rbowman wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 07:59:57 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>
>> My mind, unfortunately, is littered with stuff like the meaning of LSMFT
>> and the song to the tune of "When Johnny Comes Marching Home":
>
> Loose Straps Mean Floppy Tits.

Reminds me of an early black-n-white GIF we called "Dual Floppies".

Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco

--
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and
enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to
lend money.
-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"

rbowman wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 07:45:51 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8-BI89mb9A
>>
>> "They're rioting in Africa"
>>
>> A bit out-of-date in the references, but....
>
> You didn't really need to bring up the old, bald trio...
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp6dsKleGpU
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=897ZCM0qEps

Dylan "Masters of War"

Heard this long ago (WRVU):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPqPOkK_gzU

Bruce Cockburn "If I Had a Rocket Launcher".

> It's sad that in my adult life cars have gotten more dependably and
> computers are a lot better but not much else has changed.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJbBAzpDRn4

Indeed. "2001 A Space Odyssey" :-D :-(

--
You are wise, witty, and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading
this sort of trash.

Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> wrote:
>Le 16-08-2024, DFS <nospam@dfs.com> a écrit :
>
>> So Joel's whine about 'CoPilot being shoved up our asses' is bogus by
>> comparison to what Linux forces on you.
>
>It's not Linux. It's the distro you chose which do that. And as he's
>using Mint, it's the distro he choses to, but it's Joel.

I'm using openSUSE Leap, now.

--
Joel W. Crump

Amendment XIV
Section 1.

[...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of
life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.

Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent. States are
liable for denying needed abortions, e.g. TX.

candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
wrote:
>vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> wrote at 07:42 this Wednesday (GMT):
>>
>> Anyway, that's enough of my rambling. What is the arc of
>> *your* history with Linux?
>
>Well, it's pretty simplistic but:
>I was introduced to linux through a raspberry pi
>I installed popos on my computer
> and broke it so hard it became debian
>
>I installed popos on my new computer and it crashed while trying to run
>a steam proton game and corrupted the entire install
>
>I installed endeavour and broke it so hard that refused to boot
>Currently on debian
>
>I'm definitely forgetting some installs here but ti was like 8 years so

I purchased Red Hat 9 on CD-ROM, when I first tried installing Linux,
in 2003. Didn't have a bad experience, I was able to get my DSL modem
connected with PPPoE, and everything was good enough. But at the
time, I was more dependent on Winblows features, I guess. Today, with
openSUSE, I find some barriers but they don't really matter much, I
can do my stuff with it, and I have no impetus to replace it with
another distro.

--
Joel W. Crump

Amendment XIV
Section 1.

[...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of
life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.

Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent. States are
liable for denying needed abortions, e.g. TX.

On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 07:54:51 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

> rbowman wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>
>> On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 07:59:57 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>>
>>> My mind, unfortunately, is littered with stuff like the meaning of
>>> LSMFT and the song to the tune of "When Johnny Comes Marching Home":
>>
>> Loose Straps Mean Floppy Tits.
>
> Reminds me of an early black-n-white GIF we called "Dual Floppies".
>
> Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco

So they would have you believe but we knew better.

https://kimsloans.wordpress.com/2017/12/17/lsmft-means/

The internet has let me down and I can't find a clip of the tobacco
auctioneer's spiel that ended with "Sold! American!" My parents got
together with my aunt and uncle about every Saturday night. Much beer
(men) and Four Roses (women) flowed and by the time The Hit Parade cames
on comments about the relative merits of Dorothy Collins and Giselle
Mackenzie could get heated.

I started smoking late, in my '20s, when I was stressed out for various
reasons. I was in the break room at a plant in Ontario when someone
offered my an Export. There was an Export A variant that was filtered but
these weren't. Back in the states I preferred Luckies although a Camel
would do in a pinch. In desperate straights one of my girl friend's Mores
would do. The brand was aimed at women, but was 120 mm long with a dark
brown wrapper and might have been one of the deadlier filters on the
market.

One day I was at work and my lead girl (PC translation: female head
technician) asked me for a cigarette. I gave her the pack and told her to
keep them and that was it. I didn't have a problem with nicotine
withdrawal only the situational habits. Everybody smoked everywhere. Stop
to talk to someone in the shop and you lit up, get a cup of coffee, light
up. and so forth.

It was a good time to quit. iirc a pack of Luckies from a machine was 35
cents and you weren't a social pariah. Even with inflation I can't believe
what a pack costs today.

