The organ (out takes)

[TruHart1]

Mr. Smith gets the prize! For picking up on the Russian Tea Room as being slightly to the left of Carnegie Hall...

Young Frankenstein 25 times... after getting laid off? Or was that simply after getting laid?

Ha! In those days, I hardly ever "got any" since I was pretty inept socially! My financial acumen was quite low or non-existent then, so I thought nothing of spending the little severance pay I was given and later, my unemployment money, to see lots and lots of movies and eat at my favorite restaurants! I felt I HAD to see Young Frankenstein multiple times to remember all the best bits! I had gone to the opening day matinée where there was only one other viewer and I attending, making my guffaws at the jokes and visual set-ups somewhat embarrassing, so of course, I had to see a showing where the large crowd at a fully sold viewing would laugh out loud (and it was that kind of comedy!) Then I had to see it again to share with friends, and then again, and again, and again! I had the screenplay memorized eventually!

 

TruHart1

[whipped guy]

Rare Photo of Adam Smith.... and yes our own Mr. Smith with his walking stick! I find it interesting that he neglicted to put his teeth in for the photo. However, he probably had just finished giving an edentulous blow job... a specialty of his from what I have heard... so that probably explains it!

 

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0003/822/MI0003822430.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

[TruHart1]

Rare Photo of Adam Smith.... and yes our own Mr. Smith with his walking stick! I find it interesting that he neglicted to put his teeth in for the photo. However, he probably had just finished giving an edentulous blow job... a specialty of his from what I have heard... so that probably explains it!

 

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0003/822/MI0003822430.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

Poor Signor Rossini is turning over in his grave, Mr. Whipped Guy!!!

 

TruHart1

[whipped guy]

Well last I knew Rossini's tomb was still in one piece.

 

http://www.travelsignposts.com/destination/var/albums/Italy/Florence/Santa-Croce/rossini_AJP8574.jpg?m=1367129172

 

However, if anything causes the Basilica of Santa Croce (the Westminster Abby of Italy) in Firenze to collapse it probably would be due to Machiavelli rolling over in his grave!

 

 

I first thought of Enrico Fermi, but he only has a monument there. He buried in Chicago.

 

http://stfrancis.clas.asu.edu/sites/default/files/img_1781.jpg

 

By the way it is also the final resting place of Michelangelo.

 

 

To this day they still have medieval games annually in the square.

 

[AdamSmith]

Rare Photo of Adam Smith.... and yes our own Mr. Smith with his walking stick! I find it interesting that he neglicted to put his teeth in for the photo. However, he probably had just finished giving an edentulous blow job... a specialty of his from what I have heard... so that probably explains it!

 

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0003/822/MI0003822430.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

TEETH?!?

http://www.toyday.co.uk/shop/images/uploads/teeth.gif

That is not dead which can eternal lie

And with strange aeons even death may die.

 

http://biblioman.org/img/authors/200x270/e3a8efb1b8cb186af88aa40aa7cb059f.jpg

 

[AdamSmith]

Well last I knew Rossini's tomb was still in one piece.

 

http://www.travelsignposts.com/destination/var/albums/Italy/Florence/Santa-Croce/rossini_AJP8574.jpg?m=1367129172

 

However, if anything causes the Basilica of Santa Croce (the Westminster Abby of Italy) in Firenze to collapse it probably would be due to Machiavelli rolling over in his grave!

 

 

I first thought of Enrico Fermi, but he only has a monument there. He buried in Chicago.

 

http://stfrancis.clas.asu.edu/sites/default/files/img_1781.jpg

 

By the way it is also the final resting place of Michelangelo.

 

 

To this day they still have medieval games annually in the square.

 

Now yer AS will grab credit for anything within reach of his lunch hooks

http://c8.alamy.com/comp/E1KX4R/male-hands-grab-gesture-E1KX4R.jpg

 

[credit William S Burroughs ] but he will NOT accept blame for decimating the tomb of Fermi or any of the other greats depicted here!

