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Post by dwarnold on Oct 28, 2006 18:50:03 GMT -5
I don't know what Brit is hearing but what I am hearing is nice!!!
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Post by kitehill on Oct 28, 2006 18:52:33 GMT -5
Did anyone see the mime?
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Post by doctork on Oct 28, 2006 18:52:40 GMT -5
Perhaps a hug?
(((((Brit)))))
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Post by jspnrvr on Oct 28, 2006 18:53:25 GMT -5
Larry!
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Post by dwarnold on Oct 28, 2006 18:54:12 GMT -5
MIME alert
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Post by scotbrit on Oct 28, 2006 18:55:04 GMT -5
The last twenty minutes of the show was utterly crap.
slb said I have gone "sour".
I may have been comparing British programmes with American.
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Post by dwarnold on Oct 28, 2006 18:55:57 GMT -5
Well Brit, there is always next week!!
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Post by dwarnold on Oct 28, 2006 18:56:46 GMT -5
I hear that there are many American shows on British television channels these days.. so who can tell?
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Post by kitehill on Oct 28, 2006 18:56:51 GMT -5
Good Night all.....and Brit, hope you lose your sense of dispair......
Have a good week and enjoy !
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Post by jspnrvr on Oct 28, 2006 18:56:53 GMT -5
Yeah, but it's our crap, Brit. We'd have Benny Hill in a dress but it just wouldn't come across the radio waves!
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Post by kitehill on Oct 28, 2006 18:57:37 GMT -5
Oh Brit...thank you for that funny story about the lawyer and the cigars.....that was a good one
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Post by jspnrvr on Oct 28, 2006 18:58:56 GMT -5
Everybody have a good week and get well. 'Night, now.
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Post by doctork on Oct 28, 2006 18:59:47 GMT -5
So the show as a whole wasn't Top Ten, but I certainly did appreciate Bonnie Raitt.
Good night all.
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Post by kitehill on Oct 28, 2006 19:02:40 GMT -5
Me too - I just think Brit was in a funk
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Post by dwarnold on Oct 28, 2006 20:35:00 GMT -5
I think it was a good show
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Post by joew on Oct 28, 2006 21:43:27 GMT -5
I thought the music was very good on tonight's show. The News was one of those pushing-the-envelope, make-the-audience-uncomfortable types, with its Halloween theme. It may have been a bit too far out with the supernatural elements as well as some of the behavior described in the scenes with the girl's parents. OTOH, Guy Noir was up to par, and the GWB GPS was a pretty good concept and well developed — the kind of fun-poking even this Republican can enjoy. But the music carried the show this time, IMO.
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Post by scotbrit on Oct 29, 2006 10:10:45 GMT -5
Just consider me to be a grumpy old man.
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Post by joew on Oct 29, 2006 10:41:20 GMT -5
If you're old, what does that make me?
And as for grumpy: First, you've got to make a lot more posts before you get there; and second, de gustibus non est disputandum.
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Post by gailkate on Oct 29, 2006 10:44:58 GMT -5
I'm glad you commented, Joe, as it keeps the thread alive so we can talk a bit more. I find GK's prepubescent humor (in News) his least appealing. Cheap laughs. But I was most intrigued by the Wanda episode. At first I thought, "Good grief, a kid run over by her dad? what is he thinking?" But then I heard the echoes of the long-ago Timmy the sad-eyed teenager serial that went on for weeks and was a joy. Father whosis, Buddy the dog, and lovely virginal Sheila (?) the Jungle Girl. GK may be working up another fine new story line. what did you all think? I'm dubious about the wheelchair, but then, why not? A powerful kid who makes the most of her wheelchair could be terrific. But I did think it got off to an uncomfortable start.
As Joe said, the music was the treat in this show. Did Bonnie have laryngitis? The Jennys are also simply wonderful.
