Posted on 02/13/2011 12:36:55 PM PST by Fishtalk
TV-Reviews-"Worst Cook in America"-worst cooking show in America, "The Bachelor"-loser Brad Womack returns,"Harry's Law"-what happens when liberals write TV shows.
Book Reviews: "Chicken Soup for the Soul-Shaping the New You"-my own contribution inside and lovely email from a fan. "Changing the Conversation"-Gary Klaben teaches how to separate emotion from your pocketbook.
Political-Boehner's Tears and Obama's Birth Certificate.
Movie Reviews-"Yogi Bear the movie"-cute, finally, a REAL villain. "Gulliver's Travel's"-disgusting with the worst movie scene...ever.
Misc.-Smiles and more smiles. Western Electric, remember it? Pics to smile, jokes to smile, my red-breasted nuthatch friend.
All of the Above, including political and miscellany
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They took the liberal preaching to the jury (and thus the TV audience) scene from Boston Legal and made a complete show around it. Made me barf.
Yup.
I was on the team that installed PicturePhones at NY Tel Corporate HQ back in '71!
It’s too bad. It could have been a good show without their unfortunate contributions. Liberals are well known for screwing things up.
No kidding!
I got a special tribute to Western Electric in the BIG Blog post....read it.
Memories, I guarantee. Plus, thoughts about how far we’ve come since then.
We put the curl in the cords down here in Baltimore!
OH....and remember the song...
HELLO AMERICA HOW ARE YOU? WESTERN ELECTRIC HELPS YOU TO SAY HELLO.
even today I sometimes sing this song.
Who sung it?
I don’t remember it.
I worked for NY Tel, Special Services in lower Manhattan. Basically we were TTY installation and repair, but anything that wasn’t POTS or Mobile/Radio/TV ended up with us. Most of our equipment came from Skokie (TTY Corp) or Kearny (WE) although IIRC, the equipment bays for the PicturePhone dial network came from Denver. Most of my work centered around the stock market, Gov’t and the Bell System itself.
WE had a big plant on the east side of Indy that closed up in the 80s. WE did a of work on statistical quality control with Shewhart and Juran being a couple of their famous guys.
When they closed up, a lot of their good engrs were hired at our GM plant, excellent folks.
Ah yes, Kearny. We had strategic WE’s all over the country.
NY Tel must have been like the local C&P Telephone down here in Merryland, the local phone company, too part of mighty AT&T.
Great job....we were office workers but we had a union...Point Breeze Salaried Employees Association.
I was once a shop steward. Which is why I know that a union functions to protect the mediocre. Truly good workers not only do not need, but are harmed by, the presence of a union.
I read it, that’s why the PP mention.
};^)
PS...Back in the day at NY Tel I worked on carrier data sets (now called modems) that used vacuum tubes!!! Saw it all the way through to the PC when I was working for ATTIS. (AT&T Information Systems) Left the business for a while and came back to NY Tel and finished my career as a cable splicer in a construction garage in Harlem and Washington Hts.
They can't help their drive to preach given any soapbox. Part of that "superior" mentality.
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