blacklisted

"If there's a blank day on my calendar, I feel that I've failed, that it's all over."
- Joan Rivers [1933-2014] whom Johnny Carson [1925-2005] banned from the Tonight Show and all ancillary  programs like Late Night with David Letterman [born 1947] for launching her own talk show.

the absurd

“We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?”

– Jean Cocteau [1889-1963]

abstract artist

“You can be very wild and still be very wise.”– Yoko Ono

“You can be very wild and still be very wise.”– Yoko Ono

"You can be very wild and still be very wise."
- Yoko Ono [born 1933]

fresh water from salt water

 

colloquial

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”

– Robert Frost [1874-1963]

How long would it take to count to a trillion?

More than 31,709 years.

20th century's coolest

 

"Racing is life. Anything before or after is just waiting."

- Steve McQueen  [1930-1980]

when art became status symbol

 

Rouge River

 Toronto forests supplied the ship masts that the British navy used to thwart Napoleon.

The art of making difficult things seem easy

Sprezzatura 

nitwit

"Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it."

- Billy Madison, 1995

kiss a fish

 

promoted government-sponsored policy of full employment

“Asked whether history had ever seen anything like the Depression, John Maynard Keynes replied: “Yes. It was called the Dark Ages, and it lasted four hundred years.”
— Jon Meacham [born 1969]

routine

Upon waking in the morning, Motörhead's Lemmy [1945-2015] would have a shot of whiskey (eventually naively replaced by vodka as it seemed to him to be healthier) chased by a can of beer. Total daily consumption varied but several bottles of Jack Daniel's were often drained by bedtime.

directory

Q/ Why are there so many Smiths in the phone book?

A/ Because they all have phones.

obsolete interceptor

 

Economics not American meddling doomed the Avro explained in Part 1 and Part 2.

come together

 

Family illness led to a new architectural era here.

be prepared

“O God, help me to win, but in thy wisdom if thou willest me not to win, then O God, make me a good loser."
- Robert Baden-Powell [1857-1941]

set a course for adventure

 

how many times uttered over 92 years?

 "I'll cram the Empire State Building [construction commenced 1930] up your ass, one brick at a time."

be a man, you pussy

 

civil war veteran

“All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.”

– Ambrose Bierce [1842-1914]

gimp

"If people in your life are not uncomfortable, then you're not really writing."
- Quentin Tarantino [born 1963]

taste

"I don't like plays after the third performance. On Broadway it goes on for 8 times a week for months and I get bored regurgitating the same lines over and over. Movies are better. One take and done."
- Sir Anthony Hopkins [born 1937]