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Well, you've read the notes, you know what we're trying to sell you, you know you're not buying a word of it, and now it is time for you to post until the cows come home, which is very soon because they have to pay for their fabulous Chia pet.
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And the word of the day is: CUMIN!
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CUMIN!
Well, I suppose I shall toddle off to the bedroom environment, since the WUSSBURGERS seem to have deserted the jernt. Only Pogue and Tom of Oz are here. Speak up, boys.
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I've been catching up on earlier posts BK (yesterday to you!).. Commercials on TV - not really the same world.
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CUMIN!
Has Ann caught up? I think Ann has taken a hike, frankly.
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Good Morning!
I went ahead and took a shower a few minutes ago... Ah... Just what I needed. I was also feeling a little "filmy" after today, so... Much better now.
Btw, what is "haineshiway.com"? -Actually, that could work as a domain name - maybe for all the Ginsu knives and Dean Martin Roast videos - on VHS, of course, none of those fancy-schmancy DVDs.
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There is an upcoming live auction on eBay with some fairly excellent first editions, which have reasonable starting prices (not that dealers will let anyone get away with getting anything that low). They have one book I would dearly love to have - my favorite Agatha Christie - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd in its true first UK book in jacket. I've signed up for the auction. We shall see what we shall see.
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CUMIN!!
Now... Do you pronounce it "cue-min" or more like "come-in"? Steve's father would always say "come-in", and then all of us would start giggling. Immature - yes!
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I'm just trying to let these aspirin work before trotting off to the bedroom environment. If only I had a set of Ginsu knives.
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Cue-min, as far as I know.
CUMIN!
I'm in serious need of my Russian massage artist. Maybe one of these days I'll get off my lazy butt cheeks and actually call her and book an appointment.
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As for commercials...
Infomercials fascinate me - and still do from time to time... The cheaper and cheesier the better! All those get-rich-quick schemes! However, I don't think I ever made it through a Tony Robbins infomercial - that jawline of his always scared me.
;)
Otherwise, any of the Ron Popeil product pitches - especially the Bass-O-Matic.
And then all those competing skin care lines and make up products.
And, Soloflex of course. ;)
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Just checked with Oz pronunciation. "Come-In" just like come-quart.
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Commercials... The classic AT&T one...
"Then why did he call?"
"He called just to say I Love You"
-Or something like that. Always got choked up seeing that one.
And there was that Folger's commercial where the son comes home to surprise his family...
And wasn't there another long-running Folger's commercial with Howard McGillin? I seem to remember an image of him standing at a front door, or something like that.
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And those, "Have a Lifesaver" commercials...
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So sad to be all alone in the world...
I guess I shall toddle across the room, and head to bed myself...
Goodnight.
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Good morning all!
Jose I am glad to hear that Indianapolis is treating you well. I do resent that India-no-place comment. There are things to do around Indy if you know where to look...
I know you were recently talking about getting more exercise a few weeks ago. Are you still working on that? The Monon Trail runs perpendicular to 86th street so you might want to see if you are close enough to get in a little exercise. Also if you get the chance, go to the Canal and check it out while the weather is nice. It's always nice to take a stroll there.
I can also get access to a digital camera for Sunday. I'll actually be down Friday evening because our men's chorus at Ball State is singing the national Anthem at the Indian's game. (Our local minor league baseball team.) I am looking forward to it because it is a nice ball park and I always enjoy myself.
I also want a full report Jose if you find any good places to eat since you seem to be the master at finding them. :-)
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As for the TOD: One of my favorite commercials is from the superbowl several years ago. It involved a car with a pigeon bomber squadron chasing it. I remember being especially tickled as the went through a wedding reception.
Another, is the three-part commercial about the dog that went to go to the bathroom and got left behind by accident. I remember a tear coming to my eye as I watched the dog travel cross country and finally got back home.
I always love it whenever they use Broadway themed commercials with the exception of the FAME spoof Old Navy has out now. I loved all the EBay commercials though!
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Good Evening DR Hisaka! I almost said good morning but then I checked the world clock to make sure I would get it right. :)
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And I am alone. :-( I suppose I could sleep for a bit more since I don't have class until 9.
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Good Evening DR Hisaka! I almost said good morning but then I checked the world clock to make sure I would get it right. :)
Good Morning DR JOEY! Thank you for checking the world clock for me. :D
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And… DR DANISE, The time difference between Tokyo and your place, Florida?, is twelve hours now so when you’re at noon, I’m at midnight the next day. It’s 7:50 pm now in Tokyo. ;)
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Good morning all!
I'm running late this morning soooo.....
Hi Hisaka,& Joey, ICU!
I can't believe I didn't say Good Health vibes to DR Elmoore yesterday so I will say them now!!
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Laters!
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Thanks DR Hisaka! A good evening to you! :)
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As for commercials, though this is not my favorite commercial, I saw, this time, Richard Gere on TV commercial for an apartment residence called “The Tokyo Towers” in which he plays the piano with a smile and walks up to camera having flowers in his arms with a smile still. He says something but we can’t hear his voice any owing to the narrations.
Richard Gere came to Tokyo a few days ago to promote "Shall We Dance" and go back home the day after. During his stay in Tokyo he met our prime minister Koizumi and posed dancing with him. I think it's good for Mr. Gere but definitely no good for Koizumi. He looked ridiculous. >:(
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A quick good morning to you all. I was in and out yesterday but I don't think I posted at all. It will probably be much the same today. I have many things on my desk which need my attention.
Kerry, congrats on the job, whether it's a keeper or not.
Jose, congrats on your opening. You'll enjoy the get together on Sunday. Nice people are coming your way!
Later, gaters.
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I watch very little tv and when I do whena commercial comes up I channel surf except on PBS of course.
But when I would watch commercials I enjoyed the long running commercials with Anthony Head (TV series Buffy) and another Brit actress, It showed them meeting and their courtship over a number of years. No longer remember the brand though.
I do remember that one of the best commercials as child seeing was Anne Miller for the Great American Soup commercial. It starts off in a kitchen. Anne plays wife making dinner. Husband comes in asks whats for dinner. the sets slides apart and then a big MGM style production ensues and the at the end she is back in the kitchen and her husband holdimg her in a final dance pose and asking her "Why do you have to make a big production about ever?" (or something like that). 35 years or so later I still remember it so it has to be one of the most effective commercials ever done.
Another one rather humorous was a bell telephone commercial. A family with a small son is talking to a grandfather and they ask the son if he wants to say hello. He says hello and then hangs up. I rather liked that one.
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Good luck Kerry on the job.
Enjoy your time on the road Jose
I hope you had a beautiful day Hisaka
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One commercial that stuck in my head only played for a little while about 20 years ago or so. I don't even remember what they were selling, but it really impressed me, and changed my life. Someone was shopping in a grocery store, and got in One Of Those Lines... It is taking WAY too long. Finally, the person in front of him started unloading groceries onto the conveyer belt. "One potato... two potato... three potato..." and the clerk, glacially slow, starts ringing up the order: "One potato... two potato... three potato..."
I only saaw it a couple of times. Laughed my head off. Next time Chuck and I were at the grocery store (we were living in Washington at the time), we were standing in One Of Those Lines... we were WAY back in line. I started in: "One potato... two potato... three... potato..." I got all the way up to "... eleven potato..." when he just left the store. After several more shopping trips, he stopped going to grocery stores with me. Eventually we separated, I moved out, came back to Noo Yawk, and performed my show off-Broadway. The rest is history.
PS - I still do the routine, all by myself, when I'm stuck in line in grocery stores... Fershtaist du the expression "one of those middle-aged actresses who lives alone in boarding houses... until she can become a red-wigged, red-rouged former Little Trouper at the Ansonia"?
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Lordy, I hate Daylight Savings Time! My mindset is still an hour behind, and I hate it.
Commercials: I love the current (Serta?) mattress ads with the sheep.
Off to be X-rayed! What a thrill.
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Thanks all for the good wishes on the job. I also had another interview yesterday (which seemed to go very well) for a job that I had applied for. I then looked at the job description and wondered what the hell I was thinking.
So it's off to the salt mines...
Favorite commercials: almost all the ones Stan Freburg created (prunes, The Great American Soup, Pizza Rolls)
There was a Chanel #5 commercial in the late 70's that Iadored ("I am blue sky and golden light, and I will feel this way forever.") Ooh!
The first "My baloney has a first name..." commercial with the little kid fishing.
The "Ironweave" commercials.
