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OT Ferguson monologue
I watched this the other night when it was aired and was stunned by how
well Craig Ferguson communicates. Yes, he has insight, but the way he can communicate it is a real gift. This rang true for me just with things other than alcohol. Do yourself a favor and watch this clip. I have always just loved his show, but this really was an important TV moment IMO. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bbaRyDLMvA |
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On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:11:47 -0600, Karen
yodeled: I watched this the other night when it was aired and was stunned by how well Craig Ferguson communicates. Yes, he has insight, but the way he can communicate it is a real gift. This rang true for me just with things other than alcohol. Do yourself a favor and watch this clip. I have always just loved his show, but this really was an important TV moment IMO. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bbaRyDLMvA Sometimes I think it's amazing that Ferguson has his own show. He is a great monologuist, has great sense of the absurd, goes way out on limbs, and goes on at great length, too. His monologues are much longer than Letterman's or Leno's. He's a nervy guy but compassionate. I knew he was a great guy. Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh Make Levees, Not War |
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Karen wrote:
I watched this the other night when it was aired and was stunned by how well Craig Ferguson communicates. Yes, he has insight, but the way he can communicate it is a real gift. This rang true for me just with things other than alcohol. Do yourself a favor and watch this clip. I have always just loved his show, but this really was an important TV moment IMO. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bbaRyDLMvA An excellent clip. I've heard Ferguson mention in the past he doesn't drink but I didn't realize (or perhaps didn't think about it hard enough) it was because he *can't* drink. Sorry to highjack your thread but this really hit home. I'm the child of an alcoholic. I don't really know if Dad would have had a problem with drinking if he hadn't been in the military for 30 years. Probably so, but the military (at that time) encouraged it. When he enlisted in WWII the "image", if you will, was of the two-fisted hard-drinking man. Booze was practically free if you were a soldier; every base had an NCO club and an O club. At the commissary booze is sold tax-free. All I remember was I rarely saw him sober until I was in my mid-teens; in fact I rarely saw him at all. With him, drinking was an every day thing. He'd get off work at 5PM and hit the OClub (or after he retired from the Marines, a neighborhood pub). Every day. I don't quite know how he managed to get up at 5AM and go back to work the next day, but he did, I'll give him that! On weekends he'd pretend he was going golfing. We all knew better; it was that proverbial 19th Hole and he'd be there all day. It's a wonder he didn't kill himself or someone else. To this day we don't know what the catalyst was. In 1976 he abruptly made the decision to quit drinking. He did fall off the wagon a couple of times in the years after, once when his brother died at the very young age of 58 which I suppose is understandable. Dad flew to Washington for the funeral and disappeared for almost a week. He'd hooked up with an old Marine buddy and they went on a bender for days. Mom was frantic, of course, since no one had any idea where he was. I gather he hasn't touched a drop in years now but it's got to be a constant struggle. I applaud my dad even if he did mis-step once or twice. I tend to drink a bit too much on occasion. But then I can *and do* go for weeks at a time without wanting a drop so I don't think of my drinking as a "problem". Of course, I could be wrong. Jill |
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Kreisleriana wrote:
Karen yodeled: I watched this the other night when it was aired and was stunned by how well Craig Ferguson communicates. Yes, he has insight, but the way he can communicate it is a real gift. This rang true for me just with things other than alcohol. Do yourself a favor and watch this clip. I have always just loved his show, but this really was an important TV moment IMO. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bbaRyDLMvA Sometimes I think it's amazing that Ferguson has his own show. He is a great monologuist, has great sense of the absurd, goes way out on limbs, and goes on at great length, too. His monologues are much longer than Letterman's or Leno's. He's a nervy guy but compassionate. I knew he was a great guy. That was great, thanks for posting it. You really have to admire a guy who can talk about waking up soaked in his own urine, and make it funny. ("At least, I think it was mine... I *hope* it was mine.") Then again, I could listen to this guy read the dictionary with that brogue! (Is a Scottish accent called a brogue, actually?) Joyce |
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"jmcquown" wrote in message ... wrote: But there are different brogues... the voices from the Low Country where my grandparents were from are a softer burr, around Glasgow, than from the Highlanders. You obviously haven't heard a Glasgow accent, it's one of the harshest Scots accent that there is. I don't know how you got the idea it's a soft burr, who told you this? Tweed |
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But there are different brogues... the voices from the Low Country
where my grandparents were from are a softer burr, around Glasgow, than from the Highlanders. You obviously haven't heard a Glasgow accent, it's one of the harshest Scots accent that there is. I don't know how you got the idea it's a soft burr, who told you this? Scots accents vary on a southwest-northeast axis. The dialect spoken in the far northeast (around Fraserburgh and Peterhead) is almost incomprehensible to anyone else. Glasgow accents are in the southwest group with a few local oddities. The Highlands is northwest of the areas where Scots is the primary language/dialect. A lot of Highlanders don't have Scots accents at all, and most don't have very marked ones - this is because they spoke Gaelic until a couple of generations ago and learnt their English from teachers and the BBC. ============== j-c ====== @ ====== purr . demon . co . uk ============== Jack Campin: 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland | tel 0131 660 4760 http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/ for CD-ROMs and free | fax 0870 0554 975 stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, & Mac logic fonts | mob 07800 739 557 |
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