On 2024-08-20 1:50 p.m., candycanearter07 wrote:
> vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> wrote at 07:42 this Wednesday (GMT):
>> A very noisy person crawled out of my killfile to post his
>> "Linux origin story", which can be dated with the following
>> factoid:
>>
>> "The first release of Mandrake was based on Red Hat
>> Linux (version 5.1) and K Desktop Environment 1 in July 1998."
>>
>> Six years earlier, I had a student-access Linux host running
>> at the community college where I worked (student worker) and
>> studied. The system, "Nermal", was developed over 1992 as part
>> of my "Special Studies in Computer Science" course
>> which I applied for, and was allowed to take. Our campus was one
>> of three community colleges in California that had just attached to the
>> Internet, so this was a way for students to have email and a shell
>> host -- a big deal in 1992.
>>
>> Indeed, I found and old Xenix system that had an 8-port serial
>> card, which would run with Linux's serial drivers with only
>> slight driver modification. With a small rack of 8 - 2400bps
>> modems, students could dial in.
>>
>> Not too much later, I was weary of being a "starving student",
>> and went to work at the campus full-time in Computing Services.
>>
>> As the student-access system, "Nermal", got more an more popular, a black
>> market in student id's cropped up. (Student id's were part of the signup
>> process.) A good friend reasoned that if non-students were willing to pay
>> for black market id's, they would probably prefer to pay for a legitimate
>> service.
>>
>> He and I did some cost accounting and determined what we would
>> need to charge, and so forth, for us to get our own leased-line
>> for Internet connectivity. This included a subscription through
>> PageSAT for Usenet delivered via satellite. We formed a
>> partnership, and opened our doors in 1994. Part of our
>> initial development was selecting the OS for our system...we
>> tried a few, and ended up back with Linux, which has
>> scaled well for our needs.
>>
>> We're still in business, God willing and the creeks don't rise.
>>
>> Our flagship product now is 10Gbit fiber-to-the-home.
>>
>> https://www.pcmag.com/news/the-fastest-isps-of-2022
>>
>> I am privileged to be associated with this amazing group of people,
>> now numbering over 750 (last time I did a count, it's probably much
>> more than that now). And on this 30th anniversary of our business,
>> I made sure to let Dad -- a retired telecom tech from the government
>> sector -- know that his wisdom is one reason for our success: He
>> taught me (us) that if something goes wrong, we tell people straight-up
>> what happened, and what we're doing to prevent it in the future.
>>
>> We used to keep our status blog (our "MOTD", Message of the Day)
>> front-and-center on our home page -- and sometimes, it's
>> been really, really hard to write those MOTD entries. I've
>> had my fair share of screwups, as well as others.
>> (I've almost decided to write a book, working title:
>> _My Life with Linux Screwups_. There's been some doozies...)
>>
>> Anyway, that's enough of my rambling. What is the arc of
>> *your* history with Linux?
>
>
> Well, it's pretty simplistic but:
> I was introduced to linux through a raspberry pi
> I installed popos on my computer
> and broke it so hard it became debian
>
> I installed popos on my new computer and it crashed while trying to run
> a steam proton game and corrupted the entire install
>
> I installed endeavour and broke it so hard that refused to boot
> Currently on debian
>
> I'm definitely forgetting some installs here but ti was like 8 years so

It sounds like your experience with Linux is rather typical. :)

--
CrudeSausage
Catholic, paleoconservative, Christ is king

On 8/19/24 14:17, rbowman wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 06:02:20 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
>
>> Seeing some mouth-breather jihadist stabbing multiple people and killing
>> three children can have that effect on you.
>
> It's like kids testing their parents. Push, push, push and when Mom
> finally goes off the deep end they innocently say "What did I do?"
>
> It used to be Mom grabbing Dad's belt; today they're taking the chance Mom
> will drive the family SUV down a boat ramp.
>
> https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/susan-smith-mother-who-killed-kids-
> something-went-very-wrong-n397051
>
> https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1376427/LaShanda-Armstrong-
> drives-3-children-Hudson-River.html
>

She'd make a good republican senator for her state.

Prove you can kill kids and AIPAC is all yours.

On Sun, 18 Aug 2024 09:02:01 -0500, chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote
in <kqu3cjhtnjg05mgkaaae183615qktsitkq@4ax.com>:

> Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>
>>LMAO at all these weirdos afraid of "woke" and "LBGQT..." :-D
>
> Nothing funny about leftist weirdos indoctrinating children into their
> cult.
>
> "Let's 'normalize' perverted men dressed up as caricatures of women."

Since you ladies are shitting all over a perfectly good thread:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI_lUHOCcbc

Trailer for _Some Like It Hot_, 1959.

And yes, Tony Curtis was gay.

