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[Jrand74]

What?

[Jrand74]

I told you.

[Jrand74]

HA! I work in theatre so I know and have had issues with several folks who are wrong.

And I have a friend who insists that the expression is "mute point" not "moot point" but I finally let it go.

[Laura]

So I see on the innerwebs that the Supreme Court has been asked to overturn the gay marriage issue.

[Jrand74]

But my favorite was on, of course Facebook. It was in a group called You Must Have Been Born In Mooresville If.....

Someone was talking about when Michael (Little Joe) Landon visited Mooresville....one guy jumped in and said "Yes, he was here with Barbara Eden and my father drove them around town in his convertible."

Well I knew that Michael Landon had been in town in January and Barbara Eden had been in town a couple of years later during the summer.  I mentioned that.....

[Laura]

HA! I work in theatre so I know and have had issues with several folks who are wrong.

And I have a friend who insists that the expression is "mute point" not "moot point" but I finally let it go.

I beg your pardon. It's "moo point."

[Jrand74]

Oh no, he insisted I was wrong and that he was in the car with them both.....and I should just shut up.

Well it was very easy to find local news reports on newspapers.com that showed photos and dates of the two separate visits.

So i posted those I said....here ya go!

[Jrand74]

To his credit he did say....."Oh, I guess you're right....and I should stop telling that story...."

LOL.

[John G.]

That was a waste of my time. No. Not interested in a 10-hour a day sales position.

[John G.]

I think I have been as guilty of having false memories as the next person. But unlike many, I will admit when I am wrong.

[Freddie]

Oh no, he insisted I was wrong and that he was in the car with them both.....and I should just shut up.

Well it was very easy to find local news reports on newspapers.com that showed photos and dates of the two separate visits.

So i posted those I said....here ya go!

In a similar vein, I think -

We were at a small dinner party where the hostess and Anita Gillette were drying dishes after the dinner and Skip was at the piano playing show tunes, while the hostess and Anita Gillette were singing while they were drying the dishes. 

My mom loved telling this story to people at the game room at the Miami senior activity place but somehow one time I heard her tell it, the story had evolved to the dinner party being at Skip and my place.  I mentioned this to Mom, and Mom wondered why it made a difference to anyone playing Bingo or cards in Florida at WHOSE apartment it had happened - and I guess she was right.  To Mom, it just felt like one of those stories, that her son's husband was playing piano while "Anita Gillette from all the Broadway shows" she'd seen in Broadway's golden age was singing show tunes while drying dishes, sounding as good as she did decades earlier,  and just being regular folk.

[Freddie]

That was a waste of my time. No. Not interested in a 10-hour a day sales position.

[ChasSmith]

I pride myself on the accuracy of my own memories, but I've learned that they aren't perfect. Yes, it certainly is surprising or even a little upsetting when I research something or other and am faced with the fact that I've "remembered" something completely wrong for 50 or 60 years. No question about it. Damn it, I LIKE that memory, don't go changing it on me! BUT... I accept the evidence and move on.

[John G.]

The Count of the Old Town was Ingrid Bergman’s first talkie. She’s possibly even more luminous than she was in Notorious. When she smiles, she lights up the screen.

[Freddie]

HA! I work in theatre so I know and have had issues with several folks who are wrong.

And I have a friend who insists that the expression is "mute point" not "moot point" but I finally let it go.

So you decided in the future to stay mute on it?

[John G.]

And it’s a comedy, so she’s smiling a good deal.

[ChasSmith]

I wonder how many movie theeders in the U.S. of A. you could bring up in conversation, and get the zillions of incorrect "memories" thrown at them that the Cinerama Dome inspires. My guess is not very many.

It must be a phenomenon more associated with places that are universally recognized and unique, such as the Dome or the Chinese in L.A. Or maybe it's the most famous one in ANY given town that people there will respond to in the same way. Bizarre.

[John G.]

Pardon my French, but I just came across a recipe with the shitty name: Fatheree’s Grand Champion Cow Patty Pie.

[Freddie]

I know I saw one of the child-role understudies for Laura Bell Bundy on RUTHLESS off-Broadway, but I can't figure out whether the understudy I saw was Britney Spears or Natalie Portman. So I know I saw one of them being really good in the child role but (at least for now) I am fully aware that I have no idea which one.

I'm thinking one day when I'm even older than now, my elderly mind will choose one of them and in senior telling of what shows I'd seen, I'll say I saw her go on as an understudy, long before she was super-famous.

[George]

Must get ready for interview.

Break a Leg, John!

[George]

George, thanks for posting those most excellent pictures of yesterday's PFLAG event in last night's posts!

You're welcome, Freddie!

[George]

George, thanks for posting those most excellent pictures of yesterday's PFLAG event in last night's posts!

DITTO!

You're welcome, Singdaw!

[George]

TOD: there's always the option of letting it go and letting them stew in their delusion.

[George]

So I see on the innerwebs that the Supreme Court has been asked to overturn the gay marriage issue.

Why the f*ck would they even think about doing that??

[George]

To his credit he did say....."Oh, I guess you're right....and I should stop telling that story...."

LOL.

Good for him!

[George]

That was a waste of my time. No. Not interested in a 10-hour a day sales position.

Darn.

[George]

Pardon my French, but I just came across a recipe with the shitty name: Fatheree’s Grand Champion Cow Patty Pie.

[George]

I know I saw one of the child-role understudies for Laura Bell Bundy on RUTHLESS off-Broadway, but I can't figure out whether the understudy I saw was Britney Spears or Natalie Portman. So I know I saw one of them being really good in the child role but (at least for now) I am fully aware that I have no idea which one.

I'm thinking one day when I'm even older than now, my elderly mind will choose one of them and in senior telling of what shows I'd seen, I'll say I saw her go on as an understudy, long before she was super-famous.

I saw a production of Children of Eden back in the late '90s in Issaquah, Washington, and it wasn't until years later that I found my program and saw that Cheyenne Jackson was in that production! 

[George]

And before that, my family saw the Broadway tour of The Secret Garden and again, I found my program years later and saw that Amanda Naughton (from Remember WENN playing Martha), Roger Bart (playing Dickon) AND Audra Ann McDonald (playing Ayah) were all in that production before I knew who any of them were! ,D

[George]

And now...