You'll have to sleep on top of the credenza.
I can't even spell credanza and I have to sleep on it? Oh well, I always have my sleeping bag. Edgar are you trying to trick me with them french words? Enguish is my second language and I have no first language.
I tried to spellcheck the word, but my dictionary doesn't even carry it. I learned about them from Dr. Seuss.
If I can...
I know it : "Credenza clearwater revival"!
Good Morning All. Here are the February 2 Birthday Celebrities:
1882 James Joyce, novelist/poet (Dublin, Ireland; died 1941)
1895 George Halas, football coach/owner (Chicago, IL; died 1983)
1905 Ayn Rand, novelist (Russia; died 1982)
1923 Liz Smith, gossip columnist (Fort Worth, TX)
1926 Elaine Stritch, actress (Detroit, MI)
1927 Stan Getz, jazz saxophonist (Philadelphia, PA; died 1991)
1937 Tom Smothers, comedian (New York, NY)
1942 Barry Diller, TV executive (San Francisco, CA)
Bo Hopkins, actor (Greenville, SC)
Graham Nash, musician/singer (Blackpool, England)
1947 Farrah Fawcett, actress (Corpus Christi, TX)
1954 Christie Brinkley, model (Malibu, CA)
1959 Dexter Manley, football player (Houston, TX
It's unusual to have this usual suspect hanging arond our coffee machine....have a doughnut dys?
Dys, I agree, it fits your personality perfectly. I'm sure it will look much more homey as soon as Diane makes some curtains.
<giggling at the thought>
Listeners, don't you just love late night banter? Eva and Francis and dys and panz.
Raggedy, once again you have kept us apprised of the stars bars. I can't tell you how many Stan Getz CD's I have lying here and there and everywhere.
After watching Mutiny on the Bounty and checking on the cast and crew, I found some interesting things that I did not know:
http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/England-History/MutinyontheBounty.htm
Franchot Tone was excellent, especially in his summation speech before the hearing committee.
I, too, watched Gable's Mutiny on the Bounty, based on the novel by Nordoff and Hall. That was a very interesting link, Letty. I think I've seen all the movies made that were based on Nordoff and Hall novels and have read a few of their novels also. The Hurricane (1937) is one of my all-time favorites. It starred Dorothy Lamour, Mary Astor, Thomas Mitchell, John Carradine, Raymond Massey and Jon Hall as the native, Terangi. I read that Jon Hall was author James Norman Hall's nephew, but am not sure whether that is fact, or just a publicity gimmick. But after starring in Hurricane, Jon Hall also appeared in several more Nordoff and Hall movies. To end the weakness and suffering due to cancer of the bladder, Jon Hall shot himself in the head at the age of 66.
Here's a short article about author Hall, a native Iowan, with mention of Nordoff ,that I found interesting:
http://desmoinesregister.com/extras/iowans/hall.html
In addition to the novels mentioned in that article, Hall also wrote Passage to Marseille, Botany Bay, High Barbaree and Tuttles of Tahiti, to mention a few.
Raggedy, a million thanks for sharing this piece of history with all of us here. I had no idea that Jon Hall killed himself. How very tragic. The other half of Nordoff was extremely fascinating.
Wasn't there a remake of Hurricane? Forgotten and I don't want to look it up.
Now for a little humor:
Only a Southerner knows the difference between a hissie fit and a conniption fit, and that you don't "HAVE" them, you "PITCH" them.
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Only a Southerner knows how many fish, collard greens, turnip greens, peas, beans, etc., make up "a mess."
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Only a Southerner can show or point out to you the general direction of "yonder."
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Only a Southerner knows exactly how long "directly" is -- as in: "Going to town, be back directly."
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Even Southern babies know that "Gimme some sugar" is not a request for the white, granular sweet substance that sits in a pretty little bowl in the middle of the table.
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All Southerners know exactly when "by and by" is. They might not use the term, but they know the concept well.
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Only a Southerner knows instinctively that the best gesture of solace for a neighbor who's got trouble is a plate of hot fried chicken and a big bowl of cold potato salad. If the neighbor's trouble is a real crisis, they also know to add a large banana puddin!
