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3 fun things: texting it old school, impersonating the Town Blob, and talking like James Mason…but not simultaneously.

Thing 1:  I have a habit of writing things I must remember on the back of my left hand.  If I write them on a Post-it, I'll lose the note.  Today I got caught looking down at a green light by an angry driver behind me.  It was funny/embarrassing to imagine what I would have said to a police officer for "texting" in this way.

Thing 2:  Kid1 was in rare form yesterday, impersonating her maternal unit in a screechy rendition of the Town Blob's voice from the old BJ & Dirty Dragon show.  (Bill Jackson, the show's creator, was the subject of my first-ever blog post and I am pleased and proud to call him a correspondent).  So Kid1 is killing them in the aisles with her impersonation of me in this voice, talking on my phone to Kid2, croaking loudly, "What do you mean, who is this?  This is your MOTHER!"  

Thing 3:  The hilarity continued as Kid1 launched into a James Mason impression, and announced after a few minutes of really quality stuff that James Mason must have been physically incapable of pronouncing the word "mushroom."  She's right:  try it and see.  At least one other blogger besides our entire family finds James Mason's accent amusing.

3 comments:

Mike M said...

Funny, I've pretty much only seen James Mason as an old guy. "Red Hot Movie"? He sounds mostly like Cary Grant to me. How is Kid1 at at Cary?

susanhardy said...

let me think...not sure she's got a Cary Grant in her toolkit, but my spouse has one. That clip of James Mason wasn't ideal, but here he is in an old TV ad for Thunderbird. Pretty choice viewing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xY7mBQrzXU

susanhardy said...

Mike, I just found out that September 2nd is International Talk like James Mason Day. Start practicing now.
http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/topic/33189/INTERNATIONAL-TALK-LIKE-JAMES-MASON-DAY#.T3ctk2HpFic