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Hops

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Re: Response from D!
« Reply #15 on: July 25, 2006, 09:21:26 AM »
Hey P,

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I laughed at your description of attachment. Not sure i should? Yeah, i think you wanted me to!


You thought right!
(I did a stand-up comedy routine in a Baltimore nightclub one night, it was open mic night. They thought I was from the planet...Strange-o...but I had a wonderful time! Even invited my boss, who kept mentioned it in emails for the next three years.

 :lol: Hops

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Re: Response from D!
« Reply #16 on: July 25, 2006, 09:41:42 AM »
OH Hops!

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Thank you. I am much comforted by your kindness.

As I am always by yours.  Thankyou big time!

What relief eh?  I'm so glad your D responded.  I'm so glad!  :D

 :D Sela

Portia

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Re: Response from D!
« Reply #17 on: July 25, 2006, 05:55:13 PM »
Hops I'm awestruck!

I did a stand-up comedy routine in a Baltimore nightclub one night

The thought of doing this fills me with fear...big fear!

and it sounds soooo exotic to me.....a Baltimore nightclub ..... 8) (please don't tell me the reality...I like my imagination fantasy :D smokey room, low lights, people sitting with that world-weary 'go on, make me laugh' narrow-eyed scepticism.....etc). Nothing like the reality I bet? Whatsername..Sandra Bernhardt (Sandra? that doesn't sound right) type stand-up, very funny, very world-weary, I saw her on tv and enjoyed it.

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Re: Response from D!
« Reply #18 on: July 25, 2006, 06:11:40 PM »
You had the room, lights, atmosphere and audience EXACTLY right.

 :lol:

(Just not me. Not an obscenity in my routine. It was completelly clean
and all pantomime...but it was --cover your ears, people-- a slapstick
routine ... only suggested, I promise, nothing crude about it at ALL ...

about a young girl being rather dumfounded by the directions on a
box of

tampons.

 :oops:

[Edit: I feel compelled to explain...it was the euphemistic way they are
written and also the chart that looks line the diagram of "beef cuts"
at a butcher's shop! The best line was "relax all your muscles". I was
standing on one foot trying to balance with one foot in the air and
went limp as spaghetti while clutching the box in one hand and
shoving my glasses back up my nose with the other and trying
to read the tiny-print directions at the same time. That was the biggest laugh.
I didn't touched anything anatomical at all, it was all just kind of vaguely waving the props
around in the air. Part of what struck people funny was that this was back in my
first time when I had my white hair grown out...I think it just seemed absurd.]

They laughed some...but they were a very tough urban audience.
One woman pulled me over after and said baby, you're funny, but
you've got to spice it up some. Then offered some helpful vocabulary.

(You hadda be there, but you should probably be grateful you weren't!)

I have retired from standup.
It was a... you know, like people who have those wonderful life lists?

I think it was like that.

I'm shameless.

Hops
« Last Edit: July 25, 2006, 06:25:34 PM by Hopalong »
"That'll do, pig, that'll do."

Healing&Hopeful

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Re: Response from D!
« Reply #19 on: July 26, 2006, 07:59:24 AM »
Wow, I'm in awe Hops.... what an amazing gift!

(((((((((((((((Hoppy))))))))))))))))))))
Here's a little hug for u
To make you smilie while ur feeling blue
To make u happy if you're sad
To let u know, life ain't so bad
Now I've given a hug to u
Somehow, I feel better too!
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So pass one on & show u care

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Re: Response from D!
« Reply #20 on: July 26, 2006, 08:02:37 AM »
Hops:
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Fine with me, I am relieved.
I think I'll keep up the Sunday short messages. Seems a nice sort of policy...

I am glad for you, Hops.  Sunday messages might be a nice way of keeping the paths lighted.    

Hops:
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about a young girl being rather dumfounded by the directions on a
box of

tampons.

What a fun thing to do.  Your subject matter would have had me splitting a gut.  Definitely comedy material!  

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