Miscellaneous Discussion Thread
when I was in my early and mid teens.
He was very cool to us, except the
singing was pretty dorky. I heard later
that he hated the movies, he thought
they were silly.
Quote: EvenBobI heard later that he hated the movies, he thought they were silly.
They were silly movies that made money for his agent. Elvis thought he might actually have acting skills but Colonel Parker wasn't interested. Elvis should have done the show in Japan which would have forced his agent to get a passport which would have revealed the true identity of his agent.
1. The Walls Have Ears. Don't know why. Got the "GirlsGirlsGirls" soundtrack in 1970 and it was on there. One of my earwigs.
2. The Southern Trilogy
3. Suspicious Minds
4. In the Ghetto
5. Viva Las Vegas.
Happy Birthday, Elvis!
Quote: 1BBToo many to mention. My wife and I saw Elvis less than three months before his death. It was at the Providence Civic Center and it was a great night. She has the tickets in a scrapbook somewhere in the bowels of our home.
The fat sweaty jumpsuit Elvis? I was tempted
to see him, I had just started going to Vegas,
then he died while I was thinking about it.
Quote: EvenBobThe fat sweaty jumpsuit Elvis? I was tempted
to see him, I had just started going to Vegas,
then he died while I was thinking about it.
That's the one. The voice was there but he did too many cover songs and I don't know why. It's not like he would run short of material. Yes, he was fat but you didn't even notice the body. His face was so bloated it looked like it would explode at any moment. I've never seen anything like it.
Quote: djatcElvis lives at Ellis island. I see him all the time singing his hits, or playing keno by the karaoke bar.
I am going on a cruise in April and just found out today that there are going to be 400 elvis impersonators on the trip for some convention.
Quote: beachbumbabsFavorite Elvis songs. Hmmmm.
1. The Walls Have Ears. Don't know why. Got the "GirlsGirlsGirls" soundtrack in 1970 and it was on there. One of my earwigs.
2. The Southern Trilogy
3. Suspicious Minds
4. In the Ghetto
5. Viva Las Vegas.
Happy Birthday, Elvis!
I enjoy listening to Elvis. The Beatles were huge Elvis fans.
My favorite Elvis song is Glory Glory Hallelujah. Its not a song he performed live often.
I actually have quite a few Elvis bootleg recordings
Elvis Presley 8-11-70 Las Vegas
Elvis Presley 8-12-70 Las Vegas
Elvis Presley 8-13-70 Las Vegas
Elvis Presley 1-28-71 International Hotel, Las Vegas, NV
Elvis Presley 11-10-71 Boston Garden, Boston MA
Elvis Presley 4-10-72 Richmond VA
Elvis Presley 2-17-73 Hilton Hotel, Las Vegas NV Dinner show
Elvis Presley 2-17-73 Hilton Hotel, Las Vegas NV midnight show
Elvis Presley 2-18-73 Hilton Hotel, Las Vegas, NV dinner show
Elvis Presley Hilton LasVegas 8-20-73
Elvis Presley 5-26-74 Lake Tahoe, NV dinner show
Elvis Presley 8-30-74 Las Vegas
Elvis Presley 6-1-75 Huntsville AL
Just about every show I have starts with 2001 theme into a hot CC Rider
One of my favorite show recordings is 4/10/72 Richmond VA.
The setlist
01 Also Sprach Zarathustra
02 C C Rider
03 Proud Mary
04 Never Been To Spain
05 You Gave Me A Mountain
06 Until It's Time For You To Go
07 Polk Salad Annie
08 Love Me
09 All Shook Up
10 Teddy Bear/Don't Be Cruel
11 Heartbreak Hotel
12 Hound Dog
13 Bridge Over Troubled Water
14 Love Me Tender
15 It's Over
16 Suspicious Minds
17 Band Introductions
18 For The Good Times
19 I Can't Stop Loving You
20 An American Trilogy
21 Lawdy Miss Clawdy
22 Funny How Time Slips Away
23 Can't Help Falling In Love/Closing Vamp
I probably didn't notice all the singing but I certainly noticed all the girls.
