Posted by MA_SA on 12/29/05 11:57am
Msg #85022

In Flight

I dont know if you all are aware of the geography of Massachusetts, but Nantucket is and island off the coast, about 30 miles out. Was asked to do a closing there, and initially said no due to the cost of the ferry....borrower agreed to fly me to the island. bought me a plane ticket and everything. It was so much fun i did it for my normal fee...

Reply by Mung/CA on 12/29/05 2:00pm
Msg #85064

Too cool! n/m

Reply by Tina_MA on 12/30/05 12:19pm
Msg #85299

No one's ever offered to fly me over to the islands. That's pretty neat.

What area's do you cover? I could probably refer signings to you.

Reply by BrendaTx on 12/30/05 5:14pm
Msg #85335

I am jealous. I visited Boston and went to Martha's Vineyard on the ferry. Mass is lovely. I felt totally empowered when I mastered the subway and was able to go to Harvard, MIT, back down town and find the hotel...walk over to the Hard Rock Cafe and meet my sister...find the park...the ducks and swans. We stayed at an old hotel downtown that was just beautiful. Everything seemed beautiful.

Because my sister wanted to see a Kennedy up close and personal, we rented a red convertible to drive to that place you catch the ferry, but to my dismay, first we went to the beach at Hyannisport. I thought we were dead meat...oh but she and my niece had their rude her paparazzi moment with one of the K. boys...Of course security swarmed and made us leave and my sister and niece got very "blond" and became "lost" little lambs.

My son and I were practically laying down in the seats to avoid worse humiliation. (He and I are not star struck, you know...I have convinced him we *are* stars. )

Reply by Tina_MA on 1/1/06 11:24pm
Msg #85549

LOL

Your ride in the convertible is too funny!

Can't stand the Kennedys myself. They're a bunch of rich communists/socialists -- who made all their money illegally off of booze. Fat Teddy is bastard and I wish he'd drown too. All they want to do is make more welfare and make us working stiffs pay more taxes -- like we don't pay enough in taxes as it is. So you can have the Kennedys. Take them to your state.

Wish I had some of their money though -- a whole lot of their money.

Reply by HisHughness on 1/1/06 11:47pm
Msg #85551

Tina MA bloviates:

***They're a bunch of rich communists/socialists -- who made all their money illegally off of booze. Fat Teddy is bastard and I wish he'd drown too. All they want to do is make more welfare and make us working stiffs pay more taxes -- like we don't pay enough in taxes as it is.***

I am always amazed, when I check in here, at the perceptiveness displayed by some members. Have you considered, Tina, soliciting a journal such as U.S. News & World Report for a post as a political columnist? Or maybe making contact with the publisher who I understand is planning an updated edition of "Mein Kamp?"

Reply by TitleGalCA on 1/2/06 12:13am
Msg #85556

Re: In Flight - Hugh

Thanks for bringing my attention to this and Ms. Tina's perceptions. I'll pay more attention to her posts from now on, and even less attention to the Kennedy's of Mass (and my mother's origin...much to my dismay and ever-weekly diatribes to me..the California Native Snot, her daughter).

Is there a word such as "bloviates"???? My word. You are a walking, talking (make that typing) thesaurus.

Reply by PAW_Fl on 1/2/06 7:43am
Msg #85579

Re: In Flight - Hugh

>>> Is there a word such as "bloviates"???? My word. You are a walking, talking (make that typing) thesaurus. <<<

Why, yes there is...

blo·vi·ate
intr.v. Slang blo·vi·at·ed, blo·vi·at·ing, blo·vi·ates

To discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner: “the rural Babbitt who bloviates about ‘progress’ and ‘growth’” (George Rebeck).

Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

Thesaurus information:

3 entries found for bloviate.

Main Entry: declaim
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: proclaim
Synonyms: attack, bloviate, declare, decry, denounce, harangue, hold forth, inveigh, lecture, mouth, orate, perorate, proclaim, rail, rant, recite, soapbox, speak, spiel, spout, talk big

Main Entry: rant
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: yell
Synonyms: bellow, bloviate, bluster, carry on, clamor, cry, declaim, fume, go on, harangue, huff, mouth, objurgate, orate, perorate, pop off, rag, rage, rail, rave, roar, scold, shout, sizzle, soapbox, sound off, spiel, spout, storm, stump, take on, vociferate

Main Entry: rave 1
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: talk
Synonyms: babble, be delirious, bloviate, carry on, come unglued, come unzipped, declaim, freak out, fume, gabble, go ape, go bananas, go crazy, go mad, harangue, jabber, mouth, orate, perorate, prate, prattle, rage, rail, rant, rattle on, roar, run amuck, soapbox, splutter, storm, talk wildly, thunder, wander

Source: Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.1.1)
Copyright © 2006 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. All rights reserved.

(Sorry, if I misunderstood your post and you meant it merely as a rhetorical question.)

Reply by TitleGalCA on 1/2/06 12:08pm
Msg #85612

Between you and Cali, Paul...

My grasp of the english language and words might actually improve to the point of error-free posts, gramatically. (oops)

But, I bloviate....

Reply by BrendaTx on 1/2/06 12:14pm
Msg #85615

TG: and, so does Bill O'Reilly...bloviate, I mean ...

Every night he says, "Send in your pithy comments, but no bloviating. That's *my* job."

I wonder if O'Reilly is a notary.

Reply by PAW_Fl on 1/2/06 12:15pm
Msg #85616

LOL (n/m)

Reply by BrendaTx on 1/2/06 12:30am
Msg #85562

Most assuredly, my sister nor myself, nor our conservative offspring are fans of the Kennedys.

My sister and her daughter just like to see famous people.

My son has a T-shirt that says "I see famous dead people."

I believe with all my heart that I *am* famous and I will not hear of otherwise.

Just be glad you did not encounter "The Texas Nutjob Family Tourists" that day.

Reply by TitleGalCA on 1/2/06 12:50am
Msg #85567

LOL, Brenda. I think I'm famous too. Where's my Lithium?

Reply by BrendaTx on 1/2/06 12:54am
Msg #85568

Re: LOL, Brenda. I think I'm famous too. Where's my Lithium?

*Where's my lithium?*

Exactly! If we cannot laugh at our dysfunctional selves...well...we are missing a dang good opportunity to indulge in free comedy!