Thanks-giving and other catastrophes (was P&P1)
Topic 57 · 23 responses · archived october 2000
~Anna
Wed, Nov 27, 1996 (04:07)
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An edited version of the relevant part of the P&P1 thread is as follows:-
Fri, Nov 22, 1996 (21:00) | Anna Price (Anna)
Does anyone plan to go ahead with the P&P1 viewing, or should we wait until some combination of Amy, Christmas and the god in the machine gives us back our own BB? (snip)
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Response 1 of 20: Amy Bellinger (Amy) * Fri, Nov 22, 1996 (21:57) *
(snip) I am up for starting P&P1. Who else?
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Response 2 of 20: kathleen elder (kathleen) * Fri, Nov 22, 1996 (22:31) *
Could we wait a bit? I would like to discuss Maurice w/ Laura first. And, we need to get an extra P&P2 fix in just to recover from our withdrawal from the BB this week!
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Response 3 of 20: Inko (Inko) * Fri, Nov 22, 1996 (22:39) *
I vote that we wait a bit, partly from selfish reasons. I haven't been able to get hold of a copy of P&P1 to view - not at the library and at no video store. (snip)
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Response 4 of 20: Anna Price (Anna) * Fri, Nov 22, 1996 (23:38) *
I'm happy to wait - but would anyone like to suggest a date? I'd suggest in one or two weeks time. (snip)
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Response 5 of 20: Amy Bellinger (Amy) * Sat, Nov 23, 1996 (00:08) *
I am entirely flexible. I wonder if we want to spend 6 weeks on P&P1, though. I mean, it has its points but...
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Topic 15 of 36 [austen]: P&P1
Response 6 of 20: Cheryl Sneed (Cheryl) * Sat, Nov 23, 1996 (00:56) *
Why don't we give Maurice another week to get hashed out and then start P&P1 on Dec. 1st? (snip) I don't think we want to spend six weeks on it, but who knows? It's just two videos, right? Let's just start in on it and let it be talked and talked and talked about until it dies a natural death (like everything else around here!)
Hello, my name is Cheryl and I'm a compulsive organizer. (Hi Cheryl!)
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Response 8 of 20: Anna Price (Anna) * Sat, Nov 23, 1996 (03:34) *
Sounds good to me Cheryl. It is just 2 videos, but the complete version runs for about 4 1/2 hours - (snip) I suspect the discussion will slacken off after 2 1/2 weeks as Christmas arrives - P&P1 is enjoyable, but not as enthralling as P&P2.
~Anna
Wed, Nov 27, 1996 (04:08)
#1
When I look at my schedule for the next 3 weeks, I begin to wonder if it might be better to wait until the new year to watch and discuss P&P1 - Christmas is fun (mostly), but alot of work. Most of you have thanksgiving soon as well don't you? BTW when is thanksgiving? Will y'all be disappearing for a few days to eat and recover?
What think you ?
~jwinsor
Wed, Nov 27, 1996 (04:19)
#2
Thanksgiving in the U.S. is Thursdsay (day after tomorrow); the Canadians already had theirs. Will disappear to eat, but return to recover. [grin]
I don't have to go far - my relatives are local.
~terry
Wed, Nov 27, 1996 (07:37)
#3
I'll be around Thanksgiving. I'll be doing a lot of hiking around the meadows, creeks, and woods
around my house out in the country near Austin. I'll feel thankful that this group formed and is
having a good time here on the Spring. There is unlimited potential for building your community here
and I'll help facilitate it as best as I can. I'm glad I'm not spending all day in a car out on some
freeway.
~amy2
Wed, Nov 27, 1996 (11:03)
#4
I hate to say this, but I think you guys are going to be greatly disappointed. Compared to P&P2, P&P1 is flat & uninspiring. About the only thing you can say about it is that Elizabeth Garvey, who plays Lizzie, is closer to the _real _ Lizzie's age than Greer Garson (28 when she played her) and J.E. (26).
~Kim
Wed, Nov 27, 1996 (11:34)
#5
I wanted to wish everyone a very "Happy Thanksgiving". I will be away from the board for about a week. I will miss all of you. I can use this as a test to see if I can really do without this board for a long period of time. I seriously doubt it.
~terry
Wed, Nov 27, 1996 (11:50)
#6
Happy Thanksgiving to you Kim.
~Amy
Wed, Nov 27, 1996 (14:46)
#7
] I can use this as a test to see if I can really do without this board for a long period of time. I seriously doubt it.
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Try to bear up, Kim. Be thankful for real family and friends; they can help when you can't be with the virtual ones (who sometime seem more real to me.)
~Amy
Wed, Nov 27, 1996 (14:46)
#8
] I can use this as a test to see if I can really do without this board for a long period of time. I seriously doubt it.
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Try to bear up, Kim. Be thankful for real family and friends; they can help when you can't be with the virtual ones (who sometime seem more real to me.)
~Kali
Wed, Nov 27, 1996 (15:34)
#9
Amy, I'm not so sure where the line b/t "real" and "virtual" friends falls...or must such a distinction come into play at all? I sure hope that none of you are psychos in disguise...;)
Happy Turkey,
Kali
~Hilary
Wed, Nov 27, 1996 (17:26)
#10
Happy Thanksgiving to all of you, my new, and seemingly very real, American friends. And I'm sorry haven't said thankyou to you, Terry, till now, for all your friendliness and help.
