Comments on: What’s wrong with ‘hot?’ http://nancynall.com/2006/12/12/whats-wrong-with-hot/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=whats-wrong-with-hot one writer's daily download Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:51:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: MarkH http://nancynall.com/2006/12/12/whats-wrong-with-hot/#comment-25809 MarkH Fri, 15 Dec 2006 00:46:31 +0000 http://nancynall.com/2006/12/12/whats-wrong-with-hot/#comment-25809 Dave, I remember the Picktown creamery! I lived there from '77-'79, in a little house on a hill south of town on (where else?) Hill Road. I think it closed just after I moved there; great dairy stuff. My God, Picktown has changed, too. I have two college buddies who live there and have periodically keep me up on all the changes. So, I Google-Earthed the area and was floored at the unbridled sprawl. Couldn't find my little old house either; the one that almost blew off its foundation in the blizzard of '78. Dave, I remember the Picktown creamery! I lived there from ’77-’79, in a little house on a hill south of town on (where else?) Hill Road. I think it closed just after I moved there; great dairy stuff.

My God, Picktown has changed, too. I have two college buddies who live there and have periodically keep me up on all the changes. So, I Google-Earthed the area and was floored at the unbridled sprawl. Couldn’t find my little old house either; the one that almost blew off its foundation in the blizzard of ’78.

]]> By: Linda http://nancynall.com/2006/12/12/whats-wrong-with-hot/#comment-25485 Linda Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:19:30 +0000 http://nancynall.com/2006/12/12/whats-wrong-with-hot/#comment-25485 Could we retire "went missing"? What's wrong with "disappeared"? Also "busted" as a verb is very annoying. Lake Superior State College has an annual overused words or words and phrases to retire list. Could we retire “went missing”? What’s wrong with “disappeared”? Also “busted” as a verb is very annoying. Lake Superior State College has an annual overused words or words and phrases to retire list.

]]> By: brian stouder http://nancynall.com/2006/12/12/whats-wrong-with-hot/#comment-25478 brian stouder Wed, 13 Dec 2006 13:11:47 +0000 http://nancynall.com/2006/12/12/whats-wrong-with-hot/#comment-25478 The same river upon which Henry Ford once set a speed record (while it was frozen), I think The same river upon which Henry Ford once set a speed record (while it was frozen), I think

]]> By: Nina Boslin http://nancynall.com/2006/12/12/whats-wrong-with-hot/#comment-25433 Nina Boslin Wed, 13 Dec 2006 04:32:04 +0000 http://nancynall.com/2006/12/12/whats-wrong-with-hot/#comment-25433 I did not need another blog to bookmark! I am like a fiend checking in on the bad nanny sighting on http://isawyournanny.blogspot.com/ and the gossip blogs and UBing all day! Now this! And yours. You rock. I did not need another blog to bookmark! I am like a fiend checking in on the bad nanny sighting on http://isawyournanny.blogspot.com/ and the gossip blogs and UBing all day! Now this! And yours. You rock.

]]> By: nancy http://nancynall.com/2006/12/12/whats-wrong-with-hot/#comment-25423 nancy Wed, 13 Dec 2006 03:41:18 +0000 http://nancynall.com/2006/12/12/whats-wrong-with-hot/#comment-25423 Unfortunately, the guy today wasn't driving a watercar or amphibious vehicle of any kind. <a href="http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061212/NEWS99/61212030" rel="nofollow">And he died.</a> Police said he was depressed. RIP. Unfortunately, the guy today wasn’t driving a watercar or amphibious vehicle of any kind. And he died. Police said he was depressed. RIP.

]]> By: Ricardo http://nancynall.com/2006/12/12/whats-wrong-with-hot/#comment-25421 Ricardo Wed, 13 Dec 2006 03:34:23 +0000 http://nancynall.com/2006/12/12/whats-wrong-with-hot/#comment-25421 This is true. Around 1966, a guy was being chased by the Detroit police down West Grand Blvd. He was driving a late model Amphobile, that part-car part-boat invention that didn't last very long due to rusting. He drove right down the boat ramp at the foot of WGB into the Detroit and propelled his way to Windsor Canada to escape. Well, police have radios and he was intercepted by Ontario's finest. That spot is very near the area that Houdini came through the ice after being trapped upstream in that near-fatal stunt. Oh, and my grandfather told me when he came to Detroit in 1919, East and West Grand Blvd was the city limits pretty much. This is true. Around 1966, a guy was being chased by the Detroit police down West Grand Blvd. He was driving a late model Amphobile, that part-car part-boat invention that didn’t last very long due to rusting. He drove right down the boat ramp at the foot of WGB into the Detroit and propelled his way to Windsor Canada to escape.

Well, police have radios and he was intercepted by Ontario’s finest. That spot is very near the area that Houdini came through the ice after being trapped upstream in that near-fatal stunt.

Oh, and my grandfather told me when he came to Detroit in 1919, East and West Grand Blvd was the city limits pretty much.

