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"ASAAR" <caught RemoveThis @22.com> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 07:21:44 -0400, Neil Harrington wrote:
>
>>> I never heard of that film. If it was well done it just might be
>>> another topper!
>>
>> I can't now recall the title. It was more like the original Pygmalion
>> (rather than Shaw's) in that a fellow fell in love with a statue, I think
>> in
>> a museum, and the statue came to life. Can't recall the actors' names
>> either.
>
> George and Marion?

Well, that went over my head. Who are George and Marion?
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ASAAR wrote:

> he went appeared.

argh!
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Rita Ä Berkowitz <ritaberk2O04.TakeThisOut@aol.com> wrote:

> Now that Apple has adopted the Intel processor they are finally catching up
> with the PC and Microsoft.

That's likes saying Osama has done his part to increase airport
security.

-Wolfgang

--
Windows users are like people in abusive relationships. Getting beat up over
and over, making excuses for their abuser, blaming themselves for all the
problems, don't change anything about their routine (it could anger the abuser),
pretending all is well ... and never ever leaving. -- [concatenated from ASR]
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"William Graham" <weg9.TakeThisOut@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> "Neil Harrington" <not.TakeThisOut@home.today> wrote in message
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>>
>
> There is no change there to accept. "He went missing" is perfectly correct
>> without any need to inflict damage on the English language or any
>> existing expression in this language.
>
> I first noticed the expression, "He went missing" about 20 years ago....It
> was used mostly by the British, and sounded rather strange to my
> ears....But then, it has come into common usage here in the US during the
> last few years, and, as you say, it is grammatically correct, and
> therefore a useful expression......

Yes. I think it sounded a bit unusual to me too, the first time I heard it,
but obviously nothing was wrong with it -- just a different, and really
better, way of saying something.

Neil
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"ASAAR" <caught.RemoveThis@22.com> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 20:17:54 -0400, Neil Harrington wrote:
>
>>>>>> It really was a marvelous show, even better than Shaw's original.
>>>>>> Thorne
>>>>>> Smith once did a story on the Pygmalion theme also, and I think I
>>>>>> dimly
>>>>>> recall someone making a movie of that too.
>
>>>>> I never heard of that film. If it was well done it just might be
>>>>> another topper!
>>>>
>>>> I can't now recall the title. It was more like the original Pygmalion
>>>> (rather than Shaw's) in that a fellow fell in love with a statue, I
>>>> think
>>>> in
>>>> a museum, and the statue came to life. Can't recall the actors' names
>>>> either.
>>>
>>> George and Marion?
>>
>> Well, that went over my head. Who are George and Marion?
>
> It did. I guess the clue wasn't very useful, but I thought than
> anyone even vaguely familiar with Thorne Smith would have known that
> he was the creator of Topper.

Yes, I knew that, but didn't make any George and Marion connection.


> Several of those books were turned
> into Hollywood films,

Well, there were just two Topper novels by Smith, both made into movies, and
a third Topper movie not based on anything by Smith.


> which spawned the early T.V. series starring
> Leo G. Carroll as humble banker Cosmo Topper, who due to an
> unfortunate skiing accident was happily "haunted" by a pair of
> usually inebriated ghosts, George and Marion Kerby. They were
> usually accompanied by another ghost, a brandy barrel toting St.
> Bernard whose name was Neil.

In the movies, I don't remember the dog carrying a brandy barrel (though
that tradionally does go with a St. Bernard), but he did lap up martinis and
was generally about as drunk as his owners. Roland Young was Topper in the
movies, Cary Grant and Constance Bennett the helpful if mildly plastered
ghosts. And it wasn't a skiing accident that did them in, but an automobile
wreck (in a gorgeous Cord convertible as I recall, or it may have been an
Auburn Speedster). I don't rememember any details at all from the novels,
and I don't think I ever saw the TV series.

Wiki's words :

<omitted>

>
> Pygmalion wasn't mentioned in the list of "Works", so I think that
> it was probably another writer you were thinking of.

