Topic: TALL TALES AND TALL TAILS (Read 6918 times)

singdaw · « **Reply #30 on:** August 22, 2014, 08:03:25 AM »

TWO!!

Ginny · « **Reply #31 on:** August 22, 2014, 08:03:50 AM »

Friday morning greetings! I've been up for 4 hours and all I have to show for it is sliced strawberries for breakfast, pre-baked pizza crusts for dinner, and a shower. Must get some AAUW work done today in preparation for Monday's board meeting.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #32 on:** August 22, 2014, 08:04:06 AM »

Well I enjoy the movie DAMN YANKEES, and I have directed/choreographed it once....it's always a lot of fun, if you can get enough men for the show.

I don't like Ray Walston either....in ANYTHING....he annoys me so much - as he did in his tv show MY FAVORITE MARTIAN - I can't watch SOUTH PACIFIC because of him.

THEN he did a great job in a film version of OF MICE AND MEN which I liked....but I can't really watch anything else he is in.

singdaw · « **Reply #33 on:** August 22, 2014, 08:05:06 AM »

Well, I guess that's a good start, DR elmore3003. Sorry for your inconvenience!

Ginny · « **Reply #34 on:** August 22, 2014, 08:09:18 AM »

Vibes for DR Elmore - if it's not one thing, it's another!

Ginny · « **Reply #35 on:** August 22, 2014, 08:13:23 AM »

Quote from: singdaw on August 22, 2014, 04:16:30 AM

I hope folks will not take this as a criticism, because I do not mean it as such. But I am curious about something. I notice quite that quite a few fellow DRs are writing "lightening" when referring to a meteorological event.

I had always thought that it was "thunder and lightning," but "I am lightening the color of my jeans by adding bleach to the wash."

Perhaps it is a regional thing?

Guilty as charged, and auto-correct is no help in this situation!

singdaw · « **Reply #36 on:** August 22, 2014, 08:16:58 AM »

elmore3003 · « **Reply #37 on:** August 22, 2014, 08:36:09 AM »

Quote from: singdaw on August 22, 2014, 04:16:30 AM

I hope folks will not take this as a criticism, because I do not mean it as such. But I am curious about something. I notice quite that quite a few fellow DRs are writing "lightening" when referring to a meteorological event.

I had always thought that it was "thunder and lightning," but "I am lightening the color of my jeans by adding bleach to the wash."

Perhaps it is a regional thing?

In my case, I have a keyboard that sticks on O, so often I will end up with "to" when I thought i had typed "too." Some of it is auto-crrect, that only seems to care that the word is correctly spelled whether it makes sense or not, and some of it, I regret to say, is poor education.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #38 on:** August 22, 2014, 08:40:36 AM »

Quote from: Jrand63 on August 22, 2014, 08:04:06 AM

Well I enjoy the movie DAMN YANKEES, and I have directed/choreographed it once....it's always a lot of fun, if you can get enough men for the show.

I don't like Ray Walston either....in ANYTHING....he annoys me so much - as he did in his tv show MY FAVORITE MARTIAN - I can't watch SOUTH PACIFIC because of him.

THEN he did a great job in a film version of OF MICE AND MEN which I liked....but I can't really watch anything else he is in.

I hated him in "South Pacific" for years and years. Then I saw "the roadshow version"...and found him rather charming....they cut all the nuance out of his performance and left all the ham on the theatrical "cut" (when they shortened the heck out of it). He's far more tolerable, IMO, in the roadshow version.

Just sayin', in case you haven't watched that version...

ChasSmith · « **Reply #39 on:** August 22, 2014, 08:48:15 AM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on August 22, 2014, 08:36:09 AM

Quote from: singdaw on August 22, 2014, 04:16:30 AM
I hope folks will not take this as a criticism, because I do not mean it as such. But I am curious about something. I notice quite that quite a few fellow DRs are writing "lightening" when referring to a meteorological event.

I had always thought that it was "thunder and lightning," but "I am lightening the color of my jeans by adding bleach to the wash."

Perhaps it is a regional thing?

In my case, I have a keyboard that sticks on O, so often I will end up with "to" when I thought i had typed "too." Some of it is auto-crrect, that only seems to care that the word is correctly spelled whether it makes sense or not, and some of it, I regret to say, is poor education.

I think I recall seeing some "God morning" and "God luck" type of things in a few posts. Those must have been DR Elmore's!

Kate · « **Reply #40 on:** August 22, 2014, 08:51:29 AM »

Hello All:

TOD:

DVD PLAYER: MRS MINIVER

CD PLAYER: PEACE OF MIND, SPIRITUAL COUNSEL, FROM FRANCIS DE SALES

Kate · « **Reply #41 on:** August 22, 2014, 08:56:25 AM »

Well, I FINALLY finished the book LOVING FRANK.

