Message Board Celebrity Of The Day (Part I) - papalovesmambo- Page 177
Message Board Celebrity Of The Day (Part I) - papalovesmambo
#4400MBCotD - smartpenguin78
Posted: 2/16/06 at 7:34am
I wasn't able to hang out in this thread as much as I would've liked yesterday, but I just wanted to pop in and wish Pengers one last CONGRATULATIONS!
Hope you enjoyed your day hun, you deserved it!
Honey, I don't produce theater. I am theater.
beacon1
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/31/04
#4401MBCotD - smartpenguin78
Posted: 2/16/06 at 8:55am
Thanks for doing that list--very helpful for any that what to reminisce or look for ammunition when it is their turn under the spotlight.
Hope your reign has been grand!
Where are we going, and why am I in this handbasket?
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#4402MBCotD - smartpenguin78
Posted: 2/16/06 at 9:10am
One final congratulations and a final compliment. The podcast truly was superb. Of course, knowing you and Patty, it couldn't be anything less.
"You're the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber!" --Family Guy
"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.
Kitzy's Avatar du Jour: Kitzy as Little Red Ridinghood in her college's production of "Into the Woods"
"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.
Kitzy's Avatar du Jour: Kitzy as Little Red Ridinghood in her college's production of "Into the Woods"
miss pennywise
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/04
#4403MBCotD - smartpenguin78
Posted: 2/16/06 at 9:20am
Pengy,
Thank you for your very thoughtful responses. I apologize for the delay in expressing my thanks, but I went to bed early after having been given the gift of my little son's cold. 
Your answers are wonderful (except, as expected, the one about Sondheim. Oh well, at least he is older than I am!)
Keats is the only poet I have read that has actually made me cry...I mean cry, you know, teardrops on the page. It was right after someone's death--and Keats' own very early death always colors my reading of his poems--but still, it shows the power of his elegance as a poet.
Anyway, enough about ME! This is YOUR last hour of reigning over the Board!!!
I hope you had a lovely day yesterday and look forward to many more enlightening exchanges. Wow, a seminarian! Just the thing the Board has needed it to give it balance, eh? 
P.S. DG, "Seminarians I Have Known" sounds like good title for your first book.
http://www.roches.com/television/ss83kod.html
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"If any relationship involves a flow chart, get out of it...FAST!"
~ Best12Bars
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#4404MBCotD - smartpenguin78
Posted: 2/16/06 at 9:22amEagerly awaiting his announcement! Congratulations, again, on a wonderful day!
"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."
miss pennywise
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/04
#4405MBCotD - smartpenguin78
Posted: 2/16/06 at 9:25am
Thanks, also, for your list, Pengy. Like many others, I was hoping this would appear at some point.
I feel bad that I was "off the Board" during the reigns of so many honorees. I guess I'll have to PM everyone with words of appreciation. Sorry!
Hail to the Queens!
http://www.roches.com/television/ss83kod.html
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"If any relationship involves a flow chart, get out of it...FAST!"
~ Best12Bars
#4406MBCotD - smartpenguin78
Posted: 2/16/06 at 9:31am
smartpenguin - I was more than a little depressed to learn that you're almost 2 years younger than me, because you're about 20 years wiser.
But, in spite of that, it was still great to learn a bit more about you.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be enbered with your old nonsense. ~ Emerson
#4408MBCotD - smartpenguin78
Posted: 2/16/06 at 9:38am
One more congratulations before your reign comes to an end. I'm sure you had a wonderful day between this and PodCast Go!
You're the best, little man!
#4409MBCotD - smartpenguin78
Posted: 2/16/06 at 9:40amOn last hurray for SP, a sweetheart with consitantly adorable avs! I hope you had a great day!
"All the while making faces like a baby platypus who forget to take some Beano before eating a chimichanga." FindingNamo in reference to Jessica Simpson's singing.
#4410MBCotD - smartpenguin78
Posted: 2/16/06 at 9:41am
Thank you again to everyone. Your compliments were not easy to take, but I apreciate them deeply.
A few last notes:
Cam: I never follow the safety rules, I just play and see what happens.
Mamie: I hope Keats wasn't too depressing, I really love the beauty of his melancholy. The major thing, to me, about Keats is despite a far from easy life, and ultimately death at 26, he still found the power of life and art, and expressed it beautifully.
Kitz, Broadway_Baby, NYAdgal, Kringas and Beacon: Thanks.
Miss Pennywise: I really enjoyed your questions. I am not sure I bring much balance to the board, I am pretty "dark sided" myself. I also go to the most liberal seminary in the country, which is good, they wouldn't let Universalists like me in most of the others.
Shameless: I have my silly side, my wisdom was all in perception anyway. My Grandmother used to say I was born acting like an 80 year old, I am just getting younger everyday.
ETA: Kel_Rel- Thanks. Yoda: YOU are the sweetest!
I stand corrected, you are as vapid as they say.
Updated On: 2/16/06 at 09:41 AM
#4411MBCotD - smartpenguin78
Posted: 2/16/06 at 9:48am
Gettin in under the wire..
CONGRATS SP... you were a wonderful MBCotD!
