The text of our Charlie Chan Family Chat for November 8, 2021
Feature:
Docks of New Orleans
Extra:
The Eye of Buddha (Part 1)
Participants:
Dave
Dona and Merry Sue
Godwinshelley2
hounder
LongshoreAngel & Foxx
Matt1
mda19083
Mike in DC
Rich Maine
Rush
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Rush has joined this room
Rush: Hi Matt!
Matt1: Hello Rush!
Rush: great to see you!
Rush: How are things going?
Matt1: You too!
Matt1: Pretty tired. Just got back from Disney….Did a 5K, 10K & my 1st half marathon all with in 3 days!
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Rush:
Matt1: Hello Mike!
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Rush: Mike FROM SF!
Mike from SF has joined this room
Rush: WELCOME!
Rush: Traveling?
Mike from SF→Mike drom SF: Hi Matt and Steve. This is Mike. I dialed in before, I think a year ago or so.
Rush: AH!
Matt1: Ah, Ok…..welcome back!
Rush: thought that somehow you might be “Mike from DC”
Rush: WELCOME BACK!
Rush: How have you been?\
Mike from SF: I live in San Francisco. Familiar place to Charlie
Rush: Indeed!
Matt1: Yes!
Rush: In fact, as we join Chan this week, he is now based in your city!
Mike from SF: Time difference make it a bit tricky and on my way home now.
Rush: Although he and Tommt and Birmingham are visiting New Orleans!
Mike from SF: I did find the movie on vimeo
Rush: YES!
Rush: Yes, Mike..only its in two parts!
Rush: We also have the links above.
Rush: On YouTube they only have CLIPS from the movie.
Mike from SF: In the 1930s you had these little books with comics of many characters incl charlie chan. Bought one of these the other week. Found it in a nice bookstore in palo alto
Rush: Really!
Rush: GREAT!
Matt1: How cool!
Rush: Which one did you get?
Rush: There were three made.
Mike from SF: Yes and in really good condition.
Rush: NICE
Rush: Those are fun!
Rush: I love them!
Mike from SF: Will check exactly which one. Also found a small booklet from the 1950s i think with pages full of charlie’s wisdom
Rush:
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Mike from SF: That is the one
Rush: Yes?
Rush: hello, Dave!
Rush: WELCOME!!!
Dave: greetings!
Matt1: Hello Dave!
Dave: How are the fellow Chan fans?
Rush: Doing well, thank you!
Rush: I hope that you and yours are well and happy!
Mike from SF: Doing well. Its been a while since a saw a Cc movie. Looking forward
Rush:
Rush: Was this the book, Mike?
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Dave: First time around for this evening’s title…
Matt1: Hello Hounder!
Rush: Hounder!
Rush: WELCOME!
hounder: hi rush, mike, matt, and dave
Mike from SF: No. Not that one.
Dave: hounder has entered
Rush: I hope that you can stay longer tonight, Hounder!
Mike from SF: Hi. Nice to e-meet
Rush: Mike from SF has returned to our humble fold!
Rush: We can start our radio drama in 5 minutes…
Mike from SF: Inspired by our local SF Chinatown
Rush: ike, we have a link to it above: “Eye of Buddha, Part 1”
hounder: i hope so too. it was another long night.
Rush: (Mike)
Mike from SF: Yes
Rush: Sorry to hear, Hounder…
hounder: hi mike, it’s been a while
Mike from SF: Yes. Back again
Rush: 🙂
Matt1: Cued here for radio program
Rush: Mike n Rachel in DC should be arriving soon.
Rush: So we should have both Mikes here tonight!
Mike from SF: I am ready
hounder: ready for the radio program
Rush: Ready here too.
Rush: I use the first box on the top left…the blue one.
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Rush: 2 minutes…
Rush: MDA!
Matt1: Hello MDA!
hounder: hi mda
Matt1: Congrats again!
mda19083: Hello to my Chan friends
Rush: Welcome…and continued congratulations on your winnin the melbourne Cup!
Rush: 75 seconds for the radio drama….
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Rush: 60 seconds…
Rush: Ready?
mda19083: I have left my filly at the starting gate
hounder: i finally got all the chan boxed sets.
Rush: Lost Mike…
mda19083: ready here
Rush: 40 seconds…
Matt1: Congrats Hounder!
Rush: 30 seconds…
Rush: 25…
Rush: 20…
Rush: 15..
Mike from SF has joined this room
Rush: 10…
Rush: 5…
Rush: GO!!!
Mike from SF: I am back.
Rush: gong…drum…music…
Rush: “The Adventures of Charlie Chan.”
hounder: i didn’t see docks in any of them though
Mike from SF: Mysterious music
Rush: Not on the radio drama!
