Patty Duke is another example of a child actress who was taken advantage of by her parents, albeit probably a bit before Baron Zemo's time.
Inga the Ignorant still claims BZ is TY. I am not seeing that, myself. Their writing is vastly different. And by "still" I mean the last time I bothered to read comments over there - the less I visit that dump the better my life is. And today is a happy, sunshiny day, so there you go.
In other news, I just rough turned a 16" dogwood bowl. That may be the largest bowl ever turned out of one piece of dogwood.
No stage mother was involved in the production of that bowl.
Aw Blake, you mean he got me? Really? He has sneaked back into the lair of the beast under a false flag and learned how to spell all in an effort to comment at TOP?
If all that is true then he has fooled me. Well and truly.
I must have lost my noob status at TOP, b/c lately I've been thinking that the quality of comments there has gone to shit. I suppose that has always been so.
Blake has cut to the chase - how does one fictional online character prove that he is not another fictional online character, when in reality we are all motes in Darcy's eye.
I once disassembled a cooling tower on a hospital in Boston. It's a wonder I didn't catch Legionnaire's disease. Or start it.
Liberty Valence is the character TY is thinking of. I am pretty sure of that. Or Jimmy Stewart, who was played by Lee Marvin, late of Andy's Gang, where magic twangers were frequently twanged.
Ye-ah, Pilgrim, when we could settle all our problems with a sharp quip and a six shooter. Those were the days.
Maybe the character Troop is remembering was Tom Doniphon, especially since that character went on to have his on reef in another movie. The Duke was a busy guy.
Hey, Troop, did you know that if I ever became a Catholic it would be precisely because of the Catholics I know? My sister, Michael Haz, Ruth Anne and my sister, among many others?
You're welcome, Michael! I meant it. I admire people who aren't phony, admit their weaknesses and need for God, and who extend grace often. Throw me in that briar patch! ;-)
Chickelit chirps, "Inga is all upset calling me "rooster" over on TOP, I hope she confuses us.
The confusion may be closer to home.
Certainly there's been enough crowing, scratching, preening, clucking, shaking of the wattle, and other cocksure behavior to qualify for more personal rooster considerations without looking outside the yard.
As for my two cents, I began to wonder if chickelit might be a variation of Reepicheep back when he was chickenlittle.
He is an experienced warrior, utterly fearless, and faultlessly courteous, particularly to noble ladies. He is also pugnacious and quick to defend any affront to his honour.
Back in my youth, I used to listen to a series about Chickelit's father, Chickenman, (He's everywhere! He's everywhere!) on radio station WCFL braodcasting from Chicago.
In The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (film), Reepicheep was not so easily angered by Eustace's antics as he was in the book. In fact, he seemed more amused than anything, with the exception of when Eustace tried to steal rations, and then proceeded to grab Reepicheep's tail, but didn't swing him by it. When he did this, Reepicheep challenged him to a duel, but Eustace actually went ahead with the swordfight, and judging by the way they fought, it appeared as though Reepicheep was trying to teach Eustace fencing more than anything.
For ChipS, something between a Quick Draw McGraw and Pink Panther with connections to El Kabong???
In certain cases, Quick Draw would also assume the identity of the masked vigilante El Kabong (a parody of Zorro, known in the Spanish-dubbed version as "El Caba-Zorro" or "El Relámpago"). His introduction went as follows – "Of all the heroes in legend and song, there's none as brave as El Kabong" – As El Kabong, Quick Draw would attack his foes by swooping down on a rope with the war cry "OLAYYYYEEEE!" and hitting them on the head with an acoustic guitar (after shouting "KABOOOOOONG!")
My education has been full in some areas and sadly lacking in others. Having no film or book knowledge of Rupert of Hentzau, travel to the wiki and beyond was necessary. Unfortunately, differences in the characters portrayed in the film based on the first book, and the same ones written about in the second book, bearing Rupert's name as a title, resulted in more confusion than clarity. With the end result of considering ChipS as RupertH to be a composite of someone embroiled in a world of deception, intrigue, deadly swordfights and strained loyalties.
With the following awareness and quote coming to attention as writing I enjoy:
The famous duel between Rassendyll and Rupert became a blueprint for duels in dozens of Hollywood movies:
"The next moment he had his revolver in his hand – none too soon, for Rupert of Hentzau’s barrel faced him, and they stood thus, opposite to one another, with no more than three or four feet between the mouths of their weapons. There is, indeed, much that may be said against Rupert of Hentzau, the truth about him well-nigh forbidding that charity of judgment which we are taught to observe towards all men. But neither I nor any man who knew him ever found in him a shrinking from danger or a fear of death. It was no feeling such as these, but rather a cool calculation of chances, that now stayed his hand. Even if he were victorious in the duel, and both did not die, yet the noise of the firearms would greatly decrease his chances of escape. Moreover, he was a noted swordsman, and conceived that he was Mr Rassendyll’s superior in that exercise. The steel offered him at once a better prospect for victory and more hope of a safe fight. So he did not pull his trigger, but, maintaining his aim the while, said: ‘I’m not a street bully, and I don’t excel in a rough-and-tumble. Will you fight now like a gentleman? There’s a pair of blades in the case yonder.’"
