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Archives => Archive 8 => Topic started by: bk on December 19, 2006, 12:08:29 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were older than springtime, and now it is time for you to post until the older than springtime cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: EXTRAPOLATE!
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Topic of the Day: Fortunately, I don't think that I've ever been in a situation that was so embarrasingly embarrasing that I "just wanted to run and hide"...yet. ::)
;D
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And now...to bed. :)
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good morning! It's quiet round here today. I'm off to work, our office annual lunch, the chiropractor and then home to prepare for a couple days of really nasty weather.
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Good morning, all! I've been bounced off this site for "too many connections" since 7 AM, and after nearly 90 minutes, I am in. Good to see our DR DanTheMan back! Long may he be with us,
I'm sorry to hear about the new synth player, but I'm glad to hear everything is now on tape. I look forward to what becomes of the cast album. I must say, though, I can imagine my Dear Friend BK sitting there saying to Vinnie and DR Adriana "we're in the toilet!" over and over, and I'm glad I missed it!
I hope Wednesday's session proceeds much more smoothly. I miss everyone involved with The Brain quite a lot.
I'm currently sitting here waiting for a call from my Dad. The Macbeths have got him into a state which burns my ass; the man's not got long to live and the Macbeths continue to work him into agita he needs no more than I need to see Bernadette Peters ever again in a Merman role. Oy!
After that, a trip to Fed Ex and Toyland, where I will try to ascertain if we still have work after Dec. 31. Any and all vibes are welcome!
Was there a TOD I forgot?
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Glad to see Dan the Man! So sorry to hear you've been ill.
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for continued recovery!!
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I just got bounced off again for "too many connections." What's going on today?
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Good vibes to DR Dan the Man. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Vibes for our returning Yesterday Birthday Boy - DtM!
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Excellent vibes for DR DANISE and Big Bear!
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The session sounds interesting. I used to wonder why musicians built recording studios in their homes once they became rich and famous.....until I found out that there studio time (expensive) was charged against their royalties....learned that by reading Beach Boy Brian Wilson's book.
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TOD:
Well, I supposed it was doing an entire act of a play with my fly open....I was the LAST person in the theatre to know.
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Good vibes for the VOCAL SESSION tonight.
As Tony Randall said once when he was a guest panel member on WHAT'S MY LINE and moderator John Daly held up a copy of an LP called "Tony Randall - Vo-vo-dee-oh-doe" (shades of Cindy Williams) and said: "Tony, you have a new record album out now."
And Tony replied: "Yes, John, it's the record the world is waiting for." I'm not sure he was kidding.
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Sometimes when one polate is not enough, I like an extrapolate.
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Whew! :P
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Sometimes when one polate is not enough, I like an extrapolate.
It seems to me when company was coming in those old movies, the hostess always told Hattie McDaniel to "set an extrapolate."
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DantheMan---
Happy Birthday!
Glad you're back!
You survived a heart attack!
Now you have your color back!
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DR ADRIANA certainly looks right at home behind all that liquor.
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Thanks for the jokes, DR FJL. The check is in the mail.
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OMG.....it must have been so successful that they released ANOTHER album. :P
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Tuesday morning greetings!
DR Edisaurus is a super elf! The item she helped me find for DH Richard arrived yesterday. YAY!
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I'm heading out. The Macbeths are killing my Dad - as I just learned from a phone call - and I refuse to get into the battle from a distance of 500 miles. I cannot believe that my brother, knowing his father hasn't much longer to live, is giving him such a difficult time about things. There's more I cannot go into, but it all deals with inheritance. I have to say I am not happy with the turn of events in Ohio this morning, and I worry about my dad.
Back later.
Oh, yes, the TOD: the first 30 years of my life was a series of public embarassments I refuse to relive or divulge. I'm glad I survived them. As for the ones after, I'm not drudging them up for anyone; you'll have to wait for the memoirs.
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DR ELMORE....just remember KARMA.
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for Emore and Dad.
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Good morning!
The REALLY warm weather is going away,k but we're still slated for mid-60s today which will be nice. Colder later in the week, however.
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So great to see yesterday's birthday boy DR Dan (the Man) in the forum last night. Sorry to read of your illness, DR Dan, but heere are strong wishes for a full recovery.
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Very sorry to read of your problems with relatives, DR Elmore. I do NOT understand folks who pull this stuff while parents are alive to know what's happening. The Macbeths must be completely conscience-free.
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I have the second disc in the MEDIUM set to get to today, and I also recorded THE TWO MRS. CARROLLS off TCM last night (early this morning actually) which I'll also be watching today.
Everything on TV tonight of interest to me is either missing (VERONICA MARS) or in reruns which i have no interest in seeing again, so apart from CARROLLS and RED-HEADED WOMAN (which I recorded last week), looks like this will be a totally DVD day.
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My most embarrassing experience:
I've mentioned my uncle on this forum many times. This was my father's brother who had no children and who treated my brother and me as his children. Every Saturday, he would pile us and any of our friends that we wanted into his car and take us to Charlotte (about 40 miles away). We would go to the area's first enclosed mall (Charlottetown Mall), shop, and eat at the S&W cafeteria. This was a Saturday ritual that went on for at least ten years.
One afternoon when I was twelve or so, we were browsing through the school supplies in the drug store in the mall. I was picking up various pens and colored pencils (loved that stuff when I was a kid) but didn't want to buy anything with the dollar he always gave us on these weekly trips. (I would save them up weekly to buy cast albums.)
