The you should have seen 'La Traviata'...............I'm not much of a cultural person, b/c most cultures are grown in the fridge And those ballette-dancers are queer anyway, so don't feel threathened. The title itself sounds like it hurts like he**.

Norse Player

Edited by - Norse Player on 27-12-2003 10:25:26

The Nutcracker is a grand ballet. I use to know someone who preformed in it. I use to see it every christmas when I was younger.

Life: No one gets out alive.

I always wondered how that Christmas tradition got started... in Russa. Every year, one of the NY ballet companies puts on the Nutcracker. Here, Georges Balanchine brought the tradition over from Russia, by way of France.

For kids, girls especially but boys too, the ballet is quite magical.

@EB: I agree, stuffed. I think they're called cod pieces. Not sure because the originals were worn on the outside.

Gosh, I almost thought YOU decided to practice ballet!
Hrm, NUTcracker... sounds painful
P.S. Don't think I'm totally dumb, I know Chaikovsky, and the "pas de deux" thing rulez.

"Beer is proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy"

I don't get the shoe-less thing. Does she make a habit of walking around barefoot, or did she just misplace her shoes? perhaps they were stolen?

or perhaps, and as I suspect more likely now that you have embarked upon the journey to learn the mysterious ways of women, you discovered that she simply "didn't have any shoes she could actually wear?" i.e. my wife actually has 37 pairs of shoes, but only considers 2 pairs actually worth wearing for any "special" occasions; based upon the empirical rule that out of a different pair for every day, it takes 2 weeks to find a pair which are actually "wearable" (which does not include the 7" heel thigh-high leather ones I make her wear on Saturday nights)

ah poor EB. so much in love, so much to learn. Ballet's just the thin end of the wedge, I'm afraid and what's more, I predict our friend Arcon going the same way within the next 12 months, it's inevitable.

My wife long ago gave up trying to include me in her cultural pursuits besides she never suggests going to see Ibsen or anything actually interesting, it was always lame rot like Romeo & Juliet in the park or Gilbert & bl**dy Sullivan.

<grumble grumble> ok rant over.

Taw said:

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she never suggests going to see Ibsen or anything actually interesting

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I thought Ibsen plays were for people needing sleep.

.... And poor Arcon too? *snicker*

Well, speaking as one married yob to another, misery loves company, eh?

Edited by - Indy11 on 28-12-2003 04:36:23

you wicked man I happen to admire Ibsen's work very much, unf. hardly anybody else does (round here that is)

yeh I predict Arch will be as good as hitched by the end of next yr and will be totally besotted. I feel it in my fingers, i feel it in my bones..

I had a friend who always said the guys should wear the tutus, not the ballerinas.


Personally, I cannot stand ballet! I like opera, but seeing people on tippie toes walzing around to music is not my thing. Women with leg muscles like weight lifters isn't either!




Jose Chavez: "Trent! It's good to see my kind of scum."

My one and only balet experience was when I was 10 and they had a male and female duo come to our school and do a demo of a balet for us. It was especially memorable as at sometime during the performance all us kids noticed that the woman's pink leotard had a brown stain in the rear. And everytime she turned around we burst out laughing.

Sir S

No sh*t!








Jose Chavez: "Trent! It's good to see my kind of scum."

Cracking something other than nuts I take it.

I can't imagine sS being 10.

SnS aged 10 *squints really really hard* Uh. Cannot picture it so to speak but what's so hard about imagining it?

I get a mental picture of a kid watching the events and trying to come up with whatever kids level of olde English he knew at that point to describe the goings on....probably involving a lot of "yoiks" and "halloos" or something.

@Indy with cc to Taw, how many times do I have to say it? I never wrote Olde English before until I came to this site. If you go back and read the progression of my Olde English from Uba to Reynet, in just those four plays, you'll see how my form and style improved as I studied up on it. I've always like Shakespeare, but my first reading of it, probably was at age 15.

So what was I like when I was 10 ... other than the whole Olde English thing ... I was shorter.

Sir S