Rush: The “Docks” links are in two parts tonight.
Rush: But, I believe you have them on DVD, Hounder?
Dave: first link I tried didn’t play…
hounder: i do rush.
Matt1: The box set that includes tonights film is a different set
Rush: Or…are they back in Florida?
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Rush: Yes, matt…
hounder: long intro music for commercial perhaps?
Rush: lengthy music…commercial space…
Rush: Yes.
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Matt1: Intro going to put me to sleep
hounder: i’m in fl, and they are 1 of the things i make sure to pack
Rush: WD, Mike…
Mike from SF: Chan again as cook
Dave: gives a chance for a word from the sponsor…
Rush: Sorry about your technical issues. happens to all of us from time to time!
Rush: CC goes to Maui.
Mike from SF: What would Charlie put on the menu?
Rush: Hm…?
Rush: Some Maui specialty?
Dave: ok, boss!
Mike from SF: Hawaian bbq
mda19083: sounds like the plot of The Chinese Parrot
Rush: Posing as Ah Kim.
LongshoreAngel & Foxx has joined this room
Rush: The disguise he used in “Charlie Chan’s Courage.”
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: LOTTA MUSIC HERE! We
Dave: longshore?
Matt1: Hello A & F!
Rush: Angel and Foxx!
Rush: WELCOME!
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: We’re at 2:15. When do we get some dialogue here?
Rush: We are in the radio drama!
mda19083: a and f
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: Yup. At 2:30. In Hoh-nolulu.
Rush: “Goose” is on the menu.
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: Hi mda! We wired our congrats! See Message Board!
mda19083: nene
Rush: YES!
Dave: What do we know about the radio actors here?
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: On the YT version of this radio piece, there were ZERO likes and ONE THUMZDOWN. You bet we balanced that, anyway.
mda19083: any idea on year
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: 4:15?
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: Additional dancing.
Dave: Ramon Raquello…
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: NOT RAMON!
Rush: I think that Chan is played by Walter Connolly.
Dave: And his orchestra
Dave: Gentle voice…
Rush: Yes.
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: So DON’T SEND ANY REGRETS.
Mike from SF has left this room
Rush: CC gets cooperation with his description of a botched hanging.
Rush: Poor Mike…
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: We’re getting squeamisk.
Mike from SF has joined this room
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: Gibbering is not good.
Rush: Revolving door tonight for mike, sadly!
Dave: Welcome back…
mda19083: 1935 with Walter Connolly
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: We’ll wave Mike in and back!
Rush: Right, Angel!
Dave: thanks, mda
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: CC is dragging this out!
Mike from SF: Yes. Sorry. I am outside on my way home.
Rush: AH!
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: OH NO.
Rush: Traffic?
Mike from SF: But connection to radio works well. I use my other phone forcthat
Rush: if you can be home in 20 minutes, that’s when we start the feature.
Mike from SF: Just left the train
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: You are a trouoer, Mike.
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: *trouper*
Mike from SF: Could follow everything
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: Anybody ever see “I WANT TO LIVE”?
Rush: Good.
Mike from SF: Time difference with westcoast
Rush: i may have, Angel.
Rush: Yes…4:55.
Mike from SF: Eacaped again the ands of the law. To be continued
Rush: I now live in Central Time.
hounder: Mom got chatty so I’ll have to listen to the radio .drama later
Rush: Part two next week…
Rush: (Of two parts, hopefully!)
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: I WANT etc is a GREAT flick! True story, Susan Hayward as a Bad Girl who ends up in the worst way. I rate it lotsa stars.
mda19083: I live in La La Land
Rush: Some of these dramas are only parts of longer collections!
Rush: BUT, at least we can capture the “flavor.”
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: hounder, see that you do!! Essay questions later.
Rush: Will look for it, Angel.
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Matt1: Music is soooooooooo relaxing zzzzzzzzzz
Rush: I think Mike is setting the record for revolving door exits/re-entries!
Dave: And now, another word from our sponsors…
Rush: A LOT of words…
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: If these guys report a roan or sorrel horse lifted, there’ll be interior decorator jokes in town.
Rush: THE END…for this week…
Matt1: <clap-clap>
hounder: lol@angel
Rush: (Applause…)
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: There WILL be next time!
Rush: yes.
Rush: Next…”Docks of New Orleans.”
Rush: in 15 minutes…
Rush: I like the 15-minute radio programs.
Rush: makes for an easy transition…
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: This music put me under. Is it still 1935?
Matt1: Agreed
Rush: Well…we head to the “future”…
Rush: 948.