No, it was Thorne Smith. I had to go to Wikipedia just now myself to get the
title; it was The Night Life of the Gods. The description in Wiki makes the
(original, not Shaw's) Pygmalion origins clear:
______________________

a.. The Night Life of the Gods (1931). Quirky inventor Hunter Hawk strikes
gold when he invents a device that will enable him to turn living matter
into stone and to reverse the process at will. After a chaotic field test he
meets stunning 900 year old Megaera who teaches him to turn stone into
flesh. The two and a bunch of friends set their sights on New York City to
bring the Greek gods of the Metropolitan Museum of Art to life...

__________________________

Odd that Wiki doesn't mention the movie, which was made in 1935 with the
same title and apparently follows Smith's novel closely. However, reading
the description and the cast on IMDB just now, I don't think that's the
movie I had in mind anyway, though the theme is close. . . .

Found it. . . . I was sure the star was Robert Walker, so just checked his
filmography. The movie is One Touch of Venus (1948), in which Walker plays a
window dresser who falls in love with a statue of Venus in a museum, and
kisses the statue which then turns into Ava Gardner in the flesh.

So it wasn't Thorne Smith after all, but actually closer to the original
Pygmalion than any of the others mentioned. The idea is sure Thorne
Smith-like, though, and my guess is the movie (and Broadway musical comedy
it's based on) owed a good deal to The Night Life of the Gods.

Neil
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On 9/6/07 10:27 AM, in article 8umdnXTwsO_dgX3bnZ2dnUVZ_sKqnZ2d.TakeThisOut@comcast.com,
"Neil Harrington" <not.TakeThisOut@home.today> wrote:

>
> "ASAAR" <caught.TakeThisOut@22.com> wrote in message
> news:n5nud3h57lqf4n4i3mrsof82t77vi9ncgt@4ax.com...
>> On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 20:17:54 -0400, Neil Harrington wrote:
>>
>>>>>>> It really was a marvelous show, even better than Shaw's original.
>>>>>>> Thorne
>>>>>>> Smith once did a story on the Pygmalion theme also, and I think I
>>>>>>> dimly
>>>>>>> recall someone making a movie of that too.
>>
>>>>>> I never heard of that film. If it was well done it just might be
>>>>>> another topper!
>>>>>
>>>>> I can't now recall the title. It was more like the original Pygmalion
>>>>> (rather than Shaw's) in that a fellow fell in love with a statue, I
>>>>> think
>>>>> in
>>>>> a museum, and the statue came to life. Can't recall the actors' names
>>>>> either.
>>>>
>>>> George and Marion?
>>>
>>> Well, that went over my head. Who are George and Marion?
>>
>> It did. I guess the clue wasn't very useful, but I thought than
>> anyone even vaguely familiar with Thorne Smith would have known that
>> he was the creator of Topper.
>
> Yes, I knew that, but didn't make any George and Marion connection.
>
>
>> Several of those books were turned
>> into Hollywood films,
>
> Well, there were just two Topper novels by Smith, both made into movies, and
> a third Topper movie not based on anything by Smith.
>
>
>> which spawned the early T.V. series starring
>> Leo G. Carroll as humble banker Cosmo Topper, who due to an
>> unfortunate skiing accident was happily "haunted" by a pair of
>> usually inebriated ghosts, George and Marion Kerby. They were
>> usually accompanied by another ghost, a brandy barrel toting St.
>> Bernard whose name was Neil.
>
> In the movies, I don't remember the dog carrying a brandy barrel (though
> that tradionally does go with a St. Bernard), but he did lap up martinis and
> was generally about as drunk as his owners. Roland Young was Topper in the
> movies, Cary Grant and Constance Bennett the helpful if mildly plastered
> ghosts. And it wasn't a skiing accident that did them in, but an automobile
> wreck (in a gorgeous Cord convertible as I recall, or it may have been an
> Auburn Speedster). I don't rememember any details at all from the novels,
> and I don't think I ever saw the TV series.
>
> Wiki's words :
>
> <omitted>
>
>>
>> Pygmalion wasn't mentioned in the list of "Works", so I think that
>> it was probably another writer you were thinking of.
>
> No, it was Thorne Smith. I had to go to Wikipedia just now myself to get the
> title; it was The Night Life of the Gods. The description in Wiki makes the
> (original, not Shaw's) Pygmalion origins clear:
> ______________________
>
> a.. The Night Life of the Gods (1931). Quirky inventor Hunter Hawk strikes
> gold when he invents a device that will enable him to turn living matter
> into stone and to reverse the process at will. After a chaotic field test he
> meets stunning 900 year old Megaera who teaches him to turn stone into
> flesh. The two and a bunch of friends set their sights on New York City to
> bring the Greek gods of the Metropolitan Museum of Art to life...
>
> __________________________
>
> Odd that Wiki doesn't mention the movie, which was made in 1935 with the
> same title and apparently follows Smith's novel closely. However, reading
> the description and the cast on IMDB just now, I don't think that's the
> movie I had in mind anyway, though the theme is close. . . .
>
> Found it. . . . I was sure the star was Robert Walker, so just checked his
> filmography. The movie is One Touch of Venus (1948), in which Walker plays a
> window dresser who falls in love with a statue of Venus in a museum, and
> kisses the statue which then turns into Ava Gardner in the flesh.
>
> So it wasn't Thorne Smith after all, but actually closer to the original
> Pygmalion than any of the others mentioned. The idea is sure Thorne
> Smith-like, though, and my guess is the movie (and Broadway musical comedy
> it's based on) owed a good deal to The Night Life of the Gods.
>
> Neil
>
>
You guys want an autograph?
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"ASAAR" <caught.RemoveThis@22.com> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 11:27:35 -0400, Neil Harrington wrote:
>

