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#1601 · November 24, 2022, 5:35 pm

Cornucopia

A cup or icon? 🤔😂

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#1602 · November 24, 2022, 9:30 pm

Quote from Dead Alice on November 24, 2022, 5:26 pm

Happy Thanksgiving! Today's #WordOfTheDay is 'cornucopia' https://t.co/Yvc3oS2BYM pic.twitter.com/7Ourj9eRSf

— Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) November 24, 2022

I cup Corona 🥤 🙌

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#1603 · November 25, 2022, 8:31 am

Quote from Dead Alice on November 24, 2022, 5:26 pm

Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃Today's #WordOfTheDay is 'cornucopia' https://t.co/Yvc3oS2BYM pic.twitter.com/7Ourj9eRSf

— Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) November 24, 2022

Panic U Coor- Due to the Cornucopia of Coke during the recording sessions of Volume 4 Black Sabbath members became very Paranoid (2 songs in 1 sentence!) .

Ozzy couldn't understand why his bottle of beer was so calm through it all.

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#1604 · November 25, 2022, 8:23 pm

Uh oh 😂

Good morning! Today's #WordOfTheDay is 'jejune' https://t.co/Ujt57PprTV pic.twitter.com/CU5jukej0U

— Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) November 25, 2022

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#1605 · November 25, 2022, 9:20 pm

Quote from Anne On on November 25, 2022, 8:23 pm

Uh oh

Good morning! Today's #WordOfTheDay is 'jejune' https://t.co/Ujt57PprTV pic.twitter.com/CU5jukej0U

— Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) November 25, 2022

Jeune J (aka Johnboy Walton)😊

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#1606 · November 25, 2022, 10:18 pm

Uh oh is right, Anne 😂

And well done, Forrest! Think I'll have to sit this play out 🤣

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#1607 · November 25, 2022, 10:45 pm

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#1608 · November 26, 2022, 9:44 am

Quote from Anne On on November 25, 2022, 8:23 pm

Uh oh 😂

Good morning! Today's #WordOfTheDay is 'jejune' https://t.co/Ujt57PprTV pic.twitter.com/CU5jukej0U

— Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) November 25, 2022

"Je June"- Yes it appears that Tarzan's mate was not an English Lady called Jane but in fact a French Lady called June. Tarzan never said "Me Tarzan, You Jane". Instead she said "Je June, Tu Tarzan".

Try saying Tarzan in a sexy French accent ladies, you'll see it all makes perfect sense !😉

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#1609 · November 26, 2022, 5:37 pm

Good morning! Today's #WordOfTheDay is 'sustain' https://t.co/qJPotdrGJN pic.twitter.com/SKflUyqDxn

— Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) November 26, 2022

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#1610 · November 26, 2022, 8:31 pm

Quote from Dead Alice on November 26, 2022, 8:31 pm
Speaking of Tarzan and Jane, the underwater scene from Tarzan & His Mate (1934) may be one for the first movies to have a nude body double. It is more likely that this was related to the swimming scene requiring two Olympic Standard swimmers as Maureen O’Sullivan wasn’t overly shy in other out of water scenes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarzan_and_His_Mate

“The film has acquired a cult status, largely due to O’Sullivan wearing one of the most revealing costumes on screen to that time — a halter-top and a loincloth that left her thighs and hips exposed. Because Jane was a cultivated lady from England (not Baltimore, as in Burroughs’ novel), with manners and poise, her wearing such a provocative outfit was particularly risqué and symbolic of her sexual freedom. In this pre-Code film, Jane sleeps in the nude, swims nude with Tarzan, is constantly touched by Tarzan, has a scene in which she is stranded in the jungle naked, and is seen nude in silhouette when dressing in a well lit tent. That Jane and Tarzan sleep together is all the more startling by Hollywood standards because they are not married; the end credits list O’Sullivan as Jane ‘Parker,’ emphasizing that she was single and living in sin.^[5] However, a conversation early in the film suggests that they have been married.^[6] Tarzan brings breakfast to Jane in their treetop shelter. When he says, “Never forget, I love you.” “ Love who?” Jane prompts…”Love my wife,” he replies. In its 1934 review, Variety referred to the pair as “Mr. and Mrs. Tarzan”.^[7]

