Topic: THE CASE OF THE DISAPPEARING DAYS (Read 30240 times)

vixmom · « **Reply #90 on:** March 02, 2005, 10:52:30 AM »

One of My favorite maloprisms .. from Much Ado About Nothing

DOGBERRY
O villain! thou wilt be condemned into everlasting
redemption for this.

vixmom · « **Reply #91 on:** March 02, 2005, 10:54:16 AM »

Page Four Dance

vixmom · « **Reply #92 on:** March 02, 2005, 10:57:15 AM »

Better yet, a doggy dance for the puppies

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #93 on:** March 02, 2005, 11:01:15 AM »

You say "two mottoes" and I say "tomatoes"!

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #94 on:** March 02, 2005, 11:06:28 AM »

And here are three flamingoes for those who love more-More-MORE such stuff:

Jennifer · « **Reply #95 on:** March 02, 2005, 11:14:44 AM »

Not sure if others had this problem. But page three took forever to load for me. I think it's too many pics on the same page.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #96 on:** March 02, 2005, 11:17:46 AM »

Such wonderful pictures today! Puppies and kitties and flowers and Big Ben.

I can't see a picture of Big Ben and NOT look for Konga nearby!

Jennifer · « **Reply #97 on:** March 02, 2005, 11:17:57 AM »

Ha, I LOVE that puppy dance!

Jrand74 · « **Reply #98 on:** March 02, 2005, 11:25:43 AM »

Just read Vixmom's reviews of BK and WB at Amazon.com!

Jrand74 · « **Reply #99 on:** March 02, 2005, 11:30:23 AM »

There was that group of Marines going home.....they were, of course....wait for it....wait for it....they were:

...the happiest corps I've ever seen.

George · « **Reply #100 on:** March 02, 2005, 11:31:14 AM »

Today would have been Dr. Seuss' 101st birthday!

[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DR. SEUSS!![/move]

MBarnum · « **Reply #101 on:** March 02, 2005, 11:38:28 AM »

Quote from: JRand54 on March 02, 2005, 11:17:46 AM

Such wonderful pictures today! Puppies and kitties and flowers and Big Ben.

I can't see a picture of Big Ben and NOT look for Konga nearby!

Ha, ha! I was thinking the same thing, Jrand54!

Joey · « **Reply #102 on:** March 02, 2005, 11:41:31 AM »

Well I hate to be the harbinger of bad news, but my grandma passed away about 3 am Eastern Time. I had gotten a call right before I went out to dinner at an older couple from our church's home last night. They called to tell me that she had quit responding and just had a glazed over look. Then I recieved another call at about 6 am with the news. We only found out about the cancer a week and a half ago so it was fairly quick. I am sad that she didn't last long enough for me to get up there to say my goodbye, but I take comfort in knowing that she didn't have to suffer anymore. Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers. They do mean quite a bit.

Joey · « **Reply #103 on:** March 02, 2005, 11:44:20 AM »

This poem has always meant a lot to me. My sister introduced me to it when my first grandma died my sophmore in high school.

Gone From My Sight

I am standing upon the seashore. A ship spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength. I stand and watch her until, at length, she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come to mingle with each other.

Then someone at my side says:
"There she is gone!"

"Gone where?"

Gone from my sight. That is all. She is just as large in mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side and she is just as able to bear her load of living freight to her destined port.

Her diminished size is in me, not in her. And just at the moment when someone at my side says, "There, she is gone!" There are other eyes watching her coming, and other voices ready to take up the glad shout,
"Here she comes!"

And that is dying.

by Henry VanDyke (1852-1933)

Stuart · « **Reply #104 on:** March 02, 2005, 11:50:00 AM »

Quote from: Ron Pulliam on March 02, 2005, 10:31:37 AM

Song lyric: "What's Love Got to Do With it" has a lyric that has often been heard to read: "What's love but a second hand in motion..."

My lyric mishearing is from "I am Changing" from DREAMGIRLS.

For longer than I care to admit, I used to think the last line of the song was "and, oy gevalt, nothing's gonna STOP. ME. NOooooooooow!"

I never understood why a black girl from Detroit would be using Yiddish phrases.

Imagine my surprise when I finally learned that the lyric is actually:
"and I'll make a vow: nothing's gonna STOP...."

And I had seen various companies of DREAMGIRLS about 6 times....I should have known better.

Stuart · « **Reply #105 on:** March 02, 2005, 11:50:51 AM »

My thoughts are with you and yours, DR Joey.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #106 on:** March 02, 2005, 11:50:55 AM »

My condolences, Joey.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #107 on:** March 02, 2005, 11:58:58 AM »

Sorry to hear that, Joey.
The power of something like that wonderful poem to give some comfort is one of the amazing things about being human.

