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7712. wonkers2 - 1/2/2005 5:14:28 AM Maggots or dung beetles! 7713. Ulgine Barrows - 1/2/2005 5:17:52 AM Well. There was hilarious story on Prarie Home Companion that made me think of Pelle.
Some kid, trying to start the car for his dad, but they hadn't scraped the windshield of ice. Kid went straight into the Mississippi and started driving that car real smoothly. Ran up aside an old Norwegian on skis who started shouting at him.
Kid let the Norwegian in the car, along with skis, and finally gathered this: the old Norwegian had made a ski trip on the Mississippi, mostly on his skis, down to New Orleans.
And it was a trip of a lifetime. 7714. wonkers2 - 1/2/2005 5:28:09 AM Not much ice on windshields in The Big Easy. 7715. Ulgine Barrows - 1/2/2005 5:37:22 AM Sure, and when that old/young Norwegian was coming down to the melt, I hope he met some kind folk such as you.
I'd like to thank you all, for my time here. You made it enjoyable for me, mostly; and I hope the same is true for you.
I'm onto something different for awhile. 7716. wonkers2 - 1/2/2005 3:07:16 PM Peace be with you. 7717. alistairconnor - 1/3/2005 2:29:10 PM Oh well.
I hope you're onto something good. As the song says. 7718. thoughtful - 1/3/2005 5:02:00 PM Wiz, just saw your note above.
Nothing to forgive.
Just glad you got a grip. That stuff is not good for the heart nor the soul. Yours nor anybody else's.
Happy new year!
7719. thoughtful - 1/3/2005 5:07:20 PM We went to the Yale art museum one day on our vacation. Wanted to see the exhibit on livable modernism...collection of decorative arts during the depression on display was disappointingly small. Though some of what was there was a stunner to see in a museum. We kept saying things like...your mother had a vacuum cleaner like that...my grandmother's phone looked exactly like that one.
Weird sensation. 7720. judithathome - 1/3/2005 7:53:06 PM I saw an exhibit like that a few years ago...loved it. I kept thinking, I sold one just like that for a pittance! The curse of the antiques dealer...knowing you sold something for less than you could have. 7721. thoughtful - 1/3/2005 8:09:19 PM And the flip side of the customer, knowing they probably paid more for something than they needed to. They say the only fair deal is when everyone walks away sure they could've done better. 7722. Magoseph - 1/5/2005 6:59:15 PM Do You Speak American?
Tonight starting at 6 EST, there will be a three-hour program on your local PBS station.
7723. alistairConnor - 1/27/2005 12:21:29 AM I just saw a French music-awards show on TV. The opening sequence, live, was a children's choir singing the Kyrie Eleison from the film Les Choristes.
I'm a sucker for choral music, for religious music, for choral religious music... but it just happens that it was the best film I saw last year too...
Gérard Jugnot plays a failed musician, in the late 1940s, prison guard in a reform school for boys, who saves them through music... tear jerker.
nominated for the Oscars, best furrin film. Won't win, but I read somewhere that the damn cute children's choir may be there for Oscar night too, singing the theme song "Sentiers de Gloire". Look out for it.
Sens au coeur de la nuit
L'onde d'espoir
Ardeur de la vie
Sentier de gloire
7724. Ms. No - 1/27/2005 12:28:53 AM Oh, I heard a review of this on NPR and was really interested in seeing it. I'll probably end up waiting for video, but just hearing the little bits of soundtrack during the review thrilled me. 7725. alistairConnor - 1/27/2005 12:37:12 AM  I took the girls to see it when it came out, because we sing in the village choir. We loved it. Then it just built by word of mouth and became the biggest film of the year.
It was made locally, the landscape is my universe. The leading boy, who really does sing like an angel, is a pretty good actor too. My daughter knows a girl who knows him. (nearly famous)
7726. Ms. No - 1/27/2005 12:41:07 AM Jeez, talented and gorgeous. Good thing he's French and not American. At least he's got a chance of growing to adulthood without becoming a complete fathead. ;-> 7727. judithathome - 1/27/2005 1:32:08 AM The director thinks this young man will lose his marvelous voice once he matures, though. 7728. judithathome - 1/27/2005 1:32:37 AM I'll be willing to bet he'll still be good looking, though. ;-) 7729. resonance - 1/27/2005 6:39:46 AM 
7730. Macnas - 1/28/2005 4:36:50 PM Am now listening to "Punkrock Girl", by the Dead Milkmen. 7731. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 1/29/2005 1:31:08 AM More new work for the Italy show.
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