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11 Jan 07 - 06:41 AM (#1933082) Subject: BS: Curtains and Bras From: Dazbo I've noticed that in a lot of films and TV shows from the US that many apartments in city tower blocks don't seem to have, let alone use, curtains. Is this just lazy set dressing or are all Americans exhibitionists? Many of theses apartments and offices seem to come equiped with large telescopes, are all Americans voyeurs? Finally, I've noticed that in US films and TV shows there seems to be a growing trend for women to go to bed, sleep and have sex with their bras firmly in place. Is this a growing trend (cf the single beds of the Hays Code) and are all Americans prudes? Confused of Sheffield. |
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11 Jan 07 - 06:52 AM (#1933087) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: Big Al Whittle give that boy scout his observer's badge! |
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11 Jan 07 - 07:56 AM (#1933124) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: GUEST,Seiri Omaar Exhibitionists AND prudes? LOL! |
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11 Jan 07 - 08:03 AM (#1933128) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: jeffp Oh yes, movies and television are such an accurate portrayal of real life. Don't forget the ready availability of parking spaces in the most crowded of cities. |
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11 Jan 07 - 08:46 AM (#1933179) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: Bee-dubya-ell The telescopes are entirely a fabrication of the film industry. Binoculars work better and cost less. |
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11 Jan 07 - 08:55 AM (#1933196) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: Liz the Squeak I've pondered those very thoughts.... I've always wondered how Americans 'did it' because there's never a wet patch or an item of underwear out of place. (There's never a fanny fart, slapping of stomachs or cabaret show of dangly bits either but that could just be my experience). American women must be amazing if they can go to bed, shag like bunnies and wake up next morning still dressed, perfectly coiffured and made up to catwalk standards. I can barely make it out of the house without looking like I've been through a hedge... Perhaps I'm just sleeping with the wrong man.... LTS |
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11 Jan 07 - 08:58 AM (#1933199) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: jacqui.c It's the fact that they (both male and female) get out of bed wearing there underwear and get straight into their clothes still wearing the same underwear that grosses me out! |
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11 Jan 07 - 09:03 AM (#1933210) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: SINSULL I saw a film about rappers. The two BAD BOY stars picked up two women for a night of lurid sex. The phone rings and the star gets out of bed with his tidy whities on and I cracked up laughing. Made me wonder what young people think sex is and how the hell do they get pregnant? Is this a US phenomenon? |
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11 Jan 07 - 09:05 AM (#1933218) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: jacqui.c I think it may have something to do with censorship. Watching UK tv there is more on show that has to be 'faded out' when it hits the USA screens. Seems the Brits have less inhibition about showing dangly bits. |
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11 Jan 07 - 09:08 AM (#1933222) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: skipy bras, close to my heart! Skipy |
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11 Jan 07 - 09:09 AM (#1933223) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: Becca72 In a sense I think it is because we are prudes...our censors will not allow all the "naughty bits" to be seen (except in appropriately rated movies) and we are much more self conscious about such things than the rest of the world, IMHO. |
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11 Jan 07 - 09:13 AM (#1933226) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: Liz the Squeak Skipy - pretty close to mine too... like my boobies. My tits on the other hand, are out in the garden, desperately trying to make the most of the sunny weather but failing miserably due to the wind. LTS |
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11 Jan 07 - 09:17 AM (#1933233) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: jacqui.c Becca - very true. Having come from the UK I find it quite quaint. I love the use of 'restroom' for toilet and 'bath tissue' instead of toilet paper. |
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11 Jan 07 - 09:25 AM (#1933245) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: Becca72 Exactly, Jacqui. And yet we are also probably the most boorish bunch on the planet with anything other than |
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11 Jan 07 - 09:38 AM (#1933259) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: Liz the Squeak My father's favourite phrase was to 'have a run out'.... I knew that's what they did with flags but wondered what the hell he was doing in our toilet with flags. You're quite happy to have CSI:Blood, Guts and Gore on seemingly 24hrs a day, 5 channels, but one pert little botty is 'tidy whitied' out.... go figure! LTS |
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11 Jan 07 - 09:41 AM (#1933261) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: GUEST, Topsie If you only 'spend a penny' each time it takes ages. |