ObLinux:

$ uname -a
Linux lm 6.11.0-rc4 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sun Aug 18 19:33:44 PDT 2024
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

--
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OS: Linux 6.11.0-rc4 Release: Mint 21.3 Mem: 258G
"Murphy is out there... waiting..."

On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 08:03:27 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
wrote in <v9vcaf$2r7p4$11@dont-email.me>:

> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote this copyrighted missive and expects
> royalties:
>
>> On Sun, 18 Aug 2024 09:35:52 -0400, DFS wrote:
>>
>>> On 8/16/2024 9:11 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, 16 Aug 2024 17:03:55 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> In reality, both Windows and most Linux distributions come with what
>>>>> they decided was best for you.
>>>>
>>>> Windows doesn’t have the concept of third-party repos (e.g. “PPAs” in
>>>> the Ubuntu world), Linux does.
>>>
>>> You never heard of chocolatey?
>
> https://chocolatey.org/#pricing
>
> Simple Pricing That Scales Chocolatey for Business Annual
> Subscription Prices
>
> $8,300*/year
>
> 500-1,999 Nodes at $16.60 Per Node
>
> LMAO (this laugh's for you, RonB [I :-D because *I* am a happy guy])

I guess they took the idea of the Linux package manager and monetized
the hell out of it. SMH.

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rbowman wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 07:54:51 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>
>> rbowman wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>>
>>> On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 07:59:57 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>>>
>>>> My mind, unfortunately, is littered with stuff like the meaning of
>>>> LSMFT and the song to the tune of "When Johnny Comes Marching Home":
>>>
>>> Loose Straps Mean Floppy Tits.
>>
>> Reminds me of an early black-n-white GIF we called "Dual Floppies".
>>
>> Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco
>
> So they would have you believe but we knew better.
>
> https://kimsloans.wordpress.com/2017/12/17/lsmft-means/
>
> The internet has let me down and I can't find a clip of the tobacco
> auctioneer's spiel that ended with "Sold! American!" My parents got
> together with my aunt and uncle about every Saturday night. Much beer
> (men) and Four Roses (women) flowed and by the time The Hit Parade cames
> on comments about the relative merits of Dorothy Collins and Giselle
> Mackenzie could get heated.
>
> I started smoking late, in my '20s, when I was stressed out for various
> reasons. I was in the break room at a plant in Ontario when someone
> offered my an Export. There was an Export A variant that was filtered but
> these weren't. Back in the states I preferred Luckies although a Camel
> would do in a pinch. In desperate straights one of my girl friend's Mores
> would do. The brand was aimed at women, but was 120 mm long with a dark
> brown wrapper and might have been one of the deadlier filters on the
> market.
>
> One day I was at work and my lead girl (PC translation: female head
> technician) asked me for a cigarette. I gave her the pack and told her to
> keep them and that was it. I didn't have a problem with nicotine
> withdrawal only the situational habits. Everybody smoked everywhere. Stop
> to talk to someone in the shop and you lit up, get a cup of coffee, light
> up. and so forth.
>
> It was a good time to quit. iirc a pack of Luckies from a machine was 35
> cents and you weren't a social pariah. Even with inflation I can't believe
> what a pack costs today.

I never did more than bum a butt when drunk, or light up a cigar.

My bad habit is craft beer.

Oh, my other bad habit is Linux!

--
You will gain money by an immoral action.

On Wed, 21 Aug 2024 07:56:15 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
wrote in <va4kkv$3r48o$9@dont-email.me>:

> rbowman wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>
>> On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 07:54:51 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>>
>>> rbowman wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 07:59:57 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> My mind, unfortunately, is littered with stuff like the meaning of
>>>>> LSMFT and the song to the tune of "When Johnny Comes Marching Home":
>>>>
>>>> Loose Straps Mean Floppy Tits.
>>>
>>> Reminds me of an early black-n-white GIF we called "Dual Floppies".
>>>
>>> Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco
>>
>> So they would have you believe but we knew better.
>>
>> https://kimsloans.wordpress.com/2017/12/17/lsmft-means/
>>
>> The internet has let me down and I can't find a clip of the tobacco
>> auctioneer's spiel that ended with "Sold! American!" My parents got
>> together with my aunt and uncle about every Saturday night. Much beer
>> (men) and Four Roses (women) flowed and by the time The Hit Parade
>> cames on comments about the relative merits of Dorothy Collins and
>> Giselle Mackenzie could get heated.
>>
>> I started smoking late, in my '20s, when I was stressed out for various
>> reasons. I was in the break room at a plant in Ontario when someone
>> offered my an Export. There was an Export A variant that was filtered
>> but these weren't. Back in the states I preferred Luckies although a
>> Camel would do in a pinch. In desperate straights one of my girl
>> friend's Mores would do. The brand was aimed at women, but was 120 mm
>> long with a dark brown wrapper and might have been one of the deadlier
>> filters on the market.
>>
>> One day I was at work and my lead girl (PC translation: female head
>> technician) asked me for a cigarette. I gave her the pack and told her
>> to keep them and that was it. I didn't have a problem with nicotine
>> withdrawal only the situational habits. Everybody smoked everywhere.
>> Stop to talk to someone in the shop and you lit up, get a cup of
>> coffee, light up. and so forth.
>>
>> It was a good time to quit. iirc a pack of Luckies from a machine was
>> 35 cents and you weren't a social pariah. Even with inflation I can't
>> believe what a pack costs today.
>
> I never did more than bum a butt when drunk, or light up a cigar.
>
> My bad habit is craft beer.
>
> Oh, my other bad habit is Linux!

