Topic: FLIRTING WITH A GNU (Read 13417 times)

bk · « **on:** March 22, 2014, 12:07:51 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, the notes were flirtatious and had a mix of the gnu and the old, and now it is time for you to post until the flirtatious cows come home.

bk · « **Reply #1 on:** March 22, 2014, 12:08:24 AM »

And the word of the day is: NOETIC!

George · « **Reply #2 on:** March 22, 2014, 12:46:41 AM »

Topic of the Day: the earliest card games that I can remember learning are Old Maid and Go Fish. I also learned poker (not very good at all), rummy and gin rummy. My mom is German, so we learned a game called Watten. We haven't played that in years, so I don't remember how to play it.

George · « **Reply #3 on:** March 22, 2014, 12:46:53 AM »

The most current card game that the family plays is Phase 10. It's like gin rummy, but it uses a special deck. It's a lot of fun and highly recommended.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #4 on:** March 22, 2014, 04:57:14 AM »

Jrand73 · « **Reply #5 on:** March 22, 2014, 04:57:51 AM »

First card games were Old Maid, Slap Jack, and Crazy 8's.

Now I like to play Euchre and I can play bridge, but I am not very good at it.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #6 on:** March 22, 2014, 04:58:31 AM »

Congrats to DR CILLA LIZ on her birthday gift to herself, I am sure it will be a great show! Derek may have another Mirror Ball Trophy by then....right?

Jrand73 · « **Reply #7 on:** March 22, 2014, 04:59:47 AM »

Today is a work day....oh well.

More lively notes....great read.

My GUYS & DOLLS auditions are one week from Sunday and Monday, so I am getting all of my "scenes" ready....and working on the dance combinations for the guys and dolls.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #8 on:** March 22, 2014, 05:30:00 AM »

Good Saturday morning, all.

Crazy dreams. Trying to remember the gist of the main one. Oh well.

Coffee!

vixmom · « **Reply #9 on:** March 22, 2014, 06:02:40 AM »

just back from the church pancake fundraiser breakfast at Applebees it was kinda fun to walk into a local restaurant and have all the staff and all the customers be people you know personally

vixmom · « **Reply #10 on:** March 22, 2014, 06:03:16 AM »

Old maid and go fish from my childhood

vixmom · « **Reply #11 on:** March 22, 2014, 06:03:43 AM »

poker and pinochle from my misspent twenties

vixmom · « **Reply #12 on:** March 22, 2014, 06:04:16 AM »

The last card game I played was http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/171256287203?lpid=82

elmore3003 · « **Reply #13 on:** March 22, 2014, 06:22:26 AM »

Good morning, all! I slept late because I could, and I am now dressed and ready to work. I need to pull from my shelves the Piano score of IRMA LA DOUCE for a listening break today and the vocal score for LITTLE MARY SUNSHINE, since I had endless nightmares about its Act One finale last night and i want to look at its notation.

First thing up, some Cole Porter medley work. After I make the bed.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #14 on:** March 22, 2014, 06:27:09 AM »

Today is Steve Sondheim's 84th birthday.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #15 on:** March 22, 2014, 06:41:44 AM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on March 22, 2014, 06:22:26 AM

I had endless nightmares about its Act One finale last night and i want to look at its notation

I had two LI'L ABNER dreams this week.

In the first, I was obsessed with a couple of passages in PUT 'EM BACK, notably the rideout (in the published key of Cb major, of course), and it took me a couple of hours after awakening to realize I'd also attributed the first two bars of the intro to MATRIMONIAL STOMP to PUT 'EM BACK. Oy! I practically ran to the score to sort that out.

The second was this morning. After the couple of crazy dreams (which still refuse to come back into focus), I woke up sort of hearing/"playing" DRUTHERS ... in the key of B major.

Must be my new favorite key. I wonder what's next.

Druxy · « **Reply #16 on:** March 22, 2014, 07:29:13 AM »

TOD:

I haven't played card games in years...except on the computer.

I recall, as a kid, playing Authors. We also played Canasta when it was in fashion.

Now, on the computer, I'll play Solitaire and Gin Rummy.

Druxy · « **Reply #17 on:** March 22, 2014, 07:30:51 AM »

The last two nights we watched PHILOMENA and AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY.

