The text of our Charlie Chan Family Chat for July 6, 2020
Feature:
Charlie Chan in Rio
Extra:
Secret Agent X-9 (Chapter 1)
Participants:
angel
Cdirus
Dona
Godwinshelley
Hounder
Len Freeman
Louise
Matt1
Mike in DC/Mike n Rachel in DC
PaulM
Phil and Mrs. Phil
Rush
tenman
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Rush has joined this room16:28
Rush: Good evening, Matt!
Matt1: Hello Rush!
Rush: How was your Independence Day?
Mike in DC has joined this room
Mike in DC: *creeps in*
Matt1: Quarantined!
Matt1: Hello Mike!
Rush: Hello, Mike!
Mike in DC: Greetings, gentlemen
Matt1: Hope you two had a better 4th!
Rush: I see that Rachel is busy tonight!
tenman has joined this room
Rush: Lots of fireworks around us!
Mike in DC: Finishing up some statistics homework
Matt1: Hello Ten!
Mike in DC: Hopefully will join us soon.
Rush: Tow official shows and LOTS of “private” shows!
Rush: We go and watch from a viewpoint in our neighborhood.
Mike in DC: Fireworks? You want fireworks? DC got fireworks!
Rush: Beautiful full moon, too!!!
Rush: Yes, Mike!
Matt1: And then some, Mike
Rush: And a GREAT flyover!
Mike in DC: *boom*
Mike in DC: “and the rockets’ red glare…”
Mike in DC: *ooooooh*
Rush: Complete with the B-17…my favorite vintage bomber.
Matt1: ahhhh
Mike in DC: See. We can do fireworks in the Chan chat.
Rush: 244 years “young.”
Rush: YES!
Mike in DC: *mmmmmmm!*
Rush: ka-BOOM!
Mike in DC: (Rachel asks if we’ve been drinking)
Matt1: A dwinkie?
Rush: Just iced tea on my part.
Mike in DC: *hic*
Mike in DC: tee many martooonies
Rush: I save the glass of wine for bedtime…
Mike in DC: Good idea Rush.
Rush: I learned that from my grandmother.
Mike in DC: Wise woman!
Rush: She would have a glass of wine, play some solitaire, and go to bed…
Mike in DC: Grandma Glick?
Rush: Widmar.
Mike in DC: Ah.
Rush: My mom’s mom.
Mike in DC: So, Rush, I’ve been getting into playing Klezmer music recently. 😉
Rush: My dad’s side was a bit confusing!
Rush: 🙂
Mike in DC: Gotcha. Well, grandma Widmer seems to have had herself pretty well organized.
Matt1: My great aunt drank a glass or two of Port every night…..bought the bottle by the gallon (really) and poured it until the age of 102
Rush: Mike, I learn something new each week…often from YOU!
Rush: 🙂
Mike in DC: Ethanol is a preservative….
Rush: See, Matt! Don’t argue with proven success!
angel has joined this room
Rush: Marie’s grandmother, who reached 97, used to have a drink of brandy before bed.
angel: Hello-a-roony!!
Matt1: I was always amazed at her age and barley weighing 80 pounds, she could pour a glass gallon
Rush: Hellooooo….ANGEL!
Rush: WELCOME!
Mike in DC: Aha. A fox-less Angel appears!
angel: Best way to reach for the years is to reach for the booze, some say!
Matt1: Hello Angel!
Rush: And…TENMAN!
Rush: Missed your arrival!
Rush: WELCOME!!!!
tenman: Hello all
Rush: I think I am weakened by the heat we had today!
angel: My friends (and you are my friends), Fox is with us. The Chatovod ID thingy is teddibly zenzitive, & any attempt etzetera. So Fox goes unmentioned, if not unspoken.
Mike in DC: Hello tenman!
Matt1: btw, I’m cued here
angel: Vere iss Tenman?
Rush: I need to do same, Matt!
angel: We are likewise cued!
Rush: I am now ready too.
Rush: Yes, Angel!
Rush: 🙂
Mike in DC: Many fly unter des Radar, Fräulein Angel. Der Fuchs geht weiter.
Rush: Okay…tonight is Chapter One of “Secret Angent X-9″….
angel: Just let X-9 TRY to get through. WE’LL let him/her/they!!
Rush: Cue Johnny Rivers…
angel: Cueing Old Man Rivers!!
Mike in DC: Jawohl. Alles in ordenung in DC.
Rush: I’ll say….60 seconds…
Rush: for possible arrivals..
angel: Hey, Soundm—Soundperson—! Just keep rolling along!
Rush: 40 seconds…
Rush: 30 seconds…
angel: *excitement bulds*
Rush: 25…
Mike in DC: Are we fighting ze Chermans or da lousy Japs in this one?
