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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were bidin' their time, and now it is time for you to post until the cows come home - they're bidin' their time, too.
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And the word of the day is: FURPHY!
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And the word of the day is: FURPHY!
fur-phy (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/furphy) [ fur -fee ]
–noun, plural -phies. Australian.
a false report; rumor.
[Origin: 1910–15; after Furphy carts water and rubbish carts manufactured by the Furphy family of Shepparton, Victoria, and used during World War I; cf. parallel semantic development of SCUTTLEBUTT (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=scuttlebutt) ]
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Yesterday, my sister and I went to Ikea and I spent a little more money than I thought I would, but I got a couple of bargains in the "as is" department, so that was good! One was a lamp that just needed a light bulb and a shade. It was basically just the post, base and the cord, but it had a note saying that it worked. That was only $9 (I don't know how much it originally cost). My sister has some lamp shades that will fit it and will look nice! :)
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The other real bargain that I got was a glass lazy susan kind of thing for TVs. They had some in stock, but a sales person told us that they were defective because it was reported that they scraped the furniture underneath them (not balanced properly, I guess). They were originally $25 and could hold up to 154 pounds of TV (mine is only about 60 pounds...I checked ;)). Anyway, we saw some in the "as is" area for only $6, so I thought, what the heck! I brought one home, put it on my TV stand and it turns with very little trouble! And since it sticks over the edge of my wire TV stand, I'm not concerned about any scraping. ;) Good enough for me! Now I can sit at my computer and turn just the TV towards me instead of having to move the whole TV cart! ;D
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But the main reason that we went to Ikea was so that I could get a couple of curtain wires and clips (my sister told me about these). The wall that holds the skylight in my bedroom in the top floor of my place is at an angle and regular curtains that just hang straight down would look weird (and not block out any light), so I wanted something that could be attached to the wall at an angle (at both the top and bottom) and these are perfect! You string the wire across the top and bottom of the skylight and then you can clip a piece of cloth to the wires and slide the curtain back and forth. Pretty cool, huh? Here's a picture of the set:
(http://www.ikea.com/PIAimages/38360_PE130272_S4.jpg)
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As promised - Toronto photographs.
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I loved Toronto's architecture.
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Every city has its tower - and I hate heights.
(Which is why I am more comfortable with Ben and Ant)
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I love a Gershwin tune...how about you?
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As you can see, François, my little French boy isn't *that* tall! Here he is with my 5'10" better half on the left. Greg is coming home from Chicago today...huzzah!
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I certainly hope the news about Guy Haines Unplugged is NOT a furphy.
I only watched about an hour of THE CREATURE WITH AN ATOM BRAIN. It turned out to be a Sam Katzman/Clover production for Columbia directed by Edward L. Cahn. For a guy who started out directed Our Gang two reelers at MGM, Cahn can certainly make a SLOW movie. This one was quicker than his usual 50's fare....but was VERY strange and not very entertaining. To get to the "creatures", the two mad scientists had to put on those old radioactive suits with big square faces and crawl through a cloth tunnel that was billowing in the breeze. It was a surreal image, but didn't help the total look of the movie. I am guessing that Richard Denning conquered the scientists and the world was not destroyed, but I am just guessing.
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Nice Toronto pics, DR TOMovOZ....
Work today....whew! Hopefully we will have more customers today and that it won't rain the ENTIRE day!
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Good vibes that the IMPORTANT thing goes Mr BK's way today. Ole'. Okay? Yay!
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Worst restaurant experiences:
Well slow....extra slow....as in HOURS....service more than once at Denny's. I don't go there anymore. And the same EVERY time at Bob Evans....I don't go there anymore either.
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Off to work. Heigh ho heigh ho. BUT we do get one extra hour in the middle of the night tonight!
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And the word of the day is: FURPHY!
Casey would waltz
With a strawberry blonde -
The rumor that she was actually a he
being totally FURPHY, and instigated by
the band's trombonists.
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But the main reason that we went to Ikea was so that I could get a couple of curtain wires and clips (my sister told me about these).... Pretty cool, huh? Here's a picture of the set:
(http://www.ikea.com/PIAimages/38360_PE130272_S4.jpg)
They look like they could easily fit in that box you keep under your bed!
:o
;)
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President Muffley was shocked by the reporter's question at the press conference. "Sir, I do not wear a merkin. I AM a Merkin! I mean, that is my given name! Honestly, I do not know how these FURPHYS get started."
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No time to waste, we must get going up to Philly for der Brucer's class reunion.
And it's going to be very wet and rainy the entire time.
And I forgot to buy new shoelaces yesterday. :P
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Good morning, all! Today is truly an ugly, rainy and windy one. I think I'll not trek to Toyland but instead go to the NYPL around noon if thinfs calm down.
This morning I shall work on The Brain and perhaps do my laundry if the basement is free.
I know I've had grisly waits for service ina resataurant but at the moment all I can think about is the laundry romm. Perhaps later.
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Good morning DRs Elmore and FJL.
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Hoping the weather gets better, because we're going to the theater tonight at 59th and Park, to see SOUTHERN COMFORTS at Primary stages. The Times review for this was quite lovely, but I'd rather not be soaked through and through from the weather outside while watching it.
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Here's a question for you: the out-of-town folks who changed their clocks and don't know that we don't change them in Arizona -- will they be early or late for the conference today?
