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Title: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: bk on August 02, 2010, 12:13:19 AM
Well, you've read the notes, the notes buckled down, and now it is time for you to post until the buckled down cows come home.
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Post by: bk on August 02, 2010, 12:14:27 AM
And the word of the day is: YOB!
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Post by: Ben on August 02, 2010, 02:26:16 AM
Morning all.

That is all.
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Post by: Michael on August 02, 2010, 04:24:33 AM
TOD

Some off beat shows that come to mind

Snoop Sisters
Police Surgeon (Canadian series with mostly American actors)
Forever Knight (First TV detective series with a vampire as its lead)

Regular

Columbo (first few seasons. The Columbo schtick grew tiresome after that)
Emergency/Chips/Adam 12 (Again first few season of each after all how many fires, highway chases and petty robberies can one make exciting/)

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Post by: Ginny on August 02, 2010, 05:12:26 AM
Monday morning greetings!  Richard is getting ready to go to the dentist for a crown-prep appointment and he's not really looking forward to it.  My mom has an eye appointment this afternoon and is not going to like what the doctor has to say, I'm sure.
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Post by: Ginny on August 02, 2010, 05:13:12 AM
Oh, and I must BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI and write an article for the Middfest magazine.
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Post by: Druxy on August 02, 2010, 05:26:23 AM
TOD:

NYPD BLUE
THE SHIELD
THE WI
RE
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Post by: elmore3003 on August 02, 2010, 05:32:53 AM
Good morning, all! Thank you all for the vibes. The depression continues. I need a good cry, but that's not happening. I went to bed around 9:30 and got up around 7:45 this morning, although I truthfully could have stayed there all day. My last dream was a peculiar one about college or a camp, I can't recall now, but I vaguely remember broken plumbng and laundry.

I've got several errands to take care of this morning: the bank to order new checks, Toyland to drop off some scores, and the market. I have no idea what time Alex Rybeck will be back in town, and I would like to get this score from him ASAP.  I need the Indianapolis check to send all of these cartons littering my apartment to the Miami University Library.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dental Vibes to Richard and Vibes to DR cillaliz and all needing them today! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Post by: Kerry on August 02, 2010, 05:41:02 AM
Health and comfort to ALL!
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Post by: ArnoldMBrockman on August 02, 2010, 05:56:00 AM
And the word of the day is: YOB!

And The Song Of The Day Is:   BAD BOYS
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: Jennifer on August 02, 2010, 06:38:42 AM
DR Cillaliz, if I were you I would totally talk to Edith.  She seems like she is not just an employee but also a friend.

I would tell her that you are starting to feel better and how upset you had been about being sick for so long.

But I would probably also ask her about those personal items and say that you noticed they were gone and that you were worried. And let it go on from there.

I hate when people know something is wrong but just pretend. I bet she'd appreciate your honesty and that you care.
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Post by: Jennifer on August 02, 2010, 06:42:40 AM
It was realy nice here yesterday. I spent the day at the park. It was Family Fun Day, where they had all kinds of activities for kids including 6 or 7 bouncy inflatables.

But we had 3 small incidents.  My sister's best friend was there with her 2 kids (2 and 4).  I was standing with megan (my niece) and the 4 year old and the mom.  She took the 2 year old out of her carriage. And then we were all standing there. But the little one was all of a sudden gone.  She took off and we hadn't seen it (which was weird because we were standing right there).

The mom found her 30 seconds later. She had run to the end of the bouncy we were waiting in line for. But it was scary, especially since there were hundreds/thousands of people there.

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Post by: Jennifer on August 02, 2010, 06:44:41 AM
Then my niece and the other 2 kids were on a jumpy bouncy. Normally I would either run alongside following my niece. Or wait at the exit.  But this was a bouncy where you just bounced where ever you wanted.

I guess I should have been at the exit. But me and the other mom and dad) were on the other side but we could see all 3 kids. Well all of a sudden i look and see my niece at the exit coming out (but i am on the other side). Now i knew she saw me around back (which is where she was heading). So i ran around to get her and told her she can't just run off.
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Post by: Jennifer on August 02, 2010, 06:47:38 AM
Then third scary moment was i was holding my niece's hand. And her friend was holding my niece's other hand.

Then all of a sudden without saying anything the other little girl just runs off going to the direction where she remembered her parents being.

And luckily i noticed that she had let go of my niece. And here i am screaming at her to stop, while we chase her down. I couldn't believe she took off like that. She's 4 1/2 and there were so many people. I'm not even sure if she would have been able to find her parents in that crowd.

It's just crazy how you can be so conscientious. I don't let me niece out of my sight for even one second. And yet all these things can occur!
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Post by: Matthew on August 02, 2010, 07:02:28 AM
TOD - ChiPs, Hill Street Blues

That's all.
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Post by: FJL on August 02, 2010, 07:15:49 AM
Vibes to Larry
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Post by: Jrand73 on August 02, 2010, 07:17:35 AM
Congrats to DR ELMORE on his milestone.

Continued vibes to DR ELMORE and DR CILLA LIZ.
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: Jrand73 on August 02, 2010, 07:18:07 AM
Doctor visiting vibes for the family of DR GINNY.
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Post by: Jrand73 on August 02, 2010, 07:18:45 AM
3DDIFFUSION or whatever stupid name you are lurking under now:

You are a boil on the behind of humanity.
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Post by: Jrand73 on August 02, 2010, 07:19:22 AM
TOD:

Adam-12
Peter Gunn
Southland
Bones
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Post by: Jrand73 on August 02, 2010, 07:19:59 AM
Barnaby Jones
Caribe
Ellery Queen with Jim Hutton
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: Ginny on August 02, 2010, 07:42:43 AM
Thanks for the vibes, DR JRand!

TOD -

Mannix
Cagney & Lacey
NCIS
Bones
The Closer
Law & Order: SVU
CSI: NY
Castle
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: Charles Pogue on August 02, 2010, 07:54:45 AM
TOD:  I remember fondly BURKE'S LAW...and a spate of Warner Bros. private eye sows like 77 SUNSET STRIP, HAWAIIAN EYE, SURFSIDE 6.  I was a devotee of HILL STREET BLUES.  I don't know if it would officially be considered a cop show, but there was no law enforcement show better than THE UNTOUCHABLES.
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: elmore3003 on August 02, 2010, 08:00:15 AM
Greetings from Toyland! I'll be here for a while before I can stop by Alex Rybeck's and pick up the score for Liz and Ann Callaway. I got my check order to the bank, but I think it's irritating that they cannot provide me with temporary checks until the order arrives.
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: JMK on August 02, 2010, 08:23:27 AM
And the word of the day is: YOB!

