tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-241447432024-03-12T22:15:46.572-05:00Blogged Down At The MomentThink of it as Seinfeld meets Erma Bombeck...who talks a lot.Mariann Simmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974827167853824792noreply@blogger.comBlogger413125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24144743.post-75636162477691396742016-12-10T21:38:00.000-06:002016-12-10T21:38:14.611-06:00A Messy House Could Save Your Life<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A new German study conducted by the Schlaswursen Clinic in Wiesbaden, Germany,
has found out that housework can actually be hazardous to your
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"We've always been told that a clean and tidy house is the ideal
standard." Dr. Karl Gottschald stated before a symposium of colleagues in
Lucerne, Switzerland this past Friday. "We have found a marked correlation
between hospital visits and housekeeping.", Gottschald continued.<br /><br />The study states something which isn't entirely new, but the mechanism
behind the facts has exposed something which has not come to light until just
recently, which is: Most falls which occur in the house are done when trying to
clean, typically in the bathtub and lifting/moving furniture when trying to
vacuum beneath them.<br /><br />In the past, it was assumed that these falls in
the bath were done when bathing or showering, but that is not the case; they
occur when trying to clean the tub and the shower. "That's when most serious
slips happen; it's very rare to find a patient seeking help while in the nude.
They are typically fully clothed when the paramedics arrive at the scene or when
they enter hospital on their own for treatment." Dr. Janus Rothchilds, from
Aerohospital Sud in Geneva, Switzerland said. "Lifting injuries, as well as
sometimes fatal cranial ones, tend to occur when people reach to get something
down from a high place to dust around it. They strain the wrong way or fall
from ladders all the time. If they just let the dust accumulate, these
accidents would be totally avoided." Rothschild stated.<br /><br />The study went on
to find that most hazards in the house were slipping from cleaning tubs/shower
enclosures and mopping floors, and falls from standing on ladders to clean on
top of shelving.<br /><br />"These things simply do not have to be done. People
can learn to live in houses with dust and germs. In fact other studies have
proven a germ-free environment makes us prone to more infection. This is the
science behind why antibacterial soap for the home has been discontinued from
the market." Gottschald said.<br /><br />"In fact, we're nearly done with our newest study which will conclusively
prove that a house with more clutter causes less injuries than one which is free
of debris." Dr. Lars Schmidt from Schlaswursen Clinic announced. "People tend
to be a bit more careful when they walk when they know they can hit their foot
on something or trip and fall; those in cleaner houses walk faster and with less
eye contact with the floor, which then leads to more broken toes. Also, the
plain reality is that a highly waxed kitchen or bathroom floor actually causes
more hip injuries from slips and falls than all ice-related ones
combined."<br /><br />Schmidt ended the lecture by saying, "While we are not
telling people they never have to clean again, we are telling them a little dirt
never hurt anyone, in fact it might save just your life."<br /><br /><br /><br /><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">A similar <a href="http://www.kingston.ac.uk/news/archive/2005/january/17-messy-bedroom-could-spell-end-for-creepy-crawlies/" target="_blank">study</a> in 2005, conducted at Kingston University in
London, extolled the virtues of the unmade bed. </span></i></div>
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Mariann Simmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974827167853824792noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24144743.post-64158932536712391352016-04-01T08:20:00.002-05:002016-04-24T22:16:24.027-05:00A New Strain of Rabies: Of Mammoth Importance<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Anyone who remembers watching <i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The </span>Discovery Channel's</i> "Raising the
Mammoth" a few years back will know these things had fur and meat on
them. They were literally big frozen Mammothcicles and they got them
out of the ice in one big block.<br /><br />Well, preliminary data is all
but done with - with a few newer tests as more scientific data becomes
available and invented. That's all good. The bad part is that a
completely archaic strain of rabies has been released by accident in the
lab when the Iditarod pack of dogs started chowing down on some tasty
meaty bones. It was not until one of the dogs bit their handler when
they realized the present-day shots did nothing to stop this unknown
archaic strain. The dog was put down and the handler was given a series
of the shots, twice, to try to counteract this unheard of strain.<br /><br />Rabies is pretty much 99.9% fatal if not treated early...once it
progresses there is no turning it back. Only two people in recorded
history have ever survived a rabies bite without getting the shots.
Death by rabies is not at all pleasant. No word yet on how the doubling
up on shots is working. "It's still too early to tell," said Dr. Ben
Rudolph, one of the paleoscientists spearheading the project. "This
certainly was an unforeseen event, but a lucky one that it happened here
in isolation and not when we got back to the labs in California and
Reston, Virginia." Reston being the scene of the breakout of monkey Ebola in 1987, in which they were not certain if the strain cross species or was even airborne.<br /><br />Could anything go wrong with this? "We feel certain we've done all we
could and all dogs remain in isolation at the Northern Base. One did
have to be killed in order to ascertain the diagnosis of this form of
"new old" rabies. It's a very thrilling time for us...so witness a
disease which might have been responsible for deaths of many animals,
including human. This is what we live for, we hope for things like
this, but few never happen, at least not too many that get leaked out
like this one was." Dr. Timothy Scheleppe added.<br /><br />Dr. Scheleppe issued this statement to the press:<br /><br />"There's not a
whole lot of way to get rabies...but we're not positive with this one,
so that's why we are treating it with the utmost respect. We have
issued a recall with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the
"Mammoth Skin Chews" distributed at various Petsmart and Petco stores in
the United Stated and Canada, Great Britain, Hong Kong, Sydney,
Australia, parts of Portugal, Iceland, New Zealand, and the Maldives.
The FDA's home site will have more info about how to properly collect
the sample and place into a haz-bag for shipping. All materials will be
sent to those individuals who have them (or pieces of them left) -
information can be found at the FDA's site. Until you get your haz-bag
we ask that you do not touch the area and wear gloves and vigorously
scrub any area that it might have come into contact with - with
distilled vinegar after which a mild corrosive known primarily to acid
wash/etch in ground concrete/gunite pools. All this info is listed on
the FDA's site.<br /><br />We do not recommend anyone be in the room until
it has been safely and properly cleaned up. All clothing and shoes,
rugs, and other items which have come into contact with it should not be
sat on or worn. We recommend waiting for the larger "haz-bags" to get
sent to you before you go into any of those rooms.<br /><br />But,
otherwise, there have been no reports other than the first incident.
Most incidents will take place within 10-20 days from the initial
contact with Mammoth Skin Chews. We ask that do you not return them to
the store of purchase at this time.<br /><br />Thank you."<br /></span></div>
Mariann Simmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974827167853824792noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24144743.post-7480616637438209582016-04-01T08:17:00.001-05:002016-04-01T08:19:40.691-05:00A New Strain of Rabies: Of Mammoth Importance<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Anyone who remembers watching "Discovery Channel's" "Raising the
Mammoth" a few years back will know these things had fur and meat on
them. They were literally big frozen Mammothcicles and they got them
out of the ice in one big block.<br /><br />Well, preliminary data is all
but done with - with a few newer tests as more scientific data becomes
available and invented. That's all good. The bad part is that a
completely archaic strain of rabies has been released by accident in the
lab when the Iditarod pack of dogs started chowing down on some tasty
meaty bones. It was not until one of the dogs bit their handler when
they realized the present-day shots did nothing to stop this unknown
archaic strain. The dog was put down and the handler was given a series
of the shots, twice, to try to counteract this unheard of strain.<br /><br />Rabies is pretty much 99.9% fatal if not treated early...once it
progresses there is no turning it back. Only two people in recorded
history have ever survived a rabies bite without getting the shots.
Death by rabies is not at all pleasant. No word yet on how the doubling
up on shots is working. "It's still too early to tell," said Dr. Ben
Rudolph, one of the paleoscientists spearheading the project. "This
certainly was an unforeseen event, but a lucky one that it happened here
in isolation and not when we got back to the labs in California and
Reston, Virginia." Reston being the scene of the breakout of Monkey Ebola in 1987, in which they were not certain if the strain cross species or was even airborne.<br /><br />Could anything go wrong with this? <br /><br />"We feel certain we've done all we
could and all dogs remain in isolation at the Northern Base. One did
have to be killed in order to ascertain the diagnosis of this form of
"new old" rabies. It's a very thrilling time for us...so witness a
disease which might have been responsible for deaths of many animals,
including human. This is what we live for, we hope for things like
this, but few never happen, at least not too many that get leaked out
like this one was." Dr. Timothy Scheleppe added.<br /><br />Dr. Scheleppe issued this statement to the press:<br /><br />"There's not a
whole lot of way to get rabies, but we're not positive with this one,
so that's why we are treating it with the utmost importance. We have
issued a recall with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the
"Mammoth Skin Chews" distributed at various Petsmart and Petco stores in
the United Stated and Canada, Great Britain, Hong Kong, Sydney,
Australia, parts of Portugal, Iceland, New Zealand, and the Maldives.
The FDA's home site will have more info about how to properly collect
the sample and place into a haz-bag for shipping. All materials will be
sent to those individuals who have them (or pieces of them left) -
information can be found at the FDA's site. Until you get your haz-bag
we ask that you do not touch the area and wear gloves and vigorously
scrub any area that it might have come into contact with - with
distilled vinegar after which a mild corrosive known primarily to acid
wash/etch in ground concrete/gunite pools. All this info is listed on
the FDA's site.<br /><br />We do not recommend anyone be in the room until
it has been safely and properly cleaned up. All clothing and shoes,
rugs, and other items which have come into contact with it should not be
sat on or worn. We recommend waiting for the larger "haz-bags" to get
sent to you before you go into any of those rooms.<br /><br />But,
otherwise, there have been no reports other than the first incident.
Most incidents will take place within 10-20 days from the initial
contact with Mammoth Skin Chews. We ask that do you not return them to
the store of purchase at this time.<br /><br />Thank you."<br /><br /></span></div>
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<br />Mariann Simmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974827167853824792noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24144743.post-75980224940788964282015-12-25T04:53:00.000-06:002015-12-25T04:53:11.309-06:00No, Virginia, There Is No Santa Claus<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Below is the never before published "private" reply to eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon's letter to <i>The (New York) Sun</i> asking if there was indeed such a person as Santa Claus. This private reply was written by the paper's editor, Francis Pharcellus Church, and hand delivered to Virginia by courier shortly after the "cleaned up" version was published on 21 September 1897.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Francis Pharcellus Churd hand delivered by courier on behalf of the paper shortly after their "cleaned up" version was printed on 21 September 1897.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Virginia's beloved letter (suspected of actually being written by her father -- who is oft-times regarded as the "Founder of the 'Viral Video' of His Day") is known far and wide as one of the most heartfelt and touching dialogues ever printed -- predating "Dear Abby" and paving the way for the popular "Question and Answer" segments featured in countless newspapers and magazines, world-wide. <br /><br />This never before disclosed discourse is as follows:</span></div>
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Dear Editor—<br /><br />
I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa
Claus. Papa says, "If you see it in The Sun, it's so." Please tell me
the truth, is there a Santa Claus?<br /><br />
Virginia O'Hanlon<br />115 West Ninety Fifth Street<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /><br />No, Virginia, there is no Santa Claus.<br /><br />Forgive me for being so blunt, but...the fact of the matter is -- there is no Santa Claus. Your "little friends" are right; your parents have misguided you...and you trusted them. This parent/child bond is now forever broken and, sadly, one day you will probably need therapy. And when I say "one day", I mean...you will need years and years of weekly therapy by a trained psychoanalyst, at the unheard of fee of $30.00 per session to rid you of your trust issues. <br /><br />Honestly, from this point onward, you will look back and wonder -- while you are lazily gazing out of your classroom's window, years from now -- when you are lying, spent, on your back looking up at the ceiling after a lover's encounter, or tomorrow -- when you are in bed, head under the covers, trying to fall asleep...those thoughts will creep into your mind and you will undoubtedly have flashbacks of various things your parents have assured you about over the years. <br /><br />Things such as: <br /><br />"Am I really an only child?" <br /><br />"The Easter Bunny - another sham to make me behave?" <br /><br />"Did my pet goldfish really safely swim out of his bowl to the East River to be reunited with his family that one day when I went to grandma's for tea?" <br /><br />"Are there really no monsters under my bed, especially now, because I'm lying wide awake in my bed for hours on end, and...for some inexplicable reason my father and mother always close the door after they shun my requests for a kiss 'goodnight' -- and, would they even hear my muffled cries for help if a monster got me?"<br /><br />Absolute poppycock and pure hogwash, Virginia! In fact...chances are that's not even your REAL name. By that I mean -- yes, it's your name <i>now</i>...but, before you were adopted (and by this abject refusal of affection your "parents" deny you, chances are good you aren't even remotely related to them...or perhaps you are the bastard child of that aunt they never speak of) it was probably something else. But, it might have been Elsie or Gertrude, so consider yourself lucky, in a way.<br /><br />Lastly, there are probably no monsters under your bed...but this made up creepy fat guy in a red suit shimmying down your chimney to gain access into your house just to poke around in your sock drawer because he has a stocking fetish...well, let's just say the monsters are the least of your worries, my dear!<br /><br />In closing, I wish you the best of luck with the rest of your life, trudging onward from this point, being hounded by the press and taunted by your so-called "little friends" up until the day you die -- as I'm going to publish your full name and address in our paper, haha!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />Or as <i>"Santa"</i> would say (if he existed, but my dear delusional child...rest assured, as best you can in your bed, late at night -- the very same bed without the monster under it -- he certainly does not) -- "Ho! Ho! Ho!"<br /><br />-- Regards, F. P. Church, Editor<br /><br /><br /></span></div>
Mariann Simmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974827167853824792noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24144743.post-37929889448355148862015-11-26T02:39:00.000-06:002015-11-26T02:39:13.601-06:00Stuffing vs Dressing<i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The following is an homage to Facebook quizzes and the age-old "Stuffing vs Dressing" debate. I hope you enjoy it as much as your tryptophan high.</span></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Which Thanksgiving side dish are you?<br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> You are stuffing.
