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Title: I REST MY CASE
Post by: bk on August 25, 2006, 12:22:39 AM: Well, you've read the notes, you rest your case, and now it is time for you to post until the cows come home - they're currently resting their collective cases and sitting on their collective ASSES!
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Post by: bk on August 25, 2006, 12:24:38 AM: And the word of the day is: SACCADE!
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Post by: Tomovoz on August 25, 2006, 12:35:09 AM: DVD: My Neighbour Totoro
CD: Soundtrack "The English Patient"
Band On the Run - McCartney
Some Mel Tormé Cds
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Post by: Tomovoz on August 25, 2006, 12:37:20 AM: Goodnight DR George.
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Post by: George on August 25, 2006, 12:41:40 AM: Good night, DR Tomovoz...again, late. ::)
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Post by: George on August 25, 2006, 01:00:31 AM: Topic of the Day:

In my DVD player: Kevin Spirtas' DVD, "Night and Days." Kevin gives such a fun performance! I brought it to work yesterday to show my co-worker Ruth (she loved the CD that she borrowed from me) and she told me that she received her very own copy just the day before, also! She didn't know about the audio commentary and I told her that she MUST listen to it...and that BK is the King of DVD commentaries! ;D After that will be "The Alien Conspiracy: Grey Skies" that I got from Netflix.com. It features our very own Rodzinski!! (And I think he may have even written part of it...is that correct?)

In my CD player at work: my brand new copy of the original cast recording of A New Brain. After that, I don't know. I boxed up ALL of my CDs and put them in storage. I have to continue to clean my house (I'm taking way too much time and my sister is getting antsy ::)).

In my VCR: nothing. I forgot to check tvguide.com to see if there was anything that I wanted to tape tonight. I do have a couple of tapes from a few weeks ago and I have no idea what's on them, so there will be a bit of a surprise. :)
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Post by: George on August 25, 2006, 01:10:45 AM: And on the condo front, it looks like I've gotten a couple of preliminary pre-approval offers from mortgage lenders!! I don't know what the "official" chain of events is supposed to be, but I'll find out soon enough. Wish me luck!
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Post by: Michael on August 25, 2006, 03:57:04 AM: TOD:

Continuing from last week although I am now on season 5 of Babylon 5 and maybe something else to be decided later.
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Post by: Tomovoz on August 25, 2006, 04:45:51 AM: TOTD: Update

DVD: "Trapeze".
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Post by: Ben on August 25, 2006, 05:39:18 AM: Nothing to report for topic of the day. I'm busy working on the Meadows Foundation (in Dallas, Texas). I have to do the laundry after work and then we will go out for dinner. I'm here in the office on Saturday and we have no plans for Sunday.

Bye.
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Post by: elmore3003 on August 25, 2006, 05:56:58 AM: Good morning, all! The last Frdau in August. Summer is almost over, and I feel it was here for no time at all. My allergies were kicking in, so I guess hay fever is around the corner. I needed some Nyquil to help me sleep and I ended up sleeping too long. So now I have to plan my day: laundry, library, and the charts for Klea Blackhurst.

TOD:

DVD: The New Zealand PIRATES OF PENZANCE, Anthony Warlow in HMS PINAFORE, THE OPPOSITE SEX (Thank you, DR MBarnum!)
CD: The Lady of the Slipper, Guy Haines, Un Ballo In Maschera
VCR: el cheapo del sexo
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Post by: S. Woody White on August 25, 2006, 06:26:50 AM: Cecily's eyes went into a SACCADE as she watched hundreds of cicadas CASCADE down the forest tree trunks. She'd heard they were good to eat, but the idea made her twitchy.
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Post by: Kerry on August 25, 2006, 06:32:01 AM: Good Morning, All-

Food does not magically replace itself on the shelves and in the refrigerator. Apparently one must go the store and buy it. Who knew?!?!?!
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Post by: Kerry on August 25, 2006, 06:32:19 AM: So go know.
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Post by: S. Woody White on August 25, 2006, 06:36:14 AM: TOD:

DVD player:

Night and Days. Der Brucer really enjoyed it; I found Mr. Spirtas' delivery of the material to be too much at the same level, and wished he'd had a few quieter numbers. Horseracing.

I tried once again to watch the movie of the musical The Producers, but I cannot get past that first office scene. Broderick is too forced and lacks spontaneity, and Lane isn't much better. I found myself wanting to watch the original film instead.

CD player:

Sunday in the Park with George, London cast. I'm really enjoying it.

By Request, Wendy Carlos. A trip down memory lane.

Book:

The Food of France, Waverly Root. Heavy with history, this one. It's going to take me a while to get through it, but it is a classic and will be worth my time.
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Post by: S. Woody White on August 25, 2006, 06:37:21 AM: Quote from: Kerry on August 25, 2006, 06:32:01 AM
Good Morning, All-

Food does not magically replace itself on the shelves and in the refrigerator. Apparently one must go the store and buy it. Who knew?!?!?!
So that is why the store where I work has customers! I'd been wondering!
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Post by: Jeanne on August 25, 2006, 06:52:09 AM: Kerry, you do sound well cared for.
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Post by: Matt H. on August 25, 2006, 07:00:48 AM: Good morning!

It was surprisingly cool when I got up and went out to get the newspaper, but within an hour, the cool had vanished and it was back to warm. The joys of a Southern summer.

Looks to be a beautiful (albeit hot) day.
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Post by: Matt H. on August 25, 2006, 07:02:09 AM: DR Donna, I am a HUGE fan of the film STAR! and have loved it ever since I first saw it.

I had a letterboxed version of DRLING LILI which I taped off AMC years ago, but I junked it when the DVD came out. I wish you'd mentioned it sooner. I'd have been glad to send it to you.
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Post by: Matt H. on August 25, 2006, 07:04:55 AM: I'm going to have a busy day. IN addition to my usual Friday errands, my friend Gregg is arriving in town in the early evening, and we're going to dinner tonight. He running in a race tomorrow morning.
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Post by: Matt H. on August 25, 2006, 07:06:52 AM: Friday Media Check:

CD - ATHENA (original soundtrack)

DVD - ON DANGEROUS GROUND
CITY FOR CONQUEST
SAN FRANCISCO

DVR - THRILL OF A ROMANCE
LADY BE GOOD
PANAMA HATTIE
THE OFFICE (3 episodes from last night)
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Post by: S. Woody White on August 25, 2006, 07:15:19 AM: I've caught up on yesterday's posts.

Perhaps there is a new crime we should consider - Terrance Malick with Forethought, forcing someone to watch one of his films!
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Post by: bk on August 25, 2006, 07:20:24 AM: I've been up since five-thirty - the phone rang - NY call, someone thinking that my home line was somehow my office line or something. I didn't take the call, but I couldn't go back to sleep. I just lay in my bed like so much fish, then watched a bit of a movie - so, three whole hours of sleep I've had. Must try and catch up this weekend.
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Post by: Donna on August 25, 2006, 07:27:59 AM: HIYA ALL!
In my VCR (just when will I get a DVD player!) is STAR! starring Julie Andrews as Gertrude Lawrence.

I love this movie! Julie gets to really strut her stuff singing, dancing and acting. And those costumes by Donald Brooks! Of course, it helps to have good writing (William Fairchild), directing (Robert Wise) and choreography (Michael Kidd). The last part of the film is especially well-written and acted. Daniel Massey, a particular favorite of mine who died too young, puts in a wonderful performance as Noel Coward and Richard Crenna is solid as her husband.

