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Dr Doom probably thinks Carly Simon is singing about him.

Dr Doom probably thinks Carly Simon is singing about him.

That would explain why Nat King Cole was a cool dude & cool under pressure.  

Agree. 

We call ourselves “introverts”. We’ve formed a club called “introverts anonymous”. We’ve yet to meet in person…because…

1970 — Sweden sent ABBA. Defence rests. 

1970 — Sweden sent ABBA. Defence rests. 

Spreadsheets before Excel was Lotus 1-2-3 and VisiCalc née Calculedger (the original name of the original spreadsheet  ). The Ionic, Doric & Corinthian columns were added in later spreadsheets. 
 
 

Some people aren’t trying. Here is two from this Monday morning:
 
* SNAG: sensitive new age guy. SNATG: sensitive new age tough guy.
 
* Rather than work from home, and home school at the same time, go to the state library. Free education and babysitting provided. 

Aussie women’s soccer team “Matildas” through to World Cup semi-finals beating France in penalties. After 20 penalty kicks, score 7-6. 

I don’t think Old Man was expecting a useful answer to his rhetorical question. 
 
 

USA*: Independent British, or Indies
Canada: Formerly British, or Formies
Alaska: Previously Russia, or Previes. 

(* Depending if you subscribe that America is a nation-state in itself, or a federation of independent states)
 
You’re welcome. 🤣😇

I guess this makes The Hobbit is “on taxes”. 

That would be a white belt. Get it right.  tkdguy would agree. 

Official interview in full: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDQKoM4hG0I
 
“People need to understand what leadership is all about. Leadership is not managing an organization. Organizations are made up of people. Leadership is motivating people. Leadership is about people. So, yes. You've got to be competent. There's no question about the fact that you have to have competence to be a leader, but you also have to have character. Good leaders are men of competence and character. Many times character is more important than the competence side of the house. So I tell people that the secret to modern leadership is two rules. Rule 13: When placed in command, take charge. The leader is the person who is willing to take the responsibility. There are a lot of other people out there who are willing to do the job, but they don't want to get hung with the loss when it happens. As a leader, you have to be willing to take the responsibility. You have to be willing to take charge. So, Rule 13 says, "When placed in command, take charge." It's my Schwarzkopf's rule system. Okay. That's what it says. But then rule 14 comes into play which is very important because rule 14 says: “Okay I got it, when placed in command, I take charge. But what do I do?” The answer is Rule 14: “Do what's right.” Because we all know, all of us know, basically, when placed in those circumstances, what the moral, what the ethical, what the correct thing to do is. We all know it. So, the true modern leader of today is the one that's, number one, willing to take charge, and willing to do what's right. That's the secret of leadership.” 

“There’s a lot of gut instinct that comes into everything you do as a leader. Leadership is an art, not a science. It cannot be reduced down to a piece of paper and a bunch of very simple mechanical equations that you apply to it, and out the end drops the answer, and you just go out and do that. That’s not what it’s about. So much of it is gut feeling. Some of it is risk-taking. You don’t take risks with your troops’ lives, though. You’ve got to have your priorities established. You’ve got to know what you believe in. You have to be well trained. You have to have confidence in yourself, you have to have confidence in your training. You get nothing for nothing. It’s hard work. You’ve got to work hard so that when that time comes, when you’ve got to make the tough decision, you’re able to make the decision. Nothing is more debilitating to an organization than a leader who won’t make a decision. The whole organization just stops and waits and nothing happens because a leader won’t make a decision. That can paralyse an organization. So you see Rule 13, again. When placed in command, you must take charge. You’ve got to make a decision.”

~ Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, Academy Class of 1991 (https://achievement.org/achiever/general-h-norman-schwarzkopf/#interview)
 
I found what is reputably "Stormin Norman"'s 14 Rules of Leadership in a LinkedIn post: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/general-h-norman-schwarzkopf-jr-14-rules-leadership-farrell-csp 

It’s always the last place you look. 

wrong answer…do you identify as a comics historian?
 
 
This was the era I mainly read comics. It is the decade we got the Infinity Trilogy which when made into films grossed 4b+ at the box office, so can be said, to not have sucked. 

All of them. 

To point out the obvious, quantity & quality are different. But yes, this shows quantitative success. However the argument about the MCU being underwhelming may refer to quality. 
 
The originator of the comment may like to chime in and clarify. 

So if I still want to call it Twitter not “X” am I giving Musk “the bird”? 

So if I still want to call it Twitter not “X” am I giving Musk “the bird”?