The text of our Charlie Chan Family Chat for November 14, 2022
Feature:
Mr. Wong, Detective (Boris Karloff’s Birthday)
Extra:
Boris Karloff Interview (1957)
Participants:
Godwinshelley2
hounder
johnr
Len Freeman
Matt1
mda19083
Mike n Rachel in DC
Mr.Fox+Angel,Detectives
Nothere
Number 1 Son
PaulM
Rush
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Rush: Hello, matt!
Matt1: Hello Rush!
Rush: Good evening!
Rush:
Matt1: And to you!
Rush: Just wanted to get the title card up there.
Rush: Makes it easier to know where to reach when copying the text after the evening!
Matt1: Ah, yes
Rush: I hope that the rains were not too heavy in your area.
Matt1: How is the new site coming along?
Rush: Actually, pretty well!
Rush: I am working on the Study now.
Rush: Huge task, but doable.
Rush: LOTS of info to transfwer.
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Matt1: We had water penetration in 6 windows, which are only 7 years old, but it looks like others did as well and the HOA is looking into it
Rush: Mike/Rachel…Good evening!!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Good evening gentlemen!
Matt1: Hello M & R!
Rush: I hope that you are both well tonight.
Mike n Rachel in DC: We are. Sorry to have missed last week…work! š
Rush: That happens!
Rush: Did you get my email?
Matt1: I thought you were at the track!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Good thing we get a repeat of the movie tonight.
Rush: I just need your address to send you the coin.
Mike n Rachel in DC: OH. No…I must have missed it. We won?
Rush: YES!!!
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Rush: Congratulations!
Rush: š
Matt1: Hello MDA!
mda19083: hello folks
Mike n Rachel in DC: WOW. So now Rachel will have a half dollar too. š
Rush: MDA!
Rush: WELCOME!
mda19083: hope I am in time for tonight’s extra
Rush: how are you tonight. MDA?
Rush: Indeed you are!
mda19083: well thanks – and you Rush?
Rush: We should start it soon.
mda19083: looks like a good one!
Rush: YES!
Rush: “This is your life” for Boris Karloff from 1957!
Matt1: I think I’ve seen this clip and enjoyed it
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Rush: I guess I accidentally exited there!
Rush: Here is the link…
Rush: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvNrMhmhPao
Rush: Lets get det to roll!
Matt1: Cued
Mike n Rachel in DC: all set!
Rush: MDA…Mike?
Rush: MDA?
mda19083: cued here
Rush: OK!
Rush: 15 seconds…
Rush: 10…
Rush: 5…
Rush: GO!!!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Ivory soap?
Rush: He was surprised!
Matt1: How cool
Rush: The sponsor.
Rush: note how Karloff has no TV make-up.
Rush: Shiny face compared to the host.
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Matt1: Hello #1!
Rush: Number one Son!
Rush: LCOME!
Rush: We are just starting off on our extra…
Rush: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvNrMhmhPao
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Rush: Almost a little “Incomplete Talk” there!
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Number 1 Son: Iām back! Thank you!
Matt1: wb #1!
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Matt1: Hello Hounder!
Rush: WELCOME, Hounder!!!
Rush: How are you tonight?
Rush: We are watchingh the extra.
Rush: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvNrMhmhPao
hounder: hi everyone.
Rush: We are 13 minutes in
Rush: Hi…!
Rush: š
hounder: we had a really good day here.
Rush: Good to hear!
Rush: We have been watching “This is Your Life” for Boris karloff from 1957.
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johnr: Hello everybody!
Matt1: Hello John!
Rush: Hello, John!
Rush: LCOME!
hounder: hi john
Rush: We are watching the extra for tonight…”This is Your Life” with Boris karloff.
Rush: How are you tonight, John?
johnr: feeling well, and you all?
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Rush: Cannot complain, sir!
Matt1: Hello NT!
Rush: NT!
Rush: WELCOME!!!
Nothere: AMonogram without fog? Monogram done Wong wrong.
hounder: hi nt
mda19083: hello No 1, Hounder, John and NH
Rush: Yes, NT!
johnr: Hi!
Rush: owever, we may get a wisp or two of that fog…
mda19083: a foggy day … in london town
mda19083: a foggy day …
Rush: And the extra comes to the end…
mda19083: in london town …
hounder: lol@ mda. how’d you know that was playing on my rdio?