I'm trying to find a VT version of that other musical she did around this time called Darling Lili.
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Post by: MBarnum on August 25, 2006, 08:03:15 AM: TOD:

CD:
Beyond the Sea: Frank Chacksfield and Orchestra
The Academy Award Winners: Les Baxter and Orchestra/chorus
Interview with our very own DR Ben!

DVD:
Them!
Beast from 20,000 Fathoms

DVR:
Episode of CHEYENNE
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Post by: Matt H. on August 25, 2006, 08:03:25 AM: Off to get cleaned up before I head out for my Friday errands.

WBBL.
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Post by: S. Woody White on August 25, 2006, 08:13:57 AM: Dear esteemed BK:

Is your copy of Spirit of St. Louis part of the Jimmy Stewart Signature Collection? I was just now checking the product listing at Amazon, and it looks like a package I'd like to have.
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Post by: bk on August 25, 2006, 08:18:20 AM: Yes, it's part of that package. I must warn in advance that the transfer of The Naked Spur (which I'll be writing about shortly) is pretty awful - soft to the point of being completely out of focus - with no detail whatsoever.
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Post by: S. Woody White on August 25, 2006, 08:22:05 AM: Spirit of St. Louis is one of my father's all time favorite films, btw.
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Post by: FJL on August 25, 2006, 08:26:50 AM: Sorry for being E&T the last day or so. Work has gotten crazily busy, and now I have to shlep into Brooklyn to attend to a family matter.
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Post by: FJL on August 25, 2006, 08:28:12 AM: TOD - Nothing has changed in my CD player since last week, except that I added the Greatest Hits of 1983 to the selections..
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Post by: S. Woody White on August 25, 2006, 08:28:16 AM: I'm thinking I might want to insist on stopping by either Tower or Borders in Philly, while we're there tomorrow. Der B and I are taking the grandlads to see Lion King, (with parents in tow) and both stores are conveniently close to the theater.

That, and it will drive Magic Mommy insane because she hateshateshates anyone other than herself shopping (and then, she never shops for something that might fill her brain). I owe her that.
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Post by: FJL on August 25, 2006, 08:31:00 AM: Just heard a commerical for curing head lice, and could have sworn the kid was talking about having headlights. But it did make me listen to the commercial.
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Post by: George on August 25, 2006, 08:51:23 AM: Just popped in before I took a shower and went to work. Good morning, everybody. :) I'm going to take a shower now, then get dressed, then go to work.

Have a good day, all! ;D
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Post by: S. Woody White on August 25, 2006, 09:04:22 AM: Quote from: George on August 25, 2006, 08:51:23 AM
...I'm going to take a shower now, then get dressed, then go to work...
You couldn't change the order some day?

;D
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Post by: Jrand73 on August 25, 2006, 09:14:18 AM: Friday....Act Two....no books....down to learning my last two pages....

Hmmmm....THE SPIRIT OF ST LOUIS....saw this film MANY years ago on the Saturday night LATE MOVIE on Frances Farmer's WFBM.....film was too long no doubt to fit into her 2 hour slot. Very good....mostly watched because it was in color and Channel 6 was the only local channel broadcasting color late on Saturday night.
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Post by: Jrand73 on August 25, 2006, 09:15:52 AM: TOD:

DVD - COUNTERPLOT!!

CD - Will Young - Saturday's Child

VCR - FOREVER AMBER with the lovely Linda Darnell

I have read about the soon to be released GODZILLA double DVD....hmmmm - will be interested to hear MR BK's report.

And of course.....fans.....how about Laura's announcement on PWOJECT WUNWAY this week?!!!
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Post by: PennyO on August 25, 2006, 09:17:28 AM: Hey, gang! Whatta beauteous day here! Autumn approaches... some of the leaves have already started turning. A bittersweet time of year.

Yesterday I got a lot of work done on the handouts for my seminar, which starts Sunday evening at the Redmond library. No clue if I'll have three or thirty in the class... have to make a guess before running off too many copies. Or too few. Sheesh. I'm guessing I won't have more than fifteen. Twelve to fifteen is a perfect number for this type of workshop. The second one is Wednesday evening, and the last is Saturday afternoon - after which, I have an author appearance and reading of Jewish Thighs in Woodinville. A week later, I close up the house and winterize the garden and join the birds on the migration south! Oh how this summer has flown.

DVD - a strange little autobiographical film by the Farrelly Brothers, featuring Meryl Streep (?!?!), called Stuck on You. Conjoined twins decide to try having individual lives. Greg Kinear and Matt Damon are the brothers. Cher and Meryl S play themselves.
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Post by: MBarnum on August 25, 2006, 09:27:37 AM: For fans of The Amazing Race, the Game Show Network is rebroadcasting the family edition, so now is that time to see the wonderful Gahagan family again...oh golly but they do warm my heart! 8)
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Post by: MBarnum on August 25, 2006, 09:28:08 AM: ON the flip side....they haven't been showing What's My Line at all lately...what is up with that!
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Post by: DakotaCelt on August 25, 2006, 09:32:48 AM: Good day one and all!!!
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Post by: DakotaCelt on August 25, 2006, 09:35:39 AM: TOTD:

VCR: Madness of King George
DVD: The Chieftains: Live from Grand Opera House
I may pop in Notting Hill a bit later
CD: Computer has Davy Spillane - Among Stones

CD: Sweeney Todd and Micheal Collins
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Post by: elmore3003 on August 25, 2006, 09:56:51 AM: Quote from: MBarnum on August 25, 2006, 09:28:08 AM
ON the flip side....they haven't been showing What's My Line at all lately...what is up with that!

Maybe you need to change channels?
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Post by: bk on August 25, 2006, 09:57:33 AM: Back from the jog. Must do a few things before heading over to the Du-Par's at the Farmer's Market.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on August 25, 2006, 10:06:15 AM: I'm up. I'm home. I've had coffee and a morning bun.

Life is good.

Taking the day off.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on August 25, 2006, 10:09:14 AM: If anyone is bored and needs something to do, I have many DVDs that need cataloguing.

And papers that need going through/sorting/filing or destroying.

I have a carpet that needs shampooing.

And all I want to do is watch movies on DVD today, too. Sigh.

Compromise may be possible.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on August 25, 2006, 10:10:29 AM: Quote from: elmore3003 on August 25, 2006, 09:56:51 AM
Maybe you need to change channels?

That may be the trouble...he mistakenly changed the channel and can longer tune in to 1959.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on August 25, 2006, 10:12:15 AM: Quote from: JRand55 on August 25, 2006, 09:14:18 AM
Friday....Act Two....no books....down to learning my last two pages....

Hmmmm....THE SPIRIT OF ST LOUIS....saw this film MANY years ago on the Saturday night LATE MOVIE on Frances Farmer's WFBM.....film was too long no doubt to fit into her 2 hour slot. Very good....mostly watched because it was in color and Channel 6 was the only local channel broadcasting color late on Saturday night.

It IS a very good film. A bit indulgent, lengthwise, IMO...especially for a Billy Wilder film.

But Stewart's rawly honest performance and a world-class Franz Waxman underscore (totally thrilling) keep this movie aloft to the rousing, spectacular ending.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on August 25, 2006, 10:13:33 AM: I feel the urge to make another cup of coffee. And with coffee, I'll have to splurge and have another morning bun.

