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Subject: Thought for the Day - May 4 From: Peter T. Date: 04 May 00 - 09:37 AM A little Toronto story: Having once been an actor, I know some techhies, including a lighting guy, who I occasionally meet on the street. I was waiting for a bus the other day, and I saw a movie shoot going on -- trucks, cranes, vans -- and my friend happened to be on set. So he invited me to come back later, and tag along. Mid afternoon I am standing in a hardware store, surrounded by camera equipment and other bodies, watching a scene unfold. The 1 minute scene involves a young woman who works in the store talking to a young man, and as the conversation unfolds, she inadvertantly snips with scissors the heads off the flowers (geraniums mostly) she is supposed to be trimming. The woman is some Canadian actress I vaguely recognise, and the man is some American who is supposed to be really famous (from something called "Part of Five" I think). Anyway, behind us, in rows, are pots and pots of flowers in case the take doesn't, well, take. Cameras roll. Something goes wrong. Snipped flowers are brushed away, new flower pots are put in place. Cameras roll. Flussed line. Flowers dumped, new flowers are put in place. This goes on. No one in the room cares anything about the flowers! I am standing there in agony, as these two idiots talk about falling in love, destroying flowers! An hour later, pot of flowers on the window sill, a sudden thought: maybe this pot of flowers hates me. I stood in the way of its one chance to break into showbiz!! You can't win. |
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Subject: RE: Thought for the Day - May 4 From: MMario Date: 04 May 00 - 09:51 AM Well Peter, the flowers may hate you for destroying their chance at show-biz, but "snuff films" don't really lead to a big career when you are cast as the victim. Especially when it's not special effects! |
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Subject: RE: Thought for the Day - May 4 From: katlaughing Date: 04 May 00 - 10:49 AM Someday when it grows up, it will realise what you did was for its own good and it will thank you with great big happy blooms! I am afraid I couldn't have been as good at keeping quiet as you were! Poor things! |
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Subject: RE: Thought for the Day - May 4 From: Peg Date: 04 May 00 - 11:54 AM Peter this is too funny! I have wandered into film shoots in NYC and Boston; always a surreal experience. As a film critic I often think I am much more interested in the results of the very complex task of filmmaking than the process: a decidedly-unromantic state of affairs. BTW the show is "Party of Five" which just had its farewell episode last night...five actors and their lovers and wives out of work! I do agree about the waste, but it made me think of something I see occasionally. When I go to one of my favorite spots in Boston, the rose garden at the Back Bay Fens, sometimes there is a wheelbarrow that is left there at the end of the day, at certain times of year, when the roses are in full bloom. The wheelbarrow is full of blooms. Some snipped, some merely fallen, some broken and pulled off. But the wheelbarrow is left there, I believe, for visitors to feel okay about having a rose or two (otherwise a no-no). These are gorgeous flowers, many of them antique varieties that smell indescribably beautiful. Flowers are just as beautiful in death as they are in life... but I am glad you rescued that pot anyway! Maybe he/she will grow to teach others the art of sitting on the counter and suffering the clippers with good grace...those who can't, teach, they say... those who can't teach, administrate (or criticize) peg |
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Subject: RE: Thought for the Day - May 4 From: Peter T. Date: 04 May 00 - 12:02 PM Yeah, Party of 5, that's it. thanks. yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: Thought for the Day - May 4 From: Amos Date: 04 May 00 - 12:18 PM I don't think flowers think about show business, Peter -- other than their own inimitable natural version of it! The idea of a flower contemplating "breaking itno" anything is hilarious! Their time streams don't work that way! Warmest regards to your new friend and you, A |
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Subject: RE: Thought for the Day - May 4 From: JenEllen Date: 04 May 00 - 12:25 PM Hopefully you and Gerry will have many happy years together. I think you'll be fine, I can't imagine a plant with an agent. Just what ever you do, don't take him to the pictures. He'll be wavering around whispering how 'I went to school with that fern. You call that acting? Guy couldn't act his way out of a hot-cap...etc.' People tend to get a little fussy about things like that. Best to ya luv, Jen |
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Subject: RE: Thought for the Day - May 4 From: Mbo Date: 04 May 00 - 12:39 PM Peter Peter Peter! Haven't you ever heard of "deadheading"? What they were doing was actually quite healthy for the flowers, despite the seeming destruction of beauty. But they should have been catching the blossoms so they could do something pretty with them! --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: Thought for the Day - May 4 From: Peter T. Date: 04 May 00 - 01:02 PM Actually the thing was more gruesome than that. She had these scissors and of course wasn't paying attention, and in the scene she gets more excited by this dope, so the whole visible plant got scissored, leaves stem and all. She would then move on to the next plant, and do the same. Why any screenwriter thought this was screamingly funny is beyond me. I expect it will be the hit of the fall. yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: Thought for the Day - May 4 From: Wesley S Date: 04 May 00 - 01:07 PM Imagine taking those flowers and spreading them all over the bed of someone you feel passionate about. Yum........ |
