Of all the dumb ideas...
The Post Office is having money troubles. This is not news. There are two main causes for their problems. The obvious cause is that the use of "snail-mail" continues to decline. E-mail, on-line bill pay and the like have drastically reduced their volume. The other cause for the financial woes of the Post Office is that it is the only agency or quasi-agency of the federal government that is having to pre-pay billions into a fund to cover the cost of retiree benefits.
Now because they claim they don't have the funds to buy vehicles to replace their aging and maintenance-intensive fleet of vehicles, they are planning to lease vehicles instead. Those right-side-drive mail trucks will be replaced by leased vehicles. These "mail trucks" get heavy use. They cover a lot of miles each year. High-mileage leases are more expensive.
The USPS should take a look at the problems the city of Detroit is having with leased vehicles. They've paid more than $65,000 and continue to pay hundreds each month to lease ONE vehicle that would have cost only $25,000 to buy rather than lease.
Now if the federal government can borrow to do anything and everything it does, surely it can borrow a little more to buy rather than lease a new fleet of postal vehicles.
* * *
I had yesterday all planned out. Teach from 9 to noon. Run over to the other office and meet with a client for about an hour. Be home by 1:30 and eat lunch, then rest and write the Thursday blog. Teach from 6 to 9 in the evening and then come home and relax on Friday.
There was a problem at the morning class and I didn't get out of there until almost 1. I spent nearly 3 hours with my client trying and failing to contact the right person in the right IRS office. I got home and had just about an hour to eat lunch and try to rest before I had to leave for the evening class. I won't go into the problems with the evening class. Suffice it to say I didn't sit down to finally eat my dinner until well after 10 p.m.
So please accept my apologies for the lack of a blog yesterday. I will try to make up for it today with both a daily blog and a headlines blog.
* * *
There is a controversy brewing at the University of Alabama. Two black women attempted to pledge some of the Panhellenic sororities. There are four "Greek" groups at UofA. The IFC is the group of traditionally "white" fraternities. The Panhellenic is the group of traditionally "white" sororities (and yes I know some sororities refer to themselves as fraternities, even though they are for women only). The National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) is the group of fraternities AND sororities that are traditionally for "people of color". And UofA has the UGC which is for multicultural organizations (one fraternity and one sorority at present).
The story is being told that it was the alumnae members of Pi Beta Phi who blocked the current sorority membership from offering membership to one of the two black women. They threatened to withdraw financial support.
Is this that big a deal? Are whites allowed to "rush" NPHC organizations?
Yes, it is a big deal. And if a white person wanted to pledge an organization that is part of the NPHC, it should be just as big a deal. The UofA is a public university. It cannot tolerate discrimination in any form that violates the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
* * *
Today I spent another 4 hour morning at the VA, putting over 2,000 steps on my pedometer before I got back in the car and headed home.
I went in to get the open wound on my leg checked. It continues to have drainage, is shrinking but looks infected. Wound up with a new doctor who sent me to the lab for blood work, for an X-ray and to the pharmacy to pick up antibiotics. Lots of walking which is always good for me, although it ruined any chance of me going anywhere outside of my room once I got home.
Love the caregivers. Hate the wait.
While I was waiting to have an X-ray, this guy was spouting off about how President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin are in conflict and Putin is going to show him "what for" by pulling Russia out of NATO. I didn't have the heart to tell him Russia doesn't belong to NATO.
* * *
Random Ponderings:
Apparently I missed the announcement that Heinz had purchased the Detroit Tigers. Why else would a ketchup-hating, singing hot-dog vendor be fired for giving people who ask for ketchup seriously bad attitude?
Now we know that the reason Robin Williams decided to go back to sitcom television. After two expensive divorces, he needs the money. We talked about how alimony is considered "unearned income" for tax purposes, but those who are receiving alimony will tell you they've earned every single penny.
So Wayne Newton's estate is listed for more than three times what the new owners paid for it. I guess you can ask for anything, but you may not get what you're asking for.
I'm betting big that the male fans at home games played by the Philadelphia Eagles won't care that the new cheerleader uniforms were designed by Vera Wang.