Enjoyed them both, though the latter could have stood a bit more humor.

Ginny · « **Reply #18 on:** March 22, 2014, 08:03:46 AM »

Saturday morning greetings! Richard and I are off to Tri-County Mall today to pick up his new suit and to get a new battery for my sparkly watch. We'll be home before the Michigan/Texas tip-off - Go, Blue!

Ginny · « **Reply #19 on:** March 22, 2014, 08:06:15 AM »

TOD - My family played a rummy game called Liverpool and I played a lot of canasta with my Grandma. Best memories are playing cards on the screened in porch of our house in Detroit. We didn't have air conditioning, so we'd play cards on summer evenings until the upstairs bedrooms were cool enough for sleeping.

FJL · « **Reply #20 on:** March 22, 2014, 08:15:04 AM »

We played Kaluki the last time I visited my parents, when we went to their local card room.

FJL · « **Reply #21 on:** March 22, 2014, 08:17:03 AM »

Kaluki is called the Jamaican rummy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalooki

We did not dance the Jamaica Ska afterwards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r_77q0BnVs

ChasSmith · « **Reply #22 on:** March 22, 2014, 08:46:15 AM »

DR Ginny, your mention of Tri-County Mall brings back some memories. My folks had just moved from Fort Lauderdale to Cincinnati the week before Christmas 1968, and I drove down from school in Cleveland for the holidays. There was shopping to be done, so I got my introductions to Tri-County, the original Kenwood shopping center area, and of course the still glorious downtown - with real department stores, Willis Music, etc. etc. I had Cincinnati chili, probably a Perkins breakfast, and other such delights for the first time. Those visits were fun and kind of magical as they got to know the city and introduced me to it over the next few years.

Tri-County was fascinating for its size, but even though my memories are vague, I don't recall the interior as being a particularly attractive one back then. But malls were still coming into their own in those years, and as others got built, they stopped going up there so often in favor of more nearby ones like Eastgate. I do remember on a summer visit borrowing their car to drive up and see IN COLD BLOOD (must have been a second run) at a single-screen theater across the road from Tri-County.

At some point in the late '70s or early '80s they took me to a large independent store near there (maybe to the north, across I-275?) with all kinds of goods and foodstuffs from around the world, called the International something or other. Did you ever know that one? It stuck in my mind, but I never got back there.

(Oh my. And all she said was "Tri-County Mall"...)

Kerry · « **Reply #23 on:** March 22, 2014, 08:46:57 AM »

I slept in. Life is good.

Jennifer · « **Reply #24 on:** March 22, 2014, 09:00:49 AM »

Is it really Spring? It was snowing so hard here this morning. Crazy.

I really want Spring.

Kate · « **Reply #25 on:** March 22, 2014, 09:24:34 AM »

Hello All:

TOD:

FAVORITE CARD GAME:

ANIMAL RUMMY ( As a child)
OLD MAID " " "
PINOCHLE (As an Adult)

No, I haven't played cards in years!!!

Kate · « **Reply #26 on:** March 22, 2014, 09:24:51 AM »

Goodbye for now!!!

ChasSmith · « **Reply #27 on:** March 22, 2014, 10:27:15 AM »

Apropos of nothing... a scan for your dancing and singing pleasure.

As some of you know, vocal scores were once sold in both hardcover and softcover editions, but I was always too cheap back in those student days to cough up the extra $3.00 or $3.50. (I was buying during the $9.00 years.) I'd never had THE MOST HAPPY FELLA, and it just happened that an early eBay find was a "hardcover" edition, which I bid on and won. (Everything had to be "won" back then, chillun. There was no Buy It Now.) To my delight, it included that logo, and as you might be able to tell, the dark green binding has a nice pebbly texture. The "boards" are actually flexible, with the leather (?) stretched over them. It's like an old Modern Library "flex" edition. So, not your typical hardcover.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #28 on:** March 22, 2014, 10:55:07 AM »

I am feeling very very lazy today. Working on my medley, I realized i have to go to Toyland tomorrow morning. I finished my mystery Death at St James Palace last night, so I need to pick something new for my bus reading.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #29 on:** March 22, 2014, 10:55:38 AM »

One more should put us to page @.

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