Over the past few nights GAME SHOW NETWORK has gotten out of its usual chronological rotation of WHAT'S MY LINE and has shown some episodes featuring Bobby Darin. I can only assume that this is because BEYOND THE SEA is opening.Makes sense to me. Around the time Catch Me If You Can was opening in theaters, they ran the To Tell the Truth episode (quoted in the film) where the real Frank Abagnale, Jr., appeared as a guest.
Orrrrrrrrrrrr...some rrrrare disease........
And I've also discovered that I need to read more children's literature.
he hasn't yet discovered what he likes to read.
If I have a personal glitch in this project, it's that I'm more attracted to books appropriate for a lad (or lass) three or five years older than the grandlad I'm supposed to be helping.
here is a website for those in need of cameltoe
http://www.camel-toe.net/cameltoecup.htm
Does anyone else use those daily tear-off-a-page calendars on their desks? Last year, there were so many TV show-based calendars to choose from. (The George Eads pics I've posted this year all came from the CSI calendar.)
This year, apart from I LOVE LUCY and THE SIMPSONS and JEOPARDY, I couldn't find any TV-show based daily calendars. I'll go out looking again tomorrow (since they're now at reduced prices).
1. Coffee (n.), the person upon whom one coughs.
2. Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have gained.
3. Abdicate (v.), to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
4. Esplanade (v.), to attempt an explanation while drunk.
5. Willy-nilly (adj.), impotent.
6. Negligent (adj.), describes a condition in which you absentmindedly answer the door in your nightgown.
7. Lymph (v.), to walk with a lisp.
8. Gargoyle (n.), olive-flavored mouthwash.
9. Flatulence (n.) emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a steamroller.
10. Balderdash (n.), a rapidly receding hairline.
11. Testicle (n.), a humorous question on an exam.
12. Rectitude (n.), the formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.
13. Pokemon (n), a Rastafarian proctologist.
14. Oyster (n.), a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.
15. Frisbeetarianism (n.), The belief that, when you die, your Soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.
16. Circumvent (n.), an opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men.
This year I have learned new meanings for many words:The above came to me advertized as the winners from a
Washington Post yearly contest in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words. I can find no Post link and the definition for "Frisbeetarianism" is a hoary Geroge Carlin reference. (Can you use "hoary" on a family friendly site?)
der Brucer
DR vixmom - your avatar pic has to be 100x150 in size - if you don't have a program that will do that....email the pic to me, and I will work on it for you.
Tolls here, tolls there.
It says they make good recipe card holders!
Re fleas and bk - Were you somewhere for dinner or a visit in the last few days where there is a dog or cat?
Also - I don't know from fleas - but is it possible some eggs of fleas or something else "hatched" in your home environment?
Does anyone else use those daily tear-off-a-page calendars on their desks? Last year, there were so many TV show-based calendars to choose from. (The George Eads pics I've posted this year all came from the CSI calendar.)
DR Jose - Most likely, Samuel French will NOT send extra copies of the p/c for the cast. They are the worst about their musicals. The sent me a defective 'cello book for "The Secret Garden" and when we called and asked for a replacement, they sent one but charged us for the shipping. The flute part for SG was not in the right order and the player had to copy the part and put it in the right order. You'd think they'd fix that because I'm sure people have complained. I spent an hour last night erasing the pencil marks in the "Zombie Prom" score so I can make a copy of it today. I don't understand that - they charge someone for not erasing and then they don't bother to erase the part. MTI is notorious for that, also. And yes, "Zombie Prom" is a go. It's a silly little thing, but should be fun. I read the script last night and did laugh at the end. It should be fun.
For Christmas, I gave my true love - a set of kitchen aide baking pans, 3 DVD's (The All Dog Christmas Carol, Hocus Pocus, and Bedknobs and Broomsticks) The Barefoot Contessa "Parties" cookbook, two stuffed animal schnauzers, and several silly things for the stocking. It was a great Christmas.