Rush: 1948
Mike in DC has joined this room
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: Dewey’s gonna kick Harry’s butt.
Mike in DC: *sprints in*
Mike from SF has joined this room
Rush: Mike!
Matt1: Hello Mike!
Rush: Welcome…
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: DC Mike! Hihi!
Mike in DC: Good evening!
Dave: In my younger days, I listened to lots of radio. Theatre of the mind.
Matt1: We have our book end Mikes!
Mike from SF: Have we started the movie yet?
Rush: Mike in DC…Mike in SF has returned!
Rush: No rachel tonight?
Mike in DC: Coast-to-coast Mikes apparently. Hello SF!
Rush: YES!
Rush: East meets West!
Mike in DC: No Rachel…she’s buried in homework. With us in spirit, though.
Dave: Do we need to change our names?
Mike from SF: Hello DC
Mike from SF: SFMike
Rush: No need, dave!
Dave: Open mike night
Mike in DC: Hey there. I’ve visited SF a few times…really loved it. Do you know Tony’s Pizza?
Rush: I guess we could have an “IN” night sometime!
Rush: We could all add our locations!
Mike in DC: LOL: Dave
Mike from SF: Tony’s? Maybe.
Rush: Such as “Rush in IA”
Mike from SF: Downtown?
Dave: Is it Pizza from Tony’s?
Dave: Or Tony’s Pizza?
Rush: BOTH I would think!
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Rich Maine: Evening all!
Matt1: Hello Rich!
mda19083: i’ll have a slice of pepperoni
Rush: Rich!
Rush: WELCOME!
Mike in DC: Yes, it’s near a nice park–Washington Square
hounder: hi rich
Dave: evening,rich
Rich Maine: Hiya rush!
Mike from SF: Tonight chop suey from chinatown. The real deal
Mike in DC: Hi Rich
hounder: pepperoni extra cheese plase
mda19083: yes hounder!
Dave: getting hungry..
Rush: I am gastronomically jealous, Mike in SF!
Mike in DC: Oooh…perfect accompaniment to a Chan
Rich Maine: I am ready to have a po boy sandwich!
Rush: YES!
Rush: 7 1/2 minutes to go…
Mike from SF: Yes. Its already getting dark. Walking through chinatown and listening to the show. In the small alleys
Rush: How NICE, Mike!
hounder: i hate time change!!
Rush: Me too.
Dave: atmosphere…
Rush: yes…
Rich Maine: Yes keep the time stopped please
hounder: neither mo or the dogs reset well
Rush: Wish we could, Rich!
Mike from SF: Just passed mr wong’s house as well. CC’s distinguished colleague from the East
Lou in CLE has joined this room
Rush: 6 minutes till showtime…
Matt1: Hello Louuuuuuu!
Rush: LOU!
Dona and Merry Sue has joined this room
hounder: i says pick 1. don’t care which, just pick 1.
Dona and Merry Sue: Hello Everyone!
Lou in CLE: Aloha from Cleveland, OH
Matt1: Hello D & S!
Rush: And DONW with merry Sue!
hounder: hi lou
Rich Maine: Hi Donna
Dona and Merry Sue: I am in Boulder Colorado with my Sister in law
Lou in CLE: Hi D & MS
hounder: hi dona and Merry Sue
Matt1: How nice!
Mike from SF: I should say honarae colleagues
Rush: WELCOME!!!
mda19083: how merry
Dona and Merry Sue: She is joining us for our movie tonight
Dave: sounds great…
Rush: FIVE minutes to go…
Lou in CLE: Just enough time for my tea 🙂
Mike in DC: Hi Dona & Merry Sue
Rush: WELCOME to Merry Sue!
Dona and Merry Sue: MS says she is glad to be here
Dave: Everyone joins in, from all over…
Rush: And, everyone, we have the august return of Mike in SF tonight!
Lou in CLE: I guess we’re going to New Orleans, Tonight though, Dave!
Mike in DC: An August return in November?
Rush: Yes….New Orleans it IS!
Rush: Sure!
Rich Maine: To Bourbon st!
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Rush: like Christmas in July!
Dave: Watch your atep…
Lou in CLE: Oh, then I better make that some Tiger Tea!
Rush: 🙂
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Godwinshelley2: Hello all
hounder: hi gs
Rush: THREE minutes…
Rich Maine: Hi GS
Lou in CLE: Hi GS
Rush: Please “cue up”!
mda19083: since we are in NOLA tonight I made beignets for dessert
Matt1: Hello GS!
mda19083: hello gs2
Matt1: Cued!
