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Unreal Estate

By Jimmy Johnson


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272 responses to “Unreal Estate”

  1. Bryan Avatar
    Bryan

    Jackie-
    I visited the Orlando Mouse Factory not too long after your visit; within the first year of it’s opening. Crowds weren’t too bad, were able to ride what we wanted, but rides broke down. Find my previous story of the drunken pirates and braying a$$.
    Never been to Florida since unless I happened into the panhandle during my hitchhiking ’round the country days.

  2. Lilyblack Avatar

    Mark, we don’t use the intercom to announce patients, and there is a *very* strict rule about identifying them by their diagnosis. That is an offence punishable by a bad fifteen minutes in the office of The Boss In My Life.

  3. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Yep, that’s the foolproof way to do it, Lily. I’m on the same track, headed for my fighting weight of 195. (I’m a little taller than you are.)

    Mark, the doctor’s response to that would likely have been, “You’ll have to be a little more specific than that.”

    “…hitchhiking ’round the country days”, Jackie? Why am I not surprised by that? 🙂

  4. John in Richmond Texas Avatar
    John in Richmond Texas

    yeah, about Gwyneth Paltrow, being pretty can’t make up for being an airhead; I’ve always had a thing for her mother Blythe Danner

  5. sideburns Avatar

    Debbie, your post this morning claims that it was written at 4:30 AM. If that’s Eastern Time, that makes it only 1:30 AM here on the Left Coast, about half an hour or so before I went to bed, and almost two hours before I really got to sleep. It’s not that I’m a night owl, it’s just that I’m finding it very hard to get to sleep, although once I’m asleep I stay that way for between six to eight hours, meaning that it’s not that unusual for me to be waking up at or after Noon. So it goes.

  6. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    No, no Ghost. That was Byran that was hitchhiking.

    During some of my “sales days” when I was trying to teach salesmen how to make a sale and get to an appointment, I FELT like running away and hitchhiking! At one point I had the entire southern half of U.S. to cover, from Florida to California and it enabled me to just about work around the clock. The time differences are great enough.

    When they figured out I could sell eskimoes iceboxes and have an appointment to do it, the head of company started giving failing salesmen a choice- you turned your territory over to me and let me run it and just go where I said. That or be fired.

    My husband said my reputation proceeded me, as some chose to be fired!

    Love, Jackie Monies

  7. curmudgeonly ex-professor Avatar
    curmudgeonly ex-professor

    Add to the list of ’60s-’70s TV beauties, IMHO, Judy Carne of “Laugh-In” and Connie Booth, the maid in “Fawlty Towers”. Booth also made the very notable “Romance With a Double Bass” with her first husband, John Cleese (the owner in FT).

    Ghost would highly enjoy the RWaDB, I have absolutely no doubt.

  8. Trapper Jean Avatar
    Trapper Jean

    nodak Wayne, you mean something like this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkw13Wk_wuU

    I meant to post this for you earlier but I got sidetracked.

  9. Trapper Jean Avatar
    Trapper Jean

    And speaking of The Mouse, I saw the other day that, while Disney might now own Star Wars and will issue toys based on the movies, they have no plans to issue Princess Leia toys. So much of their business plan is based on Princesses, and yet they will ignore one of the best and most popular (not to mention the most kick-a$$) princesses of all. I am sorely disappointed in The Mouse.

  10. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    Movie in which the hero is a cartoonist: “Secondhand Lions” with Robert Duval, Michael Caine, Kyra Sedgwick and Haley Joel Osment.

    http://en.wikipedia.or/wiki/Secondhand_Lions The cartoons drawn by the adult Walter were done by Berkeley Breathed of “Bloom County” for the comic strip based on his life with his elderly uncles.

    I’ve always loved this movie, largely because it is set in West Texas and is pretty accurate in many ways. Not many movies where the hero grows up to be a cartoonist.

    Love, Jackie Monies

  11. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    And she had to lose 30# as part of her contract agreement.

    Jackie Monies

  12. Lilyblack Avatar

    Jean, are you sure of that? I thought I saw on Facebook they were reconsidering that decision. A very stupid one, I agree

  13. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Oops. Sorry, Jackie. Misread the post. On reflection, I’m sure you’ve never hitchhiked.

  14. David from Austin Avatar
    David from Austin

    Jackie– Second Hand Lions was filmed in Pflugerville, near Austin. The house was modified, but is still there. A couple of other locations, the store with the fight and the gas station are both buildings that still exist from years ago.

  15. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    Among my favorite scenes was the one of the yacht in the cattle pond/water hole. If anyone had told me Michael Caine could be convincing as a Texan or Robert Duval’s brother, I would have said NO WAY!

    I say we all watch it to understand the forces that shape a good cartoonist.

    Love, Jackie Monies

  16. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    Jean, http://time.com/2819623/disney-star-wars-princess-leia-toys/

    Anyway, they would have to license some since she is making an appearance in the new movie which is now in production.

  17. Charlotte in NH Avatar
    Charlotte in NH

    Sideburns:

    Debbe often posts around 4:30 am; it seems that she has to get up real early to get to the henhouse for her day’s work. But she is definitely not on Eastern time. That’s what I’m on myself, VERY Eastern (just look at the map.) I seem to recall that Debbe is in Indiana somewhere, that would be Central time.

  18. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    But Indiana doesn’t go on the same time zones as the rest of the world, as I recall. She is near my aunt in southern Indiana and I believe it is one hour later there than Oklahoma on Central time. I always forget and my aunt who is about 90 is already in bed!

    Debbe is going to work about the time my morning insomnia kicks in and I think about her!

    Love, Jackie Monies

  19. Lilyblack Avatar

    I get up at six a.m. CDT. It would take a zombie attack to get me up earlier 😛

  20. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    When the original “Star Wars” came out in the 1970’s, my two girls had EVERYTHING they made related to the movie. Not just Princess Leia but all the characters. We had Jedi and Ewoks and Stormtroopers endlessly scattered all over the house.

    They outgrew them and we either gave them away or had a garage sale? Now I wish we had them all back, the prices are staggering on those original toys!

    Love, Jackie Monies

  21. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Slug-a-bed! 🙂

    I just think of it as “Debbe Standard Time.”

  22. TruckerRon Avatar

    I’ve always believed that the times posted on JJ’s blog are his local time — Central daylight time right now.

  23. TruckerRon Avatar

    Here’s a fun little test of selective attention:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=kp&v=vJG698U2Mvo

    Did you see everything you should have?

  24. curmudgeonly ex-professor Avatar
    curmudgeonly ex-professor

    If memory serves, IN is on eastern time, except for the area around Gary, which goes on central time because of the proximity to Chicago.

    Add Adrienne Barbeau and my all-time favorite, Jamie Lee Curtis, to the list of attractive women….

  25. Jerry in Fl Avatar
    Jerry in Fl

    Something you probably all know already-the day that Walt Disney flew over central Florida and said right there, that’s where I want to build it was 11-22-63. I guess that’s one guy that we can take off the suspect list.