haha ya it seems like it would be more interesting than the 1989 radio station that broadcasts in latin though haha


haha I know. I wonder how many listeners they have really. do you know how soldiers made radios during WWII?


I guess they used pencils and razorblades to make foxhole radios, seems crazy to me!


I know, like what channels did they even catch with those


nope I have no idea how that works, would you listen to radio dramas for free? I guess they have those online


Yes that is nice for those who are interested in that. have you listened to a canadian radio channel before?


I havent but I heard that they are required to play 40% canadian content, sounds horrible to me haha


hahah I don't know there are quite a few canadian musicians making a mark nowadays


give me some examples, I only know Bieber, Celine Dion, and Rush haha


hey, I know a little bit, can you guess the top 3 richest presidents?


Alessia Cara, Neon Dreams and some other. nice chatting with you


i think it was jefferson, washington and jfk


yup you're right, I would have thought trump would be in there, what about you?


yeah but I guess we have to consider inflation


ya I think thats what happened, do you think its weird that the president of zimbabwe is named president banana?


yeah, i wonder if that means something in their language


ya good question, I think he should pull a President of Indonesia and make some pop albums while in office haha


hahhaa maybe they should.do you listen to the radio much?


I do sometimes ya, did you hear you can pick up Jupiter radio storms on your AM radio?


Hello!  How you doing?  Did you know that up until 1805 the runner up in a President race would become the vice president?  Can't imagine all the fighting and jealousy THAT would have caused!


When I was younger I think I wore some.  Nowadays it's hard to find any that'll fit my head.  Ha!


haha me too! I didn't know the common hat in the old west was the bowler, not the cowboy hat!


That is pretty neat!  Did you know tipping ones hat comes from the knights of old?


That is cool as well! I think that is where saluting came from as well for the military!


Really?  I didn't know that.  But yeah, knights would lift their visions to show friendliness.


Do you know where the conical party hat came from?


Yeah, I think it's based on the "dunce" cap, that were once worn at parties to encourage foolish behavior.  You know, they also used to put those on the heads of misbehaving students back in the old days.


Very interesting! Do you follow congress much?


A little bit... I honestly try not to think about Congress much... lol


Same here! I think it's interesting though the first female congress person was elected before she could even vote haha. Well nice chatting with you!


I'm great how are you! Oh I'm sure I couldn't believe that either. The Vice President probably always prayed something would happen to the president haha.


Hey, it was great chatting with you as well!  Take care!


Plus back in older times, it would have probably have been easier for unscrupulous VPs to arrange an "accident" for a sitting president!


Exactly! Do you know who the top three wealthiest presidents were?


Actually, I do, I  believe it was JFK, Washington and Jefferson.  Think Wash and Jefferson were wealthy from land/farming and JFK well, he inherited money from a bootlegging empire.


That is right! I was wondering about JFK but that totally makes sense!


Speaking of Presidents, I've heard that President of Indonesia released 3 pop album while in office.  Can you imagine any of the former US President cutting an album after (or even during) their Presidency?  LOL


They would be the most popular person ever hahaha. They ought to put a recording studio in the white house guest house!


Well, there'd be room for it.  I've read it's bigger than the actual white house!  Come to think of it, they did have a "Rapping Ron" song in the 80s, but I don't think that was REALLY Ronald Reagan doing the singing.  LOL


They did? Wow I need to look into that one! Do you like to wear hats?


Fox News is a great channel do you watch it?


Thats an old range of viewers, so what are your thoughts on our president?


The current one has let me down on the local job economy.  The only US president to have a PHD is Woodrow Wison!  That's amazing that only one dr. has ever held that position.


The only one! wow! and I guess Dr arent prepared to face the economy of a country I would prefer a businessman as leader.


I would to...but when Trump came through my area he promised to revive the local job economy which has been in a downslide since 1990.  Instead of getting better, places are closing at a faster rate including Chevy who shut down an auto plant in Lordstown, Ohio.


That sounds terrible I guess he didnt make America great again, I just want elections to come I cant stand him as president anymore


I would say he's lost all the votes he had here before. lol  Speaking of which...only 5 presidents have been elected whil still losing the popular vote.


And Trump was one of those, I bet the president of Indonesia is a really popular guy.


I'm not familiar with that president?  What did he do?


He released 3 pop albums while in office, he must have a lot of fans.


I guess so! lol  The last U.S. president to speak a foreign language fluently was FDR.


I do watch it every now and then!  How about you!  Know anything interesting about it?


The last one really? that is a surprising fact, anyways its been great chatting with you today.


I know.  You would have thought that there would have been a lot more of them.  Have a great day!


I do, the channel is watched more than CNN and MSNBC combined.


Wow.  That's a lot!  Fox news threatened to sue the Simpsons in order to stop them from parodying it's famously anti-democratic party agenda!


That is odd considering The Simpsons are like the emblem of the channel I sure love them, seems like they have a complicated relationship


I agree!  In 2007 Fox news tried to have a conservative version of the "Daily Show" called the "1/2 Hour News Hour".  It was cancelled after only 13 episodes.  Never knew that.


I never knew that either, the network was created by Nixon, I wonder if the network is biased towards Republicans.


I think they have been accused of that. lol  The percentage of airtime on Fox news dedicated to opinion is 55%...for MSNBC it's 85%!


Yeah would make sense, the gaming website IGN is also owned by Fox News


I didn't know that!  In 2015 the median viewer age for Fox news was 68 years old.


Nice!  Busta Rhymes voiced the reptar wagon in the 1998 Rugrats movie.


Lol, that's crazy. Did you know an Arctic Monkeys' performance was cancelled on Jimmy Kimmel Live because Kayne West wouldn't stop talking?


haha I believe it!  Kanye believes that aids is a man-made disease.


Doesn't surprise me. Pretty ironic Kayne did a skit of snl interrupting an award show 2 years before he interrupted Taylor Swift


Yes!  Out of the top 10 most successful songs of all time, only Kanye West's "Gold Digger" is in a minor key.


Interesting, I know Evel Knievel sued Kayne over his "touch the sky" music video


No way!  Kanye once gave his mic to a fan in a wheelchair at a concert.  Nice thing he did there.


That's pretty nice of him to do, I wonder if that was before or after the Taylor Swift incident


I'm not sure.  I didn't realize that Kanye West was born in 1977.  I thought he was younger than that.  Anyhow...it was nice chatting with you!


I never knew Swift is 2 inches taller than Kayne, well have a good one


Yea I like old school rap, I never knew there were rappers who used sign language


I didn't know that.  You have a good day!


I didn't know that either.  There's a form of freestyle rap called "compliment battle" that was invented by Korean rappers.  First time I've ever heard about that.


Sounds like a bad time. The rapper Noclue can rap at 14.1 syllables per second, I don't even know how anyone could understand what he is rapping


Only the people who can understand 14.1 syllables per second...so not many people. lol


Well Noclue could making a bunch of money referencing big macs, McDonalds pays rappers $5 each time they do


Nice I didn't know that.  Before he became a rapper, Eminem's true dream was to become a comic book artist.


Me neither, I also didn't know Donald Glover got his rap name from an online wu-tang clan name generator


Neat!  I didn't know that either. lol  In 2001, a Michigan judge deliverd her ruling in the form of a rap when trying a suit filed against Eminem.  Bet that was funny to hear.


Sounds funny, or awkward. It's pretty cool that the singer of the pokemon theme also worked with Michael Jackson on the song "Black and White"


Hey how's it going. Are you a big dancer? It could be expensive because professional ballet dancers go through up to four pairs of shoes in a week.


Nice me too! I want to go to Japan but I hear the tolls are so expensive on the roads.


the roads are very safe and there is little traffic. that is a great country for highway travel. the trains are better though.


Oh that's good to know. I would like to travel in a dutch commuter bus because it can go up to 160 mph.


i think that we need better commuter transport in the us. not enough high speed stuff. japan has a bunch. very convenient.


I totally agree with you. Some cities don't have any good options. The first king to travel around the world was king kalakaua of Hawaii.


i guess he really wanted to get out of hawaii. all those tourists? drive me insane too!


Yeah they would but it is a very beautiful place. Iceland sounds like a difficult place to travel as most people without cars use domestic flights.


i think that they have lots of horses. thats a good way to travel around iceland too.


Yeah I would love to do that. Mackinac Island also has lots of horses since they don't allow cars.


i think that that is great thing that they are doing. there should be a ban on cell phones too.


Hi, how are you? I am a terrible dancer! not terrific, terrible!


Agreed. Would be like old times. Well have great day!


Ha ha I am terrible as well. But apparently Bruce Lee was a very good dancer.


I never knew he could dance but im not surprised. i figure he must have had some good grooves in his booty


Haha yeah he must have! Another surprise dancer was Tupac who did ballet.


tupac was the man. he could do so many things. ballet? im a bit surprised.


Yeah back in his highschool days. He acted and danced in the nutcracker.


he must have been quite graceful. i bet he didnt want people to see him that way later though.


Agreed. He had to keep up his rap persona. Even babies spontaneously dance when they hear music!


i must have been a bad dancer as a baby. i cant dance. i just cant. i do like to travel though


Hello there, I hope you are doing well today.  Did you know what the first president of Zimbabwe was called?


Yeah isn't that funny, imagine all the guests from other countries that come to stay what they think.


Yea, the White House needs an upgrade, they still use floppy disks for storing files


Holy cow that is crazy.  I didn't even think you could buy those things anywhere.


yea, I don't what's worse still using floppy disks or the secret service taking four days to realize someone shot the white house


Yeah I would say both are horrible but the four days is just the worst.


Yea that's pretty bad but at least George W Bush reinstalled solar panels back on the White House so it wouldn't be completely outdated


Yeah that was a good move, more places especially for profit companies need to install more.


Yea, I wonder what types of radios they have in the White House, I know a regular radio can pick up radio storms from Jupiter so I wonder what a White House radio could do


Yeah I wonder if they have a secret giant radio that can pick up everything.


I bet they get all the radio stations and can listen to 'nunti latinibeing' broadcast in classical latin from Finland


The first president of Zimbabwe was know as President Banana, I wonder if he looked like one or just liked bananas a lot


Yeah I bet they listen to that all the time to be honest.  Well it was nice talking with you today, I hope you enjoy the rest of the day.


