> I just heard on the news that Victor Borge died in his sleep last night. He was past 90. I usually don't get upset when someone of that vintage dies, but Borge was one-of-a-kind. I mean literally that there was nobody like him. He was an outstanding musician, but he always played it for laughs. (Pun intended.) ABC News ran that famous clip of him playing his music upside down. His humor never wore thin. If you see it a thousand times, you get a thousand laughs. He was known as the "Great Dane." Yes, he was from Denmark. Yes, he was Great.
> Howard

Our elementary school had a talent show every year. The year I was in first grade, my brother was in fifth (the only time we were ever in the same school at the same time), and he was the M.C. He got to introduce his little sister, whereupon I, at all of seven years old or so, got up in front of the whole school and read one of my favorite stories (one of a series about a boy named Pierre, this one having to do with chicken soup with rice, I think) in the style of Victor Borge, i.e., pronouncing all of the punctuation. "(kichkich)I do not want chicken soup with rice!(fisssssPTHUT!)(kichkich)" I still remember how to do most punctuation marks vocally. I tried to do an eighth grade term paper on him, but couldn't find enough resources. Joan Crawford wasn't nearly as interesting.