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MOXOMUMD

MOXOMUMD

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MinnieM123 said:
@MOXOMUMD , when do you and your daughter start your Christmas cookie baking/decorating project? I know you put a lot of effort into this each holiday season. Wasn't sure if you do it all at once (like a marathon cooking session for a week), or if you bake some cookies earlier, and freeze them, or put in airtight tins.

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We started some basic doughs that can be frozen and the grocery shopping. :)
 
MOXOMUMD

MOXOMUMD

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Tony the Tigger said:
Jack Frost: the only Rankin-Bass blunder. I can even take the one with the blind kid and the nuns.

Polar Express: One of the worst things of any genre I ever forced myself to finish watching.

The rest I adore!
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I never wanted to see Disney's A Christmas Carol in the theater but now I love it. I think I've watched it ten times since Thanksgiving. I might be watching it now. :angelic:
 
Gabe1

Gabe1

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Goofyernmost said:
I agree, but, that is us. It is what we are used to and what we come to expect. When someone relocates in a new strange land to get away for whatever repression they were subject too, only to find that they are unwelcome here and they have invested everything in this transition, it is hard to find the positives. That is especially true when a person has never been exposed to many positives. Every once in awhile we have to put ourselves in someone elses shoes. We may see events completely differently that way.
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Thinking this is a huge over generalization. Sure it happens. It happens from immigrants from the middle east and from around the world. Still it also happens more frequently to those born here. A large country, people moving and 'going for it' and it doesn't pan out or not what they dreamed of it being. Some of our own college students too and life doesn't work out like we think.

I believe the vast majority of the people I encounter are genuinely good people not a bunch of big jerks. Sadly the jerks stand out. Even at Disney we tend to remember the idiots line jumping or the drunk in the World Showcase but pay little attention to the hundreds of families we pass from the US or abroad that are just nice people and enjoy the family or friends they are with. We hear those that are bit**ing and moaning instead, making himself heard.

My DD freshman roommate at college was born in the middle east and disabled. She has had 18 surgeries here in the US and during that time became a US citizen. She and her Mom find themselves blessed to have been able to immigrate here, the young lady is now an Engineer. She likely would have just died where she came from, as a severely disabled female. What our doctors and school system did to accommodate her to me is awesome not jerky.

I think we all interpret life, our country and immigrants very different which is another great thing about our nation, the right to post publically our views and conclusions about people and immigration or any other topic whether they are pessimistic or optimistic or land somewhere in the middle. Just like when post about Disney, we're a mix of gloom and doomers, pixie dusters and most land somewhere in the middle.
 
donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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MinnieM123 said:
Walking down memory lane here -- my father used to laugh himself silly over this record album. He'd play it even years after it first came out--it was his favorite. I think it was a "live" recorded album from a Texas club.

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Had to google the album 'cause I've only ever heard it mentioned here before.
It was recorded at the Tidelands Club at the Tidelands Motor Inn in Houston, Texas on Feb. 10th, 1960. Only about a 32 min. recording.
But, at the 1961 Grammy Awards it won Album of the Year and Bob Newhart won Best New Artist. The first time a comedy album ever won Album of the Year, and the only time a comedian has ever won Best New Artist.
Wow!!! Now I REALLY need to find a recording of this somewhere...! :)
 
Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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Gabe1 said:
Thinking this is a huge over generalization. Sure it happens. It happens from immigrants from the middle east and from around the world. Still it also happens more frequently to those born here. A large country, people moving and 'going for it' and it doesn't pan out or not what they dreamed of it being. Some of our own college students too and life doesn't work out like we think.

I believe the vast majority of the people I encounter are genuinely good people not a bunch of big jerks. Sadly the jerks stand out. Even at Disney we tend to remember the idiots line jumping or the drunk in the World Showcase but pay little attention to the hundreds of families we pass from the US or abroad that are just nice people and enjoy the family or friends they are with. We hear those that are bit**ing and moaning instead, making himself heard.

My DD freshman roommate at college was born in the middle east and disabled. She has had 18 surgeries here in the US and during that time became a US citizen. She and her Mom find themselves blessed to have been able to immigrate here, the young lady is now an Engineer. She likely would have just died where she came from, as a severely disabled female. What our doctors and school system did to accommodate her to me is awesome not jerky.

I think we all interpret life, our country and immigrants very different which is another great thing about our nation, the right to post publically our views and conclusions about people and immigration or any other topic whether they are pessimistic or optimistic or land somewhere in the middle. Just like when post about Disney, we're a mix of gloom and doomers, pixie dusters and most land somewhere in the middle.
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We are talking about a person that recently arrived to what may have been hostile before, but, due to leadership at this point it is allowed to be vocalized and almost heroized. These are people just like you and me. These are people that actually have risked a hell of a lot more then any of us have only to be faced with headlines basically telling them to go home they have no future here. They are hated, they are not trusted and we expect them to smile through this type of climate? Why, because it just proves us as superior or because as lesser beings they are expected to just grin and take it. After all we are the American's. No, I'm sorry, but, the current climate in this country is hard enough for those of us born and raised here to deal with without depression. These people have to walk around with a guilty look on their face or be prosecuted as a undesirable addition to our pristine way of life. And even if we aren't openly hostile, I'm sure that they have no idea who to trust. I know I don't anymore. The ability to have diverse opinions can only be when the society that are the hosts it are not judgmental and crazed by some weird conception that we have been wronged in some way by people that are only trying to improve their own lives. Sorry, I will never let myself think that it is their own fault for being a tad paranoid and depressed. They wouldn't be paranoid if the whole place didn't seem out to get them.
 
MinnieM123

MinnieM123

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donaldtoo said:
Had to google the album 'cause I've only ever heard it mentioned here before.
It was recorded at the Tidelands Club at the Tidelands Motor Inn in Houston, Texas on Feb. 10th, 1960. Only about a 32 min. recording.
But, at the 1961 Grammy Awards it won Album of the Year and Bob Newhart won Best New Artist. The first time a comedy album ever won Album of the Year, and the only time a comedian has ever won Best New Artist.
Wow!!! Now I REALLY need to find a recording of this somewhere...! :)
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Dang. I wish I had saved that old album. I'd love to hear it now. I'd be curious to know what kind of humor he did in a "live" album, back in 1960. I can only imagine the subjects would be very different from today!!
 
donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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MinnieM123 said:
Dang. I wish I had saved that old album. I'd love to hear it now. I'd be curious to know what kind of humor he did in a "live" album, back in 1960. I can only imagine the subjects would be very different from today!!
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Very curious here, too...! :)
I took a nap, and now I'm playing ketchup again here, but, later tonight or tomorrow, I'm gonna' see if I can run down a recording of it somewhere online. :)
 

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