I like the look in them too - sort of pissed off and arrogant.

I have never been the target of "stink-eye" (Hawaiian pidgin for dirty look) from John, but I can well imagine that it could be devastatingly effective.

I have deleted the huge and grainy portrait of John Burnett and between us have come up with a much better one:

that's a good one! john, don't take this the wrong way, but you make me think of john candy (i loved him, so that's a compliment!)

That's one I can only take negatively. He died at 43 from a massive coronary.

It is however, a comparison I've heard more than once...

Sorry, but from my totally impartial viewpoint, John is much the handsomer!

There are one, perhaps two adjectives which could be deleted there and one adverb certainly.

(stamping my little foot in exasperation) No! There cannot!

...ok...you can remove "totally"...

But John Candy did outlive my late daddy, E. (who fell off the crapper and died due to a massive coronary) by a year. John Candy DID have beautiful teeth that I wish I had.

ok, so jc had a coronary, that doesn't mean you will. john had a wonderful sense of humor and was just a lovable kind of guy. i didn't find him ugly either or did i care that he was a large fella. (i'm sorry but that line about daddy e made me laugh). well, take it as you like, it really and truly is a compliment so say thank you *grin*

(see you guys later, gotta get some shut-eye)

G'night Wolfie!

Great picture of John! He looks just like I imagined, only younger (hope it's OK to say that!)

(I think that will be a guaranteed-to-please comment!)

And not quite as grainy...

Thank you *grin* Wolfie and Autumn. Yes, Marcia, I'm back and I still love you.

John is definitely not grainy....smoothe is more like it. *sigh* The second part of your comment above is the nicest thing I have seen here for a very long time...we missed you, and I return the sentiment.

Great shirt, John!

You any relation to the guy with that red sports car? The spitting image, I say!

Everyone seems to think so.

;=}

Or, that a problem?

No problem here. Wish I had a red sports car, maybe a classic Porsche!

I can imagine you in a red classic Porche just fine - or the Targa...But, you are much better looking than the other guy!

I never liked the moustache anyway!

Did not do much for me, either. However, on the right guy...that is another story!

�terrified gasp� How can you SAY these things? Magnum is IT. He was the first man I ever fell in love with!

Hmh. Ehrhem. Arh, excellent choice, Riette. (Gosh, how do I get off that hook?)

I wasn't even thinking of Selleck, and I doubt Marcia was either. I remembered a movie where John Candy was driving a red sports car. I don't look anything like Magnum (I WISH!). I used to play softball on the same team with him in Honolulu--Tom is an absolutely great guy. I could also be happy playing (or being) Courtney Cox's boyfriend. But thanks. That picture (about five years old) does me too much justice. I hope the station paid the photog (who is now retired) well. (and yes, a red Ferrari T starossa would do fine).

No, I was not thinking of Magnum (Selleck)...Selleck is Selleck and Burnett is Burnett. Both are unique and cherished individuals and both of whom I have met. I'll take Burnett because he is not quite as shy as Selleck and I can get more than just a few words out of him *grin*

If I were a woman, I'd go for Selleck. He's handsome and rich...and Robin Masters lets him use both his estate and his Ferrari.

John, I am older and wiser. I go for content. You can go for Selleck if you'd like, though you'd make a miserable woman...=P

OH, how embarrassing. Perhaps I'm still not over Selleck....man!!

Ree...if you are talking about Magnum, what woman is ever *over* him?! *sigh*

:-/ ?

I think the German contingent just checked in and added her dismay to the discussion. I gather you never liked him, Isabel? How could that be?!

I don't want to upset anyone.... But he's soooo A-W-G-L-Y! YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEECH! I must admit that drooling is not my strongest point.....

within the next couple o' days I hope to have the first wedding pics in here... might take awhile for the rest! (and Alexander... I just received your reply back today! We DID have a layover in Frankfurt but we spent most of it napping in the lounge... I would certainly have preferred to share a beer with you IRL!)

Welcome home, Mrs T *smile* *hugs* We missed you! (we are waiting patiently...)

(S., I would have preferred that, too... Or sung you two guys serenades, or a lullaby!)

(or rather not, security is hot there, and they might charge me for assault with a dangerous arm...)

(erh, weapon, make that dangerous weapon!)

*laugh* it's certianly the thought that counts Alexander...

Jeez, now you have an even stranger surname! Rrrrussian special underrrrcuvverr agent, Stacey Tinianov. COOL!

and it IS Russian! ah... I'd LOVE to be a special undercover agent if it took me to Greece a few times a year!

