I got coerced into participating in the pumpkin carving contest at work, and wearing a costume for the general health of our esprit des corpse at same.
I'm not convinced the costume is going to last one more hallowe'en. Wish me luck for not ending up scarier than I intended.
April Goodwin-Smith wrote: > I got coerced into participating in the pumpkin carving > contest at work, and wearing a costume for the general > health of our esprit des corpse at same. > I'm not convinced the costume is going to last one > more hallowe'en. Wish me luck for not ending up > scarier than I intended.
Have a good time! My sole participation in Halloween has been buying a packet of chocolate eclairs ready for if anyone comes round trick-or-treating with their kids. Hopefully it will be kids, as in *small*, with parents (we got some of these last year, and they're no bother at all), rather than kids as in huge, teenage and scary. CCA
On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 07:07:04 -0800, CCA wrote: > Have a good time! > My sole participation in Halloween has been buying a packet of > chocolate eclairs ready for if anyone comes round trick-or-treating > with their kids. Hopefully it will be kids, as in *small*, with > parents (we got some of these last year, and they're no bother at all), > rather than kids as in huge, teenage and scary.
I bought a couple of multipacks kit-kats from Sainsburys, and just hope I don't run out of them.
BTW, I was listening to the radio this morning to DJ Robert Elms, when he cracked a joke about staying in doors tonight in case there are any Witches, Goules, or people with ginger hair outside - anybody know why people with ginger hair being supposedly spooky? :-)
> BTW, I was listening to the radio this morning to DJ Robert Elms, > when he cracked a joke about staying in doors tonight in case there > are any Witches, Goules, or people with ginger hair outside - anybody > know why people with ginger hair being supposedly spooky? :-)
CCA sphira9...@aol.com wrote in <1162307224.460163.116...@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>:
> April Goodwin-Smith wrote:
> > I got coerced into participating in the pumpkin carving > > contest at work, and wearing a costume for the general > > health of our esprit des corpse at same.
> Have a good time! > My sole participation in Halloween has been buying a packet of > chocolate eclairs ready for if anyone comes round trick-or-treating > with their kids.
My participation will consist of ignoring the doorbell.
That's because I'm in a moderately good mood and thus didn't invest in laxative chocolates to give to trick or treaters.
On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:13:02 +0000, Ed Weatherup wrote:
>> BTW, I was listening to the radio this morning to DJ Robert Elms, >> when he cracked a joke about staying in doors tonight in case there >> are any Witches, Goules, or people with ginger hair outside - anybody >> know why people with ginger hair being supposedly spooky? :-)
> > I got coerced into participating in the pumpkin carving > > contest at work, and wearing a costume for the general > > health of our esprit des corpse at same. > > I'm not convinced the costume is going to last one > > more hallowe'en. Wish me luck for not ending up > > scarier than I intended.
> Have a good time! > My sole participation in Halloween has been buying a packet of > chocolate eclairs ready for if anyone comes round trick-or-treating > with their kids.
This year was a new low for participation, for me. I didn't even go on rounds with Anson, didn't buy candy. I did go to a party the 20th, and another the 27th. Dressed as Puss in Boots.
Spent the evening--am still spending it--drinking scotch and watching Buffy.
BTW, haven't been around because OE stopped letting me read newsgroups on October 5th, and I haven't been able to fix it. I find it hard to track threads in Google Groups, so haven't bothered.
> I got coerced into participating in the pumpkin carving > contest at work, and wearing a costume for the general > health of our esprit des corpse at same.
James, age 3, had a great time dressing up, carving the pumpkin, and giving sweets to people who came to the door.
I, on the other hand, got egged by a gang of teenagers on the way home.
<chatter...@doctorwhowebguide.net> wrote: >"April Goodwin-Smith" <agoodwinsm...@shaw.ca> wrote in message >news:G2J1h.236186$R63.109943@pd7urf1no... >> I got coerced into participating in the pumpkin carving >> contest at work, and wearing a costume for the general >> health of our esprit des corpse at same.
>James, age 3, had a great time dressing up, carving the pumpkin, and giving >sweets to people who came to the door.
