Question of the day

[smg01]

Do other people often find themselves silently sing the "Alphabet Song" when filing or otherwise putting things in alphabetical order?

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[raithen.livejournal.com]

*thwupt*

do we need to break out the Canada Goose of Proper Spelling and Pronunciation??? HUH?!

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Mr. Dress Up spoke CORRECTLY you know. It is ZED. Screw the rhyming. ;).

[suzannemarie.livejournal.com]

That's a very patriotic goose. :)

[raithen.livejournal.com]

FEAR the days when Raithen's have not enough work and silly ideas and photoshop access ;) (This was a few months ago. But still ;).

[moppety.livejournal.com]

Heeee! Who is Mr. Dress Up?

[raithen.livejournal.com]

Ernie Coombs (RIP, Ernie.) The WAY VERY COOL Canadian Answer to Mr. Rogers. He had Casey and Finnegan and the Tickle Trunk and oh my it was just a part of Canadian childhood.



Casey is the little boy puppet, Finnegan is the dog, Mr. Dress Up is, well, obvious ;)

This is from a puppeteer blog (http://puppeteersunite.blogspot.com/2006_07_01_puppeteersunite_archive.html):

Mr. Dressup cancelled
The end of an era in Canadian children's programming is at hand. After 11 years of daily reruns, the CBC is cancelling Mr. Dressup, says a Toronto news report.
In July, the show will be bumped to a Sunday morning slot and by September will forever disappear from the CBC lineup. The network's management has been reworking its children's lineup over the past several years and decided it was time for the friendly, bespectacled Mr. Dressup and his "Tickle Trunk" to go. In his prime, Mr.Dressup would draw 500,000 preschoolers every day, but ratings have been in steady decline. Ernie Coombs, the man who was Mr. Dressup, died of a stroke at 73 in 2001. Coombs came to Canada in 1963 with Fred Rogers to launch the original Mister Rogers Neighborhood. Rogers took his show to U.S. public television a year later, leaving Coombs to create Mr. Dressup on Butternut Square in 1964. The series became Mr. Dressup in 1967 and remained in production until Valentine's Day, 1996. In all, Coombs logged 32 years and 4,000 shows as the the fun-loving character with his puppet friends Casey and Finnegan.

Did you know, I had NO idea he was American first. He was to me, quintessentially Canadian. And he said Zed (see, it CAN rhyme ;).

You can listen to the theme song and see the new-fangled animated intro sequence (this was well after my time -- Casey and Finnegan retired, you see, and they needed new puppets) on you tube, here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zRo0eDnFTM&search=dressup

[aurora-novarum.livejournal.com]

He's essentially a Canadian version of a cross between Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Rogers.

[aurora-novarum.livejournal.com]

LOL! I remember Mr. Dress Up! I used to watch him and the Friendly Giant when visiting my grandmother up there.

My American roots still proclaim Zee though. I know, I know, damn Yanks.

Bought my mother a t-shirt while up there recently. Can't remember everything it said but it went along the lines of "I am Canadian. I live in the second largest country in the world. No, I do not live in an igloo. Yes, winter is only one season. No, I do not know your second cousin John in Saskatoon. A loonie is a dollar, not a relative [though that one could be both, eh?]. We have the best hockey players in the world."

[raithen.livejournal.com]

that T-shirt is, believe it or not, the text from the Joe Canadian ad which made such a splash for Molson Canadian Beer (which is now partially owned by Coors. Irony, you are my friend ;).

here it is on you tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTcZ3lMXVhI And you Must. All. Watch it. Because of this thread. In fact, I may need to cross post to my journal now...