Sigh.
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Post by: elmore3003 on August 25, 2006, 10:24:07 AM: Quote from: Ron Pulliam on August 25, 2006, 10:09:14 AM

If anyone is bored and needs something to do, I have many DVDs that need cataloguing.

One of the only smart things I did during all my surgery angst of late 2004 was to catalogue mine. Now, when something arrives, I already have a data base to work from. It certainly takes a lot of time, however. Now, if I could only remember to whom I lend them!
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Post by: elmore3003 on August 25, 2006, 10:24:31 AM: Quote from: Ron Pulliam on August 25, 2006, 10:10:29 AM
That may be the trouble...he mistakenly changed the channel and can longer tune in to 1959.
;D
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Post by: George on August 25, 2006, 10:39:16 AM: Quote from: S. Woody White on August 25, 2006, 09:04:22 AM
You couldn't change the order some day?

;D

I could, but my co-workers might have a slight problem. AND our human resources manager is developing a new dress code! :P Supposedly, it for "safety issues." ::)

;)
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Post by: bk on August 25, 2006, 10:55:14 AM: I thought we were over the August hump... Oh, well.

Think I'll go ship now and get it out of the way, then to noon meeting, then to Grant's.
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Post by: Jrand73 on August 25, 2006, 11:04:47 AM: Ship early ship often.
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Post by: Jrand73 on August 25, 2006, 11:05:52 AM: DR MBARNUM's mention of the GagMe family sent me into a coughing fit....I am just now recovering.

I also noticed there is no I've Got a Secret/Beat the Clock/What's My Line block on GSN now....I am not so happy about it myself.
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Post by: Jrand73 on August 25, 2006, 11:06:36 AM: Have fun at the workshop DR PENNYO....sounds like it will be a good one....I bet your first session is so good, you will have MORE people the second day!
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Post by: Jennifer on August 25, 2006, 11:07:29 AM: Quote from: MBarnum on August 25, 2006, 09:27:37 AM
For fans of The Amazing Race, the Game Show Network is rebroadcasting the family edition, so now is that time to see the wonderful Gahagan family again...oh golly but they do warm my heart! 8)

I don't think i want to see them again!

But i cannot wail till a few weeks from now till TAR starts again.
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Post by: Jrand73 on August 25, 2006, 11:36:35 AM: learn lines learn lines learn lines
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Post by: MBarnum on August 25, 2006, 12:49:56 PM: I am looking VERY forward to the new seasons of both AMAZING RACE and SURVIVOR!
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Post by: Matt H. on August 25, 2006, 01:07:35 PM: Boy, it got hot very quickly. Near 90 now with stifling air. Not pleasant, and I was glad to get my errands done and get back to the house.
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Post by: George on August 25, 2006, 01:10:06 PM: I just got back from lunch.

That is all.

;)
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Post by: Matt H. on August 25, 2006, 01:13:23 PM: I began my afternoon watching "Water Birds," the Disney True-Life Adventure short which is contained on THE RESCUERS DVD.

I read that Disney is coming out with four commemorative editions of True-Life Adventure features and shorts in early December, and I know I'll be buying all of them. I have the features on videotape, but only "Water Birds" of the shorts.

I know Disney will do nothing in the way of clean-up and mastering of these old films, and I have to say they look pretty bad on DVD without some help. Still, I'll keep my criticisms to a minimum because I do want them all in one group. It'll be nice to see PERRI again, the only one of them I haven't seen in a long time.
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Post by: Matt H. on August 25, 2006, 01:16:52 PM: Next up was THRILL OF A ROMANCE, an Esther Williams-Van Johnson Technicolor musical. Of course, neither of them make any of the music. That's left to Lauritz Melchior and other supporting players.

The TCM print looked excellent for the most part, but there were three or four scenes where there were definite Technicolor registration errors. Otherwise, this was nice to see again, and it's probably the movie where Esther is her prettiest.
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Post by: Matt H. on August 25, 2006, 01:19:12 PM: And I finished the afternoon with PANAMA HATTIE. This mess of a musical looks today totally thrown together, and stories in Hugh Fordin's book about its making certainly point to refilming things to try to add some entertainment value to the picture. Dan Dailey got a lot better later on in the decade, and Red Skelton seemed more suited to a solo act than paired with two other nitwits (Rags Ragland and Ben Blue).
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Post by: Matt H. on August 25, 2006, 01:27:46 PM: There are new episodes of MONK and PSYCH tonight. They're both ending their seasons early and will be back before the end of the year with more new episodes.
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Post by: MBarnum on August 25, 2006, 02:00:37 PM: Speaking of Van Johnson, he turns 90 years old today!
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Post by: MBarnum on August 25, 2006, 02:01:18 PM: I want Disney to release SAMMY THE WAY OUT SEAL and A TIGER WALKS...two of my favorite live action Disney movies of the 60s!
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Post by: Matt H. on August 25, 2006, 02:13:27 PM: Got to get off the internet now and get the kitchen floor mopped before my out-of-town guest arrives.

WBBL (but possibly much later than usual).
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Post by: Danise on August 25, 2006, 02:13:55 PM: Hi all. Fall is my least favorite time of year. For whatever reason, it makes me feel very sad, depressed and sometimes fearful. I don't know why.

We had another day of heavy rains. It just kept rolling in.

I'm only reading one book and that's my bathroom book where I sneek some reading time for myself. Sometimes at 2 or 3 AM I get a half hour or more read. It's called "The King". It's the 2nd book in what I'm sure will turn into trilagy.

I'm a bit miffed with the first book because it's about a power that requires the person who used it stay a virgin so the guy and his best friend become lovers because that doesn't "count". The best friend knows that he is just a boy toy until the king decides it's time for an heir.

Anyway, I don't really like to book(s) as a whole but I since I always buy all the books when there is a serius, I'll finish it.
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Post by: Danise on August 25, 2006, 02:18:34 PM: Sheena is still being a real problem with tearing things up while I'm gone. I hate to say it but I'm back to the point where I think I may have to find her another home. I don't want to take her back to the pound and if I decide it would be best for her to find some other home, I will do my best to do that for her. I think there is a lab rescure group near by.

Well, I have to run.

Laters all!
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Post by: Maria on August 25, 2006, 02:48:22 PM: DD was here for a day and I've now delivered her back to the airport where - surprise - her plane is late taking off.
Discovered that the battery on my Powerbook is part of a recall. Filled out the forms and sent them in.
Had a phone meeting. Am now snacking on pretzels.
And that's all the news.
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Post by: Ginny on August 25, 2006, 03:10:28 PM: Friday greetings! Just got home from Blue Ash, OH (a northern suburb of Cincinnati), where I spent the day in a seminar about IRS forms 1023, 1024, and 990. Yes, I chose to attend and learned a lot about applying for nonprofit status (which people ask me about all the time).

TOD - CD(car) - BK-produced The Burt Bacharach Album, which includes some orchestrations by DR Elmore and brings back many good college memories.

DVD - ?

VCR - ?

