tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16022724209064282522024-03-13T23:13:40.166-07:00Derrick Eason on the roadDerrick Easonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11718041734409074689noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1602272420906428252.post-26474427336771964662021-01-03T14:42:00.000-08:002021-01-03T14:42:19.519-08:00The Saga Continues...<p> It's the first Sunday of 2021... feels the same as 2020.</p><p> Bon fire with new friends last night was unexpectedly fun. Starting the year ablaze... the analogy is there the fire is cool and burning old embers. Thank God for friends. they call you, some like you, some even marry you from time to time. </p><p>2021 begins pandemically unemployed. the cruise industry in need in a major conceptual overhaul. Entertainers are challenged to maintain status, creativity, connectivity and monetary embellishments generally speaking, life in these untied trumped up United States. I watched half of CBS Sunday Morning, some Meet The Press some other depressing news spots... oatmeal and combustibles for breakfast. </p><p>The last nine months has really stifled my "doing". I've been doing a lot of watching. I Did some out of the house errands, back home, lunched on two hot dogs (vegan) with the works. Chocolate chip cookies for dinner. Isn't that the lightest meal of the day?</p><p> Tonight... Return of the Jedi.</p><p> </p>Derrick Easonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11718041734409074689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1602272420906428252.post-26000861032526740042020-07-28T08:05:00.001-07:002020-07-28T08:05:50.462-07:00Derrick Eason on Politics<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_O2quo3Rs3Y" width="480"></iframe>Derrick Easonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11718041734409074689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1602272420906428252.post-35514567877707132842020-06-01T15:13:00.001-07:002020-06-01T15:14:42.828-07:00Pandemic Blog #1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It's the last Sunday of May 2020. The world has changed since my last blog. Derrick Eason is not in the road Derrick Eason is on the couch!<br />
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Having chosen a profession that relies on the very things that may kill you and I (I thought it would be the jokes) I must find another way to die.<br />
Yelling at a cop in between gasps of pepper spray on the front lines of a four hundred year systematic problem?<br />
Alone in the woods or hunkered down somewhere with loved ones, toilet paper and jigsaw puzzles at the ready? Maybe I'll stand less than six feet to everyone and close talk calming quotes to strangers.<br />
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I prefer the old fashioned stand on a stage in a crowded room and spout brain waves. it was fun and the crowded rooms seem to enjoy it too. I did the killing, lot less people died some times just me there was the occasional spittle that flew from my face. I called it a souvenir, again no tests or quarantine necessary. the audience graciously ignored my airborne mucus some slightly adjusted their seating while chuckling.<br />
Today one must be much more creative and tech savvy in sending amoebas to patrons and sating the need to destroy hecklers. I'm working on it.<br />
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Derrick Easonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11718041734409074689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1602272420906428252.post-1754626651552408542020-04-02T21:54:00.001-07:002020-04-02T21:54:03.930-07:00It's Clean. Uncut.<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AFlu7C8gkcM" width="459"></iframe>Derrick Easonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11718041734409074689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1602272420906428252.post-55380335805570884732020-03-19T18:28:00.000-07:002020-03-19T20:23:06.059-07:00First Cruise of the Year!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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12/31/19<br />
I'm once again on board a Carnival cruise ship (the Fascination) out of Galveston,TX.<br />
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I did a 10:30 half hour set, watched the ball drop in NY, called my wife and finished packing my bags. I had to be on another ship (the Fantasy) out of Mobile,AL. on the first and I had a long travel day ahead of me. Traveling in the Gulf, I never know what to expect so without expectations I'm rarely yet often pleasantly surprised. not this day.<br />
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1/1/2020<br />
From Costa Maya, Mexico to Houston, Texas not bad. I miss the connecting flight to Mobile. At 7 pm It's the last of the night. I have to overnight in Houston. Customer service re-book flight, find a hotel, get to the hotel. It's the wrong hotel. Same name wrong end of the road and Texas has some long ass roads. I Get to the room by 9:30 pm. order take out. delivery person has no change. I say "I'll wait!". I have a 7 am flight Alabama I'm back at the airport at 5 am. The place is empty and the fog is thick, so thick that the flight doesn't leave till noon. I'm the last crew member on board. I have an 11:30 pm show. I'm heckled by a front row redneck named Tubby. The ship never leaves the dock due to the fog.<br />
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1/2/20<br />
Tubby the heckler showed his worth. Next night I'm watching my colleague's set. She goes into crossover material (jokes with same subject, premise or concept). Tubby used that time that I would've used that material. She needed it more than I did. A fresh to cruising young Jewish lesbian from NY on a ship out of Mobile, Alabama! She need every bit she had.<br />
Gemma our #punchlinercomedyclub manager is a natural comedian. She's a test tube baby from Singapore. She says "I had a womb with a view". You know they didn't get it!<br />
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1/3-4/20<br />
