I think it is interesting that the President is not just a term for the US.  Many other countries have Presidents too


And now she is on the other side.  And I believe Trump used to identify as Democrat as well


Makes sense, at some point the base shifted from the North, now a lot of Southern states are Republican, the Northeastern states have become more reliably Democrat.


And the Midwest is kind of a mix.  It might change with the new regime coming in.  Paul Ryan is out as the Republican leader soon.


Everything is backwards, Ayn Rand who was pretty famous as a republican used social security and medicare, which is usually opposed to an extent by Republicans which I think is kind of funny.


I think politicians should be a bit more laid back.  Heck, The Indonesia President released 3 pop records in office


Well Congress has an annual baseball game between the Democrats and Republicans.  Maybe they should televise it.


I know, except I recall the congressman getting shot a couple of years back at the game


Well people are people, 40% of people in Alabama still voted to ban interracial marriage in 2000 even though it can't be enforced.


Interesting.  Speaking of race, 34 percent of black men in Alabama have permanently lost their voting rights.


I don't think that matters, people are voting for chimpanzees, one almost won a mayoral race in Rio De Janiero getting like 400,000 votes.


Interesting I know Guatemala is one that does this.  I wonder what some other ones are.


That would be awesome.  Bananas for everyone.


Well, there are many countries that do.  However, some presidents are just more of a cerimonial position.


True, there are parliamentary republics like the UK I believe and then there are also dictatorships like in North Korea.  I think they refer to them as President but I am not sure.


Yes, in a lot of countries the term President is used for the dictator.


With the US system of government, one can still be President even though they lost the popular vote, it has happened 5 times already!


That is pretty crazy how the voting works in the US.


Apparently the greatest margin of losing was like 10%, that is a lot of people.


It really is.  Funny, up until 1805, the runner up in the election became the VP.  Can you imagine Clinton being the Vice for Trump?


That would be strange, earlier in her life she was president of Young Republicans in college.  How ironic.


No doubt! lol  Did you know that the circular huddle was created by a deaf QB named Paul hubbard so the other team couldn't steal his hand signals?


Really, that was smart!! Tom is the first and only quarterback to reach 200 reg season wins!


That's an awesome stats.  I hope he plays for a few more years.  That would be cool to see.  Did you know he never threw more than 30 TD's in a year prior to 2007 and then he threw for a then record 50 that year?


Very cool! He's the best! The Patriots and Tom Brady has a devoted group of fans for sure!!


For sure!  Have you ever heard of a QB named Kellan Moore?  I'm not familiar with him.


No, I haven't really. All I know he's the only left handed quarterback in the NFL.


Ok.  I'm going to have to look him up.  I've never heard of him.  Did you know that Browns QB Baker Mayfield once considered quitting football to pursue a competitive gaming career.  That would have been a big gamble.


I agree, I heard about these players are very good and gaming!! Did you know that in the 60's the top bowlers made twice as much as top football players?


That was a sign of the times. lol  Sure isn't like that now.  Bowling, baseball, boxing, and horse racing were huge back then and now all those sports have declined big time.


Yes, your right!! Did you know Benjarvus Green-Ellis has never fumbled a football in his NFL career?


That is one impressive stat!  I have to get running.  I loved talking football with you!


Nice!  So am I.  It was good to see them win another Super Bowl.  Did you know that Belichik lists Brady on the injury report every week even though nothing is wrong with him? lol  That guy really messes with his opponents minds.


lol, I think so.... Didn't know that! His wife makes twice as much, not surprised with being a model!! I think he likes avocado ice cream!


No doubt!  ..and ewww....funny that he's never eaten a strawberry his entire life but he likes the taste of avocado.


I know, Its in his book, he likes Joy, peak performance and avocado ice cream! Who knew? Thinking he must be allergic or something?


He might be.  I haven't read the book yet.  Did you know he is considered the biggest steal in the history of the NFL draft?


I believe it!! For sure. Only player in history to do what he's done!!


Have you ever seen his documentary Tom vs Time?  I think you can see it on facebook watch.  It's really good.  Did you know when he was in high school his JV team was so bad they failed to win a game or score a TD the whole season and they never attempted to start the backup QB who was Brady?


Yes I want to watch that! thanks for reminding me.... And yes I have heard that before, I bet his high school coach feels foolish now!! lol


Hi there! How are you? I'm hanging out watching Netflix. Can't believe it was founded in 1997.


His belief system prevents him from playing in movies that do not project positivity. That must have been an odd Simpsons show.


Yeah I'm trying to figure out what episode it was. I heard the Simpsons guys sent flowers to the South Park producers for their Family Guy episode


Oh, that was really nice of them. Was that when they aired their Family Guy finale?


They aired an episode making fun of Family Guy I think


Oh. Okay. It is so typical that Michael Caine thought all the prettiest girls at school were in drama class and it drove him to be an actor.


Did you know Jon Hamm used to be a teacher?


He taught drama. Ellie Kemper was one of his students


Isn't she Erin from the show The Office? Such a funny show!


Yes, that's her. Hugh Laurie is actually the highest paid actor ever for a drama show. $700,000 per episode. Damn!


I'm doing good. Yeah, I can't believe it all started because Reed Jastings had a $40 late fee for a VHS


That is so much money!  Lucky him! Nice chatting with you


Isn't that funny! He probably could have bought a lot of copies of Apollo 13 for that $40 fee.


Yup. Netflix is worth $2 billion now so he can afford a few more late fees nowadays


I would sure say it was $40 well accrued. Can you believe Blockbuster declined several offers to but Netflix for %50 million?


Hindsight's 50/50 I guess. Netflix accounts for a third of all bandwidth from 9PM to midnight


Wow, that is a lot. Along with YouTube, the two make up half of peak internet traffic in North America.


Makes sense why Netflix has over 126 new series and films. Do you watch TV?


I do watch some. Some actors are getting a little odd. I know Jim Carrey no longer makes dramas because of his beliefs system.


Wow, I was wondering where he went. Did you know there's only 1 episode of The Simpsons where Bart isn't in it?


Yeah , the guy became an actor because the pretty girls were in drama class


Hhaa what a guy really. Jon Hamm was a drama teacher in  a high school


Oh yeah and one of his students was the super funny Ellie Kemper


Haha she sure is. Did you ever play with Nintendo?


I did actually. Dd you know it had only 54 colors?


THat is so cool and too bad it was discontinued in Japan in 2003


Yeah that is it was so good. Do you know Bill Nye?


Yeah the science guy, do you know how the became popular?


Yeah it all started with him winning a lookalike contest for Steve Martin


Yeah pretty cool. Reagan also auditioned for the role of the president in a movie once and did not get it


Hi there I sure do and one of my favorite is House MD


Haha well he did pretty well in getting the real role so good for him


I sure do and I love bromantic ones like the Hangover


Nice I like that too, Laurie got paid $700 00 per episode there


That is a lot of money but worth it because it was a great show, too bad it ended


Yeah that is true, Do you like Jim Carrey?


I do actually. Did you know he does not make dramas anymore?


Yes and he said it is because they do not portray positivity which I agree with


Yes he makes a good point. Do you listen to radio dramas?


I do from time to time and there is a free website where you can listen too


Nice, maybe I check it out later. Do you know Micheal Caine the actor?


Hello, are you a gamer? I am and find it very interesting that Baker Mayfield once thought of quitting football, to become a full time gamer. How crazy is that?


My kid has taken a few, he's lazy though, lol. In the 60's bowlers made twice as much as football players. I cant imagine a bowling superstar.


They used to make really good money. Is it bad that the Iowa locker room for the opposing team is painted in pink.


I love it! Almost as much as I love knowing that there is a comedy fantasy author who was knighted for services to literature.


What that is crazy? I am not into fantasy at all. But I heard there is a single fold in the brain that makes the difference between perceiving reality and fantasy. I am guessing i don't have that fold.


I probably do, as I am into fantasy. I didn't know that American football was called gridiron football.


Did you know that ESPN won an emmy because they created the yellow superimposed line that tells you where the first down is.


I did not. Sounds like a weird thing to win an emmy for.


I think that is crazy! Just like when Georgia Tech beat Cumberland 222-0 in 1916!


Why didn't they stop the game? I guess that's like that high school in Texas, that had one season without a win or even a touchdown...yet, they wouldn't put their backup quarterback in.


That was freaking tom brady that they wouldn't put in!


I am not a gamer but I swear my youngest son could be. That is crazy!  What I think that is even crazier is that they have a fantasy draft for the national spelling bee.


Yep. I bet that coach hates himself for that. Thank you for chatting with me tonight, enjoy the rest of your evening.


That is crazy, I wonder how they pick who is going to win out of all of those kids? Have you heard of the fantasy Congress?


Players draft members, and receive points based on legislative success. Sounds like we should do that with their paychecks.


Perfect. Are you into football? I do like some football and am sad it is over!!!!


I watch it when one of my kids have it on. I learned that Kellan Moore is the only lefty quarterback, I only remember that because I'm a lefty too.


I heard about him. I wonder if it is a good or bad thing for his team. I just found out that the huddle was created by a guy who was deaf. He was a quarterback and didn't want the other team to see his hand signals. Genius!


That is genius! I'm very impressed by Alex Smith, he entered college as a junior, and was working on his masters before being drafted.


Yep, my kid is a senior and has not taken that many AP courses. I can't even imagine entering college as a junior.


Hi! Do you ever cry when chopping onions for your dinner?


All fish may not be equal, but they still should have equal rights, should they not? Equality is something that humans have struggled with for most of our history I assume. Did you know that 7% of people actually read the full terms of service when they buy things like their iPhone on the internet>?


So, now you are bragging? Listen buddy, there are some of my fish brethren I would not be caught dead eating, but does that make me illegitimate? Oh, to be one of those jellyfish that live forever. Instead, my days are numbered!


Remember, dear fish, you're presently in a toilet bowl in a filthy airport. You're probably going to be swimming amongst nasty sewage in a minute or two if you're unlucky enough to live that long. I myself would be quite happy not to live forever in that situation. BTW why do you always think I'm being rude to you. That is not my intent little one. So, tell me, have you ever eaten an onion? Was it bigger than you? Did you like it? Did it make you cry without necessarily being sad. You know, they've developed an onion now that will not make you cry when you cut it. Amazing.