MamaM, if you have even a slight taste for swashbuckling movies full of palace intrigue, I implore you to put the Ronald Coleman version of "The Prisoner of Zenda" in your Netflix queue.
Truth to tell, I'd rather be Rassendyll than Hentzau, but that's way too presumptuous.
Ronald Coleman may be the greatest forgotten male movie star of them all. And Madeleine Carroll (the original Hitchcock Blonde) may be the greatest forgotten female star. And they're both in PoZ, in which Douglas Fairbanks Jr. steals the movie right out from under them.
But here I am stepping all over blake's turf. I know nothing about movies except what I like.
"Sex tape" sounds like a low-rent alternative to velvet handcuffs.
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ReplyDeleteVetrap
ReplyDelete...the world's first and leading brand of flexible self-adherent wrap ...for all animals—great and small.
Is sex tape sticky? Does it come in different colors?
ReplyDeleteIs that next week's Dave's Old Porn?
ReplyDeleteWhat if? Paris Hilton were a troll doll?
ReplyDeleteDamn, Troop, I'm impressed by this one. You were searching variations of "blood", weren't you?
ReplyDeleteWhat you really need are the Elmo Sex Tapes.
ReplyDeleteTim, glad to see you back here!
ReplyDeleteLikewise.
ReplyDeleteI'm tickled pink.
Tim, Where you been? Good to see your bespectled face.
ReplyDeleteBaron Zemo nailed it, three times, over at TOP on the thread about Angus T. Jones. Great work, Baron.
ReplyDeletePatty Duke is another example of a child actress who was taken advantage of by her parents, albeit probably a bit before Baron Zemo's time.
ReplyDeleteInga the Ignorant still claims BZ is TY. I am not seeing that, myself. Their writing is vastly different. And by "still" I mean the last time I bothered to read comments over there - the less I visit that dump the better my life is. And today is a happy, sunshiny day, so there you go.
In other news, I just rough turned a 16" dogwood bowl. That may be the largest bowl ever turned out of one piece of dogwood.
No stage mother was involved in the production of that bowl.
Heh. I guess I can't say TY never fooled anyone...
ReplyDeleteAw Blake, you mean he got me? Really? He has sneaked back into the lair of the beast under a false flag and learned how to spell all in an effort to comment at TOP?
ReplyDeleteIf all that is true then he has fooled me. Well and truly.
Let me state for the record that Trooper York and Baron Zemo are two entirely different people.
ReplyDeleteTrooper York will never post again at TOP.
Baron Zemo is a different person. Just sayn'
That would have been a more effective statement if you had written it as Baron Zemo, Troop.
ReplyDeleteOkay, just kiddin'...
I must have lost my noob status at TOP, b/c lately I've been thinking that the quality of comments there has gone to shit. I suppose that has always been so.
ReplyDeleteWell, except for that Baron Zemo dude.
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ReplyDeleteI do admit to being surprised by how well Inga is pulling off the 'Baron Zemo' identity. No one over there has a clue.
ReplyDeleteI think everybody knows.
ReplyDeleteI mean, edutcher knows.
Even lawnboy knows.
The good spelling was a good stab at misdirection, but there were too many tells later on.
Just sayn'.
I, on the other hand, don't know nothin'.
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm keepin' it dat way.
Just sayn'.
Heheheh. Well, what do I know? I think everyone's a sock puppet, I hear...
ReplyDeleteI am Baron Zemo!
ReplyDeleteYes, Trooper York is an entirely different person from Baron Zemo, who in turn is different from Kirby York.
ReplyDelete*kaff*
I am legion.
ReplyDeleteWait, not Kirby York...It wasn't Rooster Cogburn...Capt. Dooley? I remember another John Wayne character popping up at AA years ago...
ReplyDeleteHave you read "Legion", TY? Blatty's follow-up to "The Exorcist"?
ReplyDeleteI knew it!! Barons and their tennis courts - dead giveaway.
ReplyDeleteI am legion.
ReplyDeleteSo that makes us, what, legionnaires?
Blake has cut to the chase - how does one fictional online character prove that he is not another fictional online character, when in reality we are all motes in Darcy's eye.
ReplyDeleteHey Darce! How you doin'?
I once disassembled a cooling tower on a hospital in Boston. It's a wonder I didn't catch Legionnaire's disease. Or start it.
