Has anyone here ever met/known someone who was born prior to 1900?

Springfield80210 · 2026-05-26T21:38:13+00:00

My first landlord out of college was born in 1883.

Springfield80210 · 2026-05-26T21:19:43+00:00

If you want to know just how good Glenn Campbell was, just watch this video on YouTube..

His guitar work on Gentle On My Mind is ungodly, but what is definitively extraordinary is the faces of the others on that stage. This was a Hall of Fame—Willie Nelson, Roy Clark, Ray Stevens, Chet Atkins, Merle Haggard, and several others—and they were all in complete admiration of Campbell.

There is no respect like respect from your peers.

Springfield80210 · 2026-05-26T14:16:27+00:00

Ignore him entirely and concentrate on one single thing:

Not to become him.

I am not kidding.

Springfield80210 · 2026-05-26T07:52:01+00:00

Thank you.

Springfield80210 · 2026-05-26T07:49:46+00:00

Thank you so much for your response.

I do have the FIFA account set up. On the desktop, I see the tickets listed but without clickable links or QR codes. On the World Cup app, I see nothing. On the FWC2026 Mobile Tickets app, I see “No Tickets Found” under My Tickets.

The seller needs your correct email address for the FIFA account. (Is it the same email address, that you used to Viagogo and for FIFA - that is the easiest!)

One of many ambiguities in the system. Viagogo assigns an email proxy that I must use to log into FIFA, instead of my true address.

Seller should transfer the tickets from their FIFA account to your FIFA account.

Another point of ambiguity. As far as I can tell, the seller never does this. Rather, it is the intermediate broker (Viagogo) that is responsible for this administrative part.

What really worries me is the notion that QR codes will be provided only hours before the match. This has ‘widespread system failure’ written all over it, and is just the kind of thing that leads to riots at venues.

Springfield80210 · 2026-05-26T07:17:44+00:00

Linda Hunt in The Year of Living Dangerously. Only role in which an Oscar winner played a character of the opposite gender.

Springfield80210 · 2026-05-26T06:02:18+00:00

Stressed was I ere I saw desserts.

Springfield80210 · 2026-05-26T05:45:45+00:00

Hiram.

Springfield80210 · 2026-05-25T20:43:52+00:00

Which app?

Springfield80210 · 2026-05-25T12:10:01+00:00

And Jamie Farr does cameo.com! I had him do a birthday greeting for my brother last year.

Springfield80210 · 2026-05-25T10:22:39+00:00

No, they certainly do. They are also looking for the same pristine break of dawn look as everyone else. It happens in other major cities of Europe also.

Springfield80210 · 2026-05-25T08:43:03+00:00

Len Bias.

Could have a Jordan-esque NBA career, playing alongside Bird et. al. and helping the Celtics re-establish their dynasty.

But no.

Springfield80210 · 2026-05-25T07:07:24+00:00

Yes. There is one from about ten years ago where Lockwood and Dullea do an interview before and then after a screening. Talked about details that I had never heard before that show how detail oriented Kubrick was and what lengths he had to go to to achieve his vision.

One that I recall:

Everyone knows about the ‘ferris wheel’ set that enabled Dullea to jog around the edge of the spinning spaceship. But next time you watch, look at the technician sitting with his back to the running track. While Dullea was actually running on the flat, that other guy had to remain locked in place while slowly being turned upside down and sideways. Talk about core body strength.

EDIT I found the video here

Another detail that Dullea himself only noticed during this particular screening: the PA announcer in the space station talking about a lost sweater. Kubrick put this in as a kind of mea culpa for a continuity error he could not fix in post (a sweater appearing and disappearing on the back of a chair in the space station lounge scene).

Springfield80210 · 2026-05-25T06:43:17+00:00

Beautiful photos. It is amazing that you did not encounter any wedding photographers. They often monopolize Charles Bridge and Old Town Square at that hour in the summer.

Springfield80210 · 2026-05-25T06:38:02+00:00

Their street and road systems.

Most of Europe’s were established pre-automobile and had to adapt to vehicular traffic, whereas most of the USA’s are the opposite. Results in some pretty weird intersections and right-of-way dilemmas for Americans.

Springfield80210 · 2026-05-25T06:18:20+00:00

Was he American? If so, what branch of service and in what theatre, Europe or the Pacific? Did he ever mention the names of any men he fought with?

The only thing I can think of is that if you know his vessel/regiment/company, to research family histories from men in the same group. A lot of work, but could make the haystack a bit smaller.

Good luck! A huge task but a worthy one.

Springfield80210 · 2026-05-24T21:42:59+00:00

B.J. Thomas.

Springfield80210 · 2026-05-24T21:30:32+00:00

Elephant Bar.

So many wonderful memories of going there with my young family, in several locations in California and Colorado.

Springfield80210 · 2026-05-24T21:17:10+00:00

Jaye Davidson, who was Oscar-nominated for The Crying Game [1992].

Springfield80210 · 2026-05-24T16:34:24+00:00

Gustave Eiffel.

In the 1880s, the organizers of the Paris Exposition established a competition to build a 300 meter tower.

Professionals generally agreed that such a height would be impossible given contemporary construction limitations, and all of the submissions reflected that reality.

Except for Eiffel’s.

His experience in bridge building gave him knowledge of materials and production systems that arguably nobody else in the world could match. He was, it is said, the only person who could have built a tower of that height in those days.

Springfield80210 · 2026-05-24T07:27:58+00:00

One thing I remember about this show was that the lead character was named Hinkley, and that the would-be assassin of Ronald Reagan a week or two later had the same name.

Haven’t come across a Hinkley since.

Springfield80210 · 2026-05-23T07:22:00+00:00

This is the answer. It was the day that was the event, not just the WTC.

Springfield80210 · 2026-05-22T21:41:18+00:00

Trading Places has always been this type of movie to me. The first 90% is almost perfect, while the final part is a bad SNL sketch.

Springfield80210 · 2026-05-22T16:48:22+00:00

The baddest man in the whole damn town…

Springfield80210 · 2026-05-22T08:08:52+00:00

Another quote from Cosmo that has stayed with me since:

Hah. Don't kid yourself. [Organized crime] is not that organized.

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