Dona and Merry Sue: Hi GS
Dona and Merry Sue: Mike
Godwinshelley2: I’m cued here
Rich Maine: Oh that’s a lovely dessert
Rush: WELCOME, GS!!!
Lou in CLE: What is a Beignet?
mda19083: no calories
Godwinshelley2: a donut
Dave: greetings, folks
Lou in CLE: Ah, so.
hounder: oh yum. bignets
Rush: 60 seconds…
Rush: 50 seconds
Rush: 40 seconds…
Rush: 30 seconds…
Mike in DC: Caffe au lait et beignets…
Rush: 5…
Rush: 20…
Rush: (SORRY!)
Rush: 15…
Mike in DC: new math…
Rush: 10…
Rush: 5…
Rush: GO!!!
Matt1: <GONG>
Rush: Title…
Rush: Music….
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: WINTERS is coming!
Mike from SF: I am in
Rush: Credits…
mda19083: i have trouble with the old math
Rush: Me too!
Lou in CLE: Is this Roland’s first Chan?
Rush: New math too!
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: This is another DARLING screenplay!!
Dona and Merry Sue: My computer when off where are we?
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: Ace Herman!!
Rich Maine: Yes Lou
Dave: It is Darling…
Rush: One minute mark.
mda19083: yes la and f
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: Jimmy Burkett was PAID to do this.
Mike in DC: 1:10
Mike in DC: Just at end of credits
Dona and Merry Sue: Thank you
Rush: Shots of New Orleans’ docks…
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: They’ve been DOCKSSED!
Lou in CLE: Hey, I recognize that scene of the boat entry?
Rush: And…the set we saw in “The Chinese Ring.”
Mike in DC: No fog this time, though
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: Truckload of laundry/fireworks just in from last week.
Lou in CLE: Ah,thxs Rush
Rush: Is this the same delivery truck we see in “Dark Alibi”?
Dave: thanks, a/f…
Rich Maine: Same dock as for the horse last week
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Rush: Maybe the truck belonged to monogram Pictures?
Lou in CLE: Probably, Rush.
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: Rush
Rush: The horses arrived in “san Pedro” last week!
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: CHEMICALS? Hey, Foxx!
Dave: Guy on left sounds familiar…
Rush: The guy in the dark suit…GROCK.
mda19083: tetragene?
Rush: My costume from Halloween.
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: She left a wake-up call for 1948.
Rush: 🙂
Rush: Yes!
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: mda: EXACTLY! Our favorite brew!!
Mike in DC: He was in a couple other Chans, Dave
Dave: I have the fuzzy sleeves for you
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: HOW LONG ya think that car was?
Rush: Yes, Mike.
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: I get the fuzzy sleeves for almost everybody, but i keep it discreet.
Rush: Well…BB exaggerated just a bit!
Mike in DC: Broadway and Treasure Island at least, I think
Rich Maine: Charlie’s house…no nameplate
Dave: yes…
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: BB is a MAJOR domo.
Rush: Kind of an incomplete talk sequence there by BB!
Lou in CLE: Rush, he didn’t have a partner to unanswer back.
Dave: nice close up
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: He’s too modest. “Secret” enemy? I hate him TOO, what am i, chopped lettuce?
Rush: Chan seems to be staying in New Orleans for a fairly lengthy visit.
Mike in DC: Nice diggs for rental..
Rush: But, at the end of the movie we see he’s heading “back” to SF.
Rich Maine: Yes, nice home away from home
Rush: Yes.
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: Anyone buried in New Orleans is soon resurrected.
Rush: “He who takes whatever gods send with smile has learned life’s hardest lesson.”
Rich Maine: TSYM
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: The Knee Plus Ultra!
Lou in CLE: Another fine mess you’ve gotten me into!
Rush: Yes, Angel…ground water.
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: She probably didn’t get the letter.
Rush: Lou: 🙂
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: Rush: how do you grind water anyway?
Rush: When it is frozen….
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: Chan Guarantee.
Rich Maine: Foreigners!
Lou in CLE: Ah, the essential clue, from the novels!
Rush: YES!
Rush: Close call here!
Lou in CLE: Hard to find!
Dave: Right, rush
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: Driver looked like Hitler. Must go back later, make screenshot, compare to snapshots in my earlier monograph.
mda19083: always take the second cab
Lou in CLE: U.N.C.L.E. where are their badges?
mda19083: not the first
Rush: To all of you: 🙂
Dave: Who needs badges?
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: YFSQ! Your Favorite String Quartet!
Lou in CLE: Yeah, Dave. Wrong kind of Uncle.
Rush: Never sign such a clause!
