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QUOTE (Chasartymac @ Dec 3 2004, 08:42 PM)Singing....... La dee dee One two three Eric, the half a bee. ABCDEFG Eric the half a bee Is this a wretched semi bee? Half asleep upon my knee? Some FREAK, from a menagerie? NO!! It's Eric, the half a bee. You're off your chump. Look, if you intend by that utilization of an obscure colloquiallism to imply that my sanity is not up to scratch, or indeed to deny the semi-existence of my little chum Eric the Half-Bee, I shall have to ask you to listen to this! Take it away, Eric the orchestra leader! A one... two.... A one.. two.. three..four..........

Hello! Busy Day? Busy? I just spent four hours burying the cat! Four hours to bury a cat?!?! Yes - it wouldn't keep still. Shreikin' about, howling. Oh - it wasn't dead, then? No, no - but it's not at all a well cat, and as we were going for a fortnight, we thought we'd better bury it, just to be on the safe side.

http://docweasel.com/members/image/05/brian/19_mandy2.jpghttp://docweasel.com/members/image/05/brian/19_crowd.jpg "Now, you listen here! He's not the Messiah. He's a very naughty boy! Now, go away!"

...And after that, a short Rassberry....

"Hello. I'd like to buy a cat." "I've got a lovely Terrier" "No. I want a cat really. "Tell you what... we'll take his snout out, file his legs down a bit, stick a few wires thru his checks,... make a lovely cat, that would. "No. It wouldn't be a proper cat." "What do you mean?" "It wouldn't 'meow'." "Well, It'd howl a bit!" "No." "Tell you what.... a Terrier makes a lovely fish... I could do that for you now... legs off, fins on, simple metal tube thru the back of it's head so it can breath, bits of gold paint, make good! It's a great conversation peice!" Well...... only if I can watch!"

I knew the second I saw this thread I shouldn't even come in here and now look.... A brief (not as brief as I thought) story: My best friend since high school in 1976, Doug, died 7 years ago. LONG story short, his widow is my wife now. Anyway, he and I were always the biggest Rush fans in our school and were also two of the biggest Monty Python nuts around. In college they showed a midnight showing of "Holy Grail" in the local theater on the weekends and we'd see it at least once EVERY single weekend! While we were both married to our first wives and had moved apart, we'd recite dialog lines back and forth on the phone everytime we talked. The fisrt time his wife and I spent any time together was on a kneeler in front of his open casket just after his Rosary. (A side note: I worked as a Mortician for about 5 years in the mid 80's and even got Doug to work there for a year, so I'm a little more at-ease around dead people than most "normal folk".... but I digress....) Anyway, I was up there on the kneeler with Doug's widow, together with his immediate family sitting behind us in the first pew, just talking about Doug, embalming, funerals, laughing, crying, you know. Anywho, I just instinctivly and unintensionally blurted out "I'm not dead", to which, without missing a beat, my now-wife says "I don't want to go in the cart!" I can't tell you how hillarious that moment was! We sat there for 10 minutes just reciting that part of the movie and laughing our a**es off! Her family had no idea what the he** was going on until later that night. It was great. I know Doug was cracking up too! And for those of you who don't know why any of this is funny, here's most all of scene 2 in it's glorious entirety (even though it's just not the same in print): MORTICIAN: Bring out your dead! **clang**(bangs a small gong) Bring out your dead! **clang** Bring out your dead! CUSTOMER: Here's one -- nine pence. DEAD PERSON: I'm not dead! MORTICIAN: What? CUSTOMER: Nothing -- here's your nine pence. DEAD PERSON: I'm not dead! MORTICIAN: Here -- he says he's not dead! CUSTOMER: Yes, he is. DEAD PERSON: I'm not! MORTICIAN: He isn't. CUSTOMER: Well, he will be soon, he's very ill. DEAD PERSON: I'm getting better! CUSTOMER: No, you're not -- you'll be stone dead in a moment. MORTICIAN: Oh, I can't take him like that -- it's against regulations. DEAD PERSON: I don't want to go in the cart! CUSTOMER: Oh, don't be such a baby. MORTICIAN: I can't take him... DEAD PERSON: I feel fine! CUSTOMER: Oh, do us a favor... MORTICIAN: I can't. CUSTOMER: Well, can you hang around a couple of minutes? He won't be long. MORTICIAN: Naaah, I got to go on to Robinson's -- they've lost nine today. CUSTOMER: Well, when is your next round? MORTICIAN: Thursday. DEAD PERSON: I think I'll go for a walk. CUSTOMER: You're not fooling anyone y'know. Look, isn't there something you can do? DEAD PERSON: I feel happy... I feel happy. **whop**(the mortician hits the "dead person" in the head with a club) CUSTOMER: Ah, thanks very much. MORTICIAN: Not at all. See you on Thursday. CUSTOMER: Right.

QUOTE (Chasartymac @ Dec 3 2004, 08:13 PM)'Ello. I'd like to buy a fish license please, for my pet fish, Eric. How did you know my name was Eric? I didn't, my fish's name is Eric. Eric the fish. He is an Halibut. A License for your bee? Correct! Called Eric, Eric the bee? No! No? Eric the half-bee. He had an accident! You're off your chum!

