SeanMike Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 As of yesterday, natch: First to mom. Thanks for life! Second to Mr. Darcy O'Neil. Good seeing you again, and for making today awkward to explain the cane to my coworkers. ("Why are you on a cane?" "Uh, I tripped trying to jump a fence." "When and where?" "Uh, the Canadian Embassy, at like 1 AM Saturday night." "Were you drunk?" "YA THINK?!") Third to the brothers Brown and Chantal, for the fun, and later, the help post-knee-sprain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barbara Posted May 15, 2012 Share Posted May 15, 2012 I'm hoisting a glass to Pudge Rodriguez and hoping he'd be amenable to a return to the Nats, should he get a call. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Hersch Posted May 15, 2012 Share Posted May 15, 2012 Donald "Duck" Dunn, the best R&B bass player that ever was. RIP. Listen to him work In the Midnight Hour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keithstg Posted May 16, 2012 Share Posted May 16, 2012 Chuck Brown. Rest in Peace... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RWBooneJr Posted May 16, 2012 Share Posted May 16, 2012 As long as the beat don't stop As long as the wine keep popping The house gone keep on rocking Until the cops come knocking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tujague Posted May 17, 2012 Share Posted May 17, 2012 To Donna Summer. You were hot stuff, indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Hersch Posted May 19, 2012 Share Posted May 19, 2012 Damn, so many music legends leaving us. Etta James, Johnny Otis, Levon Helm, Donald "Duck" Dunn, Chuck Brown, Donna Summer, and now Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, whom I had the pleasure of hearing in recital about thirty years ago. I was never really a fan of Chuck Brown or Donna Summer, but nevertheless I raise a glass and salute them all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmmboy Posted May 19, 2012 Share Posted May 19, 2012 I'll have another tonight in honor of I'll Have Another's brilliant stretch drive in the Preakness. Special performance by this beautiful horse beating an awfully good Bodemeister. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barbara Posted May 20, 2012 Share Posted May 20, 2012 I'll have another tonight in honor of I'll Have Another's brilliant stretch drive in the Preakness. Special performance by this beautiful horse beating an awfully good Bodemeister. Amen. As close as these two are, the Belmont Stakes oughta be thrilling. It's been awhile since there's been a rivalry quite a good as this one,. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonRocks Posted May 20, 2012 Share Posted May 20, 2012 I'll have another tonight in honor of I'll Have Another's brilliant stretch drive in the Preakness. Special performance by this beautiful horse beating an awfully good Bodemeister. Amen. As close as these two are, the Belmont Stakes oughta be thrilling. It's been awhile since there's been a rivalry quite a good as this one,. It was an awesome finish, and reminded me of this comeback in this year's Florida state 4 x 400 relay championships. The guy from Bartram Trail high school was in 5th place on the final turn and about 30-40 yards back - you have to freeze the video at 3:12 (better still, 2:42, at which point you'd bet your entire life's savings against anyone overtaking the leader) to see how far behind he was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirite Posted May 21, 2012 Share Posted May 21, 2012 It was an awesome finish, and reminded me of this comeback in this year's Florida state 4 x 400 relay championships. To Chelsea's improbable Champions League victory over Bayern Munchen after so many years of frustration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squidsdc Posted May 21, 2012 Share Posted May 21, 2012 Damn, so many music legends leaving us. Etta James, Johnny Otis, Levon Helm, Donald "Duck" Dunn, Chuck Brown, Donna Summer, and now Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, whom I had the pleasure of hearing in recital about thirty years ago. I was never really a fan of Chuck Brown or Donna Summer, but nevertheless I raise a glass and salute them all. I'm surprised no one has had the time to raise a glass to Robin Gibb yet, so let me be the first. Maybe it is just getting too depressing to have all these music legends leaving us around the same time. Whatever happened to the rule of three? I thougth for sure we were done for May. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonRocks Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 To Brian Baker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonRocks Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 To Gary and Baya - congratulations! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonRocks Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 To Joe Biden, for delivering a speech today that could be one of his defining moments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tujague Posted May 26, 2012 Share Posted May 26, 2012 To my partner, Bob, on his last day of work and first day of retirement. I hope all of you are as blessed as I am to have such a decent, wonderful person to travel through life with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tujague Posted May 30, 2012 Share Posted May 30, 2012 To Doc Watson--what a remarkable musician. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keithstg Posted May 31, 2012 Share Posted May 31, 2012 To Aldo Conterno, RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Blume Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 Shirley Hazzard! