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Charlie

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  1. I know you didn't say she was the first; I was only pointing out that despite there having been other women before her, in 1970 she was still the sole woman in the Senate.
  2. She was the only woman in the Senate at that time, but she was not the first.
  3. I keep copies of all those things in a safe deposit box, but I also keep copies of all of them in a file cabinet at home. I send copies of most things to my brother-in-law, who holds the secondary power of attorney, but not my will (I don't want family to know exactly what's in it); my lawyer also has a copy of the will. With all these copies available elsewhere, I don't see any reason to carry all of these things around with me in an emergency bag, which could get lost during an emergency.
  4. I also like the Waterpik Flosser, but mine never seem to last very long before they weaken.
  5. Phone and charger. MediCare and health insurance cards.
  6. 34? And he has recently come out after "many hard years of hiding it"?
  7. In other words, the players are more likely to simply criticize but play anyway than the All-England Club members are to change their position on the Russian and Belorussian players.
  8. I have used them all at one time or another. For awhile, Allegra seemed the best, but then it seemed to become less effective. Then I went through a similar experience with Zyrtec. Ditto Flonase. Claritin never seemed effective for me. I sometimes use Benadryl at bedtime, so I can breathe while I am asleep.. When I was young, the only thing that worked was Primatene (is that still available?). It worked, but it made me very drowsy. In a bad allergy season like the one I have been going through this year, I sometimes fantasize about moving to the north shore of Alaska, the only place in the US where there is almost nothing growing that I am allergic to.
  9. What if the ATP were to boycott Wimbledon, as they did in 1973? What if prominent players refused as individuals to play? None of the possibilities are pretty if Wimbledon refuses to back down.
  10. I get messages every day saying my McAfee account has expired today, even though I no longer have one, and I now have "x-number of infections in my computer!". Why do they bother?
  11. Today in Philadelphia.
  12. Novak will have much to think about. I'm sure he disagrees with Wimbledon's stand, but he also is the reigning Wimbledon champion, and those points from last year have a lot to do with his own current ranking.
  13. Like @Beancounter, I was confused by the title. When I was 17, I came with no warning in my pants while chatting with a very hot model, just after watching a gay photographer friend of mine doing a shoot of him for Physique Pictorial. As for land speed, the top was probably 100mph in my Mercedes E320 on an empty stretch of interstate in west Texas. It was my first driving trip to the Southwest, and I wasn't paying attention until I glanced down at the speedometer.
  14. My experiences were all at least a dozen years ago, so I would not be surprised if a lot has changed. I believe there are also fewer First Class seats on most flights than there used to be.
  15. It's been so long since the first rumors that someone famous had bought the rights to make it into a movie that I have forgotten all the details about why it never got made. I read the novel when it was new, and I honestly don't remember the characters or the plot. Aside from the fact that the main character was a gay athlete, an unusual twist in those days, it didn't make much impression on me.
  16. When you become the first world-famous sports figure in your home country at the age of 17, and that brings immediate wealth and adulation, which continues for years, it is not so surprising that you may develop a screwed up system of moral standards. His sex life is legendary: he married his first wife, actress Barbara Feltus, when she was 8 months pregnant, and has five acknowledged children, not all by his wives. Money has come easily, much of it not really "earned." Of course, if he had never won Wimbledon, he may still have turned out to be a jerk, but no one outside of his his small home town would have cared.
  17. I am not indigent, but I have been upgraded to First Class a few times for different reasons (e.g., I had voluntarily given up my seat on a sold-out earlier flight for someone who needed it). I also remember a time when my partner and I were the only booked passengers in First Class on a long distance flight, and they upgraded some other passengers to First Class in order to balance the weight load (at least, that's what the flight attendant told us when they moved people to seats behind us).
  18. We did it for one year several years ago, then decided it wasn't worth the money. It is getting very hard to find, because the insurance companies were losing money on those who ended up using it, so premiums became too expensive for new buyers who didn't want to spend that much on insurance they might never need; therefore, many companies dropped the longterm care option. One elderly friend was not happy with the service they gave when her husband was dying, and decided to drop the policy for herself.
  19. When he was in Downingtown, the "map me" function on RM went to what looked like a real residential location. In Philly, it just goes to the generic location in Center City that many Philly advertisers use. My guess would be that he still lives in D-town but gets more traffic if he advertises his base as Philly, and may even have a place that he utilizes in Philly when he gets a request to do business there.
  20. By 7am, I have already walked the dog, eaten breakfast, and am preparing for my 7:30 tennis match.
  21. Yes, the heat does get to me after a few days around 120 degrees. That's when I head for the mountains or the coast. One of the advantages of Palm Springs is that it is pretty close to a lot of alternative climates. If one is really in a hurry, one can just get on the tram from the valley floor to the state park 6000 feet higher in a matter of minutes. In winter, one can be sunbathing by the pool in the morning, and tramping through snow in a mountain meadow in the afternoon. The coast takes longer to get to, but last summer on one of those 123 degree days, I got in the car and after several hours in traffic, I was in Morro Bay on the Pacific, where the temperature was 60. But on most summer days, I am a typical local: I get everything done outdoors between 5-9am, and spend the rest of the day indoors in air-conditioning.
  22. Charlie

    Vintage men

    Nice '55 Chrysler. But why is the dog looking at the wrong thing?
  23. And the name of this product is....?
  24. The US, Britain and France do not "govern" the three slams. You seem confused about how any of this works.
  25. Would you expect the Americans, English, French and Australians to have welcomed players from the countries against which they were actually fighting a war?! The UK is not technically at war with Russia or Belarus, regardless of their protests against Russia's aggression against Ukraine. The AELTC is essentially a a private club, which is closing its doors against persons of whom they disapprove, regardless of whether or not the UK government allows the players to enter the country, whereas the Australian Open welcomed Djokovic, but it was the Australian government which denied him entry to the country to play. BTW, the four "slams" were not even "open" in the 1940s: only amateurs were allowed to compete, not the professional tennis players who are now represented by the ATP and WTA. Any comparison to the World War 2 situation is really irrelevant.
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