"O Brother, Where Art Thou?"

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The Simpsons Season 6 Episode 5

Sideshow Bob Roberts

Aired Sunday 8:00 PM Oct 09, 1994 on FOX

Quotes


Lisa: I can't believe a convicted felon would get so many votes and another convicted felon would get so few.










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The Seattle Times


Wednesday, December 27, 2000

Bush retreats to exclusive playground

By Mike Clary

The Associated Press

BOCA GRANDE, Fla.--When the Astors, Vanderbilts and du Ponts vacationed here, they traveled in luxurious private rail cars that chugged into the depot in the center of town.

When President-elect George W. Bush and his extended family came yesterday, they arrived in a motorcade that seemed almost as long as the island itself.

For America's aristocracy, the allure of Boca Grande has always been the same: a winter getaway featuring golf, tennis and privacy.

"Great to be here. Glad to be with my family," Bush shouted to about 200 locals and tourists who waited outside his hotel to see the president-elect and his parents, former President Bush and Barbara, join several dozen other family members for a holiday reunion on this tiny barrier island on Florida's Gulf Coast.

Asked what he planned to do first, Bush replied with a grin: "Have fun."

A playground for the wealthy

This exclusive retreat has been a winter playground for America's wealthy since sunny weather and trophy-sized tarpon grabbed the attention of eastern bluebloods soon after the turn of the 19th century. Descendants of many of those pioneers of industry and banking still have homes here.

This is Bush's first visit to Florida since the election recount. Although he made no mention of that as he waved to well-wishers at the 1913 Gasparilla Inn, younger brother Jeb did. "He should be grateful for Florida, absolutely," the Florida governor said as he strolled outside the hotel.

Although this is no ordinary small town--a modest three-bedroom clapboard home with a tin roof and a waterfront view can go for upward of $1 million--it is the kind of place where on family vacations in years past the Bushes have been known to duck down the street for a pizza at Jam's Italian restaurant or stop at the Loose Caboose for an ice-cream cone.

"The is one of the few places in the U.S. where they could do this," said Gary Dutery, editor of the weekly Boca Beacon. "It's a small town surrounded on four sides by water."

Translated from the Spanish, Boca Grande means Big Mouth, but that is believed to have a connotation less political than geographic. The island sits at the mouth of a wide opening to Charlotte Harbor, a natural deep-water port.

Town began as fishing village

The picturesque town was founded as a fishing village, prospered through much of the last century as a port for ships loaded with phosphate from nearby mines, then became an upscale winter retreat. Much of its social life is centered at the Gasparilla Inn, owned by Bush family friend and duPont heir Bayard Sharp. He is hosting the president-elect and about 60 family members, including brothers Neil and Marvin and sister Doro.

Aides insisted Bush's planned two-night stay here is chiefly for relaxation. No press briefings are scheduled. But with several Cabinet positions to be filled, Bush is expected to be in close telephone contact with advisers. He is also sure to be in touch with his wife, Laura. She remained in Austin with daughter Jenna, who underwent emergency surgery for an appendectomy Monday. Jenna's twin, Barbara, is here. The arrival of dozens of Secret Service agents, county sheriff's deputies and Florida Highway Patrol officers, is a disruption in a village of 800 residents. It is the family's third consecutive Christmas-week visit.

The beat reporters who normally cover the president are headquartered in Forters, across the bay. That left much of the responsibility for covering the first-family-in-waiting to Dutery. With only one full-time reporter, the editor handed a disposable camera and a two-way radio to two 14-year-olds--his son Chris and Chris's friend Scott Pinkham--and instructed them to call if they spotted any Bushes out and about.

"That's how I happened to be there for a picture of Jeb," said Dutery, a onetime city editor in York, Pa. "And then we got W. when he arrived, too."










JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Saturday, October 27, 2007


I took note of that announcement from South Carolina because Microsoft Corporation had just transported me from Rock Hill, South Carolina, for that 12/7/1998 start date for my job. Absolutely every aspect of that employment in the Microsoft Bellevue office was arranged by Microsoft. A Microsoft employee contacted me to ask if I wanted to go to work at Microsoft and then Microsoft arranged the interview process. A few years later, as I was still working there at Microsoft Corporation with my official United States federal undercover identity and Microsoft re-issued those security badges. I remember that well because they had a guy named Clarence, who was from Hawaii, sitting directly across the aisle from me in another cubicle and he was one of the people I heard spreading rumors that I was a U.S. Navy SEAL, which I denied. I remember when got that new Microsoft security badge, it had the same photo that was taken of me on 12/7/1998, but it was re-issued with a red smudge on my forehead.


[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 27 October 2007 excerpt ends]










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Springfield! Springfield!


O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)


Pete, the personal rancor
reflected in that remark...
I don't intend to dignify
with comment.
But I would like to address
your general attitude...
of hopeless negativism.
Consider the lilies
of the goddamn field.
Or, hell, take a look
at Delmar here...
as your paradigm of hope.
Yeah. Look at me.
Now, you may call it
an unreasoning optimism.
You may call it obtuse...
but the plain and simple fact
is that we got close to...
Dam that river.
Is this a road to ltta Bena?
Uh...
Itta Bena?
Itta Bena?
Isn't that...
Isn't that, uh...
Stay on this here road.
Nah, that ain't right.
I was thinking of, uh...
Take this road...
Nah, nah, nah,
that ain't right.
It seems to me
there's a road...
cow road that used to
lead all the way...
Well, most of the way.
That ain't right, either.
Hop on in while you
give it a think.
Right. Delmar.
Any of you
boys know your way...
around a Walther P.P. K?










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Sir Donald Coleman Bailey

Sir Donald Coleman Bailey, (born Sept. 15, 1901, Rotherham, Yorkshire, Eng.—died May 5, 1985, Bournemouth, Dorset), British engineer who invented the Bailey bridge, which was of great military value in World War II.

After graduating from the University of Sheffield, Bailey worked for a time in railroading, but then in 1929 he joined the staff of the Experimental Bridging Establishment of the Ministry of Supply. When World War II broke out, he had already developed an idea for a military bridge, and in late 1940, at a conference on the problem of providing temporary spans capable of taking heavy loading, his concept of a strong but relatively light steel truss that could be prefabricated in sections was at once approved. The characteristics of the Bailey bridge were standardization and simplicity of panels, readiness of assembly in the field, capacity for additional strengthening by doubling or tripling the truss girders, and adaptability to long spans










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O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

Release Info

USA 22 December 2000 (limited)



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