Stolen : Four Worms in Church

Four Worms In Church


Four worms and a lesson to be learned!!!!

A minister decided that a visual demonstration would add emphasis to his Sunday sermon.

Four worms were placed into four separate jars.

The first worm was put into a container of alcohol.

The second worm was put into a container of cigarette smoke.

The third worm was put into a container of chocolate syrup.

The fourth worm was put into a container of good clean soil.


At the conclusion of the sermon, the Minister reported the following results:

The first worm in alcohol...Dead.

The second worm in cigarette smoke...Dead.

Third worm in chocolate syrup...Dead.

Fourth worm in good clean soil...Alive .


So the Minister asked the congregation, What did you learn from this demonstration?


Maxine who was sitting in the back, quickly raised her hand and said,
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."As long as you drink, smoke and eat chocolate, you won't have worms!"


That pretty much ended the service!

Today is International Disturbed People's Day.
Please send this encouraging message to a friend...Just as I've done.

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Diabolique(1955)

Last night I watched Diabolique(1955), directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, starring Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot and Paul Meurisse. It is a horror film with a great premise : The wife and mistress of the abusive head of a boarding school plot to murder him. They dump his body in the school pool, later when it's emptied, the body is gone! All sorts of eerie things happen until the shocker of an ending. This is the way horror films should be done, there's no haunting score as it's not needed. Suspense is maintained little by little throughout. The acting by Ms Clouzot(Mrs. Director) as the timid wife and Ms Signoret as the dominant mistress is very good. The last shot is funny. Even a message at the end asking the viewer not to reveal the ending to friends, which I thought was humorous. Watch this one at night with the lights off


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Note to Self

CELINE AND JULLIETTE GO BOATING from 1974. It's about two girls who explore a haunted house where a deadly drama takes place continually. It's very long--190 minutes!--very surreal, and very transfixing.
Oh, and the girls don't go boating untill the end of the movie!

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The Summons by John Grisham(2002)

I've just finished The Summons by John Grisham. It's not one of his best, but still enjoyable. Ray Atlee is a law professor who receives a summons from his father, the Honorable Judge Reuben Atlee, who neither he or his brother Forrest are close to, to discuss his estate, as he is dying. Things get rolling when he arrives to find the father already dead, and finds something else totally unexpected at the house. Not as exciting as many other Grisham books, but it is a good mystery/character study and many twists to keep you hooked toward the end.

Next I'm going to try Animal Farm by George Orwell which I picked up from the library. I'm afraid it might be over my head, but it's quite short, so I thought I would give it a try. I read 1984 many years ago in high school.


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Stolen Joke 8/15/11 : 5 Surgeons Talking

Last week there was a Surgeon's conference in Baltimore. After the second day, 5 doctors from different parts of the USA became friends. They decided to have dinner together. That evening, after finishing their meal, they started talking shop while having their coffee. One of the topics of conversation was the various types of patients they had operated on.

The first, a California surgeon, says: " I like to see accountants on my operating table, because when you open them up, everything inside is numbered. "

The second, a Texas surgeon, responds: " Yeah, but you should try electricians. Everything inside of them is color coded. "

The third, an Oklahoman surgeon, says: " No, I really think librarians are the best, everything inside of them is in alphabetical order. "

The fourth, an Florida surgeon, chimes in: " You know, I like construction workers.... those guys always understand when you have a few parts left over."

But, the fifth, a Washington, D.C. surgeon, shut them all up when he observed: "

You're all wrong. Politicians are the easiest to operate on. There's no guts, no heart, no testicles, no brains, and no spine, -- and the head and the anus are interchangeable.

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Notes to Self

a couple of weeks ago
we watched "High and Low" also with Toshiro Mifune. From the beginning
Herb was "it's Japanese, subtitled and black and white, how much worse
can it get"!!! Half an hour into it he was "Don't touch that dial"!!!
It was spellbinding and for once the letterbox (do they still call it that)
picture really worked. The first half was about a kidnapping of an
factory manager's son, only the kidnapper's got the wrong little boy
and kidnapped the gardener's little boy instead. There was a moral
dilemma - will the manager be as eager to hand over the ransom for
a servant's child. The next part was the police tracking down the
villain.

 

Dark Water and Premonition are two terrific Japanese "horror" films. Check them out!

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Affair in Trinidad(1952)

I watched Affair in Trinidad, which reunites the stars from one of my faves Gilda, the sexy Rita Hayworth and less sexy Glenn Ford

It's quite entertaining. It starts out as a muder mystery, as Rita's husband is killed(or was it suicide?). The mystery is abandoned somewhere along the way, as the police convince Rita to get dirt on her late husband's "friend" Max Fabian (Alexander Scourby), who has Sinister Plans. Ford is her brother-in-law, of course they end up falling for each other. Rita has a couple of great singing/dancing numbers. Her housekeeper who has advice for everyone is a lot of fun. The conclusion isn't as exciting as it could be, but I still reccomend.

