Topic: NEED TO BE KNEADED (Read 27109 times)

bk · « **on:** April 18, 2005, 11:06:40 PM »

Well, you've read the notes, you need a massage after having read the notes, and now it is time for you to post until the cows come home, which will be as soon as they've all had their massages.

Joey · « **Reply #1 on:** April 18, 2005, 11:10:18 PM »

First post! Huzzah!

bk · « **Reply #2 on:** April 18, 2005, 11:15:24 PM »

And the word of the day is: HALCYON!

Joey · « **Reply #3 on:** April 18, 2005, 11:19:14 PM »

I'd love to stay and chat but I am exhausted. I hope I will find more time to post tomorrow.

Good night, Good night,
until we meet again,
Adios, Au revoir, Auf Wiedersehen 'til then.
And though it's always sweet sorrow to part
You'll know you'll always remain in my heart.

Good night, sleep tight
and pleasant dreams to you.
Here's a wish and a prayer
That every dream comes true.
And now 'til we, meet again,
Adios, Dobranoc, Auf Wiedersehen.

Goodnight!!! (A Lawrence Welk reference)

bk · « **Reply #4 on:** April 18, 2005, 11:33:21 PM »

It appears that whatever problems our host was having last night, somehow we reverted to pre daylight savings time in terms of our timestamp. If it hasn't righted itself before morning, I'll drop them a line.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #5 on:** April 18, 2005, 11:40:56 PM »

Good Morning!

-Wow! I really have lost all sense of time. I thought "today" was already Wednesday - I was all set for "Ask BK" day. Consequently, I thought "yesterday" as Tuesday.

-Cue the "Twilight Zone" music...

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #6 on:** April 18, 2005, 11:44:15 PM »

As for PC bugaboos...

The one that gets to me - or rather makes me think twice, and sort of confuses me - are how certain ethnicities are labeled, are supposed to be called by. Except, of course, by members of each ethnic group.

"Everyone's a Little Bit Racist" from Avenue Q hits the nail on the head. Over and over again!

"Everyone's a rittle bit lacist"

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #7 on:** April 18, 2005, 11:46:59 PM »

As for Shirley Temple movies....

Hmmm... the exact titles escape be right now, so...

-The one in which "On the Good Ship Lollipop" appears.

-The one with the famous stair dance with Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. -Talk about PC!

-And the one where her father goes off to war, and she's sent off to a girl's home. She gets treated badly by everyone there. She's told her father is dead. She has a fabulous dream/fantasy sequence. Then is happily reunited with her father - after a few close "misses".

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #8 on:** April 18, 2005, 11:48:51 PM »

OK - Laundry is folded... Now I have to reassemble my bedroom so I can sleep in my bed...

Goodnight.

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #9 on:** April 19, 2005, 12:07:05 AM »

Ah, those halcyon days when I used to remember all the Shirley Temple movies vividly. Is not NOW & FOREVER, where Shirley and Coop use the term "honour bright"?

My favourite Temple song is either I LOVE TO WALK IN THE RAIN or YOU GOTTA EAT YOUR SPINACH, BABY. I have an album of Temple songs that I have not played in years.

My favourite Temple movie is probably The Little Princess or The Bachelor and The Bobby Soxer or Fort Apache...oh, and Wee Willie Winkie. Note two of those four are John Ford.

I think the stupiest moments of PC have been the Antioch "mother, may I" code which was this huge over-reaction to date rape where apparently in the course of what most people would look at as the natural course of wooing and sexual relations one was suppose to strip the entire experience of any spontaniety by turning every bit of progression into a verbal request...May I kiss you? May I unbutton your top button? May I give you a little tongue? May I unbutton your second button? May I cop a feel? etc, etc. One waggish friend of mine referred to this code of conduct as the "May I thrust again...?" laws...

In squelching any sort of social interaction or natural logical sexual curiosity...little boys in kindergarten been had laws filed against them for kissing little girls on the playground, and if not them the schools get sued, and I expect innocuous little rhymes like "I see London, I see France, I see Mary Jane's underpants" could now get a 2nd grader expelled for sexual harrassment.

The other idiocies of PC are, of course, when criminals who injure themselves while breaking into someone's house get awarded large settlements in a court of law when such lawsuits should be thrown out just on common sense long before they get to court.