The scene that caused the most commotion, the “underwater ballet” sequence, was available in three different versions that were edited by MGM to meet the standards of particular markets.^[2] Gibbons’ wife Dolores del Rio had performed a risqué nude swim in Bird of Paradise (1932), a sequence that is said to have inspired the one in Tarzan. Tarzan and Jane (O’Sullivan’s swimming double, Josephine McKim, who competed in the 1928 games with Johnny Weissmuller),

Josephine McKim, pictured left.

dance a graceful underwater ballet with Jane completely nude. When she rises out of the water, Jane (now Maureen O’Sullivan) flashes a bare breast. In another scene, a glimpse of O’Sullivan’s pubic hair is briefly visible under her loincloth. As TCM’s Paul Tatara observes, “Such big-screen impropriety was virtually unheard of at the time, and the Production Code Office had a fit”.^[8] If native nudity was seen at all it was usually done by dancing girl extras, or non-white actresses due to the time’s double standards (witness the topless “native” girls at the start of the film, or the topless “natives” in the 1935 Sanders of the River). The new Production Code Office thought O’Sullivan’s scant costume, coupled with her sexual charisma, was too much. In April, Joseph Breen, director of public relations of the MPPDA, reported to his president, Will Hays, that Tarzan and His Mate had been rejected because of shots in which “the girl was shown completely in the nude.”^[5][4]

Breen: “The man in the shot wore a loincloth, but a critical examination of the shot indicated that the woman was stark naked. There were four or five shots of the woman… which showed the front of the woman’s body.”^[5]

When MGM production head Irving Thalberg protested the jury’s decision by claiming that the 1928 film White Shadows in the South Seas had “fifty naked women” in it, the jurors screened that film and determined that none of the women were naked. According to film historian Rudy Behlmer: “From all evidence, three versions of the sequence eventually went out to separate territories during the film’s initial release. One with Jane clothed in her jungle loincloth outfit, one with her topless, and one with her in the nude.^[5] However, by April 24, 1934, all prints of Tarzan and His Mate in all territories were ordered changed. Additionally, the New York Censors previewed the film, and insisted that the scene involving Cavanagh lowering his nude body into a portable bathtub be eliminated as well. It was not until Ted Turner purchased the pre-1986 MGM film library that an unedited print of the original film was discovered in the MGM vaults and released in 1986.^[5]

https://www.independent.ie/woman/celeb-news/how-a-convent-schoolgirl-became-queen-of-the-jungle-26733408.html

“Classic beauty: The late Maureen O’Sullivan, mother to Mia FarrowYou… Jane: Roscommon girl Maureen shot to fame in Tarzan

Having your convent-school-educated daughter ravished by an ape-man was not high on the list of ambitions of many parents in rural Ireland in the 1920s. Nor was having her apparently naked on the cinema screen.

Such, though, was the fate of the O’Sullivans of Boyle, Co Roscommon, thanks to a chance encounter at the Horse Show Ball between their beautiful 18-year-old daughter, Maureen, and an American movie director.

The director, Frank Borzage, was casting about for talent for a Hollywood Irish musical, Song O My Heart, starring the tenor John McCormack. Maureen (who was born 100 years ago today) had just returned from finishing school in Paris, and agreed to do a screen test.

She got the part and moved to Hollywood, where her big break came quickly: in 1931, she was cast opposite the five-time Olympic gold swimming champion, Johnny Weissmuller, and alongside Cheeta, a chimpanzee, in Tarzan The Ape Man.

”Sensational news!” proclaimed the trailer for the movie (which is available on YouTube). “The demand of the picture public for another giant romance of primitive life and unfettered love has been answered!” (Tarzan followed a hit jungle-themed movie from the previous year, called Trader Horn.)