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: We don’t need no stinking badges.
Lou in CLE: LA&F, yuk, yuk.
Dave: angel/fox, right
mda19083: what about the sanity clause
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: I’d break his arm, & later he’d thank me.
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: The sanity clause will come down the chimbley. Or down the chimbley up.
Rush: If he signs, that clause should kick in, MDA!
Rich Maine: Cloric acid?
mda19083: yes rush
Rush: See the picture of Bambi in the wall?
Godwinshelley2: Peplum alert
Rush: Behind her.
Godwinshelley2: The back of her jacket
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: How many cigarettes you think all these actors have, in various pockets & rickrack drawers, at any given moment?
Rush: A carton’s worth.
Dave: My formula!
Lou in CLE: Is he pissed off, or what!
Rich Maine: THE SYNDICATE
Rush: Yes.
Dave: Formula Syndicate
Rush: “Clause 5…the small print at the bottom…”
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: Rush: let’s hope it’s the Holiday Carton with pictures of our favorite crooners, who will begin dropping like tobacco flies around 1953!
Lou in CLE: That cop was the bad guy in another Chan flick, can’t place it though.
Rush: Angel: 🙂
Lou in CLE: With Sidney Toler
mda19083: good cop or bad cop
Lou in CLE: Bad cop 🙂
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: She’s doing the Good Cop / Bad Cop / Curvaceous Amanuensis bit to Oscar there.
Rich Maine: Stock actors
Rush: $500 would be about $7,500 today…
mda19083: uh oh – cue the can
Rush: Not terrible….
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: Oscar’s thinking about his wiener.
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: I’ll take the $7500.
Dave: Uh, excuse me?
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: You are excused.
Matt1: <tin can>
Rich Maine: Company name is spelled odd…..
Rush:
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: What’s their name, Rich?
Rush: (TYSM, Matt…)
Dave: ca-ching
mda19083: yes the can
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: Clink.
hounder: …
Rich Maine: LA fontanne
Rush: “Death one appointment we must all keep, and for which no time set.”
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: Many moons.
Rich Maine: Lafontaine is more accurate
Dave: Maybe no gud spelers their
Rush: (“And for which none are in great hurry…”)
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: Then we can’t even pencil in a Tuesday?
Rush: Radio hums…
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: Dave, noboddy speld gug then.
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: *gud”
Rush: 🙂
Rush: Seems to be making a comeback!
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: You mean the customary Mouse of Faith.
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: TYSM
Rich Maine: Yes the mouse is a rat
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: I believe CC just made a swipe at white folks.
Rush: “Patience very lovely virtue.”
Rich Maine: Ur race!
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: An “entirely new COMPLEXION!”
Rich Maine: Hahaha
mda19083: tetragene
Rush: (wink)
Godwinshelley2: One of the rare times he mentions race besides his ancestors
Dave: tetragene!
Mike in DC: This version leaves out the exciting “glass blowing” scene in the Mr. Wong version…
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: The DOC of New Orleans.
Rush: Yes, GS.
mda19083: good one angel
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: Not just a rat, a rerat.
Rush: Poison gas!
Rich Maine: Ready for the nut house
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LongshoreAngel & Foxx: The coroner’s schedule is TOTALLY dead.
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: Welcome back, SF Mike!
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Mike from SF: I kept watching the movie
Rush has joined this room
Lou in CLE: Rush, that’s a very nice Panama Hat.
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: CC just caught him in his lie.
Rush: Padded desk.
Rush: Briefly lost my Internet connection.
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: TYSM
Lou in CLE: Hmm, yes and with those little buttons on it, Rush
Rush: Nice rear projection scene.
Mike from SF: I recognized that agreement indeed from a mr wong movie
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: Rush: I was recently offered a padded room. What was the price on the desk? I like ensembles.
Rush: I think that we see actual footage of downtown New Orleans…
Godwinshelley2: Are they supposed to be in New Orleans right now?
Rush: Yes.
Godwinshelley2: Wonder if there was a Holmes theater
Rush: Have you heard of one there, GS?
Godwinshelley2: No – just noticed the name – was only there once
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LongshoreAngel & Foxx: I think they just stole the signs.
Dave: hounds?
Rush: Mobile Jones!
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: YESSSSSS! MM’s double-talk routine!!
Matt1: Fun
Rush: Incomplete talk!
mda19083: i thought birmingham was supposed to be the driver
Lou in CLE: That’s a beauty…the car.
Rush: $2…about $30 today.
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: We shall never know the last words!
Rich Maine: Two bucks
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: BUSTED!
