Dargo2
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>And in response to the poster: There's a big difference between a one-time lapse into bad grammar and a regular speech pattern of the same. Now, Caroline Kennedy's excessive use of the phrase "you know" (reportedly 140+ times in a 30-minute interview) when she was discussing her interest in being appointed to a vacant Senate seat in New York a few years back...that's a speech pattern.
Yeah bundie, well there's THAT particular little trait in (Sweet) Caroline's voice, but as my wife and I always comment right after watching her yearly little stint at the Kennedy Center Honors, don't forget there's ALSO that whole monotone thing and a distinct lack of any passion in her voice pattern TOO! And to which, I made the comment to my wife that she would've been just about as lackluster a guest presenter as most of the rest were during Bob Osborne's absence last year!
(...in OTHER words, I will NEVER understand how some people who have been in "the spotlight" all their lives and SHOULD know that by using JUST a little inflection, can usually make almost ANY speech more "listenable"...nope, I'll NEVER understand THAT...I mean, is this concept REALLY that hard to GRASP?!)
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>Of course Brennan himself was one of the biggest racists in Hollywood!
Oooooh! So THAT'S why the old codger was always so mean to poor ol' Pepino on that little farm of theirs in the San Fernando Valley, huh!
(...before of course they subdivided it and built all those 3bed-2bath little ranch style numbers as far as the eye can see there, anyway)
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Looks like Stanwyck to me there, Kid.
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>The German word for black is Schwarz.
And ironically, if you add "enegger" to that, it's the German word for "one-note movie star"!!!
(...betcha didn't know THAT, did ya Fred!)
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So very sorry to hear of Lori's passing. My condolences to her family and to all her many friends.
(...I'll especially miss her great sense of humor she always expressed back to me whenever I'd occasionally kid her about her Garfield "obsession")
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Very true about the British pronunciation(or I suppose, lack there of) of the letter "r".
Yep. where as we Yanks would probably say, "I would like a glass of WA-ter, the Brits would say, "I would like a glass of WO-tah".
(...yep, it sure is kinda strange how those folks over there on that li'l ol' island who started this crazy ol' language, have the most UNUSUAL manner of pronouncing it, huh!)
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>I particularly remember the spelling of "furniture:" "foinichuh!"
Okay, Swithin ol' buddy. Now fess up here. With you bein' a native "New Yawkah", I'm gonna guess you may NOT say "FOIN-ah-chah", BUT I'll bet if I heard you say that word, you'd probably pronounce it, "Furn-a-chah", now wouldn't you?!
'Cause I have yet to meet ANY native "New Yawkah" who would pronounce the the second "r" in a word such as that.
(...YOU know what I'm sayin' here, right?!...it's NOT a "cab drivER", it's a "cab drivah"...yep, your "R"s there are ALMOST as nonexistant as those folks livin' up north of the Atlantic seaboard from ya)
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""You vill give me zat tool."
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That's a great story there, dark. And yeah, I suppose IS kind of a decent demonstration of the "Matter of Fact" Teutonic culture, isn't it.
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LOL! Yeah, or Ba-ba Wa-wa...OR good ol' Elmer "Be vewy vewy quiet, I'm hunting wabbits" Fudd for THAT matter!
Btw, as you might also know, it's NOT just the Iwish...errr..IRISH(now SEE what you've done?!!!) who have trouble with the English "th" sound. One of my old co-workers by the name of Werner Strauss(yeah, you guessed it, as German as they come and with the accent to prove it) would often(btw, speakin' of the word "often" here...do YOU pronouce the "t" in the word or not?...sorry for the digression here
) ANYWAY, ol' VERner would often say stuff like, "I sink I'm going to go out for lunch today".Well, of COURSE I had to occasionally kid him about "sinking" things.
And as I recall, he didn't ever find much humor(spelled withOUT that superfluous British "u" here, btw) in it!
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Well, I'll bet none of you folks knew that Shirley "Come Back, Little Sheba" Booth came THIS CLOSE to goin' by the name Shirley Lipschitz because even though it had been YEARS since her great uncle shot Mr. Lincoln, as a young ingenue she was STILL a bit worried about how this might affect her acting career!