The store manager thought he saw me and my cousin Sonny pocket some items and leave the store without paying. So, once we got out of the store, he accosted us and demanded that we empty our pockets. I really didn't know what shoplifting was and had never stolen anything in my life, but I turned six shades of red to be stopped by this angry man and be ordered to empty my pockets. Both of us complied and, of course, there was nothing there belonging to the store. The manager, instead of apologizing, lectured us harshly about the evils of stealing and then stormed back into the store.
I can't tell you how upset I was! I was crying and shaking (my uncle wasn't with us; he was in another part of the mall). Anyway, when he finally joined us back at the car, he asked and asked what the matter was, but neither of us would talk. FInally, about 1/3 of the way home, I couldn't hold it in any longer and told him what had happened. He turned the car around then and there and drove back to the mall and went to the store where he proceeded to give the manager a piece of his mind and also demand to talk to someone higher up. Phone calls were made, but that was the last we spoke of it that night.
The next weekend, the manager was no longer at that store. My uncle told us on the way home that he had been fired for his actions.
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Does this get us to Page Two?
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Page Two Tony & Joe Dance!!!
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TOD: years ago I was hired to work "in-house" at a temp service. The manager had me dress up as a gigantic pumpkin (huge pumpkin body, green tights and a little leaf on my head--I kid you not) one Hallowe'en and go out on the streets of Portland to hand out promo brochures on said temp service. Now this may have been embarrassing for a "normal" person (and we know that exempts me automatically ;D ), but I decided to "run with it". Among the two funnier things I did that day:
1. This was in the days when the Scientologists were very active in Portland. They would stand out on street corners and their de rigeur opening line was "Can I ask you a question?". If you responded (or even made eye contact, LOL), they'd then proceed with "Are you happy with your life?" or somesuch nonsense to get you into their "Celebrity Centre" (yes, spelled CENTRE) to take their little personality test. So anyhoo I snuck up behind one of them who was out on a busy streetcorner. "Excuse me," I said loudly, "can I ask you a question?" The Scientologist turned around and his jaw literally dropped open. I continued without missing a beat, "I keep having a delusion I'm a gigantic pumpkin. Can Scientology help me?" For once a Scientologist was speechless.
2. This one was actually funnier for me. Toward the end of the day, I saw a lady carrying several small carved pumpkins in her arms and I started running after her screaming "Child murderer, child murderer!" She got really freaked out and ran into a building to hide from me. I still giggle when I think about it.
Re: Elmore and inheritance. One of the smartest things my parents ever did (aside from having me, of course) was sitting all of us kids down probably 30 years ago and letting us "divvy" up their personal items between us, with them moderating. The list went into their will as a codicil. That way, there was no question (although my middle sister, the "black sheep," of course tried to get "extra" for her first grandchild who was born after my mother's death. The attorney said "no," which of course was proper).
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JMK, your pumpkin stories had me laughing out loud! LOL!
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Dan the Man - Sending you vibes for good health in the future, and any full recovery vibes that are still needed. You've been greatly missed, and been thought about a lot.
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Has this Playbill article on Kritzerland's Skinner/Ripley CD's street date being today been posted here yet?
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/104305.html
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Great stories from DRs JMK & MATTH for different reasons!
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Thanks for the link, DRFJL.
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DR JMK,
Great pumpkin stories!
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Re: the "child murderer" lady. What really makes me laugh is thinking what she said when she got to her office. :) "There was this gigantic pumpkin chasing me down the street saying I killed his children." "Suuuurre, Mabel--did we drink our lunch today?"
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Thanks for the info last night, DR JMK. I just ordered the enhanced Royksopp CD at DDCD for $13.97.
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... and after nearly 90 minutes, I am in.
Overheard in a couples rest-home at 1 AM?
der Brucer
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And welcome back DtM! I hope you and your heart are on the mend now...we were all a bit worried at your missing in action status!
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Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, 9.48 am.
der Brucer
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As for the TOD:
I have never embarressed myself.
(Well, there was that Paul Haber incident....but it shall never be mentioned and it will take many, many years before I can ever laugh about it! :D )
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TOD - The 2 instances that come to mind both involve my M-i-L and have a lot to do with why I work a long-distance phone call away from her. Going into more detail would not be advised :-X
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I had read about Joseph Barberra's death this morning in the newspaper before I logged on to see DE derBrucer's posting from last evening after I had logged off.
Thanks to him for providing me with so many hours of entertainment when I was a child. I still think SO fondly of the Jetsons, Huckleberry Hound, and all the others from the golden days of TV animation. (I have to say that even though he won seven Oscars for the Tom and Jerry series, I was not a fan of those much.)
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Going down now to start preparing lunch. Barbecued chicken today!
WBBL.
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H/B cartoons were a huge part of my childhood also Matth!
I still love Huckleberry Hound, Yogi Bear and Boo Boo, The Flintstones, ect. (I was not that fond of Tom and Jerry either).
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I was wondering why I awoke to twenty orders this morning - how nice!
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Let's see how this works on my new computer. ;D
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Thanks to him for providing me with so many hours of entertainment when I was a child. I still think SO fondly of the Jetsons, Huckleberry Hound, and all the others from the golden days of TV animation. (I have to say that even though he won seven Oscars for the Tom and Jerry series, I was not a fan of those much.)
Exactly the way I feel. 8)
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DR Edisaurus, I watched THE INTERNATIONALE last night and enjoyed it very much. Somehow I had never heard of this song, but it was fun learning about it.
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What were these twenty orders telling you to do, BK?
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Vibes for many DRs:
Elmore & family
Danise & pets
JMK & pets
Cillaliz & weather
Dan(the Man) & health
PennyO & travel
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We still have warm weather, DR GINNY! Rain for later in the week.
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I have both those Tony Randall albums and there are actually some nice cuts on them. He does a nice job on YOU'RE BLASE and CECILIA and a few others.
