So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

[Artifex]

Yeah, but the best Goodman version (Victor 36205, recorded 7/6/37) runs a little over eight and a half minutes. How can they leave out the payoff? A solid send.

Magnificent! Only a scoundrel would dare mix a sound-effects track over the top of that one.

 

[MisterCairo]

Coming back from a post-move beer run, Canadian beer being sold in cans and bottles based on the American pint (Fellow Canucks, in case you were wondering why in the hell 473mL was a "thing". It is equal to 16 American fl ozs which is what they cutely refer to as a "pint").

Can you say "rip off"?!

An Imperial pint (by law, the only thing you can sell in Canada outside Quebec and call "a pint") is 20 Imp fl ozs, which is equal to more than half a litre at 568 mLs.

Now, THAT'S a pint...

I may have mentioned this before, apologies for the repetition if such is the case.

NOT.

 

[LizzieMaine]

We sell a line of "pint glasses" with the theatre logo on them at our merch table. They hold 14 fl. oz.

 

[MisterCairo]

We sell a line of "pint glasses" with the theatre logo on them at our merch table. They hold 14 fl. oz.

What kind of backwards pageantry is that?!

 

[LizzieMaine]

It's a pretty good deal if you think of it this way: you invite your friends over, offer them A Pint, and you save two ounces on every pint. Have eight friends over, and your own pint is free. Or at least that's the sales pitch I use.

 

[Lean'n'mean]

There'd better be 20 fl oz in that glass or someone's gonna get floored.

 

[GHT]

20floz, is that all? That's a wimp's pint. You should try a yard of ale. (3 pints)

 

[Hat and Rehat]

Yeah, but the best Goodman version (Victor 36205, recorded 7/6/37) runs a little over eight and a half minutes. How can they leave out the payoff? A solid send.

I worked late last night and turned the Bluetooth up a notch when I was alone. I usually let Pandora shuffle through the various times, genres and artists I enjoy. An 11 minute arangement, or jam, had me digging it, CCR performing Heard it on the Grapevine. As it faded out in closing I remembered when a bunch of raisins, on the payroll of Madison Avenue, made their first move on what we certainly thought, at the time, was OUR music.a
people just a few years younger than me would be skeptical if I insisted marketing once wrote their own promos and jingles.

 

[Fading Fast]

It's a pretty good deal if you think of it this way: you invite your friends over, offer them A Pint, and you save two ounces on every pint. Have eight friends over, and your own pint is free. Or at least that's the sales pitch I use.

You almost sound like one of the Boys From Marketing.

 

[LizzieMaine]

You should hear how I sell our line of hooded sweatshirts. "Just the thing to wear when sticking up a gas station."

 

[Fading Fast]

You should hear how I sell our line of hooded sweatshirts. "Just the thing to wear when sticking up a gas station."

I don't doubt it - you are singularly Lizzie.

 

[3fingers]

You should hear how I sell our line of hooded sweatshirts. "Just the thing to wear when sticking up a gas station."

I'd buy a ticket just to see the expressions of your genteel clientele when you spring that on them.

 

[LizzieMaine]

One of the advantages in being known around town as a comedian is that you can get away with saying anything to anyone to their face. Groucho Marx used to complain that he could never seriously insult anyone because his targets always took it as a gag.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Meanwhile, I resisted the impulse to mutter a remark while eating lunch today at our local Applebee's, as the woman sitting in the next booth excoriated my favorite waitress because "the soup lacks body!" and "the bread is dense! Just feel that bread!"

You're at Crapplebee's, toots, not the Waldorf. Quit your bourgie whining.

 

[3fingers]

I try very hard to be civil in public at all times but occasionally I find it difficult to restrain myself. Complaining about soup and bread at what amounts to a slightly above fast food restaurant should allow anyone within earshot to ask "WTF is wrong with you?" People behave badly because it is allowed.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Yeah, I really wanted to say something, but I was working on a bacon cheeseburger -- done exactly as I like it -- and I always was taught it was rude to make fun of First World Problems with my mouth full.

Although I did exchange a meaningful eyeroll with the waitress as she passed. As the saying goes, "Just because we serve you, doesn't mean we respect you."

 

[Zombie_61]

"The soup lacks body". I don't even know what that means. I assume it was her way of complaining it had been watered down too many times?

 

[Bushman]

Maybe she was a food critic and got lost on the way to the restaurant.

 

[LizzieMaine]

It's like the setup to a bad vaudeville sketch. "Waitress, there's no body in my soup!" "Well gee lady, who do you want in there?" We could have May Robson as the customer and Mabel Todd as the waitress.

 

[GHT]

It's like the setup to a bad vaudeville sketch. "Waitress, there's no body in my soup!" "Well gee lady, who do you want in there?" We could have May Robson as the customer and Mabel Todd as the waitress.

I don't know if this British sitcom ever travelled, so forgive me if you've seen it. If not, John Cleese gives a class act on how to deal with the sort of person who expects "body" in their soup.