 

Love the poster!


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Notes From Charlie Chaplin

I found this interesting, it's from David Robinson's book Chaplin : His Life and Art. It's notes Chaplin took regarding the characters of The Tramp and The Gamin from Modern Times :

The only two live spirits in a world of automatons. They really live. Both have an eternal spirit of youth and are absolutely unmoral.

Alive because we are children with no sense of responsibility, whereas the rest of humanity is weighted down with duty.

We are spiritually free.

There is no romance in the relationship, really two playmates - partners in crime, comrades, babes in the woods.

We beg, borrow or steal for a living. Two joyous spirits living by their wits.

I find this interesting as I feel this is probably how a lot of the homeless feel... that they're free and we're the ones weighted down.


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NOT IN THE DICTIONARY

Pride comes before a fall... but NOT IN THE DICTIONARY

The ox comes before the cart... but NOT IN THE DICTIONARY

Two comes before three... but NOT IN THE DICTIONARY

Night comes before morning... but NOT IN THE DICTIONARY

Morning comes before the afternoon... but NOT IN THE DICTIONARY

Noon comes before the night ...but NOT IN THE DICTIONARY

Eating comes before digestion... but NOT IN THE DICTIONARY

Reading comes before comprehension ... but NOT IN THE DICTIONARY

Pregnancy comes before birth... but NOT IN THE DICTIONARY

Movies come before almost anything... but NOT IN THE DICTIONARY




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Scrabble Group?

I have started thinking about starting a Scrabble group. I love to play but don't get to much. I have played on line before, but there's really no way to know if your opponent is cheating! This is still in the early thinking stage, as I'd have to figure out where and how to get this rolling. I'm started doing some research. I did get an email from a website saying there are others interested in my area. Another thing is I've never been an organizer type, but I'm really thinking about trying this. It would be fun to have a Scrabble group plus the movie group I've started attending. We'll see...


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Wonderful Quotes Used (mostly) in Abel Gance's La Roue (The Wheel)

"Cinema endows man with a new sense. It is the music of light. He listens with his eyes." - Abel Gance
"I know that Creation is a Great Wheel which cannot move without crushing someone!" - Victor Hugo
"--- and it is said that they cannot themselves be free of the Wheel---" - Kipling
"Paris: City of the inimitable tower of the Great Gallows and of the Wheel---" - Blaise Cendrars
"There are shames that must be silenced!" - Oedipus Rex
"And they are all bound upon the Wheel --- bound from life after life!" - Kipling
"There are the truly damned --- men who bear the word 'jinxed' written in mysterious letters in the crease of their brow" - Beaudelaire
"For we must bear the Cross before the Cross bears us." - Claudel
"I'm not cheerful, Papa. I'm happy. It's not the same thing. It's sweeter and sadder." - Norma

Stolen Joke 8/3/11

You don't have to be Catholic to appreciate this one!!!


A man suffered a serious heart attack while shopping in a store.

A store clerk called 911 when they saw him collapse to the floor.

The paramedics rushed the man to the nearest hospital where he had emergency open heart bypass surgery.

He awakened from the surgery to find himself in the care of nuns at the Catholic Hospital he was taken to.

A nun was seated next to his bed holding a clip board loaded with several forms, and a pen.

She asked him how he was going to pay for his treatment.

"Do you have health insurance?" she asked.

He replied in a raspy voice, "No health insurance."

The nun asked, "Do you have money in the bank?"

He replied, "No money in the bank."

"Do you have a relative who could help you with the payments?" asked the irritated nun.

He said, "I only have a spinster sister, and she is a nun."

The nun became agitated and announced loudly, "Nuns are not spinsters! Nuns are married to God."


The patient replied, "Perfect.
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Send the bill to my brother-in-law."

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La Roue(The Wheel) (1923 - French)

Also saw La Roue(The Wheel) (1923) by master Abel Gance. I expected to be amazed after seeing Napoleon and wasn't disappointed. The basic story is railroad engineer Sisif rescues baby Norma from a train wreck and raises her as his own. 15 years later, both he and son Elie are in love with her, resulting in many plot twists. At 4 and a half hours, it is slow going at times, but a very lovely, symbolic and poetic story. Plus all the great Gance techniques, including rapid montage. Ivy Close is lovely as Norma. It doesn't hurt to see snow scenes in the middle of this sweltering summer! This is a masterpiece, as good if not better than Napoleon. Well worth taking the time to look for.

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The Jazz Singer (1927)

I finally saw The Jazz Singer (1927) with Al Jolson, the first movie with talking sequences. The story of a cantor's son defying his father's traditions by singing popular tunes was dated even then, but Jolson carries it with his charm and music. The spoken scene between he and his mama is charming and seems to be ad-libbed. Eugenie Besserer is charming as mama. Plus, it's fun to imagine how the original audiences were wowed by the talking and singing.

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