Topic: ALLERGIC TO MY ALLERGIES (Read 34101 times)

bk · « **on:** March 18, 2004, 12:01:05 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, you know all you need to know about the notes, you know all you need to know about the allergies and therefore it is time to post until the cows come home.

S. Woody White · « **Reply #1 on:** March 18, 2004, 12:30:39 AM »

Let's see, comedies...

Auntie Mame
Any Road film by Bob Hope and Bing Crosby
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
In & Out
Victor/Victoria
Young Frankenstein
Beetlejuice

Personally, I find Sleuth to be funny as all getout.

S. Woody White · « **Reply #2 on:** March 18, 2004, 12:39:15 AM »

As for allergies, I'm fully with you there, BK. I'm planning on an onset very soon myself. I usually have some Loratadine on hand, a non-drowsy antihistamine that I believe has been called Allerest commercially (der Brucer will correct me if I'm wrong here, he always does). It's available over the counter now, and takes care of most of my problems.

I've also heard that, for pollen allergies, swallowing honey from local bees is a good remedy. I haven't tried it yet, but it's worth keeping in mind, and certainly tastes good! (Everybody sing! "These are the days of antihistamines and honey..." Well, maybe not, the meters all wrong. $:-\$ )

Michael · « **Reply #3 on:** March 18, 2004, 04:00:04 AM »

Since his earliest film was Take the Money and Run from 1969. I am going to list movies pre-1969 and I have really seen all these movies over the years and they still make me laugh! I think that's what is so important

Alphabetical Order
Arsenic and Old Lace
City Lighs
Dr. Strangelove
The General
Harvey
Night at the Opera
The Party
Some Like It Hot

and another 8
Auntie Mame
Born Yesterday
Bring Up Baby
Carry On....(Fill in the blank)
Duck Soup
The Ladykillers (orginal)
The Philadelphia Story
The Seven Year Itch
The Producers

and still another 8
Cat Ballou
Court Jester
Duck Soup
Gold Rush
Horse Feathers
Ninotchka
The Secret Life of Waltre Mitty
Topper

and even another 8
Day At The Races
Flying Deuces
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Modern Times
Our Man In Havana
She Done Him Wrong
A Shot in the Dark
The Thin Man

Jrand73 · « **Reply #4 on:** March 18, 2004, 04:30:38 AM »

Whew!

Thanks DRJennifer for the good wishes. Show went well, but notes and talking lasted until after midnight! Bleh! So of course I haven't started KT yet!

Great poster and co-feature Mr BK.

DRDANISE is going to have so much fun!

Hmmmmmmmmm comedies....hmmmmmmmm. Some of mine have already been mentioned but:

Miracle of Morgan's Creek (mentioned by DRNOEL yesterday)

What's Up Doc?

Monkey Business (1952)

Midnight

Desire

Cheaper by the Dozen

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

Pillow Talk

I will stop at eight, but I could go on and on...and NEVER mention Bachelor Party.

Panni · « **Reply #5 on:** March 18, 2004, 04:41:54 AM »

In no particular order, as they occur to me at 4:30 in the morning.

A Christmas Story
The Graduate
To Be or Not to Be
Safety Last
Annie Hall
Tootsie
It Happened One Night
The Gold Rush
The Fortune Cookie
Some Like it Hot
The Apartment
Big Deal on Madonna Street
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Young Frankenstein
The Front Page (Roz Russell Version)
The Odd Couple
Barefoot in the Park
The Inspector General
City Lights
The Great Dictator
Arsenic and Old Lace

More later.

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #6 on:** March 18, 2004, 05:12:08 AM »

Quote from: S. Woody White on March 18, 2004, 12:39:15 AM

I usually have some Loratadine on hand, a non-drowsy antihistamine that I believe has been called Allerest commercially (der Brucer will correct me if I'm wrong here, he always does).

And so I shall.

Allerest is Chlorpheniramine and Pseudoephedrine.
Claritin is Loratadine and Pseudoephedrine

Each has a different antihistamine combined with the same decongestant (Pseudoephedrine).

Pseudoephedrine has a side effect of raising blood pressure.

der practicing-without-a license DR Brucer

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #7 on:** March 18, 2004, 05:24:12 AM »

IMDB's Readers' Choice Top Ten Comedies:

1. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

2. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

3. Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le (2001)

4. Some Like It Hot (1959)

5. Singin' in the Rain (1952)

6. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

7. The General (1927)

8. Modern Times (1936)

9. City Lights (1931)

10. The Apartment (1960)

How anyone can consider Cukoo's Nest a "Comedy" is beyond me - funny parts, yes - but, on the whole, a depressing tragedy!

der Brucer (holding out for "The Attack of the Killer Tomatoes")

Noel · « **Reply #8 on:** March 18, 2004, 05:32:23 AM »

DR Jose said, yesterday:

Quote

And Times Square is usually an equal mix of native New Yorkers, workers and tourists

Equal? There's hardly any New Yorkers there. It's 90% tourists, round the clock, from the looks of it.

