With apologies to the Beatles
It was 20 years ago today.
All the buildings began to sway.
The ground began to shake.
It was a major earthquake.
20 years ago today I was awakened by my apartment building shaking violently and my dog going nuts. It was 4:31 in the morning and I knew what was happening immediately. It wasn't the first time I'd been awakened by the strong jolt of a big earthquake. Unwilling to leave Scooter alone at home, I took him with me to my office to survey the damage.
While the quake's epicenter was in Northridge, there was heavy damage in Santa Monica, which is where I was working at the time. One of my many tasks at work was running the phone systems. The entire PBX mainframe was ripped off of the wall and laying on the floor. Cables were torn and would require hours to be repaired once the system was re-bolted to the wall. Everything that was on a shelf or other flat surface in my office was on the floor. I would spend hours restoring order. We were fortunate that this was a holiday, as we would not have been able to operate that day. In fact I think the school remained closed for a day or two after the earthquake.
I went out within the next week and updated the survival kits I kept in my car, my office and my apartment. Twenty years later, I have none of that stuff waiting just in case. The place where I live has stuff in case of emergency so I rely on them, even though I should know better.
We were very fortunate that the loss of life was limited to 57 (which is still 57 tragic deaths, but in a megalopolis where the population at the time was in excess of 12 million, that's a relatively low number of fatalities from an earthquake that did $20 billion in damage.
So are you ready for the next time the ground shakes with that much violence?
* * *
It is the public's money. $40 million that's gone from the coffers of the DWP into two not-for-profits that are run by the head of the largest union of DWP employees, Brian D'Arcy. So what do these two organizations do and why is he going to court to fight a subpoena to disclose their financials?
Looking at the 2012 Form 990 (Tax Return of a Non-Profit) for the Joint Safety Institute shows the following mission statement:
"To promote joint labor-management activities designed to improve labor-management relations and communications on issues of health and safety."
The principal officer of this organization just happens to be listed as Brian D'Arcy.
Then there is the 2012 Form 990 for the Joint Training Institute, the other non-profit that the taxpayers are funding. It shows the following mission statement:
"To review and recommend the feasibility of, and requirements for, institutionalized preparatory training and learning opportunities that create a flexible and skilled workforce that is committed to excellence in public service."
Now it's interesting to note that while these organizations spent $128,000 and $349,000 respectively on salaries, not one red cent went to Mr. D'Arcy. At least not in salary. But in the category of "other", the two spent a combined $773,000 in 2012, that is not detailed at all in their tax return. In another category ripe for abuse, they spent a combined $1.28 million in 2012; again not detailed in the tax return.
It is probably the records for these expenses that are at the top of the list that Los Angeles City Controller Ron Galperin wants to look at. These are probably the records that Mr. D'Arcy doesn't want to turn over.
Now here's the really interesting item to be found in these tax returns. The records and books of both non-profit corporations are in the possession of one Mary Carbajal-Waid. Her address and phone number are displayed within the tax return. According to the 2011 "alumni" issue of "Intake Magazine", published for active and retired DWP employees, Ms Carbajal-Waid has been an employee of the DWP since 1984. Her mother, step-father, husband, father-in-law and aunt are active or retired employees of the DWP as well.
Why is this interesting? Because there's a note in both tax returns that reads "the Institute makes its government documents, conflict of interest policy and financial statements available for viewing at the Institute's office upon request."
So if this woman is the custodian of the records, why doesn't Mr. Galperin have her served with a subpoena to disclose the records? They are supposedly available for review at the office.
Something stinks about this whole mess and I hope that D'Arcy is forced to disclose the truth behind these numbers.
* * *
Random Ponderings:
Saturday Sci-Fi nights on MeTV would be a lot better if they'd get rid of that Svengooli stuff.
Is Goldie Hawn returning to acting? She's signed with CAA. If I had a role in a film for her, I'd cast her. She's smart, still gorgeous and a genuinely nice person.
If I ran the NFL, there would be no more Thursday night games, except on Thanksgiving Day. I'll wager that if someone did a statistical analysis, injuries caused by a lack of rest between games on Thursday night games would be close to double those where there's a full week between games.
