{"id":10332,"date":"2021-08-29T10:53:06","date_gmt":"2021-08-29T14:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=10332"},"modified":"2021-09-09T07:50:32","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T11:50:32","slug":"episode-418-remember-laurel-and-hardy-they-live-at-the-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=10332","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 418 REMEMBER LAUREL AND HARDY? THEY LIVE AT THE FARM."},"content":{"rendered":"
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EPISODE 419     A VISIT WITH LAUREL AND HARDY at the Skeoch farm house   August 29,2021<\/div>\n

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alan skeoch<\/div>\n
august  29 , 2021<\/div>\n

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NOTE:  BY pure good fortune and being at the right place at<\/div>\n
the right time, Marjorie received Laurel and Hardy the other day.<\/div>\n
They now have a new home.  Who are Laurel and Hardy?<\/div>\n
see postscript.<\/div>\n

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REMEMBER LAUREL AND HARDY?  THEY NOW LIVE AT OUR FARM.<\/div>\n

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\u201cOlie, what are we doing way up here?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cLooking for s safe place; Stan\u2026like you said.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u2018What did I say\u201d\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cYou said this is s madhouse and we had to find a safe place.\u201d<\/div>\n

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\u201cYou think this is safe, Stan\u2026what if we fall?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t think about that\u2026just look around\u2026this is our best place\u2026out of harm\u2019s way.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cWhat is there to harm us?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cOliver\u2026.just take a look behind your back.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cDo you mean the big bird.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cThat bird has a stiletto beak designed to kill little things like us.\u201d<\/div>\n

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\u201cAnd look beside us.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s a porcupine crawling over…quills like needles.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cStan the porcupine can climb\u2026.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cYes, but he is too fat to get by the ceiling lights.<\/div>\n

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\u201cOllie\u2026see that tiger down there?<\/div>\n
\u201cMakes me shake\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cHe would finish us off in one gulp.”<\/div>\n

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\u201cCouldn\u2019t we jump down on that horse and get the hell out of here?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t be so stupid Oliver\u2026that is a merry go round horse\u2026it just runs in circles.\u201d<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe fox is no help\u2026it looks as sacred as we do.\u201d<\/div>\n

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\u201cOliver\u2026there is a penguin down there\u2026big one.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cNo help, Stan.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cPenguins can only waddle\u2026never get away with him\u2026or is it her.”<\/div>\n

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\u201cThat big rooster Stan\u2026he could help.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cRoosters have only one thing on their minds, Ollie?<\/div>\n
\u201cWhat\u2019s that , Stan?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cTheir hens\u2026as many as they can get.”<\/div>\n

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\u201cStan, our only hope is Marjorie\u2026she may want to dust us.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cAnd give us our freedom?\u201d<\/div>\n

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\u201cTrue\u2026 but she will just put us back ump here\u2026where we are safe.\u201d<\/div>\n

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\u201cMarjorie\u2026must we stay up on that besm?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cAfraid so\u2026safest place in the house for you boys.”<\/div>\n
\u201cBut we are famous\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cFame fades withe the summer sun\u2026.very few people<\/div>\n
even remember how funny you boys were in the 1920\u2019s <\/div>\n
and 1930\u2019s.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cWrong, Marjorie\u2026everyone remembers us.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cBet $5 I am right and you are wrong.”<\/div>\n

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\u201cWell, Ollie, back up on the beam \u2026\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cReckon you are right.”<\/div>\n

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WHO WERE LAUREL AND HARDY?<\/div>\n

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Laurel and Hardy<\/b> were a comedy duo<\/a> act during the early Classical Hollywood<\/a> era of American cinema, consisting of Englishman Stan Laurel<\/a> (1890\u20131965) and American Oliver Hardy<\/a> (1892\u20131957). From the late 1920s to the mid-1940s, they were internationally famous for their slapstick<\/a> comedy, with Laurel playing the clumsy, childlike friend to Hardy’s pompous bully.[1]<\/a><\/sup>[2]<\/a><\/sup> Their signature theme song, known as “The Cuckoo Song”, “Ku-Ku”, or “The Dance of the Cuckoos” (by Hollywood composer T. Marvin Hatley<\/a>) was heard over their films’ opening credits, and became as emblematic of them as their bowler hats<\/a>.<\/div>\n
Prior to emerging as a team, both had well-established film careers. Laurel had acted in over 50 films, and worked as a writer and director, while Hardy was in more than 250 productions. Both had also appeared in The Lucky Dog<\/a><\/i> (1921), but were not teamed at the time. They first appeared together in a short film in 1926, when they signed separate contracts with the Hal Roach<\/a> film studio.[3]<\/a><\/sup> They officially became a team in 1927 when they appeared in the silent short Putting Pants on Philip<\/a><\/i>. They remained with Roach until 1940, and then appeared in eight B movie<\/a> comedies for 20th Century Fox<\/a>and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer<\/a> from 1941 to 1945.[4]<\/a><\/sup> After finishing their film commitments at the end of 1944, they concentrated on performing stage shows, and embarked on a music hall tour of England, Ireland and Scotland.[4]<\/a><\/sup> They made their last film in 1950, a French-Italian co-production called Atoll K<\/a><\/i>.<\/div>\n
They appeared as a team in 107 films, starring in 32 short silent films, 40 short sound films, and 23 full-length feature films. They also made 12 guest or cameo appearances, including in the Galaxy of Stars<\/a><\/i> promotional film of 1936.[5]<\/a><\/sup> On December 1, 1954, they made their sole American television appearance, when they were surprised and interviewed by Ralph Edwards<\/a> on his live NBC-TV program This Is Your Life<\/a><\/i>. Since the 1930s, their works have been released in numerous theatrical reissues, television revivals, 8-mm and 16-mm home movies, feature-film compilations, and home videos. In 2005, they were voted the seventh-greatest comedy act of all time by a UK poll of professional comedians.[6]<\/a><\/sup> The official Laurel and Hardy appreciation society is The Sons of the Desert<\/a>, after a fictitious fraternal society in the film of the same name<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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