[Dixielandjazz] How do you respond?

[Craig I. Johnson]

Tom,
Your comment about dated terms, words and names is well taken.
as being useless when communicating with the younger set.

I went fishing with my neighbor who is in his 30's and told him a rather 
shaggy dog
story about Cecil B. Demille and his making of a very costly classic 
"cast of thousands" scene
which could not be taken a second time due to oncoming weather conditions.
Cecil ensured his  success by adding a 3rd camera crew to the 2 he 
normally might use,
just in case the original 2 cameras failed.  -
Short form of the long story  is that after the long scene he polled the 
1st 2 camera men who
declared there cameras didn't work or some such problem he polled the 
3rd who answered
the field phone with the greeting:  "Any time you're ready Cecil"

My neighbor didn't laugh at what I thought was a great story and looked 
concerned through out
the story as if thinking of something. I asked why.  He responded with 
"Who's Cecil B. Demille?

Craig Johnson