The Vent and Rant Thread

[Stitchawl]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

He'd slyly inveigled her up to his flat
To view his collection of stamps
And he said as he hastened to put out the cat, the wine, his cigar and the lamps:
“Have some madeira, M’dear”

"Now if it were gin, you'd be wrong to say yes
The evil gin does would be hard to assess.. "

Wow! I can't believe it! We might be the only two left on the planet who remember these guys!


Stitchawl

[dsvick]

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

This is better than day-time TV!

Stitchawl

Except that all the pronoun switching has left me confused ...

Originally Posted by kennyc

Daughter is out .... but ex wife is in! ....SHEESH!!!!

And the problem is ... ?

Glad they are both doing better Kenny.

Originally Posted by desertblues

I don't know; although I'm a widely travelled person and have lived abroad, I feel myself confused. You all seem to know or live next to, or are friends with double-gendered persons, and I don't know one at all.

Either that or you just don't know that you know someone who has done gone that route.

[DMcCunney]

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

"Now if it were gin, you'd be wrong to say yes
The evil gin does would be hard to assess.. "

Wow! I can't believe it! We might be the only two left on the planet who remember these guys!

You aren't...
______
Dennis

[desertblues]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

He'd slyly inveigled her up to his flat
To view his collection of stamps
And he said as he hastened to put out the cat, the wine, his cigar and the lamps:
“Have some madeira, M’dear”

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

"Now if it were gin, you'd be wrong to say yes
The evil gin does would be hard to assess.. "

Wow! I can't believe it! We might be the only two left on the planet who remember these guys!
Stitchawl

very good.

[beppe]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

He'd slyly inveigled her up to his flat
To view his collection of stamps
And he said as he hastened to put out the cat, the wine, his cigar and the lamps:
“Have some madeira, M’dear”

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

"Now if it were gin, you'd be wrong to say yes
The evil gin does would be hard to assess.. "

Wow! I can't believe it! We might be the only two left on the planet who remember these guys!


Stitchawl

Originally Posted by DMcCunney

You aren't...
______
Dennis

[desertblues]

nice weather

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

Wow! I can't believe it! We might be the only two left on the planet who remember these guys!

There are quite a few Flanders & Swann fans around. If you don't have their songs already, I highly recommend "The Complete Flanders and Swann": http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B002ZCJBCY/
and
"Hat Trick": http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B000UVP6O4
(which I have yet to get myself) looks worth a listen too.

I also recommend the splendid Donald Swann website at http://www.donaldswann.co.uk/

[jkeene]

Originally Posted by devilsadvocate

I've had hearing loss starting at 4 years old and out of the few dozen audiologists/ear nose and throat specialists, I've yet to meet even one who had anything resembling a sense of humor. Some of them have damn near atrocious bedside manner; others (like the last specialist I'd seen) were really nice. If you told me that none of them had ever laughed in their lives, however, you wouldn't have to work too hard to convince me.

Sounds familiar. When my optometrist was advising on my choices for cataract surgery, he mentioned that the guy he considered the very best also had "... the bedside manner of a porcupine." Still, that was who I went with. Having grown up in New England I could relate to his very dry Polish-accented humor, but I could see how it would be a lead balloon to someone raised in the American South.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by beppe

Thanks for the Youtube video. Sadly, there's no DVD available of what little film of them exists. Hopefully sometime there will be one.

I will note that the US broadcaster insisted on a couple of changes to the lyrics:

"... besides it's inclined to affect my finesse" was usually "... prowess"
and
"a voice in her earhole" was usually "a beard ..."

[DMcCunney]

Originally Posted by dsvick

Except that all the pronoun switching has left me confused ...

I first discovered my friend Margaret had transitioned when I met her at a conference after not seeing her for a couple of decades. She said "Do you recognize me? You can be forgiven if you don't." I said "You'll have to forgive me.", and she explained who she was.

I mentioned it to another friend later, commenting that I hadn't seen her since she was him, and it left me musing on the nature and use of pronouns. She said her SF writer husband had written a book featuring aliens whose sex changed normally, and had worked out a complete system of pronouns to deal with it.

Ursula K. LeGuin's classic SF novel _The Left Hand of Darkness_ featured a variant of humanity on the planet Gethen who were neuter until mating time came around, at which point they might become either male or female. One of their notions of perversion was folks who used hormones to force a particular gender when they came into kemmer, instead of accepting the luck of the draw. LeGuin commented in later years that if she were to do it again, she would have used she instead of he to refer to them, as it better suited the points she was making.
______
Dennis

[natasha_fawn]

Originally Posted by kennyc

But I think they are recovering.... Thanks everyone for your concerns and good thoughts!

Glad everyone's doing okay. That sounds like enough excitement to last a while.

Originally Posted by desertblues

I don't know; although I'm a widely travelled person and have lived abroad, I feel myself confused. You all seem to know or live next to, or are friends with double-gendered persons, and I don't know one at all. Have I been leading the sheltered life, despite frequenting lots of bars and disco's in my days or what.

Most of the trans or gender ambiguous folks I've known I met in college, where the atmosphere was in general very friendly and it was safe to be open about that kind of thing.

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

"Now if it were gin, you'd be wrong to say yes
The evil gin does would be hard to assess.. "

Wow! I can't believe it! We might be the only two left on the planet who remember these guys!


Stitchawl

If you are then one of you must be my father-in-law...

Originally Posted by dsvick

Except that all the pronoun switching has left me confused ...

And we haven't even gotten into zie and zir territory yet!

[kindlekitten]

my insurance company has switched me to receiving my meds by mail, getting 90 day supplies at a time. that's fine, I don't have a problem with that. I just picked up my package at the RENTAL post office box that I have. this package was not tracked, I didn't need to sign for it, it wasn't insured... nada. in the package? over 500 tablets of vicodin, and 90 strong sleeping tablets, a medication that is very similar to valium. if I didn't have this rental post office box, the package would have been dropped at my gate with absolutely no tracking, security, nuthin'! these are the same pills that everyone gets all the spam emails about buying them online! I'm debating whether it is worth calling my insurance company and registering a concern

[Stitchawl]

Or... "Would you like to come up to my place and see my stamp collection? All un-perforated!"

Wow! I can't believe it! We might be the only two left on the planet who remember these guys!

Originally Posted by DMcCunney

You aren't...
Dennis

Originally Posted by beppe

Flanders &Swann Video

Originally Posted by pdurrant

There are quite a few Flanders & Swann fans around. I

Sorry to say, but I was correct. It was NOT Flanders & Swann I was quoting. If you look at the enlarged font at the end of the line, the sentence that read "All un-perforated!" The quote was NOT from the Flanders & Swann version, but from a group called 'The Limelighters,' unfortunately a little remembered folk group of the 60's-'70's






Stitchawl

[kindlekitten]

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

Sorry to say, but I was correct. It was NOT Flanders & Swann I was quoting. If you look at the enlarged font at the end of the line, the sentence that read "All un-perforated!" The quote was NOT from the Flanders & Swann version, but from a group called 'The Limelighters,' unfortunately a little remembered folk group of the 60's-'70's






Stitchawl

*sigh* my Dad quite often sang that. when we skied he would do that kind of little nonsense phrase and then the "have some madeira ma' dear" when we were going over some rather scary/trying moguls or terrain. and he played the base "fiddle"

*weeP*

[Stitchawl]

Originally Posted by kindlekitten

*sigh* my Dad quite often sang that. when we skied he would do that kind of little nonsense phrase and then the "have some madeira ma' dear" when we were going over some rather scary/trying moguls or terrain. and he played the base "fiddle"

*weeP*

Memories are made of this...



Stitchawl