What is a Victoria's Secret sales associate thinking when she tells a woman who just spent $150 in the store couldn't use a dressing room to nurse her four month old baby?
If it took the condemned man put to death in Ohio 15 minutes to die, then there's something wrong with the new method they are using.
Should you bring your mother into the room with you when you audition for American Idol? Only if she was one of the last few standing in a prior year of Idol.
Did you know one of the founders of Atari was the man behind Chuck E. Cheese Pizza? I only found out by reading an article about the chain being sold for $1.3 billion and assumption of millions in debt.
A nun gave birth in Italy and named the baby Francis.
Pope Benedict XVI defrocked almost 400 priests during the last two years prior to his retirement. Probably not nearly enough.
As long as they deliver strong ratings, and Mark Harmon wants to keep working, I suspect CBS will continue to make a mint making NCIS.
I wonder if Amber Heard insisted on being able to pursue other women as part of the deal where she said yes to the marriage proposal of Johnny Depp
The scumbag who set fire to the house of an elderly couple who had no homeowner's insurance should be forced to rebuild the place himself.
The speculation that "Saving Mr. Banks" was overlooked by the Oscar voters because Walt Disney didn't approve of women becoming animators, his attitude toward unions and his involvement with anti-Semites is interesting. It may be accurate.
* * *
38 BC – Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey.
395 – Emperor Theodosius I dies in Milan, the Roman Empire is re-divided into an eastern and a western half. The Eastern Roman Empire is centered in Constantinople under Arcadius, son of Theodosius, and the Western Roman Empire in Mediolanum under Honorius, his brother (aged 10).
1287 – King Alfonso III of Aragon invades Minorca.
1377 – Pope Gregory XI moves the Papacy back to Rome from Avignon.
1524 – Giovanni da Verrazzano sets sail westward from Madeira to find a sea route to the Pacific Ocean.
1562 – France recognizes the Huguenots by the Edict of Saint-Germain.
1595 – Henry IV of France declares war on Spain.
1608 – Emperor Susenyos surprises an Oromo army at Ebenat; his army reportedly kills 12,000 Oromo at the cost of 400 of his men.
1648 – England's Long Parliament passes the "Vote of No Addresses", breaking off negotiations with King Charles I and thereby setting the scene for the second phase of the English Civil War.
1773 – Captain James Cook and his crew become the first Europeans to sail below the Antarctic Circle.
1781 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cowpens – Continental troops under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan defeat British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton at the battle in South Carolina.
1799 – Maltese patriot Dun Mikiel Xerri, along with a number of other patriots, is executed.
1811 – Mexican War of Independence: In the Battle of Calderón Bridge, a heavily outnumbered Spanish force of 6,000 troops defeats nearly 100,000 Mexican revolutionaries.
1852 – The United Kingdom recognizes the independence of the Boer colonies of the Transvaal.
1873 – A group of Modoc warriors defeats the United States Army in the First Battle of the Stronghold, part of the Modoc War.
1885 – A British force defeats a large Dervish army at the Battle of Abu Klea in the Sudan.
1893 – The Citizen's Committee of Public Safety, led by Lorrin A. Thurston, overthrows the government of Queen Liliuokalani of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
1899 – The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean.
1903 – El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the United States National Forest System as the Luquillo Forest Reserve.
1904 – Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre.
1912 – Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
1913 – Raymond Poincaré is elected President of France.
1917 – The United States pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands.
1918 – Finnish Civil War: The first serious battles take place between the Red Guards and the White Guard.
1929 – Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by Elzie Segar, first appears in the Thimble Theatre comic strip.
1929 – Inayatullah Khan, king of the Emirate of Afghanistan abdicates the throne after only three days.
1941 – Franco-Thai War: French forces inflict a decisive defeat over the Royal Thai Navy.
1944 – World War II: Allied forces launch the first of four assaults on Monte Cassino with the intention of breaking through the Winter Line and seizing Rome, an effort that would ultimately take four months and cost 105,000 Allied casualties.
1945 – World War II: Soviet forces capture the almost completely destroyed Polish city of Warsaw.
1945 – The Nazis begin the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp as Soviet forces close in.