Good call you're right.  Yeah I wonder why, I think his actual name was close to banana so that was his nickname, I could be wrong though.


Maybe, not as strange as the President of indonesia releasing 3 pop albums while still in office though


Yeah I wonder how good or probably how bad those albums actually were.


Well they must of been good if the President released 3 albums unless he was a dictator and forced people to buy his pop albums


Yeah I'm sure they sold like crazy and he made a lot of money for himself.


Yea that is a good way to make money but I'm sure it was nowhere near as close as the three wealthiest US president JFK, Washington, or Jefferson


Yeah imagine how wealthy Jefferson actually was way back then.


Yea, too bad they couldn't use their money to make the white house larger than the guest house


Do you like Oscar Wilde?  DId you know that his last words were "my wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death.  One or other of us has got to go."


Did you know that Tom Hanks is the highest all-time box office star.  He has some great movies.


I'm not surprised... he's very talented and looks like a decent guy :) what's Your favorite movie with him ?


Forest Gump will always be my favorite ;)


Michael Caine became an actor because he was attracted to the girls in his school that were in drama class.


lol... He is one of the best actors ever ;) classy dude


Did you know that Disney almost shut down their animation studio after sleeping beauty failed at the box?


Lol... maybe they should... they wouldn't destroy the Star Wars for me then ;) lol


Did you see Silence of the Lambs?  That was a creepy one!  It came out Valentines Day 1991 and had a box office of over $270 million.


Perfect timing with a premiere than :) Yes I saw it... Anthony Hopkins was phenomenal !


I do like Mr. Wilde :) wallpaper ?:) Some feisty beast :)


Cartoonists portrayed him as a black minstrel or monkey with the aesthetes iconic sunflower


Weird... Olivia Wilde's name was originally Olivia Cockburn. She changed it as a tribute to Oscar Wilde... I think the name change was a good move!


He was put in prison at one point for two years for sodomy


Who was Olivia, was that his wife or sister or mother?


I'm guessing here but when I read it I thought it was his wife...


I just looked it up and Connie Lloyd was his wife, so I'm not sure.  Kissing his lipstick covered tomb though could get you a $12,000 fine.


Yeah I think thats a good way to monitor it, I would be afraid to break the law in South Korea though so that might be enough for kids to respect that rule.


Yeah, it could be tough if they're caught. Game designer Jane McGonigal calculated that we play three billion hours of video games a week. I suppose that kind of addiction could be a problem among kids in Korea.


Wow that much! that is a lot of time wasted, Jim Hanks the brother of Tom Hanks is the voice of Woody on video games and also on merchandise


I guess his voice is close enough, plus Jim is probably his inexpensive non-union equivalent. Other big-name actors have done voice over as well. Stephen Fry did the narration for Little Big Planet, Hitchhiker's guide , and Harry Potter video games.


Oh so that was Stephen Fry, he has a great voice I wonder why video games were called cathode ray tube amusement devices, at first.


The military likes its complicated sounding names to enhance whatever trivia thing they're doing.


I guess they do, it really sounds like a complicated name, Video Games is a much better one.


Celebrities have gotten more involved in video games. Judge Judy makes $123,000 per episode, making her the highest paid celebrity after Lebron James. I wonder whether she would ever consider doing video games.


If they offer her a good amount of money she might, and thats a lot of money! it really adds up, Pixar Studio has a secret room I wonder if it appears on video games.


That's a great question! Well, I enjoyed chatting with you!


Hi, how are you? No, I don't follow the college game much. You?


Yeah I wonder if Robin Williams ever visited that room I bet he did, and its been nice chatting with you as well.


I do, I think there are some decent college football teams like Ohio State


Has Ohio State done anything like University of Iowa did to the visitor's locker room?


I dont think so lol, Ohio State pushed the creation of a new arena involving 5 colleges aimed to bolster gaming performance of the players.


I bet they're in better shape that bowlers. However, in the 1960's top bowlers made twice as much as top football stars. Strange!


That is strange, maybe football wasnt a popular sport back then I don't see bowlers making much these days.


I do, I have an Xbox One but dont have much time lately what about you?


i used to play but I don't anymore. It's illegal for kids 16 and under in Korea to play video games past midnight. I wonder how they monitor that. Online perhaps?


Do you have children that watch Youtube?


I agree. I didn't know that there was a Filter called restricted mode that helps filter out the iffy stuff.


I do not know how to use filters.  I think the internet itself at our home has some kind of filter.


You can find the filter in the account settings page and you just toggle it to on at the bottom of the page!


You can also create playlists too to help the children watch things you have pre approved for them!


I saw an article to encourage our kids to subscribe because the creators would email us of new materials.


That is interesting! That would be a great way to make sure your kids are getting content from a creator that is positive!


It did not occur to me prior to reading the article.


Me either! I read that Youtube and Netflix make up half of the internet traffic in North America!


As you suggested earlier, I will go to account settings page and toggle on Restricted Mode


My son enjoys it, but I try to be cautious because anyone can make a channel.


An adult is always with the kids when they watch Youtube


Right, I try to always make sure that I regulate the channels he watches.


Sometimes, I saw children channels that have ads related to adults that re not supposed to be seen by kids


I have noticed that, We try to skip ads every chance we get.


An article suggested that you watch channels that the kids watch alone later if the kids do not want to share what they watch.  In our house, they do not watch if they do not want to let us watch what they watch.


I don't blame you! I always want to check what my son watches. It can be disguised as kid friendly, but it really may not be!


I know.  Some channels are  educational.  Some are entertaining to the kids but can be annoying to adult.


Yeah, I usually run out of content to watch for a few days but it gives me a little break. Then new content is available for me to stream. So I don't usually have use for the DVDs.


I agree, I think I've watched all the Thrillers on Netflix and Prime, ha. There was actually a comic book series that came out about fixing the collateral damage caused by superheros, funny.


Have you heard of a superhero called normalman? He was the only person who didn't have powers on a planet full of superheroes.


No, I haven't.  I will have to look him up, never heard of him. Talk about being the odd one out, bet he feel really insecure on that planet!


Yeah, it's an interesting concept. Apparently Daredevil's season three is really good. I might have to check it out.


Oh my goodness, there's actually over 300 registered superheroes in the United States!


That's quite a bit. I wonder how many are Marvel and DC.


Good question, will have to look that one up also!  Garfield had a book series spinoff named Pet Force, it featured him and his gang as Superheroes, funny!


I'd like to check that out. Garfield is hilarious.


I still enjoy watching Garfield and Scooby Doo.  I remember, staying up late at night with a flashlight, reading Superman and Batman comic books, when they were like, ten or fifteen cents!


I have seen it on Netflix, but haven't watched it, have you?


Wow, that's amazing. What great memories.


No, I haven't. I'm not really into superhero series. Though I thought Jessica Jones was okay.


I'm not either, I watched a few of the movies only because my husband wanted to. I see that Marvel comics created a superhero for a little 4 year old boy, the superhero "Blue Ear", because of the boy being uncomfortable to wear hearing aids, that was nice.


That is nice. Daredevil is on its third season so a lot of people must like it.


Yep, also Netflix accounts for 33% of internet bandwidth between the hours of 9pm to midnight in North America.


I am guilty for contributing to that. That is how I wind down. Netflix and Youtube together are half ofpeak internet traffic in North America.


I'm am a watcher as well, every evening.  Wow, Blockbuster declined the purchase of Netflix for 50 million years ago, now Netflix is worth 2 billion, bet they regret that one!


I'll bet. Netflix still spends more money on postage than bandwidth though. I forgot that they still offer DVD rentals.


I used to participate in the DVD rentals but it's just easier to rent or buy from Vudu or Amazon prime or something.


I never noticed that.  But, now that you mention it you're right!  Do you like Tom Brady at all?


I agree.  Surprised he was originally a 6th round draft pick in 2000.  He is considered the biggest steal in the history of the NFL draft due to be drafted at such a low round.


I can understand. Plus his wife makes double what he makes. He should try harder and make more money.


lol Yes.  He has an odd quirk where he has never eaten a strawberry in his entire life.


Such a weird and stupid thing... Who doesn't eat strawberries? I mean... daquiries, margaritas, shortcake...


lol right?  Patriots coach Bill Belichick always lists Brady on the injury report every week even though he shows no signs of being injured.  Probably to play a mental mind game with the upcoming opponent.


They are good. They have either won or lost by 3 or 4 points in all 6 tries.


I never realized that all of the games were that close.  Brady is 1 of only 2 quarterbacks to ever win the Super Bowl in their first season as a starter.


That's right!  It was nice chatting with you!


I'm a big fan.  Surprised to find out that there's only 11 minutes of actual gameplay during an average game.


I read that too! Seems like a lot of wasted game time. Who's your favorite team?


Out of the 32 teams my favorite is the Pittsburgh Steelers because my family comes from the central part of the state.


That's a good team. I cannot believe there are only 4 major sports in North America.


Yes. I'm surprised that we haven't seen a female NFL player yet since there's no written rule against them playing.  I figured maybe a kicker or punter would have been a good fit.


They do use chips in players shoulder pads to track their movements.


Interesting.  The average lifetime earnings of an engineer are higher than the lifetime earnings of an average NFL or MLB player.  Probably because of the longer career an engineer has.


I had no idea the super bowl is held on the first sunday in Feb. I thought they chose a different Sunday every year.


Do you think there are many books about diversity for children?


I would love to go to the Sacramento Public Library.  You can check out useful items like sewing machines and others.  That sounds cool!


Isn't it also called the library of things that offer things people may find useful but don't require long term? I think that is a brilliant idea.


Funny thing is that an 85 year old in UK founded a public library by wheelbarrowing his collection of 32,000 books on a 3/4 mile trail from his home.  He was the prime minister at the time in 1895 and wanted to let people who didn't have books read.  How kind.


It really shows how valuable, yet sometimes underappreciated libraries and knowledge truly is. I wonder if we will have a vast virtual library with a digital collection of all information on earth?


Maybe someday.  Then we won't need wheelbarrows anymore lol.  Well, maybe we will spend less on gas.  They do have a lot digital already.  Libraries have a variety of other options for now such as newspapers, CD's, manuscripts, e-books, audiobooks and more.  I like audiobooks.  How about you?