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Are they in STEREO, DR CP? And which was the first and which was the followup? I can't read the numbers on those EBAY pics.
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I liked his voice on the OH CAPTAIN cast album.
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We still have warm weather, DR GINNY! Rain for later in the week.
Not very Christmasy, but I'm glad for travelers if it stays above freezing.
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Not very Christmasy, but I'm glad for travelers if it stays above freezing.
Me too! ;D
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Page Three Dance.
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DAN (the Man)-VERY GOOD HEALTH VIBES!! It’s nice to see your green face.
Danise-GOOD SURGERY & RECOVERY VIBES FOR BEAR!
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Elmore-I’m so glad you have one good brother and sister-in-law. Good vibes for your father!
JMK-I had a good laugh over both the pumpkin stories. “Child murderer” ;D
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I got a too many connections this morning when I was trying to welcome back Dantheman and send him vibes
So..."Welcome back Dan" HEALTHY HEART VIBES~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Oh what the heck, how a bout a round of vibes for the house, I'm sure it wouldn't hurt ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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I just took the plunge and asked for an extra day off to get ready for Christmas. I will leave work at 4pm tomorrow, Wednesday, Dec. 20, and not be due back until 9am, Wednesday, Dec. 27.
I'm a very happy Mrs. Santa.
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Oh what the heck, how a bout a round of vibes for the house, I'm sure it wouldn't hurt ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Well it might not have hurt, but it gave HHW a good case of bloat. ;)
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Being Jewish and Scottish makes me....thrifty, yeah, that's the ticket, thrifty, department: Just got back from using Border's 40% off boxed DVD sets plus my personal shopping day 10% discount, so I got each of the new Walt Disney Treasures sets for $17 each!
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Good Day dear Esteemed, recorded, produced, and planned BK --
I'm glad you were able to do all of the pickups on Monday with the Kbd. #2 fellow. I (obviously) have empathy for a keyboard player having to jump in at the last, and not being really familiar with both the feel of the show, and the technical problems of doing all of the patch changes.
But it will be so much fun to have the finished CD !!! :)
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JRand, I couldn't tell you about the Tony Randall albums. Unfortunately, a friend recently put them on CD for me, so the actual albums have been boxed and stacked in the store room and I ain't digging 'em out.
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And what am I not happy about?? .... well, because the session Wednesday is in the evening, it conflicts with a little bit of paying work I have that evening, and so I can't come over and listen. Poo ! Yuck !! Drek !! Merde !! Birdy Num-Nums !!
But on my next trip over, I shall take you for a belated Christmas/Hannukah dinner at Musso & Frank's . We shall sup, and feast, and gorge, and eat shrimp cocktail shrimp, and stuff our gaping maws........pounded steak with country gravy !!
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A Big belated BIRTHDAY WISH for DR PennyO !! I'm really sorry that I didn't get to say hello to you in person at "The Brain" . :(
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Sorry DR Elmore to read of your problems. Good vibes to your father. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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~~~SUPER VIBES FOR DR ELMORE'S FATHER!!~~~
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Must....
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recover....
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...whilst....
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WHEW!!
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I'm feeling several inches skinnier already.
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If you are like me, (and who isn't?), you are tired of the same old Christmas CDs that you have at home and their is nothing exciting for sale at your local music mart, then check out the Rodzinski reccommended websited http://www.weirdomusic.com/downloads.htm where you will find dozens of cool old Christmas LPs available for free downloads so that you can make your own Christmas CDs!
For example I am now downloading this album:
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Up next will be this one,
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...and this one which intrigues me as it is something I would have loved when I was a kid due to the puppets on the front cover...
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WHEW!!
Hard work, but it neeed to be done!
der Brucer
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.....so check it out and create some free Christmas CDs for yourself....!!!
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Or if you are sick of Christmas already then you can download something like the soundtrack to DAKTARI or some such thing....
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As for the TOD:
I have never embarressed myself.
(Well, there was that Paul Haber incident....but it shall never be mentioned and it will take many, many years before I can ever laugh about it! :D )
You certainly didn't say hello to him at The Brain!
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Yes, well, I doubt he would have cared to speak to me.
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Yes, well, I doubt he would have cared to speak to me.
Well, the fallout would have been certainly interesting.
This has been a perplexing and rather shitty day. My father lent my brother Macbeth some time ago a large sum of money to tide the company my brrothers purchased from my father. My father, in a fit of generosity which has always been a great part of his nature, decided that when the loan was returned, he would divide it three ways and give it to me and my brothers as a gift payable over a couple of years to avoid our paying taxes on it. I learned about this in May after his surgery. At the famous July 5 family affair when Macbeth let me know he resented my inheriting anything, he told my father that he owed him nothing. This was also the time that my other brother learned of this loan to "their" company which Macbeth thinks is his and the company's bank account his personal account.
So, the first payment was made to my dad in Agust under duress, but I heard Macbeth tell my dad he'd he'd get the check for me the next month. Well, it's now December, and Macbeth refuses to pay my dad any more money. My father is both hurt by his actions and I think a bit humiliated; my two brothers are at odds over this new contretemps, and I honestly believe the Macbeths plan to hold off the payment so that my brother and I will have to take them to court to retrieve it after my dad's death. This was the first round of the day.
I got home from dinner with Jose last night to find that around 7:30 pm amazon.com's trucking service tried to deliver a package. This morning I signed the release, requesting the package be left at my door. I got home 30 minutes ago, the release is no longer on the door, and no package in sight. Have I been ripped off?
I had packages to ship today with delivery confirmations so I went to the post office to use their equivalent of an ATM. When mailed 10 packages on Saturday, I went as soon as they opened to not hold up a line of waiting people. So today, I had to wait as the line grew while a person who clearly had never used the service before mailed 6 packages and took forever.
