#ethel beavers

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✨Cool Old Ladies I love, 19/??✨ Ethel Beavers (Helen Slayton-Hughes, Parks and Recreation)

“They dragged me out in the freezing cold once, so they could tell each other I love you. It was annoying”

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Always seeing crossover potential

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Round 1 Poll 16

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Each time I see a dedicated wedding episode on television or just someone talking about their “big” wedding in general, I just think about Ron and Diane’s and think about how simple things could or should be.

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ethel beaver's nightgown in ste14 is the sexiest most graceful garment ever to be worn. every single human being would look amazing in that

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this is a poll for a movie that doesn't exist.

It is vintage times. The powers that be have decided to again remake the classic vampire novel Dracula for the screen. in an amazing show of inter-studio solidarity, Hollywood’s most elite hotties are up for the starring roles. the producers know whoever they cast will greatly impact the genre, quality, and tone of the finished film, so they are turning to their wisest voices for guidance.

you are the new casting director for this star-studded epic. choose your players wisely.

Previously cast:

Jonathan Harker—Jimmy Stewart

The Old Woman—Martita Hunt

Count Dracula—Gloria Holden

Mina Murray—Setsuko Hara

Lucy Westenra—Judy Garland

The Three Voluptuous Women—Betty Grable, Marilyn Monroe, and Lauren Bacall

The Agonized Mother—Mary Philbin

Dr. Jack Seward—Vincent Price

Quincey P. Morris—Toshiro Mifune

Arthur Holmwood—Sidney Poitier

R.M. Renfield—Conrad Veidt

The Captain of the Demeter—Omar Sharif

The First Mate of the Demeter—Leonard Nimoy

Mr. Swales—Ed Wynn

The Correspondent for The Daily Graph—Ethel Waters

Dracula in dog form—Frank Oz with a puppet

Sister Agatha—Angela Lansbury

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Famous stories of passing - Google Search

Yes it's exactly what it says. so go take a good look and see how this works.

seems a bit strange by some of the pics but then again with all the quilting we'd have to have dna to even try to understand

America in all it's hues

“Passing” Reflected in Three Films

December 3, 2021  |  African American Movie Memorabilia, African Americana, Black History

The Netflex film Passing deals with the African American topic that has come to be known as “Passing” when a person classified as a member of a racial group is accepted or perceived (“passes”) as a member of another. Historically, the term has been used primarily in the United States to describe a person of color or of multiracial ancestry who assimilated into the white majority to escape the legal and social conventions of racial segregation and discrimination.”

These three films, Imitation of Life (1934), Pinky (1949) and Passing (2021) each deal with a Black woman, who, because of her light skin, passes for white and the ramifications that occur when that reality becomes a significant factor in her life.

IMITATION OF LIFE

The above poster: Np: Realart Pictures, 1949. Vintage original 41 x 27″ (104 x 69 cm.) one sheet poster. Conserved on linen, with minor touch ups at old fold lines, near fine.

The first of these film was a landmark film of the 1930s. Directed by John M. Stahl with a screenplay by William Hurlbut and eight additional writers, is based on Fannie Hurst’s 1933 novel of the same name. The film stared Claudette Colbert, Louise Beavers, Warren William, Rochelle Hudson, and Fredi Washington. The film was originally released by Universal Pictures and later re-issued in 1936. A 1959 remake with the same title was directed by Douglas Sirk.

Story

Two young women, one black, one white, both widowed with young daughters, come to live together and start a pancake business which eventually makes them wealthy. The young black girl, who is light-skinned, repeatedly tries to disappear into the while world, with tragic consequences.

Reception

This is the only Hollywood film of the 1930s which attempts to deal with the issues of race and racism: “The one film of the Depression to suggest that a contemporary race problem existed in America. It was also an unintentional comment on the exploitation of its African American character Delilah.” (Bogle, Hollywood Black, p. 40)

The themes of the film, to the modern eye, deal with very important issues—passing, the role of skin color in the black community and tensions between its light-skinned and dark-skinned members, the role of black servants in white families, and maternal affection.

Consequence

In 2005, Imitation of Life was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry being deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”. It was also named by Time in 2007 as one of “The 25 Most Important Films on Race”. The film was nominated for Best Picture, Best Assistant Director and Best Sound Recording, at the 7th Academy Awards.