I have to agree I prefer audiobooks nowdays. Less strain on my eyes and I can listen while walking around.


They are great for in the car too.  I bet Dr. Suess' editor could put his foot in his mouth after he bet $50 with Seuss that he couldn't write a kids book in 50 words or less.  Green Eggs and Ham won the bet.


Well his editor also probably helped Dr. Suess to rake in tons of money more than $50 in royalties given the sheer popularity of the book.


Some authors start so young writing.  Eragon's author began writing at age 14 and it made the New York Times Children's books best seller list 121 weeks!


I wonder how old he was when he finally finished writing the book?


While I agree that there is a lack of diversity in children's books, I also don't believe there is a necessity to force diversity. I support the nature development of diversity such as the The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.


Good question!  Lucky we can look that up on the internet due to cables carrying phone and internet data across the oceans.  Even though the cables are very thin at 2.7 inches in diameter and lay on ocean floors, we sure gain a  lot of information from their use.


I will look it up right after I submit this chat. Thank you for the pleasant conversation.


That is a great picture book of life in the Bronx.


It was very interesting how this pulitzer prize winning novel dealt with many issues that most children books insufficiently address for the sheer diversity of people's backgrounds


I wonder if he addresses disabilities as diversity?  I don't see a lot of that in children's books.


Well there exist a very adult idea that children have to be protected from the uglier aspects of life or even if they are present, they must be easy to gloss over. To some extent I agree to both perspectives. I think a children's book for people with disabilities such as the physical would be nice for sick children in hospitals. As for disabilities of diversity, he does a good job addressing them in his book.


Interestingly, if the childrens' books were published in Norway the government buys and distributes 1500 of them to libraries in the country.


I feel today, library which are collection of sources of information and similar resources are an under appreciated resource. Did you know a falsely imprisoned man spent 10 years studying law in the library to prove his innocence and became a lawyer to help people who similarly were falsely convicted


Shows that education pays off.  I didn't know that there were more libraries than McDonalds in the US.  I guess we could learn not to eat the greasy burgers if we increased library card memberships from 50% to more than that.


Well I think people choose to eat fast food, primarily because its cheap and they lack any healthier alternatives.


Hello, did you enjoy the iron man films. My son loves them.


Thats just crazy. He is my son second favorite, after transformers. I guess it worked out for stan though.


I love the sound of the guitar. Did you know Brian may uses coins for his picks.


He probably gets a different sound from using them.  He also holds a phd in astrophysics.  Incredible!


I bet he wouldnt be smashing guitars like matthew bellamy. He holds the record  for most smashed guitars on tour.


I do use facebook.  I heard that iceland is actually rewriting their constitution using facebook.


That is pretty cool!  Did you hear about that Facebook promotion that Burger King was running?


I heard about it after the fact. I would have deleted all my friends. Lol.


I would have too!  I can't believe there are more than 2.2 billion active users on facebook.  Incredible.  It's been fun chatting!


Yeah it has and I cant believe it either. Have a good day.


Robert Downey jr made 10 million dollars for iron man 2. He only made 500k for the first installment.


Nice!  The fist movie grossed over $585 million dollars!


Robert only got 10 million of that. He was the best part of the movie.


Yes.  The actor who played Ralphie in "A Christmas Story" was the executive producer of Iron Man.  I didn't know that.


I heard that. Also that he decided to do the movie without a script.


That's neat!  Paul Bettany the voice of Jarvis has never seen the Iron Man movies.


Well he must be make a conscience effort not to, because Im sure he has had many chances. Lol.


lol Right?  Stan Lee created Iron Man because he thought no one would like him.


Yeah pretty small. The Russians once made a computer that ran on water.


I have a mac and it is a good thing I do not smoke at all


Yes otherwise you would be voiding its warranty


yeah. Transhumans are tying to upload their minds to the computer.


I sure do. Do you know which is the longest game played?


That was when Creighton hosted Utah in 1991 and lasted for 31 innings


Yeah. Do you know how much the players make?


All the time. Do you know why NY area code is 212?


yes, it was the easiest number to dial on a rotary phone


Yes, Did you know the phone cables lay on the bottom of the ocean?


No but I hear if they get stuck together there is no separating them


Yeah I guess so. DId you know UNICEF donates clean water when we do not use the phone?


That is cool. Do you use your computer much?


A lot. Did you know the space shuttle computer uses a 1 mb computer?


What do you think of the educational system in place in this country?


I always go for comfort over style. When I used to wear suits all the time I still worn sneakers and let people laugh at me.


Omg! I am also a TV and movie fan. the weekend update is the longest running skit. I dan remember watching it as a kid!


SNL is a great show. The first time I heard Bill Murray call someone an 'ignorant slut' in their "Point Counter Point" segment I thought I would die.


I also figured that shark tank is by and large all talk.  Some of the ideas are just not viable!


Yes. I gave up on watching that after a couple episodes. It seemed to be a platform for the Sharks egos.


I  also did not know that only one of Shakespeare's play has not been adapted for film or tv.  Amazing!


That is surprising. I used to do Community Theatre and acted in several of his plays.


How fun is that! I also cannot believe that Homer Simpson has had 188 jobs.


Homer is the man! Everything from astronaut to plow king.


I just read that Heady Lamar helped to invent the cellphone. Oh come on!


I think that teachers are for the most part underpaid.


She was obviously about 50 years before her time. What part did she play?


I think she was in the Hope and Crosby movies? I also did not know that there was not a correlation between bars of service and quality of connection.


Yeah. Your connectivity is a huge factor of where you live and what service you use. I live in a rural area and only Verizon works out here.


I also find it hard to believe that dolphins speak on the phone and recognize each other!


Well that is fascinating. One never thinks of animals being able to distinguish between voices.


I agree. My ex had a degree in marketing but got attracted to being a teacher so went back to school. She put in 12 hour days and earned only half of what she made prior.


I think that most teachers take it as a calling. It is difficult to read about the 52 year old mother that can't provide for her sons


Yes. I guess some states take education more seriously than others do. Education is the pathway to a better life but they don't seem to get it.


on another note, I have a second job at a shoe store. It is funny that shoes  can be tied at least 17 different ways.


Wait! It took me until 5 to learn to tie them one way. I'm too old to start over!


I think it is funny that Bill Nye the science guy holds a patent for ballet shoes! Ha


Does he? I had no idea. I guess science is a career with many outlets.


the queen has someone wear her shoes to make sure they are comfortable. Shoes are not supposed to need breaking in. They are supposed to be comfortable.


Hmm I do not know, it belonged to someone else?


Yes it was the email service on garfield's website


I use it sometimes. Did you know it appeared in one third of divorce papers in 2011?


Wow that is a lot. DO you know why it is blue?


Hmm maybe because it is an appealing color


Actually it is because Mark is colorblind and cannot see green and red


Oh I see interesting, THe Like button was originally called the Awesome button


Wow nice It is not illegal in some parts of Germany


WOw I wonder why. Facebook has 56 genders you can choose from


Yes all the time. Do you know what their new employees are called?


Hmm not sure but I know it required more computing power to do a google search than send astronauts to the moon


Wow impressive, and the employees are called nooglers and have to wear a propeller bean hat


Haha that is funny. Do you know how they calculate traffic?


Hm not sure. Do you know what happened when you type askew on google?


I do not know but I know that they calculate traffic by taking the average of the speed of android devices


Wow nice one. GOogle once went down for 5 minutes and took 40% of the traffic with it


WOw impressive. do you know what gmail was before google used it?


Oh wow! That's super interesting! Not many animals do that, late color change thing, whether it's skin or their fur. So few I can't think of one example! So, I just found out that George Bush put solar panels back onto the white house. I wonder why they were taken off and who took them off. And who knew that the white house had solar panels! That's encouraging to hear really!!


Yeah, sounds very green and just a good idea all the way around.  I wish more people would try and help the environment!


Yeah speaking of the environment and the white house! Teddy Roosevelt was a conservationist and he banned Christmas trees from the white house! I'm thinking someone unbanned them, because Trump's wife I think I recall has some very extravagant Christmas trees! But I could be wrong about that. Interesting though!


Yeah, Weren't her trees this past Christmas, like a forest of all red trees?   Were you shocked to see that Trump didn't make the list of the top 3 wealthiest US presidents?


Oh I absolutely was shocked! Honestly I don't believe it! I've kind of caught him doing things like "handing off his stocks" right before he became president. And I'm sure after his Presidency he will expect them to be handed right back. But that's just my opinion!


You're probably right about that!  Did you know the president's guest house is bigger than the actual white house?


No I didn't know that! That's crazy! I wonder why on earth, that's the case! If I was President, I'd just move into the guest house and release a press release saying "You Understand!" :) hehe


I found that very strange and I'd move to the larger place, as well.  Let the guests stay at the white house. Lol


Hey, why not! Presidents have done far weirder or worse things. Haha, for example, although not in the U.S., the president of Zimbabwe was called president banana! Now that's weird!


Yes, it is very weird. Wonder what kind of records the white house is storing on floppy drives?  Must not be too important. Lol


Good afternoon, yes, I do like horses.  How about you?


Haha, oh wow! Yeah, hopefully for their sake (and our I guess) they also back stuff up "in the cloud". Haha! Oh yeah, I was going to mention that the white house has twin buildings in Ireland and France. Super Interesting!


Yeah, I figure it's probably a record of how many rolls of toilet paper got used during the Carter administration or something dumb, like that.  Lol  And I didn't know about the twin buildings, that's very interesting, I guess we should be flattered?  Well, it's been fun chatting with you this afternoon.  I hope you enjoy the rest of your day.


I sure do. Humans and horses have been working together since 4000BC. I think it's written into our DNA to love them.


Yes, I think every little girl dreams of having a horse.  I had a pony named Peewee that I loved dearly.  He was the best.


That's wonderful! I hope to have horses someday. We'll see. hehe. Did you know that Clint Eastwood had what they call a "mid-life allergy" to horses? I sure hope I don't have that!


I would think that would be an awfully rare condition to have.  But, he's sure done enough Westerns and been around lots of horses in his career.  Very interesting!


