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WARM COCKLES
« on: November 10, 2009, 12:26:28 AM »
Well, you've read the notes, the notes had warm cockles, and now it is time for you to post until the cows come home - they're currently trying to find their cockles.
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« Reply #1 on: November 10, 2009, 12:27:51 AM »
And the word of the day is: BORBORYGMUS!

Smoke on your pipe and put that in.
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« Reply #2 on: November 10, 2009, 12:56:10 AM »
Topic of the Day: 

Comedic actresses:
Carol Burnett and the "Gone With the Wind" spoof.  That's one of the best skits ever!
Lucille Ball in the "Vitameatavegamin" skit

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« Reply #3 on: November 10, 2009, 01:06:26 AM »
Thanks for posting the photos, DR George!
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« Reply #4 on: November 10, 2009, 01:07:23 AM »
DR Michael S. - thinking of you, and hoping that you get more concrete health information, and soon!!!!
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« Reply #5 on: November 10, 2009, 01:09:36 AM »
Stand-Up Comics (in alphabetical order by first name):

Elayne Boosler
Ellen DeGeneres
Joan Rivers
Joy Behar
Kate Clinton
Kathy Griffin
Lisa Lampanelli
Margaret Cho
Phyllis Diller
Rita Rudner
Rosie O'Donnell
Whoopi Goldberg
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« Reply #6 on: November 10, 2009, 01:10:31 AM »
Quote from: DAW on November 10, 2009, 01:06:26 AM
Thanks for posting the photos, DR George!

My pleasure!
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« Reply #7 on: November 10, 2009, 04:21:06 AM »
Well, I certainly remember my first comedic actress:

Fanny Brice on the Baby Snooks radio show.

Later on it was Gracie Allen.

Early TV - Ann Southern and Eve Arden

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Most recent - Bea Arthur
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« Reply #8 on: November 10, 2009, 04:39:34 AM »
Health vibes for DR MS.
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« Reply #9 on: November 10, 2009, 04:40:46 AM »
Taking a cue from FADE OUT FADE IN - I guess the only way to slow down the FINIAN'S RAINBOW grosses would be to bring in Betty Hutton as a replacement for Kate Baldwin - although Betty (were she still here) I am sure would rather play OG.
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« Reply #10 on: November 10, 2009, 04:45:07 AM »
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Lucille Ball - I love the shows when she describes what happened so clearly that you imagine you saw it.  Vivian Vance was the perfect foil...."And then what happened?"  These episodes include The Cadillac getting rammed into the Pontiac  "Ethel, I bet if skip my next henna rinse, my hair will come in snow white!") and the lawn mower runamuck through Connecticut ("You haven't lived until you've driven a riding lawn mower on the Boston Post Road - against traffic all the way!.....The way people came out of their houses to see me ride by you would have thought I was Paul Revere!").

Carol Burnett of course, with an honorable mention to Vickie Lawrence as Mama.

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« Reply #11 on: November 10, 2009, 04:45:32 AM »
I am working today because my sister has a Doctor's appointment, but that means I should be off on Friday!
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« Reply #12 on: November 10, 2009, 04:55:14 AM »
Howdy, All!
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« Reply #13 on: November 10, 2009, 04:55:14 AM »
Good Morning!

I'm up, I'm up... And... WOW!  The world does "exist" before 10:00am! -I guess that's what happens when you go to bed before midnight. ;)
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« Reply #14 on: November 10, 2009, 04:55:35 AM »
Howdy!
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« Reply #15 on: November 10, 2009, 05:05:29 AM »
As for the Topic of the Day...

The first image that comes to my mind is Madeleine Kahn being dragged out of the hotel ballroom in "What's Up Doc?"... :) :) :)

Lucille Ball - The chocolate factory episode, "Vitameatavegamin", the stomping of the grapes...
Carol Burnett - Mrs. Wiggins, Eunice... And I still remember the tribute to Stephen Sondheim... Hmmm...

-I'm sure I'll post a few more once I have my morning cup of green tea.
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Re: WARM COCKLES
« Reply #16 on: November 10, 2009, 05:08:57 AM »
Quote from: bk on November 10, 2009, 12:27:51 AM
And the word of the day is: BORBORYGMUS!

Smoke on your pipe and put that in.

And The Song Of The Day Is:  THE GASSER

(courtesy of Roy Eldridge)
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« Reply #17 on: November 10, 2009, 05:11:00 AM »
I have been listening to Adam Faith and Billy Fury this morning.  I think I like Mr Adam Faith more.  Mr Billy Fury did a lot of cover versions of songs.

I like best a song Adam Faith did called Easy Going Me.....but I can't find a link to post here.  I think Mr Guy Haines could do a nice version of this particular ditty.
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« Reply #18 on: November 10, 2009, 05:22:32 AM »
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The phrase cockles of the heart is one of the more lovely idioms in the language, isn’t it? Something that warms the cockles of one’s heart induces a glow of pleasure, sympathy, affection, or some such similar emotion. What gets warmed is the innermost part of one’s being. It’s not that surprising that it should be associated with the heart, that being the presumed seat of the emotions for most people. But what are the cockles?

We’re not sure. We do know that the expression turns up first in the middle of the seventeenth century, and that the earliest form of the idiom was rejoice the cockles of one’s heart.

