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Sales was interesting. Some for warmth, some for the last minute stuff to get them through the year till next fair. But they did buy. Tho because of the cold on saturday the extra tails was really not needed. Sigh. i did have a person try to trade in a tail that they bought last year. I almost wanted to ask if they thought we did cash for clunkers, but decided they would not understand. It was a rather interesting thought on what was going out of the booth. A few items that don't sell, finally did. all in all it was a good week end.
We had a scare at one point in time. the credit card of one person disappeared. After a 10 minute ram sack of the place the card was seen by monie on the floor of the booth. It was near the edge where the door is and had got hit by some fur when Sharon walked through the door way. The lady who's card it was said it was ok, but we was a little shook up. of course this happened on one of the busiest times on sunday.
Saturday Me, Sharon the bosses daughter, and Tara a friend from another booth went up to the front gate to represent the booths for a memorial for Jim the Barbarian's memorial. We got up near the front gate and stood with the group of Barbarians. i could not see any thing but they was doing the last of the closing. It was a little weird since the last time i had went to a closing of the fair day... well Jim and Verna was king and queen. Interesting to see that they did the same stuff still. While some things change, some things stay the same. They unveiled a picture of Jim, that i think did not look like him, but it was a nice that they did it. Afterwards they did a fireworks show which was nice for the last minute thing. (the guys was told to get the stuff oh on tuesday the before the event) we had started our way back to the booth when we stopped to hear the toast they was doing to Jim. We stood next to Precious the Barbarian. Alex (aka Precious) had been loved buy Jim, for being a bright and cheerful person. He had always liked the costume that Alex wore. Tara and I hugged Alex. He was not taking it well. i could understand why. Jim was a great guy and well missed. We all walked to our booths. It was a little weird.
Got to see a lot of people on the last week end. Margene and Jim, Bobby and Chris (part of my family) and many more. but then it hit me. i had not seen a few of our regulars this year. My civil war optometrist friend, the teacher, the Dr.'s wife. A few others had not shown up.
All in all it was a very good year...
the final conversation is from the out of the mouths of babes. My brother in law told of a cure for the flu. You are to take and cut a onion in half and place them in to each room. (3 rooms equal 3 onions)
Anton: what if your allergic to onions?
Brother in-law: What?
A: What if your allergic to onions?
Niece: Just suck it up!
A: Shocked look on his face and laughing... Why you little
By DAVID N. GOODMAN
Soupy Sales, the rubber-faced comedian whose anything-for-a-chuckle career was built on 20,000 pies to the face and 5,000 live TV appearances across a half-century of laughs, has died. He was 83.
Sales died Thursday night at Calvary Hospice in the Bronx, New York, said his former manager and longtime friend, Dave Usher. Sales had many health problems and entered the hospice last week, Usher said.
At the peak of his fame in the 1950s and '60s, Sales was one of the best-known faces in the nation, Usher said.
"If President Eisenhower would have walked down the street, no one would have recognized him as much as Soupy," Usher said.
At the same time, Sales retained an openness to fans that turned every restaurant meal into an endless autograph-signing session, Usher said.
"He was just good to people," said Usher, a former jazz music producer who managed Sales in the 1950s and now owns Detroit-based Marine Pollution Control.
Sales began his TV career in Cincinnati and Cleveland, then moved to Detroit, where he drew a large audience on WXYZ-TV. He moved to Los Angeles in 1961.
The comic's pie-throwing schtick became his trademark, and celebrities lined up to take one on the chin alongside Sales. During the early 1960s, stars such as Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis and Shirley MacLaine received their just desserts side-by-side with the comedian on his television show.
"I'll probably be remembered for the pies, and that's all right," Sales said in a 1985 interview.
Sales was born Milton Supman on Jan. 8, 1926, in Franklinton, North Carolina, where his was the only Jewish family in town. His parents, owners of a dry-goods store, sold sheets to the Ku Klux Klan. The family later moved to Huntington, West Viriginia.
His greatest success came in New York with "The Soupy Sales Show" — an ostensible children's show that had little to do with Captain Kangaroo and other kiddie fare. Sales' manic, improvisational style also attracted an older audience that responded to his envelope-pushing antics.
Sales, who was typically clad in a black sweater and oversized bow-tie, was once suspended for a week after telling his legion of tiny listeners to empty their mothers' purse and mail him all the pieces of green paper bearing pictures of the presidents.
The cast of "Saturday Night Live" later paid homage by asking their audience to send in their joints. His influence was also obvious in the Pee-Wee Herman character created by Paul Reubens.
