Behind me was some older guy and he just had a pair of sunglasses to pay for, so I offered him to go ahead. He noticed my British accent and asked where I was from, so I replied that I was from Germany but had lived in Britain for a while and asked whether he was a New Yorker. His response, “Actually, I’m famous.” This prompted me to ask, “You’re famous and buy your sunglasses at Century21?” Methinks he didn’t take too kindly on that.

By: Tom Morrissey

Tom Morrissey — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:13:54 +0000

ramon, here’s one gentile you can mix a drink for anytime (provided it’s not one of those sickly-sweet, girly things). Having said that– you get no sympathy from me, not the way the Twins are playing.

An Irish psychiatrist may turn your appointment into a revival of Endgame:

HAMM:
Apart from that, how do you feel?
CLOV:
I don’t complain.
HAMM:
You feel normal?
CLOV (irritably):
I tell you I don’t complain.
HAMM:
I feel a little strange.
(Pause.)
Clov!
CLOV:
Yes.
HAMM:
Have you not had enough?
CLOV:
Yes!
(Pause.)
Of what?

By: ramon marcos

ramon marcos — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:59:02 +0000

Ephraim – it is true that historically (American) Jews were not as hard drinkers as Gentiles. The hard stuff was limited to the weekly poker games. But (unfortunately) that’s changed. With women also. Might have something to do with that glass ceiling. Gotta be able to hang with the bosses at happy hour. If you don’t like Captain Morgan and Diet Coke and Patron shots you better learn to.

I was being a bit facetious of course. It’s a depressing job and no one need aspire to be one. It’s a good thing to have in your back pocket when you need extra cash. Really, the best Jewish bartender is the one who’s working his way through law school.

Froylein – so you won’t know that’s John Cusak buying you a drink at the bar? He’ll love that.

By: froylein

froylein — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:06:30 +0000

Ramon, I’m afraid I wouldn’t recognize any celebrities even if they jumped right into my face, partly because I don’t have a TV by choice, partly because they probably look pretty average when they’re not all dolled up. Whenever I go to NYC though, some students of mine or another will ask whether I’d seen 50Cent. My standard reply has become, “Yeah, I suppose I have. If he takes the train into Manhattan, that is.”