Nanci Kuykendall

>Deb L ( watching The Egg and I )

I just heard about this movie recently, because we
were renting a place just down the road from Egg and I
Road, where it was filmed. In fact we looked at
property on Egg and I when we were property shopping
earlier this summer. We have moved to our own place
now, but are still in the same county. I have been
meaning to go rent that movie sometime.

Nanci K.

priss_adams

--- In AlwaysLearning@y..., Nanci Kuykendall <aisliin@y...> wrote:
> >Deb L ( watching The Egg and I )
>
> I just heard about this movie recently, because we
> were renting a place just down the road from Egg and I
> Road, where it was filmed. In fact we looked at
> property on Egg and I when we were property shopping
> earlier this summer. We have moved to our own place
> now, but are still in the same county. I have been
> meaning to go rent that movie sometime.
>
> Nanci K.

I only watched it a couple of years ago after having loved, loved the
book for many years. The movie was a big disappointment to me. Get
the book, it's so much funnier. My son hasn't read it yet but both my
daughters love it like I do. It's wonderful! Ma and Pa Kettle are
hysterically funny even in print.

Priss

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***I just heard about this movie recently, because we
were renting a place just down the road from Egg and I
Road, where it was filmed. In fact we looked at
property on Egg and I when we were property shopping
earlier this summer. We have moved to our own place
now, but are still in the same county. I have been
meaning to go rent that movie sometime.***


The author of the true story is Betty MacDonald and she's written other
very funny books.

She wrote one about the year she spent dealing with tuberculosis and she
called it "The Plague and I." <g>

There is also "Anybody Can Do Anything" and "Onions in the Stew"

Cool that you live there!!

Deb L

priss_adams

--- In AlwaysLearning@y..., ddzimlew@j... wrote:
>
>
> The author of the true story is Betty MacDonald and she's written
other
> very funny books.
>
> She wrote one about the year she spent dealing with tuberculosis
and she
> called it "The Plague and I." <g>
>
> There is also "Anybody Can Do Anything" and "Onions in the Stew"
>
> Cool that you live there!!
>
> Deb L

Don't forget Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle! Not true (I used to wish they were!
I had ideas for cures that I thought my brother needed<G>), but still
so funny.

Priss

Fetteroll

on 8/25/02 8:04 PM, priss_adams at Priss1000@... wrote:

> I only watched it a couple of years ago after having loved, loved the
> book for many years. The movie was a big disappointment to me. Get
> the book, it's so much funnier. My son hasn't read it yet but both my
> daughters love it like I do. It's wonderful! Ma and Pa Kettle are
> hysterically funny even in print.

I remember liking that as a kid! :-) I liked the movie as a kid too, though
I probably saw the movie first and lots of the Ma and Pa Kettle sequels.

Someone a couple of years ago said they read The Egg and I as an adult and
was shocked by the racism in it. I don't recall noticing any -- not that I
remember more about the book other than it was funny and I liked it! -- but
I didn't remember any in the old Nancy Drews either and am uncomfortably
aware of the few references now reading them aloud to Kathryn. Someone also
mentioned the Bobbsy Twins and Rhubarb (an adult book about a cat who owned
a baseball team that was also made into a movie) had racist attitudes too.
Anyone read these as adults?

Joyce

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> Someone a couple of years ago said they read The Egg and I as an
> adult and
> was shocked by the racism in it. I don't recall noticing any -- not
> that I
> remember more about the book other than it was funny and I liked it!
>

I expect it's there, though like you I don't recall the specifics.
That's horrible in itself.
There was a book of short stories my husband read as a kid and wanted to
read to Dylan. I don't recall the author, but when David found it and
began reading it was too uncomfortable for him, for that very reason.

I notice how much more sensitive my son is to racist and sexist comments
than I was as a child. I have often been frustrated at his grandparents
for their comments, my mother cannot open her mouth without mentioning
how "different" or "stubborn" or "impatient" men are.

In one particularly horrible moment, when my mil was here and her friend
and my mom and aunt, and everyone was talking about something offensive,
which I cannot recall the details of now... I asked them to please change
the subject several time and when they would not I roared at all of them
to leave. Not my finest hour, my son will remember my hysteria long
after he's forgotten the topic. But all I could think was that their
poison was going directly into his head.

Awful. We moved here deliberately to help these older folks and I find
myself wishing we were instead many miles away.

Deb L, feeling somewhat guilty as my old auntie is sick now with
pneumonia.

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In a message dated 8/26/02 4:28:51 AM, fetteroll@... writes:

<< - but
I didn't remember any in the old Nancy Drews either and am uncomfortably
aware of the few references now reading them aloud to Kathryn. Someone also
mentioned the Bobbsy Twins and Rhubarb (an adult book about a cat who owned
a baseball team that was also made into a movie) had racist attitudes too.
Anyone read these as adults? >>

And Dr. Doolittle!

Paula

priss_adams

--- In AlwaysLearning@y..., Fetteroll <fetteroll@e...> wrote:
> Someone a couple of years ago said they read The Egg and I as an
adult and
> was shocked by the racism in it. I don't recall noticing any -- not
that I
> remember more about the book other than it was funny and I liked
it! -- but
> I didn't remember any in the old Nancy Drews either and am
uncomfortably
> aware of the few references now reading them aloud to Kathryn.
Someone also
> mentioned the Bobbsy Twins and Rhubarb (an adult book about a cat
who owned
> a baseball team that was also made into a movie) had racist
attitudes too.
> Anyone read these as adults?
>
> Joyce

I just opened up the Egg and I to read a bit. I'd sort of forgotten
that element of the book. It's there. It has to do with the Native
Americans she came in contact with. It's too bad. The book is still
really funny but that part of it is pretty shocking to modern
sensibilities. I don't doubt that if she were writing the book now
instead of in the forties it would be written differently, but it's a
product of the times she wrote it in. I'd still recommend the book
but that element would need to be discussed with your kids if read
with them.

Priss

Tia Leschke

>
>I just opened up the Egg and I to read a bit. I'd sort of forgotten
>that element of the book. It's there. It has to do with the Native
>Americans she came in contact with. It's too bad. The book is still
>really funny but that part of it is pretty shocking to modern
>sensibilities. I don't doubt that if she were writing the book now
>instead of in the forties it would be written differently, but it's a
>product of the times she wrote it in. I'd still recommend the book
>but that element would need to be discussed with your kids if read
>with them.

That's what I did when I read Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn to Lars. We
had lots of conversations about what people believed then as opposed to
what people believe now.
Tia

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Tia Leschke
leschke@...
On Vancouver Island