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[Vanity] Really? Are We That Wrapped Up in Politics?
Me | August 26, 2018 | TBP

Posted on 08/26/2018 5:25:44 PM PDT by TBP

I realize that John McCain was a long-time public servant who spent five years at the "Hanoi Hilton", was tortured, came back, was a longtime senator and two-time presidential candidate. And I realize that the shooting in Jacksonville at the gamer convention is an important story.

But we also lost one of the American cultural icons today when Neil Simon passed at 91. (See below.) Can we not find a minute or two for this major figure in contemporary American culture? Are we THAT wrapped up in politics?


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To: TBP
"A minute or two? We can all use some levity right now."

Levity? You serious? Apparently not. Anyway...well, okay.

Ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha! Ho, ho, ho, ho. LOL! ROFL! Ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha! Ho, ho, ho, ho. LOL! ROFL!

What...ever.


41 posted on 08/26/2018 5:56:36 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: TBP

I agree.

Neil Simon was a great American treasure and I recall taking one of the first girls I dated to see “Goodbye Girl”.

Rest in Peace....

Can you believe what Michelle Obama wore today?.... /S


42 posted on 08/26/2018 5:56:48 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZGw2M)
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To: Larry Lucido

I love Brian Piccolo. And I'd like all of you to love him too.


43 posted on 08/26/2018 5:59:14 PM PDT by 50mm (-.. .-. .. -. -.- / --- ...- .- .-.. - .. -. . /)
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To: Larry Lucido

*smirk* Womens..


44 posted on 08/26/2018 6:10:14 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Larry Lucido

Tuesday Weld made me happy


45 posted on 08/26/2018 6:14:37 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: TBP

2 Neil Simon threads today on FR. If you were paying attention.


46 posted on 08/26/2018 6:14:54 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Free Republic Needs Your Monthly Donations!!!)
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To: Larry Lucido

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=teusday+weld+theif&&view=detail&mid=F62A7F263941C23DDF70F62A7F263941C23DDF70&&FORM=VRDGAR


47 posted on 08/26/2018 6:17:48 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: TBP

No validation from me.


48 posted on 08/26/2018 6:22:50 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Consensus isn't science.)
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To: TBP

There were a lot of headline worthy stories today but it’s all Songbird with a dusting of gamer.


49 posted on 08/26/2018 6:25:42 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: TBP

Simon has been off most people’s minds for a few decades now.

That’s how it goes. He did some good work, no doubt, but he’s not really all that relevant these days.

Not trying to short change the guy, but most of the people who remember him are pushing 70-90.

I’ve enjoyed a number of his productions.


50 posted on 08/26/2018 6:34:32 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs)
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To: Redcitizen

How old are you?

You claim to be interested in movies


51 posted on 08/26/2018 7:05:07 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: TBP

There was a post earlier. Let not your heart be troubled: When Keith Richards craps the bed, this place will be hopping with Stones fans


52 posted on 08/26/2018 7:07:58 PM PDT by waterhill (I Shall Remain, in spite of __________.)
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To: TBP
the Alvin Theater was renamed the Neil Simon.

Offending chipmunks everywhere.

Getting back to Simon - his nephew was an Obama appointee to the US District Court in Oregon; the judge's wife is a Democrat member of Congress. The Judge did work for the ACLU, and was a member of the Democrat activist lawfirm of Perkins Coie.

53 posted on 08/26/2018 7:44:58 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: 50mm

I think he played 2nd base for the Yankees.


Probably MANY games, in his dreams.

As a kid growing up in (Brighton Beach) Brooklyn, he was a YUGE fan.

The character in Brighton Beach Memoirs (an autobiography of Simon), Eugene Jerome, loved the Yankees .


54 posted on 08/26/2018 7:53:34 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: TBP

What were Neil Simon’s views on that treasonous bastard McCain?

PS..Who is Neil Simon?


55 posted on 08/26/2018 8:02:11 PM PDT by Beagle8U (A Muse once bit my Sister.)
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To: TBP

Well. Given that the FR is primarily a political site your complaints seem insane.


56 posted on 08/26/2018 8:36:25 PM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: Nifster
A playwrite of great talent

Back when Broadway wasn't the bastion of faggotry it is now.

57 posted on 08/26/2018 8:38:32 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: a fool in paradise

LOL keeper


58 posted on 08/26/2018 8:50:01 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: TBP

I always heard it was better to say nothing if you only had bad things to say... I have not commented yet, but have to get this out.

First, I liked Trumps tweet!
I too feel most for the family and pray for God’s hand of comfort for them.

I really wish he would have got out of politics and retired before I lost respect for him, the more I learned after that point, it was misplaced from the beginning. I voted for him the first time I was legal to vote in ‘84 when I got to vote to re-elect Ronald Reagan.

I thought he was dirty and as a Republican that supported him, wanted to see him prosecuted first. I hoped he would face our justice, now all that is left is God’s Justice...
For his own sake, I just hope he made his peace with God.


59 posted on 08/26/2018 9:19:04 PM PDT by AzNASCARfan
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To: AzNASCARfan

Meant to add, Don’t know who Neil Simon is...


60 posted on 08/26/2018 9:20:59 PM PDT by AzNASCARfan
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