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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
True! She didn't need to start smoking after all!
I've lately been reading Asimov's Foundation trilogy to Ryan at bedtime. Two things which seem ubiquitous to a modern reading - the casual chauvinism, and everyone lights up at the drop of a hat. (All in all, interesting how little Asimov could actually envisage changing from his current society.)
Grease: I cannot remember if I've seen it but the soundtrack was present in my life. And since I never ever hear the lyrics correctly (or bother to check them if I'm not really into the music), I thought for years it was "I got shoes/they're multiplying".
You know, less rapey, more Imelda Marcos.
"You better shape up/'Cause I need a man/Who can keep my soles supplied"
I don't feel like Grease actually is rapey, right? Everyone is an eager participant?
I mean, a hickey from Kenickie is like a Hallmark card!
Well...there was the guy that tried to slip the aspirin into Marty's Coke.
Glad to hear it Dana!
I am also home, where we apparently have an excessive heat warning in effect until Wed morning. Ugh. But bearable, I'm sure.
Timelies all!
Mr. S is a bit obsessed with his new flip-flops. Well, at least Gary has been able to get him to wear regular shoes at school, but at home...
Meanwhile I packed a bunch of tank tops and shorts and it's been like, mid-60s here every day. The last couple days of the trip next week might be warm, but currently I did laundry at this Airbnb to be able to wear my jeans and one long sleeve shirt again...but there's no dryer and I'm not sure they'll be dry by morning!
Also we had rented a car so we could drive through the alps today, but it was raining and cloudy and we could barely see anything. Still fun but we were both like "dang, I'll bet this place was gorgeous last week when it was 78 and sunny..."
I've only ever seen the movie version of Grease and that was a free showing at the library when I was a kid so possibly bowdlerized (if the movie needed to be). I mostly remember the song, Stockard Channing being my favorite, and my dad telling me how he refused to be nostalgic for the 50s, he'd been a teen then and he didn't want to look back on it. We (the family) did watch Happy Days, though, although maybe he didn't, I don't remember. We just had the one TV but he could have gone off and done something else, I suppose.
The Amazing Race did Switzerland last week, so there was an amazing amount of beautiful scenery! (I was disappointed that they were supplied with automatic transmission cars, but you can't have everything.)