Now maybe I'll get a dinner
Feb. 9th, 2008 05:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gvdubOne of the many local unions that's been hard hit by the WGA strike is Local 705 of the Costume Designer's Guild. Today, they had a group yard sale and ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
_darkvictory and I went fairly early. I was intending to look for hats, but didn't find any. However, we did find a table with some nice ties displayed. In addition to my hat addiction, I'm always on the lookout for the loudest ties I can find. She had several, and good quality silk, too. I ended up with two Oleg Cassini ties and a Nieman & Marcus tie. As we were buying them, she let us know that these ties used to belong to Red Buttons, who had given them to her and her brother because he wanted them to stay in the entertainment business. I'll have to make the occasion to wear them on gigs, now. They'll hang in my closet next to the Natural History Museum triceratops tie that used to belong to Poul Anderson which we picked up at our first Loscon where Karen had donated a bunch of Poul's stuff for a charity auction.
For those who may not get the reference in the title to this post, Red Buttons' signature routine at Friar's Club Roasts was to talk about famous people who "never got a dinner", loaded with material like:
"Cain, whose wife divorced him because he wasn't Able. Never got a dinner!
Ben Hur, who said to his sister Ben Him, "We'd better swap names before they start calling me Ben Gay!" Never got a dinner!
Christopher Columbus, who said to Queen Isabella, "No, you got it wrong! The WORLD is round. YOU're flat!" Never got a dinner!
Old McDonald, who said on his honeymoon, "Ee-eye-ee-eye-OOOOOOOOHHHH!!!" Never got a dinner!
Goliath's mother, who said to Goliath, "Stop running around with David! You're always coming home stoned!" Never got a dinner!
Eve, who asked Adam, "Does this fig leaf make me look fat?" Never got a dinner!
King Solomon, who said to his thousand wives, "Who hasn't got a headache?" Never got a dinner!"
_darkvictory and I went fairly early. I was intending to look for hats, but didn't find any. However, we did find a table with some nice ties displayed. In addition to my hat addiction, I'm always on the lookout for the loudest ties I can find. She had several, and good quality silk, too. I ended up with two Oleg Cassini ties and a Nieman & Marcus tie. As we were buying them, she let us know that these ties used to belong to Red Buttons, who had given them to her and her brother because he wanted them to stay in the entertainment business. I'll have to make the occasion to wear them on gigs, now. They'll hang in my closet next to the Natural History Museum triceratops tie that used to belong to Poul Anderson which we picked up at our first Loscon where Karen had donated a bunch of Poul's stuff for a charity auction. For those who may not get the reference in the title to this post, Red Buttons' signature routine at Friar's Club Roasts was to talk about famous people who "never got a dinner", loaded with material like:
"Cain, whose wife divorced him because he wasn't Able. Never got a dinner!
Ben Hur, who said to his sister Ben Him, "We'd better swap names before they start calling me Ben Gay!" Never got a dinner!
Christopher Columbus, who said to Queen Isabella, "No, you got it wrong! The WORLD is round. YOU're flat!" Never got a dinner!
Old McDonald, who said on his honeymoon, "Ee-eye-ee-eye-OOOOOOOOHHHH!!!" Never got a dinner!
Goliath's mother, who said to Goliath, "Stop running around with David! You're always coming home stoned!" Never got a dinner!
Eve, who asked Adam, "Does this fig leaf make me look fat?" Never got a dinner!
King Solomon, who said to his thousand wives, "Who hasn't got a headache?" Never got a dinner!"