[QUOTE=ewmayer;398847] to send e-mail to Jeff Bezos ... was expecting at best an auto-reply (but one still hopes a human reads the message), but whaddya know - while I didn't get a reply from the Big J himself, my suggestion actually got through and merited a non-boilerplate reply. (I deduce that from the 'ans'-instead-of-'and' typo, which is common in live mails, but not in canned ones) from a real human, or at least a damn good imitation of one. :)[/QUOTE] [URL="http://www.quora.com/Whats-it-like-to-receive-a-question-mark-e-mail-from-Jeff-Bezos-at-Amazon-company"]?[/URL]

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;398855][URL="http://www.quora.com/Whats-it-like-to-receive-a-question-mark-e-mail-from-Jeff-Bezos-at-Amazon-company"]?[/URL][/QUOTE]

Alas, Ms. Ross didn't clue me in on what got forwarded internally (don't I wish!)

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;398855][URL="http://www.quora.com/Whats-it-like-to-receive-a-question-mark-e-mail-from-Jeff-Bezos-at-Amazon-company"]?[/URL][/QUOTE]

No surprise that they treat their customer service people in ways analogous to the way they treat their fulfillment warehouse (contract) workers. I try to steer the items I order on my job to "other than Amazon" if it is plausible and defensible. In my personal purchases, I have no idea if MicroCenter and NewEgg are any better to their workers than Amazon.

[URL="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/04/07/398151455/stan-freberg-a-genius-of-american-advertising-dies"]Stan Freberg[/URL] :cry:

I was born too late to be around for his prime, but my father was a big vintage radio buff when I was growing up, so I got to enjoy hearing lots of his material as a young'un.

Missed this 4.13 passing at the time, until a friend forwarded the link below:

[url=http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-greatness-of-gunter-grass]The Greatness of Günter Grass[/url] - Salman Rushdie | The New Yorker

I read [i]Die Blechtrommel[/i] in the original, but have not got round to the later works ([i]"Aufstand"[/i], [i]Der Butt[/i]). I shall have to add them to my reading list.

Margaret Morgan.

At 89.8 had a better memory than most of those a quarter her age....

[QUOTE=chalsall;401783]Margaret Morgan.

At 89.8 had a better memory than most of those a quarter her age....[/QUOTE]

Grace Lee Whitney.

[URL="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0856050/"]Nigel Terry[/URL], best known for his role as Arthur in [URL="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082348"]Excalibur[/URL]

[QUOTE=rogue;401799][URL="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0856050/"]Nigel Terry[/URL], best known for his role as Arthur in [URL="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082348"]Excalibur[/URL][/QUOTE]

Thoroughly enjoyable but also definitely cheese-festy movie with an in-retrospect loaded-with-names (many of the 'before they were famous worldwide' variety) cast and a fabulous soundtrack (mostly courtesy of some obscure artsy-fartsy German dude, I think "Dick Wagner" was his name despite the fact he was actually fairly lean) ... reminds me in many ways of another 80s film, the Mel-Gibson/Anthony-Hopkins-starring [i]The Bounty[/i]. (The soundtrack for the latter is also excellent, but of a very different variety than that for [i]Excalibur[/i].)

Anyhow, [i]Excalibur[/i] just got bumped to top of the quasi-random-DVD-selection-for-saturday-night queue.

I wonder to what extent perceptions of the movie may have been influenced by its having been released just a few short years after [i]Monty Python and the Holy Grail[/i]. "Listen -- Strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government!"

[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.B._King]Riley B. "B.B." King[/url], age 89.

I wonder if they'll bury him with Lucille?

[QUOTE=ewmayer;402322][URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.B._King"]Riley B. "B.B." King[/URL], age 89.

I wonder if they'll bury him with Lucille?[/QUOTE]

:cry: RIP Mr King.