I have to write a report this afternoon to the Institute in a desperate effort to keep the project afloat. Oy!
Did anything good happen today? Not yet. But I live to hope.
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Mt St Helens is acting up again.
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Did anything good happen today? Not yet. But I live to hope.
At least Jose is handy to take the blame!
der Brucer
Don't you know any Italians from Jersey you could send to Ohio to solve your problems?
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DR Elmore, keep you spirts UP and ignore the bad and the things you have no control over. Besides you had dinner with DR Jose...that was a good thing!
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I had an afternoon of MEDIUM episodes today - all four from the second disc in the set from season 2.
This included one of my favorite episodes from the second season: the one where Allison dreams that the entire DA's office is getting mowed down by a sniper's bullets. Meanwhile, in court, the DA is getting creamed becasue the defense attorney seems to have a psychic in his employ. A really outstanding episode.
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There was also the episode where an old flame of Joe's shows up to ask his help in landing her a job at Joe's engineering firm. Nice to see the old green eyed monster can bite Allison from time to time, too.
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After I finished the MEDIUM episodes, I put in THE PUBLIC ENEMY. I've had this on DVD for awhile but hadn't watched it, and hadn't actually seen in movie in decades. I only got about thirty minutes in, but it's nice to revisit it after such a long time.
The transfer is OK for a film this old. The sound is very tinny, of course, and there are some scratches and grain, but it's as good as it's probably ever going to look. I'll finish it tonight before I start THE TWO MRS. CARROLLS.
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Back from a most excellent lunch, must now pack up one more order, then brave Ye Olde Postal Office.
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TOD: years ago I was hired to work "in-house" at a temp service. The manager had me dress up as a gigantic pumpkin (huge pumpkin body, green tights and a little leaf on my head--I kid you not) one Hallowe'en and go out on the streets of Portland to hand out promo brochures on said temp service. Now this may have been embarrassing for a "normal" person (and we know that exempts me automatically ;D ), but I decided to "run with it". Among the two funnier things I did that day:
1. This was in the days when the Scientologists were very active in Portland. They would stand out on street corners and their de rigeur opening line was "Can I ask you a question?". If you responded (or even made eye contact, LOL), they'd then proceed with "Are you happy with your life?" or somesuch nonsense to get you into their "Celebrity Centre" (yes, spelled CENTRE) to take their little personality test. So anyhoo I snuck up behind one of them who was out on a busy streetcorner. "Excuse me," I said loudly, "can I ask you a question?" The Scientologist turned around and his jaw literally dropped open. I continued without missing a beat, "I keep having a delusion I'm a gigantic pumpkin. Can Scientology help me?" For once a Scientologist was speechless.
2. This one was actually funnier for me. Toward the end of the day, I saw a lady carrying several small carved pumpkins in her arms and I started running after her screaming "Child murderer, child murderer!" She got really freaked out and ran into a building to hide from me. I still giggle when I think about it.
These are pretty damned funny!! ;D
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Hi DR Elmoore..... Wow ! Reading your description of the family situation sounded strangely like parts of "Brothers & Sisters," the new ABC show this year. Try not to give yourself an ulcer or any heart problems from crappy siblings.
But, as a musician myself, I understand that we work many years in a field where there is rarely a thing like a benefit, insurance plan, retirement, or anything else like that. So if something is rightly your's, of course you need to stand up for yourself.
In the immortal words of our suave and studly Grande Mensch.....
"Damn them.... damn them all to hell!"
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All good wishes for having to deal with the USPS dear BK -- It starts getting worse each day now this week. Take a dark chocolate chew with you. :)
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Mt St Helens is acting up again.
I just heard about this, but don't know any details! :o
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Mt St Helens is acting up again.
I wish the Macbeths lived under it.
All I need is fratricide guilt. Oy!
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Frightening - but majestic!
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I wish the Macbeths lived under it.
All I need is fratricide guilt. Oy!
Hell - PUSH THEM IN!
In for a penny, in for a pound!
der Brucer
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All I need is fratricide guilt. Oy!
They say great art comes from suffering. It doesn't say you have to be the sufferer.
der Brucer
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Why is it I always find out about things happening in the NW from people on the other side of the country here on HHW? :)
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I went to the site but I refuse to enter a 50 letter "download code," especially with all the right side letters cut in half so that you can't tell what they are. Oy.
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LOL DR CP.....I am NOT that interested either.
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DR ELMORE....Karma....Karma....KARMA
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Page Five Dance
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Now I am off to check out weirdo music for Christmas!
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Why is it I always find out about things happening in the NW from people on the other side of the country here on HHW? :)
Because use idle-elders look out for you working stiffs.
der Brucer.
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Your dancing Santas have been hilarious today, DR JRand!
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Now heading down to clean the living room, read more in KATE, and then settle in for an evening of DVDs and DVR.
WBBL.
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I just heard about this, but don't know any details! :o
DETAILS! (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,237578,00.html)
Mount St. Helens Erupts, Spewing Steam, Ash Into Washington State Sky
Tuesday , December 19, 2006
NEW YORK — Mt. St. Helens awoke Tuesday afternoon with a mild eruption, spewing a plume of steam and ash into the Washington State sky.
The event was most probably was caused by growth of the new lava dome inside the crater, experts said.
During such eruptions, changes in the level of activity can occur over days to months.
The eruption could intensify suddenly or with little warning and produce explosions that cause hazardous conditions within several miles of the crater and farther downwind.
Small lahars — a debris flow — could suddenly descend the Toutle River if triggered by heavy rain or by interaction of hot rocks with snow and ice, experts said.
