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Well, you've read the notes, you were determined to be determined to read the notes at a time to be determined, and now it is time for you to post until the cows come home, said time to be determined.
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Disco was the soundtrack of my life during the second half of the '70's.
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Let's have particulars.
Birthday wishes have been added to the notes - check 'em out.
The word of the day is: ONEROUS. Yes, onerous, a fine and noble and slightly onerous word.
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[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHEER TO MR. DONALD FELTHAM!!![/move]
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Happy birthday Kerry and Donald
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Some stats: January 2005 - our biggest month ever.
Three of our biggest days ever occured during January.
We had over 9200 posts in the month of January, over 600 more than our previous best month, which was January 2004.
An amazingly amazing month. Onward and upward, say I.
Onerous, say I.
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It's February...how did that happen?
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Favorite 70s songs: literally anything by ABBA, Barry Manilow, Bette Midler or Donna Summer. That pretty much covers it (not including musicals). ;D I probably shouldn't admit this, but I've never heard of "Tim Moore’s Second Avenue." ::)
I'm too tired to think right now and I have to get up much too early this morning for computer training at work (again) and again tomorrow (Wednesday) to bring my car in to get it serviced.
Good night all.
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And Congrats on the Stats! ;D
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Some favourites: Vincent - Don McLean, Killing Me Softly - Roberta Flack, Bridge Over Troubled Water- Simon & Garfunkel, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John, Goodbye To Love - The Carpenters, Band on The Run - Paul McCartney, Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty, Duncan - Paul Simon, Fire and Rain - James Taylor. Haven't Got Time for the Pain - Carly Simon, Cat's in the Cradle - Harry Chapin, America - Tin Man.
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I have only one thing to say: Onerous.
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Ann, you've made me very hungry for macaroni salad - I believe I'll be making some version of it. What you do is very close to my Tuna Pasta Salad.
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Rupert Holmes' Widescreen, Studio Musician and Terminal.
Simon and Garfunkel: So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright, Old Friends, America
Elton John: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Gilbert O'Sullivan: Claire
Peter Skellern: You're a Lady
Eric Carmen: All by Myself
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Carly Simon: That's the Way I Always Heard it Should Be
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Well, I guess I'll just toddle off to the bedroom environment. I shall dream of macaroni salad.
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Happy Birthday to Kerry and Donald!
Favorites of the 70's include anything by Steeley Dan,such as Gaucho, Aja, and The Royal Scam-
The Cars, You're Just What I Needed
Supertramp, everything
Alan Parsons Project, I Robot
Thomas Dolby's She Blinded Me With Science
all that great stuff from Robert Palmer and Boz Scaggs
ELO, Electric Light Orchestra
Kenny Rankin and Michael Franks, if anyone knows who they are-LOVED them!
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Emerson, Lake,and Palmer-"From the Beginning"
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Jethro Tull's "Thick As A Brick"
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Morning all!
This has to be a quickie.
I just read over the posts I missed last night.
Thank you, DR Jrand for the web site address. When I changed computers, I didn’t have it. I need to burn a back up disk with my web favorites. I will do that tonight while it is on my mind.
DR Ben, thank you for the information about the Zoos. I just want to clear up one point in case I confused everyone. I am not staying at the Milford this time around. I’m at the Muse. I just thought it might be nice to try something different. It will give me a comparison for future trips. :)
If Michael Crawford comes to Broadway and Chitty is there I may make a very brief weekend trip up come fall--no promises on that!
Fireflys. I remember them when I was a kid. Then some stupid person let the love bugs go and they had to spray to get rid of them. Only one problem. The spray also killed off the fireflys (and who knows what else) as well. I haven’t seen one in years and I really miss them.
Happy Birthday DR’s Kerry and Donald!
Got to scoot! Have a good day all! :)
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Good morning/evening/what ever time it is in your part of the world, DR Hisaka!! Sorry but I have to run.
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Happiest of Birthdays to our own Donald and Kerry. And hugs to your respective dogs also.
It is onerous to sit here at 7:40 in the morning when I want to be back in bed. But it is supposed to be 40 degrees later in the day so I will do what I have to do, which includes going to a demonstration of a product that the Foundation Center uses (Foundation Directory On-Line) so that I can decide if I'm interested in perhaps being a back-up trainer for the product.
I now must go wash my cereal bow. I tried some new hot cereal today and was not impressed. It's called Whetena, toasted wheat cereal. I put in my raisins and a banana but it didn't help. I doubt that I will be eating Wheatena again. I was expecting something similar to oatmeal based on the picture on the cover of the box, but that's not what came out. It's unappetizing and now I feel like I have small nuggets of wheat all over. Oh, well, you live and learn.
Danise, the Muse, huh. I guess we will all have to come by your room to see the amenities.
Before I go, Hello Hisaka. Is Ground Hogs Day (which is tomorrow) celebrated in Japan? Do they have furry rodents that crawl out of a hole and predict weather for the next six weeks? Inquiring minds want to know?
I am off. Later, gaters
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Good morning, all!
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DRPogue, I never heard of the book(s) you asked me about. I would have been intrigued by any that mentioned the name of my best friend John Hawkins, so I wish I'd come across it.
I forgot to mention the fireflies! Our neighborhood always had a plethora of them. I remember the lawn carpeted with little glowing lights on some summer nights, as my brother Tom and I ran around collecting them in Mason jars. During the summer days, we saw plenty of praying mantises, grasshoppers, gorgeous monarch butterflies, some flimsier yellow butterflies, and ladybugs. All that fauna certainly had died out of my neighborhood by the late 1970s.
Seventies songs: my last period of car ownership with my car radio tuned to Dayton's W-I-N-G. Between 1971 and 1979 I heard all the pop stuff, and now I can recall next to nothing. What can I dredge up?
Judy Collin - SEND IN THE CLOWNS
Firefall - YOU ARE THE WOMAN
Dave Loggins - PLEASE COME TO BOSTON
Don McLean - AMERICAN PIE
Don McLean - VINCENT
Cymarron - RINGS
Dr Hook and the Medecine Show - BALLAD OF LUCY JORDAN
Steve Goodman - THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS
Harry Chapin - TAXI
Harry Chapin - CATS IN THE CRADLE
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[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHEER TO KERRY!!! [/move]
[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHEER TO MR. DONALD FELTHAM!!! [/move]
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DRJay, I looked at the Amazon.com listing, which is very sketchy. Yes, it's George London, Elizabeth Grummer, Emmy Loos, and Karl Bohm, and probably a live performance from the 1950s. I can find no record of a studio recording with that cast in the Metropolitan Opera Guide to Opera Recordings or Opera on Record by Alan Blyth.
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TOD:
Tumbleweed Connection album by Elton John
Turnstiles, and The Stranger Albums by Billy Joel
Ziggy Stardust by Bowie
Photographs & Memories _ Jim Croce
Anything by Harry Chapin, although I am probably unreasonably biased there, he lived in the neighboring town and was always here, there and everywhere doing free concerts and charity work, keepiong a little local theatre group alive, and I had the good fortune to see him several times. he died of a heart attack in his car on the dreaded Long Island Expressway on his way to a local concert
The song "Night Moves", although for the life of me, I cannot think of the artist's name
Steely Dan just about everything!!
Genesis
Dan Fogelberg
King Crimson
Moody Blues Nights in White Satin
Don MCClean -American Pie
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Disco was the soundtrack of my life during the second half of the '70's.
Ditto, dear brother. (Except, as DR George said, for musicals.)
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Happy mutual birthday to DR Kerry and Mr. Donald Feltham.
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Congrats on your ascendency, DR Vixmom.
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Congrats on your ascendency, DR Vixmom.
Thank you, and thank you all for your good wishes yesterday, I just caught up on the notes!!
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I saw and mostly enjoyed MEDIUM last night, except I wish the writers would stop thinking that every episode must include her having a self righteous diatribe. "Oh, I cannot tell a lie, twas I saw the ghostie"
I also was annoyed that they had her acting like such a B**** about her husband working late a couple of nights when in the past three episodes she kept wandering in from work after everyone was in bed and it was quite clear SHE hadn't called " Oh, I lost track of time while fondling the jury questionaires"
I WANT to like this character, I want to like this show, so I hope the writing settles down a bit.. maybe some of our esteemed screenwriters here can get themselves involved and "fix their wagons!! " (just for you, Mrs. Kritzer)
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And on that note, on this natal day for two DRs, or one DR and one DJ (as it were), let us move to Page 2, sans dance.
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Speaking of Mrs. Kritzer..oh, dear bk, I cried at the end of Benjamin Kritzer and then I had to go back and reread the last few chapters again because I was so sad the book was ending.
The whole boardwalk storyline made me think of the closing of the Massapequa Zoo, where my Daddy used to bring me every Sunday afternoon until they razed it to put in a shopping center
and the stables where I learned to ride, until they razed it and built a church
and the duck farm where we got ducks and duck eggs
until they razed it and built a cul de sac
and the potato farms where we got all our fresh veggies
and the farms where we picked our own strawberries in the spring and pumpkins in the fall
and the fish and clams and crabs were so plentiful . we would just pop out in the boat for a couple of hours and have dinner
the neighborhood I grew up in was full of farms and open spaces. We are raising the Vixter in the self same town and it is nothing but strip malls and cul de sacs...
and the waters are full of noisy speedboats and those stupid noisy water motorcycle things....
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Now I want more! More Benjamin Kritzer! And I am sitting here with book 1 and book 3 and KRITZERLAND not yet been delivered!!!! Damn them!! Damn them all to hell!!!
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Hey there DR SWW how are the grandlads? I was thinking about how you were exposing them to music, have you considered playing them any musicals ? Also Victoria at the age of 5 or 6 became very fond of a CD called "Mr. Beethoven Lives Upstairs", which is a story told by a little boy whose Mother has rented her upstairs room to Beethoven, interspersed with passagesof the music he is working on. It was a wonderful introduction to the classics and she would listen to it when she went to sleep at night.
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The grandlads are doing fine. Der Brucer is still recovering from his fall; he detests any ache or pain that comes his way, and loves putting all the work on my shoulders. By way of contrast, he's a terrible nurse, with zero bedside manner, which gives me plenty of incentive to stay well. :-\
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The grandlads are doing fine. Der Brucer is still recovering from his fall; he detests any ache or pain that comes his way, and loves putting all the work on my shoulders. By way of contrast, he's a terrible nurse, with zero bedside manner, which gives me plenty of incentive to stay well. :-\
So you are determined to stay well then?
i am sorry that DerBrucer is still feeling bruised
[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]~~~~~~~~Healing Vibes~~~~~~~~~[/move]to der Brucer
and as the spouse of a bad patient (and worse nurse!)