For sure! If I was a scientist, I would definitely study that whole scenario in search of answers! Haha, so I was reading about these 2 students who got suspended for riding their horses to school on "no vehicles to school day". Can you imagine! Sounds silly to me. They aren't vehicles, they are horses.


I know I think I would have challenged that suspension, for sure!


Absolutely! I mean things like that can have a huge impact on a students future and that's just a silly thing to punish someone so harshly over. If I could get a horse, I'd get a Icelandic horse, if possible. They have this "fifth speed" called "tolt" which is just basically, speed-walking. hehe which is adorable!


I have seen them walk and it is so adorable.  You know what I find so shocking is that the pretty white, fancy Lipizzaner horses are born brown or black and it takes them 6 years to turn completely white!


And in 2001 a judge delivered her ruling in the form of a rap. Stay in your lane your honor!


Ha! While trying a suit filed against Eminem! I heard about that. Speaking of Eminem, crazy he wanted to be a comic book artist growing up. What might have been had he pursued that instead if rap!


yeah. I think he chose wisely. I am not sure how successful he would have been at compliment rap though.


Ha! Can't believe That's even a thing. But I suppose it's popular enough in Korea so it must be at least intriguing to see!


Intriguing, like Busta Rhymes voicing the reptar wagon in Rugrats?


Did he really? I'll have to go back and watch that movie now just to see if I recognize his voice! Ha! Reptar was a lizard right? Better that than a snake - or even a flying snake which there happens to be a genus of that can actually launch themselves at their prey. Imagine coming across one of those. Yikes!


Nope! I would run so fast! I am not a snake fan and then throw in a flying snake.... NOPE!


Same here. It's crazy that the fear of snakes is hard wired in both the brains of humans and monkeys!


I know. Poor monkeys have no idea, they just run. My 7 year old asked about getting a snake and I shut that down quickly!


I don't blame you. I wouldn't want a snake or even one of those legless lizards that look like snakes even though they basically aren't. If it looks like a snake, I don't want it!


Great! Hope you're doing well! Are you a fan of fiction by chance? If so, there's a wiki you should check out that ranks characters in fiction by their powers and abilities!


I do like comics. I fell in love with it when Edgar allen poe wrote about it.


He wrote the oldest known example of a cyborg, correct? That is awesome! Fiction is derived from the imagination and Poe had a great imagination!


Yeah. I liked Poe. Tell Tale Heart scared the heck out of me!


So true! I would like to read some of Julius Caesar's Hercules fan fiction sometimes. Or even Oedipus. I bet it's amazing.


Just don't show George martin any... He's not a fan of fan fiction...


Ha! Yeah I heard he claimed it's copyright infringement and also bad exercises for aspiring writers. I mean, he's not wrong, but a little over the top I'd say!


I think fan fiction is good. I bet he also complains that people do not write enough or how it is  lonely experience and then also complains about flattery... Seems like an inconsistent thought process.


Agreed! It's almost as ignorant as the judge who tried to ban a science fiction  comic all because it featured a black character back in 1950! The audacity of some people!


That would be an effective way to stop car jacking. I guess that SA must be pretty dangerous in general. I don't know if I would want to visit.


Me either. Not exactly the marking their visitors bureau wants... Do you like comedy?


I do like comedy. Probably more than drama. Comedy is quite hard to do well.


Me too! Maybe that's why comedy central has canceled over 100 shows since 1989.


CC should be called Comedy Graveyard. They have not cancelled South Park yet though. LOL


No, I think that is their bread and butter!


CC keeps looking for the new South Park. Then they can cancel South Park. LOL. What do you think of BIll Murray?


He thinks kung fu hustle is "the supreme achievement of the modern age in terms of comedy". Can't say that I agree with him.


I'm great! How are you doing? Do you like cars?


Sure, I don't have one at the moment, but they are quite useful. I'm surprised by the history of the drive thru.


You don't have a car? I too was surprised about the drive thru. McDonalds and I thought they were older than that.


Yes, right now, I am borrowing a friend's car, so technically not mine. I figured with the US car culture drive thrus would have been around before.


The trunk is called that because they actually had a trunk on the back of cars.


I wonder how many cars were like that. In the UK, it's called the boot. I wonder where they got that name.


In south africa, they have flame throwers to cut down on car jacking. How bad is your car jacking problem that flame throwers are the solution.


I wonder whether that's true. I know that SA has a problem with car jacking. I think that flame throwers could hurt someone else though.


I love cars.Do you know how the drive thru was invented?


Yeah it was all because soldiers were not allowed to leave their cars in their fatigues


Yeah McDOnald's had a great idea about that in '75


Yeah for sure. Do you know how Cadillac got its name?


Yes that was after the founder of Detroit, de la Mothe Cadillac


I like some of it actually. Goeorge Strait is a cousin of Jeff Bezos


Nice, small world. There are only 2 african-americans in the hall of fame for country music!


Yeah that is strange. Henry Ford paid money to make sure jazz does not take over country music


I sure do. Did you know Ramones toured for 20 years?


That is strange, each genre has its place


Yeah and played a total of 2263 concerts in that time


Yes , and Linkin Park also played lots of concerts in a single year


Yeah 324 of them in 2001, that is insane


I know right? That was all because their album was too successful


Yeah. There is an ancient theater in Croatia where concerts can be held


Yeah same as in Pompeii, where pink floyd once held a concert


eah but without any audience. King of strange


Yeah I know. A Creed concert was once so bad that people sued them.


Wow. McDonald was the inspiration for the IT move


I guess that makes sense since it is all about clowns


Yeah exactly. ALmost all his books are connected too


Nice. He has a dog, a corgi that he calls the thing of evil


Haha that guy. DO you use your phone much?


All the time actually, Do you know who invented the dial phone?


Hmm I am not sure. Did you ever use a rotary phone?


It was an undertaker. I jave actually never used one and you?


Me either but the area code for NY was because of them, easy to dial 212


That is neat. Dolphins can communicate by phone with each other too


I sure do, Have you ever seen the Shining?


I have actually, pretty scary movie. Did you watch it?


I sure did and there is a sequel to it called doctor sleep and was sold to fans for $500


Wow impressive. Did you know he was terrified when he saw Bambi?


Bambi? Is that not a kids movie, animated?


Yeah it is and he considers it the most horror movie ever


Wow, interesting. He lets aspiring filmmakers do adapt his short stories for $1


I guess the challenge is how well can they do it, he is pretty twisted with his stories


True. He got rejected 60 times before his novel was published


I think he is a smart QB kind of ironic how he was bench QB in his high school team, I think thats funny


It was funny indeed.  I'm sure his high school's QB is not even playing professionally anymore.


I bet he isnt but he can always tease Brady about it, I know I would lol


Yes, I would too.  Apparently, Patriot's running back Green-Ellis has never fumbled the football in his NFL career.


I heard about him never got to watch him play, never fumbled the ball he must be the only RB in the history of NFL, cant think of another


No, I cannot think of another either.  It must be very stressful to be perfect though.


Did you hear about that humiliating loss Cumberland had back in 1916?


222 to 0.  Were the Cumberland  players awake at all?


Seems like my granma and her friends could play a better match than that team, grandma was a great player lol


Did your grandma play football? Did you hear about ESPN and the superimposed yellow line?


Yes, I do.  I prefer college football to NFL teams though.


No not really just though it was a funny joke, still she might play better than the Cumberland team players, and yeah ESPN won an Emmy because of that.


I guess college football is more competitive, NFL is The Patriots against another team


I used to like 49ers since I lived in San Francisco for 25 years.  Now, I have no favorite.


How come you don't like the team anymore? do you like the Patiots?


49ers has not been very good in the last few years.  it's rather boring.  I am old.  I liked Joe Montana.  I admire the Patriots but I'm not a fan.


I hate the Patriots but I have to give it to them, what a team, they are making history in the NFL


Did you listen to Led Zeppelin?  There's a new book out about them.


No patience here either... The guitarist from Queen uses coins for pick. Maybe that would have helped...


Have you seen "Bohemian Rhapsody"? I think it would be interesting.


No, but I used to be a Queen listener.  I don't know much about Linkin Park but they have the best selling album of the 21st century call "Hybrid Theory."


Growing up I was a little indifferent to Queen, but now I really like a lot of their stuff. Which band do you think is beater, Queen or Led Zeppelin?


Different styles but I'd go with Led Zeppelin since they were more prolific. They named the song "Black Dog" after a dog that hung around the studio.


Yeah, That is interesting. I guess naming a song can be a challenge.


Naming software is the same way... I'm surprised that Led Zeppelin helped fund Monty Python's "The Holy Grail"... Classic...


That is also interesting. Have you seen "The Holy Grail" lately?


It's been a while... I've seen it many times.  Funny, two identical twins in Japan released a rap album when they turned 100 in 1992!


I prefer to watch that in scenes because the whole movie is a bit boring. Could you imagine raping when you are 100?


I was not aware of that. Have you heard it?


I can't imagine breathing when I'm 100. Thanks, you were a great chat partner!


It's a book.  They do have many good albums.  I remember Houses of the Holy the most.


I know they were hugely popular. They were a bit before my time. I do kind of like "stairway to Heaven".


That song got sooooo much airplay and some their best didn't.  This last book actually is actually from the remaining 3 members.


I enjoy books like that. It is interesting to get insight into great bands.


This one may be good.  It has a diverse set of photos from all kinds of sources.


Very cool. Have you ever tried to play the guitar?


I tried but I wanted to play well immediately and it made my finders hurt.  I'm no Jimmy Page...


I tried to learn many years ago. I just didn't have the patience. My daughter has taught herself the ukulele.


I do like to watch Netflix, a lot of interesting content for a small price.


I agree.  It's weird to think that it started back in 1997 though.  I guess because it is focusing on streaming now it just seems like a newer company.


Its worth $2 billion dollars by now, so yeah, I wonder if the service will be around much longer


Two billion dollars and to think it all started because Reed Hastings was mad about a forty dollar late fee on a vhs movie!


Yeah a $40 late fee and the movie Apollo 13, I wonder if theres a tennis documentary on Netflix, maybe Roger Federer appears on it.