Under current conditions, small, short-lived explosions may produce ash clouds that exceed 30,000 feet in altitude, meaning commercial aircraft are being warned to avoid the area.
der Brucer
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Your dancing Santas have been hilarious today, DR JRand!
And some of us are stealing copies to share!
(Right click copy/paste will move an animated GIF to mail (at least on AOL).
der Brucer
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Why is it I always find out about things happening in the NW from people on the other side of the country here on HHW? :)
Because with the time zone difference, they hear about it earlier, silly.
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NOW TO A VITAL ISSUE OF UNIVERSAL CONCERN
People for the Ethical Treatment of Oompa Loompas
Wonka has no legtimate children and is not married, though it is thought that he has fathered many children with the female Oompa Loompas. He has developed complex and abstract methods of torture and means of physical labor for the Oompa Loompas, deriving pleasure solely from seeing the "forgotten minority" suffer.
(http://www.angelfire.com/movies/petol/elevator.jpg)
"Au contraire...for you see, an Oompa Loompa WILL cry if you bend his fingers back far enough."
Read more about it at PETOL (http://www.angelfire.com/movies/petol/)
der Brucer
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Still waiting for that rain. Looks like it might today.
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After reading of the travails in DR Elmore's family and having seen many other friends who have gone thorugh the same with greedy and ungrateful relatives, it reminds me once again that I'm thankful for the fact that there will be nothing for me to inherit when my parents pass on.
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I am fortunate that when my mother passed away, my sister and I agreed on everything.
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DETAILS! (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,237578,00.html)
der Brucer
Thanks for the info!
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The "money side" of our inheritance was more or less hassle free (once again, the only hassle being my one sister's attempts to get more for her children and grandchildren, and as it turned out, one of her kids did get an extra 13K because he never repaid a loan my parents made him, but that's another story--kind of like Elmore's, it sounds). And the "personal goods" side was taken care of by that family meeting many moons ago. It was a smart idea, because my Dad especially had priceless memorabilia collected over a lifetime in the service. As it happens, my eldest sister ended up giving me a lot of the Army stuff that was "rightfully" hers as she thought it should pass down to my sons. I have some incredible documents from WWII, including detailed outlines for what was the planned land invasion of Japan!
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Hey, edisaurus, you never answered my query of two days ago re editing.
Back from the postal office - one of the employees told me long ago that the best times to get there are first thing in the morning and at two o'clock. I arrived at two o'clock and must say there were only three people in line and I was a very happy camper.
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I went to the site but I refuse to enter a 50 letter "download code," especially with all the right side letters cut in half so that you can't tell what they are. Oy.
JMK, that fooled me too. But those multiple letters are just the background..you need to type in the hard to see 4 letter/number combo.
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And the word of the day is: EXTRAPOLATE!
Casey would waltz
With a strawberry blonde,
But then they would suddenly stop
And let anyone watching EXTRAPOLATE what their next step would be.
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Topic of the Day: Fortunately, I don't think that I've ever been in a situation that was so embarrasingly embarrasing that I "just wanted to run and hide"...yet. ::)
;D
In other words, your mother has not yet found the box under your bed. Right?
:o
::)
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I couldn't get on this AM either and I had to get to work, Glad to see it is working again.
My most embarrassing moment involved a chocolate bar, a penguin and a football player from the Miami Dolphins.
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Have fun downloading JRand56!
I just downloaded my fourth LP today
(http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/57/4261/400/The%20Pied%20Pipers%20Sing%20Favorite%20Christmas%20Carols-Front.jpg)
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In other words, your mother has not yet found the box under your bed. Right?
:o
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No...and right now, it's all taped up and still in the storage unit with my other stuff, waiting to be brought home when I have some time. ;)
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I will soon be thrilling to the worlds finest true high fidelity!
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Why true high fidelity should find me thrilling is anyone's guess.
Ba da dum!
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I still can't get it to work. I tried 3 times with the Jewish Jingle Bells and all it downloaded was an HTML document that took me right back to the website.
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Heigh-ho!
Back from a full day of travelling upstate SC for shopping/sight-seeing.
Sigh.
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Anyone familiar with a singer named Doris Drew? She is on one of these albums I downloaded and what a wonderful voice she has! I have never heard of her before.
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I still can't get it to work. I tried 3 times with the Jewish Jingle Bells and all it downloaded was an HTML document that took me right back to the website.
On the "rapidshare" page are you clicking on "free"? You should then wait a few seconds for a "ticket" then you should be able to easily download your song or album.
I know not why it is not working for you.
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TOD: My most embarrassing "in front of people" moment remains my rehearsal snit/comeuppance during a college production of "MacBird" in which I portrayed the Wayne of Morse.
We were a week away from full technical dress rehearsals (and only 10 away from performance) and for days I'd been promised "my" sound cues. I had my costume. I had my prop -- a 15-foot-long papier-mache lance that preceded me onstage and which I wielded obnoxiously while on stage.
Everyone else had their cues. My big entrance was to be to the strains of the William Tell Overture.
I'd been promised for several consecutive nights that I'd get the cue the "next" rehearsal. Finally, I decided to wait for my cue rather than do my own rendition of the opening strains of the overture (which i knew from "The Lone Ranger", obviously).
The cue moment came...and went. The director yelled, "Where's Ron?" "Where is the Wayne of Morse?"
Ron replied: "Where's the cue I've been promised three days in a row?"
The tech director replied: "You'll get your cue when you hear your cue!"
The director said: "Didn't you promise him a cue tonight?"
The tech director said: "He needs to get over it: I've got lights to set."
The director said: "Ron, can you just come out please and let us continue?"
