All Discussions Tagged 'People' - TBD2024-03-28T08:51:45Zhttp://teebeedee.ning.com/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=People&feed=yes&xn_auth=noRIP Art Linkletter one of the good guystag:teebeedee.ning.com,2010-05-27:1991841:Topic:9701612010-05-27T02:10:02.986ZBullhttp://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/Bull
<h1 id="yn-title">TV's 'People Are Funny' host Art Linkletter dies</h1>
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<p>LOS ANGELES – Art Linkletter, who as the gently mischievous host of TV's "<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1274913947_0">People Are Funny</span>" and "<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1274913947_1">House
Party</span>" in the 1950s and '60s delighted viewers…</p>
<h1 id="yn-title">TV's 'People Are Funny' host Art Linkletter dies</h1>
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<p>LOS ANGELES – Art Linkletter, who as the gently mischievous host of TV's "<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1274913947_0">People
Are Funny</span>" and "<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1274913947_1">House<br />
Party</span>" in the 1950s and '60s delighted viewers with his ability<br />
to get kids — and grownups — to say the darndest things on national<br />
television, died Wednesday. He was 97.</p>
<p>Linkletter died at his home in the Bel-Air section of <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1274913947_2">Los Angeles</span>, said
his son-in-law, Art Hershey, the husband of Sharon Linkletter.</p>
<p>"He lived a long, full, pure life, and the Lord had need for him," Hershey said.</p>
<p>Linkletter had been ill "in the last few weeks time, but bear in mind he was 97 years old. He wasn't eating well, and the
aging process took him," Hershey said.</p>
<p>Linkletter hadn't been diagnosed with any life-threatening disease, he said.</p>
<p>Linkletter was known on TV for his funny interviews with children and ordinary folks. He also collected their comments in a
number of best-selling books.</p>
<p>"Because of Art Linkletter, adults found themselves enjoying children," said <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1274913947_3">Bill
Cosby</span>, whose style interviewing kids on his own show in the late<br />
'90s was often compared to Linkletter's.</p>
<p>"An amazing fellow, a terrific broadcast talent, a brilliant businessman. An all-around good guy," <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1274913947_4">CNN's Larry King</span> added about his longtime
friend and frequent guest.</p>
<p>Asked what made Linkletter so appealing to audiences, King said, "He had an unusual voice, a twang to his voice that was
immediately recognizable. And he looked like your favorite uncle."</p>
"Art Linkletter's House Party," one of television's<br />
longest-running variety shows, debuted on radio in 1944 and was seen on<br />
CBS-TV from 1952 to 1969<br/>[...]<br/>
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<p><font size="2">My fiancee and I are considering a lifestyle change. It would involve winning a LOT of money and then buying our own private tropical island, which we will christen "Poopoonesia". It will be tax-exempt and the birthplace of a new kind of governing philosophy, henceforth referred to as "Benevolently Violent Democracy", or "BVD". All immigrants and visitors shall be by invitation only.<br></br></font></p>
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<p><font size="2">My fiancee and I are considering a lifestyle change. It would involve winning a LOT of money and then buying our own private tropical island, which we will christen "Poopoonesia". It will be tax-exempt and the birthplace of a new kind of governing philosophy, henceforth referred to as "Benevolently Violent Democracy", or "BVD". All immigrants and visitors shall be by invitation only.<br/></font></p>
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<p><font size="2">We will install an indigenous faith, to be known as "G-Dimensionism", and it's rituals will include hurling snooping real estate developers into a lagoon stocked with rabid sharks, hurling all non-invited proseltyzers of competing faiths into the chemical volcano, and a tolerant and easy-going community<br/> responsibility-based sense of social involvement. Also walking around backwards (and bare-assed naked) all day. In Poopoonesia, being The Misfit Toy shall be a welcomed <span style="font-style: italic;">sacred duty</span>, not a burden to be endured.<br/></font></p>