That's right, you are stuffing, not dressing. Dressing is what you pour
on a salad and it has flavours like "Blue Cheese" and "Thousand
Island". Have you ever eaten Thousand Island dressing inside a turkey?
It's not good. It's hideous. That's why you probably won't find one
recipe for it online, unless it was written by your drunk, gun-wielding
uncle whose name was Bob. Everyone used to have a drunk uncle named
Bob...until that commercial for erectile dysfunction came out and
everyone laughed at "Smiling Bob" as he was doing things like getting "a new swing
on life" with his golf-loving lady friends and had a smirk on his face
that made Bruce Willis' look like he was sucking on a lemon...a lemon
which used to be sucked on by Rene Zellweger (with her cute scrunchy
visage) until she got her face all whack by "not having" plastic
surgery.<br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Lemon, by the way, you can shove up a turkey's butt and
is tasty, but Lemon Joy dishwashing detergent, not so much. Remember
that time in the mid-1970s where you actually tasted that strawberry
"Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific" shampoo? It was friggen awful! That's
why you don't see Lemon Pledge commercials anymore as people were
probably inadvertently huffing it and dying. Thanks a lot, Lemon
Pledge, as now I have that song, "Lemon Pledge, very pretty, put the
shine down lemon good..." stuck in my head. Face it...she was inhaling
WAY too much of this product to be that happy whilst dusting.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And, if your friends give you any grief over calling it stuffing...well,
tell them to shove it! Shove it where the sun don't shine because no
one uses Lemon Pledge anymore!<br /></span><br /></span> <br />
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<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span>Mariann Simmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974827167853824792noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24144743.post-43834907514172649102015-08-12T20:59:00.003-05:002015-08-12T21:23:01.883-05:00Remembering Robin <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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year ago I was sitting on my butt on an ugly sofa in a pretty nice
apartment feeling sorry for myself. If you don't know the story -- here
it is in a nutshell: A tree fell on my house a little over a year ago -
the end of June in 2014. It barely missed my son as he sat in front of his
computer in his bedroom. You really don't want to have a tree fall on
your house -- the impact is something you will never forget and the
fright which I felt -- not knowing where to go or what to
do...well, is something I would not want to have anyone feel. The sofa
and apartment, all all other amenities save for clothing and personal
belongings was provided to my son, my daughter, and myself through my
insurance company. They let you "have" stuff until you move back into
your house. In my case it took nearly a year -- a divorce and a
re-divorce (yes, there is such a thing), no job, no parents (or
relatives to speak of other than my children), a contractor issue, and
kitties in a boarding place...really gets old after awhile and gets to
be quite depressing. Really depressing. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">But not as depressing as the news of the day - which was Robin Williams' death</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I remember the first time I saw Robin -- it was on some "Evening at the
Improv" or some such show which aired really late on television on the
weekend. You know the kind -- they had about five comics coming on,
each doing their bit -- and, if you're lucky, you laugh. Comedians were
a mainstay on "The Carson Show" and "Letterman" back in the day, and,
back in the day, they had three channels and you waited all weekend for
things like cartoons and comedy shows. They didn't have cable - they
didn't have cussing -- and they didn't have overly sensitive politically
correct comedians coming on and trying in vain to entertain you. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Anyway, this was a hair's breadth away from seeing Robin (and, yes, who
wasn't on a first-name basis with the man) make his "Happy Days" debut
and then get catapulted into TV sitcom fame with "Mork and Mindy". A
couple people came on beforehand and then Robin hit the stage...and he
hit it like a bolt of lightning. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Out of the blue this guy came on and television was never the same. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Now there were stand-up comedians before and after...but not with the
(again with the) lightning wit of Robin (in my opinion). Whenever Robin
was on a talk show, you knew you were in for a treat. Some people
seemed to never "get" him and others just couldn't get enough <i>OF</i> him. I
fell into the latter category. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So, naturally, when the news
broke...I broke down into tears. I'm in tears typing this. What a sad,
sad day in history...but...let's put aside the sadness and also the
rules of this group...and please share some of your fondest memories of
the wonderful, irreplaceable Robin Williams, below.</span></span><br />
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So, I'm sitting here minding my own business on Facebook a few minutes ago...when this story popped up on my Facefeed...so, naturally, I decided to make fun of it. I don't know how things like this get published and I certainly hope they got paid what I thought it was worth to write it. Seriously...people get actual real money for this drivel? I also hope you enjoy it somewhat...and, yes, feel free to share it. Share it on Reddit and Twitter and hashtag sites and MomMe and every other damn website that could possibly start paying me to write content for them. Whatever that Grumpy Cat person did? Do that. Do that a lot for me. Yes, I'm dead serious. <br />
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I think you have to read their article first and then mine for it to make any real sense...so...just skip down first and then scroll back up when you've read it and then read mine. This was written by Lisa Copeland...who, I'm thinking, is a self-professed "Dating Coach for Women Over 50". Yes, it actually says that in the blog...so I'm giving her full credit for it.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Okay, let me get this straight here...but...let me straighten you out
here...these are my five "new and improved" tips for approaching men in
real life...<br /><br />Make eye contact with him for a full five seconds. Hold his face steady for all five of the seconds...and employ one or both hands to do so.<br /><br />I have to ask him a question...such
as..."Hey, there are 17 other empty chairs in this Starbucks - at six
other tables...but, I like this one the best because the sun is in my v<span class="text_exposed_show">ernal
biological equinox...do you mind if I sit here and stare at you a
while?" Or, perhaps..."I'm thinking of getting a blue Mercedes likes
yours parked outside...would you recommend it? Oh, you're not the guy
with the blue Mercedes? Okay...um...well...um...the Earth's orbital
rotation just shifted a bit...I'm going to have to ask if that other guy
over there's chair is taken...sorry."</span><br /><br />Let him answer a question you have for him...such as, "Um...is that
your blue Mercedes in the parking lot with the out of state plates? Are
you interested in picking up someone from their house for dinner with
you in your blue Mercedes with the out of state plates?"<br /><br />Take a
cue from an old "I Love Lucy" show - and shove as many chocolate
bon-bons into your mouth as you can at one time...sorta like Lucy and
Ethel did in the "Candy Making" episode. Trust me...I'm sure you'll get
his attention with this one a LOT better than dropping some cheap cell
phone you just picked up at the Dollar Store for the sole purpose of
dropping and shattering in front of him.<br /><br />Lastly...and I quote from her article and not mine: "His job is to ask you out if he's interested in
you. If he's not, it doesn't mean he's personally rejecting you. He
might be married, have a girlfriend or you might not be his type." Hmmmm...I'm thinking "...might not be his type" is possibly "dating tips for women over 50"
code for "he's gay"...but, apparently they couldn't come right out and
say that because...apparently we are still dropping handkerchiefs as
fast as instilling old Victorian sexual mores on clichéd dating tips
websites.<br /><br /><br />This was fun...maybe we can do it again some day. <br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Mariann Simms aka Mariann Eperjesi is a freelance writer who is currently writing whatever she can to get noticed by anyone who will employ her for doing so. She can be found most nights totally perplexed by what she reads online...and can be found at her blog, "Blogged Down at the Moment". She is the founder of the interactive comedy website, "HumorMeOnline.com" although it is currently off-line at the moment, but can be found if you use a search engine. She is also the 2003 Grand Prize winner of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest.</i></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">I also apologize for nicking a photo off the Internet. As soon as I get my stuff back in the house (a tree fell on my house the end of June and we aren't back in there yet)...I will start taking my own photos again. If you are the owner of this photo and I have infringed on any copyright you may have on it and have an issue, please just inform me and I will remove it promptly. Thank you.<br /></span></i><br /><br /><br />Mariann Simmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974827167853824792noreply@blogger.com48tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24144743.post-32637183951126364112015-04-04T06:31:00.001-05:002015-04-04T07:11:14.062-05:00I Don't Love Lucy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I had some fun tonight. I don't know how many
of you saw the article online which was petitioning the town Lucille
Ball grew up in to have a "likeness" of her removed. It is a bronze
sculpture of the beloved "I Love Lucy" star who seems to be holding what
looks to be a fifth of gin and a spoon to ladle it down with. While
that line is [sort of] from "My Fair Lady"...the statue certainly is not a fair
lady by any means.<br /><br />I realize it probably is Lucy from one
of her iconic episodes in which she shows up at Ricky's show after she
schemes her way into the good graces of the station manager in order to
do a live, on-air commercial for "<span class=""><i>Vitameatavegamin" - </i>a
tonic which will "pep you up" - but is mostly alcohol. It's quite a
riotous display of her comedic tongue-twisting ability. Ability is
something which this sculptor, Dave Poulin, seems highly lacking.</span><span class=""><br /><br />Please
don't get me wrong...I can't even draw a proper stick figure and all my
"saw-blade" Christmas trees I'd been forced to make out of construction paper, paste, and glitter each year in grade
school for my parents could never look the same on both sides. I am
not, and never will be...artistic. But...I can tell crap when I see
it. I saw a lot of it just a few minutes ago.</span><span class=""><br /><br />Out
of sheer curiosity, I looked up this guy...as the article did say the
man responsible for starting the brouhaha over the statue, stated</span>
he "didn't want to disparage the artist's entire body of work,
saying Poulin has other works that are quite good, but this one needs to
go." So, I Google'd. I figured there must be some mistake...like maybe
the bronze mold blew a gasket or something...or, more than likely,
someone made up an April Fool's Day thing and it took a couple days to
get going.<br /><br />It wasn't.<br /><br />Click after click on
his "Dave Poulin Sculptor" website -- I was more mortified than the
last. I decided I would start naming each one - and while I was
copy/pasting each photo to my Facebook account, I titled each one. One
of my friends asked me to make a blog with all of them in one fell
swoop, and I am duly obliging. I honestly was laughing at some of my
titles...which is rare for me to do. I don't sit around maniacally
laughing at my own stuff as some people probably think I do. I do it
rarely. I laughed a few times with these...and, with any luck, you
will, too. (I hope Mr. Poulin has a sense of humour.)<br /><br />I'm just going to copy/paste my stuff over from my Facebook page without cleaning it up or editing it...so you can see the spontaneity. I was churning thee out like a madman...or madwoman, as the case may be. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Please click on each image to view it larger and in all its glory...cough, cough.)</span></span><br />
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I call this one "Boo!" Scary monster child frightens woman to death.
