The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[MOXOMUMD]

wait a sec, are you kidding?? Alan is dead???
at 69 as well and fighting cancer?
thats TWO in a row! David Bowie died of cancer at 69 as well....

THREE actually. Lemmy, lead singer of the British metal band, Motorhead, died from cancer on 12/28. He had just turned 70 on the 24th. There's a picture of the three of them giving the camera the bird.

 

[catmom46]

but Natalie Cole died on december 31...

Ahhh, don't jinx it!

 

[MOXOMUMD]

Don't forget Sanjay's Super Team for best animated short.

I forgot.

 

[MOXOMUMD]

 

[MOXOMUMD]

Oh my!
I wonder which one...?!

 

[MOXOMUMD]

And for the following two or three months!

It looks pretty.

 

[MOXOMUMD]

Sort of like jello but not quite Getting one was considered a reward I remember going out for a "fancy" meal with my grandparents for my birthday, the place was beautiful and all the great food except for the whole fish with the head still on and I got one for my birthday, I was offered both. I swear I was really good that year!

Yep, I don't do fish. I'll go to bed early without dinner first.

 

[MOXOMUMD]

Dang!

Id the trend continues... Then we might lose some of these:
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Elton John, Sam Neil, Ted Danson, Kevin Kline m Glenn Close, Richard Dreyfuss, James Woods, Stephen King, Peter Weller, Edward James Olmos, Larry David, Jonathan Pryce, Joe Mantegna, Wes Studi, Stepehen McHattie, Meat Loaf, Ben Cross, and quite a few others D:

My fears are on Ian Mckellen, Patrick Stewart, Glenn Close, Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman, Samuel Jackson.

There's some in that list I won't miss but I will bawl like a baby when Ian and Patrick pass. (And Denzel ) I may have cried today. I'll be very sad when it's Maggie Smith's time.

 

[MOXOMUMD]

but Natalie Cole died on december 31...

She was 65 and had heart failure.

 

[MOXOMUMD]

But i am an upstanding pillar of the community

 

[Goofyernmost]

In actuality, whatever the time span is people count to three and when three have passed on, they stop counting and start over. So, it could be in groupings of almost any number one cares to focus on. I go with one. After one I start over. Like, hey, someone died today. The next day... Oh, look at that another one died today. Four days later, I'll be damned another one died. Two days later... Who would have thunk it... one more died today, etc. The moral of the story is that everyone dies in multitudes of one. Death is a personal thing, not to be confused with people winning lottery's.

 

[MOXOMUMD]

I love little animals.

 

[MOXOMUMD]

In actuality, whatever the time span is people count to three and when three have passed on, they stop counting and start over. So, it could be in groupings of almost any number one cares to focus on. I go with one. After one I start over. Like, hey, someone died today. The next day... Oh, look at that another one died today. Four days later, I'll be damned another one died. Two days later... Who would have thunk it... one more died today, etc. The moral of the story is that everyone dies in multitudes of one. Death is a personal thing, not to be confused with people winning lottery's.

I get that. I was in NO WAY comparing death to winning the lottery. That is ridiculous.

 

[donaldtoo]

We don't pay tax on food either, but we do on clothing. I misspoke yesterday our sales tax is 7.8%. I was thinking Disney's tax of 12.5%.

12.5 %...?
I thought sales tax at WDW was still 6.5%, so I did a little research.
It is indeed still 6.5%...in Orange County, where the vast majority of Disney property is. However, I found one exception...the All Star Resorts are located in Osceola County, were the sales tax rate is 7%.
Does the 12.5% apply to something else Disney-related...?

 

[MOXOMUMD]

12.5 %...?
I thought sales tax at WDW was still 6.5%, so I did a little research.
It is indeed still 6.5%...in Orange County, where the vast majority of Disney property is. However, I found one exception...the All Star Resorts are located in Osceola County, were the sales tax rate is 7%.
Does the 12.5% apply to something else Disney-related...?

The resort room tax.

 

[MOXOMUMD]

So sad! That means there's going to be one more because it always happens in 3s.

Actually, someone just pointed out Natalie Cole, so hopefully that's it.

Celine Dion's husband/manager passed away today from cancer.

 

[donaldtoo]

Bowie's first concert ever was in Cleveland so he always played here on every tour. He died from liver cancer. I had forgotten Iman was his wife.

I remember when I was in junior high in No Cal, all the school busses had radios, and our driver always had it tuned to KLIV...all the rock/pop music of the time. The first Bowie song I ever remember hearing, and it was on almost every single bus ride, was "Fame", and I loved it!
Still such a cool song...!

 

[donaldtoo]

The resort room tax.

Ahhh, thanks!

 

[Goofyernmost]

I get that. I was in NO WAY comparing death to winning the lottery. That is ridiculous.

I'm not sure why you think I was addressing anything that you said. It was my random thought. (I have those once in awhile) It was not connected to anything that you said directly, it was just a jumping off point. Sorry, if I didn't make that clear. But I will fix it.

 

[ajrwdwgirl]

My dad brought me to his lawyer to have him tell me that girls didn't belong in college and that they only went to college to find a husband and even if by some miracle they graduated from said college, the degree wasn't worth anything because we are women and women are only fit to be teachers, nurses, or secretaries and only until we find a husband to provide for us. It's a waste of money to send a woman to college.

Wow! I know you've mentioned this before but it is still surprising to hear of this attitude. I know many men of a certain generation had opinions like these, which is why I wouldn't have gotten along with men like these.