Quote: djatcElvis lives at Ellis island. I see him all the time singing his hits, or playing keno by the karaoke bar.
Isn't that asian Elvis? Gotta love how he doesn't pronounce any words but still sounds pretty... alright. And the pity claps at the end of whatever you call that kind of singing.
Quote: 1BBEarthquakes are rare in Connecticut but we had one this morning. It was in the northeast part of the state about 15 miles or so from the casinos. There was no damage other than pictures falling off walls and I don't think any chips jumped out of their trays. I'm sure our crack news teams will devote their entire shows to this non event. It was between a 2.0 and a 2.2. If you have relatives here there is nothing to worry about.
There have now been a total of 11 earthquakes all in the same area of the town of Plainfield, CT. The strongest was a 3.3 which is too weak to cause major damage. Residents are puzzled and looking for answers. This is the first activity of this nature since record keeping was begun in 1638. Not earth shattering but interesting nonetheless. See what I did there? Earth shattering. :-)
Yeah, noticed that. Perhaps Earth Fracking will be the new expression?Quote: 1BBSee what I did there? Earth shattering. :-)
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Quote: FleaStiffYeah, noticed that. Perhaps Earth Fracking will be the new expression?
Being from Western Pennsylvania I am really wondering what will become of all the fracking. There are billboards on local highways saying this is the fracking capital of the us. Many many companies are building sites.
Not entirely true but they are drilling some world-class wells up here. I'm talking Qatar-scale quantities. We are going to have large quantities of natural gas for a long, long time.Quote: GWAEBeing from Western Pennsylvania I am really wondering what will become of all the fracking. There are billboards on local highways saying this is the fracking capital of the us. Many many companies are building sites.
Quote: GWAEBeing from Western Pennsylvania I am really wondering what will become of all the fracking. There are billboards on local highways saying this is the fracking capital of the us. Many many companies are building sites.
IMO, fracking is a lot like artificial sugar. Has some effect, but no apparent immediate harm. 50 years later, upswing in neurological damage and bladder composition, renal issues indicate possibly premature dismissal of concerns about accrual of artificial molecules in body, damage over time.
Fracking is causing thousands of small earthquakes and fissures in aquifers and sedimentary layers. Hard to say, right now, what kind of damage it's doing to foundations, underground watercourses, deep well and shallow well irrigation, sinkhole formation, all kinds of things hundreds or even thousands of miles away. But the compression waves are real, and the energy from them has to go somewhere. Bridgeport CT is reporting earthquakes. Weird. Related to fracking hundreds of miles away? Unknown. Oklahoma has hundreds of small earthquakes/day. Related to fracking? Almost certainly. Damage assessment? Unknown in scope or scale.
Don't stand under those billboards for long.Quote: GWAEThere are billboards on local highways saying this is the fracking capital of the us.
Quote: FleaStiffYes, all forms of energy production have risks, but ignorant or greedy souls who take short cuts are the real trouble. Careful, well monitored fracking is a possibility. We used to spew oil into the air with uncapped gushers, we devestated thousands of mountains and stream with hydraulic gold mining, see any passenger pigeons, bison or beavers lately? You can go back in time and learn from mistakes but you can't go back in time and undo them.
What kind of beavers?
Quote: FleaStiffYes, all forms of energy production have risks, but ignorant or greedy souls who take short cuts are the real trouble. Careful, well monitored fracking is a possibility. We used to spew oil into the air with uncapped gushers, we devestated thousands of mountains and stream with hydraulic gold mining, see any passenger pigeons, bison or beavers lately? You can go back in time and learn from mistakes but you can't go back in time and undo them.
Pharmaceutical companies (while hardly pure of heart) found they can put all the mild to dangerous side effects of their product in ads and still sell their product. (yeah, I believe they were forced, but it informed the public, and they still sell their product)
The last fracking ad I watched just says it's safe. No side effects, like mild earthquakes or possibly where the water in your faucet can catch fire one day.
I know which kind of advertising I prefer. It wouldn't necessarily mean the end of fracking if companies actually want to make sure they are telling all they know. Not that I don't trust them, as far as I can throw them.