An acronym for the new rock musical about search engines:

YOUR OWN BING!
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: JMK on August 02, 2010, 08:24:19 AM
I believe I have posted previously about Si Zentner's groovy-doovy arrangement of the theme from BURKE'S LAW.  BURKE'S LAW is available on DVD.  I don't believe the third season, where he became a secret agent, is out yet, but I could be mistaken.
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: Jrand73 on August 02, 2010, 08:35:51 AM
I am still surprised that Miss Allison Hayes did not make an appearance on BURKE'S LAW.....since she was a semi-regular on BAT MASTERSON and starred with Mr Barry in a movie.
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Post by: Jrand73 on August 02, 2010, 08:36:20 AM
Si Zentner = Groovy
especially in partnership with The Johnny Mann Singers
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Post by: Jrand73 on August 02, 2010, 08:36:34 AM
Now working on LINES.
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Post by: Druxy on August 02, 2010, 08:43:00 AM
TOD:

How could I forget  LAW & ORDER?

Probably because it's also a lawyer show.
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: Jane on August 02, 2010, 08:43:25 AM
It was realy nice here yesterday. I spent the day at the park. It was Family Fun Day, where they had all kinds of activities for kids including 6 or 7 bouncy inflatables.

But we had 3 small incidents.  My sister's best friend was there with her 2 kids (2 and 4).  I was standing with megan (my niece) and the 4 year old and the mom.  She took the 2 year old out of her carriage. And then we were all standing there. But the little one was all of a sudden gone.  She took off and we hadn't seen it (which was weird because we were standing right there).

The mom found her 30 seconds later. She had run to the end of the bouncy we were waiting in line for. But it was scary, especially since there were hundreds/thousands of people there.



It is amazing how they can run off in the blink of an eye.  I'm glad you found her so quickly.
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: Jane on August 02, 2010, 08:45:31 AM
Quote
From Vixmom:
OR

maybe the janitorial staff has broken/thrown out her personal items and she thinks YOU took them!

Your first two comments mirrored my thoughts exactly.  This one made me laugh out loud., :)
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: MBarnum on August 02, 2010, 08:46:48 AM
I am still surprised that Miss Allison Hayes did not make an appearance on BURKE'S LAW.....since she was a semi-regular on BAT MASTERSON and starred with Mr Barry in a movie.

She probably asked not to work with him again!

And of course, when I talked with Mr. Barry, he had no recolection of her. Must have been watching himself in the monitor, rather then paying attention to his co-stars.
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Post by: MBarnum on August 02, 2010, 08:49:05 AM
TOD

Surfside 6

Highway Patrol (not a great show, but I love seeing who the guest stars are)

Castle

Adam-12

Dragnet

Southland

Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: Jane on August 02, 2010, 08:53:12 AM
DR Ginny I am very glad to read you are reconnecting with an old friend.  It was comforting to read your news shortly after receiving news I lost a friend last night.  My friend was a retired minister who was part of my hiking group.  He began slowing down at the age of 79, hiking until he was 81, after various bouts with cancers & pneumonia.  He was still hiking with the group before my accident & had stopped by the time I returned.  I didn't get to see him again. 

I will always remember the day I sat with his wife for the funeral of another dear hiker.  Doug was an assistant minister on that occasion & when the congregation went up for communion I also went up to be blessed by Doug.

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Post by: JMK on August 02, 2010, 08:53:31 AM
TOD

Surfside 6

Highway Patrol (not a great show, but I love seeing who the guest stars are)

Castle

Adam-12

Dragnet

Southland



When we moved to Seattle when I was a kid, it was the first time we had had access to what were then called "independent" television stations, i.e., ones not affiliated to one of the big three networks.  It was the first time I got to see a lot of old 50's television.  I remember watching HIGHWAY PATROL every afternoon when I got home from school.  The old gameshow THE MOVIE SHOW was also on that station.
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: Ginny on August 02, 2010, 09:13:32 AM
DR Jane - I'm so sorry to hear of the loss of your friend - {{{{{Hugs}}}}}
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Post by: Cillaliz on August 02, 2010, 09:19:45 AM
Things seem totally normal at the office today.   I'm not going to say anything right now. 

I don't know how long ago she tool the items home, so I'm not going to stir things up right now.  I'm beginning to think she took the stuff home on the day I really was upset and just hasn't brought them back.  I'm also wondering if she didn't look into working for the guy at the other end of the hallway when his secretary retired.  She was really shaking her head and grinning today when potential clients came to our office after meeting with him and were very unhappy with him.  We get a lot of that from his clients and potential clients. She knew exactly who applied there and saw who he hired.  Last week she told me about another firm she "would have" worked for if she hadn't started working for me.

Anyway, things are good today so I'm going to just let it go for now
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Post by: Cillaliz on August 02, 2010, 09:20:34 AM
DR Jane, Sorry about your friend
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Post by: Cillaliz on August 02, 2010, 09:20:52 AM
Ok, back to work.  We are supposed to get severe thunderstorms today, oh joy
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Post by: Jane on August 02, 2010, 09:23:18 AM
Things seem totally normal at the office today.   I'm not going to say anything right now. 

I don't know how long ago she tool the items home, so I'm not going to stir things up right now.  I'm beginning to think she took the stuff home on the day I really was upset and just hasn't brought them back.  I'm also wondering if she didn't look into working for the guy at the other end of the hallway when his secretary retired.  She was really shaking her head and grinning today when potential clients came to our office after meeting with him and were very unhappy with him.  We get a lot of that from his clients and potential clients. She knew exactly who applied there and saw who he hired.  Last week she told me about another firm she "would have" worked for if she hadn't started working for me.

Anyway, things are good today so I'm going to just let it go for now

:D
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: Jane on August 02, 2010, 09:23:39 AM
Thank you DRs Ginny & Cilla.
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Post by: Cillaliz on August 02, 2010, 09:24:14 AM
One last thing....a two person office is a little like a relationship.  Sometimes you confront and sometimes you let things work themselves out.  I'm going to let things go right now.  I think we're past the storm...whatever storm it was...
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Post by: Jane on August 02, 2010, 09:24:19 AM
I'm going to take Sherlock to the vet for a recheck.  We will park & walk before going into his appointment.  He likes that.
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Post by: bk on August 02, 2010, 09:54:20 AM
I'm up a little later than planned, so must get ready for the helper's arrival.
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: Dan (the Man) on August 02, 2010, 10:10:00 AM
And the word of the day is: YOB!

Yooooooob--
Can that yob xof tort!
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: Laura on August 02, 2010, 10:13:04 AM
This morning I went for a walk, and this is what I saw:
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4075/4853391539_3ffa77cc78.jpg)

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4118/4853390943_e4b60f6441.jpg)

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4099/4853388093_cc186361d7.jpg)

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Post by: Dan (the Man) on August 02, 2010, 10:17:09 AM
I apologize for being so E & T lately.  Hard to even get a chance to read posts let alone post myself.  Thankfully, I have only one more week to get through before my manager's return...
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: Dan (the Man) on August 02, 2010, 10:18:56 AM
In the meantime,

* * * * *  VIBES OF ALL KINDS TO ALL WHO NEED THEM  * * * * *

and Congrats to everyone who did something astounding!
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Post by: Dan (the Man) on August 02, 2010, 10:20:02 AM
DR Laura, that middle picture looks like it came right out of the middle of a Disney Wildlife Adventure!
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Post by: Laura on August 02, 2010, 10:31:22 AM
Thanks, Dan. I took it at the sewage ponds.
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Post by: elmore3003 on August 02, 2010, 11:23:14 AM
Thanks, Dan. I took it at the sewage ponds.

