X Marx-DeSpot (@mscully66.bsky.social)

Sticking with Twitter for those that remain. Seattle-native, a true child of the Space Age. Retired librarian, bicyclist, model-train enthusiast (Z-scale).

[X Marx-DeSpot (@mscully66.bsky.social) @mscully66]

@EricIdle, I attended the final matinee performance of Spamalot in Seattle yesterday, and saw the show in a previous run years ago. During both runs the Seattle Seahawks won the Super Bowl. Just what influence does this show have on sports championships?

[X Marx-DeSpot (@mscully66.bsky.social) @mscully66]

The time has come, X user began his question:
If I’m not interested in an ad on X, must I pay to skip the ad, or is that too silly a suggestion?

But wait a bit, X cried, showing ads or being paid not to is how we make our dough. X, the ads nauseum tempt me not to stay but to go.

[X Marx-DeSpot (@mscully66.bsky.social) @mscully66]

@NPRinskeep My late father was scolded by the president of his company-Seattle Times-for Dad’s use of a pun, “Young man, don’t you know a pun is the *lowest* form of humor?” He knew.

@NPRinskeep, pun away to the delight (& pained wincing) of we who know the pun is mightier than the sword!

[X Marx-DeSpot (@mscully66.bsky.social) @mscully66]

@Spottnik Ravenna Park. 20th Ave. bridge overhead.

[X Marx-DeSpot (@mscully66.bsky.social) @mscully66]

@Spottnik On board the South Lake Union Streetcar, at the Westlake station.

(What do I win? ;-) )

[X Marx-DeSpot (@mscully66.bsky.social) @mscully66]

@carrieprice78 End/start of the academic year?

[X Marx-DeSpot (@mscully66.bsky.social) @mscully66]

@carrieprice78 From my perspective in retirement, it works for me!

[X Marx-DeSpot (@mscully66.bsky.social) @mscully66]

@AnnaZivarts As a former employee (now retired), bike parking availability and use varies. Even I don’t recognize the spot you show.

[X Marx-DeSpot (@mscully66.bsky.social) @mscully66]

@nprscottsimon @YouTube Of course, Mel Brooks heard the same joke.

https://t.co/m7UhE0gNJw

[X Marx-DeSpot (@mscully66.bsky.social) @mscully66]

@nprscottsimon @YouTube My press photographer- and sometimes-irreverent Catholic- father occasionally reminded us that everyone at the Last Supper was on the same side of the table “so they could all be in the picture”.

[X Marx-DeSpot (@mscully66.bsky.social) @mscully66]

@carrieprice78 From the fourth food group!

[X Marx-DeSpot (@mscully66.bsky.social) @mscully66]

@AnnaZivarts Some possibilities, based on the term “paratransit” only:

https://t.co/eDLy8OvmYc

[X Marx-DeSpot (@mscully66.bsky.social) @mscully66]

@CharlesPPierce …for the name alone!

[X Marx-DeSpot (@mscully66.bsky.social) @mscully66]

@carrieprice78 It sounds to me as if it comes pre-truncated. :-) But no doubt someone is certain where and how it can be trimmed.

[X Marx-DeSpot (@mscully66.bsky.social) @mscully66]

@carrieprice78 I’m imagining other works being likewise gutted:

Rosenkrantz…are, er, is dead
The Agony
War
The Fall of the Third Reich
Beethoven’s 4-1/2 Symphony
Either Much Ado, or About Nothing, but not both
Goldilocks

Yet, something has to be cut in each?

[X Marx-DeSpot (@mscully66.bsky.social) @mscully66]

@CharlesPPierce A friend’s sister took up dancing - tap, I would think - inspired after seeing the White House staircase dancing descent sequence (to “Yankee Doodle Dandy” melody) in the finale.

[X Marx-DeSpot (@mscully66.bsky.social) @mscully66]

@carrieprice78 So, it’s the scientific/scholarly version of “because I said so”?

[X Marx-DeSpot (@mscully66.bsky.social) @mscully66]

@krafty @mmschocolate There’s “…Sold by weight, not by volume. Some settling of contents may have occurred during shipping “. And then there’s this!

[X Marx-DeSpot (@mscully66.bsky.social) @mscully66]

@MerriamWebster Should I be nonplussed for not using the word because I haven’t been sure what it means? :-}

[X Marx-DeSpot (@mscully66.bsky.social) @mscully66]

@carrieprice78 As: Me (ibid.) ;-)