]]> By: nancy http://nancynall.com/2006/12/12/whats-wrong-with-hot/#comment-25354 nancy Tue, 12 Dec 2006 19:57:35 +0000 http://nancynall.com/2006/12/12/whats-wrong-with-hot/#comment-25354 Adrianne, I'm so disappointed in you. Mallard's creator was picked up in Columbus, <i>Indiana.</i> Bartholomew County. Don't you remember our trip to Louisville, and stopping at the truck stop there, and Ron wanted to buy the Alf clock? You'd think, with a cultural experience like that, you'd remember. This does explain a lot about Mallard Fillmore, though. Oh, and Kate used "literally" the other day. Correctly. Just to make sure it wasn't a fluke, I asked her what the word meant, and she defined it correctly. Congratulations, I told her, you've just leapfrogged ahead of most of the writing public and many newspaper reporters, and you're only in fourth grade. Adrianne, I’m so disappointed in you. Mallard’s creator was picked up in Columbus, Indiana. Bartholomew County. Don’t you remember our trip to Louisville, and stopping at the truck stop there, and Ron wanted to buy the Alf clock?

You’d think, with a cultural experience like that, you’d remember.

This does explain a lot about Mallard Fillmore, though.

Oh, and Kate used “literally” the other day. Correctly. Just to make sure it wasn’t a fluke, I asked her what the word meant, and she defined it correctly. Congratulations, I told her, you’ve just leapfrogged ahead of most of the writing public and many newspaper reporters, and you’re only in fourth grade.

]]> By: Adrianne http://nancynall.com/2006/12/12/whats-wrong-with-hot/#comment-25349 Adrianne Tue, 12 Dec 2006 19:53:42 +0000 http://nancynall.com/2006/12/12/whats-wrong-with-hot/#comment-25349 And now for something completely different.. I hate to indulge in schadenfreude, but this I cannot resist: the allegedly "comic" writer who does Mallard Fillmore, the least funny comic strip going that weenie newspapers run to offer a "conservative" voice, was picked up for his second DWI in three months in Columbus, Ohio. He will now join the list of unfortunate mug shots of the nearly famous. Here's the link: http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061212/LOCAL/%20612120413 And now for something completely different..

I hate to indulge in schadenfreude, but this I cannot resist: the allegedly “comic” writer who does Mallard Fillmore, the least funny comic strip going that weenie newspapers run to offer a “conservative” voice, was picked up for his second DWI in three months in Columbus, Ohio. He will now join the list of unfortunate mug shots of the nearly famous. Here’s the link: http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061212/LOCAL/%20612120413

]]> By: brian stouder http://nancynall.com/2006/12/12/whats-wrong-with-hot/#comment-25339 brian stouder Tue, 12 Dec 2006 19:43:13 +0000 http://nancynall.com/2006/12/12/whats-wrong-with-hot/#comment-25339 Along the lines of things which are hackneyed - has anyone seen the movie "Fly Boys"? We caught it at the dollar movie (I love that place!) - and it's highly romanticized bit of fluff 'inspired by actual events' in the first world war (presumeably that means that there really WAS a Great War in Europe, and there WAS an air corps called the Lafayette Escadrille...but not much beyond that!) The movie was entertaining enough - certainly worth the dollar admission - but it got me thinking about war movies in general. This one was sort of a cinematic cross between Titanic and Gone With the Wind...in some ways fairly blunt (the war-weary antihero hints at a much darker truth, which the movie otherwise resolutely looks away from), but also a lot like World War II movies that were made during the war, wherein moral questions are literally rendered in black and white. Along the lines of things which are hackneyed – has anyone seen the movie “Fly Boys”?

We caught it at the dollar movie (I love that place!) – and it’s highly romanticized bit of fluff ‘inspired by actual events’ in the first world war (presumeably that means that there really WAS a Great War in Europe, and there WAS an air corps called the Lafayette Escadrille…but not much beyond that!)

The movie was entertaining enough – certainly worth the dollar admission – but it got me thinking about war movies in general.

This one was sort of a cinematic cross between Titanic and Gone With the Wind…in some ways fairly blunt (the war-weary antihero hints at a much darker truth, which the movie otherwise resolutely looks away from), but also a lot like World War II movies that were made during the war, wherein moral questions are literally rendered in black and white.

]]> By: Marcia http://nancynall.com/2006/12/12/whats-wrong-with-hot/#comment-25338 Marcia Tue, 12 Dec 2006 19:42:43 +0000 http://nancynall.com/2006/12/12/whats-wrong-with-hot/#comment-25338 Years ago, there was an obituary in the Dispatch for someone who had been "murdered unexpectedly." Not that this matches the theme here. Just that Dwight's comment reminded me of it, and it is somewhat amusing. As if most victims expect to be murdered. Years ago, there was an obituary in the Dispatch for someone who had been “murdered unexpectedly.”

Not that this matches the theme here. Just that Dwight’s comment reminded me of it, and it is somewhat amusing. As if most victims expect to be murdered.

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