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Good morning!
All that rain and blustery wind has moved away and left us with a completely stunning Saturday. Really beautiful outisde, not too cool and with the leaves changing colors, it's just magnificent outside.
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Of course, I've spent the majority of my morning inside. After my workout, I decided I had to clean out the walk-in closet in my office.
The upstairs room that I use as an office was once a bedroom, and in the narrow walk-in closet, I had allowed to accumulate stacks of books and such over the years. I had made my mind up I was going to clean that closet out and get things in some some of order so I could get to things. It took a good chunk of the early morning, but I got it done, and the space is so much more usable now.
Of course, I've got three boxes of throw away junk to lug downstairs and put in the garbage. And that garbage will sit around for a week. Pick-up was yesterday.
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Loved the Toronto pics, DR Tom. Thanks so much.
Thanks for the pic of your hubby, DR Edi. Glad he's coming home to you.
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The worst experience I ever had at a restaurant was in CLearwater Beach, Florida, and I'm hesitant to put the blame on the restaurant fully.
I was there with my best friend at the time and two gay couples. These couples were both financially wealthy, so they were used to getting what they wanted when they wanted it.
We had a waitress who was probably 70 years old (or more). She was doing the best she could, and at one point I talked to her and found out she was working so she could pay off some overdue medical bills for her husband. She was really a sweet woman and doing the best she could.
Well, she was slow to bring drinks, slow to bring appetizers, slow to bring the dinners, etc. She wasn't wasting time or not doing her job, but she just moved slowly (I honestly think she had arthritis in her knees), and finally my (ex-)friend Buddy flew off the handle by her telling her how terrible her service had been and generally making a scene in front of the entire restaurant. I was so embarrassed I wanted to crawl under the table. He totally overreacted to her slow performance, and while we were leaving, I went to the manager to put in a good word for the woman. She got everyone's orders perfectly right; it just took a little time to get from the kitchen to the table, especially with that many people to serve. She was only able to carry a couple of plates on a tray at a time thus needing to make several trips to bring everyone's orders.
That was mid-week on our vacation with these folks, but it was the last meal my friend Hal and I ate with Buddy and his partner.
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I still have two movies on the DVR: UNDERCURRENT with Hepburn and Robert Taylor and KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE (which I've never seen all the way through) along with Wednesday night's CSI: NY. I should be able to get through these today. As for DVDs for the day, I've made no decisions yet, but I have a hankering to watch a James Bond movie, sort of to get in the mood for CASINO ROYALE at the theater in the next month or so.
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Guess I'll start6 lugging those boxes downstairs.
WBBL.
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Just in time for Halloween!
Page Two Dance!!!
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I only watched about an hour of THE CREATURE WITH AN ATOM BRAIN. It turned out to be a Sam Katzman/Clover production for Columbia directed by Edward L. Cahn. For a guy who started out directed Our Gang two reelers at MGM, Cahn can certainly make a SLOW movie.
I tried to watch this, but it was putting me to sleep!
Right now, TCM is showing Superman serials. I remember the series, but I never knew he started out as "Man of Steel" in 1948 in a 5 part serial!
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If our waiter had been elderly or had problems, I wouldn't have said anything. He was young, he would rather have been anywhere else, and he was waiting on a total of exactly three tables (four when we arrived - four with us, that is - but one table was getting their check).
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to BK for whatever it is this morning!
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I couldn't think of any bad restaurant experiences (apart from the food poisoning incident on Larchmonth I mentioned a few days ago, and that was sort of bad-after-the-fact.) But DR Matt reminded me of a similar story.
I was travelling out west, working on a doc for the Baptist Home Mission Board. (At one point in my life, this was the only film editing work that existed in Atlanta!) The director was a very obnoxious German guy. Just a quick example: I lugged a very heavy wooden tripod in St. Louis for 10 blocks. And then a few feet from our hotel, he wanted to carry it. "I don't want people to think I made a *girl* carry everything!" If something bad happened to a crew member, he would always bemoan "Why does this sort of thing always happen to ME?" He was so self-absorbed and obnoxious that it was sometimes entertaining. Sometimes.
Out in Berkley, we went to a restaurant and there were slight problems involving getting served--nothing out of the ordinary. The director complained and we got a free round of drinks. Emboldened by this, he started looking for situations to exploit which might get him more free benefits. This guy was notoriously cheap, even though it wasn't his money, it was Baptist money! Sometimes when Greg and I worked with him, he would take our money, including our standard 20% tip, and then pay the bill and leave about an 8% tip on the table!
Back to out west...
The sound man (not MY soundman) was also enjoying this scenario. We went to a very nice restaurant---we didn't have reservations so we had to wait a bit and have a drink. The food came and even though it was perfectly fine, the soundman and director complained. It was not up to "the quality they were used to"! I told the waitress mine was great, and then these two guys harrassed me for not playing along. They made the poor waitress miserable strictly for their own gain and they even made her call the manager over at one point.
After our meal, I went back to the kitchen and found the waitress, who was almost in tears. I apoligized for my party's obnoxious behavior, told her that I knew they were going to give her a crappy tip after all that, gave her 20 per cent tip and told her: "Be thankful. You never have to see us again. I have to spend another week with these jerks!" The rest of the trip, I would take a book and sit at another table when possible.