[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]~~~~~~~Patience Vibes~~~~~~~[/move]
to you!!!
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Interesting word, determine. The second half of the word, termine, comes from the latin terminus, a boundry or limit. The prefix, de-, means the opposite or reverse of something. This being the case, I would have concluded that determine would mean the opposite of limits, or the reverse of a boundry. In other words, it should mean limitless, boundless. Instead, it means pinpointing those limits and boundries.
Ain't words peculiar??!!
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Well I have frenzied enough for the moment (no wonder I achieved "goddem" within an hour and a half of joining!!)
I am determined to make a determined effort and determine what all these papers are in my in box!!!
TTFN (as Tigger would say, despite Walt's express instructions!!)
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As for onerous, the word can be split thusly: one - rous. I've found that there was an American pathologist named Francis Peyton Rous, who was awarded (with C.B. Huggins) the 1966 Nobel prize for physiology or medicine for discovery of tumor-inducing viruses.
An onerous discovery, indeed!
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As for onerous, the word can be split thusly: one - rous.
I wonder what two rous would be called?
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Being a SoCal native, I never saw a lightning bug, or firefly, when I was growing up. Sure, they have them in the Bayou Cafe section of the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland, but those things are eletrical, and not the same thing.
The reason that I never saw one while I was growing up, and that I only discovered their joy-giving qualities last summer, is because lightnig bugs, or fireflies (http://sd.essortment.com/fireflyinformat_raql.htm), are found in "areas of moderate temperatures and most tropical regions." Southern California, being a desert, lacks the moisture that these wonders require.
The only solutions, I suppose, are to either leave Southern California for damper climes or to go to Disneyland.
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Two-rous two-rous rous-la
Two-rous two-rous-lai
Two-rous two-rous rous-la
It's a rousing lullabye!
;)
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Happy Birthday DR Kerry and Donald F!!!!!
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Apart from the Broadway scores of SOndheim, Kander and Ebb, Marvin Hamlisch, and Stephen Schwartz, my favorite songs of the 1970s:
"The Way We Were"
"Weekend in New England"
"Last Dance"
"Time and Love"
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Add to those:
"New York, New York"
""Isn't It Better?"
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Happy Birthday, DR KERRY!
and
Happy Birthday, DR DONALD!
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There's a two hour documentary on Irving Thalberg coming on TCM tonight. I'll probably record the midnight repeat telecast.
I suspect it'll be part of the Garbo boxed set coming later this year, but better record it now just in case TCM decides to sit on it for later release.
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My favorete songs from the 70s:
All songs by Elton John and Bernie Taupin
Killing Me Softly With His Song by Roberta Flack
You’re So Vain by Carlie Simon
Glad you like Good Bye Yellow Brick Road, too, dear BK.
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Two-rous two-rous rous-la
Two-rous two-rous-lai
Two-rous two-rous rous-la
It's a rousing lullabye!
;)
;D
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Catching fireflies is one of the summer night memories that the Vixter will be able to share with me, no body here has yet figured out how to breed them to flash little advertisements....though I won't be suprised when it does happen!!
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Firefly or Lightning Bug
Photinus pyralis More Printouts
The Pyralis firefly (also known as the lightning bug) is a common firefly in North America. This partly nocturnal, luminescent beetle is the most common firefly in the USA.
The Firefly's Glow: At night, the very end (the last abdominal segment) of the firefly glows a bright yellow-green color. The firefly can control this glowing effect. The brightness of a single firefly is 1/40 of a candle. Fireflies use their glow to attract other fireflies. Males flash about every five seconds; females flash about every two seconds. This firefly is harvested by the biochemical industry for the organic compunds luciferin (which is the chemical the firefly uses for its bioluminescence).
Anatomy: This flying insect is about 0.75 inch (2 cm) long. It is mostly black, with two red spots on the head cover; the wing covers and head covers are lined in yellow. Like all insects, it has a hard exoskeleton, six jointed legs, two antennae, compound eyes, and a body divided into three parts (the head, thorax, and abdomen).
Diet: Both the adults and the larvae are carnivores (meat-eaters). They eat other insects (including other fireflies), insect larvae, and snails.
Classification: Order Coleoptera, Family Lampyridae, Genus Photinus, Species P. pyralis.
I didn't know they ate snails...I shall have to try and encourage these little fellas to congregate at my home , the snails keep eating all my Hostas and petunias!!
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Happy Birthday DDJ Donald!
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More Lost Childhood due to moronic "educators"
Schools ban playground classics amid injury and self-esteem fears
Monday, November 18, 2002 • BY JERRY BARCA • Star-Ledger Staff
At 9, David Meltzer is something of an outlaw. He wants to participate in illicit behavior specifically banned at Millington School in Long Hill, where he attends fourth grade.
He likes to play tag.
"It shouldn't be banned. You're just running and tagging," he said simply, as if explaining it to, well, a fourth-grader. "You can play it with all your friends."
Without any boundaries, kids playing tag were darting through hopscotch and basketball games, bumping into other students and ending up in the nurse's office, Millington Principal Karen Wetherell said.
In an age of rising insurance premiums and increased angst over physical and psychological trauma, seemingly innocent playground classics are coming under increased scrutiny. Millington, in Morris County, is not the first New Jersey school to ban tag, and dodge ball is an absolute pariah in some circles.
Still, some experts and parents wonder aloud whether something is being lost in the rush to protect children.
"We live in a society that makes kids so safe, ultimately, we'll put them in a cocoon," said Charles T. Kuntzleman, a University of Michigan professor of kinesiology, the study of exercise and body movement.
At Millington, where pupils attend second through fifth grades, the ban on tag was part of a code of conduct children signed at the beginning of the school year. Pupils at the K-1 Gillette School, the only other Long Hill school with recess, are similarly banned from playing tag, but nothing has been put in writing.
"The idea of loosely running around and chasing each other is not safe," Long Hill Superintendent Arthur DiBenedetto said.
In 1999, Tuscan Elementary School in Maplewood ended tag games, fearing a lawsuit because children were getting hurt when they fell on the asphalt, Principal Pat Browne said.
At Gould Elementary School in North Caldwell and Ross Street Elementary School in Woodbridge, tag games escalated into knockdown, pile-on and pushing clinics, school officials said. In the past few years, both schools have banned the game in favor of organized recess activities.
Then there is the brouhaha over bombardment.
Neil Williams, chairman of the physical education department at Eastern Connecticut State University, touched that one off a few years ago when he crusaded against the game, also known as dodge ball.
Educators followed Williams' lead and the game has been banned in schools in New Jersey, New York, Virginia, Maryland, Maine, Ohio and Texas. The knock was that some students get singled out as targets, and the game fails to provide enough exercise.
Mary Beth Klotz, a psychologist with the National Association of School Psychologists, said tag can produce some of the same problems.
"There's potential for some victimization," Klotz said. "Tag may look okay socially, but it can be a double standard because kids can use it to bully a certain student."
Kuntzleman, the University of Michigan professor, said such concerns can be overblown. He said that children can be singled out in any game.
"That's life," he said.
In Millington, children do play a form of tag -- but unlike the playground free-for-all remembered by parents of a different generation, this tamer event is played indoors with plenty of supervision. The rules vary, but sometimes a teacher decrees that a child can only be tagged once during the game or teams are chosen.
Experts say that misses the point.
Judy Young, executive director of the National Association for Sport and Physical Education, said it is important for kids to have time for creative, unorganized play.
Kuntzleman said there are important social lessons to be learned, such as conflict resolution and respecting a fellow student's personal boundaries.
"You don't just learn these things when you're 21. It starts much younger," he said.
Susan Orshan, whose 9-year-old son, David, attends the Millington School, said she remembers many a rough game of tag as a little girl. She said that no matter how many times she was "it" or got pushed or scratched or fell, she shrugged it off.
"There's almost nothing kids can play where they can't slip and fall or get hurt," she said.
http://www.pburgea.org/_Articles/02-03/A11/PlaygroundGames.htm
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Jerry Barca is a reporter in the Morris County bureau. He may be reached at jbarca@starledger.com or (973) 539-7910.
Copyright 2002 The Star-Ledger. Used by NJ.com with permission.
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I saw and mostly enjoyed MEDIUM last night, except I wish the writers would stop thinking that every episode must include her having a self righteous diatribe. "Oh, I cannot tell a lie, twas I saw the ghostie"
I also was annoyed that they had her acting like such a B**** about her husband working late a couple of nights when in the past three episodes she kept wandering in from work after everyone was in bed and it was quite clear SHE hadn't called " Oh, I lost track of time while fondling the jury questionaires"
I WANT to like this character, I want to like this show, so I hope the writing settles down a bit..
I really enjoyed last night's episode as well.
Interestingly, I saw the realy Alison DuBois on one of the entertainment shows last night. She was saying how her real life daughters also have special abilities (like we saw on the show last week). AND that every episode has real stuff that has happened to her.
I'd be curious to know how closely the plot lines follow what really happened. Anyone know?
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Can you imagine needing these when WE were kids? (Not that such a thing as Videos existed back then!)
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Question for DRs:
A friend of mine has a watch that was appraised at around $3000+. I know there is no way he could get back anywhere near that. But where could he sell it? The only things I can think of are ebay or a pawn shop.
Anybody have any ideas?
Thanks.
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I really enjoyed last night's episode as well.
Interestingly, I saw the realy Alison DuBois on one of the entertainment shows last night. She was saying how her real life daughters also have special abilities (like we saw on the show last week). AND that every episode has real stuff that has happened to her.
I'd be curious to know how closely the plot lines follow what really happened. Anyone know?
I did not know that this was based on a real person!! Interesting....
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Happy Birthday DRs Kerry and Donald!
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Summer nights in Oklahoma were often spent "catching lightening bugs". Ask Mommy for a jar and punch air holes in the lid (just like you do to catch a caterpillar and watch it spin a cacoon). You catch the lightening bug very carefully between your two hands, so as not to harm it, and then the trick is to slip it into the jar and clamp the lid back on without letting the other lightening bugs out.
Whoever got the most bugs in his jar had a pretty flashing lamp to hold up in the summer night. Until it was time to go in, and then you let all them out to flash another night. You didn't even have to stuff the jar with leaves for them to eat like you did with the caterpillars.
And all this wasn't called learning. It was just fun.
As to tropical climates, der B, I recall seeing the air full of fireflies on a summer night in Connecticut, where I was attending an Esperanto Conference. A trilingual Canadian lad of ten (French, Croatian, Esperanto) told me they were "lummushoj" (light flies), and I taught him the standard Esperanto word lampiro.
And, DerBrucer, onerous comes of course from onus, onera, (3rd declension neuter), meaning "burden".