>I, on the other hand, got egged by a gang of teenagers on the way home.
>I'm not feeling particularly cheery today.
Ah, guiser-bashing, I know people that do that. I'm not one of them, of course, oh no :)
-- We're climbing up the sunshine mountains Where the pretty brezes blow We're climbing up the sunshine mountains Faces all a-glow
>>> I got coerced into participating in the pumpkin carving >>> contest at work, and wearing a costume for the general >>> health of our esprit des corpse at same. >>> I'm not convinced the costume is going to last one >>> more hallowe'en. Wish me luck for not ending up >>> scarier than I intended.
>> Have a good time! >> My sole participation in Halloween has been buying a packet of >> chocolate eclairs ready for if anyone comes round trick-or-treating >> with their kids.
> This year was a new low for participation, for me. I didn't even go on > rounds with Anson, didn't buy candy.
That's harsh. He couldn't have gone out twice?
> I did go to a party the 20th, and > another the 27th. Dressed as Puss in Boots.
Well that's something, anyway.
> Spent the evening--am still spending it--drinking scotch and watching > Buffy.
> BTW, haven't been around because OE stopped letting me read newsgroups > on October 5th, and I haven't been able to fix it. I find it hard to > track threads in Google Groups, so haven't bothered.
We've missed you. Well I have anyway, though of course we're not allowed to speak for the whole group. I know Alec tried to help you and couldn't, so there's nothing I can suggest that he won't have thought of, but I hope it gets solved soon.
-- Lesley Weston.
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in article 4qrg81Fob1p...@individual.net, Paul Harman at chatter...@doctorwhowebguide.net wrote on 01/11/2006 3:54 AM:
> "April Goodwin-Smith" <agoodwinsm...@shaw.ca> wrote in message > news:G2J1h.236186$R63.109943@pd7urf1no... >> I got coerced into participating in the pumpkin carving >> contest at work, and wearing a costume for the general >> health of our esprit des corpse at same.
> James, age 3, had a great time dressing up, carving the pumpkin, and giving > sweets to people who came to the door.
> I, on the other hand, got egged by a gang of teenagers on the way home.
> I'm not feeling particularly cheery today.
We had a record number of kids this year, so many that we ran out of candy. I rushed to the store two blocks away, but all they had left was one bag of caramels. Many parents won't let their children eat any caramels they find in their bags because they're just wrapped, not sealed, but I got them anyway just to have something to give to the kids; some of them will be allowed to eat them. The annoying part is that I was counting on having Kitkats left over as in previous years, and then, well... you can't waste food, can you?
-- Lesley Weston.
Brightly_coloured_blob is real, but I don't often check even the few bits that get through Yahoo's filters. To reach me, use leswes att shaw dott ca, changing spelling and spacing as required.
<brightly_coloured_b...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: >in article 4qrg81Fob1p...@individual.net, Paul Harman at >chatter...@doctorwhowebguide.net wrote on 01/11/2006 3:54 AM:
>> "April Goodwin-Smith" <agoodwinsm...@shaw.ca> wrote in message >> news:G2J1h.236186$R63.109943@pd7urf1no... >>> I got coerced into participating in the pumpkin carving >>> contest at work, and wearing a costume for the general >>> health of our esprit des corpse at same.
>> James, age 3, had a great time dressing up, carving the pumpkin, and giving >> sweets to people who came to the door.
>> I, on the other hand, got egged by a gang of teenagers on the way home.
>> I'm not feeling particularly cheery today.
>We had a record number of kids this year, so many that we ran out of candy. >I rushed to the store two blocks away, but all they had left was one bag of >caramels. Many parents won't let their children eat any caramels they find >in their bags because they're just wrapped, not sealed, but I got them >anyway just to have something to give to the kids; some of them will be >allowed to eat them. The annoying part is that I was counting on having >Kitkats left over as in previous years, and then, well... you can't waste >food, can you?
Now I know what to bring if I'm ever in Canada :)
-- We're climbing up the sunshine mountains Where the pretty brezes blow We're climbing up the sunshine mountains Faces all a-glow
I think I was the only one in the entire Hotel where I work that dressed up, but then again, I was also the only one working in the Children's Playcentre, so it's rather more expected of me. :)
In article <G2J1h.236186$R63.109943@pd7urf1no>, April Goodwin-Smith <agoodwinsm...@shaw.ca> writes
>That's it, really.