The Diet Pepsi (Just one calorie- now you see it, now you don't) ads with Joanie Sommers sionging. I would LOVE to have the song for that!
The "Sometimes You Feel Like A Nut" ads.
The Sea and Ski commercial from the 60's which used "Girl Talk" as the jingle.
Oh-- and I'll take the two CD set of Mambos, please.
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CUMIN!
She'll be cumin' 'round the mountain.....
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'morning!
My favorite commercial was a radio ad for United Airlines. You heard a clunky rehearsal piano and a bored old guy saying, "OK, girls, we're gonna tap our little hearts out for United Airlines." As announcer talked, you heard the tap rehearsal going on in the background. The girls sang "U-ni-ted Airlines," the guy said "Higher, girls, higher," and girls sang in a higher key. They made a TV version, but it was funnier on the radio.
On TV, I like the Hershey's kisses ads, where they're doing something seasonal like figure skating (pairs) or ringing handbells ("We Wish You a Merry Christmas")
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DR Rodzinski - I was sorry to read in last night's posts of your friend's death.
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All sorts of tildes (those are vibes) to Mr. Moore's inner workings
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Wednesday.
The Dean Martin Roasts! A set of knives and the DMR!
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Rodzinski, it's funny the things that stay with us.
I have a friend "in recovery" I won't breach confidences, but he said, when he was doing one of the steps that involve making amends for past behavior, that almost always the person to whom he was apologizing didn't remember the incident at all. Guilt hangs around for the longest time.
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Anacin....many years ago. A woman is AT THE END OF HER ROPE! She is busy cooking in the kitchen, raising the lid of a pan on the stove, an old woman holding a shaker approaches her and asks innocently: "Don't you think it needs a little salt?" The cook SLAMS down the lid on the pot and yells: "Mother, PLEASE, I'd rather do it MYSELF!"
Then there was that little graphic of a human body with a hammer in the head and some lightning and something else. The woman takes an Anacin tablet, and in a moment puts her arm around the old woman who is reading a book to a child.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Followed a few months later by a man slamming on the brakes as he drives toward a garage, pouncing out of the car to pick up a tricycle and screaming to the young woman at the back door: "Honey, haven't I told you to keep the children's toys OUT OF THE DRIVEWAY!!!"
Hahahahah
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Ginny- Thanks, I appreciate that. Others as well.
I moved away from Indiana when I was 14, so most of my friends from back then are permanently frozen as children in my mind's eye.
Ben- It's so true!
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Cumin is indeed pronounced Like "cummin".
I learned this from PDQ Bach's "Oratorio: the Spices" which had puns like "Summer is a-cumin", "Taragon of Virtue", and "Bide thy Thyme".
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DR Rodzinski, that is indeed very sad about your school chum...and scary too, who would ever even think something like that would happen. I have one of those carbon monoxide alarms, but I believe it is sitting someplace without any batteries in it.
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As I mentioned the other day, I love those TRAVELOCITY commercials with the little ceramic gnome...he just cracks me up.
My all time favorite commercials were for the candy MENTOS...I loved the song, and the little stories in each commercial.
And then going waaaaay back, there were the commericals for my favorite breakfast cereal FREAKIES!
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Ann Miller dancing for Campbell's Great American Soups.
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Hello, DR TD. How are you?
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Today, Mr. Clint Eastwood came to Tokyo to visit the mayer Ishihara to ask for permission to shoot a film on The Io Island for his new production. Mr. Eastwood was quite handsome and lookd very elegant.
And the mayer Ishihara was better than Koizumi. :P
I wonder the spelling of "Io" works for you DRs...?
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Yes, I think that Ann Miller Great American Soup commercial is likely one of the most famous and best remembered of all time by those of us who were around there to see it. A really spectacular commercial.
Right now, there is a series of commercials done in CGI featuring the voice of Antonio Bandaras as a bumblebee trying to offer his love relief from pollen allergy. I find them charming and funny.
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As a kid, I was charmed by the Lucky Charms commercials.
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On the subject of TV watching, I am PROUD to admit that I watch a great deal of commercial, network television. I find that many of these shows are better than 95% of the films that are being made right now. The production values are excellent, the acting is superb, and the writing is challenging and often sophisticated.
And with the advent of high definition television, the shows are more cinematic looking than ever, looking as expensive and as well produced as any commercial movie ventures that I've seen recently. (And, of course, these are produced in a mere fraction of production time and money spent on theatrical films. The quality is actually astounding.)
As for commercials, I don't watch many of them. I have small chores around the house that I can do while they play - counters to wipe down, dishes to rinse off and stack in the dishwasher, laundry to fold and put away. I make good use of the time without sitting there like a zombie watching commercials.
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Condolences to DR Rodzinski on the loss of your friend
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Congratulations to DR Kerry on your new job
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As I mentioned the other day, I love those TRAVELOCITY commercials with the little ceramic gnome...he just cracks me up.
This may be a dumb question but are the Travelocity gnome and the movie Amelie connected? I know the gnome travels and I always figured that is where Travelocity got the idea, but I wanted to double check on that.
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Off to be X-rayed! What a thrill.
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I never put the two together, DRJOEY - but you may be right! ;D
I like the animated character in the airline commercial. He is walking around straightening his hair and telling people: "Don't think! Just book that airplane ticket!" 8)
Sure you've got a headache, but don't take it out on her. Get Anacin for fast, Fast, FAST relief! :P
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LOL DR VIXMOM. that will do for the Page Three Dance as well.
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Here is a link to some commercials - including MY favorite....scroll down a bit. ;D
Can anyone identify the actress who yells at "her mother"? She had a sizable role in a movie starring Miss Doris Day.
Not the same actress in the picture above.
:Phttp://www.tvparty.com/vaultcomsex.html (http://www.tvparty.com/vaultcomsex.html)
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TOD:
Back in the early 70's (I think) there was an ad for Alka Seltzer with an actor trying to shoot a commercial "Mamma Mia! Thatsa some spicy meataballs" He kept getting it wrong or the props would go wroig and he had to keep eating these meatballs...at one point he just is saying "speecy spoosy spassy...." Hysterical!
The old Sara Lee commercials where things are going wrong for people but they cheer up with a Sara Lee dessert, while the jingle would play: "Everybody doesn't like something, but nobody doesn't like Sara Lee!!"
And of course the Oreo commercials with the song
"Do you know how to eat an Oreo?
Well to do it, you unscrew it
veryfast
For a kid'll eat the middle of an Oreo first
And leave the chocolate cookie outside for last"
And :
"Mother may I have another Nutter Butter peanut butter sandwich cookie please?"
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This may be a dumb question but are the Travelocity gnome and the movie Amelie connected? I know the gnome travels and I always figured that is where Travelocity got the idea, but I wanted to double check on that.
DH Steve says that when he was a teenager in England that there was a story "on the telly" and in all the papers about a garden gnome that disappeared from its place in the front garden of someone's home, and the homeowners started getting postcards 'from the gnome" from all over the world. A year to the date that the gnome vanished it reappeared in its old location, but it had been repainted so that it was now sporting a tan. He had told me this story years and years ago and he said it had beenwidely reported in England, so we always thought the the commercials had been based on this incident.
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If only I had a set of Ginsu knives.
I do have a set of Ginsu knives!! I inherited them from my grandmother back in 1984. They are still sharp, never needing sharpening and indeed I even once cut a tree limb ( a Christmas tree) with one and it is still able to slice a tomato!!
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have you noticed all the knive ads at the top of the site?
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Wife: We need more Calgon!
Customer: Ancient Chinese secret, huh?
For me it gets no better than that.
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And of course there is that famous line we sang once in the chorus of a very boring production of OKLAHOMA!
They couldn't pick a better time to start in life.
It ain't too early, and it ain't too late.
Standin' in the kitchen with a Ginsu knife.
Soon be livin' in a brand new state!
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DR elmore is ready for his closeup...
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And of course there is that famous line we sang once in the chorus of a very boring production of OKLAHOMA!
They couldn't pick a better time to start in life.
It ain't too early, and it ain't too late.
Standin' in the kitchen with a Ginsu knife.
Soon be livin' in a brand new state!
ROTFLMAO
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Page Three Ginsu Dance. ;D
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DR MBARNUM did you get your new George Foreman Grill?
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TALKING ABOUT LAST NIGHT'S AMAZING RACE (MBarnum, not sure if you watched it yet).
I wish that there had been more going on. There were only 2 small tasks (the goat/water on the head AND the moving the logs). That was hardly enough time for errors (although a few teams managed).