We were going to Progresso and Cozumel Mexico. It becomes a cruise to nowhere. My cold is in full effect but manageable. the ship is in the north gulf of Mexico. it's cold, the seas are rough and full of whitecaps. The skies are gray and brittle. I stay in my cabin as much as possible. seems this ship has a bug also as most of the crew display the same symptoms as I. Ships are incubators and hold whatever germs are brought aboard well for all to share. I spend as much time as possible in fresh air on the open decks away from people. Great practice for what was soon to come.<br />
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Derrick Easonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11718041734409074689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1602272420906428252.post-12042205422408618342020-01-20T15:31:00.000-08:002020-01-20T15:35:46.595-08:00Refocusing in 2020 <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It's been five years since the last post. Ten years since the first.<br />
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Happy 2020.<br />
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Half a Decade! I'm minus forty pounds, plus a poodle and some metal in my spine . I have been thrown back to the streets reconnected with the roots of what and why I do it.<br />
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The cruise industry has been very very good to me. When immersed it's thoroughly rewarding and extremely isolating add the buffet and never ending pizza, I ate Complacent lazy gravy and lost my drive. Not hungry enough, I lost ground at sea.<br />
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I begin the second decade of the second millennium doing' open mics, local gigs, teaching a stand up comedy workshop and upping my writing and networking skills. Create! That's what I'll do, I'll create, with the addition of 30 years of experience. Restructure and reroute. Create that brand.<br />
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It's all new again... 11:45 and I'm waiting for four minutes.<br />
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Derrick Easonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11718041734409074689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1602272420906428252.post-40228295759337584392015-01-17T07:41:00.001-08:002015-01-17T07:41:49.566-08:00Mexico<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> My first experience was as a young boy traveling with my mother... Acapulco, Taxico, Ixtapa on the west coast.. Amazing.... To the point where I had to meet mom at the airport... She was furious... I think I was 13... first time out in another country... I was lucky to meet people who were awesome and took me to the airport.</span><br />
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Derrick Easonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11718041734409074689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1602272420906428252.post-36999378739609002602014-12-28T20:11:00.000-08:002014-12-28T20:11:59.839-08:00Brooklyn<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> I'm blessed to have been born in Brooklyn... To be a Brooklynite. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; white-space: pre-wrap;">To most people it's a place of myths and dreams... The other part of New York they wanted to visit.. but didn't... Where the Kings Hip Hop are born.. One of the most famous bridges of the world... Lives there. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> I know so many people who have "been" to NYC and never crossed that bridge. Most folks go to Manhattan's Times Square and think they've seen NYC, which couldn't be further from the truth... That's like going to the moon and saying you've explored the universe. You ain't seen nothin',an' Ya been Nowhere! </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> New York City is a city of islands... Brooklyn is on the edge of one of 'em...The 4th largest city in This Country! You can live in the projects, you can live on the beach, you can live in a penthouse, you can live on the street. It's all available. As far as American towns go BK is the place of legend. I think more celebrities have been born in Brooklyn than any other... Home of the Huxtables, the Cramdens the Bunkers and yes the Flintstone's (Bedrock was Brooklyn).</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> When I tell people I'm from Brooklyn faces change... Eyebrows go up, eyes widen, smiles appear as if to say " Wow, I finally met someone from Brooklyn"... Then they ask "Are you really from Brooklyn?" Sometimes someone says... " Hey Me Too!!!" at which time I'll say "What Part!!!" and it starts... It feels good... like meeting another club member.... We Compare notes,check high schools, streets, old haunts and memories becoming kindred spirits as we realize how far we've come or gone from Brooklyn. Like me, so many have moved to live in other cities so we speak with nostalgia on our tongues and a love in our eyes That's so obvious see and feel. For short periods of time we transport each other back in time to better days... </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; white-space: pre-wrap;">It can </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; white-space: pre-wrap;">start with the mention of a neighborhood or a street. Most recently it was Legion St. Sometimes it was Eastern Pkwy or Nostrand ave or Linden Blvd... I meet a lot of people from Canarsie where I graduated HS while living in Starrett City... Flatbush is often mentioned where I lived in the junction across from Brooklyn College. I was born in Bedford Stuyvesant (Bed-Sty) at St. John's hospital. First stop was St Marks Ave then we moved to Ebbets Field on Bedford Ave in Crown Heights. Honorable mention to Red Hook, Williamsburg, & East New York.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> I've lived in many cities and states since then but wherever I was, I repped Brooklyn. My traveling has softened my accent but after a couple of beers it goes backondablock.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I still dream of living in Park Slope... I still lament when a summer passes without visiting Nathan's at Coney Island... I live in Philly now... An hour and a half away. Its close... It's close enough.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> These days I live for love and that takes me all over the world... I keep Brooklyn in my heart.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> There will always be a part of me that lives in Brooklyn... </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wherever I am... It's who I am. Will it ever leave? </span><br style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yo Fagetaboubit!!! </span><br style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> believe that... I got a bridge I wanna sell Ya !</span><br style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /></div>