Ben · « **Reply #108 on:** March 02, 2005, 12:02:05 PM »

Joey, you're wise beyond your years.

Condolences on the loss of your grandmother.

What a beautiful poem. Thanks for putting it up here.

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #109 on:** March 02, 2005, 12:04:05 PM »

Sorry for your loss, Joey. Take care.

bk · « **Reply #110 on:** March 02, 2005, 12:26:22 PM »

Add my condolences too.

I must be on my way to pick up sheet music and do a couple of other errands. I'll be back shortly.

Michael · « **Reply #111 on:** March 02, 2005, 12:31:03 PM »

Quote from: Matt H. on March 02, 2005, 08:58:45 AM

Several years ago (like a decade or more ago), a friend sent me an audio cassette of the complete concert from that evening, and there was certainly some BAD singing on that night, too (Kurt Peterson as I recall going horribly off pitch), that mercifully got left off the recording. Jack Cassidy got scrubbed from much of that recording from that evening unfairly. He had some really good moments.

How soon they forget who sends what to who!

Jrand74 · « **Reply #112 on:** March 02, 2005, 12:39:17 PM »

Sending good thoughts to dRJOEY and his family. Lovely poem.

Matt H. · « **Reply #113 on:** March 02, 2005, 01:14:46 PM »

Quote from: Charles Pogue on March 02, 2005, 10:43:10 AM

An interesting editorial in the LA TIMES today about another Gil Cates Oscar faux pas. The reason the best song Oscar winner sang during his acceptance speech...Cates opting for Banderas and Santana to perform his song instead of the composer who sang it in the film, because once again Cates went with what he thought was the ratings coup, despite the fact the two chosen performers somewhat made hash of the song (I couldn't hear the melody line in all Santanna's twanging...it was orignally done on an acoustic guitar). Snubbing the original composer and singer of the song to perform it in favour of inappopriate star power has caused a bit of a flap in the South and Latin American press.

You could tell from his expression in the audience after Bandaras was finished that he was not happy AT ALL about what he had just heard.

When he won and did what he did, it confirmed in my mind that the man was livid over Bandaras' interpretation of the song.

Matt H. · « **Reply #114 on:** March 02, 2005, 01:16:16 PM »

Quote from: Jennifer on March 02, 2005, 11:14:44 AM

Not sure if others had this problem. But page three took forever to load for me. I think it's too many pics on the same page.

Nope, no problem at all for me, and I have the slowest computers in all christendom and a dial-up connection to boot. No problems here.

Matt H. · « **Reply #115 on:** March 02, 2005, 01:20:03 PM »

Quote from: Michael Shayne on March 02, 2005, 12:31:03 PM

How soon they forget who sends what to who!

DR Michael, you KNOW I would never intentionally slight you. It was purely a case of honest senility. Back in those Fidonet years, I had LOTS of folks sending me stuff, and I was sharing what I had with others in return.

Let me say clearly to all how much I continue to appreciate this wonderful gift from years ago. And now that I am reminded who sent it to me, it makes it even more special and revered.

Matt H. · « **Reply #116 on:** March 02, 2005, 01:22:21 PM »

So sorry to read your news, Joey, but take great comfort that she did not linger. Though I was very, very sad to lose my parents within a year of each other, I felt mostly gratitude that their passings were peaceful and quiet and swift.

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #117 on:** March 02, 2005, 01:28:40 PM »

From the LA TIMES article on Jorge Drexler:

"He insists he wasn't dissing Banderas' performance. On the contrary, he praised the actor for having the courtesy to give him a private preview before the show. The arrangement wasn't exactly Drexler's style, the songwriter concedes, espeically with Carlos Santana's incongruous electric guitar licks. But he gives Banderas an "A" for ardent."

He said: "I'm very bad at giving speeches, and I just really wanted to sing. since they didn't let me sing on the show but gave me forty-five seconds to do something, I just decided to do whatI do best."

He added: "I was happy with my life before the Oscars. The truth is, I earn my living honestly, writing songs on paper and playing the guitar in person. How many people can say they really enjoy their work? Is there a greater privilege in life?"

He apparently was a doctor before he went into music. I agree totally about the Santana guitar licks that made the song's melody indecipherable.

It's just another example of when a show or an event like this has a chance to choose between "class" or "crass", they'll always go with the crass.

Jane · « **Reply #118 on:** March 02, 2005, 01:29:03 PM »

Last night my wireless connection failed me and I couldn’t come visit.

Jed congrats on four weeks of employment.

Jose I enjoy reading about your nephew and niece.

SWW may you find homes for those darling puppies and their mother very soon.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #119 on:** March 02, 2005, 01:41:28 PM »

You know who Russell Crowe is, right?

He's that actor from the Land of Oz...incontinent down under.

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