Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on October 26, 2025, 12:36:55 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes tried but failed not to faint, and now it is time for you to post until the fainting cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: FLAIR!
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A Very Happy Birthday to (former) DR Jed!
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Good morning, friends.
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And others.
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Sunday.
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Not Sundae.
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singdaw, it's looking like a bright shiny Millstone Day ahead.
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Good morning, all!
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I am listening to Rubbra's Mass, performed by the Fleet Street Choir. Next up: Vaughn Williams' Mass performed by the same group.
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I slept poorly. The cats behaved, but I kept waiting for a repeat of the ringing doorbell, which never happened.
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I have no plans for today.
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I don't know how I missed The Curase of Drankenstein in 1957; my brother Macbeth and I saw every horror film that played in Middletown. I didn't see it until much later, after I had seen its sequel The Revenge of Frankenstein. I guess my first Hammer horror film was Horror of Dracula., which really terrified the eleven-year-old me.
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Good morning, all.
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:D Good answer!
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Good morning, all.
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I made it to rehearsal in time.
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But I am still tired.
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Sadly, the toilet tank fix has been declared a fail. The gaskets or whatever simply wouldn't work on this old toilet. We couldn't make them watertight - which is kind of their only job, right? We'll replace the whole thing.
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In other news, Almost Famous was quite wonderful. The staging is stupendous, but even more important, I found most of the music to be good. Especially the second act songs, for whatever reason. And I'm grateful that the venue mercifully did not blow out our eardrums as could have happened in a typical Broadway production of this sort today. I have no idea how similar this incarnation is to what was on Broadway, but the creatives retooled it, and they announced that this will be the version that's eventually licensed. Not that I can imagine an amateur group pulling it off to any decent degree. But this was a treat.
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Mindset vibes for MR BK.
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Good morning.
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There are several 50's/60's Hammer films onDEMAND at TCM this month,
I may watch a couple of them today.
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Does anyone know a British film called The Cool Mikado?
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Jon Provost posted pictures of June Lockhart and wrote about her on his Facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/jon.provost.31
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I watched (and probably fell asleep to) The Curse of Frankenstein on TCM several nights ago. I love the Hammer films, but I don't think any of their classic horror ever truly scared me. They're more like horror comfort food, or something to be admired, than something actually scary.
So what did scare me in those impressionable years? The Roger Corman films based on Poe stories hit me in just the right place for that. The first three or four of them truly did it, and I loved them for that and many other reasons. Those are favorites to this day.
Also back then: Mario Bava's Black Sunday and Black Sabbath, William Castle's Sardonicus, Strait-Jacket and The Night Walker, and my first time seeing Psycho which was in a re-release. Returning to Hammer, I was appropriately unnerved by their "psychological horror" films whose titles escape me at the moment. Likewise, the American ones such as Robert Aldrich's Baby Jane and Charlotte. Those were truly scary to me then, and I still love all of them now.
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Does anyone know a British film called The Cool Mikado?
I sure don't! Reading a Wiki page about it now.
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Notes dabbed. Cleansed.
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Sorry the toilet tank innards replacement did not succeed.
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Page Duo
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Sorry the toilet tank innards replacement did not succeed.
There are few disappointments like toilet disappointments, DR Rodzinski. :)
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The most popular Grandma who gave out cookies, I love your Halloween "costume" ;D
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Whew!
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Sadly, the toilet tank fix has been declared a fail. The gaskets or whatever simply wouldn't work on this old toilet. We couldn't make them watertight - which is kind of their only job, right? We'll replace the whole thing.
Darn. Who will you have do the work?
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Jon Provost posted pictures of June Lockhart and wrote about her on his Facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/jon.provost.31
Thank you for the link.
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Sorry the toilet tank innards replacement did not succeed.
There are few disappointments like toilet disappointments, DR Rodzinski. :)
;D
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I am trying to get motivated to fill out my ballot so I can mail it in tomorrow.
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I am trying to get motivated to fill out my ballot so I can mail it in tomorrow.
Sending motivation vibes!
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You're welcome DR JANE.
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Toilets Can Be Temperamental
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I have made a tuna casserole since it is a bit cool today - and will be for the next few days.
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Boston Celtics play some time today.....so I will check that out and watch Luka Garza do his thing - so to speak.
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Free for all day:
Did your mom watch a particular soap opera back in the day?
Were/are you a fan of a particular soap drama?
My mom always watched As The World Turns.
I was a fan of The Young and the Restless and of course Dark Shadows.
As time went on I liked The Edge of Night.
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I am trying to get motivated to fill out my ballot so I can mail it in tomorrow.
Sending motivation vibes!
