The Fly (Mansfield) Puns

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It's getting close! I've got a few people asking if it's still happening. Well, I'll be at the airport on Sunday (VFR permitting). Will you?

Original post here.

Date: Sunday, November 6, 2011 starting at 9:00 AM. Breakfast caravan taking off at 10:00, destination TBD.

Parking: $10 parking fee if sticking around, may get waved with fuel purchase.

Mansfield Municipal Airport Information:

http://www.airnav.com/airport/1B9

CTAF: 123.0 UNICOM: 123.0 Boston Apch/Dept: 124.1 Nearby Major Airports: BOS (Class B), PVD (Class C).

Full-service 100LL available. 2 Runways: 14-32 (3500 ft) (paved, good condition), 4-22 (2200 ft) (grass, good condition).

Nearby destinations: Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket Island, Block Island. Various area airports with restaurants, two nearby airports with aviation museums.

Let me know if we are to expect you, and I'm looking forward to flying with you on Sunday!!

"No, it kills them."

I'm the bomb

Mary Crawford: "I literally hate your profession and most of your values."

Edmund Bertram: "Ah! What wit! Such a lively mind to always be making these funny jokes that don't reflect your real opinions!"

A Bird can Fly, but a Fly cannot Bird. Told by my 6 year old who was really proud about making it.

I’ve been a longtime listener of the podcast and have been a fan of each of the co-hosts who have been on with Charlie Eisenhood over the years. Even though Josh entered the role with probably the least established history and name recognition as a figure in the sport compared to his predecessors, he has demonstrated an ability to bring a nuanced perspective to issues and articulate his views on topics with assertiveness that really impresses me. The most recent episode that dropped today is probably his best work yet, being able to shift seamlessly from current discussions of athlete sponsorships and competition, to big picture topics of inclusiveness and representation in the sport. He strikes a good balance of facilitating an open-minded conversation but clearly is not afraid to contribute his own views and experience appropriately. I look forward to new episodes every week and hope he continues to grow into his roll as a more prominent voice in the sport.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-upshot/id1116002760

Because if they flew over the bay, we'd call them bagels

😁

After fighting pretty horrendous traffic the first night we were determined not to repeat that again. Skipping over why I decided to take 495 for Thursday - I def know better. We are locals - but so it’s Friday and 3:45 and we are right in front of the venue. Perfect. Just me and the wife. Got some family to meet with later but for now we hang.

Walked the lot for a while after getting in. Scooped some patches and stickers and a couple cbd sodas (they were great!) and just enjoyed the sunshine and watching the circus pull in and set up. After a bit feeling surprisingly high from the sodas we do another cruise through shakedown looking for some food. A few options but nothing clicked. We mosey on back to the car.

It’s about 5:30. My fam has arrived and they aren’t parked too far away. Quick pocket check and check of my little “man purse” I got for the tour. And gravity smacks me flat in the fucking face.

The vaccine cards which had been in a ziploc bag in the zipper pocket since Raleigh were missing!! FUCK!

FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK !!!!!!!!!

My wife wants to take a deep breath and search. I know they aren’t there. Rapid search of the car proves this. I wasn’t sure where they were but we just used them the previous night so they are most likely at home. I hope. Pray.

We somehow fly outta the lot in about 2 mins. Not speeding just on a mission. Back roads thru Mansfield. Thank god this isn’t my first rodeo. We’re heading down 106 towards Plainville and are up and over 140/152 in no time. But the traffic going the other way at 6pm on a Friday is it’s own hell. One we would face very shortly.

By 5:55pm we are somehow in our driveway. The fucking cards are in the kitchen. No real clue why. My fault for sure tho. Now its just shy of 6pm and we are headed back to the venue.

Some key green lights and one perfectly timed opening by the Train Station - we were back in traffic near the venue by 6:25. Figured we had 50mins til showtime. We used each one of those 50mins to park and show cards and pass security and all that jazz. Tons of people. More than several zombies. Quite a blur really.

But made it inside the venue right at the start of Half Step. On the concourse by the pavs as Mayer pierced the sky for the first time that evening. My mind let go and I could breath.

I’m almost at the end of Austen’s finished novels. I’ve read: P&P (4 times now), S&S, Persuasion, and Northanger Abbey.

So I have Emma and Mansfield Park left. I’m torn on which one to read next and which to save for last. Which would you choose and why?

The casket falls out then speeds down main street into a pharmacy and crashes into the counter. The lids pops open and the dead guy says to the astonished pharmacist, "You got anything to stop this coffin?"

Just got diagnosed with COVID today - I'll be ok, but it reminded me of this joke.

Hi! I’ve read the other five Jane Austen novels (just finished Persuasion, loved it!), and I was wondering whether or not I should read Mansfield Park.

I’ve heard that it’s quite sad and has a different tone to the rest of her books. I enjoy happier novels and don’t really enjoy less light-hearted books, even if they’re still good literature, but I also miss Jane Austen’s writing already! I’m also a bit iffy on the whole cousin romance thing (I know this was how life worked back then, but it’s weird when you read with a modern eye), and I’ve heard that’s prevalent in Mansfield Park.

