The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for July 22, 2023

He’s constantly acting up!!!

Maybe if you’d let him out of that invisible box and stop making him pull the invisible rope, that would help.

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He never told me he was a mime.

He just mimes his own business.

He needs to learn to mime outside the invisible box.

And no sign of improvement?

Check out Mel Brooks’ “Silent Movie”—where Marcel Marceau speaks the only line in the movie: “No!”

He only knows one word.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwea0LZQe9k

I can never get a word out of him….

SCORPION PIT! SCORPION PIT!

He was always rather quiet but now he’s even Marceau.

Marcel is giving the silent treatment.

He needs to be watched.

He still can’t get out of the box.

Marcel Marceau (22 March 1923 – 22 September 2007) was a French mime artist and actor most famous for his stage persona, “Bip the Clown”. He referred to mime as the “art of silence”, performing professionally worldwide for more than 60 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Marceau

I have a 33-1/3 RPM LP album of Marcel Marceau’s greatest hits.

He’s at a loss for words…always.

A mime is a terrible thing to waste…

He believes actions speak louder than words.

Saw him perform once; amazing!

Though he did kind of lose me when he said that he truly believed that he was close to the point where he would able to levitate………..

Not about a mime, but I’m reminded of a true incident.

A Danish friend of mine was working with “retarded” children, one of whom was a little boy who was found abandoned in Greenland. He was classed as “retarded” because they had been completely unable to establish communication with him… in either Danish or Greenlandic. Then something happened in the presence of both the boy and my friend, to which the boy exclaimed, “That’s disgusting!”… in English! Turned out that the kid was normally bright but only spoke English, and he’d been intimidated by all the jabbering he couldn’t understand.

“Well, young man? What do you have to say for yourself?”

And he registered into Speech 101, Why?…

He would do better if they let him out of the invisible box

Good to see a tribute to a great entertainer of yesteryear. Ah, memories… they don’t make ’em like they used to.