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Old 12-15-05, 01:20 PM   #1531
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So the top three threads - this instant - are the athiesism thread, chreerleader thread and the one about having a gay son. How is it that TUT is not up there too?

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Old 12-15-05, 02:00 PM   #1532
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So the top three threads - this instant - are the athiesism thread, chreerleader thread and the one about having a gay son. How is it that TUT is not up there too?

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Of course, TUT is the perfect blend of all three!

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Here's a question:

If you found out The Ultimate Thread was gay, would you still accept it?

If you did accept it, would you pull it to the side and tell it you didn't want to see any of it's shennanigans?

What if it were a gay athiest? And supported honor killings?

That said, Sweet Jebus the board is on a serious note today...wtf?


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WTF?? Is that a Lifetime movie?

Last night, GF's son wouldn't get out of the hot tub, too wrapped up in watching South Park. So I changed the channel inside (outside tv shares a box with roomate's TV) to the Soap Opera channel.

He got out REALLY fast then.

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Old 12-15-05, 04:39 PM   #1536
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WTF?? Is that a Lifetime movie?

Last night, GF's son wouldn't get out of the hot tub, too wrapped up in watching South Park. So I changed the channel inside (outside tv shares a box with roomate's TV) to the Soap Opera channel.

He got out REALLY fast then.

I'm evil.
It's actually an episode of The Prisoner. A pretty loopy one, if I remember correctly.


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Bud Abbott: You've got to deliver these to the Susquehanna Hat Company!

Lou Costello: Where?

Bud Abbott: It's on Bagel Street!

Lou Costello: Where's Bagel Street?

Bud Abbott: I don't know, we'll ask somebody. It's on our way down there

Lou Costello: (Getting a hat from the box) How much did you say they are?

Bud Abbott: $7.50 a piece!

Lou Costello: (places a hat on his head) How do I look with a 7 and a half dollar hat on?

Bud Abbott: Let me see ... say, kind of spiffy!

Lou Costello: OK?

Bud Abbott: Alright, but carry those (gives boxes to Lou) but don't get it dirty!

Lou Costello: Let's go

Bud Abbott: Be careful

Lou Costello: Bagel Street eh?

Bud Abbott: Bagel Street!

Lou Costello: We'll ask somebody!

Bud Abbott: We'll ask somebody!

(down the street)

Bud Abbott: Here. Ask this fellow where Bagel Street is!

Lou Costello: OK - (to stranger) Excuse me ... can you tell me where Bagel Street is?

Man: Sorry Buddy, I haven't got a dime!

Lou Costello: Who's asking you for money? I'm only asking you where Bagel Street is!

Man: Do I know where Bagel Street is?? Of course I know where Bagel Street is! What do I look like, a dummy? Do I look like I have just come off a boat? Is there a tag on my lapel saying that I just came from Ellis Island? Of course I know where Bagel Street is! I was born and raised on Bagel Street! My brother was born on Bagel Street! You know my brother?

Lou Costello: All I'm asking you ...

Man: (interrupting) Why do you go round talking about my brother? I'll have you understand my brother is one of the finest guys to have ever walked in shoe leather. My brother was an honest student at school! Go ahead, say something nasty about my brother. Say something like ... 'he shouldn't get a parole!'

Lou Costello: I'm asking you where Bagel Street is! A common ordinary citizen asking another fellow where Bagel Street is! I have to deliver these hats to the Susquehanna hat company!

Man: (grabs Lou by the lapels)

Lou Costello: Let go of me!

Man: (points to Lou's hat) - is that a

Lou Costello: yeah!

Man: (Takes off Lou's hat and holds it) You know who makes these hats?

Lou Costello: I don't know some ...

Man: (interrupting) Child labour! Little girls. 13 - 14 years old. Little girls with curls down their hair. They work 13 - 14 hours a day. They work in a sweatshop all day long. (punches hole through top of hat) Here's what I think of a

Lou Costello: (helplessly looking on as man goes crazy ripping his hat apart) seven and a half dollars!!

Man: Ow!! (he's just cut his finger) Mmmm (sucking finger)

Lou Costello: What's the matter?

Man: So you put the wire in there to cut my finger? (beating Lou over the head with the hat) Boy! the

Bud Abbott: Well. You know that's gonna cost you, you know!

Lou Costello: Give 'em back to Dan

Bud Abbott: Seven dollars and fifty cents! You broke one of Dan's hats!

Lou Costello: Look, all I did was put a hat on my head (places another hat on his head) Did I ask the guy to take it off?

Bud Abbott: That's enough! It's the way you ask them!

Lou Costello: You ask the next guy!

Bud Abbott: Come on. Never mind. Let's find Bagel Street!