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men" - Willy Wonka
#4412MBCotD - smartpenguin78
Posted: 2/16/06 at 9:48am
To my best friend here on BWW your day was much deserved and you continue to amaze and inspire me! In the words of the Golden Girls..."Thank you for being a friend."
One last hurrah for the smartpenguin78!
#4413MBCotD - smartpenguin78
Posted: 2/16/06 at 9:53am
BTW I checked out the podcast here at work and it sounds great. I am subscribing as soon as I get home. You guys are amazing.
"All the while making faces like a baby platypus who forget to take some Beano before eating a chimichanga." FindingNamo in reference to Jessica Simpson's singing.
#4414MBCotD - smartpenguin78
Posted: 2/16/06 at 9:53am
Thank you to everyone for your kind words and questions, and your general graciousness to me yesterday. It is hard for me to take those compliments, even in a setting like this, but I deeply appreciate them.
Kel: Your comment was lost in the cracks, but appreciated.
The process on the next celeb of the day:
As it was for so many others, this decision was difficult and taxing. I have many very close friends here, be they online or off, in the end; however, I decided to stick with the tradition of honoring someone outside of that zone. To my friends, I say I love and respect you, and I am sure your day shall come soon.
There are many people here who post opinions I respect, and many in whom I since a genuine warmth and compassion. Some of them have yet to be celebrity of the day, and there is a very long list of people who I wish to see named in the near future. I really hope no one thinks of this as some kind of hierarchical system, it is far from that, which is one of the things I love about it.
I stand corrected, you are as vapid as they say.
Updated On: 2/16/06 at 09:53 AM
#4415MBCotD - smartpenguin78
Posted: 2/16/06 at 9:59am
Now it is time to pass the baton.
My celebrity of the day is someone who embodies those qualities of warmth and compassion, and who, by her graciousness and kindness makes this an open and welcoming place.
As someone who lost my mother not all that long ago I feel a particular notion of propriety in passing the torch to our board mother:
Mominator- come get your cookies!
I stand corrected, you are as vapid as they say.
#4416MBCotD - smartpenguin78
Posted: 2/16/06 at 9:59am
WONDERFUL choice!!! Congrats mom! 
"You're the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber!" --Family Guy
"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.
Kitzy's Avatar du Jour: Kitzy as Little Red Ridinghood in her college's production of "Into the Woods"
"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.
Kitzy's Avatar du Jour: Kitzy as Little Red Ridinghood in her college's production of "Into the Woods"
#4417MBCotD - Mominator
Posted: 2/16/06 at 10:00am
YAY!! Mom, you deserve this honor for so many reasons, some may say for your generosity with the cookies, others may say for your quick wit and humor, but I say it is for your kind heart and sweet soul. Have a wonderful day!!
"All the while making faces like a baby platypus who forget to take some Beano before eating a chimichanga." FindingNamo in reference to Jessica Simpson's singing.
Updated On: 2/16/06 at 10:00 AM
#4418MBCotD - smartpenguin78
Posted: 2/16/06 at 10:02am
Sweet!!!
Congrats Mom!
I know you have a husband and kids and bake cookies like nobody's business, but the rest is a complete mystery. This will be fun.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be enbered with your old nonsense. ~ Emerson
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#4419MBCotD - smartpenguin78
Posted: 2/16/06 at 10:02am
oh, penguin, your post just brought tears to my eyes!
Perfect. Simply perfect.
Congratulations to mominator!
You are a beautiful friend, and I am so glad to have the chance to celebrate you today!
Put your feet up and let us wait on you... your wish is our command!
*pops cork, throws confetti, puts out cookies*
"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."
#4420MBCotD - smartpenguin78
Posted: 2/16/06 at 10:02am
Here's my favorite kind of cookie, in your honor:
"You're the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber!" --Family Guy
"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.
Kitzy's Avatar du Jour: Kitzy as Little Red Ridinghood in her college's production of "Into the Woods"
"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.
Kitzy's Avatar du Jour: Kitzy as Little Red Ridinghood in her college's production of "Into the Woods"
#4421MBCotD - smartpenguin78
Posted: 2/16/06 at 10:03am
oh, congrats to Mominator!
...
But does this mean WE all have to do the cookie baking today?
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#4422MBCotD - smartpenguin78
Posted: 2/16/06 at 10:03amI'm mixing the pink drinks!
"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."
kissmycookie
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/21/04
#4424MBCotD - smartpenguin78
Posted: 2/16/06 at 10:04am
When Clay mentioned to me last night that he was going to name mominator I shouted, "BRILLIANT!"
I haven't really interacted a lot with mominator, but I did receive a "cookie" one day and I always smile when I see her posts.
Congrats!
Kringas
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/05
#4425MBCotD - smartpenguin78
Posted: 2/16/06 at 10:04am
Congrats to mominator! One of the biggest cheerleaders of others on the CotD thread gets her well-deserved turn to be lauded. Excellent choice, smartpenguin!
"How do you like THAT 'misanthropic panache,' Mr. Goldstone?" - PalJoey
Updated On: 2/16/06 at 10:04 AM
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