And another habit we both have: Usenet.

ObLinux:

Just got hailo(1) running using ~/.local installations of perl
modules with cpan(1).

$ perldoc hailo

NAME
hailo - Command-line interface to the Hailo Markov bot

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OS: Linux 6.11.0-rc4 Release: Mint 21.3 Mem: 258G
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On 8/21/2024 4:40 AM, vallor wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 08:03:27 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
> wrote in <v9vcaf$2r7p4$11@dont-email.me>:
>
>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote this copyrighted missive and expects
>> royalties:
>>
>>> On Sun, 18 Aug 2024 09:35:52 -0400, DFS wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 8/16/2024 9:11 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, 16 Aug 2024 17:03:55 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> In reality, both Windows and most Linux distributions come with what
>>>>>> they decided was best for you.
>>>>>
>>>>> Windows doesn’t have the concept of third-party repos (e.g. “PPAs” in
>>>>> the Ubuntu world), Linux does.
>>>>
>>>> You never heard of chocolatey?
>>
>> https://chocolatey.org/#pricing
>>
>> Simple Pricing That Scales Chocolatey for Business Annual
>> Subscription Prices
>>
>> $8,300*/year
>>
>> 500-1,999 Nodes at $16.60 Per Node
>>
>> LMAO (this laugh's for you, RonB [I :-D because *I* am a happy guy])
>
> I guess they took the idea of the Linux package manager and monetized
> the hell out of it. SMH.

I guess Linux took the idea of the Unix package manager and didn't
monetize it. SMH.

CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote at 20:29 this Tuesday (GMT):
> On 2024-08-20 1:50 p.m., candycanearter07 wrote:
>> vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> wrote at 07:42 this Wednesday (GMT):
[snip]
>>> Anyway, that's enough of my rambling. What is the arc of
>>> *your* history with Linux?
>>
>>
>> Well, it's pretty simplistic but:
>> I was introduced to linux through a raspberry pi
>> I installed popos on my computer
>> and broke it so hard it became debian
>>
>> I installed popos on my new computer and it crashed while trying to run
>> a steam proton game and corrupted the entire install
>>
>> I installed endeavour and broke it so hard that refused to boot
>> Currently on debian
>>
>> I'm definitely forgetting some installs here but ti was like 8 years so
>
> It sounds like your experience with Linux is rather typical. :)

Good to know :)
--
user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

On 21 Aug 2024 08:35:17 GMT, vallor wrote:

> Since you ladies are shitting all over a perfectly good thread:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI_lUHOCcbc
>
> Trailer for _Some Like It Hot_, 1959.
>
> And yes, Tony Curtis was gay.

The movie was a comedy. Curtis figures out he was gay after 6 wives and 6
kids and criticizing 'Brokeback Mountain'? I'll admit when I re-watched
'The Vikings' in later years I thought the character he played was a
little strange. Perhaps your gaydar works better than mine. I didn't even
know one of my nephews was gay until my cousin clued me in.

On Wed, 21 Aug 2024 07:56:15 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

> I never did more than bum a butt when drunk, or light up a cigar.

Ah, Garcia y Vega Coronas... My mentor smoked them so I followed suit at
times. At least they were better than Wolfe's Rum Soaked Crooks or the
Parodi cat turds the mechanical engineer smoked.

I tried pipes too but they always smelled better when somebody else was
smoking them.

On 21 Aug 2024 12:09:03 GMT, vallor wrote:

> ObLinux:
>
> Just got hailo(1) running using ~/.local installations of perl modules
> with cpan(1).