Rush: (Applause…)
mda19083: had me low …
Rush: š
Matt1: GREAT extra Rush, thnx!
Mike n Rachel in DC: <kids-yeah>
mda19083: had me down …
Rush: okay! Please ready your copies of “Mr. Wong, Detective” with Boris Karloff!
mda19083: enjoyed BK in real life – thanks for the extra
Rush: This movie was the plot basis for the movie we shared last week…”Docks of New orleans.”
Rush: We can make some comparisons along the way tonight!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Yes, Rush. Great film!
Rush: š
Rush: Getting my DVD ready…
Mike n Rachel in DC: Make sure you get the “Wong” one, Rush.
mda19083: cued here with the link
Matt1: Cued to Opening Title here
Rush: Absolutely, Mike!
mda19083: š
mda19083: 2 wongs don’t make a right
johnr: This is a really great film!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Hang on…former conducting student is conducting the natl anthem at the Monday Night Football game…
Rush: As Wilbur and Orville once noted, “Two Wongs don’t make a Wright.”
Matt1: How awesome, Mike
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Rush: AH…that’s GREAT, Mike!!!
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Mike n Rachel in DC: OK. They ended together. Mission accomplished. lol
Matt1: Hello A & F and GS!
Godwinshelley2: Hello all – and that is great Mike
Rush: Angel and Fox!
Rush: WELCOME!
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: mda: but they (2 wongs) make a NIGHHT!!!
Rush: Missed you last week!
mda19083: the defectives are in the house
Rush: True, Angel!
Rush: 2 1/2 minutes to go!!!
Rush: Ready your movies, please…
Rush: GS!
Rush: Welcome!
Godwinshelley2: I’m cued to right after the Monogram gong
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: Why, thanks, Rush! We missed YOU! Were motoring nawth last Mon nite; unfawtunately got PULLED OVER in Virginia. Damn.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Such a lovely gong at the beginning of the movie…bet Matt is jealous.
Nothere: GENTELMEN START YOUR ENGINES!
Rush: GS…this one is special for you, I know!
Matt1: Missing the OLD chatroom for sure!
Godwinshelley2: I know – a KARLOFF festival!!
Nothere: Fox got treed? Ahocking.
Nothere: AARRROOOO!
Rush: 60 seconds…
Nothere: Twhap.
Rush: 50…
Nothere: BRATATATATA
Rush: 40…
Godwinshelley2: Mike I wanted to buy either a Gong or Bongos to play at home. My husband pro-actively bought the bongos.
Godwinshelley2: To save him the noise
Rush: 30 seconds…
Rush: AH!
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: That IS a MAJOR GONG!!
Mike n Rachel in DC: lol. A wise man, GS. š
Rush: 25…
Rush: 20…
Rush: 15…
Rush: 10…
Rush: 5…
Rush: GO!!!
Matt1: <GONG>
Rush: Title…
Rush: Music…
Mike n Rachel in DC: Faux Chinese music
Nothere: He thinks bongos will be quieter than a gong?
Rush: Credits…
Godwinshelley2: Mike I love how James Coburn plays the Gong at the beginning of “The President’s Analyst”
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Rush: SF backdrop…
Matt1: Hello Len!
Rush: Len!!!!
Rush: WELCOME to YOU!!!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Don’t know that movie…will have to check it out.
Len Freeman: HI!!!
Rush: Great to have you with us tonight!!!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Hey Len
Rush: How have you been?
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: HI Len!
mda19083: lee tong foo!
Godwinshelley2: It’s a great taste of the 1960s – I enjoy it alot
Rush: Golden Gate Bridge…
Len Freeman: Pretty good. thanks… nice to be with you
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: Fine tuneage! Sweet & sour Seoul mujsic!
Rush: “Docks of San Francisco”
Mike n Rachel in DC: Dayton Chemical Company in SF…go figure
Godwinshelley2: How many Chan films start Dockside
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: Great, boxing to start.
Rush: A couple…plus a Wong!
Rush: How did the National Anthym go, Mike?
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: The Oronoco was fueled by Conoco and owned by Rococo.
Mike n Rachel in DC: very successful, Rush. US Army chorus
Rush: And Baroque is the president of that company….
mda19083: is a tramp steamer anything like a tramp stamp?
