[thanksgivingmom]

I actually got to be Liesl for real once That was a fun show!!!

I'm late to the dance if we're talking about musicals but I LOVE them! Most recently I saw Phantom (again - probably the 8th time)....before that was Jersey Boys, Wicked, Sweet Charity, Chicago, Rent, Cats, Lion King....(all in LA) and in NY I saw Rent, Cabaret (WITH NEIL PATRICK HARRIS!!!!), chicago, phantom, cats, les mis....probably missing some but yea...

Avenue Q is coming around soon and I'm gonna go - LOVE the soundtrack

And Brockster, don't get jealous but I'm going to NY Sept 12

[BrockBaby]

Believe it or not, haven't seen Rent. But I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE the song.....

525,600 minutes
525,600 moments so dear
525,500 minutes, how do you measure, measure a year?

In daylights?
In sunsets?
In midnights?
In cups of coffee?
In inches, in miles and laughter and strife?

525,600 minutes
How do you measure, a year in a life??
HOW ABOUT LOVE????
HOW ABOUT LOVE?????????
HOW ABOUT LOVE??????????????
Measure in love...seasons of love.. love loveeeee
Seasons of loveeeee

Okay....how was that!?!?! Now I want some COFFEE..iced of course!

In case you haven't caught on.. I am bored. I am babysitting for a friend, and the little boy is sleeping..so what's a girl to do at her friends house but think up things to post!?!?!?!

[BrockBaby]

Tomster....Too bad that I have to go to Columbus for training Sept 15-18, or I might have gone to NYC that weekend!!!!!! I NEED to get away!!! I mean, I'm going to columbus myself...yipppeeee.....but I want MY NYC!!!!!

[nikkianni]

Originally Posted by BrockBaby

I saw it in Toronto when I was in High School.

Me too! At the Pantages when I was 16. I raised such a fuss about it that my brother went a couple of years later when he was in Toronto. He loves it too and we have both needed to replace our soundtracks from time to time.
DD loves the intro music with the chandelier falling, lol.

Lovea: We used to watch the Sound of Music yearly too! All of the grandkids would spend the night at Grandma's and she'd get Grandpa to go pick up pizza for dinner, then we'd have fresh baked cookies while we sat on the floor in our sleeping bags and watched.
Didn't the networks do the same thing with the Wizard of Oz?

[BrockBaby]

Stormster...no chuckie for ds?!! LOL

When I use to have to take school aged kids to the bus stop, where I student taught for PRE-K, there was a house that had a chuckie doll peeping out of it's curtain. ICKY!!!!! The kids would try to scare each other with it!!!!!!!! I wanted to know what kind of people lived there...this was a nice, sweet village that I worked in! LOL

[BrockBaby]

YES!! YES!!! YES!!!
I still remember having to get home on a Friday Night to watch the OZ!!!!!!!! We'd always go out to eat, ect on Friday nights....and I couldn't wait!!! Sometimes with DVD's and everyone having those movies on demand, ect.. I think kids lose some of that excitement for those things. Of course there is always the Charlie Brown Christmas special.. and Frosty!!! OH...those shows bring back such fun memories!!!!

[Eponine]

I think electric fences for dogs just make them "yip" as they run out of the yard, and then they're afraid to go back IN the yard because they don't want to get shocked again!

I bet the same would apply for chickens if they had an electric fence.

I hit a deer for the first time this year - some doo-dah planted a big turnip patch (aka deer candy) right by the road - a county highway with lots of hills and turns and no lighting..... Thanks, genius!

[BrockBaby]

nikki... did you go the big mall there?? Eaton center or something like that?!?! My best friend and I got lost...our boyfriends had left us....and we were late getting back for the bus!!! We finally found our way, asking some lady in a huge fur!!! We were going to yell at the boys..but they had gone to buy us each something special...awwww. Makes me want to go back to that area!!!!!! Oh...this thread is making me want to go on trips!!!!!!

[BrockBaby]

OK...my friend just came in the driveway...you are all saved from my insanity. That is until...I get home!! lol

[binkybear]

I remembered this one from an email and I couldn't resist! It's all in fun...diapers, high heels, dresses and chickens

The Republican chicken farmer–
1. Looks for new sources of chicken feed.

2. Builds storage silos for large quantities of chicken feed.

3. Speculates: buys more feed in bulk when prices are low.

4. Allows some of the chickens to roam the farmyard to eat slugs and worms.

5. Invests in successful chicken feed companies who appear more profitable as a result of increasing prices.

6. Considers growing more chicken feed himself.

7. Analyzes the business opportunity that probably exists since feed is in short supply. Starts another chicken feed company if the opportunity looks profitable.