The only plus to working with this director wass that on one shoot, I was booked with a soundman named Greg and we bonded together in the face of adversity. By the end of the trip I was totally smitten.
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Love the pix of Toronto...one of my favorite cities!
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I've always been a believer in Furphy's Law: where there's heat, there's a cat.
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DRLaura-I wish we didn’t change our clocks tonight. I hate when it gets dark early.
The out-of-towners will be on time today. Tomorrow, providing you still have meetings, they will be late.
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Is Daylight Savings Time over? Jeez, I just haven't a clew about anything but anthropology, logic (precious little clew...), public speaking and French art song literature these daze. Got through this grueling week, and now look forward to about fifteen hours of reading today and tomorrow, before doing it ALLOVERAGAIN!!!
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So what time IS it, actually?
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I know I've had grisly waits for service ina resataurant but at the moment all I can think about is the laundry romm.
I've been going to the laundromat for over 25 years. Since we have such a huge immigrant population, the laundromat is now usually full of Mexican families with lots of screaming kids. I have developed a few games in self-defense to keep them from being so loud and miserable, or sometimes I pay them to help me match up 30 some pairs of socks.
I tell people that if they are worried about birth control for their sexually curious teenagers, send them to do laundry with me and they will never want to have unprotected sex! I have taken my 15 year-old-niece with me several times...
When we move, we will be able to use Greg's laundry pair (part of his "dowry") and do laundry at home. Wonder of wonders! Miracle of miracles!
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Penny, lucky for us the clock at HHW is on our time zone. ;D
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Edisauris-Your little French boy is cute, nice photo.
I still remember the excitement of getting my own washer & dryer, a luxury I truly appreciate.
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DRLaura-I wish we didn’t change our clocks tonight. I hate when it gets dark early.
Me, too! I usually stop by the new house and do a few hours of yard work to avoid traffic going north. It helps get rid of the stress of the day, I don't have the stress of sitting in Atlanta traffic and I get something done! The time change will put a stop to that, unless I am able to finish work early.
The rain has finally stopped here, blown away by strong gusts of wind. It's too wet to finish yard work there but I may try to paint the dining room.
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Huh??? I just looked at the clocks in this apartment - they all say 8:4-something... I haven't changed them - is it really 9:forty-something in Yesterday Hours???
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Where the hell AM I???
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Penny-we spent the last week & a half entertaining folks from Hami & Palms Jr. High.
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Penny-change the clocks when you go to bed tonight.
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Just looked at my watch - says 8:52...
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OOOhhhhhhhh.... it happens TONIGHT. Sheesh, I felt like I was in a twilight zone...
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Jane - were you HERE in LA? or did everyone come up to Ashland?
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Time to take Sherlock for a walk.
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(I'll be so glad to get another hour... need it, need it) I need another cup of coffee...
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Hi to that baby boy! Hiya, Sherlock!
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They came here. Ricky & Mimi, then Christina & Eric.
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End of this week, I go into ANOTHER marathon weekend at U of SM for my Masters... time do fly by when you have a lot to do. One great thing about all this: I used to feel a little guilty and unproductive, just sitting on my caboose, reading a book... now, that's the assignment! Do practically nothing but read a book!!!
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Speaking of which, off I go to read something in the range of 300 pages today. Best vibes to all, and to all a good day!
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Edisauris-Your little French boy is cute, nice photo.
Yes, he IS adorable. He just celebrated his 10th anniversary with his partner with a big party in Paris. (France recognizes same-sex partnerships, but not "marriage" per se.) Our S&V film was playing at a festival in Istanbul the same week and we had planned to go and make the party, but we kept reading about tourists being murdered in Turkey (sure, I want to be in a dark theatre with a bunch of tourists showing radical political films!) and the festival was completely unresponsive about giving us any information whatsoever. Since we knew we'd see him a few weeks later, we decided not to go.
My mom just mentioned last week that she would love to go to Paris, so we may plan a little trip for next year...
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Have dealt with what needed dealing with and a potential deesaster has hopefully been avoided.
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Worst restaurant experience: Back in the eighties, my mom and dad were visiting LA. Dad wanted to take us all to Trader Vic's which he had fond memories of when he had been out to LA years ago on business. He also invited my friend Larry Drake and his girl at the time to come with us. Everyone was dressed very nicely...but Larry wasn't wearing a sports jacket or coat even though what he had on was very expensive and stylish. When we got there we found that one was supposed to wear a jacket. They insisted on putting a jacket on Larry that was an awful navy blue, poorly designed, and, of course, didn't compliment anything he was wearing. Nor did it fit properly as Larry is a very big guy. When we got to our table we noticed other diners. One where a young man (11 0r 12) was seated not wearing a jacket. Larry, embarrassed already by being forced to wear this ill-fitting, tasteless, unfashionable jacket that clashed with what he was wearing, took it off and put it on the back of the chair. The waiter and the maitre d' became insistent that he put it back on, he pointed out the boy not wearing any jacket. They made the excuse that he was a child. I got up at that point and said, "Come on, we're all leaving. A truly classy restaurant does not humiliate their guests in this way." We all left before we ordered and went to the Charthouse in Westwood, where we proceeded to have alovely time and my Dad thoroughly enjoyed the new restaurant. I think he was also proud of the way that I authoritatively took the situation in hand and made the decision to leave without making a big stink or row, but wouldn't let one of our guests be embarrassed and just very simply and promptly said told management that no respectable establishment would discomfort a well-dressed patron to insist on some arcane rule. The jacket rule was there, I'm sure, to keep people coming in dressed in t-shirts and shorts and flip-flops, but that wasn't the case. Larry was very stylishly and tastefully dressed. He just wasn't wearing a jacket. I also sure that if some big Hollywood star had come in dressed as well as Larry, but no jacket, they would have bent the rigidity of their rule.