Rush: And..yes, he IS just that!
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: You can’t steam off a trampstamp, we know that.
Mike n Rachel in DC: I hear he remade the company, Rush. A real Renaissance.
Rush: š
mda19083: thanks defectives
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: Speaking of which, CONGRATULATIONS MnR!! Heard you came into a little money!!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Only near the stern, MDA. š
mda19083: perry white
mda19083: MnR š
Rush: Yes!
Mike n Rachel in DC: A little money…but a priceless souvenir
Rush: Boris karloff…
Godwinshelley2: Interesting Fireplace
Rush: And our old friend, Lee Tung Foo.
Mike n Rachel in DC: He could have just asked Clark Kent to help him out…
Rush: Yes, it is interesting!
Rush: Mike: š
Rush: Karloff is pretty convincing.
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: SAME YEAR as this film, Karloff did a LEGENDARY, MEDAL-WORTH job of OVERACTING for Arch Oboler: anybody ever hear “Cat Wife”, a Lights Out play? One of the greatest of all time, say we here.
Godwinshelley2: Is that a fancy fireplace screen – or maybe an insert inside
Len Freeman: A nice series
Rush: Yes.
Rush: A DECO design.
Godwinshelley2: Ugh – I must say “Cat Wife” is one of my least favorite radio ventures by Boris
Godwinshelley2: Yes Rush
mda19083: a mind is a terrible thing to lose
Rush: š
Mike n Rachel in DC: Bad guys are everywhere!
Rush: A taste of fog outside the door.
Rush: There’s tonight’s Monogram Fog.
Godwinshelley2: Yikes – did she just eat at a lobster restaurant?
Godwinshelley2: And forget to take off her bib?
Rush: š
Mike n Rachel in DC: Rachel spit out some of her drink when that dress appeared.
Rush: š
Rush: I can imagine!
Rush: Interesting “business attire.”
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: The cigarette is a master bit. I see Karloff as the Chou En-Lai of pre-Marflboro Country.
mda19083: the “sanity” claus
Len Freeman: a tontine…
Mike n Rachel in DC: It’s the new “meringue” look.
Rush: Note the European style cigarette “grip” bt Wong.
Rush: The fatal contract.
Len Freeman: last survivor gets it all\
Godwinshelley2: There ain’t no such thing as Santa Claus
Rush: Yes, Len!
johnr: Do people really smoke that way?
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: Survbiving principals? Like Oscgood Conklin, Symour Skinner, and Principal Poop?
Godwinshelley2: It’s a Tantine?
mda19083: a nice long toke
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: john, that was before they fell into the crack.
Rush: I know it was something of a “continental” style, John.
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: Yes, very elegant.
johnr: Looks awkward
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: NICE LAMP!!
Rush: I guess it was a bit awkward!
Len Freeman: someone usually gets killed about now…
Godwinshelley2: Why didn’t he go to a lawyer instead of grandstanding in the office
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: Bill Gates does this every day.
Rush: š
Mike n Rachel in DC: Street speaking. Avenue on line one.
mda19083: i am having deja vu – or vuja de
Rush: Twitter meeting here…
johnr: Had to follow the script!
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: Avenue is circling the drive, hoping for a cul-de-sac,
Godwinshelley2: A friend talked about seeing her Father’s office when she was quite little and it had tons of telephones! She found out later he was a bookie
Rush: AH!
Rush: “I want my Maypo.”
Mike n Rachel in DC: lol, GS. Then she saw her dad’s next office. It had lots of bars…
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Godwinshelley2: Hello Paul
Rush: yes, mike!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Hi Paul!
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: Dayton’s in Cincinnati.
Rush: Paul!
Rush: WELCOME!
Len Freeman: mascot studio front gate had many uses
mda19083: maybe she is wearing the bib so she doesn’t dribble the formula
Matt1: <tin can>
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: Celestial Cincinnati.
Matt1: Hello Paul!
PaulM: hi GS….hi gang. im back out in Mesa with mom for the rest of the year
Rush:
mda19083: uh oh
Godwinshelley2: Nice – so you will get to enjoy the holidays with your Mom!!
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: Best wishes to you both, Paul.
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: That’s a gold medal flower on Wong.
mda19083: no you don’t
PaulM: mom has recovered very well, but we still have to get her back to driving the car
Rush: Great to be able to be with your mom, Paul!