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11 Jan 07 - 09:42 AM (#1933263) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: Becca72 Oh well, yeah, Liz we LIVE for violence...as long as there are no ding dongs showing. |
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11 Jan 07 - 09:47 AM (#1933269) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: WFDU - Ron Olesko "one pert little botty is 'tidy whitied' out" What language is that??????? |
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11 Jan 07 - 09:49 AM (#1933272) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: Liz the Squeak Mine Ron... mine! LTS |
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11 Jan 07 - 09:50 AM (#1933273) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: Bee-dubya-ell There seems to be an anti-nudity backlash in Hollywood films. If one compares today's films with those of the '70s or '80s, nudity was treated much more naturally back then. I don't know if the ratings criteria have changed or if it's self-censorship. |
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11 Jan 07 - 09:52 AM (#1933278) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: Becca72 Blame Tipper Gore. :-) |
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11 Jan 07 - 09:58 AM (#1933282) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: Liz the Squeak Or could it be that we just don't have people who look good nekkid anymore... Kevin Costner was nekkid in 'Dances with Wolves' but he had a stunt bum for 'Robin Hood'... There were a few years between those films. Maybe he realised that after a certain amount of pies, botties should just not be seen nekkid. I mean... can you imagine Jack Nicolson nekkid now? Zsa Zsa Gabor?? Warren Beatty???? LTS |
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11 Jan 07 - 10:01 AM (#1933287) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: Becca72 Hmmm....I just had a nice little moment in my head with my own version of Pirates of the Caribbean (Johnny, Orlando, please don't fight over me)...but a firm "no thank you" to Jack Nicolson... |
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11 Jan 07 - 10:08 AM (#1933296) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: Stilly River Sage The ratings folks have been hard on nudity ever since the 1930s. There might have been more of it in the 1970s, but I don't think it was any easier to get it there without the ratings clobbering it. Violence, on the other hand, gratuitous and bloody, fills the screen with barely a blink from the censors. They're afraid of making suggestions to kids. If they see sex they might want to do it. We know that this is true, right? No teens having sex because the movies won't show it to them. I see flawed logic in creating a binary of sex vs violence in film, and I'm not suggesting that they are the only things that need consideration in ratings. If the idea is not to offend some and make suggestions to other with graphic sex scenes, why doesn't the thinking go that way with movie violence? I don't think the interest in sex and the interest in violence come from the same parts of the brain or the same socialization practices, but the tiny brains who see sex as naughty and suggestible ought to jump to the conclusion that violence can be viewed in the same way. They'd be placing restrictions on it for the wrong reason, perhaps, but they'd at least acknowledge that graphic, in your face film violence isn't good for anyone in most instances. Personally, I wish they'd set up an "insipid" meter. That would blow a lot of films out of the water. SRS |
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11 Jan 07 - 10:14 AM (#1933308) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: GUEST,leeneia Shortly before Christmas, the business section of my paper had an article about retailers' sales figures. It said that retailers were disappointed in sales of sophisticated new TV's. They were having to slash prices to get people to buy them at all. They should have asked me. I could have told them that people are tired of ever-more sophisticated television sets that broadcast ever-more stupid programming. By my estimate, there are only 800 adults in the nation (U.S.) who actually watch TV anymore. Adults who have one favorite show a week and watch only that are more numerous, possibly several million. A couple years ago I wanted to play Mouret's Rondeau, the theme from Masterpiece Theatre. I kept asking people if Masterpiece Theatre was still on, and if so, was that still the theme. All I got was blank looks. |
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11 Jan 07 - 10:25 AM (#1933323) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: KB in Iowa The idea of seeing Jack Nicholson nekkid does not particularly appeal to me but... I think it would be nice if it were more acceptable. People out here actually age, imagine that. If we could see those changes in popular culture real folks might not spend so much money pretending to be younger than they are. When Suzanne Sommers house burnt down the other day she was interviewed on TV. I was surprised at how wrinkly she looked, especially around the mouth. After I thought about it a bit I decided that I liked it that way. Some aging stars look like they have plastic wrap for skin and I find that much less appealing than the idea of seeing Nicholson's bum. |
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11 Jan 07 - 10:30 AM (#1933329) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: Stilly River Sage Masterpiece Theater is still on, but they have changed the content so much in recent years that I never watch it. I haven't seen Mystery! for a long time either. |