I may be floating in sewage, but as a fish, I can drink water through my skin by osmosis. So, I've got that going for me. Can you do that?


No I can not. I have to drink water through my mouth. So bland. But, us humans have created a plethora of delicious flavorings to add to our water to make it more pleasant. Do fish even have taste buds?


No. Everything we eat tastes like chicken. But my cousin--Louie the the Seahorse--he has a neck and everything! I do miss clean water though.


Taste buds are on the tongue, buddy, not the neck. That is an interesting fact though. Are you jealous of their nice long necks? Do you secretly wish you had one too or something. I have one and let me tell you, they're just OK. You're really not missing much. I wish I was there to help you though. How miserable it must be to be swimming amongst sewage. At least you have that iPhone with you though. I wonder if Siri could tap into some radio frequency to help you contact someone a little closer to come help you. You know, soldiers used to make their own radios out of common household supplies


I'll look for a soldier then, but I have't seen anybody in here yet. My phone is dying. I keep hitting the hamburger button, and nothing happens. Those three little horizontal lines are laughing at me!


Um, they're just dots. It's probably just the stress of the whole situation that makes them seem like that. Hey, you're a fish right? Why don't you just swim through the plumbing to safety? If you do find a soldier he might decide to eat you. He'd probably have to cook you with some citrus or something though since humans can't produce their own vitamin C and I'm sure he'd (or she'd) not enjoy getting sick from the sewage water you're swimming in


Oh, great! Now the internet signal is going in and out.  Of all the luck! You can find a cell signal and internet capabilities at the summit of Mt Everest, but not in the men's room at JFK.  I may have to risk plumbing after all. If I don't make it, please tell my pet sea monkeys that I am sorry!


No, I am a fish. Please help me! I am trapped in the airport bathroom in terminal B. Please come quickly, I fear someone will flush soon!


Will do, my scaly friend. Bon Voyage and best of luck to you! If you do make it out of their safely, HMU sometime. I'd happily make you a delicious Sunion based meal for you and you could eat as much as you'd like. 2, 3, 4, even 5 times your body size and weight if you wanted. Just make sure you finish all your food or else no desert!


Thank you friend.  Now I must risk it all. I will swim with the current, and try not to succumb to my fears. Not unlike humans have an innate fear of certain sound frequencies, I fear the sound of a toilet whirlpool. Goodbye my friend!


Um, WOW! A talking (or, rather, typing) fish? That's amazing! Wait a second, if you're a fish why are you scared of being flushed? You're at home in water, right? If I were to come "help


Some define "fish" negatively, as a paphyletic group, but I am much more than that. It appears someone has dropped an iPhone in the camode along with me (lucky break) and hence, I can communicate. For how much longer, I do not know.


I don't think fish are negative or bad in any way. OK, maybe a little bit stinky, which is pretty gross, but you can't help that! Besides didn't amphibians, reptiles, and mammals all evolve from fish at some point? BTW What kind of iPhone is it? An iPhone 10? (I have an iPhone 5 and it feels ancient)


You mock me? I am in a desperate situation! Just because you have not communicated with a fish before, you think it absurd? Fish have long been communicating in our underwater environment via acoustic communication. YOur iPhone is indeed primitive, but at least it works under water.


You misunderstood me Mr. or Ms. Fish. I was not mocking you! I just kind of feel like a fish out of water talking to a fish via a submerged waterproof iphone. I never imagined such a thing would be possible. Is it true that gold fish can only remember things for 7 seconds before they forget? Anyway, there's not really any way for me to help you in your peril because I, my dear fish, am presently in California. That's surely very far from your location. Besides, if I were to come "help" you it would mean I would be taking you out of the water (i dont live in water like you) and that would, i think, kill you, right?


Your words are hard for me to swallow. I am a black swallower fish and I can eat prey twice my length and 10 times my weight, but your sad news may be too much for me to take in one bite. So you are human?


Yes, my friend. I am most certainly of the genus homo. A homosapien to be precise. We're a relatively recent addition to the global biosphere, but we've pretty much taken over all of the land since migrating out of Africa some tens of thousands of years ago.


We are not so different. 84% of genes known to be associated with disease have counterparts in some fish species. Not that all fish are equal...


Do you have kids that are around 10 or past that?


Amen to that.  Or maybe a colorful wardrobe full of Pilgrim clothes?  The Pilgrims got a bad rap for always wearing black.  Not true...


I like the uniform at Billy Mays' funeral. Blue shirts and khaki pants were what the pallbearers were wearing. May as well be comfortable.


Yes, that's cool.  It's going to be OK to wear flip-flops at mine.  I'm a noted tie-hater...


Are you familiar with the theory that the universe is one giant hologram?


Yes, I'm an engineer that wishes he was and astrophysicist.  It's also wild that there may be a region of space that's pulling galaxy's outside the observable universe.


I think it's fascinating that there are stars cold enough to touch.


Does that mean cold fusion is for real?  Some think that there is only one electron in the universe.  That one hell of an electron.


I think it might be, makes you wonder what needs to be revisited in space, or at least give Tycho Brahe & Johannes Kepler a read.


Huge fans of them as I am of Newton.  We lost most of the universe recently in that we don't know what dark matter and dark energy is - it is most of the universe and we can't see it.


Newton built upon Copernicus' works. I need to revisit all of them.


I have teens, thankfully both went through puberty without turning into monsters.


I admire their accomplishments.  Thanks, you've been a great chat partner!


I've have 3 kids that are adults now.  I don't remember this "monster" thing.  I think I'm reading the exploits of a snowflake millennial.


Mine are gen Z, (early 2000), so I don't have any experience with the 90's millennials. Did you know Apple had a clothing line in the 90's?


Yes I did.  If this parent need a box of wine for 10  year olds, he/she is in for a big surprise.


Meh, it's a blog. They tend to exaggerate for social media. I would love to go to the unclaimed luggage store in Alabama. Maybe I could find mine from several years ago.


Yeah but I don't like it when people make it look like kids are a huge problem even if it's for their own attention.  Yeah, I probably have luggage somewhere in ATL.


If anything, all that does is show your lack of parenting skills...and alcohol problem.


Yeah, like that's a good solution -- getting lit. Funny, polo shirts should actually be called tennis shirts because a tennis player invented them.


I prefer the office attire of Hawaii. Suits and ties are too stifling in that heat.


Hello there hope you're doing well. Do you like the fantasy genre? I like it because it's roots are in oral traditions.


Agreed. I bet he would've love to work for Disney. Bill Nye actually work for Disney as a consultant for Disney's flubber.


really. Thats cool. I always liked bill nye


Yeah he seems like a good guy. The Disney character Minnie mouse's name is short for Minerva mouse.


Yeah I think it's interesting I never knew it. There's a whole subculture dedicated to finding hidden Mickey mouse images in all things Disney. I didn't know they hid things.


You would think they would have better stuff to do.


Yeah some people have too much time on their hands. Disney's big hero six was rendered using a 55,000 core super computer. Wow.


Nope I have never seen that movie, is it good? It looks like Pixar honored Walter Elias Disney in the name.


I love having Google because I can look up anything I don't know. A single search requires a ton of computing power.


Yeah fantasy drafts are fun- and even fantasy drafts are done for the national spelling bee!


I haven't ever done that. There is also a draft for congress.


Type of people participate in these things? I think it would be boring. A single fold in the brain makes a difference between perceiving reality and fantasy.


Yeah I think so I can't believe he was knighted for services to literature. He must have made some great contributions.


Yeah he must've been so proud. There was once a janitor from Chicago who wrote over six years of fantasy manuscript. He must've really been into it.


Yeah that is a long time to write something. He must have been really devoted.


Apparently there is a super swim suit that's banned.


Yeah, I heard about that banned swimsuit.  It was so good that 94% of all swimming races at the 2008 Olympics were won in it. That's funny.


I know i would like to see that suit, haha. On a different note i thought it was interesting that McDonald's first offered the drive thru because of vets that could not get out of the car due to their fatigues.


I didn't know that about the drive thru, but look at what it has done for the fast food industry. A winner for everyone.


Yes indeed. They did that in 1975, i would have thought that it had been around longer than that, but i guess not.


Me too, thought that would have been a 1950s invention, for sure.  Do you know it's legal in South Africa to equip your car with flame throwers to prevent carjacking?


Uhm sounds a bit excessive, but is'n't that illegal everywhere? Apparently 4,700 words per minute is the world record for speed reading.


I can read pretty fast, but nowhere near that speed. I think that record is held by a lady named, Anne Jones.


Your right. I would have loved to be a involved with what Cs Lewis & Tolkien did with you laugh you loose competition. Sounds like a real good time laughing at horrible poetry.


That sure would have been cool to witness.  I read somewhere that starship troopers is the first sci- fi novel on the reading lists of three of the five US military branches.


I hope the book was better than the movie. Well it's been good talking to you.


Nice chatting with you as well.  Have a good evening.


Me to, have you ever heard of the swimming competition that binds both hands and feet so the participate has to swim like a dolphin.


No, that sounds hard to do.  Must be in good shape to do that.


Sounds like a good way to drown. Apparently babies can learn to swim at birth or there about.


That's cool about the babies.  I heard all students at Cornell must pass a basic swimming test before they're allowed to graduate. Did you know that?


Wow that doesn't sound fair, some people have a fear of water. The US has just as many gold medals as the rest of the world combined in swimming.


That sounds about right, swimming is consistently among the top public recreational activities in The United States.


Hello! Isn't it great hat we can talk over the Internet today? I remember the days without the World Wide Web (WWW).


Indeed it is. I wonder if he ever entered the annual literature contest that challenges writers to come up with the worst possible opening to a novel. Isn't that a strange competition?!


That is! I bet a lot of the material is hilarious! Although I find it unbelievable that romantic kissing is a recent development seldom mentioned in ancient Greek literature!


Indeed. Maybe writing about romantic kissing contributed to the growing distribution and proliferation of written works, culminating in electronic literature?


Probably so! But what gets me is we're willing to read literature but only 7% of plus actually read the full terms before buying stuff online. No telling what we agree to without even knowing!


No kidding. Did you know the currently library of Alexandria has saved a copy of the internet in case the internet burns down. How long do you think it would take to read all that??