Godwinshelley2: Yes – mobility is so important for independance
Rush: You should have plenty of good weather in Mesa for driving, Paul.
PaulM: my sis beat cancer and will be coming for Thanksgiving.
Rush: Absolutely, GS!
Godwinshelley2: That will be so nice indeed Paul
hounder: yay paul!
Mike n Rachel in DC: What a wonderful holiday, Paul!
Rush: It’s greatt hat you are able to be with her!
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: Paul, make sure she knows that CC is NOT to be emulated behind the wheel—and, says the Commonwealth of Virginia, not me either.
Len Freeman: so much for office managers
Godwinshelley2: So – Is Wongs hair a toupee or slicked down Karloff hair?
Rush: Yes, Angel!
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: Our Rexall pharmacist!! Gota penny, y’all?\
Rush: Mr. Simpkins.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Heavy on the Mg
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: I have some potash.
Rush: The formula…
Godwinshelley2: Where is this lab? It’s not the police lab. Maybe a University?
mda19083: did he say pot ash or potash?
Rush: Potlatch.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Don’t inhale by mistake…
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: mda, we’re too buzzed to hear wordspaces.
mda19083: š
Rush: Interesting…
Godwinshelley2: Why do you even have to answer their stupid questions? This seems unprofessional
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: GS, there must be some higher plan.
mda19083: the spanish inquisition
Rush: Checking to see if he’s nuts.
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: Unexpectedly, to be sure.
Mike n Rachel in DC: no one expects the spanish inquisition
mda19083: š
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: Buncha jokahs.
Godwinshelley2: Then it should be medical professionals – not police
mda19083: me go for the low hanging fruit
mda19083: we
Rush: Yes.
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: The gun was a Colt.
Godwinshelley2: With that bib on the dress – I would expect white cuffs on that coat
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Rush: I would concur…
Rush: We settle for a pair of white gloves.
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: Or the Wong hand.
mda19083: his other left
Rush: WB, Number One Son!
johnr: That dress is a bit much!
mda19083: tetragene?
Rush: Maybe!
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: mda: certainly seems possible!
johnr: Good stuff!
mda19083: I brought my aunty dote
Godwinshelley2: And the hat is a bit indescribable
Rush: MDA: š
Len Freeman: Grant Withers plays the buffoon cop wonderfully
Rush: Yes, Len!
mda19083: buffoon cop – is that an oxymoron
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: Ask your doctor if Tetragene is right for you. Discontinue in event of oily stools, and get another doctor.
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: OBviously.
mda19083: š
Rush: Well, if someone’s breaking into my home at 3 AM…I will happily call any “bufoon”!
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: Her tongue could cut bricks.
mda19083: are carnations back in style
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: Certainly should be.
Rush: Never out of style?
mda19083: monkey business
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: They look like buffoons.
mda19083: the light bulb hasn’t gone on yet
Rush: “Where were you on October the 5th, 1935???”
Godwinshelley2: These days – it’s alot to ask folks to wear pants for Zoom meetings – let alone lapel flowers
Mike n Rachel in DC: The scrub woman did it!
Rush: True, GS!
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: She’s no fun, they’ll fall right over/.
Rush: Part of the “bubble” culture we are experiencing!
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: Lawrence Welk was the apothegem of Bubble Culture.
Godwinshelley2: I’d love the hair-slick’m concession for this film
mda19083: dope it out is right
Rush: True, Angel…
Rush: Yes, MDA!
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: GS, there were many oily stools on the set after filming finished.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Had to be careful not to get too much glare from the lights on their hair
mda19083: anna one anna two …
Len Freeman: a poor man’s George Raft
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: And very careful when she’s not clever.
Rush: Yes, Mike!
Godwinshelley2: The hat bands must have been a mess from all the hair grease
Rush: Goose grease.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Isn’t cochina bark what they use to make tonic water?
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: A glass-globe menagerie.
Rush: Interesting “knob” hat.
mda19083: a dead body perhaps
Rush: Cochina bark!
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: WOOF!
Rush: š
Rush: Yes…the sound a cochina dog makes…
johnr: Isn’t that where quinine comes from?
Rush: Bavaria?
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: Rush, our (Fpox & self) impersonations are cheered by audiences on either side of the Atlantic when wwe go to the other side.
