TimesMachine: Thursday July 17, 1969 - NYTimes.com
The complete edition of the New York Times published on Thursday July 17, 1969.
No, she was still in Memphis with Marie.
Where have Armstrong and Miller been all my life? This is hilarious:
Sound on.
(thread, naturally)
That’s a dangerous weapon he’s got there.
Stop fucking with the weather, witches.
haha, “NATURAL 20, WHOOOOO!”
It was all the Telephone Man’s fault, even though some other Blondie was shouting out demands to call her;
Once, in my misspent youth, the phone was out, so I serenaded the empty line with a medley of many of these tunes.
The correction was printed in the July 17 1969 issue, page 43, underneath this half page article
Spacecraft, Like Squid, manuever by ‘Squirts’.
The complete edition of the New York Times published on Thursday July 17, 1969.
All part of the Special Supplement Apollo 11 Man and the Moon. (pp29-48)
In a desperate effort to quantify the awfullness of the latest Dr Dolittle movie, slate ranks the Dolittles from 1-50.
- Dolittle , a programming language that uses Japanese script.
- Robert Dolittel , who was granted a royal pardon for some crime or other in 1303 “by reason of his services in Scotland.”
- The Poems of the Late James C. Doolittle, Compiled by Mrs. J. C. Doolittle (1858), a self-published volume of mediocre verse.
From Robert Downey Jr. to the Pixies, we ranked all your favorite Dolittles.
[…] and more importantly, without any explanation whatsoever as to why we consider one Dolittle better or worse than another—here is Slate’s official list of Dolittles, […]
I can respect that, but it does kinda’ make you wonder when two of the top ten are described as “a direct-to-video film in which Norm MacDonald provides the voice of a dog.”
What I really want to know is what used to be #50 and got pushed off the list by the Downy Jr. pic.
Have you noticed that when a numbered list is copied, discourse tends to do it’s own thing?
You’re right! I copied some of the Dolittle list, and pasted it into the Reply text window, which looked like this (screenshot):
A live-tweeting thread of a first-time viewing of The Princess Bride:
Yubi 🎲 Makin' Iroh Proud (uzbadyubi)
this is exactly the antidote to monday i needed.
Reading that was pretty damn entertaining.