Welcome smithrach40!!

Dying Moose MG? I have a request - The Canadian Mounties theme song - they would like a dying moose

LOL at the Depends

Plants, HHmmm.
I'll have to talk to Bad.
There was a dying moose in this part of the country a few years ago, they said he was heading to Iowa!
Bernie

Thought I heard my name. :)

Umm, guys, I say we just give her the plants and NOT make her sing.....hehehe

I say we just give her the plants and not make US LISTEN to her sing.

Don't feel bad, MG - they wouldn't want me singing, either.

I've heard of singing for your supper, but not singing? Kewl!!

mg

Gee I haven't ever heard a dying moose and I'm a veterinarian. Do they sound like this? Oooooooh Uuuuuuuh Aaaaaahhhhh Ugggggg Phpppppppppppuuuuuuuuuuaaaaaaahhhh. It is only a guess.
Here is a picture of a christmas decor that might have a place here.

Well, I guess if no one wants to listen to her,,,all is off,,, Unless someone would like to make a blackmail video,,,,LOL

Soferdig, now THAT's twisted. ROFL

LOL Soferdig!! Skip would love that!

LOL,,,Bill too

kareoke?? Did someone say kareoke?? (Waking up from snooze after long weekend in Vegas...)

No they didn't!

Hey Wanda, where are you staying in DM in March?

mg

Mg, you mean for the Lily Society Bulb Sale? I am in charge of reserved tickets for our high school production of "Taming of the Shrew" on March 16,17 & 18. I wil drive to Des Moines to help sell lilies from 10-4 pm. I have to be back in CR to man the ticket booth by 6 pm Saturday night. No party night stay over this time. Are you coming ?

I don't have high school kids anymore, but it's my old Thespian Troupe and the Teacher/directors were wonderful the past few years with my youngest actress.

Wanda,

We have to be in DM the 18th because Jenna is bowling in a tournament. And since we will be there anyway.......lol.

I started a thread asking for hotel recommendations and giving a bit more info on Jenna's tourney here: http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/577501/

I still can't believe she did so well!

mg

Glad you liked the Christmas yard lites. Are you all thesbians? I have always enjoyed small theater. I rarely read any critics and went on my convience of schedule. Always a surprise in Seattle. I can't do taming of the shrew too much like my first wife.

Sofedig--you are a hoot! I have a soft spot fr Shakespeare--any time, any place. The kids kind of murder the dialoge, but they have spirit.

My Jefferson High School Thespian Troupe was one of the first in Iowa. The Troupe has directors and a teacher devoted to stage constuction. I'm not much for acting myself, but I wield a pretty good needle and paintbrush. I sing well. My daughters both sang & danced in plays, and my younger daughter is an excellent actress. I hope she keeps it up in college. I've just spent the past 18 years volunteering in schools and it's a hard habit to break.

You need to have a Midsummers Nights party. I went to one one once with a bunch of my actor friends. Every one was dressed up in white clothing and were given roles in the Shakespeare comedy. ( 2 weeks in advance) Everyone went around with the the script and interacted with each other to see all the ways the Shakespeare ideas can be expressed. Of course we ate and had fun all night.

And just what were y'all smoking???

lol Wanda - I've been reading but not posting. Wondering the same thing here.

I've always been into Shakespeare, but more reading and seeing. After I got into gardening, I'm amazed at how he used flowers as messages in his plots, especially in Hamlet.

Shakespeare would smell as sweet by any other name....

Sometimes we have traveling Shakespearan troupes come into town to perform at the colleges. professionals who know how to use the bard's words properly. A joy to my ear, frightening, romantic, funny, scandalous--Shakespeare wrote as much for the "foul -smelling crowd" who paid a penny to jostle near the stage as for the royalty in their expensive boxes.

It's not reality TV--

I know what you mean, Wanda. I was an English lit major in school, and I love nothing better than seeing it performed properly. Hamlet is my favorite, especially now that I've learned about his use of flowers and their symbolism. When Ophelia wupposedly has started to lose her mind, she passes flowers to the Kings court, and to the king himself.

"There's fennel for you, and columbines. There's rue for you,
and here's some for me. We may call it herb of grace o' Sundays.
O, you must wear your rue with a difference! There's a daisy. I
would give you some violets, but they wither'd all when my father
died."

the fennel is sorrow, the columbines are adultery, as is the rue. Then she gives him daisies. Daisies represent innocence, which she says she gives him in place of the violets (faithfulness) that died when her father died. Basically she's accusing the king and queen openly of their adultry. "O, you must wear your rue with a difference!" Love that one.

Its too bad Shakespeare couldn't speak english. It is my theory that he was dislexic and had an ability to see everything in metaphores rather than what was in front of his eyes. Yes I don't relate to shakespeare and I didn't like the beattles.
My thesbian group were all from a large church that that wasn't allowed to do such things.

lol Sofer Very true. He spoke the english of his time, though. I still think it's a heck of a lot easier to understand Shakespeare than Beowulf.

Don't feel bad about the beatles. I get grief for not liking Jimmy Hendrix, Led Zeplin, etc.