Quote: beachbumbabsOklahoma has hundreds of small earthquakes/day. Related to fracking? Almost certainly. Damage assessment? Unknown in scope or scale.
Earthquakes in OK are far from new.
http://newsok.com/geologist-history-shows-oklahoma-earthquakes-not-new-phenomenon/article/4983503
Quote: 1BBMelissa Rivers has filed a multimillion dollar lawsuit against the clinic and doctors who were unfortunate enough to have performed the surgery that allegedly lead to her mother's death. Honestly, who didn't see that coming?
From the little bit I read about it, I think she will have a strong case. It really sounded like a big screw up by the doctor.
Quote: DRichFrom the little bit I read about it, I think she will have a strong case. It really sounded like a big screw up by the doctor.
Your probably right. Joan died at Mt. Sinai but I didn't see them on the suit. They probably tried. An interesting aside, Carl Ichan donated $200 million to Mt. Sinai Medical School a few years ago.
Quote: 1BBYour probably right. Joan died at Mt. Sinai but I didn't see them on the suit. They probably tried. An interesting aside, Carl Ichan donated $200 million to Mt. Sinai Medical School a few years ago.
My sister in law was a hospital nurse for
20 years. She says doctors screw up all
the time and the nurses have to cover
for them. It's why she left the profession.
One of the competitions was to memorize a randomly shuffled deck of cards by rank and suit. Two of them got all 52 correct. Are you impressed? Our minds immediately go to casinos and gambling but with those brains that's probably the last thing on their minds.
Quote: 1BBMy wife was watching TV in another room when she called out to me to put Lifetime on. It was a show called "Child Genius" which is a competition between very smart 8 to 12 year old kids with weird parents who push them to excel. I guess it's a series.
One of the competitions was to memorize a randomly shuffled deck of cards by rank and suit. Two of them got all 52 correct. Are you impressed? Our minds immediately go to casinos and gambling but with those brains that's probably the last thing on their minds.
Reminded me of this:
Quote:Journalist Joshua Foer took a stab at mental athleticism, and not only did he compete at the USA Memory Championship, he set a U.S. memory record.
"I certainly didn't expect the story would end up where it did," Foer tells NPR's Robert Siegel. In his new book, Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything, Foer investigates the nature of memory and his own unexpected journey down memory lane.
"I should, I suppose, begin by explaining that there is a rather bizarre contest that's held every spring called the United States Memory Championship," Foer says, "in which people get together and try to see who can remember the most random numbers, the most lines of poetry, the most shuffled decks of playing cards."
http://www.npr.org/2011/02/23/134003962/Moonwalking-With-Einstein
Quote: 1BBMy wife was watching TV in another room when she called out to me to put Lifetime on. It was a show called "Child Genius" which is a competition between very smart 8 to 12 year old kids with weird parents who push them to excel. I guess it's a series.
One of the competitions was to memorize a randomly shuffled deck of cards by rank and suit. Two of them got all 52 correct. Are you impressed? Our minds immediately go to casinos and gambling but with those brains that's probably the last thing on their minds.
We have been watching this show. I think it is entertaining for 1 season. If they do it again I probably won't watch.
Quote: AyecarumbaWhat is the record for the correct number of cards recalled by rank and suit?
Found this:
Quote:• Speed cards - Simon Reinhard from Germany managed to recall as single deck of 52 cards in 21.19 seconds
• Spoken numbers - Jonannes Mallow, also from Germany, remembered 364 digits
• Hour cards - Ben Pridmore from Nottinghamshire in the UK holds the title for remembering 28 decks of 1,456 cards in an hour
• Names and faces - a second achievement for Simon Reinhard who matched and remembered 181 names and faces
• Hour numbers - Wang Feng from China holds the record for the most random digits, in rows of 40, remembered in an hour
• Random words - another appearance for Germany's Simon Reinhard who holds the record for 300 random words recounted in 15 minutes
• Historical dates - Johannes Mallow holds the title for remembering 132 dates and the events they are linked to in five minutes
• Abstract images - Joannes Mallow also is the champion of abstract images, after recalling 492 pictures in sequence in 15 minutes
• Speed numbers - a joint record held by Wang Feng and Johannes Mallow, who remembered 500 numbers in rows of 40 in five minutes
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/10486694/World-Memory-Championships-the-current-record-holders.html
Quote: 1BBDid all of our friends in the Northeast survive yet another "epic" snowstorm? There's another epic storm forecast for next week. Areas of my state got three feet, an amount that I'm sure Face, SOOPOO et al would consider a dusting. I can't stop saying epic. :-)
When I finally ran into wifi and was able to read this, I was wearing a smile and not much else. I looked around, and laughed and laughed and laughed...