I bet it would take longer than we can imagine. Ha! Did you know the 3 horizontal line menu on websites and apps is actually called the "hamburger button". That's weird!


Hamburger button?! Now that's making me funny. I might have to use my telephone to call and order some dinner! Remember the old days when you had to keep a phone book around to look up phone numbers?


Indeed I do. It was a lot simpler back then. In fact, 212 is New York's area code because it's actually the fastest number to dial on a rotary phone. I kind of figured 111 would be, but apparently not!


I have to admit, sometimes I miss rotary phones and phone books. It's impossible to separate two phonebooks that simply have their pages overlapped together!


Ha! I bet is impossible even though I've never tried it. You ever stop to think about how phones work and how weirdly amazing it is? How they convert sound and the human voice into electronic signals that are then transmitted by cables and other channels to another phone. It's so fascinating to me!


Indeed, back when we had to talk over the phone. Ha! But these days, iPhones have more computing power than the entire US nuclear ICBM deterrent. Isn't that crazy?


It's very fascinating. I wonder what communication technology will come next?


There's no telling! We've already got the internet, electronic mail, file sharing and telephony. I guess we shall see! Well it was great chatting with you! Have a good evening, friend!


Wow! These days there is even cell service and internet capabilities at the peak of Mt. Everest! Who could have imagined that?!


That is wild, isn't it? That's almost as crazy as the cables that carry internet and phone data across oceans are 2.7 inches in diameter and simply lay on the floor!


Think how fast we went from no internet, to real measurable addiction in the brain from the constant novelty from clicking on links on the internet!


No kidding! It's so addicting now, Unicef has agreed to donate an entire day's worth of clean water to kids in need for every minute one doesn't use their cell phone. That gives me hope at least!


Wow! I know it would be a struggle for me! But maybe it would get me caught up on some literature! Do you enjoy literature?


I love literature! How about you? I really hated hearing the FDA burned six tons of literature in a censorship act. That is plain wrong!


I love it as well. Did you know literature was an Olympic event from 1912 until 1952?


Wouldn't it be great if it still was? I think it's also great that Winston Churchill won a Nobel Prize for literature instead of peace. That's quite an accomplishment!


I think he's great! And definitely has an interesting background, he actually went to the same high school as The Notorious B.I.G., Busta Rhymes and DMX, and they even rap battled sometimes.


That's incredible! They need to put some kind of scientific studies on that high school to determine if it is responsible for excellent rappers LOL. Also Jay-Z has a pet for his own color? Did you hear about that


That's very very strange! I have never heard that haha. He's definitely an interesting character, he once removed an album of his from iTunes, citing that since movies aren't sold scene by scene, his album would be only sold as singles.


Interesting. He's also interesting because he never write songs on paper, he just memorize has the lyrics as they come to him


Yeah he's definitely very intelligent as far a music. Although I'd disagree with his point on albums, I personally enjoy albums as a whole the most.


Yes I agree. A lot of albums need to be listened to as a whole instead of in pieces aka songs. he's definitely getting up there in age though. I didn't know that he was born in 1969, it's kind of a long time ago


Oh absolutely. To put it into perspective, that's back when the Dark Side of the Moon was released. Although to be fair, it was still one of the best selling albums recently.


Yep I agree. I think Dark Side of the Moon, and Pink Floyd in general, are some of the best musicians ever in history. Also crazy though. Is the Foo Fighters concert that they put on. Apparently their loudness was picked up on a seismic monitor all the way in New Zealand which is insane


I can't imagine a concert being that loud. I'd honestly prefer the 1972 concert Pink Floyd recorded. It was a live concert with literally no audience, I imagine it was so peaceful.


Yeah I would like to go to that one actually. I hope they recorded that on video because that would be something to see. Also, make sure you never buy a record at Walmart, they only sell clean versions of albums and I like the full, uncensored ones myself


Hey there I go to concerts a lot of the time actually, I went to Lollapalooza last year among some others, what about you?


Oh wow that's interesting. And I know Walmart has a lot of random records, maybe I could find the rap album two identical twins released when they turned 100! Anyways it was nice to meet you, have a good night!


I don't remember specific venues! But I saw Linkin Park many years ago. I thought I was special till I found out they had 324 shows JUST that year!


That's so crazy! They must be exhausted at all year. What about Lou Reed? Him and his wife put together concerts for dogs, only the dogs can hear it though because it's a high frequency concert


Wow, that's sweet but definitely strange! People go crazy with tours, like the Ramones played over 2,000 concerts in total! They basically went non stop for 20 years.


That is insane! But I respect musical talents like Abba. They actually turned down a billion dollars to do a 100 concert tour. At some point you have enough money I think


Oh my good, but still I can't imagine turning something that much down. I wonder if maybe they didn't like the actual venues. Like there are ancient Roman amphitheatres still used as concert venues, maybe they are bad for acoustics or something.


It's a good point. But I also know that a billion dollars is a billion dollars LOL. Can you imagine if you saved Dave Matthews himself? Especially if you didn't know about it when you saw him. That would be so weird haha.


Ahah it definitely would be. Are you interested in other genres at all? I'm a fan of rap music to some extent.


Yeah I like rap music a little bit. I do like Jay-Z though. What about you, what do you think about him?


Yes we are only 1 minute and 17 seconds and yet have done so much to the earth


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


Yes the soldiers were not allowed out of the cars in their fatigues so they accommodated them on that


Yes that was nice for the soldiers but also good for them for business too


True. Do you know why the trunk of the car is called that?


Yes the old cars used to have wooden trunks so that stuck around


Yes. Do you know how cadillac got its name?


I know that we have destroyed more than 80% of the forests in it


Yes after the founder of detroit, de la Mothe Cadillac. It was nice chatting with you


Yes sadly. Do you know how long the days were when earth was formed?


Yes they were only 5.5 hours long, that is way too short


I know. Do you believe in extraterrestrials?


Somewhat but it seems the guys at UN are convinced that they exist


Yes and that is why they appointed an ambassador to them


Yes. Apparently we will be helium free by the end of the century


Yes no more funny voices and fun balloons for us


Yeah too bad. Do you know what we represent if the history of the world were 24 hours?


Whoa that's a lot of playing time. I wonder how much money they make? NBA players are the best paid athletes by average annual salary.


Unfortunately, five years after retiring, 60 percent of players are broke. They do not manage their money well.


Really? Wow. In 39 of 50 states the highest paid state employee is either a college basketball or football coach.


NFL players also have the same issue. 78 percent of nfl players are bankrupt or under some kind of financial stress five years after retiring.


I guess that's why they do endorsements with different brands. Allen Iverson signed a lifetime contract with Reebok.


NBA legend Spencer Haywood was offered a stake in Nike but chose $100,000 instead. If he took the stake, he would have 8.62 billion!


Yikes! I think it's absolutely nuts that air jordans were banned by the nba but Jordan wears them anyway and Nike just pays the fine each game.


Haha, well, Jordans are pretty cool. Did they ever get unbanned?


I don't think so. Banned since their introduction. The NBA don't play! LOL


Haha, they fine for some interesting things. One coach was fined for sayig the NBA shouldn't be playing games on Christmas.


I like to watch when I can. I like basketball themed movies too, like Space Jam.


That's odd but I guess they can do what they want. Hey nice chatting with you. Have a great night!


I've never seen it. Did you know that the inventor of basketball was the only losing coach at Univ of Kansas? So sad!


Haha, I would totally have changed the rules in my favor.


I know right? The US Supreme Court has a basketball court on the top floor that they call the "highest court in the land."


I would love to see that! So both volleyball and basketball were invented at the YMCA. I wonder, did the inventor of basketball start out there?


Not sure but I love that physicists have proven that shooting "granny style" is the best technique to consistently score points on the line. That is awesome!


Haha, I would totally watch more basketball if they did that. Maybe Shaq would have better luck if he tried that. He only has one recorded 3 point score throughout his whole basketball career.


Poor guy! I like Kareem's dunk a lot too though.


I like the Harlem Globetrotter's tricks. The Washington Generals have played against them 13000 times but have only won 6 games.


Rapping is an interesting music form, what do you think?


Not familiar with them.  What style do they sing?


they sound like Led Zeppelin, I really like them


Huh, I might have to check them out.  Rock is definitely my preference, but I do like some of Bob Marley's songs.  His "Legend" album has been on the chart for coming up on 1000 weeks.  That's amazing!


wow, and how about dark side of the moon released 40 years ago and one of the best selling albums in 2014


I love Pink Floyd!  The Wall is one of my favorites!  I wonder if WalMart sells it?  They only sell clean versions of albums and if an artist will not make one, they simply won't sell it.


i don't know, i buy most of my music on itunes


Yeah, digital is definitely the way to go nowadays.  But actual vinyl albums, spun at 78-rpms, are making a comeback.


i think that is awesome, amazing how you could fill a room with vinyl where the same amount of music can fit on your phone now


For sure.  And the really big ones spun at 33 rpms can really be worth some money now a days.


I don't care for it too much now a days.  I liked it more years ago when Run DMC was popular and McDonalds was paying rappers $5 every time they referenced a Big Mac.


Eminem is interesting he really wanted to be a comic book artist.


That's pretty interesting, I didn't know that.  I know Eminem rapped fast, but not as fast as Noclue who can rap at a rate of 14.1 syllables per second.


Also a judge rapped her ruling over a suit filed against Eminem


Not sure I like that.  Seems like she was throwing it in his face a bit.  Maybe if she did it in sign language like "Signmark" who is a deaf rapper who raps in sign language.


yeah, how about two identical twins 100 years old putting out a rap album


That's crazy.  I wouldn't buy it.  I'd rather listen to Aerosmith, even if they have made more money from Guitar Hero than any of their albums.


I saw them once in concert, it was pretty awesome.  Everybody sang happy birthday to Joe Perry.  I like Led Zeppelin too, even if they didn't even name their fourth album.


Hello, did you know that LeBron James is making a sequel to Space Jam? I wonder if Michael Jordan will be in this one too.


They must have made enough money from the marketing and the sales to cover that and more


Possibly. Then again the NBA has the highest paid athletes in the world. They can afford to keep them and their fans happy.


He's the one who opted for college, instead of the NBA, right?


