Waiting for A-Rod
This is like the first few seasons of Cheers (Sam and Diane) and Friends (Rachel and Ross) all rolled into a few excruciating weeks. One day it looks like A-Rod will continue wearing that big "T" on his forehead, the next day it appears as though he will be wearing the classy and elegant B, while Manny Ramirez wears the "T" and Nomar wears the "LA" which now looks like it may be a "SOX" (as in White Sox). Follow?
This story has wings
To top it off, today marks the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brothers flight at Kitty Hawk (what if that were Chicken Hawk?) and Verbal Jazz can't find anything pithy to say about how flight has changed. Quicker, more efficient war making was sure an unintended consequence of air flight, and I'm sure the Wright Brothers never envisioned flight attendants giving beverage service, or that they could watch "Metropolis" an in-flight movie. If they had seen "View From the Top," you can be rest assured that those original flyboys would have scrapped the whole thing. "Orville, that was terrible, we have to scrap this whole airplane idea." "You're right, Wilbur. Perhaps we can talk Gwynneth Paltrow out of making such dreck." That's right, if they had seen "View From the Top," the Wright Brothers would have been gossip columnists.
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This is like the first few seasons of Cheers (Sam and Diane) and Friends (Rachel and Ross) all rolled into a few excruciating weeks. One day it looks like A-Rod will continue wearing that big "T" on his forehead, the next day it appears as though he will be wearing the classy and elegant B, while Manny Ramirez wears the "T" and Nomar wears the "LA" which now looks like it may be a "SOX" (as in White Sox). Follow?
This story has wings
To top it off, today marks the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brothers flight at Kitty Hawk (what if that were Chicken Hawk?) and Verbal Jazz can't find anything pithy to say about how flight has changed. Quicker, more efficient war making was sure an unintended consequence of air flight, and I'm sure the Wright Brothers never envisioned flight attendants giving beverage service, or that they could watch "Metropolis" an in-flight movie. If they had seen "View From the Top," you can be rest assured that those original flyboys would have scrapped the whole thing. "Orville, that was terrible, we have to scrap this whole airplane idea." "You're right, Wilbur. Perhaps we can talk Gwynneth Paltrow out of making such dreck." That's right, if they had seen "View From the Top," the Wright Brothers would have been gossip columnists.
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