..Had a long conversation with a doctor who runs a "Wound Clinic" ..
Yes, the Jack Benny shows do hold up. I've been getting those cheap Critic's Choice discs of Benny TV shows, and they're always hilarious. But they aren't the ones I remember most fondly.
I'll go with Jose about AVENUE Q. (Although I learned from Jim Henson that puppets can make me laugh and cry--even at the same time).
In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth and populated the Earth with broccoli, cauliflower and spinach, green and yellow and red vegetables of all kinds, so Man and Woman would live long and healthy lives.
Then using God's great gifts, Satan created Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream and Krispy Creme Donuts. And Satan said, "You want chocolate with that?" And Man said, "Yes!" and Woman said, "and as long as you're at it, add some sprinkles." And they gained 10 pounds. And Satan smiled.
And God created the healthful yogurt that Woman might keep the figure that Man found so fair. And Satan brought forth white flour from the wheat, and sugar from the cane and combined them. And Woman went from size 6 to size 14.
So God said, "Try my fresh green salad." And Satan presented Thousand-Island Dressing, buttery croutons and garlic toast on the side. And Man and Woman unfastened their belts following the repast.
God then said, "I have sent you heart healthy vegetables and olive oil in which to cook them." And Satan brought forth deep fried fish and chicken-fried steak so big it needed its own platter. And Man gained more weight and his cholesterol went through the roof.
God then created a light, fluffy white cake, named it "Angel Food Cake," and said, "It is good." Satan then created chocolate cake and named it "Devil's Food."
God then brought forth running shoes so that His children might lose those extra pounds. And Satan gave cable TV with a remote control so Man would not have to toil changing the channels. And Man and Woman laughed and cried before the flickering blue light and gained pounds.
Then God brought forth the potato, naturally low in fat and brimming with nutrition. And Satan peeled off the healthful skin and sliced the starchy center into chips and deep-fried them. And Man gained pounds.
God then gave lean beef so that Man might consume fewer calories and still satisfy his appetite. And Satan created McDonald's and its 99-cent double cheeseburger. Then said, "You want fries with that?" And Man replied, "Yes! And super size them!" And Satan said, "It is good." And Man went into cardiac arrest.
God sighed and created quadruple bypass surgery.
Then Satan created HMOs.
Thought for the day ...... There is more money being spent on breast implants and Viagra today than on Alzheimer's research. This means that by 2040, there should be a large elderly population with perky boobs and huge erections and absolutely no recollection of what to do with them.
My husband and I ate lunch together today and I was eating my California Rolls.
"What are in those?" he asked.
"Crab, avocado and cucumber wrapped in seaweed and rolled in sticky rice," I explained. "But it's not really not officially sushi since the crab is cooked."
My husband thought for a second and then smiled, "Then it's pseudo-shi."
Just in case you've had a rough day, here is a stress management technique recommended in all the latest psychological texts. The funny part is that it really works.
1. Picture yourself near a stream.
2. Birds are softly chirping in the cool mountain air.
3. No one but you knows your secret place.
4. You are in total seclusion from the hectic world.
5. The soothing sound of a gentle waterfall fills the air with a cascade of serenity.
6. The water is crystal clear.
7. And you can easily make out the face of the person you're holding under the water.
Who knew puppets could make me laugh and cry.. and say four-letter words... and have sex... in many different positions... and be gay... and...
My wall calendar is for the TV show Futurama. I miss that show! :(
Maybe it is bed bugs!
DRPANNI certain dines with the Hoi Polloi, does she not?
DtM you are correct....I think FUTURAMA is part of the Sunday night line up on the Cartoon Network. Might be part of the Adult Swim line up.
And I do believe I spoke out whilst in the restaurant about all the pretentious peckerheads seated around us.
No, I meant the first time, when seated upstairs, amidst all the plastic surgery and people answering their cell phones whilst dining.
