The Off Topic Topic

[DGuller]

Don't fuck with foul-mouthed Russian grandpas:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WPkESAMAMk&feature=youtu.be.

Was that a box of vodka? 

Russians are not savages.  That's juice.  The vodka is in her other hand.

[Liep]

Yeah, the mouth is a perfectly good mixer. Russian dashcams.

[DGuller]

IMO, the most amusing thing about this video is how grandpa's car radio provides a perfectly timed soundtrack to the events unfolding.

[Caliga]

Whoa.

Princesca was over at her father in law's house earlier and he casually whips this old letter out.  It was a letter Ernest Hemingway hand-wrote to her grandmother in 1952, on 'Hemingway' stationery and mailed from Cuba.  He had no idea it existed until she died in 2009 and he found it cleaning out her house.  He also seemed to be surprised when Princesca told her it might be worth something.

Her grandmother had a master's degree in English language education or something like that and for her final project had to write a biography on Hemingway, and on a lark after she wrote it she mailed it to him with a letter asking him if it was accurate or something like that.  He apparently took the time to read it, and then wrote her a long response.  I haven't read it yet but can only imagine how it must sound:

Dear Lily,

Thanks for your note.  It was nice.  I read your paper.  I liked it.  It was accurate.

Princesca said there's a paragraph in it about how he just finished a new book that was about to be published, and he hoped she'd read it and send him a review of it.  Given the timing he must have been talking about The Old Man And The Sea.

If I can convince my father in law to temporarily part with the letter, I'll scan it and post it.

[Ideologue]

She should have tried to convince him to part with it more permanently.  "Hemingway?  Who's that?  Nobody.  Let me see it.  Whatever.  I'll toss this for you."

[Caliga]

She should have tried to convince him to part with it more permanently.  "Hemingway?  Who's that?  Nobody.  Let me see it.  Whatever.  I'll toss this for you."

Unfortunately her dad was also a teacher.

[katmai]

Yeah but in Kentucky.

[Caliga]

Yeah but in Kentucky.

Touche.

[Josephus]

cool.

[11B4V]

[11B4V]

[Liep]

Whoa.

Princesca was over at her father in law's house earlier and he casually whips this old letter out.  It was a letter Ernest Hemingway hand-wrote to her grandmother in 1952, on 'Hemingway' stationery and mailed from Cuba.  He had no idea it existed until she died in 2009 and he found it cleaning out her house.  He also seemed to be surprised when Princesca told her it might be worth something.

Her grandmother had a master's degree in English language education or something like that and for her final project had to write a biography on Hemingway, and on a lark after she wrote it she mailed it to him with a letter asking him if it was accurate or something like that.  He apparently took the time to read it, and then wrote her a long response.  I haven't read it yet but can only imagine how it must sound:

Dear Lily,

Thanks for your note.  It was nice.  I read your paper.  I liked it.  It was accurate.

Princesca said there's a paragraph in it about how he just finished a new book that was about to be published, and he hoped she'd read it and send him a review of it.  Given the timing he must have been talking about The Old Man And The Sea.

If I can convince my father in law to temporarily part with the letter, I'll scan it and post it.

Nice.

[jimmy olsen]

Whoa.

This definitely seems worthy of a thread to me.

Way to much worthwhile stuff gets lost in here.

[Eddie Teach]

People who don't read the ott deserve to miss out. 

[CountDeMoney]

People who don't read the ott deserve to miss out. 

Amen.