ReplyDeleteLiberty Valence is the character TY is thinking of. I am pretty sure of that. Or Jimmy Stewart, who was played by Lee Marvin, late of Andy's Gang, where magic twangers were frequently twanged.
You're all the apples of my eye, Sixty!
ReplyDeleteI'm doing okay. I'm soothing my bruised heart after the election with some reading and movie-watching.
Watched Big Jake and Appaloosa over the weekend. Enjoyed John Wayne, as always, but Appaloosa was the surprise to me. Really liked it.
Also caught Tombstone last night. I think I just want to time travel back to those days or somethin'.
Ye-ah, Pilgrim, when we could settle all our problems with a sharp quip and a six shooter. Those were the days.
ReplyDeleteMaybe the character Troop is remembering was Tom Doniphon, especially since that character went on to have his on reef in another movie. The Duke was a busy guy.
I worked for a while as an apple picker, but found it was tough work compared to cowboying, where the Appaloosa.
ReplyDelete#badgroucho
I told a friend I was moving to North Carolina.
ReplyDeleteShe said "Really?"
I said "No, Raleigh."
Never lived in Alabama, where elephants wear pajamas.
I enjoy setting picks for Sixty.
ReplyDeleteNice to see Darcy's back.
ReplyDeleteGive yourself a hug for me.
Seriously, what kind of a man would make a living having his hand up Elmo's ass? I ask you.
ReplyDeleteThe answer was right in front of us all the time.
ReplyDeleteEl Mo.
B/c the 1st Angus Jones thread was so bad, I hadn't read today's until just now, on MHaz's say-so.
ReplyDeleteBaron Zemo dropped a WMD on those clowns.
Bravo!
Okay, I looked. This is what I saw:
ReplyDelete"Baron Zemo said...
The Jets are the Honey Boo Boo's of the NFL."
That made me laugh.
I enjoy it when she looks like a fool because she always says she hates looking like one.
ReplyDeleteShe used to be...so amused.
Give yourself a hug for me.
ReplyDeleteThat was a Bond trick in "Diamonds Are Forever" IIRC.
Haha! I can do that, Chip. ;-)
ReplyDeleteNow to read this AA thread...
Allen and Darcy are back. Were they off together on an island??
ReplyDeleteThe gang's all here. Sweet.
ReplyDeleteHey, Troop, did you know that if I ever became a Catholic it would be precisely because of the Catholics I know? My sister, Michael Haz, Ruth Anne and my sister, among many others?
ReplyDeleteYep. It's true.
So...you wanna be a hypocrite?
ReplyDeleteDone. :)
ReplyDelete@blake: Inga is all upset calling me "rooster" over on TOP, usurping your Twitter trademark. I hope she confuses us.
ReplyDelete@Darcy - That was a nice thing that you posted. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome, Michael! I meant it. I admire people who aren't phony, admit their weaknesses and need for God, and who extend grace often. Throw me in that briar patch! ;-)
ReplyDeleteChickelit chirps, "Inga is all upset calling me "rooster" over on TOP, I hope she confuses us.
ReplyDeleteThe confusion may be closer to home.
Certainly there's been enough crowing, scratching, preening, clucking, shaking of the wattle, and other cocksure behavior to qualify for more personal rooster considerations without looking outside the yard.
As for my two cents, I began to wonder if chickelit might be a variation of Reepicheep back when he was chickenlittle.
ndspinelli said...
ReplyDeleteAllen and Darcy are back. Were they off together on an island??
Aha!!
Maybe the Drake Hotel?
Allen, you dog.
As for my two cents, I began to wonder if chickelit might be a variation of Reepicheep back when he was chickenlittle.
ReplyDeleteLewis wrote: 'his mind was full of forlorn hopes, death-or-glory charges, and last stands.'
I kinda like that, MamaM. Thank you.
Wiki's description of Reepicheep:
ReplyDeleteHe is an experienced warrior, utterly fearless, and faultlessly courteous, particularly to noble ladies. He is also pugnacious and quick to defend any affront to his honour.
I'm jealous.
Back in my youth, I used to listen to a series about Chickelit's father, Chickenman, (He's everywhere! He's everywhere!) on radio station WCFL braodcasting from Chicago.
ReplyDeleteHere's an animated version of one of the radio episodes.
Steve Allen thought of that.
ReplyDeleteThis one is good too:
ReplyDeleteIn The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (film), Reepicheep was not so easily angered by Eustace's antics as he was in the book. In fact, he seemed more amused than anything, with the exception of when Eustace tried to steal rations, and then proceeded to grab Reepicheep's tail, but didn't swing him by it. When he did this, Reepicheep challenged him to a duel, but Eustace actually went ahead with the swordfight, and judging by the way they fought, it appeared as though Reepicheep was trying to teach Eustace fencing more than anything.
Where's the Amazon portal?
ReplyDeleteHave you looked behind the wardrobe?