Books - I'm about to finish Just Outside the Spotlight: Growing up with Eileen Heckart, by her son Luke Yankee; then I have to start 2 (count 'em 2) book discussion books for September: Jodi Picoult's Vanishing Acts for work and Lisa See's Snow Flower and the Secret Fan for The Joy Luck Club (http://www.orgsites.com/oh/joyluckclub).
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Post by: MBarnum on August 25, 2006, 03:16:21 PM: DR Danise, sorry about the trouble with Sheena...that would be very frustrating and sad.
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Post by: Cillaliz on August 25, 2006, 03:57:28 PM: Quote from: PennyO on August 25, 2006, 09:17:28 AM
I have an author appearance and reading of Jewish Thighs in Woodinville.

So, is Jewish Thighs in Woodinville the sequel to Jewish Thighs on Broadway? ;)
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Post by: Cillaliz on August 25, 2006, 03:58:55 PM: Sounds like Sheena has separation anxiety of some sort. Is your mother home with them? If not, have you tried leaving on a radio or the tv? I don't know if it would work, but my pet sitter recommends it for some animals.
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Post by: Cillaliz on August 25, 2006, 04:01:24 PM: I have had the LONGEST week in ages. I listened to DROWSY CHAPERONE on the way to work today, it really put me in a good mood, so I took it into the office and forgot it there! I may have to go get it over the weekend. I tend to put things away after I watch or listen to them. so nothing in the dvd player or stereo
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Post by: Cillaliz on August 25, 2006, 04:03:47 PM: Good heavens. I think I've finally discovered the secret elixer to get the cats calmed down. Catnip. The first time I gave it to them both they fought like crazy, but that was early on. Tonight I bought a couple more scratching posts for Boo and they came with cat nip. They have both been so mellow, it's fabulous!
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Post by: Cillaliz on August 25, 2006, 04:07:30 PM: Guess I may as well make it 4500 posts!
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Post by: François de Paris on August 25, 2006, 04:09:20 PM: The good thing about Terrence Malik is that he is far from being a prolific movie maker so avoiding his movies is easy for those who are bored by them! Since The New World has "bombed" Mr Malik, like he has done before, might wait 20 years before doing another film so, those bored by his creations, can play it safe!

He seems to be one of the few movie makers to understand that movies are first and foremost visual expressions and that if one needs words in lieu of "views" one's better writing a book!
Days of Heaven is one of the few films that have mesmerized me over the years!

I have been listening lately to some cds of Mr Jerry Hadley, Miss Dawn Upshaw, the original London cast of Pajama Game and young Frank Sinatra singing Cole Porter!

Who could ask for anything more? (Toyota?!)
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Post by: François de Paris on August 25, 2006, 04:10:55 PM: Quote from: Cillaliz on August 25, 2006, 03:57:28 PM
So, is Jewish Thighs in Woodinville the sequel to Jewish Thighs on Broadway? ;)

Who knows? It might be the prequel?! :)
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Post by: TCB on August 25, 2006, 04:31:06 PM: Quote from: PennyO on August 25, 2006, 09:17:28 AM

Yesterday I got a lot of work done on the handouts for my seminar, which starts Sunday evening at the Redmond library. No clue if I'll have three or thirty in the class... have to make a guess before running off too many copies. Or too few. Sheesh. I'm guessing I won't have more than fifteen. Twelve to fifteen is a perfect number for this type of workshop. The second one is Wednesday evening, and the last is Saturday afternoon - after which, I have an author appearance and reading of Jewish Thighs in Woodinville.

Was JEWISH THIGHS IN WOODINVILLE, the sequel to JEWISH THIGHS ON BROADWAY?
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Post by: TCB on August 25, 2006, 04:42:11 PM: Quote from: TCB on August 25, 2006, 04:31:06 PM

Was JEWISH THIGHS IN WOODINVILLE, the sequel to JEWISH THIGHS ON BROADWAY?

Poor Cillaliz, she must be terribly frightened!
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Post by: bk on August 25, 2006, 05:12:22 PM: Eighty posts? Eighty posts? Holy moley on rye this is nauseating. Here, I thought we were over the August hump. All right, I want the names of the errant and truant. Jane I know is off doing terribly busy things - so busy that she can't even come by and say hello. Bitch-slap. Ann and Jed are too busy being Ann and Jed. Bitch-slap. Who else do I need to bitch-slap?

We got five of the seven stories done today, and will finish the other two on Sunday. It looks spiffy, I must say. I brought home what we did, so I can proof this part before Sunday - I can already see some problems that happened because of going to a new font and out of Word into Quark. Minor stuff, but it all has to be gone over very carefully.
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Post by: DearReaderLaura on August 25, 2006, 05:20:18 PM: Quote from: Cillaliz on August 25, 2006, 04:03:47 PM
Good heavens. I think I've finally discovered the secret elixer to get the cats calmed down. Catnip. The first time I gave it to them both they fought like crazy, but that was early on. Tonight I bought a couple more scratching posts for Boo and they came with cat nip. They have both been so mellow, it's fabulous!

That reminds me.....
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Post by: DearReaderLaura on August 25, 2006, 05:21:19 PM: I have been at the office all day.
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Post by: Cillaliz on August 25, 2006, 05:24:13 PM: Quote from: TCB on August 25, 2006, 04:42:11 PM
Poor Cillaliz, she must be terribly frightened!

I was actually thinking "Great minds think alike" ;D
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Post by: Cillaliz on August 25, 2006, 05:24:50 PM: I was also thinking "TCB hasn't read all the posts yet"
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Post by: Cillaliz on August 25, 2006, 05:25:31 PM: Quote from: DearReaderLaura on August 25, 2006, 05:20:18 PM
That reminds me.....
;D ;D ;D
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Post by: François de Paris on August 25, 2006, 05:25:59 PM: Quote from: DearReaderLaura on August 25, 2006, 05:21:19 PM
I have been at the office all day.

You sound so much like Dubya! ;)
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Post by: François de Paris on August 25, 2006, 05:29:26 PM: Quotes
I was actually THINKING "Great minds THINK alike"
I was also THINKING "TCB hasn't read all the posts yet"

What is this "think"? (called love?!)
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Post by: François de Paris on August 25, 2006, 05:31:58 PM: The Tour de France has been thrilling this year!

You see, it's August and we still don't know who... the winner is! LOL!
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Post by: François de Paris on August 25, 2006, 05:32:39 PM: One thing is sure; it was NOT Mel Gibson!
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Post by: Cillaliz on August 25, 2006, 05:43:27 PM: Quote from: François on August 25, 2006, 05:29:26 PM
Quotes
I was actually THINKING "Great minds THINK alike"
I was also THINKING "TCB hasn't read all the posts yet"

What is this "think"? (called love?!)

This crazy think? (called love?)
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Post by: Cillaliz on August 25, 2006, 05:46:30 PM: BB7 NOT REALLY SPOILERS

This will be a very interesting week. On Thursday there is a double eviction. So it will be eviction, hoh, nomination, power of veto and eviction all in one show
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Post by: Ginny on August 25, 2006, 05:52:45 PM: TOD (amended) - DVD - Syriana. Even my DH and DS are having trouble following it and I gave up.
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Post by: TCB on August 25, 2006, 06:04:24 PM: Less than 100 posts and it is almost 6:00 p.m. on the Left Coast......