PINKY

Pinky Is a 1949 American drama film directed by Elia Kazan and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck, from a screenplay by Philip Dunne and Dudley Nichols, based on Cid Ricketts Sumner’s 1946 novel Quality. It stars Jeanne Crain as the title character, a young light-skinned black woman who passes for white. It also stars Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters and William Lundigan.

Story

Pinky is a black woman so fair-skinned she was able to pose as white throughout nursing school. Newly graduated, she flees south to visit her grandmother after a doctor, unaware of her true ancestry, proposes to her. 

Unsure how to react, she looks to her grandmother, who warns her that only trouble will come of an interracial marriage. Pinky agrees and instead stays to help her grandmother care for an elderly, rich, and fatally ill white woman, who dies and, to the horror of the white community, leaves her stately home and property to Pinky. Rejecting the entreaty of the doctor who proposed to her, she remains in the community and establishes “Miss Em’s Clinic and Nursery School”  

Reaction

Pinky was released theatrically in the United States on September 29, 1949 by 20th Century-Fox. It generated considerable controversy due to its subject of race relations and its casting of Crain to play a black woman. It was nonetheless a critical and commercial success, and earned Crain, Barrymore and Waters Academy Award nominations.

PASSING

Passing, the novel, is by American author Nella Larsen, first published in 1929. Set primarily in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City in the 1920s, the story centers on the reunion of two childhood friends—Clare Kendry and Irene Redfield—and their increasing fascination with each other’s lives. The title refers to the practice of “racial passing,” and is a key element of the novel. Clare Kendry’s attempt to pass as white for her husband, John (Jack) Bellew, is a significant depiction in the novel and a catalyst for the tragic events.

Passsing, the film is a 2021 black-and-white drama film written, produced, and directed by Rebecca Hall in her feature directorial debut. … The film stars Tessa Thompson, Ruth Negga, André Holland, Bill Camp, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Antoinette Crowe-Legacy, and Alexander Skarsgård. 

The film follows the book’s storyline: Mixed-race childhood friends reunite in middle class adulthood and become increasingly involved in each other’s lives and insecurities. While Irene identifies as African-American and is married to a Black doctor, Clare “passes” as white and has married a prejudiced, wealthy white man. This renewed acquaintance ignites a mutual obsession that threatens both of their carefully constructed realities.

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Jefferson August Beaver (May 20, 1908 - September 8, 1991) banker, businessman, local politician, and civil rights activist, was born in Warren, Arkansas Rev. Robert Jefferson Beaver, a minister with the AME Church and Ethel Jordan. The family resided in Monticello, Arkansas before moving to San Francisco in 1911, and he spent the rest of his life in the Bay Area. He received a BA from UC Berkeley and pursued post-graduate studies at Springfield College. He spent one year at Golden Gate University Law School. He married Fanny May Ansley (1938) and the couple had three children. A fourth child died of tuberculosis in infancy.

He was known for his civil rights activism in San Francisco’s Black community, particularly in the campaigns for public housing and fair employment opportunities. He held the presidency of the NAACP San Francisco branch and the Bay Area Urban League in the mid-1950s. He was appointed to the San Francisco Housing Authority Commission in 1956 and became its president. He was a member of the San Francisco Council for Civic Unity which campaigned for a fair housing ordinance in the 1940s and 1950s.

He served on the California Committee for Fair Employment Practices and held the position of Special Deputy Commissioner of Corporations for the State of California. He was a member of the US Department of Commerce trade missions to the Soviet Union in 1959 and Nigeria in 1961 to report on business opportunities in each country. He was a California delegate to the DNC in Chicago in 1956 which nominated Adlai Stevenson for President, and the Convention in Los Angeles in 1960 which nominated John F. Kennedy for the Presidency.