Has anyone noticed SmithRach stopped posting back on Feb 17th?
Right after mg post with the pic in it.
Maybe she wasn't clued on how to "watch thread"?

Years ago in another lifetime and place we would gather one evening a week in the winter and 'read' one of Shakespeare's plays... the night we were doing "Taming of a Shrew" one of the none-participating sisters came downstairs at 2 ayem to protest we were really getting 'into it' a bit too noisily.

Are you calling mg a thread killer? Come on - I've got much worsre than that to use.

A"thread killer" ? "Kiss of death" post? "Hijacker" ? Or did we scare a way a poor helpess newbie when we high jacked this thread???

Oh, to visit a Renaissance Festival and talk in prose again. I've always had a fondness for Good Queen Bess.

Let's see : Macbeth is dark & frightening if done right--all that murder and ghost & witches.

Romeo & Juliete-- endlessly new story of ill fated young love.

Hamlet--a little too much incest and madness for me.

Twelfth Night--silly & confusing & fun

Midsummer's Night Dream--fanciful play within a play

Taming of a Shrew: I took my daughters to a performance after they bragged about a movie" 10 Things I hate About You" with Julia Stiles & Heath Ledger (before his gay cowboiy days). I was pleased to see they could see that their favorite "new" movie was just an update of the old Shakespeare plot.

My kids are wierd, but what can I say. They have me for a Mom and their nurse/hunter Dad.

Well, actually it was mg who posted the pic of Tuesday night necessities and maybe we scared her OR she hasn't learned the 'watch thread' help
Somewhere up there she said she was "glad to have found us again"

Wanda, my DD loves to tell me "Apple doesn't fall far from the tree." LOL
And I too love it when the 'new' is another revisitation... just shows to go ya his old stories rang true. Well, turning the Odyssey into "Brother, Where Art Thou" is another translation that at least had George Clooney as a benie!!

BTW - I did talk to her last week about a trade so is still alive, I think she has the spring fever.

I sent her a Dmail to check and see if we scared her away... :)

Gee, are you saying my daughters with the warped sense of humor can be blamed on their DAD? Sounds good to me! ha ha

I'm so sorry if I was inappropriate!

Bad mg, BAD!!!

Is 30 lashes with a noodle enough?

Shakespeare was a manic depressive who had severe ADD. He probably sat around in group and got all the tradgedies from the stories he heard from his sessions. It definatly was one of Freud's failures in session. All he needed to do is get a good dose of seritonin and stop all that stuff that Beethoven was feeding him. It was a time where the contempories started a cult of thesbians simply by letting Shakespeare have a pencil. A cell would have been better. LOL

mg, I had a friend who always threatened:
" I'm gonna slap you up side the head with a pancake."
LOL - think that would do it?
We thought it was a funny, mg, just never know how folks will take things.

Wanda, she [DD] does use it to refer to either parent, depends on which affliction she is referring to.

Sofer, take one to know one?

I'm definately manic and depressive. I love it,cause I can feel so much more. Pills help the down and it would have been good if shakespeare had known. Oh laaaaaaaaaalaaaaaaadaaaaaaaH.
coming into Kodiak today.

Sofer - if he had listened to the Beatles he would have perked right up.

Ah Shakespeare,,,guess I just don't get some of his plays,,,LOL maybe one has to be just as manic and depressive to figure some of them out,,,hmmm, that's not the answer,,,I'd get them all then,,,at least the depressive side,,,,LOL Maybe I should watch a couple after my new meds come,,,??? tra la la la la LOL

Rachel,
We really are harmless,,,I do hope we didn't scare you away.

Kelly

or just come from a crazy family so Shakespeare is easy to relate to?

I dunno Wanda, Kelly, seems like I see the things Shakespeare was writing about on the daily news...

ain't nothing new under the sun... angst is angst

but then I've always been a few degrees off the 'norm' in any grouping
wonderful thing is that I'm usually unaware or should that read blissfully unaware? ~Blooms

You know, a girl in her teens says: "I want to be exactly like everyone else".
A girl in her 20s says: I want to be different then everyone else".
A lady in her 30s says : I like me, I hope you do too."
A lady in her 40s says: "I like me & I;m sorry if you don't like me".
A lady in her 50s says: I REALLY like me and don't waste my time if you don't like me.
I can't wait to see what my 60s & 70s bring.
Momma is in her late 80s and says "I can say or do what I want. People just think I'm senile and let me get away with it!"

ROFLOL,,,Wanda,,,ain't that the truth,,,Gran is 86 and thinks she can just do whatever the heck she wants to.

Blooms,
Scary isn't it? That's why I don't like to watch the news,,,,I'm depressed enough right now,,,LOL

You need to watch Boston Legal. That is a ha ha ah ah show. Its the only one I catch once or twice a month.
A guy in his teens says I want her to like me.
A guy in his 20's says I want every girl, who cares if she likes me.
A guy in his 30's says I want my wife to do it all the time.
A guy in his 40's says I want some one young to like me.
A guy in his 50's says I don't need anything unless its easy.
A guy in his 60's says.......I don't know. But it aint getting to be any better so might as well garden.