A story about Frank Lloyd Wright and his affair with Mamah Cheney.

WHAT A STUNNING CONCLUSION to this story.

If any DR"S have read this, please tell me what you thought, especially the Ending!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #42 on:** August 22, 2014, 08:56:32 AM »

Quote from: ChasSmith on August 22, 2014, 08:48:15 AM

Quote from: elmore3003 on August 22, 2014, 08:36:09 AM
Quote from: singdaw on August 22, 2014, 04:16:30 AM
I hope folks will not take this as a criticism, because I do not mean it as such. But I am curious about something. I notice quite that quite a few fellow DRs are writing "lightening" when referring to a meteorological event.

I had always thought that it was "thunder and lightning," but "I am lightening the color of my jeans by adding bleach to the wash."

Perhaps it is a regional thing?

In my case, I have a keyboard that sticks on O, so often I will end up with "to" when I thought i had typed "too." Some of it is auto-crrect, that only seems to care that the word is correctly spelled whether it makes sense or not, and some of it, I regret to say, is poor education.

I think I recall seeing some "God morning" and "God luck" type of things in a few posts. Those must have been DR Elmore's!

Yep! It's got my O problems all over those posts!

I notice a lot of "there" when posters mean "their," "your" for "you're" and some of it comes from a poor education. I'm truly appalled to find the nominative case used instead of objective in scripts and in broadcast news; I like to think the writers are educated, although God knows many of the speakers are not.

It won't even begin on transitive and intransitive verbs.

Kate · « **Reply #43 on:** August 22, 2014, 08:58:36 AM »

My next book to read is:

THE BEACH HOUSE, by MARY ALICE MONROE.

Both this, and LOVING FRANK were recommeded by my Friend Judy, a retired English Teacher.

Have any DR"S read THE BEACH HOUSE, and if so, what did they think of it?

Kate · « **Reply #44 on:** August 22, 2014, 08:59:02 AM »

Goodbye for now

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #45 on:** August 22, 2014, 09:17:19 AM »

I do not believe most folks are minding their p's and q's when posting to this forum...or anywhere else on the internet. We're just pounding out "stream-of-consciousness" thoughts based on something we've read, something that is being discussed, or -- in the case of one Hainsie-Kimlet -- things extracted from the whims of his imagination. That's not a criticism, by the way, DR soremaw.

Most of us probably get it right, more often than not, and don't bother to proofread before we post. I often do this and later correct some typo or dyslexic something-or-other.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #46 on:** August 22, 2014, 09:18:01 AM »

Mary, Marry, Merry!

We haven't done THAT in a long time.

singdaw · « **Reply #47 on:** August 22, 2014, 09:18:55 AM »

singdaw · « **Reply #48 on:** August 22, 2014, 09:20:00 AM »

Shipoopi!

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #49 on:** August 22, 2014, 09:20:44 AM »

BALZAC!

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #50 on:** August 22, 2014, 09:27:17 AM »

And, oh! By the way...

Super Doody!

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #51 on:** August 22, 2014, 09:27:52 AM »

Gosh! That felt good!

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #52 on:** August 22, 2014, 09:28:33 AM »

It's me and zero guests.

It's so sad to be all alone in the world.

John G. · « **Reply #53 on:** August 22, 2014, 10:24:50 AM »

Quote from: Jrand63 on August 22, 2014, 08:04:06 AM

Well I enjoy the movie DAMN YANKEES, and I have directed/choreographed it once....it's always a lot of fun, if you can get enough men for the show.

I don't like Ray Walston either....in ANYTHING....he annoys me so much - as he did in his tv show MY FAVORITE MARTIAN - I can't watch SOUTH PACIFIC because of him.

THEN he did a great job in a film version of OF MICE AND MEN which I liked....but I can't really watch anything else he is in.

He was one of Pauline Kael's least favorite performers and she penned some deliciously awful reviews of his work. He personified everything she hated about Broadway artificiality.

John G. · « **Reply #54 on:** August 22, 2014, 10:28:54 AM »

TOD: The Book Thief

CD: Fred Astaire, The Merry Widow

Car CD: Cooked, an autobiography of a former crack dealer turned chef.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #55 on:** August 22, 2014, 10:58:23 AM »

Gosh! We seem to be getting nowhere very slowly...

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #56 on:** August 22, 2014, 10:58:37 AM »

I thought for sure we would be upon page 3 now.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #57 on:** August 22, 2014, 10:58:53 AM »

I'm really rather wanting to get there.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #58 on:** August 22, 2014, 10:59:15 AM »

Let us proceed post-haste to page 3.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #59 on:** August 22, 2014, 10:59:39 AM »

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