The Democrat chicken farmer–

1. Forms a chicken foundation to save the earth and humanity. This foundation:

-hires a bunch of scientists to show how chicken feed and chicken emissions are harming the environment.
-supports increased taxes on chicken feed to keep prices high so all farmers will buy less feed.
-insists on development of “alternative chicken feeds” even though the technology isn’t really proven, the alternative is not nutritious and chickens hate it.
-discourages farmers from letting chickens eat slugs and worms because they’re part of the farmyard ecosystem; files for protection of slugs and worms as endangered species.
-files environmental lawsuits to block the permitting and building of additional chicken feed companies or feed processing plants.
-hires protestors, agitators and television crews and buses them to the chicken feed factories to protest high prices. Takes advantage of a sympathetic news media to broadcast these “public” demonstrations. When the police come to take care of public order, causes a riot. Solicits donations from folks who believe everything they hear on television, telling them why they need to support this noble cause.
-publicizes every dropped feather as a “chicken spill.” Requires expensive cleanup.

2. Works to elect politicians who will dictate chicken farming policy to ALL chicken farmers. Supports legislation requiring farmers to:

-feed their chickens less,
-hobble their chickens so they won’t burn so much energy,
-raise smaller chickens to conserve feed, even though they don’t feed as many people,
-continue using some of the chicken feed to make biofuel to heat the hen house, even though chickens are starving,
-turn down heat in the hen house,
-raise taxes on chicken farmers who appear to be making a profit,
-promote a “windfall profits tax” on chicken feed companies that appear to be making a profit from high prices and give part of the money to consumers who eat chickens or eggs, and
put a cap on the number of chickens a farmer can have.
-Require farmers who have too many chickens to buy “chicken credits” from brokers.

3. With the help of his brother-in-law and a laptop computer, he creates a “chicken credit” trading company. This successful chicken credit brokerage keeps 3 percent of the money exchanged to cover overhead and profits.

4. Starts a chicken preserve. Preserve status allows him to ignore the new ESA regulations regarding slugs and worms. He supports the preserve by selling “chicken credits” via his brokerage, to chicken farmers with too many chickens.

Now, compare the results:
Under the Republican scenario…
…our chicken farmer/feedstore operator makes good business decisions and is able to target the chicken farming activities that make the most money. Under the free market system he is becoming wealthy and people are eating quality chickens that they buy at a fair price.

Some people are jealous of his success and accuse him of ripping off chicken consumers even though they all profit by having chicken farm jobs and plenty of food.

Under the Democrat plan…
…our chicken farmer is no longer a chicken farmer. In fact most chicken farmers have been forced out of business by excessive taxes and regulations. There are only a couple of very large chicken farm operators and they must charge a fortune for chickens to meet expenses.

Instead, our farmer is now a wealthy chicken foundation CEO, a chicken credit broker, and the administrator of a wild chicken preserve. He is making huge amounts of money from donations, brokerage fees and chicken credit sales—much of which he uses to fund political campaigns and news media outlets of his choice.

None of his activities actually save the earth or feed people, and his activities contribute little to the nation’s economy, yet he is able to convince the masses that he represents poor people and the environment.

The public is learning to eat tofu.

[aclee]

The funniest part of that e-mail is the fact it acts like a farmer might be a Republican and actually know how to 'grow' something...besides oil derricks

Originally Posted by binkybear

I remembered this one from an email and I couldn't resist! It's all in fun...diapers, high heels, dresses and chickens

The Republican chicken farmer–
1. Looks for new sources of chicken feed.

2. Builds storage silos for large quantities of chicken feed.

3. Speculates: buys more feed in bulk when prices are low.

4. Allows some of the chickens to roam the farmyard to eat slugs and worms.

5. Invests in successful chicken feed companies who appear more profitable as a result of increasing prices.

6. Considers growing more chicken feed himself.

7. Analyzes the business opportunity that probably exists since feed is in short supply. Starts another chicken feed company if the opportunity looks profitable.

The Democrat chicken farmer–

1. Forms a chicken foundation to save the earth and humanity. This foundation:

-hires a bunch of scientists to show how chicken feed and chicken emissions are harming the environment.
-supports increased taxes on chicken feed to keep prices high so all farmers will buy less feed.
-insists on development of “alternative chicken feeds” even though the technology isn’t really proven, the alternative is not nutritious and chickens hate it.
-discourages farmers from letting chickens eat slugs and worms because they’re part of the farmyard ecosystem; files for protection of slugs and worms as endangered species.
-files environmental lawsuits to block the permitting and building of additional chicken feed companies or feed processing plants.
-hires protestors, agitators and television crews and buses them to the chicken feed factories to protest high prices. Takes advantage of a sympathetic news media to broadcast these “public” demonstrations. When the police come to take care of public order, causes a riot. Solicits donations from folks who believe everything they hear on television, telling them why they need to support this noble cause.
-publicizes every dropped feather as a “chicken spill.” Requires expensive cleanup.