”Tarzan, the Ape Man, knows only the laws of the jungle — to seize what he adores!”

He apparently seized her off screen as well, as the screen couple allegedly had a brief affair during the 1930s.

But it wasn’t just Tarzan who adored her — international cinema audiences thrilled to the stories and stars of Tarzan, and Weissmuller and O’Sullivan would make six of the films together. (Weissmuller later changed studio, and made another six, lower-budget versions without O’Sullivan.)

These were not the first Tarzan films, but they were the first to feature the iconic ululating cry. Weissmuller revealed years later that his extraordinary cry had in fact been three vocalists spliced together.

Another iconic feature of their early movies together was Jane’s skimpy costumes (not to mention Tarzan’s flapping loincloth). But in 1934 the studio pushed it too far with a nude swimming scene. The scene sees Tarzan and Jane perched in a tree above a river. Tarzan drops Jane in, but (no doubt concerned for her clothes), keeps hold of her dress. Jane plunges, naked, into the water, and Tarzan plunges in after her.

By this stage, it was no longer Maureen O’Sullivan on screen, but a double, Olympic swimmer Josephine McKim. Her scene with Weissmuller, featuring various underwater acrobatics, was visually stunning and cinematically inventive — but it was too erotic for the American censor, who ordered the scene cut.

In the early 1940s, O’Sullivan retired from the movies to look after her husband, John Farrow, who had returned from the war with typhoid.

Though she returned to the business later on, and also on stage and in television, her celebrity was eclipsed by her daughter, Mia Farrow, who married Frank Sinatra and Andre Previn before her long relationship with Woody Allen. (Another daughter, Prudence, inspired the Beatles song ‘Dear Prudence’, having met them in India in 1968 while studying meditation with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.)

O’Sullivan took a small but well reviewed role in Allen’s classic Hannah and her Sisters in 1986, playing mother to her own daughter. One of her last appearances, in 1994, was in a feature-length TV movie in the Hart to Hart series, Home Is Where the Hart Is. She died in 1998, in Arizona, having appeared in over 70 movies, and having been Ireland’s first movie star.”

Speaking of Tarzan and Jane, the underwater scene from Tarzan & His Mate (1934) may be one for the first movies to have a nude body double. It is more likely that this was related to the swimming scene requiring two Olympic Standard swimmers as Maureen O’Sullivan wasn’t overly shy in other out of water scenes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarzan_and_His_Mate

“The film has acquired a cult status, largely due to O’Sullivan wearing one of the most revealing costumes on screen to that time — a halter-top and a loincloth that left her thighs and hips exposed. Because Jane was a cultivated lady from England (not Baltimore, as in Burroughs’ novel), with manners and poise, her wearing such a provocative outfit was particularly risqué and symbolic of her sexual freedom. In this pre-Code film, Jane sleeps in the nude, swims nude with Tarzan, is constantly touched by Tarzan, has a scene in which she is stranded in the jungle naked, and is seen nude in silhouette when dressing in a well lit tent. That Jane and Tarzan sleep together is all the more startling by Hollywood standards because they are not married; the end credits list O’Sullivan as Jane ‘Parker,’ emphasizing that she was single and living in sin.^[5] However, a conversation early in the film suggests that they have been married.^[6] Tarzan brings breakfast to Jane in their treetop shelter. When he says, “Never forget, I love you.” “ Love who?” Jane prompts…”Love my wife,” he replies. In its 1934 review, Variety referred to the pair as “Mr. and Mrs. Tarzan”.^[7]

The scene that caused the most commotion, the “underwater ballet” sequence, was available in three different versions that were edited by MGM to meet the standards of particular markets.^[2] Gibbons’ wife Dolores del Rio had performed a risqué nude swim in Bird of Paradise (1932), a sequence that is said to have inspired the one in Tarzan. Tarzan and Jane (O’Sullivan’s swimming double, Josephine McKim, who competed in the 1928 games with Johnny Weissmuller),

