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THE HANDS OF TIME
« on: November 03, 2008, 12:43:51 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, the notes were an hour behind, and now it is time for you to post until the cows come home - they're currently looking for the hands of time after having found the feet of time.
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« Reply #1 on: November 03, 2008, 12:45:13 AM »

And the word of the day is: MULLIGRUBS!
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« Reply #2 on: November 03, 2008, 01:22:51 AM »

Dr. Sherwood, who was seventy-eight and still the best damned brain surgeon at County General Hospital, spit out the bite of meat loaf he’d just eaten, saying, "Soy Sauce! Who put Soy Sauce in the meat loaf?"  Dr. Sherwood had spent many hours that day operating on a young lawyer who had an aneurism. The poor man was having daily spells in which he had visions of dancing dildos - most unseemly. Tomorrow was to be a very busy day - he was scheduled to operate on…..


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« Reply #3 on: November 03, 2008, 03:40:33 AM »

Haven't gotten used to the new time yet, so I'm awake early - for me, anyway.
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« Reply #4 on: November 03, 2008, 04:23:03 AM »

Can you hear me?  I don't have my microphone on.

Donna McKechnie AND Carol Lawrence?  That's like cake AND ice cream!  If nothing else, I hope they got to wear some nice clothes.
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« Reply #5 on: November 03, 2008, 04:25:28 AM »

Dr. Sherwood, who was seventy-eight and still the best damned brain surgeon at County General Hospital, spit out the bite of meat loaf he’d just eaten, saying, "Soy Sauce! Who put Soy Sauce in the meat loaf?"  Dr. Sherwood had spent many hours that day operating on a young lawyer who had an aneurism. The poor man was having daily spells in which he had visions of dancing dildos - most unseemly. Tomorrow was to be a very busy day - he was scheduled to operate on…..


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....Tansy Ferrell, the daughter of the president of the hospital board of directors.  Tansy had received a heart transplant from her twin sister who had been killed in a mysterious hand mixer accident.  Dr. Sherwood was contemplating changing his scrubs when a voice on the intercom said: ,,,
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« Reply #6 on: November 03, 2008, 05:20:10 AM »

And the word of the day is: MULLIGRUBS!

And The Song Of The Day Is:  I WANT IT NOW
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« Reply #7 on: November 03, 2008, 05:36:10 AM »

Dr. Sherwood, who was seventy-eight and still the best damned brain surgeon at County General Hospital, spit out the bite of meat loaf he’d just eaten, saying, "Soy Sauce! Who put Soy Sauce in the meat loaf?"  Dr. Sherwood had spent many hours that day operating on a young lawyer who had an aneurism. The poor man was having daily spells in which he had visions of dancing dildos - most unseemly. Tomorrow was to be a very busy day - he was scheduled to operate on…..


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....Tansy Ferrell, the daughter of the president of the hospital board of directors.  Tansy had received a heart transplant from her twin sister who had been killed in a mysterious hand mixer accident.  Dr. Sherwood was contemplating changing his scrubs when a voice on the intercom said: ,,,
"Scrub the operation. Tansy Ferrell has been found dead. In fact she has been murdered. Her heart has been removed. But the strange thing about it is there is no incision. They don't know how the heart was removed......"
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« Reply #8 on: November 03, 2008, 05:36:53 AM »

It is still cold in Montreal......
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« Reply #9 on: November 03, 2008, 05:41:56 AM »

Did anyone hear about the two radio disc jockeys from Montreal who PUNKED Sarah Palin.

"on 01 november 2008, a couple of canadian disk jockeys, sébastien trudel and marc-antoine audette who call themselves the 'masked avengers' on montreal's ckoi-fm 96.9, prank called 2008 republican vice-presidential nominee sarah palin.

in the call they pretended to be french president nicholas sarkozy."