I'm coming into your establishment with six people to spend money and you treat us like white trash? I don't think so. No class.
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I'm going to a party at the River Cafe tomorrow for which jackets are required. It's the 80th birthday of a friend's mother and it's supposed to be a surprise. At $200 a plate, do you think they'll let me get away with keeping my jacket on my chair?
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Hope she's not reading HHW, or else the surprise is ruined.
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it's $200 a plate; extra if you want food on the plate. (Just kidding.)
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The invitation specified no gifts. But won't most people bring gifts anyway?
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Trader Vick’s no longer requires a jacket. The last time we were there, just 3 years ago, the meal was delicious & the drinks too yummy. In honor of my mother I ordered a Mai Tai. Half way through the drink I got the giggles-had a surprisingly wonderful time. Surprisingly, since we ate there the evening after my sister’s funeral. Hmmm, maybe not so surprising. :-[
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FJL-is a portion of the $200 going to a charity or is the restaurant that expensive?
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The restaurant really is that expensive. They're a well-off family, so they can afford it, though. The son (who's a very old high school friend) had been talking about the menu for weeks, so he's having a great time planning it. I guess when you compare it to what people pay for bar mitzvahs and such, $200 times 80 people, or $16,000 isn't too tremendous. But this had better be some birthday party is all i can say. :)
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The Thanksgiving menu looks good, only $105 http://www.rivercafe.com/menu_holidays.asp
The restaurant looks very nice, add some good wines & I’m guessing the $200 covers the entire meal.
http://www.rivercafe.com
Guess I answered my own question.
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A favorite restaurant memory is at a 65th brithday party where the honoree's wife took oevr the Rainbow Room. When the honoree saw all his friends shout "Surprise!" he shouted out "Separate checks!" (He was kidding, of course.)
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I look forward to the details of the party. If it says "no gifts" I wouldn't take one, just a card. I'm sure people will take them anyway. So what do you take an 80 year old woman with everything-a donation to her favorite charity?
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Your friend sounds like fun.
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Very few places require jacket anymore, although Crustacaen in Beverly Hills is one of them - however, I have dined there sans jacket (but in slacks and nice shirt) and they were jiggy with it. Rules made by uppity people should always be broken. FJL, I would wear no jacket to the party - of course, if it's cold out, that's another story.
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I am trying to remember if I have ever actually left a restaurant, and I think the answer is yes - once - Hamburger Hamlet in Hollywood - after waiting thirty minutes with no service, not even a sign of a waiter. I got everyone's names, and I wrote the corporate offices, received huge apologies and two free meals, and I know that the staff was rebuked.
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I wrote a parody lyric to the tune of "L'Chaim to Life" which her children will sing to her. (I worked for their family for a while so I knew details about her work life and her favorite yiddishisms to work into the lyric.) If they sing it reasonably, and assuming everybody else brings gifts, i'll tell her the lyric is my gift to her. If the song bombs, maybe I'll tell her my gift to her is on order and it didn't arrive yet. :)
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I actually would have left Marie Callendar's last night, but it's the first bad experience I've ever had there. Normally, I know the waitresses, and they take care of me.
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Here's a question for you: the out-of-town folks who changed their clocks and don't know that we don't change them in Arizona -- will they be early or late for the conference today?
Early!
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I can't think of a better gift than a song!
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I am going to go for a walk. It's time I got back in shape & take care of my health.
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Tomovoz-Gorgeous photos! My compliments to the photographer.
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Beautiful photographs Tom...
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Worst Restaurant experience....
My worst experience happened when I and my freind Maureen went to a local Perkins Restaurant in 2000 after a late show for something to eat. We were seated and were told the waiter would be with us shortly. It was not what you call busy that night with only four other tables being supposedly serviced. We waited and waited and no one came. Another table was also waiting for service. We did not even get water. We left after about 45 minutes and as we were walking out the door they said we owed them money. I said for what you never even came to our table and about four people were standing behind the counter making insinuations of the people in the restaurant. During our exchange, the other couple who were waiting for service also left rather ticked off. The next day, still fuming from the experience, I called and talked to the owner of the establishment and told him what had transpired and informed him i would no longer be frequenting his establishment for service to all customers should be fair and not determined on perceived orientation or station in life.
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i'll tell her the lyric is my gift to her.
That is far better than anything you could buy in a store. Maybe you can print out the lyrics on a nice stock and include it with a birthday card so she can read them later and remember your wonderful present.
BTW, when you wrote $200 a plate, I was assuming that this is what everyone was paying to go to the party. In that case, no present necessary! I guess I'm assocating it with fundraising events...
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fur-phy (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/furphy) [ fur -fee ]
–noun, plural -phies. Australian.
a false report; rumor.
[Origin: 1910–15; after Furphy carts water and rubbish carts manufactured by the Furphy family of Shepparton, Victoria, and used during World War I; cf. parallel semantic development of SCUTTLEBUTT (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=scuttlebutt) ]
Are you sure you aren't Vixmom in disguise?
