Don't give up Hope....

[jjkrkwood]

Some Life Inspiration.....

 

 

Then

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/2894238/thumbs/o-GAY-PROM-COUPLE-II-570.jpg

 

 

NOW (It's NEVER Too Late)

 

[bigvalboy]

"Hope springs eternal"...

[jjkrkwood]

"Hope springs eternal"...

 

At Our age, it only springs with Viagra......

[AdamSmith]

Inspector: 'ELLO!

 

Mr. Hilton: 'Ello.

 

Inspector: Mr. 'ilton?

 

Hilton: A-yes?

 

Inspector: You are the sole proprietor and owner of the Whizzo Chocolate Company?

 

Mr. Hilton: I am, yes.

 

Inspector: Constable Clitoris and I are from the 'ygiene squad, and we'd like to have a word with you about your box of chocolates entitled the 'Whizzo Quality Assortment'.

 

Mr. Hilton: Oh, yes.

 

Inspector: If I may begin at the beginning. First there is the Cherry Fondue. Now this is extremely nasty. (pause) But we can't prosecute you for that.

 

Mr. Hilton: Ah, agreed.

 

Inspector: Then we have number four. Number four: Crunchy Frog.

 

Mr. Hilton: Yes.

 

Inspector: Am I right in thinking there's a real frog in 'ere?

 

Mr. Hilton: Yes, a little one.

 

Inspector: What sort of frog?

 

Mr. Hilton: A...a *dead* frog.

 

Inspector: Is it cooked?

 

Mr. Hilton: No.

 

Inspector: What, a RAW frog?!?

 

Mr. Hilton: Oh, we use only the finest baby frogs, dew-picked and flown from Iraq, cleansed in the finest quality spring water, lightly killed, and sealed in a succulent, Swiss, quintuple-smooth, treble-milk chocolate envelope, and lovingly frosted with glucose.

 

Inspector: That's as may be, but it's still a frog!

 

Mr. Hilton: What else?

 

Inspector: Well, don't you even take the bones out?

 

Mr. Hilton: If we took the bones out, it wouldn't be crunchy, would it?

 

Inspector: Constable Clitoris et one of those!! We have to protect the public!

 

Constable: Uh, would you excuse me a moment, Sir? (exits)

 

Inspector: We have to protect the public! People aren't going to think there's a real frog in chocolate! Constable Clitoris thought it was an almond whirl! They're bound to expect some sort of mock frog!

 

Mr. Hilton: (outraged) MOCK frog!?! We use NO artificial additives or preservatives of ANY kind!

 

Inspector: Nevertheless, I advise you in future to replace the words 'Crunchy Frog' with the legend, 'Crunchy, Raw, Unboned Real Dead Frog' if you wish to avoid prosecution!

 

Mr. Hilton: What about our sales?

 

Inspector: FUCK your sales! We've got to protect the public! Now what about this one, number five, it was number five, wasn't it? Number five: Ram's Bladder Cup. (beat) Now, what sort of confectionery is that?

 

Mr. Hilton: Oh, we use only the finest juicy chunks of fresh Cornish Ram's bladder, emptied, steamed, flavoured with sesame seeds, whipped into a fondue, and garnished with lark's vomit.

 

Inspector: LARK'S VOMIT?!?!?

 

Mr. Hilton: Correct.

 

Inspector: It doesn't say anything here about lark's vomit!

 

Mr. Hilton: Ah, it does, on the bottom of the box, after 'monosodium glutamate'.

 

Inspector: I hardly think that's good enough! I think it's be more appropriate if the box bore a great red label: 'WARNING: LARK'S VOMIT!!!'

 

Mr. Hilton: Our sales would plummet!

 

Inspector: (screaming) Well why don't you move into more conventional areas of confectionary??!!

 

(the constable returns)

 

Inspector: Like Praline, or, or Lime Creme, a very popular flavor, I'm lead to understand. Or Raspberry Delite. I mean, what's this one, what's this one? 'Ere we are: Cockroach Cluster! -- Anthrax Ripple!

 

Constable: MMMMWWWAAAAAGGGGGHHHH!! (Throws up in helmet)

 

Inspector: (continuing) And what is this one: Spring Surprise?

 

Mr. Hilton: Ah, that's one of our specialities. Covered in dark, velvety chocolate, when you pop it into your mouth, stainless steel bolts spring out and plunge straight through both cheeks.