Derrick Easonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11718041734409074689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1602272420906428252.post-7321262115402170092014-11-16T16:00:00.000-08:002014-11-16T16:04:37.455-08:00Air Travel<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Derrick Easonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11718041734409074689noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1602272420906428252.post-79536627974658228262014-10-21T16:58:00.000-07:002014-10-21T16:58:01.563-07:00A Quick Lunch in Nassau<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> It's my favorite eatery in Nassau... </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Another shack (a tourist trap) called Two Brothers is a few shacks down as seen on TV's...</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> "Nooo Reservations"... They are way over priced and they need to get rid of a brother, cause they got rid of this brother QUICK!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> McKenzie's is right next to Skinny's, first shack on the left,where the dominos are slammed with gusto, Kalik (the local beer) and a smart remark as every domino jumps from the table... </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The language is English but you'd never know it if you don't have an ear for patwah... </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Tourists don't come here... The Locals, Travelers, and Adventurers are who you find here... My drink? Coconut milk, Condensed milk mixed with Gin... Called "Sky Juice" and I know why... After a few of these and that's all you'll see as you are flat on your back, eyes wide open,with a big smile on your face. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> I've just finished my usual... A dozen conch fritters ($4) and I'll take a double order of Conch salad back with me to the ship... </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> It's raining now... It Brings a cool tingle to the skin... Thank you Sky juice...hhmmm</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Started on the Carnival Pride then the Carnival Triumph,back from its infamous "Poop Cruise" which I missed by one cruise... Shit!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The DVD</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> "It's All About Love" was released and met with great reception. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Folks out of Texas and Florida sold out the live Stand Up set. I autographed each and every one, meeting some great people along the way ( imagine that... Great people in Texas...hehe )</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Mid month Dessy and I weekended at Lake George N.Y. Post season, for my birthday</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> we had the lake to our selves A true recharge of spirit...Then off to Dubai to see family and friends and a bit of networking... The City in the desert.... Architecture that is not to be believed, each skyscraper more unique, more majestic than the other... </span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Went to Trader Vic's and drank Tiki Puka Puka and ate some amazing Poki till we salsa danced. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Dubai is the true jewel of the Middle East. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I'm blessed to have a love hate relationship with this City Kingdom... or Kingdom City</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Either way I Plan to bring some comedy there soon.</span></span></span><br />
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SO... It's been a year and a half since I have posted... I'd like to say I was THAT Busy... I wasn't<br />
Alot has happened... Alot didn't happen.<br />
Many things that were supposed to happen happened...Many things that wern't suppose to happen happened... Many things that were supposed to happen didn't happen, just as, Many things that weren't supposed to happen happened...and had to happen, and not ALL that happened had happy endings...HA! Hardly!<br />
All in All, things are very good Thank God! I thank God every day I remember to do so.<br />
I Love my Mother I Love my Wife I Love my Ike. (the cat)<br />
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... And since my last post...Life is Infinately better... I Love a whole lot deeper now ... It's You Desi!<br />
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And Lovin' what I do... lovin' life "On the Road".<br />
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The Carnival Pride... and The Triumph are up next for August & September!<br />
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"It's All About Love"... The DVD... is set for an early Indian Summer Release!<br />
...still got a few days... I'll do 'em with the fam... and like any new journey<br />
I'll start from Home...<br />
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Spring... 2012... What a Year!!!... World got Hotter... Smaller... Spinning Faster!.. and we're hangin' on reachin' for the Brass...<br />
Honeymooned in Vegas... Landed in Big Al's Comedy Club inside the<br />
