TOM - We need to find common ground (besides not agreeing with each other on politics) 
We are probably nearly of the same age, and we both know a little bit about history. We're both probably well read, and your encyclopedic movie knowledge is uncontested. I believe you live in Carlsbad. I grew up in Solana Beach where I lived for 25 years. High School in Encinitas; college in San Diego. Traded the ocean for the mountains around Tahoe. Bury the hatchet?
Sorry TOM - your profile says Vista. I know that area well too. Played many sports in their old HS gym. Also, we share the same birthday month.
Buried.
I first moved to California from Chicago about thirty-three years ago and lived first in Carlsbad, then an apartment in Encinitas, then a house in La Costa (or as they like to say the best part of Carlsbad) then an apartment in Encinitas and now I'm in beautiful Vista without a vista, and in Grandview Terrace without a grand view. I think there was a view here about 50 years ago.
You live in a beautiful part of the state. I had to leave Solana Beach because my skin was becoming prune-like from all the time I spent on the beach. Today I'm helping my dermatologist pay off his house in Maui. My wife is from Naperville, IL and we go back every couple of years. Love going to Ravinia. Missed Beethoven's 9th this year when they cancelled the series. So it goes under Covid. Hope you and your family are safe.
@arsenal4ever posted:You live in a beautiful part of the state. I had to leave Solana Beach because my skin was becoming prune-like from all the time I spent on the beach. Today I'm helping my dermatologist pay off his house in Maui. My wife is from Naperville, IL and we go back every couple of years. Love going to Ravinia. Missed Beethoven's 9th this year when they cancelled the series. So it goes under Covid. Hope you and your family are safe.
I was supposed to go back to visit my sister in Chicago in May--she lives a mile from Wrigley Field--but the pandemic cancelled that. If you still have relatives you visit in Naperville be sure to say hi to my pal billhike. He's not a such a bad guy either.
@The Old Man posted:Buried.
Well, I guess your interactions with arsenal4ever finally fit the RIP thread. 
@sd-wineaux posted:Well, I guess your interactions with arsenal4ever finally fit the RIP thread.
David Dinkin at 93.
Footballer Diego Maradona.
@brucehayes posted:Footballer Diego Maradona.
I was going to make a slightly sarcastic comment but Gary Lineker beat me to it.
"By some distance the best player of my generation and arguably the greatest of all time. After a blessed but troubled life, hopefully he’ll finally find some comfort in the hands of God."
RIP
Great quote from Lineker. Maradona's first goal against England was amazing; second not so much.
His Hand of God goal in 1986 is a moment that is iconic and outrageous at the same time. It is hard to argue that he isn't the GOAT.
IW
I think it was Sir Alex Ferguson that once said "Diego Maradona was born offsides".
The Arecibo Telescope in Puerto Rico. I was fortunate to get to visit it once.
@italianwino posted:His Hand of God goal in 1986 is a moment that is iconic and outrageous at the same time. It is hard to argue that he isn't the GOAT.
IW
I'd argue against that. He was a special player but imho there are two players currently still playing who are better than him. Yes, both Messi and Ronaldo have been part of stronger teams than Maradona was but their stats are way beyond what he did.
Peter Allis.
David Lander aka: Andrew "Squiggy" Squiggman
Paul Sarbanes— former senator for Maryland. brilliant man , scrupulously honest. Hard working son of Greek immigrants. His parents owned a small restaurant.
He was a graduate of Princeton, a Rhodes Scholar, and then graduated from Harvard Law School.
A wonderful public servant. Age 87.
(His son, John Sarbanes, is one of 8 persons in Congress from Maryland now)
Chuck Yeager -- 97. Anyone remember how excited Johnny Carson over him when he was on?