Times Square's crime rate is amazingly low. Business owners hire private security to patrol the area. It's one of the safest places on earth.

DR Jose -- DW Joy lived many places as a child, but, more often than anywhere, she was in the DC area. Slums of Alexandria. When I first met her over the internet she was in a place called Scotland, Maryland. In 1997, she was in The Sound of Music at the Lazy Susan, which, I assume, you must know.

That was a fun note from The Log Cabin Republicans about whether activist judges have caused the current gay marriage controversy. It is only Republicans (of the non-Log Cabin variety) who believe this.

I've recently mentioned that three of my favorite film comedies are

A Thousand Clowns
Miracle of Morgan's Creek
Annie Hall

I like loads of others by Sturges, especially Palm Beach Story and The Lady Eve, and loads of others by Woody Allen, such as Love & Death and Hannah & Her Sisters.

Charade, while not considered a comedy, has a lot of laughs.
So does Terms of Endearment

Duck Soup
Midnight
One Two Three
Real Life
How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying
The Tall Guy
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
His Girl Friday
Micki & Maude (but I usually hate Blake Edwards)
The Great Dictator

Robin · « **Reply #9 on:** March 18, 2004, 05:37:55 AM »

Just by glancing at my deeveedee shelves:

The Bank Dick--absolutely my favorite comedy.
Young Frankenstein
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Sullivan's Travels
The Lady Eve
Duck Soup
My Man Godfrey

And when the hell will Bringing Up Baby (my second all-time favorite comedy) be released on deeveedee?

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #10 on:** March 18, 2004, 05:38:04 AM »

"Someday My Prints Will Come"
(from Fotomat, the Musical)

N.C. Parents Angry Over Gay Children's Book

Thursday, March 18, 2004

WILMINGTON, N.C. — The parents of an elementary school pupil are fuming over the book their daughter brought home from the school library: a children's story about a prince whose true love turns out to be another prince.

Michael Hartsell said he and his wife, Tonya, first became worried about "King & King" (search) when the story related how a queen told her stubbornly single son she had already been married twice at his age.

The couple, who say they read with their daughter Olivia every weeknight before bed, went from surprise to disbelief when the leading character, Prince Bertie, waves off a bevy of eligible princes before falling for Prince Lee.

The book ends with the princes marrying and sharing a kiss.

"I was flabbergasted," Hartsell said. "My child is not old enough to understand something like that, especially when it is not in our beliefs."

Above from an AP release.

And what happens when a couple moves in next door whose relationship is "not in your belief system"?

der Brucer

Jrand73 · « **Reply #11 on:** March 18, 2004, 05:59:03 AM »

The Marx brothers Paramount comedies.

Laurel & Hardy Big Business

The Front Page (of course) how could I forget it!

Auntie Mame

td · « **Reply #12 on:** March 18, 2004, 06:15:09 AM »

1. BRINGING UP BABY
2. THE PALM BEACH STORY
3. A NIGHT AT THE OPERA
4. TOOTSIE
5. LOVE AND DEATH
6. THE GOLD RUSH
7. SAFETY FIRST
8. MIRACLE AT MORGAN'S CREEK

and another eight:

1. HAIL THE CONQUERING HERO
2. WHAT'S UP DOC?
3. TO BE OR NOT TO BE (Lubitsch)
4. YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
5. THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER
6. THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY
7. THE FRONT PAGE
8. ADAM'S RIB

Hmmmm. . .if my math is correct, that means I chose only THREE post 1950s films which I consider to be funny AND classic.

td · « **Reply #13 on:** March 18, 2004, 06:18:01 AM »

How about EIGHT with MUSIC?

1. TOP HAT
2. THE FIRST NUDIE MUSICAL
3. SINGIN' IN THE RAIN
4. THE BAND WAGON
5. VICTOR/VICTORIA
6. SWING TIME
7. SOME LIKE IT HOT
8. GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES

Noel · « **Reply #14 on:** March 18, 2004, 06:19:59 AM »

I, of course, share the disgust with ratm, or, as it should be known, "Dialogues with Herr Newport" but prefer not to discuss that here. Save the bile for where it's due! This is a nice place.

But I loved what you wrote, Dan the Man, about ratm (the resurrected Gwen Verdon post here) and would like to reprint it there at some point.

And we CAN discuss musical theatre here. Monday, the Drama Book Shop had LaChiusa, Guettel and Jason Robert Brown singing and chatting and one has to wonder who annointed these three. Not counting a staged song cycle, Adam Guettel has had two musicals produced. Brown's been responsible for three, I believe. LaChiusa's written many more, it's true, but many are only famous for having bombed.

If the new generation of musical theatre writers is to be noted, let's note people who've done more work: I think the songwriters heard on BK's Broadway Bound are excellent (especially Markell & Bernstein), and prefer my friends Darryl Curry, Heisler & Goldrich, Jeanine Tesori and Sammy Buck to the omnipresent Brown, Guettel and LaChiusa.

William E. Lurie · « **Reply #15 on:** March 18, 2004, 06:23:10 AM »

So many comedies so little time.