Rush: 20…
angel: *clutches pearls*
tenman: I do a mean Secret Agent Man at karaoke
Rush: 15…
Rush: 10…
Mike in DC: *quivers*
Rush: 5…
Rush: GO!!!
angel: They took away my NAME!!
Mike in DC: Lloyd Bridges! Cy Kendall!
angel: Didn’t the actors know it was Universal before they got that card?
Mike in DC: Dumb music!
Mike in DC: How fun!
Mike in DC: Ah Fong
angel: Ralph Slosser was TOTALLY hot then. He could melt glue.
angel: TOKIO!!
Mike in DC: China. The YELLOW Sea…and…’shadow island’
angel: I love the smell of propergander in the mourning.
Rush: “Ah Fong” was the name of Benson Fong’s Hollywood restaurant.
Rush: And…there he was!
angel: Really, Rush? I just heard last week about the sad fate of the Brown Derbys.
angel: We need a powerful synthetic. I’m thinking of inventing Tetragene again.
angel: *You mean YET again*
angel: Again again.
Rush: Yes.
Rush: 722″
angel: I wanna be a profassor in kemistly.
Rush: Yes to the above, Angel.
Mike in DC: Chemical warfare bows to military intelligence
angel: I like to think i’m still hidden in America. Under Fox fur.
Rush: “Major Sake”?
tenman: No, not Shadow Island!!
Mike in DC: Military intelligence kicks chemical warfare groin
Mike in DC: *in groin
angel: SHADOW ISLAND! That wouldn’t be—oh, COULDN’T be. He wasn’t born yet.
Rush: Yes, Tenman!
Rush: She looks down while speaking.
angel: One-Leg-Up looks not a little like John Belushi-san.
Rush: Feigned modesty?
Rush: Angel: 🙂
angel: Yacht Guy looks like the Ty-D-Bowl man.
Rush: And, Angel, we will be seeing him in “The Chinese Cat.”
Mike in DC: Keye Luke as croupier
angel: Am i too late to ask whose side ANY of these actors/writers/gaffers were ON?
Rush: Yes! Unlike his being a player in “Monte Carlo”!
angel: Is Mister Haney in THIS too?
Mike in DC: Don’t know, Angel, but it’s very fun to see them recycle from one serial to another.
Rush: Her lines were written on a chalkboard resting on the floor?
Mike in DC: Fight in Asian bar…quick…the recycled Arabic music!
angel: I have never suggested my own life is non-fiction, only lamented there’s not ENOUGH fiction.
Rush: No one chased the killer.
angel: We need the Circus Overture too.
Rush: 🙂
Rush: Indeed!
Mike in DC: Circus Overture? Dvorak?
angel: Toussaint L. Overture was an early (5AM-9AM) collaborator of Tupac the Shaker.
Rush: What is it, “Enter the Gladiators”, Mike?
angel: OHHHHH no you’re not!
angel: *OHHHHHH yes you are!*
angel: Dollars Enough? She’s my favorite actress!!
Rush: Meanwhile, in the sub…
Mike in DC: Toiko Rose
angel: Speakers made in Japan.
Rush: 🙂
Rush: Yes, Mike.
angel: Toiko ruined everything. Gojira just rearranged.
Rush: A number one hit record!
angel: When does Broderick Crawford get here?
Mike in DC: More music from Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes movies!
angel: Number One with a BULLET, Rush!!
Rush: True!
angel: Basil Rathbone is a hell of a doctor.
Rush: Hence the “hit”!
angel: Mr. DarkSuit looks like Mike Wallace.
Mike in DC: Check out “The Black Sleep”
angel: Sleep no more!!
Rush: Meet “Jack Roberts.”
Mike in DC: Lloyd Bridges!
Matt1: “Special”
Mike in DC: Name: Phil “Wrong Way” Corrigan
angel: They always have those doorsills. Everywhere doorsills. Navy oughta lower the water levels.
tenman: No way he’s 5’11” and 180.
Rush: 5-11, 180…
Rush: Yes, Tenman!
tenman: if he’s 5’11”, then he weighs about 135-145
angel: Tenman, i am CONFIDENT your info comes from the LATEST, 1042, baseball cards!
angel: *1932*
angel: *1942*!!
Rush: Maybe he lost weight on the way out to his assignment!
tenman: I’m not good at ages, but I’m a crack shot at guessing weights
Rush: 🙂
angel: I detect a little heat here. I think Lloyd has a VESTED INTEREST…
Mike in DC: Achtung!
angel: I’m confused NOW.
Rush: “YAY!!!)
Rush: “If the hat fits….”
tenman: So convenient they’re the same size as our guys
angel: I KNEW IT! FOX, wake up!! They ARE getting naked!!
Mike in DC: “Get out of those uniforms.”