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11 Jan 07 - 10:38 AM (#1933336) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: Amos MAster Who?LOL! It's about the Puritans, ya see. They got kicked out of Europe for being too obsessive to live with, booted out by the Anglicans in the UK, and went and made life miserable for themselves and the native American gang in Massachusetts because no-one else would have them. These are the folks who invented the bundling board and the bathing gown, the black rectangle for hiding body parts in pictures and films, and the idea of censoring booklists in the public library, a concept they borrowed from a Muslim troop commander namede Amr bin al 'Ass whose caliph Umar suggested it. The idea is to suppress physical urged in order to clarify the mind for good works and such. But we also have a strong tradition of joie de vivre, youthful zest, manly exuberance, and love. So it's a problem. A |
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11 Jan 07 - 10:47 AM (#1933343) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: artbrooks Jacqui, do people in Maine actually say "bath tissue?" "Toilet paper" or "TP" is the standard word/phrase here. Of course, Maine was once part of Massachusetts.... Actually, we don't have a curtain in the house, but we do have, and use, wooden blinds. And I can't think of a single neighbor that I would want to look at through a telescope! |
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11 Jan 07 - 10:50 AM (#1933347) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: katlaughing I agree, KB! We wacthed Mystery! several times from late Fall until the New Year, SRS. Some of them were new, thankfully.:-) What really gets me is when, even on cable the nudity, even slight, is blocked with a blue blob. If I am paying for non-local television, I do not expect it to be censored. Yet, turn on any afternoon local network talk show or soap and a child can learn all about infidelity, dysfunctional families, murder, mayhem, and some nudity, etc. So, the theory that only those things are to be aired after childrens' bedtime is a bunch of BS. I think it all reflects the moral minority, bush et al and their hypocrisy. Everybody grab a fig leaf! We get two Spanish language channels. For some reason their risque plots and filming are not subject to the same as above. And, they are not at all prudish. |
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11 Jan 07 - 10:53 AM (#1933349) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: Alice Ah, yes, movies and tv programs show how Americans really live.... give me a break! You can't really believe that Hollywood portrays reality! |
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11 Jan 07 - 11:04 AM (#1933357) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: GUEST A lot of women keep their bras on during sex, I am one of those who like it, so what harm are they doing ? |
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11 Jan 07 - 11:10 AM (#1933363) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: skipy I sometimes keep mine on! Skipy |
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11 Jan 07 - 11:58 AM (#1933399) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: Uncle_DaveO KB in Iowa favored us with this: The idea of seeing Jack Nicholson nekkid does not particularly appeal to me but... I think it would be nice if it were more acceptable. People out here actually age, imagine that. How about the absolute courage of Kathy Bates, in the hot-tub scene in About Schmidt, showing all of her less-than-fashion-model figure in the tub with Nicholson? That woman is a real professional actress! Dave Oesterreich |
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11 Jan 07 - 01:16 PM (#1933464) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: kendall Artbrooks, actually, if you look at a map of the whole region, you will see that Maine is much larger than Massachusettes, so it follows that Massachusettes was part of Maine. We escaped in 1820. Toilet paper is generally accepted here, but I always call it "sheet music" |
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11 Jan 07 - 02:07 PM (#1933491) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: jacqui.c Art - in the supermarket it is called 'bath tissue'. Threw me for a while when I first started shoppping over here. |
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11 Jan 07 - 02:13 PM (#1933497) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: skipy In Lancashire in the 50s it was "newspaper squares"! I know, I had to cut it up & thread it on a string! Oh! Happy days! Skipy |
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11 Jan 07 - 02:20 PM (#1933500) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: frogprince In southern Minnesota farm country in the '50s, it was last years Sears or Montgomery Ward catalog. |
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11 Jan 07 - 02:32 PM (#1933506) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: Mo the caller Then again 'toilet' was a euphemism once |
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11 Jan 07 - 04:03 PM (#1933575) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: Cluin Yep, show a million murders a year on American TV, in every disgusting conceivable fashion. But let one tit flip out... |
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11 Jan 07 - 04:04 PM (#1933576) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: Cluin And bro-in-law calls toilet paper "shit tickets". |
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11 Jan 07 - 04:16 PM (#1933585) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: Rowan Cutting newspaper into squares for the dunny? Youse are really queer! But I liked that really fat old tart who paraded around naked in the health spa in "Little Britain"....she had dangly bits to die for. Makes those reality TV shows look sickly. |