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The song sounds like a beautiful gift
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Back from my every-three-weeks haircut:
I was leaving a parking garage when a woman pulls in front of me, her passenger door in front of me, and stops. She's talking on her cell phone and sitting there with nothing preventing her from turning her wheels and moving along. She's just decided to chat a bit, I guessed.
I blew my horn. She gave me the finger. I pulled my car up to within one inch of her and pressed my horn for a full 15-20 seconds.
She jumped out of her car and yelled, "Can't you see I'm waiting in a line?"
I leaned out of my car window and yelled back: "You're behind a parked car, and you're blocking the only exit from the lot! Get off that damned cell phone and move out of the way!"
She did.
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I have had that happen also...
The other kicker is watching them backing out of a tight spot yakking on a cell phone and nearly hitting other vehicles in the process
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Just to clarify, the family of the birthday Mom is paying the $200 a plate. :) :) :)
And it turns out the restaurant itself only requires jackets on gentlemen after 5 pm, and the party is from 12 to 4. But the family giving the party would prefer jackets, so as long as it's a request of the friends giving the party rather than a requirment of the restaurant...
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I think when I'm in my 80's, a room full of men dressed up in nice jackets would also be a lovely present!
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Dog Bosco and I had a nice walk in the fog. He is now a pooped pup and I am going to sell some things on Ebay to pay for my trip to California. Wish me luck.
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Oh, and I watched a fantastic samurai flick this morning entiled WHIRLWIND. It was made by Toho in 1964 and starred a slew of actors and actresses from the Godzilla movies! I was in heaven! It was a good movie too.
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Dog Bosco and I had a nice walk in the fog. He is now a pooped pup and I am going to sell some things on Ebay to pay for my trip to California. Wish me luck.
Is this more underwear?
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DR MattH, I agree with DR Francois, that is an excellent reflection on your character to put in a good word for her. She did the best she could and that cannot be overlooked.
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Well, I'm worth visiting too! I'm not little but... I'm French! :D
We'll put you on our agenda!
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I alsmot said my "to do" list, but that would be so...unseemly!
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I'll just sit here and anxiously await photos from the class reunion of Der B and Woody in their Do-Mi-Do duds!
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I'm sure Marie gets lots of dates!!
I'm sure she has a very full social Callendar! ::)
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It all depends on who sings it!! ;)
Good point, François!
Good present: a song from Guy Haines.
Bad present: a song from Edisaurus
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THe wind kicked up a little tis afternoon, but it is still beautiful out and very mild for late October. I spent a little time on the porch just breathing in the fresh air before coming back in to get on the internet.
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Oh, having a washer and dryer in the home is SUCH a convenience. For awhile while I was in college, my mother had to go to the laundromat when her washer/dryer (a combination unit!) finally bit the dust. Since my dad didn't do the laundry, he didn't realize what a hot, uncomfortable place those laundromats were (maybe they're better now; they were hellish back then). On summer vacation that summer while she was still trudging our clothes to the laundromat, I helped her one day and saw how awful it was. That night, I talked with my dad about getting the equipment replaced. What I didn't know was that he was planning on building a laundry room on the back of the garage so she could have a separate washer and dryer out there, but the men building the addition had to finish their current job before they could start on the addition. My fall, my mom had her laundry room.
Since I've lived away from home, I've never not had a washer and dryer. A dishwasher I could live without, but not a washer and dryer.
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I watched DIE ANOTHER DAY while cooking and eating lunch earlier today. This last of the Brosnon/Bond pictures has super DTS-ES sound and a gorgeous transfer, and I enjoyed seeing it again.
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Next I put in THE WIZARD OF OZ DVD to listen to the commentary track. I did listen to it before and thought the combination of John Fricke with a lot of archival interviews with certain stars wasn't as effective as the solo Fricke commentary on the OZ laserdisc set, but I wanted to hear it again just to make sure. The movie certainly looks grand on my upconverting player.
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Tonight, I'll get to some of the things on my DVR that have been sitting there for days. Need to clear them off to get ready for a week of heavy recording coming up now that the World SEries is over.
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[move=up,scroll,6,transparent,100%]Page Five Dance!!![/move]
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Heading into the den to rejoin Dorothy and her friends.
WBBL.
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Heading into the den to rejoin Dorothy and her friends.
WBBL.
Now there's a line so many of us have and can use.
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Heading into the den to rejoin Dorothy and her friends.
I'm looking forward to this:
THE WIZARD OF OZ Original Complete Film
November 24/25, 2006, 8 PM
Experience America’s greatest and best-loved homegrown fairytale in a digitally remastered print. The 23-Grammy-winning Atlanta Symphony Orchestra dramatically re-animates the classic tale of a girl, her dog, and the road to Oz in all its orchestral glory.
(My first dog was a Cairn Terrier, a.k.a. a Toto dog.)
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Back from rehearsal and a few errands and dear reader elmore will be delighted to know I just got an early copy of Oh, What A Lovely War DVD.
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Gee! Patient you were! I would not wait 45 minutes before voicing my displeasure!
Perkins Restaurants are not what I think of when I want a restaurant though! No offense to them!
Nor me but when there is not a lot of choice in Grand Forks, ND after 10 pm on a Saturday evening.