>I got coerced into participating in the pumpkin carving >contest at work, and wearing a costume for the general >health of our esprit des corpse at same.
>I'm not convinced the costume is going to last one >more hallowe'en. Wish me luck for not ending up >scarier than I intended.
We went to the opera instead. If I'd *thought* about it, I might well have put on the tailcoat, bow tie, and red-lined black cape instead of just a casual suit, but alas this did not occur to me until later, because I associate costume with cons.
We left the opera house during the period when people were leaving the street parties in San Francisco (we didn't find out about the shooting until the next day, and I don't think a lot of the people we saw were aware of it either). Sight of the evening was Superman and Batman walking hand in hand down Market Street. :-) -- Julia Jones
> We went to the opera instead. If I'd *thought* about it, I might well > have put on the tailcoat, bow tie, and red-lined black cape instead of > just a casual suit, but alas this did not occur to me until later, > because I associate costume with cons.
> We left the opera house during the period when people were leaving the > street parties in San Francisco (we didn't find out about the shooting > until the next day, and I don't think a lot of the people we saw were > aware of it either). Sight of the evening was Superman and Batman > walking hand in hand down Market Street. :-) > -- > Julia Jones
Witch opera did you see? I envy you[0] the opportunity to go and see an opera, until the Norwegian opera house opens I have to settle for DVDs and CDs. And yes, I really enjoyed Masquerade:-)
[0] Everyone living near enough an opera house to be able to go to performances
in article gorhk2hh45bt0hpab59a1jv6gprgdl5...@4ax.com, Lister at fa...@SPAMclara.net wrote on 01/11/2006 11:02 AM:
> On Wed, 01 Nov 2006 17:09:26 GMT, Lesley Weston > <brightly_coloured_b...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
<snip>
>> The annoying part is that I was counting on having >> Kitkats left over as in previous years, and then, well... you can't waste >> food, can you?
> Now I know what to bring if I'm ever in Canada :)
Mmmm, Kitkats...
-- Lesley Weston.
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On Wed, 01 Nov 2006 17:09:26 +0000, Lesley Weston wrote: > We had a record number of kids this year, so many that we ran out of candy. > I rushed to the store two blocks away, but all they had left was one bag of > caramels. Many parents won't let their children eat any caramels they find > in their bags because they're just wrapped, not sealed, but I got them > anyway just to have something to give to the kids; some of them will be > allowed to eat them. The annoying part is that I was counting on having > Kitkats left over as in previous years, and then, well... you can't waste > food, can you?
When we were young, we used to grab hold and eat anything adults gave us on Halloween, and we used to keep it secret from our parents! I'm sure kids nowadays have the same kind of naughty antics! :-)
>> We went to the opera instead. If I'd *thought* about it, I might well >> have put on the tailcoat, bow tie, and red-lined black cape instead of >> just a casual suit, but alas this did not occur to me until later, >> because I associate costume with cons.
>> We left the opera house during the period when people were leaving the >> street parties in San Francisco (we didn't find out about the shooting >> until the next day, and I don't think a lot of the people we saw were >> aware of it either). Sight of the evening was Superman and Batman >> walking hand in hand down Market Street. :-)
>Witch opera did you see? I envy you[0] the opportunity to go and see an >opera, until the Norwegian opera house opens I have to settle for DVDs >and CDs. And yes, I really enjoyed Masquerade:-)
>[0] Everyone living near enough an opera house to be able to go to >performances
Barber of Seville, which I had not seen before. Which in fact I did not even know the plot of, despite having heard it on CD many times. Slightly bizarre experience sitting there with very familiar music, and seeing what it all means. -- Julia Jones "We are English of Borg. Your language will be assimilated."
