Message Board Celebrity Of The Day (Part I) - papalovesmambo- Page 183

[Glebb]

Posted: 2/16/06 at 7:29pm

Yay Mom!
Congrats.
I love 'Double Indemnity' too!

PS - A belated Yay for Smartpenguin78.
Sorry I missed your day. :)

[wexy]

Posted: 2/16/06 at 7:38pm

Congrats on the honor Mom. Being the Andrew Jackson of the thread, I had greater choice of celebs to be when I had to choose a successor.

[mominator]

Posted: 2/16/06 at 7:52pm

Still waiting on the bribes folks. Actually input from pastMBCotD would be great. It is a great honor but to quote our Prez "It's hard work!"

[smartpenguin78]

Posted: 2/16/06 at 7:56pm

It is hard work, but you are conducting yourself with grace, skill and warmth.

Your answers have been fabulous!

[mominator]

Posted: 2/16/06 at 7:57pm

Thanks penguin! Both for the compliment and the honor.

[smartpenguin78]

Posted: 2/16/06 at 8:01pm

It was one of those decisions that were just "right."
I hope you have enjoyed it.
You certainly deserve the honor.

[mominator]

Posted: 2/16/06 at 8:02pm

ohhhh you're going to make me cry again!

[mominator]

Posted: 2/16/06 at 8:13pm

Undi, you are so sweet thank you!

Question - If there was one thing at the Broadway Flea Market that you would trample over people to get - what would it be?
Actually I saw it a couple of years ago. It was a script from the OBC of Hello Dolly signed by the actress who played Minnie Fay. Just couldn't afford it. A walk on in Mamma Mia would be a blast too!

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 2/16/06 at 8:45pm

I'm finally home and had to come on and read Mom's answers...and boy is she wise !!!! Now I ask this of all the CotD so I can't pass you up......If you can interview one person (dead or alive) who would it be and what questions would you ask them?

[justthefacts2]

Posted: 2/16/06 at 9:04pm

What a delight to see your name, Mominator! You are always funny and sweet and welcoming on this board. You were an "elusive valentine" indeed today during your special day. I got home late (as usual)and got on this board and I was reading through the posts thinking, I hope she doesn't miss her day! I've been admiring your wordsmithing - things like "elusive valentine" which you posted on the Valentine thread. So my question is - of all the poems you ever wrote (a little bird told me you might have written some in high school) which is your favorite?

While you're pondering, here's something to freshen the wellspring of creativity - and not a 2-ounce one, I promise!

[mominator]

Posted: 2/16/06 at 9:04pm

If you can interview one person (dead or alive) who would it be and what questions would you ask them?
I was so hoping to get this question!
Once again I harken back to my chidhood heroine Joan of Arc.
I think the one question would be. When were you most afraid?
Because if I were her, I'd be scared right from the start! I mean a poor, illiterate girl from some back water. She has never ventured out of her village, goes up to the Duphin of France and tells him "God wants you to give me an army to save France" That is one gutsy kid!

[mominator]

Posted: 2/16/06 at 9:10pm

Undi, I did answer that but will again. We were in Rockport a small very picturesque town on Cape Ann. It was raining he had asked me several times before, but this time he really meant it. I love that memory, so I don't mind telling it again!

[mominator]

Posted: 2/16/06 at 9:27pm

Oh boy cookies!!! I feel a song from Frog and Toad coming on!

[KelRel]

Posted: 2/16/06 at 9:30pm

How befitting a penguin cookie! What a great way to celebrate the two MBCotD's that we have had in the past 48 hours. (Cookie, SP, and of course our beloved Mom)

Updated On: 2/16/06 at 09:30 PM

[mominator]

Posted: 2/16/06 at 9:35pm

May I have one of the cute feet?

[KelRel]

Posted: 2/16/06 at 9:36pm

Mom you may have the whole cookie!

[mominator]

Posted: 2/16/06 at 9:40pm

Justthefacts, you let the cat out of the bag! It has been so long.
But I think my favorite one was inspired by Emily Dickinson, I composed it in my head while walking to the train station from my school. It was in the fall so the leaves were falling and the birds were flocking, and I was an angsty teenager.

[mominator]

Posted: 2/16/06 at 9:42pm

Damn! another secret is out. But I get the cookie, so all is good!

[grizzabella]

Posted: 2/16/06 at 9:55pm

Again, I almost missed the day! But better late than never, eh?
Congratulations, Mominator! You truly are one of the people I deeply respect on the board, and always enjoy (and learn from) what you have to say! All the very best on your special day!

[mominator]

Posted: 2/16/06 at 10:02pm

Thank you very much grizzabella. It has been a grand day for me and I too was also late in getting here.

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 2/16/06 at 10:12pm

Mom,

I am truly, truly sorry that the anti-Mominater scared you...especially on YOUR day. (In all honesty, I am ALWAYS scared to death by Joan Crawford! Everything about her creeps me out...that's why I went with Faye PORTRAYING her. Mommie Dearest herself is just too traumatizing!)

Sincerely though, I don't have a photo of my own mom scanned so I couldn't upload one. If I could have, I would have because she was a most amazing woman... just like you. (I figured "If I can't upload a photo of the woman I think was the BEST mother, I'll find one who was the WORST mother as a distinct contrast!")

I didn't realize you were of the "Catholic" persuasion. I survived 18 years of Catholic education myself...and people tell me they're shocked by that because I don't seem "screwed up" enough!

So, I will honor you with a picture of a woman--and a mother--who, as all of us Catholics know, was bodily raised into heaven and has equal status with the Big J...even though in the hierarchy of the Catholic Church the women (i.e., "nuns") washed the floors of the rectory while the men (i.e., priests) performed the ritual of transubstantiation before adoring audiences and then got smashed on Chivas Regal.

Warmest wishes, Miss Mominator.

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 2/16/06 at 10:13pm

[mominator]

Posted: 2/16/06 at 10:22pm

ahhh beautiful picture! I call myself a "recovering" Catholic. You really can't stop being one. Dave and I just could no longer stand the hypocrisy and double standards, and well excoummicated ourselves. We both had many, many years of Catholic education enough to know that "It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a hypocrite to enter the kingdom of Heaven"

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 2/16/06 at 10:36pm

Mom, I didn't know it was possible for me to like you any more... but your last post...

SO, as I leave for the evening, have a martini with me?

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 2/16/06 at 10:46pm

Mom,

I understand how you feel. I belong to a Buddhist sangha now. And I don't say "Thank God!" I say "Thank Mary!" Mary is a feminist icon, so I'm cool with her. But as anyone who has seen Doubt knows, the Catholic Church is not kind to women...or children. I can't be cool with that.

(I generalize, of course, so please, practicing Catholics, I mean no offense. There's good and bad in everything.)

Mom, you are a feminist icon, too!