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Skriven 2013-07-18 22:47:38 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
   Kommentar till text 2390 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: craziness/oddities 856
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-=> Quoting MICHAEL LOO to NANCY BACKUS on 12 Jul 13  22:50:00 <=-

 ML>> She should have beat you all out once! The Quodlibet was the
 ML>> one and only time I have heard even part of the Stephen Foster
 ML>> song Beautiful Dreamer.
 NB>> We sang that one in school... so we recognized that one easily
 NB>> enough... 
 ML> What I of course was implying but sort of misstated was
 ML> that this was the one and only situation in which I have
 ML> heard even part of Beautiful Dreamer,

I did catch that.  :)

 ML> but I have heard that Quodlibet several times, even more
 ML> times than I have heard my friend Gunther's Quodlibet.

Not surprising...  (so more accurately would have been "one and only
place" rather than "time", yes?)   Quodlibets are fun, especially when
one can pick out recognizable bits...  :)

 ML>> I hope so too, because if not, he will either go for the standard
 ML>> therapy at great cost and go bankrupt, whereupon I will be sorely
 ML>> tempted to abandon him, only the guilt will be substantial.
 NB>> Or he will do no therapy at all...?  Also making things problematic...
 ML> He's afraid of dying, perhaps almost as afraid as he is
 ML> of the needle. The problem of course is if he screws up
 ML> his chance at free treatment, and his insurance exhausts,
 ML> he may try to get me to pay my share of the inheritance
 ML> against his medical expenses, and I might not say no,
 ML> which would make me close to if not indigent myself.

If he exhausts his insurance, and his money runs out, wouldn't he
qualify for assistance...?  Without it getting into your share...?

 ML> No more fun in my life just because my brother is an
 ML> asswipe and coward? I'm not looking forward to it.

Hopefully there would be options that would forestall that... and even
more hopefully, he'll not mess up his chance for the special therapy,
and it will be helpful...  :)  It's probably too much to hope that he
would cease to be a coward, but even that could conceivably happen...

 ML>> I was thinking more of the small number of military
 ML>> vehicles that would fit in the lane of a tollbooth
 ML>> that would be used in times of that degree of trouble.
 NB>> Hmmm... I suppose that tollbooths could be rebuilt...
 ML> I think a sizable segment of the public would cheer at
 ML> the sight of American tanks rolling through and destroying
 ML> American tollbooths, and in fact part of me would also,
 ML> but in general my sense of order dislikes the idea.

I'm with you on that... both sides...
 
 NB>> it was mostly the free interstates that were designed to be used
 NB>> as military roads in case of that sort of emergency... the toll
 NB>> roads like the NYS Thruway mostly don't have tollbooths except at
 NB>> the ends of exits... maybe those could be bypassed in most cases... 
 ML> As far as I can tell, the free interstates were the
 ML> paradigm, and the toll interstates were some sort of
 ML> unholy compromise.

Didn't most of them start as toll roads before the interstate system was
even thought of...?  I'm sure that the PA Turnpike did... I remember
traveling that as a child...   

ttyl      neb

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