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<p>Poopoonesia will include, among other things, a world-class nightclub, hosting bands and performers from around the world - It will rival anything in London, New York or Tokyo. There will be music, comedy, the occasional prestidigitator and I will even allow my fiancee to present the random Broadway musical, although those things make my skin crawl. (NO DISNEY. Period. Ya gotta draw the line somewhere, and the Mouse House's bloated, cynical money grabs are a good place to start. No Ice Capades or "Magic On Ice" or the Preakness "On Ice", either - NO ICE, except in patron's drinks. There is only so much cheese that I'll allow to be served to my patrons.)</p>
<p>This nightclub, by the way is free to anyone who we decide is nice enough, funny enough or just plain weird enough to make it on to our invitation list, as are all things on the island. Thirsty? Free drinks at any available stand. Hungry? We'll have snack carts representing the best street food of the world scattered all over the joint - Mexican, Thai, Chicago Hot Dogs, etc, etc - No Deep Fried Anything On A Stick, though. Healthy or at least non-lethal goodies are the permanent order of the day around here....</p>
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<p>Think of Poopoonesia as Disneyworld for people with taste, as Paris without the attitude, as Rio without all of the hustlers, your getaway destination for NOT being treated like a corn-fed rube who was put on this planet for no better reason that to be fleeced and then driven off by corporate scum and bean counters... I've been to Disneyworld, you see, and "The Happiest Place On Earth" made me want to start breaking things. We'll be doing things differently around here.</p>
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<p>There will be free museums all over the place, dedicated to the arts, both classical and modern, areas reserved for busking and street performers (Although any money you throw to them is unnecessary, as they'll going to be given the same friendly treatment as you, and all monies will be forwarded to charity) and there will be polite, well-groomed and well-mannered security details who are specialists in defusing misunderstandings and disputes of all types with grace, tact and kindness. And, if grace, tact and kindness don't work, all transgressors will receive a free-of-charge lesson in decorum that they will never forget, as the security details will also be trained experts in jeet kune do, aikido and, for the really stubborn types, old-fashioned alley fighting. (All of the kind of folks that we expect to allow on the island will be, by nature, passionate people. Opinionated, idealistic and thoughtful types are welcomed and encouraged to publicly debate their views, whenever the occasion may arise - But let's not get carried away here. Spirited conjecture is one thing, but start abusing the privilege and it's the lagoon for you, chum. And I do mean "chum". And it WILL be posted on YouTube.)</p>
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<font size="2">We're still working on the finer points (Public Health, Latrine Duty, etc, etc), but I can keep you all posted as updates occur. We're just getting started, and our hearts are full of love and our heads are<br/>
full of ideas.</font> More details as we make them up.<p><br/></p> Pittsburg Meet and picturestag:teebeedee.ning.com,2009-08-03:1991841:Topic:2000882009-08-03T03:51:33.904ZCWO3ROBBIEhttp://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/CWO3ROBBIE
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The Pittsburg meet was quite successful. We were out for a good meal and karaoke at a Italian grill and bar saturday evening. (lasted until 2 am) Then Sunday we had an all day picnic at a park with a pavilion and lake. We ate, talked, ate, walked, ate, played games, ate wraped it up about 7 pm. Came back to the hotel and got into the hot tub and pool. I met 13 tbd people that I had never physically met before, and a couple(Odee and Nascar girl) that I…
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The Pittsburg meet was quite successful. We were out for a good meal and karaoke at a Italian grill and bar saturday evening. (lasted until 2 am) Then Sunday we had an all day picnic at a park with a pavilion and lake. We ate, talked, ate, walked, ate, played games, ate wraped it up about 7 pm. Came back to the hotel and got into the hot tub and pool. I met 13 tbd people that I had never physically met before, and a couple(Odee and Nascar girl) that I had. My total number of tbd people that I have met in real life is now up to 38. The group was all members of "The Daily Grind". Agreat bunch of people and it seems to me that they have made the most successful transfer to Ning of any group. Well, "The Sex Talk Group" has higher numbers. (:>)<br />
Attached are some pictures of Sat. night.