This is done by the same guy who did that horrid Lucille Ball sculpture
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I think it's just leaves. So I shall call this one, "In the book it
says...206 bones in the human body and the sculptor didn't give me one
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Here's a link to the original story: <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/lucille-ball-fans-want--frightening--statue-in-star-s-hometown-removed-215927032.html" target="_blank">I Love Lucy Statue</a><span data-reactid=".m6.1:3:1:$comment10152921930364125_10152921961374125:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".m6.1:3:1:$comment10152921930364125_10152921961374125:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".m6.1:3:1:$comment10152921930364125_10152921961374125:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".m6.1:3:1:$comment10152921930364125_10152921961374125:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><br /></span></span></span></span>
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instituted an amendment to ban the use of the word "dam" at all of its
structures. This applies also to the use of the words in all of its
brochures, signs, and websites.<br /><br />The case "Somerset Vs.
the State of Colorado" has set a legal precedent, which, if passed, will
open the floodgates to the term "dam" being stricken from all U.S.
river landmarks.<br /><br />Georgina Somerset said she was upset
over the recent expulsion of her six-year-old daughter, Regina, from
school after using the word "dam" repeatedly. The Colorado school
district of Boulder has a strict "no curse" policy. When her daughter
recently went on a family trip during Spring break, she had seen 13 of
the 14 dams in Colorado.<br /><br />"It was a learning experience
for us all." stated Mrs. Somerset, whose family embarked on the trip
traversing about 750 miles in total. "We saw nearly every single one,
and during the trip we all sang a song about dams that my husband, Tim,
made up to keep the kids entertained. Tim's always making up songs when
we go places and we all sing them. We sang, 'Fourteen dams in
Colorado, fourteen dams on our trip...pass one by and what do you get?
Thirteen dams in Colorado'." It was sung to the tune of 'Ninety-nine
Bottles of Beer on the Wall'. We had hoped to see them all, but car
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Regina returned to school on Monday, she was singing the song during art
class, coloring away, when the teacher told her it was wrong to say
that word. First grade teacher, Ms. Lazenby, said, "I didn't think
much of it, in fact, I kinda stifled a laugh. But I quietly told her
not to say that word and I thought that was the end of it."<br /><br />But
it was not. Three of her classmates, who were not identified because
of their age, told their parents, who promptly made calls to the Boulder
Colorado Board of Education demanding that six-year-old Regina be
suspended from school pending further notice.<br /><br />Boulder
Colorado School Superintendent, Miles Ramey stated, "We had no choice.
We have a strict "no cursing" policy in our school district and we had
to adhere to it. Because Regina repeatedly mentioned the word 'dam' we
had to count each time as an offense and our only recourse was
expulsion. It is of no consequence that she meant the word 'dam' and
not 'damn'. We have no proof the parents made up this song on the
trip. They could just be fabricating this after the fact. Regina used
the word 'dam' or 'damn' and we can't make an exception for one child and penalize
another -- we have to adhere to the same rule for all."<br /><br />Regina's
parents, Georgina and Timothy Somerset, have filed a petition against
the state of Colorado to change the word so they can have their daughter
reinstated in school and have it removed from her record. Their
attorney, Aaron Greenburg, stated, "We have filed a motion for the state
of Colorado to rescind the use of the word 'dam' and change it to
another word which is not easily mistaken for a curse word. Some words
on our suggested list are 'dorge' (a combination of 'dam' and 'gorge') and
'rivam', (a combination of the words 'river' and 'dam'). I am
confident this law will pass. I remember getting my mouth washed
out with soap on quite a few occasions when I said the word 'dam' as
well. I think we all remember such things and the backing of people on
Georgina's Facebook page, 'Dam it already!' has had over 130,000
'likes'."<br /><br />As for little Regina, she just remembers the
trip was fun. "It was fun. My brothers got to pee-pee off the side of
each dam, but Mommy and me had to go behind the car. It wasn't fair."<br /><br />Yes, things are not always fair, Regina. You certainly know that for certain now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Reuters: Cadbury Chocolates has teamed with Peeps, the marshmallow confectionery company best known for its Easter chick and bunny treats, to make a chocolate covered Peep which has a runny creme "egg" center.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The British chocolatier, which outraged U.S. fans from coast to coast,, was recently bought out by Kraft from Hershey's, which promptly changed the recipe to one of a less "desired" consistency...removing the fat content, and all the flavour. The U.S. public was "not amused" by this and the ban of importing the British version was met with harsh disapproval.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">But now it all seems that this is water under the bridge, or across the pond, as the case may be, and the British Cadbury company has, for a limited time only, been allowed to sell the prohibited pieces which have been fetching a cost-prohibitive amount as soon as they hit the shelves.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"We've not seen anything like this." Terrence Howard of Cadbury U.K. has stated, "It's like someone invented a Cadbury 'Cabbage Patch Elmo' . I've seen the 6-packs of them being sold at online auction sites for well over £ 25 each (that's $37.00 in U.S. dollars) and the demand just keeps increasing." </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So, check your Easter baskets, as the bunny which hid those eggs, might have laid some golden ones inside instead.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span>Mariann Simmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974827167853824792noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24144743.post-28020031087455624972015-03-01T18:43:00.000-06:002015-03-01T18:43:38.217-06:00March Is Like...Other Things, Too<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In America, we have the saying "March comes in like a lion and goes
out like a lamb". In other places, it can get a bit...well, different.
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Poland: March is like a polka...it's much better when you are just drunk the whole way through it.<br /><br />North Korea: March...it's what we do best...especially in parades to honour our Dear Leader.<br /><br />Russia: March is like Kremlin when it comes in and goes out with KGB never to be seen again.<br /><br />Italy: March comes inna like-a Mario anna goes outta like a faster
Mario, wassa matter you no know this, eh? (There are also several hand
gestures that go along with it...but since we don't have video...you
have to just imagine.)<br /><br />France: March comes in like a hamster and then comes back to taunt you a second time.<br /><br />Scotland: March comes in like a sheep...and is lucky to get back out.<br /><br />New Zealand: March comes in like Peter Jackson filming "Lord of the
Rings" and goes out leaving all this shit for us to clean up after him.<br /><br />Norway: March comes in like that salted licorice and goes out like a herring.<br /><br />Canada: March comes in and stays in...it's cold here, dammit! We're near the Arctic, ay?<br /><br />Columbia: March comes in like a drug lord and goes out like a shipment of cocaine.<br /><br />Ireland: March comes in with green beer and goes out like green pee.<br /><br />Oprah Winfrey's House: March comes in with Gayle...yet continues to go out with Stedman.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span></div>
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heights? Think again. While we're not saying one llama is blue and one
is white...or one is gold and one is black...like that dress...what we
are saying is that both llamas are exactly the same size.<br /><br /></span></div>
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an optical illusion" stated Dr. Rafe McPherson of Wills Eye Hospital in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. "It's like when our cones and rods can't
distinguish what colour that godawful looking dress is which is making
the rounds on the Internet. Whatever colour it is, you can rest assured
it's still an ugly dress. The llamas, on the other hand, are quite the
opthalmological enigma. They look different in size because of the
perspective of the camera. They are, pretty much, give or take an inch
or two, the exact same size."<br /><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://time.com/3725528/dress-explainer-white-gold-blue-black-science/" target="_blank">Black or White or Gold or What?</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">(Llamas - exactly the same height.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"Our eyes are trained, from
an early age, to see things the way the brain wants to perceive them,"
Todd Renquist of Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital in Melbourne,
Australia, stated. "Sometimes they are completely wonky and it takes a
good whack on the head or a bit of Photoshopping to make one...well, see
the light...perspectively speaking."<br /><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It is refreshing to
know in a world quick to make something go viral that not all things are
easily passed around. The photo known to a select few as "Bob Inhales
His Own Phlegm" has been such a secret on the Internet that a Google
search doesn't even turn anything up. <br /><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"'Bob
Inhales His
Own Phlegm' is one of the best kept secrets of both eye specialists and
photography, I'm talking serious photography buffs, for about three
decades now," Nathan Roberts of the Rotterdam Eye Hospital in the
Netherlands, said. "It's mesmerizing in its own way. I have a
gelfotograf of it in my office and my colleagues often bring by their
newest interns to see it. It's a marvel to behold. I can't really say
anything other than that about it - you really have to <i>SEE</i> it to believe
it. It defies explanation."<br /><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So, while the world ponders
if it's black or blue or white or gold, keep in mind that phlegm has
been every single colour of the rainbow, and then some.</span><br />
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<br /><br /><br /><br />Mariann Simmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974827167853824792noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24144743.post-15173059447002372682015-02-08T15:31:00.002-06:002015-02-08T15:35:59.879-06:00You CAN Dance if You Want To<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Now, I am a tiny thing and never had a weight issue...but I honestly
can understand some issues bigger/fatter/fluffier people go through.
