Stop!

"I can do 40 leg lifts without stopping!"

-- Kitty Carlisle (1910-2007)

DISCUSS.

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[Flannista]

I can drive 40 miles in my car without stopping.

[half-a-sista]

I can sleep 40 hours without stopping.

[half-a-sista]

Kitty Carlisle opened herself up to some dreadful comments by allowing that photograph to be taken. Please tell me that she did not then follow that up with the statement, "I can do 40 leg lifts without stopping." Please tell me the two events happened at different times in her life.

[Carolyn]

Ya'll don't be dissin' on my little Kit-Kat.

[Flannista]

I can eat 40 Hot & Spicy Cheez-its without stopping.

[Flannista]

half-a: I LOVE this photo of Kit-Kat.

Ever since Carolyn dreamt about her, I've been thinking a lot about her, so did some research. Remembered this photo. Found the quote to go with it, though I don't know if she said it at the time this photo was taken.

But so what if she had said it then? Check out those legs! You go, girl!

[Flannista]

In the days of Noah, it rained 40 days and 40 nights without stopping.

[PEACEsista]

I can shovel snow for 40 minutes without stopping in 20 degree weather ... and will need to soon, because we have at least 8" of it on the ground ... and it's still coming down! Isn't it still autumn?

[Flannista]

WHAT??!! PEACEsista!!

Guess this means that it's been snowing for at least -- AT LEAST -- 40 minutes without stopping. Let's hope it doesn't continue for another 40 hours . . . or days.

You have enough supplies? Tequila, single-malt scotch, potato chips?

[Carolyn]

Right now, I'm envying PEACE. You could fry a egg outside on the walk this a.m.

40 eggs.

Viva la Kitty. And her 40 leg-lifts. That gal had good genes.

[PEACEsista]

It's been snowing closer to 40 hours ... still coming. We've lived in Wyoming for a long time. We always lay in supplies, prepared for weather.

[half-a-sista]

SNOW!!!! ARGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!! Not yet. Please not yet.

I'd take frying 40 eggs on a sidewalk any day over 40 hours of non-stop snow.

Kitty had good genes, a great hair stylist who kept the hair black way into Kitty's 80's, and a great sense of humor about life. Read several things about her on the web and watched some interviews and her last appearance as a guest on What's My Line?.

Still...40 leg lifts at her age?

[Chrysosistah]

Without stopping what, may I ask?? Or do I *really* want to know....

[Chrysosistah]

Geez, I'd take the snow - so completely OVER the heat down here! Bleah! We're breaking 100*F with the humidity factored in, will it never end???? Stop, please!!!

[frida]

Oh snow! How wonderful!

Wasn't Carlisle married to Moss Hart? That must have been interesting...

I can do forty push-ups over a three-month period.

[half-a-sista]

frida, Carlisle was married to Hart. I didn't know that she was a singer until I watched a clip from an old Marx Brothers movie where she sang "Alone" with some guy whose name I can't remember...Allan Jones, Allan Johnson...something like that. She had a great voice.

[Flannista]

Went to the fish market with Jersey this morning. As you all might know by now, Jersey is quite scientific in her approach to most things, including buying sea bass. She had 40 questions for the vendor, including, "What percentage of the weight of a whole black sea bass do I lose once you filet and debone it?"

Yep, you got it: 40%.

I won't entice you with the details of what she needed at Target to prepare this evening's dinner for four. I overhead her say to someone on the phone, "so I scrub the orange?" As opposed to what? Whipping it? Lord knows, she has the whisks, though she broke one last evening. The flags are half-staff here as a result.

[Flannista]

I can write 40 Sassistas! comments without stopping, though you all will stop reading them.

[Chrysosistah]

Broke a whisk? Horrors! Pampered Chef time! ;-)

[Chrysosistah]

In this house, we can make 40 derogatory comments about the heat & weather before noon, easy...

[Flannista]

Chryso -- not to worry, Jersey has 39 more whisks.

[Jerseysista]

I can catch 40 winks without stopping.

[Jerseysista]

I can do 40 chops of cilantro without stopping.

[Matissta]

I can eat 40 Kit Kats without stopping.

[Chrysosistah]

I can wish it was 40 degrees cooler here. . .

And can eat 40 M&M's without stopping. . .