Rush: “This is his explosives workshop…”
mda19083: he was born in a hospital .. he wanted to be close to his mother
Rush: š
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: JHe’s crazy as a hoot-loon!
Mike n Rachel in DC: erhu
johnr: urp!
mda19083: lee tong foo
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: A Kyoto koto, from House of Moto!
Rush: Wong’s parrot may set off the glass globe?
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: And become an ex-parrot, cheep.
Rush: “Note…globe does not appreciate my music…no reaction…”
Mike n Rachel in DC: That was some killer music
Godwinshelley2: Mike – is it just the pitch/tone of the note that breaks the glass – would it matter what actually makes the note?
hounder: ..
Rush: So, a skwauk sets it off!
Mike n Rachel in DC: No, GS. It’s just the frequency of the note…
Rush: The parrot nailed it!
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: He’s easily honored. A swell of easy virtue.
Godwinshelley2: Double fox stole
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: Dop you think there’s room in it for all of us?
Rush: The “Countess.”
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: NO FRILLS.
Rush: Herr Baron.
Rush: (CLICK!)
Len Freeman: Wong is always the gentleman
Rush: Yes!
johnr: The baron has a really bubbling personality
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: KEE-RASH!
Rush: And Karloff plays the role perfectly, IMHO.
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: john: it IS the age of The bUBBLE.
Godwinshelley2: I’m biased – and I think he always does
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: CARL REINER?
Rush: https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.pinimg.com%2Foriginals%2F21%2Fc4%2Fdd%2F21c4dd690f1caf2f9c2980a2917ecbfb.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pinterest.com%2Fpin%2F457819118364091808%2F&tbnid=a1uVjzS88a86xM&vet=12ahUKEwja0ZW1ia_7AhV0QUIHHWMLCocQMygAegUIARDLAQ..i&docid=UJeZivyhjd25YM&w=600&h=831&q=60%27s%20bubble%20hair%20style&ved=2ahUKEwja0ZW1ia_7AhV0QUIHHWMLCocQMygAegUIARDLAQ
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: Gentlemen, we have to protect our phony-baloney jobs!
Rush: Drat! Didn’t work…sorry!
mda19083: š
Rush: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcShAwKRa2fglr6P9FDGXefFwCO7bnpAC5HYnA&usqp=CAU
Godwinshelley2: There are three of his movies I would re-cast him in: The Black Cat – switch the Lugosi & Karloff roles – The Invisible Ray – again swap Lugosi and Karloff roles – and Black Friday – make Karloff the doctor.
Rush: Oh, well…
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: What a prevaricator.
mda19083: i didn”t get a harumph outa that guy
Godwinshelley2: MDA – a Brooks fan!!’
Rush: I liked “The Invisible Ray.”
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: mda:
Rush: I felt so sorry for him in that one!
Rush: I first saw it as a kid.
Godwinshelley2: I do too but Lugosi seems so ill-suited to the sympathtic roll – like when he is holding that baby – at arms length
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: High anxiety in this one too!
Mike n Rachel in DC: The Invisible Ray is awesome!
mda19083: beat it – its the cops
Rush: That is so, GS…yes.
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Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: Everybody in the 1930s needed brake work.
mda19083: buffoon and company
Rush: They still used wood in those days, Angel!
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: Uh-oh.
Rush: I sense a POP coming!
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: I see a tin can soon!
Matt1: <tin can>
Number 1 Son: Have to leave early tonight. Great so far, will finish up later! Goodnight everyone!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Ah. The can.
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Mike n Rachel in DC: !See you #1
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: Gnite, Number 1! You’re Number1 with us!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Have a great week
Number 1 Son: Thanks honorable group members!
mda19083: the doc or the milk man
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: Ain’t got time to take a fast train.
Rush: See you next week, Number One!
Rush: Matt…?
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: Just a bunch of Karl marks.
Rush: š
Rush: I hope that this works…
Matt1: Done
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Rush:
mda19083: the can!!!
Rush: It worked!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Nice lid, Rush. That’s a classy can.
johnr: What’s the story with the tin can?
Rush: What would the Good Humor Man know about corpses?
Rush: Ah…glad you asked!
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: So round,so firm, so fully packed with botulin.
Rush: Back in the day, we had a Chat Room that had sound effects available.
