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Jay
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Username: Jaymon
Post Number: 1052
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 29, 2005 - 5:27 pm: | 
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Hey Tom, you have the same problem growing a beard that I do - it makes you look like a rabbi. Can we call you Rabbi instead of Ganesh? Hmmmmmm..... |
CLK
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Username: Clkelley
Post Number: 1706
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - 7:07 pm: |
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I think he looks pretty iffy, and couldn't get on a plane today. :-)
Tom, that's a great story. Every kid should do something like that - I never did anything like that and regret it. Your dad is a very wise man. |
Meandtheboys
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Username: Meandtheboys
Post Number: 2208
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, December 1, 2005 - 1:48 pm: |
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Hey, just noticed your new picture on another thread. Very nice. So much more attractive than that other one. But I still really like the baby picture, because it's cute and you still kind of look like that. And by that I mean you are one of those people (as am I) who look very much the same as they did when they were small. Then there are people who you could never pick out of a line-up when they were small because their appearance changed quite a bit. |
flugermongers
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Username: Flugermongers
Post Number: 534
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 13, 2005 - 3:55 pm: |
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Tom, I think that passport picture should be your MOL icon!
I type really fast too... I go through phases of being on and off MOL. Sometimes I post a lot, and sometimes I'm absent for months. Trust me, I'm sure no one notices. But a post here and a post there and a postpost everywhere does not usually affect my work.
Conratulations on your hefty number of postage.  |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 11292
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 13, 2005 - 4:37 pm: |
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In one of your "away" periods, that was my MOL icon, shortly after I posted it here. But there's an unfortunate bug in the MOL software which replaces all icons with the icon-du-jour, so there's no graphical history in a person's old posts.
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Duncan
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Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 5422
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Friday, December 30, 2005 - 4:06 pm: |
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HAPPY NEW YEAR |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 11641
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Friday, December 30, 2005 - 6:33 pm: |
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Here's a picture of me in 4th grade, taken in late 1969 or early 1970, the height of the hippy era. I guess the love beads complete the image!
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sac
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Username: Sac
Post Number: 3044
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 20, 2006 - 6:01 pm: |
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Belated Happy Birthday (yesterday?) Tom!! |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 11999
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 20, 2006 - 10:13 pm: |
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Hey, thanks! That was nice of you. I turned 45 yesterday. It started out as a rotten day but ended up nice. We had dinner at our friends' house, who are also our neighbors, three houses up the street. I'm very grateful to have them as friends. Both daughters forgot it was my birthday, but then one of the remembered after she got to school, without any prompting, so that was nice.
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monster
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Username: Monster
Post Number: 1899
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Friday, January 20, 2006 - 10:55 pm: |
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Hey, another Happy Belated Birthday Tom!
Birthday Horoscope
If today is your birthday - name babies! Think of baby names and what life the bearer is likely to have as predetermined by their name. This will make you feel like god, or a parent, though feeling like god is way more fun. This year shop whenever you can. You'll boost your wardrobe and become the poor but cool funky sophisticate you always dreamed you'd be.
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Dave
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Username: Dave
Post Number: 8452
Registered: 4-1997
| | Posted on Friday, January 20, 2006 - 11:49 pm: |
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Yo Tom. Many happy returns of the day. |
Virtual It Girl
Citizen
Username: Shh
Post Number: 3832
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, January 21, 2006 - 7:07 am: |
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Happy 45th Tom...hope you have a wonderful year. |
BGS
Citizen
Username: Bgs
Post Number: 545
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, January 21, 2006 - 7:08 am: |
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Tom-am glad that my baby nephew shares his day with someone like you!!
Happy Happy Belated Birthday and all good wishes for many more!
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Meandtheboys
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Username: Meandtheboys
Post Number: 2765
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, January 26, 2006 - 6:10 am: |
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Happy Birthday Tom! Looks like we are "contemporaries." Love that fourth grade picture--what a cutie pie.
However, the new avatar--not my favorite. The previous one was the best so far. Much hotter!
(Not the you asked, of course) |
bets
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Username: Bets
Post Number: 22702
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 26, 2006 - 10:55 am: |
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Happy belated birthday, Tom! Day after my Dad's - good time to be born! |
doulamomma
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Username: Doulamomma
Post Number: 867
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, January 26, 2006 - 11:04 am: |
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Very groovy picture, Tom...here's to a great year! |
buzzsaw
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Username: Buzzsaw
Post Number: 3656
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 26, 2006 - 11:11 am: |
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Tom, I think the Dec 30th picture would make a great avatar for you....after you get tired of your current one.
Groovy! |
mem
Citizen
Username: Mem
Post Number: 5684
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 26, 2006 - 11:24 am: |
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Tom - Happy Birthday - Did you get my present? |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 12093
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, January 26, 2006 - 3:55 pm: |
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mem, if I got something from you, it came without your name on it. |
Earlster
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Username: Earlster
Post Number: 1458
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 1, 2006 - 3:43 pm: |
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Tom,
happy very belated birthday. |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 13971
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Monday, May 1, 2006 - 9:22 am: |
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On Saturday, I went to my high school to attend a memorial service for a teacher who died. She was a voice teacher who was also assistant principal in charge of vocal music. I went to High School of Music and Art in Harlem and graduated in 1978. The school has merged with High School of Performing Arts and moved into a new building in 1984 and is now called LaGuardia High School.
There was a lot of music at the service, of course. It was wonderful. There was and is a lot of gospel music at that school. The gospel choir sang a part of the Mozart Requiem, a spiritual and a gospel number. Graduates sang some solos. Every so often, music makes me cry. This went further. It made me sob.
My teacher was a wonderful and dignified woman who never spoke ill of anyone. She only encouraged people, no matter how hopeless things seemed.
After the service, we had a mini reunion in the lobby. There were several people from my graduating class and also from 1979. I hadn't seen some of these since 1978. I was glad I was able to recognize them after all those years.
One of my classmates is Dawnn Lewis who is now a TV star. We recalled that she and I once had a duet in a play in high school. Is this my brush with fame?
Another is doing all sorts of varied music.
Another is touring around, singing opera.
Meeting them reminded me of how New Yorkers have a certain edge to them that most others don't have. I feel mixed: I am glad not to live there now, and I also miss it.
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