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Blume Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 Who serves dandelion wine ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeanMike Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 I only met Mr. Bradbury once, but tonight I shall hoist a drink for him, assuming I feel well enough to do so! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanielK Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 The Hugo-nominated short video honoring Mr. Bradbury. No, really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B.A.R. Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 To local DC politics, which is a gift that seemingly keeps on giving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeanMike Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 To local DC politics, which is a gift that seemingly keeps on giving. Giving, or taking? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookluvingbabe Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 When we moved in 2006, we specifically timed it so we could legally vote in the September DC primary and the November MD general election--both elections mattered a great deal to us at the time. Since then it has been really lovely to be an observer of DC politics rather than a participant. Because really, I think I'd have an ulcer if I still lived in DC. The worst part is that I gather that the city is doing really well when if you can get past the mayor and many city council members being idiots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keithstg Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 The city is fantastic, and doing very well. The best that can be said about the One City crew ( 2/3 of which are now out of office, with one more to follow, one hopes) is that they have managed to confine their incompetence to personal endeavors (theft and fraud, mostly). Personally, I'm drinking to Ron Machen. Also a drink to Tony Williams and Adrian Fenty, who got the ball rolling fast enough that even a cadre of complete morons can't stop it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hillvalley Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 To the Class of 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DameEdna Posted June 10, 2012 Share Posted June 10, 2012 To the Class of 2012 Would drinking to the Girl Scouts be improper? I don't think so. I drink to them often. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirite Posted June 10, 2012 Share Posted June 10, 2012 Would drinking to the Girl Scouts be improper? I don't think so. I drink to them often. To Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for tonight's wonderful season finale at beautiful Strathmore Hall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lperry Posted June 10, 2012 Share Posted June 10, 2012 To the anonymous rider on the orange and blue Specialized who encouraged me through miles 59 and 60 at the MS bike ride yesterday. Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcandohio Posted June 10, 2012 Share Posted June 10, 2012 To my executive MBA students who graduated today! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirite Posted June 11, 2012 Share Posted June 11, 2012 To my executive MBA students who graduated today! To the Nats for their sweep at Fenway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookluvingbabe Posted June 18, 2012 Share Posted June 18, 2012 Too early to drink but I just mainlined a Hershey bar. Will drink later. And read some poetry. To Heloise Mayer-- a terrific, inspiring teacher who nurtured her students and helped lay the foundations for our future selves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lperry Posted June 19, 2012 Share Posted June 19, 2012 To Mr. lperry who is pedaling his way through the final twenty-five miles of the C&O canal, all the way from Cumberland. Little does he know I'm about to hop on my bike to meet him with a frosty Mountain Dew that will help get him the rest of the way home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanielK Posted June 19, 2012 Share Posted June 19, 2012 To Mr. lperry who is pedaling his way through the final twenty-five miles of the C&O canal, all the way from Cumberland. Little does he know I'm about to hop on my bike to meet him with a frosty Mountain Dew that will help get him the rest of the way home. Kudos! One of my favorite bike trips ever, even though I did it in a downpour, and took 2 days rather than the recommended 3 to complete the 185 miles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeanMike Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 To President Sullivan at UVA. More importantly, I am NOT drinking to the BOV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lperry Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 One of my favorite bike trips ever, even though I did it in a downpour, and took 2 days rather than the recommended 3 to complete the 185 miles. One of several glasses of water was raised to you at dinner, mostly because "he crazy." The guys did it in three, but they had a 12 mile detour to deal with, then they both rode home from the end of the canal. There will be much sleeping now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonRocks Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 To my dear friend Charley. I miss you so much, brother. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoramargolis Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 It hasn't totally sunk in yet that Nora Ephron has died, one of the beloved sorority of food-loving, smart, funny Jewish women in this world. I would have loved to be at the table when she and Ina Garten had lunch together (in the Dec. 2010 issue of Town and Country). I think that it would be most appropriate, in addition to lifting a glass of wine in her memory, to bake a pie tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tujague Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 To Chief Justice John Roberts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qwertyy Posted June 29, 2012 Share Posted June 29, 2012 To the firefighters, doing some of the bravest, hardest, most thankless, most important work I can imagine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leleboo Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 To the firefighters, doing some of the bravest, hardest, most thankless, most important work I can imagine We are doing our best to thank them! I am raising my glass (of water, of course) to them on behalf of my in-laws, who were allowed back into their house last night after over five days of mandatory evacuation. 350 houses lost but only two lives ... the team of firefighters, military, police, and federal agents currently working to keep my city from burning down has done yeoman's service and beyond! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcs Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Oh, Andy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MC Horoscope Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Our Nationals going to the All Star game! Ian Desmond, Stephen Strasburg, and Gio Gonzalez. (and maybe Bryce Harper if he gets voted in as the last selection). Andy, Barney, and the Fun Girls http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGwQ3hqOh18&feature=relmfu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirite Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 Our Nationals going to the All Star game! Ian Desmond, Stephen Strasburg, and Gio Gonzalez. (and maybe Bryce Harper if he gets voted in as the last selection). Andy, Barney, and the Fun Girls http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGwQ3hqOh18&feature=relmfu I watched this show when it began in 1960 and watched it for years in my comfortable white middle class community in New Jersey. It never occurred to me that Mayberry, a southern town, had no African-Americans. (at least not on camera). Shame on me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonRocks Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 To Peter Higgs, whose name will soon be etched into your mind just as indelibly as Albert Einstein's, and the thousands of physicists who worked towards finding the Higgs boson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thistle Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 Andy Griffith...my dad was a total ringer for Andy Griffith, everyone told me this growing up (he wasn't a sheriff, but at one point he was a driver's license examiner), this brings back memories of my dad for me, he predeceased Andy by a few years, RIP guys...I wish he was still here, to hang w/ me & the kids.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thistle Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 & my SIL, Rachel, who's bday is today, wouldn't it be great to get fireworks for your bday every year? Happy Birthday, Rachel! (I have the BEST extended family in the world, we are definitely sisters of another mother), & my kids have a wonderful, loving circle of grandparents, aunts, uncles, & cousins, what a great way to start things off... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheldman Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 I watched this [Andy Griffith] show when it began in 1960 and watched it for years in my comfortable white middle class community in New Jersey. It never occurred to me that Mayberry, a southern town, had no African-Americans. (at least not on camera). Shame on me. The internet is a really amazing thing. Found a document here that is a 1960 report on the demographics and trends of Mt. Airy NC (the real-life Mayberry, where Andy Griffith grew up). The African-American population was quite small - less than 5 percent if I am reading correctly - and mostly quite poor. So the show may have been substantially accurate in terms of its representation of who was milling around "downtown" in this small town in this part of NC. (I am not an expert on Mt. Airy in the 1950s and 60s, though I did spend many wonderful weeks there in the 1980s and 90s at the fiddlers' convention.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheldman Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 I watched this [Andy Griffith] show when it began in 1960 and watched it for years in my comfortable white middle class community in New Jersey. It never occurred to me that Mayberry, a southern town, had no African-Americans. (at least not on camera). Shame on me. The internet is a really amazing thing. Found a document here that is a 1960 report on the demographics and trends of Mt. Airy NC (the real-life Mayberry, where Andy Griffith grew up. The African-American population was quite small - less than 5 percent if I am reading correctly - and mostly quite poor. So the show may have been substantially accurate in terms of its representation of who was milling around "downtown" in this small town in this part of NC. (I am not an expert on Mt. Airy in the 1950s and 60s, though I did spend many wonderful weeks there in the 1980s and 90s at the fiddlers' convention.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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