Please do not leave us minus
Our vicarious bonus.
We want to see His Highness
Married to Your Lowness.
On you, Cinderella sits the onus.
So when you name the happy day,
Please phone us.
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and a very happy birthday to DR Kerry!!
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I'm up, I'm up. Had a lovely sleep and awoke to a lovely day and lovely posts.
That school article is so nauseating it makes me want to vomit on the ground. It needs to stop. The media needs to stop. The frivolous litigiousness needs to stop. Children need to be children. The joke is, of course, that all these guardians of the children's safety will allow their children to wear thong underwear, put on makeup, dress as if they were in a bus and truck company of Irma la Douce and spend all day yakking on their cell phones and watching music videos clearly designed to sexualize just about every subject they touch.
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My goodness, was I ranting?
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Question for DRs:
A friend of mine has a watch that was appraised at around $3000+. I know there is no way he could get back anywhere near that. But where could he sell it? The only things I can think of are ebay or a pawn shop.
Anybody have any ideas?
Thanks.
ebay is the first thing that springs to mind, but some jewelry stores do buy used items to sell in their 'Estate Sale" section
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DRJay, I looked at the Amazon.com listing, which is very sketchy. Yes, it's George London, Elizabeth Grummer, Emmy Loos, and Karl Bohm, and probably a live performance from the 1950s. I can find no record of a studio recording with that cast in the Metropolitan Opera Guide to Opera Recordings or Opera on Record by Alan Blyth.
Thanks for the 411, Dear Reader elmore3003.
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A question for any Dear Reader (and especially Dear Reader/Dear Brother Stuart) who might have an opinion on the matter, even though today is not Wednesday:
In today's L.A. Times it was announced that Cher will be offering the absolutely final farewell performance of her Absolutely Final Farewell Tour at the Hollywood Bowl on Saturday, April 30.
Is this something I need to see?
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B'day best to Donald and Kerry.
By the seventies, I had pretty much checked out of the contemporary music scene, having been firmly entrenched in big band, old theatre and film music, and standards big time by then. I was going to Acres of Books in downtown Cincinnati and buying 78s of singers like the Ink Spots.
Probably my most exciting musical discoveries of those years were when a college friend took Julieanne and I and another friend over to his apartment on a rainy afternoon and played for us all the first time 1776. What a revelation that was! Julieanne also introduced me to ANYONE CAN WHISTLE during those years.
Somewhere in the mid-late seventies when I was doing a lot of travelling around the country with my acting gigs, I re-discovered the joys of country music...this was when Dolly and Waylon and Willie and the boys were in vogue. I listened to it, because many times it was the only thing you could pick up in the car. I always liked a good country song because so many of them were story songs. I loved things like Dolly's JOLENE.
Two biggest seventies musical joys for me were Tom Waits and Leon Redbone.
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The frivolous litigiousness needs to stop. Children need to be children. The joke is, of course, that all these guardians of the children's safety will allow their children to wear thong underwear, put on makeup, dress as if they were in a bus and truck company of Irma la Douce and spend all day yakking on their cell phones and watching music videos clearly designed to sexualize just about every subject they touch.
AMEN!!!!
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A question for any Dear Reader (and especially Dear Reader/Dear Brother Stuart) who might have an opinion on the matter, even though today is not Wednesday:
In today's L.A. Times it was announced that Cher will be offering the absolutely final farewell performance of her Absolutely Final Farewell Tour at the Hollywood Bowl on Saturday, April 30.
Is this something I need to see?
and the followup question of course is does anyone believe that this is REALLY her last tour ever?
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How could I forget Here You Come Again???
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VIXMOM
THE NEW-BORN GODDESS
RISETH FROM THE SEA
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VIXMOM
THE NEW-BORN GODDESS
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BILL!!! You said you'd never show anyone that picture!
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BK, ditto on your disgust about the article and your comments on letting children be children.
God, we are so-overprotective of kids today. They're all going to grow up being coddled, maladjusted, self-absorbed obssessives who wash their hands a hundred times a day. Being singled out, being rejected, being bullied, being made fun of is all part of socialization, learning how to get along. Getting your knee scraped or your elbows bruised on the playground is a part of life. Why do we always expect some poor teacher or organization to protect kids from themselves? Any lawsuit that comes from a playground bump oughta to be throw out long before it gets to court. I hate these games where no one is a winner. What kind of lesson is that teaching exactly? Kids do not learn self-esteem when they are made to feel just like everybody else. Kids have to get hurt occasionally, both physically and emotionally, it's all a part of life and growing up. Eating a little dirt helps build their immune system. The reasons so many kids have allergies and other ailments today is because we over-protected their infancy with anti-bacterial this and that. A little pet hair and eating a cookie off the floor won't kill you and it will make you a little stronger.
And you're aboslutely right about the diametrically opposed treatment of children's sexuality. Parents get crazy about predators and the TV's sexual imagery, but they're the ones that expect the TV to be their babysitter for hours and they're the ones who dress their kids up like sexual kewpie dolls.
Let kids be kids, let 'em get dirty, let them have their feuds and fights,let them see London and France and Mary Jane's underpants, let them learn through their social interaction...along with gentle parental guidance..what is proper behaviour and what's socially unacceptable. They'll figure it out without mommy and daddy filing a lawsuit to in order to gain off their child's skinned knee or hurt feelings.
And instead of parents expecting society to nanny their children, perhaps they should just exert a little more parental responsibility...like learning to say, "No." "No, you can't stay up past your bedtime." "No, you can't have a $100 dollar pair of gym shoes." "No, you can't play that violent video game." "No BB gun, you'll put somebody's eye out!"
I loved the stink about Janet Jackson's breast last superbowl and people complaining about how it ruined their family entertainment. Yeah, fathers and sons left downloading porn off their personal computers long enough to go watch a bunch of men wail on each other for three hours...
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[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]NEWS FLASH!!!!![/move]
The mail has arrived and with it my very , very own copy of Kritzerland
and not a moment too soon!!!
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Disco was the soundtrack of my life during the second half of the '70's.
Did you go around with a tambourine and a whistle????
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Did you go around with a tambourine and a whistle????
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No, but he pointed at the sky a lot!! :)
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Don't know if you all aware of it, but there is a really cool new site www.testtube.tv I think it just went up today. Here's the description from the site:
"TESTTUBE.TV was established as a production and support mechanism for emerging and established film and theatre artists. Our goal is to create unique and original series in a low risk, low budget environment that allows for creative freedom and creates profitable back-end potential.TESTTUBE.TV will create a new approach to the preliminary development of television content for broadcast, cable, Video on Demand and web based distribution
Several projects and personnel in place for the February launch. Jay Tarses and Richard Dresser, Rupert Holmes, Nancy Giles, Donald Rothschild have all agreed to develop series for TESTTUBE.TV. Kevin O'Rourke is CEO/head of development and business strategy and Mark Blum is President/head of production. Michael S. Shedler is the CFO"
Rupert's "Art in Heaven" is the first micro-series to premiere on February 7th. You can see a trailer for it on the site now.
I think this is really cool. Check it out!
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A question for any Dear Reader (and especially Dear Reader/Dear Brother Stuart) who might have an opinion on the matter, even though today is not Wednesday:
In today's L.A. Times it was announced that Cher will be offering the absolutely final farewell performance of her Absolutely Final Farewell Tour at the Hollywood Bowl on Saturday, April 30.
Is this something I need to see?
If you haven't seen Ms. Sarkisian Bono Allmann in concert recently (especially if your response is never), I would highly recommend it. There are a few slow spots, but if only for the last 20 minutes or so (recapping all of her 90s hits), it was an awful lot of fun.
I also suppose it depends on the price and who is opening for her. But I had a blast. (I also had 2 beers, something I rarely drink, but they did help....embellish, I suppose...the evening.)
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Did you go around with a tambourine and a whistle????
;D
That's all he was left with once I took my finger cymbals back.....
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I saw and mostly enjoyed MEDIUM last night, except I wish the writers would stop thinking that every episode must include her having a self righteous diatribe. "Oh, I cannot tell a lie, twas I saw the ghostie"
I also was annoyed that they had her acting like such a B**** about her husband working late a couple of nights when in the past three episodes she kept wandering in from work after everyone was in bed and it was quite clear SHE hadn't called " Oh, I lost track of time while fondling the jury questionaires"
I WANT to like this character, I want to like this show, so I hope the writing settles down a bit.. maybe some of our esteemed screenwriters here can get themselves involved and "fix their wagons!! " (just for you, Mrs. Kritzer)
Hmmm...I don't have this dilemma.
I didn't find her hypocritical because we knew she was reacting to another psychic's warnings about a darkness in her marriage. That, plus the prophetic dream in which she saw her husband nuzzling another woman (and she knows not to fully trust those dreams at face value) made her act a bit irrational.
She never accused him of anything and he never acted as though he had been accused. And she never did. We were simply afraid she would. And the prophecy would have been self-fulfilled. Of course, he could have retaliated about the issue of his working late reminding her of her own late hours in a previous episode, but ... that's TV drama.
As for the issue about lying on the stand...I can't say I find the dilemma self-righteous at all. Some folks are very comfortable telling lies...look at all the fraudulent insurance claims, fake tax returns, and unnecessary litigation based on lies this society sees more and more. I would have a great deal of trouble lying on the stand. I would hate myself for doing it. I have to applaud the writers for putting honesty and a sense of honor into the show. Lord knows we need more of that kind of thing.
What if such honesty was the rule rather than the exception?
Once upon a time, I think it pretty much was...or the perception was there that it was.
What I thought really clever and fun was the way in which she handled her testimony...and didn't she give the defense attorney a turn???!!!
I think the show is a winner, thus far.....but it's walking a fine line and could easily go off course and die with a thud.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY KERRY!
HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY!
:) :) :)
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SCHADENFREUDE!
OH, SCHADENFREUDE!
Those of you who have been here a year or more may recall our neighbors, the Macbeths (not their real name--but it should be). Although I would seldom wish ill upon a fellow human being, in this case I definitely make an exception, for they have brought misery and suffering upon our own kingdom for the last three years and unrepentantly born false witness before the Grand Tribunal with no other end than to visit evil upon us and from no other motive than spite and malice. Allbeit Lord Macbeth was not the instigator, but a willing pawn of his "Lady"--if that be the term. (My Joe hath suggested that the correct title is Contessa with a change in the first vowel.)
This week, through a mutual acquaintance, we have learned what we long suspected, that Lord MacB fears his own kingdom may soon be rent assunder by a divorce.
The causes thereof are twofold.
