{"id":190243,"date":"2009-12-17T22:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T03:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/17\/whiskey-tango-foxtrot-shy-and-unpretentious\/"},"modified":"2009-12-17T22:10:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T03:10:00","slug":"whiskey-tango-foxtrot-shy-and-unpretentious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/17\/whiskey-tango-foxtrot-shy-and-unpretentious\/","title":{"rendered":"Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?? Shy and Unpretentious?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Uh-oh, I dissed the mouse. They will send the snow white commandos to kill me
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So, Roy Disney just died, and here is how the Dawn C. Chmielewski and James Bates of LA Times described him<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Despite wealth estimated at $600 million, Disney remained shy and outwardly unpretentious, according to people who knew him. His main indulgences were a castle in Ireland, a jet, sports cars and financing a passion for sailboat racing. In 1999, Disney fulfilled a lifelong dream when he and the 12-member crew of his 74-foot sloop Pyewacket — named for the witch’s cat in the 1958 film “Bell, Book & Candle” — won the 2,225-mile Transpacific Yacht Race from Los Angeles to Honolulu, setting a course record.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let me get this straight, he owned sports cars (plural<\/span>), owned a 12 crew 74-foot yacht<\/span>, a private jet<\/span>, and an Irish Castle<\/span>, and he’s “unpretentious”?<\/p>\n

He might be a nice guy. All I know about him is that he took Michael Eisner down, which is a plus in my book, but when you own sports cars (plural<\/span>), owned a 12 crew 74-foot yacht<\/span>, a private jet<\/span>, and an Irish Castle<\/span>, unpretentious is the last<\/span> adjective that should be used.<\/p>\n

The guy owned a freaking castle, and probably sharks with frikkin laser beams in the moat.<\/p>\n

H\/t Radosh.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Uh-oh, I dissed the mouse. They will send the snow white commandos to kill me So, Roy Disney just died, and here is how the Dawn C. Chmielewski and James Bates of LA Times described him? Despite wealth estimated at $600 million, Disney remained shy and outwardly unpretentious, according to people who knew him. His …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[994,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}