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Back from rehearsal and a few errands and dear reader elmore will be delighted to know I just got an early copy of Oh, What A Lovely War DVD.
I always get this title mixed up with "How I Won The War", which I do like. I've never seen "Lovely War", but maybe I'll read a review of it tomorrow morning! :)
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Right now I'm watching The Last Voyage - a movie I loved as a kid, but which doesn't hold up perfectly - still, there are some very tense scenes.
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Saturday evening greetings! I'm back after two very long days. Staff Day yesterday was one of the best in the 9 years I've worked for Dayton Metro Library. Our Executive Director started the day with a slide show of his volunteering, along with 4 other senior staff, at Biloxi Public Library back in June. They were helping clean up Katrina devastation. BPL is a 6-location system and their Main Library and one branch are still closed. The night between the 2 days they spent there, the staff had a covered dish dinner and it was the first time the entire staff had been together since the hurricane 10 months earlier. Our ED said they shared some amazing stories.
The basket giveaway was a huge success. We had 100% participation, meaning every branch and Main Library department contributed a basket - more than 30 all together. My favorite was from Cataloging - their theme was "Orange You Glad You Came to Staff Day?" and, of course, everything in the basket was orange, including a gift card from Home Depot. A staff member from Book Processing won my Nonprofit Nick Nacks and I don't think she "got it." Here's what I won:
Nothing.
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This morning, I picked up another AAUW/Ohio board member at 7:30am and we were in Columbus for a 6-hour meeting. It went well, but some people really need to have duct tape applied to their mouths.
I really need that extra hour of sleep we're going to get tonight.
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...I'd like to know WHY so many people, when they leave their hotel room for a long time, do let the lights on?
DR Francois - leaving a light on, and sometimes the TV or radio, when I go out for the evening is a personal safety, woman-traveling-alone tactic that I was taught many years ago. Of course, it's not necessary to leave all the lights on, but it is nice not to come back to complete darkness.
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DR Francois - leaving a light on, and sometimes the TV or radio, when I go out for the evening is a personal safety, woman-traveling-alone tactic that I was taught many years ago. Of course, it's not necessary to leave all the lights on, but it is nice not to come back to complete darkness.
I do the same thing by leaving the radio on when I leave for work and a small light on. Safety ... I also work at night and the way the lighting is set up in my apartment it is a necessary thing to leave a small light one. I usually leave a smal desk lamp on.
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I've had a great day at home: laundry, four hours rewriting my notes on thehistory of BABES IN TOYLAND for the preface to the orchestra score, laying out the last the three numbers on "The Brain." I'm waiting for BK to call me back about a possible key change on "All About Men," A big number from Act Two.
BK, I am jealous! I want my copy of "Oh, Whay A Lovely War!" It's not a great movie but it sure packed a wallop during Viet Nam, and with all the casualties in this current debacle our administration has dumped us into in Poland - oh, wait! that was the Nazis, or was it Cheney and Bush? I think it still has something to say about the idiocy of leaders, the sacrifice of the young, and the mourning of those left behind, and it's got the great Maggie Smith for its metaphor.
Right now I just took apart too many storage boxes to put away too many DVDs as I looked for my Community Songbook that contains the Marines Hymn, Anchors Aweigh, and other military things I need for "The Brain." I'm listening to the Kevin Spirtas DVD as I work, and I'm enjoying it immensely.
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DR Francois - leaving a light on, and sometimes the TV or radio, when I go out for the evening is a personal safety, woman-traveling-alone tactic that I was taught many years ago. Of course, it's not necessary to leave all the lights on, but it is nice not to come back to complete darkness.
Dr Ginny, although I can see where leaving the TV on in your room, with the volume low, can be a wise idea for both men and women who travel alone; I can't see that leaving the lights on in a hotel room serves as much of a deterrent. Most hotels have the light switch just inside the door, so guests can turn on the lights before they enter their darkened room. The sound of voices from a TV, as well as the light from the TV screen should be enough to keep most crooks away from your room.
Perhaps I have just been paying too much attention to Al Gore.[/size]
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I had something nice happen to me today.
I was out at the mall with my sister while she got a snowsuit for little megan (my niece). And the plastic piece on one side of my glasses broke off.
It left this rough piece against my nose/cheek and after only 10 minutes i had a big scratch on my face.
I was upset because the little plastic piece had been breaking off for months. And when i went to the place where i got the glasses they said they did not make the piece anymore (now they are a different size).
At the time this made little sense to me since the glasses were not that old. But i had gone to the other eye glass store at the mall and was told no as well.
Anyhow, so today i was quite upset because i didn't think i was going to be able to find a way to wear the glasses. And i didn't know what to do.
I was going to go to the place i got them and see if they could do anything (i was thinking of glue - yuck).
While my sister went to pay for the snowsuit i went to the bathroom (major department store). And right beside the bathroom was the store's eye glass department.
Well i thought it must be fate, and when i went in, the woman said they were the only place in the mall that carried the piece. And she fixed it for me ($6, but at that point i was thrilled).
I never would have thought to check out that little place. But thankfully i can wear the glasses now.
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Francois, I do leave a small lamp on sometimes in a hotel room if I am out and will not return until late especially if it is someplace where I do not feel terribly comfortable. When I check out, all lights are turned out.
I have a bad habit of falling asleep in bed reading and thus a lamp is always on
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One never pays too much attention to Al Gore! :D
He is still around ??