Thank you for reading! :)

The 1999 adaptation of Mansfield Park was a kind of postscript at the end of the mid-1990's "Austenmania" that included the BBC's Pride and Prejudice, Ang Lee’s Sense and Sensibility, the film adaptation of Persuasion, and later Emma with a pre-Goop Gwyneth Paltrow (who, in the days before jade eggs and conscious uncouplings, really had promise as an actress and seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence).

Mansfield Park, starring Frances O'Connor, didn't really belong, time-wise or stylistically, with the other adaptations. It was also the only Austen novel I hadn't yet read.

I hated the film, and still hate it. It looked okay, and it had some great actors in it. But it was dark, and Jane Austen is not dark. It felt like a bait-and-switch, as though Director Patricia Rozema and producer Sarah Curtis had got together and said "Jane Austen adaptations are usually quite nice - let's make one that isn't." They clearly wanted to shock people who thought they knew what they were signing up for, and they did shock, in a way that felt cheap, clumsy and exploitative.

Questions about slavery are raised in the novel, albeit expressed in a much more subtle open-ended way. But in the film we hear the cries of actual slaves on an actual ship, and there's a scene in which Fanny discovers a sketch book filled with drawings of slaves being tortured. I can't remember if rape is actually depicted in these drawings, but as a teenager I do remember finding it traumatising that these images were suddenly presented without warning. It also makes Sir Thomas less morally complex as a character, and more two-dimensionally monstrous.

The open treatment of sexuality was also shocking. When Fanny stumbles across a naked Maria and Henry Crawford actually having sex, it's somehow almost as disturbing for the audience as it would have been for Fanny, simply because it was so unexpected (apparently this scene was cut from the American version). Everybody knows there's no sex scenes in Jane Austen novels, and this seemed like a crass and totally unnecessary subversion of audience expectation. A predatory Mary Crawford was strongly implied to be sexually attracted to Fanny, and while I could be remembering this wrongly, there was some suggestion that Susan was at risk of sexually abusive behaviour from her father.

All of this was so unexpected, and so unwelcome, that it not only made the film a deeply unpleasant experience for me, but made it impossible to rea

I’ve got all day Sunday to drive from Mansfield to Cincinnati, but the drive only takes 2.5 hours. Anything fun to stop and see on the way? Roadside attractions, oddities, cool shops, sights?

I feel like I used to have an app that would do this for you, but I must have deleted it.

I am a huge Austen fan. I reread my favourite of her books every year (Emma, P + P, S + S, Persuasion) and struggle to find other authors that compare to her genius. However, this year I also decided to reread Mansfield Park and I must say, I found it a slog to get through. It simply doesn't have the humour of her other books and although I know many on this sub defend Fanny's character, I find her dull and overly moralistic.

The main question that troubled me after my read though was how exactly we are supposed to feel at the end of the novel. In all of Austen's other stories, I have felt satisfied with the endings. Even if I didn't love all of the marriages (Colonel Brandon and Marianne, for example), I understood why Austen wrote them that way. However, the end of Mansfield Park seems so unsatisfying. Are we supposed to rejoice in the fact that Fanny has permanently tied herself to a family that has treated her so horribly? For most of the novel the only characters that appreciated Fanny were Lady Bertram, who virtually saw her as a servant, and Edmund, who only seemed to like her because he influenced her to have all of the same opinions as him.

And that's not even going into the "love" story between Edmund and Fanny. He loved Mary Crawford for most of the novel and treats Fanny as an afterthought. He is an outlier in this way from most of Austen's other heroes, whose constancy has been a key feature of their likeability. Characters such as Wentworth, Darcy and Edward Ferrars never wavered in their love for the heroine even if circumstances prevented their being together.

I suppose I am just wondering what Austen's purpose was. I recently read a book about her which stated that she was extremely proud of MP and thought it would be her masterpiece. She was disappointed with the muted public response. So I know there is some deeper meaning I am supposed to grasp. Are the characters just symbols for a larger comment on slavery? Or was Austen really trying to make a comment on morality? I find this hard to believe since she seems to delight in writing sympathetic characters who do not always act in the most moral light (Emma Woodhouse, Marianne Dashwood). So it would be surprising if she was really intending to hold up Edmund and Fanny as paradigms of virtue?

If anyone can enlighten me, I would love to hear your thoughts.

I just have the hardest times with the idea of watching movies. The idea of committing that much time in a row is just inconceivable to me.

Funny thing is that if I watch a tv series and I’m hooked, I’ll binge it for hours and hours until my eyes can’t stay open. That’s why I stopped watching tv shows - too addicting.

I can also watch YouTube videos like crazy though.

Edit: the irony is that I actually enjoy analyzing and watching movies that are well done and directed etc. I just have this film paralysis which stops me from watching movies haha.

I can only watch a movie in a theater since there’s no escape and no distractions

Because there are more birds on that side