Santa María de los Buenos Ayres, in the land of silver!.
(Buenos Aires, Argentina)
AC is extremely common.
The climate is usually temperate but January and February can be brutally hot, a problem exacerbated by the extreme humidity. With global climate change the climate is moving from temperate to subtropical (ugh).
Its leading away far from the pinball tournament.
We need to touch on the OP every so often to truly remember we are off topic! Won’t anyone comment on a prize?
Speaking of prizes, how about Trumps Nobel prize?
That’s worth less than the toilet paper.
Don’t you hate the sandpaper kind of TP that you usually encounter in public places? It’s invariably that or the kind which is super thin and falls apart in your hand.
Cheese of the month club?
A Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition?
Anything pinball related?
I’ve always wanted an author clock.
A DVD of the opera rock Tommy?
A pinball wizzard!
Another title or prize the temper tanTrump will never get.
An autographed picture of Elton John from the Tommy movie?
I watched that movie when I was 9 or so and ended up incredibly confused and scared (but not as confused and scared as when I saw Pink Floyd’s The Wall more or less at the same age)
In retrospect my parents seem to have been fumbling the ball a bit on age appropriate TV at that time
Tommy and The Wall were shown on the telly in Argentina? Wow. Not in Spain or Germany, not back then.
Every time I scroll by this thread title I get this song stuck in my head:
Nope, rented VHS.
Tommy was, I think, a mistake on the video rental store, classified as a children’s movie.
The Wall my parents rented to see with friends and did not forbid me to watch it with them.
Hate? The sandpaper aspect really helps on the removal of stubborn dingleberries. Just saying.
Bidets people, bidets, adopt civilized ways.
Civilized ways? Nothing beats Japanese toilets. Here, have a look:
https://www.totousa.com/products/toilets
That is civilized. And quite pleasant too.
ETA: That would be some first prize!
I’m unfamiliar with the celebration of Purim. Can someone tell me why it calls for a big party?
Same as every other Jewish holiday: they tried to kill us, we won, let’s eat.
Specifically in this case “they” are Haman, the advisor of the king of Persia; and they failed because Mordechai convinced his niece Esther to go to a party, marry the king, and ask him nicely not to kill her people.
And the specific thing you’re supposed to do at this party is get so drunk that you can’t remember which one was Mordechai and which one was Haman.
All this talk about Tommy leads to the crucial question: who was the better Acid Queen, Pete Townshend on the album or Tina Turner in the movie?
Woah that’s some civilization there, extremely advanced.