(Further down the street)

Bud Abbott: Here. Ask this lady where Bagel Street is!

Lou Costello: Excuse me lady! Can you tell me where Bagel Street is?

Lady: Bagel Street? (cries) Ohh, why did you have to remind me of Bagel Street? My husband was killed on Bagel Street, do you hear? My husband was killed on Bagel Street!

Lou Costello: Well I mean, after all, all I don't understand this. I wanna go, to the Susquehanna Hat Company!

Lady: Susquehanna Hat Company??? (cries angrily, takes hat off Lou's head) - Is that a Susquehanna hat? That's the same kind of hat my husband was wearing when he was killed! He wouldn't have lost his life if he had of been wearing a good hat when that safe fell off that 15 storey building - but no! He was wearing a hat like this one. (punches hole through hat) That's the cheapest hat I ever saw ... Oh! My husband's dead! (runs off crying) He's Dead! He's Dead!

Lou Costello: He ain't dead lady ... he's hidin'!

Bud Abbott: Now look!

Lou Costello: That guy!

Bud Abbott: Now, just a minute! That's two hats you've broken! Now you know how much you own Derby Dan?

Lou Costello: How much do I owe Derby Dan?

Bud Abbott: Fifteen Dollars!

Lou Costello: Fifteen Dollars?

Bud Abbott: Yes! (shouting) and STOP insulting women!!!

Lou Costello: Look! All I asked her was 'where was Bagel Street!'

(Young Woman walks up behind Lou)

Young Woman: Bagel Street? (screams)

Lou Costello: (punches hole in hat before she has an opportunity)

Young Woman: Bagel Street? Don't ever mention that name to me again! I can't stand it! (takes broken hat and hits Lou over the head with it) BAGEL STREET! (storms off) Oh!

Bud Abbott: Wait a minute!

Lou Costello: (picks up hat boxes and looks as if he's about to throw them away)

Bud Abbott: Hold that still!

Lou Costello: Give him back the hats!

Bud Abbott: Take that box and go on down there and find out where Bagel Street is! (pushes Lou down the street -- further down the street - pauses outside china pottery shop)

Lou Costello: Hey, Eddie.

Bud Abbott: What?

Lou Costello: How much do I owe Derby Dan now?

Bud Abbott: Twenty two dollars and fifty cents.

Lou Costello: I'm going to try just one more! (places another hat on head)

Bud Abbott: Be careful with that one, will you please!

Lou Costello: Yes sir!

Bud Abbott: Hey wait a minute ... I've got an idea. I'm going to run back to our plumbing shop, and get some of those little business cards of ours, and we can give them away to those society people up in Briarwood.

Lou Costello: Very good business sense you got Eddie!

Bud Abbott: But find out where Bagel Street is, please! (Exits scene)

Lou Costello: OK, I'll ask another guy that comes along. I'll ask anybody, I don't care!

(Man comes into scene)

Lou Costello: Excuse me, Mister. Can you please tell me where Bagel Street is?

Man: (sadly) Bagel Street? Don't ask me where Bagel Street is ... (starts crying) A terrible thing happened to me on Bagel Street (openly sobbing). I was walking along, minding my own business, and a safe fell off a 15 storey building on my head and killed me!!

Lou Costello: A safe fell 15 floors on your head and killed you?

Man: Yeah!! (sobbing)

Lou Costello: Well, as long as you're dead then there's no use asking you where the Susquehanna Hat Company is ...

Man: (loudly) Susquehanna Hat?!? That's the kind of hat I was wearing when I was killed and ...

Lou Costello: (quickly takes off hat and places it back in the box)

Man: ... and you ask me about a ... (takes hat out of box) - this hat?? this hat is not worth wearing and .. (yelling) This is the kind of hat I was killed in! (punches hole through hat)

Lou Costello: Eddie!

Man: (beats Lou over head repeatedly with broken hat)

Lou Costello: Eddie! Eddie!

Man: (screaming) You're asking me about ... (pauses) I'm so sorry (calmly). I .. I .. I think I've broken your hat!

Lou Costello: You think you've broken it?

Man: Yeah

Lou Costello: This is the fourth Susquehanna Hat I...

Man: (yelling) Susquehanna! (grabs vase and breaks it over Lou's head -- Shop proprietor, an older Italian man named Luigi, comes out to see what the commotion is about)

Luigi: What are you doing? Help! Police! Help! Help! Help!

Cop: What's going on here?

Luigi: Ah, this fellow here, this big fellow, is trying to take it on the little fellow, my friend

Cop: (grabbing man) Come on!

Luigi: Lock him up!

Man: (Smiling) You can't take me to Jail!

Cop: Oh no?

Man: I'm dead!! (laughs) You can't take me to jail!