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What gets me in a hotel are people who have kids and they are unusually loud and rude late at night. That bugs me. I am relatively tolerant until around 10 or 11 but after that, IMHO, young kids should be IN BED!
I also think after that time others trying to sleep should be respected.
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I do have to laugh at one coffee shop experience and I have to applaud the woman behind the counter. I was waiting in line to get a coffee to go and the woman ahead of me was yakking away on her cell and woman asked me what I wanted. She was not going to wait for the gal on the cell phone. People behind me applauded the coffee barrista!!
Boy was the gal on the cell phone ticked! I loved it.
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I Am Certain the Staff Was Rebuked.
That is the title of my new novella.
DR EDISAURUS - please reconsider....it has been many moons since I was on anyone's "to do" list, as far as I know.
Good successful selling on EBAY, DR MBARNUM.
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THE LAST VOYAGE....it is very difficult for me to imagine Dorothy Malone and Robert Stack as a happily married couple, since they will always be the Hadley siblings - Kyle and Marilee - to me. But then again the marriage of brother and sister might be the ONLY solution to a daughter who looks like Tami Marihugh.
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Just to clarify, the family of the birthday Mom is paying the $200 a plate. :) :) :)
I also thought you had to pay for your dinner ;D Either way I expected you would wear a jacket as requested :)
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I Am Certain the Staff Was Rebuked.
That is the title of my new novella.
DR EDISAURUS - please reconsider....it has been many moons since I was on anyone's "to do" list, as far as I know.
Good successful selling on EBAY, DR MBARNUM.
Jrand, my to do list would frighten the most innocent!
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Jane, he will look ever inch the gentleman he is!
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I see we have hopped to page 6!!
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Datkota-I’m sure he will.
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François-On the rare occasion a hotel turns down the bed they often leave a light on. ???
I bet the people who leave all the lights on in a hotel do the same at home.
When we have guests we often leave extra lights on, until bed time, so they can find their way around the house. Surprising is how often I need to go into the guest room & bathroom to turn off the lights, day & night. We have a friend who leaves the refrigerator open all the time & I had to keep telling her to close ours. I told her she needs the kind that yells at you if you leave the door open for over a minute.
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'night.
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LOL DR DAKOTA CELT...
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I am watching a scary monster movie...THE FOUR SKULLS OF JONATHAN DRAKE...well, it isn't really scary...it it doesn't really have any monsters...but it is a movie.
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I have been thinking....I know that is dangerous.
BUT....wouldn't a CREATURE WITH THE ATOMIC BRAIN be much more fearsome than a CREATURE WITH AN ATOM BRAIN?
I mean, just how BIG was that atom, anyway? I mean, I was just thinking.
I am watching my NEW boxed set of Season One of THE CHAMPIONS....in a way it is an ancestor of HEROES....mixed with THE MAN FROM UNCLE.
Stuart Damon, William Gaunt, and Alexandre Bastede are each and every one of them E A S Y on the E Y E S....and nice location photography in various European cities. AND a nice theme song (but no lyrics) by Mr Tony Hatch.
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I am watching a scary monster movie...THE FOUR SKULLS OF JONATHAN DRAKE...well, it isn't really scary...it it doesn't really have any monsters...but it is a movie.
I have seen that movie...even the nightgowns are dull. ;D
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I also watched, for my Halloween enjoyment, a really fun samurai monster movie called STRIKE OF THE JAGUMA!
(http://www.weirdwildrealm.com/filmimages/strikejaguma.jpg)
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I have already set my clocks back one hour....so while I think it is 10:45, it is really only 9:45....or so.
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What is a jaguma?
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Time for to go to bed.
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I was thinking the same thing... What is a Jaguma??
A new line of gummy bears?
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JRand56, are you going to watch any spook movies?
...aside from THE CREATURE WITH THE ATOM BRAIN (a movie I actually paid good money for on DVD :P )
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On the left, Jaguma. On the right, hairy white gorilla.
(http://www.weirdwildrealm.com/filmimages/strike-jaguma.jpg)
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I'm back from a party for some dear friends: a couple who snuck off and got married, and are now expecting their first child, so it was a combinaiton wedding/baby shower. They have been fighting the same preservation battles that we have over the years and have been involved in our community activist groups. So all of the people at the party were all good friends and people we were happy to see. This is one of the things I'll miss about leaving this town, but I'm still glad we have our "exit strategy"!
In addition to being able to do laundry at home when we move, we will also have a dishwasher (besides myself) with a garbage disposal---the ultimate in luxury---and central heat and air, which I've never had. And the house has a two car garage, which is very rare for that neighborhood (there are LOTS of car break-ins there) and really rare for a 100 year old house. The house is tiny, but we will have amenities, oh yes.
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Had a full evening of viewing entertainment. I began by finishing THE WIZARD OF OZ. Yep, I was right the first time; Fricke's commentary on the laserdisc is superior to the one provided on the DVD set with him and other familiar voices from interviews.
I also looked at the restoration documentary again. I think this could have gone into more depth on the process and done more before/after comparisons.
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Next I pulled the Spencer Tracy-Katharine Hepburn movie DESK SET off the shelf and enjoyed it all over again. The Cinemascope framing looks great in this excellent transfer. I think the last time I played this, I played the commentary track, so tonight I just watched the movie for the pure pleasure of it.