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: He seems bitter.
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Rush: There was no “bucket” sound, but there WAS a tincan sound!
johnr: I remember!
Rush: So…
Rush: we used that sound to signal someone dying in a chan film!
johnr: OK
Rush: When that Chat room went to Chat Room Heaven, we went to this present one.
Rush: No sound effects, sadly…so…Matt took to typing “Tin Can” at every death.
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: Well,ain’t you THPETHIAL.
Mike n Rachel in DC: We are in Chat Room Purgatory…
Rush: I thought we could add a visual…a can image to the mix!
johnr: I see! Thanks
Rush: So, there you have it!
mda19083: ah … for the ol days
mda19083: old
Len Freeman: poor Carl…
Rush: We will be moving next year to a new address (charliechan.org) and we will need a new Chat Room. i hope that we can find one with sounds again!
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: Wong has that hidden-hand, backgroundy style.
Matt1: That would be fun Rush
Rush: We shall see, Matt!
hounder: …
Mike n Rachel in DC: Dream chat room: One that has sounds and that can screen the evenings movie
mda19083: we’re goin from a .inf to a .org?
Rush: If anyone can track down a suitable Chat Room, that would be a GREAT help in the process! i am presently consumed with transferring as much content from this sit as possible over to the new one!
mda19083: .info
mda19083: we’re movin on up
Rush: WordPress offered a .org as part of the deal.
Godwinshelley2: lack of background music
Matt1: Offical!
Rush: I think we can keep the .info active, too.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Will prowl for chat room options.
Rush: If pay we must for the next Chat room, pay it will be.
Rush: That was the case with the old “parachat” room.
johnr: I’m in
Matt1: ditto!
Rush: It shouldn’t be too much.
Godwinshelley2: yes
Mike n Rachel in DC: What is mere money when we’re talking about a Chan chat, after all?
Rush: But…TYSM!
Rush: AH!
Rush: True, Mike!
Matt1: Throw in a “lost” Chan and it’s a win-win
Rush: Oh…YES!!
Rush: The best we can offer are the “lost” Chan film scrpts with illustrations.
Rush: Almost matching hats!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Her hat matches his hair.
hounder: sorry i’m not in much. mom is chatty tonight,
Godwinshelley2: are the scripts under copyright?
mda19083: š
Rush: Hounder…that’s fine! Mom comes first!
johnr: WOW to dine with a countess!
Rush: Yes.
Rush: So, does this story tonight seem a bit “familiar”?
hounder: she has so few chatty days now. not necessarily coherent, but chatty.
Len Freeman: Paying will be OK
Rush: TY, Len…
Rush: we shall see…
johnr: *I’m getting that way. God bless your mom!
Rush: Sort of looks like George Raft.
Godwinshelley2: There seem to be books that are reprints of films scripts – how do they deal with copyright
Rush: The Venetian blind shadows of monogram…
Rush: They may have worked a deal with Fox.
Godwinshelley2: These were Universal film scripts – Bride of Frankenstein, Mummy, Calistro (unproduced), etc
Mike n Rachel in DC: I suppose you could get a copyright license.
Rush: There are a few “homemade” books floating around that used the scripts at this site!
Rush: Not a cent of profit is being made by us.
Rush: That was never the point.
mda19083: pierce arrow?
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: We were toad away. We miss any suspicious characters?
Matt1: Just a “wealth” of knowledge
Rush: Hopefully….
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: Lotta dark dark scenes in this one!
Rush: Yes!
Matt1: <tin can>
Rush: Nearly “film noir”
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: Blackandwhitesploitation.
Rush: I think you are ahead of me, Matt!
Rush:
Len Freeman: liar, liar pants on fire…
Rush: š
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: And crack the little glass globes.
Godwinshelley2: Magicimage produces these books for Gregory Mank – the universal scripts anyways
Rush:
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: More tea. And see.
mda19083: some date!
Rush: HM! it chooses not to work…sorry!
johnr: I love the cars in these old films! The new ones are all plastic and sissified!
Rush: “Imaging a tin can…”
Rush: John…I agree.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Yeah, but I hear that Packards had lousy bluetooth
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: We’re going to grease / and swin the English channel.