Actually the list from the despot looks like what any frat boy would post.

Kerry · « **Reply #16 on:** March 18, 2004, 06:47:08 AM »

Life itself is my favorite comedy.

MBarnum · « **Reply #17 on:** March 18, 2004, 07:26:38 AM »

8 favorite comedies:

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
International House
Blondie on a Budget
Blondie Goes Latin
It's a Mad....Mad World
Yours, Mine, and Ours
March of the Wooden Soldiers
You Can't Cheat and Honest Man

MBarnum · « **Reply #18 on:** March 18, 2004, 07:27:20 AM »

DR Danise,
You Donut/fire alarm story from last night gave me a great laugh!!

And it is nice to know you saved the fish!

Matt H. · « **Reply #19 on:** March 18, 2004, 07:30:16 AM »

I could fill my top 8 with just Chaplin, Keaton, and the Marx Brothers, but to be fair to others, I'll only include one of each:

1. HORSE FEATHERS
2. IT'S A GIFT
3. THE GENERAL
4. THE CIRCUS
5. ONE, TWO, THREE
6. THE GREAT RACE
7. SOME LIKE IT HOT
8. ADAM'S RIB

My goodness, my list doesn't include a single film after 1965, though I do love AIRPLANE! and YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN and THE PRODUCERS and ANNIE HALL.

And like BK, my list would probably be somewhat different tomorrow, but right now, those are the ones I'm feeling are to funniest to me.

Matt H. · « **Reply #20 on:** March 18, 2004, 07:36:52 AM »

Nothing made me happier than to see the untalented Leah Labelle ousted from AMERICAN IDOL last night. She did not deserve her placement there, and I felt bad for quite a few of the talented auditionees we saw for weeks who could outsing her and outperform her six ways from Sunday.

Really, Paula, it's YOUR fault she was there. America passed deceidedly at the two different opportunities she had to sing her way to the finals. I honestly think Paula felt sorry for her and this was her way of making it up to her by letting her compete in the Top 12. Sad to say, Paula did her NO favors.

MBarnum · « **Reply #21 on:** March 18, 2004, 07:42:13 AM »

Although I wore a very bright green shirt yesterday I did not eat any corned beef and cabbage! Instead I ate at a Mexican restaurant in Corvallis with my nephew Jeff and his girlfriend and some other family members. Jeff is leaving today for Iraq (by way of Lousiana, then Kuwait) along with the rest of his National Guard troop...he also turns 21 today! I hope he will be safe and careful!

Anyway I had a lovely (and partially St. Patty's day green) Chili Relleno (SP?) burrito. Was going to have the tacos stuffed with beef tongue, but changed my mind.

William F. Orr · « **Reply #22 on:** March 18, 2004, 08:25:06 AM »

DerBrucer: According to amazon, there is also a sequel, King & King & Family. I wonder if the "Christian" family was also offended by the subplot, in which the chosen Princess ends up with the Page Boy. Is mixing of the classes part of their Belief System?

William F. Orr · « **Reply #23 on:** March 18, 2004, 08:37:52 AM »

With apologies to Republicans present, especially those who live in Log Cabins in Reheboth, I am posting this beautiful essay which is making the rounds of the Internet. Since it is quite long, I'm posting the first paragraph with a link to the original source. Most people are e-mailing it around without attribution:

Author: Sandy Clark
Short Link: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=m:5:11992:108608

The discovery that affiliation with the Republican Party is genetically
determined was announced by scientists in the current issue of the journal
NURTURE, causing uproar among traditionalists who believe it is a chosen
lifestyle. Reports of the gene coding for political conservatism,
discovered after a decades-long study of quintuplets in Orange County, CA,
has sent shock waves through the medical, political, and golfing
communities.

bk · « **Reply #24 on:** March 18, 2004, 08:39:30 AM »

Allergies are still with me and annoying me large.

William F. Orr · « **Reply #25 on:** March 18, 2004, 08:48:03 AM »

Maybe this link works better:

http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm/method=messages&threadid=11992&forumid=5

In both cases, the forum truncates the link, so you have to cut and paste it.

bk · « **Reply #26 on:** March 18, 2004, 08:49:48 AM »

Where in tarnation IS everyone? Perhaps reading Kritzer Time?

Jrand73 · « **Reply #27 on:** March 18, 2004, 08:54:00 AM »

My review of the Guy Haines CD is now up at Amazon.com. And I have also discovered that Amazon is accepting reader reviews for Kritzerland and Kritzer Time! Some good ones are already there...but I think we can do more.

Read, write a review....at least at Amazon you know it will be published.

Hehehehehehe.

Good safe wishes to your nephew MBARNUM!

bk · « **Reply #28 on:** March 18, 2004, 08:58:46 AM »

Yes, amazon seems to have gotten it together in the past six months - the reviews are going up very quickly, sometimes in just a day - same with barnesandnoble.com

Stuart · « **Reply #29 on:** March 18, 2004, 08:59:27 AM »

Some of East coasters have been here for a while.

News:

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