First, that Lady M has grown tired of child-rearing and wishes to be relieved of the onus (no Cinderella darling she). Lord MacB, as we ourselves have observed, truly loves his lisping tot. However, as he must spend the day in his campaigns away from the castle, it has fallen upon his parents on most days to care for the child, while his wife recluses herself in the tower, cooking eyes of newt and toes of frog, no doubt.
Shakespeare has her say,
"I have given suck, and know
How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me:
I would, while it was smiling in my face,
Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums,
And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you
Have done to this."
Act I, Scene 7
What she actually said, three years ago, when asked if she planned to breast-feed her newborn, was,
"I'm not a COW!"
And when the child fell ill at three months, and we said to her mother, "I'm sure you feel her pain," she replied, "I feel MY OWN PAIN!"
The second cause of Lord Macbeth's doubts is that he fears that his Lady may be dallying with one of the stable hands, but he knows not which.
Of course, he's deaf and dumb and blind! (Oh, a Pal Joey reference!) It is quite clear from our tower whose chariot is parked outside their castle for hours when the Lord is off at his campaigns. (And did we let the name slip to our mutual acquaintance? Ah me, I fear we did.)
Shakespeare has her say,
"Come to my woman's breasts,
And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers,
Wherever in your sightless substances
You wait on nature's mischief!"
Act I, Scene 5
In actual fact she spent a large bit of money last year augmenting her breasts. Perhaps her husband might have wondered why that was the priority of the mother of a three-year-old? Well, she's not a cow--or so she claims.
I hope I don't sound spiteful, but I think those of you who know some of the misery that Joe went through last year will understand my pleasure in watching our self-declared enemies bring destruction upon themselves.
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No, but he pointed at the sky a lot!! :)
I am from Brooklyn, you know.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY DONALD FELTHAM!
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If you haven't seen Ms. Sarkisian Bono Allmann in concert recently (especially if your response is never), I would highly recommend it. There are a few slow spots, but if only for the last 20 minutes or so (recapping all of her 90s hits), it was an awful lot of fun.
I also suppose it depends on the price and who is opening for her. But I had a blast. (I also had 2 beers, something I rarely drink, but they did help....embellish, I suppose...the evening.)
Thank you, Dear Brother.
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As for the issue about lying on the stand...I can't say I find the dilemma self-righteous at all. Some folks are very comfortable telling lies...
I have to applaud the writers for putting honesty and a sense of honor into the show. Lord knows we need more of that kind of thing.
What if such honesty was the rule rather than the exception?
I didn't mean to say I thought she should have happily lied, if she got on the stand and said she had been contacted by phone or mail I would have been very disappointed in the character. Without having the dialogue in front of me, I can't put my finger on it, but somehow while I was watching the show I felt her whole attitude was that she was operating on a higher moral plane than those without her gift, and it annoyed me
What I thought really clever and fun was the way in which she handled her testimony...and didn't she give the defense attorney a turn???!!!
I loved this! I laughed out loud, not something I am often moved to do while watching the TV machine
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I hope I don't sound spiteful, but I think those of you who know some of the misery that Joe went through last year will understand my pleasure in watching our self-declared enemies bring destruction upon themselves.
And there was great rejoicing!!!!
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I am from Brooklyn, you know.
Ah! A fellow Long Islander!
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I didn't mean to say I thought she should have happily lied, if she got on the stand and said she had been contacted by phone or mail I would have been very disappointed in the character. Without having the dialogue in front of me, I can't put my finger on it, but somehow while I was watching the show I felt her whole attitude was that she was operating on a higher moral plane than those without her gift, and it annoyed meI loved this! I laughed out loud, not something I am often moved to do while watching the TV machine
I think you're talking about the scene which followed her phone call in which she told her husband she needed him home for an urgent matter and that he should tell "Kelly" that his family needed him that night.
She was a bit over-the-top here...in the throes of doubt and having a personal crisis of conscience because she was "again" being asked to deny who/what she was.
This is a theme that should resonate across society when folks who are different are urged by family members NOT to be truthful for fear of what other folks would say/do/put the family through.
Her husband made some excellent points. They were selfish, true, but they concerned the family unit and the little girls.
On the other hand, she had to take great care not to reveal crucial information about herself -- and didn't the defense attorney toy with us/tease us because we never really knew whether he was going to accuse her of being a psychic or accuse her of being "intimate" with someone close to the case...perhaps the person who put the gun in the coffin.
That "so you're saying you DID meet the anonymous tipster face-to-face" line seemed to indicate he was going to accuse her of something totally different.
Meanwhile, she was reading him and reading him and reading him...and he NEVER knew what hit him when it hit.
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Musicals Tonight has announced that their final show of the season (replacing THE APPLE TREE which was originally scheduled until Encores also announced it) will be DRAT THE CAT!. No doubt the excellent recording BK produced helped them to decide to produce this undiscovered gem.
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Good news about Drat! The Cat! We tried for years to get Encores! and/or Reprise! to do it and never had any luck at all. I'll probably come in to see it.
WFO: I think you know that I completely understand rejoice when cretins bring disaster upon themselves.
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We will watch Medium tonight-it was on too late for us last night. Instead we finally watched an excellent episode of STARGATE ATLANTIS.
Keith has never been a patient for very long-the man gets over things so quickly it just isn’t fair. ;D
DerBrucer-speedy feel better vibes!
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Ah! A fellow Long Islander!
A one-time fellow Lawn Guylander. It's over twenty years now that I'm in Lalaland.
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FYI, the notes from two days ago "Unwieldy"[/u][/b] are still unlocked and therefore DRs are able to reply to said notes.
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We will watch Medium tonight-it was on too late for us last night. Instead we finally watched an excellent episode of STARGATE ATLANTIS.
Keith has never been a patient for very long-the man gets over things so quickly it just isn’t fair. ;D
DerBrucer-speedy feel better vibes!
spoo! I hope we didn't spoil anything for you..
Any packages arrive at your door yet? I am anxious to see if they stayed fresh
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Good news about Drat! The Cat! We tried for years to get Encores! and/or Reprise! to do it and never had any luck at all. I'll probably come in to see it.
Good news indeed! Perhaps we can arrange a HHW theatre night
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Ah! A fellow Long Islander!
Dear DR Vixmom: Being a recent arrival in these here parts, you may not realize that sometimes, you DO get two for the price of one. DR Jay and I are actual brothers. We grew up in the same apartment in Brooklyn. Shared the same room, as siblings are wont to do in pre-war buildings that were not designed for a post war baby-boom.
Unlike my brother, however, I never considered myself a Long Islander. Being a Brooklynite was enough of an albatross. At the time. Now, I consider it a badge of honor.
And now I reside in Rochester. Which has its own issues.
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I got in trouble once for playing tag when I was in second grade. I was It and I was chasing this guy named Brian. We ran by the Mean Playground Lady, and she yelled at me for chasing Brian and made me sit at the wall for the rest of recess as punishment. I guess she didn't realize we were playing tag and thought I was just chasing him. I always wondered what she thought I was going to do to Brian once I caught him.
By the way, the Nice Playground Lady came by a few minutes later and set me free. So it has a happy ending. Although Brian and I never did finish that game of tag.
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A one-time fellow Lawn Guylander. It's over twenty years now that I'm in Lalaland.
Dya still tawk like onena us or are ya talkin like them westcoatas?
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As to tropical climates, der B,...And, DerBrucer,...
Hmmm. Generally, der B gets confused with me, not the other way around. He took on a completely different persona at another board where I used to post, in order to make sure people didn't confuse us. His getting credited with my posts is a different sort of occasion! :D :o
Point of clarification: Generally, I will start a participation at a site, with der B following. Because of this, some less-than-astute people have decided that anything he writes is something actually coming from me. The idea that we can be two separate people with individual brains never occurs to them. This is frustrating, because he really is the smarter of the two of us; I have to rely on being more clever.
For somthing that I have posted to be attributed to him just shows that something of him is rubbing off on me! (But I refuse to wave my arms in the air when talking excitedly; I'm enough of a klutz that I'd most likely whack someone in the face.)
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In other news, I don't know from '70s songs.
And HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR READER KERRY AND DEAR MR. DONALD FELTHAM.
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A question for any Dear Reader (and especially Dear Reader/Dear Brother Stuart) who might have an opinion on the matter, even though today is not Wednesday:
In today's L.A. Times it was announced that Cher will be offering the absolutely final farewell performance of her Absolutely Final Farewell Tour at the Hollywood Bowl on Saturday, April 30.
Is this something I need to see?
I cannot imagine anyone else here going.
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Unlike my brother, however, I never considered myself a Long Islander. Being a Brooklynite was enough of an albatross. At the time. Now, I consider it a badge of honor.
I was teasing, since in my experience. most people from Brooklyn and Queens do NOT consider themselves Long Islanders, and will indeed argue that they don't now(nor have they ever) live on Long Island. I work in an office at the Nassau County /Queens border, literally 1/2 block from Queens.. WhenI try to make appointment for people to come to the office from Queens or Brooklyn they invariably whine
"I hafta go out ta tha EYElan?"
;D
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I cannot imagine anyone else here going.
As you may or may not have learned in your time at this board -- especially recently -- DR SWW, the contributors on this board have vast amounts of knowledge (which they may or may not trot out at the drop of a hat), and a startling array of likes and dislikes in terms of food, entertainment, and music and people (which they may or may not broadcast at every whim).
It may be that my taste in music may not be the same as yours, but I will also bet that there are good many other dear readers out there who do enjoy Cher. And that they, like I, might be offended by your comments.
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[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]Happy Birthday, Broadway Radio Guy (aka Donald Feltham)!!![/move]
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[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]Best Wishes, DR Kerry, on your natal day!![/move]
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SCHADENFREUDE!
OH, SCHADENFREUDE!
I don't get it. Why would anyone want to wear Sigmund Freud's shoes?
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I've locked it up.
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Had to do some fancy footwork to get the topics back in the right order, but all is well.
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As you may or may not have learned in your time at this board -- especially recently -- DR SWW, the contributors on this board have vast amounts of knowledge (which they may or may not trot out at the drop of a hat), and a startling array of likes and dislikes in terms of food, entertainment, and music and people (which they may or may not broadcast at every whim).
It may be that my taste in music may not be the same as yours, but I will also bet that there are good many other dear readers out there who do enjoy Cher. And that they, like I, might be offended by your comments.
But you are in New York, and the event is in Los Angeles!
I suppose it's concievable that someone could travel cross-country for the show, but personally it boggles the mind.
(I was always more of a Sonny fan, and have found his last wife, Mary, a delight in person.)
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happy birthday kerry and donald ....
some fave 70's songs .....
- Close to You : The Carpenters
- Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast : Wayne Newton (!!!!)