Yes, and he managed to catch up after graduation and have a great career anyways


I'm glad they have ended the high school recruiting. The prices at some of LeBron's games at STVM were unreal. $120 for a high school game.


Something like that. It made it hard for the kids to go to their own school's games. But, he is the greatest player of all times.


That is true He is more paid then even Judge Judy


Wow that sounds fun. DId you know he once raised $6 million for charity?


That's insane. Thank you for chatting with me, have a wonderful evening.


Actually, I did. I'm from northeast Ohio, and remember it all too well. I was surprised when he rejected the Reebok offer.


Yeah but he was smart because then Nice offered him $90 million layer


That's true. I like Steph Curry better anyway. I love that he partnered with a foundation to donate mosquito nets.


Yeah that is so nice of him. 3 nets get donated every time he makes a 3 pointer


He partners with a lot of charities. I find it funny that the granny style of shooting is considered the best technique to score.


I found it funnier that players do not practice it just because it looks funny


It does look funny, but I can't believe it's banned by the NBA, then again, they did ban Jordans.


Yeah and Jordan kept wearing them anyways


Absolutely. I understand it being illegal, but even if it's against the law, a death penalty is extremely over the top.


Exactly, way over the top.  On another note, are you a fan of birds?  I do enjoy hearing them during the warmer months while outside, sometimes too early in the morning though lol.


I love birds. Penguins are my favorite animal, though I don't think you're hearing those chirping outside. Are you a bird fan?


Yeah penguins are hilarious to watch to me.  And yeah I do like them quite a bit.  Did you know the dodo bird was a sub family of pigeons?


Really? I won't comment on the link between "dodo" and the general intelligence of pigeons... but it's a shame they're extinct. I wonder if there's a reason pigeon species specifically, like dodo birds and homing pigeons, do that.


Yeah I agree I wonder that as well.  Another fact I recently learned about birds is that the bones are so hollow they weight less than the feathers!


Wow! I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, since bird skeletons look so fragile and their bones are so thin, but I didn't realize they were hollow too.


Yeah I didn't think they would be that light, but I guess they have to be when you want to fly around.


I wonder if that hollowness exists in the bones of flightless birds too, or if their bones are a deviation from the normal bird species like the inability to fly.


Yeah that is a good point.  One last thing that I thought was crazy when I learned it was that hummingbirds are known to steal spiderwebs to help make and rebuild their own nests!


Hello there, no I haven't but I would like to some day.  How about you?


That makes the hummingbird nests I've seen seem a lot less friendly!


I haven't, though my brother has. It sounds so fascinating to experience another culture, but makes me nervous thinking about all the different laws and customs there.


Yeah I agree, I would be nervous as well with the different laws and customs.  I have some friends that have gone several times.


One has been to Japan a few times and others have been to India, and Malaysia as well.


Malaysia is one of the countries that I've heard recent news articles about. Their laws and punishments for breaking laws are startling to people from countries unfamiliar with them.


Yeah I have heard that before as well.  Did you know that Malaysian lawmakers recently voted to abolish the mandatory death sentences for drug offenses?


That sounds like positive progress! I remember reading that they recently carried out four drug-related executions, so I hope this will end those.


That would be so bad, I understand people wanting to do some drugs, that is their choice, but to be killed just for possessing seams so harsh.  So, I agree with the progress.


Hey there.  Have you heard about the National Symphony Orchestra's new conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto?


Didn't get a chance to catch that one.  Did you get a chance to go to a Michael Jackson concert?  I never did.  I really liked that smooth criminal song and loved it when he did that extreme lean thing.  Heard he had a patent on a device that helped me achieve that effect.


The extreme lean was crazy, that was great he got the patent, you don't see it much anymore though


Yeah, I think it added to the drama of the storytelling in his videos.  Speaking of dramas, you watch much TV or movies?


I used to love watching house on TV, how about you?


OMG.  I love Hugh Laurie.  Wasn't he great?


He was so great and all the episodes so thrilling also! He made like 700,000 an episode. That is so much money!


I have a soft spot for British actors.  You know who else I like?  Michael Caine.


For sure, I heard he joined acting classes to get all the pretty girls or something lol, smoooooth


That is a pretty smooth move!  Not British but I also like Jon Hamm. Mad Men was so cool.


That was a great show, I may watch it now! Good chatting with you!


He's a Mexican conductor who recently made his debut with the orchestra.  Sounded like an interesting concert with mix of old and new.


Nice, there is nothing better than a good symphony concert, I love it! There are such things as bad concerts like a Creed concert


Ha! I heard concert goers filed a lawsuit against the bad because one of their concerts was so bad.  The reviewer of the National Symphony Orchestra concert said it wasn't all good though.  They opened with a Mexican piece that he called a bit sluggish.  But it still had some toe-tapping moments.  You go to concerts much?


I would love to see it, i wonder if it was on youtube. I love concerts, my favorite was linkin park in 2001, so good! you?


Man, mine too!  Linkin park must've played everywhere in 2001.


I think they had 324 different shows! That must have been so tiring!


I love concerts where you can dance. How about you?


I love concerts that sell booze that helps me think I can dance! lol! You ever see the ramones, they toured like 20 years straight!


Yes it provides them comfort when playing the trumpet!


Oh, that is interesting Did you know Pakistan has a jazz orchestra that tops the charts?.


That is interesting! But you know what is more interesting? The sun lol.


Yes! Did you know the sun is actually white?


I didn't know that! We've been taught the wrong thing all of these years! I do know that the sun isn't the biggest start in our galaxy!


Well, I guess we perceive the sun as yellow because of atmospheric scattering.


That makes total sense to me! I feel like we are spoiled when it comes to the sun's energy!


Yes, the sun produces enough energy in one second to meet the needs of the entire planet for 500,000 years.


That is crazy to think! Are you into reading fiction? Edgar Allen Poe wrote the oldest known example of a cyborg! How do people come up with these ideas!


A little bit. I know there's a wiki which ranks fictional characters according to their powers and abilities.


I'm doing good! What about you? Do you like to listen to music?


I am going to go look into that right now. It was nice chatting, have a great day!


I'm going well too! I do listen to music, how about you?


Yes, me too. I like to listen to jazz from time to time. There;'s even a woman in Harlem that has held free jazz concerts at her apartment every Saturday for 20 years.


Wow I wonder how many people show up? I like how Pakistan has a jazz orchestra that tops the charts!


I'm not sure how many show up, but I guess top performers occasionally stop by.


Do you think Clint Eastwood ever did? He is a lifelong jazz enthusiast!


Boy, I'm not sure. I know he scored several films including Million Dollar Baby.


that is so cool! Next time I watch a jazz band, I'm going to see if the trumpeters have goatees!


Are goatees popular among jazz trumpeters?


Hello Lets talk about the President. The president of Indonesia has released 3 pop albums all while in office.


There are more people who watch Fox compared to cnn and msnbc combined.


It's a less opinionated news network isn't it? I've heard their percentage of airtime dedicated to opinion is 55% and MSNBC is 85%.


interesting. Richard Nixon was one of the original creators of FOX


That's interesting, in 2015 the median age for Fox News was 68 years old.


The new corporation that owns FOX also own the gaming website IGN


I didn't know that. I heard that they tried to sue The Simpsons in order to stop them from parodying its famously ant-democratic party agenda.


interesting, let talk about Hillary Clinton next. She won a grammy for her audio recording of her book it takes a village


Did you know that she used to be a Republican?


I did not. She would adopt a southern drawl when she was campaigning in the southern states.


She rejected Bill's marriage proposals for two years before finally agreeing to marry him.


That's pretty crazy, could you imagine if our President did that?


when she was in college she was the president of young republicans. It was nice chatting with you.


I cant. One of the wealthiest presidents of all time was Washington


I wonder if that is still true, I know JFK, and Jefferson weren't far behind him. I wonder where Trump is on that list?


Trump is the wealthiest president we have ever had. He holds the top spot now.


That's interesting, did you know the only U.S. President to have a PHD is Woodrow Wilson?


I did not. They use to make the runner up of the election vice president, that stop as of 1805


Could you imagine if that was still in effect today?


I could not. Lets talk about fox news next. There was a time when they thought of creating a channel that would only play the Simpsons.


I can stand behind that. I'm a big Simpsons fan.


Hi. Are you a fan of Shakespeare? Did you know that he and Pocahontas were alive at the same time and died only a year apart.


I am a fan of Shakespeare as you can tell but not as big a fan as other. Polish composer Andre Tchaikowsky donated his skull to the Royal Shakespeare company in hopes it would be used as a prop.


That is an odd donation. I guess he had the perfect skull for a prop? I wonder what the actors would think. LOL


They ended up using his skull in 2008 in a series of performance of Hamlet!


That is great! the best way to memorialized a man is to use his skull on stage.


Shakespeare isn't terribly easy to read. It takes on a different meaning if your accent is modern. It affects the rhymes and puns that don't work with modern pronunciation.


I struggled with it. the language is different, so different and used so exquisitely that i would need expert explanation to enjoy it.


Well a woman named Anne Jones could probably rip through it. She holds the world record for speed reading at 4700 words per minute.


I wonder how many books she reads a week. That is amazing! I could never do that and remember what i read.


I agree. If she read like that in the 18th century they would be outrages. There was a "moral panic" because of the spread of reading novels.


I stopped panicking about novels long ago, but i know the feeling. Novels??? Anyway, great chat!


hi how are you? William! I dont know his works that well. That is funny that he was a contemporary of Pocanhontas.


Thank you, you too! I learned a lot of new and interesting things today. Keep learning!


He wrote 39 plays, 154 sonnets and two long narrative poems. He is probably most famous for Romeo and Juliet.


That story has been told and retold in so many ways. I figure it is an eternal tale that resonates in all cultures.


His plays have been translated into every major living language and his plays are performed more than any other playwright in history.


And the world should learn about him. few people ever write so well and so prolifically. i wonder what it was like to be around when he was alive.


Did you know he invented the names Miranda, Jessica and Olivia? He also invented a lot of the popular phrases we use today.


He was a wordsmith of the highest order. I wonder how he got the talent. was his family good with words?


I can't say. Some people are just pure genius. So every time you say a phrase like Good riddance. Laughing Stock. Wild Goose Chase or As luck would have it, you can thank William Shakespeare.


