[QUOTE=LaurV;395483]Happy Birthday man! We wish you will be here with us when Dubslow will turn 62, too :smile:[/QUOTE]

Kind thought! Thanks, man! :blush:

So it's still 2 years until you're 40 (in hexadecimal).
Happy Birthday! :smile:

[QUOTE=kladner;395477]I am turning 62 today. But I lack chunks of popular culture. I may actually have seen at least parts of Jason et al. I have a younger friend who berates me for not watching more movies. I have seen quite a few real classics (as in, 40s,) but more recent hits may be a blank to me. My scraping around for the correct myth was caused by an imperfect memory of Edith Hamilton. :smile:[/QUOTE]

Belated happy birthday! Had me fooled - must be your youthful-looking avatar, or something.

Thanks to all!

Good ones, Nick and Ernst.

[URL]http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/its-the-little-lies-that-torpedo-the-news-stars--as-brian-williams-has-found-to-his-cost-last-week-10046685.html[/URL]
[QUOTE]Brian Williams’s vainglorious boasting looks likes destroying his career, but those who purvey the most destructive lies in the media will seldom be identified or punished.[/QUOTE]

Happy belated birthday Kieran. (Is that how you spell it?)

[QUOTE=garo;395700]Happy belated birthday Kieran. (Is that how you spell it?)[/QUOTE]

Thanks! It is actually "Kieren". Why my parents chose that atypical spelling is beyond me. Your spelling is nearly universal, in my experience.

[QUOTE=kladner;395722]Thanks! It is actually "Kieren". Why my parents chose that atypical spelling is beyond me. Your spelling is nearly universal, in my experience.[/QUOTE]

Aside from other variants such as [url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001354/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm]Ciaran[/url], you mean. ;)

[QUOTE=ewmayer;395785]Aside from other variants such as [URL="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001354/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm"]Ciaran[/URL], you mean. ;)[/QUOTE]

Ah! An originalist! (Perhaps with Scottish leanings. The Irish version has an accent on the second "a".)
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciar%C3%A1n[/url]

I had never know that "Kerry" was derived from my name.

Bonfire of the pansies
 

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;395551][URL]http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/its-the-little-lies-that-torpedo-the-news-stars--as-brian-williams-has-found-to-his-cost-last-week-10046685.html[/URL][QUOTE]Brian Williams’s vainglorious boasting looks likes destroying his career, but those who purvey the most destructive lies in the media will seldom be identified or punished.[/QUOTE][/QUOTE]
Added: The article linked above by Xyzzy makes a valid point:
[QUOTE]The reasons why media confessions of culpability tend to focus on minor sins is obvious. Persistent self-laceration over serious crimes of misreporting would cause real damage to a publication’s or television channel’s credibility while a deftly handled apology may enhance it. Thus The New York Times devoted two pages to a blow by blow account of plagiarism and misreporting by Jayson Blair in 2003 that damaged nobody, but it was May 2004 before The New York Times’ editors’ critique of their paper’s WMD coverage appeared – and was buried on page 10. It is worth re-reading The New York Times’s public editor’s acerbic comment on the affair saying that some “stories pushed Pentagon assertions so aggressively you could almost sense epaulets sprouting on the shoulders of the editors”. Glad that doesn’t happen any more.[/QUOTE][URL="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/02/bill-oreilly-brian-williams-falklands-war"]Bill O'Reilly Has His Own Brian Williams Problem[/URL]
The Fox News host has said he was in a "war zone" that apparently no American correspondent reached.
[QUOTE]O'Reilly has repeatedly told his audience that he was a war correspondent during the Falklands war and that he experienced combat during that 1982 conflict between England and Argentina. He has often invoked this experience to emphasize that he understands war as only someone who has witnessed it could. As he once put it, "I've been there. That's really what separates me from most of these other bloviators. I bloviate, but I bloviate about stuff I've seen. They bloviate about stuff that they haven't."[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=only_human;395906]Added: The article linked above by Xyzzy makes a valid point:
[URL="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/02/bill-oreilly-brian-williams-falklands-war"]Bill O'Reilly Has His Own Brian Williams Problem[/URL]
The Fox News host has said he was in a "war zone" that apparently no American correspondent reached.[/QUOTE]

Wow! Bill O'Reilly is a serial liar? :shock: Whoda thunk it?