Josephine McKim, pictured left.

dance a graceful underwater ballet with Jane completely nude. When she rises out of the water, Jane (now Maureen O’Sullivan) flashes a bare breast. In another scene, a glimpse of O’Sullivan’s pubic hair is briefly visible under her loincloth. As TCM’s Paul Tatara observes, “Such big-screen impropriety was virtually unheard of at the time, and the Production Code Office had a fit”.^[8] If native nudity was seen at all it was usually done by dancing girl extras, or non-white actresses due to the time’s double standards (witness the topless “native” girls at the start of the film, or the topless “natives” in the 1935 Sanders of the River). The new Production Code Office thought O’Sullivan’s scant costume, coupled with her sexual charisma, was too much. In April, Joseph Breen, director of public relations of the MPPDA, reported to his president, Will Hays, that Tarzan and His Mate had been rejected because of shots in which “the girl was shown completely in the nude.”^[5][4]

Breen: “The man in the shot wore a loincloth, but a critical examination of the shot indicated that the woman was stark naked. There were four or five shots of the woman… which showed the front of the woman’s body.”^[5]

When MGM production head Irving Thalberg protested the jury’s decision by claiming that the 1928 film White Shadows in the South Seas had “fifty naked women” in it, the jurors screened that film and determined that none of the women were naked. According to film historian Rudy Behlmer: “From all evidence, three versions of the sequence eventually went out to separate territories during the film’s initial release. One with Jane clothed in her jungle loincloth outfit, one with her topless, and one with her in the nude.^[5] However, by April 24, 1934, all prints of Tarzan and His Mate in all territories were ordered changed. Additionally, the New York Censors previewed the film, and insisted that the scene involving Cavanagh lowering his nude body into a portable bathtub be eliminated as well. It was not until Ted Turner purchased the pre-1986 MGM film library that an unedited print of the original film was discovered in the MGM vaults and released in 1986.^[5]

https://www.independent.ie/woman/celeb-news/how-a-convent-schoolgirl-became-queen-of-the-jungle-26733408.html

“Classic beauty: The late Maureen O’Sullivan, mother to Mia FarrowYou… Jane: Roscommon girl Maureen shot to fame in Tarzan

Having your convent-school-educated daughter ravished by an ape-man was not high on the list of ambitions of many parents in rural Ireland in the 1920s. Nor was having her apparently naked on the cinema screen.

Such, though, was the fate of the O’Sullivans of Boyle, Co Roscommon, thanks to a chance encounter at the Horse Show Ball between their beautiful 18-year-old daughter, Maureen, and an American movie director.

The director, Frank Borzage, was casting about for talent for a Hollywood Irish musical, Song O My Heart, starring the tenor John McCormack. Maureen (who was born 100 years ago today) had just returned from finishing school in Paris, and agreed to do a screen test.

She got the part and moved to Hollywood, where her big break came quickly: in 1931, she was cast opposite the five-time Olympic gold swimming champion, Johnny Weissmuller, and alongside Cheeta, a chimpanzee, in Tarzan The Ape Man.

”Sensational news!” proclaimed the trailer for the movie (which is available on YouTube). “The demand of the picture public for another giant romance of primitive life and unfettered love has been answered!” (Tarzan followed a hit jungle-themed movie from the previous year, called Trader Horn.)

”Tarzan, the Ape Man, knows only the laws of the jungle — to seize what he adores!”

He apparently seized her off screen as well, as the screen couple allegedly had a brief affair during the 1930s.

But it wasn’t just Tarzan who adored her — international cinema audiences thrilled to the stories and stars of Tarzan, and Weissmuller and O’Sullivan would make six of the films together. (Weissmuller later changed studio, and made another six, lower-budget versions without O’Sullivan.)

These were not the first Tarzan films, but they were the first to feature the iconic ululating cry. Weissmuller revealed years later that his extraordinary cry had in fact been three vocalists spliced together.

