Topic: A NOID (Read 40055 times)

Jennifer · « **Reply #90 on:** January 05, 2004, 01:01:33 PM »

Oh re: yesterday's posts. DR Jane you are very sweet too!

I just realized that I have not eaten yet today. Oh well, I could probably not eat for a month and still be alive

Snow, snow, we are supposed to get snow.

Btw, how were the pancakes yesterday (for anyone who ate them)?

Emily · « **Reply #91 on:** January 05, 2004, 01:04:31 PM »

I think we'll be getting Jed's cold weather here soon...

Enviro Canada is saying the low on Thursday will be a chilly -20C (-4F)

Not THAT bad... but not nice either

Jennifer · « **Reply #92 on:** January 05, 2004, 01:05:55 PM »

Ah DR Emily: It was actually fairly warm here this weekend. I actually decided since it was just 0C that I would wear a semi-winter jacket that was more stylish. And I didn't even freeze.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #93 on:** January 05, 2004, 01:06:16 PM »

WOW! So many DRs et others on here right now!

Jennifer · « **Reply #94 on:** January 05, 2004, 01:07:12 PM »

DR Emily: you are almost a goddess! Push!

Btw, why was DR Swishy so mad yesterday? I must have missed a post or two before that.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #95 on:** January 05, 2004, 01:07:43 PM »

Oops... that's what one gets for dawdling.. time to head to rehearsal... See you at chat!

Dan-in-Toronto · « **Reply #96 on:** January 05, 2004, 01:10:23 PM »

DR Tomovoz,

Dame Edna is indeed a treasure. I saw her in Toronto at a Wednesday matinee in the middle of winter. New York has its matinee ladies from tony New Rochelle; ours come in on buses from small towns in Ontario. Dame Edna called to the stage one woman who was bundled in a down-filled pickle-green snowsuit. Her comments on the woman's outfit were hilarious, as you can imagine ("So this is what they wear to the Toronto theatre, dear"). We were falling out of our seats. And the woman in the snowsuit was perfectly comfortable with Dame Edna's comments. There was no meanness whatsoever.

Jason · « **Reply #97 on:** January 05, 2004, 01:11:02 PM »

I agree with TOOTSIE...love it.

You should have seen me earlier in the day...I was reminiscent of the scene in AUNTIE MAME where she was working the switchboard. I even mumbled the greeting like she did! "Musih Thea'nation...direh y'call?" That's supposed to be "Music Theatre International...How may I direct your call?" Ugh...four lines...all ringing at the same time! "Oh, Mr. Applewhite, how did you get in that hole?"

Tomovoz · « **Reply #98 on:** January 05, 2004, 01:11:47 PM »

TCB: I do believe so.

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #99 on:** January 05, 2004, 01:14:26 PM »

For those of you who have insatiable voyeuristic tendencies, here are some family pics:

Me at sea on a lake in Austria (taken a few days after I clamored up to the top of an Alp where my new avatar was taken.

Woody and I hob-nobbing with the usual suspects:

Woody and his one true love:

der Brucer (who will protect his longevity by not posting the baby pictures of Woody I stumbled upon)

Michael · « **Reply #100 on:** January 05, 2004, 01:17:52 PM »

Re: The topic of the day. Off the top of my head without really thinking about it:

Theater:
Act 2 of Noises Off
The Richard II sequence from The Goodbye Girl
Cat and Mouse sequence from Victor/Victoria
Act 1 of the Lisbon Traviata

Film:
Blazing Saddles
What's Up Doc
That's Carry On (The best scenes from the Carry On movies)
On the Buses (The bathroom sequence)
Chained Heat (So bad it was really funny. I was directing Women Behind Bars and I showed this at the first read through)
The Ritz

TV
Chuckles the Clown Bites the Dust

George · « **Reply #101 on:** January 05, 2004, 01:19:54 PM »

Quote from: Matt H. on January 05, 2004, 08:11:01 AM

Damn! Woudln't you know I can't put my hands on the PLAYBILL right this second. I have got to get them better organized. Anyway, as best I remember, Kim Hunter was Mary Haines, Alexis Smith was Crystal Allen, Myrna Loy was the mother, Dorothy Loudon was Edith, Rhonda Fleming was Amanda. Can't recall who was Sylvia. It had to have been another big star, so I'll look some more later today and report back. I remember that Playbill clearly - had a women looking at her reflection in a hand mirror and in the mirror were the words "THE WOMEN."

Here's the website for the Internet Broadway DataBase listing of the 1973 revival of The Women

According to the site, it was both Rhonda Fleming and Myrna Loy's Broadway debuts.

Jed · « **Reply #102 on:** January 05, 2004, 01:20:51 PM »

I, like Tomovoz, am not prone to huge bursts of laughter when watching movies. If I actually do laugh out loud, then something was pretty dang funny! First ones that come to mind are the oft mentioned AIRPLANE!, WAITING FOR GUFFMAN, YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, and BLAZING SADDLES, along with the not-yet-mentioned CLUE and MIGHTY APHRODITE.

LC · « **Reply #103 on:** January 05, 2004, 01:25:43 PM »

DR Jason, that also sounds like "Call Back in the Morning" from Little Shop.

DR Emily, how were your classes?

George · « **Reply #104 on:** January 05, 2004, 01:26:35 PM »

Laugh-Out-Loud Movies:

Auntie Mame
Finding Nemo
I'm The One That I Want (Margaret Cho)
Sleeper
South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut

I’ve never seen a production of Noises Off. However, I was in a production as Tim Allgood, and it was one of the most fun productions that I’d been involved in.