He incorporated civil rights activism into his work as a banker by co-founding Transbay Federal Savings and Loan in 1949 and Golden Gate National Bank in 1961. He was editor of the San Francisco Reporter, the city’s African American newspaper. He was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha and Sigma Pi Phi Fraternities. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #alphaphialpha

[wrecking]

october! slowly getting better about listening to new music, and i think it shows! open for names :)

going to put little explanations by each one cuz i don't have any predictions for november this time!

lorde - pure heroine : this one's just kinda snuck up on me, i've been revisiting where i was in 2017 a lot as of late and this album was like Integral to me then. it's still flawless btw top 3 of all time

cafune - love songs for the end : i just am a weirdly big fan of them? literally every song except shadowboxing has been a Thing for me at some point. currently it's dead 2 me (so naive)

the volunteers - the volunteers : just a really fun rock record?? reminds me of wolf alice which i LOVE blue weekend

jessica lea mayfield - make my head sing : my random country/grunge sneak, she's been a super obscure fave of mine for many years and this album just kinda hit recently with the whole resurgent trauma energy

lucy dacus - home video : to be honest i haven't been STREAMING this that much, but instead i've literally been singing the songs in my day-to-day life. partner in crime, brando, christine, please stay... literally integral to my functioning

ethel cain - preacher's daughter : i took this off rotation for a few months to avoid getting sick of it bc truthfully i could just stream it on loop forever. been really obsessed with thoroughfare and strangers as of late

paramore - re: this is why : remi wolf's version of you first kinda carried, but tbh i've just been enjoying this? i really love the base album, but i also deeply love having the alt versions to diversify the rotation

troye sivan - something to give each other : i'm sorry but he just makes good music. one of your girls & silly go fucking crazy

pretty sick - makes me sick makes me smile : this is just some trashy emo teenager rock thing but it's just kind of a vibe? lilith song has been on my mind forever

vashti bunyan - just another diamond day : i didn't really fall in DEEP love with this in the way others did, and i think she has better albums, but i would be lying if i said i didn't revisit this the most atm. title track and (the not-technically-on-it-but-it-should've-been) train song rattle around my brain constantly

hitsujibungaku - our hope : god this is one of those releases i can't tire of. i'm so excited for their new album... thank you random youtube recommendations for showing me the video to one of the songs by pure chance

big thief - dragon new warm mountain i believe in you : the juggernaut of the chart has returned... i've just been revisiting this a lot and god is it still so exquisite... the only place and dried roses supremacy

the dead texan - the dead texan : i've been meaning to listen to this ambient thing all year and god i'm glad i did. peak vibes

anri - timely!! : i have a couple of like super recurrect city pop releases as this time last year i did a big deep dive into the genre, and this is the one that consistently pops up the most just because it's SO catchy and fun. well worth the hype imo

midori - shinsekai : absolutely batshit jazz and punk fusions, track 3 has the singer making gorilla sounds and i've been obsessed with it ever since. what is up with the one random man ballad in the center tho

yeule - softscars : first time i heard this it floored me so hard i almost cried. i never really clicked with her stuff but this just makes sense to me? it's messy and big and bold and earnest and hurt and it just fits where i am rn

alvvays - blue rev : god the sleeper classic of all time for me. the way i didn't care about it for like several months after hearing it and now it's basically a mainstay. such is the power of putting bored in bristol on your album

otoboke beaver - itekoma hits : this goes hand in hand with shinsekai. just batshit insane fast punk music it's great and fun i love it

shygirl - nymph : tbh this only got a relisten from me bc it's a year after its release, and honestly? well worth it. i didn't really love alias but this has really stuck the landing w me

taylor swift - midnights : ok so i know this is gonna be the like "why is this on here" one but like hear me out. see above that i was revisiting stuff a year after it came out, and also this was like The First Thing Announced When I Got Home. tbh my horrible hot take is that this is kind of a comfort album for me now?? it reminds me of oct '22 when i felt like for once in my fucking life things were gonna be ok. it's not her best but what can you do

olivia rodrigo - guts : this is like a single hair away from fully confirmed as my aoty this year and i hate it bc i look so basic but also consider: it is just that good to me

kero kero bonito - time n place : dear future self and swimming were big moments for me during this time in 2018, and my life is kinda eerily lining up with 2018 again so hearing a song called "dear future self" that reminds me of that time is a lot to process

ariana grande - thank u, next : random ass pick i know, but idk! it's her best, it's very subtly a concept album and it's unironically thematically coherent if you're terminally online enough to read into it thoroughly. also fake smile, bad idea, bloodline, in my head, etc. just slap sorry

pearly drops - a little disaster : thank you kabob for giving me the push to give this a shot. after grimes went full unsupportable, i kinda have been itching to fill the niche she used to fill vocally, and honestly this fits? it's weirdly glacial and funny and deadpan kinda it's fun i like this album a lot

lamp - at komoyo street : i'm sorry but one of the best album covers of all time and the music lives up to the hype

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ok that's all of them whew jesus christ

next month is relatively light on new releases, so i'll probs just play catchup with all the insane shit i have in my backlog. see you next month!