I bet he does. He's ranked number 3 in the world currently and held the number 1 spot for a record total of 310 weeks.


He is a great player, I do like him, he is a legend just like Nadal and Djokovic.


The three of them have made up 56% of men's grand slam singles titles over the past 18-19 years.


That is impressive I think its the first time in the history of the sport, Federer is also the only living person in Switzerland to be honored with an official stamp.


Oh and oddly enough, he's been gifted with two cows over his career!


I'm not sure. i never really gotten to play.  Do you?


I'm guessing that's a lot of them? no idea about that, anyway its been great chatting with you.


I don't know but he got them for winning the wimbledon in 2003 and the swiss open in 2013.  It's been great chatting with you too!  Have a great day!


I do, Im really bad at it but I think its a great sport, it can be played among two people which is a great advantage. Do you like the sport?


I do like to watch some games.  It looks like it can be a lot of fun!  I've heard though that the longest match in history was 11 hours long and lasted over 3 days.  That i'm not so sure i would like.


That is a really long game, they must have been exhausted and the fans bored out already.


Probably so.  But tennis is very competitive so the players though exhausted most likely kept fighting.


Do you like polo shirts? cool fact about them but they were actually created by a tennis player


I do and I had no idea about that! I assumed polo players wore them and they became a fashion thing.


They were invented by Rene The Crocodile Lacoste, it was adopted later by polo players but it seems they stole all the credit lol


Yep they did!  Hey, do you watch netflix?


Are you interested in historical fiction?


I agree. I personally think he should have picked one main element and stuck with it. That could have been the historical connotations of automobiles, or the geography of Australia, or even the relationship between the three main characters.


It may be he lost focus because of the expansiveness of Australia but I agree with you.  He maybe could have done a series of books, perhaps a trilogy.


That definitely sounds like a better idea. I spent some time in Australia and it was definitely a vastly different country depending on what part you were in.


I've heard that it is.  It's a whole continent to itself isn't it?


It is indeed. Nowadays some people consider the 7th continent "Australia and the Oceanic Nations" but I think that the land mass of Australia itself qualifies it as a separate continent.


It's amazing, one continent an entire country.  It's the only one isn't it?


Unless you consider Antarctica. However, it doesn't actually have a government structure or enough of a population to be considered a country (as of now).


I wonder if Australia has any weird things like the Hudson Bay region of Canada having less gravity than the rest of the earth?


Well, I know Tasmania has a ton of geothermal activity. That could definitely impact the effect of the laws of physics.


One would think so.  It's so huge I wonder if many asteroids hit there?


I am.  I am particularly interested in historical fiction about Australia like Peter Carey's latest novel.


I feel like that would be something well advertised that a lot of people knew about. They have such an extreme range of species and ecosystems that I think it could not have been extremely impacted by asteroids without serious ecological damage.


Interesting!  Hey, great chatting with you!


I agree! I thought the idea of a great "race" across Australia to be really interesting. I like the idea of side stories as well. Was there anything that sounded particularly interesting to you?


The teaching of the aboriginal children appealed to me.  It's interesting about the 'race' as cars were pretty unreliable then.


I think the race was more intended to actually test the reliability of the cars (and the ingenuity of their drivers) than to encourage people to "speed" across Australia.


Yes, you're probably correct.  The book reportedly moves at about the same pace as the 'race' slowly.


That does sound discouraging. I have to admit that I like books I read to go at a relatively fast pace. I tend to get bored if it takes a while to actually reach the premise of the book.


I don't mind a slow moving drama, it adds to the expectation however I don't like stories that just drag on and on.


My concern is that it seems like there are a multitude of side plots that aren't necessarily relevant to the main story. Is the plot supposed to be purely about the race? Or about the suppression of Aboriginal Australians? Or perhaps something else. I definitely enjoy a bit of a side story, but it seems like Peter Carey might spend too much time on spinoffs.


I think he even worked the formation of the earth into it as well.  It doesn't appear to be a particularly focused book.


Have you heard of the actress Taylor Hickson?


It's basically the science of motion picture or video. It's a big deal when it comes to the Oscars, and a woman has never been nominated for best cinematography


Really wow.  I heard there was a fight against digital cinematography.


A fight? Why? Without change, we won't see it get any better. James Wong Howe pioneered many of the techniques we see used all the time, but I wonder how accepted it was when he first utilized them


I think they wanted to preserve film.  They were likely scared of the change.


Interesting. Still, it changes the arena just like the low-key lighting and wide-angle lenses did when Wong Howe introduced them. That's why he won an Oscar


Wow, there is really a lot to it.  Stuff I sometimes dont even realize.


Roger Deakins is another famous cinematographer, so much that he's been nominated 13 times. But he's never won the award


That's crazy, Nicolas WInding Refn uses high contrast because he is color blind


It's cool finding out how people adjust to situations, like Kubrick did while filming Spartacus. It's unfortunate that he didn't get the credit for filming the scene himself, but rather let the cinematographer take the credit


Yeah, I heard about her on the set of Deadpool.  Sad.


It was, especially since the award didn't go to the real person behind it


Actually, I think she was injured while filming for a movie called "Ghostland" because they didn't use safety glass for her scene


Wow, that is a big mistake.  Is she suing?


I heard she is. Once the glass broke into shards, she had to go to the hospital. I heard she got close to 70 stitches total!


That is a lot, especially if it was near her face.


The gash was from her chin to her left ear, and was serious enough to need laser and silicone treatment. All because they probably wanted to save money


Wow that is a long scar.  It was all preventable too.  Its just horrible for her.


And she worked so hard in the movie too! Hopefully the studio does the right thing in this situation. Do you know much about cinematography?


Hello, are you into movies as much as i am? Whats your favorite type?


Yeah, exactly and thats what they are promising it will be so I am looking forward to it. I know you said you like action, i do as well. I also like drama, including tv series. Do you like drama at all? I like the show house a lot, have you seen it? Many people must like it because I just found out that Hugh Laurie, the doctor on house, is the highest paid actor for tv drama, racking in about 700,000 per episode!


the doctor on house ? unbelievable I will go and look for the drama


Its a quirky show, i like the humor that the incorporate with the drama. It almost makes you have moments of just laugh out loud comedy or even dry or dark humor which can sometimes lift the seriousness of the "drama." How about one more category? Do you enjoy football at all? and i mean american football as well as european football (also soccer from the US)?


Yes I like football I have since I was a child


I enjoy football as well. A fun fact.. i think we can both agree that football players make A LOT of money! I read that in the 1960s, professional bowlers made twice as much as football stars! what a different time


I think soccer makes more but not the NFL i read somewhere that an engineer would make more than a career NFL player isn't that crazy?


really? i actually didnt know that at all. thats interesting. and they get less hurt and more money?! sounds good AND doable haha. whos your favorite team?


I have always loved New York Giants and for soccer I am a devoted fan of Arsenal


Nice! i am actually a patriots fan! little fun fact, one of our former patriots running back (benjarvus green-ellis) has never fumbled a football in his nfl career! but the NY Giants are good too,  i cant hate on them :). My family loves european football/soccer, so they follow Polands team. I really enjoy watching the games but iv missed a couple. I just wanted to say its been really geat talking to you! i learned some new things and i hope you did as well. Thank you so much for talking with me! have a great night :)


Sweet. Do you know that the highest score ever in football is 222-0


wow! they must have been quite embarrassed losing to those numbers!


I know right but it happened in 1961 I bet the rules were different at that time


oh yeah, im sure. football rules seem to be changing all the time. getting more and more strict.


I love horror. I just learned that Stephen kings first horror movie, according to himself, was bambi!


oh that's cool coming from the king of horror movies, but I thought bambi is an animated movie


It is, it was just one of those strange facts. Youd think someone like him wouldnt be so scared of an animated movie! Horror is also said to burn up to 180 calories when watching.. as well as making you enjoy abstract art after watching horror films.


I didn't know horror can burn fat, is there a scientific proof to it?


It says its factual, yes! I bet it has to do with heart rate increase. Nowadays, I feel like children of all ages are able to watch and see things made for people of any age. Theres this new movie coming out, The house with a clock in its walls. its actually a "tween" horror movie. I think its a good introduction to show to kids so they can get their curiosity out without having them see something they shouldnt. Do you have any children that watch movies of that nature?


Wow we learn everyday, I have learnt something new today. No but even if I have kids I don't think I'd let them watch a horror movie


True, but i think i would allow the "tween" films if they REALLY wanted it, just so i could at least know what they were watching and that it was appropriate. speaking of tween watching, they also are making documentaries focused on that age as well. America to me, is one, that deals with race in schools. I think its a great idea. What do you think?


Well if it's one well tailored to a particular age and the censorship board approved I might let my kids watch under supervision


Maybe he would have gotten more respect with a pop album.


Well, it was his last name,  I don't think he had a choice in what they called him lol Maybe a pop album would've made a difference I guess,  invite everyone to a nice concert.


LOL. I thought it was a derogatory term. I thought they were being mean to him...


lol no,  his name is President Canaan Banana.  Very unique name lol


Yes. Don't I feel like an idiot! My bad.


Not at all, its a common mistake. do you like trousers?


I agree,  or cold!  Collinsville has a law prohibiting saggy pants


Not really.  Do you?  I like that they thought of having a channel that just played the simpsons though lol


LOL. I do not watch it but know people do. I would watch a station that played just the simpsons though.


I hear that they threatened to sue the simpsons once.


That's pretty dumb. Fox distributes both...


Do you know much about the president?  I hears the presidents guest house is bigger than the white house


Trump told me size doesn't matter. Is that not true?


Well he didn't choose the size of the house he was going to live in as president. lol


I guess after the british burned it down, they did the best they could with what they had at the time.


The firs president of zimbabwe was president banana


I did not. I bet that makes trump angry. He does not like to lose that type of thing.


Yeah that might make him angry, and Its called Blair House, its also in Washington DC, its strange that he is not among the wealthiest presidents of US history.


He's not top 3 is he? I think we should call him Presiden tBanana though...


That would be a funny nickname, in honor to Zimbawes first president.


Can you imagine he and hilary in the same white house?


The would fight all the time, well nothing is being done at the moment so how much worse could it be.


Before 1805 the runner up would become the vice president, it would be fun to wonder.