And while I don't agree with President Bush that frivolous lawsuits are the cause of our medical insurance or prescription drug problems, I do agree that frivolous lawsuits are frivolous. No one should be able to sue McDonald's because they spill the coffee they ordered on themselves or because they're shoving the fast food into their faces.

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #10 on:** April 19, 2005, 12:16:03 AM »

Backing up to yesterday's TOD, YES! JED! EDDIE IZZARD! How Could I forget him! And another British comic I love...the only comic I've ever gone to see live is AL MURRAY, THE PUB LANDLORD. He may be too British to translate over here, but, God, is he funny!

Jrand74 · « **Reply #11 on:** April 19, 2005, 12:17:37 AM »

DRJOSE - your first choice there is MY favorite Shirley Temple movie....she sings "On the Good Ship Lollipop" in BRIGHT EYES which also featured Jane Withers as Joy Smythe - along with James Dunn and Gloria Stuart as the love interest. Shirley's mom gets hit by a car, and Shirley goes up in plane so James can tell her the terrible news (her father had been an aviator who was killed a couple of years earlier)....James tries to tell her and Shirley realizes what has happened and asks: "You mean.....you mean....my momma cracked up?" Still makes me cry!

Shirley danced with Bill on the stairs in THE LITTLE COLONEL and also danced with him in THE LITTLEST REBEL.

And the one where she loses her father is THE LITTLE PRINCESS.

Like DR CP I like THE BACHELOR AND THE BOBBY SOXER as well among Shirley's "grown-up" roles.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #12 on:** April 19, 2005, 12:21:53 AM »

DR JOEY just sang the Lawrence Welk sign off song. I have no response to that. It was last sung on live television before he was born.

I am not a PC person - but where PC gets me the most is when it is retro-active!

I am sensitive to a point, but after that I don't argue about it - but neither do I extend or accept invitations after that. Life is too short. I can be persuaded by a genuine argument of facts, but can't be browbeaten into or out of an opinion. And I have found that most people who need to validate their own opinions by co-ercing me into agreeing with them argue thusly:

2+2 = 4 Right? Right.
1+3 = 4 Right? Right.

So then, 2 + 3 = 4. Right? WRONG!!!

Jrand74 · « **Reply #13 on:** April 19, 2005, 12:22:43 AM »

DR JED & DR CP - I will add a third vote for Mr Izzard, who was also very good in SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #14 on:** April 19, 2005, 12:25:25 AM »

Thanks for Roxanne's picture DR MS. And yes DRMBARNUM I also saw her credit for HOT ROD GIRL. Actually what with the age of most of the girls in that movie, it should have more likely been called HOT ROD GRANNIES, but who would go see that?

Jrand74 · « **Reply #15 on:** April 19, 2005, 12:42:49 AM »

Scared everyone away, I did!

Oh well here is your Allison Hayes picture of the week. Miss Allison on the cover of the Belgian Weekly Compain magazine in the autumn of 1954.

Danise · « **Reply #16 on:** April 19, 2005, 02:57:58 AM »

Morning all! I don't know if it was your server problems, BK or the fact that I loaded a new software that helps with spyware/pop ups/etc but I couldn't get on last night.

I signed on and saw my name but I couldn't post. I messed a little with the settings on the new software so now I'm confused as to if I fixed the problem or you did.

Anyway, I can post again!

DR Vixmom, I would very much like that sample. Would you like to try some Empty Hats?

I have to run but hope all are doing well. I will talk with you good people tonight!

I am coming home at four thirty tonight. I've HAD it with OT.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #17 on:** April 19, 2005, 03:23:20 AM »

Good morning, all! It's 7:15 am in Manhattan, so we'll see what posting time the computer gives it. It should be 4:15 am on the West Coast.

My favorite Shirley Temple song is "I Love To Walk In The Rain." I have never seen the film it's from, but the song is great.

Shirley Temple films (none of which I've seen in the past 30 years): Heidi, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Kiss and Tell, The Bachelor and the Bobbysoxer. I've never seen The Little Princess or The Little Colonel.

S. Woody White · « **Reply #18 on:** April 19, 2005, 04:36:03 AM »

JRand really MUST stop posting his pictures of Allison Hayes, as they are politically incorrect.

And there's my own definition of PC: the fine art of taking offence where none was intended.

