A Scottish peace with Galaxy Quest and lots 'o movies

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Scottish-Gaelic for 'Peace'

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My little Scottish tribute to my fans in SCOTLAND!!

Thanks for allowing me to be part of your life!

 I just finished a good book -

"The Moche Warrior" by Lyn Hamilton.

Here is the amazon listing:

http://www.amazon.com/Moche-Warrior-Archaeological-Mysteries-No/dp/0425173089/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1318189349&sr=1-1

I liked it well enough to go and search for other books by Lyn Hamilton.

It is always refreshing to me to read a book that has a good story plot, and does not include steamy sex scenes or limited use of language

due to excessive swearing.

I raised my son regarding swearing with this:

'People that swear have a very poor grasp of the English language,

so they feel they have to fill in with cuss words.'

For really good insults, that don't include cuss words,

look to Monty Python!

There are some SUPER insults in the series
'Fawlty Towers'

a British Comedy starring John Cleese and a wonderful company of actors.

My favorite insult includes 'stick insect'.

tee hee - makes me laugh just thinking about it!

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We just discovered that my sister-in-law has never seeen

****Galaxy Quest****

Oh, we can't let that go. Everyone should watch 'Galaxy Quest' at least once in their life!

Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Tony Shaloub....great actors are cast!

Even the bad guy from 'Quigley Down Under' has a super part!

WHAT??? You've never seen 'Quigley Down Under' with Tom Selleck?

Ok, there is a list of movies that everyone should see,

and it is not the PBS list or the TCM list

or a list by some big movie critic.

Hmmm....I guess I better think about this one!

So today I will just suggest some of my absolute movie favorites.

The Crew

Burt Reynolds, Richard Dreyfuss + many more!

Hate the cussing. :0(

Disorganized Crime

Lou Diamond Phillips, Fred Guinn,+ many more!

Fred Guinn of 'Munster" fame is great as a gangster!

Galaxy Quest

No cussing, no sex except a sexy Sigourney Weaver, great humor!

Enchanted

Wonderful musical with music that makes you want to dance.

The opener is a great tease.

Short Circuit

Ally Sheedy, +many more you will recognize.

Great premise. If you like the 3 Stooges, you have to watch this one!

The Wild, Wild, Wild World of BatWoman

Mystery Science Theater version preferred

Get ready for some plain silliness, hilarious comments from the robots (MST) and a fantastically HORRIBLE bat tattoo!!! Go-go music too....(B rated)

Quigley Down Under

of course! A very good Tom Selleck movie.

Crocodile Dundee

Paul Hogan + It still is one of our favorites.

Lightning Jack

With Paul Hogan, Beverly D'Angelo, and Cuba Gooding Jr.,

who has one of the funniest scenes in movies ever. It's the bank robber scene.

My Cousin Vinnie

with caution.

Fred Guinn as the judge, Marisa Tomei (won an award for her part), Joe Pesci.

Wayyyy too much cussing, but if you can ignore that, it's a great movie.

Favorite moment - Marisa T. stomping her foot, and Joe P. stomps back!

ANY Tarzan movie!

Yep, I'm a big fan. I have all of Edgar Rice Burroughs books except just a couple. That includes the Tarzan series, the Mars series, the Pellucidar series....

You have to take them all rather tongue-in-cheek. ERB was really into Darwin's theories. Most of the movies are not at all like ERB wrote them.

Try to see the black & white with Elmo Leonard and one with Buster Crabbe.

Johnny Weissmuller did a great 'dumb' Tarzan. Love the way he pronounces 'Nazi' in one of the movies!(I think it is 'Tarzan and the Amazon Women')

The Scorpion King,

Mummy

Mummy II

Mummy III

I like them all! Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz are a good combo.

Love 'the Rock' in Scorpion King, hate the way they animated the big SKing.

Just good entertainment.

The North Avenue Irregulars

and Lt. Robin Crusoe

These are both old Disney movies, but you can get them on DVD.

The first one is based on a true story of a group of church ladies out to stop the gambling in their small town.

Cloris Leachman, Karen Valentine, many others!

Lt. Robin Crusoe is a take off on the Robinson Crusoe story of course.

Dick Van Dyke plays Crusoe, and it is just a fun family movie.

think I'll stop there for today.

I do have more serious movies that are must-watches also.

And I haven't even started on John Wayne, Steven Seagal, Goldie Hawn....

oh the movies!

Ungawah!

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Jeannie and the Genie in a Bottle

roj bahsh

(Kurdish, pronounced rohzj bahsh)

Kurdistan is now split between Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria.

Kurdish language is spoken in two main dialects:

Sorani (East & South of Kurdistan)

and

Kurmanji (in West and North of Kurdistan).

A little world knowledge for you!

Today I am going to let the genie out of the bottle.

Or is that Jeannie out of the bottle?

okay,

we'll do both!

Barbara Eden in the role of Jeannie,

from the tv series "I Dream of Jeannie"

For my last birthday my husband gave me THREE new Barbie dolls!

Boy, does he know how to make me happy!

I got the Bewitched tv doll,

the vintage repro of an airline stewardess

(that was the only thing I wanted to be when I was growing up!)

and

an I Dream of Jeannie Barbie doll!

way cool!

There is an artist that creates 'genie' bottles.

They are just beautiful. Here are a few:

Three of the original cast members

with Mario, a genie bottle artist

http://www.jeanniebottles.com/

These next few are by the bottle artist - Shannon





Barbara Eden with Shannon, and handmade bottle



Barbara Eden with Larry Hagman

and two convention goers

'I Dream about Jeannie' tv cast photo promotional

Notice that the censors at that time did not allow

the showing of belly buttons.

Guess they were too sexy?

As the show had repeat seasons, her costume was 'modified'.

At first, her top was cut much higher also,

covering more bosom!

This Danbury Mint collectible doll shows

the more modest original costume:

These vintage song sheet covers show what was acceptable

 back in the early 1900's, of similar costumes:

c.1912

c.1919

Quite a bit different than this 'pin-up' ad from the 1950's:

This was wayyyy too racy for the television censors!

Here is later promotional photo.

Quite the difference!

a glass genie bottle

So who came up with this design of a genie bottle?

I have always liked the traditional bottle shape from

Aladdin:

Well, I suppose the actual difference is that

 Aladdin had a lamp,

and I Dream of Jeannie had a bottle.

They are both genies, so I guess I will be happy with both!

"Genie out of the Bottle"

original art glass sculpture by Merja Waters 

African wood carved genie bottle

Brass Genie Lamp

Time for a little coloring project!

Neither look much like the Disney version of a Genie!

I like the Big Blue however!

Now this one is scary!

and this one:

Genie-in-a-bottle wine cap

photo fun

a plastic toy

Another clever photograph play:



a cool digital image:



More traditional illustration paintings:

Most men would prefer their genie to look more like this I think:

'Dancing With the Stars' tv program shot

Phoebe

Barbara Eden as "Jeannie", flying on a magic carpet

adult costumes for sale

available at Costume Heaven

photo from a Halloween Party,

Terri with a Genie Bottle

I think these look more fun -

I Dream of Jeannie fabric!

from www.Kaboodle.com

I think I'm a bit 'genied' out now!

Don't forget to practice your 'crossed arms, blink,

and wish for something' pose today!

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