1945 – Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg is taken into Soviet custody while in Hungary; he is never publicly seen again.
1946 – The UN Security Council holds its first session.
1949 – The Goldbergs, the first sitcom on American television, airs for the first time.
1950 – The Great Brinks Robbery – 11 thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car company's offices in Boston, Massachusetts.
1961 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised farewell address to the nation three days before leaving office, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the "military-industrial complex" as well as the dangers of massive spending, especially deficit spending.
1961 – Former Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba is murdered in circumstances suggesting the support and complicity of the governments of Belgium and the United States.
1966 – Palomares incident: A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain, killing seven airmen, and dropping three 70-kiloton nuclear bombs near the town of Palomares and another one into the sea.
1969 – Black Panther Party members Bunchy Carter and John Huggins are killed during a meeting in Campbell Hall on the campus of UCLA.
1977 – Convicted murderer Gary Gilmore is executed by a firing squad in Utah, ending a ten-year moratorium on capital punishment in the United States.
1981 – President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos lifts martial law eight years and five months after declaring it.
1982 – "Cold Sunday": in numerous cities in the United States temperatures fall to their lowest levels in over 100 years.
1983 – The tallest department store in the world, Hudson's flagship store in downtown Detroit, closes due to high cost of operating.
1991 – Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm begins early in the morning. Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles into Israel in an unsuccessful bid to provoke Israeli retaliation.
1991 – Harald V becomes King of Norway on the death of his father, Olav V.
1992 – During a visit to South Korea, Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa apologizes for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II.
1994 – 1994 Northridge earthquake: A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits Northridge, California.
1995 – The Great Hanshin earthquake: A magnitude 7.3 earthquake occurs near Kobe, Japan, causing extensive property damage and killing 6,434 people.
1996 – The Czech Republic applies for membership of the European Union.
1997 – A Delta 2 carrying a GPS2R satellite explodes 13 seconds after launch, dropping 250 tons of burning rocket remains around the launch pad.
1998 – Lewinsky scandal: Matt Drudge breaks the story of the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky affair on his website The Drudge Report.
2001 – U.S. President Bill Clinton posthumously promotes William Clark from Lieutenant to Captain.
2002 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people.
2007 – The Doomsday Clock is set to five minutes to midnight in response to North Korea nuclear testing.
2008 – British Airways Flight 38 crash lands just short of London Heathrow Airport in England with no fatalities. It is the first complete hull loss of a Boeing 777.
Famous Folk Born on January 17th:
Pope Pius V
Benjamin Franklin
Lewis A. Grant (Medal of Honor recipient)
David Lloyd George
Carl Laemmle
Mack Sennett
Noah Beery, Sr.
Al Capone
Cus D'Amato
John S. McCain, Jr.
Robert De Niro, Sr.
Betty White (happy 92nd!)
Newton M. Minow
Eartha Kitt
Vidal Sassoon
Jacques Plante
James Earl Jones
Sheree North
Shari Lewis
Maury Povich
Muhammad Ali
Nancy Parsons
Jim Ladd
Andy Kaufman
Mick Taylor
Steve Harvey
Michel Vaarten
Susanna Hoffs
John Crawford
Sebastian Junger
Michelle Obama
Kid Rock
Maksim Chmerkovskiy
Zooey Deschanel
Dwayne Wade
Movie quotes come from "Mumford", Zooey Deschanel's first feature film appearance:
Dr. Mumford: Sofie, lie down. Most people do.
Sofie Crisp: I'd better not. I'll fall right to sleep. I think it's a bit too soon for me to be sleeping with you.
#2
Lily: I've had it with men. They are so fascinated by their own crap. It took me four years to get the last one out. These days my idea of a hot date is a long shower by myself before bed.
#3
Mrs. Crisp: What kind of doctor are you?
Dr. Mumford: Ph.D. in psychology.
Mrs. Crisp: Oh. Not a real doctor.
Dr. Mumford: That's right, the fake kind.
#4
Skip Skipperton: Are you telling me that your last job before becoming a psychologist was an investigator for the IRS?
Dr. Mumford: Everybody has a story, Skip.