 

You will know he reserves that privilege for the truly deserving few...!

 

http://www.actingoutpolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/ViscDeathDream2.jpg

 

 

 

http://horrorcultfilms.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/capture2423-sinada.jpg

[whipped guy]

BIG LOL! (As Usual!)

 

I already posted about Death in Venice Beach Ca. And the Venice Casket Co. So I will refrain from doing so again.

 

Damned strawberries!

[AdamSmith]

Damned strawberries!

L(again!)MMFAO!!!

 

They will do it every time!

 

 

http://www.njcharters.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Venice-Canals-2-www.njcharters.com_.jpg

[AdamSmith]

...Water sports, anyone?!

[TruHart1]

Now yer AS will grab credit for anything within reach of his lunch hooks

http://c8.alamy.com/comp/E1KX4R/male-hands-grab-gesture-E1KX4R.jpg

 

[credit William S Burroughs ] but he will NOT accept blame for decimating the tomb of Fermi or any of the other greats depicted here!

 

You will know he reserves that privilege for the truly deserving few...!

 

http://www.actingoutpolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/ViscDeathDream2.jpg

 

 

 

http://horrorcultfilms.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/capture2423-sinada.jpg

BIG LOL! (As Usual!)

 

I already posted about Death in Venice Beach Ca. And the Venice Casket Co. So I will refrain from doing so again.

 

Damned strawberries!

Both of you are probably going a Tadzio too far here!!! :p:p LOL!

 

TruHart1

[AdamSmith]

Both of you are probably going a Tadzio too far here!!! :p:p LOL!

 

TruHart1

Is that really possible?

 

Give us an algebraic-topology proof.

[AdamSmith]

It is a really fascinating domain...

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_topology

[TruHart1]

When you are sitting in your favorite Italian restaurant and that beloved duet begins playing in the background!

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1514266241998533

 

(For all his Italian heritage, Sinatra's Italian language pronunciation is somewhat difficult to listen to!)

 

TruHart1

[whipped guy]

Is that really possible?

 

Give us an algebraic-topology proof.

Now you lost me. I failed this in kindergarten. Then it was all downhill from there!

[whipped guy]

When you are sitting in your favorite Italian restaurant and that beloved duet begins playing in the background!

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1514266241998533

 

(For all his Italian heritage, Sinatra's Italian language pronunciation is somewhat difficult to listen to!)

 

TruHart1

BIG F@(King LOL!

 

This was the piece with which I made my delayed operatic debut! I was a member of the Sunday Afternoon Junior Music Club in high school that was a subsidiary of The Brahms Music Club. It was traditional for members of the junior club to periodically perform for the senior club. One soprsno wanted to do "La ci darem la mano". I was hired to be Don Giovanni... more like commandeered to do so. The part was easy enough and I thought that it would be fun to pretend that I was Cesare Siepi so I agreed. Well, I got my dates mixed up and I did not show up for the performance on a Sunday. What is ironic is that my name was listed in the local newspaper as being a guest artist. I never noticed that and when I did not show up nobody called to ask if I was ill or had been discovered as road kill on the side of the highway. However, the next day at school the chorus director said, " I see that you performed for the Brahms Club yesterday." I said, "Of yeah, right." That's when I realized that something was amiss!

 

Long story short, I made my debut the following month. I certainly hope that my Italian pronunciation was better than Sinatra's! I do recall being the Italian coach for my Zerlina as her last name was O'Brian and she had no clue!

[Cooper]

Now you lost me. I failed this in kindergarten. Then it was all downhill from there!

Gentlemen, Your labor of love has moved way beyond the Guidelines of this Forum. Perhaps this thread would be better suited for the Lounge.

 

Cooper

[AdamSmith]

Gentlemen, Your labor of love has moved way beyond the Guidelines of this Forum. Perhaps this thread would be better suited for the Lounge.