Mike in DC: Hm. Very broad-minded for 1942
Hounder has joined this room
Matt1: Hello Hounder!
Hounder: Hi everyone. Hope you had a good 4th
angel: Hounder! You’re just in time to be rounded up by the Nazis!!
Rush: Hello, HOUNDER!
Rush: How are you tonight?
Rush: Mom, too.
Mike in DC: Hey hounder!
angel: Those armbands can be worn with OR WITHOUT shirts or coats.
Hounder: tired rush. Mom been restless the last 2 nights so I haven’t had much sleep
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Mike in DC: They look best with just a thong, Angel.
Rush: GS!
Matt1: Hello GS!
Rush: WELCOME!
Mike in DC: Hey GS!
Godwinshelley3: Greetings from Mars!
Mike in DC: Mars, Illinois?
Hounder: hi gs. Hope all is well for you
Rush: Crash dive!
Godwinshelley3: Mars, PA
angel: Mike, you are SO right—or so i IMAGINE. I of course would have no way of knowing! ()Fox goes to those clubs & reports to me later.)
Matt1: You hit my battleship!
Godwinshelley3: Halfway to my folks place in Indiana
Mike in DC: *boom8
angel: GS: Best things on Earth come from Mars, huh?
Mike in DC: Well, I hope things are well in Mars!
Rush: Next week….
angel: YAY!
Rush: hapter 2…
Matt1: <clap-clap>
Rush: (Chapter)
angel: And they used that stock shot of the ship getting blasted a 744th time!!
Rush: (applause….)
Godwinshelley3: Just dropped in for a quick hello – long drive today so I’m turning in early
Rush: “The Flaming Lake”
Mike in DC: <kids-yeah>
Rush: How long was your drive, GS?
angel: I go to Rio, in 15 mins! See you after i bribe a steward or two!!
Mike in DC: Safe travels, GS!
Hounder: becsafevgws
tenman: Damn! Now we’ll never know who won the war!
Matt1: Safe travels, GS!
angel: GS, RESIST all borders!! Keep out of the reach of children!!
Godwinshelley3: I left around 8:30 and got here around 4:30
Rush: Happy to see you…if for but a moment…!
Rush: Be safe in your travels!
Mike in DC: Will you be back in DE tomorrow?
Rush: 8 hours.
angel: Is it just for the moment we live? What’s it all about, ALFIE?
Rush: That’s a lot without sharing the driving!
Godwinshelley3: No I’ll be in Indiana for another month starting tomorrow
Mike in DC: Angel: Avast ye land lubbers! Batten down the hatches! Repel boarders!
Rush: You are heading back out to Indiana?
angel: Is that DE like Delaware? I was there over the weak end!
Mike in DC: Oh gosh. Hope things go well!
Godwinshelley3: Yes state of DE
Mike in DC: What did Della-ware?
Matt1: Booooo
Hounder: Are you all settled in rush
angel: Mike, boarders repelled! Except this one with a cute ponytail! Where’s Rachel, by the whey?
Hounder: good thoughts heading your way gs
Rush: Pretty much, Hounder. It felt good to get back home from the road!
Mike in DC: Finished statistics homework. Now preparing quick dinner before Rio.
angel: I’ll be with Della Street planning a surprise for Mr.Mason. Back in 10.
Rush: Talk about LONG drives!
Louise has joined this room
Rush: Louise!!!
Louise: Hi Chan Clan!
Matt1: Hello Louise!
Rush: Good evening to YOU!
Mike in DC: Hello Louise!
Rush: hello, Louise!
Hounder: home IN IA or CA?
Godwinshelley3: Howdy louise
Hounder: Hi louise
Louise: Nice to be here. I accidently put in Reno instead of Rio so that delayed my entrance!
Rush: AH!
Matt1: Slight detour, Louise!
Rush: Both start with “R” at least!
Mike in DC: Hm. Chan proves again that subtle differences can be telling.
Louise: Yes Matt! Both odd places.
Louise: Okay, thank you all for finding good excuses for my fumbling.
Matt1: Cued here!
Godwinshelley3: Well, will sign off – probably off the internet for another month – Mom finishes her radiation this month
Rush: I am getting there, too, Matt….
Godwinshelley3: I’ll check in as I can
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Rush: Please give our very BEST wishes to your mom, GS!
Godwinshelley3: Night
Rush: Good night….
Godwinshelley3 has left this room
Louise: Cued. Didn’t get a chance to say bye to GS
Rush: Cued, now, too!
Rush: Some good music in this one!
Mike n Rachel in DC has joined this room
Rush: 5 1/2 minutes to go…
Matt1: Hello R!
Mike n Rachel in DC: She’s baaaaack!
Louise: I like the music already in the beginning. Wiggling in my seat.