"How would you know, Mariann?" you might be asking me about now.<br /><br />My best friend in grade and high school was really overweight. Back then, in the 1970s, it seemed more people
were of the thin variety, at least in Jersey where I lived. I would
hear all the nasty comments people would say to her when we were in school and when we went p<span class="text_exposed_show">laces together. It was especially brutal when we went to the beach...the comments nearly made me cry. I don't know how she endured them, but she did.</span><br /><br />She was also an excellent gymnast and superbly graceful in general. I would LOVE
to see more people who weren't in so-called "perfect" dancer bodies on
television and in movies.<br /><br />I'm an avid classic film lover...we're talking from
the beginning of film here...not talking the 1970s or '80s. Films from
the 1930s, especially, had a lot of chorus line premises and dancers in
them. You know what the first thing I notice when I'm watching any of these? They aren't totally buff
and they have little flabby areas on their legs and tummies -- and, in my opinion, it makes it all so much more worthwhile and enjoyable to see.<br /><br />I
think if more people were subjected to seeing plus-size models and
bigger dancers...we'd have a more realistic and satisfying approach to
how we all perceive ourselves when we look in the mirror. I think it's
high time we placed more "weight" on how we are inside and how we treat
people than on how fantastic we look half naked.<br /><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">Here's the story which inspired me to write this:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.upworthy.com/people-with-fat-bodies-went-on-stage-because-they-wanted-to-see-how-people-would-respond?c=ufb2" target="_blank">People With Fat Bodies Went On Stage Because They Wanted To See How People Would Respond</a></span></i></span></span></span></div>
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Mariann Simmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974827167853824792noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24144743.post-21421708652270809182014-12-08T01:00:00.001-06:002014-12-08T06:30:58.593-06:00My Tribute to John Lennon<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A sad, sad day in history. John Lennon was murdered.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I
remember talking to my mother in the living room when my father came out
of his bedroom about midnite and said that John Lennon had died. I
told him that I didn't think his joke was at all funny (my father was
notorious for thinking his "jokes" to piss my mother off were funny - so
I assumed this was one on me) - but he insisted he just saw one of
those "We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming for this
special news bulletin..." things they would run before the dawn of
24-hour news channels on television. I flipped the television on and
there was nothing...so that furthered infuriated me that my father would
make such a flippant remark regarding the death of someone I "grew up
with" and loved. Then I turned to the radio station, WMMR in
Philadelphia, as no one in their right rock and roll mind in the
vicinity of the broadcasting airwaves of WMMR would listen to anything
other than that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">They were playing a Lennon song. I thought to
myself, "Well, that's quite coincidental..." but as they did typically
play Beatles songs...and songs of them individually, I thought the
timing was a bit odd...but, again, in disbelief that he had died, I
waited. The next song they played was another Lennon one, but figuring
this was, technically, Tuesday...and "MMR" (as we called it) played "Two
for Tuesdays" songs, this was again, nothing atypical.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">When the
next song was his...then it began to have some credence. When they
broke after that song, they did indeed state that "Lennon had died of an
apparent gunshot wound."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I don't think I will have to describe
what anyone with any regard for life was thinking. I was thinking this
was not true...that someone couldn't have done this...this is a man
who, while sometimes embroiled in controversy, was just a man who sung
songs we all enjoyed at one point or another in our lives. Hell, my
father, who was born in 1914, and always told us to "turn that damn
music down already" had asked me once who was singing a song that I had
on...it was "Happy X-mas (War is Over)" by John and Yoko. He said it
was "really pretty".<br /><br />This man, who even made my father say a nice
thing about a "hippie with long hair", was now dead -- never to pen
another song, sing another note, nor cause another issue for the media
to blow out of proportion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I don't know how many of you have ever
seen "A Hard Day's Night" - but, if you haven't, you really should --
it's one of the best films ever made and, in it, you will probably fall
in love with the extremely likable persona who <i>was</i> John Lennon. While
I used to love Paul back in the day...I grew to like John later in
life...and then later still, after his death, I grew to admire and
respect George most of all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">But John will always hold a special
place in my heart...and that heart broke...along with so many
others'...when that bullet broke the silence back on this December day
in 1980.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">(You have my permission to share this write-up/article. If you like it, please share away.)<br /> </span></i></div>
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Mariann Simmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974827167853824792noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24144743.post-40166680444259330522014-12-06T03:14:00.001-06:002014-12-06T03:14:11.783-06:00Hollywood Re-do-over and Over and Over...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I'm going to get back in the swing of things and start updating this again. I think not writing makes me more depressed. With that said, I belong to a "Classic Film Page" on Facebook, and about a month ago we started playing "a game". This game was pretty much the same as many of the contests at my humour website, <a href="http://www.humormeonline.com/" target="_blank">HumorMeOnline</a> - specifically the "Tweak of the Week" contest, where I invented a LOT of contests featuring films.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">While I don't have the passwords (long story - go ahead and ask) to update my contests any more, a couple people decided to monopolize the thread on the old film page and "tweaked" a film title and the plot as well -- and then sat back and waited for people to laugh and laugh. Well, that last part didn't happen too much, but I saved a lot of my movies for purposes such as "Updating My Blog One Day" and that time, anyone who is reading this now, is now. I hope you smile at least a little with one or two of these. Also, it helps if you know OLD films.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".18w.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562471517185718:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".18w.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562471517185718:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".18w.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562471517185718:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">"The
Wizard of Ozzie" -- Ozzie Osbourne sets off on a journey with a couple roadies
to find his brain...but, along the way...the Wicked Witch of the Rest...of Black
Sabbath -- tries to foil his plans by making him fall asleep on a field of opium
poppies. When he wakes up, Ozzie totally forgets what he was doing (easy to do
without a brain) and now is too "paranoid" to continue...muttering incoherently
to himself and calling out, "Sharon! Can you ******* believe it.?
Poppies!"<br /></span></span></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".18w.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562471517185718:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".18w.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562471517185718:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".18w.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562471517185718:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">Okay, I think you get the gist of it...I will continue...on and on and on...kinda like when I talk. ;)</span></span></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".18w.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562471517185718:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".18w.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562471517185718:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".18w.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562471517185718:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".18w.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562473273852209:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".18w.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562473273852209:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".18w.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562473273852209:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">The
King and A.I. -- Yul Brynner plays the King of Siam who hires a robotic boy to
teach his children English. As time passes he begins to care for this child and
would like to adopt him as his own. And, as a sign of good faith, decides he,
too, will learn the ways of the boy's land...in fact...changing the whole
culture of Siam and renaming it (yes, wait for
it)..."Westworld".</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".18w.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562471517185718:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".18w.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562471517185718:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".18w.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562471517185718:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".18w.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562477147185155:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".18w.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562477147185155:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".18w.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562477147185155:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.0"><span data-reactid=".18w.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562477147185155:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.0.$end:0:$0:0">Mr.
Blandings Un-Builds His Dream House -- Cary Grant and Nathan Lane team up for
uproarious farce about a couple of guys who have to take apart a glorious house,
piece by piece, in rural Connecticut just to rid the place of a pig. Armed with
an arsen</span></span><span data-reactid=".18w.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562477147185155:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3"><span data-reactid=".18w.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562477147185155:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0"><span data-reactid=".18w.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562477147185155:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$0:0">al
of weaponry all along the way they continually try to pummel the poor porcine to
death to no avail -- until their sassy maid steps in, hands them each a baseball
bat and remarks, "If you ain't going 'wham', you ain't killing
ham!<br /><br /><br /><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".18w.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562481177184752:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".18w.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562481177184752:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".18w.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562481177184752:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">S*it
Happened One Night -- Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert are at it again in this
sequel to "It Happened One Night" - but, due to them both being on an alcohol
bender, neither knows what happened -- all they DO know is that something
happened because they both wake up in jail. Going before the judge, the still
somewhat drunk and quite profane Gable (probably influenced by Carole Lombard
who was known to curse like a sailor) retorts, "Well, judge...s*it happens! In
fact s*it happened one night!" Everyone laughs and the judge, who is clearly on
the payroll of Ellie's rich father, let's them all go. </span><br data-reactid=".18w.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562481177184752:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$1:0" /><br data-reactid=".18w.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562481177184752:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$3:0" /><span data-reactid=".18w.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562481177184752:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$4:0">Don't
forget to stay tuned for the sequel to the sequel, hitting theatres this summer:
"S*it Happened One Night Again?"</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".18w.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562471517185718:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".18w.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562471517185718:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".18w.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562471517185718:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><br /><br /><br />This might be my personal favourite:</span></span></span></span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".8a.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562550830511120:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".8a.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562545777178292:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".1va.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562496320516571:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.0"><span data-reactid=".1va.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562496320516571:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.0.$end:0:$0:0"><br /><br /><br />"Snow
White and the Se7en Dwarves" -- You thought sloth, greed, gluttony, lust, pride,
wrath, and envy where bad? A young and innocent girl comes to learn the ways of
seven little men when she enters "The Cottage". Set among a pleasant forest
back</span></span><span data-reactid=".1ef.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562488433850693:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-reactid=".1va.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562496320516571:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0"><span data-reactid=".1va.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562496320516571:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$0:0">drop
dwell a group so depraved mere words cannot describe. Led by someone they call
"Doc" -- they all whistle a happy tune while scenes too shocking and too
disturbing unfold. We WILL NOT be held responsible for what happens after you
sit down. Dare you set foot inside your own local theatre this coming
Thanksgiving Day? The screams you hear just might be your own.<br /></span><span data-reactid=".1va.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562496320516571:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$4:0">This
film is rated PG Se7enteen.<br /><br /><i><br />Or maybe this one is:</i></span></span><br /><br /><br />"A
Bard's Day Night" -- The "Fab Four" are off on another escapade, but this time,
the English they're speaking is Shakespeare! Yes, you heard it right, all you
mods and rockers -- instead of John asking, "Please mister, can we have our ball
back?" and George saying "I wouldn't be seen dead in them. They're dead grotty."
they'll be saying such gems as, "What round orb through yonder window breaks?
Please, O kind and most noble sir, can we perchance have it back?" and "I'd
gladly suffer the sting of a bare bodkin to mine own eyes and pluck them hither
to lie with my worm'ed corpse ere I'd touch the skin of that fabric to mine own
nakedness!" </span><br data-reactid=".1ef.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562488433850693:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$1:0" /><br data-reactid=".1ef.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562488433850693:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$3:0" /><span data-reactid=".8a.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562545777178292:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">So
get on board with "The Beatles" as they prove yet again...all the world's their
stage and they are merely players...of their new hit album due out in record
stores, January 5th!<br /><br /><br />"Quits
a Wonderful Life" -- George Bailey's bank is missing $8000.00 and he figures
life would indeed be easier for his family if he just ended it all after the
town bully/curmudgeon reminds him that he's "worth more dead than alive." An
angel steps in to intervene and ends up tagging along relentlessly all day and
nite, constantly droning on and on and on and on. George then realizes the only
way to get him to shut up already is to go back to the bridge and actually
finish off what he originally planned.</span></span><br /><br /><br /><i>Or maybe I like this one -- I know it's one of my top three:</i><br /><br /><br /><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".8a.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562550830511120:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".8a.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562550830511120:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">"My
Bare Lady" -- Professor Henry Higgins takes a draggle-tailed guttersnipe under
his wing to teach her the proper way to speak the English language.
Unfortunately, Colonel Pickering never showed up from India and, without his
help, Higgins never seems to have any money to clothe her. Let's just say there
was a bit more "bloomin' arse" at Ascot than anyone ever
expected.</span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".232.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562993487133521:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".232.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562993487133521:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".232.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562993487133521:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.0"><br /><br /><br />"Beer
Window" -- Jimmy Stewart spends his days and nites stuck in a cast, stuck in his
apartment, and stuck drinking copious amounts of alcohol the entire day. To
occupy his time he's taken to staring at the every movements of his neighbours
across the way with a pair of binoculars. When he happens to witness a murder
committed by a beautiful girl, who turns out to be a middle-aged somewhat
unattractive man, his girlfriend and physical therapist confiscate his
high-power "beer goggles" and toss him out the window.<br /><i><br /><br />Not bad for a film I've never seen or really heard of...Google is a wonderful thing...</i><span data-reactid=".232.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562993487133521:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.0.$end:0:$0:0"><br /><br /><br />"Come
Back, Little Bieber" -- Burt Lancaster and Shirley Booth star in this poignant
story about an alcoholic doctor and his disinterested wife, who spends her days
just listening to crappy songs on the radio for escapism. After they take in an
attrac</span></span><span data-reactid=".232.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562993487133521:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3"><span data-reactid=".232.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562993487133521:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0"><span data-reactid=".232.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562993487133521:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$0:0">tive
female lodger, things get moving fast...but then one day, without her knowledge,
Doc gets rid of the radio but tells her it's in the shop getting fixed. She then
spends the rest of her life having hope that one day her "Little Bieber" will
indeed return to
her.<br /><br /><br /><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".232.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563001233799413:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".232.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563001233799413:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".232.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563001233799413:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">"The
Man in the Green Mask" -- What do you get when you put Jim Carrey in dual roles
in Alexandre Dumas' classic tale? Well, we're not quite sure...but it's
SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSMOKIN'! ! Yes, Jim plays twin brothers separated at birth in
this in this tale about intrigue, morality, vengeance, and well, just plain
hi-jinks thrown in for laughs. When King Louis XIV finds out about his twin, he
has him imprisoned and condemned to wear a green mask over his head so no one
can ever gaze upon his face again. But things don't go as the King plans, as the
mask he puts on his brother is none other than that of Loki, Norse God of
Mischief. Hilarity ensues when the Three Muskateers enter in upon the scene and
switch the characters around. A swashbuckling...over in your seat with
laughter...film!<br /><br /><br /><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562529980513205:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562529980513205:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562529980513205:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">"The
Sound of Muzak" -- Maria gets "trapped" in the elevator with the kids
and is forced to hear her own songs as sung by Austrian "singer" Arnold
Worsethanever.<br /><br /><br /><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562970740469129:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562970740469129:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562970740469129:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">"Paws"
-- Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, and Robert Shaw star in this
fast-paced, seat-of-your pants film which will have you terrified you
ever went near the water. A giant white cat needs to be bathed and
people are getting terrified to go near the water with her in it. Hear
the blood-curdling screams as the water fills with red as the claws
extend from...those paws! Shaw steps in and takes the challenge
head-on, rigging a giant raft on which to hold her steady as they try to
aim and shoot water from a hose at her...but the tiny inflatable is no
match as she unsheathes them once again -- prompting Brody to
state..."You're gonna need a bigger float."</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><br /><br />"<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563041753795361:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563041753795361:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563041753795361:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">Goodzilla"
-- Tokyo's favourite monster is back...but this time, instead of
smashing the city up...he's helping to rebuild it! When a massive 7.8
earthquake hits, Goodzilla comes out of the sea...to see what he can do
to help! Yes, he's letting kids ride on his back to take them to school
and helping stranded people off their apartment rooftops so they don't
end up late to work...in fact he's so good, even the mouths synch up
with the words this time! So, for a devastating...ly good time...be
sure to watch this film! We're sure Goodzilla would say, "Domo arigato,
everyone!"</span></span></span><br /><br /></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".8a.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562570483842488:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".8a.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562570483842488:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".8a.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_562570483842488:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">Yes...I loved playing this...could you tell?</span></span></span></span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563227123776824:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563227123776824:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563092803790256:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><br /><br /><br />"My
Plan Godfrey" -- Society socialite, Carole Lombard, has a plan to wed a
likeable forgotten man, played by William Powell in this madcap and
zany screwball comedy. Powell, we find out later, was from a super rich
family himself and ends up helping to restore the riches from her
father whose stock tumbled in the market. Lombard's bitter, spoiled
sister, Cornelia (played by Gail Patrick) learns a lesson in humility
and trust. In the end Carole ends up with her man, as originally
planned.<br /></span><span data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563227123776824:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">Yes,
this was the exact same story as the real movie -- but then
again...that was her plan, right? The titles could have been used
interchangeably if you ask me.<br /><br /><br /><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563175260448677:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563175260448677:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563175260448677:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">"Bell
Book and Candelabra" -- Liberace (kinda) stars in this tale about a man
who is annoyed at the fact his hated friend is marrying the guy next
door...so he casts a spell over him. After tinkling on the ivories a
bit and saying a few incantations the man is suddenly under his
spell...or is he? Michael Douglas reprises his role as Liberace and
Matt Damon plays the love interest...just like in "Behind the
Candelabra" only this one is a bit different. No, seriously, it is. No
fooling. Honestly. We promise.<br /><br /><br /><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563188887113981:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563188887113981:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563188887113981:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">"You
Can't Take it with Pooh" -- Christopher Robin's gang of friends are
being kicked out the "Hundred Acre Wood" because the big real estate
people want to put huge stores and fancy apartment buildings up in it.
