The Thread For Those Who Feel The Need To Share With Us All The Banal Details Of Their Lives- Page 101

[SorryGrateful]

Posted: 12/27/05 at 3:57pm

Hmmm, I see your point. I probably would have taken the bet myself.

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 12/28/05 at 10:55am

I am dealing with a Sirius Radio that I got for Christmas that has a defective antenna. It's like pulling teeth to get someone on the phone because my radio is made by Xact and not Sirius, but it's still a Sirius radio. I am muy frustrated! My mother bought it at a Wal-mart in Tennessee and they don't carry it here so they won't take it back. UGH!!!

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 12/28/05 at 10:57am

I think you should call your mother and tell her this story. Give her something else to cry about.

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 12/28/05 at 10:58am

Mean, mean woman. (I did, she didn't cry but offered to call someone and yell at them.)

[SorryGrateful]

Posted: 12/28/05 at 11:29am

I really love Mel Torme. A lot.

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 12/28/05 at 11:33am

Judge Harry T. Stone, is that you?

[Plum]

Posted: 12/28/05 at 11:34am

I remember a batboy on the Marlins got fired for taking a dare from a player to drink a gallon of milk in a certain time- an hour, maybe? Supposedly it's possible to do that, but you'll vomit a minute later.

[kissmycookie]

Posted: 12/28/05 at 11:36am

A well made latke is not banal...

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 12/28/05 at 11:36am

The batboy got fired? Were there consequences for the player?

[SorryGrateful]

Posted: 12/28/05 at 11:40am

I loved Night Court, Jersey Girl! I remember Torme from that, but I was so young that I just thought he was a funny, cute old man. Now I know he's a vocal god. I can't believe he wasn't more appreciated.

[kissmycookie]

Posted: 12/28/05 at 11:42am

Though he always hated his nickname, The Velvet Fog

[SorryGrateful]

Posted: 12/28/05 at 11:47am

Really? Do you know why? I think it fits his voice. But it doesn't fit with some songs he did, like "At the Crossroads (Malaguena)" or "What's New at the Zoo." He's a lot more versatile than I had originally thought, so maybe that nickname pegs him into only one mode of singing.

Must go find him for my avatar!

[Plum]

Posted: 12/28/05 at 11:50am

Rath, I looked up what happened, and as far as I can tell the batboy was only suspended for six games, and some minor league team let him be their honorary batboy in the meantime and had a milk promotion to sell tickets. The player who dared him said he'd pay him anyway (the batboy had actually lost the bet, I think). Then the batboy was offered a chance to fly to Panama(!) for a free vacation and try the milk dare again, getting $500 if he couldn't do it and $2,500 if he could. No idea how that turned out. Oh, America.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 12/28/05 at 11:51am

Wow. That is - some story.

[kissmycookie]

Posted: 12/28/05 at 11:51am

From salon.com

Inevitably, and a bit ironically, Mel Torme has been remembered this week as "The Velvet Fog," a sobriquet a disk jockey gave him in 1946 that he spent much of the rest of his life trying to shake. Torme hated the nickname: It was a remnant of the early postwar years when, along with a clutch of other, lesser crooners, he was marketed to bobby-soxers as a baby-faced sex symbol. He made a career-defining shift in the mid-1950s, forsaking syrupy pop music and pioneering an urbane, cool jazz vocal style, but the Velvet Fog moniker stuck with him for the next four and a half decades. Eventually, Torme would grudgingly embrace his "albatross" -- he had license plates that read LE FOG and EL PHOG -- and the truth is, as nicknames go, the Velvet Fog wasn't half bad: It captured the feel of Torme's startlingly pure vocal timbre, a resonant softness that seemed to envelop every room he ever sang in.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 12/28/05 at 11:53am

I'm known as the Velvet Foghorn.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 12/28/05 at 11:58am

just found out that our company annual awards banquet a week from this Friday is at the Hotel del Coronado (San Diego) one of the Grand Dames of the hotel world...I can't wait!

All I can say is thank God the sales conference is in San Diego, and NOT HERE!

[SorryGrateful]

Posted: 12/28/05 at 11:58am

Thank you for doing the searching that I'm too lazy to do, cookie. That's so interesting!

[Broadway_Baby]

Posted: 12/28/05 at 8:35pm

I'm watching the Season 4 DVD's of Will & Grace.

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 12/28/05 at 8:58pm

I am addicted to Crystal Light.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 12/28/05 at 9:00pm

I'm drinking chocolate milk.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 12/28/05 at 9:01pm

I'm drinking a gingerbread latte.

[mominator]

Posted: 12/28/05 at 9:03pm

My throat is still sore.

[Broadway_Baby]

Posted: 12/28/05 at 9:10pm

Me too, mom.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 12/28/05 at 9:12pm

oh no!

Hopes that mom and Baby feel better soon!