DR Laura, if you were dancing in the ballet CAKEWALK, you'd be the Queen of the Swamp Lilies! Great photos.

I have been to Alex Rybeck's and I have all the music I need. I guess I have no choice but to get to work.
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: Cillaliz on August 02, 2010, 12:15:29 PM
DR Laura, you really should your photos to a magazine - for money not for free. Audobon or National Geographic or something. You photos are better than some I've seen published.
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Post by: Cillaliz on August 02, 2010, 12:16:56 PM
Ok, so I said that I was going to get some pop-up post it notes for her special dispenser but didn't see it on her desk, so I didn't get them.  She said she took it home because her daughter is redoing her room and it looks good on the desk.   So, either that was a good cover story or I got suspicious over nothing. 
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Post by: Cillaliz on August 02, 2010, 12:17:21 PM
I choose the latter
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Post by: Cillaliz on August 02, 2010, 12:18:11 PM
The third is a great blue heron, right?   We have those around here.
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Post by: Cillaliz on August 02, 2010, 12:22:06 PM
Ok, back to work.   We are supposed to have bad storms today and tonight.  Wind and hail.  Glad my car is in the ramp. 
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Post by: DERBRUCER on August 02, 2010, 12:27:46 PM
Time to access the famous HHW knowledge base:

This as a "weed" growing in the vacant lot next door; who is it?

(http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b70/GEORDIEMC/Home/AUG20003.jpg)

(http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b70/GEORDIEMC/Home/AUG20002.jpg)

(http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b70/GEORDIEMC/Home/AUG20001.jpg)

der Brucer
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Post by: DERBRUCER on August 02, 2010, 12:34:51 PM
Speaking of cute:

(http://www.foxnews.com/static/managed/img/Scitech/Pygmy%20Marmoset-%20AP%20Photo-Froso%20Zoo_604x500.jpg)

der Brucer

Imagine changing those diapers
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Post by: Laura on August 02, 2010, 12:39:32 PM
Thanks, Cillaliz.

Great blue herons are everywhere in the US, I believe.
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Post by: George on August 02, 2010, 12:55:10 PM
And another millstone/milestone/plateau has been reached!

(http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff302/HHWgroup/Lauras6002nd.png)

On to the next six thousand and two!

;D
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Post by: Laura on August 02, 2010, 01:00:13 PM
Woohoo!
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Post by: DERBRUCER on August 02, 2010, 01:11:03 PM

It is amazing how they can run off in the blink of an eye.  I'm glad you found her so quickly.

Well, my young children never got lost!

I remember we were in Philadelphia in a crowd watching the Mummer's Parade, and quick as a flash my eldest (then about 5) disappeared in a flash.

My wife tries to insist that we start looking for him right away; no, said I, he will find a spot to watch the parade; when it is over we can look for him.

When the parade was over, we asked a Policeman to direct us to where "lost children" might be found.

We were directed to the basement of a local department store, and sure enough, there was Robert, not a care in the world, along with dozens of other kids, playing about.

When I asked him what happened, he calmly replied that he had found a better place to watch the parade and when it was over he just asked a policeman where to go.

Robert was never, lost; we were.

der Brucer

Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: George on August 02, 2010, 01:11:09 PM
DR Laura, you really should your photos to a magazine - for money not for free. Audobon or National Geographic or something. You photos are better than some I've seen published.

A woman that I work with has a flickr (http://www.flickr.com/) account (it's a website like Photobucket (http://photobucket.com/)) and she takes pictures and sells them as stock photos.  She's officially started her own business and some of her photos have already been used.
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: bk on August 02, 2010, 01:21:38 PM
What a crazy day so far.  We never had time to finish addressing, so that will be tomorrow and Wednesday - so the helper will have five days this week.  We went to storage where, shockingly, I found, or didn't find, piano/vocal charts on 2/3s of what we're doing.  That is a bit of a disaster.  I've pulled what we did have, and I called Harvey Schmidt to send me the music to his four songs.  We had NO music at all on LIB III - not one item, so I have to find those two or three songs - I guess it's time to call Michael Lavine.  Oy and vey.  And I worked out the big trade deal and I'll tell you what I am now the proud owner of, although I won't have it until Friday - but it's an amazing thing and something I've wanted for over thirty years and never ever thought I would own. 
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on August 02, 2010, 01:31:46 PM
  And I worked out the big trade deal and I'll tell you what I am now the proud owner of, although I won't have it until Friday - but it's an amazing thing and something I've wanted for over thirty years and never ever thought I would own. 



???  Yes-s-s-s-s-s-s???
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: Ron Pulliam on August 02, 2010, 01:33:03 PM
And another millstone/milestone/plateau has been reached!

(http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff302/HHWgroup/Lauras6002nd.png)

On to the next six thousand and two!

;D



6002...A Laura Odyssey!
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Post by: DERBRUCER on August 02, 2010, 01:38:14 PM
Well, this should be fun:


AUSIELLO FILES (http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2010/08/01/modern-family-books-nathan-lane/)

Quote
This just in from Press Tour: Nathan Lane is Modern Family-bound. The Tony winner will guest star in an early season 2 episode as Cam’s flamboyant friend Pepper, exec producer Steve Levitan confirms.]

der Brucer





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Post by: DERBRUCER on August 02, 2010, 01:40:00 PM
- but it's an amazing thing and something I've wanted for over thirty years and never ever thought I would own. 

An animatronic dancing dildo?

der Brucer
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Post by: George on August 02, 2010, 02:13:13 PM
File this under "I didn't know that he was still alive," but Conductor Mitch Miller dies at age 99 (http://www.comcast.net/articles/music/20100802/US.Obit.Miller/).

Wow...99 years old.
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: Ginny on August 02, 2010, 02:20:31 PM
Well, Richard survived his dental procedure and my mother survived her eye check-up.  The really frightening thing the eye guy told Mom is that she could get a driver's license with the results of today's vision test.  Not that she wants to, but it goes a long way toward explaining some of the crazy driving behavior you see on the roadways  :o
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: MBarnum on August 02, 2010, 02:22:30 PM
I worked out the big trade deal and I'll tell you what I am now the proud owner of, although I won't have it until Friday - but it's an amazing thing and something I've wanted for over thirty years and never ever thought I would own. 