[st4rry4pples]

i like the ethel beavers reference

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Fairway Frank:

Description: Possum who lives at the sixteenth hole of the Pawnee golf course

Notable Appearances: Bit the mayor's dog in "The Possum," was captured by Andy and turned over to animal control, but Leslie later freed him and gave him to the Pawnee Zoo

Ethel Beavers:

Description: Elderly court stenographer who works on the fourth floor

Notable Appearances: Gives Tom and Andy a tour of the fourth floor, is the stenographer at Leslie's ethics committee hearing, and later signs Leslie and Ben's marriage license

[where-fading-princesses-live]

tag game

tag game: get to know my interests! 

MUSIC

fav genre?:  lana del rey, broadway musicals, and oldies

fav band?:  i really like the pop/ motown girl groups from the 1950s and 1960s, so like the ronettes, the chantels, the supremes, etc. but i also like ABBA and the beatles

fav solo artist?:  frances langford was pretty good and also paul anka

last song you listened to?: ''Please Mr. Postman'' by The Marvelettes (1961)

fav decade for music?:  1920s-1960s

top 3 most listened songs recently?: ‘’free man in the morning’’ by andy griffith, ‘’could i leave you?’’ from stephen sondheim's follies  (can’t go wrong with lee remick), and ‘’ya got trouble’’ from the music man (the music man slays change my mind)

LITERATURE

fav genre?:  maybe horror and classic lit but i also like good ol' pulp fiction

fav book?: joyce carol oates’ blonde and also the hour of the star by clarice lispector

fav writer?:  stephen king probably just because i've read the most books from him but also clarice lispector

comfort book?:  the christmas pig by j.k. rowling (yes i liked it)

fav biography?:  lizzie siddal: the tragedy of a pre-raphaelite supermodel by lucinda hawksley. as far as autobiography/ memoir goes, i'm glad my mom died by jennette mccurdy

TV AND MOVIES

fav tv show/movie genre?: older tv shows, mainly comedies and for movies, musicals and comedies

fav movie?:  the godfather trilogy

comfort movie?:  my friend irma (1949)... film debut of dean martin an jerry lewis and tho i don't care for jerry lewis, it's always good to see dean martin being dean martin but also marie wilson is a national treasure, also singin' in the rain is a forever favorite of mine

favorite decade for movies?:  1920s-1960s

fav tv show?:  i love lucy  (andy griffith is a close second tho), oh also columbo

comfort tv show?:  leave it to beaver and the andy griffith show... so wholesome, but also three's company and the facts of life are guilty pleasures

5 favorite characters?: for movies: fredo corleone from the godfather (i'm a sucker for underdogs) and angela from sleepaway camp /  for tv shows: columbo (duh), barney fife from andy griffith (he won 5 emmys), ethel mertz from i love lucy

[thedeadhead]

Wizard Witch and The Wild One Ep 26:

Coven of Elders converted to Parks and Rec

Ame - Leslie Knope of course

Mirara - Ron Swanson

Indri - Donna

Hacaea - Ethel Beavers (???)

Grimore - April

Based off a comment from the fireside chat:

Also secondary thought;

How does Mirara feel about Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floydd??

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Nora Frances Elizabeth Collyer (1898-1979) pintora canadiense.

Nació en Montreal, Quebec. Su padre, Alfred Collyer, abandonó Inglaterra a la edad de dieciséis años y, después de graduarse en la Universidad McGill, se unió a la General Electric Company de Canadá. Alrededor de la época del nacimiento de Nora, la familia se mudó a Tupper Street en Westmount, un suburbio de Montreal, donde vivieron hasta 1916.

