Topic: HIGH AND LOW (Read 69895 times)

Panni · « **Reply #180 on:** January 08, 2005, 04:50:35 PM »

Quote from: François de Paris on January 08, 2005, 04:44:00 PM

Yes, it looks like a Currier & Ives' postcard, doesn't it?

Oui!

Panni · « **Reply #181 on:** January 08, 2005, 04:50:54 PM »

And one for Mahler.

Sandra · « **Reply #182 on:** January 08, 2005, 04:53:55 PM »

I still don't have anything to say, except that I am hungry.

That's all. Bye.

Jane · « **Reply #183 on:** January 08, 2005, 05:02:37 PM »

Panni, GOOD, NO RAT VIBES!

JMK wasn’t BEN a hit at the time. I think no one had the courage to play the song. That was one scary movie.

François de Paris · « **Reply #184 on:** January 08, 2005, 05:05:56 PM »

May I jiiginalate for a few seconds, please?

Well, I've been working in the hotel business for hardly 10 years now -- it's not really my trade -- but I keep wondering what customers -- and I mean people from any horizon, culture and upbringing -- get from letting everything on (TV, lights) when they leave their room?
I know they think that, anyhow, they're paying for that... but don't they have the common sense approach of not wasting electricity?
That just gets me!
I know, I'm showing my age...

... and yes, it's illegal here too (France) to drive and use a phone, but people keep doing it, and people have accidents, and people die and.... the law is rarely reinforced... so

big kids with toys are what people are when it comes to modern living...

Besides it's proven that, to drive, one needs both ears because we guide ourselves with our ears too!

Anyway, as some DR here and I often say.... "Its so hard to live in such an imperfect world when one is so perfect!" <sight>

LOL!

JMK · « **Reply #185 on:** January 08, 2005, 05:07:06 PM »

Quote from: Panni on January 08, 2005, 04:49:01 PM

I have a question, DRs. (It's a technical thing for a script.) If a person were driving on a highway from one place in Iowa to another place in Iowa, would one refer to driving on the "Interstate"...? This may seem like an odd question, but I hate to get things like this wrong (it's just in the Stage Directions) - and I don't know much about the proper references when it comes Interstate and Freeway, et al.
Thanks in advance.

I've driven quite a bit in Iowa, and I have heard people say both "the Interstate" as well as "the freeway", but, even more commonly, "I80", or "the 20", or whatever particular number they were going to use.

JMK · « **Reply #186 on:** January 08, 2005, 05:09:17 PM »

Quote from: Charles Pogue on January 08, 2005, 03:26:41 PM

The Lovely Wife and I are about to depart in this grim-grey, drizzling crap to go and see the Lemony Snickett film. It better be worth it. Yuck! I just want to curl back in my warm bed and read or sleep.

Well, I hate to break it to you, but....

It may make the real gray and drizzling crap seem scintillating by comparison.

Jane · « **Reply #187 on:** January 08, 2005, 05:10:14 PM »

Panni, my first reaction was freeway or highway, since you were not traveling across a state line. I asked Keith and he said, east coast would be highway. They question is what does someone in Iowa say-our guess highway.

François de Paris · « **Reply #188 on:** January 08, 2005, 05:14:51 PM »

What do they say in Iowa???

Something like this!
(With or without a cell-phone!)