Slacker Tracker
By Jeff Turrentine
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, December 30, 2004; Page H03
Are we sure this is a good idea? If the problem is weakness about New Year's resolutions, is the answer really to rely on a logbook in which we must resolve to track -- daily and in great detail -- our progress toward fulfilling all those other resolutions we're in danger of breaking?
On the one hand, it's kind of cruel. On the other, it's kind of cool, this slim, spiral-bound enforcer of follow-through. Divided into three main sections, the resolution tracker allows you to chronicle your progress, calculate a reward strategy, and -- of greatest utility to slackers -- justify your lapses, even going so far as to provide a checklist of handy emotional excuses. (Hey, you were probably just feeling "unloved," "manic" or "overwhelmed" on that particular day. Check, check and check.)
Available at Coffee and the Works (1627 Connecticut Ave. NW), Politics & Prose (5015 Connecticut Ave. NW) and at both Washington locations of Pulp. Also available online at www.knockknock.biz.
I love seafood and garlic!
Btw, speaking of food, has anybody tried grilling frozen french fries? I was just in the mood for fries (i just typed that 3 times, first i typed friends, then friens) with the ribs I made. So I took out my George Foreman type grill. And put some seasonings. And they were so good!
Actually the hoi polloi is the common people...
Can someone email me and tell me what cameltoe is please (so I don't have to go to the adult sites I get when I do a search). :)
Gangrene chat? Lovely dinner conversation! Bon appetit!
I do agree about Beverly Hills, and I do hate driving there,
More specifically doesn't it mean the impression made when a lady is wearing a too-tight-part of slacks?
Well, if the web is to be be believed, it can apply to men as well as women.
For an exhaustive treatment go to The Camel Toe Report (http://cameltoe.bolt.com/)
They even sell hats!
(http://cameltoe.bolt.com/images/products/thumbs/cap.jpg)
I am der Brucer, and I do not approve of this topic
Washington, DC - Pointing to the devastating weekend Indian Ocean tsunami that left over 24,000 dead, an international blue ribbon committee of climatologists and ecoscientists today issued a stark warning that man-made pollutants have increasingly "make water spirits angry."
The blunt conclusion prefaced a 2300 page meta-analysis of hundreds of scientific studies and computer models detailing links between human industrial activity and wrathful eco-deities. Entitled "Fire Bad: Fire Very Bad," the report warns that the planet faces additional catastrophies unless drastic regulatory action is taken to appease Earthen-furies.
"Unclean money devils anger sacred water spirit Tai-Waku," explained Martin Knudson of Scripps Oceanic Institute. "He now call angry to son the whale, 'make slap with anger-tails! Bring vengeance-surf to villagers!'"
While most empirical evidence supports the theory of wrathful whale-tail slappings, some scientists are exploring alternative hypotheses for the weekend tsunami. Ecobiologist Jane Geary of UC Santa Cruz points to mounting evidence that the ocean spirit-world may have been driven to gastrointestinal rage by gas-guzzling SUVs.
"Thunder-wagon make smoke cloud of greenhouse gas," explained Geary. "hungry Tai-Waku eat smoke from thunder-wagon, pass giant wind with mighty fury."
Peter Novak, chief science officer of the Sierra Club, dismissed Geary's "Divine Fart" theory, arguing it was more likely that SUVs had triggered the tsunami via a spirit underword sexual encounter.
"Wheels of thunder-wagons wake up Big Earth Spirit-Mother, make to crazy tingle in hairy child-place. She now go to water lair of Tai-Waku, make big angry love on tectonic plate," said Novak. "Big Earth Spirit-Mother say, 'if ocean rocking, don't come a-knocking.'"
Although they disagree on the precise causes of the wrathful spirit world, scientists were largely unanimous in recommending immediate global regulatory action.
Remedial steps suggested in the report include ratification of the Kyoto treaty, elimination of automobiles, volcanic altars for virgin sacrifices, creation of a sustainable urine-based economy, and improved faculty dental benefits.
"If not act now, it too late," said report editor Paul Erlich of Stanford University.
