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Re:TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS
« Reply #300 on: December 24, 2006, 09:42:55 PM »

Hans Brinker?  Now there was DUMB movie with DUMB songs.

Well - somebody got the joke!

Thanx J,

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Re:TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS
« Reply #301 on: December 24, 2006, 09:43:05 PM »

You kill such a prolific hen for salad!

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Have a little more whatever-it-is, Der Brucer!  Yer killin' me!
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Re:TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS
« Reply #302 on: December 24, 2006, 09:44:13 PM »

For dumb movies with dumb songs, has anything ever worsted "Snow White and the Three Stooges"?
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Re:TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS
« Reply #303 on: December 24, 2006, 09:44:41 PM »

Worsted?

Come on, Der Brucer...you've been challenged.
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Re:TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS
« Reply #304 on: December 24, 2006, 09:47:25 PM »

Does anyone here ever eat pickles when also eating spaghetti?

I learned the other night that my aunt and uncle like having pickles with their spaghetti.

We were going to have them over for a spaghetti lunch or supper, but I don't want to see any pickles on the table.
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Re:TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS
« Reply #305 on: December 24, 2006, 09:47:53 PM »

Have a little more whatever-it-is, Der Brucer!  Yer killin' me!

It's a local dairy egg nog, freshened with Brandy, Rum, and Bourbon and garnished with freshly ground nutmeg.

(I haven't any Meyers rum, so I used Captain Morgan Spiced)

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Re:TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS
« Reply #306 on: December 24, 2006, 09:48:07 PM »

Only 15 minutes till Christmas Day here in South Cackalacky (that's "Carolina").
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Re:TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS
« Reply #307 on: December 24, 2006, 09:49:11 PM »

It's a local dairy egg nog, freshened with Brandy, Rum, and Bourbon and garnished with freshly ground nutmeg.

(I haven't any Meyers rum, so I used Captain Morgan Spiced)

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Oooooooooooooooo-o-o-o-o-o-h!

That sounds de-lish!
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Re:TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS
« Reply #308 on: December 24, 2006, 09:49:16 PM »

Worsted?

Come on, Der Brucer...you've been challenged.

Well, better that than serge.

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Re:TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS
« Reply #309 on: December 24, 2006, 09:50:41 PM »

Does anyone here ever eat pickles when also eating spaghetti?


No, but I put peanut butter on the Italian bread.

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Re:TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS
« Reply #310 on: December 24, 2006, 09:50:45 PM »

Well, better that than serge.

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Serge?



Serge?


Why do I feel like I'm in the final reel of "Anna Karenina"?
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Re:TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS
« Reply #311 on: December 24, 2006, 09:51:20 PM »

No, but I put peanut butter on the Italian bread.

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And you eat that with the spaghetti?






(yuck)
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Re:TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS
« Reply #312 on: December 24, 2006, 09:56:05 PM »

Heading off to bed now.

Good night, all!
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Re:TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS
« Reply #313 on: December 24, 2006, 09:56:19 PM »

I'm guessing BK's "pasghetti party" is in full swing.

Lots of cheer, lots of chat and lots of chewing.
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Re:TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS
« Reply #314 on: December 24, 2006, 09:56:47 PM »

Heading off to bed now.

Good night, all!

"night, MattH"!

I hope Santy Claus is good to you!
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Re:TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS
« Reply #315 on: December 24, 2006, 09:59:26 PM »

Time for a re-fill. ( Let's have a drink on it - Happiest Millionaire)

Will Be Back Soon (Oliver)

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Re:TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS
« Reply #316 on: December 24, 2006, 10:00:44 PM »

Merry Christmas everyone. I am at my parents and there is just a dial-up connection. Nothing wrong with that, but I am used to high speed so this is driving me crazy. So, I'm not going to try to catch up with all the posts. I'll have to do that later.

Tonight was really fun. We went to some friends - our families have been spending Christmas Eve to gether for years. We gathered around the piano and sang Christmas Carols, had some great food and great conversation. It was a perfect Christmas Eve.  
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Re:TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS
« Reply #317 on: December 24, 2006, 10:05:22 PM »

SEASON'S GREETINGS!
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Re:TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS
« Reply #318 on: December 24, 2006, 10:08:48 PM »

And you eat that with the spaghetti?