THAT'S how nice it was? I've never been to Greece. �blush� Everyone else has been to Greece.

Has the KGB kidnapped our Stacey and replaced her with a Russian fem-bot clone?

With switch-blades clacking out of her boots when she stomps her feet! Like, uh, was that Lotte Lenya in James Bond?

Ah, the fortunous Mr. Secret Agent! Imagine - his own Bond Girl!

OK now I know about the Bond girl I was scratching my head about in babes, it's our own hard bodied, woo, woo, babe.

...I presumed from the post here that she is whom Alexander had in mind...

I thought Lotte Lenya was from Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera, but she'll do. Actually I was thiking of Vanessa Kensington in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. Elizabeth Hurley. Now THERE'S an Englishwoman who DOES float my boat! What the hell was Hugh Grant thinking, anyway???????

'Gee, I'm horny'?

You are giving Hugh Grant credit for thinking? You have not been to Drool lately. The guy's a jerk and like Ree said...that is what he was "thinkging"... if that's the word.

I don't know if he's a jerk, but I generally don't get particularly turned on by guys with gently rotting front teeth...

You know my feeling about Drool. I'll never go back there.

I go in only when I feel strong...they have gone on without me just fine...but there are good friends in there for me just in case I need to recover my roots at Spring and pull in my horns or whatever. (HG also has appalling lack of respect for EH. How could he?! He is stupid and I HATE stupid people!!!)

..or is the more a case of the casual stuff we were discussing in Email yesterday and perfectly acceptable - except by me? I'm in big trouble if I have to make up for lost time in this area...

I don't know. I think he's just not as smart at that cultured British accent makes him sound.

You got that right, as they say some places...

HALF: TCU 14 HAWAII 8

John, Lotte Lenya (sometimes written Lenja) indeed was in Bert Brecht's Dreigroschen-Oper, as it's originally called. The Musik was by Kurt Weill, who emigrated in the 30ies to save his life, and worked from then on in the US. There's a recording of the original early 30ies cast available (incl. some scores from French movie versions), and for people liking Weill's work, two tribute CDs with curious new interpretations. If somebody is interested, I could look that up... If I get that right, Weill and Lenya were married. There's one Bond-movie with her in it - perhaps "From Russia with Love"? There's a scene where she plays an elderly maiden in a hotel, with these SPRIMGblade-shoes, and attacks somebody. Of course she's East German secret service... Hard-bodied, uh? What'd you think that comes from, Terry! A secret agent's trainings cycle is at least as hard as a publisher's - there's all these dry Martinis, the champagne and hors d'oeuvre, rope-swinging, funds-swiping and bullet-dodging. Plus the martial arts-stuff: vodka-downing, exotic cheese-guessing, seafood-digesting. And then there's all that suff you hafta to do to all these people: arm-twisting, feet-stepping and nose-thumping. It's one hell of a job, but somebody's gotta do it. Ok, so the comparison doesn't hit on the nail squarely enough. Sue me, everybody! That was at least rapid (rabid?) response posting...

um....i've just read the above and i liked magnum but i liked selleck even better in her alibi.... and that description about HG's "gently rotting teeth" made me roll!! and now i'm really terrified of posting my pic here! was looking at the pics i took while in port aransus and man, it's not a pretty site.... and now i know how we got the bond girl topic in babes!!

Amazing what insight old posts will give to new topics, but the Bond Babes has turned into Drool topic for Ree...as does anywhere she goes (Not jealous, just stating the truth!)...must be nice to be talented and desirable, too. Let's see, somewhere I must have a virtue, but there is not a category for it yet...!

(...don't suppose Wolfie would even consider emailing me a confidential promise-not-to-post picture so I could imagine better with whom I am playing stone school...?!)

What 'drool topic for Ree'???? Don't be silly, woman! I'm only as desirable as the nerd I am, and that's how that business goes from beginning to end. No flocking men at social occasions like with you .... I wonder who SHOULD be jealous around here! Wolfie, you MUST post us your picture! I was just being horribly rude about Hugh Grant, whom I actually don't dislike in pictures. Frankly I'd rather have gentlly rotting teeth than an ar$e like two condemned pieces of veal. So, PLEEEEZE!

What if somebody had both - an arse like rotting veal, and gently condemned teeth? Would that disqualify from becoming a Bond girl?

Ree, Sweetie, when our Fearless Leader talks baby talk to you and chases you from topic to topic, something is appealing to something else...and another gentleman has pursued you in the name of friendship and you tease him and carry on like you were in a cat fight, but I know better. Enjoy, my dear!!! *hugs* (What flocking at social occasions? Have I been missing something?!) Alexander - does that image do something for you? Sounds revolting, but, hey! Whatever turns you on...!