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Well then of course I got a solo line at the end and added my own couplet:
Plenty of room to swing a rope.
Plenty of sex and plenty of dope!
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Jennifer I thought Lynn & Alex and Rob and Amber all did nice jobs last night. If I had to choose a favorite team right now....and it's close....it might be Uchenna & Joyce.
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DR JOSE - India-No-Place is about right where you are. Too bad you aren't staying downtown - much more activity! And DRJOEY is right, I forgot about the Monon Trail - it's a nice run/walk/bicycle trail alone the right of way where the old railroad used to run.
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We were talking about the DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES/ Vanity Fair fiasco yesterday.
Here is a summary:
http://tv.yahoo.com/news/ap/20050405/111274620000.html
Anyhow, I did catch the Teri Hatcher interview last night. And this is what she said.
1. Yes there was an ABC rep there.
2. Teri said (regarding her choice in bathing suit) that she walked into the bathing suit room, asked the expert what she should wear, and then took the red suit she was given. She also said that she knew nothing about her not being allowed to go choose first.
3. Teri also said that she did not run anywhere in tears. In fact she did not remember any tears at all.
3. And re: Marcia Cross being upset, Teri said that she can't speak for her. But that she tends not to believe that story.
One part that was unclear to me, was when they were discussing who would have given the ABC rep the list of demands. Teri said something like, "well you think about it". And i wasn't sure what she was implying.
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I'm up, I'm up. Had a nice sleep. Lovely commercials.
elmore must have NO more health issues - he must be healthy, wealthy and strong, necessarily in that order.
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Remember when Lark Cigarettes and Jeno's Pizza Rolls were both using the William Tell Overture for the theme in their commericials. There was a great ad for Jeno's Pizza Rolls (maybe a Stan Freberg ad) where a man taking a cigarette from a red pack (obviously supposed to be a Lark pack) stops the Jeno's person and says, "I've been meaning to talk to you about your theme." Suddenly, a gloved hand clamps on the "Lark" guy's shoulder and an off-camera voice says, "I've been meaning to talk to you about the same thing." The Lark guy turns around to see The Lone Ranger and Tonto behind him.
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AMAZING RACE TALK:
Jennifer I thought Lynn & Alex and Rob and Amber all did nice jobs last night. If I had to choose a favorite team right now....and it's close....it might be Uchenna & Joyce.
I really cannot stand Lynn and Alex. They are so catty and whine all the time. Really dislike them. Of course Romber is my favorite team, they are just so good! They work together. They are supportive of each other. And they are fast and good. Somehow they always come out on top. As for Uchenna and Joyce. I do like them (they are my second favorite team). And they work together well and are very supportive of each other. HOWEVER, they always finish in the middle of the pack. To me, TAR is about being great. I want to see a team win that is clever/smart/great. But besides Romber, there are no teams that are even close to being really good (although I suppose the army/beauty queen tream has done fairly well).
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I remember very well the commercial Pogue is talking about. That sort of cleverness has all but vanished, along with every other type of cleverness.
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I feel that at some point today I shall reach my new plateau.
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DR MBARNUM did you get your new George Foreman Grill?
Indeed I did, a bright red one!
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Classic musicals night on IDOL:
http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2005-04-05-idol-tuesday-recap_x.htm
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Well then of course I got a solo line at the end and added my own couplet:
Plenty of room to swing a rope.
Plenty of sex and plenty of dope!
How many days of detention did you end up with? ;D
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I must get new glasses I read this as Moron Trail and I bet I did a lovely doubletake...never a cameraman around when you need one....
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Shortly I shall be on my way to pick up my auction prizes.
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Jack Benny & Giselle McKenzie....we must have photos of said pieces!
LOL DR CP - I remember those commercials as well. It must have been quite a shakeup at several agencies when Cigarette Ads were banned on television. Winston, Salem, and Marlboro were regular sponsors of several popular programs.
I remember "Step Up to Kool" , Tareyton "I'd rather fight than switch" and of course Miss Frances Farmer's famous Kents "with the Micronite filter."
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LOL no detention, DR vixmom - but the director said "No, you can't sing it that way in performance."
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I didn't know you could get the grill in color!!! Red!!!
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Jack Benny & Giselle McKenzie....we must have photos of said pieces!
LOL DR CP - I remember those commercials as well. It must have been quite a shakeup at several agencies when Cigarette Ads were banned on television. Winston, Salem, and Marlboro were regular sponsors of several popular programs.
I remember "Step Up to Kool" , Tareyton "I'd rather fight than switch" and of course Miss Frances Farmer's famous Kents "with the Micronite filter."
"Winston tastes good like a [clap] [clap} cigarette should!!"
didn't they sponsor the Flinstones?
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Well, I got me a nice present at lunch. I left home after eating half a spinach stromboli and half an apple (Anthony had the other half) and a glass of cinnamon apple iced tea and the devil called (in the form of Academy CDs). I answered that call and to my surprise and delight came away with a used copy of Night of the Hunter, produced in 1998 by our very own BK. I look forward to listening to it this afternoon.
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Do all readers of a certain age know about this site? You can buy CD's of many of the songs we listened to way back when. 8)
http://www.doowopshoobop.com/ (http://www.doowopshoobop.com/)
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The Flintstones AND The Beverly Hillbillies as well, DR VIXMOM. I remember Jed and Granny sitting in the kitchen puffing away on their Winstons and extolling its virtues.
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I just discovered the song The Waters of March and I am quite addicted to it.
A mile, a must, a thrust, a bump,
It's a girl, it's a rhyme, it's a cold, it's the mumps
The plan of the house, the body in bed
And the car that got stuck,
it's the mud, it's the mud
A float, a drift, a flight, a wing
A hawk, a quail, the promise of spring
And the river bank talks of the waters of March
It's the promise of life,
it's the joy in your heart...
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All I can say is, don't plan on living in any retirement homes in Portland. For the third time in the past year, an activities director at a retirement home has screwed up a booking for me. I've been booked for months at a place that I was supposed to play tonight. Called this morning, lady says "Oh, I didn't understand your message and I couldn't find your number to call you back." OK, first off, the message said "Yes, I can play April 6." How hard is that to understand? And the message included my phone number (which she had obviously called in the first place to leave the message to book me). And third off I also bring a Senior Choir there regularly that's based at a big Senior Center so she could have left a message at the Senior Center. Aaaarrrrgh. The fact that two other retirement communities have pulled similar screw-ups has me in a fit of pique this morning. Yes, an absolute fit of pique.
End of rant.
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I will add good vibes for DR Elmore!
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I just discovered the song The Waters of March and I am quite addicted to it.
A mile, a must, a thrust, a bump,
It's a girl, it's a rhyme, it's a cold, it's the mumps
The plan of the house, the body in bed
And the car that got stuck,
it's the mud, it's the mud
A float, a drift, a flight, a wing
A hawk, a quail, the promise of spring
And the river bank talks of the waters of March
It's the promise of life,
it's the joy in your heart...
Waters of March
Ah, Joey, you have discovered one of the great gems of the latter part of Antonio Carlos Jobim's career. I am the resident Brasil-freak here--I will gladly point you to other Brasilian artists you should listen to. Here's a little trivia for you re: Aguas de Marco (its original title): the melody was a "dummy tune" Tom (as he was colloquially called) came up with to write the lyric to (and by the way, the original Portuguese is almost exactly like the English, which is unusual--Tom did his own translation). However, when Tom started playing it for people, everyone loved it, so he never wrote another melody. If you haven't heard it already, try to get the duet version with Tom himself singing with the legendary Brasilian chanteuse Elis Regina (it's on Elis' duet album with Tom).
Another funny story about the song: Sergio Mendes & Brasil '77 were doing it (they were the first to record it in English, and Sergio actually recorded it twice in his career, something unusual for him) on the Tonight Show, and vocalist Bonnie Bowden went completely up on the lyric (which as you may imagine wouldn't be a hard thing to do). She basically hummed the melody while Mrs. Mendes, Gracinha Leporace, kept listing things right and left to that exquisite Lydian chord. :)
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DR JMK how is the choreography going at THE PAJAMA GAME?
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DR JMK how is the choreography going at THE PAJAMA GAME?
I've only rehearsed with the band so far. But none of them knew the Shirley MacLaine story (do I feel old? Yes, I do).
The first trumpeter just got accepted to both Tanglewood and Interlochen. As a pianist. (Do I feel woefully mono-instrument? Yes I do).
;D
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I just discovered the song The Waters of March and I am quite addicted to it.