Skip Skipperton: Seems like you got the variety pack.
All the buildings began to sway.
The ground began to shake.
It was a major earthquake.
20 years ago today I was awakened by my apartment building shaking violently and my dog going nuts. It was 4:31 in the morning and I knew what was happening immediately. It wasn't the first time I'd been awakened by the strong jolt of a big earthquake. Unwilling to leave Scooter alone at home, I took him with me to my office to survey the damage.
While the quake's epicenter was in Northridge, there was heavy damage in Santa Monica, which is where I was working at the time. One of my many tasks at work was running the phone systems. The entire PBX mainframe was ripped off of the wall and laying on the floor. Cables were torn and would require hours to be repaired once the system was re-bolted to the wall. Everything that was on a shelf or other flat surface in my office was on the floor. I would spend hours restoring order. We were fortunate that this was a holiday, as we would not have been able to operate that day. In fact I think the school remained closed for a day or two after the earthquake.
I went out within the next week and updated the survival kits I kept in my car, my office and my apartment. Twenty years later, I have none of that stuff waiting just in case. The place where I live has stuff in case of emergency so I rely on them, even though I should know better.
We were very fortunate that the loss of life was limited to 57 (which is still 57 tragic deaths, but in a megalopolis where the population at the time was in excess of 12 million, that's a relatively low number of fatalities from an earthquake that did $20 billion in damage.
So are you ready for the next time the ground shakes with that much violence?
* * *
It is the public's money. $40 million that's gone from the coffers of the DWP into two not-for-profits that are run by the head of the largest union of DWP employees, Brian D'Arcy. So what do these two organizations do and why is he going to court to fight a subpoena to disclose their financials?
Looking at the 2012 Form 990 (Tax Return of a Non-Profit) for the Joint Safety Institute shows the following mission statement:
"To promote joint labor-management activities designed to improve labor-management relations and communications on issues of health and safety."
The principal officer of this organization just happens to be listed as Brian D'Arcy.
Then there is the 2012 Form 990 for the Joint Training Institute, the other non-profit that the taxpayers are funding. It shows the following mission statement:
"To review and recommend the feasibility of, and requirements for, institutionalized preparatory training and learning opportunities that create a flexible and skilled workforce that is committed to excellence in public service."
Now it's interesting to note that while these organizations spent $128,000 and $349,000 respectively on salaries, not one red cent went to Mr. D'Arcy. At least not in salary. But in the category of "other", the two spent a combined $773,000 in 2012, that is not detailed at all in their tax return. In another category ripe for abuse, they spent a combined $1.28 million in 2012; again not detailed in the tax return.
It is probably the records for these expenses that are at the top of the list that Los Angeles City Controller Ron Galperin wants to look at. These are probably the records that Mr. D'Arcy doesn't want to turn over.
Now here's the really interesting item to be found in these tax returns. The records and books of both non-profit corporations are in the possession of one Mary Carbajal-Waid. Her address and phone number are displayed within the tax return. According to the 2011 "alumni" issue of "Intake Magazine", published for active and retired DWP employees, Ms Carbajal-Waid has been an employee of the DWP since 1984. Her mother, step-father, husband, father-in-law and aunt are active or retired employees of the DWP as well.
Why is this interesting? Because there's a note in both tax returns that reads "the Institute makes its government documents, conflict of interest policy and financial statements available for viewing at the Institute's office upon request."
So if this woman is the custodian of the records, why doesn't Mr. Galperin have her served with a subpoena to disclose the records? They are supposedly available for review at the office.
Something stinks about this whole mess and I hope that D'Arcy is forced to disclose the truth behind these numbers.
* * *
Random Ponderings:
Saturday Sci-Fi nights on MeTV would be a lot better if they'd get rid of that Svengooli stuff.
Is Goldie Hawn returning to acting? She's signed with CAA. If I had a role in a film for her, I'd cast her. She's smart, still gorgeous and a genuinely nice person.
If I ran the NFL, there would be no more Thursday night games, except on Thanksgiving Day. I'll wager that if someone did a statistical analysis, injuries caused by a lack of rest between games on Thursday night games would be close to double those where there's a full week between games.