Naw, yak! Don' worry, just asking. I mean, I didn't come up with this line of nail-biting stuff, no? (Mighta been I got something mixed up, too.)

Vous?! Nevah (Jane Austen's way of spelling the word for emphasis), you clever and witty Herr Alexander auf Hessen...I have never known you to be mixed up unless it was intentional *grin* You cannot know how relieved I am that you are not into people in the act of destabilization.

ree, sweetie, you keep on cracking me up! gently rotting teeth and an arse of veal! *LOL* speaking of teeth, *griiiinnnn*, you guys ever take a look at david bowie's? yuck!!

No thank you! My David has a sparkling set of teeth with no cavities and all perfectly aligned. How could I have passed my Dad's genetic teeth to my son without taking one for myself?! Humbug! (am I talking about that kid again?! He just sent new pix last night and they are so gorgeous...I miss him..it has been since a year ago last September that I have seen him...*sniff*)

(Just discovered my error...I should have saved a set for me rather than just one...but I did not, and my dentist is a happy man!)

EEEK, Wolfie, David Bowie!!! Can't they just have pulled his wisdom teeth at some point??? None of this need ever have happened! Marcia, will you be visiting your son soon, or will he be visiting you? And our Fearless Leader doesn't persue me!! He is just interested in my health secrets.....ha-ha!! (Terry, tell her!!!) And I can assure you nobody else has been persuing me in the name of friendship or anything else - unless Tim is back?!?!?! IS he???? Have I missed something here??

Yep, Ree's right, I'm going to charm those health secrets out of her yet!

Yessum, if that's what you say, that is the truth...(uh huh....) No, our Terry is not Tim-the-Trucker. YUCK!!! Watch it though, Ree, make him EARN those secrets so hard won by you *smile* (getting out my sandwiches and blanket to watch and take notes)

Here, have a frozen-Coke-and-Smartie sandwich while you're waiting.

I really have an unfair advantage over y'all cause ree sent me this video of her in her studio, with clips from other places she's been, and she's so charming and delightful that I wish she'd let me play it on our webcam page. Or at least have a private showing with a secret url that just folks she knows could watch. But back to those health secrets, I think it's time you spilled one, Ree.

which gives me an idea....perhaps i'll post a pic of myself on a secret page and only let the very few have that url.....hmmmm.......

Like a certain conference...? We Need to see our most talented and charming Boer-Swiss Ms. Wolfie, please do it! I really bond better if I have a visual of the person with whom I am bonding *hugs* and *smiles*

Uh...Ree? Is that diet you proposed above part of your youth / beauty secret?

Wolfie, that's a great idea! You could post it in inner, right? Marcia, the diet I proposed is part of my saddlebag secret! Terry, is there no way you could play the video with just the bits of Switzerland, Namibia and South Africa? Otherwise you can play it, I don't mind, but it's going to be appalling, I tell you. The suzie-cream-cheese bubble will burst mightily!

How can that be, Ree? Terry has seen it and you in it, and he persists in admiring you...not all for your artistic talent, I think! You are far too modest and you are beginning to bug those of us who are mortal and not as cute nor as talented....*hugs*

Then it will be done, details will be found elsewhere.

Details??? What details? Oh boy ... Terry, you promised you'd keep the secrets!!! And if ya don't I'll send you some more mouldy cheese! Like Marcia said, it's not a threat, it's a PROMISE!

Oh boy, more moldy cheese!

Don't sound so happy - this is supposed to be a serious threat!!!

*lol*

*sigh* We seemed so much younger when the preceeding comments were posted. Now three of us are missing...*sigh*

Now playing, at this very, red hot moment, my tape from the Wailers Concert in Austin two nights ago, the Colin Firth appearance tonight, and, *and* my day trip to Wimberly today. I and I mon!

We seem to be driving around....and that is not your voice!!! Oh gollllly!!! Is that Texas Music on your radio? Is that your narration???

You sound very nice!!! I am pleased to meet you!

Right now the Wimberly tape is playing.

It is very nice - and reminds me of little places in Arizona...but it that you speaking??? I MUST know!

and...do we get to see you??? Please?!

You are totally gorgeous!!!

Coffee cup is ok but you...*Big Sigh*

I'm rewinding the tape, I'll run it again as I record it from the Digital Camera to the VHS. It's got the Firth show, then the Wailers, then a segment of Elota's play, then my trip to Wimberly.