S. Woody White · « **Reply #19 on:** April 19, 2005, 04:37:07 AM »

We're off to get Peggy fixed. How un-PC is that?

William F. Orr · « **Reply #20 on:** April 19, 2005, 04:53:42 AM »

PC? Un-PC? Well, I take offense where offense is intended. But we figs (there's a reference to an old discussion on hhw!) do bandy about the fig word amonst ourselves, just as n's do the n-word. Wasn't everybody laughing hysterically at Blazing Saddles just because Mel Brooks was so grossly flaunting PC convention?

Even intended offense can be dealt with without a victim attitude. A high-school gay-rights advocate was quoted recently in the Advocate to the effect that someone had yelled "Faggot!" in the hall, to which he replied, equally loudly, "That's Mister Faggot to you!"

My Joe hates PC conventions, especially where it concerns his diasbility. I'm afraid DR Rodzinski was somewhat taken aback at the Writer's Block signing when he asked, "What do you do?" and Joe replied, "I'm a cripple."

William F. Orr · « **Reply #21 on:** April 19, 2005, 04:56:05 AM »

And speaking of the signing, I never did get a chance to publically thank BK for his wise advice to Joe. Immediately we sat down at table at Joe Allen, BK addressed Joe as to how to deal with our Neighbors from Hell most effectively. "Write a novel about them, and kill them all off!" Bravo, BK!

William F. Orr · « **Reply #22 on:** April 19, 2005, 05:05:52 AM »

As for Shirley Temple, I have a long-standing affection for Kiss and Tell. Some friends and I had gone to a Saturday double feature or something, and, unbeknownst to us, that film was on the bill along with the one we wanted to see.

It was so naughty. I mean, if you are in an Oklahoman conservative Lutheran family, Shirley's father's misconception that she is (Shh!) pregnant was terribly racy stuff.

The funniest scene is when Shirley's boyfriend Dexter Franklin (Jerome Cortland) has accidentally slapped Shirley and goes to her father (Walter Abel) to apologize. Father, of course, thinks he is refering to the other thing, and we have a string of increasingly funny doubles-entendres similarly to Tevyeh talking to the butcher about his cow/daughter.

And just imagine. That was little Shirley Temple.

Kerry · « **Reply #23 on:** April 19, 2005, 05:06:02 AM »

My favorite Shirley movies are "Just Around the Corner" ( I love the songs with aforementioned "I Love to Walk in the Rain," the art deco apartment building, the supporting cast including Joan Davis, Bert Lahr, Bill Robinson and Franklin Pangborn); "Poor Little Rich Girl" (with Franklin Pangborn again, I believe, Alice Faye and Jack Haley); and "Curly Top" with another great supporting cast and "Animal Crackers").

There's soemthing I like in just about every Shirley Temple movie. Shirley Temple is quite unique and could do anything. What she couldn't do well, she had the charm to get away with anyway.

"I won't grow up!
I don't wanna wear a tie,
Or a serious expression in the middle of July..."

Time to go pretend to be grown up.........

Great magazine cover, Jack!!!!

William F. Orr · « **Reply #24 on:** April 19, 2005, 05:06:14 AM »

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William F. Orr · « **Reply #25 on:** April 19, 2005, 05:07:42 AM »

I like "Animal Crackers in My Soup". I have it on vinyl along with several other songs from her films--a record I bought from one of those TV ads (not available in any store!) in the 60's.

William F. Orr · « **Reply #26 on:** April 19, 2005, 05:12:37 AM »

The HALCYON is, of course, a sea-bird seen floating only on calm waters. Hence, the halcyon days of one's youth.

William F. Orr · « **Reply #27 on:** April 19, 2005, 05:14:33 AM »

William F. Orr · « **Reply #28 on:** April 19, 2005, 05:19:07 AM »

I did enjoy John Goodman's short-lived TV series "Normal", but especially his Shirley Temple imitation singing, "I Like to Walk in the Rain".

MBarnum · « **Reply #29 on:** April 19, 2005, 06:13:15 AM »

I love Shirley Temple films. My favorite is STAND UP AND CHEER, even though she has only a small part it it. Other faves are BRIGHT EYES, BABY TAKE A BOW, and THE LITTLEST REBEL.

Favorite song of Shirley's is BABY TAKE A BOW.

There is a wonderful CD set of all of the songs from Shirley's movies.

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