Cop: Oh yes I can! Come on!

Man: I'm Dead! (laughing hysterically) Ha ha ha ha!

Cop: (drags crazy man off to jail)

Luigi: He's crazy!

Lou Costello: He's crazy!

Luigi: Yeah! What can I do now for you, Albert?

Lou Costello: Luigi, How can I get to the Susquehanna Hat Company?

Luigi: Susquehanna! Susquehanna!

Lou Costello: Luigi!

Luigi: (Runs in shop, reappears with axe and smashes all the vases on display!)

Lou Costello: (grabs hat boxes and runs off)


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It's actually an episode of The Prisoner. A pretty loopy one, if I remember correctly.



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i am finishing up a late lunch today. got me some chips and salsa to wrap everything up. chips appear to be of the homemade variety...very tasty.

although some of my arabic and indian friends might have issues with it, i am eating the chips/salsa with my left hand. as a result, the fingers on my left hand have oil and salt on them. not wanting to get this mess on my keyboard, i am typing with just my right hand. makes for slow typing.

i think i would have been better off if i had just wiped my fingers off with a napkin and used both hands...

oh well...

i would have normally waited until later to post something, but Jman's post was pretty darned funny and I felt a need to say so.

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i am finishing up a late lunch today. got me some chips and salsa to wrap everything up. chips appear to be of the homemade variety...very tasty.

although some of my arabic and indian friends might have issues with it, i am eating the chips/salsa with my left hand. as a result, the fingers on my left hand have oil and salt on them. not wanting to get this mess on my keyboard, i am typing with just my right hand. makes for slow typing.

i think i would have been better off if i had just wiped my fingers off with a napkin and used both hands...

oh well...

i would have normally waited until later to post something, but Jman's post was pretty darned funny and I felt a need to say so.

thanks dude.


...now I need to go wipe my fingers...

Whether to eat, or post on T.U.T.--I can understand your dilemma! Glad you and yooper liked the routine. I was actually looking for this one, but couldn't find it until now:

Bud, Lou and derelict in cell:

Derelict: I haven't always been a derelect ... (looks at Lou) ... like you.

Lou Costello: Don't call me those kind of bad names!

Derelict: Would you like to hear my story?

Lou Costello: No

Derelict: Very well, then I'll tell it to you

Bud Abbott: Go ahead

Derelict: (to Bud) Thank you ... many years ago my father gave me the benefit of a very good education (sad music playing) ... then .. I met her. She was beautiful ... glorious. We were married. two years later - a baby boy. I haven't seen that boy till this very day.

Lou Costello: Did you say a little baby boy?

Derelict: Yes!

Lou Costello: Did he have brown eyes?

Derelict: Yes he did!

Lou Costello: And two little teeth in the front?

Derelict: (Excitedly) Yes, yes!

Lou Costello: And black hair?

Derelict: Yes!

Lou Costello: Daddy!

(derelict pushes Lou away)

Bud Abbott: Oh what's the matter with you? Sit still! Keep quiet. Stop interupting the man!

Lou Costello: Well, I thought I found my father!

Bud Abbott: Quiet! (turns to derelict) - go ahead.

Derelict: Thank you. We were very happy, my little family. One morning we were seated around the breakfast table and a knock came at the door. There stood a man. He was broken in health and spirit. I bade him enter, I welcomed him into my home. I said 'make my home your home'...and he did! One day I returned from work to find that home was no longer a home. My wife ... the baby... and the stranger had fled. Then one day ... at the banks of the Poko Moko I found them. Suddenly my brain snapped. All the years of pent up emotion of years suffering welled up within me. I knew I would never be satisfied until I had my bony fingers wrapped around his throat. So with murder in my heart ... slooooooowly I turned (acting this out as he speaks, focusing on Lou), step by step, step by step I crept upon him (creeping towards Lou) and when I saw the stare in his face ... I struck and I grabbed him (Grabs Lou and starts pushing him against the wall and shouting at him)

Bud Abbott: What's the matter? Why are you interupting the man for?

Derelict: My poor friend, I'm sorry. But everytime I hear the word Poko Moko, I just want to kill!

Lou Costello: Take it easy pal, take it easy!

Bud Abbott: See, everytime he hears that word: 'Poko Moko'

Derelict: Poko Moko!!!! OOhh, I knew I'd never be satisfied until I had his blood running between my fingers...so slowly I turned (does action) step by step, step by step I crept upon him - and when I saw the streak on his countenance I grabbed him and I couldn't help myself (throws Lou against the wall and begins beating him up) and I was going out my mind (calms down, breathless)

Lou Costello: (takes an exaggerated boxing stance)

Bud Abbott: Stand still! What's the matter with you? The man's telling you his life's history. It's interesting.