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Post by joew on Oct 29, 2006 12:34:06 GMT -5
I agree, Wanda does have possibilities. Hadn't thought of Timmy, but that definitely is comparable. The rocket-propelled flying wheelchair gives plenty of opportunities for Wanda. It hadn't occurred to me before, but GK does seem to have a pretty good insight into the teenage mind. I don't think everybody could do humor involving teens as well as he does. (Have to acknowledge the scriptwriters, too, but GK's monologue teens generally ring true, wo it's not just the writers.)
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Post by Seattle Taz on Oct 29, 2006 15:15:26 GMT -5
Do you know the shortcuts in Mac?
I'm here, y'alls. So very very thankful for setting this up. I see lots of views, but what might direct any interested persons here?
I've been having medical adventures which has led to adventures of the Social Security kind. Blech.
How do I get my cats' pictures (or picture) up like Thomas'?
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Post by scotbrit on Oct 29, 2006 15:35:04 GMT -5
Hi Seattle Sue!
Good to have you join us.
Hope you are feeling chipper!
Gail said something about:
Maybe this was what pissed me off last night and turned me off the rest of the show.
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Post by Seattle Taz on Oct 29, 2006 17:08:11 GMT -5
I'm glad you commented, Joe, as it keeps the thread alive so we can talk a bit more. I find GK's prepubescent humor (in News) his least appealing. Cheap laughs. But I was most intrigued by the Wanda episode. At first I thought, "Good grief, a kid run over by her dad? what is he thinking?" But then I heard the echoes of the long-ago Timmy the sad-eyed teenager serial that went on for weeks and was a joy. Father whosis, Buddy the dog, and lovely virginal Sheila (?) the Jungle Girl. GK may be working up another fine new story line. what did you all think? I'm dubious about the wheelchair, but then, why not? A powerful kid who makes the most of her wheelchair could be terrific. But I did think it got off to an uncomfortable start. As Joe said, the music was the treat in this show. Did Bonnie have laryngitis? The Jennys are also simply wonderful. You said it, Girl Friend, about the prepubescent humour. Yech & blech. Wasn't even funny. The wheelchair! I use a wheelchair and have for 25 years and *nobody* no walkie, at least, tells jokes or stories about people in wheelchairs. It makes me feel left out, inhuman, not fully part of it. Please, use wheelies! And for pete's sake, don't make us all heroes. Some people do give up, and that's their right; walkies get drunk and sit in a puddle of self-pity, too. And people who are total screw ups use wheelchairs (sometimes, that's how they got there.) And some people make adjustments and carry on - of course that's a lot easier for thems as got dough. Bound to get well intentioned folks talking about yadda yadda; tell 'em I said to go inflate their tires or something. We all adjust differently; few of us define ourselves or our lives in terms of the assistive devices we use, from false teeth to bells/whistles power chairs. If we're not up on stage giving heart warming/inspirinig talks it's just that we're too busy and forgot to apply or something. I do, occasionally, because it's the decent thing to do but somebody needs to ask/remind me. Only the rich wheelies are Republicans, though.javascript:add(%22%20:-/%22) That being germane to the fact that we all need da gummint on occasion. Though I've been able to work full time and get a professional degree after being disabled, I did need da gummint (state) to buy me my first power wheelchair (they're $29,000 for the kind I need; figure 6k for the carcase and 6k per servomotor for the other movements) Under the current administration, please be aware, disabled people need only move around their apartments and do not need to go outside. javascript:add(%22%20%3E:(%22) Therefore Medicare will buy a patient a wheelchair only if they cannot get out of bed without it. I know for a fact at least one person who simply did not call 911 when he was having a heartattack, just like he said he'd do.javascript:add(%22%20:'(%22) Yes, I got kudos and brownie points along the way for continuing to work but I did it at great cost to my body because I've had to take high dose steroids for years and years. This destroyed my adrenal glands and bones such that the whole spine is fused, with rods. Additionally the cardiovascular system and the eyes (glaucoma, cataract) have been seriously challenged. During the last fusion the anesthesia blew a hole in something and I stop breathing 15-20 times an hour, until my blood 02 drops so low I pass out.javascript:add(%22%20:o%22) Then it drops even lower. The irony is that at age 62 no medical malpractice lawyer will even consider such a case because I do not have a significant earning capacity left to make it worth the time to sue. So *now* I apply for government help after all... Well. At least for 25 years I had the right to bitch. ----------end of this public service announcement--------- Bonnie Rait singing John Prine (Angel from Montgomery) is always always a gift that leaves me speechless with gratitude. Do you know what an Angel from Montgomery is? It's a commutation of execution from the Governor of Alabama, a reprieve of a death sentence. What a powerful image! That guy was one of the best poets we've had - till he got married. Now it's like he hasn't a clue, the ETs have taken over his head. I'm giddy with relief to find y'all again. Now I'm going to develop separation anxiety. |
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Post by Seattle Taz on Oct 29, 2006 18:09:39 GMT -5
Thanks, Brit. I am *so* glad to see you again.