~Amy
Wed, Nov 27, 1996 (21:13)
#11
] Will disappear to eat, but return to recover. [grin]
Prize for the first one to say,
Lord I am so fat, I can scarce draw breath.
(And yes, HC, I am quite aware that line is not in the book)
~panache
Wed, Nov 27, 1996 (21:59)
#12
Kim- You remind me of another Kim I know, a very sweet girl, so I enjoy reading your messages. Do have a good time while away (why not slip a copy of P&P or another Austen book in your bag to keep you company if needed? I'm working on SENSE AND SENSIBILITY this week.)
Terry- Another belated round of thanks to you for this site. Your hiking 'round Austin sounds like my kind of fun, too.
Kali- My cat just got sick in the corner. Do you think it's an omen about my cooking turkey tomorrow? (Uh oh; "But where are the [clowns]alka-seltzers? Don't bother, they're here." Refrain as guests find the medicine cabinet)
~jwinsor
Thu, Nov 28, 1996 (00:50)
#13
Lord I am so fat, I can scarce draw breath.
(And yes, HC, I am quite aware that line is not in the book)
Nor in the film. I beleive that the line is "Lord, I am so fagged I can scarce draw breath." - with "fagged" being an equally inelegant parallel with "pooped" in more modern parlance.
~terry
Thu, Nov 28, 1996 (13:34)
#14
My hiking has been curtailed by the weather. But I'm staying warm and cozy in my
study listening to music and surfing around. For anyone who wants to chat, I am
at uls1.microsoft.com on NetMeeting right now. I'm going to try to start hanging out
there all the time I'm online so folks can have the equivalent of a telnephone call
to me. Try it!
And again, happy Thanksgiving all.
~Donna
Thu, Nov 28, 1996 (16:42)
#15
"Happy Thanksgiving" Who can say that they remember this song?
Five fat tukeys are we
We slept all night in a tree
The cook came around ,we couldn't be found
so thats why we're here you see.
Five fat turkeys are we, we know you will agree
that it certainly pays on"Thanskgiving Day" to sleep in the tallest
tree. "Lord I am so fat and pooped" I thought she said at after the Meryton ball that she was so fat. Lydia said after church how hungery she was{In the video}."I will now force myself to have homemade pumpkin pie."
~jwinsor
Thu, Nov 28, 1996 (17:47)
#16
Indeed, Donna, anyone working with or having young children will remember your inspirational poem with fondness. I also found the remarks made by Bill Clinton on the occasion of receiving the obligatory live turkey and donating it to a petting zoo amusing. He said words to the effect that now there would be at least one less turkey in Washington DC. ;-)
~Amy
Thu, Nov 28, 1996 (17:58)
#17
I had a flood today that disrupted my peaceful solitary Thanksgiving.
So I got on a "cleaning jag."
In tribute to my family, all from backwoods Michigan, at least for the past century, here are some other phrases I miss hearing, especially from my late maternal grandparents:
"I always like a kittern bed." Grandma, meaning she liked to place the bed in the corner of a room, variant/abbreviation of "kitty-corner" I suppose.
"Every man Jack." Grandpa
"What in Sam Hill?" Grandpa. (have also heard it as "What in the Sam Hill.)
Amy
~Amy
Fri, Nov 29, 1996 (20:40)
#19
Oh, Jake. I was not even going to post, just look, but you brought me out. This could be a whole topic, a whole conference, a whole site, domain.
Here is one for starters (have to know hockey)
My then five-year when asked what hockey teams were playing the game he was watching on TV:
"The [Chicago Black] Hawks
and
the Toronto Makebelieves"
Amy
~Anna
Fri, Nov 29, 1996 (22:21)
#20
Not exactly aged 5, but my mother, who has low tone deafness, commonly miss-hears things. For a long time she thought the Wings song "Mull of Kintyre" was "Walloping Time", and happily sang along to it. I don't know if she ever wondered what they were walloping...
~Donna
Sat, Nov 30, 1996 (10:16)
#21
My now 13 year old would say about {3yrs old at the time} as we we're diving along "Mom turn those "Whimper Wipers" on it is raining"
~Becks
Sun, Dec 1, 1996 (11:49)
#22
Hey Amy---I hope you corrected your son! Don't forget that in Canada we invented hockey, and play it well here in Toronto!
~Bernie
Wed, Dec 11, 1996 (12:28)
#23
Do any of you remember the Prince song "Little red Corvette". Well a friend of mine still sings at the top of her voice "Little red courgette". That conjours up a very interesting image :-)
BTW, courgette in England is a zucchini!
~alfresco
Thu, Dec 12, 1996 (22:25)
#24
Hmm. School bloopers come to mind. First, a beginning French class student wrote that "les epinards" (the spinach, instead of "les espagnols," the Spanish)had attacked the French in some battle. Second, a tired and disgruntled graduate professor, who was reading aloud an elegant Elizabethan poem, misread the "old father" as the "old farter" - and then blushed a beet red for the rest of the evening seminar.