Orleans Hotel & Casino!</div>Derrick Easonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11718041734409074689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1602272420906428252.post-30957140048163234732011-09-12T23:53:00.000-07:002011-09-12T23:53:40.282-07:00"Heyyyyy Yaaaaa'lll", Uhh oh... -Outcast<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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</div><div style="color: #333233; font: 15.0px Arial; line-height: 21.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">So, its Fall 2011.... Cruisin' the Seven Seas, I've met so many great people in the past year, its blinding... I've Been Sailing with Carnival for about 7 and a half years now, and it feels like I'm reaching a saturation point. At the same time work seems to be more rewarding than ever... I've never felt "freer" or more fearless on stage. I love my "voice" and I know I'm reaching people with more than just a joke or two... I must remember to take breaks to "re-up" or refresh my energy and outlook on life...<br />
Currently Dubai has played a role in my re energizing, which is proof that God has a sense of humor, cause this is one of the most modern, backwards cities in the world... I enjoy the hype... I just don't believe it... folks are struggling all over the world... it's just a more expensive struggle here.. You thought keeping up with the Joneses was rough?... Try keeping up with the Mohammeds! Yesterday they were digging in the sand looking for some food, and up through the ground come a bubblin' crude.... Oil that is... Black Gold... Texas tea... Well the next thing you know Ole' Akmed's a billionaire... kin folk said, of course," Build a Mall... put a ski slope in it, get some gold buckle patent leather sandals... and a brush for the camels! Oh! how about an Applebee's next door... and a yacht for the cat."<br />
I'm Getting Married... so is my fiance...<br />
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<i>Hollywood Squares:</i></i></b></span><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
<i>These great questions and answers are from the days when ' Hollywood Squares' game show responses were spontaneous, not scripted, as they are now. Peter Marshall was the host asking the questions, of course..</i></span></i></b><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>Q.. </i></span></i></b><i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">Paul, what is a good reason for pounding meat?</span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>A. Paul Lynde : Loneliness!</i></span></i></b><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: olive; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>(The audience laughed so long and so hard it took up almost 15 minutes of the show!)</i></span></i></b><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>Q</i></span></i></b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;">.</span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"> </span></i></b><i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">Do female frogs croak?</span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>A. Paul Lynde : If you hold their little heads under</i></span></i></b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;">water long enough.</span></i></b><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>Q. </i></span></i></b><i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">If you're going to make a parachute jump, at least how high should you be</span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>A. Charley Weaver: Three days of steady drinking should do it.</i></span></i></b><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>Q.</i></span></i></b><i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;"> True or False, a pea can last as long as 5,000 years...</span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>A. George Gobel : Boy, it sure seems that way sometimes.</i></span></i></b><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>Q.</i></span></i></b><i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;"> You've been having trouble going to sleep. Are you probably a man or a woman?</span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>A.. Don Knotts : That's what's been keeping me awake.</i></span></i></b><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>Q. </i></span></i></b><i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">According to Cosmopolitan, if you meet a stranger at a party and you</span></b></i><i><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b></i><i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">think that he is attractive, is it okay to come out and ask him if he's married?</span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>A.. Rose Marie : No wait until morning.</i></span></i></b><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>Q.</i></span></i></b><i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;"> Which of your five senses tends to diminish as you get older?</span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>A. Charley Weaver : My sense of decency..</i></span></i></b><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>Q.</i></span></i></b><i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;"> In Hawaiian, does it take more than three words to say 'I Love You'?</span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>A. Vincent Price : No, you can say it with a pineapple and a twenty...</i></span></i></b><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>Q.</i></span></i></b><i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;"> What are 'Do It,' 'I Can Help,' and 'I Can't Get Enough'?</span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>A. George Gobel: I don't know, but it's coming from the next apartment.</i></span></i></b><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>Q.</i></span></i></b><i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;"> As you grow older, do you tend to gesture more or less with your hands while talking?