Julia Jones wrote: > froarulv writes: >>Witch opera did you see? I envy you[0] the opportunity to go and see an >>opera, until the Norwegian opera house opens I have to settle for DVDs >>and CDs. And yes, I really enjoyed Masquerade:-)
>>[0] Everyone living near enough an opera house to be able to go to >>performances
> Barber of Seville, which I had not seen before. Which in fact I did not even > know the plot of, despite having heard it on CD many times. Slightly bizarre > experience sitting there with very familiar music, and seeing what it all > means.
Are you a serious and dedicated opera fan, or an ignorant fat-head? Take this test:
"Serious and dedicated opera goers refer to the musical items as 'arias'. The ignorant fat-head (no doubt with Liza Minnelli in mind) calls them 'numbers'. Well, score 'one' for the ignorant fat-heads because the use of the expression 'number' comes not from Broadway but from the practice in Opera of numbering each item consecutively in the printed score for reasons of convenience at rehearsals."
"The ignorant fat-head has a tendency to talk during the overture at the opera. Serious, dedicated opera fans find this kind of insensitive behaviour to be most galling. Score 'two' for the ignorant fat-heads! Many opera overtures were written quickly and with little trouble being taken over them in the knowledge that audiences (at least prior to the twentieth century) would be likely to alter their conversation once the overture started only by increasing the volume."
"Ignorant fat-heads at the opera can never follow the plot and the advent of surtitles (translations displayed above the stage rather like subtitles on television) doesn't seem to have helped them. Serious and dedicated fans of opera like to show they know all the plots well. The fat-heads are really on a roll now because yet again they are with the /cogniscenti/. Professor Edward Dent, who was Professor of Music at Cambridge University from 1926 to 1941 (and who translated /The Magic Flute/ into English in 1911), records that many opera buffs, particularly those from the turn of the century, thought that the plots were so silly that to be able to follow them would decrease their enjoyment of the music."
"Our hypothetical ignorant fat-head seeing /Don Giovanni/ for the first time would probably find it funny. For the serious and dedicated fan this opera is a tragedy of sexual pathology. But the ignorant fat-head has now scooped the pool as there is little doubt that Mozart intended /Don Giovanni/ to be funny and, depending on the performance, it usually is."
>>>Witch opera did you see? I envy you[0] the opportunity to go and see an >>>opera, until the Norwegian opera house opens I have to settle for DVDs >>>and CDs. And yes, I really enjoyed Masquerade:-)
>>>[0] Everyone living near enough an opera house to be able to go to >>>performances
>> Barber of Seville, which I had not seen before. Which in fact I did not even >> know the plot of, despite having heard it on CD many times. Slightly bizarre >> experience sitting there with very familiar music, and seeing what it all >> means.
>Are you a serious and dedicated opera fan, or an ignorant fat-head? >Take this test:
> "Serious and dedicated opera goers refer to the musical items as > 'arias'. The ignorant fat-head (no doubt with Liza Minnelli in > mind) calls them 'numbers'. Well, score 'one' for the ignorant > fat-heads because the use of the expression 'number' comes not > from Broadway but from the practice in Opera of numbering each > item consecutively in the printed score for reasons of convenience > at rehearsals."
> "The ignorant fat-head has a tendency to talk during the overture > at the opera. Serious, dedicated opera fans find this kind of > insensitive behaviour to be most galling. Score 'two' for the > ignorant fat-heads! Many opera overtures were written quickly and > with little trouble being taken over them in the knowledge that > audiences (at least prior to the twentieth century) would be likely > to alter their conversation once the overture started only by > increasing the volume."
> "Ignorant fat-heads at the opera can never follow the plot and the > advent of surtitles (translations displayed above the stage rather > like subtitles on television) doesn't seem to have helped them. > Serious and dedicated fans of opera like to show they know all the > plots well. The fat-heads are really on a roll now because yet > again they are with the /cogniscenti/. Professor Edward Dent, who > was Professor of Music at Cambridge University from 1926 to 1941 > (and who translated /The Magic Flute/ into English in 1911), > records that many opera buffs, particularly those from the turn of > the century, thought that the plots were so silly that to be able > to follow them would decrease their enjoyment of the music."