All I Owe Ioway

Marty:
I can hear 'em callin' hogs in the clear Ioway air,
I can sniff the fragrant whiff of an Ioway rose!
Chorus:
You've got Ioway in your heart!
Marty:
I've got Ioway in my hair!
I've got Ioway in my ears and eyes and nose!
Oh, I know all I owe I owe Ioway,
I owe Ioway all I owe and I know why.
I am Ioway born and bred,
And on Ioway corn I'm fed,
Not to mention her barley, wheat, and rye!
Marty and Chorus:
I owe Ioway for her ham and her beef and her lamb,
And her strawberry jam, and her pie!
Marty:
I owe Ioway more than I can ever pay,
So I think I'll move to Californi-a!
Chorus:
What a shame!
Emily:
What a shame! (What a shame!)
What a shame! (What a shame!)
Chorus:
You'll be good and gosh-darn sorry when you go.
Man:
Don't I know!
Emily:
When you leave your native state,
You'll be feelin' far from great!
You'll be good and gosh-darn sorry when you go!
Marty:
I'm a seed of Ioway grain.
Emily:
You're a breeze that Ioway blue. (?)
Marty:
I'm a drop of Ioway rain!
Emily and Chorus:
You're a drip of Ioway dew!
Emily:
Oh, I know all I owe I owe Ioway.
I owe Ioway all I owe and I know why.
I am Ioway born and bred,
And on Ioway corn I'm fed,
Not to mention her barley, wheat and rye!
I owe Ioway for her ham and her beef
And her lamb, and her --
Heppenstahl:
Strawberry jam!
Melissa:
...and her pie!
Heppenstahl:
I owe Ioway more than anyone should owe,
So I think I'll start in owin' Idaho!
Emily:
All together!
All (and Hepp. backing):
What a shame! (What a shame!)
What a shame! (What a shame!)
You'll be cryin' like a baby when you go!
Heppenstahl:
Don't I know!
When I leave my native heath,
With my lip between my teeth,
I'll be bawlin' like a booby when I go!
Emily:
You're a seed of Ioway grain,
You're a breeze of Ioway blue. (?)
Abel (drunken):
I'm a drop of Ioway rain!
Melissa:
You're a drip of Ioway dew!

Jane · « **Reply #189 on:** January 08, 2005, 05:15:58 PM »

Panni, I posted before reading what JMK had to say. Is anyone here from Iowa?

François the only place I don’t worry about leaving lights on is in Las Vegas, what’s the point. I know what you mean. It seems just about every work person who comes here leaves lights on. I have also gone around when company was here and turned lights of behind them. I have one friend who leaves the refrigerator open all the time. She is a very good friend so I just yell at her.

Jane · « **Reply #190 on:** January 08, 2005, 05:20:05 PM »

This official site mentions highways, not freeways.
http://www.state.ia.us/government/dps/isp/

Panni · « **Reply #191 on:** January 08, 2005, 05:23:00 PM »

Thank you, DRs. Highway it shall be.

Francois - You'll be glad to know that I always turn off the lights, etc. in a hotel room - leaving only one bedside light on (if it's night) so I won't come into a dark room.

Panni · « **Reply #192 on:** January 08, 2005, 05:28:33 PM »

For Dog Lovers - a wonderful Peanuts today.

Snoopy is in his writer mode, sitting on the roof of his dog house, pounding away at his typewriter.
Panel 1
He writes; "All his life he tried to be a good person..."

Panel 2
"Many times, however, he failed, for after all, he was only human."

Panel 3:
"He wasn't a dog."

Panni · « **Reply #193 on:** January 08, 2005, 05:29:43 PM »

Quote from: Jane on January 08, 2005, 05:20:05 PM

This official site mentions highways, not freeways.
http://www.state.ia.us/government/dps/isp/

Thank you, DR Jane!

Jane · « **Reply #194 on:** January 08, 2005, 05:39:20 PM »

I have a question. Does anyone know an easy way to find information on an artist? We have a painting, the first item we purchased as a couple for our first apartment. It is of a beautiful Hindu, Indian woman. Interestingly we noticed Penny has a painting by the same artist. His or her name is Stephenson. It looks like that anyway. He/she painted in oil on acrylic or formica. We purchased ours in 1969. At the time we purchased it my grandfather, an art dealer, was familiar with the artist. I can’t remember what he told us. I think my grandfather said the artist was a he, and as I’m typing this I’m suddenly thinking he said the woman was the Stephenson’s wife. For all I know the two glasses of wine I drank are enhancing my memory or just making it overly creative.

The point is, does anyone know how I might find this painter? We have been unsuccessful in our attempts.

François de Paris · « **Reply #195 on:** January 08, 2005, 05:40:29 PM »

Quote from: Jane on January 08, 2005, 05:15:58 PM

I have one friend who leaves the refrigerator open all the time. She is a very good friend so I just yell at her.

.... and does she shut up... her mouth?

--Is she one of those people who wonder if the light stays on when the door is closed??

OH! I get it!!
It might be that, since people are in the City of Lights.... like Vegas, I guess!
Never thought of that!

TCB · « **Reply #196 on:** January 08, 2005, 05:40:31 PM »

Quote from: bk on January 08, 2005, 04:30:27 PM

The rain just keeps comin'. There has been so much rain in the last there days that we now have the phenomenon known as the pot hole occuring here and there. The little side street that leads to Carny's and Staples and Jerry's and Bed and Bath is almost undriveable so littered with pot holes is it.