Rush: It was so nice when one could tell the make of a car by its look!
hounder: imagine a tin can ( in rod sterling’s voice) ounds like the beginining of a twilight zone show
Rush: Not much today!
johnr: I’m not even sure what that is
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: Those, Rush, were the days.
Rush: Hounder: š
Mike n Rachel in DC: DO sit down…
Rush:
johnr: And you could change your own plugs!
Rush: The parrot is at it!
Rush: Wong knows.
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: That guy oughta take a pill.
Rush: Compare these scenes to the Chan version!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Wong has a more commanding presence than Chan in this scene
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: Speak for yourself.
Rush: A dove cooed…
Len Freeman: the smooth intellectual
Rush: Yes.
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: [MnR: we were addressing the impertinent bystander in the room, NOT YOUSE]
Rush: Chan had that line, also…
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: Wong does the Dipsy Doodle.
Rush: Chan only had two minutes, I think….
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: Now, THAT’S a RUSE!
Rush: True…
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: NOW they turn the dimer switch up.
Rush: OOPS!
Rush: The same tactic Chan used…
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: All this malarkey isn’t puttin’ anybody in JAIL! We gotta get that electric tyhingamajig back!
Rush: I would give the award to Karloff over Winters in this scene….
johnr: More deadly than a brussels-sprout fart!
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: Karloff ruled all.
Rush: Yes, Angel.
Len Freeman: a superior actor
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: john, those Belgians always waffle.
Rush: š
johnr: He was a genius
johnr: Which was the Chan version?
Rush: Wong sets a trap here…
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: But it’s STILL possible he didn’t NOT kill himself, innit?
Mike n Rachel in DC: Would love to see this at the trial
Rush: AH!
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: We want a box o’ those glass globes over here. Holiday entertainments are coming.
Mike n Rachel in DC: LTF gets the last word. š
johnr: Was that the one with the remote controlled radio?
Rush: Good tree decorations!
mda19083: LTF is the best!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Just make sure there are no cops coming over, Rush.
Rush: The siren!
Rush: Right on cue.
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: Lipton’s gonna have to put on a third shift!!
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: What a delightful entry!
Rush: Next week…
Rush: “The Shanghai Chest”
Matt1: <yee-haw>
mda19083: good stuff!
Mike n Rachel in DC: A favorite.
Rush: AND we now have an online version available!
Mike n Rachel in DC: <kids-yeah>
Rush: (Applause…)
mda19083: hip hip horay
Len Freeman: I knew it all the time….
Godwinshelley2: Have a safe week everyone – and enjoy your family Paul
Rush: I still have a moment left in my movie!
Godwinshelley2: Night all
Rush: Now it comes to an end..
Len Freeman: same here
Rush: Good night, GS!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Ah…maybe we had different versions?
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hounder: have a good week all. see you next week
Matt1: Good night everyone. I’m traveling next week, so I’m hoping you all have a very Happy Thanksgiving!
Rush: Happy Birthday to Mr. Karloff!
johnr: Delightful goodnite all!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Good night all; Happy Thanksgiving to anyone we don’t see next week.
Rush: Thank you sir for your connections with Chan !
mda19083: be well all until we meet again
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: Rush, THIS VERY AFTERNOON i went to a local thrift store to preview my planned raid on its Big Sale tomorrow, and found TWO CC DVD’s, one the SHANGHAI CHEST! I’m going in early tomorrow to get a whole pile of stuff i noted (and HID!) at 50% off!!
Rush: Yes, Angel!
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Rush: GRAET FIND!!!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Very wily, AF
Rush: Congratulations!
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Mike n Rachel in DC: One might say as sly as a fox, but…
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: Goodnight all! Watch the balls!!
Len Freeman: Good nite all… nice to be with you
Rush: Mike…please email your address to me so i can mail you your winner’s coin!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Have a great week everyone!
Mr.Fox+Angel,Defectives: MnR, don’t spend it all on candy!!
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Rush: Thank you ALL for a GREAT evening!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Rush, I emailed you an address for the coin. Thanks!
Rush: TYSM, Mike!
Rush: i will get it in the mail soon!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Thank YOU. And see y’all next week!
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Rush: See you next week, Mike and Rachel!
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Rush: Good night to you both!
Rush: Take care, Mike, Angel, and NT!20:27
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Rush: See you next week!
Rush: Have a happy and safe week in the meantime!
Rush: Good night!
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