>
>> So it wasn't Thorne Smith after all, but actually closer to the original
>> Pygmalion than any of the others mentioned. The idea is sure Thorne
>> Smith-like, though, and my guess is the movie (and Broadway musical
>> comedy it's based on) owed a good deal to The Night Life of the Gods.
>
> Possibly, but only the story, not the music.

Sure. I don't remember any music at all in the movie version, though it was
taken from the Broadway musical. But I see from IMDB it had Dick Haymes also
(a surprise to me), so there must have been some singing. I guess I actually
remember very little of it -- it may be 50 years or more since I've seen it.

Wish I could remember for sure whether it was a Cord or Auburn in the wreck
that shuffled George and Marion off this mortal coil in that first Topper
movie. Also, Topper later got a job as as car salesman and drove a
futuristic (for that time) car called the Wombat, that went about 200 mph --
had a linear speedometer than ran across the whole dashboard. Funny the
things you remember and the things you can't.


> A different version
> of My Fair Lady would be interesting if its writers put more Shaw
> than Smith into the script. Some G.B. Shaw quotes :
>
[ . . . ]
>
>> You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never
>> were; and I say, "Why not?"

So that's where Bobby Kennedy filched that line from. I don't think he gave
Shaw credit for it, either.

Neil
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"George Kerby" <ghost_topper.DeleteThis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
>
>
> On 9/6/07 10:27 AM, in article
> 8umdnXTwsO_dgX3bnZ2dnUVZ_sKqnZ2d.DeleteThis@comcast.com,
> "Neil Harrington" <not.DeleteThis@home.today> wrote:
>
>>
>> "ASAAR" <caught.DeleteThis@22.com> wrote in message
>> news:n5nud3h57lqf4n4i3mrsof82t77vi9ncgt@4ax.com...
>>> On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 20:17:54 -0400, Neil Harrington wrote:
>>>
>>>>>>>> It really was a marvelous show, even better than Shaw's original.
>>>>>>>> Thorne
>>>>>>>> Smith once did a story on the Pygmalion theme also, and I think I
>>>>>>>> dimly
>>>>>>>> recall someone making a movie of that too.
>>>
>>>>>>> I never heard of that film. If it was well done it just might be
>>>>>>> another topper!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I can't now recall the title. It was more like the original Pygmalion
>>>>>> (rather than Shaw's) in that a fellow fell in love with a statue, I
>>>>>> think
>>>>>> in
>>>>>> a museum, and the statue came to life. Can't recall the actors' names
>>>>>> either.
>>>>>
>>>>> George and Marion?
>>>>
>>>> Well, that went over my head. Who are George and Marion?
>>>
>>> It did. I guess the clue wasn't very useful, but I thought than
>>> anyone even vaguely familiar with Thorne Smith would have known that
>>> he was the creator of Topper.
>>
>> Yes, I knew that, but didn't make any George and Marion connection.
>>
>>
>>> Several of those books were turned
