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Re: MIRABILE DICTU!
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Posted by Catherine Cartwright Jones on November 16, 1999 at 20:27:46:
In Reply to: Re: MIRABILE DICTU! posted by Natasha Papousek on November 16, 1999 at 19:56:34:
Yeh, just a local station doing the weather, local news and morning soft stuff in the affiliate breaks in the CBS (I think) morning show. The fellow, a Regis Filbin clone, and bless his heart for going to my website and being properly prepared for the interview, did a nice job! But, he thought he'd try to get clever. I hennaed 3 women live on camera (at 5:45 am this is #$%^& miraculous) and he decided to hold up his little finger and tell the camera, joking about how he might indulge this "way-out women's thing", that he would have his little finger hennaed. In my best erudite manner, and NPR voice, I complimented him on his choice, and said "It was traditional in many countries for the groom to henna his little finger on his night of the henna, as the bride was hennaed, for luck, for blessing, and to show a sort of bond with his hennaed bride,..." as I put my arm over his shoulder, and locked eye contact on as he looked proudly at his extended finger, and felt extremely clever ...and I continued "and thus the groom had his bright red hennaed lucky little finger ... looking distinctly Freudian!" He started to smile, but then froze. And blushed. I think his finger wilted. The camera cut back to the morning news.
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