Didn't she remember that on his recent trip to the USA that is was announced that he didn't speak English"

Here is the Punk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6QpnaypCe4
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« Reply #10 on: November 03, 2008, 05:43:22 AM »

And it is still cold in Montreal.
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« Reply #11 on: November 03, 2008, 05:43:41 AM »

Very cold
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« Reply #12 on: November 03, 2008, 05:44:05 AM »

From someone who is used to Florida weather
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« Reply #13 on: November 03, 2008, 05:44:32 AM »

I am making up for some lost time with these posts
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« Reply #14 on: November 03, 2008, 05:44:55 AM »

In case I didn't mention it.........
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« Reply #15 on: November 03, 2008, 05:45:08 AM »

It is cold in Montreal
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« Reply #16 on: November 03, 2008, 05:45:57 AM »

Hello Elmoore

I hope all is well with you
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« Reply #17 on: November 03, 2008, 05:56:30 AM »

Good morning, all! I've got a few hours at Toyland and then a trip to physical therapy. After that, it's back to Frank Losser. My gal is to get through most of Act one by the beginning of next week.

Last night I began watching the BBC series CRANFORD based on Elizabeth Gaskell's novels and it's quite wonderful with some great actresses - Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench, Francesca Annis, Imelda Staunton, Julia McKenzie, Julia Sawalha - giving amazing performances. I think it's quite wonderful and the 1842 costumes and sets are glorious. A lot of the plot seems to settle on the conflict of village life as it always has been and the encroaching modern world, rather like FIDDLER ON THE ROOF without the pogroms. I liked Francesca Annis' haughty Lady Ludlow and her refusal to employ as servants girls who were able to read or write since they should be kept in their station and the conflict with the older and younger doctors on the theories of bone setting and amputation.

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« Reply #18 on: November 03, 2008, 05:59:48 AM »

Is it cold there, Michael?
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« Reply #19 on: November 03, 2008, 06:10:49 AM »

Anyone heard how the weather is in Montreal?
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« Reply #20 on: November 03, 2008, 06:15:56 AM »

Very chilly, Montreal.
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« Reply #21 on: November 03, 2008, 06:37:18 AM »

Very chilly, Montreal.

Sounds like a Rodgers & Hart tune.
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« Reply #22 on: November 03, 2008, 06:39:12 AM »

Dr. Sherwood, who was seventy-eight and still the best damned brain surgeon at County General Hospital, spit out the bite of meat loaf he’d just eaten, saying, "Soy Sauce! Who put Soy Sauce in the meat loaf?"  Dr. Sherwood had spent many hours that day operating on a young lawyer who had an aneurism. The poor man was having daily spells in which he had visions of dancing dildos - most unseemly. Tomorrow was to be a very busy day - he was scheduled to operate on…..


der Brucer

....Tansy Ferrell, the daughter of the president of the hospital board of directors.  Tansy had received a heart transplant from her twin sister who had been killed in a mysterious hand mixer accident.  Dr. Sherwood was contemplating changing his scrubs when a voice on the intercom said: ,,,
"Scrub the operation. Tansy Ferrell has been found dead. In fact she has been murdered. Her heart has been removed. But the strange thing about it is there is no incision. They don't know how the heart was removed......"

Sherwood sighed wearily.  It saddened him to lose a patient, but he was also now saddled with the responsibility of breaking the tragic news to Tansy's father, Augustin Ferrell.  Ferrell was already heartbroken over the loss of his other daughter, but now will have to face the death of the other.  And both having died in such bizarre circumstances. 

As he pushed his wheelchair away from the cafeteria table, Sherwood  prayed to God that Augustin would not find out about...
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« Reply #23 on: November 03, 2008, 06:51:53 AM »

And the word of the day is: MULLIGRUBS!
Ah, yes, the early Dr. Seuss classic, And To Think That I Saw That D*mn Cr*p on MULLIGRUBS Street!
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« Reply #24 on: November 03, 2008, 06:53:16 AM »

Good Morning!

I'm up, I'm up... And I wished we had had an extra hour last night too.  ;)
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« Reply #25 on: November 03, 2008, 06:58:06 AM »

Dr. Sherwood, who was seventy-eight and still the best damned brain surgeon at County General Hospital, spit out the bite of meat loaf he’d just eaten, saying, "Soy Sauce! Who put Soy Sauce in the meat loaf?"  Dr. Sherwood had spent many hours that day operating on a young lawyer who had an aneurism. The poor man was having daily spells in which he had visions of dancing dildos - most unseemly. Tomorrow was to be a very busy day - he was scheduled to operate on…..


der Brucer

....Tansy Ferrell, the daughter of the president of the hospital board of directors.  Tansy had received a heart transplant from her twin sister who had been killed in a mysterious hand mixer accident.  Dr. Sherwood was contemplating changing his scrubs when a voice on the intercom said: ,,,
"Scrub the operation. Tansy Ferrell has been found dead. In fact she has been murdered. Her heart has been removed. But the strange thing about it is there is no incision. They don't know how the heart was removed......"