I've put bad habits like butts and booze behind me -- and that includes
Perl.

On 21 Aug 2024 20:08:36 GMT, rbowman wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Aug 2024 07:56:15 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>
>> I never did more than bum a butt when drunk, or light up a cigar.
>
> Ah, Garcia y Vega Coronas... My mentor smoked them so I followed suit at
> times. At least they were better than Wolfe's Rum Soaked Crooks or the
> Parodi cat turds the mechanical engineer smoked.
>
> I tried pipes too but they always smelled better when somebody else was
> smoking them.

How many did you stuff up your fucking asshole?

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

It's sort of like a tobacco tampon.

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

--
Systemd: solving all the problems that you never knew you had.

On 21 Aug 2024 20:09:54 GMT, rbowman wrote:

>
> I've put bad habits like ...
>

Like stuffing foreign objects up your fucking asshole.

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

--
Systemd: solving all the problems that you never knew you had.

Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> wrote:
>On 21 Aug 2024 20:08:36 GMT, rbowman wrote:
>> On Wed, 21 Aug 2024 07:56:15 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>>
>>> I never did more than bum a butt when drunk, or light up a cigar.
>>
>> Ah, Garcia y Vega Coronas... My mentor smoked them so I followed suit at
>> times. At least they were better than Wolfe's Rum Soaked Crooks or the
>> Parodi cat turds the mechanical engineer smoked.
>>
>> I tried pipes too but they always smelled better when somebody else was
>> smoking them.
>
>How many did you stuff up your fucking asshole?
>
>Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
>
>It's sort of like a tobacco tampon.
>
>Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

I bet rbowman could kick your ass.

--
Joel W. Crump

Amendment XIV
Section 1.

[...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of
life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.

Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent. States are
liable for denying needed abortions, e.g. TX.

I regret not starting a hookah bar,
complete with fully reclining, vibrating chairs,
Istanbul baked potatos (kumpir) & a Turkish bath (Hammam).

On 8/21/2024 4:35 AM, vallor wrote:

> Tony Curtis was gay.

He wasn't. But I'm thinking you might be.

On 2024-08-21, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
> On 21 Aug 2024 08:35:17 GMT, vallor wrote:
>
>
>> Since you ladies are shitting all over a perfectly good thread:
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI_lUHOCcbc
>>
>> Trailer for _Some Like It Hot_, 1959.
>>
>> And yes, Tony Curtis was gay.
>
> The movie was a comedy. Curtis figures out he was gay after 6 wives and 6
> kids and criticizing 'Brokeback Mountain'? I'll admit when I re-watched
> 'The Vikings' in later years I thought the character he played was a
> little strange. Perhaps your gaydar works better than mine. I didn't even
> know one of my nephews was gay until my cousin clued me in.

In his biography "American Prince" he talks about having to avoid powerful
and predatory homosexual men in Hollywood. Apparently, besides the six
marriages and six kids, he had affairs with many women. So he certainly
wasn't "completely gay."

--
Look for the vacuosities, empty Woke stupidities
Forget about your worries and your strife
I mean the vacuosities
That's why the Woke can rest at ease
With just the vacuosities of life

On Thu, 22 Aug 2024 00:34:46 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:

> In his biography "American Prince" he talks about having to avoid
> powerful and predatory homosexual men in Hollywood. Apparently, besides
> the six marriages and six kids, he had affairs with many women. So he
> certainly wasn't "completely gay."

Making that assumption on the basis of one comedy doesn't hold water.
Lemmon also was in drag for most of the movie. If anything Curtis had a
wider range of roles in his career than Lemmon who often would up as 'Mr.
Nice Guy who everybody walks on' like in 'The Apartment'.

On 22 Aug 2024 02:47:58 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote in
<linn6uFdn7rU1@mid.individual.net>:

> On Thu, 22 Aug 2024 00:34:46 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
>
>> In his biography "American Prince" he talks about having to avoid
>> powerful and predatory homosexual men in Hollywood. Apparently, besides
>> the six marriages and six kids, he had affairs with many women. So he
>> certainly wasn't "completely gay."
>
> Making that assumption on the basis of one comedy doesn't hold water.
> Lemmon also was in drag for most of the movie. If anything Curtis had a
> wider range of roles in his career than Lemmon who often would up as
> 'Mr.
> Nice Guy who everybody walks on' like in 'The Apartment'.

I stand corrected, I was probably thinking of Rock Hudson.

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On 21 Aug 2024 08:35:17 GMT, vallor wrote:

> And yes, Tony Curtis was gay.

But he never said “Yonda lies da Castle of my Fadda”.