</span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>A. Rose Marie: You ask me one more growing old question Peter, and I'll give you a gesture you'll never forget.</i></span></i></b><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>Q.</i></span></i></b><i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;"> Paul , why do Hell's Angels wear leather?</span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>A. Paul Lynde : Because chiffon wrinkles too easily.</i></span></i></b><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>Q..</i></span></i></b><i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;"> Charley, you've just decided to grow strawberries. Are you going to get any during the first year?</span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>A.. Charley Weaver : Of course not, I'm too busy growing strawberries.</i></span></i></b><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>Q.</i></span></i></b><i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;"> In bowling, what's a perfect score?</span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>A. Rose Marie : Ralph , the pin boy.</i></span></i></b><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>Q. </i></span></i></b><i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">It is considered in bad taste to discuss two subjects at nudist camps.. One is politics, what is the other?</span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>A. Paul Lynde : Tape measures..</i></span></i></b><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>Q.</i></span></i></b><i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;"> During a tornado, are you safer in the bedroom or in the closet?</span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>A. Rose Marie: Unfortunately Peter, I'm always safe in the bedroom.</i></span></i></b><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>Q.</i></span></i></b><i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;"> Can boys join the Camp Fire Girls?</span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>A.. Marty Allen : Only after lights out.</i></span></i></b><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>Q.</i></span></i></b><i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;"> When you pat a dog on its head he will wag his tail. What will a goose do?</span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>A. Paul Lynde : Make him bark?</i></span></i></b><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>Q.</i></span></i></b><i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;"> If you were pregnant for two years, what would you give birth to?</span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>A. Paul Lynde: Whatever it is, it would never be afraid of the dark...</i></span></i></b><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>Q.</i></span></i></b><i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;"> According to Ann Landers, is there anything wrong with getting into the habit of kissing a lot of people?</span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>A. Charley Weaver : It got me out of the army.</i></span></i></b><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>Q.</i></span></i></b><i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;"> It is the most abused and neglected part of your body, what is it?</span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>A. Paul Lynde : Mine may be abused, but it certainly isn't neglected.</i></span></i></b><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>Q. </i></span></i></b><i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">Back in the old days, when Great Grandpa put horseradish on his head, what was he trying to do?</span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>A. George Gobel : Get it in his mouth.</i></span></i></b><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>Q.</i></span></i></b><i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;"> Who stays pregnant for a longer period of time, your wife or your elephant?</span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>A. Paul Lynde : Who told you about my elephant?</i></span></i></b><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>Q. </i></span></i></b><i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">When a couple have a baby, who is responsible for its sex?</span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>A.. Charley Weaver : I'll lend him the car, the rest is up to him</i></span></i></b><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>Q.</i></span></i></b><i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;"> Jackie Gleason recently revealed that he firmly believes in them and has actually seen them on at least two occasions. What are they?</span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>A. Charley Weaver : His feet.</i></span></i></b><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>Q.</i></span></i></b><i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;"> According to Ann Landers, what are two things you should never do in bed?</span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>A. Paul Lynde : Point and laugh</i></span></i></b><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>WE DON'T STOP LAUGHING BECAUSE WE GROW OLD,</i></span></i></b><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
<i>WE GROW OLD BECAUSE WE STOP LAUGHING</i></span></i></b><span style="color: black;"></span></div></div><div><div><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<hr /><hr noshade="noshade" size="1" /><div align="left"><i><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 28pt;">FOR THOSE OF US WHO REMEMBER </span></b></i></div><div><div><i><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<i>Hollywood Squares:</i></i></b></span><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