It's kind of frightening that nearly 8 million more people follow Justin Bieber on Twitter than follow President Barack Obama. I suddenly recalled people making noise one year because the contract the great baseball player Babe Ruth had signed in the off-season paid him more than the U.S. president at the time was being paid. When questioned, Ruth said "I had a better year than he did."
Why is it that the IRS can't do what the Franchise Tax Board does? The FTB will give you the option of calling you back if the wait time is more than 30 minutes. I guess that's too much customer service for the IRS.
So asking Kacey Musgraves to don a French Maid's outfit to deliver a party surprise to an executive and sit on his lap was asking too much. Good for her. That was when she was just a singer working party gigs. Now that she's a big star, I imagine no one is going to get her to dress as Cinderella for a party.
If you were a fan of the original Karate Kid movies, you'll love this spoof: http://screen.yahoo.com/doesnt-better-030000668.html
I can only imagine the negative publicity United Airlines would have received if they'd failed to honor the $5.00 round-trip fares people were able to obtain due to a computer glitch. Lucky for the airline, the mistake only lasted for two hours.
The one rare coin I always wanted to own and knew I probably never would is a very rare $4 gold piece known as a "Stella." One is going to be auctioned soon and it will probably sell for more than $1.5 million.
* * *
This Date In History:
585 BC – Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victories over the Sabines, and the surrender of Collatia.
509 BC – The Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on Rome's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September.
335 – Emperor Constantine the Great consecrated the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.
533 – Belisarius of the Byzantine Empire defeats Gelimer and the Vandals at the Battle of Ad Decimum, near Carthage, North Africa.
1213 – End of Battle of Muret, during the Albigensian Crusade to destroy the Cathar heresy.
1229 – Ögedei Khan is proclaimed Khagan of the Mongol Empire in Kodoe Aral, Khentii: Mongolia.
1501 – Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David.
1504 – Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand issue a Royal Warrant for the construction of a Royal Chapel (Capilla Real) to be built.
1541 – After three years of exile, John Calvin returns to Geneva to reform the church under a body of doctrine known as Calvinism.
1584 – San Lorenzo del Escorial Palace in Madrid is finished.
1609 – Henry Hudson reaches the river that would later be named after him – the Hudson River.
1743 – Great Britain, Austria and the Kingdom of Sardinia sign the Treaty of Worms.
1759 – Battle of the Plains of Abraham: the British defeat the French near Quebec City in the Seven Years' War, known in the United States as the French and Indian War.
1782 – American Revolutionary War: Franco-Spanish troops launch the unsuccessful "grand assault" during the Great Siege of Gibraltar.
1788 – The Philadelphia Convention sets the date for the first presidential election in the United States, and New York City becomes the country's temporary capital.
1791 – King Louis XVI of France accepts the new constitution.
1808 – Finnish War: In the Battle of Jutas, Swedish forces under Lieutenant General Georg Carl von Döbeln beat the Russians, making von Döbeln a Swedish war hero.
1812 – War of 1812: A supply wagon sent to relieve Fort Harrison is ambushed in the Attack at the Narrows.
1814 – In a turning point in the War of 1812, the British fail to capture Baltimore. During the battle, Francis Scott Key composes his poem "Defence of Fort McHenry", which is later set to music and becomes the United States' national anthem.
1843 – The Greek Army rebels (OS date: September 3) against the autocratic rule of king Otto of Greece, demanding the granting of a constitution.
1847 – Mexican–American War: Six teenage military cadets known as Niños Héroes die defending Chapultepec Castle in the Battle of Chapultepec. American troops under General Winfield Scott capture Mexico City in the Mexican–American War.
1848 – Vermont railroad worker Phineas Gage survives a 3-foot (0.91 m)-plus iron rod being driven through his head; the reported effects on his behavior and personality stimulate thinking about the nature of the brain and its functions.
1850 – First ascent of Piz Bernina, the highest summit of the eastern Alps.
1862 – American Civil War: Union soldiers find a copy of Robert E. Lee's battle plans in a field outside Frederick, Maryland. It is the prelude to the Battle of Antietam.
1882 – The Battle of Tel el-Kebir is fought in the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War.