Rush: Welcome Mike with rachel!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Greetings to all
Rush: And…greetings to the both of you!
Mike n Rachel in DC: And…we have the movie set on the big TV
angel: THERE’S Our Lady!
Matt1: Only way to watch CC!
Rush: We just need Mr. and Mrs. Phil.
Rush: Mine will be seen on my modest “big” TV!
Louise: M&R: envious here
Rush: 4 minutes…
Rush: Louise: 🙂
angel: We starting from 20th Century FOX logo? Or from Credits?
Rush: THREE minutes to go…
angel: Louuuuuuuuuise!!
Rush: Opening Title, please.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Don’t be too envious. The normal Chan mode is a MacBook air. Bow that we’ve upgraded to Apple TV we have a somewhat larger screen…
Louise: Hi angel. Start at title
Rush: Just AFTER the 20th/Fox logo.
Mike n Rachel in DC: *Now
Rush: 2 1/2 minutes…
Dona has joined this room
Louise: M&R: I reserve the right to be envious about everyone else’s life
Rush: DONA!
Louise: Hi Dona
angel: My DONA!!
Matt1: Hello Dona!
Dona: Hello Everyone!
Rush: Welcome!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Find the gong. The gong never lies about the beginning of a Chan.
Rush: 2 minutes…
Phil & Mrs Phil has joined this room
Rush: Ready, Dona?
Len Freeman has joined this room
Mike n Rachel in DC: Dona! Nobis Pacem to you.
Matt1: Hello M/M Phil!
Dona: I’m ready
Rush: Mr. amd Mrs. Phil! WELCOME!
Phil & Mrs Phil: Alooha to all our Chan friends!
Rush: 90 seconds…
Len Freeman: Hello all
Cdirus has joined this room
Louise: The Phils
Rush: A coupla couples tonight!
angel: Thanks for the headzup, Louise. Little discrepancies of PERZACKLY that sort got Pope Gregory off his own calendar. Years ago, this was.
Matt1: Hello CD!
Dona: Hi Mr & Mrs Phil
Mike n Rachel in DC: Aloha a due Phils
Dona: Hi Len
Rush: 75 seconds…
Dona: Hi Cdrius
Matt1: Hello Len!
Rush: 60 seconds…
Mike n Rachel in DC: And Len
Cdirus: Hi guys!
Rush: CD! WELCOME!!!
Rush: 50 seconds…
Mike n Rachel in DC: OH. And CD!
Rush: 40 seconds…
Rush: Len!
Mike n Rachel in DC: *selects palm fronds*
Rush: WELCOME!!!
Rush: 40….
angel: Len—cd—Phil, Mrs.Phil—AVOIDED the Serial, did we? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm?
Rush: 30 seconds…
Len Freeman: 🙂
Rush: 25…
Louise: Is this going to be wacky tonight? Cause the comments are already!
Mike n Rachel in DC: *fastens seat belt*
Rush: 20…
Phil & Mrs Phil: We say hello to Louis, angel, tenman, Matt, Hounder M&R, Dona LF, CD and The G-MAN
Mike n Rachel in DC: *lights fuse*
Rush: 15…
angel: Comments are wack.
Cdirus: I saw a couple minutes angel
tenman: Hey
Rush: 10…
Rush: 5…
Rush: GO!!!
Matt1: <GONG>
Rush: Music….
Rush: Title…
Rush: Credits….
Mike n Rachel in DC: This is my favorite Chan movie!
Phil & Mrs Phil: And AWAY we go!
Louise: Shake your booty!
Dona: Gotta to love this music
Mike n Rachel in DC: (Mike)
tenman: I’m thinkign Carmenr Miranda for some reason…
Rush: “Live” Rio backdrop….
angel: Lester Ziffren!! I might have known!!
Rush: Yes, TM!
angel: Western Electric. Shocking.
Mike n Rachel in DC: cha cha cha
Rush: Angel: 🙂
Dona: Yes, tenman I agree
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angel: You should never put bananas / in the refrigerator
Louise: Chicka boom!
Matt1: Hello Paul!
Rush: Paul!
angel: Hey Paul!!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Samba
Hounder: Sorry to be gone for a bit. Dog’s figured out how to open the screen door. Had to get him back before it got dark
Rush: Well…nice “house” tonight!
Louise: Everyone wants to dance, Rush
Hounder: Hi Paul and everyone else I missed
Cdirus: Who needs fur in Rio?
Mike n Rachel in DC: Pop like corn for hot music
Louise: Fox fur, fox fur
Rush: YES!
angel: It IS a nice house! Cooking with gas, i hope. Living better with Tetragene, surely?
Dona: Hi Paul
Rush: “Lemonade”
Mike n Rachel in DC: Mary Beth Hughes
Rush: Dona…was it hot in your area today?
angel: What Lola wants, Lola destroys.