 

Inspector: (stunned) Well where's the pleasure in THAT?!? If people pop a nice little chockie into their mouth, they don't expect to get their cheeks pierced!!! In any case, it is an inadequate description of the sweetmeat. I shall have to ask you to accompany me to the station.

 

Mr. Hilton: (shrugging) It's a fair cop.

 

Inspector: And DON'T talk to the audience.

[+ quoththeraven]

At Our age, it only springs with Viagra......

 

Aw, you beat me to the punchline! I was going to say, "I'll bet other things spring beside hope," but you're right, at their age it might only spring with Viagra.

[+ quoththeraven]

Context, Mr. Smith? I'm guessing it's a Monty Python sketch. Some indication in the text would have been helpful. Then I wouldn't have had to resort to listening to the audio.

[bigvalboy]

Context, Mr. Smith? I'm guessing it's a Monty Python sketch. Some indication in the text would have been helpful. Then I wouldn't have had to resort to listening to the audio.

 

Allow me to help...

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs8KNgT-kqo

[AdamSmith]

Context, Mr. Smith? I'm guessing it's a Monty Python sketch. Some indication in the text would have been helpful. Then I wouldn't have had to resort to listening to the audio.

If these sketches are not already engraved in the medulla oblongata...

 

Anyway, surprise was (self-reflexively) the point!

[+ quoththeraven]

Thank you for the video. However, I read a lot faster than anyone talks, so video has to be really compelling for me to hang on long enough to watch it. That's also why I rarely listen to audio (and don't get me started on the subject of podcasts, which don't allow you to skip or fast forward).

 

The only Monty Python sketch I remember that is not in a movie is the exploding penguin one. That said, a college friend's father asked for a copy of their album Matching Tie and Handkerchief for Hanukkah. Her mother bought him -- a matching tie and handkerchief. *headdesk*

[+ poolboy48220]

Thank you for the video. However, I read a lot faster than anyone talks, so video has to be really compelling for me to hang on long enough to watch it. That's also why I rarely listen to audio (and don't get me started on the subject of podcasts, which don't allow you to skip or fast forward).

QTR, you have hit on one of my pet peeves. I would much rather read something than watch a video. I get impatient when someone forwards me a picture of a defect at work and expects me to pick out what's wrong with it. "Use your words" comes to mind, although I have yet to actually say that.

[+ quoththeraven]

QTR, you have hit on one of my pet peeves. I would much rather read something than watch a video. I get impatient when someone forwards me a picture of a defect at work and expects me to pick out what's wrong with it. "Use your words" comes to mind, although I have yet to actually say that.

 

I would probably say it. But then I have a non-diplomatic, get-to-the point streak that didn't always sit well with clients. I once left a voicemail for my supervisor accusing him of cowardice because he more or less openly avoided talking to me other than if I managed to corral him when he was in his office. He ignored my voicemails and emails. Somehow that did not strike me as good management. (Not that most lawyers are good at management anyway.)

[+ poolboy48220]

I've got a bit of that streak, too. Although I yield the crown to a contractor I was working with at my last job. Her project manager was going on & on about a technical topic that he really didn't know, and she knew back & forth. She broke in with "Bob, stop talking" - and he did. I asked her about it later and she said they'd worked together a long time and they were both comfortable with her bluntness.

[+ quoththeraven]

I've got a bit of that streak, too. Although I yield the crown to a contractor I was working with at my last job. Her project manager was going on & on about a technical topic that he really didn't know, and she knew back & forth. She broke in with "Bob, stop talking" - and he did. I asked her about it later and she said they'd worked together a long time and they were both comfortable with her bluntness.

 

Ha! Props to him for recognizing that she knows what she's talking about. That doesn't always happen. (Understatement of the year.)

[+ poolboy48220]

oh yeah. It shocked me when I heard her say it, AND that he complied with no apparent ill feelings. It's a phrase I'd LOVE to be able to use more often. The latest trend seems to be to say something that is only tangentially related to what's being discussed, even when it has absolutely no relevance to the problem at hand.

[geminibear]

Plenty of hope for everyone. 102 cities with Hope in the name.