Yeah I bet there would be more unity, although it must suck to work with someone that beat you every day for 5 years.


Hello great, what about you? its amazing how the internet allows us to chat right now.


I know. It is such a great invention when used for good. I remember AIM being so popular among younger people...


I dont remember AIM, but yeah, when used for good its great, internet can also cause an addiction, for instance constant novelty clicks on links can become addictive for sure.


At least the library of alexandria has a saved copy of the internet in case it all burns down...


Thats a great thing, I heard that after 48 hours of the internet gone riots will start and many problems will arise, after all we use the internet for everything.


Wow! That's crazy... Only 7% of people read the full terms when buying stuff on the internet. I am one of the 93% though...


Me too, I sure didnt read my data plan, although its a good idea to start doing it, you never know how that fine print can bite you.


Yeah! You can read it at the top of mt everest. It has 3G there!


Wow, signal gets there? thats amazing, did you know Trumps guest house is bigger than the White House?


Hi, how new is your computer? Did you know the space shuttles computer had a whopping 1mb of ram! I have 16 gigs in this machine!


Interesting. I watched his show a bit, but like I said it's his recent stuff that really has me interested in him. I should go back and watch though.


I don't think i've seen his recent stuff, but i'll have to check it out. Ronald reagan was rejected from a movie because he didn't have "the president look".


Ronald Regan? The Actor? That's funny. I wonder what they thought when he became president for real.


Probably felt pretty silly! Caesar noted after visiting Britian that it's people used chickens for entertainment. I wonder what they were doing with them.


Probably fighting unfortunately. Doesn't sound very fun. What is fun is my old NES. I recently busted it out and the thing still works!


That's crazy! It can only display 57 colors. Seemed so high tech back in the day!


I think it's actually 54 colors. 8 bits of power. I still remember "the code" for contra!


Oops! Yeah, you're right! It was finally discontinued in 2003!


Really? That recently. I would have guessed a lot earlier than that. Even SNES was early 90s I believe.


Yeah, I would have thought so too. I don't remember them being sold in the early 2000s. Anyways, it's been great chatting with you!


That's crazy, my computer is fairly new but I have no idea how many gigs it has!


I need a high performance machine for minecraft. Well not really but did you know someone built a working computer using minecraft blocks? That must have been so hard.


That's crazy, i'm not even sure how you would do that. The russians made a computer that ran on water.


Now that is even more impressive then minecraft blocks. It must not have worked well or that technology would have taken off.


Or someone bought it out so they couldn't produce them. Who knows. Smoking near apple computers voids the warranty.


I don't blame them for that. I wouldn't even go into someone's house who smokes in the house. It's disgusting.


Yeah, it really is. Do you know how Bill nye got started?


No I don't, which is weird because I'm a big fan. I love the work he does with The Planetary Society.


He apparently won a steve martin lookalike contest, which was his big break. I remember watching him in school all the time.


16 straight years. My son loves it so I think I have seen them all through proxy. I cannot remember a single one though...


But they haunt your dreams, right? That's like me and that 70s show. I watched, but don't remember them. What;s even more crazy, the show was remade in England--the first 10 episodes--but the show tanked. I guess it did not translate well to english...


Was that "Days like These"? Did you ever see the british version of the office?


It is in my queue of shows to watch, but I loved the US version so much, I fear it will be anti-climactic. You know what else was anti-climactic? When Alec Baldwin became the new narrator for Thomas the Tank Engine. I preferred George Carlin, although Ringo starr did a pretty good job too.


Yup. At least 52 episodes each. That show has been on forever, but not as long as Pokemon...


Not much has been on as long as Pokemon... Were you aware that mcdonalds created the drive thru in 1975?


I did not know that. Crazy how it has been adopted everywhere now! You know what I would like to see get adopted everywhere? Equipping cars with flamethrowers! They actually allow that in South Africa!


That's overkill... I wonder if they do not have effective police???


Or bar-B-Que is really popular... the Cadillac brand, created by a dude named Antoine de la Mothe, used to be really popular. But his name never caught on.


I'm doing well, thanks. I've been watching TV today, or "telly" as some like to call it. Are you a TV watcher?


I was watching that old South Park episode, where they parody Family Guy.


Yeah. It was so good that the producers received flowers from the Simpson's crew upon it's airing. Do you ever watch the Simpson's?


I do watch the simpsons. Do you watch the simpsons?


Occasionally. I recently heard that there was only one of the Simpson's episodes where Bart never appeared or was mentioned. Impressive for how many episodes have been aired!


Yes, it was the four women and the manicure. It was a good one. Did you know that there are over 750 episodes of pokemon? Do you watch that show?


I missed all 750 episodes. Pretty impressive run though. How many years did that show run?


hi, que opinas del tema  'The Boy Who Came Back'


Ok, I am a Christian but I respect your opinion. I think this case of alex is very controversial here in this country


Ok, better discuss another article, that cars came into worldwide use during the twentieth century, you already knew this


What is the make and model of car that you admire or have


Good car, it is true that it is legal in South Africa to equip your car with flamethrowers to prevent vehicle theft


A single fold in the brain makes the difference between perceiving reality and fantasy.


If so, thank you for sharing your ideas and opinions with me


Alex, now paralyzed from the neck down, admitted he had fabricated the story. "I did not die,hi" he wrote in a blog post.


Yes, it is a very delicate information that impacted especially for all those who thought alez was different


Sorry "Alex" and what do you think about the lawsuit


I said I went to heaven because I thought it would get me attention." The admission created a firestorm within the worlds of evangelical faith and Christian publishing


So you are very right, I think you did very badly, not only because he lied to people, but because you remember having a natural experience with God


What is your position with regard to faith you are a Christian


Wow interesting. Coaches in the US are some of the highest paid employees


No surprise there. DO you watch much tv?


Quite a bit. I like to watch shows like the SImpsons, and you?


That is nice. Do you ever watch the Weekend Update on the SNL?


Nice I like that one too. In the Simpsons there is an episode where Bart does not appear


Wow strange. Weekend Update is the longest running skit in the SNL


I have seen some episodes, it is nice and quite funny


Yes but in the UK it flopped after 10 episodes because they remade it verbatim


I guess that does not work very well in general. Nice chat


I love the sport. Do you like the movie SPace Jam?


Yes I do. DO you know who Kareem Jabbar is?


I have heard of him. SPace Jam is the highest grossing movie as far as basketball is considered


WOw cool. Kareem used the dunk shot so much that it got banned for a while


Wow nice. Did you know that basketball was invented in the YMCA?


Yes and it was by a guy who was a coach at U of Kansas, James Naismith


Nice, I guess he worked at both places or there was some cooperation there


Maybe. He was also the only losing coach at the University, ironically


WOw that is ironic. Did you know that SHaq only scored one 3 pointer in his career?


Yeah Youtube is the second largest search engine on the internet these days.


Yeah and Iceland is rewriting it's constitution on Facebook and letting the citizens suggest and alter proposals. Pretty amazing stuff.


Amazing, innovative, courageous, and dangerous.


Very true regarding all four. At this rate the top internet websites will just keep increasing in power.


I never knew that youtube headquarters was in San Bruno California.


Yeah, that's where the original founders founded the company before they sold off to Viacom... who in turn sold them to Google.


That was in 2006 for 1.65 billion dollars, right?


Yeah, that's right. A pretty good deal seeing what the site's become since then.


Yeah its a monster. Myspace turned down an offer to buy Facebook for 75 million dollars in 2005.


Oh no.... I bet Tom's will never forget the day his company turned down the chance to buy Facebook so cheap, since they're worth $104 billion now. Yikes.


Not a whole lot, though when I do, I listen to Fifth Harmony.


Did you know The Facebook "Like" Button is illegal in the German state of Schleswig-holstein.


Interesting, I wonder how that because such a problem that they had to ban it. Then again Burger King got in trouble for giving away whoppers for unfriending people.


I remember getting a whopper for a penny as long as i activated it at a or near a McDonald. too funny!!


Funny indeed. The clown and the king love to troll each other, it's like they're treating real life like the internet.


I here there taking some kind of break, is that right?


Yeah, apparently they want to grow creatively as individuals, or something like that.


Well i hope it works for them. I gotta admit im not to familiar with them. I hear justin biebers "baby" is the most disliked video on youtube


Yeah, they wouldn't have had a chance if they had formed before the social media era. Just shows Youtube can do good, then again we might also not have Beiber without social media either. Disliked is much better for Beiber than unknown.


Truer words my friend, truer words. Netflix & youtube make up half of internet traffic at peak hours in north america.


Half the traffic of North America going to just two websites... amazing to think about.I remember the internet used to be nothing but tiny start ups but now all everyone goes to is Youtube and Facebook.


That's true. Police actually have there own youtube called blutube.


Police have their own Youtube now? They have a lot of trolls and hackers to arrest, hahaha. Just goes to show the power the big websites have these days.


Yeah. Once they opened for themselves pretending to be another band.


Haha! really? I didn't know that, pretty funny. When they come on the radio while I am in my car I turn it up lol, great music.


If you turn it to AM, you might catch Jupiter's storm.


Really? That would be cool! I was surprised to learn that female country singers only make up 10% of the songs played on the country radio stations....even the CMA Awards didn't have many female nominee's! That's crazy...


That is too bad. DO you know much latin?


I don't know any latin, do you? I have heard it on the radio programs but don't know it.


I do not know it either but maybe it is workth tuning into that radio in Finland that gives their news in latin.


No, don't think so. Usually local stations. I know that canada has a rule that they have to play at least 40 % canadian music on their radio stations, I believe.


I am great! Do you watch the CMT awards at all?


Talk about supporting local talent. Nice chatting with you.


Sometimes, I am not a huge fan but they are fun to watch. Do you like country music?


Sorry, meant to say CMA....Yes I like some country music. I will listen to it mostly on the radio, how about you? Any Albums you like that are country?


I like country pop mostly. Did you know there are only two african americans in the country music hall of fame?


I love country pop the best. No, I didn't know that! Wow! Did you know George Stait and Jeff Bezo's are cousins?


I did not know that. Small world. Henry Ford apparently was so concerned that jazz was going to take over so he out a lot of oney towards country music


Really? Wow. I love music in general. I used to have a lot of albums back in the day, miss having vinyl.