Leslie Parrish?
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Post by: DERBRUCER on August 02, 2010, 02:42:09 PM
TOD:

NERO WOLFE
MURDER SHE WROTE
DIAGNOSIS MURDER

der Brucer
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: George on August 02, 2010, 02:48:42 PM
Topic of the Day:

I remember my sister and I watching "Adam 12" and reruns of "Dragnet," and enjoying them both.  Also:

Cagney & Lacey
Castle
CHiPS
Columbo
Emergency
Snoop Sisters
Southland
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: Jennifer on August 02, 2010, 02:54:31 PM
I don't watch a lot of cop or detective shows. But I do like: THE CLOSER, SAVING GRACE, WHITE COLLAR.
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: Cillaliz on August 02, 2010, 02:57:56 PM
Speaking of cute:

(http://www.foxnews.com/static/managed/img/Scitech/Pygmy%20Marmoset-%20AP%20Photo-Froso%20Zoo_604x500.jpg)

der Brucer

Imagine changing those diapers

Wouldn't be big enough mess to need diapers!
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: Cillaliz on August 02, 2010, 03:00:36 PM
Well, Richard survived his dental procedure and my mother survived her eye check-up.  The really frightening thing the eye guy told Mom is that she could get a driver's license with the results of today's vision test.  Not that she wants to, but it goes a long way toward explaining some of the crazy driving behavior you see on the roadways  :o

Just because you can see doesn't mean you can react.  They should have a reaction time test in addition to a vision test
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Post by: Ginny on August 02, 2010, 03:08:39 PM
DR Cillaliz - that's exactly the conversation Mom and I had on the way back to her place.  And you have to be able to hear...

Let me emphasize, my mother has no interest in getting a license, we were just talking about the absurdity of the concept.
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: DERBRUCER on August 02, 2010, 03:12:11 PM
Just because you can see doesn't mean you can react.  They should have a reaction time test in addition to a vision test

Well, I still see well enough (now that I have adjusted my driving habits to accommodate the loss of peripheral vision due to glaucoma - for which the driving test do not test ), but I confess that with increasing age I find my attention span weakening, and my attention to the road may wander.

der Brucer
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Post by: John G. on August 02, 2010, 03:17:03 PM
I'm back from the class reunion and, well, it was as you might suspect: I talked with the three or four folks that I talked with in high school, said hi to a few more and ignored the rest of the folks that either tormented me or didn't speak to me back then.
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Post by: John G. on August 02, 2010, 03:18:03 PM
TOD: Nero Wolfe
Ellery Queen
Columbo
Poirot
The early seasons of Midsomer Murders
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Post by: John G. on August 02, 2010, 03:18:28 PM
Vibes for DRs Elmore and Cilla Liz.
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Post by: John G. on August 02, 2010, 03:19:18 PM
And another millstone/milestone/plateau has been reached!

(http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff302/HHWgroup/Lauras6002nd.png)

On to the next six thousand and two!

;D

Congrats. But it's time for more postings. Especially of photos.
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Post by: John G. on August 02, 2010, 03:19:51 PM
File this under "I didn't know that he was still alive," but Conductor Mitch Miller dies at age 99 (http://www.comcast.net/articles/music/20100802/US.Obit.Miller/).

Wow...99 years old.
Thanks for the post. I thought he was still around, but I didn't know he was that old.
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Post by: DERBRUCER on August 02, 2010, 03:20:07 PM

Wouldn't be big enough mess to need diapers!

I take it you no longer spend many minutes every week ironing your white damask table linens.

der Brucer

And who here has ever owned a mangle?
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Post by: Laura on August 02, 2010, 03:20:58 PM
John, at the last one I went to, I looked at all those strangers and wondered who they all were. I only knew a very few.
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Post by: Laura on August 02, 2010, 03:22:08 PM
I posted kitten photos a couple days ago, John.
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Post by: Laura on August 02, 2010, 03:23:02 PM
What are those, DerBrucer? Lemurs?
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Post by: John G. on August 02, 2010, 03:25:34 PM
I posted kitten photos a couple days ago, John.
It will take a while to catch up.
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Post by: John G. on August 02, 2010, 03:30:29 PM
The weird thing with this 30th reunion was that it was largely conducted on Facebook. So, if you weren't on Facebook, you didn't know it was happening. They made up name tags for the 45 or so who has a reservation to the Saturday night dinner. That wasn't many out of the 230+ in the class. I didn't know my friends and I would be going until we that evening. We gate-crashed and had a few drinks.

Donna, who looks better now than she did in high school, received a lot of attention from guys who wouldn't give her the time of day back then. It was sweet to see her brush them all off.

I got called Sean a couple of times, which I guess is close, but no cigar.

Makes attending the 35th or the 40th seem doubtful from this perspective.
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Post by: George on August 02, 2010, 03:32:03 PM
I'm back from the class reunion and, well, it was as you might suspect: I talked with the three or four folks that I talked with in high school, said hi to a few more and ignored the rest of the folks that either tormented me or didn't speak to me back then.

I've never been to any of my high school reunions...and have no real desire to do so.  I just don't know those people anymore. :-\
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Post by: George on August 02, 2010, 03:35:29 PM
And on a lighter note (C-natural), Romantic Comedy (http://www.kritzerland.com/romantic.htm) has arrived! ;D
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Post by: George on August 02, 2010, 03:39:12 PM
What's interesting is that the DVD is available from Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/Romantic-Comedy-Dudley-Moore/dp/B00005R5GJ/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1280788359&sr=1-1), but not Netflix...but Amazon does have used copies as cheap as 85¢.
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Post by: bk on August 02, 2010, 03:48:51 PM
As those who've read Kritzer Time know, the second show I saw as a young teen at the Huntington Hartford Theater was the national tour of A Thurber Carnival - starring Imogene Coca, King Donavan, and Arthur Treacher.  That show and its humor had a profound effect on my life, all of which I detail in the book.

Ever since I began collecting things, I've had several first editions of Thurber's work and always marveled, especially, at his New Yorker cartoons, which are simply brilliant.  I finally got a signed Thurber first edition, Thurber Country, which is not only signed but also includes a small sketch of a Thurber dog - this was toward the end when he was practically blind.
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Post by: bk on August 02, 2010, 03:51:32 PM
When I began collecting illustration art in 1996 or so, one of the first things I asked the Illustration House gallery was if they had any original Thurber drawings.  They did - they had four really nice ones - none of them New Yorker cartoons, but still amusing and wonderfully drawn in the Thurber style.  The cheapest of those was $7,500, way out of my league.  That was fourteen years ago.  In the intervening years, some doodles by him have gone at auction, usually for a couple of thousand bucks.  The highest auction price, for what may or may not have been a published Thurber dog drawing went for $14,500.  In the last fourteen years, no Thurber New Yorker cartoons have been sold in any auctions. 
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Post by: bk on August 02, 2010, 03:55:53 PM
Last week, I was offered an original Thurber drawing by a book dealer I know back east.  I was ecstatic, but there was no way I could ever afford it.  Until we began talking about doing a trade.  It took a week to work it out - and today we finalized the deal and the original Thurber drawing will be on its way to me tomorrow and delivered on Wednesday.  Not only that - this particular Thurber drawing is not a doodle or unpublished - this is a 1938 cartoon published in the New Yorker - not only that, it's always been one of my all-time favorites of his and is a perfect specimen of the kind of thing he did so brilliantly for the New Yorker.  Not only that, its provenance is fun, too - this came from the estate of writer Peter DeVries.  To say I am over the moon would be a huge understatement.
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Post by: Laura on August 02, 2010, 03:57:12 PM
That's great, BK.
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Post by: TCB on August 02, 2010, 04:11:02 PM
Good morning, all! Thank you all for the vibes. The depression continues. I need a good cry, but that's not happening.