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Subject: RE: Thought for the Day - May 4 From: JenEllen Date: 04 May 00 - 01:43 PM Imagine just giving her the plant Wesley, instead of having to clean petals out of the bed, she'll set it on the windowsill, and for years after, every time it blooms, she'll remember..... |
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Subject: RE: Thought for the Day - May 4 From: Wesley S Date: 04 May 00 - 01:50 PM The rosebush I gave her is doing quite nicely thankyou. Pink - just like the flowers in her wedding bouquet. I was just trying to make lemonade out of lemons. |
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Subject: RE: Thought for the Day - May 4 From: JenEllen Date: 04 May 00 - 01:59 PM Beautiful Wes, she's a lucky gal, just promise me that the lemonade has you sweeping up after? ;) |
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Subject: RE: Thought for the Day - May 4 From: Wesley S Date: 04 May 00 - 02:06 PM First sweep the lady off her feet - then sweep up anything left behind. First things first. And then since lemonade has been know to be sticky I recommend a nice long bubblebath. That should be the title of a thread - " What music goes with a bubblebath?" |
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Subject: RE: Thought for the Day - May 4 From: Mbo Date: 04 May 00 - 03:00 PM Oh Wesley & Elle, I love the ideas! Thanks for the tips! Gotta remember that for my girl one day... --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: Thought for the Day - May 4 From: JenEllen Date: 04 May 00 - 03:05 PM Float the rose petals IN her bath??? Delightful... |
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Subject: RE: Thought for the Day - May 4 From: Wesley S Date: 04 May 00 - 03:42 PM Mbo - I've always felt that a woman should be completely pampered from time to time with no thought of getting anything in return. Most women will reciprocate however. But that has to be their decision. Clean the house, cook for her, listen to her talk about her day, read her poetry, sing her a few songs that are meant only for her, run her a bath, massage her feet, brush her hair and whatever else you can think of and the result will be a very happy woman. Usually. Works for me. Any other suggestions would have to be off line. I wouldn't want anyone to get the "vapors". |
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Subject: RE: Thought for the Day - May 4 From: GUEST,Houdini's Ghost Date: 04 May 00 - 05:00 PM Peter, Did it ever occur to you that you think too damn much about many things that will be wholly irrelevant, an hour after you think them? Perhaps a little less analysis about alot of things in your life (that we are time and time again subjected to in these Thoughts For the Day), would give way for more practise time with an instrument. Then perhaps one day, we could actually hear you make music, instead of these barrages of esotheric verbal diarrhea. Or do you sit with your instrument and just analyze the crap out of why your fingers must be in certain positions to formulate certain chords??? If the answer to the above is yes, you might want to check in for a vist here.
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Subject: RE: Thought for the Day - May 4 From: GUEST,Dorothy Date: 04 May 00 - 05:05 PM ....or perhaps a better solution Peter, is the next time you see the Wizard, just give him back the damn "testimonial". |
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Subject: RE: Thought for the Day - May 4 From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 04 May 00 - 05:05 PM Could be the key scene in a follow up to Little Shop of horrors. The Revenge of the Flower People. Or if they ever do a sequel to ET. I think he'd have reacted much the same as PT. ET - PT...Verrry interesting... |
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Subject: RE: Thought for the Day - May 4 From: Peter T. Date: 04 May 00 - 05:32 PM Gee, I wonder why Houndini's Ghost reacted that way? Could it have been something I thought? But then again.... yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: Thought for the Day - May 4 From: Micca Date: 04 May 00 - 05:47 PM Its funny how flowers can change by accident from something nice to magic. I was meeting a women friend,, at the Railway station in Oxford, to go to dinner, many years ago and in my hurry to the station (I was running a little late) I didnt notice that the single red rose I had bought had fallen out of the florists paper so what I presented was just the empty paper, I was so dissapointed when she opened it and I think it showed. She said I have often been given roses,but that accident has transformed a gesture into something immortal, as the virtual rose that I had presented and she had received would last forever in our memories, and she was right. |
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Subject: RE: Thought for the Day - May 4 From: Mbo Date: 04 May 00 - 06:09 PM Beautiful, Micca, beautiful. --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: Thought for the Day - May 4 From: GUEST,firehair28 Date: 04 May 00 - 06:20 PM Oh, wow.. Micca, there's gotta be a song in that tale somewhere.. |
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