En su juventud, asistió a la Escuela para niñas de Trafalgar desde 1910 hasta su graduación en 1917.

Fue hija única hasta los doce años y siendo muy tímida, se beneficiaba de las clases reducidas y del ambiente íntimo de una escuela privada. Dos chicas que conoció allí, Margaret Taylor y Jane Speir, se convirtieron en sus amigas de toda la vida.

Junto con otras artistas Anne Savage, Sarah Robertson, Mabel Lockerby y Kathleen Morris, recibieron prácticamente toda su formación profesional en la Asociación de Arte de Montreal (AAM).

Estudió durante nueve años en la AAM con Alberta Cleland, William Brymner y Maurice Cullen. Brymner, que fue director durante treinta y cinco años, se había formado previamente en París, en la Académie Julian , y había organizado la escuela de Montreal según el modelo parisino.

El énfasis de Brymner en la importancia de la autoexpresión y el entusiasmo por los nuevos desarrollos se hizo muy evidente en el trabajo de Nora.

Se convirtió en miembro del Beaver Hall Hill Group en el momento de su establecimiento en Montreal en el otoño de 1920. Anne Savage y Collyer fueron las únicas mujeres de Beaver Hall que completaron su educación secundaria. El presidente y cofundador, AY Jackson , proporcionó un vínculo importante entre el Grupo de los Siete y el Grupo Beaver Hall.

Animó a las mujeres a liberarse de su anticuada formación académica y a ignorar los estereotipos femeninos. Nora y sus colegas siguieron este consejo; rompieron con las convenciones victorianas a pesar de los estándares sociales de la época.

El Beaver Hall Group era una de las asociaciones artísticas no estructuradas más emblemáticas de Canadá. El grupo sólo sobrevivió durante un año y medio, pero las amistades y alianzas formadas continuaron durante las siguientes dos décadas.

El grupo realizó cuatro exposiciones durante su corta existencia, y al menos otra exposición se llevó a cabo en las “salas del club” del grupo.

Nora dejó AAM en mayo de 1921 y luego compartió estudio con Anne Savage. En 1924 las artistas ya no podían costear sus estudios; sin embargo, las mujeres supervivientes Mabel May, Lilias Newton, Mabel Lockerby, Anne Savage, Sarah Robertson y Nora Collyer formaron una red que se expandió para incluir a Prudence Heward, Kathleen Morris y Ethel Seath.

Nora comenzó su carrera docente en septiembre de 1925. Aunque no tenía formación previa en enseñanza, fue nombrada profesora de arte en la Trafalgar School.

Después de cinco años, su carrera docente se detuvo abruptamente debido al fallecimiento de su madre, Gertrude Palmer en 1930. Nora se sintió obligada a regresar a casa para administrar la casa de su padre y hermano. Inspirada por el trabajo voluntario de su madre en la Iglesia Anglicana, Nora comenzó a enseñar arte en el Children's Memorial Hospital y otras instituciones.

Algunos años más tarde, tras la muerte de su padre en 1946, se volvió aún más activa como profesora; organizando clases para niños y adultos en su propia casa.

Nora mantuvo relaciones con sus amigas de Trafalgar School, pero su amiga más cercana era Margaret Reid, quien le proporcionaba la tranquilidad social de la que ella carecía. Después de la muerte de su padre en 1946, Nora alquiló un apartamento en Ridgewood, donde más tarde se unió a ella Reid.

Cuatro años más tarde, las dos compraron un terreno con vista al lago Memphremagog donde construyeron una cabaña de verano a la que llamaron Strawberry Hill.

Nora pasaría el verano allí dibujando y haciendo jardinería y Margaret lo visitaría los fines de semana. Tuvieron esta cabaña hasta 1967.

Más tarde se mudaron a un dúplex en Westmount en 1953, donde Nora usaba su sala de estar para enseñar. Reid tenía antecedentes familiares de enfermedad de Alzheimer y en años posteriores comenzó a mostrar síntomas de la enfermedad. Nora la cuidó todo el tiempo que pudo, pero finalmente tuvo que internarla en un asilo de ancianos. Nora vivió en el dúplex hasta que murió, apenas doce días después de su amiga.

Le ponemos cara.