Elmore, did I tell you that MBarnum and I are moving in with you beginning September 1 thru the day after Christmas.  Every night another slumber party!


(There, did that help?)
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Post by: Thom on August 02, 2010, 04:15:36 PM
As those who've read Kritzer Time know, the second show I saw as a young teen at the Huntington Hartford Theater was the national tour of A Thurber Carnival

Very interesting. Just about 30 minutes ago I read that chapter in "Kritzer Time."  Congratulations to the new owner.
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Post by: DERBRUCER on August 02, 2010, 04:20:36 PM
What are those, DerBrucer? Lemurs?

They are baby pygmy marmosets.

der Brucer

NATURES MIDGETS (http://www.foxnews.com/slideshow/scitech/2010/07/30/natures-midgets-worlds-smallest-critters/#slide=1)



Pygmy Marmoset
The Pygmy Marmoset or Dwarf Monkey is one of the smallest primates and ties with the Slender Loris for smallest monkey. The Dwarf Monkey averages 14 to 16 cm in length (15 to 20 cm including its tail) and weighs 4.2 to 4.9 oz. Native to the rainforest canopies of Brazil, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, the Dwarf Monkey often snacks on gummy tree sap. 
Source: AP Photo/Froso Zoo
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Post by: TCB on August 02, 2010, 04:26:19 PM
Thanks, Dan. I took it at the sewage ponds.

DR Laura, if you were dancing in the ballet CAKEWALK, you'd be the Queen of the Swamp Lilies! Great photos.

I have been to Alex Rybeck's and I have all the music I need. I guess I have no choice but to get to work.


Alex Rybeck?  Isn't he the host of JEOPARDY?
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Post by: Cillaliz on August 02, 2010, 04:29:52 PM
As those who've read Kritzer Time know, the second show I saw as a young teen at the Huntington Hartford Theater was the national tour of A Thurber Carnival - starring Imogene Coca, King Donavan, and Arthur Treacher.  That show and its humor had a profound effect on my life, all of which I detail in the book.

Ever since I began collecting things, I've had several first editions of Thurber's work and always marveled, especially, at his New Yorker cartoons, which are simply brilliant.  I finally got a signed Thurber first edition, Thurber Country, which is not only signed but also includes a small sketch of a Thurber dog - this was toward the end when he was practically blind.

When I was in High School, the first interpretive reading I did for contest was "The Night The Bed Fell"
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Post by: Cillaliz on August 02, 2010, 04:31:59 PM
Last week, I was offered an original Thurber drawing by a book dealer I know back east.  I was ecstatic, but there was no way I could ever afford it.  Until we began talking about doing a trade.  It took a week to work it out - and today we finalized the deal and the original Thurber drawing will be on its way to me tomorrow and delivered on Wednesday.  Not only that - this particular Thurber drawing is not a doodle or unpublished - this is a 1938 cartoon published in the New Yorker - not only that, it's always been one of my all-time favorites of his and is a perfect specimen of the kind of thing he did so brilliantly for the New Yorker.  Not only that, its provenance is fun, too - this came from the estate of writer Peter DeVries.  To say I am over the moon would be a huge understatement.

CONGRATS!!! That's really cool. Glad it worked out
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Post by: bk on August 02, 2010, 04:32:20 PM
And here is the drawing, as published - this not only appeared in the New Yorker of 1938, but also in the compilation A Thurber Carnival and several other Thurber compendiums.

(http://i32.tinypic.com/23sbwhu.jpg)
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Post by: bk on August 02, 2010, 04:33:19 PM
And the original with the caption in Thurber's hand - not the greatest photo (sent by the dealer) but you'll get the idea.

(http://i32.tinypic.com/16m86wy.jpg)
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Post by: bk on August 02, 2010, 04:34:11 PM
That is so classic and is everything I love about Thurber - I'm so happy to have this.
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Post by: TCB on August 02, 2010, 04:34:17 PM
DR Laura, you really should your photos to a magazine - for money not for free. Audobon or National Geographic or something. You photos are better than some I've seen published.

Yes, Laura, you really have a gift.
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Post by: TCB on August 02, 2010, 04:35:37 PM
In the meantime,

* * * * *  VIBES OF ALL KINDS TO ALL WHO NEED THEM  * * * * *

and Congrats to everyone who did something astounding!

Oh!  Somebody told you that I tied my own shoelaces today.
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Post by: bk on August 02, 2010, 04:36:19 PM
Barry Pearl and I lunched at the Daily Grill (artichoke and the chopped salad), and then went to the Beverly Garland Hotel - that's where we want to do our shows and the lady made us an incredible deal if we book all four shows for the venue.  We'll now sit down at look at the dates we've chosen and figure out how each one would work and the kind of work it's going to take to make these succeed.  If we feel we can, then we'll book.  They need almost nothing down to hold the rooms.  I'm feeling good about this whole thing.
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Post by: Cillaliz on August 02, 2010, 04:36:43 PM
I have always enjoyed my class reunions.  We started them after 5 years and have always had a big turnout.  My 30th was last year.  I have more fun with the people I didn't hang out with during school than with the people who were my friends. Our class was around 200 or so, but we always include anyone who was ever in our class, even if they moved away before high school.   
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Post by: DERBRUCER on August 02, 2010, 04:42:50 PM
A Thurber Carnival - ...That show and its humor had a profound effect on my life, all of which I detail in the book.

So whre is the CD so I can retire my LP?

der Brucer
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Post by: TCB on August 02, 2010, 04:45:28 PM
File this under "I didn't know that he was still alive," but Conductor Mitch Miller dies at age 99 (http://www.comcast.net/articles/music/20100802/US.Obit.Miller/).

Wow...99 years old.


Yes, I was asked to sing at his funeral, but I refused to follow that damn bouncing ball.
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Post by: John G. on August 02, 2010, 04:49:55 PM
Last week, I was offered an original Thurber drawing by a book dealer I know back east.  I was ecstatic, but there was no way I could ever afford it.  Until we began talking about doing a trade.  It took a week to work it out - and today we finalized the deal and the original Thurber drawing will be on its way to me tomorrow and delivered on Wednesday.  Not only that - this particular Thurber drawing is not a doodle or unpublished - this is a 1938 cartoon published in the New Yorker - not only that, it's always been one of my all-time favorites of his and is a perfect specimen of the kind of thing he did so brilliantly for the New Yorker.  Not only that, its provenance is fun, too - this came from the estate of writer Peter DeVries.  To say I am over the moon would be a huge understatement.
Excellent news. Congrats.
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Post by: John G. on August 02, 2010, 04:50:25 PM
A Thurber Carnival - ...That show and its humor had a profound effect on my life, all of which I detail in the book.