A mile, a must, a thrust, a bump,
It's a girl, it's a rhyme, it's a cold, it's the mumps
The plan of the house, the body in bed
And the car that got stuck,
it's the mud, it's the mud
A float, a drift, a flight, a wing
A hawk, a quail, the promise of spring
And the river bank talks of the waters of March
It's the promise of life,
it's the joy in your heart...
I never heard this before,,who sings it? What's it from?
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And then going waaaaay back, there were the commericals for my favorite breakfast cereal FREAKIES!
Why, my dearest Michael, does that not surprise me?? :D
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I never heard this before,,who sings it? What's it from?
Note to Self: Read all of the postings before you answer! ...Thanks JMK for the info... I must look this up!
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I've only rehearsed with the band so far. But none of them knew the Shirley MacLaine story (do I feel old? Yes, I do).
The first trumpeter just got accepted to both Tanglewood and Interlochen. As a pianist. (Do I feel woefully mono-instrument? Yes I do).
;D
Not to be show-offy but I can play the radio, the CD player and the phonograph!!
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Waters of March has been recorded by hundreds of people, but I recommend the two Sergio Mendes versions in English (his first, available on the import CD Vintage '74 has an amazing Dave Grusin orchestration). For Portuguese, you must get Jobim's own authoritative version, available on the CD Matita Pere, which was released in America on MCA as Jobim. Both the original Brasilian and US licensed versions are available on CD.
But maybe you'll get a CDR of some versions with some other CDs that will be mailed to you next week. ;)
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Waters of March has been recorded by hundreds of people, but I recommend the two Sergio Mendes versions in English (his first, available on the import CD Vintage '74 has an amazing Dave Grusin orchestration). For Portuguese, you must get Jobim's own authoritative version, available on the CD Matita Pere, which was released in America on MCA as Jobim. Both the original Brasilian and US licensed versions are available on CD.
But maybe you'll get a CDR of some versions with some other CDs that will be mailed to you next week. ;)
Thank you Thank you!!
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HOO and RAY!
I just received a second package of FREE drizzle popcorn from Dale & Thomas .. this one is creamy chocolate drizzle....Thanks again for the link DR Jose!!
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DR Jose..how went the show last night?
I am looking forward to lovely postings and pictures from the Indiana HHW meet!!
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CUMIN!!
Now... Do you pronounce it "cue-min" or more like "come-in"? Steve's father would always say "come-in", and then all of us would start giggling. Immature - yes!
In P.D.Q. Bach's "The Seasonings" (S. 1½ Tsp.), it's pronounced "come-in"...as in "I'm comin'." ;)
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I've only rehearsed with the band so far. But none of them knew the Shirley MacLaine story (do I feel old? Yes, I do).
;D
Did they at least know who Shirley MacLaine is?
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*KNOCK*KNOCK*
"Cumin!!"
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"I'm leaving now, you cumin?"
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I am my own
[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]FRENZY!!!!!![/move]
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Ginny- Thanks, I appreciate that. Others as well.
Rodzinski, I'm very sorry about the loss of your friend. You may remember me talking about a couple of friends of mine who died in February, also from carbon monoxide poisoning. It's all so very sad.
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Hello, DR TD. How are you?
I'm physically and emotionally exhausted, DR Hisaka. How are you?
Been quite an eventful week, but there is a beginning of normalcy approaching.
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Good morning!
Well, since I didn't end up falling asleep until around 4:30 - or was it even 5:30 by that time somewhere... But I did wake up before Noon! 11:45!!
;)
I was actually hoping to wake up to a gray and rainy sky which would have given me an "excuse" to stay inside today, but, alas, the rain and storms aren't supposed to start until later in the afternoon. So, maybe I will head out for a while - with umbrella in hand. We shall see.
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DR Joey - Sorry about the "No-Place" comment. But, remember, it was a stagehand who said it, not me. I'll be sure to point him out to you on Sunday so you can give him a piece of your mind!
;)
Thanks for the trail suggestions. I did see the trail that runs along Westfield Blvd. yesterday - we took a "detour" to the theatre in order to do some exploring. I hadn't hear of the Monon Trail, but since I'm right off of 86th Street...
As for places to eat, I did pass some cool little places in the Broad Ripple area as well as on College Ave. I still need to finish off my Maggiano's from the other night, so.. Hopefully, this weekend. *I can also tell my body is still recovering from the indulgences I took in Memphis, so... We shall see.
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DR vixmom - Glad to know the popcorn arrived. And that it's delicious too!
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DR td - Here's to normalcy!
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The old Sara Lee commercials where things are going wrong for people but they cheer up with a Sara Lee dessert, while the jingle would play: "Everybody doesn't like something, but nobody doesn't like Sara Lee!!"
Up until...maybe three or four years ago, I thought that the line was "Nobody does it like Sara Lee," you know, like the James Bond song, "Nobody does it better." ::) I'd just never seen the words printed out anywhere until a few years ago. :)
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BK, how are the Hong Kong movies going today? Be sure to give you review of AIR HOSTESS! I am paying close attention before I order my HK movies! LOL!
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I love really bad cheesey commercials. The cheesier the better. There's a local one here for Action Jack's furniture with a guy in drag in this really crazy outfit. His/Her name is "Big Beulah," and s/he is doing that karate move where you chop a board in half. At the end, s/he tries to chop a cinderblock brick and hurts his/her hand. I don't know what that has to do with furniture, but I love it.
Action Jack's Furniture store, by the way, is run out of a storage unit.
I also love the commercials for Sonic with those two guys in the car. I especially like the one where the one guy is counting carbs. And the one where the other one has stopped eating vitamin E.
And I know I've mentioned this before, but my favorite infomercial is a local one for Earnhardt's used cars. It's called "Credit Court" and it's supposed to be one of those court TV shows. My favorite character is Trixie, Dead-Beat Dad's girlfriend he met at the trailer park.
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Kerry I hope this job works out, at least until you find something more to your liking.
JRand and all who need them-GOOD JOB VIBES!
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Rodzinski I’m sorry about your friend. I have a few childhood life lessons and certain people will stay with me forever because of them. After reading your story I realize what a good thing those lessons were.
When I was in fourth grade a very good friend moved away and I never kept in touch. We didn’t exchange phone numbers or addresses and she only moved 2 hours away. A couple of years ago we re-connected and had lunch together. I told her how much that affected me. As a parent who kept moving her children I worked very hard to not let that happen to them. We even took trips back to our previous homes to visit their friends. It meant a lot to her to know that. Seems the move had also been traumatic for her and it was nice to know how much she had been missed. We still keep in touch.
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Jose, on December 23rd 2003 you were not even at 500 (God status) posts (you mention that in your post) and now here you are at 5,126 or however many you will have when you read this. How do I know? I am s l o w l y reading posts from the Christmas of 2003 when Anthony and I were in London. I am almost done now. I just have 6 more days to read and then I will have caught up. Amazing!
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And now DRJOSE has started a fire up at 116th Street that has closed I-69 Northbound!
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Jose, on December 23rd 2003 you were not even at 500 (God status) posts (you mention that in your post) and now here you are at 5,126 or however many you will have when you read this. How do I know?
YEAH!!! I have a stalker!!!!
;D
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Broad Ripple is a nice "village-y" part of town with a parking problem, but lots of little shops. The High School there is the theatre magnet.
Also Frances Farmer lived in an apartment on College Avenue for many years - andher decorating business was located at around 43rd and College after she left WFBM tv.
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YEA!!!! 7900 Posts on my way to 8000!
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And now DRJOSE has started a fire up at 116th Street that has closed I-69 Northbound!
that li'l dickens!!
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YEA!!!! 7900 Posts on my way to 8000!
woo hoo! New Plateau time for you!!
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anybody know whjere I can buy some relatively inexpensive mocassins for Vixter to use in Peter Pan? They cannot have added soles...
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Remember when Lark Cigarettes and Jeno's Pizza Rolls were both using the William Tell Overture for the theme in their commericials. There was a great ad for Jeno's Pizza Rolls (maybe a Stan Freberg ad) where a man taking a cigarette from a red park (obviously supposed to be a Lark pack) stops the Jeno's person and says, "I've been meaning to talk to you about your theme." Suddenly, a gloved hand clamps on the "Lark" guy's shoulder and an off-camera voice says, "I've been meaning to talk to you about the same thing." The Lark guy turns around to see The Lone Ranger and Tonto behind him.
I remember that now. ;D
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And now DRJOSE has started a fire up at 116th Street that has closed I-69 Northbound!
Are you saying that because I'm a lesbian?