 

AK Hope

AK Point Hope city

AL Fairhope city

AL Good Hope town

AL Hopewell

AL Mount Hope

AL New Hope city

AL Hope Hull

AR Hope city

AR Newhope

CA Hope Valley

CT Hopeville

FL Ochopee

GA New Hope

GA Good Hope town

IA Hopeville

IA Stanhope city

ID East Hope city

ID Hope city

IL Hope township

IL Hopewell village

IL Hopewell Estates

IL Good Hope village

IL Mount Hope township

IL Hopedale village

IN Hope town

IN Hopewell

IN New Hope

KS Hope city

KS Mount Hope city

KY Hope

KY Hopeful Heights

KY Hope

KY New Hope

LA New Hope

LA Hopedale

LA Good Hope

MA Hopedale town

ME Hope town

MI Port Hope village

MI Hope township

MN Port Hope township

MN New Hope city

MN Good Hope township

MN Hope township

MO Hope

MO Pleasant Hope city

MO New Hope

MO Pleasant Hope city

MO Hopewell

MS New Hope

MS Good Hope

NC Silk Hope

NC Hope Mills town

NC New Hope Academy

NC Spring Hope town

ND Westhope city

ND West Hope township

ND Hope city

NJ Hopewell borough

NJ Hopewell Township

NJ Stanhope borough

NJ Hope township

NM Hope village

NY New Hope

NY Hopewell town

NY Hopewell Junction

NY Hope Falls

NY Hope town

NY Middle Hope

NY Mount Hope town

OH Hopedale village

OH Good Hope township

OH Mount Hope

OH Hopewell township

OH Fairhope

OK Hopeton

PA Hopewell borough

PA New Hope borough

PA Glen Hope borough

PA Goodhope

PA Shope Gardens

PA Hopeland

PA Mount Hope

PA Stanhope

PA Fairhope township

PA East Hopewell township

PA North Hopewell township

RI Hope

RI Hope Valley

SD New Hope township

TN New Hope city

TX New Hope town

TX Hopewell

TX Hope

TX Good Hope

VA New Hope

VA Hopewell city

WI Mount Hope village

WI New Hope town

WV Mount Hope city

WV Hopemont

[geminibear]

Plenty of hope for everyone. 102 cities with Hope in the name.

 

AK Hope

AK Point Hope city

AL Fairhope city

AL Good Hope town

AL Hopewell

AL Mount Hope

AL New Hope city

AL Hope Hull

AR Hope city

AR Newhope

CA Hope Valley

CT Hopeville

FL Ochopee

GA New Hope

GA Good Hope town

IA Hopeville

IA Stanhope city

ID East Hope city

ID Hope city

IL Hope township

IL Hopewell village

IL Hopewell Estates

IL Good Hope village

IL Mount Hope township

IL Hopedale village

IN Hope town

IN Hopewell

IN New Hope

KS Hope city

KS Mount Hope city

KY Hope

KY Hopeful Heights

KY Hope

KY New Hope

LA New Hope

LA Hopedale

LA Good Hope

MA Hopedale town

ME Hope town

MI Port Hope village

MI Hope township

MN Port Hope township

MN New Hope city

MN Good Hope township

MN Hope township

MO Hope

MO Pleasant Hope city

MO New Hope

MO Pleasant Hope city

MO Hopewell

MS New Hope

MS Good Hope

NC Silk Hope

NC Hope Mills town

NC New Hope Academy

NC Spring Hope town

ND Westhope city

ND West Hope township

ND Hope city

NJ Hopewell borough

NJ Hopewell Township

NJ Stanhope borough

NJ Hope township

NM Hope village

NY New Hope

NY Hopewell town

NY Hopewell Junction

NY Hope Falls

NY Hope town

NY Middle Hope

NY Mount Hope town

OH Hopedale village

OH Good Hope township

OH Mount Hope

OH Hopewell township

OH Fairhope

OK Hopeton

PA Hopewell borough

PA New Hope borough

PA Glen Hope borough

PA Goodhope

PA Shope Gardens

PA Hopeland

PA Mount Hope

PA Stanhope

PA Fairhope township

PA East Hopewell township

PA North Hopewell township

RI Hope

RI Hope Valley

SD New Hope township

TN New Hope city

TX New Hope town

TX Hopewell

TX Hope

TX Good Hope

VA New Hope

VA Hopewell city

WI Mount Hope village

WI New Hope town

WV Mount Hope city

WV Hopemont

Take note that my home state of Colorado has no hope.