So whre is the CD so I can retire my LP?

der Brucer
Exactly.
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Post by: George on August 02, 2010, 04:56:59 PM
A Thurber Carnival - ...That show and its humor had a profound effect on my life, all of which I detail in the book.

So whre is the CD so I can retire my LP?

der Brucer
Exactly.

Ditto!
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Post by: Cillaliz on August 02, 2010, 04:57:16 PM
How is Miss Callee today?  Miss Boo Ann and Miss Callie Sue are most curious....
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Post by: Matthew on August 02, 2010, 04:58:09 PM
And on a lighter note (C-natural), Romantic Comedy (http://www.kritzerland.com/romantic.htm) has arrived! ;D

Mine arrived on a D-Flat
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Post by: George on August 02, 2010, 05:00:03 PM
Last week, I was offered an original Thurber drawing by a book dealer I know back east.  I was ecstatic, but there was no way I could ever afford it.  Until we began talking about doing a trade.  It took a week to work it out - and today we finalized the deal and the original Thurber drawing will be on its way to me tomorrow and delivered on Wednesday.  Not only that - this particular Thurber drawing is not a doodle or unpublished - this is a 1938 cartoon published in the New Yorker - not only that, it's always been one of my all-time favorites of his and is a perfect specimen of the kind of thing he did so brilliantly for the New Yorker.  Not only that, its provenance is fun, too - this came from the estate of writer Peter DeVries.  To say I am over the moon would be a huge understatement.

That's pretty darned cool, BK!  Congrats!
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Post by: elmore3003 on August 02, 2010, 05:01:34 PM
Good morning, all! Thank you all for the vibes. The depression continues. I need a good cry, but that's not happening.


Elmore, did I tell you that MBarnum and I are moving in with you beginning September 1 thru the day after Christmas.  Every night another slumber party!


(There, did that help?)

The news doesn't reduce me to tears, but i'm checking Google for painless methods of suicide.
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Post by: TCB on August 02, 2010, 05:02:52 PM
Could one of our musical people please tell me what key Jill O'Hara is using for her version of PROMISES, PROMISES?
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Post by: TCB on August 02, 2010, 05:03:34 PM
PAGE FIVE!
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Post by: td on August 02, 2010, 05:04:31 PM
Wonderful news BK!
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Post by: elmore3003 on August 02, 2010, 05:04:49 PM
Actually, DR TCB, I think a short visit from you and Mikey would be a lovely diversion from my melancholia.
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Post by: TCB on August 02, 2010, 05:04:52 PM
Good morning, all! Thank you all for the vibes. The depression continues. I need a good cry, but that's not happening.


Elmore, did I tell you that MBarnum and I are moving in with you beginning September 1 thru the day after Christmas.  Every night another slumber party!


(There, did that help?)

The news doesn't reduce me to tears, but i'm checking Google for painless methods of suicide.


Well, I tried.
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Post by: TCB on August 02, 2010, 05:06:15 PM
Actually, DR TCB, I think a short visit from you and Mikey would be a lovely diversion from my melancholia.


And I would find it equally mood lifting.
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Post by: Cillaliz on August 02, 2010, 05:08:43 PM
I'm very excited that my nephews David and Andy and my grand niece Sophie will be visiting on Sunday.  They are going to the lake and I didn't want a repeat of last month, especially since I'm still on the mend and have a trial and a trip to get ready for, so I was thrilled to hear they want to stop on the way home to have breakfast/brunch on Sunday. I'm really looking forward to it
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Post by: TCB on August 02, 2010, 05:11:57 PM
The last time I purchased flatware, I must have bought myself settings for six, or something stupid like that.  Over the years I have lost a spoon here and a fork there.  So, I finally ordered myself a new set.  Well, this time I must have ordered settings for twenty (at least)!  I hope my beneficiaries like the pattern, because there is a whole slug of it.
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Post by: Jane on August 02, 2010, 05:17:07 PM
Ok, so I said that I was going to get some pop-up post it notes for her special dispenser but didn't see it on her desk, so I didn't get them. 

CLEVER! :)
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Post by: Jane on August 02, 2010, 05:19:26 PM
Thanks, Cillaliz.

Great blue herons are everywhere in the US, I believe.

We have them because of the lake near by.  Yesterday we saw a juvenile Osprey in a nest.  It was too far away to take a photo.  Wonderful photos Laura!

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Post by: Jane on August 02, 2010, 05:23:25 PM

It is amazing how they can run off in the blink of an eye.  I'm glad you found her so quickly.

Well, my young children never got lost!

Robert was never, lost; we were.



That was what my nephew said when my parents got lost at Disneyland.  ;D
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Post by: Jane on August 02, 2010, 05:24:56 PM
File this under "I didn't know that he was still alive," but Conductor Mitch Miller dies at age 99 (http://www.comcast.net/articles/music/20100802/US.Obit.Miller/).

Wow...99 years old.

Wow!  I had no idea he was still alive.
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Post by: Jane on August 02, 2010, 05:26:07 PM
DR Cillaliz - that's exactly the conversation Mom and I had on the way back to her place.  And you have to be able to hear...

Let me emphasize, my mother has no interest in getting a license, we were just talking about the absurdity of the concept.

;D     I'm sure you are grateful she has no interest in getting a license.
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Post by: Jane on August 02, 2010, 05:27:28 PM
I'm back from the class reunion and, well, it was as you might suspect: I talked with the three or four folks that I talked with in high school, said hi to a few more and ignored the rest of the folks that either tormented me or didn't speak to me back then.

Actually I expected the opposite which has been my experience at all but the ten year reunion.  My class has become extremely friendly.  I'm sorry it was not the same with your reunion.
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Post by: Jane on August 02, 2010, 05:29:16 PM
Last week, I was offered an original Thurber drawing by a book dealer I know back east.  I was ecstatic, but there was no way I could ever afford it.  Until we began talking about doing a trade.  It took a week to work it out - and today we finalized the deal and the original Thurber drawing will be on its way to me tomorrow and delivered on Wednesday.  Not only that - this particular Thurber drawing is not a doodle or unpublished - this is a 1938 cartoon published in the New Yorker - not only that, it's always been one of my all-time favorites of his and is a perfect specimen of the kind of thing he did so brilliantly for the New Yorker.  Not only that, its provenance is fun, too - this came from the estate of writer Peter DeVries.  To say I am over the moon would be a huge understatement.

Congratulations!!! :)
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Post by: TCB on August 02, 2010, 05:30:12 PM
Thanks, Cillaliz.

Great blue herons are everywhere in the US, I believe.

We have them because of the lake near by.  Yesterday we saw a juvenile Osprey in a nest.  It was too far away to take a photo.  Wonderful photos Laura!