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No, it's because you're a morebian (get it, less bian, more bian?)
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On THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW DVD sets, there are commercials with Dick and Mary shilling for Kent cigarettes.
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It IS nice to see DR td posting after too long an absence. So glad to see your smiling avatar and hope to see more of you around here.
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I was pleased to see that ABC has renewed LOST, DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES, ALIAS, and BOSTON LEGAL for next season, though I don't watch the latter show.
There was no mention about ALIAS starting its new season in January as it did this past year.
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Hi, td!
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LOL DR JOSE
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No matter how much the Vixter has begged I stiull have not given in a bought her
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No matter how much the Vixter has begged I stiull have not given in a bought her
Well, you could make it a class project!
And once the sprouts are sprouted, you can put them on top of your salads in or on a sandwich!
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Why were there so many missed lines and cues on DARK SHADOWS that were not "re-taken"? Well, I often wondered myself, and I finally found the answer. DARK SHADOWS was "live to tape" because the company only had access to the ABC tape bank for a specific amount of time each day....not much more than 30 minutes - so it was rehearsed and shot in the time it took to broadcast - no retakes, no second chances.
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Ch-chi-chi-CHIA!!!
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TD, please don't be staying away so long!
This is the place to come to get into a good mood and lift the spirits!
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IMPORTANT NEWS FLASH!!!!!
Illegal Chia Pet Dump found in New Mexico!
Most people give little thought to what becomes of their Chia pets after the holiday season has become history
It's very sad that few Chia owners realize that the proper disposal of thier Chia Pet is crucial in averting potential environmental disasters.
The photos to the left depict just two localized outbreaks of what has now been dubbed "Wild Chia", which presently is spreading wildly along the I-40 corridor in New Mexico.
The actual Chia plant is not native on our globe, but was created artificially under laboratory conditions in an effort to promote the sale of clay pottery and sound activated electrical switches.
What happens when the Chia Pet plants are allowed to propagate in the wild is currently New Mexico's worst ecological nightmare this century.
According to a report recently published in the ECOLOGICAL TIMES by renowned botanist Alex Mendelsohn of the Maine Institute, the problem is immense.
"Unless something is done immediately, nearly all the red-rock formations in New Mexico will be covered with Chia Pet plants in five years" warns Mendelsohn.
"The natural landscape of New Mexico is ideal habitat for Chia Pet plants and closely resembles the clay pottery they were designed to thrive on" he adds.
Chia Pet plants have few known natural enemys, most of which are too busy fishing to assist in the New Mexico disaster.
Without anything to check the spread of these plants, they will cover the state in a short time and ultimately destroy all life on earth.
PROPER CHIA PET DISPOSAL
To properly dispose of your Chia Pet, you should contact the Chia Disposal Hotline at 1-800-555-3344. You should NEVER discard Chia Pet plants in the trash, flush down the toilet or incinerate them yourself.
http://www.getodd.com/news/hamhock/71599h/71599h.html
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IMPORTANT NEWS FLASH!!!!! http://www.getodd.com/news/hamhock/71599h/71599h.html
;D
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Good Afternoon!
Well... I went to the front desk to get some quarters for the laundry machines...
"OK. How many quarters do you need?"
-Just about $3.00.
"OK. Oh, we're out of quarters in the drawer. Let me check the stash in the closet."
-Thanks.
"In the meantime, here's some soap and fabric softener."
-OK.
(I was going to use the quarters to buy the soap and fabric softener.)
-"Well, here's your change. Need more soap?"
-No, Thank you.
Now that's what I call service. I've actually been hearing a lot about the service here from some other people in the cast. Practically bending over backward even for the simple stuff, practically offering to tie your shoes!
Guess I should start filling out that comment cards.
:)
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I remember a commercial for Zest soap where they showed a person in a shower (from the shoulders up only ;)) and the shower door was cloudy from shower build-up. They ran their finger down the shower door to show how gunky it was. Then another person in a shower with much less shower build-up said that they used Zest soap because there was "less schmutz" left on the door after taking a shower. Does anyone else remember this?? I specifically remember them using the phrase "less schmutz" (I'm guessing on the spelling) in the commercial. I think that it might have been when my family lived in Colorado from '73-'76 and I have no idea if it was a national, regional or local commercial. Would the word "schmutz" be used in a commercial today?? ::)
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Can one of you NYCers (or anyone else who knows) tell me which Broadway theater SPELLING BEE is going into when it transfers from Off-Broadway?
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Looks like Circle In the Square...DR MATTH. ;D
http://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/news/mar05/7mar05spelling.htm (http://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/news/mar05/7mar05spelling.htm)
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I remember a commercial for Zest soap where they showed a person in a shower (from the shoulders up only ;)) and the shower door was cloudy from shower build-up. They ran their finger down the shower door to show how gunky it was. Then another person in a shower with much less shower build-up said that they used Zest soap because there was "less schmutz" left on the door after taking a shower. Does anyone else remember this?? I specifically remember them using the phrase "less schmutz" (I'm guessing on the spelling) in the commercial. I think that it might have been when my family lived in Colorado from '73-'76 and I have no idea if it was a national, regional or local commercial. Would the word "schumutz" be used in a commercial today?? ::)
This is the closest I could come up with
3 entries found for Smuts.
smut ( P ) Pronunciation Key (smt)
n.
A particle of dirt.
A smudge made by soot, smoke, or dirt.
Obscenity in speech or writing.
Pornography.
Any of various plant diseases, especially of cereal grasses, caused by parasitic fungi of the order Ustilaginales that form black powdery masses of spores on the affected parts.
A fungus causing such a disease.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=Smuts
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Can one of you NYCers (or anyone else who knows) tell me which Broadway theater SPELLING BEE is going into when it transfers from Off-Broadway?
I just received this in my "inbox"
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That didn't work, let me try and forward you the email it has discount coupons
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Looks like Circle In the Square...DR MATTH. ;D
http://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/news/mar05/7mar05spelling.htm (http://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/news/mar05/7mar05spelling.htm)
Thanks, DR JRand. I remember now that Circle in the Square IS the theater it's going into. I remember reading an article somewhere that said they're hoping they'll get spillover from WICKED patrons who don't get cancellations.
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That figures. I'm now planning to be in NYC the first weekend of August, so those prices won't apply. Drat!
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That didn't work, let me try and forward you the email it has discount coupons
Thanks. I'll keep my eyes open for additional discounts for a bit later. Last summer, I got my friend a great deal on CAROLINE OR CHANGE.
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"Winston tastes good like a [clap] [clap} cigarette should!!"
No, DR Vixmom:
"Winston tastes good AS a [clap][clap] cigarette should."
(Or were those only the print ads after all the grammatical hullabaloo?)
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Sorry about your friend, DR Rodzinski.
Congrats on the new job, DR Kerry.
Hope all went well today -- in other words, continued health vibes -- DR Elmore.
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Well then of course I got a solo line at the end and added my own couplet:
Plenty of room to swing a rope.
Plenty of sex and plenty of dope!
And then did you get into a production of BRIGADOON and sing:
"Jeannie's shacking up! Jeannie's putting out!"
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Thanks, DR JRand. I remember now that Circle in the Square IS the theater it's going into. I remember reading an article somewhere that said they're hoping they'll get spillover from WICKED patrons who don't get cancellations.
Hmmm.. The advance is already pretty good. I don't think that it will had to "depend" on any spillover. I tried to get a ticket to the show when I was up in NYC, and had no luck. And I know a few of cast and creative team.
I really hope the show continues it's take off.
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Back from my lovely lunch with dear reader Pogue, and from picking up my auction items. The Great Race painting is really quite nice, although its matte (which says The Great Race) will have to be cleaned up, and a new and better frame will have to be chosen.
I haven't looked at the Benny stuff carefully, but some of it looks really fun. I read the beginning of what is a very randy poem to Giselle McKenzie - probably not printable on a family site.
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Thanks. I'll keep my eyes open for additional discounts for a bit later. Last summer, I got my friend a great deal on CAROLINE OR CHANGE.
Well, August is traditionally a very slow time for shows, so I'm sure more discount offers will be popping as it gets closer to your visit.
Of course, August will be post-Tonys so anything could happen.
;)
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And then did you get into a production of BRIGADOON and sing:
"Jeannie's shacking up! Jeannie's putting out!"
And when I did BRIGABOONDOON in high school, during The Chase, if you listened very carefully, you would have heard (at select matinees)...