<i>These great questions and answers are from the days when ' Hollywood Squares' game show responses were spontaneous, not scripted, as they are now. Peter Marshall was the host asking the questions, of course..</i></span></i></b><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>Q.. </i></span></i></b><i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">Paul, what is a good reason for pounding meat?</span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>A. Paul Lynde : Loneliness!</i></span></i></b><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: olive; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>(The audience laughed so long and so hard it took up almost 15 minutes of the show!)</i></span></i></b><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>Q</i></span></i></b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;">.</span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"> </span></i></b><i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">Do female frogs croak?</span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>A. Paul Lynde : If you hold their little heads under</i></span></i></b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;">water long enough.</span></i></b><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>Q. </i></span></i></b><i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">If you're going to make a parachute jump, at least how high should you be</span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>A. Charley Weaver: Three days of steady drinking should do it.</i></span></i></b><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>Q.</i></span></i></b><i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;"> True or False, a pea can last as long as 5,000 years...</span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>A. George Gobel : Boy, it sure seems that way sometimes.</i></span></i></b><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>Q.</i></span></i></b><i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;"> You've been having trouble going to sleep. Are you probably a man or a woman?</span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>A.. Don Knotts : That's what's been keeping me awake.</i></span></i></b><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>Q. </i></span></i></b><i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">According to Cosmopolitan, if you meet a stranger at a party and you</span></b></i><i><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b></i><i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">think that he is attractive, is it okay to come out and ask him if he's married?</span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>A.. Rose Marie : No wait until morning.</i></span></i></b><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>Q.</i></span></i></b><i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;"> Which of your five senses tends to diminish as you get older?</span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>A. Charley Weaver : My sense of decency..</i></span></i></b><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>Q.</i></span></i></b><i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;"> In Hawaiian, does it take more than three words to say 'I Love You'?</span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>A. Vincent Price : No, you can say it with a pineapple and a twenty...</i></span></i></b><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>Q.</i></span></i></b><i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;"> What are 'Do It,' 'I Can Help,' and 'I Can't Get Enough'?</span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>A. George Gobel: I don't know, but it's coming from the next apartment.</i></span></i></b><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>Q.</i></span></i></b><i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;"> As you grow older, do you tend to gesture more or less with your hands while talking?</span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>A. Rose Marie: You ask me one more growing old question Peter, and I'll give you a gesture you'll never forget.</i></span></i></b><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>Q.</i></span></i></b><i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;"> Paul , why do Hell's Angels wear leather?</span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>A. Paul Lynde : Because chiffon wrinkles too easily.</i></span></i></b><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>Q..</i></span></i></b><i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;"> Charley, you've just decided to grow strawberries. Are you going to get any during the first year?</span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>A.. Charley Weaver : Of course not, I'm too busy growing strawberries.</i></span></i></b><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>Q.</i></span></i></b><i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;"> In bowling, what's a perfect score?</span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>A. Rose Marie : Ralph , the pin boy.</i></span></i></b><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>Q. </i></span></i></b><i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">It is considered in bad taste to discuss two subjects at nudist camps.. One is politics, what is the other?</span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>A. Paul Lynde : Tape measures..</i></span></i></b><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>Q.</i></span></i></b><i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;"> During a tornado, are you safer in the bedroom or in the closet?</span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>A. Rose Marie: Unfortunately Peter, I'm always safe in the bedroom.</i></span></i></b><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>Q.</i></span></i></b><i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;"> Can boys join the Camp Fire Girls?</span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>A.. Marty Allen : Only after lights out.</i></span></i></b><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>Q.</i></span></i></b><i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;"> When you pat a dog on its head he will wag his tail. What will a goose do?