Can the adults please smoke? — Page 59

#1451

re: can the adults please smoke?

Posted: 8/1/04 at 11:37am

I loved The Court Jester...co-starring Glynis Johns!

I liked Kaye as a youngster then he grew less appealing to me then I gre back into appreciating his performance and comic agility when I learned about his LADY IN THE DARK association.

Kaye has not deserved his due.

Updated On: 8/1/04 at 11:37 AM

#1452

re: can the adults please smoke?

Posted: 8/1/04 at 11:56am

I agree - he was SO talented...

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#1453

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Posted: 8/1/04 at 12:13pm

I love Hans Christen Andersen...for some reason Tumbelina was my favorite. Now I have to go find my VCR tape of it.

Sun is trying to break through here in Jersey.
I have to start getting dressed to go to a wake this afternoon. Talk about depressing. Which reminds me..did anyone else ever find pictures that their Grandparents had of relatives in their coffins??? Now I need a Chocolate Martini mom for just remembering that. Morbid.

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#1454

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Posted: 8/1/04 at 1:02pm

Oh - those 'death' pictures were creepy.

Sorry about the wake.

Come back to us - to think happy thoughts.

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#1455

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Posted: 8/1/04 at 1:57pm

ok - here's another that I don't think has been brought up:

Mad Magazine - for all those smart-*ss high school students!

Remember the fold-ins?
"The lighter side of..."
the funny little gag drawings in the margins?

and, on occasion, in the special issues you'd get a flexi-45 RPM single.

My mother didn't let me buy Mad Magazine, but my best friends' brother always had them, so we used to sneak into his room to steal them...

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Updated On: 8/1/04 at 01:57 PM

#1456

re: can the adults please smoke?

Posted: 8/1/04 at 2:03pm

I used to love MAD.

I still have MAD's special issue of HELLO, DOLLY! published in honor of Babs' film version.

#1457

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Posted: 8/1/04 at 2:04pm

Now THAT is a keep-sake!!

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#1458

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Posted: 8/1/04 at 2:05pm

If I can only find it. But it's here, somewhere!

#1459

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Posted: 8/1/04 at 2:05pm

you could fetch a fortune on e-bay...but I wouldn't part with it, if I were you!

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#1460

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Posted: 8/1/04 at 2:07pm

so - in all our posts about 'fashion'...I'm not sure anybody mentioned that 70's icon - the leisure suit!

bonus points if yours was polyester - a la Warren Beatty in Shampoo...

Were we blind?????

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#1461

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Posted: 8/1/04 at 2:08pm

My date to the prom made sure that the fringe on the ruffles of his tux matched my gown.

We thought we were fabulous!

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#1462

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Posted: 8/1/04 at 2:14pm

I am proud to say that any tuxes I wore were of the classic variety - no ruffles here! Must have been how many times I watched MY FAIR LADY

#1463

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Posted: 8/1/04 at 2:19pm

I will admit, too, that my Tuxes were the classic black and white variety.

No ruffles.

Although, my dad did show me how olive oil can polish patent leather shoes.

I still fear I went to the prom smelling a bit like fried onions!

#1464

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Posted: 8/1/04 at 2:19pm

funny - my best friend, who used to watch musicals with me all the time, wore a classic tux. He and Fred are now happily married in Massachusetts.

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#1465

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Posted: 8/1/04 at 2:21pm

I knew this was a classy bunch!

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#1466

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Posted: 8/1/04 at 2:21pm

Now really, NYadgal - do you find this ALL that surprising?

#1467

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Posted: 8/1/04 at 2:22pm

not surprising in the least!

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#1468

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Posted: 8/1/04 at 2:24pm

I feel like I missed out on something, though - we never had those dances in the gym - our school always went to outside venues because the classes were so large. I would have liked the whole crepe paper scenario!

#1469

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Posted: 8/1/04 at 2:25pm

Another fashion memory (or nightmare) -

goucho pants - usually in various shades of 'autumn', made of corduroy.

frequently paired with dingo boots.

not a guy outfit, I know...but a staple of my wardrobe for a while in the early 70s...

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Updated On: 8/1/04 at 02:25 PM

#1470

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Posted: 8/1/04 at 2:27pm

National Lampoon was very funny...another magazine I wasn't allowed to buy...

DGrant - that's a shame about the gym dances! I was frequently on the decorating committee at school - and was pretty good with crepe paper! LOL!

I remember one time my parents chaparoned a dance...I begged them not to, but....

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#1471

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Posted: 8/1/04 at 2:28pm

I was such a ridiculous snob - I was too busy reading National Geographic and The Smithsonian. But, that meant when I moved to DC I thought I had found heaven - and I also learned at that point how not to take things QUITE so seriously - watching the political zoo will do that to you!

#1472

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Posted: 8/1/04 at 2:30pm

I'm not sure I knew anybody who actually READ National Geographic.

My subscription arrived for years and years - and they were all placed neatly, in order, on my shelves...and I loved looking at the pictures and making lists of where I would like to travel. But I can't remember really reading them...

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#1473

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Posted: 8/1/04 at 2:31pm

OK. My Senior Prom was indeed in the Gym.

We always had Friday night dances at the gym.

I never gave the professional photos taken of me and my date the the girl I took. She and I never spoke again, for no reason. The girl I wanted to take turned me down.
I'll never forget her name. We called her "Goody Two Shoes."

Was I really 17 once? LOL

#1474

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Posted: 8/1/04 at 2:33pm

Funny -
for guys - the terror was in inviting a girl to the prom, and the risk of being turned down...

for girls - the terror was in not being invited.

That was WAY before groups of friends just went together and nobody had to worry about dates... Much better now, I think.

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Updated On: 8/1/04 at 02:33 PM

#1475

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Posted: 8/1/04 at 2:34pm

Was I really 17 once?

I suddenly had the Bob Dylan line pop into my head:

"I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now"

in a way, so true!!

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