Posted by BrendaTx on 6/14/06 7:58pm
Msg #126044

Google's Quote of the day...

If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised.
- Dorothy Parker

Reply by BarbaraL_CA on 6/14/06 8:05pm
Msg #126050

Dorothy Parker has great short stories... one of my favorites was "The Dance"... this was back in the early 60's that I read it, but remember it to this day! It's funny.

Reply by BrendaTx on 6/14/06 8:09pm
Msg #126051

Re: Google's Quote of the day...another OT...Madison County

Remember the guy who wrote Bridges of Madison County...Robert Waller...well I ran upon a book on tape by a woman who had an affair with him while he was married and she contends he wrote the book on them. Not far into it but it's better than the fiction version, so far.

As far as I am concerned, he had one decent book and thereafter it was cookie cutter romance.

Reply by BrendaTx on 6/14/06 8:10pm
Msg #126055

I am trying to place Dorothy Parker, Barbara and I can't...I know I have read her but no bells are ringing. I just have seen this quote several times and think it is a hoot.

Reply by Ernest__CT on 6/14/06 8:15pm
Msg #126060

Placing Dorothy Parker? Usually at ...

... the Algonquin Round Table, in New York.

Oh, that's not what you meant? Well, very few people succeeded in Parker in her place. She was the queen of the bon mot, the dutchess of repartee, and the master of the one-liner.

Reply by Ernest__CT on 6/14/06 8:11pm
Msg #126057

Dorothy Parker was a brilliant wit.

My favorite Dorothy Parker story: Dorothy Parker and Clare Booth Luce came to a door simultaneously. Luce held the door for Parker, saying "Age before beauty." Parker walked through, saying "Pearls before swine."

Reply by BrendaTx on 6/14/06 8:12pm
Msg #126059

Re: Dorothy Parker was a brilliant wit. LOL...I have seen

that one also, Ernest.

Reply by BrendaTx on 6/14/06 8:15pm
Msg #126061

Re: Dorothy Parker was a brilliant wit.

Okay...maybe I am showing my ignorance here but I watched Capote and was very interested in the man's condescending nature and his poo-poo attitude toward the gal who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird, (Nelle) Harper Lee. I think they were childhood friends.

Reply by BrendaTx on 6/14/06 8:17pm
Msg #126063

Re: Dorothy Parker was a brilliant wit.

BTW - Ermest I do not claim to be well read...I just like to read but I cannot remember a name without a gun to my head in books, actors, or music...except for Peter Frampton. Somehow, I remember he wanted us to feel like he did, but that's about it.

I do remember some names but so few compared to what I'd like to remember of artists, and writers.

Reply by Ernest__CT on 6/14/06 8:28pm
Msg #126065

Well read may mean ...

... little experienced.

The older I get the fewer names I recall. As for literary figures, Oscar was Wilde but Thornton was Wilder.

OK, OK, I'm stopping now.

Reply by TitleGalCA on 6/14/06 9:39pm
Msg #126087

Re: Dorothy Parker was a brilliant wit.

***Somehow, I remember he wanted us to feel like he did, but that's about it.***

I can hear the lyric running through my head, like a trip to "It's a Small World" at Disneyland.

Fellow So Cal people will relate to the analogy.

Reply by BarbaraL_CA on 6/14/06 10:50pm
Msg #126111

Re: Dorothy Parker was a brilliant wit.

Now you've got Small, Small World repeating itself in my head...thanks!!!!
By the way, speaking of Disneyland, I had a call today from a lender in Austin, TX to see if I was available to sign loan docs for a guy who was at a motel in Carlsbad... gave lender a quote, accepted, and he said he'd have the borrower call me to set up a time this afternoon He was in Disneyland, not Carlsbad... so I referred him to NotRot to find a notary. I was in my car and didn't have my notary referrals with me (sorry) - Hope someone got here got it.