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Post by rhs6358 on Feb 8, 2024 20:46:27 GMT
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Post by pizzabagel on Feb 8, 2024 22:31:50 GMT
"La Forza Del Destino." It means "The Power of Fate." In German, it's "Die Macht des Schicksals."
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Post by rhs6358 on Feb 8, 2024 23:10:37 GMT
"La Forza Del Destino." It means "The Power of Fate." In German, it's "Die Macht des Schicksals." Well done. You win an opera album. Or do you already have it?
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Post by rhs6358 on Feb 8, 2024 23:12:34 GMT
Holy crap! This thing runs four hours and twenty-two minutes? What am I supposed to do? Quit my job? Oh. Right.
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Post by rhs6358 on Feb 16, 2024 18:20:40 GMT
Looks like plenty of good seats left!
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Post by pizzabagel on Feb 16, 2024 18:22:51 GMT
Looks like plenty of good seats left! It hasn't sold out? What a shockeroo.
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Post by rhs6358 on Feb 16, 2024 19:33:58 GMT
Looks like plenty of good seats left! It hasn't sold out? What a shockeroo. I haven't checked today's mail yet. I figure your check will be in there along with rudiger's and nuts'.
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Post by rhs6358 on Mar 1, 2024 14:32:24 GMT
Still plenty of seats left and it's a week from tomorrow. Think they'll cancel if more people don't purchase ducats?
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Post by pizzabagel on Mar 1, 2024 15:21:01 GMT
Still plenty of seats left and it's a week from tomorrow. Think they'll cancel if more people don't purchase ducats? Well, they can't play to an empty house or even one that's sparsely populated.
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Post by rhs6358 on Mar 1, 2024 19:21:59 GMT
Still plenty of seats left and it's a week from tomorrow. Think they'll cancel if more people don't purchase ducats? Well, they can't play to an empty house or even one that's sparsely populated. They put on a 4-1/3 hour production and, when it's over, they hear *clap, clap, clap* That's embarrassing.
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Post by pizzabagel on Mar 1, 2024 19:28:53 GMT
Well, they can't play to an empty house or even one that's sparsely populated. They put on a 4-1/3 hour production and, when it's over, they hear *clap, clap, clap* That's embarrassing. More embarrassing than hearing crickets?
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Post by rhs6358 on Mar 1, 2024 19:45:14 GMT
They put on a 4-1/3 hour production and, when it's over, they hear *clap, clap, clap* That's embarrassing. More embarrassing than hearing crickets? The silence would be funny. If one of the cast said "ingrates", it would promote it to hysterical.
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Post by pizzabagel on Mar 1, 2024 19:47:33 GMT
More embarrassing than hearing crickets? The silence would be funny. If one of the cast said "ingrates", it would promote it to hysterical. If only we could be there to witness it, but that would ruin it.
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Post by rhs6358 on Mar 1, 2024 19:52:08 GMT
The silence would be funny. If one of the cast said "ingrates", it would promote it to hysterical. If only we could be there to witness it, but that would ruin it. Let's go anyways and bring nuts. We'll sit in the front row, eating danish and calzones. You can do parodies of the songs while nuts and I toot.
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Post by pizzabagel on Mar 1, 2024 20:08:00 GMT
If only we could be there to witness it, but that would ruin it. Let's go anyways and bring nuts. We'll sit in the front row, eating danish and calzones. You can do parodies of the songs while nuts and I toot. I'll go but I won't sit in the front row.
rhs: Alright, you'll just sit in a box in the balcony and make silly noises.
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Post by rhs6358 on Mar 2, 2024 0:12:19 GMT
Let's go anyways and bring nuts. We'll sit in the front row, eating danish and calzones. You can do parodies of the songs while nuts and I toot. I'll go but I won't sit in the front row.
rhs: Alright, you'll just sit in a box in the balcony and make silly noises.
I can get you good seats. You in?
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Post by pizzabagel on Mar 2, 2024 1:41:42 GMT
I'll go but I won't sit in the front row.
rhs: Alright, you'll just sit in a box in the balcony and make silly noises.
I can get you good seats. You in? Only if they let me deliver the opening address.
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Post by rudiger on Mar 2, 2024 2:45:40 GMT
I can get you good seats. You in? Only if they let me deliver the opening address. Here's the inspiration for the Seinfeld janitor closet scene.
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Post by nutsberryfarm ⛑ on Mar 12, 2024 19:02:05 GMT
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Post by rhs6358 on Mar 12, 2024 19:20:12 GMT
I didn't go. pizzabagel stood me up.
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Post by pizzabagel on Mar 12, 2024 19:32:10 GMT
I didn't go. pizzabagel stood me up. No, I din't. You were supposed to meet me by the stage door in the alley. I waited ten minutes then I sneaked in without you.
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Post by rhs6358 on Mar 12, 2024 19:38:39 GMT
I didn't go. pizzabagel stood me up. No, I din't. You were supposed to meet me by the stage door in the alley. I waited ten minutes then I sneaked in without you. That was a stage door? Oh, boy. I thought it was a bathroom.
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Post by pizzabagel on Mar 12, 2024 20:14:18 GMT
No, I din't. You were supposed to meet me by the stage door in the alley. I waited ten minutes then I sneaked in without you. That was a stage door? Oh, boy. I thought it was a bathroom. So you're the one who did a boom-boom right there during Act II. I should have known.
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Post by rhs6358 on Mar 12, 2024 20:49:11 GMT
That was a stage door? Oh, boy. I thought it was a bathroom. So you're the one who did a boom-boom right there during Act II. I should have known. I was trying to ensure they didn't come back next year.
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Post by pizzabagel on Mar 12, 2024 22:06:14 GMT
So you're the one who did a boom-boom right there during Act II. I should have known. I was trying to ensure they didn't come back next year. Thanks to you they'll never appear anywhere in New England.
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Post by rhs6358 on Mar 12, 2024 22:29:38 GMT
I was trying to ensure they didn't come back next year. Thanks to you they'll never appear anywhere in New England. You know, in New England "La forza del destino" means "Take your shitty opera the hell out of here".
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Post by pizzabagel on Mar 13, 2024 1:01:07 GMT
Thanks to you they'll never appear anywhere in New England. You know, in New England "La forza del destino" means "Take your shitty opera the hell out of here". "Take your shitty opera the hell out of here" = "Something else by Verdi"
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Post by rhs6358 on Mar 13, 2024 10:06:59 GMT
You know, in New England "La forza del destino" means "Take your shitty opera the hell out of here". "Take your shitty opera the hell out of here" = "Something else by Verdi" Hey, pizzabagel. You won a bucket of sand from Rockport. pizzabagel: Probably already have some.
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Post by pizzabagel on Mar 13, 2024 12:06:11 GMT
"Take your shitty opera the hell out of here" = "Something else by Verdi" Hey, pizzabagel. You won a bucket of sand from Rockport. pizzabagel: Probably already have some. rhs: But this sand is from Egypt, where the opera takes place. I'd rather have sand from "Aida", of course.
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Post by rhs6358 on Mar 13, 2024 19:15:45 GMT
Hey, pizzabagel. You won a bucket of sand from Rockport. pizzabagel: Probably already have some. rhs: But this sand is from Egypt, where the opera takes place. I'd rather have sand from "Aida", of course. "Opera is music with a lot of killing" - Dick Clark
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