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In the New Yorker...
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: southendmd on June 24, 2019, 09:14:26 am ---"Omnibus" is the dative plural case of "omnis" (all) in Latin, so it means "for all". Initially it was the French "voiture omnibus": carriage for all.
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Oh, I get it. It's not "for all" because it's a lot of people at once, it's "for all" because anyone can use it -- they don't have to own the voiture.
Jeff Wrangler:
I would be interested to read opinions on the June 24 article about menopause.
Jeff Wrangler:
At lunch today I read the article about the gay pop star Troye Sivan (June 24). I'd heard the name somewhere, so I checked out the article.
Anyway, I had to laugh when I read the sentence, "The accompanying music video ... spliced images of Sivan resting his had on the bare chest of his boyfriend, the model Jacob Bixenman. ..."
I said to myself, "Of course a gay pop star is going to have a model for a boyfriend." :laugh:
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on June 28, 2019, 01:41:14 pm ---I said to myself, "Of course a gay pop star is going to have a model for a boyfriend." :laugh:
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:laugh: It's the eternal show-biz rule across genders and orientations, right?
Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, for example, both married models (Mick is long divorced from Jerri Hall; Keith has been married to Patti Hanson for decades.) Bowie and Iman would be another example.
The Stones come to mind especially because I just made an overnight whirlwind trip to Chicago to see them. The ticket and hotel room were free, so all I had to pay for was $260 plane fare -- not ideal, since it was same-day flying, but could be worse. And the ticket was cheaper than either the room or the ticket would have been by themselves.
It was kind of crazy, because it was so last-minute and even the ticket was a splurge. But it could easily be their last tour and I like to think I"m not too old to be madcap now and then. :D
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on June 28, 2019, 01:49:41 pm --- :laugh: It's the eternal show-biz rule across genders and orientations, right?
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I guess it is! :laugh:
I'm glad you enjoyed the trip and the concert. :)
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