What is a Victoria's Secret sales associate thinking when she tells a woman who just spent $150 in the store couldn't use a dressing room to nurse her four month old baby?
If it took the condemned man put to death in Ohio 15 minutes to die, then there's something wrong with the new method they are using.
Should you bring your mother into the room with you when you audition for American Idol? Only if she was one of the last few standing in a prior year of Idol.
Did you know one of the founders of Atari was the man behind Chuck E. Cheese Pizza? I only found out by reading an article about the chain being sold for $1.3 billion and assumption of millions in debt.
A nun gave birth in Italy and named the baby Francis
Pope Benedict XVI defrocked almost 400 priests during the last two years prior to his retirement. Probably not nearly enough.
As long as they deliver strong ratings, and Mark Harmon wants to keep working, I suspect CBS will continue to make a mint making NCIS.
I wonder if Amber Heard insisted on being able to pursue other women as part of the deal where she said yes to the marriage proposal of Johnny Depp
The scumbag who set fire to the house of an elderly couple who had no homeowner's insurance should be forced to rebuild the place himself.
The speculation that "Saving Mr. Banks" was overlooked by the Oscar voters because Walt Disney didn't approve of women becoming animators, his attitude toward unions and his involvement with anti-Semites is interesting. It may be accurate.
* * *
38 BC – Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey.
395 – Emperor Theodosius I dies in Milan, the Roman Empire is re-divided into an eastern and a western half. The Eastern Roman Empire is centered in Constantinople under Arcadius, son of Theodosius, and the Western Roman Empire in Mediolanum under Honorius, his brother (aged 10).
1287 – King Alfonso III of Aragon invades Minorca.
1377 – Pope Gregory XI moves the Papacy back to Rome from Avignon.
1524 – Giovanni da Verrazzano sets sail westward from Madeira to find a sea route to the Pacific Ocean.
1562 – France recognizes the Huguenots by the Edict of Saint-Germain.
1595 – Henry IV of France declares war on Spain.
1608 – Emperor Susenyos surprises an Oromo army at Ebenat; his army reportedly kills 12,000 Oromo at the cost of 400 of his men.
1648 – England's Long Parliament passes the "Vote of No Addresses", breaking off negotiations with King Charles I and thereby setting the scene for the second phase of the English Civil War.
1773 – Captain James Cook and his crew become the first Europeans to sail below the Antarctic Circle.
1781 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cowpens – Continental troops under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan defeat British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton at the battle in South Carolina.
1799 – Maltese patriot Dun Mikiel Xerri, along with a number of other patriots, is executed.
1811 – Mexican War of Independence: In the Battle of Calderón Bridge, a heavily outnumbered Spanish force of 6,000 troops defeats nearly 100,000 Mexican revolutionaries.
1852 – The United Kingdom recognizes the independence of the Boer colonies of the Transvaal.
1873 – A group of Modoc warriors defeats the United States Army in the First Battle of the Stronghold, part of the Modoc War.
1885 – A British force defeats a large Dervish army at the Battle of Abu Klea in the Sudan.
1893 – The Citizen's Committee of Public Safety, led by Lorrin A. Thurston, overthrows the government of Queen Liliuokalani of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
1899 – The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean.
1903 – El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the United States National Forest System as the Luquillo Forest Reserve.
1904 – Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre.
1912 – Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
1913 – Raymond Poincaré is elected President of France.
1917 – The United States pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands.
1918 – Finnish Civil War: The first serious battles take place between the Red Guards and the White Guard.
1929 – Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by Elzie Segar, first appears in the Thimble Theatre comic strip.
1929 – Inayatullah Khan, king of the Emirate of Afghanistan abdicates the throne after only three days.
1941 – Franco-Thai War: French forces inflict a decisive defeat over the Royal Thai Navy.
1944 – World War II: Allied forces launch the first of four assaults on Monte Cassino with the intention of breaking through the Winter Line and seizing Rome, an effort that would ultimately take four months and cost 105,000 Allied casualties.
1945 – World War II: Soviet forces capture the almost completely destroyed Polish city of Warsaw.
1945 – The Nazis begin the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp as Soviet forces close in.
