Random thoughts

[roguejuror]

I've been looking up Port Credit Muddy, nice town.

 

[Mudcat]

It's a decent place where a guy and a cast of his teeth can settle down.

 

[Mudcat]

Here is my main coffee mug. It has a Salvadore Dali painting on it, The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory. It was a gift many years ago from my friend Bert who knows I am a Dali fan. He picked it up at the Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida.

I like it very much. Unfortunately, as you can see, the design is being systematically worn away. I have powerful lips.

 

[Mudcat]

In a sense, the mug could be called The Disintegration of the Disintegration of The Persistence of Memory.

Yeah.

 

[Matty]

Seeing The Persistence of Memory in person (NYC's MoMA) is underwhelming. The actual painting is small, like a regular sheet of paper, and it's all cracked and yellowed. The prints/posters look a ton better.

Picasso's Les Demoiselles D'Avignon is much more dramatic. It's fokken huge. When I went they had a big black guy standing on each side of the painting and they were gently pushing people back behind an imaginary line.

Don't fok with the naked cubist trim.

 

[Bread]

Just opened up a SUPER DUPER NEW AND IMPROVED Dali museum in Tampa. Haven't been yet...not sure if I ever will. Went 2 or 3 times to the old one.

 

[Mudcat]

If you do go bear in mind, Mudcat could use a new mug.

Exit through the gift shop.

 

[Mudcat]

Seeing The Persistence of Memory in person (NYC's MoMA) is underwhelming. The actual painting is small, like a regular sheet of paper, and it's all cracked and yellowed. The prints/posters look a ton better.

Picasso's Les Demoiselles D'Avignon is much more dramatic. It's fokken huge. When I went they had a big black guy standing on each side of the painting and they were gently pushing people back behind an imaginary line.

Don't fok with the naked cubist trim.

This is a good point. I feel like I have a considerable appreciation of painting - but it's all from books and the internet. I've never actually seen the paintings. I don't get out much. Who knows how they would measure up to my impressions?

I've heard that the Mona Lisa is underwhelming in person too. Not that it's one of my favorites but it is very famous at least.



Sad to say, my understanding of the world is largely theoretical.

 

[Tron]

Never call a chick, "sweetie", boys

 

[betplom]

Never call a chick, "sweetie", boys

And if you're married remember to delete all texts from your phone, right Daft?

 

[Tron]

And if you're married remember to delete all texts from your phone, right Daft?

I would recommend that, yes.

 

[Mudcat]

I don't know. The checkout ladies at the local grocery store often call me sweetie or hun. I think it's deluxe.

It's like a Sally Fields Oscar acceptance vibe.

You like me. You really like me.

 

[Fu Manchu]

 

[roguejuror]

Sad to say, my understanding of the world is largely theoretical.

:sad:

 

[reno cool]

What is the significant difference between honey and baby?
I remember casino waitresses would always call you honey but not baby.
I wouldn't call anybody honey that I couldn't call baby. If anything honey sounds more intimate to me

 

[wal66]

I don’t like being called honey or baby, they both sound so disingenuous. Waitresses for years would call you sweetie or sugar but lately it’s like they have taken some new training course that has instructed them to call patrons homey or baby. I leave a bigger tip for sweetie than I do for baby.

 

[Mudcat]

That is something my mom really dislikes. Strangers calling you dear or sweetie or hun or things like that.

Baby would be right off the scale.

She has always had a thing about it and used to make little mini-rants about it and stress to us as kids she didn't want us ever doing that.

A definite bugaboo.

 

[reno cool]

Seeing The Persistence of Memory in person (NYC's MoMA) is underwhelming. The actual painting is small, like a regular sheet of paper, and it's all cracked and yellowed. The prints/posters look a ton better.

Picasso's Les Demoiselles D'Avignon is much more dramatic. It's fokken huge. When I went they had a big black guy standing on each side of the painting and they were gently pushing people back behind an imaginary line.

Don't fok with the naked cubist trim.

What's with that wolf face guy? Usually I find these kind of paintings appealing on some level. This particular one is unappealing on every level.