Louise: Lola
Rush: Hamilton MacFadden.
Rush: He was the director of the “basis” for this film…”The Black camel.”
angel: Is that ELECTRICAL TAPE on her fur?
PaulM: good evening
Mike n Rachel in DC: “That excuse for a man.”
Rush: “Thanks.”
tenman: the ladies’ outfits are divine
Rush: And…Harold Huber!
Rush: Agreed, TM!
Louise: woo hoo
angel: Number Two Son have Number One buzz on.
Rush: “Pops.”
Louise: hot music
Mike n Rachel in DC: Number Two Son need to calm self
Rush: Yes.
Len Freeman: OK. back
Rush: Jimmy is enjoying this trip!
Phil & Mrs Phil: I put the wrong DVD “Reno” not “Rio” I’ll need a couple of time checks please.
angel: Chan describes present dilemma of higher education.
Rush: AH! That’s a common malady this evening, Phil!
Rush: No problem!
angel: Reno/Rio!! THERE is a possibility for our Authors in Residence!
Rush: We will guide you in….
Louise: Phil and Mrs: I did the same thing!
Phil & Mrs Phil: Yes, but what time is it?
angel: She spoiled it ALL. She broached the brooch.
Rush: 5:40
Rush: 5:50
Rush: 6:00
Rush: 6:10
Louise: Mother’s a Brazilian…
angel: They’re going to grease, & swim the English channel. Gotta hurry, that channel signs off at midnight.
Hounder: I’m going to bow out. See you next week hopefully better rested.
Rush: Yes.
Rush: 6:20
Louise: bye hounder
angel: Hounder, we’ll expect you!
Rush: 6:30
Phil & Mrs Phil: Good. Thank you so much
Mike n Rachel in DC: Take care hounder
Cdirus: See you Hounder!
Phil & Mrs Phil: One more time Rush
angel: Darlings and deers. They’ll rifle her drawers.
Rush: Be safe, Hounder!
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Rush: 7:20…
Phil & Mrs Phil: Spot on.
Rush: 7:30…
Mike n Rachel in DC: “but dear” or? “but deer?”
angel: Where Lola goes, Lola gets a low-rate mortgage.
tenman: <sound of whip cracking>
Rush: Very good, Phil!
angel: Really, Hertz!
Rush: “They Met in Rio”….
Mike n Rachel in DC: cha cha cha
angel: Anybody know if the United Fruit Company was involved with Big Hat highrollers?
Mike n Rachel in DC: oompha oompha
Phil & Mrs Phil: They divorced in Reno..
Rush: 🙂
tenman: Vocals dubbed or that really her?
Louise: For some reason I remember this song from years ago when I watched Chan movies on tv
Rush: Dubbed, I am certain.
angel: Can’t get a murderess for love or Monet these days.
Mike n Rachel in DC: True, Phil. They met in Rio, split in Reno
angel: I GOTTA get a Tiny Little Locket.
Mike n Rachel in DC: It would look good on you, Angel. Small, exotic photo of Fox inside… 🙂
angel: Nobody doesn’t like Sara Nade.
Rush: I live the set: silvery palms.
Rush: Angel: 🙂
Rush: (Applause…)
Mike n Rachel in DC: Sara Nade is nice. Sara Lee makes better coffee cakes, though.
Rush: 🙂
angel: MnR, CAPITAL suggestion! I shall borrow capital posthaste & sign Fox’s name to the Installment Agreement!!
Louise: Yep, coffe cakes better
angel: These two could give a beaver a fever.
Rush: Note the bouquet shadow on the wall.
Phil & Mrs Phil: Enter Kay Linaker
angel: Which continent?
Louise: Saw that Rush: ominous
Mike n Rachel in DC: Bever Fever?
Rush: (cough…)
Mike n Rachel in DC: Beaver even?
angel: Never met a mystic that wasn’t [expensive].
Rush: True!
Rush: “Psychognosis”
angel: A Sidecar. It’s made with cinnamon & Mogen David.
Louise: How many psychics are there in Chan movies?
Rush: A goodly number, Louise!
Phil & Mrs Phil: How many times do the lights get knocked off?
angel: Louise, let’s consult a psychic.
Rush: Some “real,” some….not-so”real”.
Len Freeman: Ahh… Victor Lagosi
angel: Another Nai?
Mike n Rachel in DC: Time to go see Tannevero…er…whoever
tenman: I hear her!!
angel: Another Nazi?
Rush: “I, Yi, Yi, Yi (Like You Very Much)”
angel: May i take your hat and goat?
Mike n Rachel in DC: baaaaa
Mike n Rachel in DC: You can take my goat if you give me coffee
Phil & Mrs Phil: DON’T DRINK THE COFFEE!
