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glatt · 03-26-2018, 07:30 AM

26,362. That's my wife's spot in line to buy Hamilton tickets at the Kennedy Center in their random order online ticket sale this morning. Our friend has spot 4502. The friend will get tickets. I think we probably won't but don't actually know. It's a big theater, sales are limited to 4 tickets per purchase, and it will be here for a couple months.

The whole thing is kind of crazy. Everybody wants to go see Hamilton because everybody wants to go see Hamilton.

I don't even care about seeing it, but my son thinks it would be cool, so we'll try to get tickets. Our New Years' resolution was to take advantage of the cultural offerings in this town more. So far, we're doing well on that front.

Happy Monkey · 03-30-2018, 12:09 PM

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Originally Posted by glatt

26,362. That's my wife's spot in line to buy Hamilton tickets at the Kennedy Center in their random order online ticket sale this morning. Our friend has spot 4502. The friend will get tickets. I think we probably won't but don't actually know. It's a big theater, sales are limited to 4 tickets per purchase, and it will be here for a couple months.

A friend of mine is a member, so he got through in the first round, and got me one of his four.

xoxoxoBruce · 03-30-2018, 09:20 PM

Member of what HM, the Kennedy Center?

glatt · 07-31-2018, 06:02 PM

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Originally Posted by glatt

26,362. That's my wife's spot in line to buy Hamilton tickets at the Kennedy Center in their random order online ticket sale this morning. Our friend has spot 4502. The friend will get tickets. I think we probably won't but don't actually know. It's a big theater, sales are limited to 4 tickets per purchase, and it will be here for a couple months.

The whole thing is kind of crazy. Everybody wants to go see Hamilton because everybody wants to go see Hamilton.

I don't even care about seeing it, but my son thinks it would be cool, so we'll try to get tickets. Our New Years' resolution was to take advantage of the cultural offerings in this town more. So far, we're doing well on that front.

monster · 03-27-2018, 09:23 PM

oh good lord, 50% of us have fucked up vision as it is

Happy Monkey · 04-01-2018, 08:38 AM

Yes

sexobon · 06-10-2018, 08:07 PM

Happy Centenary to our British wimmenz dwellars.

Carruthers · 06-13-2018, 09:07 AM

Having done the usual Wednesday morning trip into town for a spot of hunter gathering around Tesco, I was back early enough to go for a haircut before lunch.
The girl who cut my hair was cheerful, easy going and a delight to chat with.
I didn't have the heart to tell her that she'd parted my hair on the wrong side.

And I still left her a tip.

Gravdigr · 06-13-2018, 02:41 PM

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I didn't have the heart to tell her that she'd parted my hair on the wrong side.

Well, there was a mirror involved...

sexobon · 07-01-2018, 09:41 PM

Looks like someone came out with a motorized bike for socialists.

xoxoxoBruce · 07-01-2018, 10:56 PM

18 mph? Get the fuck off the sidewalk.

Gravdigr · 07-02-2018, 02:45 PM

It's a bicycle at any speed. Get the fuck off the sidewalk.

Griff · 07-02-2018, 06:17 PM

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It's a bicycle at any speed. Get the fuck off the sidewalk.

This.

Carruthers · 07-08-2018, 04:46 AM

My YouTube recommendations frequently include dog rescues carried out by 'Hope For Paws' in Los Angeles.
The other day I chose to view the story of an abandoned and aged German Shepherd.
The video started off with the outbound journey and within seconds I had spotted a dismantled Spitfire in RAF markings on a low loader.

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I found the serial rather difficult to read but eventually settled on R9632.
A number of searches point toward it being used in the making of the film 'Dunkirk' and being owned by Comanche Fighters of Houston.

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X4650 Spitfire Mk Ia (Comanche Fighters)

Based at Duxford Airfield, previously at the Biggin Hill Heritage Hangar, Biggin Hill, Kent.
Wears normaly the authentic markings X4650 / KL-A from 54 Squadron, which it wore when with the Squadron in 1940.
But currently the plane is painted as R9632/LC for the coming movie “Dunkirk”
X4650’s first flight was at Eastleigh on the 23rd October 1940. She was issued to 24 M.U. Tern Hill, Shropshire, UK on the 25th October 1940 on charge with 54 Sqn. Catterick, Yorkshire.
She was involved in a mid-air collision in December 1940 and struck off charge in June 1941. The wreckage was discovered on the banks of the river Lever in 1976.
The remains were acquired by Peter Monk in 1995 and soon after restoration work on her was commenced. First post restoration flight was from Biggin Hill in March 2012.
She is now owned by Comanche Fighters, Houston, Texas.

LINK

I'd hesitantly suggest that at the time the video was made the aircraft had arrived back in the US still wearing its temporary markings, rather than being on its way to the UK.
Owned by a firm in Houston and on a truck in LA?
Something of a puzzle.

Anyway, to finish off where I started...

xoxoxoBruce · 07-08-2018, 08:50 AM

Cool find, that may be the Houston skyline in the background.

03-30-2018, 09:20 PM	#3
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03-27-2018, 09:23 PM	#5
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06-13-2018, 09:07 AM	#8
Carruthers Junior Master Dwellar Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Buckinghamshire UK Posts: 4,059	Having done the usual Wednesday morning trip into town for a spot of hunter gathering around Tesco, I was back early enough to go for a haircut before lunch. The girl who cut my hair was cheerful, easy going and a delight to chat with. I didn't have the heart to tell her that she'd parted my hair on the wrong side. And I still left her a tip. __________________

07-01-2018, 10:56 PM	#11
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	18 mph? Get the fuck off the sidewalk. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

03-26-2018, 07:30 AM	#1
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	26,362. That's my wife's spot in line to buy Hamilton tickets at the Kennedy Center in their random order online ticket sale this morning. Our friend has spot 4502. The friend will get tickets. I think we probably won't but don't actually know. It's a big theater, sales are limited to 4 tickets per purchase, and it will be here for a couple months. The whole thing is kind of crazy. Everybody wants to go see Hamilton because everybody wants to go see Hamilton. I don't even care about seeing it, but my son thinks it would be cool, so we'll try to get tickets. Our New Years' resolution was to take advantage of the cultural offerings in this town more. So far, we're doing well on that front.

06-10-2018, 08:07 PM	#7
sexobon I love it when a plan comes together. Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 9,793	Happy Centenary to our British wimmenz dwellars.

07-01-2018, 09:41 PM	#10
sexobon I love it when a plan comes together. Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 9,793	Looks like someone came out with a motorized bike for socialists.

07-02-2018, 02:45 PM	#12
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07-08-2018, 08:50 AM	#15
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Cool find, that may be the Houston skyline in the background. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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