Best E-mails of the Week 06/13/04.
Gerry,
Naples
Pete
Let me know if any of these guesses were correct
Oh well, 2 1/2 out of five ain't bad!
There is a 3.5meg car ad video loading after the next picture.
It will take some time even with broadband.
It is not for the faint of heart,
but for those of you who like scary surprises, leave your speakers on
This is strange...can you figure it out? Are you the 2% or 98% of the population? Follow the instructions! NO PEEKING AHEAD! * Do the following exercise, guaranteed to raise an eyebrow. * There's no trick or surprise. * Just follow these instructions, and answer the questions one at a time and as quickly as
you
can! until you've done each of them really.
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Now, scroll down (but not too fast, you might miss something.)
the 2% of the population whose minds are different enough to think of something else.. 98% of people will answer with kangaroos in Denmark when given this exercise.
What about Dominican Republic, cougar and raspberry? Or Djibouti, Iguana and apricot? |
I received a Wetlands permit for a stream crossing on our new property for sale.
Here's one I did not design!
Here's the video. Turn your sound on if you like surprises.
The back offices where Best Emails are published each week has been redesigned
so employees believe they are on vacation at the beach
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/13/opinion/13SUN3.html
Seriously now, two weeks ago, I showed you a picture of my history club friends.This week they are mentioned in today's New York Times Editorial.I also had a wonderful conversation with the Times reporter about this on Monday, and a five minute chat with David Rockefeller about the original Hamilton Burr pistols locked up in the Chase Manhattan Bank vault. Last month, it was Richard Dreyfus sitting next to me chatting about Thomas Jefferson! I'm so excited about the reenactment coming up in one month! The Blood of Hamilton and Burr
EEHAWKEN, N.J. Modern New Yorkers can smile at the notion of having to journey to New Jersey in order to defend one's honor. But that's the way life and death was two centuries ago when dueling was forbidden in Gotham but tolerated in this rustic outpost just across the Hudson. Dozens of alpha males rowed across with pistols and attendants, with at least six of them succumbing in lethal grudge matches at the water's edge. Weehawken became famous for one of those riverfront showdowns — the duel in which Aaron Burr mortally wounded Alexander Hamilton, leaving the loser with barely enough life to make it back across the river and die closer to home in Greenwich Village. The animus endured across two centuries of one-sided commemorations lauding Hamilton as a victim of Burr's villainy. But not this year. With the 200th anniversary of the July 11 duel approaching, a grand buzz about history and reconciliation is under way. Weehawken, now a flinty hamlet aswirl in the serpentine clutches of Lincoln Tunnel traffic, is preparing for a more evenhanded re-enactment. Descendants of Alexander Hamilton have always been invited to take part, one of them standing in for the unlucky former Treasury secretary. But in a grand break with tradition, family descendants from the Aaron Burr Association have been graciously invited to take part, too. In fact, one of them will play the part of his deadeye forebear. This balanced tableau was negotiated by the Weehawken Historical Commission and facilitated by recent scholarship underlining mutual provocations in the years of political and personal hostility between Hamilton and Burr. "We're in the middle ground, the dueling ground, and felt we could get both sides to work together," said Lauren Sherman, a member of the commission. Memory counts for a lot in Weehawken, where venerable old clifftop houses have long stared across the river at Manhattan's skyscrapered rise. The commission Web site exhibits unbiased charm in referring to Hamilton as a "slain politico" rather than, say, fallen founding father. "I very much favor ending the taboo on the Burr people," said Edward Fleckenstein, the reigning local historian, who has seen some bitter anniversaries across his 80-plus years. "This time, nobody will fall to the ground," Mr. Fleckenstein said, revealing the ultimate grace note. That's right, not even virtual death. Everyone wins next month when Weehawken takes aim at bad blood.
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Pete
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