As I usually do on Halloween night, I watched "Young Frankenstein".
My favorite line from the movie is where Gene Wilder is escorting Terri Garr and Madeline Kahn into the castle, and he turns to Marty Feldman and says,
"Igor, would you give me a hand with the bags?"
And Feldman waggles his eyebrows and says
"Soitanly...you take the blonde, and I'll take the one in the turban!"
I'm usually laughing too hard to see what happens next.
Another favorite line...Wilder screams at Feldman, "DAMN YOUR EYES!"
And Feldman looks dead on into the camera and says "Too late..."
I used to go to the Rocky Horror Picture Show special midnight "audience participation" showing at the Harkins Theater over on Mill Avenue, but they quit doing it.
There was some excitement at the mad4tunes household, however...I sat in my rocker out on the front entryway in my gunfighter costume (picture Rooster Cogburn without the eyepatch) to hand out the Halloween candy, complete with .44-40 stage pistol that fires blanks.
I'd been handing candy out for about 15 minutes, and got up to refill one of the buckets, and one of the kids saw the pistol.
"Hey, Mr John, is that a REAL gun?"
"Nah", I replied, "If it was a REAL gun, I wouldn't DREAM of doing THIS!", and did a quick draw and fired off three shots into the air.
"COOOOOOLLLLL!!" was the chorus from the kids...and off they trooped into the night.
About five minutes later, here come Officers Zapatka and Gullah. They were not amused. Apparently, one of my neighbors was not amused, either, and had notified the law of "shots fired".
I showed them my carry permit, let them examine the stage pistol, and then they left...but admonished me NOT to fire off my stage pistol again.
Well...I told them to stuff it, unless they came back with an order from a judge, or could show me in the civil code where it's illegal to shoot a stage pistol.
After they left, I called the night shift desk sergeant, and told him what had happened. He told me not to worry about it, because I DO have a carry permit, and all I have is (as he called it) "a glorified cap gun".
But I think I'll think twice before I decide to thrill the crowds again.
This post was last modified: 11-01-2008, 02:43 PM by mad4tunes.
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