Well, dear readers, we have broken another record here at haineshisway.com. Soon there will be no records left and we’ll have to start breaking CDs. We have not only broken a record we’ve smashed it to smithereens and also to jonesereens. When last I looked we were up to 158 Unseemly Posts. Isn’t that exciting? Isn’t that just too too? We were the War and Peace of posts yesterday. Soon no one will be able to keep up and we will be the most popular site on all the internet. Of course, if no one will be able to keep up won’t “up” be all alone in the world? Won’t “up” be a wanderer. Someone should keep “up” because “up” is a right sort. What the hell am I talking about?
So, the party continues here at haineshisway.com. Yes, you heard it here, dear readers, there’s always a party going on here at haineshisway.com. So, don’t be a stick in the mud – join us. Put on your pointy party hats and colored tights and pantaloons, grab a cheese slice and ham chunk and perhaps even a shrimp bit on toast, and dance, dance, dance (that is three dances) the Hora, or maybe even the Louie Louie. Tell your friends, tell your neighbors, shout it to highest hill, “At last our site’s no secret anymore!” Posts lift us up where we belong. Up where the talkin’ is, up where the people are, up where the joke’s goin’ on.
I must tell you of a slight change this week to The Way Things Are Done Here at haineshisway.com. Yes, Virginia, this week we will be having a slight change and I hope everyone will be okay with it. It’s necessitated by necessity and is necessary. So, you can blame it on my youth, blame it on Rio, blame it on the summer night, put the blame on Mame or Dolly, blame Paris, but don’t blame me. As you know, tomorrow is Ask BK Day, the day in which you ask your excellent questions. And that will not be changing – tomorrow is still Ask BK Day and you will still be asking your excellent questions. Normally, I begin answering them the night before, otherwise I’d never be able to get them up at a decent hour on Thursday. However, as things have worked out this week, I will not be home Wednesday night, and I have to leave very early on Thursday. So, what this means is that I have decided to post the answers to your excellent questions on Saturday. I do hope that that is okay with everyone, and besides, I may have more interesting answers on Saturday – one never knows.
You trivia contest guessers really came out of the woodwork over the weekend – we had a record number of correct guesses, so there are many many many (that is three manys) High Winners and you should all be very very very (that is three verys) proud of your collective selves. So, let’s all click on the Unseemly Button below to find out the correct answer and to see our list of unseemly winners.
The loud gardeners are outside being loud. It is always difficult for me to concentrate when mowing is going on. I try never to have mowing going on when I’m trying to concentrate, and yet here I am trying to concentrate and there’s mowing going on. Go know. And go mow. If only Larry and Curly were here there could be some Moeing going on. We don’t allow groaning here at haineshisway.com, but we occasionally allow Moening.
So, the trivia question was:
These three actors have one very specific thing in common
Stanley Rushton, Robin Mayfield and Liam McNulty
What is it?
Clue: They once all appeared in the same play.
Now, I am giving you dear readers fair warning – there is a spoiler coming up, so if you haven’t seen the play or film of Sleuth, you may skip the answer to this question. Just skip it, do not look at it, pretend it isn’t there.
And the answer is:
All three actors are in the cast list for the Broadway production of Sleuth (they are also listed in the American version of the published play). Many people got that part of the question, but that was not the question. The one very specific thing those three actors had in common is that they do not exist. The names are there as a clever ruse to fool the audience.
Contratulations to our High Winners: Michael Shayne (he had a friend post his answer, since he was just out of surgery!), Hapgood, Paul Fairie, Freedunit, Ben, Arnold M. Brockman, Ron Pulliam, Tom from Oz, Jed, Steve Gurey, Mark Lingenfelter, JMK, and Stuart. We, of course, put all those names into our handy-dandy Electronic Hat, and the hat randomly chose our Highest Winner, Mr. Ron Pulliam. So, if Mr. Pulliam and last week’s winner, Mr. Steve Gurey, would send me their handy-dandy addresses, we will get their sparkling prizes out to them. I’ve also decided that for our one year anniversary (coming in November) we will tally all our High Winners, and the person who has been the High Winner most times will become The Highest Winner of Them All and will win an extra special sparkling prize – so keep those guesses coming in every week.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do – this week is an especially busy one. But I will return later in the day to see what is up. After all, up is where we belong. Up where the talkin’ is, up where the people are, up where the joke’s goin’ on. Today’s topic of discussion: What showstopping numbers have you seen and which are your favorites? I don’t mean big numbers that are really good, I mean numbers which have literally stopped the show, where the applause and cheering are so huge that it just goes on and on and the performers just have to stand there until it’s over and done. I think it’s a fairly rare occurrence. So, for example, I would not count Everything’s Coming Up Roses or And I Am Telling You I Am Not Going – because the curtain comes down at the end of the number and the act is over. In any case, list only things you’ve actually seen, not stuff you’ve merely heard about or heard on record. I’ll start: My Heart Is So Full of You from The Most Happy Fella (at least when I saw it), Turkey Lurkey Time from Promises, Promises, Hello, Dolly!, Rose’s Turn (with Miss Lansbury), Epiphany from Sweeney Todd (as done by Mr. Cariou). Your turn.