Louise: So the numerous psychics: is this because this was a cultural thing at the time or just lazy repeating of themes?
angel: Rush, was sheet (with two E’s) music available for this one?
angel: Cultural, yeah?
Rush: That’s the answer to the question: What do “Charlie Chan in Rio” and “The Prisoner” (last episode) have in common?
Mike n Rachel in DC: Coffee is not a problem. DON’T SMOKE.
Rush: RIGHT!
Mike n Rachel in DC: *thud*
angel: He’s got the new Rolling Stones somewhere.
Dona: lol
Rush: Van Gogh copy on the wall.
Louise: I wish I could fall asleep that fast
Len Freeman has left this room
Mike n Rachel in DC: Where was this in the anti-smoking campaigns in the 70s?
Rush: Just use “pshcognosis, Louise!
angel: Imelda Waldorf Kletzmuller-Wahoo Braizey Diamond Willoughby Schrafft Cardoza Jones.
Rush: (Psychognosis…)
Mike n Rachel in DC: I killed a man.
angel: She
tenman: Manuel Cardozo
tenman: Floozy
angel: She’s her own grampaw.
Matt1: Tough love
Louise: Seriously, we no longer need psychics because you can now get all this info she is spillimg on the Internet!
Rush: Jealosy.
Rush: The motive.
angel: You TELL ‘er, tenman!!
Dona: true Louise
Mike n Rachel in DC: Yes, Louise. Sounds like a normal Facebook post.
Rush: Of course, he never asks permission first!
Mike n Rachel in DC: “I had a cigarette and coffee with him. I fell madly in love then I killed him.”
Louise: GEEEZ Angele: Are you reading my mind? We were just tralking aboutrb that songh. My son loved it as a kid and I just showed him the CD we used to play.
angel: CALL FOR PHILIP MORRRRRRRIWANNNNNNNA! CALLLLLLL for Philip Moriwaaaaaannnnna!!
Rush: “Now…let’s talk PRICE….”
Mike n Rachel in DC: Price? She isn’t that kind of girl. Is she??
Phil & Mrs Phil: When he turns around she’d munching on the record.
Rush: Poor guy…totally in the dark.
angel: He can tell you who’ll win the 1946 World Series.
Dona: She seems old for him
Rush: Great info for a bet, Angel!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Mr. & Mrs. Clark B. Denton
angel: NOBODY catches the 4:00 plane! Not no way! Not nohow!!
Rush: And she’s NOT!
tenman: Why do they have to elope? Why can’t they get married there?
angel: Who Lola invites, Lola compromises.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Rachel is NOT going for the “Mrs. Mike in DC” moniker
Matt1: I wouldn’t buy that ticket just yet
Rush: DON’T take the “Stardust”!
Rush: Iris Wong as Lilli….Wong.
Louise: I like her, Rush
angel: Mr. Cocktail Shaker doesn’t fool me. I can tell a guy who’s weak for Henry Wallace.
Rush: Me too!
Mike n Rachel in DC: What’s Wong with that?
Rush: I wish they had used her as a Chan daughter!
Matt1: Yes!
angel: CALLLLLLL FORRRRRRRR PHILIPS SCREWDRIVERRRRR! CALLLLL FORRR–
Rush: And, more than one time!
Rush: Actually, a Chan daughter-in-law would have worked!
Louise: Yes Rush
Mike n Rachel in DC: Late to her own party. And what’s her lame excuse? She’s DEAD.
angel: *tin can*
tenman: Jimmy needs a leash!
Dona: i would have stepped on his foot
Rush: After all…Jimmy falls for “her” in TWO films!
Louise: Ouch, but true
Dona: Jimmy that is
angel: REALLY late, then!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Not yet for the can…
Matt1: <tin can>
Phil & Mrs Phil: Cue the can
Rush: TYSM…Matt…
angel: Oh? I fo’pawed?
Mike n Rachel in DC: Perfect can timing. “Grace, we’re watching a Master at work.”
Matt1: Here, rest next to the dead body
Louise: in the back?
tenman: in the back???
angel: He’s late cuzza coroner virus.
Rush: hep – (Slang) Keenly aware of or knowledgeable about the latest trends or developments.
Louise: Like I said, a wacky evening
Mike n Rachel in DC: A broken wris swatch?
Phil & Mrs Phil: Jimmy “The Hound” Chan
Rush: Spoken as if recovering from psychognosis, Mike!
Rush: “That prove my point very well.”
Mike n Rachel in DC: Ms.Wong is priceless.
tenman: its got me pzzled lol
Rush: 🙂
angel: They’ve stumbled & tumbled ME. I gotta get outta this putatively neutral equatorial snakepit. With wolves.
