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10/27/2000 12:24 AM
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The Marx Brothers were American *waggling eyebrows*
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#8855
10/27/2000 12:54 AM
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The Marx Brothers were American *waggling eyebrows*
Thanks, Anna, you've reminded me to look out for their movies again - "A Day at the Races" is my favourite.
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All right, I can't hide the shame anymore...MY all time favorite: Search for the Holy Grail (I know, I know, I’m getting old) When King Arthur meets “Dennis” in the autonomous collective …. “you can’t expect to wield supreme executive power ‘cause some watery tart threw a sword at you. I mean, if I went around sayin’ I was the emperor just because some moistened bink had lobbed a scimitar at me they’d put me away” It just slays me. For those interested in a good Monthy Python page: http://montypython.net/grailsounds.php3
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I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully
Yes indeed; neither causes terminal indigestion in the other.
Hi, Shona,
You say this with much assurance. Did you ever inquire among sharks?
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>Did you ever inquire among sharks?
I have to remind you that Jackie doesn't like us to discuss politicians!
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Jackie
Perhaps my favourite slapstick film/moment (as opposed to humour in general) has got to be Chaplin's Easy Street (have I got the name right?), with the entire window-upstairs-downstairs thing between Chaplin, the girl (Paulette Goddard?) and the policeman.
One for my younger days though... slapstick doesn't quite do it for me any more
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< Easy Street>
Yes, Shanks, Easy Street (made in 1917) is still a very funny half-hour. Edna Purviance (what a fascinating surname!) played the missionary; Paulette Goddard didn't work with Chaplin until Modern Times in 1935.
Our film society had a double bill of Chaplin (The kid plus Modern Times) a couple of months ago. A wonderful evening of fun and nostalgia.
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<Bush … spoonerism>
I'm sure that Dr Spooner would refer to the two candidates as Gush and Bore.
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There goes any reputation I may have tried to maintain for infallibility. Thanks for the info, though. Was it the same actress (Edna Purviance) in all his early classics (Gold Rush et al)?
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10/27/2000 12:03 PM
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neither causes terminal indigestion in the other.
>Did you ever inquire among sharks?Well indeed, wsieb, if you don't do as mummy said - chop your food up properly and chew it at least 200 times - you get what's coming to you.. 
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10/27/2000 12:17 PM
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refer to the two candidates as Gush and Bore
Oh, paulb, that's GREAT! How perfectly appropriate!
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10/27/2000 12:38 PM
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*waggles eyebrows* - Yes Auntie, Max, I meant to mention the Marx Bros, and in particular Day at the Races. Seen time and again, and still enjoyed.. ..but nothing like as much as Holy Grail bel! "Come back here you coward, I'll bite your legs off!" "What is the flight velocity of an unladen swallow?" "It's a rabbit!" Heck, you and Max have provided references to the originals and much more anyway. Thanks so much for that.  This is always dangerous territory, where it's so easy to end up on a major YART that (as Jo implied elsewhere) consists largely of quoting entire episodes word for word! Maybe we should set up a Monty P thread, which we can build up, and to which we can always refer, at times like this. Only it would be a Gilliam-type monster of a thread.
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>I'm sure that Dr Spooner would refer to the two candidates as Gush and Bore.
That makes me wonder if voting for Nader would help to get rid of all of the sex and violence in the race (Bush and Gore)
PLOPPPPP (the sound of TEd hitting the gutter yet again)
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>Cheese Shop is right up there
Cleese and Palin were so good together; viz. The Pet Store ("This parrot is deceased!").
I think Cleese turned 61 today... [aaaaarrrrgggh!!]
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sex and violence
The Remington Close Shaver:
"I was so impressed - I bought the Company!"
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Oh Max, you've made my day. Thanks for the link.
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10/28/2000 10:49 AM
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<infallibility>
Not to worry, Shanks, I was using reference books, not my memory.
Miss Purviance was mainly in Chaplin's shorts (please don't take this the wrong way!) plus The kid and Limelight (not as star). She died in 1958. The leading ladies in his other features were Georgia Hale (The gold rush), Merna Kennedy (The circus), Virginia Cherrill (City Lights), Paulette Goddard (The great dictator), Martha Raye (Monsieur Verdoux), Claire Bloom (Limelight), Dawn Addams (A king in New York) and Sophia Loren (A countess from Hong Kong).
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10/28/2000 12:32 PM
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Miss Purviance was mainly in Chaplin's shortsWhy, paulb, I am delighted to have you join me in the gutter! 
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< Why, paulb, I am delighted to have you join me
in the gutter>
so, Jackie, should we call ourselves 'wallowers'?
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paulb, I'd wallow with you any time! Oh, you meant as a group name, didn't you? Ah well, another dream gone down the (gutter) drain!  I don't know--I think I kind of like it. It sounds a bit like wadders, reminding us of being AWAD-ers, and we do love to wallow in our assertions, semantics, and rhetoric.
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In reply to:
should we call ourselves 'wallowers'?
I refuse to live with the hint that I may owe the wall anything. Dammit I pay my debts and don't you dare suggest otherwise...
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10/30/2000 10:28 AM
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<wallowers>
Well, er, actually Jackie, this was more a name for the select group of us who've made it to the gutter.
And feel free to join us, Shanks, there's no charge!
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Well, er, actually Jackie, this was more a name for the select group of us who've made it to the gutterHOORAY!
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I'd sooner be a wallower than a wallflower.
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