- Killing Me Softly : Roberta Flack
- The Way We Were : Barbra Streisand
- Mandy : Barry Manilow
- Bohemian Rhapsody : Queen
- Dancing Queen : Abba (and anything else they did!!)
- On Broadway : George Benson
- Ring My Bell : Anita Ward
+ Disco, disco, disco .....
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.... BY THE WAY ... DOES ANYBODY REMEMBER THE CLOTHES THEY WORE IN THE SEVENTIES ???????????????????
...... what was the most outrageous thing you wore?????????????
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It may be that my taste in music may not be the same as yours, but I will also bet that there are good many other dear readers out there who do enjoy Cher. And that they, like I, might be offended by your comments.
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Well DRStuart, I almost listed "Gypsies Tramps and Thieves" as one of my fave 70s songs!
The problem with all the pop music from the 60s and 70s that I listen to is that I never can remember in which era I originally heard it. for instance, I thought "Here You Come Again," a song I love is from the 80s! Oy!
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I never was big on the 70s, music or otherwise. It just wasn't a good decade for me. Frankly, I was quite boring back then. :-\
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But I wasn't offended!
I learned at an early age, from the strange looks of my brother, his friends and other critics that I didn't care what they thought of my listening choices.
So, I'm waiting for the laundry room in the basement to becoem free and feeling lost until I can get this pile of clothes off my floor.
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I'm typing a lot of letters in reverse these days. Perhaps I've had a mild stroke? I prefer to think I'm just a lousy typist.
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I'm typing a lot of letters in reverse these days. Perhaps I've had a mild stroke? I prefer to think I'm just a lousy typist.
Curious you should say that. I spent a large amount of time today and yesterday editing my posts on this hear here board. An uncharatceristic uncharacteristic number of missspellings and typos. It's turning 60, that's what it is.
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Try typing Ferbuargy - Febuaryteky - February a bunch of times in a row.
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I never was big on the 70s, music or otherwise. It just wasn't a good decade for me. Frankly, I was quite boring back then. :-\
Hmmmmm....and ;D
I LONG for the 70s....music in movies, theater and rock was thrilling then...."Follies" and "A Little Night Music" and so many more, and "Jaws" and "Close Encounters" and "Star Wars" and "Superman" all had awesome soundtracks, and Pink Floyd and Yes and The Who rocked the rock world.
It's when, love it or hate it, ALW and Tim Rice gave us "Jesus Christ, Superstar"!!!
It's when we got "Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band," and it's when Carole King gave us "Tapestry" and it's when "Phoebe Snow" did her landmark first album...and Elton John gave us so many things, but most importantly "Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road."
.and SO MUCH MORE....
I've not enjoyed a decade more than the 70s.
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February, February, February, February, February ;)
Of course, I was born in this month so I have an easier time of it.
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Happy Birthday DRKERRY!
Happy Birthday DR DONALD FELTHAM!
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WFO - what a wonderful outcome!
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Feebruuayr Frebruary Feeguary Febreruuary Febrreuary Frebruary February.
.....AAAAARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!
And I was 26 words a minute in high school. To Do they even teach typing in high school any more or just set them down and the computer and let'er rip?
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Hey, it's my first ever post. I'm sure glad I found the site. And the 70s were definitely the best time to be a kid.
A few faves:
We Will- Gilbert O'Sullivan
Goodtime Charlie's Got the Blues-Danny O'Keefe
Payback is a Dog- The Stylistics
Brandy-Looking Glass
Rock Your Baby-George McCrae
Too much good to even scratch the surface!!
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I Love the Nightlife by Alicia Bridges
New York Groove by Ace Frehley
Born to Be Alive by Patrick Hernandez
I Will Always Love You by Dolly Parton b/w Me and Little Andy
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I remember my old manual typewriter on which you had to push a handle to go back to the beginning of the page. Ah, yes, the old days when I learned to type. They all laughed (not a Christopher Columbus) when I took typing by choice in 11th Grade Summer School (circ 1970) but I can now type between 80 and 90 words a minute and, although there's nothing wrong with them, I never had a waiter job as an actor.
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Welcome to new DR Rodzinksi
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Welcome Rodzinski!
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"February made me shiver
With every paper I'd deliver....
The day the music died."
Feb 3 1959.
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[size=8]Welcome Newbie DR Rodzinski!![/size][/glow]
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Three others from the 70's:
Please Come To Boston - Dave Loggins
Year Of the Cat - Al Stewart
The Wreck Of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot.
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welcome rodzinski ....
... from one of two ozzies on hhw
(just don't ask me to say "g'day" .... yeech!)
:)
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i remember in the early seventies at school we all learnt to play "morning has broken" on the recorder .... what were they thinking?
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at 13 i asked my mother to buy me a pair of purple cuffed flairs (!!!!!) for my birthday ... i wore them everywhere ... oh my gawd!!!!!
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Thanks for the welcomes, all. Such a spirited bunch!
Also, most songs by Bread rule.
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G'day OzDerek and Welcome DR Rodzinski.
DR OzDerek is of course not Australian at all. (Tasmanian is quite a different thing).
"Daddy don't you walk so fast" is my least favourite song by my least favourite performer - wouldn't you know. Presley's "Don't Cry Daddy" is much better sentimental schlock.
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Ah yes, the clothes. You could buy pants with a longer inseam because they had to cover your shoes with the tall heel! And yes as OzDerek has written, they had to have flares AND cuffs!
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Welcome, new Dear Reader Rodzinski. Do you like Cherry Coke?
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Interesting Lightning Bug Fact:
If you are in a field at night and there are lightning bugs - if you have a small flashlight with you - watch a specific lightning bug for a bit and see the pattern of his light. Duplicate it with the flashlight behind you hand and eventually the bug will fly to you and land on your hand. Always.
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Welcome, new Dear Reader Rodzinski. Do you like Cherry Coke?
Yes, I had a Cherry Coke three days ago when others were drinking Diet Pepsi.
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Oh my! :o
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Yes, I had a Cherry Coke three days ago when others were drinking Diet Pepsi.
Yeah! DO something different! (That's Cherry Coke's slogan, for those of you who don't know that.)
I'm hungry. I'm going to skedaddle and eat some pizza. I'm not sure if I'll get a Cherry Coke or not because I got one this morning and I don't want the Quickie Mart people to think I'm addicted to it or anything. :P
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I thought MEDIUM was an excellent episode; highly entertaining and I had no problems with anything that was transpiring. I felt on the witness stand she walked the fine line between truth and lying without actually lying, and it was kind of exhilarating actually so see how well written it was. And the showdown with the lawyer was simply priceless.
This show has become one of my favorites.
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"I can't live...
"If living is "Without You'
"I can't live....
"I can't give any more.."
-- Nilsson (the 70s)
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"Oh, I've got a brand new pair of roller skates
You've got a brand new key"
-- Melanie (the 70s)
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"I'd like to teach the world to sing
"In perfect harmony
"I'd like to buy the world a Coke
"and keep it company"
"It's the real thing
"Coke is..."
-- TV ad (the 70s)
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DR OzDerek is of course not Australian at all. (Tasmanian is quite a different thing).
well tomovoz ... as my right head said to my left head .........
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Welcome new dear reader Rodzinski. How did you find us? I suppose I'm safe in assuming you've seen The Creature Wasn't Nice (aka Spaceship, aka Naked Space) and that you are a fan of Mr. Gerrit Graham, who plays Rodzinski in that very film. Unless you're a fan of conducter Arthur Rodzinski, from whom I borrowed the name.
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Welcome DR Rodzinski.
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Ah yes, the clothes. You could buy pants with a longer inseam because they had to cover your shoes with the tall heel! And yes as OzDerek has written, they had to have flares AND cuffs!
and believe it or not .... :o .... i wore a multicoloured tie and R-E-D shoes!
- not "the" red shoes because that would be tu tu much ;D
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Spent this afternoon watching episodes from LAW & ORDER: CRIMINAL INTENT - Season 3 boxed set.
Universal really did something stupid. All of Season 3's shows were filmed in high definition, but this boxed set used the full screen versions of the shows for the DVDs instead of anamorphic iwdescreen versions. Absurd.
CSI did this for season 1 of its boxed set, but the producers saw the error of their ways and have released all subsequent boxed sets in anamorphic widescreen. The quality is so much improved in these later sets.
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BK: Perhaps Rodzinski's name happens to be Rodzinski? Naaah!
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Welcome, DRRodzinski!
Tell us all about yourself.
I couldn't remember if "Tapestry" was 60s or 70s. I loved Cat Stevens, played "Teaser and the Fire Cat" constantly.
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spoo! I hope we didn't spoil anything for you..
Too late! ;) I did not get to watch "Medium" last night and I totally forgot to tape it. My niece watches and tapes it, so I'll be able to borrow her tape. It doesn't bother me when I find out about things like that in advance...well, not too much. ::)
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- not "the" red shoes because that would be tu tu much
DRozderek, I refuse to believe you've ever known the meaning of tu tu much!
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Good Afternoon!
Well, I'm caught up on today at least!
Gorgeous, sunny day here in the Commonwealth of Virginia. I managed to get some more "stuff" done this morning before heading back up to Fairfax, and the drive back up 95 was very nice too.
-Oh, and the cheesecakes came out very nicely from their cake pans. -I used my 9-inch, 2-inch deep pans this time around, and just put a loaf pan filled with water on the floor of the oven. So much less fussy than dealing with a springform pan - at least this time round.
Ah, fireflys/lightning bugs... We always had tons of them in our backyard when we first lived in Virginia. I can still visualize those magical nights. We also had them in Connecticut. Of course, with a family of four boys, and boys being boys, we eventually found more creative ways to "catch" lightning bugs...
:o
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DR Matt H - Has "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" really been on for at least three seasons already?!?!?
My how time flies!
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I've locked it up.
Is that why I was locked out? ;D
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Happy Birthday DR Kerry!!!
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Happy Birthday Radio Man Donald Feltham!
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Rodzinski, welcome to the cookie jar!
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I couldn't remember if "Tapestry" was 60s or 70s. I loved Cat Stevens, played "Teaser and the Fire Cat" constantly.
While King was writing girl-group songs in the 1960s, "Tapestry" was released in 1971.
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DRozderek, I refuse to believe you've ever known the meaning of tu tu much!
now, now DR elmore3003 .... if people believe what you say, i'll be a merry widow before i'm even hitched!!!! ;D
... ok, ok .... i get the pointe (!!!)
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Hello, there!
i spent most of today shlepping stuff up to West End between 92nd and 93rd, where - Huzzah! _ I have subleased an apartment. Strangest thing of all is that the building is the very same that my Chuckie was living in when we first got together, lo, these 23 years ago... The Road Not Taken.. you have to travel back in time to the exact location, in order to take it. Ah, but we DO know now what we didn't know then. And we DO get another chance.