Sherwood sighed wearily.  It saddened him to lose a patient, but he was also now saddled with the responsibility of breaking the tragic news to Tansy's father, Augustin Ferrell.  Ferrell was already heartbroken over the loss of his other daughter, but now will have to face the death of the other.  And both having died in such bizarre circumstances. 

As he pushed his wheelchair away from the cafeteria table, Sherwood  prayed to God that Augustin would not find out about...

...the fact that over the past few months, he had started feeling some "feelings" in his legs again.  Possibly a tingle, maybe just an involuntary twitch.  He had already written to a specialist in Switzerland he had read about in some journal he found in the waiting room, but was still awaiting some sort of response.  But then as he finally pushed himself away from the table, and had turned himself around to wheel himself towards the elevator, over the hospital's paging system he heard...
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« Reply #26 on: November 03, 2008, 06:59:04 AM »

And now it is time for me to head on down to midtown to meet up with some friends for breakfast, and then I'm back at the R-G this afternoon for a couple of hours of work for The Mouse.

Laters...
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« Reply #27 on: November 03, 2008, 07:19:04 AM »

BK,

I'm surprised that you didn't like L.A. CONFIDENTIAL the first time that you saw it.

Personally, I think that it is the best movie to come out of Hollywood in the last 20 years.

I just watched the new SE DVD about a month ago and I enjoyed it as much as I did the first time.
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« Reply #28 on: November 03, 2008, 07:20:19 AM »

My being a Whovian is beginning to reap a few rewards.

I am guilty guilty guilty of having loaned our Doctor Who DVDs to Jeff, a very nice fellow who works in the deli at the store.  What Jeff had originally wanted was to borrow our Torchwood DVDs, because he thinks John Barrowman is hot, but I insisted that Jeff would appreciate Torchwood more if he watched the first two seasons of Doctor Who first, in order to get the show's context right.

I have, of course, made a convert.  Jeff now loves loves loves Doctor Who (and thinks Torchwood isn't quite as good).

Which brings us to the rewards.

Jeff has started loaning us discs.  Specifically, he's loaned us his copy of a film by Julie Taymor, Across the Universe.  The film didn't do too well at the box office, and I had my doubts - one more film using Beatles songs for the jukebox score, with all the names of course springing from names used in Beatles songs, and a story about the revolutionary '60s?  Hasn't this been done before?  No, Jeff said, give it a try.

So we did.

And it proved to be a lot better than my expectations had allowed.  It is visually stunning, which I had expected (this is a Taymor film, after all).  What I hadn't expected were well-drawn characters who had at least a couple of toes planted in reality.  Nor had I expected Taymor to say "Bullshit" to some of the left-wing ideology that permeated the 60s - instead, she took the song "Revolution" to heart and followed a more moderate path.

We also discovered something I hadn't realized about der Brucer and myself - I'm far more aware of the Beatles ouvre than he is.  "What's that song, I've never heard it before?" was something he said more than twice.  And there were spoken quotes, like "She came in through the bathroom window," that had me howling with laughter but just got a blank look from him.

We may have to invest in a few Beetles albums, just to get him up to speed.

Anyway, back to the film.  Is it perfect?  No.  But it's far better than Hairspray, far more intelligent and respectful of the intelligence of it's audience.

Maybe that's why it didn't do too well at the box office.  Respect just doesn't get the respect it used to get nowadays.

(I'm thinking of insisting that Jeff, who doesn't like Shakespeare, give Branaugh's Hamlet a try.)
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« Reply #29 on: November 03, 2008, 07:23:18 AM »

"Don't wish for something too much.  You may get it."

I'm not sure who said that, but perhaps we all should keep that in mind tomorrow when we vote.

And, that is the most political statement you're ever going to get from me on this board.

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