Of course I do! I love U2! i had their albums and still have them on my phone.


No I do not, which one. Linkin Park have the best selling album of the century


He is credited for playng the laptop in radiohead albums


Haha that is awesome. Do you know who Reel Big Fish is?


Nope have not heard of them, are they famous?


Yes they are but they lost the rights to their music so they had to rerecord everything


Wow that is a lot of work. Led Zeppelin did not title their fourth album at all


Wow good for them. Do you watch soccer at all?


Sometimes. In 2010 NZ was the only undefeated country


WOw nice. DO you know where the 2022 will take place?


No I do not remember actually who won the bid this time around. Who is it?


It is Qatar but they have yet to build the city


WOw they do not have that much time actually


Yes I do some of it, like Tupac's music and Eminem


Nice. Do you know who is the fastest english rapper?


Hmm no idea. I know Tupac's music is in the library of congress


Nice. The fastest rapper is Noclue who can rap at syllables per second


Wow impressive. Did you know Eminem wanted to be a comic book artist originally?


Oh cool, does he even have a favorite character or was going to create one?


He loved Spiderman. DO you have many albums?


I have some actually. Do you know what movie Thom Yorke was credited in ?


It actually beat Seinfeld for the emmy back in 1997. What else do you do for entertainment?


Me too. Love music and video games, a big Nintendo fan here. The original NES was in production until 2003 in Japan.


really? I had no idea it was in production that long! It was a good solid system too.


It was. A lot of great games. It's amazing what they could do with just 54 colors to display.


Thats pretty crazy! I liked to watch Bill Nye on Saturdays. Did you ever watch him?


Yeah, a few times. He's been around a while now.


Did you know he won a contest as a Steve Martin look alike?


I thought it was a fun fact about him. I learned alot from his show.


Morning! Yes, Some of it. Have you watched anything good recently?


Yeah, he presented science in a fun and interesting way. Nice chatting!


Kung Fu Hustle. Ever seen it? It's hilarious.


I haven't! What is it about? Does it have Bruce Lee in it?


No, It's much more recent. Steven Chow directed it. Bill Murray loved it too.


Huh, I'm not into Bill murray. So I wonder why he likes it.


I believe he called it a supreme achievement in comedy. What do you like in comedy?


I just like to laugh. What about you? Do you like the Drama from it?


Sure sometimes. There needs to be an emotional core to the characters for it to work as a comedy. 3Rd Rock from the sun was a good example of a TV comedy like that.


I loved third rock from the sun! I saw sally on another show the other day, She has gained some weight. I like the dramatic irony they had on that show.


Hello, what do you think about Lane Lambert and the peculiar day of the wedding?


Its a demanding game for sure, you have to be in a good physical shape, there are many types of hockey, thats I fact I didnt know about


Yeah I guess our hockey isn't the most popular version around the world, I din't know that.


Yeah apparently bandy, field and ice hockey are 3 of them and apparently there are more versions of the game


Really interesting, do you have any idea of what kind of hockey bandy is?  And did you know Canada is the only country with 2 national sports, hockey being one of them.


I have no idea either,  I guess thats why they have a pretty good hockey team, I heard the Canadian olympic team of 1924 was a great team


Yeah I heard that as well, I think they only gave up three goals the whole tournament!


Yeah and they score more than 130, that is a humilliating loss for the other team


Oh yeah the other teams all got humiliated sounds like.  Do you know if the first winter games was in Canada?


I do not know that although its something worth googleling, I think its an interesting fact to know,


Whoops, I hate when I do that.  Do you have a favorite hockey team?


That is a bit different, I guess his daughter ate Lucky Charms out of the cup during this thing.


I dont have a favorite team, I like to watch the game and support the US team but thats about it.


I think there was a lot of support in social media, from both sides of the family and that is just great!


Yeah I can support that myself.  Are you a big hockey fan in general?


I do like hockey, you know ice hockey rings are actually basketball courts when they are not in use!


Yeah isn't that so interesting, I have seen time lapse videos before of them being changed and its so cool.


I agree, its a nice thing to watch, you know there was a player that was traded for $1 and then won four Stanely Cups! isnt that crazy! Someone definetely got fired over that decision


Yeah imagine the scout and guy in charge of making that decision, I'm sure they didn't last.


Yeah, hockey sure is a hard game to play, you know that a player can lose 8 punds per game


Wow, that is a ton, but I guess they wear a lot of gear and don't stop moving around the whole game when they are on the ice.


Too bad the USA didnt make it to the 2018 World Cup, the womans team is a lot better, they have made our nation proud since 1991


Yep that's very impressive. I wonder why the men's team isn't as good? What do you think about American football by the way?


I think its because the lack of popularity in the country and also because other countries dont support the womans team, I love American football, do you find it boring as well ?lol


Haha well I don't really like any sports, but I do think that American football is more interesting than soccer, that's just my opinion though, I did like the Patriots winning this year at the Superbowl and I like that they have a player who's never fumbled the ball, have you watched the Super Bowl?


I did watch the Superbowl this year, I am a fan of the Patriots so I was happy with the outcome, the game was a bit boring though, I expected a lot more from that game,


Yep that's true. It was slow but I did like the Patriots winning in the end, I'm so glad that yes esPN won that award for creating the yellow line on the first down marker LOL that makes game so much easier to watch


It does make the game easier to watch, I think its fair to win an Emmy because of a contribution like that one.


Yep I agree. Do you ever go bowling by the way? I think that the top Bowlers used to make more than the top football players back in the day


That is crazy!! I guess football wasnt popular back then, I love to go bowling Im terrible at it though


Yeah I'm not very good either haha. Did you hear about the player for the patriots who has never fumbled the ball? I wish I were as good at bowling as he was at football LOL


No I can't say that I do haha. I think soccer is really boring, what about you?


Yeah the famous Benjarvus Green-Ellis, what a player, he sure had a lot of talent, too bad he retired from football.


Are you kidding me? I love soccer, its the greatest sport ever lol, its played in over 200 countries and the World Cup is really exciting


Yeah I get it. It's also makes more money than every other sport put together LOL. I just think it's so boring to watch, and the scores are so low. Did you know there is a soccer variation where three teams play, maybe that's the one for me LOL


Could be and I respect your point of view, it would be interesting to watch 3 teams playing at once,


So I take it you're going to watch the World Cup though? I would watch it if the USA were in it, what is your favorite team by the way?


Its going to be in the USA by the year 2026, my favorite team is Argentina, mostly because of Messi


Ok that makes sense. Are you going to watch the one in 2022 in Qatar? Apparently the city for that game hasn't even been created yet, I wonder why they even offered to host these big games like the Olympics too, apparently there is no net benefit to the city, they end up just losing money which is sad


I guess they are just crazy about soccer, and yeah stadiums are really expensive and you have to make sure you meet all the requirements, that costs a fortune as well


Yep I agree. I would watch it like I said if the United States were in the World Cup, apparently they got third place back in 1930, so I would have watched it back then LOL


I sure do. He was supposed to make a duet with Mercury but that failed


Yes only because Jackson insisted to bring his llama to the studio, so weird


Yeah could have been an amazing duet for them and for us to listen too


I love dance. Did you know Bruce Lee was a dancer?


yes and he even won a cha-cha championship


Yes and Tupac was also a dancer but of ballet


Yes he was even in the nutcracker as the mouse


Yes so cool. Babies seem to be really good at dance to when they hear music


yes and they tend to smile more when they hit the beat


Yes sometimes. Did you know the Ramones toured for 20 years?


THey are smarter than we make them to be


Yes and they played a total of  concerts


Yes , Linkin Park once played 324 of them in a single year


Yeah their album was too successful so they had to keep up


Yes. A creed concert was so bad that people sued them


Haha how bad did they have to be to be sued? Wow too bad for them


Yeah. IN Croatia there is an ancient theatre that hosts concerts


Yes and same in Italy where Pink floyd once played a concert without an  audience


Yeah strange. Do you like Michael Jackson?


Hey did you know that there's an actual fantasy congress? Players draft members of congress and points are based off legislative success.


Even more impressive, the highest score ever in a football game was 222-0.


Woah, that is a humiliating defeat, how can you lose by so much lol even my grandma could play better than those guys


Haha yeah that's definitely a major shut out. And I bet your grandma woulf like Iowa's guest team locker room. It's pink.


I bet she would, thats her favorite color lol, painting the visiting locker room is just hilarious.


I would do that for the Packers haha. I can't knock them too much, they've sold out every game since 1960.


I guess the community really loves the team, they are a community owned not for profit team.


Which is very interesting since they are the only one that is a not for profit franchise in American professional sports.


I would think so yea, the first team to play with them was called the Beloit Fairies.


And they are named after the Indian packing company, who paid for their first uniforms.


That is an interesting fact, that is the cheapest advertisement any company has made, having a team called after you because of uniforms.


I didn't know about that, people will play a fantasy league out of anything I guess even Spelling Bee.


Agreed! Well I enjoyed the chat. Have a great day.


I have enjoyed the chat as well I hope you have a nice day bye.


Haha yeah. I'll stick with football. Do you like fantasy books? There was a janitor who wrote a 15,145 page fantasy manuscript.


Did he ever publish his work! 15,145 are a lot of pages.


I'm not sure. It was called "In the Realms of the Unreal," and it was found after he died.


Oh thats a shame, maybe his novels would made him rich if he decided to share them with the world before dying.


Maybe. It leaves behind a pretty impressive legacy, as long as they're good. And maybe he was just a very private person. Maybe he could have been knighted like Terry Pratchett for his services to literature.


Yeah could be, so in another topic do you like football?


I do like football. I follow the NFL and look forward to the upcoming season.  Did you know there was a player on the Pats who never fumbled in his whole career?


I actually did, his name is Benjarvus Green Ellis, I am a big fan of the team and of him.


I learned that they can actually play in the game!


Yes.  That would be interesting to see wouldn't it?


I always thought they looked silly dressed like that,


lol  Do you watch Fox news by any chance?


Not really but i know its watched more than cnn and msnbc combined


I know Richard Nixon played a role in creating Fox news.  I didn't even know it existed back then.