Sacra bleu!
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Post by: Cillaliz on August 25, 2006, 06:12:50 PM: BB7 SPOILERS

Janelle and Chicken George are nominated by Erika
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Post by: Cillaliz on August 25, 2006, 06:13:15 PM: I don't have much to talk about....
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Post by: Cillaliz on August 25, 2006, 06:13:29 PM: I am thinking about chocolate
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Post by: Cillaliz on August 25, 2006, 06:14:49 PM: Ok, let's get to
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Post by: Cillaliz on August 25, 2006, 06:15:06 PM: 100 posts
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Post by: George on August 25, 2006, 06:20:20 PM: Gratuitous Post # 101 (http://www.puppydogweb.com/gallery/dalmatians/e.htm)!

(http://www.puppydogweb.com/gallery/dalmatians/dal_raeburn.jpg)

;D
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Post by: DakotaCelt on August 25, 2006, 06:25:00 PM: Quote from: Cillaliz on August 25, 2006, 06:13:29 PM
I am thinking about chocolate

And I am eating chocolate! With Strawberries!
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Post by: DakotaCelt on August 25, 2006, 06:27:19 PM: Cute pup George....

Have had fun on my end today. A person is posting all their old Search for Tomorrow clips on AOL... My, my, my what big hair we had then... Matt looks like a young kid...

One scene had Olympia Dukakis in it...

After watching I did some reading, I did not know that Rowdy Gaines, a gold medal winner from the LA Olympics in 84 guested on the show...
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Post by: DakotaCelt on August 25, 2006, 06:28:27 PM: Nice weather here today....
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Post by: DakotaCelt on August 25, 2006, 06:28:57 PM: When do you leave for your trip to NY Cilla?
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Post by: elmore3003 on August 25, 2006, 06:31:33 PM: Well, I think MONK, which I'm watching, continues to jump the shark. I find the character no longer interesting and quirky but totally assinine, put into sitations wherein he's a fish out of water for needless attempts at humor, tonight's episode taking place a rock concert. He confuses a portable toilet for a phone booth while actually walking past a real phone booth and behaves as if in his years as a cop he'd never confronted rowdy rock concert patrons or had a remote contact with any reality. A cople of weeks ago, during a garbage strike he mailedhis garbage to his shrink. It's a cheap joke, like the toilet-phone booth, but seems totally beyond the realities of this character. What has happened to a once excellent series?
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Post by: DakotaCelt on August 25, 2006, 06:36:57 PM: I hate it when a once well written show falls apart. It is insult to the actors and the viewers alike.
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Post by: DakotaCelt on August 25, 2006, 06:37:33 PM: Sheer laziness in writing and direction. Production values may also be suffering
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Post by: François de Paris on August 25, 2006, 06:38:58 PM: Quote from: DakotaCelt on August 25, 2006, 06:27:19 PM

Have had fun on my end today.

Wish I could say the same! :o ;D
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Post by: François de Paris on August 25, 2006, 06:41:05 PM: Quote from: DakotaCelt on August 25, 2006, 06:36:57 PM
I hate it when a once well written show falls apart. It is insult to the actors and the viewers alike.

People fail in all fields without the intention of "insulting" others, I want to think! That's life! We can't always be on top! ;)
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Post by: Cillaliz on August 25, 2006, 06:46:48 PM: Quote from: DakotaCelt on August 25, 2006, 06:28:57 PM
When do you leave for your trip to NY Cilla?

October 4
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Post by: Ginny on August 25, 2006, 06:47:16 PM: DR Elmore - you were right about this Eileen Heckart book. It's making me want to see her movies and, even more, her TV dramas. I remember being so-o-o-o bored when my parents watched Playhouse 90 and such. What did I know?
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Post by: bk on August 25, 2006, 07:24:00 PM: New all-time low, anyone?
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Post by: Cillaliz on August 25, 2006, 07:46:14 PM: Has anyone seen the Illusionist? I think I remember a reveiw...was that you DR Jennifer?
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Post by: Cillaliz on August 25, 2006, 07:47:18 PM: My Niece went to Minneapolis today and drove through the area hit by a tornado yesterday. She said it looked like someone took a giant lawn mower and mowed down all the trees
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Post by: Cillaliz on August 25, 2006, 07:48:03 PM: Hi DR elmore
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Post by: Cillaliz on August 25, 2006, 07:48:20 PM: Hi Dr laura
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Post by: Cillaliz on August 25, 2006, 07:49:09 PM: Quote from: Cillaliz on August 25, 2006, 07:48:20 PM
Hi Dr laura

Oh that looks scary, like Dr. Laura whats her name....

Hi DearReader Laura...much better
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Post by: Cillaliz on August 25, 2006, 07:49:34 PM: Hi DR Ben
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Post by: Cillaliz on August 25, 2006, 07:50:15 PM: Yee Hah!! How about a page 5 Square Dance
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Post by: Cillaliz on August 25, 2006, 07:51:10 PM: Won't someone talk to me?????
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Post by: Cillaliz on August 25, 2006, 07:51:35 PM: LOL, that sounds a little desperate, just trying to get some posts here
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Post by: Cillaliz on August 25, 2006, 07:52:04 PM: Well that's my frenzy for now....what's the all time low? Are we over it yet?
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Post by: François de Paris on August 25, 2006, 07:53:11 PM: Quote from: Cillaliz on August 25, 2006, 07:51:10 PM
Won't someone talk to me?????

Someone hardly talks to me either!
What's the problem with someone?!
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Post by: Cillaliz on August 25, 2006, 08:02:10 PM: Oh Francois, mon ami, so good to see you. I don't know what's wrong with someone, but I'll talk to you if someone won't
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Post by: François de Paris on August 25, 2006, 08:05:15 PM: Not much happening here in the middle of the night!
A few minutes ago, a taxi showed up to pick up guests to go to the Orly airport but nobody here had ordered a taxi or even was checking out!

Puzzled am I!

Are ze cats behaving?!
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Post by: Cillaliz on August 25, 2006, 08:06:40 PM: They are doing pretty well, actually. They fight some, but that's normal. At least they are starting to be more quiet about it
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Post by: Cillaliz on August 25, 2006, 08:07:59 PM: Quote from: François on August 25, 2006, 08:05:15 PM

Not much happening here in the middle of the night!
A few minutes ago, a taxi showed up to pick up guests to go to the Orly airport but nobody here had ordered a taxi or even was checking out!

Puzzled am I!

Very strange indeed....
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Post by: elmore3003 on August 25, 2006, 08:10:47 PM: Quote from: Cillaliz on August 25, 2006, 07:46:14 PM
Has anyone seen the Illusionist? I think I remember a reveiw...was that you DR Jennifer?

DRs Rodzinski and TPunk saw it last week. I may go tomorrow.
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Post by: Cillaliz on August 25, 2006, 08:11:17 PM: I am watching Facing Life, the Re-trial on A and E. It's the retrial of a case in Wisconsin where the defendant was originally convicted of murder then he received a new trial thanks to The Innocense Project. I think he's going to win, but I don't know.

The interesting thing is I just had a conversation over lunch yesterday with a fellow criminal defense lawyer who was telling me about one of the defense lawyers in this case and how great a lawyer he is. I had no idea this was going to be on tonight.
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Post by: DakotaCelt on August 25, 2006, 08:12:01 PM: I just wandered over...

I was watching a movie..
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Post by: elmore3003 on August 25, 2006, 08:12:20 PM: What's become of our new DR jhvw?