</span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>A. Paul Lynde : Make him bark?</i></span></i></b><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>Q.</i></span></i></b><i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;"> If you were pregnant for two years, what would you give birth to?</span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>A. Paul Lynde: Whatever it is, it would never be afraid of the dark...</i></span></i></b><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>Q.</i></span></i></b><i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;"> According to Ann Landers, is there anything wrong with getting into the habit of kissing a lot of people?</span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>A. Charley Weaver : It got me out of the army.</i></span></i></b><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>Q.</i></span></i></b><i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;"> It is the most abused and neglected part of your body, what is it?</span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>A. Paul Lynde : Mine may be abused, but it certainly isn't neglected.</i></span></i></b><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>Q. </i></span></i></b><i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">Back in the old days, when Great Grandpa put horseradish on his head, what was he trying to do?</span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>A. George Gobel : Get it in his mouth.</i></span></i></b><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>Q.</i></span></i></b><i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;"> Who stays pregnant for a longer period of time, your wife or your elephant?</span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>A. Paul Lynde : Who told you about my elephant?</i></span></i></b><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>Q. </i></span></i></b><i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">When a couple have a baby, who is responsible for its sex?</span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>A.. Charley Weaver : I'll lend him the car, the rest is up to him</i></span></i></b><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>Q.</i></span></i></b><i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;"> Jackie Gleason recently revealed that he firmly believes in them and has actually seen them on at least two occasions. What are they?</span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>A. Charley Weaver : His feet.</i></span></i></b><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>Q.</i></span></i></b><i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;"> According to Ann Landers, what are two things you should never do in bed?</span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>A. Paul Lynde : Point and laugh</i></span></i></b><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<i>WE DON'T STOP LAUGHING BECAUSE WE GROW OLD,</i></span></i></b><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
<i>WE GROW OLD BECAUSE WE STOP LAUGHING</i></span></i></b><span style="color: black;"></span></div></div><div><div><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 22pt;">Enjoy and pass on to your friends.</span></div></div></td></tr>
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</div>Derrick Easonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11718041734409074689noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1602272420906428252.post-19017933248414137782011-03-19T21:44:00.000-07:002011-03-19T21:44:46.312-07:00Esperanza Spalding Grooves<iframe width="425" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ZNw46j0nNOs?fs=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>Derrick Easonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11718041734409074689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1602272420906428252.post-1620442003192300522011-03-19T21:33:00.000-07:002011-03-19T21:33:53.936-07:00Esperanza Spalding LIVE at The White House. Really amazing.<iframe width="425" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/6I6hVnTdnWU?fs=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>Derrick Easonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11718041734409074689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1602272420906428252.post-83015585123874566072011-03-19T19:17:00.000-07:002011-03-19T19:17:24.660-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Well... Having returned from Bulgaria I must say there are men... men of substance and culture and I am honored to have met them and some to become apart of my extended family. This country... Survivor of Communism... Lover of Alf ( No Shit, they take their Alf seriously, go figure!) has embraced me, And it felt good... I Have met Uncle Ganyo!... andI am proud to be Brogarian!<br />
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Having caught up to and decimating the William Brigade ( eliminating Bills ) I returned to sea. 1st stop Belize to meet a ship... a quick Kalik and onto a tender... the ship's too big to reach a pier... it's a 15 minute ride... It's the Carnival Glory outta Miami... cool... the crowd will be hip... and it was... 2nd week of spring break, the Promenade was alive... Stared giving the little kids stage time with some Ya Mama jokes... very dangerous, and lots of fun... I'll do it again. Next day... Cayman Islands... A beautiful day... the smell of off-shore bank accounts in the air... Visited the Turtle Farm there... got some great pics!<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-fc3QSNxLwYI/TYVjK3PC_CI/AAAAAAAAADo/q8Tf09Vm1nU/s1600/DSC02896.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-fc3QSNxLwYI/TYVjK3PC_CI/AAAAAAAAADo/q8Tf09Vm1nU/s320/DSC02896.JPG" width="320" /></a></div> I was to transfer to theTriumph but due to a changed itinerary I flew home where my bed... ohhh I love that bed... Think I'll be home for a minute!<br />
