05 January 2007, 07:05 AM
Braling IISummer And Ray
You should never shout through a screen door - you could strain your voice!
05 January 2007, 09:07 AM
philnicBraling 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.
05 January 2007, 09:41 AM
fjp451BII 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."
05 January 2007, 11:20 AM
Chapter 31Finlayson 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.
05 January 2007, 11:22 AM
Doug Spaulding Nobody did a double-take like the great Don Knotts!
05 January 2007, 12:40 PM
grasstainsI like the way David Caruso removes his sunglasses.
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05 January 2007, 12:42 PM
philnicquote:
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!
05 January 2007, 01:01 PM
Jim AdamsI thought James Finlayson (from Laurel and Hardy fame) originated d'oh! in the 1930's ?
05 January 2007, 01:02 PM
Jim AdamsOk, I'm a dope! I should have read the other posts and not just the last one. D'OAH!!
06 January 2007, 12:26 AM
dandelionThe 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.