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HEAVENS TO BETSY
« on: November 28, 2006, 12:59:12 AM »
Well, you've read the notes, the notes were heaven and involved Betsy, and now it is time for you to post until the cows come home - they're wondering if there's heavens to Betsy if there's also hells to Ursula.
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« Reply #1 on: November 28, 2006, 01:01:04 AM »
And the word of the day is: BENIGMENT!
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« Reply #2 on: November 28, 2006, 01:03:36 AM »
And now - Dino at the piano.

Megan, I'll make sure your reservation is there.
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« Reply #3 on: November 28, 2006, 01:06:06 AM »
Randy Newman said that we can leave our hats on.  Tom Jones and Joe Cocker took his advice.
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« Reply #4 on: November 28, 2006, 01:07:32 AM »
Thank you!

Getting to the notes a wee bit late, hmm?
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« Reply #5 on: November 28, 2006, 01:08:07 AM »
I'm sure JMK will be pleased with BK's notes today. ;)
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« Reply #6 on: November 28, 2006, 01:08:23 AM »
I like Heavens to Gertrude.  ;D
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« Reply #7 on: November 28, 2006, 01:09:59 AM »
When I was at LACC in the sixties, I wore a carnaby-style cap.  I have a photo of it somewhere.  I also regularly wear baseball caps, but in the seventies I was fond of wearing those white floppy tennis hats.  For a time in the seventies I also wore a fedora.
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« Reply #8 on: November 28, 2006, 01:12:56 AM »
I'm glad it's not incredibly far, but I keep worrying that it will be on one of my LA trips that my little old car will call it quits.
I also don't have any sort of music playing device in the car & making that trip is really dull w/out it. Oh well.
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« Reply #9 on: November 28, 2006, 01:14:55 AM »
My favorite song to sing to myself in the car is The Old Dun Cow.
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« Reply #10 on: November 28, 2006, 01:17:21 AM »
I've never been much of a hat wearer.  

(Pay no attention to my picture. ::))
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« Reply #11 on: November 28, 2006, 01:22:06 AM »
My mother has a black velvet beret that I borrowed frequently in high school.
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« Reply #12 on: November 28, 2006, 01:22:54 AM »
Frankie says "relax."
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« Reply #13 on: November 28, 2006, 01:28:01 AM »
Well, I've been awake for much too long...so good night, all! 8)
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« Reply #14 on: November 28, 2006, 04:02:07 AM »
DR ELMOORE

There are programs for cell phones that you can pay as you go. You put on x  number of dollars and when it is used up and you don;t pay again I presume the phone becomes deactivated,

Also on Law and Oder and I am sure other crimes shows there is always a mention of a "throwaway phone" when they try to trace a phone call. Maybe that;s what you need. I don't know anything about those. Maybe someone else does.
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« Reply #15 on: November 28, 2006, 04:03:19 AM »
TOD:

I am not really a hat person. but I do wear on occassions a baseball type of a cap.
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« Reply #16 on: November 28, 2006, 04:09:28 AM »
I found this on line about HEAVEN'S TO BETSY

The following is the earliest citation that the poster could find and then made further comment.

 Huckleberries from New England Hills
R.T. Cooke (1892)
"Heavens to Betsy!' gasped Josiah."

Some have tried to trace it to the Revolutionary War and to Betsy Ross, but have failed; others think it may have something to do with the frontiersman's rifle, often called Old Betsy, but there's no evidence that saying and name are associated. Charles Earle Funk, who in 1955 used the phrase as part of the title of a book about curious phrases, said that its origins were "completely unsolvable". We have to leave it as one of the great mysteries of lexicography, along with the similar "Heavens to Murgatroyd".
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« Reply #17 on: November 28, 2006, 05:03:45 AM »
Good morning, all!  Another day with The Brain.  That's all I can say.