Derelict: My poor friend! I did it again didn't I?

Bud Abbott: It's alright, it's alright

Derelict: What's happening to me?

Lou Costello: It's not happening to you brother, it's all happening over here!

Bud Abbott: Just ... don't use that word ....

Lou Costello: Don't ... don't ... don't ... don't. He means "Pocahontas!"

Derelict: (reacts for a second)

Lou Costello: (stopping him) Pocahontas!!

Bud Abbott: Yes, it's alright

Lou Costello: Sounds like Coko Moko or something

Bud Abbott: Shhh!

Derelict: Poko Moko! BBBRRRRRR...So slowly I turned! Step by step, step by step (Lou calls out for Bud in a quiet voice) ... and when I crept upon him ... I grabbed him and (again beats Lou and repeatedly slams him into the wall, then throws him across the cell to the other wall knocking his hat off)

Bud Abbott: (angrily to derelect) Just a minute ... just a minute! Now you've been getting away with murder. Enough is enough. You understand that? I've stood by and watched all this! And I've let you get away with it ... but no more! (bends down and picks up Lou's hat) - These things cost money. Be careful how you handle them!


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hey. when did this thread become #1 when you google "the ultimate thread"
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... slooooooowly I turned , step by step, step by step
For most of my life I thought that the Three Stooges invented this routine. Their trigger word was "Niagara Falls". Turns out it was a classic vaudeville routine and Niagara Falls was the most common trigger word.



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Tell a non-resident you're from Niagara Falls and the likely response will be, "Niagara Falls! Slowly I turned ... step by step ... inch by inch ..."

Where'd that come from? Some remember it as an old Abbott and Costello or Three Stooges routine. Others may recall it from an episode of I Love Lucy.

They're all right.

The skit, which was well known on the vaudeville circuit, goes something like this: A bedraggled man buttonholes a stranger and tells him a tale of betrayal and vengeance. A rogue seduced his sweetheart. He trailed the miscreant from town to town, finally catching up with him in Niagara Falls, where he pummeled him mercilessly. The hearer of the story haplessly says the magic words, "Niagara Falls," causing the man to turn on him and mete out the same punishment.

Sometimes a different town was the red-flag word. Abbot and Costello performed the "Pokomoko" version in their 1944 film, Lost in a Harem. The improbable storyline revolves around the pair traveling to Arabia to recover the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, which has been hypnotized into playing only for the villain. Okay. They pose as Hollywood talent scouts. At one point, they end up locked in a jail cell with a lunatic, who does the "Slowly I Turned" routine.

That same year, the Three Stooges incorporated it into their short feature, Gents Without Cents. In this episode, the Stooges are out-of-work actors who meet three dancing girls in similar circumstances. They all get a job in a show, where they perform the routine. The Stooges marry the ladies and honeymoon in (where else?) Niagara Falls. This time, Curly is the Stooge who exclaims "Niagara Falls!" making himself the target of Moe and Larry's wrath.

The venerable routine reappeared in an episode of I Love Lucy aired in 1952. Ricky needs both a ballerina and a comic to be in his floorshow at the Tropicana. Lucy, as usual, is clamoring to participate. He sends her to a ballet teacher. She klutzes it up, hurts her leg and hires someone to teach her a vaudeville routine instead. In a typical misunderstanding, Ethel tells Lucy that the show needs an emergency substitute performer. Lucy goes and performs a vaudeville routine in the ballet, walloping the dancers and causing general lunacy and mayhem.

This little skit, and its centerpiece phrase, have become so well known that its authorship would seem to be lost in the mists of time, like an old folk ballad.

Extensive research (i.e., Web-surfing) has revealed that comic Joey Faye claimed authorship of "Slowly I Turned" in its many formats. Born Joseph Palladino in 1909 on Manhattan's Lower East Side, he appeared in burlesque and vaudeville shows, usually as a sidekick to the star, often Phil Silvers. He was in 36 Broadway shows, including Man of La Mancha as Sancho Panza, and dozens of movies. He had his own series, The Joey Faye Frolics, in 1950, and appeared as well in other television shows, such as The Real McCoys, Perry Mason and Maude. His most recent claim to fame was as the green grape in the Fruit of the Loom underwear commercials. He continued to work until well into his 80s and died in 1997.

Finally, the mystery has been solved. But people will continue to use the phrase at appropriate moments and enjoy its several film performances without knowing or caring about its source. It has become an acknowledged part of American popular culture, and that is a greater accomplishment than having your name appended to a bit of comic business.


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Old 12-15-05, 09:46 PM   #1549
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…I think we need Swank 60 on this case. He knows irony…
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Old 12-15-05, 09:46 PM   #1550
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