Erlich, whose 1978 best seller "Ice Time Come Soon" is widely credited with saving millions of lives by warning of the massive age of glaciation that threatened Earth during the 1980s, said inaction might anger the spirit world further.
"Me not know when Tai-Waku make wrath again," said Erlich. "Me need more grant money."
Great new Avatar DRDANISE!!
Hmm, that seems like an okay size. Here is me in front of the Xmas tree:
2. Julie Christie's growing concern over Barrie brought to mind the great scene in DREAMCHILD when Mrs Liddell (Jane Asher) realizes Charles Dodson's regard for Alice may be more than she, or even he, imagined. There's a lot of Wonderland in Neverland.
Re Hoi polloi vs. hoity-toity... I'm an equal opportunity curtsey-er. Be it the unwashed hoi polloi or hoity-toity gents and dames, I back out of the room and curtsey.DRPanni, a little help from Gilbert & Sullivan:
I watched a bit of POINT BLANK last night on TCM. You know, when Angie Dickinson had a real part and a director, she was okay. And I have to say, she is one stunner of a gal!
Anybody ever meet her or work with her? Who wrote that jazzy theme for POLICE WOMAN....Pepper Anderson took no guff from nobody!
DRPanni, a little help from Gilbert & Sullivan:
Hello! My first log-in and the topic is cameltoes? O.K.
I dare anyone to find a picture of Annette Funicello's cameltoe. Also, I have chosen to arise out of the myth of Lovely Wife to become a participant, limit idealism, despoil fantasy, and otherwise to traipse in and out of B.K.'s world like so much fish.
I'm still trying to decide if I learned anything this year. Hmmmm . . .
What's that adage about new dogs and old tricks?
MWAH-HAH-HAH-HAH!
(That's supposed to be a maniacal laugh, preferably accompanied by some claps of thunder and strikes of lightning.)
DR Jose, thanks for your comments on the musical licensing agencies. We actors often have problems with the scores and scripts, too, full of unerased pencil and, with FOREVER PLAID if I'm remembering, piano scores that indicated notes that were different than what the actors had in their scores, VERY different.
Yep, Tams used to be the black sheep of musical licensers, but the last two or three Tams shows I did didn't have sides for the actors but regular scripts like the other agencies. TITANIC and NUNCRACKERS both had scripts rather than sides - thankfully.
DR George, check the schedule on Cartoon Network. I could have sworn that they picked it up, though I don't think they are making new episodes.
Hello! My first log-in and the topic is cameltoes? O.K.
I dare anyone to find a picture of Annette Funicello's cameltoe. Also, I have chosen to arise out of the myth of Lovely Wife to become a participant, limit idealism, despoil fantasy, and otherwise to traipse in and out of B.K.'s world like so much fish.
How old is the lad in question? I have an eleven year old who loves to read, and I try to read all her books along with her (or preferably before her) maybe I can suggest a few titles?The lad is seven. And he's the type who doesn't like to try things, because he knows he won't like them...until he does try them and discovers that he likes them. But he can't be forced into trying things.
Does anyone else use those daily tear-off-a-page calendars on their desks? Last year, there were so many TV show-based calendars to choose from. (The George Eads pics I've posted this year all came from the CSI calendar.)If you wait another three months, they'll be even cheeper!
This year, apart from I LOVE LUCY and THE SIMPSONS and JEOPARDY, I couldn't find any TV-show based daily calendars. I'll go out looking again tomorrow (since they're now at reduced prices).
UGH!!!! The whole house still smells like chemically-produced faux-caramel apple stink!!!
Why-O! Why-O! Why-O!
But I guess it could be worse, it could smell like today's unseemly Topic of conversation.
::)
It says they make good recipe card holders!But not in my kitchen. :-X
-And I have yet to find out exactly what a "chigger" is. Lots of theories and speculation, but no real concrete answer.A chigger is a small insect that loves to drink (usually 1 to 2 ounces at a time).
