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You should never shout through a screen door - you could strain your voice!
 
Posts: 3167 | Location: Box in Braling I's cellar | Registered: 02 July 2004Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Braling II, you just caused me to do a veritable James Finlayson of a double-take... it took a few seconds for me to get the joke.

Reminds me of the moustached man who always found soup a bit of a strain.


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BII and Phil: Ok, I can see right through what you are both up to in this exchange.

...and this,
"A series of rifle shots. Screen doors banged one after the other, a sunset volley, along the street." (DW, conclusion of John Huff's departure)

We always had a screen door on the back porch during the summer months. When fall arrived, the screened section could be removed and a glass replacement set in to guard against autumn wind and then winter snow. I remember later, due to errant baseballs or snowballs, the necessity of my father having to go to the new-fangled plexiglas. It repelled rather that shattered.

Also, those summer screen doors did bang closed, as Mr. B writes, like "rifle shots."
 
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Finlayson did a great double take fade-away, which Cary Grant was good at—just the fade-away I mean. He’d do the take (not a double take, just the take) then do the fade-away.

PS: Finlayson knocked himself out doing it once and I think it was a screen door he backed his head up into.
 
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Nobody did a double-take like the great Don Knotts!


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I like the way David Caruso removes his sunglasses.

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Originally posted by Doug Spaulding:
Nobody did a double-take like the great Don Knotts!

Except the UK's Peter Glaze. Who also pioneered "d'oh" long before Homer Simpson!


- Phil

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I thought James Finlayson (from Laurel and Hardy fame) originated d'oh! in the 1930's ?
 
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Ok, I'm a dope! I should have read the other posts and not just the last one. D'OAH!!
 
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The first things my dad got rid of when we moved in 1969 were the wooden screen doors and the claw-footed bathtub. The bathroom sink standing on a pipe had to go when it collapsed on me and my sisters! I was familiar with wooden screen doors for a few years after that. They're starting to reappear on some older, restored houses, but probably with modern "quiet" hinges.
 
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