1898 – Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.
1899 – Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.
1899 – Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian (5,199 m – 17,058 ft), the highest peak of Mount Kenya.
1900 – Filipino resistance fighters defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine–American War.
1906 – First flight of a fixed-wing aircraft in Europe.
1914 – World War I: South African troops open hostilities in German south-west Africa (Namibia) with an assault on the Ramansdrift police station.
1914 – World War I: The Battle of Aisne begins between Germany and France.
1922 – The final act of the Greco-Turkish War, the Great Fire of Smyrna, commences.
1923 – Following a military coup in Spain, Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship.
1933 – Elizabeth McCombs becomes the first woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament.
1935 – Rockslide near Whirlpool Rapids Bridge ends the International Railway (New York – Ontario).
1942 – World War II: Second day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge in the Guadalcanal Campaign. U.S. Marines successfully defeated attacks by the Imperial Japanese Army with heavy losses for the Japanese forces.
1943 – The Municipal Theatre of Corfu is destroyed during an aerial bombardment by Luftwaffe.
1948 – Deputy Primer Minister of India Vallabhbhai Patel ordered the Army to move into the Hyderabad to integrate it with Indian Union.
1948 – Margaret Chase Smith is elected senator, and becomes the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate.
1953 – Nikita Khrushchev is appointed secretary-general of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1956 – The dike around the Dutch polder East Flevoland is closed.
1956 – The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use disk storage.
1964 – South Vietnamese Generals Lam Van Phat and Duong Van Duc fail in a coup attempt against General Nguyen Khanh.
1968 – Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact.
1971 – State police and National Guardsmen storm New York's Attica Prison to end a prison revolt.
1971 – People's Republic of China: Chairman Mao Zedong's second in command and successor Marshal Lin Biao flees the country via plane after the failure of alleged coup against Mao. The plane crashes in Mongolia, killing all aboard.
1979 – South Africa grants independence to the "homeland" of Venda (not recognised outside South Africa).
1987 – Goiânia accident: A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and causing some to die from radiation poisoning.
1988 – Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere, later replaced by Hurricane Wilma in 2005 (based on barometric pressure).
1989 – Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa, led by Desmond Tutu.
1993 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands with PLO chairman Yasser Arafat at the White House after signing the Oslo Accords granting limited Palestinian autonomy.
1994 – Ulysses probe passes the Sun's south pole.
2001 – Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the United States after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Famous Folk Born On This Date:
Cesare Borgia
Samuel Wilson
Walter Reed
John J. Pershing
Claudette Colbert
Bill Monroe
Roald Dahl
Yma Sumac
Maurice Jarre
Barbara Bain
Eileen Fulton
Richard Kiel
Oscar Arias
Kerry Stokes (big tipper in Las Vegas)
David Clayton-Thomas
Jacqueline Bisset
Peter Cetera
Nell Carter
Frank Marshall
Jean Smart
Randy Jones
Don Was
Dave Mustaine
Tavis Smiley
Travis Knight (six perfectly good personal fouls parked at the end of the bench)
Joe Don Rooney
Fiona Apple
Movie quotes today come from "Legally Blonde" because the very talented and sexy Selma Blair was in that film:
Elle: And last week I saw Cameron Diaz at Fred Segal, and I talked her out of buying this truly heinous angora sweater. Whoever said orange was the new pink was seriously disturbed.
#2
Vivian: Nice outfit.
Elle: Oh, I like your outfit too, except when I dress up as a frigid bitch, I try not to look so constipated.
#3
[Elle sees David the geek tries unsuccessfully to get a date with two lovely girls, who mock him. She decides to help him by making the girls think that she dated David]
Elle: Excuse me.
[Elle turns around and slaps David]
Elle: Why didn't you call me? We spent a beautiful night together and I haven't heard from you since.
David: [pause] I'm sorry?
Elle: Sorry for what? For breaking my heart, or for giving me the greatest pleasure I've ever known and just taking it away?
David: Both?
Elle: Well, forget it. I've spent too much time crying over you.
[Elle walks away. The girls, believing that David actually spent a night with Elle, change their mind about him]
Girl: So, when did you wanna go out?