(...naaaah...of course I'm kiddin')
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Very true, Swithin. In fact, this ol' native Californian here(that would be me) who otherwise sounds like your average everyday radio announcer, would for years say the word "heighth" for the word "height". I suppose my excuse was that without that added "h" at the end of the word, there would no continuity in the phrase, "length, width and..ahem..heighth", RIGHT?!
(...yeah, what WAS I thinking there all this time, huh?!..."continuity" in the ENGLISH language???...I mean, that right THERE is a freakin' oxymoron, RIGHT?!)
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>Hum, maybe a test, and an easy one at that. If they ask, "Where's the game?" on the channel line up, they may not be up for film discussions.
Well Char, yeah I suppose that might be a decent "test"...unLESS of course North By Northwest is playin' for the umpteenth time on TCM while the Super Bowl is on.
(...and then ya MIGHT wanna consider givin' the guy a break and grade him usin' the ol' Bell Curve!)
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>About ten years.....Moving BACK to Philly (I had been away for 23 years.)
Yeah, I suppose the cost of all those Jaywalking tickets out there WOULD add up over time and make a return to Philly seem a wise move financially, huh finance.
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Wow Eugenia. Now THAT was a fascinating read in that link. Thanks for posting it.
Btw, did you happen to notice the size and aspect ratio of the "future television" here in that article?
It's pretty much as they've come to be now days, isn't it! What foresight, eh?!
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Yep, always good advice.
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That sounds like a good plan to me, Fred!
In fact, I always wondered why all those people in Invaders From Mars went so dang close to that darn cliff!
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Yeah, EXCEPT for the inclusion of the classic, "Unchanged Melody" on the list there!
So what's up with THAT?
I mean, sure it was used in Ghost, a movie which I suppose some people aren't all that crazy about, but don't go blamin' the songwriters, Alex North and Hy Zaret OR the Righteous Bros for THAT, if ya would, Calamity.
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Now, the Commodores' "Easy"(Like Sunday Morning) I've always liked. Always thought the recording we all know had a great arrangement and excellent vocals.
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Ooh, I've just thought of a certain Academy Award winning song that while others may like it, it always kind of grated on me...Keith Carradine's "I'm Easy" from 1975's Nashville.
(...yep, I'd say it's right up..err..maybe DOWN there on my list with "You Light Up My Life")
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Hmmmm...now clore, WHY was it that while I was readin' the new Texas state representative's thoughts, I was hearin' banjo music???
(...strange, huh!)
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Now don't backtrack there, twinkeee my dear. Ya see, not ONLY was my little "admonition" to you about "speakin' ill of the dead" offered up for you to appreaciate the dark humored "irony" of it, BUT I also felt you hit upon a very salient point in your response.
(...and so I say you just go RIGHT ahead and speak ill of "poor ol' Ma Lanza" all ya want...'cause PERSONALLY, I think she deserves it!)
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"Associates"?! "ASSOCIATES"???!!!
And HERE after all this time I've come to regard YOU more as sort of the "Older Brother" type in my mind, Fred!
(...well, I guess I know were I stand with YOU now, don't I?!!!)
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>Maybe if Adam Lanza's mother had introduced him to Hardy Movies (as 'corny' as that may seem) instead of guns, what happened in Newtown would have been prevented!
Now now, twinkeee. It's not nice to speak ill of the dead, ya know.
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(...yeah, or maybe like I said a number of times in "that" thread, IF she would've maybe given her kid a freakin' TENNIS RACQUET and had him learn that REAL sport instead!!!)
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Well Helen, I'm certainly glad you've come to the realization that some of these discussions can sometimes feel as if they can get a little overblown around here, and that to take them personally is rather pointless.
(...and NOW about these freakin' green fees around here.........)
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>Is anybody arrogant enough to think that 100 years from now they won't be judging us for whatever shortcomings we don't even know we have?
Sorry BFSR, but you DO realize that just about HALF the people in this country TODAY seem to believe that all we have to do is GO BACK in time from the present day in order to return to a time when they actually believe we had LESS "shortcomings" than we have today...NOT forward in time.
(...though rest assured my friend, I'm NOT one of 'em!)