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#26

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Posted: 7/14/05 at 5:16pm

well said Sueleen!
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story... AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956
#27

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Posted: 7/14/05 at 5:18pm

I overheard a girl in Blockbuster getting upset because all they had were the DVD in widescreen. Her remark was "Not everybody has one of those kind of TV's. I have a regular square one." She then proceeded to storm out of the store. I just laughed.
"For me, THEATRE is an anticipation, an artistic rush, an emotional banquet, a jubilant appreciation, and an exit hopeful of clearer thought and better worlds." ~ an anonymous traveler with Robert Burns
#28

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Posted: 7/14/05 at 5:24pm

Wonderboy, the amount of people who think you have to have a widescreen TV to watch widescreen DVDs is astonishing to me. I have encountered SO many.
Nothing precious, plain to see, don't make a fuss over me. Not loud, not soft, but somewhere inbetween. Say sorry, just let it be the word you mean.
#30

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Posted: 7/14/05 at 5:38pm

I had to explain to a friend that he had anchovies on his ceasar salad and why they were there. His face was priceless!!!

Popcultureboy ~ That is frightening. Is it not?
"For me, THEATRE is an anticipation, an artistic rush, an emotional banquet, a jubilant appreciation, and an exit hopeful of clearer thought and better worlds." ~ an anonymous traveler with Robert Burns

Updated On: 7/14/05 at 05:38 PM

#31

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Posted: 7/14/05 at 5:42pm

Don't even get me started on the number of things I've had to explain to my mother. She calls me whenever she doesn't know what something is. I'm her google I guess. Some things she asks I really don't feel like explaining to my MOTHER.
#32

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Posted: 7/14/05 at 5:56pm

Why am I having Margaret Cho flashbacks? "What is @ss Master?"
"For me, THEATRE is an anticipation, an artistic rush, an emotional banquet, a jubilant appreciation, and an exit hopeful of clearer thought and better worlds." ~ an anonymous traveler with Robert Burns
#34

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Posted: 7/14/05 at 5:59pm

I like it when you tell people Big Brother comes from George Orwells novel 1984... scarily people dont seem to know who George Orwell was!
Jesus Loves You... Everybody else thinks you're an idiot!
#35

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Posted: 7/14/05 at 6:10pm

I thought everyone knew that Glenn Close should never open her mouth to sing, yet a lot of people don't seem to know that.


I <3 ConvinceMe2.
"How do you like THAT 'misanthropic panache,' Mr. Goldstone?" - PalJoey
#36

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Posted: 7/14/05 at 6:16pm

I sell DVDs. People every day tell me that "Widescreen" DVDs have part of the picture missing. No matter how much I try to explain that movies are FILMED in a rectangular format and they "trim off the edges" to fit them on a square TV, there are always people who want to return movies because "Part of the picture is missing."

Of course, I thought that everyone knew that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11-- silly me.
#37

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Posted: 7/14/05 at 6:42pm

Someone I was talking to was talking about going to New York. They were convinced that Phantom or Wicked or TLITP was not a Broadway show because it isn't on the actual street Broadway. They were like, "yeah I'm going to see Light in the Piazza."
me:"Cool. It's supposed to be one of the best on Broadway right now."
her: "yeah. but it's not on Broadway because it's not on the street Broadway."
me: "ummm... what?"
her: "yeah, it has to be on Broadway (street) to be a Broadway theatre, right?"
me: "ummm... no."
her: "then what makes it a Broadway theatre?"
me: "Well, there are a lot of things, but it has to do with the size of the theatre and location and stuff."
her: "oh"
me: (laughing) yeah

Oh. My other favorite is someone who didn't know that every show performed every night and thought that there was one cast that performed every show on Broadway. "You mean RENT performs every single night?" Gosh, that was scary.
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
#39

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Posted: 7/14/05 at 8:09pm

It always shocks me when people say "Jodie Foster is gay??? But she has kids!"

(Yes, I have heard people say this)
"Do you know what pledge time is, Andrew"? said the PBS Executive. "Yes", Lloyd Webber replied. "My 50th birthday special must be one program that gets done a lot." "No", mused the man from PBS heedlessy. "Not so much. Our Stephen Sondheim Carnegie Hall concert. That's a big one." Spoons, forks and knives seemed suddenly to suspend their motion in horror, all around the table.
#40

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Posted: 7/16/05 at 2:40am

I met someone who thought Oy vey was French. OY VEY!!!
Rosencrantz: "Be happy - if you're not even HAPPY what's so good about surviving? We'll be all right. I suppose we just go on." - from Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Updated On: 7/16/05 at 02:40 AM

#42

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Posted: 7/16/05 at 8:25am

There was a guy who used to post on that "other" theatre chat board who once posted the following (paraphrased):

"I went so see a production of the musical ANNIE, which I've never seen before. It was really strange. At the end of a scene, the lights would all go out, and a cheesy painted drop would fly in. Then there would be a short scene in front of the drop while the sets were being changed behind it. Then the lights would go out, the drop would go up, the lights would come back up, and the next set would be there."

This guy had never heard of a BLACKOUT! He had never heard of an "In One" scene - which was common in musicals for about 75 years. Evidently, he had only seen "modern" shows like CATS and LES MIZ where the action is continuous and you see the sets moving while the show is going on.

The really scary thing is, this guy had been enlisted by that other chat room as a REVIEWER!
#44

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Posted: 7/16/05 at 11:54am

my friend: I love the phantom of the opera.
me: Yeah Andrew Loyd Webber is amazing.
my friend: whose that?

I almost died.
"If you're a writer or a painter, you write or paint whenever you want to. But we have to do this task at a precise moment. At three minutes past eight, the curtain goes up, and you've got to pretend to believe, because no one else will believe you unless you believe it yourself. A great deal of our work is simply making ourselves dream. That is the task. At three minutes past eight,YOU MUST DREAM."
#46

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Posted: 7/16/05 at 12:34pm

a lot of people ask what state vermont is in.


also, when i was auditioning at syracuse, i said "i'm from vermont." and a girl said "really???? i'm always wanted to live on a farm!!!" yeah.....most of us don't live on farms.



"grace, you're stuffed in a box getting rid of ass plaque. let's face it, this evening is a bust."
#48

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Posted: 8/8/05 at 8:14pm

I know a 40 year old that thought the days didn't change from year to year. For example, he thought that August 8 is always on a Monday.

I didn't care to explain it to him.
#49

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Posted: 8/8/05 at 8:17pm

I had to have an xray once and the technician asked if I could be pregnant. I told her no. She asked me if I was sure. I told her that I had a hysterectomy. She asked again because she said even though I had a hysterectomy I could still get pregnant. I told her there was no chance of me being pregnant since women who have hysterectomies cannot get pregnant. Again she asked if I could be pregnant. I told her not only dont I have a uterus but I dont have a cervix. She still insisted I could get pregnant. I walked out!
"Friends are the people you chose as family."....Me.

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