Winnie and pals are delightfully zany in this film as rabbit blows stuff
up in his rabbit hutch...and Tigger dances up a mad frenzy in the
living room with Piglet -- all the while Christopher (now a grown man)
is trying to impress his quite rich fiance's parents who show up on the
wrong day. They even send poor Eeyore to the store to buy some canned
salmon because there's nothing in the house to eat...Grandfather Pooh
sees to that -- he's always got a rumbly in his tummy. By the time
Eeyore moseys on back after walking one hundred acres and back
again...the damage is already quite done. Will true love conquer all?
Will the "Hundred Acre Wood" still remain...or will it end up only being
"Owl's Little Acre" in the end?<br /><br /><br /><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563203280445875:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563203280445875:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563203280445875:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">"Last
Mango in Paris" -- Marlon Brando is a very hungry American ex-pat
living in Paris -- desperately walking the streets day and nite looking
for a mango to eat. When he finally does find one...it's old and very,
very fuzzy.<br /><i><br /><br />I rather liked this one, too -- altho I might go to Hell for it:</i><br /><br /><br /><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563217723777764:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563217723777764:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563217723777764:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">"The
Zen Commandments" -- Charlton Heston IS Buddha in this Cecil B. DeMille
production. Watch as he leads dynasty after dynasty to enlightenment
while trying to be stopped by Yul Brynner at an airport. "He is the
one...who is one with everything!" Yul finally declares as he is brought
down helplessly to his knees. A film of not really Biblical
proportions really...coming to a theatre this Christmas. Um...can we
say that? Christmas...really? Buddhists don't
celebrate...uh...well...be sure to see it soon!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><br /><br />"Thinner
at Eight" -- A stellar cast shines in this glorious comedy all about a
wonderful dinner party at affluent Milicent Jordan's house (played by
Billie Burke). The trouble is...people are cancelling, they have an
extra man coming, and, of all things that could go wrong -- the aspic
just got dropped! Jean Harlow is wonderful as the bawdy glamourpuss
from the wrong side of track trying to crack into high society with her
low-brow workaholic husband, played by Wallace Beery. Marie Dressler is
a riot knowing her looks are failing and so is her pocketbook if she
doesn't unload some of her dear friend's (played by Lionel Barrymore)
worthless stock she possesses. When everything comes to a head...right
before dinner...and since that aspic was dropped - everyone gets to go
home empty-stomached...but also a little bit lighter in their loafers.
(Hey, "gay" used to mean a whole other thing in the 30s, too...so you
know...they WERE actually lighter in their loafers - as no one got fed.)<br /><br /><br /><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563634413736095:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563634413736095:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563634413736095:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">"2001:
A Space Oddity" -- David Bowie stars as "Major Tom" in this super
stylized version of Kubrick's classic...but with a twist -- it's part
musical. HAL's not the only one singing "Daisy, Daisy, give me your
answer true..." this time around. And for those of you who are
wondering...no need to worry -- David doesn't get nearly as naked as he
did in "The Man Who Fell to Earth".<br /><br /><br /><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563675100398693:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563675100398693:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563675100398693:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">"Rosemary's
Bringing Up Baby" -- Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn are newlyweds
in this sequel to the original...and she's about to give birth! They,
of course, move in next door to some wacky neighbours who seem to be
over more often than George likes. (You know how animals are always
sensitive to these things.) As Cary finishes up his (now defunct -
because they never existed) brontosaurus, Kate's about to give
birth...to something that even Major Applegate can't flex his vocal
chords enough to reproduce that sound. Hilarity abounds and will have
you spinning...almost as often as that darned baby of their's head does!<br /><br /><br /><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563793647053505:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563793647053505:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563793647053505:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">"Rebel
Without a Pause" -- James Dean stars in this motion picture about a
teen who is filled with angst against society, his family, and his newly
found out about past. He's so enraged that he gets on a rant and goes
on and on and on and on; a never-ending diatribe, which...no one around
him manages to ever get a word in edgeways. </span><br data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563793647053505:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$1:0" /><br data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563793647053505:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$3:0" /><span data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563793647053505:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$4:0">(Yes, it's kinda like me once I get started. You should hear me on the phone...I NEVER shut up. )</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><br /><br /><i>Granted, some of these are not that great...</i><br /><br /><br /><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563800370386166:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563800370386166:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563800370386166:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">"Dr.
No Thank You" -- Sean Connery stars in this James Bond spy thriller
about an overly polite megalomaniac (played by Joseph Wiseman) who just
can't breech the rules of etiquette. "I'm sorry...where are my manners?
Please sit down and help yourself to this sumptuous meal my chef
prepared just for you before I kill you...ever so sorry about that, old
chap. Tut tut tut...that's the wrong fork, sir. Yes...no no - the one
to your extreme left...remember, always work your way from the outside
inwards as each course is brought 'round."</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563227123776824:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563227123776824:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563227123776824:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563800370386166:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563800370386166:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563800370386166:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">And some are just really not even remotely good...</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563227123776824:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563227123776824:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563227123776824:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563800370386166:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563800370386166:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563800370386166:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><br /><br /><br /><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563804217052448:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563804217052448:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563804217052448:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">"Vertiligo"
-- James Stewart stars as a retired police detective in this film about
obsession, who also happens to have a skin condition which causes him
to lose pigmentation. He meets and falls in love with the stunning Kim
Novak...but, there's only one problem -- she's not as blonde as he'd
like her...so he forces her to de-pigmentize her own lovely brown locks
in order to suit his obsessive desires.<br /><br /><br /><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563809360385267:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563809360385267:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563809360385267:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">"Mommy"
-- Ann-Margret does more acting this time around than Roger Daltrey in
the "prequel" to the hit musical, "Tommy". Find out the reason behind
why there are bubbles, chocolate, and baked beans coming out of the
television -- and why she's writhing in them like a drunken nympho.
Find out why they cast Jack Nicholson in a film where he had to sing
when clearly he can't. And, find out why creepy Uncle Ernie likes to
fiddle about so much. (Just, whatever you do, don't Google this yourself
-- or you'll end up like Pete Townshend did a few years back.)<br /><br /><i><br />Some require a bit more thought than others...</i><br /><br /><br /><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563840697048800:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563840697048800:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563840697048800:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">"Ben
Hurdles" -- Charlton Heston stars in this all-star epic film set in
ancient Rome. He plays a Jewish King sent into slavery by his former
Christian friend who betrays him and sells him into slavery. As he
seeks to get revenge there is a climactic "Chariots of Fire" moment
where he runs as fast as he can, sprinting over hurdles, to beat all the
other racers and win the gold medal in the ancient Olympics.<br /><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563227123776824:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563227123776824:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563227123776824:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563800370386166:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563800370386166:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563800370386166:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563804217052448:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563804217052448:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563804217052448:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563809360385267:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563809360385267:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563809360385267:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563840697048800:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563840697048800:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563840697048800:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">And some require less thought to be good...</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563227123776824:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563227123776824:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563227123776824:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563800370386166:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563800370386166:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563800370386166:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563804217052448:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563804217052448:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563804217052448:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563809360385267:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563809360385267:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563809360385267:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563840697048800:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563840697048800:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563840697048800:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><br /><br /><br /><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563889083710628:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563889083710628:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_563889083710628:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">"Planet
of the Grapes" -- Charlton Heston stars as an astronaut who ends up
crashing his rocket ship into the lush vineyards of San Simian.
Everywhere he looks there are drunk people wandering around making
monkeys of themselves and no one makes the least bit of sense to him.
Kim Hunter co-stars as Zima.<br /><br /><br /><i>Proof positive that not everything I think of at 4:00 a.m. is witty beyond belief -- as I always think it is when I think of it...at 4:00 a.m. -- but, at least I have enough wits about me at the time to realize it...</i><br /><br /><br /><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_564643156968554:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_564643156968554:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_564643156968554:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.0"><span data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_564643156968554:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.0.$end:0:$0:0">"Bedsnobs
and Broomsticks" -- A witch in WWII Britain comes to the aid of her
country all the while caring after two children who still have to remain
prim and proper and have high tea and pip-pip cheerio, old chap! Yes,
this film is jam packed (the </span></span><span data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_564643156968554:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3"><span data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_564643156968554:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0"><span data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_564643156968554:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$0:0">finest
money can buy in wartime Britain, you know) with hob-snobbery and
snoot-hootieness. Even the animated fish have more class in their
schools than they do in the U.S. (Sorry - it's late.)<br /><br /><br /><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_566415970124606:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_566415970124606:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_566415970124606:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">"Dromio
and Juliet" -- A couple of Shakespearean twins (played by Roger
Daltrey), separated at birth, woo Juliet at the same time...all
unbeknowst to her. One woos from the east and one woos from the
west...only no one knows which is best. Juliet is so confused that, by
the end of the play, she kills herself - but, in a most farcical kind of
way.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_572203879545815:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.0"><span data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_572203879545815:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.0.$end:0:$0:0">"The
Seven Year Snitch" -- Tom Ewell is a married man thinking about having
an affair with a gorgeous blonde who lives above him after his wife and
son go out of town for the summer. Marilyn Monroe plays the blonde who,
oddly and ironically, has no na</span></span><span data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_572203879545815:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3"><span data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_572203879545815:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0"><span data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_572203879545815:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$0:0">me.