Sales returned from the Navy after World War II and became a $20-a-week reporter at a West Virginia radio station. He jumped to a DJ gig, changed his name to Soupy Heinz and headed for Ohio.
His first pie to the face came in 1951, when the newly christened Soupy Sales was hosting a children's show in Cleveland. In Detroit, Sales' show garnered a national reputation as he honed his act — a barrage of sketches, gags and bad puns that played in the Motor City for seven years.
After moving to Los Angeles, he eventually became a fill-in host on "The Tonight Show."
He moved to New York in 1964 and debuted "The Soupy Sales Show," with co-star puppets White Fang (the meanest dog in the United States) and Black Tooth (the nicest dog in the United States). By the time his Big Apple run ended two years later, Sales had appeared on 5,370 live television programs — the most in the medium's history, he boasted. He had a pair of albums that hit the Billboard Top 10 in 1965; "Do the Mouse" sold 250,000 copies in New York alone.
Sales remained a familiar television face, first as a regular from 1968-75 on the game show "What's My Line?" and later appearing on everything from "The Mike Douglas Show" to "The Love Boat." He played himself in the 1998 movie "Holy Man," which starred Eddie Murphy.
He joined WNBC-AM as a disc jockey in 1985, a stint best remembered because Sales filled the hours between shock jocks Don Imus and Howard Stern.
Sales is survived by his wife, Trudy, and two sons, Hunt and Tony, a pair of musicians who backed David Bowie in the band Tin Machine.
They're creepy and they're kooky,
Mysterious and spooky,
They're all together ooky,
The Addams Family.
Their house is a museum
Where people come to see 'em
They really are a scream
The Addams Family.
(Neat)
(Sweet)
(Petite)
So get a witches shawl on
A broomstick you can crawl on
We're gonna pay a call on
The Addams Family
Ah winter time... err wait its suppose to be cool, not freezing out at fair. yet, it was freezing. For as cold as it was, i was shocked to see the amount of people out at fair. lots of people come out. May come out on sunday and seemed to enjoy her self. Another friend made her annual trip out to fair. Beth has shopped at our booth for years now, and has come to be a great friend and customer. She was out for her annual birthday fair day. This time she picked up a buffalo hide. (garment tanned so it makes a great warm bedspread) Joe, Inger, and Sam come out as well. And a few others come out. All was brave to come out in the cold. For those that made it out, i salute you for braving the weather.
now people like to dress up to come out to fair. most people dress according to the weather. Warm means less clothing, a lot of skin showing on some. Cold means cloaks and shirts. So when 4 girls showed up to fair in nothing but very little clothing... well i had one thought in my head. what the hell was you thinking. The one that seemed to be coldest was wearing a short bodice with a sports bra, a small pair of bike shorts and 2 and a half bunnies. oh and a pair of socks (which they bought most likely out at fair) no shoes. This was basically what they all wore. the one got a sheep skin to warm her self with. There was others that was out there in bad clothing choices. Flip flops is not the ideal foot wear. neither was not wearing a shirt, and then going in to play barbarian wars. When you sweat and then cool down, well it really makes you cool down.
I was shocked that the weather had not taken and stopped all the people from buying. I got to sell the coolest ram skull in our collection on the sales wall. (it was out of the bosses collection, they got a slightly bigger one) Sold almost all of the sheep skins and sold all the hair on deer hides. sold a lot of the hood wraps that people use as tails, for warmth for women in bodices. A lot of people was just needing to get warm. i almost wanted to take down the buffalo on the wall to use at night because it was so cold at time, and i had many layers of clothing. Skulls don't sell well during the cold, but they sold as well. This was a good thing. of course this was on the week end, monday was a different thought. Monday we sold... hardly any thing.
A charity auction/cast party was held on sunday night. I went for five minutes and left. most of the rest of the booth staid a little bit. While i know a lot of people the area they crammed people in to was small and i do not like being forced in to a small area with no way out but through a gauntlet of people. but a lot of people said it was fun. For me i went to the booth and got a beer, then helped set up the grill for food. Grilled Ham and pineapple.... oh it was good.
This week we had a great conversation happen in front of our booth that gave me ideas. 2 of the royal princes was looking at stuff to keep warm. After shopping they took and started looking at the cases. in one of the cases we have skull beads. the one looks at the other and the following conversation was had....
Prince 1- "look little skulls"
Prince 2- "why those must be dead fairies."
P1-"Yes they definitely must be pixie heads."
P2-"they can only be seen in death."
It got me to thinking what a wonderful name for a music group, and the first cd title. i will be working on a fake cd cover for the band "Pixie Heads". the name of the cd "Seen only in death""oh my ghod, this beaver is warm."-lady finding out fur can be used for warmth...