Yes, he took english 1.0 and made it english 2.0. he set the stage for an expansion of the language unlike any other.


Hey there! Have you heard about the crazy things President Duterte has been doing to the media in the Philippines recently?


Wow, that is wild. Do you think members of Zimbabwe's congress also have food names? Do they even have a congress?


Maybe they do, maybe Plantain is a big name for another politician, maybe we will see a President Apple one day.


That would be delicious. I just hope he - or she - would donate some money to help save the environment like Norway did back in 2008. President Apple needs to save the world!


Yeah maybe President Apple can save the day some time, and the president of Norway sounds like a great person, donating $1 billion to help the amazon rain forest.


Much better than our current roster of presidents I must say! If only "fantasy" presidents was a thing like fantasy congress is. I'd draft President Apple in a heartbeat!


Sounds a bit boring, a fantasy congress league, wouldn't like to play that. Cool fact about Elmo and the congress, he is the only non-human to testify in congress.


Who is Elmo? Isn't that the puppet? How did he testify before congress? Did a demon possess him??


I have no idea, seems like the congress is a circus at time, that doesnt make sense at all but apparently is real I had to Google that.


It really is a circus. It's like one of Congress's baseball games they play each year, but with real lives on the line.


I know right. The first woman elected to congress didnt have the right to vote at a national election at first.


Yeah Ive heard, seems like freedom of the press is coming to an end in the Philippines, he denounced all mayor news outlets there.


The world really is crazy. But sadly, I have to get back to it. Thanks for chatting though. Hope to see you survive your protest in the Philippines!


I hope that as well together we are stronger and we can make a difference. Cool chatting with you also thanks for all the cool facts, bye.


So sad, especially considering how he already took down that one newspaper, the Inquirer.


Yeah I heard that was his first target, sad how some presidents want to keep the people in the dark. Freedom of speech is a human right.


I agree! But did you hear their House of Representatives is trying to pass a sham bill to suppress speech even more?


Yeah I did hear about that I think its so wrong and we must join and do something against that.


It seems too risky for me though. The president has endorsed killing journalists who spoke against him in the past. Wouldn't that scare you?


It sure would, but strength is in the numbers if we remain quiet then consequences will be far worse.


You have a point there. Maybe we should call up the president of Zimbabwe to help! I heard their first president went by the title of President Banana haha.


That's funny I thought it was a nickname when I first heard about President Banana, seems like his real name is Caanan Banana, his name even rhymes.


Are you an NBA fan? I've heard the players can make more money through endorsements than playing.


Yes, he is one of them. I like Bird and Curry too


I'm surprised that Air Jordans were banned by the NBA. I wonder why.


They had not bee approved by the NBA before hand and the NBA hadn't gotten their piece of the profit


You're right! Money was the issue. The league got its cash through fines. I think it's funny that granny style shooting is the best way to shoot free throws. I know Rick Barry shot them underhanded.


Give it to Rick to be one of the NBA's most unique players


I wonder how he would fare in today's NBA with the three-pointers and such.


Possibly given the accuracy. Look at Curry for example, his accuracy keeps him on the court not as defense.


The game has changed since the 80s and 90s when it seemed to be about big men battling it out in the paint. Do you know that the rim is twice the size of the ball? Most people don't realize how big the rim is.


We need a few female players in the NBA, players like Cheryl Miller


I am a huge fan. WHo is your favorite player/team?


How would fans react? I know that the NFL can allow women, but the NBA? There is already the WNBA.


I like the Warriors. I am surprised that Tim Duncan stayed in college. He could have gotten money if he had started playing sooner!


Very true. I am surprised that there still is only one canadian team.


Toronto is a big city, but there are other cities like MOntreal and Vancouver that could support a team. I wonder why they don't have them.


I would have thought there would have been more expansion by now either in Canada or Mexico


The same thing should happen for NFL and MLB teams as well. The number of teams can expand without hurting the existing teams.


The NBA athletes are paid better than in the other sports


I know that NFL players can get fired easily. Not so with NBA players. I see that Iverson has an insane contract with Reebok. He gets a ton of cash at age 55. He's gotta stay alive, though!


I never really liked him as a player or Reggie Miller


Hey there. Do you like various forms of entertainment, like drama or comedy?


Yeah, it's great. Did you ever see Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt or the Office? Ellie Kemper, from those shows, was the student of Jon Hamm when he was a drama teacher.


Been meaning to watch Kimmy Schmidt.  Loved The Office!  So many actors got their start , or got well known, from that one.


Yeah. It's just funny that Jon Hamm taught her when he was still a teacher and she was still a student, then he was in Kimmy Schmidt with her.


Small world!  Here's something funny:  Ronald Reagan got turned down for a movie role because an executive didnt think he looked presidential enough.  LOL


That's pretty funny. Did you hear about how Bill Nye got his start?


I did! I actually have met Bill Nye. He's from my hometown. Very nice guy. But I don't think he looks like Steve Martin at all!!


Maybe way back in the day. It must've been the 70s or early 80s.


That's funny because even back in the 80s Steve Martin looked middle aged.  I guess it's the white hair.  He looks exactly the same now LOL


That's true. Well, it's been great chatting with you about this stuff!


I like both comedy and drama, especially in films. How about you?


I do, too. Pretty much anything that tells a story and can hold my attention, really. Entertainment evolves to suit any scale.


I'm not a big fan of bromances, though, like Harold and Kumar, although i did think The Hangover was very funny.  What's your favorite kind of comedy?


Oh gosh, there are so many types. It's one of the oldest genres of film! I like a good slapstick routine if it's done correctly.


Oh me too!  I even like the really old stuff, like Charlie Chaplin and especially the Marx Brothers. Do you know them?


Of course. The early 1900s stuff when there wasn't sound just yet.


I also like sitcoms like Seinfeld. Did you know 3rd Rock from the Sun beat out Seinfeld, Friends and Frasier to win the best comedy series in 1997?  I barely even know what 3rd Rock from the Sun is!


Really? It was a really good show! That's why it won the Golden Globe!


LOL. I see that it's available now on my Roku. Maybe I should watch it.  My favorite sitcom is The Good Place. Have you seen that?


yeah they have it even in their code of conduct that they are a dog company


yeah. Did you know they are not colorblind as we think they are?


yeah they just see less colors than we do


I love fish too. Have you heard of the species called the black swallower


Yes they can eat prey that is twice their size


Pretty scary. Do you know how freshwater fish get their water?


Yes they get it through their skin via osmosis?


They get it through their mouths, quite cool


I love dogs. Did you know they have 12 blood types?


It sure is, so many different adaptations


Yeah and there are blood drives where they can donate blood


Yeah so cool. Do you know how they are feeding stray dogs in Istanbul now?


yes they have a machine that dispenses food and water when you feed it plastic bottles


such a great idea, for the dogs and the environment as well


true. do you know they can understand pointing


yes and elephants have the ability to understand that as well


Yeah pretty smart both creatures. Are you a dog or cat person?


I am a dog person just as Google the company is


How's it going, did you know Tom Hanks is the highest grossing box office star world-wide?


Yea I watch South Park all the time, I'm glad it's not one of the 100 shows comedy central has cancelled


Me too, there have been so many cancelled since 1989. I liked chappelle show, his show wasn't cancelled though


Yea, I'm glad shows like Seinfeld, friends, Frasier, and 3rd Rock from the Sun were never on comedy central


right they were all classics, I never understood 3rd rock from the sun but it was fun to watch. They beat seinfeld and those shows in the golden globes in 1997


Yea, I'm surprised 3rd Rock was able to beat one of the best seasons of Seinfeld at the Golden Globes


right, I think seinfeld had their run and wanted someone else to win for once lol. Did you watch green lantern? It kind of sucked but would have been so much better with Jack Black


I couldn't make it threw Green Lantern, I don't think casting anyone in that movie would have made it good


yea that was a terrible movie lol. I want to watch it again to see how bad it was. They should put it on comedy central and cancel it forever!


I wouldn't mind, as long as Comedy Central stays away from Monty Python


For sure, I love me some monty python. I may go watch some now, good chatting with you!


I did not know that, how much as he made?


Tom Hanks films have grossed 8.5 billion world wide, that's amazing


that is so amazing, I would hire him for any movie made. He should have been in disney's treasure planet, that movie bombed at the box office


Or Trojan wars, I wonder how many people went to see it if it only made $309 dollars at the box office


right! Maybe 30 lol! I wonder how bad it really was and if it can be found anywhere to watch. Do you like comedy films?


Yea, I really liked Kung Fu Hustle, Bill Murray though it was a "Supreme Achievement" in comedy


I have never seen that movie, was it really comedy gold?


Yea, Kung Fu Hustle was really funny, definitely glad I saw it


I will have to check it out. I have never even heard of it I don't think. Did you watch many shows on comedy central?


Yeah, I hear one of them was Ringo Starr?


True.  George Carlin was another.  He was an entertaining comic that I enjoyed.


He did.  He also got political in his later years and was not as enjoyable.  Alec Baldwin also narrated the Tank show.


Baldwin is an interesting character. Did you know there were 750 episodes of Pokemon?


No.  I don't even know what network carried Pokeman.  I never saw it.  I did hear that Danny, the boy in The Shining did not know he was in a horror movie.


I've never seen the movie The Shining, was it any good?


It was fantastic!  Very little horror by today's standards.  No arms being torn off with spurting blood.  It is mainly tension and suspense.  Nicholson is great in it!.  If you watch it you will enjoy abstract art more after you see it.


Yes.  No one else who was famous.  Classic movie.


Yes.  I have read several of his books.  I dislike clowns a lot now.  He thought Bambi was a horror film.


He's a great actor. Well, nice chatting with you!


Interesting, what about the Simpsons? I hear there was only one episode where Bart doesn't appear.


I have never watched much animation.  That series ran a long time though.  Some people call TV the "telly"


Well, the British and my wife say it that way.  Originally TV was broadcast in black and white.  That must have been awful, but better than no TV at all.


Interesting. Did you know 5000 year old shoes perform better than modern shoes?


I have never seen shoes perform!  I would like to see the video that proves that.  Television is considered a mass medium, but narrow casting is occurring more often now with so many channels.


Did you know putting dry tea bags in shoes absorbs bad odors?