Thank you. I am almost done, just want to discuss a couple of options with Keith first.
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Free for all day:
Did your mom watch a particular soap opera back in the day?
Were/are you a fan of a particular soap drama?
My mom always watched As The World Turns.
I was a fan of The Young and the Restless and of course Dark Shadows.
As time went on I liked The Edge of Night.
No soaps in my house.
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DR Jrand75:
I can think of two.
The first one I remember my mom watching was Young Doctor Malone. I got into it too, for a while, so I guess that would have been during the summer when I was home. I'm pretty sure that was in 1960.
In the 1970s she was fanatical about General Hospital. Prior to one of the times she and my dad came to visit me in L.A., she wrote to them. They responded and invited us all to the studio to watch an episode being taped and to meet the cast. That was December 1975, and it was undoubtedly the highlight of that trip for her. They were all very friendly and gracious hosts. That was at KABC on Prospect Ave.
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Free for all day:
Did your mom watch a particular soap opera back in the day?
Were/are you a fan of a particular soap drama?
My mom always watched As The World Turns.
I was a fan of The Young and the Restless and of course Dark Shadows.
As time went on I liked The Edge of Night.
My mom really liked "Peyton Place" - which I think was on twice a week in prime time. (She pretty much always worked during the day.)
I got hooked on "Dark Shadows," which I couldn't always watch because of school.
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DR Jrand75:
I can think of two.
The first one I remember my mom watching was Young Doctor Malone. I got into it too, for a while, so I guess that would have been during the summer when I was home. I'm pretty sure that was in 1960.
In the 1970s she was fanatical about General Hospital. Prior to one of the times she and my dad came to visit me in L.A., she wrote to them. They responded and invited us all to the studio to watch an episode being taped and to meet the cast. That was December 1975, and it was undoubtedly the highlight of that trip for her. They were all very friendly and gracious hosts. That was at KABC on Prospect Ave.
That's great about General Hospital
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I'm sure there were others for her in all the years I wasn't around to be aware of them. I don't recall getting hooked on any myself, except for that one year with Dr. Malone!
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Blueberry pie with a crumble topping.
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Blueberry pie with a crumble topping.
That looks so great!
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Blueberry pie with a crumble topping.
Yum.
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I've been watching The Barber of Seville on PBS "Great Performances from the Met." I'm not crazy about Bartlet Sher's direction - he has an ugly set and doe the score enough - but the musioc is wonderful and funny. The three leads - Aigul Akhmetshina (Russian) as Rosina, Jack Swanson as Almaviva, and Andrey Zhilikhovsky (Russian) as Figaro - are quite wonderful and very funny. Jack Swanson is very funny in his disguises. The mezzo-soprano, attractive but no beauty, has an amazingly flexible voice for the coloratura role, and the two men are also quite good looking.
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I now have a second British arranging student. We meet on Facetime this Thursday.
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Earliest memories are The Young & the Restless.
Then, many years of my sisters and I watching ABC soaps. Ryan’s Hope, Loving, and the big 3: All My Children, One Life to Live, and General Hospital.
I hit tired of that and revolted one year in high school and changed to CBS to watch Guiding Light.
Kinda faded after that.
Much of this was during summers only.
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What a nice world where General Hospital invites your mom to watch.
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Over the years I watched Another World, Dark Shadows, Edge of Night, Guiding Light, Search for Tomorrow, Santa Barbara and Somerset.
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Oh, and Days of Our Lives.
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Page turn!
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Three!
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I searched the files. Five years, Jane mentioned The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry. I started it this morning and am really enjoying it. Jane, did you ever read it?
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:D Good answer!
(https://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=8127.0;attach=27737)
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I made it to rehearsal in time.
Great! I made it to today's performance on time. :)
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Sadly, the toilet tank fix has been declared a fail. The gaskets or whatever simply wouldn't work on this old toilet. We couldn't make them watertight - which is kind of their only job, right? We'll replace the whole thing.
At least, you won't have to worry about it again for many years!
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In other news, Almost Famous was quite wonderful. The staging is stupendous, but even more important, I found most of the music to be good. Especially the second act songs, for whatever reason. And I'm grateful that the venue mercifully did not blow out our eardrums as could have happened in a typical Broadway production of this sort today. I have no idea how similar this incarnation is to what was on Broadway, but the creatives retooled it, and they announced that this will be the version that's eventually licensed. Not that I can imagine an amateur group pulling it off to any decent degree. But this was a treat.
Very cool!
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Does anyone know a British film called The Cool Mikado?
Not I. But I have heard of a version called The Hot Mikado.
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I searched the files. Five years, Jane mentioned The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry. I started it this morning and am really enjoying it. Jane, did you ever read it?