Cockles are a type of bivalve mollusc, once a staple part of the diet for many British people (you may recall that Sweet Molly Malone once wheeled her wheelbarrow through Dublin’s fair city, crying “cockles and mussels, alive, alive oh!”). They are frequently heart-shaped (their formal zoological genus was at one time Cardium, of the heart), with ribbed shells.

It may be that the shape and spiral ribbing of the ventricles of the heart reminded surgeons of the two valves of the cockle. But I can’t find an example of the word cockle being applied to the heart outside this expression, which makes me suspicious of this explanation. It may be that the shape of the cockleshell, suggesting the heart as it so obviously does, gave rise to cockles of the heart as an expansion.

James Woodfield has pointed out that there is another possible explanation. In medieval Latin, the ventricles of the heart were at times called cochleae cordis, where the second word is an inflected form of cor, heart. Those unversed in Latin could have misinterpreted cochleae as cockles, or it might have started out as a university in-joke. Oddly, cochlea in Latin is the word for a snail (from the shape of the ventricles — it’s also the name given to the spiral cavity of the inner ear), so if this story is right we should really be speaking of warming the snails of one’s heart.
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« Reply #19 on: November 10, 2009, 05:30:41 AM »
Well....whatever they are - I am taking mine to work today.  Oh well.
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« Reply #20 on: November 10, 2009, 05:31:10 AM »
Quote from: JoseSPiano on November 10, 2009, 05:05:29 AM
As for the Topic of the Day...

The first image that comes to my mind is Madeleine Kahn being dragged out of the hotel ballroom in "What's Up Doc?"... :) :) :)

Lucille Ball - The chocolate factory episode, "Vitameatavegamin", the stomping of the grapes...
Carol Burnett - Mrs. Wiggins, Eunice... And I still remember the tribute to Stephen Sondheim... Hmmm...

-I'm sure I'll post a few more once I have my morning cup of green tea.


The musical tribute to Stephen Sondheim on the Carol Burnett Show was my formal introduction to his work.  I was ready with my tape recorder when the show was reran and I wound up memorizing the entire tribute.
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« Reply #21 on: November 10, 2009, 05:34:52 AM »
Quote from: Dan (the Man) on November 10, 2009, 05:31:10 AM
The musical tribute to Stephen Sondheim on the Carol Burnett Show

Wow.  How did I never hear about this??
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« Reply #22 on: November 10, 2009, 05:51:44 AM »
Quote from: DAW on November 10, 2009, 05:34:52 AM
Quote from: Dan (the Man) on November 10, 2009, 05:31:10 AM
The musical tribute to Stephen Sondheim on the Carol Burnett Show

Wow.  How did I never hear about this??

I also have somewhat vague (now) but fond memories of a sort of "History of Dance" sequence with Dick Van Dyke.
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« Reply #23 on: November 10, 2009, 05:53:32 AM »
This isn't the Stephen Sondheim Tribute, but...

The Carol Burnett Show- West Side Story ("Officer Krupke")
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« Reply #24 on: November 10, 2009, 06:01:56 AM »
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I love Lucy--best performance--all of them!  From her hillbilly gal blind date to that sick look on her face when Ricky broke her eggs.

Lily Tomlin--been in love with her ever since I first saw her on THE MUSIC SCENE.  My favorite performance of hers has to be THE SEARCH FOR INTELLIGENT LIFE...

Carol Burnett--I think she reached comic heights with her Eunice character--she made that woman fully realized and had us feel her pain as much as make us laugh at her.  I also think Vikki Lawrence gets honorable mention for her Mama (and for her Maria Ouspenskya.)

Imogene Coca--One of the best female clowns ever--I can't think of a particular performance but some of her best stuff is in that TEN FROM YOUR SHOW OF SHOWS PBS special.

Gilda Radner--I loved her in her GILDA LIVE show on B'way.

Madeline Kahn--with that voice she could whip any throw-away line into a big laugh.  Favorite performance:  BLAZING SADDLES.
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« Reply #25 on: November 10, 2009, 06:04:15 AM »
Quote from: DAW on November 10, 2009, 05:34:52 AM
Quote from: Dan (the Man) on November 10, 2009, 05:31:10 AM
The musical tribute to Stephen Sondheim on the Carol Burnett Show

Wow.  How did I never hear about this??

I recall the show quite well.  Her guests were Chita Rivera Rita Moreno and Jack Weston.
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« Reply #26 on: November 10, 2009, 06:08:23 AM »
WOW! Courtesy of the Library of Congress:

1930s-40s in Color

*There are 1600+ photos in the set.  The above link goes to the slide show; for the actual photo set and description CLICK HERE.
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« Reply #27 on: November 10, 2009, 06:22:41 AM »
Quote from: JoseSPiano on November 10, 2009, 06:08:23 AM
WOW! Courtesy of the Library of Congress:

1930s-40s in Color

*There are 1600+ photos in the set.  The above link goes to the slide show; for the actual photo set and description CLICK HERE.

These images are wonderful!  Thanks, DR Jose!
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« Reply #28 on: November 10, 2009, 06:27:27 AM »
Well, spoo, I missed the anniversary party. Blame Jose!
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« Reply #29 on: November 10, 2009, 06:28:23 AM »
TOD:

Nobody was funnier or more endearing than Carole Lombard.

And anyone who disagrees with me: Them are fightin' words!

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