I liked PSYCH, but I'm still angry over the lousiness of MONK. It's time to kill off a series.
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Post by: Cillaliz on August 25, 2006, 08:12:24 PM: I want to see the Illusionist, but it isn't here yet. Boo, hiss....that was meant as a comment and not as a request for my cat to hiss
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Post by: DakotaCelt on August 25, 2006, 08:13:39 PM: Cilla, they are showing pics on the news up here of the damage done by the tornado in that area
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Post by: Cillaliz on August 25, 2006, 08:13:54 PM: Quote from: elmore3003 on August 25, 2006, 08:12:20 PM
What's become of our new DR jhvw?

Hmm don't know.... I haven't talked to him lately, I'll have to send him an email.
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Post by: FJL on August 25, 2006, 08:14:10 PM: Francois - Well your someone called today, He hung up when I asked his name...

Nah, that doesn't work that way. :)
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Post by: DakotaCelt on August 25, 2006, 08:14:27 PM: Cilla, what play do you plan on seeing in nyc?
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Post by: elmore3003 on August 25, 2006, 08:14:57 PM: Okay, we're past the safety point. I wonder if our DR Jose is sitting at his computer rewriting my chart to "Mein Herr." I've almost finished my Klea Blackhurst work. Then I'm heading into a bit of Musical Theatre Festival work, and following that - Ta-Dah! - I can think about a certain Los Angeles project.
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Post by: Cillaliz on August 25, 2006, 08:15:10 PM: BK - I hope I'm getting brownie points for keeping the conversation going tonight.....no, skip the brownie points...send me a brownie!!! I'm still dieting and have not eaten any of the chocolate I'm thinking about
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Post by: DakotaCelt on August 25, 2006, 08:15:36 PM: Elmore, NBC is killing the soap genre by pimping Passions
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Post by: DakotaCelt on August 25, 2006, 08:16:50 PM: Had a lovely day until Aunt Vulture called... Amazing how one person can wreck one person's mood...
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Post by: Cillaliz on August 25, 2006, 08:16:57 PM: Quote from: DakotaCelt on August 25, 2006, 08:14:27 PM
Cilla, what play do you plan on seeing in nyc?

We have tickets to A CHORUS LINE, DROWSY CHAPERONE and WICKED...of course those are all musicals. We have time to see something else, but we're waiting to see if there is something else we want to do.
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Post by: DakotaCelt on August 25, 2006, 08:18:00 PM: Lastest fad in ND: burying St. Joseph statues in ND yards...
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Post by: DakotaCelt on August 25, 2006, 08:19:34 PM: Quote from: Cillaliz on August 25, 2006, 08:16:57 PM
We have tickets to A CHORUS LINE, DROWSY CHAPERONE and WICKED...of course those are all musicals. We have time to see something else, but we're waiting to see if there is something else we want to do.

I have seen a really good college production of Chorus Line and I would like to see Drowsy Chaperone someday.
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Post by: DakotaCelt on August 25, 2006, 08:20:29 PM: The ND contribution to Extreme home makeover built the house in 108 hours in Minot, ND
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Post by: DakotaCelt on August 25, 2006, 08:21:09 PM: A Masters group of students in the NDSU landscaping program worked on the landscaping.
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Post by: DakotaCelt on August 25, 2006, 08:21:40 PM: The North Dakota eppie will broadcast in October.
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Post by: DakotaCelt on August 25, 2006, 08:22:33 PM: THey did not tear the house down but it was moved and donated to Habitat for Humanity in Minot.
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Post by: bk on August 25, 2006, 08:23:43 PM: Brownie points to all who are keeping things alive, and bitch-slap points to those who are errant and truant.
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Post by: Matt H. on August 25, 2006, 08:24:52 PM: Had a great visit with my friend Gregg. We both had wonderful dinners. I had a chicken parm that was to die for. Ate way too much, and my lower back was really stiff and aching this morning, so I didn't exercise today at all. I will have to tomorrow without fail.
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Post by: elmore3003 on August 25, 2006, 08:25:01 PM: Disturbing tv news tonight: some screwed up ass, in Brooklyn I believe, has been leaving out pieces of beef loaded with straight pins and two dogs have now been injured.
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Post by: Matt H. on August 25, 2006, 08:27:37 PM: Page Six TARZAN Dance!!!
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Post by: François de Paris on August 25, 2006, 08:28:50 PM: Quote from: FJL on August 25, 2006, 08:14:10 PM
Francois - Well your someone called today, He hung up when I asked his name...

Nah, that doesn't work that way. :)

I think it must be a friend of Guy Haines! ;)
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Post by: Matt H. on August 25, 2006, 08:30:09 PM: Gregg left a few minutes before 10, so I was able to see the wonderful PSYCH in its entirety. The mystery was easily solved, but the interplay between James Roday and Dule Hill was very entertaining, and George Takei made a fun guest star.
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Post by: François de Paris on August 25, 2006, 08:30:41 PM: Quote from: Cillaliz on August 25, 2006, 08:15:10 PM
BK - I hope I'm getting brownie points for keeping the conversation going tonight.....no, skip the brownie points...send me a brownie!!! I'm still dieting and have not eaten any of the chocolate I'm thinking about

MY brownie is over the ocean! :)
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Post by: François de Paris on August 25, 2006, 08:31:37 PM: Quote from: DakotaCelt on August 25, 2006, 08:15:36 PM
Elmore, NBC is killing the soap genre by pimping Passions

Pimping Passions, title to my next book! Ah! ;)
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Post by: Matt H. on August 25, 2006, 08:31:56 PM: I'll have to wait for tomorrow to give an opinion on MONK. It's on the DVR, but I won't watch until tomorrow.

I also have LADY BE GOOD to watch tomorrow. I didn't get to it today.
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Post by: François de Paris on August 25, 2006, 08:34:15 PM: Quote from: Matt H. on August 25, 2006, 08:24:52 PM
and my lower back was really stiff and aching this morning,

TC.... NO! I'll refrain! ;)
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Post by: François de Paris on August 25, 2006, 08:35:40 PM: Quote from: Matt H. on August 25, 2006, 08:31:56 PM
I'll have to wait for tomorrow to give an opinion on MONK. It's on the DVR, but I won't watch until tomorrow.

Tomorrow's only a Monk away!
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Post by: François de Paris on August 25, 2006, 08:39:05 PM: Just got this email:

Do you get $888 forFree in Vegas? WELL, you do at theVegasLounge:
http://www.livesuperb.com

Ain't life trhilling?!?
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Post by: François de Paris on August 25, 2006, 08:40:10 PM: Welcome back from the grocery errands, DR Tomovoz! (!?!?)
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Post by: DakotaCelt on August 25, 2006, 08:45:01 PM: Quote from: elmore3003 on August 25, 2006, 08:25:01 PM
Disturbing tv news tonight: some screwed up ass, in Brooklyn I believe, has been leaving out pieces of beef loaded with straight pins and two dogs have now been injured.

Simply crude and vicious...
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Post by: DakotaCelt on August 25, 2006, 08:45:50 PM: Quote from: François on August 25, 2006, 08:31:37 PM
Pimping Passions, title to my next book! Ah! ;)

Francois, keep it for the book but you dont want to see the show...
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Post by: DakotaCelt on August 25, 2006, 08:46:47 PM: Anyone want to aim for 200?
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Post by: François de Paris on August 25, 2006, 08:47:27 PM: Quote from: DakotaCelt on August 25, 2006, 08:45:50 PM
Francois, keep it for the book but you dont want to see the show...