#4
Elle: For that matter, any masturbatory emissions, where the sperm is clearly not seeking an egg, could be termed reckless abandonment.
Professor Callahan: You've just won your case.
Now because they claim they don't have the funds to buy vehicles to replace their aging and maintenance-intensive fleet of vehicles, they are planning to lease vehicles instead. Those right-side-drive mail trucks will be replaced by leased vehicles. These "mail trucks" get heavy use. They cover a lot of miles each year. High-mileage leases are more expensive.
The USPS should take a look at the problems the city of Detroit is having with leased vehicles. They've paid more than $65,000 and continue to pay hundreds each month to lease ONE vehicle that would have cost only $25,000 to buy rather than lease.
Now if the federal government can borrow to do anything and everything it does, surely it can borrow a little more to buy rather than lease a new fleet of postal vehicles.
* * *
I had yesterday all planned out. Teach from 9 to noon. Run over to the other office and meet with a client for about an hour. Be home by 1:30 and eat lunch, then rest and write the Thursday blog. Teach from 6 to 9 in the evening and then come home and relax on Friday.
There was a problem at the morning class and I didn't get out of there until almost 1. I spent nearly 3 hours with my client trying and failing to contact the right person in the right IRS office. I got home and had just about an hour to eat lunch and try to rest before I had to leave for the evening class. I won't go into the problems with the evening class. Suffice it to say I didn't sit down to finally eat my dinner until well after 10 p.m.
So please accept my apologies for the lack of a blog yesterday. I will try to make up for it today with both a daily blog and a headlines blog.
* * *
There is a controversy brewing at the University of Alabama. Two black women attempted to pledge some of the Panhellenic sororities. There are four "Greek" groups at UofA. The IFC is the group of traditionally "white" fraternities. The Panhellenic is the group of traditionally "white" sororities (and yes I know some sororities refer to themselves as fraternities, even though they are for women only). The National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) is the group of fraternities AND sororities that are traditionally for "people of color". And UofA has the UGC which is for multicultural organizations (one fraternity and one sorority at present).
The story is being told that it was the alumnae members of Pi Beta Phi who blocked the current sorority membership from offering membership to one of the two black women. They threatened to withdraw financial support.
Is this that big a deal? Are whites allowed to "rush" NPHC organizations?
Yes, it is a big deal. And if a white person wanted to pledge an organization that is part of the NPHC, it should be just as big a deal. The UofA is a public university. It cannot tolerate discrimination in any form that violates the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
* * *
Today I spent another 4 hour morning at the VA, putting over 2,000 steps on my pedometer before I got back in the car and headed home.
I went in to get the open wound on my leg checked. It continues to have drainage, is shrinking but looks infected. Wound up with a new doctor who sent me to the lab for blood work, for an X-ray and to the pharmacy to pick up antibiotics. Lots of walking which is always good for me, although it ruined any chance of me going anywhere outside of my room once I got home.
Love the caregivers. Hate the wait.
While I was waiting to have an X-ray, this guy was spouting off about how President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin are in conflict and Putin is going to show him "what for" by pulling Russia out of NATO. I didn't have the heart to tell him Russia doesn't belong to NATO.
* * *
Random Ponderings:
Apparently I missed the announcement that Heinz had purchased the Detroit Tigers. Why else would a ketchup-hating, singing hot-dog vendor be fired for giving people who ask for ketchup seriously bad attitude?
Now we know that the reason Robin Williams decided to go back to sitcom television. After two expensive divorces, he needs the money. We talked about how alimony is considered "unearned income" for tax purposes, but those who are receiving alimony will tell you they've earned every single penny.
So Wayne Newton's estate is listed for more than three times what the new owners paid for it. I guess you can ask for anything, but you may not get what you're asking for.
I'm betting big that the male fans at home games played by the Philadelphia Eagles won't care that the new cheerleader uniforms were designed by Vera Wang.
It's kind of frightening that nearly 8 million more people follow Justin Bieber on Twitter than follow President Barack Obama. I suddenly recalled people making noise one year because the contract the great baseball player Babe Ruth had signed in the off-season paid him more than the U.S. president at the time was being paid. When questioned, Ruth said "I had a better year than he did."