Good thing she has no name as she's debating whether to tell his wife
about it all...and since she's nameless...the disgruntled Ewell can
never track her back down to retaliate.<br /><br /><br /><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_572205046212365:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_572205046212365:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_572205046212365:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">"Forrest
Chump" -- Tom Hanks plays a man who has always been picked on and taken
advantage of his entire life. But he's in the Army now...and things
really haven't much changed...but, he makes a really good friend, gets a
girlfriend, and meets a bunch of famous people -- and ends up being
rich in the end. And that, boys and girls, is definitely not chump
change.<br /><br /><br /><i>This is where I officially "Jumped the Shark"...</i><br /><br /><br /><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_572207919545411:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_572207919545411:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_572207919545411:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">"House
on Daunted Hill" -- Haunts, taunts, and especially daunts...this film
has them all! Vincent Price plays a millionaire who offers people a
bunch of money to stay in a spooky mansion overnite. The one who
manages to do it will get the dough...but a lot of eerie things happen
and it's much more daunting a task than they all initially considered.<br /><br /><br /><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_574995972599939:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_574995972599939:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_574995972599939:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">"Peyton
Manning Place" -- The soap opera secrets and scandals revolve around
the town quarterback and his brother, Eli, who plays for a whole other
team...if you catch my drift.<br /><i><br /><br />Altho I do like this one...which, fortunately for everone (at least for now) is my last...</i><br /><br /><br /><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_575658875866982:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_575658875866982:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_575658875866982:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.0"><span data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_575658875866982:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.0.$end:0:$0:0">"Slow
Up" -- A 60s British photographer gets caught up in intrigue in the mod
London scene when he snaps a posh bird in a toast and lark and gets his
knickers in a twist over a tuggy muggy over some bangers and mash with
his fiver in a twill. </span><br data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_575658875866982:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.0.$end:0:$1:0" /><br data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_575658875866982:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.0.$end:0:$3:0" /><span data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_575658875866982:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.0.$end:0:$4:0">Yes...yo</span></span><span data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_575658875866982:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3"><span data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_575658875866982:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0"><span data-reactid=".2o.1:3:1:$comment562430993856437_575658875866982:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$0:0">u'll
not have a clue what is happening in this film...so bring along your
Cockney Rhyming Slang to American dictionary and hit that pause button
about 5,000 times, otherwise this thing just doesn't make a bit of
"eighteen pence".<br /><br /><br /><br />Anyway, there ya go -- I think some of these were quite fun. At least I had fun coming up with them. Ahhhh...it made me wax nostalgic...for old films and for an old comedy website I used to (and still do, technically) run.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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Mariann Simmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974827167853824792noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24144743.post-88870334255233115232014-07-24T04:49:00.000-05:002014-07-24T04:49:35.199-05:00Famous (Doctor Who-themed) NYC Restaurant <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w118/HumorMeOnline/Food.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w118/HumorMeOnline/Food.jpg" height="298" width="400" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>(A photo of a kimchi and spaghetti squash dish I made because I didn't have any restaurant photos...because I never take any with my phone.)</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So, like I usually do, I'm sitting here clicking away on stupid crap
people shared on Facebook because I'm a pathetic loser and can't seem to
muster up the intelligence and wherewithal to write my book I keep
saying I will write.<br /><br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Anyway, I click on this one about a "famous NYC"
restaurant trying to figure out why they seat the same amount of people
as they did back in 2004...only now it's 2014 and they don't understand
why they keep getting bad reviews and people are complaining about h<span class="text_exposed_show">ow
long it takes, blah blah. So they pulled out an old surveillance tape and compared it to a recent one, after hiring some
firm to do some research, and they were bowled over by the findings.<br /><br /></span></span></div>
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Um...first off, if you are seating the same amount of people you were
seating in 2004...and it's 2014...and all you do is complain about how
much longer it takes as everyone is using their cell phone -- this
doesn't add up. If you are getting the same amount of people in your
restaurant as you did a decade ago...and you are serving the same amount
of people...and you didn't add a whole other room or anything...this
doesn't make sense. If you are complaining that you are getting half as
many people and it's taking the same amount of time as everyone is
pulling out their phones, then that makes sense. You can't do both. If
you hired more waitstaff...and you serve the same amount of
people...um...walk around the restaurant your own damn self and see what
is up. <br /><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Secondly, I've gone to restaurants - it takes me
forever to shut up and make my mind up. I don't need a phone to make me
indecisive...I can do it all on my own. I don't see the problem with
me taking 10 minutes to peruse the menu and talk to whomever I am with.
If you have a problem with that, I advise you to get a fast-food chain
instead.<br /><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> If people are taking photos of your food (and themselves
enjoying eating it) and talking about you on Facebook and Instagram and
you have an issue with that -- YOU have the problem. It's called "Free
Advertising" and you are complaining? Seriously???<br /><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> I could add
three more things here, but I'll save you all the boredom...the article
was written 21 July 2013 and you have 2014 figures? You should have
known this ahead of time if you are capable of time travel. If you are
capable of time travel - just pick the winning lottery numbers and get
out of the restaurant business.<br /><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> So...I call "bullshit" on this entire story...which can be found here:<br /><br /><a href="http://themetapicture.com/people-kept-complaining-this-restaurant-sucked-look-what-they-found-out/" target="_blank">Famous NYC restaurant<br /><br /></a></span></div>
Mariann Simmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974827167853824792noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24144743.post-54757450836318644012014-03-15T08:44:00.000-05:002014-03-15T08:44:25.593-05:00Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 - My Thoughts<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Okay, I know I'm not that technologically advanced and all, but, in this
day and age, you'd figure they have ways to implant certain technology (maybe
hidden technology) into aircraft and big passenger conveyance-type
vehicles...so, if they get lost, or crashed, or hijacked, or abducted by alien
beings...we'd have some way of finding them. At first I was thinking,
"Okay...yeah...they 'lost' it...in other words, 'it crashed'. They don't want
to tell people it crashed until they get a visual verification. They are being
conscientious this time...no undue panic and hardship until proof is
found. No jumping the media gun...about time they think before they speak."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But...they can't find it at all? No black/orange boxes chattering away?
No secret implanted code box they had installed without anyone's knowledge due
to the 9/11 incidents? No satellite surveillance enabled 24/7? Nothing?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, we are left pulling an "Amelia Earhart" on this one? The technology
she left the ground with, in 1937, is relatively the same as we have today? I
don't buy that. I think someone knows something, only they aren't saying what
it is.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This has <em>conspiracy</em> written all over it again - and, if you know
anything about me...you know I love a good conspiracy theory -- but not at the
expense of innocent lives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Could be over one ocean...could be over another...could be over
land...hell, we have absolutely no friggen clue.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Stolen passports, half-fueled planes, and possible suspicious pilots? Yep,
yep, and yep...it's all here, boys and girls! Step right up! Don't you want to
know more? Don't you want to get your money's worth? Don't you want the
suspense to last?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's like they are just playing games with everyone. Could be "Clue",
"Risk", or even the real-world version of "Where in the World is Carmen
Sandiego?" -- and we're all sitting here...waiting for someone to play their
next move. Hell, it could even be us! We can all become detectives from our
own sofas. They are calling for people to become "digital volunteers" to pore
over satellite images - and to report anything we see which looks like
wreckage. Heaven help the people who field those 20 million emails an
hour.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And that flip-flopping around with the conflicting reports of finding the
plane and then not finding it -- and then finding it again and then...nope...we
didn't find it after all...reminds me of the Donovan song, "There is a
Mountain", only replace the word "mountain" with "airplane".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To me, the verse he ad-libs towards the end there (when no one is joining in) sums it up best of all -- as there is a
problem. There's also a big problem with this whole "missing" plane scenario - and if this isn't a
wake-up call to everyone out there, I don't know what is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This isn't "Hide and Seek"...we've all counted to 100 already...it's time
we open up our eyes. It's <em>LIFE</em>, people...and it's not a game.<br /><br /></span></div>
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Mariann Simmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974827167853824792noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24144743.post-57682003868404109362014-02-28T09:47:00.000-06:002014-02-28T09:47:18.040-06:00Day 28: And then my brain exploded<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, it is the last day of this month-long blog-fest over at <span style="color: #c27ba0;">"<a href="http://www.weworkforcheese.com/">We Work for Cheese</a>"</span> and I've managed to plunk out all but two days' worth of them...so go on
over there and see what we've each accomplished. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just a little (more like a lot) about myself regarding this month-long thing. We were all
given the same "prompts" - a word or words which we would incorporate somehow or
another into our daily blogs. I know it might seem incomprehensible, but I
managed not to peek at the "word-of-the-day" until just before writing each day's blog...which,
I would write at about 4:00-7:00 in the morning, mostly whilst watching the Olympics (hence the strong Olympic overtone in many of them).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I, like those Olympians, loved the challenge -- I liked to see what I could come up with in roughly 30
minutes to an hour. Most times I would look at the word(s) and then an idea would spring to mind and I'd start typing...usually it went in a completely different direction than my original thought. I like that things like that can happen inside my very own head. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Coming up with that first word is supposedly the
hardest, and I've known people to get some serious writer's block doing so. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I used to be that way when I was younger, altho from an early age I knew I wanted
to be a writer. I loved short stories and, in my opinion, Ray Bradbury was <i>the</i>
best at doing them. </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had an English teacher once, oh, geez...maybe in 5th or 6th grade, whose
name escapes me now -- but he gave me the highest compliment you can bestow
upon a would-be writer of 12 or 13-years old. </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He asked me: <i>"Where did you copy
this from?"</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now, that might seem like a silly thing to ask -- considering in this day and
age, you'd just pop online and copy/paste some portion of the text and find out if someone copied it. Back then, it wasn't so
easy. Teachers couldn't know everything...and I certainly could have gotten something out of some obscure book and written it down and turned it in with my name on it.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, when I was asked that question...I replied that I didn't copy it. The
teacher looked at me in utter amazement and asked, "Really?" I'm sure he had his fair share of liars over the
years saying they didn't, but, I didn't...and I stood my ground. He then said to
me, and I'll never forget his words (even if I did manage to forget his name):
"Wow, you should be a writer...this is <i>really</i> good."</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was happy as a little clam and, in the following years, I would forgo
taking study halls and lunches and gleefully filled up my classes with more
English classes. Not those English classes where you have to know what the "past present pluragative of a subjugated non-plussed noun" was, but actual "writing"
courses.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was all set to whisk off one of my stories to <em>Omni
Magazine</em>...because back then they'd actually solicit submissions --
when the worst possible thing that could happen, happened. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They published a Ray Bradbury story...and then one from another well-known sci-fi writer -- and then yet another. My dreams
were dashed, they'd never use some silly 15-year-old girl from New Jersey's stuff now...not when they had the likes of this stuff to choose from. I pushed my
pen aside after high school and that was it. </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then, one day, many years later, I was sitting around making small talk to a little kid while
his brother and my daughter were at a <em>Science Olympiad </em>(there's that word again) competition. I asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up, you know, the quintessential
question every grown-up asks a kid...and he shrugged his shoulders and said he
didn't know. He seemed a bit embarrassed by the fact that a child of his "advanced"
age, which was probably about twelve, had absolutely no clue yet. I remarked
about how silly it was to ask children what they wanted to be when they grew up
anyway...because pretty much no one really knows what they want to be when they're that
young. I told him that I did, however, know one kid who was always saying he
wanted to be a "political speech writer" when he grew up...and we'd kinda look
at him and go "Uh, okay, Eddie." </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I then continued and said, "You know, when I was little, I wanted to be a
writer, too." </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then I went silent.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It dawned on me, that my tiny young self...knew what I wanted to do --
but, my grown-up self never did. And, when everything was all said and done...I
<em>still </em>wanted to be a writer. Why I hadn't realized until then was
anyone's guess.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It wasn't the greatest revelation; I mean it wasn't like I could tell you,
<em>"And then my brain exploded!"</em> -- altho, being that I was at a science
competition, it would have been the right place for it...and it probably would
have been awesome, you know...for the other people to witness...kinda like one of
those volcanoes everyone makes with the lava spurting out on top...but it wasn't
even that type of science competition anyway, so it's probably for the best that
it<em> </em>never happened.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But, it still amuses me sometimes when I sit here and think, because I do
think about it a lot...and I will never know what would have happened had I just