DRs singingnymph and Michael S, thanks for the help.  I have to do a bit of phone exploration today and tomorrow.  There is no Target near me and I don't have time to run up to the Bronx, so I'll rersearch what I can between Toyland, The Brain, laundry, barber, and whatever fresh hell shows up.

I still wear a hat.  I worry about skin cancer on the top of my bald head.
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« Reply #18 on: November 28, 2006, 06:17:01 AM »
I had a lovely Mel's Drive-In hat (puchase at Universal in orlando) that i used to wear when toddling around in the sun.  Or is it toodling?
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« Reply #19 on: November 28, 2006, 06:18:45 AM »
BK - I made a reservation for two (for Skip and me) under my name for the Sat. evening Dec. 9 performance.  The box office lady did NOT take a credit card number at the time, though.
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« Reply #20 on: November 28, 2006, 06:33:58 AM »
Tuesday morning greetings!  Back at work today, reluctantly.  The holiday season is when I really miss the days when I worked part time.

TOD - Not a hat person, which is why I buy coats with hoods.  I have managed to wear a mortarboard and a wedding veil for the occasions that required them, but would not otherwise wear a hat.  

My DH and DS, on the other hand, are quite fond of hats.  When Rob was little, Santa always left him a hat, perched on the North Pole of the world globe that sits on our hearth.
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« Reply #21 on: November 28, 2006, 06:35:44 AM »
Quote from: bk on November 28, 2006, 01:01:04 AM
And the word of the day is: BENIGMENT!
If Ben Gay came in a lot of different colors, it wouldn't be an ointment but instead would be a BENIGMENT.
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« Reply #22 on: November 28, 2006, 06:37:29 AM »
Toddling is what you do in Chicago.  Toodling is what you do when you leave Chicago.
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« Reply #23 on: November 28, 2006, 06:46:35 AM »
I used to wear baseball caps all the time.  There were people who thought I was bald, because they'd never seen me without a cap.

The only cap I now own is one with this really super "G" stitched in white on a black background.  It's from the store.  But I only wear it when I'm cart wrangling.
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« Reply #24 on: November 28, 2006, 07:04:34 AM »
I'm up, I'm up - a little earlier than I'd like, but what can you do?  

FJL, it is becoming clear that the box-office lady just left, didn't tell anyone about her list, and everything is screwy right now.  I'll put in your reservation again, but anyone else who made one needs to let me know which performances you're attending, so I can make certain they're there.
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« Reply #25 on: November 28, 2006, 07:13:30 AM »
Off I must dash once again, as work beckons.  

Yesterday was supposed to be a six-hour shift, which turned into eight hours.

Who knows what will happen today!
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« Reply #26 on: November 28, 2006, 07:29:28 AM »
Good morning!

Another beautiful day, probably our last for awhile. There are clouds in the sky, but it's still mostly blue and gorgeous. ANother day with highs in the 70s.
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« Reply #27 on: November 28, 2006, 07:31:33 AM »
DR Elmore:

Those "throwaway phones" can be purchased at most drug stores. The first cellphone I had was a phone in which I bought minutes I wanted, but as I began to make friends here and on other forums and needed to call long distance a lot, I found a real cell phone with unlimited night and weekend minutes suited my needs better.
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« Reply #28 on: November 28, 2006, 07:32:15 AM »
What a surprise at the end of HEROES last night! Another new episode next week! I certainly didn't expect that!
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« Reply #29 on: November 28, 2006, 07:33:38 AM »
DR ELMORE,
I have a $20 cell phone with pay-as-you-go service from Virgin Mobile ($20 every three months to keep it activated), which works fine for me. I'm not a cell-phone person--I hate listening to phones ringing--and this works fine for me. It's a real help when traveling. Amazon lets you compare service packages--you just need to make sure that you can get service in the right geographic areas. You can buy on Amazon or not. In addition to Target, Best Buy has a good selection.  I recommend something (relatively) simple and easy to use. All phones now have far more features than I need.
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