Why is it that the IRS can't do what the Franchise Tax Board does? The FTB will give you the option of calling you back if the wait time is more than 30 minutes. I guess that's too much customer service for the IRS.
So asking Kacey Musgraves to don a French Maid's outfit to deliver a party surprise to an executive and sit on his lap was asking too much. Good for her. That was when she was just a singer working party gigs. Now that she's a big star, I imagine no one is going to get her to dress as Cinderella for a party.
If you were a fan of the original Karate Kid movies, you'll love this spoof: http://screen.yahoo.com/doesnt-better-030000668.html
I can only imagine the negative publicity United Airlines would have received if they'd failed to honor the $5.00 round-trip fares people were able to obtain due to a computer glitch. Lucky for the airline, the mistake only lasted for two hours.
The one rare coin I always wanted to own and knew I probably never would is a very rare $4 gold piece known as a "Stella." One is going to be auctioned soon and it will probably sell for more than $1.5 million.
* * *
This Date In History:
585 BC – Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victories over the Sabines, and the surrender of Collatia.
509 BC – The Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on Rome's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September.
335 – Emperor Constantine the Great consecrated the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.
533 – Belisarius of the Byzantine Empire defeats Gelimer and the Vandals at the Battle of Ad Decimum, near Carthage, North Africa.
1213 – End of Battle of Muret, during the Albigensian Crusade to destroy the Cathar heresy.
1229 – Ögedei Khan is proclaimed Khagan of the Mongol Empire in Kodoe Aral, Khentii: Mongolia.
1501 – Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David.
1504 – Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand issue a Royal Warrant for the construction of a Royal Chapel (Capilla Real) to be built.
1541 – After three years of exile, John Calvin returns to Geneva to reform the church under a body of doctrine known as Calvinism.
1584 – San Lorenzo del Escorial Palace in Madrid is finished.
1609 – Henry Hudson reaches the river that would later be named after him – the Hudson River.
1743 – Great Britain, Austria and the Kingdom of Sardinia sign the Treaty of Worms.
1759 – Battle of the Plains of Abraham: the British defeat the French near Quebec City in the Seven Years' War, known in the United States as the French and Indian War.
1782 – American Revolutionary War: Franco-Spanish troops launch the unsuccessful "grand assault" during the Great Siege of Gibraltar.
1788 – The Philadelphia Convention sets the date for the first presidential election in the United States, and New York City becomes the country's temporary capital.
1791 – King Louis XVI of France accepts the new constitution.
1808 – Finnish War: In the Battle of Jutas, Swedish forces under Lieutenant General Georg Carl von Döbeln beat the Russians, making von Döbeln a Swedish war hero.
1812 – War of 1812: A supply wagon sent to relieve Fort Harrison is ambushed in the Attack at the Narrows.
1814 – In a turning point in the War of 1812, the British fail to capture Baltimore. During the battle, Francis Scott Key composes his poem "Defence of Fort McHenry", which is later set to music and becomes the United States' national anthem.
1843 – The Greek Army rebels (OS date: September 3) against the autocratic rule of king Otto of Greece, demanding the granting of a constitution.
1847 – Mexican–American War: Six teenage military cadets known as Niños Héroes die defending Chapultepec Castle in the Battle of Chapultepec. American troops under General Winfield Scott capture Mexico City in the Mexican–American War.
1848 – Vermont railroad worker Phineas Gage survives a 3-foot (0.91 m)-plus iron rod being driven through his head; the reported effects on his behavior and personality stimulate thinking about the nature of the brain and its functions.
1850 – First ascent of Piz Bernina, the highest summit of the eastern Alps.
1862 – American Civil War: Union soldiers find a copy of Robert E. Lee's battle plans in a field outside Frederick, Maryland. It is the prelude to the Battle of Antietam.
1882 – The Battle of Tel el-Kebir is fought in the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War.
1898 – Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.
1899 – Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.
1899 – Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian (5,199 m – 17,058 ft), the highest peak of Mount Kenya.
1900 – Filipino resistance fighters defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine–American War.
