OffTheRails

Never told beautiful women that they are beautiful, especially taking it to the extreme of she could be famous and profit from it. Limit compliments to the periphery, such as I like your earrings, or cute shoes.

BTW, where exactly is this Walmart?

I have three attorneys. In 2024 I paid more than a quarter million in legal fees. Less these past two years, so far.

Algonquin J. Calhoun

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I’m already counting down the years until my daughter leaves the house.

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O-T response: Within ten years she will leaving the house via her window while you sleep.

Serious response: Make special days to remember. Celebrate their milestones. Take a photo (or short video these days), but do not hold up your phone for little Braxxton's every at bat. I put snapshots of my daughter on the refrigerator when she learned to ride a bike, sang on tv, jumped a half-ton horse over a fence, and beat a mascot around the bases at a pro baseball game to win a t-shirt. Those little things make memories you can cherish with them after their careers take them several thousand miles away. Moments of time-travel.

Not discounting prayers at all, but the best thing any of us can do to help our friends, neighbors and fellow humans with this fight is to join the Bone Marrow Donor registry or donate funds for stem cell donations and research.

May you be given the strength to confront the issue and win, OP.

One of my girlfriend's best friends at LSU was an Italian-American coed who was a live ringer for Gina Lollobrigida, to the extent that she could hardly eat a meal in public without people approaching her to remark on the resemblance. Somehow it never dawned on me until now that she may very well have been named after the famous star. I must have been clueless, but I did know that she was extraordinarily beautiful.

Trivia: Lollobrigida's performance in The World's Most Beautiful Woman (also known as Beautiful But Dangerous, 1955) led to her receiving the first David di Donatello Award for Best Actress. In this movie Lollobrigida played Italian soprano Lina Cavalieri and sang all the songs in the movie, including arias from Puccini's opera, Tosca, in her own voice.

Again, not necessarily best in history, but Shut Up and Kiss Me is damn good harmonizing the BeeGees, which might be a more difficult register for male singers. Bitsy (Beatrice) and Giulia harmonize exceptionally well and can also do Dancing Queen better than Abba. The amazing part is that they say that in three hours they can learn a song in English (an acquired language), decide who is going to sing which parts and record it, and shoot the video. Three hours from start to finish.

Nail polish remover.

I'm no expert on all of music history, but in recent times I've enjoyed hearing Foxes and Fossils perform live a couple times up close and personal.

Dad played piano in a New Orleans bordello...

(Not really. On leave from the army in WWII, Dad hitched a ride in a small plane with a pilot friend who landed it in a small field on my grandparents' farm, as there was no airport in his small community. When they flew low over the house, grandpa threated to shoot them down with his twice-barreled 12 gauge. Mom, who was 17, intervened. Due to his military service, she collected a small pension for 48 years after his death.)