Now I'm home. It's not as funny =(
But whatever epicness went down, it must've been a coastal thing. Only had 3" - 4" in my driveway when I got home. Of course, it's now coming down gangbusters, but whatever. I'll gladly take another 10'. Got my shovel ready and a thirsty bank account waiting to be filled. Could certainly use the $30 p/hr+ work that that much snow provides.
Quote: FaceWhen I finally ran into wifi and was able to read this, I was wearing a smile and not much else. I looked around, and laughed and laughed and laughed...
Now I'm home. It's not as funny =(
But whatever epicness went down, it must've been a coastal thing. Only had 3" - 4" in my driveway when I got home. Of course, it's now coming down gangbusters, but whatever. I'll gladly take another 10'. Got my shovel ready and a thirsty bank account waiting to be filled. Could certainly use the $30 p/hr+ work that that much snow provides.
Face, did you leave the casino business? Or are you just doing snow work (I'm assuming removal) on the side.
Quote: AcesAndEights
Face, did you leave the casino business? Or are you just doing snow work (I'm assuming removal) on the side.
Left it. Currently drifting, looking for The Next Big Thing, as if that sort of thing exists in WNY =p
Just mentioned the snow thing because some people cleaned right up in November. Some even abused it, pulling in thousands per structure. I could use that sort of disaster right about now lol.
I did that shamelessly once as a business opportunity after a volcano made an epic mess that wouldn't melt. And every place I agreed to abuse was very glad to see me, and pay what I required to want to do make my abuse happen at their place "yesterday, please!" If I had to be less abusive, it wouldn't have created the extra supply of the service suddenly needed, in the form of me.Quote: FaceJust mentioned the snow thing because some people cleaned right up in November. Some even abused it, pulling in thousands per structure. I could use that sort of disaster right about now lol.
Quote: AcesAndEights
Face, did you leave the casino business?
Face retired and is living the dream
life. Island vacays and lots (lots) of
leisure time..
Why would Caesars keep sending me email messages about limited-time pre-sales of tickets for performers I have never heard of? Just got one from Hard Rock Las Vegas (for "Chayanne"); got one yesterday from Cherokee (for "Caleb Johnson"), and I seem to get them from all over the country from casinos I have only been to once ever. Don't they have enough of a profile on me to know there is no chance at all that I would be buying such tickets?
EDIT: Are you sure the Chayanne guy spam wasn't from Caesars? I deleted it so I can't check, but mine had to be from The Empire, 'cause I'm not on Hard Rock's lists at all. Am I? Nah, sure I'm not. Been there, didn't ever sign up for the t-shirt, had to be Caesars' Planet Hollywood or something like that.
Quote: DrawingDeadEDIT: Are you sure the Chayanne guy spam wasn't from Caesars?
My mistake. I said Caesars at the beginning of my post, but then I incorrectly said Hard Rock. The promo email was from Planet Hollywood in LV.
Quote: rudeboyoiI was playing trivia crack. It's this Facebook app where you can play against your friends answering trivia questions. Each question has four answers to choose from. For this particular question the 2nd answer said "all of the above".
That is amusing. Were you able to tell if they were trying to cleverly trick you, or if they just put the "all of the other answers" option in the wrong place?
I tried that app as it was getting popular last week. Personally I find the questions terrible. Most of them are super easy, and then BAM you'll get one that's nearly impossible unless you're an expert in whatever niche the question is about.