2. Works to elect politicians who will dictate chicken farming policy to ALL chicken farmers. Supports legislation requiring farmers to:

-feed their chickens less,
-hobble their chickens so they won’t burn so much energy,
-raise smaller chickens to conserve feed, even though they don’t feed as many people,
-continue using some of the chicken feed to make biofuel to heat the hen house, even though chickens are starving,
-turn down heat in the hen house,
-raise taxes on chicken farmers who appear to be making a profit,
-promote a “windfall profits tax” on chicken feed companies that appear to be making a profit from high prices and give part of the money to consumers who eat chickens or eggs, and
put a cap on the number of chickens a farmer can have.
-Require farmers who have too many chickens to buy “chicken credits” from brokers.

3. With the help of his brother-in-law and a laptop computer, he creates a “chicken credit” trading company. This successful chicken credit brokerage keeps 3 percent of the money exchanged to cover overhead and profits.

4. Starts a chicken preserve. Preserve status allows him to ignore the new ESA regulations regarding slugs and worms. He supports the preserve by selling “chicken credits” via his brokerage, to chicken farmers with too many chickens.

Now, compare the results:
Under the Republican scenario…
…our chicken farmer/feedstore operator makes good business decisions and is able to target the chicken farming activities that make the most money. Under the free market system he is becoming wealthy and people are eating quality chickens that they buy at a fair price.

Some people are jealous of his success and accuse him of ripping off chicken consumers even though they all profit by having chicken farm jobs and plenty of food.

Under the Democrat plan…
…our chicken farmer is no longer a chicken farmer. In fact most chicken farmers have been forced out of business by excessive taxes and regulations. There are only a couple of very large chicken farm operators and they must charge a fortune for chickens to meet expenses.

Instead, our farmer is now a wealthy chicken foundation CEO, a chicken credit broker, and the administrator of a wild chicken preserve. He is making huge amounts of money from donations, brokerage fees and chicken credit sales—much of which he uses to fund political campaigns and news media outlets of his choice.

None of his activities actually save the earth or feed people, and his activities contribute little to the nation’s economy, yet he is able to convince the masses that he represents poor people and the environment.

The public is learning to eat tofu.

[lovemy2boys]

Originally Posted by Stormster

I loved Avenue Q as well though the muppets do have wild sex so don't see it with your parents (I wanted to die, yeah I still get really embarrassed in front of dear old dad).

Ok - I know I'm like 4 hours late on this topic (and although under normal circumstances 4 hours is nothing, but this thread has a mind of it's own...)

So 2 years ago, I took my mom AND my grandma to see the Full Monty - TALK ABOUT EMBARASSING!!!

The very first scene of the play (which is really close to the movie, but takes place in Brooklyn as opposed to London) is a scene at a male strip club...

My Grandma, who was 72, said "Honey, I think we are in the wrong theater".

I wanted to die right on the spot. By the end of the play, she was whoopin it up louder than the rest of us!

(And Avenue Q is playing here in a few months - I was going to take my parents for their anniversary, but maybe I'll stick with A Christmas Carol - lol)

[Stormster]

Originally Posted by lovemy2boys

Ok - I know I'm like 4 hours late on this topic (and although under normal circumstances 4 hours is nothing, but this thread has a mind of it's own...)

So 2 years ago, I took my mom AND my grandma to see the Full Monty - TALK ABOUT EMBARASSING!!!

The very first scene of the play (which is really close to the movie, but takes place in Brooklyn as opposed to London) is a scene at a male strip club...

My Grandma, who was 72, said "Honey, I think we are in the wrong theater".

I wanted to die right on the spot. By the end of the play, she was whoopin it up louder than the rest of us!

(And Avenue Q is playing here in a few months - I was going to take my parents for their anniversary, but maybe I'll stick with A Christmas Carol - lol)

I definitely would...

[Stormster]

Originally Posted by nikkianni

We used to watch the Sound of Music yearly too! All of the grandkids would spend the night at Grandma's and she'd get Grandpa to go pick up pizza for dinner, then we'd have fresh baked cookies while we sat on the floor in our sleeping bags and watched.
Didn't the networks do the same thing with the Wizard of Oz?

Ugh I so want to trade childhoods

[Stormster]

Originally Posted by nikkianni

Storm: They put live animals in heels and tutus?! OK, the guy who does that job now has my respect for life!

The wrapped these cuff things around their feet and each cuff had a picture of a high heel shoe on it, and they def. stepped up onto these little platforms and did some little ballet moves.

TRAUMATIZING!!!!!!