cunningham flies again

[DaSwede]

(This is a rerun of a question I asked a while back in the main category. Didn't get any replies there - could it be that the real buffs dwell in subcategories only? Sorry to be such a pain in the proverbial but I really want that poster - if indeed it exists.)

I used to own a black-and-white photo postcard from a Martha Graham production where dancer Merce Cunningham comes flying through the air in one giant leap. A woman (Graham?) sits at her desk in a jaded pose studying his flight toward her as if she were assessing his flying techniques rather than anticipating his company. Cunningham's body is cram full with energy, he's like a spring just released; looking at the picture you feel he must surely bounce once he lands.

I'd love to have this photo on my wall as a poster but haven't been able to find it. I'm good at advanced googling but search engines do provide different results in different countries - so if you're in the mood for some googling and you don't live in Sweden...

[netibiza]

Oh I remember Jackie Pallo!

[woofgang]

saturday afternoon wrestling was the one program that my Dad insisted on watching. He loved it!

[netibiza]

He was the real hard man of the era!!

[Robinia]

bonsoir...ooh, deep joyload, a new gizmo for 'enhancing' your lovely pics - I'll look into that when I've been upgraded. If they're all whooshed away in the change over I'll insist you send them all again, so don't think you'll be off the hook.
oh crikey, I hope I don't have to come back with an alias...I won't be a sweti or a muggy, that's for sure....more like nippyninia

I see the results of the RSPB birdcount are in....
mmm, says that numbers of sh1tehawks in Biddyfordshire have vastly increased thanks to the generous yokels....oops sorry, locals, feeding them on <gasp>scones sent from Derby!....charmin', that's the last lot he gets...he likes his toast burnt, so I presumed....

Hope you've had a lovely day B00....I haven't got a single slice of cake in my house.... :o(

s'pose I could make some scones......

[shaneystar2]

Evening all ..I see we are wrestling now instead of dancing ..I remember it well ..Kent Walton.."Greetings grapple fans "
My dad used practically wrestle with the armchair and the air used to be blue !
Do not panico Neti I doubt any one will lunge at you ,they just check for nodules and goitres and such like and chat about your symptoms and general health ..Hopefully they will give you some medication now they know your levels to calm it down for you .Hope it all goes well..please report back to me .
I can't be doing with Gizmos ..I've got freezing pages as it is and any Gizmos would probably make the whole caboodle grind to a halt
.Nice to see you Boo ..I hope you've enjoyed your birthday today ..... Where's that cheesecake gone out of my fridge .............

[VINNY100_2]

Mornin people.
couldnt come back o yesterday went to Exeter
,its my sons last day ere before he goes back to cambridge.We had some good fun last night with his girlfriend.We played cards and played the old yes and no game.."Take your pick" I used me wok and a wooden spoon as a gong...hehe..!yo must go to work...catch you later (:O)

[Robinia]

morning sunbeams....well it is here for a while...

hahaha, lol Vin we used to play that...

do you come here often?
do you like music?
do you drink becks?
do you want a thwack with the W's W.....

(((((BONG!!!))))) :o)

[DaSwede]

Morning. I've had a doctor jump up and grab me too, Neti - it's shocking! In my case it was a gynaecologist. We were both getting into position as it were - which of course includes me being half naked and about to do the straddle split - when she suddenly leeeeaaaaps at my arm and grabs it and holds it with a clawhand so I thought and stares hard at me saying what's this - it was just an ordinary bruise goddammit! And hardly what I was there for!

The other day when Robinia was turning us into apes (me pre-haircut and all of us more fuzzy than B00) I remembered seeing a documentary about the Planet Of The Ape-films where one of the actors was speaking about how our usual way of establishing social hierarchies was apparent even when the actors were in costume and having their lunch: Chimpanzees sat with chimpanzees, orangutans stuck with their fellow orangutans, and so on. It made a great impression on me, I thought it was sad and interesting both. But many years later I heard another actor from the same set talk about the same phenomenon from a totally different angle:

He said the costumes - faces and lips in particular - were so inflexible that it was really very difficult to eat, and actors tended to prefer lunching with their own kind so that they could use each other as visual feedback on how to handle the food. So much for sociology...

My computer hasn't got what it takes to open your take your pick-file Vinny but I think I've got a rough idea of the game...?

[Jude123]

Thought I'd bring a bit of culture to the thread

Hi All and Boo hope you had a good day. Long time no see.

I'm off this afto to see my 2 neices in a dance show. They are only 11 and 13. It'll will bring tears to my eyes I bet.

Had a good night last night. Went t to see T'bag in The Big Band. It finished early so I rang the G man and went to my usual Friday night haunt to round off the night.

See yer later 'gator(s) :o)

[DaSwede]

"T'bag?"

"G man?"