slipped one of my stories inside an envelope, slapped some stamps on it, and
sent it off to <em>Omni</em>. I'll never know if they would have bit. It only
would have taken one bite, too - and my whole world would have turned out
differently.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yep, I'll never know what would have happened, but you could be damned sure if
they <em>HAD</em> published one of my stories...you wouldn't be reading this
crap right now! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As for Eddie...you know...that silly kid I told you about who wanted to be a political speech writer when he was like in 6th grade...and 7th...and 8th...and so on? Well, I think this about sums it up: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />As for "writer's block" -- I actually have no problem whatsoever coming up with the first word to start it all...it's the ones after that which are the hardest for me. I really need to stop talking about being a writer one day -- and be one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks again to Nicky at her lovely blog, "We Work for Cheese", for giving me the opportunity all this month to enjoy a little bit of self-publicity, which, if you know me -- you know that I love nothing better. Well, okay, maybe I would love a chance to write a movie script...or a book...or...okay, I'm doing it again, aren't I? Sorry. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I managed to sneak in today's prompt, which was "And then my brain exploded" and the two I missed earlier on this month, which were "One bite" and "Liars". I feel so utterly complete now. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lastly, I would like to take the opportunity to say to Ed Gillespie (who probably doesn't remember me at all): "Good luck with your Senate bid. I hope I didn't embarrass you too much by mentioning your name here. I know everyone (myself included) from your home town of Browns Mills, New Jersey, are so incredibly proud of you. Here's wishing you only the best to you and your family...and, if you ever need a political joke writer...well, I'm here." </span></div>
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Mariann Simmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974827167853824792noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24144743.post-59966979168950427182014-02-27T06:55:00.000-06:002014-02-27T06:55:17.079-06:00Day 27: But how did you find out?<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>"But, how did you find out?"</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i> </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>"The Internet, duh. It's where I find everything out."</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's the "go to" place where everybody finds out anything they want to know about anyone (even themselves). It
doesn't matter if it's true or not...and it's so easy anyone can do it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And the things you can easily find out about someone, with a minimum
of digging...is astonishing. In fact, I'm absolutely sure that if Dr. Seuss were still alive, he'd have come up with a book called <i>"Oh the Thinks You Can Think To Click On!"</i> <br /><br />For example -- You wouldn't believe who used to play my
interactive comedy website -- <a href="http://www.humormeonline.com/"><span style="color: magenta;">HumorMeOnline</span></a> -- many years ago. I mean EVERYONE
would know their name (maybe three people wouldn't - but I doubt so) if I
mentioned it. I promised never to tell...and I never have. They were floored
when I asked them if they were who they were...and they were! And, it wasn't a
joke - I mean, they were -- and I found out...just by a few random, carefully
constructed clicks. And they'd play my silly online comedy website all the
time. What fun! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dammit, I should have asked for a job! Seriously. I'm sure they've long since
changed their email address...and it's been years since I've updated anything at
my site...so even if they wanted to, they couldn't play it. Oh well. And it's
not like I can call them up at their work. "Uh...okay...my name is Mariann and
they used to play at my website...no, seriously, they used to play my contests
all the time...just go ask them. Really, I'm not a whackjob...go ask. I'm
serious. Hello? Hello?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Think that would work? I doubt it. So here goes...let's just hope they
are clicking random things on the Internet and find this...</span></div>
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<em>Hey,
famous person who used to play my silly online interactive comedy
website...please hire me for something, okay? I know you have the money. You
can do it. It'll be our little secret. If you don't, I'll tell, dammit! I'll
tell everyone! I swear I'll let the cat outta the bag.</em></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Maybe I should leave off that last part. Whaddya think?<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> ____________________________</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">___________________</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">_____________</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes, this was a senseless sort of blog, but I thought I would give everyone a break from
reading what's really inside my little, tiny noggin. You don't want to know what's deep inside of it...plus it's all full of cobwebs and faulty neurons and such. In fact, that's where I first got the idea for the word "Interwebs" from. Yes, I coined the term "Interwebs":
Internet + Cobwebs = Interwebs. </span></div>
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Okay, I might have made that last part
up - but the other stuff...it's all true. I swear. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By the way, here's a nice random photo of a kitty on a keyboard for
you...for absolutely no reason whatsoever. None whatsoever. None...no
seriously, I swear. It's not like it's some obscure weird hint. It's not.
It's not at all. I'm just being silly...I swear. You can click all you
want...you won't find anything out. Well, you might, but you'd really, really
have to know what to click on. Plus, it would take ages.<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And, after you've given up on clicking (or more likely, you never started)...click on this: <a href="http://www.weworkforcheese.com/"><span style="color: magenta;">We Work for Cheese</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's only one more day until we all take a swig from those big bottles of
vodka Nicky has promised to send us all for living through this month-long
write-along. Oh...she didn't say she'd send <em>YOU</em> one? I could have
sworn she said she'd send me one. Don't worry, Nicky...it'll be our little
secret. ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh...I'm just kidding about that vodka thing. I swear!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I swear.</span></div>
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Mariann Simmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974827167853824792noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24144743.post-30918896046588797692014-02-26T05:36:00.001-06:002014-02-26T16:11:53.982-06:00Day 26: Naked and Lost<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Two guys from long ago,<br /><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Once, many, many years ago, when I was maybe around 15 years-old (approximately 1976) my
girlfriend and I met up with the both of you, hanging around by the bridge at Mirror Lake.
After partaking of some "illegal green stuff" which isn't as illegal now as it
was then, you might remember that we all decided to go skinny-dipping in the
lake.<br /><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Naturally, you two guys...who were a few years older, but not wiser, were all
for it...and stripped completely down as fast as you could and jumped on in --
figuring you were not only going to get a peek at our lithe naked bodies but
probably would "get lucky" as well.<br /> <br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My friend and I, younger, but undoubtedly wiser...and with a bit of
devilish streaks in us, grabbed your clothes and ran like mad with them. We
tossed them onto the side of the road up a ways and ran back to her house,
laughing all the way, and crawled back through her bedroom window...pretending
we never snuck out. I am certain there was a fair amount of giggling that nite
in her room and her parents probably knew what we were up to all along...but not
<i>all</i> of it.<br /><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To this day I often wonder who you two guys were and how you ever got home,
naked...and if you ever found those <i>"lost"</i> clothes of yours.<br /><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Consider this an open apology, two guys whose names I don't recall,
I'm so sorry...but, I wished I would have seen your faces after it dawned on you
that not all 15-year-old girls were "as easy" as all that.<br /><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So sorry,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Mariann</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>This story is completely true, and, yes, I do often wonder how they managed. I wonder it more often than they probably will ever know. </i><br /><br /><br />This is part of a month-long writing challenge at "<a href="http://www.weworkforcheese.com/">We Work for Cheese</a>" -- Day 26 (two more to go) -- today's prompt being "Naked and Lost".</span></div>
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Mariann Simmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974827167853824792noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24144743.post-12018765706159824782014-02-25T07:13:00.000-06:002014-02-25T07:13:16.801-06:00Day 25: Social Media<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(Tara Lipinksi and Johnny Weir - 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Figure Skating Commentators)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The whole time I'm watching the Olympics...and it was a LONG time I watched
it (on two different channels - nite and day)...I'm thinking "Sochi Olympics" +
"Social Media" = "Sochial Media" - but they never once said it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They said their little Twitters were trending...going on and on about what
Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski were wearing when they gave their Figure Skating
reports...but not ONE time did I hear them utter "Sochial Media".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Seriously...what the hell was wrong with them? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyway...the Olympics are over and damn...damn...they put on a great
Closing Ceremony show...and they even poked fun of themselves with the last Olympic ring not opening (technical issue at the Opening Ceremony...the fifth ring never "blossomed" into a ring like the others). I loved it! The
giant life-like Teddy-Ruxpinesque bear was...it was...I don't know. How did
they make it move like that? I swear it was like they had a giant guy in a bear
costume. I'm bowled over. I don't know who thinks of these spectacular sets
and choreography and whatnot...but I do know one thing...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...they didn't think of "Sochial Media"!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Grumble grumble...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...but I have to admit - Tara and Johnny...you guys rocked! (I'm sure they are
reading this blog right now...that's why I addressed them here.) Loved his
clothes. Loved...loved...loved every single outfit. And they were both soooooo fun together...such natural chemistry. I hope
they ditch Scott Hamilton and whoever that other guy was - next time around. In fact, I hope they pair them up in <i>every single</i> Olympics...everything...everything. I don't care if
it's diving or gymnastics...curling or bobsled...Summer or Winter games. Get
rid of everyone else and hire these two for every single thing! They were
great! Plus they shut up when the skaters danced. They knew better. My ears are <i>still</i> ringing from Scott Hamilton's banshee-like screeches -- with his yelling at the top of his lungs over the music...and I have tinnitus! He makes Sam Kinison's voice sound melodic in comparison. Make it stop! Make it stop! Please God, please...make it stop! (Yes, God is reading my blog, too.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whew! I am done now with my little rant.<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now...go on over to "<a href="http://www.weworkforcheese.com/">We Work for Cheese</a>" and see what everyone else came up with for today's "Social Media" prompt.<br /><br /><br /><br /></span></div>
Mariann Simmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974827167853824792noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24144743.post-57269808254307822152014-02-24T06:49:00.003-06:002014-02-24T06:49:59.157-06:00Day 24: And then she said<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She was going to make this outstandingly awesome blog about film editing...and then she said, "Shit! The song doesn't have those exact words in
it. I could have sworn it did...but it doesn't."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She then copy/pasted/mailed the text she had written to herself in an email
to herself as she always does when she writes her lame-o blog and then she just
sat there thinking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She thought a while. Nothing was coming to her mind. Sure, she could
write a stupid segue to her original thought...but that was just, well, pretty
lame again. </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She thought, originally, when seeing the prompt, always just right before
she typed her blog...never reading them ahead of time, because she really did
like the spontaneity of her mind thinking things one way and then ending up a
whole other -- that it reminded her of that "She Said She Said" song by the
<i>Beatles</i>. "But," she thought to herself, "everyone would have probably thought
of that straight away...but then again I bet no one has. But, it's not that
great a blog idea anyway...not anywhere's as good as the film editing in the
film musical, 'Chicago' with Catherine Zeta-Jones, Renee Zellweger, Richard
Gere, Queen Latifah...and all the others in it."</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But, while the intro to her blog was magnificent, citing Charles Chaplin's
1931 "City Lights" film and the fact he shot 314,256 feet of film and edited it
down to 8.093 feet, pretty much single-handedly -- while also writing,
directing, starring, and producing it, she had to scrap that idea -- pretty
much like Chaplin had to scrap 306,163 feet of film. Only, Chaplin was pure
genius...and she was only "eh".</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She always thinks everything she writes is "eh" because the times she
thought it was "pretty damned good" no one paid much attention anyway. It was
like when she was in school and she'd always, always think she did poorly on a
test, because it was so much easier finding out later that you did a great
job than being disappointed if it turned out the other way around. What a
let-down to get your hopes up...best not to set them too high.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As it turns out, she's always secretly wishing, inside her head, that
things will turn out great -- while still trying to convince her inner self that
she doesn't. This whole "inner self talking to your other inner self" process is
quite difficult. She wonders if everyone thinks like she does. "That" she says
to herself, "would be awfully weird." Only she's not actually <em>saying</em> it
out loud because THAT would probably be a bad sign, and no amount of thinking
something good while trying to convince yourself something totally
different...would ever change <em>that</em> one. Talking to your own self with
your own mouth with your own words coming out of it is definitely a bad
thing.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But then, out of the blue, and just out of curiosity, she mustered up the
courage and spoke aloud the words, "Or <i>IS</i> it?" </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So far, so good. </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And then she said, but only where her head could hear, "Hmmmm...I simply
<em>can</em> do that alone after all."<br /><br /></span></div>
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<i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(In case you are all wondering, I thought the song in "Chicago" said "And then she said" - but it says "She'd say" instead...so I had to scrap my whole original idea. It also won the Academy Award aka "Oscar" for best film editing in 2002. This blog, in my opinion, would have been written so much more eloquently...and interestingly...if only...)</i></div>
<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And, if you're still reading this...go on over to "<a href="http://www.weworkforcheese.com/">We Work for Cheese</a>" to read about everyone else's take on today's prompt, which again is "And then she said". Go on - go on over. You can do it...and you can do it alone.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>
Mariann Simmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974827167853824792noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24144743.post-52733983980085287842014-02-23T06:55:00.001-06:002014-02-23T07:25:55.242-06:00Day 23: There are things<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was watching the Olympics the other day and Women's Speed Skating came on.