Oh, but you won't want to read my book either! :D
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Post by: Tomovoz on August 25, 2006, 08:47:30 PM: Thank you François.
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Post by: Matt H. on August 25, 2006, 08:48:49 PM: Off to bed now.

Good night!
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Post by: Tomovoz on August 25, 2006, 08:50:20 PM: "Monk" did not survive for long on Oz TV. I watched 3 episodes and found the character too unbelievable to care about at all. (and they were the Emmy award nominated ones from Series one).
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Post by: François de Paris on August 25, 2006, 08:51:37 PM: I know it's the Old Europe but have you gotten news of that 18 year old girl who has escaped from her abductor who kept her in captivity for 8 YEARS in Vienna, Austria?!
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Post by: Tomovoz on August 25, 2006, 08:58:11 PM: Page 13 story in our paper today François.
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Post by: Jrand73 on August 25, 2006, 09:03:26 PM: Sad story DR ELMORE....sick sick sick.
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Post by: Jrand73 on August 25, 2006, 09:05:34 PM: Supposed to be ACT TWO off book tonight, but SOME people got to carry their books and so of course - we trying to go OFF BOOK got messed up....better the second time....

AND I had forgotten I bought a seersucker suit last MAY just in case I was cast in TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD.....I was talking about having to buy one for the prosecuting attorney....when I was reminded I had one hanging in the hall closet...waiting to be altered.

And of course it fits Mr Gilmer like a glove. The best thing I can say is that I found it TODAY and not AFTER I had gone all over HAA looking for another one.
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Post by: Jrand73 on August 25, 2006, 09:06:03 PM: Watching Sunset Boulevard!
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Post by: François de Paris on August 25, 2006, 09:11:41 PM: Kidnapped girl free after eight-year captivity

Deutsche Presse Agentur
Published: Wednesday August 23, 2006

Vienna- A young woman escaped to freedom Wednesday afternoon after eight years' captivity in Austria's most sensational post-war kidnapping case, said initial police reports. The report said Natascha Kampusch, who disappeared without trace aged ten on March 2, 1998, had been held captive in a cellar within 30 kilometres of Vienna.

Natascha's disappearance happened at a time when Europe was preoccupied by the notorious Belgian Dutroux case of child abduction and murder.

In 1998 she vanished on her way to school in Vienna. A nationwide search was immediately launched. Hundreds of police scoured the whole of eastern Austria. Helicopters were brought in, and rivers dragged. No trace of her was ever found.

On Wednesday afternoon a young woman suddenly appeared at Deutsch Wagram in eastern Austria. First reports said she was thrown out, or had jumped out, of a car. Austrian ORF television reported she had been seen "staggering around" in a garden.

The woman told police her name was Natascha Kampusch. Comparative DNA tests were immediately started. A nationwide search was launched for the driver of the car. Natascha's parents were called in to possibly identify their daughter.

Head of Vienna criminal police Herwig Haidinger said the Kampusch case could finally have come to "a happy end." But it was not yet 100 per cent certain whether the young woman was in fact Natascha. However, relatives had already identified her.

Haidinger said the suspect wanted for kidnapping was a 44-year-old man named as "Wolfgang P.", resident in the village of Strasshof near Gaenserndorf, where Natascha had apparently been held for most or all of the time.

Police said the young woman had told them her captor had allowed her to listen to radio, but only occasionally TV. She had had access to newspapers, but had mostly been cut off from the outside world.

Investigators said the young woman gave an appearance of "having been away from the light of day for a long time." Her skin was pale. Otherwise she made a good impression. "She expresses herself well, and can read and write," said an investigator.

© 2006 DPA - Deutsche Presse-Agenteur
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Post by: François de Paris on August 25, 2006, 09:12:53 PM: Quote from: JRand56 on August 25, 2006, 09:06:03 PM
Watching Sunset Boulevard!

Lots of traffic on it?! ;)
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Post by: Jrand73 on August 25, 2006, 09:15:12 PM: Quote from: François on August 25, 2006, 09:12:53 PM
Lots of traffic on it?! ;)

More action in the pool.....
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Post by: Jrand73 on August 25, 2006, 09:16:12 PM: It is 12:07 am EDST.....I am NOW Jrand56!!

And I have to work today..... :P

Microsoft Dance!!! 8)
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Post by: DakotaCelt on August 25, 2006, 09:16:19 PM: Quote from: François on August 25, 2006, 08:47:27 PM
Oh, but you won't want to read my book either! :D

Perhaps your book will be better than the show... Things have been known to happen good sir!
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Post by: François de Paris on August 25, 2006, 09:18:37 PM: Details emerge on abducted woman's escape
The Associated Press

Published: August 25, 2006
VIENNA A young woman escaped eight years of captivity by bolting when her abductor stepped away to take a phone call while she was vacuuming his car, the authorities said Friday.

The Austrian police also confirmed that DNA tests had confirmed the identity of the woman, Natascha Kampusch. Relatives had already identified her, but the police had been waiting for the test results to remove any doubt.

Erich Zwettler, the head of Austria's federal police, said that the young woman escaped from her abductor in an unguarded moment while he stepped away with his mobile phone because of noise from the vacuum. The police had initially said she escaped when the small metal door of her underground cell was left open.

Kampusch vanished on her way to school on March 2, 1998. The man suspected of abducting her killed himself Wednesday a few hours after she fled and sought help at a home on the quiet street where she says she was held.

The police, who confirmed the identity of the suspect as Wolfgang Priklopil, a 44-year-old communications technician, said he had committed suicide by throwing himself in front of a commuter train in Vienna.

Photographs made public by the police of the hiding place where Kampusch said she was kept showed a small, cluttered room with narrow concrete stairs leading down from an entrance so small that it would have to be crawled through. Another photo showed a metal hatch that sealed the windowless, underground room.

Strasshof, the small town near Vienna where Kampusch was kept, is a semi-rural community where tidy houses adorned with flower boxes are mostly set close together. Children play freely in the streets and doors are left open.

Neighbors said they were shocked by the reports and had seen no signs of anything to raise suspicion.
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Post by: DakotaCelt on August 25, 2006, 09:19:34 PM: Jrand.... Where is hula hoop?
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Post by: DakotaCelt on August 25, 2006, 09:20:03 PM: we have hula hooped right on over to page 7!
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Post by: François de Paris on August 25, 2006, 09:20:23 PM: Quote from: JRand56 on August 25, 2006, 09:15:12 PM
More action in the pool.....

People monkeying around?!
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Post by: Cillaliz on August 25, 2006, 09:21:25 PM: DR Francois, I saw photos of the place she was held on the news tonight. Quite amazing story
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Post by: Cillaliz on August 25, 2006, 09:23:09 PM: The A&E documentary Facing Life; The Retrial of Evan Zimmerman was very powerful. It's from the defense point of view, so of course I could easily relate to it.
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Post by: DearReaderLaura on August 25, 2006, 09:23:24 PM: I bet you're glad you don't have to defend that one, Cillaliz.
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Post by: Tomovoz on August 25, 2006, 09:23:30 PM: Happy Birthday JRand56. Oh Dio Mio, Pineapple Princess, Tall Paul, Train of Love, and First Name Initial shall be played.

