Has anyone here ever tried one of Lucy's solutions?
I can attest to one of them. Whenever I felt a sneeze coming on in public (before COVID), I'd put my index finger under my nose, and it WORKED! The urge to sneeze went away!
I know this method predates ILL, but I learned it from Lucy Ricardo nonetheless.
Any others?
The sneeze thing never worked for me! If I feel a sneeze coming on, it's coming OUT! lol
But I have imitated some of Lucy's behaviors. Many years ago I visited L.A. and did all the "tourist things". I just had to pay a visit to Grauman's Theater (though it was renamed by then) and step into John Wayne's block! It wasn't loose, but even if it had been, I wouldn't have tried to steal it. I knew the trouble Lucy got in for that stunt.
My mom did some Lucy inspired stunts though. For instance, Lucy tried to conceal Little Ricky's puppy from that grumpy new tenant. She put it under Ricky's big sombrero.
When I was twelve my cat had kittens in the garage. She decided to bring them in the house the next day. It was a Saturday and my dad (NOT a big animal lover) fell asleep in the living room while watching a football game. Momma cat sneaked all her kittens past him and put them in a closet upstairs.
My mom knew that dad would hear them and wanted to find a safer place, like in the basement by the washing machine. But dad woke up! My mom smuggled all the kittens in the laundry hamper right past him and took them to the back of the basement where he rarely went.
Funny thing, mom NEVER took the hamper downstairs. She just carried armloads of laundry down to the basement. But dad never asked WHY she was taking the hamper this time. Sometimes these things work out.
In "The Freezer", Lucy and Ethel had the gall to sell some of the frozen meat INSIDE a butcher's shop!
While I've never done that, I've witnessed many people selling masks and latex gloves right outside of stores for much HIGHER prices. Two I saw doing this were told to leave.
When you first visited Mann's Chinese Theater, i'm sure you recognized that it's ALWAYS way too crowded to steal anything, especially a block of footprints. Probably the single most farfetched plot ever devised for ILL.
Oh yeah! I remember the crowd. I wondered how Lucy would have ever gotten away with stealing a block of cement. There were a LOT of tourists there.
Also, in London when I visited Buckingham Palace, the Palace Guards are nowhere NEAR the tourists. I wondered what it would be like to walk up to one and try to make him smile by cracking a joke the way Lucy tried.
The guards are way inside the gate.
In "Lucy Tells the Truth", Lucy owns up to some big white lies.
Hate to admit it, but l have pulled the old " I'm not feeling so great, so I'll have to bow out of tonight's dinner party", if I didn't want to attend at the last minute.
Fortunately, I have matured and don't do this anymore. Anyway, I was going to post another of Lucy's solutions I've used, but at the moment, I'm not feeling so great, so I'll have to bow out.
I may have used a Lucy type lie that she used on Marion Strong in "Lucy Tells the Truth".
Marion asks what Lucy thinks of her hideous new hat and Lucy replies, "If that's the kind of hat you wanted, you sure got a good one!"
I hate to be put on the spot by someone who SAYS that she wants an honest opinion, but really does not! lol I usually try to fudge my reply with something like, "Well that's nice, interesting, whatever..."
My mom was also good at giving noncommittal responses. She rarely thought that other people's babies were beautiful or even cute (apparently SHE had the most beautiful babies in the world, LOL).
If she encountered someone with a new baby, she'd always say something like, "Isn't he nice?" or "She seems like a good baby."
She could never bring herself to say something like, "What a cute baby."
So...not feeling well? Is it a sprained ankle or just an excuse because you have a dinner date? lol I'd send flowers like that couple did in "Lucy Tells the Truth", but I don't have your address. haha
Hope you are feeling better soon.
Well, then, I'd bet your mom would agree that little Stevie Appleby was one homely little dude!
Surely, you saw that one coming.
As for me, I don't give compliments unless I really mean them. And if I mean it and say it, it usually makes people's day.
Uh...yeah - that's it! I sprained my ankle, so Jim and Dorothy Wynn sent me flowers. (I thanked them and told them I'd prefer any future flowers be sent by Jim ONLY. For some reason, Dorothy wasn't pleased).
I saw it coming and I ducked ahead of time! LOL
During my entire childhood and teen-age years, i only heard my mom call ONE baby (other than hers) cute!
Some people do fish for compliments and it makes it uncomfortable for those who don't want to give them!
Again, my mom employed some sneaky solutions reminiscent of Lucy's stunts.
There were times she'd say, "Don't tell your father! He'll yell."
Dad was just a yeller in the same vein as Ricky.
Sometimes I got roped into my mom's 'fix it" stunts. As I said before, dad was not an animal lover. One time we had a puppy who chewed the laces on his work boots.
Mom panicked. We drove to the hardware store and she sent me in to buy new laces. Problem was, I was a kid and I didn't realize how MANY lengths of laces there were. I got the longest ones.
We went home and I laced up his boots with the new laces.
The next day when dad got home, he said to my mom, "It's the strangest thing, Jan. I've been tripping over my shoelaces all day."
That was probably because they were a foot too long. LOL We had to come clean and confess.
Just like Lucy hiding furniture in the kitchen, we never got away with out stunts for long.
Sprained ankle, flowers from Jim and Dorothy? I guess Jim will be sending you bachelor buttons or forget-me-nots!