>>> into Hollywood films,
>>
>> Well, there were just two Topper novels by Smith, both made into movies,
>> and
>> a third Topper movie not based on anything by Smith.
>>
>>
>>> which spawned the early T.V. series starring
>>> Leo G. Carroll as humble banker Cosmo Topper, who due to an
>>> unfortunate skiing accident was happily "haunted" by a pair of
>>> usually inebriated ghosts, George and Marion Kerby. They were
>>> usually accompanied by another ghost, a brandy barrel toting St.
>>> Bernard whose name was Neil.
>>
>> In the movies, I don't remember the dog carrying a brandy barrel (though
>> that tradionally does go with a St. Bernard), but he did lap up martinis
>> and
>> was generally about as drunk as his owners. Roland Young was Topper in
>> the
>> movies, Cary Grant and Constance Bennett the helpful if mildly plastered
>> ghosts. And it wasn't a skiing accident that did them in, but an
>> automobile
>> wreck (in a gorgeous Cord convertible as I recall, or it may have been an
>> Auburn Speedster). I don't rememember any details at all from the novels,
>> and I don't think I ever saw the TV series.
>>
>> Wiki's words :
>>
>> <omitted>
>>
>>>
>>> Pygmalion wasn't mentioned in the list of "Works", so I think that
>>> it was probably another writer you were thinking of.
>>
>> No, it was Thorne Smith. I had to go to Wikipedia just now myself to get
>> the
>> title; it was The Night Life of the Gods. The description in Wiki makes
>> the
>> (original, not Shaw's) Pygmalion origins clear:
>> ______________________
>>
>> a.. The Night Life of the Gods (1931). Quirky inventor Hunter Hawk
>> strikes
>> gold when he invents a device that will enable him to turn living matter
>> into stone and to reverse the process at will. After a chaotic field test
>> he
>> meets stunning 900 year old Megaera who teaches him to turn stone into
>> flesh. The two and a bunch of friends set their sights on New York City
>> to
>> bring the Greek gods of the Metropolitan Museum of Art to life...
>>
>> __________________________
>>
>> Odd that Wiki doesn't mention the movie, which was made in 1935 with the
>> same title and apparently follows Smith's novel closely. However, reading
>> the description and the cast on IMDB just now, I don't think that's the
>> movie I had in mind anyway, though the theme is close. . . .
>>
>> Found it. . . . I was sure the star was Robert Walker, so just checked
>> his
>> filmography. The movie is One Touch of Venus (1948), in which Walker
>> plays a
>> window dresser who falls in love with a statue of Venus in a museum, and
>> kisses the statue which then turns into Ava Gardner in the flesh.
>>
>> So it wasn't Thorne Smith after all, but actually closer to the original
>> Pygmalion than any of the others mentioned. The idea is sure Thorne
>> Smith-like, though, and my guess is the movie (and Broadway musical
>> comedy
>> it's based on) owed a good deal to The Night Life of the Gods.
>>
>> Neil
>>
>>
> You guys want an autograph?