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it's raining buckets here today ...
apparently we had a small earthquake here in melbourne at 3am this morning ....
... just my luck ...
.................. the earth moved and i was in bed alone :)
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Welcome new dear reader Rodzinski. How did you find us? I suppose I'm safe in assuming you've seen The Creature Wasn't Nice (aka Spaceship, aka Naked Space) and that you are a fan of Mr. Gerrit Graham, who plays Rodzinski in that very film. Unless you're a fan of conducter Arthur Rodzinski, from whom I borrowed the name.
Hi bk!
I am a "Creature Wasn't Nice" fan. Me and my time-challenged gal-friend decided to institute a new serial movie watching plan, where we put on a movie and watch 10 minutes segments prior to bedtime. The C wasn't N was the inaugural program, and it was a hit with the li'l lady. Last night was the conclusion. Gerrit Graham IS funny, but so is everyone in that film. I picked "Rodzinski," half fearing it would already be taken, so let me know if there are other Rodzinskis, and I will change my name to "Science is my pie" or some other brilliant bit of madness.
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While waiting to connect again I ate three bagels with cream cheese. Not really three, just parts of each bagel heated in the microwave with cream cheese. They do need to be heated a bit but are delicious. And they were wrapped individually-easy for popping the rest into my freezer.
I think I have enough bagels now to tide me over until my next trip to Los Angeles.
Vixmom you are wonderful. Thank you. :D
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Penny-GOOD NEW SUBLET VIBES!
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Please Come To Boston - Dave Loggins
There's something about this song that, every time I hear it, I keep imagining Flip Wilson as Geraldine doing the "she said" part.
"Honey, YOU come home to ME!" (And she skitters across the floor knowing she's the sexiest girl in town. ;D)
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Oh, where was I??? Ah, yes... the aprtment. One bedroom, large living room, nice bathroom, a stove and sink in one tiny closet, and the refrigerator in the opposite closet. Building used to be a hotel... these were entry closets. But - dig this - the living room and bedroom have these huge windows that look out over the Hudson River and the Palisades. Even has a little - what/ - well, TERRACE is certainly too grand a word, but a little standing outside place, just off the bedroom. It's really lovely. Nice pictures on the wall. Old guy is a Shakespearean actor who goes to Sarasota every winter to play various and sundried Old Shakespearean Geezer parts. Lucky me. He's outa there tomorrow, and I'm in. YAY!
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Jose, did you get the music I sent??
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Hey, it's my first ever post. I'm sure glad I found the site.
Hello, DR Rodzinski! :D
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My show -- 'scuse me - OUR show open 6 weeks from tomorrow! Steinway said they'll loan us a piano for program credit! You never know if you don't ask!
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Hello, DR Rodzinski!!!
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Thanks for the sublet vibes, Jane! musta worked...
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Well, off I go to BMI. Gosh, it's fun to be there twice a week or more. Some sensational teams writing such wonderful theater music. Whatta sweet atmosphere. Oh - BK! Yesterday one of the presenters brought in Rebecca Luker to sing his piece (which was actually written for HER club gig...)
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Congrats on the sublet DRPENNYO. Sounds great!
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The 70's also gave us "Hotel California" and "Rhiannon".
Of course they were also the fun years of Village People, Boney M, Silver Convention etc.
In case I missed it - "Night Moves" was Bob Seger.
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I love The Creature Wasn't Nice - especially the SONGS!
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Boy oh boy - get that girl a computer that's hooked up to the 'net, and she just does blather on, don't she just...
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Latest report on the OzDErek mentioned Earthquake was that it was Thunder. OzDerek doesn't get out much.
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Rodzinsky WELCOME! I think you will now be Sandra’s friend for life. Not only did you answer her Cherry Coke question quickly, but with a yes. ;D
Penny your place sounds nice-and a view.
Vixmom you didn’t give anything away.
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Tomovoz-LOL
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Okay, so off I go. I did love the first Billy Joel album that came out in the very early 70's... particularly the so timeless, transcendent, immortal song that had lyrics such as my gift is my song, and this one's for you..."
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Ah.... The 70's!
I grew up next to my radio during the decade. KING in Seattle and WRNL in New London, CT were great pop radio stations. When I finally figured out how to tape songs from the radio on my dad's console system... "Mom, I need to go to Radio Shack to buy more cassette's." I would constantly call the radio stations asking for the proper names and artists/groups. And then there were all those K-Tel albums!
Almost anything by:
Three Dog Night - And their new album with symphony orchestra is pretty good.
Paul McCartney and Wings - "Someone's Knockin' at the Door" (or whatever the proper name of that song is
Chicago - "Color My World", "Saturday In The Park"(!!!)
Loggins & Messina
Kenny Loggins - "Whenever I Call You Friend" - still brings a smile to my face.
The Eagles - And, yes, I played "Hotel California" backwards.
The Captain & Tenille - "Shop Around", "Do That To Me One More Time"
Fleetwood Mac - I still need to get "Rumors" on CD
Meatloaf - "Bat Out of Hell"
AC/DC - "For Those About to Die"
*The above two albums were constantly listened to during my fourth grade recess periods - ?!?!?!
Barry Manilow - "Jump Shout Boogie"
"Kung Fu Fighting"
"The Night Chicago Died"
"Popcorn"
K.C. & The Sunshine Band
And then came Disco!!!
Donna Summer - "Last Dance","MacArthur Park"
"No Parking On the Dance Floor"
Chic - "Freak Out", "Good Times" - I still have the 45's!
Peaches & Herb - "Reunited"
Etc., etc., etc...
Oh, and what that light night music show on TV?!?!?! Hosted by..???
Oh, and Wolfman Jack!
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I woke last night to the sound of thunder...
Oh, about me... Well I live in NYC, not far from PennyO's sublet oddly enough, although it was unclear if she was looking over the Palisades from Manhattan or New Jersey side of the Hudson. I live near the Cloisters. Came to the site by looking up BK on the good ol' google. I had actually shared a few emails with him about 5 yrs ago on the subject of The Creature film, which to all who haven't seen it, shows clear evidence of genius. I work in publishing, dabble in theatre and music, and I thank you all again for your welcoming natures.
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WFO before I was locked out of the site I was about to post of your very clever writing regarding the Macbeths. I would have thought you were an English Professor, not mathematics.
WEL I was also going to comment how nice it is to have you back.
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Welcome, Newest DR Rodzinski!
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OH! How could I have forgotten...
Billy Joel
Elton John
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Yes, LAW & ORDER: CRIMINAL INTENT is now in its fourth season.
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Oh, and...
Shaun Cassidy
"Da do ron, ron, ron...
or was it:
"Da do run, run, run..."
In any case...
Dreamy!
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Your Allison Hayes picture of the week - sharing a scene with Method Actress Beverly Campbell Garland Crank - in an action that is typical of their relationship during the shooting of GUNSLINGER. ;D
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"Let 'Em In" DR Jose.
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I believe tonight is the last night of AMERICAN IDOL auditions. Tomorrow night begins the eliminations in Hollywood. At least there we should hear more good than bad singing.
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Jose, "The Night Chicago Died"-One of my favorites.
I heard my mama cry
I heard her pray the night Chicago died
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Oh, and what that light night music show on TV?!?!?! Hosted by..???
Don Kirshner?
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Jose, "The Night Chicago Died"-One of my favorites.
I heard my mama cry
I heard her pray the night Chicago died
The Dear Partner, John, who usually has a way of mangling lyrics, has been known to greet me at the door with
"Daddy was a cop!
On the East Side of Chicago
Back in the good ol' days...
Back in the bad ol' days....."
It's gotten to the point that I don't recall if that was the actual verse, or his mangled version.....
It's always fun at our house.....
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Yes, Don Kirshner! Thank you, DR Stuart!
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DR Tomovoz - Thank you, too!
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DR PennyO - Yes, I did get the music. Danke bitte.
I'm getting all my files transferred over to my new laptop tomorrow, and I'll get my bio to you too! Sorry for the delay.
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OH!!!!
Did anyone tape or TiVo David Letterman last night? I was busy in the kitchen, and forgot about it. I've been hearing wonderful things about it from various people today, and I would love to see it.
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Penny, I know exactly where you're living because I lived directly across the street in my first New York apartment from October of 1980 to January of 1982. It was a 4th floor walk up (I live in one now also, it must have been a trend) and we lived across the street from the apartment building which had then (I don't know if it still does) the hotel name on the awning even though it had changed to apartments long ago. I even know your address but I won't print it here. We don't want your fans tracking you down and stalking, now do we? You're only about 10 blocks from DR Elmore! And around the corner from Symphony Space. Hope the space works out well for you.
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Rodzinski, you are our one and only Rodzinski.
It's so nice to see WEL's name on the board again. Let's hope it's not short lived.
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I am in my Rhetorics classroom waiting for the teacher to get here. I am without a Cherry Coke, although I do have two Reese's peanut butter cups in my bag.
I don't think I have anything else to say.
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The Dear Partner, John, who usually has a way of mangling lyrics, has been known to greet me at the door with
"Daddy was a cop!
On the East Side of Chicago
Back in the good ol' days...
Back in the bad ol' days....."
It's gotten to the point that I don't recall if that was the actual verse, or his mangled version.....
It's always fun at our house.....
LOL-almost. I'm listening to it now:
My Daddy was a cop on the east side of Chicago
Back in the USA back in the bad old days
In the heat of a summer night
In the land of the dollar bill
When the town of Chicago died
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Penny will also be close to Artie’s and Zabar's. :)
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Penny will also be close to Artie’s and Zabar's. :)
And to me! I just had a piece of the most delicious chocolate fudge.
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Okay, so off I go. I did love the first Billy Joel album that came out in the very early 70's... particularly the so timeless, transcendent, immortal song that had lyrics such as my gift is my song, and this one's for you..."
Funny, I never knew that Elton John and Bernie Taupin wrote for Billy Joel... :D
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And I was 26 words a minute in high school. To Do they even teach typing in high school any more or just set them down and the computer and let'er rip?
Oh yes, it's still taught, but called "keyboarding" now.
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And to me! I just had a piece of the most delicious chocolate fudge.
I want to visit.
Don't give any to Penny-she might kill me. ;D She does enjoy the diet ice cream Keith eats. You should see them enjoying this stuff that tastes like cardboard to me. :P
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Well - Dan Fogelberg and his "Old Lang Sang" is from the 70's, right?
