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Jamming at the Electric Banana, 1988
"They literally would give anyone a
chance to play a set at their club."

"There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking."  Sir Joshua Reynolds

Time Magazine, The Quintessential Innovator... "What drove [Edison] to invent? The desire to make money and win personal glory, of course. But even Edison saw that was not enough. One of his less noted sayings pointed the way not only for inventors but for all those who work with their brains. He plastered his labs with a quotation from Sir Joshua Reynolds [above], to which Edison added one of his own: "The man who doesn't make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasures in life." A most unorthodox and in many ways unattractive thinker, Edison nonetheless multiplied the pleasures of life for everyone who listens to a record, watches a movie or flips a light switch."

"What's this bite radius crap? Why don't I stick your friggin' head in there and find out if it's a man-eater"
    Jaws, when science collides with red-neck jubilation

 

"You're a privileged man, Jim. There are poets scouring Chinatown for Opium of that quality."

    Dr. Harrison, Cranford, Masterpiece Theater

 

"Don't usually see brain damage after a rectal biopsy"
    Dr. Gregory House, House M.D.   Instant Karma

 

Why I love watching Tennis on ESPN2 and NBC:
    Minutes before the start of the 2010 Roland Garros French Open, the players were welcomed and briefly interviewed by a French media rep as they reached the entrance to the stadium. The interviewer talked, in English, to Robin Soderling, who had, surprisingly, beaten Rafa Nadal in a prior match. Next was match favorite, Nadal. He said quite a bit, in rapid-fire Spanish. This all happened on live TV in high def on NBC, where it is of course unusual for the American audience to hear a lot of non-English dialog. There were no subtitles. NBC commentator and tennis legend John McEnroe, who does not speak Spanish, didn't flinch, and merrily seized the opportunity to improv, saying,

      "You want me to tell you what he's saying? I'm gonna tell you right now. He's gonna play he's best, he always plays hard every game, he has a lotta respect for Robin Soderling, and this is not about revenge. (laughter) How's that? (more laughter)"

 

 

 

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