The Guild 2-15-2003 We are not Sodom and Gomorrah

USA Today ^ | 2-15-2003 | Jayne Clark

[BigWaveBetty]

For more than a decade, Cancun, Mexico, has been party central for the boozed, be-thonged and besotted boys and girls of spring break. But this year, the drink-till-you-drop college crowd will find less-indulgent hosts.

A majority of the Caribbean resort's hotels, bars and clubs that cater to the student trade have signed a ''civility agreement'' to enforce laws that in past years often were ignored, officials say. Among them are bans on underage drinking and public nudity.

[Iowa Granny]

Could you please email me the Bullshit Bingo frame? I'm still without XP and cannot issolate this one for printing without printing the entire thread.

I will distribute this far and wide this week.

[mountaineer]

Click here and print.

[mountaineer]

Tourist Advisory for Travel to France .

[lodwick]

Thanks M.

Anyone who's ever sat through a meeting lately can relate to BS Bingo.

Down with meetings - just do it.

[lodwick]

Hilarious travel advisory - thanks.

[MaeWest]

D******Straight! Unlike Hollywood and our politicians, the rest of us don't have private bodyguards.

[PoisedWoman]

Funny! I can persoannlly atest that the French have no concept of "waiting patiently in line."

I was on the Eiffle Tower one cold and windy afternoon with my daughter, who lived in Paris. The crowd waiting for the elevator down was crowded together pushing, shoving, stampeding, ellbowing, and I got really alarmed. My daughter explained, "Don't worry, Mom, the French just don't have the same concept of 'personal space' as we do." Fortunately no one was shoved off the Tower, though I think that was the general idea.

[mountaineer]

Reminds me of the time I boarded a Metro at the Gare de Nord at about 8 a.m. My feet never touched the ground - I just was carried around by the mob until well after we reached our stop, disembarked and reached the street.

[Fintan]

Her hair is combed, she has on make-up and has a nice figure. I think the transformation is stark!

 

Okay, I'll give you that, but just be thankful she isn't lifting her arms in this pic...

 

[lodwick]

“I finally became at peace with myself when I gave up all hope of a better yesterday.”

A quote from Sid Caesar's daughter that I find profoundly powerful.

[Pippin]

She still is! :^)

The Clara Suzanne I was speaking of was my grandmother.

Mom's name is Gertrude, she is Clara's youngest daughter and she'll be 71 this October.

Thanks for the compliment. It means a lot to know I made the right desicion to keep all the flags on the profile page.

[Iowa Granny]

Sid's daughter must have lead a miserable life.

I personally prefer a quote like this:

"The hightest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it" John Ruskin

[lodwick]

I'll go get the story so you can read the quote in context. Evidently Sid was a horrendous drunk back in the day...the story was sent to me by freeper ofMagog.

[lodwick]

At a workshop with fellow psychotherapists years ago in Santa Fe Sid Ceasar and his daughter were featured speakers one evening.

Sid showed old film clips of his early live CBS TV show and said the pratfalls were actually real, that he was literally falling down drunk most nights. He acknowledged he was a total butthole in those days. The mutterings and acting lost that so pleased the audience were also real. He said he often forgot the script and some nights he would pass out on stage, causing the staff to drag him off and improvise from there.

He was such a star and CBS trying so hard to make it in television in those days they would do anything he asked. He would demand a different brand of scotch at the last minute and some poor soul would have to run get it. Or, he would demand someone be fired and it would be done with no questions.

He showed a fairly recent clip of an interview with his early days co-star Imogene Coco. She cut no slack, saying he was the sorriest SOB she had ever met and she hated him, that he was the most obnoxious drunk she had ever met. He showed clips of others saying essentially saying the same about him.

Sid was talking about how he got in AA and found sobriety.

Sid’s daughter said he was never physically abusive but her entire childhood was miserable due to his verbal abuse and drunken behaviors. She spoke at length about what it was like being the child of a big star and how she had tried to change him and herself. She brought silence and then standing applause from the audience when she said, “I finally became at peace with myself when I gave up all hope of a better yesterday.”

[dansangel]

“I finally became at peace with myself when I gave up all hope of a better yesterday.”

That really IS profound. Thank-you for sharing that, {{{{{{{loddie}}}}}}}}. It gives a whole lot of food for thought.....

[Iowa Granny]

thank you, and now I am convinced the young woman lead a totally miserable existance. How very sad.

[BigWaveBetty]

They've got a rude surprise coming when they travel the US this spring.

I'd better get busy on that "Go home cheese eating surrender monkeys!" bumpersticker. :-)

[Iowa Granny]

have several dozen of them printed. I'll buy one, and I'd bet others will, too.

[BigWaveBetty]

This is a good article on the history of the U.S.'s appeasement of radicals in the Arab world. Most of this history I have no education in, so if there is something the author states that you know to be incorrect please tell me about it.

The main questions I have are about President Reagan and what the author has to say about how he handled his part. Thanks all!

The End of Appeasement ** (long but excellent read)

[BigWaveBetty]

Hmmmmmm, could be an excellent way to fund sending care packages to the troops. I will check into it.