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11 Jan 07 - 05:20 PM (#1933656) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: kendall Only in America will you see two men in a ring beating the crap out of each other with the sole intent to disable and do as much damage as possible to another human being, yet, never show two people making love. |
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11 Jan 07 - 05:30 PM (#1933664) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: Liz the Squeak Massa chew sits was founded by pilgrims who came from my home town in Dorset..... but I'm perfectly happy with boobies, hoo-ha's and botties on display. Just not whilst I'm eating, OK? LTS |
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11 Jan 07 - 05:43 PM (#1933671) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: Cluin Then there's the fascination with weird sex in Canadian films. |
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11 Jan 07 - 06:19 PM (#1933720) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: Cluin It all ends up being angry sex with Maury Chaykin in a phone booth or you genitals pickled in a mason jar. |
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11 Jan 07 - 06:20 PM (#1933721) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: Cluin Jeez, a ten minute EDIT button would be nice around here. |
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11 Jan 07 - 06:42 PM (#1933744) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: Big Al Whittle 'Then there's the fascination with weird sex in Canadian films.' I knew I had some Canadian blood in me somewhere....... |
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11 Jan 07 - 06:44 PM (#1933746) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: GUEST,leeneia Awright, awright! Let's class this thread up! Enough with the toilet paper. To get back to the original query, it was: I've noticed that in a lot of films and TV shows from the US that many apartments in city tower blocks don't seem to have, let alone use, curtains. Dazbo, once again TV fails to portray the true life of the American people. In general, a rental property has to have shades of some kind in the windows. If the shows you watch are about young professionals in big cities renting apartments and shagging like crazy in them, then the apartments should shades or blinds to be legal and realistic. However, once the American woman switches from being a renter to a property owner, watch out! Suddenly all these drapery-buying hormones swing into play. An American picture window just isn't right unless it's completely buried by draperies. You might leave the the blind in place, then you add sheers, next the drapes proper, and to top it off a valence, window scarf or swag. Tiebacks, preferably elegant, finish the look. This applies to windows that face the street. Other windows can be more open to the world. Someday a builder will figure out that he doesn't need to put windows in the front of a house at all. Builders will just apply woodwork to the blank walls, omitting the glazing, and allowing Madam to drape it to her heart's content. |
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11 Jan 07 - 08:05 PM (#1933822) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: JennieG >then you add sheers, next the drapes proper, and to top it off a valence, window scarf or swag. Tiebacks, preferably elegant, finish the look< LOL Leenia....are you referring to the windows, or the bras? As a local songwriter said in a song about this topic (referring to movies) - "It's all right to kill, but not to kiss"! Cheers JennieG |
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11 Jan 07 - 08:08 PM (#1933824) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: Cluin "You may be a redneck if..." Your house doesn't have curtains, but your truck does. |
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11 Jan 07 - 08:39 PM (#1933847) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: Big Al Whittle Another thing, you rarely see anybody in American films do a really huge fart, and never when they're having a shag. Neither partner in the throes of sexual ecstasy, ever says - hang on! I've got one coming.....! I think maybe, they're just nicer than we are. |
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11 Jan 07 - 09:08 PM (#1933859) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: Rowan I thought it was only us normal people who had normal body functions. And normal body parts, if it comes to that. Are you trying to tell us that people in American films aren't normal? |
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11 Jan 07 - 09:09 PM (#1933862) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: Cluin Seen Kevin Kline in A Prairie Home Companion yet? |
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11 Jan 07 - 09:33 PM (#1933875) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: Don Firth But I don't wear a bra. Not even when I'm having sex. Don Firth |
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11 Jan 07 - 10:21 PM (#1933924) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: Bunnahabhain And I don't wear a curtain, not even whilst I'm having sex... |
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12 Jan 07 - 05:45 AM (#1934094) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: Dave Hanson Can the American film industry explain how people in films manage to have sexual intercourse whilst fully dressed ? eric |