1906 – First flight of a fixed-wing aircraft in Europe.
1914 – World War I: South African troops open hostilities in German south-west Africa (Namibia) with an assault on the Ramansdrift police station.
1914 – World War I: The Battle of Aisne begins between Germany and France.
1922 – The final act of the Greco-Turkish War, the Great Fire of Smyrna, commences.
1923 – Following a military coup in Spain, Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship.
1933 – Elizabeth McCombs becomes the first woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament.
1935 – Rockslide near Whirlpool Rapids Bridge ends the International Railway (New York – Ontario).
1942 – World War II: Second day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge in the Guadalcanal Campaign. U.S. Marines successfully defeated attacks by the Imperial Japanese Army with heavy losses for the Japanese forces.
1943 – The Municipal Theatre of Corfu is destroyed during an aerial bombardment by Luftwaffe.
1948 – Deputy Primer Minister of India Vallabhbhai Patel ordered the Army to move into the Hyderabad to integrate it with Indian Union.
1948 – Margaret Chase Smith is elected senator, and becomes the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate.
1953 – Nikita Khrushchev is appointed secretary-general of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1956 – The dike around the Dutch polder East Flevoland is closed.
1956 – The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use disk storage.
1964 – South Vietnamese Generals Lam Van Phat and Duong Van Duc fail in a coup attempt against General Nguyen Khanh.
1968 – Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact.
1971 – State police and National Guardsmen storm New York's Attica Prison to end a prison revolt.
1971 – People's Republic of China: Chairman Mao Zedong's second in command and successor Marshal Lin Biao flees the country via plane after the failure of alleged coup against Mao. The plane crashes in Mongolia, killing all aboard.
1979 – South Africa grants independence to the "homeland" of Venda (not recognised outside South Africa).
1987 – Goiânia accident: A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and causing some to die from radiation poisoning.
1988 – Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere, later replaced by Hurricane Wilma in 2005 (based on barometric pressure).
1989 – Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa, led by Desmond Tutu.
1993 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands with PLO chairman Yasser Arafat at the White House after signing the Oslo Accords granting limited Palestinian autonomy.
1994 – Ulysses probe passes the Sun's south pole.
2001 – Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the United States after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Famous Folk Born On This Date:
Cesare Borgia
Samuel Wilson
Walter Reed
John J. Pershing
Claudette Colbert
Bill Monroe
Roald Dahl
Yma Sumac
Maurice Jarre
Barbara Bain
Eileen Fulton
Richard Kiel
Oscar Arias
Kerry Stokes (big tipper in Las Vegas)
David Clayton-Thomas
Jacqueline Bisset
Peter Cetera
Nell Carter
Frank Marshall
Jean Smart
Randy Jones
Don Was
Dave Mustaine
Tavis Smiley
Travis Knight (six perfectly good personal fouls parked at the end of the bench)
Joe Don Rooney
Fiona Apple
Movie quotes today come from "Legally Blonde" because the very talented and sexy Selma Blair was in that film:
Elle: And last week I saw Cameron Diaz at Fred Segal, and I talked her out of buying this truly heinous angora sweater. Whoever said orange was the new pink was seriously disturbed.
#2
Vivian: Nice outfit.
Elle: Oh, I like your outfit too, except when I dress up as a frigid bitch, I try not to look so constipated.
#3
[Elle sees David the geek tries unsuccessfully to get a date with two lovely girls, who mock him. She decides to help him by making the girls think that she dated David]
Elle: Excuse me.
[Elle turns around and slaps David]
Elle: Why didn't you call me? We spent a beautiful night together and I haven't heard from you since.
David: [pause] I'm sorry?
Elle: Sorry for what? For breaking my heart, or for giving me the greatest pleasure I've ever known and just taking it away?
David: Both?
Elle: Well, forget it. I've spent too much time crying over you.
[Elle walks away. The girls, believing that David actually spent a night with Elle, change their mind about him]
Girl: So, when did you wanna go out?
#4
Elle: For that matter, any masturbatory emissions, where the sperm is clearly not seeking an egg, could be termed reckless abandonment.
Professor Callahan: You've just won your case.
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