<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:16px">Eh, I can think of a major flaw which made the whole story completely unbelievable. </span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:16px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:16px">Disagree - he was acting the perfect Austrian </span><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:16px;color:rgb(34,34,34)">chauvinist </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:16px">male who must establish dominance over everybody. Anyway, to me the best thing about Julie was her personality, both in Sound and in Poppins. I don't think people grasp that making a smile on cue, and maybe 15 takes, look perfectly natural, is great acting</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:16px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:16px">Pretty girls are not exactly a dime a dozen in Alabama, but there were plenty of them when I taught there - a school 2/3 girls - and Southern. I don't know, outside of California, where there are any prettier girls than the Deep South.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:16px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:16px">So while I got to look at thousands of them, the ones who got even prettier as the semester went on, were the ones who had lively and intelligent faces. In fact, lively and intelligent could make up for some lack of beauty. Great bodies is another topic altogether. Bag over the head issues, etc.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:16px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:16px">An odd choice of mine is the girl who played the daughter in We're No Angels, with Humphrey Bogart, one of my favorites. If somehow you have missed this movie, fix that. Ustinov is great, as usual. She is not even pretty, but in the movie she was just fetching:</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:16px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="Comic Sans MS"><span style="font-size:16px"><a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0847993/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t8">https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0847993/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t8</a></span></font><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="Comic Sans MS"><span style="font-size:16px"><br></span></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="Comic Sans MS"><span style="font-size:16px">bill w p.s. the only woman I have ever know who can go from attractive to nearly ugly is Barbara Streisand.</span></font></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 2:42 PM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_-3034335909130266883WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace<br><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] odd name of the day<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">>…<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">There are some perfect things in this world, and Julie Andrews in Sound of Music is one</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">…</span><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"> bill w</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Eh, I can think of a major flaw which made the whole story completely unbelievable. When Maria gets to the house and she goes into the ballroom, waiting to meet the Captain and she is doing her little dance thing there, von Trapp catches her and makes some kind of rude comment about certain rooms being off limits etc. No way. No possible way, never happen. Any real man would take one look at her and if he managed to not faint, it would be like Ralph Kramden: hammina hammina hammina…<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">As soon as he regained his composure, he would say: OK never mind the interview, you are sooooo hired. Anyplace you want to go in this house, just move riiiight on in there, it’s yours, no worries babe. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">All this would take place before she sang the first note, on sheer beauty alone. And Charmian Karr was another one in the same class as Julie, oooooh mercy what a beauty.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj5-9RlA1M4" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj5-9RlA1M4</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">I do hope the singularity people manage to code something of this order magnitude of attractiveness in our sim world. Wouldn’t that be a delight?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></div><div><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></blockquote></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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