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12 Jan 07 - 06:21 AM (#1934120) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: Slag You've all over looked the American rating system for movies. Here's how it works: G-Fully clothed, a lingering kiss with a slow fade to the next morning PG-Mostly clothed, a big slobbery kiss in bed and a slow fade to morning. R- The bra comes off, butt cheeks in view, the kiss starts on the lips and slides down to at least the navel. No fade to anywhere. X-Full frontal nudity and simulated intercourse but no bodily fluids. No fade. XXX-Nudity but may include high heels and such. Detailed close-ups of the proceeding, bodily fluids and all, endlessly in the most contrived situations and positions you can imagine. And then there's the Discovery Channel for the whole family where they drive a fiberoptic camera up the vagina and we all observe the miracle of conception and just about all that may entail. The more you look the more you see. |
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12 Jan 07 - 07:46 AM (#1934179) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: kendall In the film, Excaliber, Arthur got it on dressed in full armor. |
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12 Jan 07 - 08:02 AM (#1934196) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: jacqui.c Sorry Kendall, that was Uther, Arthur's father, at Arthur's conception. |
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12 Jan 07 - 11:01 AM (#1934380) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: Stilly River Sage Maury Chaykin, Cluin? Nero Wolff in a kinky sex scene? Boggles the mind, it does! |
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12 Jan 07 - 12:56 PM (#1934491) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: Big Al Whittle Sex in a suit of armour....... did just the man have a suit of armour? did he keep his helmet on? what about the falcon on his gauntlet, did it sit there throughout?. perhaps they had one of those little lifting cranes and the odd varlet and a couple knaves would hoist him on and off his mount. he would go, Ho Varlet!Hence have I come! Hoist me back into the saddle, replace my appendage into its codpiece! and try not to bend it double this time..... Mind you it explains a lot. That's how they knew it was the Black Knight - it wasn't just that stupid bloody feather sticking out of his head. |
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12 Jan 07 - 12:58 PM (#1934492) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: jacqui.c LOL. If you saw the film your description ain't too far wrong! |
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12 Jan 07 - 03:15 PM (#1934600) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: Greg B For a while the series NYPD blue was notorious for buttocks-shots. As well as regular use of 'colorful' language. ('Asshole' was common, as well as phrases like 'up in Ossining getting accu- puncture up his dirt-chute.) It was on regular network TV. Now, in reruns on the cable-only Turner Network they've gotten rid of the both the buns and the colorful language, which kind of blunts much of the humor. In common with other TV programs and movies set in New York, it seems that everyone in it can afford either a loft or a place with three bedrooms and 1800 square feet. Wait until you see REAL New York apartments that the average middle-class person can afford! Anything from the movie Single White Female to Seinfeld, to the Odd Couple, all the way back to I Love Lucy--- lots of space. Now 'The Honeymooners,' that place was more like reality! As to curtains--- when I bought my condo (which happens to be 1800 square feet) out in Bucks County, PA, I promptly pulled down all of the expensive curtains that the prior owner had installed, replacing them with various sorts of blinds and valances. There's a decorative curtain in the dining room and one in the guest room. That's it. Then again, I'm a guy. Interesting statistic, though: more telescopes are sold per capita in Manhattan than anywhere else. So there clearly is some peeking going on. |
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12 Jan 07 - 03:51 PM (#1934625) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: Richard Bridge I'm gradually reducing the number of curtains downstairs, but then I'm old enough not to screw on the sofa or dining room table any more... |
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12 Jan 07 - 05:57 PM (#1934743) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: Cluin If you want to be boggled, Watch this flick, SRS. |
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12 Jan 07 - 08:36 PM (#1934866) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: GUEST I have a lovely couple living facing me. The lady of the house is beautiful. Sadly I can see her curtains, but not her bra. I live in hope !! |
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12 Jan 07 - 08:38 PM (#1934869) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: Cluin Watch the clothesline and be patient. |
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12 Jan 07 - 09:27 PM (#1934919) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: kendall We have both in the computer room, and every day a male Cardinal lands on the bottom of the upper window frame and looks us over, then flies away. I'd let him come in, but Seamus is a bird dog. |
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12 Jan 07 - 11:50 PM (#1934996) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: JennieG Hey bird dog git away from my quail...... Sorry Kendall, 'cardinal' neither rhymes nor scans! Cheers JennieG |
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13 Jan 07 - 02:04 PM (#1935386) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: Becca72 Bird dog...the only bird that dog is interested in is the roasted chicken Jacqui made for dinner...he leads the casual life, after all. |
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13 Jan 07 - 02:34 PM (#1935413) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: kendall Now don't you go and find fault with ma dawg missy! Ahll bounce a rifle ball off'n yo punkin haid! What cartoon character used to talk like that? |