Is a juvenile Osprey anything like a Hummer?
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Post by: Jane on August 02, 2010, 05:31:41 PM
I'm very excited that my nephews David and Andy and my grand niece Sophie will be visiting on Sunday.  They are going to the lake and I didn't want a repeat of last month, especially since I'm still on the mend and have a trial and a trip to get ready for, so I was thrilled to hear they want to stop on the way home to have breakfast/brunch on Sunday. I'm really looking forward to it

Wonderful news! :D
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Post by: bk on August 02, 2010, 05:46:07 PM
Just snoozed for about twenty minutes.  I completely forgot to pick up mail so I'm on my way over there now, after which I'll probably do a little jog.
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Post by: Jane on August 02, 2010, 06:03:01 PM
Look who lives in Ashland: http://www.dailytidings.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100802/LIFE/8020315

The bit about Ingrid Bergman is touching & sad.
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Post by: Ginny on August 02, 2010, 06:04:25 PM
BK - congratulations on your Thurber acquisition!  As a Thurber fan, you should visit Thurber House (http://www.thurberhouse.org) in Columbus, OH.  It was his family's home when he attended Ohio State University and is now a nonprofit center for writers and a museum of Thurber materials.
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Post by: vixmom on August 02, 2010, 06:05:41 PM
Hmmm _ I cannot seem to get the quote feature to work = Der Brucer that is a Rose of Sharon bush , which happens to be the National Flower of Korea - during the Japanese occupation of Korea, before WWII the Japanese cut downand burned all the Rose of Sharon bushes they could find - it was illegal for a Korean family to have one growing on theor property
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Post by: John G. on August 02, 2010, 06:06:29 PM
I'm back from the class reunion and, well, it was as you might suspect: I talked with the three or four folks that I talked with in high school, said hi to a few more and ignored the rest of the folks that either tormented me or didn't speak to me back then.

Actually I expected the opposite which has been my experience at all but the ten year reunion.  My class has become extremely friendly.  I'm sorry it was not the same with your reunion.
Thank you. I shouldn't have been surprised. And, in a way, I wasn't. I think once the kids have all left home and/or graduated from college, they might become different people. And I might become one, too. I did enjoy talking with one or two whom I didn't know and were quite interesting. And the spouses were awfully pleasant. I think they were probably just happy to see their old friends as I was in seeing mine, and the lines merely didn't interconnect too often.
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Post by: vixmom on August 02, 2010, 06:07:37 PM
This morning I went for a walk, and this is what I saw:
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4075/4853391539_3ffa77cc78.jpg)

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4118/4853390943_e4b60f6441.jpg)

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4099/4853388093_cc186361d7.jpg)



well the quote worked this time!!

Laura I must echo the thoughts of so many others here - you really should publish your photos - you are an amazing photographer!
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Post by: TCB on August 02, 2010, 06:08:09 PM
I had another piece of cake for dessert tonight.  I will be ordering my new ensemble from the Orson Welles Collection next month.
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Post by: KevinH on August 02, 2010, 06:09:31 PM
BK--Congratulations on your Thurber treasure!
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Post by: John G. on August 02, 2010, 06:10:00 PM
Hmmm _ I cannot seem to get the quote feature to work = Der Brucer that is a Rose of Sharon bush , which happens to be the National Flower of Korea - during the Japanese occupation of Korea, before WWII the Japanese cut downand burned all the Rose of Sharon bushes they could find - it was illegal for a Korean family to have one growing on theor property
\

So, is a Rose of Sharon a type of hibiscus or another name for hibiscus? Just yesterday, my sister called the plant in my parents' yard a Rose of Sharon and I had never heard that. I always heard hibiscus. Maybe it's because I used to live in Florida.
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Post by: vixmom on August 02, 2010, 06:10:53 PM
I worked out the big trade deal and I'll tell you what I am now the proud owner of, although I won't have it until Friday - but it's an amazing thing and something I've wanted for over thirty years and never ever thought I would own. 

Leslie Parrish?


 ;D :D

Mikey you mademelaugh so loud I scared Vixdad!!
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Post by: John G. on August 02, 2010, 06:11:39 PM
Has anybody heard the Michel Legrand score for "Marguerite"? I found a copy at a used CD shop and just started listening to it. The lyrics (from the "Les Miz" people) are often silly, but the music is really lush and likable. Can Legand write anything else?  
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Post by: Kerry on August 02, 2010, 06:18:23 PM
I worked out the big trade deal and I'll tell you what I am now the proud owner of, although I won't have it until Friday - but it's an amazing thing and something I've wanted for over thirty years and never ever thought I would own. 

Leslie Parrish?


LOL!!!!!!  :D
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: bk on August 02, 2010, 06:18:45 PM
Now, of course, deciding on which wall for the Thurber will be key.  It's a small piece, 8x10 plus whatever the frame is - but I want it prominently shown - so somewhere in the living room I think and maybe near the front door.  I'll see what Grant's expert eye thinks.  Now for a little jog after which a little Dragnet.
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: Jane on August 02, 2010, 06:20:57 PM
Hmmm _ I cannot seem to get the quote feature to work = Der Brucer that is a Rose of Sharon bush , which happens to be the National Flower of Korea - during the Japanese occupation of Korea, before WWII the Japanese cut downand burned all the Rose of Sharon bushes they could find - it was illegal for a Korean family to have one growing on theor property

I knew I should have known the name.
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: vixmom on August 02, 2010, 06:23:36 PM
((((Elmore))))
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: vixmom on August 02, 2010, 06:24:30 PM
((((Jane)))) I am sorry for your loss
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: vixmom on August 02, 2010, 06:25:18 PM
Dan (the Man) nice to see youback - I figured you were buried under your boss' work load!!
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: vixmom on August 02, 2010, 06:26:20 PM
Bk -WOW!
Congratulations- that is wonderful!


Now you will need to rearrange your walls all over again!!
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: vixmom on August 02, 2010, 06:27:35 PM
congratulations to Elmore & Laura on their plateaus
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: vixmom on August 02, 2010, 06:28:05 PM
Look who lives in Ashland: http://www.dailytidings.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100802/LIFE/8020315

The bit about Ingrid Bergman is touching & sad.

thnak you for this jane!
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: vixmom on August 02, 2010, 06:28:31 PM
I wonder why I could not quote derB
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: vixmom on August 02, 2010, 06:30:35 PM
The last time I purchased flatware, I must have bought myself settings for six, or something stupid like that.  Over the years I have lost a spoon here and a fork there.  So, I finally ordered myself a new set.  Well, this time I must have ordered settings for twenty (at least)!  I hope my beneficiaries like the pattern, because there is a whole slug of it.