[thenonconformistcurmudgeon]

The Victory Clasp

I am emotionally bereft and trembling with anxiety.  Distraught and on the verge of panic. A bored sourpuss with an irritable disposition.  A… you get the idea.  How did this happen? Well, I am in the midst of a 48-hour internet outage.  Or is it an outrage?  What is a digital addict to do?  Withdrawal symptoms include picking up the I-Pad every few minutes as if it was an involuntary tic.  What am I to do with my time without checking the hourly weather forecast every hour or two.  I can’t see what checks have been cashed on my bank accounts or the Dow Jones status throughout the day.  I can’t look up the lack of comments on my Facebook posts.  Looking at rabbits, moose, and beavers doing funny beaver things at the Zoo in Japan on Instagram is not available.  My Wordle streak will end.  My research on the Straw Hat Riot of 1922 will be halted.  I will have only seen 8 articles posted on the benefits of wall slides for the elderly this week. What if someone posted a new cultural perspective on the deaths of Ben Cartwright’s 3 wives and I can’t immediately read it and comment?  A video of all of TV Batman’s nemesis’ unavailable.  I can’t check to see if some old celebrity is dead or alive.  What sociopolitical catastrophe occurred in today’s news?  No oddball performances on Ed Sullivan to peruse.  No deleting 25 Spam e-mails every few hours, checking that there aren’t any real ones amongst the ones on the failed UPS delivery, you’ve won a tractor and African manhood.  

I was 24 hours into the outage and beginning to gain some control over the sweating, hot flashes, cold sweats, sleep disturbance, and general unease, when a true internet outage crisis flared up.  Maybe it was the internet withdrawal fever I was running but for some inexplicable reason, I was thinking about the old victory celebration of clasping one’s hands together over the left side of the head and shaking the clasped hands 2 or 3 times and then moving to the right side over the head and shaking on that side.  Never shaking in the middle.  There was so much I wanted to know about this tradition.  Why did it seemingly go out of favor?  You really don’t see anyone do it anymore.  Does the movement have a name?  It seemed like it was always a solo celebration, maybe two people at most.  I don’t recall seeing a group of people or a team doing it. Was it two or three shakes on a side and then did you repeat it one more time left and right again? What was the socially acceptable number of shakes and repeats? So much to know and investigate and no access to find out.

As I am right handed, I assumed you would start the process on the left side but I suppose lefties could start on the right.  I hear the critics out there call me a handest, or is it a handididst, or am I committing handism.  My last post on henchman provoked hate mail as I failed to call them henchpeople.  By the way, not a word.  To all the henchman and minions, I offended, and now southpaws, mea culpa.

Deep breathing, mindfulness, listening to the loons, walking in the woods and repeating to oneself only 24 hours before the internet returns. I can do this.  Saying it is easier than reality. Forced internet detox is not working.  There are no adrenaline rushes in the analog life. I succumb quickly to the need for over-stimulation and put on a 2 hour best of Ethel Merman CD. 

An internet junkie yearning for a fix.  Years of mainlining constant visual stimuli, speedy brain processing, going from one website to another, clicking here, there and everywhere, multi-tasking, constant mind pulsations.  Quiescence no longer a known.  Is there any treatment or rehab or at least a temporary fix to fill the time?  Work the heavy bag, do some road work, jump rope until exhaustion? Not exactly my style. What about a carbohydrate and sugar fix?  Eat as many crullers as humanely possible to distract from the internet cravings?  Possible, but here are some better ideas.  Come up with a system to successfully play the ponies.  Go to public parks, jump on a soapbox and proselytize about the 4 star-4-bomb movie review system.  Practice winking and nodding.  Find an old TV and work on the horizontal and vertical knobs and try to finally tame the contrast.  I know, put on the smoking jacket and indulge in heavy gluten consumption.  Think about all the situations you can appropriately yell, "Baby needs a new pair of shoes". A sure fire pleaser is writing down a list of all the back to school supplies needed in 4th grade.  Imagine the good life with a pencil thin moustache and mutton chops.  Yes, I am feeling much better now. I can do this.  Victory is mine.  Hands over head on the left, 3 shakes, move them to the right of the head, 3 shakes, repeat left and right 10 times.

[aaronjhill]

RIP, ETHEL BEAVERS