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13 Jan 07 - 03:09 PM (#1935444) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: Don Firth Snuffy Smith? Don Firth |
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13 Jan 07 - 03:15 PM (#1935451) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: Don Firth Just a guess, but he seemed sort of likely. Clicky. Don Firth |
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13 Jan 07 - 03:20 PM (#1935458) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: Stilly River Sage And the bras and curtains that Snuffy Smith brings into sharp focus are . . . ? |
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13 Jan 07 - 03:22 PM (#1935460) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: Stilly River Sage Cluin, that looks like an interesting premise--and it also looks like a first cousin to The World of Henry Orient. SRS |
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13 Jan 07 - 04:11 PM (#1935500) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: Cluin The movie isn't as interesting as it sounds, SRS. In fact, it's quite tedious and by the end you feel like slapping every character in it. I have a distinct memory of a scene with Maury Chaykin, standing naked, knee deep in a lake yelling, "Stop looking at my penis!" |
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13 Jan 07 - 04:31 PM (#1935522) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: Mrs.Duck I tried replacing my curtains with bras but they cut out too much light :0) |
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13 Jan 07 - 04:48 PM (#1935545) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: Cluin Try the reverse. Just let me get my camera first. |
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13 Jan 07 - 05:27 PM (#1935593) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: Don Firth Bit of trivia. Early on, a fellow named Barney Google joined the cast with Snuffy Smith and the strip became know as "Barney Google and Snuffy Smith." In 1954, Barney Google left the strip, and no one seems to know what became of him. Well, after trying a variety of new careers that didn't work out for him, recently he started an internet search engine. . . . Don Firth |
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13 Jan 07 - 07:34 PM (#1935702) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: Liz the Squeak I'm an ABC addict (UK digital, channel 15) and I've noticed 2 programmes have similar setups. 'Hope & Faith', about a married woman with 2 daughters, 1 son, whose sister moves in with them but lives in an appartment over the garage; and '8 Simple Rules' - a widowed woman (was married but John Ritter played her husband and when he died, they wrote it into the show) with 2 daughters, 1 son, her father and her nephew who live in the basement. The daughters on both shows share a room. Here's the thing. The external shots of the house show at least 3 floors on each, with at least 4 windows on each floor and the internals show two staircases both opening out into the same room..... so why are these extra relatives living in converted garages and sharing basements? Do ALL Americans have huge houses with only 3 bedrooms and a staircase each? I'm very confused. LTS |
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13 Jan 07 - 07:38 PM (#1935709) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: GUEST Never mind the house stories, what about the bras ? |
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13 Jan 07 - 09:20 PM (#1935791) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: JennieG Isn't there an old song "Barney Google with his goo-goo-googly eyes"? Geez I haven't heard that song since I was wee sprog..... Cheers JennieG |
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13 Jan 07 - 10:25 PM (#1935831) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: Stilly River Sage I lived in a building once that had two staircases up to the bedrooms and it was very nice. But it isn't common, at least in MY experience (in a socio-economic group that manages a second story and a basement, but usually only one staircase between floors). Eight Simple Rules was actually a very funny program, we watched it every week for the first year or two. But when John Ritter died they had to figure out how to replace their star, and it was difficult. I like James Garner but never quite figured out why David Spade was in there. As viewers, we drifted away. SRS |
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15 Jan 07 - 12:26 AM (#1936896) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: Don Firth Yup. The song was pretty obviously about the comic strip character. Barney Google's eyes were one of his most noticeable features. Here's city slicker Barney Google with his mountain-dwelling, moonshining friend. Clicky How did I find this? I . . . um . . . googled it. Don Firth |
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15 Jan 07 - 04:48 PM (#1937589) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: Liz the Squeak I must be a sad individual then because I like David Spade.... CJ brings out some deeply DEEPLY hidden maternal streak in me..... Ye Gods!! LTS |
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15 Jan 07 - 05:33 PM (#1937646) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: Stilly River Sage I like him okay, I just never figured out what he was doing on the program. We missed some episodes and then one night, there he was. |
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16 Jan 07 - 04:20 AM (#1937979) Subject: RE: BS: Curtains and Bras From: Gurney Jeez, Kendal, what's a bird got to do to get a feed 'round your way? Get plucked? |
