Red Mosquito

Norris wrote:Hank Aaron

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Biff Pocoroba wrote:

Norris wrote:Hank Aaron

I just saw that; I had the pleasure of meeting him a couple times and always impressed me as a true gentleman. No doubt a Rushmore figure in the Braves franchise.
I was on a plane with him coming from Newark a while back. I was seated in the back and both he & Dale Murphy were on the flight, seated across the aisle in coach. On our approach into the airport I felt the plane drop a bit and then take off again at a high angle. For whatever reason the landing was aborted. I've had a couple of those but that was the first and it sudden and a little scary. We circled around and landed fine but it did cross my mind that if we went down I would have been in a plane crash with Hank Aaron and Dale Murphy.

Biff Pocoroba wrote:

Norris wrote:Hank Aaron

I just saw that; I had the pleasure of meeting him a couple times and always impressed me as a true gentleman. No doubt a Rushmore figure in the Braves franchise.
I was on a plane with him coming from Newark a while back. I was seated in the back and both he & Dale Murphy were on the flight, seated across the aisle in coach. On our approach into the airport I felt the plane drop a bit and then take off again at a high angle. For whatever reason the landing was aborted. I've had a couple of those but that was the first and it sudden and a little scary. We circled around and landed fine but it did cross my mind that if we went down I would have been in a plane crash with Hank Aaron and Dale Murphy.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Anders wrote:RIP

I loved her in Babylon 5. One of my favorite shows of all time.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

tragabigzanda wrote:

Anders wrote:I do remember Furlan from Lost.

What was her characters name again

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

E.H. Ruddock wrote:Larry King from the COVID