Godwinshelley2: Yes there was a Historic Holmes Theater in New Orleans – photos on web
Rush:
Lou in CLE: Awesome, Rush.
mda19083: dope
Godwinshelley2: It’s under “Ain’t There No More”
Rush: “Even melon grown in shade will ripen in the end.”
Dave: quick cut
Rush: “The ignorant always loud in argument.”
Rush: Yes, dave.
Lou in CLE: Ah, the old Holmes study of how many ashes was that?
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: Rush, did i ever send you a photo of my living room? I’m a license-plate collector. I have a full wall of plates as the backdrop for the skil-saw-sliced front 3 feet of a ’57 Imperial./
Rush:
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: What an ignominious end for a gutsy kittykat.
Rush: Chop Suey Boogie.
hounder: neat idea angel. are the paltes vintage? do you need an al plate or 2?
Rush: POP!
Lou in CLE: Chop suey boogie, yeah!
Rich Maine: So awful!
Dona and Merry Sue: WOW Angel
Godwinshelley2: Nice photo Rush
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: NICE!
Rush: From YOUR info, GS!
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: TYSM
Godwinshelley2: Rush did you check out the facebook page I emailed – interesing info on Biggers stage productions
Rush: YES!
Rush: TYSM!
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: Lou, i’m going to check the discography for Stephane Grappelli for the Chop Suey Boogie.
Godwinshelley2: Might be something for the newsletter at the end of the year
Rush: I think I thanked you in reply last night.
Godwinshelley2: Oh I’ll have to look for that
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: I can easily see Herbert Hoover in this role.
Rush: YES!
Lou in CLE: LA&F, very cool!
Rush: Did you “CC” Lou?
Rush: I can forward it.
Godwinshelley2: No I didn’t
Mike from SF has joined this room
Rush: I will get it to him.
Rush: Good stuff!
Godwinshelley2: Yes please forward – thought someone might want to contact the author to see if he would share with you
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: Scroll of my memory is an 8-track cartridge.
Rush: Yes.
Godwinshelley2: There is that HAT – could use to serve chips and dip
Lou in CLE: LA&F, haha. Went right over my head…Pink Floyd.
Rush: Nice beret.
Rich Maine: Was he the band leader from The Trap?
Godwinshelley2: Nice with the camera following the butler to the door
Rush: Cole King?
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: He happens to know “The Countess Hass Never Been To Honolulu”: maybe if he hums a few bars—
Rich Maine: Yes!
Rush: Or…”The Maestro”?
Lou in CLE: LA&F 🙂
Rush: First time we actually see CC take a puff.
Rich Maine: Same actor?
Lou in CLE: Rush, not so?
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: EMERGENCY CALL for Philip Morris!!
Rush: maybe not! Forgot “CC in Rio”!
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Dave: Toler does in one movie
Rush: Yes! “CC in Rio”
Dave: Fake hypnosis
Rush: The Psycognosis test.
mda19083: LOU – Upon the Distinction Between the Ashes of the Various Tobaccos which was a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco, with coloured plates illustrating the difference in the ash
Lou in CLE: Dave, hit proverbial needle on head.
Rush: Nion-speaking role there!
Rush: (non)
Rush: Fun to listen to the “small-talk” here.
hounder: ..
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: I want to use the phrase “Very well” more often.
Lou in CLE: MDA, “YES”! Jolly good.
Rush: Yes, Angel!
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: Ah, the humanity!
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: She made that hat from a tabletop.
Rush: Get away fro your RADIO!
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Rush: Angel: 🙂
mda19083: oh no the radio
Rich Maine: Turn That music off!
mda19083: cue the can again
Rush: I have a sudden craving for chips and dip….
Dave: that was close…
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: Charles deGaulle missed his calling.
Godwinshelley2: Ugh that lampshade had furry fringe
Lou in CLE: Rush, haha.
Rush: In the Mr. Wong version of this movie, the police siren played a key role!
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Godwinshelley2: Yes I liked that part of the Wong verison
Rush: We will be watching the Mr. Wong version of this movie next week!
Rush: “Mr. Wong, Detective”
Godwinshelley2: Ah – another KARLOFF week
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: Chan on a firecracker bender in this period?
Godwinshelley2: You know, his birthday is in November
Dave: looking forward to seeing that
Rush: Matt?
Rush: (Tweet)
mda19083: which version – white or wong?
Rush: 🙂
Rich Maine: Butler out of job
mda19083: take my wife please
Dave: ca-ching
Rush: I need Matt’s confirmation, please….
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: Hey, GS: JUST THIS MORN, i listened to an installment of the public-morale-builder radio show “Guest Star” (USTreasury, sponsor) with KARLOFF as the G.S.!!
