@InUnfunky The second.

1980 was my second Presidential election as a voter. I remember friends saying they would vote for Reagan because of his optimism, or that Carter seemed inept (yah, seems the press had already begun to crater).
Two years later most of them wouldn't own up (but he still won again in '84, mounting scandals notwithstanding, partly because, well, the press, which is how GHWB came away unscathed...)

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Pretty spot on, but oy, she's a Rowlands fan and hasn't seen "Gloria?" Ooh, just wait...
https://www.vulture.com/article/the-critics-remembering-actress-gena-rowland-legacy.html

@Bix With "Going Mobile" cranked, obviously...

@redenigma @voltronic @evamarie Happens to way too many people! Brother Bell would have said they failed you by being either too lazy or hiding their lack of knowledge.

@voltronic @JazzCrafter @evamarie Egad, I sound like the worst name-dropper in this thread - just not expecting you to take any of this on my poor authority.

@voltronic @JazzCrafter @evamarie Yup - that's it. By the way Herald Stark, with whom I was privileged to study (and namesake of the Nation Assn of Teachers of Singing Library), believed the very same thing.

@JazzCrafter @voltronic @evamarie I did not (and neither did John) intend to imply any standard other than the confidence to sing out.
Sorry if you misunderstood.

@voltronic @evamarie John Bell used to say that if you hadn't learned to sing as a child, someone had stolen your song. I.e., if you needed help to sing and no one helped you learn, that was a theft of joy.

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No caption - they're going to come to you faster than I could type them...

I'm sure no one saw this coming:

@nursefrombirth Hm. Apparently the abbreviation of the State North of South Dakota now stands for "No Data."
Gotta say, it fits....

Gotta admit, Trump does quite the Billy Quizboy impression...

@Route10 Given how much John Williams cribbed from Korngold and Holst, we'll allow it.

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@CanisPundit ...and a deep thinker and historian of the instrument. If you can find the Greg Koch "Chewing the Gristle" pod with Vernon, it's quite a listen.