Another iconic feature of their early movies together was Jane’s skimpy costumes (not to mention Tarzan’s flapping loincloth). But in 1934 the studio pushed it too far with a nude swimming scene. The scene sees Tarzan and Jane perched in a tree above a river. Tarzan drops Jane in, but (no doubt concerned for her clothes), keeps hold of her dress. Jane plunges, naked, into the water, and Tarzan plunges in after her.

By this stage, it was no longer Maureen O’Sullivan on screen, but a double, Olympic swimmer Josephine McKim. Her scene with Weissmuller, featuring various underwater acrobatics, was visually stunning and cinematically inventive — but it was too erotic for the American censor, who ordered the scene cut.

In the early 1940s, O’Sullivan retired from the movies to look after her husband, John Farrow, who had returned from the war with typhoid.

Though she returned to the business later on, and also on stage and in television, her celebrity was eclipsed by her daughter, Mia Farrow, who married Frank Sinatra and Andre Previn before her long relationship with Woody Allen. (Another daughter, Prudence, inspired the Beatles song ‘Dear Prudence’, having met them in India in 1968 while studying meditation with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.)

O’Sullivan took a small but well reviewed role in Allen’s classic Hannah and her Sisters in 1986, playing mother to her own daughter. One of her last appearances, in 1994, was in a feature-length TV movie in the Hart to Hart series, Home Is Where the Hart Is. She died in 1998, in Arizona, having appeared in over 70 movies, and having been Ireland’s first movie star.”

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#1611 · November 26, 2022, 8:37 pm

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#1612 · November 26, 2022, 8:38 pm

Quote from Dead Alice on November 26, 2022, 5:37 pm

Good morning! Today's #WordOfTheDay is 'sustain' https://t.co/qJPotdrGJN pic.twitter.com/SKflUyqDxn

— Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) November 26, 2022

Tis anus 🤗😋

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#1613 · November 26, 2022, 10:19 pm

Sustain

Ass unit 😍 🥰

Our unit calls itself Buns 'r' Us 😘😂

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#1614 · November 27, 2022, 12:49 pm

Quote from Dead Alice on November 26, 2022, 5:37 pm

Good morning! Today's #WordOfTheDay is 'sustain' https://t.co/qJPotdrGJN pic.twitter.com/SKflUyqDxn

— Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) November 26, 2022

Su Stain - Yes Simon Cowell recently admitted that he was so blown away by SuBo's first performance on Britain's Got Talent that he cum in his pants!

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#1615 · November 27, 2022, 5:51 pm

Good morning! Today's #WordOfTheDay is 'onomatopoeia' https://t.co/gcki9Gz6qk pic.twitter.com/tYjaG5fAs8

— Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) November 27, 2022

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#1616 · November 27, 2022, 6:13 pm

Onomatopoeia

Moo? Ape no iota 😂

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#1617 · November 27, 2022, 8:23 pm

Quote from Dead Alice on November 27, 2022, 5:51 pm

Good morning! Today's #WordOfTheDay is 'onomatopoeia' https://t.co/gcki9Gz6qk pic.twitter.com/tYjaG5fAs8

— Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) November 27, 2022

O apoa emotion 😉

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#1618 · November 28, 2022, 2:51 pm

Good morning! Today's #WordOfTheDay is 'wheedle' https://t.co/tsdFF6Q4X6 pic.twitter.com/0N8WcD9Vfk

— Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) November 28, 2022

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#1619 · November 28, 2022, 6:19 pm

Quote from Dead Alice on November 28, 2022, 2:51 pm

Good morning! Today's #WordOfTheDay is 'wheedle' https://t.co/tsdFF6Q4X6 pic.twitter.com/0N8WcD9Vfk

— Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) November 28, 2022

De Wheel - Yes I got a flat tyre last week on my De Lorean but unfortunately when I went to look for de spare wheel der was none.

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#1620 · November 28, 2022, 6:57 pm

Wheedle

Heel dew 🤔😂

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