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rocker
Old Love
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 Posted - 23/11/2010 : 13:45:59
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bob f.
Old Love
USA
1308 Posts |
Posted - 24/11/2010 : 00:41:37
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I wrote and copywrited the popular phrase, " Have A Nice Day", and still haven't received any royalties yet!
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watchinallthapeople
Fourth Love
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Posted - 24/11/2010 : 10:20:14
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"About fifteen years ago I was fortunate enough to see Sir Anthony Hopkins interviewed on stage at the Theatre Clewyd in North Wales."
I was 15 at the time and a member of the Clwyd Youth Theater, We were doing either "Man of la Mancha" or "Dark of the Night" (can't remember which year it was) in the studio stage and If I remember correctly Hopkins was doing an Anton Chekov play. He was pottering about backstage but I never actually spoke to him but my mum shared a lift with him and said he was a nice bloke!
Emigrated from Wales along time ago and now live in Africa but hey!
Small world eh! |
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lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
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Posted - 27/11/2010 : 17:39:34
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From the Zen Master--Gene Clark...just listen to his music.
The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation.
I can't contrive a song.
Zen, per se, is not just an art, it's not just a religion, it's a realisation.
--Gene Clark
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FimRz1kvW2Q&feature=related
Gene's song, "Spanish Guitar"....illustrates this perfectly.
The beautiful BYRD.
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John9
Old Love
United Kingdom
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Posted - 28/11/2010 : 15:48:25
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quote:
Originally posted by watchinallthapeople
"About fifteen years ago I was fortunate enough to see Sir Anthony Hopkins interviewed on stage at the Theatre Clewyd in North Wales."
I was 15 at the time and a member of the Clwyd Youth Theater, We were doing either "Man of la Mancha" or "Dark of the Night" (can't remember which year it was) in the studio stage and If I remember correctly Hopkins was doing an Anton Chekov play. He was pottering about backstage but I never actually spoke to him but my mum shared a lift with him and said he was a nice bloke!
Emigrated from Wales along time ago and now live in Africa but hey!
Small world eh!
Watchinallthepeople - you're right, it is a very small world. Sir Anthony was performing in an adaptation of Chekov's Uncle Vanya. It was entitled Autumn and had been transposed from the Russian to the Welsh countryside. Not long before that, as you will perhaps recall, the Theatre Clwyd was experiencing serious financial problems and the Silence of the Lambs man helped them out.......to the extent that the larger of the two theatres is named after him. Earlier that year (1994 I think) Hopkins was interviewed live on stage there by playwright, Julian Mitchell and that was when I saw him....he was absolutely hilarious -taking off not only John Gielgud and Jack Nicholson...but also Katherine Hepburn, Richard Burton and Marlon Brando. He also said that what inspired him to be an actor was seeing, as a boy, the Royal Shakespeare Company when they came to play in Maesteg. He is truly one of Wales's finest sons. I live in Cheshire and at that stage I used to visit the Theatre Clwyd a great deal. Amongst the other thespians I saw there were Joan Plowright, Peter Firth, Imogen Stubbs and Julie Christie.These days, it serves as more of a National Theatre for Wales...and is still very good. Cheers! |
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John9
Old Love
United Kingdom
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Posted - 28/11/2010 : 16:28:32
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quote:
Originally posted by bob f.
I wrote and copywrited the popular phrase, " Have A Nice Day", and still haven't received any royalties yet!
...what the world needs now...
It is funny how certain Americanisms have been adopted into everyday language in Britain...and yet some definitely have not. Have a nice day falls very much into the second category! It can scarcely be employed without the recipient experiencing a feeling of mild queasiness. And so when it is used it is for comic effect...or for the purposes of irony....like to someone who is just going off to work when you have the day off. The only Americanism more gut wrenching than that is ............wait for it.......Missing you already. 
An american lady over here said to me on the day she met me for the first time...."you were never a stranger - just a friend I hadn't met yet" 
More recently I've heard the same line from Dame Edna Everage (aka Barry Humphries)... Australian superstar and Melbourne's most famous housewife:
"My mother always used to say that there was no such thing as strangers.....just friends we haven't met yet. Now she's living in a maximum security sunset home just outside Sydney!" 
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lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
9876 Posts |
Posted - 28/11/2010 : 17:35:43
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Interesting! I would guess that most who say" have a nice day" over here are not interested in the least whether you really do have one...a nice day that is. Besides, no one likes being told what to do ...I'll have a bloody lousy day if I want, dammit!
It is likely said to make oneself feel good...a warm a fuzzy nothing-ism ( i made that up just now....hmmmm.... a nothingism)
"Have a good one" is maybe better....at least you are given a choice as to what you want to be good for you.
I suppose it is an American adaptation of the more British, "Good afternoon, "Good morning" or "good day....".....which, as Bilbo was quoted as saying to Gandalf, could mean anything from-- "how are you", to "goodbye", to "BUZZ OFF"!!
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Edited by - lemonade kid on 28/11/2010 17:40:07 |
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John9
Old Love
United Kingdom
2154 Posts |
Posted - 28/11/2010 : 17:38:38
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Hi LK...........how are things? |
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lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
9876 Posts |
Posted - 28/11/2010 : 17:41:25
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quote:
Originally posted by John9
Hi LK...........how are things?
Jolly good, John. Have a good one!! But I MEAN IT!
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lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
9876 Posts |
Posted - 28/11/2010 : 17:53:37
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Originally posted by lemonade kid
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Originally posted by John9
Hi LK...........how are things?
Jolly good, John. Have a good one!! But I MEAN IT!
You're in Wales too?! Are you anywhere near Dukie? Have you two met?
Dukie is a good Wales friend.
Interesting that I have made what I consider to be very good forum friends at this
board....that doesn't happen so often nowadays, not for me
(well, Freed's has some very goods friends for me too....a few here AND there that if we lived close would likely meet at a pub and discuss Love and Doors & music in general).
But then Freed's & Torben's are joined at the hip..... I guess music is the rock
that bonds! (DOES THAT MAKE SENSE AT ALL?!)
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John9
Old Love
United Kingdom
2154 Posts |
Posted - 28/11/2010 : 21:52:52
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| Hi once again LK. I'm actually in Cheshire and very close to Manchester (as in Manchester, England - the song from Hair). I'm about 40 miles from the North Wales border and go there quite a lot....and North Wales is one of the most beautiful parts of the UK. Dukie is in South Wales - I go there occasionally because one of my nieces is at university there. I had the very great pleasure of meeting Dukie...at the the celebration for Arthur Lee's 65th birthday back in March...he's one of the truly great Love fans. You're absolutely right in what you say about this forum of friends. Cheers. |
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lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
9876 Posts |
Posted - 30/11/2010 : 00:07:34
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Better to burn out than rust out.--Neil Young
Letting your freak flag fly is a state of mind,
not a fashion statement.
-lk |
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ed the bear
Fourth Love
USA
215 Posts |
Posted - 30/11/2010 : 15:34:22
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Best bumper sticker I ever saw, was a snarling smiley face, and the caption:
"Don't tell me what kind of day to have."
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lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
9876 Posts |
Posted - 30/11/2010 : 17:27:10
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Good one Ed.
Here 's you may have seen....
JESUS IS COMING....LOOK BUSY.
Letting your freak flag fly is a state of mind,
not a fashion statement.
-lk |
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Joe Morris
Old Love
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Posted - 07/12/2010 : 03:21:46
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theres a variant of that in the Family Guy's satire of Empire Strikes Back
Vader is walking past and they're acting all busy with paperwork... great fun! |
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