Yeah, that part was not good for me either. Gratuitous yech & blech. That's a point at which he needs a kindly editor; this show in general had a kind of disconnectedness to it.
That's the nature of live performances. When everything jells it's a matchless joy. When it doesn't it's, well, just not.
But the Wailin' Jennys and Bonnie Raitt were just fabulous.
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Post by doctork on Oct 29, 2006 18:26:41 GMT -5
Seattle Sue - Hi Neighbor! (I live in Bellingham).
I too thought the wheelchair storyline was in poor taste and weird. I've been wondering if, given last week's show thread comments about GK possibly being depressed, plus all the caveats at the PHC III cruise sign-up about if Mr. Keillor is sick and doesn't cruise, we have little recourse - is there some illness accounting for Garrison's string of odd behaviors?
Anyway, Seattle Sue, I'm glad you found your way back to our prairie home board. I hope you have exercised all your appeal rights about Medicare coverage - the bureaucracy is prone to make odd interpretations of who needs or doesn't need various mobility aids, but Medicare beneficiaries deserve the benefits they have been promised, and that they have paid for!
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Post by joew on Oct 29, 2006 19:47:26 GMT -5
Got a chance to hear some of Bonnie Raitt on the rebroadcast. I hadn't noticed Saturday evening, but her voice was definitely scratchy from time to time. But I can't recall hearing her sing before, so I don't know how unusual that was.
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Post by booklady on Oct 29, 2006 19:54:39 GMT -5
I think she's always had a husky sound to her voice.
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Post by SeattleDan on Oct 29, 2006 20:55:02 GMT -5
Bonnie sounded like Bonnie, though I'd describe it more like whisky-throated. I've been listening to her since the early '70's
and she's always been a treat to hear.
Hey, Seattle Sue, good to have you here. Welcome!
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Post by Thomas Scheuzger on Oct 29, 2006 22:21:41 GMT -5
Bonnie did complain of being hoarse from her previous concert - she said she really had to over-sing in order to be heard, and it hit her hard on Saturday.
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Post by gailkate on Oct 29, 2006 23:06:45 GMT -5
Seattle Sue, I feel positively spooked to have you show up now. I'd been thinking about you as I heard the Wanda story and wondering what you'd think about it, why we haven't heard from you. I wish the reason had been because you were wonderfully busy instead of yech and blech, but it's good you found your way through the web to Trusty's new pad.
Is there a way Wanda could be salvaged, or is the premise just too clueless? I would like it to be possible to have a kid in a wheelchair as a hero, just as I like seeing some ads start using models in wheelchairs. But I'm self-conscious even saying that, for fear of sounding - I don't know. cloyingly politically correct? patronizing? "Wouldn't it be just grand if Timmy could have a biopsy and we could all laugh with him through that? and Wanda's best friend could have spina bifida?"
As Dr.K said, something's off with GK.
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