(yuck)

Yep and with Lasagna and any other tomato sauced pasta dish.

It's a hold over from my Naval Academy days when the chef always placed a stainless steel tub of PB on the table every evening (to aid those who cared not for the main course).

Same chef that got me used to having vanilla ice cream on my morning cereal.

And since I enjoy caviar, anchovies, raw oysters, scrapple, and grits (not together) - I get a lot of "yucks" :)

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Re:TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS
« Reply #319 on: December 24, 2006, 10:17:12 PM »

Oh....well...Tiny Tim....


So... I assume...... that John Barrowman will not be playing Tiny Tim?
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Re:TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS
« Reply #320 on: December 24, 2006, 10:18:24 PM »

FOX News headline:  •Salvation Army Reports Dip in Christmas Giving

What - somebody put sour cream in the kettle?

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Re:TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS
« Reply #321 on: December 24, 2006, 10:32:54 PM »

Time to wrap the Grandlads Christmas stuff.

(Why did make myself more egg-nog; I plan on a Tuna Salad sandwich - which does not work with egg nog!)

Good Night

And a Merry Christmas to all who celebrate it, and a Cheerful good night to the rest.

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Re:TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS
« Reply #322 on: December 24, 2006, 10:33:58 PM »

Please, people watch the finely nuanced performance of Sim in the '51 Christmas Carol (sometimes re-dubbed Scrooge) and then watch Finney's he looks like he's doing a bad impression of a cross between that other Dickens character, Uriah Heep, and the Wicked Witch of the West.  To okay jolly but lyrically mediocre numbers (I Like Life and Thank You Very Much) and a half-dozen half-completed songs that sound like that were dashed off the morning of shooting do not a musical make.

A good lyric should be inevitable but not predictable.   We could recite most of Bricusse's rhymes before they were sung.  

The only one to come close to Sim's definitive performance as Scrooge is George C. Scott in the TV version some years ago (and Mister Magoo, of course!)

What is wrong with liking several versions of CHRISTMAS CAROL?  I enjoy Alistair Sim, Mr. Magoo, and I especially enjoy George C. Scott, although he is not one of my favorite actors.  I also love Albert Finney in the role; but, in all fairness, I am better in the role.  But then I got to sing all the songs that were added for Anthony Newley.
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Re:TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS
« Reply #323 on: December 24, 2006, 10:36:03 PM »

Mmm. This eggnog is like drinking velvet.



Black Velvet?
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Re:TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS
« Reply #324 on: December 24, 2006, 10:39:12 PM »

So... I assume...... that John Barrowman will not be playing Tiny Tim?

Neither will John Barrymore!! ??? ;)
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« Reply #325 on: December 24, 2006, 10:58:18 PM »

JRand56, I am also sorry to hear about Kachina. When you said she went over to The Rainbow Bridge I thought that was just the name of another store and she was going to be their cat!  :-\
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Re:TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS
« Reply #326 on: December 24, 2006, 11:04:48 PM »

Nothing wrong with liking different versions of Christmas Carol, provided their good versions.
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Re:TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS
« Reply #327 on: December 24, 2006, 11:08:42 PM »

For dumb movies with dumb songs, has anything ever worsted "Snow White and the Three Stooges"?

And see, I love that movie, wouldn't you know.
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Re:TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS
« Reply #328 on: December 24, 2006, 11:13:20 PM »

Been out of town and finally had a chance to log in on antoher person's computer...

I just wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas!!
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Re:TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS
« Reply #329 on: December 24, 2006, 11:15:04 PM »

My favorite is 1954s SHOWER OF STARS televersion titled A CHRISTMAS CAROL with Fredric March as Scrooge,  Basil Rathbone as Marley's ghost and Sally Fraser as the Ghost of Christmas past.

Bonnie Franklin had a role as one of the Cratchit kids.
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