Would You Rather...

#1

Would You Rather...

Posted: 8/15/05 at 2:29am

Have Mary Poppins as a nanny or have Mary Poppins' powers?

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"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.

#2

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Posted: 8/15/05 at 2:32am

I think, seeing as I'm too old for a nanny now, that I would very much like to have her powers. She's wonderful!

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"The stage is where I live and come alive and act out all the things that go on in my life. It's not just what I do for a living, it's my shrink and my love affair. No one in my life has ever or ever will kiss me on the mouth like this lover called my relationship with my performance."

#3

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Posted: 8/15/05 at 6:04am

Yes, wouldn't it be wonderful to jump in paintings and Puruette (sp?) in the air?

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"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.

#4

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Posted: 8/15/05 at 11:54am

Definitely her powers - that would be awesome!

#5

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Posted: 8/15/05 at 11:59am

"Hey, Mary! Is that a hatrack in your clutch purse or are you just happy to see me?"

#6

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Posted: 8/15/05 at 12:03pm

*bitchslaps wildcat*

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Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson

#7

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Posted: 8/15/05 at 12:15pm

If Wildy is playing Mary Poppins than I want her as my Nanny...If NOT I want Mary's powers !!!

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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8

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Posted: 8/15/05 at 12:17pm

"Boobsy! Hiya kid! The party's on the ceiling!"

#9

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Posted: 8/15/05 at 12:19pm

Oh the fun I would have as Doxy Poppins...

#10

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Posted: 8/15/05 at 12:23pm

"REALLY?? Only tuppence a bag? Wow...!"

#11

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Posted: 8/15/05 at 12:23pm

Wildy..I thought the party was in my mouth??? MWAH

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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12

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Posted: 8/15/05 at 12:26pm

Ick. My husband and my brother. Ick, ick, ICK.

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Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson

#13

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Posted: 8/15/05 at 12:30pm

Wifey..can we throw your cousin in too????

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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14

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Posted: 8/15/05 at 12:32pm

Boobs, you always have to make it worse, don't you?

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Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson

#15

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Posted: 8/15/05 at 12:32pm

Close your mouth, please, Boobs. We are not a codfish.

#16

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Posted: 8/15/05 at 12:36pm

Thank you, big brother.

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Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson

#17

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Posted: 8/15/05 at 12:36pm

Really, Mary's powers weren't all that great. What could she really do? Have a race with carousel horses? Order cartoon penguins around? Make some bag lady appear in a snow globe? Claim to be practically perfect in every way?

Sure, she could fly, but an umbrella provides a rather clunky form of flying. And with all her powers, Mary Poppins was still a nanny. A servant.

If I had to take the powers of a Julie Andrews character, I'd want Victor/Victoria. She could trick a macho mob boss into thinking he's gay (even make him impotent) AND shatter glass with her voice.

#18

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Posted: 8/15/05 at 12:47pm

But Calvin, that power didn't translate as far as the audience...

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Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson

#19

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Posted: 8/15/05 at 12:51pm

Speak for yourself. When I left that cinema I was gay and impotent and covered in shards.

#20

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Posted: 8/15/05 at 12:53pm

I was talking about the theatrical production, wildcat.

Wait a minute.....



YOU'RE GAY?????

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Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson

#21

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Posted: 8/15/05 at 12:56pm

Well, if we're talking the theatrical one, then I would have the additional power to turn into Raquel Welch and really suck.

Wait. I can already do the last part of that.

#22

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Posted: 8/15/05 at 12:58pm

I'm not saying Andrews "sucked." I'm saying she's about the girliest girl who ever girled, and it just was completely beyond any thinking person's scope to buy her as a man.

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Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson

#23

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Posted: 8/15/05 at 1:04pm

Oh, I didn't mean to imply that. I just meant that Raquel Welch REALLY sucked.

#24

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Posted: 8/15/05 at 1:06pm

Welch had a more believable voice, however, she has the hugest rack in the world, so that was a bit of an issue.

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Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson

#25

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Posted: 8/15/05 at 1:16pm

I, of course, had a Julie Andrews bias. I was too young to get to see her onstage in anything else, really, and (although I didn't know it at the time) V/V was my one and only chance to see her live in a musical. When I saw it again with Welch, I didn't enjoy it at all -- but in fairness, I really didn't like the show itself all that much and was probably initially enjoying only the fact that I was seeing Julie Andrews.

I never saw it with Liza, though.