Tuesday, February 1, 2011
The Love of God
Labels:
contentment,
friendship,
happiness,
humanity,
knowledge,
Love,
religion,
success,
Valentines Day
Friday, January 28, 2011
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Enjoy Some "Duck Soup"
Why the title Duck Soup?!?!?!
Earlier (in 1927), director Leo McCarey had made a two-reel Laurel and Hardy film with the same title - and he used it again. The film's title uses a slang phrase familiar in early 20th century America. It means anything "simple" or "easy", or alternately, a "gullible sucker" or "pushover."
The film has become a classic--the ultimate send-up of power-hungry dictators. Groucho supposedly provided the following recipe to explain the title: "Take two turkeys, one goose, four cabbages, but no duck, and mix them together. After one taste, you'll duck soup for the rest of your life."
(Under the opening credits, four quacking ducks [stylized four Marx Brothers] swim & simmer in a heating kettle.)
Labels:
April Fools,
Duck Soup,
funny,
Groucho Marx,
humor,
irony,
Marx Brothers,
non sequiter,
parody
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Unforgotten Hospitality
While [Mary & Joseph] were [in Bethlehem], the time came for her Child to be born, and she gave birth to her first-born Son. She wrapped Him in infant wrapping-cloths and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for Him in the inn. ---Luke 2:7
[Jesus said], "....when I was a stranger, you invited Me in." ---Matthew 25:35b MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
[Jesus said], "....when I was a stranger, you invited Me in." ---Matthew 25:35b MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Friday, September 24, 2010
[Time Doesn't Always Heal]
They say that 'time assuages,'--
Time never did assuage;
An actual suffering strengthens,
As sinews do, with age.
Time is a test of trouble,
But not a remedy.
If such it prove, it prove too
There was no malady.
---Emily Dickinson
Labels:
aging,
death,
disappointment,
humanity,
irony,
Love,
Perseverance,
suicide
Saturday, September 18, 2010
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