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09-25-2018 , 02:49 PM

#29351

John Cole

Lounge Nighthawk

Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 18,177

Quote:

Originally Posted by lastcardcharlie

What was the play? Something by Harold Pinter?

Play was an overwrought, "sure to provoke discussion" thing, which we didn't discuss. Pinter would have been better.

09-25-2018 , 02:51 PM

#29352

John Cole

Lounge Nighthawk

Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 18,177

Quote:

Originally Posted by daveT

John, the heart needs what the mind claims it doesn't.

Dave, as Pascal said, "The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of." I'm afraid my head overrules my heart though.

09-25-2018 , 02:51 PM

#29353

lastcardcharlie

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 10,435

Quote:

Originally Posted by Phat Mack

Congrats! This shows a well-tuned mind.

True.

I'm going to change the world.

09-25-2018 , 05:52 PM

#29354

Zeno

Le Misanthrope

Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 22,354

Congrats to last card. The Knowledge is a wonderous thing.

09-25-2018 , 05:53 PM

#29355

Zeno

Le Misanthrope

Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 22,354

Quote:

Originally Posted by lastcardcharlie

True.

I'm going to change the world.

I already did. You changing it back?

09-25-2018 , 05:57 PM

#29356

Zeno

Le Misanthrope

Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 22,354

An Oscar Wilde play even better.

09-25-2018 , 06:58 PM

#29357

John Cole

Lounge Nighthawk

Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 18,177

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zeno

An Oscar Wilde play even better.

I agree.

09-25-2018 , 08:36 PM

#29358

daveT

S.A.G.E. Master

Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 23,955

lastcardcharlie;

Congrats, but I have no idea what the Knowledge is.

***

John Cole;

Pascal was a mighty fine mind, even if it was flawed in many ways.

I prefer my own writing, warts and all; it shows the nature of my flawed mind.

09-25-2018 , 08:43 PM

#29359

Dominic

Tripod

Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 74,260

What the heck is this Knowledge thing? Is it like Shriners?

09-25-2018 , 08:49 PM

#29360

John Cole

Lounge Nighthawk

Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 18,177

I think it's knowing every street in London.

09-25-2018 , 08:51 PM

#29361

John Cole

Lounge Nighthawk

Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 18,177

I'm grateful for my friends, those here, there, and everywhere. Just wanted to say that.

09-25-2018 , 10:51 PM

#29362

Dominic

Tripod

Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 74,260

I'm grateful for you, too, John.

09-26-2018 , 01:24 AM

#29363

Phat Mack

Twat-Waffle

Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 11,941

Quote:

Originally Posted by John Cole

There comes a stage in life when a father must turn to his daughter for dating advice.

No!

Quote:

Oh, that doesn't happen to all of us?

NO!

Quote:

Well, my daughter assures me that a fourteen (soon to be fifteen) year age difference is "NOTHING" (her caps). I'm not so sure about that.

Bingo! Half your age plus nine is the upper bound. You could look it up. It's in the Koran or P. G. Wodehouse. Maybe Anthony Powell. Who knows, but they're words to live by.

Samuel Johnson?

09-26-2018 , 01:34 AM

#29364

diebitter

Grotesquely Handsome

Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 65,711

LastCardCharlie, Congratulations! That's a hell of an achievement. Impressive.

I didn't even know it was still a thing in the age of TomToms etc. It does my heart good to know it is.

09-26-2018 , 01:35 AM

#29365

diebitter

Grotesquely Handsome

Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 65,711

Quote:

Originally Posted by Phat Mack

No!

NO!

Bingo! Half your age plus nine is the upper bound. You could look it up. It's in the Koran or P. G. Wodehouse. Maybe Anthony Powell. Who knows, but they're words to live by.

Samuel Johnson?

Half your age plus 7. Let's not short-change ourselves.

09-26-2018 , 01:36 AM

#29366

diebitter

Grotesquely Handsome

Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 65,711

also, I remember seeing this decades ago at age fourteen (in 1979)...

"Four out of work Londoners apply to do "The Knowledge" to become London taxi drivers. They have to contend with learning 20,000 streets and 500 set routes as well as Mr Burgess, a notoriously sadistic examiner from the Public Carriage Office."

09-26-2018 , 01:38 AM

#29367

John Cole

Lounge Nighthawk

Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 18,177

Quote:

Originally Posted by diebitter

Half your age plus 7. Let's not short-change ourselves.

Geez, so 50 is too old? Hell, I qualify for 39 year olds. Now that's scary.

09-26-2018 , 01:41 AM

#29368

diebitter

Grotesquely Handsome

Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 65,711

Ah I didnt notice he said 'upper bound'. Nonsense - such a range shows a weak and vacuous character.

The upper range is (your age - 7)*2

It's science, man.

09-26-2018 , 01:46 AM

#29369

John Cole

Lounge Nighthawk

Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 18,177

Quote:

Originally Posted by diebitter

Ah I didnt notice he said 'upper bound'. Nonsense - such a range shows a weak and vacuous character.

The upper range is (your age - 7)*2

It's science, man.

That's scary too.

09-26-2018 , 04:17 AM

#29370

lastcardcharlie

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 10,435

Quote:

Originally Posted by diebitter

I didn't even know it was still a thing in the age of TomToms etc.

The market is fluid and unpredictable right now. My examiner's view was that it should be okay in the short-term, but the longer-term problem is that fewer people are doing it.

09-26-2018 , 04:30 AM

#29371

Ray Zee

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 17,916

hey i just noticed the new thread. ive been left out.

but it looks so far to be low content.

09-26-2018 , 07:28 AM

#29372

Eltin

adept

Join Date: Sep 2012 Posts: 929

Hereditary was bad. There are some good ones, but i have yet to see a truly scary horror movie.

Favorites so far are Rec 1&2 and the witch.

09-26-2018 , 08:39 AM

#29373

John Cole

Lounge Nighthawk

Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 18,177

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ray Zee

hey i just noticed the new thread. ive been left out.

but it looks so far to be low content.

It's supposed to be low content, but you've given me an idea for winter thread title.

09-26-2018 , 10:18 AM

#29374

Dominic

Tripod

Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 74,260

What's the point of this Knowledge business in the age of GPS?

09-26-2018 , 10:18 AM

#29375

Dominic

Tripod

Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 74,260

When I was a courier in L.A. for a few months, I would've qualified in "The Knowledge of Using the Thomas Guide."

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