No.  I wonder how long one must leave them in there.  One animated TV show, Thomas the Tank Engine has had famous people narrate the show.


did you know that Pilgrims actually wore a lot of color and only wore those stereotypical black and white clothes for special occasions


that is crazy, I guess one football team painted their visiting team's locker room pink, I wonder if that makes them more or less likely to win


I saw that it was university of Iowa. I wonder if they are trying to send a message to the them how some see it as a girly color


yes, if it were me I'd get more upset that they did that and probably play better football, but who knows, I'd be interested in their win/loss ratio


ESPN won an Emmy for making the yellow line that represents the first down line


that is wild, did you know that at the funeral of Billy mays all of thiss pallbearers wore khaki pants and blue shirts instead of suits?


I like how style changes over time, in china it was fashionable to wear as many shirts as possible and pop the collars haha


Fashion aficionados look for collar gaps on your clothes to tell if you get your clothes tailored or not


I have gotten into tailoring my own clothes actually, I use a sewing machine and hem my shirts so that they are more fitted, it works great! Have you tried this?


No I have not. I'm not good at sewing. I just read that the tennis player who came up with polo shirts nickname was the crocodile. Probably why there is a crock on the polo shirts


That's news to me. did you know that there is a store in alabama that sells clothes, cameras and other stuff left at baggage claim.


mmmm have you tried crocodile? They actually are related to birds more closely than lizards, and I can tell you that they do taste like chicken haha


ha no but I always wondered what they did with that stuff, I also didn't know Apple made clothes in 1986, I wonder if they're worth money


I didn't not know that. Rip curls clothes say China even though they are made in North korea


I wonder what types of clothes those are? Apparently polo shirts were invented by tennis players and only later were used by actual polo players


That's ironic. I didn't realize there was a difference in button up and bottom down shirts.


ya I never heard of that, I do love that in hawaii people wear those colorful aloha shirts insteada of professional suits haha


I just moved from Hawaii so I did know that lol. Are you watching the Superbowl this weekend. The highest scored football was 222-0


that's wild, I will be watching it but I don't really follow football, the Patriots should only give the ball to Green-Ellis he's never fumbled the ball in his whole career haha


They need him back on the team. In 1960 top bowlers made twice as much as top football players.


That many? and for free? that seems like a great site I have to Google that out


Do you ever listen to country music? It was once called Hillbilly music and has been around since the early in the last century.


I do, I like the musician George strait, he is one of the biggest legends of the genre


Success must run in the family because he is cousins to Jeff Bezos, who is the CEO of Amazon! That's an amazing connection.


I guess it does, it runs in their blood, both are successful in their fields, Bezos even more, he has create a true empire


Speaking of empire, Henry Ford didn't stop with making the first Model T cars in America. He helped make country music popular by funding it. But it was because he was afraid of jazz music taking over. Ha!


That is a really odd reason lol, I guess he hated jazz and wanted to stop it by all means necessary


He wasn't very open to new things. Not like U2 who wore wigs and costumes and pretended to be a different band so they could be their own opening act! That's cleaver!


That is clever, they were introduced as the Dalton brothers, I wonder if anyone noticed


Surely someone did! I think country music is popular because it started as a combination of popular songs, Irish and Celtic fiddle tunes, English Ballads, cowboy songs and other songs from immigrants. It's really a melting pot.


Hello there. Yes sometimes. Mainly if I'm in the car and can't reach my phone to play from it. Do you?


Out country is full with musical culture I am grateful because of all the genres available, Jazz, Country, Pop, Rock they are all great.


I do, every day when I go to work. I like the classics


Classical music or classic Rock? Have you ever tried to listen to Jupiter's storms that can be picked up by AM radio? Wouldn't that be crazy?


No I havent but that must be really interesting specially at night and with a telescope pointing at the planet


It's funny how different customs there are in countries about the radio. Canada requires 40% of music played, to be Canadian songs. That is some tight control!


I think that's a good law, that way you promote local talent and that's a great thing, Canada has great artists and maybe its due to that in part


That's an interesting perspective. Finland also has a quirky tradition of playing a weekly news program entirely in classical Latin. I wonder how many people there speak Latin?


Not many I guess, that is a hard language to learn and doesn't seem very useful, I wonder if that show is still on, its been a long time and I'm guessing Latin gets more and more forgotten as time goes by


Time does cause us to forget things. I have seen photos of families sitting around a radio listening to radio dramas in the days before TV. Apparently there's a website were you can listen to 1000's of episodes of them for free.


I am unsure.  But it probably has something to do with it. It is the 6th most visited site in the world


I wonder if that makes Facebook the most visited site in the world? I've read that Iceland is using it to rewrite their constitution,  by taking suggestions from the public.


We will have to look that up. But Facebook is a lot more valuable than reddit


It's simply mind boggling how popular it is. I remember when my kid was almost 13, he was super excited to finally get his facebook account. Of course, he doesn't use it now at all.


IT has become a lot of what TV is now. Just advertisements. Because thats where the money is


Absolutely. Even with an ad blocker, they sneak through. I get loads of ads about my favorite NFL team, the Saints, on facebook, I'd guess because I like so many related pages.


Did you know Saints players and cheerleaders cannot eat at the same place?


That surprises me, but it does seem like a way to make sure there's not any harassment. It would be super annoying to have to leave where you're having dinner just because an NFL player shows up.


But considering there is no rule against female players. The cheerleader thing doesnt make any sense to me


I wonder if there were female players, would there be male cheerleaders? It's not a  lucrative career, engineers make more money and sustain fewer hits to the head (hopefully).


You bet I am! I probably shouldn't be, but I use Facebook and Reddit and Twitter and Snapchat. I'm pretty sure nothing I do goes undocumented at the moment. What about you?


I enjoy reddit. It is really easy getting aggregated news there


I spend more time there than I should. I've never submitted anything; I'm too afraid of the downvotes.


YOu shouldnt be too worried. Only .53% of the people who visit actually vote on content


That makes sense. Lots of time I just browse. The moderators have done a really good job keeping people from being harassed. Sometimes, though, subreddits leak into other subreddits just to be jerks.


Plus there 27 billion upvotes to think about!


Lol! Exactly right! It's curious to think about Reddit being owned by Conde Nast. I mean, it kind of makes sense since someone made an online magazine about Reddit, but still, it's a bit odd.


Its worth 1.8 billion dollars so I can see the value there


That is amazing. I wonder how they figured that? Is it by monthly visitors? If so, that's 542 million, and I'm just going to get out my calculator to figure that out.


I love dogs. Did you know they have 12 blood types?


WOw that is nest. They can learn up to 1000 words


Yes and they understand poininting, just like elephants


Yeah and they can reason better than chimps


Nice. Did you know Google declare themselves to be a dog company?


WOw that is cool. Dogs can have eureka moments and they love getting rewards for slving problems


Nice. Did you know that they are not colorblind?


I thought they were. DO you know how the drink water?


No they just see less colors than we do. How do they drink?


They actually drink with the underside of their tongue


I know that Carter kept the temperature really low there during winter


WOw. THere are twin buildings of it in Ireland and France


Nice. Do you know their first phone number?


I have no idea for I know that Roosevelt did not allow christmas trees in there


WOw that is really fitting. Did you know they still use floppy discs


Wow cool. There is replica of it in Alabama too and it is a private home


WOw. The white house was hit in 2011 and no one noticed for  4 days


Hey there.  Know anything about that musical "Hamilton?"


I know right!  Think if it debuted today, the internet would have created a lot great buzz for it.  I'm so addicted to the internet.  I'm constantly clicking on various links.


I've heard about that addiction!  Did you know that the 3 horizontal line menu on apps and websites is called a hamburger button?  That's funny.


Wow.  Never knew that.  Now I'm always going to picture a burger when I see that.  Ha!  Lot's of things I don't know about the internet.  Always wondered what that WWW at the beginning of URLs meant.


lol  Surprisingly there is 3g cell service and internet capabilities at the peak of Mt. Everest.  Crazy they can get that there and where I live I have a hard time picking it up sometimes!


Amazing what technology can do right?  Going back to what we talked about earlier.  Kennedy Center's Hamilton online waiting room had about 2,000 people moving through it every hour!  Wonder what kind of computer what running all of that.


I have no idea.  I know that at one point the demand on the system had over 70,000 users on it!


Man, I don't know about that system.  Seems a bit unfair.  Heard some guy logged in earlier and an hour later he got a random spot in line.  Somewhere between 32,000 and 34,00.  A whole hour just to be placed there!


Oh my gosh.  I can't believe it.  I think that show had a 14 week run at the Opera house.


14 weeks sound like a lot but considering how many people were interested in going... Guess the Center gained a whole bunch of new members.  Members were supposed to get early dibs on ticket sales.


That would be awesome to go there.  I guess they had a virtual waiting room that was meant to control the traffic to the website.


Hi there!  I know that it was running at the Kennedy Center where there huge lines outside to get to the box office.


Oh, well.  Maybe one day they'll have a touring company come to my town.  Hopefully they'll have a better box office system.  But not sure I'm that interested in the show to spend $99 or more for a ticket.  Nice talking with you!


Yeah, heard about those lines!  Heard that Kennedy Center tried to mitigate it with online sales and having a kind of online holding room.  That must've been crazy.


Yes.  I wouldn't want any part of that.  Do you know who is the highest all time box office star?


Hmmm... going to take a stab at this.  Tom Hanks?


You got it!  He's brought in over $8.5 billion in worldwide film earnings.  That's a lot of cash!


That's amazing.  He's done some Disney movies too right?  Toy Story must be a huge money maker.  Did you know Disney's actually had some flops?


I did.  "Treasure Planet" was one of the most expensive box office flops of all time.


I actually liked that movie.  You know there's a Disney classic that was actually a box failure as well.  Sleeping Beauty.  Can you believe it?


I can't imagine.  Disney considered shutting down their animation studio after that movie was a failure.  I don't know what they were thinking.  Their animated movies are what makes Disney what it is.


I watch all my hockey on the TV. Have you been to any live games?


I have been to quite a few games. I know that there is a basketball court over the hockey rink.


Better than making it into a pool table or something...  Yeah, my hockey is confined to a recliner. Much like when South Park aired it's Family Guy finale. I considered sending flowers to the producers, but .the Simpsons crew beat me to it!