Here's a Question for BK or any other film scholars out there in HHW land: I just finished watching the new Criterion release of M, a film I had not seen in probably 20 or more years, and I swear when I saw it in college there was a scene of Lorre being chased over a seawall and him hiding there whilst people searched for him. Is this some other film you can think of that I have somehow interpolated into this film? Is it in the first Man Who Knew Too Much, perhaps?
The news just announced that Artie Shaw died! I didn't know he was still alive.
My late friend, Doris the magnificent, will now be able to call him a &*%#@ to his face.
Welcome six GUESTS. We're talkin' about 2004 discoveries.
Hello! My first log-in and the topic is cameltoes? O.K.Bonjour, La Jolie Femme!
Only recoveries.Thank goodness for those DR Elmore. (I am sure it was goodness).
And the topic of the day is not cameltoe - it's discoveries.
Artie Shaw may or may not have been a &*%#@, but he was an extraordinarily bright and talented guy who was one of the great, great musicians of our time. I'll miss him!
Has anyone seen something called Open Water? I got it in the mail - it looks awful, but you never know.
DREAMCHILD is one of my favorite movies. Sadly, it's not widely known, even by film aficionados.
"Open Water" sounds like the real story of two American tourists exploring the Great Barrier Reef here in Oz a few years ago.
Of course, most real reality shows (which, of course, aren't really real either...how real can anything be when you know a camera may be on you), I find smarmy, offensive, and sleazy too...
OPEN WATER has 3 ¼ stars out of 5 on NETFLIX. “It's Jaws meets The Blair Witch Project when a vacationing couple on a scuba diving expedition accidentally gets left behind and must fend for themselves in shark-infested waters. Directed by Chris Kentis, the movie features unknown actors and was filmed on a shoestring budget, sans camera tricks or mechanical man-eaters. The circling sharks you see are … real!”
I thought it was based on a true story but don’t see any mention of that.
I heard an interesting piece on the news in relation to the horrible tsunami and its aftermath. Apparently, they have not found any dead animals.
Did Animals Sense Tsunami?
Thursday, December 30, 2004
YALA NATIONAL PARK, Sri Lanka — Wildlife officials in Sri Lanka (search) expressed surprise Wednesday that they found no evidence of large-scale animal deaths from the tsunamis — indicating that animals may have sensed the wave coming and fled to higher ground.
An Associated Press photographer who flew over Sri Lanka's Yala National Park in an air force helicopter saw abundant wildlife, including elephants, buffalo, deer, and not a single animal corpse.
Floodwaters from Sunday's tsunami swept into the park, uprooting trees and toppling cars onto their roofs — one red car even ended up on top of a huge tree — but the animals apparently were not harmed and may have sought out high ground, said Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne, whose Jetwing Eco Holidays ran a hotel in the park.
"This is very interesting. I am finding bodies of humans, but I have yet to see a dead animal," said Wijeyeratne, whose hotel in the park was destroyed.
"Maybe what we think is true, that animals have a sixth sense," Wijeyeratne said.
Yala, Sri Lanka's largest wildlife reserve, is home to 200 Asian Elephants, crocodile, wild boar, water buffalo and gray langur monkeys. The park also has Asia's highest concentration of leopards. The Yala reserve covers 391 square miles, but only 56 square miles are open to tourists.
The human death toll in Sri Lanka surpassed 21,000. Forty foreigners were among 200 people in Yala who were killed.
Backyard Battle With Furry Thief Planted a Seed
By David A. Fahrenthold
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, December 26, 2004; Page C01
In the beginning -- before Bill Adler Jr. became an author, a self-help guru or a guest on the "Rosie O'Donnell Show" -- there was a confrontation between man and squirrel.
On one side of the window was Adler: former lobbyist, fledgling freelance writer and proud new owner of a bird feeder.
On the other side was a gray squirrel. Lounging inside Adler's feeder. Eating the birdseed.
"The feeder was not for the squirrel. It was for the birds," Adler remembers thinking that day in 1987. "So I got mad."
...