I said: "Let's go back to the last line before my entrance."
So we did.
And then, at the top of my lungs -- and I was holding my prop -- I yelled out "dah-di-dump-diddy-dump, dah-di-dump-diddy-dump, (etc.)," and charged forward from stage left, holding my lance directly out in front of me.
I tripped on something in the wings just after my lance had become visible to the audience.
When the tip hit the stage floor, it bent. I, of course, went down with a thud.
I was trying to figure out what happened when I heard the director ask hysterically:
"Did he trip?"
I stopped the show. For a full 15 minutes, the director, the tech director and most everyone in sight were howling.
When everyone finally composed themselves and the rehearsal resumed, I made my entrance with a lance that had a bent tip.
We got through it somehow. And my lance was repaired by the next rehearsal.
I also had my "cue" the next night.
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DR Elmore: I'm very much angered by MacBeth.
Give me his address. I will -- at some point in the future -- turn up on his doorstep and knock the snot out of him.
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...All I need is fratricide guilt. Oy!
Frankly, fratricide guilt would be an improvement over the current state of things.
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Good to see TCB on line. Does that mean you are moved in to your "new" residence?
I hope DR DtM will post again regularly. Great to see him back.
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DR Elmore: I'm very much angered by MacBeth.
Give me his address. I will -- at some point in the future -- turn up on his doorstep and knock the snot out of him.
DR RonPulliam, that's the best offer I've had all day! Thank you, kind sir.
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Oh, yes, the TOD: the first 30 years of my life was a series of public embarassments I refuse to relive or divulge. I'm glad I survived them. As for the ones after, I'm not drudging them up for anyone; you'll have to wait for the memoirs.
Yours? Or Mr. Barnum's?
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Hey, edisaurus, you never answered my query of two days ago re editing.
I believe I asked what tape format you shot on and how soon you needed it. These two things would determine whether I could help out, based on my work schedule, the schedules of various post houses and equipment availability/compatibility. If these line up, I would be happy to donate my time to such a worthy project! (And I'd get to see it!)
Maybe my message got lost in the ether, but that was my intended answer.
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Shot on Beta SP. Don't need it that quick - would love it if you were interested.
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On the "rapidshare" page are you clicking on "free"? You should then wait a few seconds for a "ticket" then you should be able to easily download your song or album.
I know not why it is not working for you.
Yep--did that. Try the Jewish Jingle Bells link and tell me what happens with you.
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This was a rather embarassing incident from my childhood when I was 5:
My big brother who was 7, was mad at my parents and convinced me I should be mad at them, too, although I don't remember why. He decided we should run away from home. Since he was my only sibling and we did everything together, I agreed to run away. And since I had better handwriting, he wanted me to write the note.
Dear Mom and Dad, I wrote. "Cross out the dear," said my brother.
I worte that we were running away and signed it "Love, Amy and Brad". He then told me to cross out 'love". After finishing the note, we took off and wandered through the neighborhood ofr a few hours until we got hungry, and realized we hadn't brought any food, so we went home. Our parents were still asleep and never knew we had left!
The embarassing part was when they found the note later in the day. I didn't remember to destroy the evidence upon our return. They tormented us with that for quite some time!
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Shot on Beta SP. Don't need it that quick - would love it if you were interested.
Perfect---the main thing at that point would be finding a system with enough drive space. My gardening show has wrapped so once I finish a demo I'm doing for them, there should be enough space to do a half at a time. How long does it run, time-wise that is?
I guess I should be discussing this off-list as not to bore the rest of the gang...
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I got home tonight, made some liver and onions...yummy, I was just settling in for a nice evening when the phone rang. It was the alarm service from the office telling me the alarm had gone off and asked if I would respond to meet the police and go in to see if someone was there. It has never gone off in the 5 1/2 years I've worked there. I knew that the secretary who forgets everything was the last to leave and had been specifically told not to turn on the alarm because the other lawyer was going to be very late in court.
Well, the alarm people just told me I needed to go down there and the police would be waiting. So I said give me 10 minutes to get there. When I arrived, no police, no one, just a dark office...so I unlocked the door, turned off the alarm and went in, looked around, everything was fine (as I expected) and came home. I called and left a message for the other lawyer and about a half hour later he called me. Turns out the secretary turned on the alarm after he specifically told her not to. So when he got back from court at 6:30 PM, the alarm went off. He talked to the company and all was supposedly well, but they forgot to tell me...so I went to the office.
The upside of this is that this is the same secretary who I had SOOO many problems with, but who the other secretary covered for and together, they made it seem like it was my fault, and I was just unreasonable (I was asking that my work be done correctly, imagine that)
The other lawyer now gets what I was dealing with and has finally figured out what's up. The incompetent one is going to be there without her cohort to cover for her for 2 weeks. I will be gone for one of them. It will be interesting to see what happens while I'm gone. I do all my own work because of the situation, the other lawyer relies almost totally on the secretaries to do things for him. He's aware now that all the work the incompetent one does is checked and fixed by the other secretary and will watch things, but he's really worried. That's what happens when no one listens to me. I have a feeling things may be getting better very soon.....
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Show runs about one-hour and fifty minutes sans intermission. First half about sixty-five minutes, second act about forty-five.
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Shortly I shall take Merrill to Ye Olde Airport, and I'm praying that rush hour traffic will have abated, especially on the way back.
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Edi and BK - Oh, please discuss as much of this as you're willing to here on the board. This is a glimpse into an area that I suspect will fascinate many of us, and those for whom it gets too technical will I'm sure recognize those technical posts and just skim them.