Rush: No bird in the cage.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Sweet on Jimmy…but knows he’s a dunce. Adorable.
angel: Certain governors would like the present scene.
Louise: Jimmy, stop
Rush: Jimmy, pre-corona.
tenman: You can see it in Charlie’s eyes….how did i ever sire such an idiot??
Matt1: Trend setter
Louise: Jimmy predicts the future
angel: W? or M?
Mike n Rachel in DC: “No bird in the cage.” Is that a euphemism?
Rush: HM!
angel: M for Murder, W for weapon.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Tenman: Can’t go 13 for 13. There has to be at least one of these. 🙂
angel: Restart heart, Jimmy.
Rush: Yes.
Mike n Rachel in DC: M for Murder, W for Weapon, D for idiot.
angel: You can wait here in the sitting room, or, sit here in the waiting room.
Rush: Or, “Wait here in the sitting room.”
angel: What Lola bequeaths,can be sold at discount.
Rush: Or…”Wait on them in the waiting room.”
angel: Bitter, not better.
Rush: Or….forget it…!
Rush: Nice Huber role here.
angel: Suspect everyone. Suspect no one.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Rachel thinks Ms. Ashby is not very ladylike
Rush: “Long experience teach, until murderer found, suspect everybody.”
Louise: Huber has many different accents in these movies
angel: I think a chorus pf Boola Boola is in order here.
Rush: Yes, Louise!
angel: Two gentlemen from Verona?
Dona: Oh please NO Angel
Rush: 🙂
Mike n Rachel in DC: He is a remarkable actor.
Rush: (cough…)
angel: Dona, i’m here to SAY the UNSAYABLE.
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Rush: Feeding the fish.
Rush: Lost CD…
angel: I know a lotta guys would like that maid
Louise: angel, you do that well
angel: maid’s uniform.
Mike n Rachel in DC: “Maybe you could do something for me…” Yikes
Rush: She’ll be unemployed now.
angel: This is EXACTLY why entertainment taxes never yielded as hoped.
Rush: And…S is for “soused.”
Matt1: Looks like Black Camel scene
Rush: Yes, Matt!
Rush: I like the realistic rear projection!
Rush: I can “feel” the humid tropical night air.
angel: I’LL be a maraschino cherry. YOU be an APRICOT, my peach!!
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Cdirus: Oops
Rush: WB….CD!
Mike n Rachel in DC: And I’ll be a grape. peel me.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Hey CD!
Rush: “I am proud to say, so am I.”
Cdirus: I love that phrase about the cherry
angel: I resent being treated as a citizen. Criminals often get simply REAMS of cool stuff,
Cdirus: Hi M&R!
Rush: She’s sobering up.
angel: *****INTERRUPTION***** I must break, will return.
Matt1: Some fish bowl
Rush: Yes!
Rush: Tonight’s ‘crystal ball!
Rush: Nice use of subtitles!
Louise: Maybe I shot here and didn’t know it? That is some drinking binge.
tenman: its all chinese to me!
Rush: Yes, Louise!
Rush: And, indeed, TM!
Rush: Sort of a “running gag” there!
Matt1: Captain K!
Rush: Recognize the voice?
Rush: Yes…”Dead Men tell.”
Phil & Mrs Phil: Apparently he offed Gerty
Dona: OH yes
Matt1: Flew the coop
Rush: Yes, Phil!
Rush: hence the empty cage tonight!
Phil & Mrs Phil: Pooped on his shoulder once too often
Louise: The ole back door trick
Rush: !!!
Rush: He’s claiming that “the butler did it.”
tenman: sometimes slip in own oil
Rush: And, a good chiropractor can repair the damage.
Rush: (cough…)
Rush: A “natural herb” in the cigarette.
Phil & Mrs Phil: Rush, are you wearing a face mask tonight?
Rush: Not if I can help it, Phil!
Phil & Mrs Phil: You keep coughing and I’m afraid you’re spreading germs to the rest of us.
Rush: Wore one while teaching today, though. Great for fogging one’s glasses!
Rush: “Horsefeathers!”
tenman: whay do you teach?
Rush: (You’re a BET!”
tenman: What
Matt1: Fun scene
Mike n Rachel in DC: A natural herb. Cannabis satava.
Rush: Summer school: grades K and 1 for the first two weeks.
Phil & Mrs Phil: Yeah, Jimmy’s doing a little herb.
Rush: Then, 2 aND 3.
Louise: I wore one bike riding today: for the first time I kept it on the whole hour and was very comfortable eventho it was 85 degrees out
Rush: math.
Rush: Wow, louise!
Cdirus: No one picks up the lit cigarette?
Rush: To me that would be like a driving a car with a clogged air filter!
