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Sidney Poitier and Elizabeth Harman on the set of A Patch of Blue, 1965.

He was a great actor!

Rosemarie wrote: "He was a great actor!"

My dad's mother really liked him.

I loved him, and losing him was so sad. I uploaded a video with him to youtube over 10 years ago and it's got loads of new views saying RIP and how good he was. 😔It was the dancing scene with Judy Geeson and the song Up and Running.

Here's a lovely tribute from LuLu
https://people.com/movies/sidney-poit...

I read his book. 5 stars

Measure of a Man Sidney Poitier

He has lots of books, I meant the autobio.

Still reading my first book of 2022, The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth by Paul Hoffman.

I've heard about that one Jim, does it read well?

Surprisingly it does. It's not as dry as one would think, so one doesn't get dehydrated.

It might read better once you had a few cocktails in though! 😎

Jazzy wrote: "
Eva Perón"
funny, I thought it might be a young Hillary Clinton!

Well Hillary Clinton is not Evita!

hahaha

Did anyone ever watch Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In during the 60s.
Sammy Davis was a recurring character, as a judge!

Here come da judge!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMJOd...

Thank you, Jazzy!

My pleasure treasure! x

I watched reruns - that show was so fun 😂

We have lots and lots of snow! It's great, but then I don't have to go anywhere!
The kids were supposed to go back to the classroom today, but instead they're having another day of on-line school-due to the snow.

Today would have been Betty White's 100th birthday.
Many animal shelters and humane societies are calling today Betty White Day in honour of all the work she did raising funds and awareness about animal welfare and pet adoption.

When I was in elementary school, I used to watch Password. Betty was a regular and her husband was the host. She was good!

I'm really busy all day today, but the Cat Protection shop is open on Wednesday so plan to take them some cat food then in honour of Betty x

Have a good day!

Rosemarie wrote: "Today would have been Betty White's 100th birthday.
Many animal shelters and humane societies are calling today Betty White Day in honour of all the work she did raising funds and awareness about a..."

Yes, I remember the Password days too. They seemed an odd couple since he appeared very straight-laced and she more outgoing and zany. But those were TV personas. There was a report that the last thing Betty White said before she died was “Allan”.

I got this article in my email today and thought I'd share.

Not Meant for Chil­dren: Felix Salten and the sto­ry of Bambi
Salten is intent on depict­ing the plight of Euro­pean Jews caught in an ide­o­log­i­cal trap after World War I; deer ( Jews) are born to be hunt­ed and killed, and the soon­er they learn this les­son, the bet­ter able they will be to carve out a life — how­ev­er brief — for themselves.

https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/pb-...

Interesting, thanks Jazzy, esp. for me living in Vienna. I´d heard parts of it, though I never read the book. I´d wanted to visit an exhibition about his life here, but obviously missed it.

I read Bambi as a child, but maybe I should take another look at it. Maybe there will be another exhibition?

Happy Robbie Burns Day everyone!

And a grand Burns night it is too!

Let's raise a glass to Rabbie!

Ice cream sundaes have gender.

Rosemarie wrote: "Happy Robbie Burns Day everyone!"

This is how I learned about Robbie Burns Day.

I have a parent born on this day. They were given a haggis one year by a Scottish person in town as a birthday gift. My parents didn't tell us what was in it, but none of us liked it--even my dad doused it in ketchup.

I guess it's an aquired taste!

I made a vegetarian haggis one year. It was delicious, but an awful lot of work.

Sounds yummy, but it wouldn't be haggis!

Jim, what did you mean when you said Ice Cream Sundays have gender?

That's a lovely poem Karin! Thanks for sharing xx

Jazzy wrote: "Sounds yummy, but it wouldn't be haggis!

Jim, what did you mean when you said Ice Cream Sundays have gender?" Some have nuts, some don't.

😂

Jazzy wrote: "Sounds yummy, but it wouldn't be haggis!

Jim, what did you mean when you said Ice Cream Sundays have gender?"