Godwinshelley2: YEA!!
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: Chinese funny people. Yeah they a riot.
Dave: wow!
Rush: NICE!
Godwinshelley2: He did lots of radio – especially around Halloween
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: TYSM
Dave: There is an oboe player in the room
Rush: Born 1898.
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: Is that a possum on her head? Or an opossum?
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Rush: Bird’s nest?
Dave: Hard to walk like that otherwise
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: Rush: Charlie Parker?
Godwinshelley2: Chair is furry
Lou in CLE: Ah, some real detective work!
Rush:
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: GS, that sounds like a lead. Don’t brush it off!
Lou in CLE: Whoa! Cool Rush.
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: Material witnesses can be used to pull wool over eyes.
Rush: 🙂
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: Whaddaya think that cop is, avoirdupoiswise, 100 lbs over?
Rich Maine: Hehe
Lou in CLE: Say, wasn’t that barrel in another Chan film :),.
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Rush: Probably, Lou!
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: What a shrew.
Godwinshelley2: Rotating door for Mike?
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Lou in CLE: I recognized the scratches.
Rush: 🙂
Dave: great catch, lou
Rich Maine: Where is the bag?
Mike from SF: Yes sorry. Every time the iphone goes into sleeper mode I am logged out of the chat.
Lou in CLE: Study to be a detective, Dave 🙂
Rush: That hat would be a problem in a rain storm.
Lou in CLE: No Lady, your hat…that’s rediculous
Dave: Cause it would wake up?
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: SF Mike, we’re keeping your chair warm. Foxx fur.
Rush: It would FILL up!
Lou in CLE: OK, I admit it, I kinda like it.
mda19083: who said fox fur?
Rush: Surprise!
Mike from SF: Should be fine now. I turned off the sleeping mode
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: Foxx said fox fur! It’s traditional.
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: Sleeping phones lie.
Rush: “Can fallen fruit return to branch?”
mda19083: that’s gotta hurt
Mike in DC: Fox fur. Very traditional, especially on foxes.
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: Can branch with fallen fruit be returned to Lowe’s?
Lou in CLE: Yes Rush, another Aphorism 🙂
Dave: poor bb
Rush: 🙂
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: IS—–
Rush: Lots of them in this one, Lou!
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: Never marry a wife with a broadcast.
Rush: Must be lying! He wasn’t killed before he could revel the name!
Rush: (reveal)
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: Yeah, that threw me too!
Rush: Matt?
Rush: Sorry…
Rush:
Mike in DC: no can for suicides?
Mike in DC: or putative suicides?
Rich Maine: Chan manor
Dave: less clanky sound?
Rush: Death is death…especially when it turns out to NOT be a suicide!
Lou in CLE: In New Orleans?
Lou in CLE: Must be rented.
Mike in DC: I’m Tommy. I used to be Jimmy, but…uh..
mda19083: secret formula
hounder: i can finally pay attention.
Rush: She wears the WHOLE fox.
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: DC Mike: I LOVE putative stuff. I try to use the word “putative” any time i’m caught in hot-button conversations. i have NOT been reinvited to ANY homes or patios since i began this regimen.
Rush: Very good, Hounder.
Dave: Foxy lady?
Rush: Seems so!
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: Chan as professor of ignorance.
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: TYSM
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: He’s obliquely singing their praises! This is an encomium in disguise!
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: Shut up, sister.
Lou in CLE: That’s a small fireplace, faux fireplace.
Rush: Must gather at leisure what may use in haste.
It is fool in hurry who drink tea with fork.
Mike in DC: A veiled encomium, AF
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: Beautifurr rady.
Lou in CLE: Yes, Rush 🙂
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: These cars get LONGER as the movie gets SHORTER!
Mike in DC: Beautifurr furr. Fox furr.
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: WE DON’T WANT ANY!
Rush: COMING: The Battle of the Furs!
Lou in CLE: Rush 🙂
Mike in DC: Fox vs Mink for the World Fur Fighting Champeenship
Rush: 🙂
Lou in CLE: :))))
Rich Maine: Fox tried to choke me
Lou in CLE: Why 3 minutes? Isn’t 5 traditional?
Rush: 2:50
Mike in DC: tick tick tick
Lou in CLE: He who goes into hill and the tiger 🙂
mda19083: you say tomato
Rush: He who goes into hills after tiger must pay price.
hounder: ..
Dave: Grock, born without conscience….
Rush: 2:00…slow watch…
Rush: 1:50….
Rush: 1:45….
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: LECORD of LADIO ploglam!!