Mike n Rachel in DC: They apparently favor edibles, DC
Rush: Jimmy spills the personal “beans.”
Mike n Rachel in DC: “You’re a game boy.”
Mike n Rachel in DC: I think Rach had a game boy when she was a kid
PaulM: i love this scene
Rush: Her boss is deceased. She can take a break!
tenman: so he’s goign to drug lilly?
Rush: Seems he’s saving it for…;ater.
Rush: (later)
Mike n Rachel in DC: Fortunately he gets drafted first
Phil & Mrs Phil: Not only is he a hound, he’s a perv too
tenman: lol
Rush: She knows hoe he feels, now he wants to hear how SHE feels about him!
Rush: (how)
Rush: Oh…those typos!
Louise: I am typo queen tonight
Phil & Mrs Phil: I’ve been wondering what you’ve been trying to communicate from time to time Rush.
Rush: I don’t doubt that, Phil!
Phil & Mrs Phil: lol
Rush: Jimmy prowls….
Phil & Mrs Phil: Oh gees, he’s got a gat
Mike n Rachel in DC: More re-cycled Sherlock Holmes music
Phil & Mrs Phil: Well…he had a gat
Louise: Jimmy goes for the action approiach
Rush: AH!
Rush: CLUNK!
Rush: A leap worthy of Lee!
Rush: Note everyone’s positions….
Mike n Rachel in DC: Yes Rush. Ah Fong was noteworthy. Ah Clunk, however, is a hero.
Rush: Watch….
Phil & Mrs Phil: Where’s the light switch
Louise: LIGFHTS!
Matt1: <tin can>
Louise: damn typo
Phil & Mrs Phil: What did I tell you?
Mike n Rachel in DC: There are nine of them, Phil
Rush: Now…when we discover who fired the shot…think back to the scene as we saw it!
Phil & Mrs Phil: Caused me to miss the can cue. DANG!
Rush: And, of course, this was another “lights out” scene!
Mike n Rachel in DC: So why is it that our old house barely has one switch and one outlet per room?
Rush: By the way…TYSM…Matt!
Phil & Mrs Phil: We have a switch we haven’t figured out WHAT it’s for.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Matt = Can Ninja
Rush: 🙂
Rush: “Bulldog Drummund”
Rush: The amateur detective…
Rush: Second reference.
Louise: This is like Cinderella
Rush: This is “deja-vu” for Charlie Chan!
Louise: If the shoe fits
Mike n Rachel in DC: de peen
Rush: Match the pin to the broken pin of the brooch.
Phil & Mrs Phil: Immediately thereafter she gets a massive case of the munchies
Rush: 🙂
tenman: I nned to get that ‘herb’
Rush: Funny scene here.
Phil & Mrs Phil: Yeah baby
Mike n Rachel in DC: Caffeine exist in venti iced mocha, extra pump of chocolate
Louise: do it Charlie
Rush: “OH, please be quiet!”
Mike n Rachel in DC: la la la la la la la la
Phil & Mrs Phil: One toke over the line sweet Jesus one toke over the line
Dona: lol
Mike n Rachel in DC: Definitely going to need some meth for this dude
tenman: well he LOOKS stoned
Louise: SEE! I predicted wacky!!!
Rush: 🙂
Rush: So, Jimmy exposing the butler resulted in his murder!
Rush: DRAFTED!
Dona: ROTFLOL
Mike n Rachel in DC: Now I got a war on my hands!
Rush: THE END…
Mike n Rachel in DC: <kids-yeah>
Matt1: <yee-haw>
Rush: (Applause…)
Dona: He will fix the war
Mike n Rachel in DC: *sambas*
Louise: Yay!
tenman: A good period piece. Love the setting and costumes
Mike n Rachel in DC: *random wiggle(*
Cdirus: see you guys next week!
Rush: As we hear the exit music and see closing credits…
tenman: same!
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Rush: So…
Rush: Next week….
Rush: “Castle in the Desert.”
Matt1: Good night folks and have a great week!
PaulM: byes!
Louise: One of my favorite!!!
Mike n Rachel in DC: And dont’ forget Mary Beth, ten man!
Dona: <Y
Rush: Thank you ALL for a GREAT evening!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Good night all…have a wonderful week
Louise: Nite all. Stay safe.
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Phil & Mrs Phil: Ah that’s a good one. See you guys next week. Take care.
Rush: It was fun to visit Rio with all of you!
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Mike n Rachel in DC: As always, Rush, many thanks to you
Rush: take care, all….
Dona: My computer is waken
Dona: wacken
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Rush: have a happy and SAFE week!
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Rush: Wacken?
Rush: Or…”whacky”?
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Dona: both
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Rush: AH!
Rush: take care….
Rush: be safe!
Dona: you too
Rush: Good night….!
Dona: See you next week.
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