Or have I jumped to a conclusion?
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Post by: DearReaderLaura on August 25, 2006, 09:24:42 PM: I have so much to do I have no business online tonight. But tomorrow morning I am going to the river, and in the afternoon we see the tour of Wicked.
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Post by: François de Paris on August 25, 2006, 09:25:49 PM: Quote from: Tomovoz on August 25, 2006, 09:23:30 PM
Happy Birthday JRand56. Oh Dio Mio, Pineapple Princess, Tall Paul, Train of Love, and First Name Initial shall be played.

Or have I jumped to a conclusion?

Too many titles!!! I can't do the sum! Help, DR elmore!! ;)
Title: Re:I REST MY CASE
Post by: Cillaliz on August 25, 2006, 09:27:41 PM: Quote from: DearReaderLaura on August 25, 2006, 09:23:24 PM
I bet you're glad you don't have to defend that one, Cillaliz.

The kidnapping? Well, he killed himself, so no one will have to defend him. I guess the only way to answer that is, yes, I'm glad I don't have to, but if I got the case, I would still do everything I could to defend him.
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Post by: Cillaliz on August 25, 2006, 09:33:24 PM: Happy B'day JRand!!! I hate to send good wishes and leave, but I must get some beauty rest....
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Post by: François de Paris on August 25, 2006, 09:47:19 PM: Quote from: Cillaliz on August 25, 2006, 09:33:24 PM
Happy B'day JRand!!! I hate to send good wishes and leave, but I must get some beauty rest....

Now It's Time To Say Goodnight To.... Cillaliz!
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Post by: François de Paris on August 25, 2006, 09:49:12 PM: Quote from: Cillaliz on August 25, 2006, 09:33:24 PM
I hate to send good wishes and leave,

Well, then, do adore to receive bad wishes and stay! ??? ;)
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Post by: DakotaCelt on August 25, 2006, 10:08:50 PM: SusieQ.seddt.net/ilovela_montage.wmv (http://SusieQ.seddt.net/ilovela_montage.wmv)

Your LA montage quiz for the day. We found this in some Matt and Missy edits....

Guess the landmarks!
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Post by: DakotaCelt on August 25, 2006, 10:10:25 PM: Happy Birthday Jrand!!
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Post by: DakotaCelt on August 25, 2006, 10:12:14 PM: Hola!?!?!

Anyone out there?
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Post by: François de Paris on August 25, 2006, 10:12:20 PM: Hope those old pics will bring back sweet memories to most!

http://www.matterhorn1959.com/blog1/124.ticketbooth.jpg

http://www.matterhorn1959.com/blog1/112.sleepingbeautyentrance.jpg

http://www.matterhorn1959.com/blog1/101.fantasylandrrstation.jpg

http://www.matterhorn1959.com/blog1/81.madhatterticketbooth.jpg

http://www.matterhorn1959.com/blog1/junglecruiseboat.jpg

http://www.matterhorn1959.com/blog1/spacepeople.jpg

http://www.matterhorn1959.com/blog1/viewliner.jpg

http://www.matterhorn1959.com/blog1/img656.jpg
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Post by: François de Paris on August 25, 2006, 10:15:15 PM: Please! Will someone let grandma out!

http://www.matterhorn1959.com/blog1/wildanimals.jpg
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Post by: Tomovoz on August 25, 2006, 10:18:57 PM: Even here in Oz it was big news François.
I maybe back there in October!
Thank you for the links.
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Post by: bk on August 25, 2006, 10:50:28 PM: I finally got so fed up with people here in LA who are just too lazy and ridiculous to ever want to go out for a late-night snack that I just toddled over to Du-Par's by myself, manucript in hand, and had a couple of poached eggs and did corrections. I actually enjoyed it, and may do it more. Heaven forbid anyone I know actually get off their ASS and DO something after nine at night. Pathetic.
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Post by: DakotaCelt on August 25, 2006, 10:50:41 PM: Nice ticketbooth pics Francois....
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Post by: DakotaCelt on August 25, 2006, 10:53:46 PM: I am a nightowl and I love ot go to Denny's or Perkins to write after work...

During the day before work it is my favorite coffee shop... A great place to observe people. It helps to observe people to get your characters different facets.
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Post by: DakotaCelt on August 25, 2006, 10:56:34 PM: I write for an escape. It also helps to ease isolation...

Contemplating if I want to try an opera this year. THe FArgo Moorhead Opera company is doing La Boheme this year....
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Post by: DakotaCelt on August 25, 2006, 10:59:35 PM: I am glad I got us over 200 posts tonight...
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Post by: DakotaCelt on August 25, 2006, 11:00:43 PM: TCB, jump in and chat....

How are you doing?? HIp doing well???

Kids are staying in line??
Title: Re:I REST MY CASE
Post by: DakotaCelt on August 25, 2006, 11:01:41 PM: During the schoolyear I work until midnight... People here shut down at 8
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Post by: DakotaCelt on August 25, 2006, 11:04:39 PM: Was sorting through some old tapes earlier today and was surprised that on one of my unmarked tapes I had taped the movie "Some Mother's son", and "Playboy of hte WEstern World" -- The irish released movie. This movie is actually fairly close and true to the original play which I love.
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Post by: DakotaCelt on August 25, 2006, 11:07:04 PM: I also discovered my copy of the Commitments is damaged.... Will have to search ebay for another copy. I really like the music from this movie. The movie a bit quirky.
Title: Re:I REST MY CASE
Post by: DakotaCelt on August 25, 2006, 11:08:00 PM: Wonder IF I could make page 8....
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Post by: DakotaCelt on August 25, 2006, 11:27:44 PM: Anyone want to chat?
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Post by: DakotaCelt on August 25, 2006, 11:28:28 PM: Cilla, you are up late...

I hope the cats are not fighting...
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Post by: DakotaCelt on August 25, 2006, 11:28:47 PM: and that made page 8!!
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Post by: George on August 26, 2006, 12:21:49 AM: Hello. I went with my dad and my sister's boyfriend to get a new stove for the house I'm living in, but will be moving out of. ::)
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Post by: George on August 26, 2006, 12:22:32 AM: I watched the season finale of "Psych." I like this show a lot. :)
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Post by: George on August 26, 2006, 12:25:06 AM: I haven't caught up with the posts, yet. I just started page 4.
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Post by: George on August 26, 2006, 12:27:25 AM: Okay, I've sped read through Page 4...just started Page 5. ;)
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Post by: George on August 26, 2006, 12:31:02 AM: Now I'm on Page 6!
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Post by: George on August 26, 2006, 12:33:56 AM: Just finished Page 6...on to Page 7!! ;D
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Post by: George on August 26, 2006, 12:34:15 AM: Isn't the suspense just killin' ya??

;)
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Post by: George on August 26, 2006, 12:35:21 AM: I have officially caught up with all of the Posts and am now on Page 8!
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Post by: George on August 26, 2006, 12:35:48 AM: Hi DakotaCelt! ;D
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Post by: George on August 26, 2006, 12:38:04 AM: My sister told me that my mother is coming over to my house tomorrow! :o

She will "help" me clean up. I will, without a moment of hesitation (a Music Man reference ;) ), admit that she's very good at and motivated to clean. Not me. :P
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Post by: George on August 26, 2006, 12:39:35 AM: Well, I can barely keep my eyes open. Sorry, BK. I must Wussburger...but at least you're a little late and I stuck it out for this long. ;)
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Post by: George on August 26, 2006, 12:42:04 AM: I hope you had a good evening, though. :)