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Edi and BK - Oh, please discuss as much of this as you're willing to here on the board. This is a glimpse into an area that I suspect will fascinate many of us, and those for whom it gets too technical will I'm sure recognize those technical posts and just skim them.
I agree, it's far from boring!
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Workplace justice vibes for Cilla!
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Edi and BK - Oh, please discuss as much of this as you're willing to here on the board. This is a glimpse into an area that I suspect will fascinate many of us, and those for whom it gets too technical will I'm sure recognize those technical posts and just skim them.
I certainly don't mind reading about it! :)
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Cillaliz-good vibes, or should I say bad vibes, the secretary screws up royally while you are out of the office-lol-that’s a new one for me.
Elmore- I hope your father takes some extra legal action to prevent MacBeth from turning your family into the Jarndyce family.
‘night
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This is a glimpse into an area that I suspect will fascinate many of us
And I'm guessing you like to watch paint dry, too? :)
BK, if you want to "send in the clones", and keep your master BETA (I know, I know) and send me notes of what you would like to accomplish, I will do it...providing I don't have to read about how bad my mastering job is in your notes! ;)
(I am not an online editor but I will do my best to make it look as good as I can.)
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True Hi Fidelity as opposed to the Phony High Fidelity on MANY of the albums available from the 50's
Glad you like my Santas, DR MATTH. Unfortunately....that's all I have.
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Let's talk about albums we are still waiting for:
The Piano Stylings of Rhoda Penmark
In True Stereo! Bring it on.
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Let's talk about albums we are still waiting for:
SING-A-LONG WITH MITCH: THE HITS OF THE 80'S
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I knew I had that pic stashed away on here somewhere. That's much better for the time being.
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Came across this on another board... A Swedish soapfan was posting caps and he posted a grouping of four pics and i noted a familiar face...
(http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h227/Franco-Mendez/Days/114.jpg)
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NOte the gent in the santa hat!
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I want to thank you all for the vibes of health--I've been feeling them at work all day long! It feels great to be back!
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I see Sandy Claws!
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DR CILLA LIZ - this should indeed be an interesting two weeks around your office.
Practice up on saying "I told you so."
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I remember that avatar DR DtM!
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Elmore, I send vibes of support and I agree with Ron, Macbeth irritates me also.
I pray that it wont be that way for me when my dad passes on. He is still hanging in there and each day is a blessing.
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It is a very familiar person as santy Claus!!
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Edi and BK - Oh, please discuss as much of this as you're willing to here on the board. This is a glimpse into an area that I suspect will fascinate many of us, and those for whom it gets too technical will I'm sure recognize those technical posts and just skim them.
Please discuss, I am fascinated...
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Watched a variety of items tonight. I began by finishing THE PUBLIC ENEMY. It's not a long movie, so I didn't have that much more to see. Cagney as magnetic as ever.
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Page 7 Dance!!
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Aw, you can't fool me. I know there's no such thing as Sanity Claus.
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Continued health vibes to Dan the Man!
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THis santy claus is known to the board!
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I am so happy I found a good chiropractor. He is really making me feel better and thinks only one more visit should do the trick. Cool beans.
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Next, I watched THE TWO MRS. CARROLLS.
I like the film very much
spoiler
but I've always felt the ending was a cop-out. Surely Bogart's insane character would have finished strangling Stanwyck's character at the end since she'd given up the struggle and stupidly lost the gun to shoot him. Did Warners just want a happy ending for her?
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I just finished up my last "Closer" session of the year. (I still have more "Sex & The City"stuff for TBS.) I made spots touting Kyra's Golden Globe nom). My client brought me The Closer snow globe, with a picture of Brenda sitting on her desk holding some yummy treat and it says "She knows when you've been bad".
The card says:
"Have A Closer Holiday"
(to the tune os Jingle Bells)
Dashing Through L.A
Priority Homicide is on the way
Ding Dongs give her might
Solving cimes all day and night
Brenda's got a lead
Criminals better take heed
She'll get you to confess your crime
It's just a matter of time
TNT! TNT!
The Closer brings good cheer
Happy Holidays to you
Please tune in next year
(I couldn't help but think to myself that I know of at least a dozen people on HHW who could do a better job with the lyrics, but no, I didn't say it. I liked it better when they gave us a box of godiva chocolates last year, compliments of Brenda!)
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It is a very familiar person as santy Claus!!
And a very attractive one! ;)
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Glad to hear that your back is feeling better Cilla..
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I remember that avatar DR DtM!
It's an oldie but a goodie, DR JRand. I like your new one.
Speaking of Tony Randall, I can remember the countless times he was "coaxed" by Johnny Carson into singing "Have some Madeira, M'dear". I don't think he ever passed up an opportunity.
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When this was over, I happened on the last 2/3 of HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE on HBO-HD. Since I had seen the first thirty minutes in HD a week or so ago, I just finished watching tne entire film tonight.
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Thanks, DR DakotaCelt!
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Thanks Dakota.
Since I have much to do tomorrow whether icy or not. I think I'll get some sleep.
Night!
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"But, Ma, I don't want to be a lawyer--I want to be a chiropractor!"
"Don't you give me any of your back talk!"
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I finished the evening watching A CLAY AIKEN CHRISTMAS which I recorded off Bravo a few nights ago. This is the special he taped for NBC two years ago, and Bravo (an NBC acquisition) showed it a couple of times the other night. It's a laid back CHristmas special with basically nothing but singing. Barry Manilow, Megan Mullally, and Yolanda Adams were the guest stars. I enjoyed seeing it again.
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I'm feeling rather jolly tonight. I'm listening to Christmas With Mitch Miller.
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and here is another familiar gent....