I feel so old when Jude is about...

if Jude were Miss Marple

[Robinia]

me too Kit ....hahaha...brill

erm, youcan't be all poshe one minute Jude with your ballerinas & then admit to running around with two men in one night....tut...are we allowing this behaviour in here?

now I need to know from my own kind how to eat this enormous cream cake
oh fiddlesticks


I can't believe some of the stuff I've kept on this puta..... I've found a strategy game here
but the destructions are in German, haha...you may need a translator. The aim is to get the cow to the trophy & you use the arrows to make it/them turn. And if I remember right you push haystacks to fill in spaces....

[DaSwede]

Mine's got the mad cow disease, Robi. Did you see this, stick woman (someone posted it in CB.)

[netibiza]

Eeuuggh - thanks Kit

Feeling a tad sad as daughter went back 2 hrs ago and everywhere is now clean and I'm feeling rather tired as she was out again all (last) night and I was back to my twitching and worrying and listening for the car! Oh the joys of having a daughter.

Also loved the Miss Marple - I sahll be worriting about ourjude lucky thing!

[shaneystar2]

Hello little Chickadeees
Hope you are all well ..long day ....supermarket slog which I hate but I had no Gldn Srp left .I don't know how the bill manages to come to over a hundred quid though when I only wanted that and a loaf .Mind you with Picky bunging stuff in the trolley left right and centre .......then you get heavy breathers at the checkout ...tut and double tut .
What a dear Miss Marple ..I am off blood and gore at the moment and am reading A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini which is an absolutely fantastic book and a bit of a tear jerker ....right I am off to finish my crosswords ..have a nice weekend all and keep an eye on those men Jude you don't want G man turning up when you're squeezing the T Bag !!

[VINNY100_2]

Evening people.
bloomin windy out there..
just had a lovely malaysian tofu curry takeaway.....trouble is me table rock and rolls.. got one leg shorter than the tuther..could job I found an old euro lotto ticket in the drawer.Stuck him under the dodgy leg and its sound has a pound now.Worth its weight in gold that old ticket..!!(:O)
Earth hour...did you turn yer lights off at 8: pm...
I did...good job i had me putta on.and charged all me torch batteries for 24 hours..bloomin dark it was......couldnt have seen a thing otherwise...
know what you mean netti my sons gone back to.
yo (*_*)

[DaSwede]

Evening. I've just been watching The Gathering Storm on the telly, a BBC drama from 2002 with Albert Finney as Winston Churchill, perhaps y'all remember it. Clemmie threw her dinner plate at him and stormed out of the room, and as the maid arrived he pointed her in the direction of the mess on the floor, saying "The sprouts misbehaved" - ha ha, I thought about you, Vinny. Good riddance to that lotto ticket, you'll always have your lucky number to fall back on ;-) What a particularly nice Beatles clip, by the way.

Have you ever tried constructing a crossword, Shaney? That should keep you busy! And have you looked for online crosswords, I think there are lots of them about.

Well jno disappeared again quickly enough! Jno! We want photos!

moo I was looking for The Tyger by William Blake, and found that. Awesome.

[VINNY100_2]

WoW I like the vid Kip.
This gets fasteeeeer..!
yo (*_*)

[shaneystar2]

That's a brilliant drama Kit I've seen it a couple of times .Albert Finney is great in it . Have you read the books on Churchill by Michael Dobbs ..You might like them . You had a curry Vinny ? I think I'll stay downwind ...mind you the child cooked himself a chilli here this evening and put a whole jar of Jalapeno peppers in it and lots of mixed beans and stuff . It was that hot you could sit round it and keep warm . Needless to say I didn't have any. I can't eat a lot of spicy food .I am sitting well away from him !
I couldn't construct a crossword to save my life Kit !
I only do The Spectator from on line ones ,the rest are all from the papers and a book I subscribe to . I like cryptic ones best ..A girl can never have too many crosswords you know !
Well .....there's bgr all on tele !

[DaSwede]

Good golly it's jno and her sister!

As we are in a dance thread, see if you can make this girl turn around

I did have a Churchill biography Shaney but lost it when I was evacuated a couple of years ago; don't remember if it was by Dobbs - how many are there by him? If I read only one (mustn't strain the old eyes) which one should I choose? / I'm disappointed, I thought there was always some great drama on the telly in the UK...

[VINNY100_2]

Blimey Shaney..you must be well Ed-je-cay-dddd ed.....
I remember years ago i was in the Eagle pub in Eastbourne and these guys were doing the Times crossword puzzle.i didnt have a clue.....and they were stuck on one question about rice and and an irishman...summick like that..and I piped up and said paddy field....right answer....!!!! after that they asked me the next one....erm....sorry chaps..i gotta gooo...hehe....! (:O)