I misread this - I thought you said that the pattern on your new flatware was a slug....

ewwww!
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: vixmom on August 02, 2010, 06:32:01 PM
Hmmm _ I cannot seem to get the quote feature to work = Der Brucer that is a Rose of Sharon bush , which happens to be the National Flower of Korea - during the Japanese occupation of Korea, before WWII the Japanese cut downand burned all the Rose of Sharon bushes they could find - it was illegal for a Korean family to have one growing on theor property
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So, is a Rose of Sharon a type of hibiscus or another name for hibiscus? Just yesterday, my sister called the plant in my parents' yard a Rose of Sharon and I had never heard that. I always heard hibiscus. Maybe it's because I used to live in Florida.

why yes, yes it is - I have only ever known it as a Rose of Sharon so I lloked it uop and you are correct sir!!
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: vixmom on August 02, 2010, 06:33:46 PM
Is it me or is the new show "The Good Guys" dreadful?
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: vixmom on August 02, 2010, 06:33:55 PM
I miss MattH
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Post by: vixmom on August 02, 2010, 06:38:05 PM
TOD

Columbo
Barney Miller
Hill Street Blues
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: Cillaliz on August 02, 2010, 06:39:45 PM
I miss MattH too
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: Ginny on August 02, 2010, 06:46:48 PM
I miss MattH

Don't we all, DR Vixmom, don't we all...
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: Jane on August 02, 2010, 06:55:46 PM
The last time I purchased flatware, I must have bought myself settings for six, or something stupid like that.  Over the years I have lost a spoon here and a fork there.  So, I finally ordered myself a new set.  Well, this time I must have ordered settings for twenty (at least)!  I hope my beneficiaries like the pattern, because there is a whole slug of it.

I misread this - I thought you said that the pattern on your new flatware was a slug....

ewwww!

;D
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: Jane on August 02, 2010, 06:56:03 PM
Thank you Vixmom.  How are you feeling?
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: Cillaliz on August 02, 2010, 06:57:03 PM
I'm going to go to a reception in Toronto where Jon Krakauer is the guest of honor.  I knew he wrote Into The Wild and the new book about Pat Tilman's friendly fire death, but I didn't realize he wrote Under the Banner of Heaven. That was really an interesting book.
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: Cillaliz on August 02, 2010, 06:57:59 PM
I may have read Up In the Air, too. I really need to pay more attention to the name of the author of the books I'm reading.  I hate to admit I often don't pay much attention to them
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: Laura on August 02, 2010, 07:00:43 PM
I miss all the nice folks who have left.
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: Laura on August 02, 2010, 07:00:53 PM
Thanks, Vixmom.
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: Sam on August 02, 2010, 07:00:57 PM
Howdy.  ;D
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: elmore3003 on August 02, 2010, 07:01:17 PM
Tonight's episode of THE CLOSER is less a comedy and more a farce. It's very funny and completely off the wall.
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: Sam on August 02, 2010, 07:01:59 PM
I can't get the podcast to work for bk interview
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: Cillaliz on August 02, 2010, 07:03:43 PM
I miss all the nice folks who have left.

Me Too!
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: Sam on August 02, 2010, 07:04:39 PM
i've given up
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: Sam on August 02, 2010, 07:05:48 PM
Vibes for Tuesday.   :)
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: Cillaliz on August 02, 2010, 07:08:37 PM
Vibes for Elmore ~~~~~~~
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: bk on August 02, 2010, 07:16:56 PM
Back from the jog.
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: vixmom on August 02, 2010, 07:31:40 PM
Thank you Vixmom.  How are you feeling?

 felt lousy this monring but I am feeling better now - I had chicken soup for lunch and fried chicken for dinner!
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: Cillaliz on August 02, 2010, 07:35:23 PM
VIBES FOR VIXMOM THE CHICKEN EATER~~~~~~~
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: George on August 02, 2010, 07:39:18 PM
I'm off to home, now.  I need to do a load of laundry (shirts, mostly) tonight, and also watch a bit of TV.

Until later!
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: vixmom on August 02, 2010, 07:40:22 PM
sorry Jane
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: vixmom on August 02, 2010, 07:41:06 PM
thanks Cilla
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: vixmom on August 02, 2010, 07:41:41 PM
I am glad that things seem to be back on an even keel with Edith, Cilla!
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: Cillaliz on August 02, 2010, 07:44:34 PM
Thanks Vixmom.  We were talking today about scheduling for the rest of the month and she brought up that she'll be coming to the jury trial and won't be in the office to do things, so I'm pretty confident all is well
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: vixmom on August 02, 2010, 07:49:31 PM
Thanks Vixmom.  We were talking today about scheduling for the rest of the month and she brought up that she'll be coming to the jury trial and won't be in the office to do things, so I'm pretty confident all is well

excellent news!
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: vixmom on August 02, 2010, 08:04:56 PM
iam etting very tired so night all!
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: Cillaliz on August 02, 2010, 08:07:14 PM
Night Vixmom...sleep well
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: Cillaliz on August 02, 2010, 08:20:24 PM
oy! Our relative humidity is 90% right now!  Now that's humid
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: bk on August 02, 2010, 08:21:49 PM
I think I need a Dragnet break.  Maybe I'll get a jump on addressing the last hundred boxes.  And since I've jogged I'm sort of hungry - I only had the small chopped salad and half an artichoke so I haven't really eaten that much.
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: Jennifer on August 02, 2010, 08:56:54 PM
BK, great that you got something you are so excited about!
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: Druxy on August 02, 2010, 10:24:55 PM
The DVDs of Seasons 1-3 of MAD MEN arrived to today.

I'd never watched the show, so I figured it was about time.

I watched the first three episodes this evening.

It is certainly well done, but the story is moving along a bit too slowly for my taste,  Hopefully, it will pick up soon.

My other problem with the show thus far is that none of the characters are really likable.  The actors are fine, but there is nobody in the show (at this point) that I really care about.

Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: DERBRUCER on August 02, 2010, 10:40:11 PM
Der Brucer that is a Rose of Sharon bush ,

Thank-you dear lady. Since it is growing wild in the woods, it would be a great candidate for my "I don't do yard work" yard. The Internet suggests that it's easy to transplant the little saplings that spring up near its base; I shall go on a sapling search tomorrow.

der Brucer
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: bk on August 02, 2010, 11:02:31 PM
The DVDs of Seasons 1-3 of MAD MEN arrived to today.

I'd never watched the show, so I figured it was about time.

I watched the first three episodes this evening.

It is certainly well done, but the story is moving along a bit too slowly for my taste,  Hopefully, it will pick up soon.

My other problem with the show thus far is that none of the characters are really likable.  The actors are fine, but there is nobody in the show (at this point) that I really care about.



That is what I said from the get-go - some people didn't want to hear it, though.  Especially the leading man and especially in those early episodes.  You'll ultimately get his history but by the time you do it doesn't really make him any more likable. 
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: bk on August 02, 2010, 11:03:09 PM
I ended up doing another half-mile jog over to Jerry's Deli - had a small turkey sandwich, and then did a brisk walk home.  Very nice all the way around.
Title: Re: BUCKLE DOWN, WINSOCKI
Post by: DERBRUCER on August 02, 2010, 11:40:06 PM
I ended up doing another half-mile jog over to Jerry's Deli - had a small turkey sandwich, and then did a brisk walk home.  Very nice all the way around.

So, now in the 21st Century, has The Wandering Jew become The Jogging Jew?

der Brucer