Mike in DC: t.i.c.k. t.i.c.k. t.i.c.k.
mda19083: you are bad foxx
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: SHATTERING revelation!
Rush: “La…la…laaaaa….”
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: *leveration”
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: I LOVE when he talks like this.
Rush: Power of suggestion….
Lou in CLE: Death is the black camel that kneels unbid at each gate.
Rush:
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: What the DICKENS! Must use that word 6 times tomorrow!
Rich Maine: Wow
Lou in CLE: Ah, the ole power of suggestion trick…shoulda known.
Dave: like the still photo
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: Miss Aguirre looks like she’s had no trouble reaching Port.
Rush: Ship with too many pilots sometimes have difficulty reaching port.
Lou in CLE: Nice, Rush
Rush: The “tomata.”
Mike in DC: Mr. Grock plays the glockenspiel
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: The Federal Boys. I have their first album!
Lou in CLE: MinDC 🙂
Rush: tomato – (Slang) A woman regarded as attractive.
Pete McNally: “I know the tomato…”
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: Uh-oh.
Dave: Another fine ending….
Rush: Getting there….
Rush: Not quite yet…
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: DON’T reach for it, Herb!
Rush: We have an encore first…
Mike in DC: Sopranos are lethal on their own. They don’t need poison gas…
Lou in CLE: M 🙂
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Mike in DC: The Case of the Vanishing Rush
Rich Maine: Underate me please
Lou in CLE: Yes, a mystery for sure!
Mike from SF: Almost fininshed on my side
Dave: quite a mystery
Mike from SF: Started ala few min later
Lou in CLE: Well, that was simple enough!
Mike in DC: Shining garments of success!
Lou in CLE: He’s getting hitched to the tomato?
Lou in CLE: I completely missed it.
Mike in DC: Back to SF, Mike! Say hi to Charlie for us.
Rich Maine: Bag to sf
Mike from SF: Will do.
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: YAY!!!!
Godwinshelley2: The end
Mike from SF: Poison in tubes
Matt1: <yee-haw>
Mike in DC: <kids-yeah>
hounder: thanks for the fun. hope to see you next week.
Lou in CLE: Yes, Mike. Meet him at the airport, or train station 🙂
Dave: yay!
Rich Maine: Tysm
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Rush→Dave, Matt1, Godwinshelley2: Sorry!
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: Hope we all meet again, reel reel soon!!
Mike in DC: Rush, you’re back just in time for the ending.
Rush: I was booted!
Mike from SF: Will overthink this mystery on a walk through chinatown
mda19083: thanks all for another fun chan chat
Rush: So…
Lou in CLE: The vanishing host has returned!
Rush: Next week..
Dave: tysm to fellow Chan fans….
Rush: Boris karloff as Mr. Wong…
Rush: In…
mda19083: welcome back rush
Mike from SF→Lou in CLE: Thanks for this movie. See u next week.
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: TYSM, dave!!~
Rich Maine: Another great one……thanks!
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: Gnite!!
Rush: “Mr. Wong, detective”
Matt1: Good night folks and have a great week ahead!
Dona and Merry Sue→Rush: WB Rush
Mike in DC: Always a pleasure! Looking forward to being Wong with everyone next week!
Rush: TYSM, Matt…
Dave: Great see everyone this evening….
Godwinshelley2: Yea – Boris!!
Mike from SF: Who cares about spoon when dinner is over”
Rush: And thank you EVERYONE!
LongshoreAngel & Foxx: We CAN be Wong!!
Rush: Another good evening!
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Godwinshelley2: Thank you Rush
Mike from SF: Good evening.
Mike in DC: Have a great week. That’s right Angel!
Rush: Yes, Angel!
Lou in CLE: Mike 🙂
Rush: We are not perfect!
Dona and Merry Sue: I will see everyone next week back in Ontario.
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Lou in CLE: Aloha, everyone.
Rush: Cobina is Wright…Karloff is WONG.
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Godwinshelley2: Night everyone – have a Safe Week
mda19083: TYSM
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Rush: Good night!
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Mike from SF: By bye
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Dave: Take care, if anyone is traveling
Dona and Merry Sue: Good night all. See you next week.
Rush: Welcome BACK, Mike in SF!
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Rush: see you next week, hopefully!
Mike from SF: Yes. I will be there.
Rush: Dona and Merry!
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Rush: Good night!
Rush: TYSM!
Rush: Our reps in SoCal!
Dona and Merry Sue: Merry Sue says she enjoyed our evening. Night all.
Rush: Good night!
Rush: take care…
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Rush: Good night, Mike!
Rush: see you next week!
Rush: Good night…
Rush: 🙂
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