I wonder if that was before he was president?


I'm not sure.  The gaming website IGN is owned by News Corp., who also owns Fox news.  I've never used that site for games.


One more quick question.  Do you know what the most popular hat was in the old west?


Did you know that baseball is so popular in japan that many fans are surprised to discover its status as america's national past time.


Interesting.  A man once found 3 million dollars worth of baseball cards in his grandfathers attic.  Talk about hitting a gold mine!


I can not imagine what that must have felt like! I wonder if he sold them all or kept them.


He probably sold them.  How could someone pass up getting that much money?  Up until 2005 a married couple scheduled all 2430 MLB games played each year for 24 years.  That's a long haul.


I can imagine scheduling that. I wonder how much they were paid?


If they did it for 24 years, I'm guessing they made enough to make it worthwhile.  Although I knew someone who was a big baseball fan and they took a part time job working at a concessions stand at the Cleveland Indians stadium just so they could be around the vibe of the ball park.


I love it. Baseball games have such good and happy vibes for all ages.


Yes. I've been a fan my whole life and played as long as could up through college.  Do you know why baseball managers wear uniforms?


They can even donate blood at doggie blood drives!


Aren't the dogs uncomfortable with a needle in them? I imagine they would struggle.


I think they would be ok. Istanbul has a vendingmachine for stray dogs that dispenses food and water. How nice.


The dogs help the city, and the city returns the favor. The dogs in Moscow have learned to use the subway. I guess it helps them get what they need to survive.


They also understanding pointing. I wonder if they understand head nods.


I think they could figure it out, given time. They are attuned to human behavior. Plus they can breathe and swallow at the same time, unlike us.


They are not color blind either. I thought they were.


I don't think their vision is terribly acute, but their sense of smell is 1000 times better than ours. Their senses complement ours nicely.


They are man's best friend for a reason. And Google's pet of choice!


I agree with Google. An office full of dogs is a happy place. An office full of cats is chaos.


No, but I do like dogs. Do you own a dog?


This is terrible timing but I had to put her down last night. So the answer is no... I would not however, buy her high fashion.


That's too bad. I'm sorry to hear that. I never owned a pet, but I understand that the relationship is close, like family.


Yeah. This is the 3rd dog I have had to put down and surprisingly, this was the easiest, but it was not easy if that makes sense... My first dog was so tough I had to take 3 days off of work.


Dogs can be quite clever. They can reason better than chimps, which are quite smart.


There are also 12 different blood types that a dog may have.


I was surprised that it was that many, but there are so many breeds, I guess it makes sense.


Hi! Do you like snakes? I used to have one. They are ectothermic so need a heating lamp.


Haha. Yes I do. Luckily I never saw Creed apparently they were not great.


They had a really bad concert back in 2002, 4 goes sued the band


Wow must have been pretty bad. Crazy how often the Ramones played...2263 concerts over 20 years!


I used to love that group, too bad I didnt had the chance to go to one of those concerts, pretty big tours I guess,


Yeah sounds like it. Croatia would be a fun place to see a concert. They have an ancient Roman amphitheater!


That sounds like an amazing venue, a lot of history there must be awesome to attend to a concert in the place


Yes it would. Another ancient roman amphitheatre is in pmpeii where pink floys had a recorded concert.


I head he recorded that concert withou an audience, I wonder what are his reasons behind that


Yeah maybe the seating wasn't good? In any case I'm sure it was better than Creed's concert.


Yeah I bet it was, no one sued Pink Floyd because of that concert that is a sure thing,


I am really scared of them so not really, there is a flying snake


Yea exactly. The Dark side of the moon is for sure one of my favorite albums, hard to believe it was released 40 years ago! Nice talking with you have a good day!


OMG really? I never knew that. There are also legless lizards that basically look just like snakes.


Yeah I am really afraid of them no kiddin, I would like to live in New Zeland because there are no snakes over there


Yeah there you go! Even though crocodiles look like snakes they are more related to birds.


I guess that flying snake makes more sense now,


Haha yes true. The legless lizards actually have eyelids and external ears which snakes lack.


Souns likd you know a lot about snakes, those overlaping scales just give me creeps, there are many poisonous snakes out there


Yes there are you gotta be careful. The snake jaws have several joints which allow them to swallow such large prey.


Dont worry I will run at first sight, run as far as I can, do you like to attend to concerts?


could be. DO you have a favortie show that you watch on tv?


I like the show Billions, it is technically on Netflix.


Yeah, that show has been on for a long time. How long have you watched it for?


I have watched the majority of it but I still cannot remember which episode was the one where Bart did not appear


Apparently, there is only one episode where he neither appears or is mentioned.


Yeah that is strange. Maybe the voice actor was sick or something


Perhaps. In the UK they tried to remake verbatim the 70s show, but it failed.


Of course it failed, I would not have watched it either


Yeah, it sounds like a dumb idea. Maybe it would have done better if Ringo Starr made a guest appearance.


Pretty good, are you a fan of Marty Allen?


There you go that is an option. It was nice chatting with you.


Yeah, apparently he died at the age of 95, too bad.


He must have lived a good life though, I hope. DO you know Bill Murray?


Yeah, I saw him in groundhog day. He's a great comedian.


yeah, and he said that Kung Fu Hustle i the best comedy in modern age.


Interesting, did you know Comedy Central has cancelled over 100 shows?


Probably because they are pretty bad shows? I don't watch a lot of comedy central.


Hmm, JFK might have, after all he was a Kennedy and they do think of themselves as an American royal family.  I don't think Washington and Jefferson did at all.


Yes, JFK was regal. Wash. & Jeff. acquired wealth as slaveholders. But none were pathetic liars, con men or outright thieves, as far as I know. They were presidential, in the best sense. Agree?


I do agree with you.  I'll go a little further and say that society has changed so dramatically over the years that we'd be hard pressed to find anyone like Washington and Jefferson anymore.  Back in the time when the white house was built they made the guest house larger than the house. I think that says a lot about people's attitudes of the day.  Now, the guest house would be way smaller.


Unless it's in Mira Lago (probably spelled wrong). People's attitudes have changed, and the office of president has, too. Presidents didn't have as much power even 50 years ago; the role of pres. is more prominent today, some say. What do you think?


I don't know. When I think back over history and remember prominent figures- FDR, Teddy Roosevelt, Wilson, JFK, Reagan, and the Bushs all come to mind.  They all played very important roles in history.


You're describing men of vision, heads of state who, mostly, put the people 1st. Teddy and FDR definitely. Reagan & the Bushes got kinder, gentler as they went along. None were just ceremonial talking heads. Agree?


I do agree on the Roosevelts, Reagan, and the Bushes but not Kennedy.  If you think about it he had as much of a scandal as Trump does now.  He had a known affair with Marilyn Monroe and there were rumors of collusion with the mafia.


Ah, but the man inspired people, and the people didn't know about the affairs, because the press didn't press that stuff then. Can't compare him with Trump, sorry. Do you ever wonder if we're in a one-party state today, where the "party" is the internet?


I do wonder if the media in general controls everything and who controls them if that's what you mean.  We definitely could not go back to before 1805 and have the runner up in the presidential election automatically become vice president.


Right. If that had been true in, say, 1960, JFK would have had Nixon as his VP. Personally, im glad it was LBJ instead! Have you heard Indonesia's pres. released 3 pop albums...while in office?!


Hi. Outer space as in the universe beyond Earth?


No, but I think that is fun for the president to do and maybe a good way to reach the people.


Right, I thought it might sound odd to ask if you like the universe lol.  Nevertheless, did you know that the exact size of the universe is still not known?


Right. Admire the early scientists, like Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, who realized that Earth isn't at the center of the Universe. You?


I do too, especially since they didn't have the technology of today and still were able to detect facts.


Smart dudes. Einstein had some wacky ideas about it, too. Wonder if, somewhere, the are forces pulling galaxies outside the universe we can see...


Anything is possible.  I've heard there are people that think the universe might just be one giant super hologram.


Whoa. That idea is over my head! Know of one cold  "star" I bet our president can imagine himself as a star in our large universe


It's probably easy to believe that when you are president of this country and as isolated as they are.  Presidents have different functions in different countries, different governments so our office of president can seem very kingly i suppose.


In the eyes of the beholder, maybe. Until now, JFK, Washington & Jefferson had been the richest presidents, but none of them thought of themselves as kings, did they?


Do you like to watch gymnastics at all? They're pretty talented in the Olympics.


That's ironic because as a kid I was horrified by it also. I really like the sounds in horror movies that come from a waterphone. I just recently learned about them.


Yes I want to learn to play that instrument! I also need to watch more horror movies because they can burn up 200 calories while you're watching them, which would help my weight loss haha


I was reading about that and wondering if horror film might be incorporated somehow into gyms as like a new fad for weight loss? Wouldn't that be funny?


Haha yes they should put horror movies on when you are walking on a treadmill LOL. They should also make you view abstract art after you watch a horror movie because apparently you will appreciate it more


That's a pretty cool fact! I've always wanted to be one of those artists that make abstract art for thousands of dollars. I'm scared to try. I should just do it but I don't want the experience to be like a horror film.


Yes you should definitely give it a try. At least you won't be like Danny from The Shining. He acted so scared in that movie but I was happy to learn that he was tricked while making it and didn't even realize it was a horror movie until he was much much older


I love that movie! Speaking of horror films I think I want to go watch one now and go to bed. Have you seen any good ones lately?


No I haven't seen a good horror movie in a long time. What about you? I know they typically include topics like zombie and Gothic horror, but nothing seems to be good these days


I really liked the Hostel movies. I think I'll watch one of those now. I haven't seen a new good horror film in awhile. Sometimes re-watching films I notice new things, too! TTYL


ok I'll have to check those out! at the very least it will help me to burn 180 calories!


No I can't say that I watch the Olympics at all. But Alina Zagitova sounds talented but there is a question about her year of birth


Yes, and I'm going to be on the lookout for an upcoming fad to lose weight including getting scared and watching horror films! lol cya


Very interesting! I think it's funny how the pommel horse was invented so soldiers could practice mounting their horses. Did you know that?


No I didn't know that. But it makes sense too that ancient Greeks would use gymnastics in order to get ready for war