Dame Edna live in Seattle a couple of years ago was one of the funniest experiences of my life! Also, a community theater production of Angry Housewives here in Olympia and a professional production in Tacoma were both absolutely hysterical!

bk · « **Reply #105 on:** January 05, 2004, 01:30:22 PM »

I was laughing so loudly at Dame Edna (I do not laugh loud easily) that I'm quite certain the teenage girl next to me thought I was going to have a heart attack and die right there in the theater.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #106 on:** January 05, 2004, 01:35:15 PM »

Thanks for the Playbill INFO DRGeorge - we saved MATTH a trip to the bottom of the Playbill box....

Great photos derbrucer..... And in a uniform yet!

Jane · « **Reply #107 on:** January 05, 2004, 01:36:52 PM »

Quote from: Tomovoz on January 05, 2004, 12:17:20 PM

A reminder for those who may not be aware, today/tomorrow is the Twelfth Day Of Christmas. Yes the 12 days are this side of Christmas! Traditionally, decorations, cards and trees should be removed by this day.

Interesting. Mine were removed on the first and the tree went out on Saturday.

bk · « **Reply #108 on:** January 05, 2004, 01:37:57 PM »

My goodness, this is a ROOMFUL of people, isn't it? Don't forget - chat in a mere four hours.

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #109 on:** January 05, 2004, 01:40:13 PM »

It seems the lastest pic from Mars suggests that Zsa-Zsa has runaway with Jeff:

der Brucer (who suspects Zsa-Zsa nows a good thing when she see's it!)

Jennifer · « **Reply #110 on:** January 05, 2004, 01:40:39 PM »

Wow, yes look at all the people. I have not seen so many in a long time.

I'm off in a few minutes. Hope everyone has a great rest of the day.

Matt H. · « **Reply #111 on:** January 05, 2004, 01:45:46 PM »

DR Jose, I have been assured by a stockholder and frequent customer of Krispy Kreme that the maple doughnuts are still sold, sometimes in grocery store cartons as well as at the factory stores themselves.

For funniest TV show - POLICE SQUAD! which took the AIRPLANE scenario and did it in a farcical thirty minute TV comedy. (They later morphed into the NAKED GUN movies, but they were never as fast and funny as the TV series that spawned them.)

Matt H. · « **Reply #112 on:** January 05, 2004, 01:51:27 PM »

Thank you, DR George. I still want to find that Playbill. It's bothering me that I couldn't put my hands on it. I see that Alexis was Sylvia rather than Crystal.

Jan Miner, I forgot about her, but she was hilarious as the Countess.

Jed · « **Reply #113 on:** January 05, 2004, 01:51:32 PM »

NINETEEN H/K's logged in here at the moment! Wowie wow wow!
Including Lulu! Glad to see you back!

Jane · « **Reply #114 on:** January 05, 2004, 01:51:39 PM »

DERBRUCER that is one good looking picture of you in your uniform. I like the other pictures as well. The lake looks beautiful.

Jennifer I know about intense dreams. Boy, they can really knock you for a loop.

If it weren’t for HHW I wouldn’t know how exciting Mars is.

Matt H. · « **Reply #115 on:** January 05, 2004, 01:52:50 PM »

Great pics, DR derBrucer. You and DR S.Woody are so very lucky to have each other.

William E. Lurie · « **Reply #116 on:** January 05, 2004, 01:54:24 PM »

Thanks to all of you who sent be get well wishs. I'm back at work and feeling a little better but very tired still. Just a couple of comments on the past couple of days notes and posts before I go home to a (hopefully) long night's sleep.

I never got TIVO because I already control my watching time with a VHS and it has the one big fault that VHS has (I know because I called TIVO to check this). If a program is scheduled from say 8:00 to 9:00 but a sports overrun or unscheduled news event pushes it back to 8:20 to 9:20 you will still get 8:00 to 9:00 recorded causing you to miss the last 20 minutes of whatever you are recording. In fact if I know there is football on Sundays I always add an extra thirty minutes to the recording time which I don't think you can do with TIVO although there may be a manual override.

Funniest play I ever saw: LEND ME A TENOR with the original cast. A later production with a less skilled cast was not nearly as funny.

MBarnum · « **Reply #117 on:** January 05, 2004, 01:56:09 PM »

My gosh, I didn't realize that so many DRs were fans of Blazing Saddles. When I watched it I sat there like so much fish and finally turned it off. I was watching with a buddy of mine who loves the movie. He has never forgiven me for dissing his favorite movie and is planning on getting revenge on me by making me watch SYBIL.

Lulu · « **Reply #118 on:** January 05, 2004, 01:56:52 PM »

Heigh-ho! I'm back from my Indiana Adventure, and trust that you all had a wonderful holiday!

Movies that made/make me laugh a lot:

Naked Gun (take THAT, DR Matt!

)
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
Raising Arizona
Marx Bros. movies, Cocoanuts through A Day at the Races, inclusive
Ghostbusters (the first time I saw it)
My Favorite Wife
Arsenic and Old Lace
No Time for Sergeants

Well, that'll do for now

Tomovoz · « **Reply #119 on:** January 05, 2004, 01:56:56 PM »

Welcome back WEL. Hope you are much better. I am feeling Wicked myself.

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