Peace-zzzz...</div>Derrick Easonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11718041734409074689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1602272420906428252.post-51585696830817289282011-01-24T10:51:00.000-08:002011-01-24T10:51:34.688-08:00The Rink ( 1916 )<iframe width="425" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/E2pkTB52Yhc?fs=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>Derrick Easonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11718041734409074689noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1602272420906428252.post-62096525796628085552011-01-15T03:01:00.000-08:002011-01-15T04:14:12.445-08:00After a 20 day gig with CCL, onboard Carnival Ecstasy, The Conquest ( a four day cruise outta Galveston,Tx. in which I worked but my clothes didnt, due to American Airline's amazingly unpopular "Add miles to your luggage without you" program) And the Fasination...<div> I fly to Sofia, Bulgaria... for vacation... & to meet the Fockers.<div> Aaannnd..This a pretty nice Fockin' Place... I mean For a City just outta Communism 20 years... its aight!... The Chinese food is outta sight!... the roads?... pothole heaven!... what they dont spend on Asphalt... goes to the Nightclubs, and Casinos... and they got some casinos here... like, Philly got cheese steaks!... and Fashion!</div><div> The Women?, McDoanlds french fry thin in thigh high boots and furs, rattlin' around the streets with their Huge beautiful Japanimae eyes.... The Men?... I didnt see any men!</div></div><div> </div>Derrick Easonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11718041734409074689noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1602272420906428252.post-5342703850171034432010-12-19T13:32:00.000-08:002010-12-19T14:26:32.770-08:00Eleven days till the end of 2010... and i'm still good... in a hotel room in Galveston Texas waiting for my next ship, the Carnival Ecstasy, where I've spent most of the year performing. I dont think I'll do many, if any, more Comedy Clubs... I've grown comfortable with cruising and have been out of the club scene for some time now... after this it's back to the boards, (theatre), and cameras.<div> I'm involved in a relationship I never saw coming... and very happy. She's from Bulgaria... works in Dubai (been there Twice already this year)... and we met in Spain! Doors close and open and I can't be afraid to walk through.<div> My ex mother in law,Olympia Johnson continues to dishonor her daughters 's memory, as she continues to tear up her family. I miss the kids. Just the thought of that Bitch gives me, what she is... a Lympy Johnson!</div><div> My new family... is from Bulgaria and so full of love it's amazing... thank God for Desi, Rally and Tolly... these girls have brought back the zest to my life. I Don't normally share my private life, since so much of my life is shared on stage... but with new life comes new experiences and I've tried not to buck the flow too much... so I'll tell the world... I'm in Love. I'll spend the first month of 2011 in Eastern Europe with my girls... and take it from there. Happy New Year...</div></div><div>Happy New Life.</div>Derrick Easonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11718041734409074689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1602272420906428252.post-25462581446900595452010-03-17T09:18:00.000-07:002010-03-17T09:40:28.785-07:00WELL... 2009 Proved to be a land mark year... 2010 proves to continue the trend... a new life begins one has ended... other lives... changed forever... some for worse... some for better.<div> A cleansing catharsis is taking place... that God has made easier to embrace... and has allowed me... to accept my destiny... what ever that may be... I am guided by a power higher than me,and allowing it to move me... frees me... from having to think too hard... with less stress,more rest.</div><div> So now I feel in harmony... at least more than I did before.... Im a better work in progress!</div><div> Still Cruising... and in Love... come out on a Carnival Cruise and hang out with me for a minute!</div><div>Talk to ya later... Get Back at me!</div>Derrick Easonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11718041734409074689noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1602272420906428252.post-61656671508452796352009-01-20T17:01:00.000-08:002009-01-20T17:26:25.094-08:00U.S. Unite usJanuary 20th 2009/ What a truly historical day. I am presently on board the Carnival Pride headed to Puerto Villarta to fly back to Chilly Philly. <div> I spent the majority of the day watching the Barack Obama inaugeration... or as some young pompus white 20something called it the iniggeration... I called him on it! " On the day after Martin Luther Kings's birthday celebration,and the countries 1st black president I gotta listen to your ignorant ass?... You better check yourself man... It's 2009 and your an ass"<div> He tried to apologize a couple of times... I didnt accept it.... he said "Im not a racist"</div><div> that the worst kind of racist cause he doesnt think he is</div><div> Be ever vigil folks... its too late in the day,and ignorance is still everywhere and Im callin' everybody on their bullsh!t... I suggest you do the same.... "Im not a racist"... this guy gives White Trash a bad name... and I HATE ALL BIGGOTS!!!</div><div><div><br /></div></div></div>Derrick Easonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11718041734409074689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1602272420906428252.post-58996615510576105842009-01-11T19:31:00.000-08:002009-01-11T20:20:54.771-08:00Peace to you in 2009<div>January 1st, I find myself in Jamaica heading to Bob Marley's birth and resting place.... a great place to start any journey.. it turned out to be a very spiritual one</div><div> The road to Zion is paved with many stones souls... each one is blessed</div><div> This year I'll be spending almost 90% of my time at work at sea on board Carnival Cruise Lines.... traveling the Caribbean, Mexico, and Central America... the Clubs arent looking too promising these days and I dont drive anywhere..... So take a cruise..... I'll see you soon</div>Derrick Easonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11718041734409074689noreply@blogger.com0