"Harry Beats ____"
;D
And then there was the time when we did MY FAIR LADY, and the painting crew had "hidden" words in the spines of the books they had painted onto the library backdrop. One letter per spine. After the first run-through, they were asked to repaint the books. I guess they were not that "hidden".
Ah, those good ole Catholic School Days!
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No we didn't do that to BRIGADOON - DRS JOSE & KERRY, but only because we didn't think of it.
DRJOSE - from the TV commercials I am seeing for MAMMA MIA! it seems that at the end everyone in the audience is standing up and singing all the songs. Is that right? Does the cast want us to join in? What is the deal with this audience participation stuff? Do we HAVE to do it? I don't know what to do.
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A randy poem to Gisele? Of course it must be reproduced here! Written by Mr. Jack Benny? Did he send it? LOL
Enquiring minds want to know! You can always use ... and ---
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No we didn't do that to BRIGADOON - DRS JOSE & KERRY, but only because we didn't think of it.
DRJOSE - from the TV commercials I am seeing for MAMMA MIA! it seems that at the end everyone in the audience is standing up and singing all the songs. Is that right? Does the cast want us to join in? What is the deal with this audience participation stuff? Do we HAVE to do it? I don't know what to do.
Let's just say that if you want to dust off that spandex jump suit and white shoes and gold chains, now would be a good time to do so!
Fun, Fun, Fun!
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LOL....hear that DR'S GINNY and JOEY?
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In fact, in come cities, they will run a promotion where if you come in "costume" you get some sort of goody-bag (restaurant coupons, MAMMA MIA! merchandise, etc.). I don't think they're doing that here at Clowes.
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...Everyone gets a chance to be a "Dancing Queen" at Mamma Mia!
;D
-Which is another reason why a good A/C system is a must!
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Something to keep in mind for the "Women of HHW Day Out in NYC" this October. From today's NY Times' Dining & Wine section.
Midtown Pacifier: Tea and Scones
Sheltered from the bustle of Midtown on the mezzanine of the City Club Hotel, 55 West 44th Street, is a quiet escape: a complete tea service. Tracy Stern, who runs what she calls Salon Tea as a concession, offers six themed tea blends. Among them, the Artist is a Ceylon tea, and the Society Hostess is a decaffeinated vanilla-scented China black. The Romantic, a green tea with jasmine, suited me fine. Ms. Stern serves them with a copious assortment of scones, tea sandwiches and pastries prepared by Daniel Boulud's DB Bistro Moderne in the hotel. Tea is offered from 3 to 5 p.m. on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. The price is $32, and the serving can be shared; an extra pot of tea is $8. Reservations: (212) 398-1323. Ms. Stern's teas are also sold at the hotel and at www.salonteas.com.
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From what I saw of the Benny poems...Jack had a very lewd mind and only one thing on it. The John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, of his day. BK, you did not show me The Great Race art...were you that hungry for lunch?
Speaking of cigarette ads, does anyone remember LSMFT and what it meant and what the dirty version of it was?
I loved when the hosts and TV stars did their own commercials, somehow it wasn't as intrusive a break into the programming...more like a gentle diversion...
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Speaking of commercials, did Cal Worthington finally die? I haven't seen him on local TV here for years. Of course, I watch very little local TV anymore.
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LOL....hear that DR'S GINNY and JOEY?
I'll have to raid my dad's closet on Saturday. ;) He still has several of his suits from the 70s and two or three frilly shirts.
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Well then of course I got a solo line at the end and added my own couplet:
Plenty of room to swing a rope.
Plenty of sex and plenty of dope!
Clearly a child of the sixties!
I'm only here for a moment; I'm off to dinner with Russell Warner and my friend Betty from the Library of Congress MusicDivision. Mexican food and yummilicious margaritas!
I had a foot x-rayed this morning to discern the problem in the ball of my right foot and why I'm having pain standing on it. Monday, April 11, I see the new surgeon about the fissure. Oy!
I'll tell you the commercial from childhood I loathed: that rude twit Katy Winters who went about telling boyfriends, office workers, and strangers that their pits stank. Her little "Secret" was too coy for words. I hope she's dead.
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Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco. I believe there's a Mad magazine parody of that.
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Broad Ripple is a nice "village-y" part of town with a parking problem, but lots of little shops. The High School there is the theatre magnet.
Also Frances Farmer lived in an apartment on College Avenue for many years - andher decorating business was located at around 43rd and College after she left WFBM tv.
Actually I am rather miffed with IPS right now. One of my friends was just laid off. He was one of the choir teachers at Broad Ripple. He was one of the few who really worked hard for the kids and now he is going to have to find work somewhere else. It's sad because he is really very talented. They also had to lay off another 20 or so teachers which is going to be very tough for them as some of them are much older and married with kids in college.
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Can one of you film history scholars explain something to me: why was To Be Or Not To Be not a Paramount release? The two stars and the writer/director were all Paramount contract people, so I'm wondering how they all got releases to do a Korda/UA production, especially in the cases of Lombard and Lubitsch. And I could have sworn I saw TBONTB with a Paramount logo when I was a teenager, but maybe I'm imagining things.
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I will add good vibes for DR Elmore!
After the things I say to you, I'm surprised you didn't slug me!
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Oops, forgot to show you the art - it was right there by the table. I'll take a photo of it soon.
Just had a nice call from Miss Tammy Minoff, one of my book guinea pigs. She professed to love it, and, in fact, thinks it's her favorite out of all my tomes. Very nice to hear. I'll be discussing it with her at length tomorrow lunch.
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Cal Worthington has always been dead, I'm convinced of it.
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I will NOT dress in 1970's finery.....I will NOT!
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IPS is having some serious issues, DRJOEY, that is true.
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The actress in the Anacin "please, mother" commercial is Miss Allyn Ann McClerie who also played the singer/entertainer in CALAMITY JANE.
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Let's just say that if you want to dust off that spandex jump suit and white shoes and gold chains, now would be a good time to do so!
Our son would say, regarding his parents, "That's a visual I just didn't need to have!"
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I’m blurry eyed from trying to set up my new phone. I couldn’t find anything in the manual on retrieving my voice mail. A flashing light indicates I have voice mail but it turns out there isn’t a button to retrieve it. Now I’m going to try programming numbers into the phone. Somehow I will have to make that the first number to show up.
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But what are the "extra ingredients" in Anacin?
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I'm surprised there isn't a button. What kind of phone did you get. For example, on my phone there isn't a "specific" button that says voice mail. But there are three multi-function buttons above the dialing buttons. If you look on the screen you'll see the options - on my phone the middle option ON THE SCREEN says voice mail.
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I talk to my phone but it don't listen to me.
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I’m blurry eyed from trying to set up my new phone. I couldn’t find anything in the manual on retrieving my voice mail. A flashing light indicates I have voice mail but it turns out there isn’t a button to retrieve it. Now I’m going to try programming numbers into the phone. Somehow I will have to make that the first number to show up.
Is your voice mail stored in the phone set? (digital "tape", etc.) Or is it through your phone service/provider?
A lot of times manufacturers will put out one manual for a line of products that have similar features, but not all of them. There's usually a listing of model numbers in the front of the book. Usually...
The phone my parent's have has a bunch of buttons that are multi-functional depending upon what "mode" you're in. Additionally, some of those additional functions are labeled in a very light color... Even hard for me to read at times, and I'm used to reading little black dots and lines in dim light.
;)
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Linda Laurie didn't even have a coloured telephone. (Ambrose Part V). If you know that reference you should be with your carer.
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If you don't know Linda - Ruby Red Dress and Delta Dawn were her children.
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Click below to see a real neat web clock.
http://www.lares.dti.ne.jp/%7Eyugo/storage/monocrafts_ver3/03/index.html (http://www.lares.dti.ne.jp/%7Eyugo/storage/monocrafts_ver3/03/index.html)
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DR MS that makes me dizzy!
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Lucky Strikes Mean Fine Tobacco...Of course, the dirty version when we were in about 5th or 6th grade was Loose Straps Mean Floppy T*ts!
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I hadn't heard THAT alternate version DR CP.
BUT I do remember Miss Dorothy Collins busting through the Lucky Strike circle in a white blouse and declaring:
"So round, so firm, so fully packed!" ;D
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So Fully Packed - that's the title of my next novel.
CUMIN!
Well, I am now on my way to a little rehearsal with Mr. Kevin Spirtas. Keep the home fries burning until my returning.
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I always preferred Julie London - filter, flavour and flip top. You got a lot to like.
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But what are the "extra ingredients" in Anacin?