1945 – Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg is taken into Soviet custody while in Hungary; he is never publicly seen again.
1946 – The UN Security Council holds its first session.
1949 – The Goldbergs, the first sitcom on American television, airs for the first time.
1950 – The Great Brinks Robbery – 11 thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car company's offices in Boston, Massachusetts.
1961 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised farewell address to the nation three days before leaving office, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the "military-industrial complex" as well as the dangers of massive spending, especially deficit spending.
1961 – Former Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba is murdered in circumstances suggesting the support and complicity of the governments of Belgium and the United States.
1966 – Palomares incident: A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain, killing seven airmen, and dropping three 70-kiloton nuclear bombs near the town of Palomares and another one into the sea.
1969 – Black Panther Party members Bunchy Carter and John Huggins are killed during a meeting in Campbell Hall on the campus of UCLA.
1977 – Convicted murderer Gary Gilmore is executed by a firing squad in Utah, ending a ten-year moratorium on capital punishment in the United States.
1981 – President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos lifts martial law eight years and five months after declaring it.
1982 – "Cold Sunday": in numerous cities in the United States temperatures fall to their lowest levels in over 100 years.
1983 – The tallest department store in the world, Hudson's flagship store in downtown Detroit, closes due to high cost of operating.
1991 – Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm begins early in the morning. Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles into Israel in an unsuccessful bid to provoke Israeli retaliation.
1991 – Harald V becomes King of Norway on the death of his father, Olav V.
1992 – During a visit to South Korea, Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa apologizes for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II.
1994 – 1994 Northridge earthquake: A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits Northridge, California.
1995 – The Great Hanshin earthquake: A magnitude 7.3 earthquake occurs near Kobe, Japan, causing extensive property damage and killing 6,434 people.
1996 – The Czech Republic applies for membership of the European Union.
1997 – A Delta 2 carrying a GPS2R satellite explodes 13 seconds after launch, dropping 250 tons of burning rocket remains around the launch pad.
1998 – Lewinsky scandal: Matt Drudge breaks the story of the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky affair on his website The Drudge Report.
2001 – U.S. President Bill Clinton posthumously promotes William Clark from Lieutenant to Captain.
2002 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people.
2007 – The Doomsday Clock is set to five minutes to midnight in response to North Korea nuclear testing.
2008 – British Airways Flight 38 crash lands just short of London Heathrow Airport in England with no fatalities. It is the first complete hull loss of a Boeing 777.
Famous Folk Born on January 17th:
Pope Pius V
Benjamin Franklin
Lewis A. Grant (Medal of Honor recipient)
David Lloyd George
Carl Laemmle
Mack Sennett
Noah Beery, Sr.
Al Capone
Cus D'Amato
John S. McCain, Jr.
Robert De Niro, Sr.
Betty White (happy 92nd!)
Newton M. Minow
Eartha Kitt
Vidal Sassoon
Jacques Plante
James Earl Jones
Sheree North
Shari Lewis
Maury Povich
Muhammad Ali
Nancy Parsons
Jim Ladd
Andy Kaufman
Mick Taylor
Steve Harvey
Michel Vaarten
Susanna Hoffs
John Crawford
Sebastian Junger
Michelle Obama
Kid Rock
Maksim Chmerkovskiy
Zooey Deschanel
Dwayne Wade
Movie quotes come from "Mumford", Zooey Deschanel's first feature film appearance:
Dr. Mumford: Sofie, lie down. Most people do.
Sofie Crisp: I'd better not. I'll fall right to sleep. I think it's a bit too soon for me to be sleeping with you.
#2
Lily: I've had it with men. They are so fascinated by their own crap. It took me four years to get the last one out. These days my idea of a hot date is a long shower by myself before bed.
#3
Mrs. Crisp: What kind of doctor are you?
Dr. Mumford: Ph.D. in psychology.
Mrs. Crisp: Oh. Not a real doctor.
Dr. Mumford: That's right, the fake kind.
#4
Skip Skipperton: Are you telling me that your last job before becoming a psychologist was an investigator for the IRS?
Dr. Mumford: Everybody has a story, Skip.
Skip Skipperton: Seems like you got the variety pack.
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