"A clear conscience. When did you acquire this taste for luxuries?"
A brilliant show, or so I imagine it from the clips I have seen. I admitted that to my children apologetically, even though they all know that we have not had a TV for decades and I never see anything in its entirety. But Ben assures me that this is a very millennial approach, to browse through shows rather than watch them, so I am now simply au courant.
You can find complete shows on youtube if you look.
ReplyDeleteIndeed, as far as I can tell, they watch their cell phones for most of the movie until the music changes pace or something explodes. Then they watch the action until it tapers off and back to the phones it is.
ReplyDeleteI am reminded of my decade-plus on the Board of my HOA, most of which were spent as Secretary. By concentrating not on what was said, but on decisions made, minutes were easier to take and also less controversial.
ReplyDeleteSome years before, before I was on the Board, there was a time when it took 30+ minutes to approve the minutes, due to disagreement about what had been said. "I didn't say that." "Yes, you did." The subtext of the controversy was that a homeowner who owned a third of the units tried to run the HOA as his own fiefdom. He eventually sold out after he made a decision, in the interest of saving money, that caused much material damage to some units. To avoid costly civil suits- and perhaps also to avoid a lynching- he sold his unites at fire sale prices. The units are now worth nearly 10 times what he sold them for.
My county's Commissioners Court records meetings (even ZOOMs and YouTubes them these days), so there's a trsnscript, and then there's minutes. The minutes generally don't describe the back-and-forth of debate, though there's considerable detail once the members get around to making or amending a motion and voting on it. The point is to record what was decided. Anyone who wants to make an issue of embarrassing admissions or arguments can go to the video.
ReplyDeleteWhen I write up the meetings and publish them on social media, I often include a lot of background information, especially if there has been a formal presentation in support of a motion. That's not minutes, though--it's more like journalism.
"Yes, Minister" is a terrifically funny show.