 

Cooper

Bach's fugal higher mathematics, which must surely qualify as supreme examples of knot theory and several other disciplines besides, don't belong in the Arts forum??

 

Not to mention the non-Euclidean, indeed almost Eulerian, achievements of the Große Fuge?!?

 

Ze Rules of ze Forum are ztrange indeed.

 

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[AdamSmith]

the Lounge.

 

Cooper

P.S. I can never read that name without thinking of the premier prize on the old show The Dating Game, namely 'a beautiful Broyhill Lounge Suite'!

 

[whipped guy]

Bach's fugal higher mathematics, which must surely qualify as supreme examples of knot theory and several other disciplines besides, don't belong in the Arts forum??

 

Not to mention the non-Euclidean, indeed almost Eulerian, achievements of the Große Fuge?!?

 

Ze Rules of ze Forum are ztrange indeed.

 

http://cbsnews1.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2014/06/19/b2e31a8a-73d7-4515-997d-5d5d8528d984/resize/620x465/693ddba4260c93dec09bb0bf5df42317/twilight-zone-rod-serling.jpg

I know that Bach can get quite mathematical and since math was never my strongest subject I'm tempted to repost the pic of the abacus... but I dare not! Or should I to push the envelope as far as possible!

 

The phrase "Push the envelope" came into general use following the publication Tom Wolfe's book about the space program, The Right Stuff . I hope fits into this forum. In any event all the artistic giants such as Bach and Beethoven routinely "pushed the envelope"!

 

 

Push the envelope

Meaning

To attempt to extend the current limits of performance. To innovate, or go beyond commonly accepted boundaries.

 

Origin

The Right Stuff, 1979:

 

"One of the phrases that kept running through the conversation was ‘pushing the outside of the envelope’... [That] seemed to be the great challenge and satisfaction of flight test."

 

Wolfe didn't originate the term, although it's appropriate that he used it in a technical and engineering context, as it was first used in the field of mathematics.

 

The envelope here isn't the container for letters, but the mathematical envelope, which is defined as 'the locus of the ultimate intersections of consecutive curves'. In a two-dimensional example, the set of lines described by the various positions of a ladder sliding down a wall forms an envelope - in this case an arc, gently curving away from the intersection of the wall and floor. Inside that envelope you will be hit by the ladder; outside you won't.

 

(Note for the mathematically inclined: it might seem intuitive that the centre point of the ladder would follow that same arc. In fact it describes a circle centred around the origin).

 

That's enough mathematics. The point is that an envelope is that which envelops. The phrase has something in common with an earlier one - 'beyond the pale'. Inside the pale you were safe; outside, at risk.

 

In aviation and aeronautics the term 'flight envelope' had been in use since WWII, as here from the Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, 1944:

 

"The best known of the envelope cases is the 'flight envelope', which is in general use in this country and in the United States... The ‘flight envelope’ covers all probable conditions of symmetrical manoeuvring flight."

 

That envelope is the description of the upper and lower limits of the various factors that it is safe to fly at, that is, speed, engine power, manoeuvrability, wind speed, altitude etc. By 'pushing the envelope', that is, testing those limits, test pilots were able to determine just how far it was safe to go. By 1978 the phrase was in use in print. In July that year, Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine had:

 

"The aircraft's altitude envelope must be expanded to permit a ferry flight across the nation. NASA pilots were to push the envelope to 10,000 ft."

 

The following year, Wolfe picked up the phrase and it went from a piece of specialist technical jargon into the general language.

[whipped guy]

P.S. I can never read that name without thinking of the premier prize on the old show The Dating Game, namely 'a beautiful Broyhill Lounge Suite'!

 

Now that's REALLY pushing that proverbial envelope! Just like Beethoven... yes mention Beethoven and the post will not be VERBOTEN!

