Jamie123

It reminds me of an episode of Frasier, where Frasier and Niles are unhappy to discover that a new club has opened in town, and they're not members of it. They don't even know what sort of club it is, but they are determined to join it. After a bit of wangling and string-pulling they manage to become members, and discover it's actually a health and fitness club. For a little while they are happy, until they discover that there's a door they're not allowed to go through because it leads to the "Gold Member" area, whereas they're only "Silver Members". So it's back to the wangling and string-pulling until they finally manage to become Gold Members. They're happy again for a while until they discover yet another mysterious door in the Gold area. Furious, Frasier believes that some deeper paradise is being withheld from him (Platinum membership maybe?) so he storms through the door and finds himself out in the alleyway amongst the trash bins. End of episode.

It reminds me of an episode of Frasier, where Frasier and Niles are unhappy to discover that a new club has opened in town, and they're not members of it. They don't even know what sort of club it is, but they are determined to join it. After a bit of wangling and string-pulling they manage to become members, and discover it's actually a health and fitness club. For a little while they are happy, until they discover that there's a door they're not allowed to go through because it leads to the "Gold Member" area, whereas they're only "Silver Members". So it's back to the wangling and string-pulling until they finally manage to become Gold Members. They're happy again for a while until they discover yet another mysterious door in the Gold area. Furious, Frasier believes that some deeper paradise is being withheld from him (Platinum membership maybe?) so he storms through the door and finds himself out in the alleyway amongst the trash bins. End of episode.

This was yesterday actually, but I heard the song "Tell Your Heart to Beat Again" for the first time ever.
"Tell Your Heart To Beat Again" - Danny Gokey (Lyrics) - YouTube
I've never needed this message more than I do today.
 

This was yesterday actually, but I heard the song "Tell Your Heart to Beat Again" for the first time ever.
"Tell Your Heart To Beat Again" - Danny Gokey (Lyrics) - YouTube
I've never needed this message more than I do today.
 

This was yesterday actually, but I heard the song "Tell Your Heart to Beat Again" for the first time ever.
"Tell Your Heart To Beat Again" - Danny Gokey (Lyrics) - YouTube
I've never needed this message more than I do today.
 

"Joseph's coat annoyed his brothers,
But what made them mad,
Was the way that he would talk about
The dreams he often had!"
(Great musical! I first saw it when I was 11 and loved it ever since!)

Today is my 34th anniversary. My wife is over 200 miles away, while I lay in a hospital bed with a C. diff infection. Feeling a bit blue. But as a chance to reflect on the unparalleled blessings God has showered on an unworthy soul like myself, I feel humble and deeply grateful.
Sorry for the FB-like post, but I'm not much into FBing stuff like this.

"Joseph's coat annoyed his brothers,
But what made them mad,
Was the way that he would talk about
The dreams he often had!"
(Great musical! I first saw it when I was 11 and loved it ever since!)

Happy weekend everyone!

I just tried listing them all: Oddly enough I can easily list my teachers between ages 5 and 16, but after that it gets fuzzy. Some stick in the memory - like the math professor who taught us to do "carculus", but I couldn't for the life of me remember who taught me business studies.

I think I'll give Discord a miss. I used to get into a lot of "bad stuff" there. Though I've cleaned my life up (or more precisely God has cleaned my life up) there's no point raking up old temptations.

I think I'll give Discord a miss. I used to get into a lot of "bad stuff" there. Though I've cleaned my life up (or more precisely God has cleaned my life up) there's no point raking up old temptations.

I think I'll give Discord a miss. I used to get into a lot of "bad stuff" there. Though I've cleaned my life up (or more precisely God has cleaned my life up) there's no point raking up old temptations.

I disagree. It doesn't mean "make no provision for tomorrow" but "spend your day so that if tonight you find you must lay your life down, you will have no regrets"

What do you call bears without ears?
 
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I finally got it. It took me a while, but I finally got it.

I finally got it. It took me a while, but I finally got it.

I disagree. It doesn't mean "make no provision for tomorrow" but "spend your day so that if tonight you find you must lay your life down, you will have no regrets"

I bought some kitchen towels this past summer that had pictures of lemons and the saying “Easy Peazy, Lemon Squeezy”.

I disagree. It doesn't mean "make no provision for tomorrow" but "spend your day so that if tonight you find you must lay your life down, you will have no regrets"

Nice to see you back @Jamie123

"Hoppety Goes to Town"
No sex or violence. Just plenty of anthropomorphic bugs, none of whom ever get squashed despite a preponderance of rotoscoped human feet descending all around them. Having said that though, there's plenty of politically incorrect humour - like when Hoppety gets electrocuted and changes (inexplicably) into an Indian...sorry - "Native American"...doing a war dance.
I won't even mention the "blackface" jokes...
I believe in America it's called "Mr. Bug Goes to Town" - parodying the title of another movie called "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town". The problem is, if you didn't know that there was a movie called "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" you'd be totally confused, 'coz there's no character in Hoppety called "Mr. Bug". (Unless of course "Bug" is Hoppety's surname.)
I first saw it when I was about 10, and again when I was about 19 (when they were doing a season on Fleischer Brothers' animation - starting with Betty Boop*). Interesting titbit: Hoppety Goes to Town was the last project that Dave and Lou Fleischer worked on together. (Some have suggested that they never even spoke to each other again.) Which is a pity because their movies were getting better. Their first feature length movie (an adaptation of Gulliver's Travels) was nothing very special, but "Hoppety" was better. OK it's not up to the standard of Disney's animation of the time, but still better than their first effort. Who knows - if they'd gone on, they might have been serious rivals of Walt Disney.
Nevertheless, it was "Gulliver" that was the hit, and "Hoppety" the flop - partly because it's release coincided with Pearl Harbour. (I mean the actual attack - not the movie [he added stupidly]). It was so bad that it was donkey's years before Paramount dared invest in another animated movie.
*Did you know that Betty Boop was originally a caricature of actress Helen Kane?

 
 

Did someone say “Lemon Squeezy”?


 
Another pet peeve—and maybe I’m just getting jaded because of my profession—but the ratio of people who invoke the phrase “for the children!” versus the people who are actually willing to do hard things for the welfare of those same children, is something on the order of ten to one.