Just got the call from the printers! Baby's coming home!
I really do have to de-grit the floors before they get covered with boxes. My mother-in-law's coming over tomorrow, and it's not her, it's me. I just can't stand the thought of hearing her crunch her way across my tiny living room. This way she'll just have to leap awkwardly from one small clean empty patch of floor to the next, like Eliza on the ice.
(I might just send a free copy of the new issue to the first person who posts where that reference is from.)
Believe it or not, things will be calming down considerably once I lug those big baby boxes up the stairs. My email is working almost entirely properly again! I'm even getting the postings from the one group that had been holding out no matter how I messed with the settings! I can write to my friends (hello, Antonia and Micki!) and ignore my enemies on purpose (instead of just not having time to do more than give their missives the searing look they deserve).
For now, time to party with the Swiffer...
Thursday, August 13, 2009
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Eliza on Ice...is that the mighty mouse cartoon???
Carol
..or for some reason, "the music man" sticks in my head???
I'm sorry, Carol, it isn't -- but thank you for the giggle! Sadly, I can remember nothing about Mighty Mouse but the song!
No, not The Music Man either -- but my husband will be delighted to hear you're a fan. It's his favorite, and he can never persuade me to watch it with him.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
I went and looked after I posted and believe it or not, there is a Mighty Mouse cartoon that's called
"Eliza on the Ice"
I guess someone on the TerryToons staff liked "Uncle Toms's Cabin" too.
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I think Carol ought to have a copy, too, then, don't you think, Chrystal?
I don't know if The Music Man mentions it, but the musical "Company" (very dated by now, and more than a little sexist, but I do enjoy some of the soundtrack) does mention Eliza on the ice in one of the songs.
Okay, write to me off-loop with your addies:
deborah at 2ds dot org
Thanks, Deborah! :)
I definitely think Carol should have a copy.
If I wouldn't have been reading said book right now, I proper would have vapored on the answer anyway.
Is it a reference to Pygmalion???
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