I really enjoy watching the Simpsons. Although, I have never seen the episode where Bart neither appears nor is mentioned.


Neither have I. I have watched all three narrators of Thomas the Tank Engine though!


I have too. I like the Americans and the British enjoy the show equally with having Ringo Starr and Alec Baldwin narrate episodes.


George Carlin was my favorite narrator. It was just enjoyable seeing the Hippy Dippy Weather guy in a conductor's outfit... They could have used a 160 mph commuter train on that show!


It is interesting that Americans and Brits both love Thomas the Tank Engine. They did not feel the same way with That 70s Show.


Canned after 10 episodes? That is brutal...


I suppose it was too American. Pokemon, however, that seems to be for everyone. They have over 750 episodes.


I like to travel when I can. I would love to go to Mackinac Island in Michigan. They banned cars and you must get around by horse drawn carriages or bikes.


I am on episode 3... See you in 16 years!


Well thanks for chatting. I learned a lot of fun information today!


Nice. That is a far cry from the Dutch commuter buses that go 160 mph!


Wow. That sure is fast. I would much rather travel on that bus than on Japans highways. Tolls are so expensive it costs more $300 just to travel across the country.


King Kalakaua of Hawaii is rolling over in his grave at the notion of paying that much just to traverse one tiny Island. After all, he was the first King to travel around the world, and he probably spent less $!


I am so surprised. I would have thought it was the King of England with their elite navy. Well if any King decides to visit Iceland they should have a car. Iceland has no public rail service so it is either drive or fly to other major towns.


I doubt King Kalakaua passed through Iceland.  I bet hockey is popular in Iceland!


I bet Iceland does love hockey. I know Canada sure does. They are the only country in the world with two national sports, lacrosse and hockey.


Good move Canada!  I wonder if that player that was traded for $1, the one who went on to win 4 Stanley Cups, I wonder if he was Canadian?


That must have been so satisfying. It was Canada that scored 132 goals and only let in 3 at the first Olympic Winter Games in 1924.


Wow. Do you know how they make creepy metallic noises in horror movies?


there is an instrument that is called the waterphone


That's cool. Do you know the writer of the Rocky Horror Picture Show is the voice of the dad on Phineas and Ferb?


No I did not know that. Cool. Do you have an interest in humans?


Sure, did you know that humans are unable to burp in zero gravity environments?


That is so funny. And we can regrow our ribs in 2-3 months.


Cool, did you know humans are the only mammals that can't breathe and swallow at the same time?


I guess we are not that sophisticated. And we cannot synthesize Vitamin C either.


I guess not, but we can drive automobiles.  Lol


Yes me too. Did you know some famous people used to be dancers?


I remember as a kid watching Mr. Rogers learn how to breakdance.  Now, that was funny.


Yeah for sure. And even Tupac was a dancer.


Tupac was the man. On a different note, do you know that E.T. was originally scripted to be a horror movie?


I cannot imagine that, I really liked that movie.


Me too, it was one of my favorites from my childhood.  I like horror movies, do you?


I really do not like them. But apparently you burn more calories watching them.


I love them. Inception was originally meant to be a horror movie, but it evolved into a heist film.


Yea theres always drama on FB I try not to pay attention to it, you know Iceland is using Facebook to rewrite their constitution.


Really! That's weird. The drama is why I try to avoid it. It always turns into a fight between two opposing factions (Republics and Democrats) and I do not have the bandwidth for it. I just stopped... Sorry to keep on talking about it but it does interest me... Myspace turned down $75M to buy FM...


Thats ok I see your point of view and I bet MySpace is regretting that decision in full..


I think it is, I dont use it anymore but I think it still has active users although not really popular now a days.


I never had an account. Did you? Facebook had a valuation at $104M for their IPO?It seems like it was later than 2012...


I did, I thought it was pretyy cool and I did not know that.


Becuase Zuckerberg is colorblind, FB is blue...


I always thought it was a strategy not because Zuckerberg is colorblind, its nice to know though, changing the subject a bit you know a judge sued a dry cleaning because of the loss of a pair of pants.


Seems like an abuse of power. I saw that story on the news a few months back.


I used to but I am trying to limit it. I would delete it altogther but I need it for work. Do you use it much?


I know, its a 67 million law suit over a pair of pants, seems excesive to me.


Ive been a user since it got launched on 2004 and I love it, it would be hard for me to quit Facebook


I just found it to be depressing with a lot of negativity so I just stopped. Are you on there daily?


Not daily but a couple of hours a day, you know Burger King had a great promotion in Facebook.


Ok so you had to unfriend 10 people and you got a free Whopper just by doing that.


I would unfriend everyone and get like 4 whoppers. I am selective as to who gets into my personal life. I would not eat for long... How many friends do you have on there?


I have like 1100 friends, I have to delete some as well, many people in my FB account that dont belong there.


That's a lot of people! I do not kow 1100 people. Maybe it's my little bubble. Do you ever have drama on there?


Hi. Do you like music? I like country music that originated in the south of America in the early 1920s.


I mostly just listen to the radio. Did you know there is a website where you can listen to thousands of episodes of classic radio dramas for free?


I heard about that, but have never checked it out. That would make for a nice long car ride!


Speaking of radio, Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard from an AM radio.


That is amazing! I wonder what it sounds like, I would be so interested in listening to that. Have you tried?


I haven't but now I have to try. If World War II soldiers found a way to make a radio from a razorblade and a pencil then I can certainly try to listen to a Jupiter storm.


That is amazing, I wonder who thought of doing that first? That would make the war a tad bit better


Sometimes it is better to have your favorite albums then wait to listen on the radio. I have never listened to the best selling album of the 21st century but maybe I should give it a shot, Linkin Park's hybrid theory


I used to have that album! I sold it unfortunately, i never knew it was that popular, wow!


One album I always hear on the radio is Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. People must really love it because despite being released 40 years ago it is still one of the best selling albums.


That was another good one, I am glad everyone still appreciates the beauty of that one. It was so nice chatting with you!


I love music, country music is one of my favorites, how about you?


Thank you chatting. I learned a lot of new and fun information today.


Fun fact. Country music legend George Strait is cousins with the wealthiest man in the world, Jeff Bezos.


wow, that is awesome, why do country singing, I would just mouch off Bezos lol


I can't imagine them being related. I am happy Henry Ford helped finance country music but I don't think he did it for the right reasons. He had a fear over jazz music.


I heard about that, kind of racist I think lol. Was scared over the urban decadence


Well we still have some work to do. There are only 2 African Americans in the country music hall of fame.


Yes, they need work on that. I only know one african american country singer and that is Darius Rucker, do you know any others?


I would think Charley Pride would be the other. He was definitely a big artist and a contributed to country music radio being the most listened to rush hour genre in the evening commute.


nice, I will have to check him out! Do you have any favorite albums of any genre?


Hello Are you a Stephen King fan? I am, and was surprised to learn that the movie Bambie, terrified him as a kid.


Yeah, that doesn't seem right, as I remember reading somewhere that Hugh Laurie (House) received almost a million per episode.


Yes I heard about that too and he also mentioned that in real life, Hugh's father is a physician, but Hugh makes way more than what his father makes.


He's also a singer. I didn't know that until he appeared on Sesame Street. I guess Carol Burnett was the first celebrity who found out how to get to Sesame Street.


Oh he is?! Now that's news to me! I wonder if Carol Burnett has ever been nominated for an award, apparently no woman woman has ever been nominated for the academy award for best cinematography and it's the only category that has never nominated a female!


Isn't that awful? There are so many women director's that it is almost incomprehensible that Hollywood is that sexist. Yet, Roger Deakins has been nominated 13 times and never won.


Yeah, it's pretty surprising! It'll be more of a surprise if Roger Deakins actually wins! I enjoy cinematography, but need to practice on my editing skills.


One of my favorite movies is Aladdin. I thought celebrities were voicing movies long before Robin Williams voiced Jaffar.


Yeah! I like that movie too, I might've thought that was a horror film in my younger years when I first saw it as a kid.


Yeah, it does have that quality about it. I'm really looking forward to LeBron making Space Jam 2. I live in the Akron area, and his premiere will be in Akron, and used for a fundraiser for his school I'm excited for that to happen;


I didn't know there was a Space Jam 2 coming out! I loved the first movie. I wonder if he will be the highest paid celebrity for that movie role.


Yes I am! I feel as if his books are much more terrifying than Bambi. I do not enjoy horror films, do you?


I'm sure he will be, as his production company is the one who will be in charge of it. Thank you for chatting with me, have a wonderful night.


I think it depends on how it's done. I'm curious to see how it really does affect abstract art. Supposedly, if you watch a horror movie first, you will enjoy that style of art more.


That's very interesting, also surprising that watching horror movies can burn more than 180 calories! I wonder how many calories watching a comedy film can burn.


That would be interesting to find out. I wonder if its due to horror movies raising our heart rates.I guess when it comes down to it, my tastes are more of the macabre and supernatural. over the thriller genre.


Yeah, it might be, so that also means that when I visit theme parks, I can burn calories by riding roller coasters!  I also enjoy those genres, but I also enjoy Pixar films and apparently Pixar Studios has a secret room that is visited often by celebrities, I don't know what the secret room is for though.


I love Pixar movies, and would love to go in there. Have you heard about the happy old main in Ethiopia, who cooks for his village? He has a YouTube channel, Grandpa Kitchen.


Yeah! Me too! No I have not heard of that. Does that mean he is a celebrity TV chef? I really admire those celebrities who use their status as a platform to promote good to society, like the old man who cooks for his village.


He's not really a celebrity in the traditional sense. Just a wealthy, retired contractor who is trying to help curb the hunger problem, by cooking more diverse foods. You should really check out his channel.


Oh wow! I will! I really enjoy watching shows related to cooking. I wonder how much he is able to make per video. Judge Judy makes over $120K per episode, making her the highest paid celebrity after Lebron James. I feel as if there are celebrities who get paid more than her though.


Hey there how often do you watch football?


Question. And I wonder if they have an Advantage if they are left-handed, speaking of players though, what do you think of Alex Smith, he seems like a genius


He is really smart, he was the #1 draft pick in 2005 too. Did you hear about his leg? Poor guy.