That squirrel launched my writing career," he said. "I guess I shouldn't have been so mad at it."
To understand Adler's story, it is important for those who don't feed the birds to understand how those who do feel about squirrels.
They aren't cute. This crowd knows that squirrels are capable of impossible leaps, upside-down dangles and other ninja moves in order to raid bird feeders.
They also know that squirrels do not share with birds: They are furry thieves, driven beyond decency in their all-consuming quest for the next nut.
"They're in the same family as rats and mice," said Steve R. Runnels, president and chief executive of the 20,000-member American Birding Association. "They just look good."
Over the years, some birders have just given up and accepted them. Some have waged their own campaigns aimed at confusing, frightening or frustrating them into eating the neighbor's birdseed instead.
"Feed 'em or defeat 'em," said John Schaust, chief naturalist for Wild Birds Unlimited, a chain of birding supply stores.
Adler, who would come to champion the "defeat 'em" camp, grew up in Manhattan, barely aware that squirrels existed. Then he moved to the District, quit his job in politics and set up a home office in his apartment in Cleveland Park.
He bought a feeder to entertain himself. And then the squirrel showed up.
Trying to get rid of it, Adler banged on the window. He sprayed the wall with slippery Teflon. He built a fortress of old Perrier bottles around the bird feeder. He waited in ambush with a child's dart gun.
None of it kept the hungry animal away for long.
After a while, it struck Adler that there was a larger principle at stake here.
"If we can't outwit squirrels, who have brains the size of walnuts, how can we ever get a man or woman to Mars?" he said. "It's a matter of pride."
Adler interviewed experts and spent a few mornings crawling around his yard on all fours. He wanted to see the feeder from a squirrel's perspective, he said.
He used this insight to write a book. Among other tactics, the book recommends putting plastic shields, called baffles, around feeders and smearing the area around the feeder with a squirrel-repellent mixture of Vaseline and red pepper.
To this serious advice, Adler added a leavening of humor. Dig a moat around your feeder, he advised. Fill it with piranhas.
"Build a special cannon," the book counsels in another section. "It'll be about 10 feet long and six inches wide and will fire cats. Aim this catgun directly at squirrels."
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Scientists: Quake may have made Earth wobble
Wednesday, December 29, 2004 Posted: 2:44 PM EST (1944 GMT)
Scientists believe that a shift of mass toward the Earth's center during the quake caused the planet to spin 3 microseconds faster and to tilt about an inch on its axis.
LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- The deadly Asian earthquake may have permanently accelerated the Earth's rotation, shortening days by a fraction of a second and caused the planet to wobble on its axis, U.S. scientists said Tuesday.
Richard Gross, a geophysicist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, theorized that a shift of mass toward the Earth's center during the quake Sunday caused the planet to spin 3 microseconds, or millionths of a second, faster and to tilt about an inch on its axis.
When one huge tectonic plate beneath the Indian Ocean was forced below the edge of another "it had the effect of making the Earth more compact and spinning faster," Gross said.
Gross said changes predicted by his model probably are too minuscule to be detected by a global positioning satellite network that routinely measures changes in Earth's spin, but said the data may reveal a slight wobble.
The Earth's poles travel a circular path that normally varies by about 33 feet , so an added wobble of an inch is unlikely to cause long-term effects, he said.
"That continual motion is just used to changing," Gross said. "The rotation is not actually that precise. The Earth does slow down and change its rate of rotation."
When those tiny variations accumulate, planetary scientists must add a "leap second" to the end of a year, something that has not been done in many years, Gross said.
Scientists have long theorized that changes on the Earth's surface such as tide and groundwater shifts and weather could affect its spin but they have not had precise measurements to prove it, Caltech seismologist Hiroo Kanamori said.
"Even for a very large event, the effect is very small," Kanamori said. "It's very difficult to change the rotation rate substantially."
DRPANNI - I watched the TCM year end Memorial....and Doris isn't included! I don't know who to email, but it is a shocking oversight! They show her movies all the time.