Only if it's on a check.

Neil
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On Fri, 7 Sep 2007 08:47:54 -0400, Neil Harrington wrote:

>> If he filched it. Is it known that Bobby K. wrote all of his
>> speeches or was he perhaps helped by a speech writer?
>
> Well, it's unlikely that a unique line like that would have occurred
> independently to two different men, and GBS was long dead when Bobby said
> it.

That's a convoluted interpretation! I in no way meant that the
line was not copied, plagiarized, stolen, etc. Rather, that it may
have been the work of a speech writer and not, as a Kennedyphobe
might be expected to assume, that Kennedy cribbed the quote,
unassisted. What I assumed you would have understood is that if
Bobby wrote the speech with no assistance, then *he* filched the
line from GBS, otherwise a speech writer was probably the thief.
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On Sep 3, 7:17 am, Rita Ä Berkowitz <ritaberk2O04 @aol.com> wrote:
> Yes, it's true! The old Mk III saved my sweet little ass today with the
> dual memory card option.

Am I right thinking that Rita Berkowitz is a 57 year old woman ?
Imagining her "sweet little ass" would sicken me.
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"ASAAR" <caught.TakeThisOut@22.com> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 7 Sep 2007 08:47:54 -0400, Neil Harrington wrote:
>
>>> If he filched it. Is it known that Bobby K. wrote all of his
>>> speeches or was he perhaps helped by a speech writer?
>>
>> Well, it's unlikely that a unique line like that would have occurred
>> independently to two different men, and GBS was long dead when Bobby said
>> it.
>
> That's a convoluted interpretation! I in no way meant that the
> line was not copied, plagiarized, stolen, etc. Rather, that it may
> have been the work of a speech writer and not, as a Kennedyphobe
> might be expected to assume, that Kennedy cribbed the quote,
> unassisted. What I assumed you would have understood is that if
> Bobby wrote the speech with no assistance, then *he* filched the
> line from GBS, otherwise a speech writer was probably the thief.

Either way, it was filched. Whether Bobby stole it himself or only hired
someone to steal it is a distinction too fine to concern me much.

But I'll freely admit to being a "Kennedyphobe" anyway, by the currently
popular way of making pretend "phobias" out of perfectly reasonable
opinions. JFK wasn't so bad, apart from making a complete mess of the Cuba
thing (though that's a huge "apart from") of course, but most Kennedys we've
seen since then have been execrable. JFKjr wasn't so bad, though he
obviously was no Lindbergh. The old Chappaquiddick submariner clearly
remains by far the worst of the lot.

Neil
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On Sat, 8 Sep 2007 07:30:54 -0400, Neil Harrington wrote:

>>> Well, it's unlikely that a unique line like that would have occurred
>>> independently to two different men, and GBS was long dead when Bobby said
>>> it.
>>
>> That's a convoluted interpretation! I in no way meant that the
>> line was not copied, plagiarized, stolen, etc. Rather, that it may
>> have been the work of a speech writer and not, as a Kennedyphobe
>> might be expected to assume, that Kennedy cribbed the quote,
>> unassisted. What I assumed you would have understood is that if
>> Bobby wrote the speech with no assistance, then *he* filched the
>> line from GBS, otherwise a speech writer was probably the thief.
>
> Either way, it was filched. Whether Bobby stole it himself or only hired
> someone to steal it is a distinction too fine to concern me much.

Your natural meanness is showing again with the twisting of words
to put those you dislike in the worst possible light. Surely you're
aware of other possibilities, eh? But they wouldn't advance your
agenda. When Shrub, Shrub papa or others have done the same thing
have you ever attacked them that way ("filched", "hired someone to
steal", etc.)? Very unlikely.


> The old Chappaquiddick submariner clearly remains by far the worst
> of the lot.

Funny, but despite that I see him as having far more integrity
than you. Have you ever slammed Shrub for marrying a "killer"
schoolmarm? If not, why not?
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