(http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h227/Franco-Mendez/Days/111.jpg)
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I finished the evening watching A CLAY AIKEN CHRISTMAS which I recorded off Bravo a few nights ago. This is the special he taped for NBC two years ago, and Bravo (an NBC acquisition) showed it a couple of times the other night. It's a laid back CHristmas special with basically nothing but singing. Barry Manilow, Megan Mullally, and Yolanda Adams were the guest stars. I enjoyed seeing it again.
As much as I generally can't stand Clay Aiken, this show made for a very pleasant listen while I did some gift wrapping.
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I'm heading off to bed now.
Good night!
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It's past time for me to go home! I'm off...fortunately, there's nothing on TV that I want to watch tonight. I plan to watch some shows that I've recorded on my DVR...I have so many! :o
:D
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George, will the troubles with Mt. St. Helen affect you?
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Back from the airport. Almost no traffic going there, and only a little coming back. Whew!
How nice to see Dan the Man around these here parts. I shall now watch a motion picture on DVD.
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The gasman cometh...or at least I hope he does!
Ever since I had this gas heater installed in my house earlier this year I have noticed it smells really bad when iturned on. When I complained to the heater installation company they insisted that this was normal, so I just figured I had to live with the odor even though it gave me horrible headaches.
Well after many months of this I could stand it no longer and called the gas company to see if it was really normal for it to smell so bad. They said that it was not normal at all and they would be out to check for a gas leak...however that was 2 hours ago.
So here I sit waiting for the gas man to arrive. I wish he would hurry the heck up because I want to go to bed!
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JMK, I will check the Jewish Jingle Balls tomorrow when I get to my work computer.
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DR Elmore: I'm very much angered by MacBeth.
Give me his address. I will -- at some point in the future -- turn up on his doorstep and knock the snot out of him.
Ron:
Such conduct would be unseemly!
May I hold your coat?
der Brucer
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Ron:
Such conduct would be unseemly!
May I hold your coat?
der Brucer
I have an Aunt that you can help me with Ron!
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Me bad!!!
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It is a very familiar person as santy Claus!!
My stars! It's Jimmy Hoffa!
der Brucer
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But bk knows him....
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Page 8 dance!
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AOL NEWS (http://articles.news.aol.com/news/_a/mount-st-helens-emits-steam-plume/20061219174909990006?ncid=NWS00010000000001)
(http://cdn.news.aol.com/aolnews_photos/04/02/20061219205809990003)
(http://cdn.news.aol.com/aolnews_photos/0c/07/20061219205709990010)
(http://cdn.news.aol.com/aolnews_photos/0b/07/20061219205709990001)
All photos AP
der Brucer
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TOD
A few weeks after I had mixed up the entire two blocks of garage door locks, I devised another back alley game:
The women of the block all hung out their laundry to dry on lines stretched across their rear yards. I was fascinated by all the straps and things dangling from the lines. I found a convenient pair of hedge clippers and proceeded to "even up" the laundry (this entailed neatly clipping off all hanging straps, trouser legs, etc.) My Mother noticed me out of the kitchen window, but was terrified that the neighbors might notice if she called out for me to stop. I was able to complete my task undetected.
I was not embarrassed.
I think my Mother's emotion was a little more than embarrassed.
We moved from the city to the country shortly there after.
der Brucer (so precious at age 5)
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HOFFA SIXPENCE - that's the title of something, isn't it?
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HOFFA SIXPENCE - that's the title of something, isn't it?
Related to the Christmas show: TREE PENNY OPERA?
der Brucer
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A HOFFA LOAF IS BETTER THAN NONE!
der Brucer
PS: HOFFA A MERRY HOLIDAY
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(http://www.foxnews.com/images/root_images/121906_freedom_tower2.jpg)
AP
Freedom Rising
Steel columns are erected in the footprints of the World Trade Center as construction on Freedom Tower begins.
der Brucer
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Well, gas man has come and gone....turns out I did indeed have a natural gas leak...in fact it was quite a big leak the guy said...he told me that whoever installed the new heater put on a broken thingamjig which was connected to the whatchamicallit which was causing gas to spew out all under my house for these last 10 months. Fortunately, he said, my underneat the house part is well ventilated and that is why my home didn't blow up. See there is always a silver lining.
I must call the heater company and have them fix their error as per the gas man's instructions. In the meantime he has turned off the gas so it will be a bit chilly for awhile.
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...he told me that whoever installed the new heater put on a broken thingamjig which was connected to the whatchamicallit...
Couldn't he fix it with a doohickey?
der Brucer
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Well, gas man has come and gone....turns out I did indeed have a natural gas leak...in fact it was quite a big leak the guy said...he told me that whoever installed the new heater put on a broken thingamjig which was connected to the whatchamicallit which was causing gas to spew out all under my house for these last 10 months. Fortunately, he said, my underneat the house part is well ventilated and that is why my home didn't blow up. See there is always a silver lining.
I must call the heater company and have them fix their error as per the gas man's instructions. In the meantime he has turned off the gas so it will be a bit chilly for awhile.
Can you get a refund for the amount of gas that leaked?? I mean, over 10 months time, that's a lot of gas!
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George, will the troubles with Mt. St. Helen affect you?
I don't know, but I don't think so...at least, I hope not! :-\
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Can you get a refund for the amount of gas that leaked?? I mean, over 10 months time, that's a lot of gas!
I would hope!
An internet search suggests that inhalation of small quantities of natural gas is not toxic - but there are are nut-jobs suing the gas companies becasue gas leaks caused their epilepsy, ADD, and TLPPS (Tiny Limp Pee-Pee Syndrome).
der Brucer
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ALERT:
Stay tuned -
Tomorrow I will post the news of John Galts' journey to the Silver Screen!
der Brucer