The one woman they were talking about having a great chance at winning (I think she was from the Netherlands)
was wearing one of those things that can only be described as a sports-minded
body glove that hugs you tighter than gold lycra Disco pants ever did. Of course they all were wearing them...but she was...to put it nicely -- "less endowed" than the others. To be more accurate (from where I could tell from my vantage point on the sofa), she was nearly concave in her chest...where,
normally, breasts would be.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The video clip of Russian, <a href="http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/olga-grafs-wardrobe-malfunction-after-womens-3000m">Olga Graf</a>, unzipping her suit after her bronze medal win -- well, she was busty in comparison. <br /><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are things you notice and there are things you don't...and I don't
know if anyone else noticed...but many of these women appear to be very flat
chested. I mentioned this to my Facebook friend with whom I was private
messaging at the time. I also brought up (no pun intended) the fact that Tom
Daley, from the UK men's diving team, probably had the opposite effect in the Summer Olympics.
Seriously, you want to enter the water with as little splash as humanly possible...but
since you can only hide just so much inside a Speedo...and...um...built like he
is...well, I'm figuring <i>it</i> make a splash all <em>its </em>own. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He didn't want to hear that part, so I went back to talking about
boobs.<br /><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I got to wondering if only the ones naturally built this way end up making it to this level (which might happen), if it's because
the suit squishes you in so tightly that you appear to have no boobs...or if some actually go under the knife and get breast reduction surgery so they can be more
aerodynamic.<br /><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I Google'd up a photo, as by then they had switched over to Women's
Downhill Skiing...and noticed one skier after the other...were all flattish. Don't
believe me...look at this photo:<br /><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>(Women's slalom medalists, from left, Austria's Marlies Schild (silver), United
States' Mikaela Shiffrin (gold), and Kathrin Zettel (bronze) at the
Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, Friday, Feb. 21, 2014)</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><br />Now it only goes to make logical sense that the bigger the boobs the more
they get in the way of sports...so again, I Google'd and found an ABC news clip
about breast reduction surgery in women's sports...which, if you're interested,
is here: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/female-athletes-breast-reduction-improve-performance-20303799">ABC News Story: Female Athletes Get Breast Reduction to Improve Performance</a></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />While I don't know, of course, if these women had surgery...and, I'm not
implying any of them really did...but if you can slice a full second off your
skiing, skating, running, swimming, etc., time, which, in today's competitive field,
sometimes means the difference between tenth place and first...what's to stop
them from -- slicing a little more off?<br /><br /></span></div>
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</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And, I really have to wonder what type of message that sends out to girls
taking up a sport in which boobs are really frowned upon. Do these girls (like
in the ABC video above) think they are going to be a much better athlete if they
get them reduced from the get-go? How much more value do we place on winning vs
being okay in our own bodies?<br /><br /></span></div>
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</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Young girls already face a lot of self-image issues when they are growing
up...do these coaches and other sports people who surround "potential
future champions" encourage them to get such things done? I'm actually very
interested now...and will probably do a bit more research.<br /><br /></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sadly, I think I'm probably right in thinking what I'm thinking here...and
there are things people shouldn't rush into doing. Some things, such as life-long, body altering decisions -- they should just slow down and take a lot more
time thinking about it before they start.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>All these female Olympians are extremely hard-working, phenomenal athletes who have the utmost of my respect. I do not imply any of the ones I've mentioned/shown here or who are participating at the Sochi Olympics have had breast reduction surgery. To do so would be idiotic of me...and I don't like being an idiot more than I have to. <br /><br />My intention in choosing to write this blog was only to point out to people that it does indeed apparently happen, and in my opinion, it should be thoroughly and carefully thought out. Surgery hurts...and sometimes (as far as I can tell, from my own experience) the pain remains for years -- and possibly for life. Not all surgery is a piece of cake and without risk...don't believe anyone who tells you otherwise. </i><br /><br /><br />Now go on over to "<a href="http://www.weworkforcheese.com/">We Work for Cheese</a>" and see what everyone else came up with for today's writing prompt which is: "There are things".<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></div>
Mariann Simmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974827167853824792noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24144743.post-54663272925671073642014-02-22T08:32:00.000-06:002014-02-22T08:32:41.311-06:00Day 22: It's only a dream<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(Giorgio A. Tsoukalos from "Ancient Aliens")</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #11111; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I tried to scream...I couldn't get a
voice to come out of my mouth. I tried to roll over, to twitch an arm, to
twitch a finger. I tried like crazy to open my eyes...but they just stayed
closed with only a sliver of barely imperceptible light peering
through.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #11111; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I told myself "It's only a dream...any
minute now you'll wake up. Any second now a cat will meow in the hallway and my
brain will zap me out of this semi-conscious frozen state that I'm
in."</span><br />
<span style="color: #11111; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #11111;">I had seen all the documentaries and
looked it up on the Internet. All those episodes of that wacky-haired guy, the
"Ancient Alien Theorist" or whatever he and those dozen other whack-jobs on that
"Ancient Alien" show on <i>The History Channel</i> call themselves. I've read all about
it: All those people who were visited by aliens in the bedroom...all those
people who had their anus probed? All those people were just in a state of
sleep paralysis and were probably just farting. Sure, I made up that "farting
thing" and I thought it was pretty good. I even tried to make a smile...but my
lips lay there just like two limp worms...the ones you see in the driveway when
you go to get the mail...the ones that didn't make it all the way across because
the sun started drying them out. I was beginning to feel they were a bit
parched, too...but there was no drool, luckily. I hate waking up with my face
in the wet spot. I hate thinking it lies there "in the wet spot". My thoughts
start wandering -- to why women are always fated to "lie in the wet spot"...why
can't guys lie in it? </span><span style="color: #11111;">It's
icky. </span><span style="color: #11111;">Those thoughts. I'll think
other ones instead.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #11111;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #11111; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm wondering when the Ambien will wear
off...it's probably due any minute now. It's probably only been a couple hours
since I've taken it. It doesn't work well anymore since I've taken it for like
eight years. I take a lot of it, too. I hate Ambien. It makes me walk around
the house calling people and typing weird shit online. I'm probably typing
weird shit right now and I just don't know it. I probably think I'm still
sleeping. I bet that's what's going on.<br /> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #11111; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ambien. </span><br />
<span style="color: #11111; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #11111; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Why can't I clean the house after I take
it? I've weeded the yard before while I was on it. I've moved huge Belgian
blocks from one side of the yard to the other...right by the pool...lugged them
over somehow. Woke up and didn't even realize I had
done it. My son forbade me to ever go outside again after taking it...he says
I'll probably fall in the pool and drown. Maybe I'm in the pool right now. How
would I know if I was in the pool? </span><br />
<span style="color: #11111; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #11111; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Oh, stop it, Mariann." I tell myself.
"I'd be wet. A helluva LOT wetter than waking up on the pillow full of
drool...plus that 'other' thing. Ick." I try to shrug - I try to do that funny
thing that one comedian lady did...about sex...making that "wuuuhuuuuhhgh"
noise...but I can't. I'm stifling back a laugh...but I'm not making a sound.
</span><br />
<span style="color: #11111; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #11111; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But, wait...seriously...maybe I'm really
in the pool. Nah...as soon as I hit the icy water, I'd wake up. It's cold
outside and I'm only in my nitegown. I know I'm in my nitegown because I rarely
even change out of one nowadays since my daughter's gone off to college -- I
don't have to shuffle her to school and back, and I don't have a job...and I
don't have to go anywhere...it's kinda silly to change into clothes that only my
son and cats would see. Plus, my bra hurts. I always can't wait to get out of
it when I go somewhere...sometimes, I unhinge it in the car and just throw a
coat over what I'm wearing...because it hurts a lot. It hurts because I had a
badoodle amount of lung collapses and two lung operations to glue my lung and
the pleura together so it doesn't collapse again. If I breathe deeply
enough...it hurts. </span><br />
<span style="color: #11111; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #11111; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'll take a deep breath...that's what
I'll do...that'll wake me up. The pain of breathing in a bunch of air will
shock me back into reality. </span><br />
<span style="color: #11111; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #11111; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Ready...set...go!" </span><br />
<span style="color: #11111; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #11111; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nothing.</span><br />
<span style="color: #11111; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #11111; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh, c'mon...this isn't funny now.
Seriously...not funny.</span><br />
<span style="color: #11111; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #11111; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh, good...someone just turned on the
light. Whew.</span><br />
<span style="color: #11111; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #11111; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I can just barely make something out
through that sliver in my semi-opened eyes. It's the glint of a knife! It's a
fucking knife! It's a God-damned fucking knife! Oh...my God...someone's
walking towards me...wearing gloves...and carrying a knife. "Wake up, wake up,
dammit! Wake the fuck up!"</span><br />
<span style="color: #11111; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #11111; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh...shit...oh shit...oh shit...it's not
just a regular knife...I can see it now...it's...</span><br />
<span style="color: #11111; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #11111; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...it's...</span><br />
<span style="color: #11111; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #11111; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...it's a coroner's
scalpel!</span><br />
<span style="color: #11111; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #11111; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #11111;"></span><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #11111; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Okay, that's my story for "It's only a
dream" - I kinda creeped myself out there so I am gonna stop. I have to take my
Ambien right now.</span><br />
<span style="color: #11111; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #11111; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Or...maybe I'll wait a bit.</span><br />
<span style="color: #11111; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
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<span style="color: #11111; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A long bit.</span><br />
<span style="color: #11111; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #11111; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now...go on over to "<a href="http://www.weworkforcheese.com/">We Work for Cheese</a>"
and read what other stuff others have come up with for Day 22 of the "30 Days
Minus Two of Writing" challenge.</span></div>
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Mariann Simmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974827167853824792noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24144743.post-56872481517963764052014-02-21T05:36:00.001-06:002014-02-21T10:43:33.486-06:00Day 21: Yes, I made that<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #11111; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am not an artist, I don't do craft
projects, and I can't even draw a stick figure with any accuracy...so you will
never hear me utter the phrase "Yes, I made that." <br /><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #11111; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At least not with any type of
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<span style="color: #11111; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You don't believe me?
Look at this thing which I made a couple months ago...<br /><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #11111; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now go on over to "<a href="http://www.weworkforcheese.com/">We Work for Cheese</a>"
and see what the other writers have come up with for the prompt today which is
"Yes, I made that."<br /><br />By the way, to those of you who have not seen me comment to your posts but wonder if I did. I did. I try to comment and most times it won't let me. I don't know why. I used to be able to post up at Mike's "Too Many Mornings" - but it won't let me anymore (and I had a cute one for today, too). I tried commenting to Nathaniel's and Reforming Geek's (sorry - I'm forgetting a few others) and like two other people...and it just won't let me do it. I've tried countless times...I swear. I don't know why. It will even tell me most times that my comment has been accepted - but I don't see it there. So I just wanted to let you all know I've been reading them except I did miss a couple days because my innards feel like they are coming alive and I swear I can feel the food moving through them...and I'm afraid to Google because this will happen (I'm sorry...'yes, I made that' a couple months ago, too.):<br /><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyway, I've been meaning to say some things to blog posts which I've not been able - and now I've forgotten what they all were...but, the one today that I just read from Tami...the scene of the "Chaos Theory" from "Jurassic Park" - if Ellie is so smart and is a paleobotanist, she sure as hell should know what Ian's talking about...especially that "butterfly wings" thing. My cats even know about that - and they're cats! I always hated that scene. It's stupid. I love the film, btw...but she sure as hell should have known.<br /><br /><br />Okay...I'm done now. :)</span></div>
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