Anacin contains aspirin, buffering, and caffeine. :P
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Edie Adams did okay for Tiparillo cigars, too!
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When I was 3 years old I swallowed/ate a container full of Anacin...I can still remember the taste! Blech! But I don't remember going to the hospital to have my stomach pumped.
I have always preferred Ibuprofen of acetaminophen.
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Ugh!
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Michael Shayne that clock makes me dizzy.
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So happy to see TD back on line.
All the best health vibes to his parents.
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Of course most excellent health vibes to Mr, Larry Moore
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My new phone is a Vtech. The sound is excellent but the set up is very different from the Panasonic phones I’m use to. Jose it is all in black and white. I was thinking color might be nice, but not anymore. There is one base phone, base with a handset phone, and a second handset that sits in a cradle-no need for phone jacks. They even have an intercom system. I called Vtech and it doesn’t have a voice mail button so I will have to dial into our server. I complained and said they might at least mention that in the manual. The redial is a bit of a pain and the handsets take several motions to get to the redial. I do have trouble with my vision so the more I need to read options the more difficult it is for me.
Have I mentioned the sound quality is excellent? :D I think I need to call Romania tomorrow morning and check it out LONG distance. I just called Bryan and for once could understand what he was saying. It also helped he was home and not in a noisy location. Keith was heading out to mow the lawn and I had him take the phone out with him until Bryan complained he could hear the wind. Well, it is very windy here today.
I can now use the phone and my wireless!!
I really must program a few numbers, such as voicemail, and see how that works. Even though I did my Wed. morning hike I want to take a second one this evening. It is just too lovely out to stay indoors. This morning we had an incredible sunrise-nice, nice day.
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Oh no, I think I need to program the base and each handset individually-I hope not.
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Collector's Classic CD has all the Everly Brothers Warner Bros LP's on Cd this month. Great albums! We had INSTANT PARTY and BOTH SIDES OF AN EVENING. Loved to hear Phil and Don sing "Mention My Name in Sheboygan" and "My Grandfather's Clock" and "When I Grow Too Old to Dream" and "Love Is Where You Find It."
Warner Bros LP's had great stereo separation, Annette on VISTA had great stereo, and the Capital records (before that terrible stereo/mono compatible crap) had the BEST stereo sound. Loved to hear them on the BIG console in the living room!
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Collectors Choice also has Arch Hall, Jr. (on sale, even). How did I manage to get this old and never hear of this guy? :)
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Collectors Choice also has Arch Hall, Jr. (on sale, even). How did I manage to get this old and never hear of this guy? :)
You didn't go to the right Drive-ins, evidently!
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Oh no, I think I need to program the base and each handset individually-I hope not.
My sister and I bought our parents a two-handset cordless phone set and each "phonebook" has to be programmed separately into each phone, but once the system is set up at the base, the second handset just needed to be plugged into a power outlet and phone jack for it to work.
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Collectors Choice also has Arch Hall, Jr. (on sale, even). How did I manage to get this old and never hear of this guy? :)
Just lucky, I guess, DRJMK! :P
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Next week HGTV Househunters goes international!
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Classic musicals night on IDOL:
http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2005-04-05-idol-tuesday-recap_x.htm
And...? Is this fellow's take identical to your own? He states a bias against show music...! That negates his comments for me.
I thought Bo was terrific last night. Loved his "Corner of the Sky"...first time -- out of seeing several productions of it -- in which the song was sung by someone with a voice. Of course, I've seen rank amateur productions, except for that William Katt version that was out on video years ago. Even then....
I thought Anthony did a wonderful reading of a song he should never have picked. I cringed when I read what he would sing. I was amazed at how well he sang it. I was not surprised at the nonsensical reception Simon gave it.
He was every bit as good on that song as Carrie was on her poor choice of "Hello Young Lovers." Of course, Randy and Simon calling the song "boring" was a bit much...and says VOLUMES about their breadth of musical appreciation (i.e., none). I think the songs are overly familiar and NOT fodder for "pop music" competition. But then, someone DID make it a theme night.
I cannot imagine anyone having Nikko as a favorite...but Randy thinks he's the greatest, as does the writer of that USAToday piece. He has no voice. He is flash, and "styling" and a whole lot of heart and "wannabe"...but he doesn't have the vocal skills to back it all up. He'd be a great lipsync act.
Constantine and Nadia and Vonzell were very pleasing, I thought.
Anwar....oof. I kept waiting for him to hit just one note that was actually part of the song and hold it for more than three seconds...but it wasn't to be.
Scott sucked.
The 3 Stooges were absolutely the worst thing about the entire evening. They spoiled the fun of the whole evening. And not one single time did any one of them say anything that was complimentary, constructive, instructive or valuable in any sense of the word. They are useless.
:)
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Time to get ready to head in for Performance #2 in Indianapolis...
Laters...
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When I was 3 years old I swallowed/ate a container full of Anacin...I can still remember the taste! Blech! But I don't remember going to the hospital to have my stomach pumped.
So that explains why you are so strange! ;)
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But what are the "extra ingredients" in Anacin?
Cocaine, laudanum, opiates, and benzedrine.
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So that explains why you are so strange! ;)
DR Joey, DRMichaelBarnum is not strange. He's very special.
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Special-LOL-very true.
George are you saying you can't program the second handset? I set up most of my numbers on the base-it really wasn't that big of a deal once I got the hang of it.
Now I'm really going to take a walk. When I return I will attempt to program the 1st handset.
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George are you saying you can't program the second handset? I set up most of my numbers on the base-it really wasn't that big of a deal once I got the hang of it.
Now I'm really going to take a walk. When I return I will attempt to program the 1st handset.
No, the second handset can be programmed (the phone book/speed dial part), but it's a separate phone book/speed dial list. EACH handset must have phone numbers stored into them individually and ne'er the twain shall meet. Other than that, the second handset is basically plug-and-play. The outgoing message has to be recorded from, and the options (number of rings before it goes to the message), the volume of the rings, etc., all are all set in the main handset.
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DR Joey, DRMichaelBarnum is not strange. He's very special.
I stand corrected. I like special better anyway... ;D
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Only 8:00 here and already on page 8. I wonder how many posts we'll get tonight.
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George that sounds about the same, just that we don't have an answering machine. I now have voice mail programmed on my speed dial list.
I had a lovely walk, now I have dishes to wash.
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Very weird happenings on IDOL tonight!
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I'm back. Very frustrating trying to get home this evening. After rehearsal, I went to Amoeba to trade in some stuff (got great credit and got some new DVDs and some grand new Collector's CDs - they are now doing for Andre Kostelanetz what they did for Percy Faith. Some great albums in the first wave - two albums on one CD.
In any case, a little after seven I got in my motor car. You could see the traffic going towards the freeway on Cahuenga was backed up and entire block south of Sunset. So, I detoured over to Vine. Vine was backed up to Hollywood Blvd. so I jogged back to Cahuenga, which was the same. It was insane all the way to the freeway - once you got on there was no traffic at all. There were no accidents on Cahuenga, and, having taken this route many times at this hour I am at a loss as to what stupidity caused the jam up of every street leading to the freeway in Hollywood. It was worse than Hollywood Bowl traffic. Hideous.
I'm now going to eat some licorice. I had a favorite commercial that always made me laugh because of its inanity, but I can't remember the product, only the punch line. It was some young man looking at the mother of his girlfriend or something, and saying, "Oh, Mrs. So-and-so, I thought you were Dale."
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Very weird happenings on IDOL tonight!
I'm so happy!
The worst singer was ousted. How much better could it get?
MUCH better because it was a slap in the face of Randy and Paula whose tastes are not in tune with the rest of the country, apparently.
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DR Joey, DRMichaelBarnum is not strange. He's very special.
I've always thought him unique and special.
He's definitely not mainstream, and that's a very interesting thing.
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I rushed off to shower and wash my hair. Rushing was a very bad idea, especially once I had removed my glasses. I am now sitting with with a bag of frozen peas on my little toe. I hope I didn't break it my toe.
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What's with the really, truly offpitch singing in some of these tv commercials? I've heard two today, one for Target, which features lax, underpitch godawful sounds, and another for an internet carrier in which a lady at her computer sings "I waited and waited and waited/And you were never there for me." I can't figure if she's supposed to be a parody of a bad cabaret singer or if she really sucks. Couldn't they have dubbed someone better?
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Special???
Ya, well...I get that a lot. LOL!
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OH, my...vibes for the little toe, Jane!