Exactly! Unlike things like spaghtti and burgers (you can have a veggie burger or a chicken burger, etc or make vegetarian or vegan spaghetti dishes), a haggis can't even be made with regular ground meat.

haggis has to be:

A Scottish dish consisting of a mixture of the minced heart, lungs, and liver of a sheep or calf mixed with suet, onions, oatmeal, and seasonings and boiled in the stomach of the slaughtered animal.

The Fahrenheit temperature scale was developed by German physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit in 1714. People objected to his setting the boiling point of pure water at 212 and the freezing point at 32, saying that those numbers were too unwieldy. When Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius developed his simpler scale 28 years later, he initially set zero as the boiling point of water and the freezing point at 100. People objected then, too, but were mollified when he switched the numbers. From Five Equations That Changed the World by Michael Guillen, page 185.

Sounds like a good book.

I saw this.

This antique thermometer honours the creator of the first universal temperature scale. Daniel Fahrenheit was born in 1686 in the Polish city of Gdansk, and they continue to honour the pioneering temperature scientist with the Fahrenheit Monument.
Fahrenheit enjoyed a nomadic childhood whilst his merchant father traded across the cities of the Hanseatic League. Orphaned at 16 when his parents unwittingly ate poisonous mushrooms, he then joined the employ of an Amsterdam merchant. It was in science, however, that his passion lay, and he was soon corresponding with the brightest minds of the age whilst conducting experiments. By 1724 his famous temperature scale was complete and his place in history secure. Despite the rise of the Celsius scale, Fahrenheit’s scale remains in use in several countries.

The Gdansk Fahrenheit Monument displays an antique thermometer to remember the man.

Here's the picture I took of it. If you click on it twice you can see the detail.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jazzyle...

I get news from The Boston Globe and I hear it's a horrible snowstorm there.

Thought i'd share this photo of Anthony Perkins with a cat.

Cute!

There was an interesting article in the paper yesterday.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/202...

The reason for the phrase "sleep tight" is that if you sleep loose, you might wake up in the morning missing body parts. ;)

Especially if you're C-3PO!

Here's a short verse:

Good night, sleep tight!
Don't let the bedbugs bite!
If they do, take your shoe
And best them til they're black and blue!

My mama your mama live across the street
13, 14 Alligator street
Every night they. have a fight and this is what they say
Girls are sexy made out of pepsi
Boys are rotten made out of cotton
Girls go to mars to get more candy bars
Boys go to Jupiter to get more stupider!

(when my children were younger i stuck up for the boy in the middle with three older sisters and a younger one and said, ooh maybe it's Boys who are sexy made out of pepsi ...etc. And he said YEAH!)

down down baby, down down the roller coaster.
Sweet sweet baby, sweet sweet don't let me go.

shimmy shimmy coco pop, shimmy shimmy rock,
shimmy shimmy coco pop, shimmy shimmy rock

I met a girlfriend- a triscuit,
she said a triscuit-a biscuit,

ice cream soda pop
vanilla on the top

oooo Shalida, walking down the street,
ten times a week

I meant it. I said it.
I stole my mama's credit.

I'm cool. I'm hot.
Sock you in the stomach three more times.

I woke up this morning to find out it's raining INSIDE my house. The sound of trickling into the various pots and cups makes me want to record it and make a song with it.

It's way too cold to rain here!

Jazzy wrote: "There was an interesting article in the paper yesterday.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/202..."

Fitzgerald’s words appear to have been translated into another language and then rendered back into English by an antic computer

I found this with a different classic in a Kindle edition. The sentences in this other book didn't quite make sense and the word "condominium" was used in a book written in the 19th century!

Rosemarie it's raining on my bed and other belongings in my one room flat. I waited all day but no one has arrived to take a look. I went out and bought a large plastic container to catch the rain in as it's a new storm - Storm Dudley - on Wednesday with a deluge and up to 90mph winds!

Robin P. - I found that with ebooks - and films!

I sure hope they fix the leak, Jazzy!