OLTL Is Marcie dumb?
Suzanne D.
gift, said, "If you win it'll be forty seven million dollars," and Marcie
gets this incredulous look on her face and goes, "Forty seven million???"
then gives Roxy this big appreciative hug, like Roxy actually got her forty
seven million dollars. I think the line probably was supposed to be
delivered with a laugh and affectionate eye roll and hug, but Kathy Brier
played it like it was a real gift. Is Marcie really so out of it that she
didn't realize that Roxy spent ONE DOLLAR on her wedding gift?
If someone gave me a lottery ticket as a wedding gift, I would think that
was the worst gift ever.
--S.
Calz at the late Dorsai Embassy
gesture of good luck, Roxie style. And heck, everyone who buys a
lottery ticket, or receives one as a gift, feel like they could be a
millionaire.
EnEss
"Suzanne D." wrote:
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> If someone gave me a lottery ticket as a wedding gift, I would think that
> was the worst gift ever.
I'm LMAO over this because of something that I just heard the other day.
When I got married in 1985, an artist friend of my family's told my parents
that she had an original painting she wanted to give me and my husband as a
wedding gift. I was excited because some of her work I'd seen was really
nice. She was living in Texas at the time and she was too cheap to ship the
painting to us. Instead, she sent it back w/ a friend from the Chicago area
who had come out to visit her and I had to go up to this woman's place to
pick up my gift. Some of this lady's stuff was beautiful, but not the canvas
she gave us! The thing was just horrid...it was some weird surreal scape,
which in itself isn't so bad...I think some surreal art is extraordinary.
But this was just weird and nothing we liked. We kept it in its box in a
closet for quite a while. My husband wanted to ditch it, but I didn't feel
right to do it because it was a gift from a dear friend to our family. So we
kept it in a closet, and later in the back of a storage room. We moved a few
times. When we moved in 1995, my husband put his foot down and said it was
absolutely nuts for us to drag the thing to our next residence just to keep
it in storage again and he still didn't want it hanging on any wall in our
residence. The artist would never visit us. My husband said we should give
it to someone who could appreciate it (if there was any such person) or we
should pitch it. In the end, we left in in its box in the basement of our
house when we moved out. We decided to tell the artist, if the question ever
came up, that the painting was an unfortunate casualty of our last move. But
the question never came up.
FF almost 11 years, to a couple of days ago. I talked to my father and he
asked me, "Didn't you have a painting of ________'s as some kind of gift?" I
said yes, I had received a canvas as a gift from this person about 20 years
ago. My dad said, "Well, it might be time to get an appraisal. I just heard
from _______ and she sold a painting for $18K."
LOL! I still don't believe the painting she gave us would fetch a single
cent on the art market. I think the lady gave us the painting because she
knew it was a bomb and she didn't want it and knew she could never get
anything for it. OTOH, it does make me wonder.
I do have something else of hers that's quite nice. It's a collage she made
as a holiday greeting card she sent to us several years ago. She never sent
us one before or since, but for some reason, we made her handmade
card-giving list that year. Anyway, it's very pretty and I saved it. When we
got our present place, I decided to do something special with it and went to
a framing studio and found a terrific frame for it that complimented it
beautifully and got some nice matting to set it off optimally and had it
matted and framed. I spent quite a bit on the framing, but it's worth
it...it's really pretty and it looks gorgeous in the space we chose for it.
I'd be really curious to know if it has any value.
Nat
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