[AdamSmith]

Now that's REALLY pushing that proverbial envelope! Just like Beethoven... yes mention Beethoven and the post will not be VERBOTEN!

Ah yes...Beethoven!...Broyhill!...vhat'z ze divverenze?!

Why do I suddenly feel like Henny Youngman or someone?

[AdamSmith]

Bach's fugal higher mathematics, which must surely qualify as supreme examples of knot theory

Actually braid theory, to be more precise. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach

[whipped guy]

Actually braid theory, to be more precise. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gödel,_Escher,_Bach

Well that's quite impressive and especially the following paragraph which indeed links the erudite to the absurd. I think that is the whole basis behind this thread that somehow possible got a bit lost. Yes we have gone way beyond the proverbial pushing of the envelope to punishing the envelope, but then again that's my specialty.

 

Word play also features prominently in the work. Puns are occasionally used to connect ideas, such as "the Magnificrab, Indeed" with Bach's Magnificat in D; "SHRDLU, Toy of Man's Designing" with Bach's Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring; and "Typographical Number Theory", or "TNT", which inevitably reacts explosively when it attempts to make statements about itself. One dialogue contains a story about a genie (from the Arabic "Djinn") and various "tonics" (of both the liquid and musical varieties), which is titled "Djinn and Tonic".

 

So I say let's grab a "whatever floats your boat and tonic" and chill out and listen to some Bach or whatever and enjoy the ride! Incidentally for all the sternness evident in his music Bach supposedly did have a sense of humor. Think his Coffee Cantata. Plus remember that Bach premiered many of his secular works at Zimmerman's Beer Hall. I kid you not! He performed there quite often! Just he and the boys and a few bar maids I would presume. Just imagine him stumbling home and getting a glance of Anna Magdalena. No wonder he had so many kids!

 

One final thought, why when I hear the name Broyhill does Van Cleef and Arpels suddenly come to mind... that's right... one or the other was always behind one of the three curtains... At least they were not ZONK prizes!

[AdamSmith]

Well that's quite impressive and especially the following paragraph which indeed links the erudite to the absurd. I think that is the whole basis behind this thread that somehow possible got a bit lost. Yes we have gone way beyond the proverbial pushing of the envelope to punishing the envelope, but then again that's my specialty.

 

Word play also features prominently in the work. Puns are occasionally used to connect ideas, such as "the Magnificrab, Indeed" with Bach's Magnificat in D; "SHRDLU, Toy of Man's Designing" with Bach's Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring; and "Typographical Number Theory", or "TNT", which inevitably reacts explosively when it attempts to make statements about itself. One dialogue contains a story about a genie (from the Arabic "Djinn") and various "tonics" (of both the liquid and musical varieties), which is titled "Djinn and Tonic".

 

So I say let's grab a "whatever floats your boat and tonic" and chill out and listen to some Bach or whatever and enjoy the ride! Incidentally for all the sternness evident in his music Bach supposedly did have a sense of humor. Think his Coffee Cantata. Plus remember that Bach premiered many of his secular works at Zimmerman's Beer Hall. I kid you not! He performed there quite often! Just he and the boys and a few bar maids I would presume. Just imagine him stumbling home and getting a glance of Anna Magdalena. No wonder he had so many kids!

 

One final thought, why when I hear the name Broyhill does Van Cleef and Arpels suddenly come to mind... that's right... one or the other was always behind one of the three curtains... At least they were not ZONK prizes!

LMMFAO!!! Yet once more (...O ye laurels, and once more...)!

 

THIS is what life, and cogition, and aesthesis, and everything are all about!

[AdamSmith]

P.P.S. This thread has however brought to the foreground the board's sore lack of a Furniture Showroom forum!

 

http://www.bassman-blaine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/High-Point-Market-2015-Designers-Guide-I-e1440449678226.jpg

 

http://assets.inhabitat.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2015/03/milan-furniture-fair-contributing-writer-job-inhabitat.jpg