Staples and Jerry's? Is that where they
sell edible frozen office supplies?

François de Paris · « **Reply #197 on:** January 08, 2005, 05:46:40 PM »

Quote from: Panni on January 08, 2005, 05:23:00 PM

Francois - You'll be glad to know that I always turn off the lights, etc. in a hotel room - leaving only one bedside light on (if it's night) so I won't come into a dark room.

I am NOT surprised because I would not have thought you could be one of those....

Oh, people also do leave the light in bathrooms! (AND much more than that but we won't discuss -- disgust?! -- this!!!)
Now, I guess they must do the same at home!

Jane · « **Reply #198 on:** January 08, 2005, 05:47:58 PM »

Panni you are welcome-and thanks for the laugh.

Jane · « **Reply #199 on:** January 08, 2005, 05:49:16 PM »

Quote from: François de Paris on January 08, 2005, 05:40:29 PM

.... and does she shut up... her mouth?

--OH! I get it!!
It might be that, since people are in the City of Lights.... like Vegas, I guess!
Never thought of that!

François yes she does.

Keith started laughing at me turning off all the lights in the hotel room in Vegas –“just look out the window”. Even if you turn them off, if you are lucky enough to have your bed “turned down” and a candy placed on the pillow, then all of the lights will be on when you return to your room.

François de Paris · « **Reply #200 on:** January 08, 2005, 05:51:39 PM »

Quote from: TCB on January 08, 2005, 05:40:31 PM

Staples and Jerry's? Is that where they
sell edible frozen office supplies?

Oh, don't say that TCB!
I once had an ice cream with a staple in it that got pinned in my tongue!
True story!
The good part? I got the ice cream free!

François de Paris · « **Reply #201 on:** January 08, 2005, 05:55:28 PM »

Jane;

"Basics": have you done a Google search for that painter?

Just a thought!

Jed · « **Reply #202 on:** January 08, 2005, 05:56:19 PM »

Why, oh why must I be a diehard Seattle Seahawks fan?!?!? Such a frustrating thing to be.

Jed · « **Reply #203 on:** January 08, 2005, 05:58:10 PM »

I shall now drown my sports-induced sorrows with copious amounts of Dr. Pepper.

bk · « **Reply #204 on:** January 08, 2005, 06:01:43 PM »

I have finished watching Der Frosche mit der Maske - it's one of the best of this series. The series got a bit strange after the first couple of years, but The Frog with the Mask (or Fellowship of the Frog as it was called in the US) is pretty straightforward and, for a 1959 film, surprisingly violent. I'll try Attack of the Mushroom People next but if it's not to my liking I may move on to something else. But before I do anything else let me just

Limbo!

TCB · « **Reply #205 on:** January 08, 2005, 06:01:52 PM »

Quote from: Jed on January 08, 2005, 05:58:10 PM

I shall now drown my sports-induced sorrows with copious amounts of Dr. Pepper.

At least, dear cyber son, I can now go drown my Seahawk's sorrows in baseball history for the next few hours.

Jed · « **Reply #206 on:** January 08, 2005, 06:03:42 PM »

Quote from: TCB on January 08, 2005, 06:01:52 PM

At least, dear cyber son, I can now go drown my Seahawk's sorrows in baseball history for the next few hours.

Continued broken legs, dear cyber-dad!

Jane · « **Reply #207 on:** January 08, 2005, 06:10:18 PM »

Quote from: François de Paris on January 08, 2005, 05:55:28 PM

Jane;

"Basics": have you done a Google search for that painter?

Just a thought!

Multiple times!!!

Jane · « **Reply #208 on:** January 08, 2005, 06:12:11 PM »

Quote from: François de Paris on January 08, 2005, 05:51:39 PM

I once had an ice cream with a staple in it that got pinned in my tongue!
True story!
The good part? I got the ice cream free!

That is all? Ouch! I'm sure the cool ice cream felt very soothing.

François de Paris · « **Reply #209 on:** January 08, 2005, 06:22:53 PM »

Quote from: Jane on January 08, 2005, 06:12:11 PM

That is all? Ouch! I'm sure the cool ice cream felt very soothing.

Yes, but the vanilla turned a little pink from the blood!
(Sorry for my being "gross"!)

That was many years ago in Toulouse (I did not win!!) on my way first time visit to Spain (Pain before Spain!!

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