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I finished my evening of viewing with Wednesday night's CSI: NY. Two cases were investigated: the death of a hotel's concierge and the shooting of a man by a woman who claimed the intruder killed her husband. Both of these cases were very routine and the murderers in both were easy to spot.
Michelle Pfeiffer's sister DeeDee was the principal guest star.
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For tomorrow, I have cued up KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE in the DVR and A TALE OF TWO CITIES (Ronald Coleman version) in the DVD player. Should be able to watch both tomorrow before prime time TV begins for me at 9 p.m.
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Thanks for the daylight savings time reminder. I've told myself several times tonight that I need to set the clocks back, and here I am ready to go to bed, and I still haven't done it!
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Off to bed now.
Good night!
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François, where in Paris is your hotel?
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Good night, Matt!
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François, where in Paris is your hotel?
I don't want to be REPORTed TO! I'm an honest person and I'm sorry if my babling has been offending people here tonight!
I'll try to be a better person and not come up with subjects that upset! :)
I have a shitty life and i want to "be left alone!"
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And one for Marple
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Thanks for the daylight savings time reminder. I've told myself several times tonight that I need to set the clocks back, and here I am ready to go to bed, and I still haven't done it!
Ah NO! ENOUGH OF THAT SAVING LIGHTS THING! Enough!
Let's all WASTE!
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I wasn't offended, only concerned about standards of privacy, which are presumably very different in France than in the U.S.
Since you removed your posts, Francois, I removed my response posts, since obviously my responses made no sense without your original comments.
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It doesn't take much to confuse this old man!
I'm saving my daylight so I can use it next winter. Will this extra hour fade the curtains? Tomorrow I need to recalculate the time difference betwixt Oz and La La land.
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Tomorrow's photographs will be of Niagara Falls.
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I wasn't offended, only concerned about standards of privacy, which are presumably very different in France than in the U.S.
Since you removed your posts, Francois, I removed my response posts, since obviously my responses made no sense without your original comments.
Yes, you are right! I'm the one who's offended, not you! Your comments were full of inane insunations leading me to believe you might be one of those who leave the lights on at night when not in his hotel room! Your right! I was just mentioning something I noticed last night! never bothered with it in the 6 years i worked in that hotel!
Your responses made sense; just my rambling did not!
Again, I did not want to create an issue! I jsut don't get the fact that, if one leaves a room for some time, one should turn off the light as they do! I'm a nigthwatch, whatever you want to call it, and I am also responsible for the security of the guests here; 75 tonight!
And; more to the fact, I turned off the damn lights just 10 minutes before she show up! That was a one time thing so please don't jump to nasty conclusions, Your Honor!
Standards in Old Europe can be so close to the ones in the New World!
Now, au revoir!
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Tomorrow's photographs will be of Niagara Falls.
Oh no! Light Energy encore!! I'm cursed! :-\
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Well, Dear Readers (a BK reference), the conference is over -- just a 7 a.m. board meeting and a large worship service, and then I can go back and catch up on notes and posts.
We had a fun evening tonight -- I'll have to see if I can find my card reader and post some photos of this evening's festivities.
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This evening I skipped out on the festivities of the conference and attended other festivities. Here is a photo:
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And another:
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I wasn't offended, only concerned about standards of privacy, which are presumably very different in France than in the U.S.
Since you removed your posts, Francois, I removed my response posts, since obviously my responses made no sense without your original comments.
I assume that there were a great many posts removed since Matt's Page 5 Dance is now on page 4 and Dakota Celt's reference to jumping to Page 6 is now in the middle of page 5!
Have we really reached the point where we can so casually throw away much needed posts??? I think not!
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Great photos Laura - as always. Sandra is looking so mature. Who is Jason?
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That is the lovely Jason Graae, who appeared here in town this weekend in "Hello Jerry!" Half of the cast was out sick.
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What contretemps did I miss? I hope everyone is calm and collected or, at the very least, collected and calm. I don't like the word inane - it's combustible.
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What contretemps did I miss? I hope everyone is calm and collected or, at the very least, collected and calm. I don't like the word inane - it's combustible.
I am afraid I missed everything, too. I had a murder mystery dinner performance I had to do this evening.
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I think I'll put up the notes late since we're falling back this evening. I'm watching a motion picture entitled Mission Impossible III.
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I think I'll put up the notes late since we're falling back this evening. I'm watching a motion picture entitled Mission Impossible III.
Don't let it put you to sleep!
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While waiting for Jason to visit with everyone, I looked at some of the art in the lobby:
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But I thought that the fruit on the top of the cake was better than the art:
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We had to wait quite a while for him to talk to everyone.
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NIce pictures Laura!!
I agree... I like the art on the cake also... The fruit looks tasty
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Laura, are those black raspberries on the cake?
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Laura, are those black raspberries on the cake?
They were blackberries.
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So, folks will be early today. That's great. Our meeting is at 7:30 a.m. I hope they don't arrive at 6:30!
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I was searching YouTube.com for Broadway stuff and found a performance by The Four Plaids (of Forever Plaid), performing a song in an AIDS benefit show. If you loved it when The Plaids sang "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd" on the BK recorded "Sondheim: A Celebration," click HERE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmTLSTikhv0) and get ready to laugh your ASS off!!
;D ;D ;D
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They look like they could easily fit in that box you keep under your bed!
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It's already full.
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