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LOL-almost. I'm listening to it now:
My Daddy was a cop on the east side of Chicago
Back in the USA back in the bad old days
In the heat of a summer night
In the land of the dollar bill
When the town of Chicago died
Thank you, DR Jane. I will be sure to show him this....but I am afraid that his rendition will remain the same. Like Merman singing "Even with a turkey that you know has fold....," some interpretations are timeless. (In other words, you can't teach an old dog new tricks.....:))
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I am a happy chappie. My CD of Miklos Rozsa's restored Jungle Book has arrived from the Film Music society, with a lovely booklet full of notes by pal Rudy Behlmer and the disc also includes an interview that Rudy did with Dr. Rozsa. I must go give a listen now!
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I want to visit.
Don't give any to Penny-she might kill me. ;D She does enjoy the diet ice cream Keith eats. You should see them enjoying this stuff that tastes like cardboard to me. :P
I eat Healthy Choice Vanilla. I love the taste, and it has zero saturated fat and minimal calories per serving.
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Jane, Marks and Spencer Mint Humbugs. Go to the following site: www.britstore.co.uk/itm01984.htm
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I'm awaiting the arrival of Mr. Kevin Spirtas.
I may or may not be finished with my scribbles for the day - I've written more than my usual daily allotment, so if I do, cooliscious, and if I don't, cooliscious.
Based on Ann's lovely descriptive prose about her macaroni salad, I have rustled me up a big ol' batch of my tuna pasta salad, which I will dive into the moment I'm through with Mr. Kevin Spirtas.
I got some love packages today - including three CD soundtracks by Mr. Philip Rombi, who's been writing scores for the excellent director Francois Ozun. I got two copies of Haines His Way (I was getting low), and my little DVD store, which has been very dry lately, got in a whole slew of new DVDs. Here's what I got: A new special edition of Get Shorty, which I remember enjoying, Twentieth Century, the original Shall We Dance (from Japan), King Solomon's Mines, The Karate Kid Collection, and Leave Her to Heaven. Quite a haul.
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Charles Pogue I wish you could see the big smile on my face. :D
Hmmm...I have a big decision to make now- how many bags should I purchase. LOL
THANK YOU!
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Does anyone know what 1.68 pounds converts to?
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It's just about double US dollars. However, I'm sure they'll do the conversion for you if you ask.
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The Brit site also sells Tornton’s candy (but not their toffee) and Maynards Wine Gums. This is very exciting!
Anyone know what I’m talking about? ;D
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The Brit site also sells Tornton’s candy (but not their toffee) and Maynards Wine Gums. This is very exciting!
Anyone know what I’m talking about? ;D
No clue, but it sure sounds tasty!
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I don't see a conversion-maybe when I check out. Thanks.
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Does anyone know what 1.68 pounds converts to?
$3.16 according to the conversion gizmo at www.xe.com/ucc (http://www.xe.com/ucc)
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Wow! Shipping is more than the purchased.
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Oh, and...
Shaun Cassidy
"Da do ron, ron, ron...
or was it:
"Da do run, run, run..."
In any case...
Dreamy!
My sister had a crush on Shaun Cassidy! They have the same birthday, September 27th (different years, though).
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"Leave Her to Heaven". Man, that movie is a true horror movie. Such villainy! Some of the most beautiful interiors I've ever seen shot too.
Happened to catch Cornell Wilde in "The Naked Prey" the other day. An underrated fellow.
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I’m going for a walk and think on this. I began with 6 bags of humbugs-total of 30.12 pounds. I’m really tempted but $60, oh my. I reduced my order to 3 bags and the total to 15 pounds-still a bit outrageous. I do love those candies. :-\
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Welcome aboard DR Rodzinski! Happy to have you here!
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Thanks Jed-I save a few dollars that way-LOL
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Like, groovy, many of my favorite songs came out of the 70s!! Lots of wonderful disco and pop!
IF I CAN'T HAVE YOU by Yvonne Elliman
GOT TO BE REAL by Cheryl Lynn
AFTERNOON DELIGHT by Starlight Vocal Band
DON'T GIVE UP ON US by David Soul
BLINDED BY THE LIGHT by Manfred Mann/Band
The Carpenters, The Doobie Bros, Chic, and much, much more! !
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I don't see a conversion-maybe when I check out. Thanks.
I just sent you an exchange rate site on the web.
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BK, have you seen the Japanes SHALL WE DANCE before? Please give your thoughts...I really enjoyed that film!
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Yes, I've spoken about it at some point here on the site. It's one of my favorite movies of the nineties - just wonderful. Supposedly the original version ran 136 minutes in Japan, and Miramax had it trimmed to 119. From what I've heard, the trimmed version is better. I also feel that way about Cinema Paradiso.
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Mr. Kevin Spirtas has left the building. We talked through a lot of stuff, and gave him some ideas to think about, and we'll reconvene in a month to start putting it together. He's doing A Chorus Line in San Jose until the beginning of March.
I must now eat some tuna pasta salad before I fall over.
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Jane, when we were in England this November/December it was two bucks to the British pound. I found the mint humbugs by just typing in "mint humbugs" into my searcher. You might want to do the same...there were a ton of sites selling them. They may not be Marks and Spencer, but who knows? They could be better or worse...If you search enough, you might even find a recipe for them, then who needs Marks and Spencer at all?
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I just ate a lovely batch of tuna pasta salad and feel ever so much better.
I have to decide which DVD I shall treat myself to this evening. I'm gangstered out (having watched three of the five films in the WB set), so it will be something I got today. Hmmm.
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I have a lot of beets roasting in the oven.
Six beets is a lot.
I'm figuring on having some for dinner tonight, and saving the rest for quicker dinners later.
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Hiya Boys and Girls!
Thanks for all the birthday wishes; it means a lot and makes me smile.
TIME FOR, you know what------- CAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Happy Birthday, Donald. ;D
I remember the 70's.... I think.
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A lot of my favorite songs from the 70's have been named. And we had "Chorus Line," "Chicago," "Mack and Mabel," "Annie," and the movie version of "Cabaret,"among other shows.
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Are we having a siesta? I've decided to watch The Karate Kid, a film I haven't seen since it came out. I remember thinking it was okay.
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Birthday greetings to Kerry and Donald.
Welcome new DR Rodzinski.
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DR Jane - Vermont Country Store has something called Humbugs (item #39552). Check out:
www.vermontcountrystore.com
Can't tell if they're the brand you're looking for, but they do look good!
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BK--
Even though it's not ask BK Day until tomorrow, I have a question. How did you get on this kick of gangster movies? Do you have "Angels with Dirty Faces" and "Public Enemy" lined up? Oh, and "Scarface" (the real one with Paul Muni) and "The Roaring Twenties." The ones you've watched are all great, and you can see how they've influenced other movies.
Then you can have a whole "Godfather" festival.
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Hi folks.
What a day. I have had some “adventures” and need to share. When I typed my morning message, I had a bit of a sore throat and felt like I was coming down with something.
I went to the orientation and told a co-worker how I felt and she said I should try something called, “Airbourne”. She said it was created by a teacher and if you took it at the first sign of a cold it would help to ward it off.
Of course, I was game to try anything so when she offered to stop off and buy me some on the way back to the office I took her up on it.
Flip ahead to the office. She did indeed buy the Airbourne. I swear I thought she said it was a pill so when I opened the package, I was surprised by the size of the tablet. It’s about the size of a quarter. Now, when someone tells you it’s a pill, would you think you had to put it in a glass of water? So I thought, of course, you put it in your mouth and let it dissolve.
Well, the moment I put it in my mouth it started fizzing like an Alka-Seltzer. It was supposed to do that. Because I should have PUT IT IN A GLASS OF WATER FIRST! So there I am, foaming at the mouth like a mad dog. Everyone is laughing. The guys from ITS section come over and start laughing. I told them they had better stop because I might bite one of them and I hadn’t had my shots! So someone said to call Animal Control.
I thought my boss was going to lose it.
After getting past that humiliation it finely gets to five o’clock and I get to go home.
I climb into Bonnie and attempt to turn the key. Nothing. The key won’t budge. I take the key out and put it back in. Nothing. I do this several times. Nothing. I search all over for a button or something I might have missed before that locked the key out. Nothing.
I’m saying some choice words by now. I call Mom and tell her I might have to walk home and get her key to the SUV because I can’t make it go. I mess with the key some more. Nothing.
I walk home. I’m saying some real choice words with every step. My seven day trial period ended yesterday. I could have returned Bonnie for any reason thru yesterday.
I get home, change out of my work clothes, get Moms key and walk back down in the darkness to try to get the SUV to work saying more choice words with every step.
Nothing. Mom’s key won’t work either. I’m royally ticked at this point. The only thing I can think to do is call AAA and see if they can get the thing to work.
I was about to dial the number when I thought about my boss having a Ford Explorer and decided to give her a call. Luckily, I have her cell phone number in my cell phone book. The battery is dead. On the plus side (and this is why my purse weighs ten tons) I dig out the spare cell phone battery and am able to make my call.
When I tell her the problem, she laughs and tells me to turn the steering wheel. I did and the key worked. It seems there is a “safety” measure that if the wheels are turned to far right or left when you shut the SUV off, it locks the steering column. You have to turn the steering wheel to unlock it.
I spent at least an hour and half on this. I told her that sometimes it pays to have the same kind of vehicle as your boss.
Like I said. What a day. Sigh.
Let me go back and read posts now.
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Happy B-day DR Kerry and BroadwayDudeBestBroadwayRadioShowHostEver, Donald.
Just read the posts, off to "Zombie Prom" auditions.
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Dear DR Danise
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Thank you, VixMom for the information but if I come up for Chitty, it won't be until the fall. Maybe next Spring. We'll see but thank you for thinking about me. :)
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DRDanise, I'm sorry to laugh at your expense, but what a funny day! The landlord of my buildng owns most of the block: 200, 202, 208, and 212 and 214 West 82nd Street. My building's (202) laundry room is also used by 200 W. 82, and 212 and 214 share a laundry room. Their washers are currently out of service, so I had to wait over five hours today while some woman from another building took over our laundry room! I swear she had six loads of laundry or more and I just put my laundry into the dryers. Burns my ass.
The irony is that there is a laundromat next to 214, and she could have put some of those loads together in a larger washer and been finished in half the time. I plan to bitch slap my super tomorrow for letting her pull that!
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BK,look for my pal Larry in a brief bit where Pat Morita breaks the beer bottles.
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DR Danise! Oh, my, that is quite some day you had! LOL! And I don't mean to laugh either, but I am just picturing you with the foaming at the mouth! ;D
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Gee, DR Danise...imagine what might have happened if you'd read the Owner's Manual for peculiarities like that!
;D
I know...I know...smartass me...and I'm the one that usually finds out these things AFTER I've spent as much time as you did trying to make something work that can't because of something so simple.