> "Our hypothetical ignorant fat-head seeing /Don Giovanni/ for the > first time would probably find it funny. For the serious and > dedicated fan this opera is a tragedy of sexual pathology. But the > ignorant fat-head has now scooped the pool as there is little > doubt that Mozart intended /Don Giovanni/ to be funny and, > depending on the performance, it usually is."
>(Taken from an article by Simon Whelan.)
>Adrian.
Indeed. I have been seen attending an opera a couple of times and enjoying them. Nothing highbrow, the recent one was the Marriage of Figaro. Yes, it did have surtitles and yes, knowing the details of the plot took a bit from the gravitas.
Still, I would love to teach an Opera Appreciation class some time.
There would be only a few required items: "What's Opera, Doc" and Anna Russell's synopsis of Richard Wagner's _Der Ring des Nibelungen_, and (on the same album) her parody _How to Write Your Own Gilbert and Sullivan Opera_. I was quite surprised to see in Wikipedia that she only died a couple of weeks ago. She truly knew how to make opera accessible.
In article <eie878$16a...@mud.stack.nl>, 8'FED <dra...@netyp.com.au> writes
> "The ignorant fat-head has a tendency to talk during the overture > at the opera. Serious, dedicated opera fans find this kind of > insensitive behaviour to be most galling. Score 'two' for the > ignorant fat-heads! Many opera overtures were written quickly and > with little trouble being taken over them in the knowledge that > audiences (at least prior to the twentieth century) would be likely > to alter their conversation once the overture started only by > increasing the volume."
With the Barber of Seville, there is also this wee small problem for some of us wherein we are unable to hear the overture without visualising a certain Bugs Bunny cartoon. (I think the score was four out of five in our party.) -- Julia Jones "I love you, you love me, it's called bestiality" Gid Holyoake's suggested reprogramming for Barney.
<brightly_coloured_b...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: >in article gorhk2hh45bt0hpab59a1jv6gprgdl5...@4ax.com, Lister at >fa...@SPAMclara.net wrote on 01/11/2006 11:02 AM:
>> On Wed, 01 Nov 2006 17:09:26 GMT, Lesley Weston >> <brightly_coloured_b...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
><snip>
>>> The annoying part is that I was counting on having >>> Kitkats left over as in previous years, and then, well... you can't waste >>> food, can you?
>> Now I know what to bring if I'm ever in Canada :)
>Mmmm, Kitkats...
Can you really not get them in Cananananada?
-- We're climbing up the sunshine mountains Where the pretty brezes blow We're climbing up the sunshine mountains Faces all a-glow
Julia Jones wrote: > froarulv <froar...@online.no> writes > >Julia Jones wrote: > >> We went to the opera instead. > >Witch opera did you see? I envy you[0] the opportunity to go and see an > >opera > >[0] Everyone living near enough an opera house to be able to go to > >performances > Barber of Seville
One I'd like to see, along with The Marriage of Figaro, The Magic Flute, Le Comte D'Ory (saw part of it on television years ago - very funny), and also Roman Polanski's Dance of the Vampires.[1] [1] Okay, this isn't an opera, it's a musical, but all the same... And not the version directed by Michael Crawford as apparently that was rubbish
> In article <eie878$16a...@mud.stack.nl>, 8'FED > <dra...@netyp.com.au> writes >> "The ignorant fat-head has a tendency to talk during the >> overture >> at the opera. Serious, dedicated opera fans find this >> kind of insensitive behaviour to be most galling. Score >> 'two' for the ignorant fat-heads! Many opera overtures >> were written quickly and with little trouble being >> taken over them in the knowledge that audiences (at >> least prior to the twentieth century) would be likely >> to alter their conversation once the overture started >> only by increasing the volume."
> With the Barber of Seville, there is also this wee small > problem for some of us wherein we are unable to hear the > overture without visualising a certain Bugs Bunny cartoon. > (I think the score was four out of five in our party.)
I watched the BBC 2 version of the Ring Cycle with my Mum. The *look* I got for murmuring "kill da wabbit" at the appropriate point...
-- Dave Official Absentee of EU Skiffeysoc http://sesoc.eusa.ed.ac.uk/ "The need to compile lists is a personality disorder, as is the need to assert the superiority of some things over other things." -Jeremy Hardy
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