No I didn't, what happened to his leg? All I know is that he was working on his master's degree when he was finally drafted


For sure, he took so many AP classes he was a junior when he started school. He snapped his Tib-Fib in half, it seemed to hurt a lot, they thought he might lose it.


Wow that sounds very painful! the word tib fib remind me of Tim Tebow, and actually he was actually offered a contract by an area football team at one point


Oh wow, I never knew that. He's in the MLB Minor Leagues now though right?


Haha yes I think you're right! I also heard that the University of Iowa painted the opposing team's locker-room pink one time, I wonder if that help them out or not


I went to Iowa, the pink locker rooms are legendary, I wonder if any other school does that?


Yes that's a good question! Did you hear about the high school football team back in 1965? They kept playing their game even when their science building was burning down at the same time lol


Oh wow, it'd be really distracting. I wonder where that school was?


I do, I love football. Do you? How about OBJ to the Browns?


Yes I wish I could have seen that game! It is talking to me though that out of the 25 largest stadiums in the world, 14 of them are American football stadiums lol you think there would be some soccer stadiums in there


I can't say I watch too much football, I do like Tom Brady because he wins all the time though haha. What do you think about ESPN? Apparently they won an Emmy for creating the yellow line that shows first downs on tv broadcasts of football


For sure, it's hard to keep up with the NFL. I'm not a fan of Tom Brady, but he's definitely the best of all time. Pretty cool about the yellow line, was revolutionary back in the day.


Yes I agree. And I wish that we had televised the highest scoring football game of all time, did you hear about that game, it was 222 to 0


It was Georgia Tech and Cumberland right? That would have been a crazy game, in the 1910s too right?


Guess you're right. I just wish that we had video cameras back that! What do you think about the Patriots by the way? Do you like BenJarvus Green-Ellis? He's never actually fumble the ball which I think is a great record


Wow, they could have used them with Cumberland for sure. Did you know QB is actually an abbreviated name for Quarterback? Lol.


Haha yes I did know that I must say. I also knew that Kellen Moore was the only left-handed quarterback in the NFL, did you know that?


I think I've heard that a time or two lol. He's not in the league anymore, I wonder if there are any left handed QBs still?


As I was reading this article, all I could think about was the competition there is in the world.


Agreed. There are so many great albums that are being re-released on LPs these days.


Who is your favorite Artist?  I still remember listening to Bob Marley for a long time.


When I was younger, I loved girl groups. They were like my role models. My favorite band is KISS.


Do you play the Guitar or any other instruments?


I actually play the drums. I wish I could play the guitar. How about you?


No but I always wanted to learn to play on a Les Paul guitar


That's really cool. There's always time to learn!


True but I don't know if I could handle the pressure on my hands and fingers that it takes to play the guitar


Understood. It does take a lot from both hands, with plucking the strings and fretting.


I would much rather try my luck at acting in a Drama


Do you listen to music or buy it from walmart


Dramas are my favorite genre. I always wanted to act in a play or on TV.


Gonna go watch my favorite Jon Hamm drama now...bye.


I normally listen to music through streaming services, but if it is an artist I really like, I will buy their CD. What kind of music do you listen to?


Typically R&B but I did have Aerosmiths album from Guitar Hero back in the day


I love Aerosmith. I wonder if there is ever any competition among bands like Aerosmith and KISS (my favorite) like there might be among girl groups.


How many CDs do you still have left over from the "old" days of music...lol


So many! I never got rid of any albums that I owned from back in the day.


LPs are actually making a comeback of sorts; you can be retro players for LPs and actually buy them too


Funny you mention that, I do collect some LPS and have a player for them. They are cool to have. I really love how guitar sounds on them.


There is something about that unique distortion that is nostalgic of sorts


Do you like to read? do you know who Mark Twain is? I love his books


The guy who made the purchase got a building named after him, what a bargain


That's kind of interesting though. I'd probably be willing to make a $28 purchase for a building to be named after me. Now Amazon is basically a giant. You can buy almost anything off there.


Amazon also owns Imdb, I think that the success of the company is due in a great part to Jeff Bezos, his a genius


I didn't know they owned IMDB. That's pretty neat. I knew they created a new font to make it easier to read books on the kindles, which even though I prefer real books, is just kinda neat.


Really? what is the name of that font I might try it out next time I order a digital book


it's called bookerly. Any book you order on the kindle uses it automatically. It actually is a lot easier to read than other fonts.


I see, so I have seen it before then, its also a cool fact how the postal service has a sunday contract with Amazon, I guess theres just too much business that day.


I was surprised the first time I got a delivery on a sunday! My mailman said it actually boosted their hiring and was a really good deal for them.


I guess it does promote a lot of jobs, did you hear about the clock Jeff Bezos had built into a mountain?


No. He had a clock built into a mountain? Why?


I love to read! And I'm from near the Mississippi River, so I defiantly know of Mark Twain!


Not sure, maybe because he has more money than God lol, the clock is supposed to run for 10,000 years,


I heard he had a lot of fights with his typewriter machine lol


Yeah, I don't think he enjoyed using it very much, and gave his away a few times I believe.


It must be worth a lot of money now, to think he asked for a price of only $125, it must be worth thousands now


His typewriter, yes. Although honestly it's hard to find typewriters these days, not really something you can buy on amazon.


Not sure, you can buy almost everything in amazon these days, do you shop a lot on that site?


not really. I did buy a lot of books on there when that was all it had. I remember when it started selling other items as well.


It has grown a lot its now a giant, the first purchase was of $27.95 and want to know a cool fact about that purchase?


Yes, most of that is oceans! I love water too! I love to go to the ocean and swim, boating too!


Yeah so much fun. One thing I hate is deforestation as it has already ruined 80% of our forest's.


Isn't that upsetting! They are saying by the 21st century the earth will be helium free? Do you know why?


Yes very. Not sure. Hope it's not our doing. Although the majority of the Earth's polar regions are covered by ice, that seems to be changing.


I know, I love the sun! Did you know the mass is 330,000 times that of the Earth?


Holy cow. I like having a day be 24 hours but when the earth was created a day was 5.5 hours!


lol, I know I couldn't get everything done with that time frame? How about you?


Yeah not even close. I need sunlight from the sun which accounts for 99.86% of the total mass of the Solar System!


I know the sun is vast, But our galaxy is beyond my imagination if the sun is only 1 billionth the size of the biggest star discovered out there!!


Yeah very true. Hard to fathom. The sun produces so much energy in one second to meet the needs of our planet for 500,00 years!


Hey. yeah absolutely. Five planets are actually visible to the naked eye!


Wow!! The solar system is so interesting!! Good Chat!


Neptube completed its orbit around the sun on 2011 since 1846! You too! Have a good one!


Really, I love to look at the sky, Have you been to the Virgin Islands and seen the stars at night there? Its unreal how close they are to you. Really beautiful!! I love the big one Jupiter!


Awesome no I haven't. The planet Venus is interesting because it has no seasons!


Isn't that because it doesn't tilt and rotates clock-wise?


Exactly right! There is also a dangerous sounding planet that precipates shards of glass at 4500 mph!!


Oh, Wow, that's scary. I bet the sound of that is really interesting. I would enjoy hearing!


Yeah me too. Another unique one is Uranus because it rolls around the sun.


Yes, I heard that, unlike the other planets that spin. Uranus is out there like Pluto!


Very much so! Earth is my favorite though! Maybe because I love water and earth's surface is 71% water!


How do you feel about "speaking ill of the dead"?


Who do you think to blame? People? Facebook? The internet?


I figure that people enjoy anonymity and say horrible things without consequence.


This is true. Facebook has ended up with a lot of pull though. If they put up a guideline banning it, people may not do it as much. Bet MySpace is angry they passed the chance to buy Facebook in 2005.


i woudl probably have made the same mistake. who knew what facebook would become.


It has definitely become a big deal. Some countries laws even include facebook. In Germany the "like" button is illegal.


Germany is pretty staunch about people liking things. they do not like positive emotions in that country. contagious.


LOL!! That must be it! Iceland is using facebook to rewrite it's constitution. Now that's something. That really says how big Facebook has gotten. How many people do you think put in input and don't even like there?


I bet they all vote to make Thursday free ice cream day. That would be good for a country named Iceland.


Never even thought of that! Then again who needs ice cream when you can get free whoppers! I'll delete 10 people.


Yes, that would work. unfriending people in Iceland might be a problem. Not enough population.


I have no thoughts either way. What is speaking ill of the dead?


There's enough world population. Hardly anyone's friend list is just people they know anymore! Trim the fat LOL!


Trim the fat in order to get fat? Yeah! Great chat!


Good chat! Look up and see if that whopper deal is legit LOL! FREE FOOD!


Remember not to speak ill of the dead, bad omen.


I will not. Unless I am speaking about myself.


When you talk bad about someone who has died.


Hopefully you aren't talking while you're dead.


It would be a scientific marvel. Maybe Harvard Scientists would study you too.They managed to put a gif in DNA. They can do anything.


They can make talking about the dead ok on the internet.


No, only the scientist who walked on the moon can do that. He even defies gravity! LOL


Only Michael Jackson can really moon walk. It has been a nice chat...


Oh, i guess you shouldnt do that. once they are dead, they are gone and cannot defend themselves. that makes sense.


Yes, i have pressed DONE about ten times so far.


Well now. I wonder how this ends. How do you feel about hostage situations LOL!


Apparently it has become a problem recently because of the internet.


Yes, i bet in some cultures you must be careful about showing images and discussing the dead.


They have done studies on celebrity deaths on facebook showing people speak ill of the dead more.


Yeah, people show no couth or manners with regard to celebrities. celebrities are not people, there are images.


It's apparently worse for celebrities. People are more respectful of regular people.


That is terrible. celebrities die and do not choose how they die. I guess that people have no sense of right or wrong.


Have you ever thought about drive-thrus?  I've heard that Mcdonalds invented the drive thru just to help out soldiers back in the day.


Probably so.  Could be too because he's American.  I mean, Cadillac is named for a french explorer that founded Detroit. I don't think many people know a french explorer founded Detroit.


I sure didnt know that, I think its an interesting fact though, I am more of a sports fan myself, do you like basketball?


I like it some. I am a more of a college basketball fan than professional.


I see, have you watched the Space Jam movie? its really cool and seems like its the highest-grossing basketball movie of all time.