"Follow! But! follow only if ye be men of valor, for the entrance to this cave is guarded by a creature so foul, so cruel that no man yet has fought with it and lived! Bones of four fifty men lie strewn about its lair. So, brave knights, if you do doubt your courage or your strength, come no further, for death awaits you all with nasty big pointy teeth." "What an eccentric performance."

QUOTE (Test4VitalSigns @ Dec 1 2004, 03:00 AM) You tit! I soiled my armour I was so scared! "Well, that's no ordinary rabbit. That's the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes on. Look, that rabbit's got a vicious streak a mile wide, it's a killer!"

QUOTE (Moonraker @ Nov 30 2004, 11:17 PM)QUOTE (Rivendell @ Nov 30 2004, 03:07 PM) QUOTE (Moonraker @ Nov 30 2004, 02:52 PM) QUOTE (Rivendell @ Nov 30 2004, 10:55 AM) Sounds like a gem. I remember some friends telling me once about a Beatles album cover that got recalled because it was too bloody or something, so the stores were taking them back and issuing out the new ones, whereas the ones that kept the original have a priceless collectors item now. My father has that exact album in his collection. That would be the album titled "Yesterday and Today", the original was a picture of the 4 with dead baby dolls strewn all over them. http://www.eskimo.com/~bpentium/whobutch.html. My father has the reissued one, but you can clearly see that it is simply a sticker over the original release, not a reprinted album. If you look at it, the sticker isnt all the way opaque and the outline of that photo can be seen. Thanks. That's interesting stuff. I heard the originals (apparently w/o a sticker, i had thought it was a different cover completely) were worth a lot of dough. Actually the sticker that is on the album my father has is the new album cover, which looks like this. http://www.mp3.com/images/cover/200/drg200/g281/g28173h2qe1.jpg I am sure that when they issued the new albums, they were printed with this cover on the sleeve. But the version my father has was the old decapitated baby picture with the sticker of the new album cover ontop of it. I remember reading about this 2 months ago or so. The original was only on the shelf for one day (that's why it's so rare!) Tthey were immediately pulled off the shelves, shipped back and had the new album cover photo overlayed and then re-shipped back out for distrubution. This lady I was reading about happened to be in the record store when they put the originals out for sale and she bought one and has had it ever since. According to my Price Guide to Collectable Record Albums (ver.1996), an original "butcher cover" (known as "first state")in mono have a NM value of $3,000 - $5,000 dollars and a stereo version in NM condition between $6,000 - $12,000. "Second state" LP's (with the "trunk cover" pasted over it) in mono have a NM value of $800 - $1,200 dollars and a stereo version in NM condition between $3,000 - $6,000. "Second state" perfectly "peeled" LP's are valued between $1,000 and $6,000 and second pressing "trunk covers" with no overlays are valued between $75 and $400 in MN quality. FYI http://www.flensburg-online.de/beatles/butcher-cover.jpg

QUOTE (paganoman @ Nov 30 2004, 01:59 PM) QUOTE (yyzyy @ Nov 30 2004, 01:39 PM) My Presto linear notes are pressed wrong...It is upside down on the side of the album when the picture is on the righ side...and when the picture is upside down, the side is facing upwards (...side=Rush:Presto!!). Ok - through my confusion.... I think mine is the same way. If I can put if differently, let me know if I'm with you on this... If I look at my Rush collection on a shelf, so all I'm seeing are the sides (spines) whatever.... all of the titles would face the same way, except for Presto. That's what both of my copies of the CD, do. Yes??? That's the case with everyone I've ever heard from regarding this topic!

Here's a replay of an older post of mine.... My wife calls me the other day to say she's driving into town with our daughter and she(our daughter, who's 4 years old) wants to hear the "Me Me Try" song HUH??!! So I'm trying to think what in the world it could be. I can hear her say "it's Rush daddy" in the background. She's done this before with other Rush songs. She always asks to hear "the jungle song," which we finally determined to be "For What It's Worth" from Feedback, which she tells me she thinks sounds like a jungle at the begining. She'll also ask for them by the album cover, like "the bunny one," of course, being Presto. So after a minute it comes to me. And I was right! Tom Sawyer, of course! I love decoding what songs or albums my daughter wants to hear! Especially when it's Rush!

QUOTE (BSG @ Sep 1 2004, 07:19 PM) QUOTE (barney_rebel @ Sep 1 2004, 05:00 PM) Ummm the neighbour's boy (about 3/4 years old and) and I guess a relative (some girl) same age, just ran across my backyard, both nude playing with the hose and spraying water. Our neighbourhood is safe and all... but don't you think that's a bit weird? Only if the "kids" are 34 instead of 3/4!

QUOTE (GhostGirl @ Aug 28 2004, 09:07 AM) QUOTE (Sweetmiracle @ Aug 28 2004, 08:40 AM) I like the titles, GG! And congrats, AGP....you can be the IMAGINARY friend, I'll be the REAL one! (just kidding...I think!) I like coming up with titles for folks, but I guess I'll wait on doing more of them until we decide how our levels/icons/etc. are going to work. Stay tuned.... I kinda like the titles too, GG. Great job so far.

Thanks Snowdog, RR, and VT Great to hear these things! Looking forward to reading it. I'll have to wait till Christmas though, according to the wife!