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Only Southerners grow up knowing the difference between "right near" and "a right far piece." They also know that "just down the road" can be 1 mile or 20.
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Only a Southerner, both knows and understands, the difference between a redneck, a good ol' boy, and po' white trash.
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No true Southerner would ever assume that the car with the flashing turn signal is actually going to make a turn.
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A Southerner knows that "fixin" can be used as a noun, a verb, or an adverb.
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Only Southerners make friends while standing in lines. We don't do "queues," we do "lines"; and when we're "in line," we talk to everybody!
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Put 100 Southerners in a room and half of them will discover they're related, even if only by marriage.
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Southerners never refer to one person as "y'all"
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Southerners know grits come from corn and how to eat them.
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Every Southerner knows tomatoes with eggs, bacon, grits, and coffee are perfectly wonderful; that red eye gravy is also a breakfast food; and that fried green tomatoes are not a breakfast food.
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When you hear someone say, "Well, I caught myself lookin'," you know you are in the presence of a genuine Southerner!
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Only true Southerners say "sweet tea" and "sweet milk." Sweet tea indicates the need for sugar and lots of it -- we do not like our tea unsweetened. "Sweet milk" means you don't want buttermilk.
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And a true Southerner knows you don't scream obscenities at little old ladies who drive 30 MPH on the freeway. You just say, "Bless her heart" and go your own way.
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To those of you who're still a little embarrassed by your Southerness: Take two tent revivals and a dose of sausage gravy and call me in the morning. Bless your heart!
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And to those of you who are still having a hard time understanding all this Southern stuff, bless your hearts, I hear they are fixin' to have classes on Southernness as a second language!
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And for those that are not from the South but have lived here for a long time, ya'll need a sign to hang on y'alls front porch that reads "I aint from the South but I got here as fast as I could."
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Bless your hearts, ya'll have a blessed day.
I don't even want to think of the remake of The Hurricane with Mia Farrow. (Ugh) No resemblance to the original, except a hurricane. Ironically:
quote from IMDb:
"His (Jon Hall's) last public appearence was just a few months before his death, at the premiere of the 1979 remake of The Hurricane (1937). Hall had played the male lead in the original."
I read "Falcons Of France" as a boy and was hooked.
American novelist and writer of adventure and travel books. Charles Nordhoff wrote with his friend James Norman Hall a three-volume novel about the famous eighteenth-century mutiny, in which the crew of the H.M.S. Bounty, a British war vessel, arose against their cruel commander, Captain William Bligh. The work was a huge success and was adapted for screen in 1935, 1962, and 1984.
"I did ask him [Hall] how the partners had decided whose name should come first, and he gave an instructive answer: 'It's always effective to end a sentence or anything else with a short, crisp word. Hall and Nordhoff doesn't sound half as effective.'" (James Michener in The World Is My Home, 1992)
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/nordhof.htm
Great article, Panzade. Thanks.
Those authors were an adventure story in themselves. Now, I'm curious and when I have time, will look into James Michener's, The World Is My Home.
From the sleepy WA2K sportsdesk-which is, I reckon, about as sleepy as NPR's. On Wednesday mornings they chat with a dude name Frank Deford who writes for Sports Illustrated. A Yankee.
He was commenting on the NFL Superbowl which will be played Sunday in Jacksonville. Some withering comments about that city (cow-town?) and he ended with this zinger (I may have my dates wrong):
About a hundred years ago, when Miami was still a swamp, a new industry moved into JAX, and thrived for awhile until the bible-toting residents decided that their product was sinful and drove them out of town. They left, all right, and moved to a place called Hollywood, CA
Hey, RJB. Exactly what is JAX?
side note:
Va. tech beat the Cavaliers.
Jax has been better off since...
Letty, I thought JAX was the airline abbreviation for Jacksonville. No? Yes, the Hokies beat the Hoos, and the sharks are circling. The coach is a pretty funny guy, a quip a minute, which is fine when you are winning. But when he consistently loses...
Enough from the the sports desk. Let's get back to the music.