Ah winter time... err wait its suppose to be cool, not freezing out at fair. yet, it was freezing. For as cold as it was, i was shocked to see the amount of people out at fair. lots of people come out. May come out on sunday and seemed to enjoy her self. Another friend made her annual trip out to fair. Beth has shopped at our booth for years now, and has come to be a great friend and customer. She was out for her annual birthday fair day. This time she picked up a buffalo hide. (garment tanned so it makes a great warm bedspread) Joe, Inger, and Sam come out as well. And a few others come out. All was brave to come out in the cold. For those that made it out, i salute you for braving the weather.
now people like to dress up to come out to fair. most people dress according to the weather. Warm means less clothing, a lot of skin showing on some. Cold means cloaks and shirts. So when 4 girls showed up to fair in nothing but very little clothing... well i had one thought in my head. what the hell was you thinking. The one that seemed to be coldest was wearing a short bodice with a sports bra, a small pair of bike shorts and 2 and a half bunnies. oh and a pair of socks (which they bought most likely out at fair) no shoes. This was basically what they all wore. the one got a sheep skin to warm her self with. There was others that was out there in bad clothing choices. Flip flops is not the ideal foot wear. neither was not wearing a shirt, and then going in to play barbarian wars. When you sweat and then cool down, well it really makes you cool down.
I was shocked that the weather had not taken and stopped all the people from buying. I got to sell the coolest ram skull in our collection on the sales wall. (it was out of the bosses collection, they got a slightly bigger one) Sold almost all of the sheep skins and sold all the hair on deer hides. sold a lot of the hood wraps that people use as tails, for warmth for women in bodices. A lot of people was just needing to get warm. i almost wanted to take down the buffalo on the wall to use at night because it was so cold at time, and i had many layers of clothing. Skulls don't sell well during the cold, but they sold as well. This was a good thing. of course this was on the week end, monday was a different thought. Monday we sold... hardly any thing.
A charity auction/cast party was held on sunday night. I went for five minutes and left. most of the rest of the booth staid a little bit. While i know a lot of people the area they crammed people in to was small and i do not like being forced in to a small area with no way out but through a gauntlet of people. but a lot of people said it was fun. For me i went to the booth and got a beer, then helped set up the grill for food. Grilled Ham and pineapple.... oh it was good.
This week we had a great conversation happen in front of our booth that gave me ideas. 2 of the royal princes was looking at stuff to keep warm. After shopping they took and started looking at the cases. in one of the cases we have skull beads. the one looks at the other and the following conversation was had....
Prince 1- "look little skulls"
Prince 2- "why those must be dead fairies."
P1-"Yes they definitely must be pixie heads."
P2-"they can only be seen in death."
It got me to thinking what a wonderful name for a music group, and the first cd title. i will be working on a fake cd cover for the band "Pixie Heads". the name of the cd "Seen only in death"
Ya just got to love race way week end. Always a fun time getting out to fair. I got out a little early, and helped do the last of the set up. A big day of sales. No big skulls but lots of tails. Wow do i mean a lot of tails. Always a fun time when you are busy. Skull sales was good on sunday. sold 6 in a row off the wall. had to remember later on in the day that i had sold one. That was interesting. Thankfully i remembered the hat that the guy wore. (always a bad thing to tackle a person to get skulls back)
We had a odd person taking pictures. He stood in our booth and took photos of behind our counter. Cindy made him stop. he left and then went down a ways, (he was at Astral seas) and started taking pictures again of the booth. He had a telephoto lens so we have no idea who or what he was shooting at. We stopped one of the security but he was not interested in us telling him. Thankfully Kent come by and we told him about the guy. To tell you how creepy he was, i was creeped out by him. And that for those that know me take a lot.
It was good to see people, and i mean alot of people. First it was the week end that the Old Oak Hart craft guild people decided to do a reunion. Yep this is the booth i started working at faire oh so many years ago. Good to see some of them. One In particular. Jessie was the daughter of a friend and I had not seen her for years. She showed up. 10 years ago she left to go to chicago for college and then went to work in Arizona. She has gotten more beautiful, i always new she would be. but also saw Jim and Margene, Roger and Cathy, Kerri, and about 20 other people. Very good to see people... (seeing Susi in mundane clothing was interesting. I think that was my first time seeing her that way)
tails are going to be short this week as nothing happened. (that or i can't actually talk about what happened. I can say tho that i do love this time of year. Ren faire time is always special for me. And when it starts to become fall and the weather turns cool... i just love it.