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Can one of you film history scholars explain something to me: why was To Be Or Not To Be not a Paramount release? The two stars and the writer/director were all Paramount contract people, so I'm wondering how they all got releases to do a Korda/UA production, especially in the cases of Lombard and Lubitsch. And I could have sworn I saw TBONTB with a Paramount logo when I was a teenager, but maybe I'm imagining things.
Exactly how old are you, Vera? The truth.
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And when I did BRIGABOONDOON in high school, during The Chase, if you listened very carefully, you would have heard (at select matinees)...
"Harry Beats ____"
Who did Harry beat, Jose?
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I'm not saying a word.
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Click below to see a real neat web clock.
http://www.lares.dti.ne.jp/%7Eyugo/storage/monocrafts_ver3/03/index.html (http://www.lares.dti.ne.jp/%7Eyugo/storage/monocrafts_ver3/03/index.html)
I must learn to read more carefully.
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I thought you were Dale. No one remembers? DVDs (all region 2) I got tonight are: An Inspector Calls with Alastair Sim (can't wait to see it), a Chris Marker double bill of his masterpiece, La Jetee (a brilliant twenty-nine minute film - one of the greats) and Sans Soleil (which I've never seen), and I Live in Fear, a Kurosawa film from 1955, which I've never seen and which sounds great.
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CUMIN!
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MBarnum thanks. I think the ice might be working.
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A surprise evictee on AMERICAN IDOL tonight! Boy, did I not see that one coming. I'm pleased, you understand, just also surprised about it.
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And ALIAS has one BIG, BIG shock at the end of its episode tonight. Wow!
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LOST had one of its most touching episodes and new life was welcomed on the show and one life was taken away. So glad we're going to have another season of this marvelous program.
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Cocaine, laudanum, opiates, and benzedrine.
And can we still get it?
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LOST had one of its most touching episodes and new life was welcomed on the show and one life was taken away. So glad we're going to have another season of this marvelous program.
I really hope I can catch up with this show this summer!
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I rushed off to shower and wash my hair. Rushing was a very bad idea, especially once I had removed my glasses. I am now sitting with with a bag of frozen peas on my little toe. I hope I didn't break it my toe.
:o Don't you hate it when that happens?? :-[
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Sweet honey in the horn! I am back. Jane, your poor toe! Nothing smarts as much, and when I stub my toe, I never fail to stub it again within the next two days. So hopefully, you don't have that problem.
Official Job Interview Vibe request. Tomorrow at noon, est, I will carry these vibes with me in a briefcase. Perhaps I will even use them as references.
"Oh, you want references?" I shall ask. "Look at all these HHW vibes!"
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George- Funny how we both mentioned PDQ Bach's Oratorio: The Seasonings. I probably don't think of cumin without thinkin of that. Good to know there's another fan on the board.
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Why are there so many knives for sale on the top of this page, by the way? Do ads pop up based on the name of the TOD?
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George- Funny how we both mentioned PDQ Bach's Oratorio: The Seasonings. I probably don't think of cumin without thinkin of that. Good to know there's another fan on the board.
Just as long as you don't think about PDQ Bach when you are ..........
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And who (without the help of IMDb) can name the movie score Peter Schickele did?
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I know it! SILENT RUNNING.
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Speaking of unusual things in briefcases, does anyone remember the short-lived Herschel Bernardi (and Sue Ane Langdon--oy, how do I remember these things?) sitcom, Arnie, where the blue-collar worker got promoted to management. The pilot episode had Arnie putting a brick in his briefcase so that it would like it had something in it.
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Unless he did another. That was a good movie with those two li'l robots who became his only pals.
TCB- Well done!
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Excellent vibes and xylophones for Rodzinski.
Watching The Dancing Millionairess from Hong Kong. It's quite insane. The first musical number occurs sixty-one minutes in, but it's eight minutes long. The second number (these are really dance numbers, not songs) occurs about ninety minutes in and has been going on for about twelve minutes with no end in sight. The first actual song has just begun.
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I know it! SILENT RUNNING.
I'd send you a sparkling prize, but I'm still waiting for mine from the last HHW trivia contest I won. ;D
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Good Evening!
Great second night in Indy. I actually felt very comfortable tonight. I was even able to have a little fun tonight while playing the show. (Said "fun" will go undescribed - I can't reveal all my secrets. ;) )
-Don't go there, DR TCB... Ah, well... Too late...
;D
Another great audience! There were a group of women in the front row who had all bought some Mamma Mia! t-shirts at intermission and changed into them for the second half of the show! They were a hoot! If this keeps up, DRs Ginny, JRand and Joey will have a hard act to follow!
:)
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I don't remember that show. But I do remember when I got to New York years ago, I thought I should lug a briefcase around to job interviews. Then I noticed nobody else seemed to have them. The briefcase seems to have gone the way of the typewriter.
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Oh, and I stopped at Walgreen's on the way back to pick up some water... and some candy... and some ice cream... -Those Edy's Pints are just soooo cute!
;)
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Good Evening!
Great second night in Indy. I actually felt very comfortable tonight. I was even able to have a little fun tonight while playing the show. (Said "fun" will go undescribed - I can't reveal all my secrets. ;) )
-Don't go there, DR TCB... Ah, well... Too late...
:)
Jose? Me? I'm shocked! Flattered, but shocked!
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"Last Edit: Today at 09:45:51pm by TCB"
Oh, to have seen what he wrote before he edited it!!
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Or not. Sometimes imagination can be more fun.
Hello TCB
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"Last Edit: Today at 09:45:51pm by TCB"
Oh, to have seen what he wrote before he edited it!!
Maybe, when you are older.
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Why look, it is the three Tom's!!!
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I wonder what the longest continuous musical number is in US musical film history. What are good guesses?
"Bye Bye Life" from ALL THAT JAZZ?
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Do you get free steak knifes when you have the set? (Of Toms).
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Good evening, Mr. ovoz.
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Page 9 is being Tominated!
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At 2.59pm it's not looking much of an evening here.
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We're Toms Terrific - greatest heroes ever
Terrific is the name for us
'cause we're so clever
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Here in the US, "evening" begins after 2pm during Daylight Saving Time.
You buying that at all?
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I'm a day or two late with my TOTD. Cartoon favourites.
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Here in the US, "evening" begins after 2pm during Daylight Saving Time.
You buying that at all?
Is there a bridge that goes with that?
Or just fries?
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Hate to break up TomFest 2005, but it is past my bedtime.
Good night to those in this hemisphere, and good day to all others (you know who you are).
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Page 9 is being Tominated!
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And can we still get it?
No MBARNUM took them all...and all at once! :o
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I know it! SILENT RUNNING.
Really?? My sister and I watched that when we were kids and hadn't seen it since. A couple of years ago, I bought the DVD. Well...it didn't age well. I couldn't even finish it. ::)
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Interview V IB E S for DRRODZINSKI
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Ah yes, MR BK - concerning your commercial.... I think it was one of those ads for a dishwashing liquid, and the women stuck their hands through a curtain....and indeed the teenage boy thought the mother's hands belonged to his teen-aged sweetheart DALE!!!
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Well....DRJOSE - hmmmmmmmm....of course we won't be in the front row - but hmmmmmmmmmm.....
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I do not know how I could have forgotten my favorite television commercial of ALL time! It was only on once during Your Saturday Night Varieties!
Some woman in a checked dress was advertising Vitameatavegamin!
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DR JRand - Three words for you:
White
Go-Go
Boots
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LOL DRJOSE - where would I wear them? On my hands?
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Well I solved the BK commercial mystery and he didn't even comment.
*SIGH*
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Well I have to get ready for Sunday....as you get older, it takes a few days more.
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Was it really dish soap? I thought he actually saw the woman from afar and said it.
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I am starting to get pretty excited for Sunday afternoon. A friend of mine who I didn't even know was into musicals is going to the Saturday evening show. He has seen it before and enjoyed it quite a bit. I am going to tell him to listen for your "mad keyboard skills" Jose. I don't think I've used that phrase in a long time. :P
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I am starting to get pretty excited for Sunday afternoon. A friend of mine who I didn't even know was into musicals is going to the Saturday evening show. He has seen it before and enjoyed it quite a bit. I am going to tell him to listen for your "mad keyboard skills" Jose. I don't think I've used that phrase in a long time. :P
Well, just tell him anytime he hears some very difficult keyboard run played effortlessly and accurately that that is ME!
;D
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CUMIN!
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Only twelve more posts to my new plateau. And we're also on our way to a new site plateau as well.
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I should head to bed as I need to be up at 7 tomorrow. Wussburgering off to bed I go!