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RGMike:
--- Quote from: Lightnin' Rod on March 28, 2016, 03:06:23 PM ---I haven't read Jon Carroll since he went behind the pay wall at the beginning of 2015, except for occasionally when I picked up the print version. Since he wasn't in the last print version I saw, I googled him - he retired in November.
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Wow -- shows how often I read a print Chron. Good luck and happy retirement to him!
Lightnin' Rod:
Here's a slightly off topic thing. I've recently noticed a rise in the use of "schadenfreude" in articles I've been reading on the net (mostly on Slate.com). For instance, "liberal shadenfreude" at the demise of the Rebuplican party at the hands of Donald Trump.
Now here's the thing: I just can't seem to add the word to my vocabulary! It just won't stick. I've looked it up in the distant past, the very recent past, and again today.
It's driving me crazy. Why can't I remember the meaning of this one freakin' word?
Maybe this should have gone in the "I'm trying to tell you something about my life" thread.
darryl:
This should help you remember:
Avenue Q - Schadenfreude
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XmZIcmRKkc
darryl:
Oof, audio in that is pretty bad.
Soundtrack version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCQGQ5qBQTA
Lyrics: http://genius.com/Avenue-q-schadenfreude-lyrics
--- Quote ---Nicky:
Oh. Schadenfreude, huh? What's that? Some kind of Nazi word?
Gary:
Yup. It's German for 'happiness at the misfortune of others'
Nicky:
'Happiness at the misfortune of others'
That is German!
Watching a vegetarian
Being told she just ate chicken
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dischead:
Out here in the hinterlands, a housemate has decided not to renew their subscription to
the Sunday Chronicle, as the price as risen to $5.75 a paper ($75 for 13 weeks), delivered.
They can still tootle out to the local convenience store and pick one up for $3.30, tax included.
What are people in, and closer to, the big city paying for Sunday Chronicle delivery?
I agreed that rate was pretty steep, given the same delivery person also handles the BANG
papers (Murky News, etc.), the NYT, and (I think) the WSJ -- so the presumably lower subscription
density shouldn't be a big factor.
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