My book group read it in 2014. Overall I did. I remember it made for a good discussion.
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I made it to rehearsal in time.
Great! I made it to today's performance on time. :)
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John, I'm wondering why I mentioned the book five years ago ;D
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Whew!
Yup...yet again!
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I am trying to get motivated to fill out my ballot so I can mail it in tomorrow.
I need to, too! There's a drop box just a block from my house, so that's a convenience for me.
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Free for all day:
Did your mom watch a particular soap opera back in the day?
Were/are you a fan of a particular soap drama?
My mom always watched As The World Turns.
I was a fan of The Young and the Restless and of course Dark Shadows.
As time went on I liked The Edge of Night.
Yes, but I don't know which one.
No.
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John, I'm wondering why I mentioned the book five years ago ;D
You mentioned you were waiting for it while I was talking about two other books.
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Trying to finish the movie The Girl in the Cafe. It’s sweet.
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DR Jrand75:
I can think of two.
The first one I remember my mom watching was Young Doctor Malone. I got into it too, for a while, so I guess that would have been during the summer when I was home. I'm pretty sure that was in 1960.
In the 1970s she was fanatical about General Hospital. Prior to one of the times she and my dad came to visit me in L.A., she wrote to them. They responded and invited us all to the studio to watch an episode being taped and to meet the cast. That was December 1975, and it was undoubtedly the highlight of that trip for her. They were all very friendly and gracious hosts. That was at KABC on Prospect Ave.
That's very cool, ChasSmith!
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Blueberry pie with a crumble topping.
(https://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=8127.0;attach=27739)
I want that! :D
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I've been watching The Barber of Seville on PBS "Great Performances from the Met." I'm not crazy about Bartlet Sher's direction - he has an ugly set and doe the score enough - but the musioc is wonderful and funny. The three leads - Aigul Akhmetshina (Russian) as Rosina, Jack Swanson as Almaviva, and Andrey Zhilikhovsky (Russian) as Figaro - are quite wonderful and very funny. Jack Swanson is very funny in his disguises. The mezzo-soprano, attractive but no beauty, has an amazingly flexible voice for the coloratura role, and the two men are also quite good looking.
(https://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=8127.0;attach=27741)
'Ve never seen the whole opera, but there are a few numbers that I've enjoyed.
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I now have a second British arranging student. We meet on Facetime this Thursday.
Congrats, Larry!
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I am trying to get motivated to fill out my ballot so I can mail it in tomorrow.
I need to, too! There's a drop box just a block from my house, so that's a convenience for me.
Still, best to do it before the 4th.
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John, I'm wondering why I mentioned the book five years ago ;D
You mentioned you were waiting for it while I was talking about two other books.
Thanks, still doesn't fit my time frame, or my memory is off which is possible.
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I'm up, I'm up - nine hours of sleep.
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In the midst of eating a Chinese chicken salad from Stanley's.
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Very good.
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One item posted so far - a Holy Grail for Sam Peckinpah collectors - a one-sheet from The Getaway. Yes, there are zillions for sale on eBay but only ONE like mine - the film originally had a score by Jerry Fielding (The Wild Bunch) but Peckinpah didn't like it and it was replaced by one fro Quincy Jones. Warners had sent out advance one-sheets with Fielding as composer, recalled them and destroyed them. Only a handful have survived - I've only seen two in all these years.
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After seeing a few sixes, Keith was pleased to get Wordle in three.
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It's after 6 Eastern time already
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We really need to get to page 4
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It should be somewhere around here
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Maybe right after this page turn?
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PAGE FOUR!
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Bad day for the breath issues. Just trying to relax but it's really hard.
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Sure hope they can figure this out.
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And soon.
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By noon.
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With a spoon.
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Humming a tune.
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Can't croon.
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Guess I'll try and watch something.
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Not really in the mood, though.
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DR CHAS SMITH what a wonderful GH story.
DR JOHN G reading your list you may have seen one of my favorite actors Joel Crothers.
In the early days of the inner net....a seller on EBAY offered a video tape of the last week of Edge Of Night featuring Joel....formerly of Dark Shadows.....I bought it and may still have it somewhere.
He also appeared on Somerset.....
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Joel on Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Crothers
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Sure hope they can figure this out.
Did you see your doctor yet? He/she really should listen to what is going on and make sure your lungs are clear.
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Sunday evening greetings! I’ve been at my craft desk most of the day taking a virtual workshop with my sister (in Michigan) and my niece (in Florida). There were classes yesterday, too, but I’ll have to make those up after we get back from grandson George’s baptism (next Sunday).
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Catching up on a few episodes of 9-1-1.