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So...DR Danise...did the "Airbourne" help any at all????
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Speaking of Mrs. Kritzer..oh, dear bk, I cried at the end of Benjamin Kritzer and then I had to go back and reread the last few chapters again because I was so sad the book was ending.
Yes! A lots of tears, a lots of sadnesses, but, full of a lots of nostalgic warmths. I now am reading Klitzerland, which you’ll see a little grown up Benjamin and will find another attraction of him. Hope you too enjoy it very soon.
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Does anyone have any "word" on "Lennon" yet?
It's to play here before going to Broadway.
Tonya Pinkins is in town with "Caroline...or Change." Local critics wet themselves praising it.
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Jane, when we were in England this November/December it was two bucks to the British pound. I found the mint humbugs by just typing in "mint humbugs" into my searcher. You might want to do the same...there were a ton of sites selling them. They may not be Marks and Spencer, but who knows? They could be better or worse...If you search enough, you might even find a recipe for them, then who needs Marks and Spencer at all?
LOL-right-I will start searching for the recipe right now.
I know I searched them before and didn't order any. Maybe it was the shipping fees. I should have asked my aunt to bring me back some again. Unfortunately I made the mistake of thinking she would remember. I still have the empty bag from her previous trip.
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Happy Birthday to DR Terry and Der Musik Meiser Donald all the best and happiness for the year to come.
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Congrats on the stats!
Ben, I hope the Muse will be worth the look see. From what I read, it sure sounds it.
What did I wear in the ‘70’s? I don’t remember what I wore six months ago!
If the kids can’t play tag is Hide and Seek in danger of being banned as well? What about Dodge ball?
William F. Orr, what can I say? What goes around comes around. Thank goodness.
Welcome, welcome, welcome to Newest DR Rodzinski!!!!
Well, DR Ron Pulliam, after all that I don’t know how I feel! I’ll let you know tomorrow. :D
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Had a read through of act one of my play and it went quite well. There is some minor dialogue changes to make, but so far no plot alternations. Act two will be done on Saturday.
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Oh and I did read the owners manual. I looked at the section under "ignition". It told about what the different positions of the key would do, like make the windows/cd/radio work without starting the car but nothing about the thing locking up because the wheels were turned to the right or left. ::) ;)
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Oh Danise I was hysterical. I’m still laughing and groaning. As soon as you mentioned the key wouldn’t work I knew it would turn out to be the steering wheel. My car has done that and it can be a pain to unlock.
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Vixmom thanks for the link. I didn’t see the shipping costs but I expect it is much less than from England. I’m just hesitant to try another brand of humbugs purchased in the States and the ones from Marks and Spencers are the best I have ever had.
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Well, who knew this new fangled vehicle would do something like that? I’m just worried about what other “surprises” are in store.
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DR DANISE - been there done that....car wise NOT Airbourne wise.
Watching THE AMAZING RACE....whew!
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Danise, have fun finding out. ;D
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Gee, thanks. I think. ??? :P :-\ ;D
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Pogue: I just saw that scene.
I am quite full of tuna pasta salad. I'm running out now to get something sweet to cut the taste.
Kerry: I'm on the gangster kick because I got the Warner Bros. Gangster set - 5 DVDs of their classic gangster movies. I've seen Public Enemy, Little Caeser, and White Heat thus far. The other two movies in the set are Angels with Dirty Faces and The Roaring Twenties.
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I must say, having read through the last page of posts, I find the whole lot of you entirely endearing.
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Thorntons in England makes the best toffee. My favorite is their special toffee. They also sell, or did, a great mint humbug-the first I had. Check out their site: http://www.thorntons.co.uk/catalog.asp?cat=469
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Beautiful scenery and some good challenges tonight on TAR!!
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Oh....MR BK mentioned Margaret Wycherly in WHITE HEAT....what a wonderful, creepy performance. And that dame can drive a car!
She was also wonderful as George Raft's mother in some RKO noir....hmmmmmmm....forget the title....a musical term, I think.
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I take it back, the mint toffee is my favorite. I can’t find humbugs and unless I sign in I can’t check out their shipping costs.
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Wow, TAR was something tonight. I won't give it away.
Ten bells. Bed time. For some reason, I am VERY tired.
Have a good evening, all!
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Vixmom I forgot to mention I like my humbugs with a toffee center. I don't believe those had one. I found other brands on a UK site I will investigate.
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Hello, DR RODZINSKI!
I, too, love “Creature Wasn’t Nice”.
Unfortunately we can't have DVD, but only VHS, in Japan, yet.
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Jrand, she was also wonderful as Coop's mom in Sergeant York. BK also mentioned liking Edmund O'Brien, who I think is a great under-appreciated actor. He is wonderful in Laughton's hunchback. Unfortunately, he got a bit beefy early and never got as many leading man roles as he probably could have gotten, but he always gave solid support. I've heard he was a fine Shakespearean actor.
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I just read the following inspirational message at another site, and thought I should pass it on:
Too often, we lose sight of life's simple pleasures.
Remember, when someone annoys you it takes 42 muscles to frown, BUT it only takes 4 muscles to extend your arm and bitch-slap that mother@#?!&$ upside the head.
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Kerry: I'm on the gangster kick because I got the Warner Bros. Gangster set - 5 DVDs of their classic gangster movies. I've seen Public Enemy, Little Caeser, and White Heat thus far. The other two movies in the set are Angels with Dirty Faces and The Roaring Twenties.
I thought THE PETRIFIED FOREST was in that set.
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Love Eddie O'Brien. So many great performances. I love his larger-than-life turn in The Girl Can't Help It, and he's great in The Wild Bunch. I believe he was married to Olga San Juan if memory serves.
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Even when I don't like many of the performers on AMERICAN IDOL, I'm happy it's back now to provide a lead-in for the excellent medical mystery drama HOUSE. Its ratings have increased dramatically with AI as a lead-in. Looks like we'll get another season of this wonderful show.
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Finished The Karate Kid and am moving on to Twentieth Century, I think.
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Edmond O'Brian was certainly regarded highly enough to win the Oscar for THE BAREFOOT CONTESSA.
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TOTD: Linda Ronstadt recorded some wonderful tracks in the 70's. eg. Orbison's "Blue Bayou".
Special mention also to the Bobby Darin recording of "Happy" (Love theme from "Lady Sings The Blues")
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DR Jane: Postage costs - try ordering any CD or DVD and having it mailed to OZ from the USA or UK. I just accept as part of the price these days.
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Good Evening!
Ohh..... And the Doobie Brothers! -Anyone else remember that episode of "What's Happening?" when the tape recorder fell out of Rerun's coat and the WHOLE concert stopped!
;D
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DR Danise - My mom's Datsun 510 had the same issue with the steering wheel/ignition key. And, actually, my Ford Escort also sometimes requires an adjustment of the steering wheel before starting.
As for Airborne... I've always associated it with airplane flights or other occasions where you're in an enclosed space with a lot of people for an extended amount of time. I guess it could be used as a preventative.
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NOTE TO DR JANE:
There is "British Goods" store here in Arlington that carries Humbugs. And my favorite chocolate/candy store in Richmond sells them too.
What flavors would you like? And how many packages of each?
;)
Oh, and I think I've also seen them at either Williams-Sonoma, Dean and DeLuca and/or Sur La Table.
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What a great set of gangster movies. I haven't seen some of those movies in years, and it might be fun. Luckily I've even seen most of them on the big screen at various film events over the years.
And yes, come to think of it, we ARE an endearing bunch, aren't we?
Tom,
I didn't know anyone recorded a vocal of the theme from "Lady Sings the Blues." I always liked the theme and thought it was one of Michel Legrand's nobler efforts, (Please tell me that Michel Legrand wrote it, now that I think of it. I'm pretty sure he did.)
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Grand Legrande indeed Kerry.. Michael Jackson also recorded it.
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Well, I hate to Wussburger tonight, but since I have to be up at 9:00 for some phone meetings...
-And I hope to catch up on the Posts from the weekend tomorrow too.
Goodnight.
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I just had a lovelier than lovely Jacuzzi. The nights have been very cold lately, but tonight was perfect - lovely, balmy, and I am relaxed.
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The Rozsa Jungle Book CD is a very nice thing to have. Quite stirring. I shall have to listen to the interview over again, because Dr. Rozsa's accent is heavy and recording quality of the interview such that I lost some nuances. But he sounds rather dry and witty.
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I won't get my copy until Mr. Nick Redman returns from the UK.
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Nobody here but us chickens.
Oh, and one more word - onerous.
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I must say the WUSSBURGER quotient is running a little high lately.
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Hopefully some late-night denizens will show up at some point.
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Otherwise, I shall have to do the mambo all by myself.
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<SNIP> .... I was about to dial the number when I thought about my boss having a Ford Explorer and decided to give her a call. Luckily, I have her cell phone number in my cell phone book. The battery is dead. On the plus side (and this is why my purse weighs ten tons) I dig out the spare cell phone battery and am able to make my call.
When I tell her the problem, she laughs and tells me to turn the steering wheel. I did and the key worked. It seems there is a “safety” measure that if the wheels are turned to far right or left when you shut the SUV off, it locks the steering column. You have to turn the steering wheel to unlock it.
I spent at least an hour and half on this. I told her that sometimes it pays to have the same kind of vehicle as your boss.
Like I said. What a day. Sigh.
Danise, it's not a new "feature." When I was in college (about 17 years ago), this exact same thing happened to a friend of mine. She was driving her parents' (I think) station wagon, had parked it on a hill and turned the wheel so that it would turn into the curb. When she tried to start the car, the key wouldn't turn because the wheel was turned to the point of locking. She came rushing into the music building were a bunch of us were and said that she had tried for about a half hour, not knowing what to do. I suggested turning the wheel (no one else seemed to know what to do) and when she went back, that did it.
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Otherwise, I shall have to do the mambo all by myself.
Ay mambo, mambo Italiano
Ay mambo, mambo Italiano
That is literally all I know of this song :-\ although I do own the CD Bette Midler Sings The Rosemary Clooney Songbook (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000BYMYK/qid=1107329477/sr=2-2/ref=pd_ka_b_2_2/102-9253344-9860151) and a movie called Mambo Italiano (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000F5B5/qid%3D1107329561/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/102-9253344-9860151). I just don't have it memorized...at all. ::)
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I'm doing the fershluganah mambo all by my lonesome.
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New notes up in twelve count them twelve minutes.
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I've been mambo-ing in my chair...just shoulder choreography, really. No leg work. It's good enough for me. ;)
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Papa loves Mambo. ( a Perry Como reference)
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And mama loves pambo.
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Holy moley on rye - page eleven!