My cats do this. They’ll charge to the scene of the least movement and freeze, on high alert. Slowly, the adrenalin subsides, and time passes, and then they’ve fallen asleep. I’ve always wanted to see this happen. My favorite cartoon characters when I was a small boy were Chip and Dale, the Disney chipmunks; they could have pulled this off. I probably was a teenager before the light went on. “Chip ‘n’ Dale! I get it!” Of course, I was just a little kid. I didn’t know anything about elegant furniture. Or male dancers.
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Had seen them somewhere in past (I am 70!) so I recognized that classic Pinafore set. I am actually watching a taped/video entire performance on youtube and am at act 2. Great voice on the captain.
I googled like you and saw they had reformed but didn’t google enough to see if they are touring.
My guess is that I saw them in Houston sometime in 1970’s before the breakup/closure, although it may have been college too? I used to be a “disc jockey” in college when we did this stuff changing the records and I did the opera show for university.
Will try to post the link for you. This is an old performance but audio is excellent and video is well done too.
Love, Jackie Monies
Jackie: The Man In My Life loves Gilbert and Sullivan, (emb, you may mourn that he likes the Ronstadt/Klein/Lansbury version of Pirates),but he is not a huge Grand Opera fan. He has been known to sing “With Cat-Like Tread” along with “Old Man River” when we get the old caravan out for a trip to the nearby state park. The Boy In My Life and The Boss Of My life are reluctant to come, but neither of them wants to see us two go off together for a weekend. Suppose one of the neighbors saw us? They would be making up things. So one of them comes with us, but usually retire early and we sit out under the stars till it’s late talking about a million things. Who’d want to waste a time like that on something gross like sex?
See if this gets the Pinafore. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
cQfJ8ZcIAU
Hope it works. My oldest daughter was throwing a crying fit for a week from being forced to go to the country to visit my mother. She was about 9 then. We said, “You can stop crying now, we are going back to Houston.”
She replied, “When we get to Houston I will go to the opera but I won’t go another step!”
Pretty drastic because she HATED the opera, ballet, symphony, everything I tried to teach her to love!
Love, Jackie Monies
Lily, not to push, but you (and your Boss) would most likely get a good laugh out of the Trashy Women video.
Around here we eat chicken more often than beef or pork, and are quite big on vegetables. My younger daughter is moving home for a bit while she looks for a job, having just graduated with her second college degree, and since she is, as she says “nearly a vegetarian” I will be getting out the appropriate cookbooks. My favorite one is The Enchanted Broccoli Forrest from the Moosewood restaurant.
Jean dear, the steak is actually just an excuse for the green salad. 🙂
Chicken is good, though. Tomorrow night’s salad excuse will likely be a pounded-thin-and-grilled chicken breast, served over a measure of vermicelli and topped with a slice of provolone and home-made marinara, sprinkled with parmesan. I’ll resist the temptation to have garlic bread and thereby feel virtuous again.
Ghost, you are making me feel guilty here. We are trying to fatten up skinny husband who was down about 50 # and didn’t have any extra much to begin with! You are being virtuous and exercising and you’re going to fit in that uniform!
That darn link to Pinafore doesn’t work. I watched a more recent Pinafore by Essgee and I have to admit I liked the classic version more than the updated one. But the sailors in the updated one all looked like they came out of the Chippendale line up!
Tight pants and all!
But then I always loved the ballet too. There is a pattern here.
Ghost, you make me feel guilt too for abandoning Mozart when we have the Mostly Mozart festival here in Oklahoma.
Love, and good night, Jackie Monies
Just scanning before bed and the line “something gross like sex” brought me up short. My wife was told at a young age that the birds put their tail feathers together to make a baby bird. What’s gross about that?
Jackie, the weight loss project is proceeding apace, but I’m down to where getting rid of every pound is a real battle. (Just wish it was going as well as my beard growing project.) Perhaps tomorrow I’ll make a list of all thing things I’m craving but being “virtuous” and not eating, and you can use it as a guide for what to stuff Mike with.
And Lily, that talking under the stars thing…it works plenty well after sex, too.
That one stopped me too, Jerry, but I think Lily has reasons for how she feels. Do I think sex is gross, no, but we all recover in different ways.
And Jean, I loved the Trashy Women video. My husband and I used to sing along with Confederate Railroad and those were “our” two songs. Of course, it was me we sang and laughed about, I was the trashy woman in the short, short skirt and Texas “big hair”.
Gotta laugh at yourself, otherwise someone else will.
Love, Jackie Monies
No, no, no, Ghost! A beard! I have this total weakness for men with beards!
Not the Duck Dynasty scrappy beards but beautifully groomed beards, like “The Ghost and Mrs. Muir” and sexy Rexy. Or any good sea captain.
Some years I hold a contest for the most salty looking of my friends, which almost always involves beards. Gray beards mostly.
Love, Jackie Monies
Good morning Villagers….
