You should never shout through a screen door - you could strain your voice!

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.

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."

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.

Nobody did a double-take like the great Don Knotts!

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!

I thought James Finlayson (from Laurel and Hardy fame) originated d'oh! in the 1930's ?

Ok, I'm a dope! I should have read the other posts and not just the last one. D'OAH!!

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.