ReplyDeleteI regret that I did not choose this avi earlier.
ReplyDeleteI will revert to my former self after this comment, since this now belongs to chickelit.
Aww, Chip. You're not Reepicheep. But you're the lovable rake! Who's courageous too.
ReplyDeleteMaybe not in Narnia.
For ChipS, something between a Quick Draw McGraw and Pink Panther with connections to El Kabong???
ReplyDeleteIn certain cases, Quick Draw would also assume the identity of the masked vigilante El Kabong (a parody of Zorro, known in the Spanish-dubbed version as "El Caba-Zorro" or "El Relámpago"). His introduction went as follows – "Of all the heroes in legend and song, there's none as brave as El Kabong" – As El Kabong, Quick Draw would attack his foes by swooping down on a rope with the war cry "OLAYYYYEEEE!" and hitting them on the head with an acoustic guitar (after shouting "KABOOOOOONG!")
I better amend that as Queek gets tagged with dimness.
ReplyDeleteWhat was Huckleberry Hound's reputation with the ladies?
He was a dog.
ReplyDeleteHe was a dog.
ReplyDeleteSixty not only nails it but encourages the leap from blue furred Southern Dawg, with a nose if not other unfixed attributes for the laydees to...
UNDERDOG!
El Kabong! Haven't heard of him in a long time. Thanks for the memories!
ReplyDeleteI had a friend during my poorly spent college years who called herself Elka Bong.
Costume change!!
ReplyDeleteOK then. Just so you'll know, if anybody ever shows up at TOP commenting as Rupert of Hentzau, that might be me.
ReplyDeleteOTOH, it might be a sockpuppet for Baron Zemo.
How about Rupert Pupkin?
ReplyDeleteAre you talkin' to me?
ReplyDeleteChipS, Rupert Pupkin was from The King of Comedy. You're thinking of Travis Bickle.
ReplyDeleteOr Artie Fufkin from This Is Spinal Tap.
ReplyDeleteOr Cal Ripkin. He made that Y*nkee look like a slacker.
ReplyDeleteWell, I wasn't thinking of Rupert Merkin.
ReplyDeleteYou know she is on top.
ReplyDeletetits.
Too late for a KngFish?
ReplyDeleteMy education has been full in some areas and sadly lacking in others. Having no film or book knowledge of Rupert of Hentzau, travel to the wiki and beyond was necessary. Unfortunately, differences in the characters portrayed in the film based on the first book, and the same ones written about in the second book, bearing Rupert's name as a title, resulted in more confusion than clarity. With the end result of considering ChipS as RupertH to be a composite of someone embroiled in a world of deception, intrigue, deadly swordfights and strained loyalties.
ReplyDeleteWith the following awareness and quote coming to attention as writing I enjoy:
The famous duel between Rassendyll and Rupert became a blueprint for duels in dozens of Hollywood movies:
"The next moment he had his revolver in his hand – none too soon, for Rupert of Hentzau’s barrel faced him, and they stood thus, opposite to one another, with no more than three or four feet between the mouths of their weapons. There is, indeed, much that may be said against Rupert of Hentzau, the truth about him well-nigh forbidding that charity of judgment which we are taught to observe towards all men. But neither I nor any man who knew him ever found in him a shrinking from danger or a fear of death. It was no feeling such as these, but rather a cool calculation of chances, that now stayed his hand. Even if he were victorious in the duel, and both did not die, yet the noise of the firearms would greatly decrease his chances of escape. Moreover, he was a noted swordsman, and conceived that he was Mr Rassendyll’s superior in that exercise. The steel offered him at once a better prospect for victory and more hope of a safe fight. So he did not pull his trigger, but, maintaining his aim the while, said:
‘I’m not a street bully, and I don’t excel in a rough-and-tumble. Will you fight now like a gentleman? There’s a pair of blades in the case yonder.’"
I bet she pinches her nipples & sucks her thumb while on top & riding his tiny hog.
ReplyDeleteI bet he felches her too.
ReplyDeleteMamaM, if you have even a slight taste for swashbuckling movies full of palace intrigue, I implore you to put the Ronald Coleman version of "The Prisoner of Zenda" in your Netflix queue.
ReplyDeleteTruth to tell, I'd rather be Rassendyll than Hentzau, but that's way too presumptuous.
Ronald Coleman may be the greatest forgotten male movie star of them all. And Madeleine Carroll (the original Hitchcock Blonde) may be the greatest forgotten female star. And they're both in PoZ, in which Douglas Fairbanks Jr. steals the movie right out from under them.
But here I am stepping all over blake's turf. I know nothing about movies except what I like.
I'll look for it, ChipS.
ReplyDeleteThere's been some strong and fine words said about Rassendyl summed up best in the declaration that he possesses a prime personality. Neatly said!