Crisis at work….Boss man is going through a state of “think I’ll sale everything and move to Canada and too much money is being spent on payroll and nothing is getting done” crisis. My nephew has been appointed to be the bad a$$, sent the teenagers home early, after cussing them out….everybody is stressing out….arrrggghhhh!!!!
I told Andrew, I’m not worried, I do my job, and I take pride in it, and I am confident in it.
GR 😉 need to hear that song. Thanks
Ya’l have a blessed day, I am.
I hate drama………………
today’s grin:
https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/8258825472/hDE3FBD67/
Loon 🙂
Debbe, my lord this is worse than A and J’s real time script! I am so sorry for you and yours.
Just got an email minutes ago from my friend with the big broiler farm, who has friends all over America who also grow chickens I suspect. Wonderful Christian man and runs houses to perfection with everything working.
Right now I think he still has a Hispanic manager but I can ask. He furnishes home on farm. Beautiful place, with large private lake. He is no hobbyist, the chicken farm makes money.
Of course you’d have to relocate to the pine covered hills of Louisiana near Shreveport! LOL
Seriously, do you want me to ask him if he knows anyone in your area needing a manager? I assume you live on company owned property and don’t own the house?
Love you and God bless and keep you.
Love, Jackie Monies
Jackie, not only do I think Trashy Women is just a funny, funny song, but one of the blue-haired old ladies in the “audience” reminds me so much of my grandmother (mom’s mom) that I laugh every time I see her.
Ghost, since Husband had a work thing last night and wasn’t home my sister and I had salad for supper-mixed greens with boiled eggs, cucumber, tomato, cheese, and shredded baked chicken. It was delicious and especially easy since the chicken was a rotisserie chicken from our local Publix grocery. 🙂 I do love salads like that!
I will admit the one thing that makes it hard for me to stay on any sort of healthy eating plan (which is all a diet is-or should be) is good mashed potatoes made with real butter and cream. I fall off the wagon for those every time. Then again, as a friend of mine said recently, every time I feel the urge to exercise I wash my mouth out with chocolate! 😉
Debbe, I hope the Boss Man gets over his twitches and your life becomes Drama Free-or closer to it-soon.
Observation from a long-time manager: Management by intimidation is poor management.
If you have a Cracker Barrel restaurant in your area, I’d recommend their Country Chef Salad, described on their menu as “slices of oven-roasted turkey breast, sugar-cured ham, and hickory smoked bacon, along with slices of English cucumber, grape tomatoes, and a wedge of Colby cheese. Comes with two traditional deviled eggs, and our own sourdough croutons.” Get the fat-free Ranch instead of regular dressing. I promise you won’t be able to tell the difference. Oh, and don’t look at the rest of their menu. 🙂
[I don’t remember the source of this quote] “Salad dressing was invented by a Southern cook who wanted grease but couldn’t figure out how to fry lettuce.”
Trapper Jean, are you in Florida? Publix used to be one of my big accounts and they are among the finest of grocery chains! You are lucky to have them and they are good employers too, since we are on that subject.
Just read good article in today’s Yahoo about using meat as a condiment, a la oriental cooking, where it is used sparingly. I knew a Vietnamese lady who could seemingly feed a family several meals off one chicken! She used feet, beak, everything.
Thought of you and Ghost when I read that, from last night.
Confederate Railroad has some of the funniest and most insightful lyrics of any C and W band I know, whether on sad subjects or just poking fun. Too bad their subsequent albums never did as well as the first. And while on subject of that, I loved Great White as well and I think same applies there.
Ghost, I will tell you my private email is all over the internet if you ever want to tell me what it is you really do! Unless you will have to kill me after you tell me. I am intrigued!
Love, Jackie Monies
Logans Roadhouse has good salads too. And they are owned by Cracker Barrel. And for those not on a diet, if they have the banana cream pie on the menu, try it!
I love Erma Bombeck’s quote about how her family thought gravy was a member of four basic food groups. Also her comments on how they drank gravy with straws.
Love the fried lettuce!
Love, Jackie Monies
(Clears throat) Folks, sex isn’t gross, it’s engrossing! It’s also awkward and ridiculous; if you want graceful go to a ballet.
Vietnamese do great salads of any sort. Green papaya is fabulous, along with their chicken salads, which are shredded cucumbers, cabbage, peppers, peanuts, etc. dressed with fish sauce vinaigrette.
Have been eating the seasonal menu at P.F. Changs lately, which has salads usually that are interesting. So does Cheesecake Factory. Of course you run the danger of defeating it all with a giant slice of cheesecake.
Love, Jackie Monies
Hear! Hear! Trucker you are right on, brother. And there in lies the great fault with #9 Chickweed because he does ALWAYS portray his sex AS ballet and a pas de deux, beautiful and graceful and often involves ballet dancers.
Give me Jimmy’s realism which is never graphic by the way.
Love, Jackie Monies
Jackie, Is this the one?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQfJ8ZcpIAU