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aquaguy91
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posted April 05, 2012 02:20 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for aquaguy91     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
the three stooges is one of my favorite thing to watch,i think it is hilarious, but i have noticed that every woman i know hates the show for some reason, i remember one christmas all the men in my family were sitting watching a three stooges marathon and laughing our arses off and all the women came in and said turn that stupid stuff off, all the girls i have dated have also hated it, and just tonight i was sitting with a friend watching an episode and when his mom saw what we were watching she quicly exited the room and remarked angrily " i hate that show" So ladies why is it that many of you hate this show? and what is it about the show that irritates you? i'm curious

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posted April 05, 2012 02:27 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for T     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
...when I think of the Three Stooges, it reminds me of one of my mother's ex-boyfriends, who was a huge fan. He was a good guy too. I was only maybe ten years old....and I didnt get it, even back then and for the life of me could not figure out why he loved them so much. But he had a Grateful Dead bumper sticker on his refridgerator...i'll never forget that. And that made him cool in my mind...

Women! lol Who knows?

Now I'm curious if we have any female Stooges fans here on the forums....

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posted April 05, 2012 02:34 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for aquaguy91     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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...when I think of the Three Stooges, it reminds me of one of my mother's ex-boyfriends, who was a huge fan. He was a good guy too. I was only maybe ten years old....and I didnt get it, even back then and for the life of me could not figure out why he loved them so much. But he had a Grateful Dead bumper sticker on his refridgerator...i'll never forget that. And that made him cool in my mind...

Women! lol Who knows?

Now I'm curious if we have any female Stooges fans here on the forums....


haha thats what i want to know,i am being dead serious when i say every woman i have known hates it haha,they say it is stupid and im thinking um yeah thats kind of the point! lmao

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posted April 05, 2012 02:36 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for birdy     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I dont find them funny. Thats my main reason.

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posted April 05, 2012 03:01 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for PixieJane     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I just find them boring. That may be because I'm just not into slapstick humor. I also don't like humor that repeats itself (I forget what this is called but one comedic technique is to do something over & over to make it funnier & funnier, but this does not work on me), and that's something else that the 3 Stooges is to me (after a handful of eps I found it just too painfully predictable).

Generally speaking I prefer humor that's clever and surprising and/or ironic. The 3 stooges are none of those things. Plus, I need to care about the characters to care about the story and I don't think I ever saw anything that made me care the slightest about them, so I didn't care about their stories, and I found the humor tired, predictable, and lame. In the end, I'd rather watch paint dry, and I mean that literally because at least watching paint dry wouldn't annoy me.

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posted April 05, 2012 03:20 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Lonake     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Weird. I noticed the same thing. I don't get the humor. Maybe it's an immature thing, like showing a girl you like her by throwing her a snot rocket, that women just can't get into. To me it's that type of humor. If you want a reference point, I liked George Carlin a lot. Watching his shows would have me in tears. Also Sam Kinnison.

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posted April 05, 2012 03:32 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for aquaguy91     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
enjoy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg0u40QX0HE

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posted April 05, 2012 03:39 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Lexxigramer     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Stooges fan here.

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The Three Stooges were an American vaudeville and comedy act of the early to mid–20th century best known for their numerous short subject films. Their hallmark was physical farce and extreme slapstick. In films, the Stooges were commonly known by their first names: "Moe, Larry, and Curly" and "Moe, Larry, and Shemp," among other lineups. They first started as "Ted Healy and his Southern Gentlemen" which contained Moe, Larry and Shemp. "The Three Stooges" film trio was originally composed of Moe Howard, brother Curly Howard and Larry Fine. Shemp Howard replaced brother Curly, when Curly suffered a debilitating stroke in May 1946.

After Shemp's death from a heart attack in November 1955, he was replaced by comedian Joe Besser, after the use of film actor Joe Palma to film four Shemp-era shorts. Ultimately, Joe DeRita (nicknamed "Curly Joe") replaced Joe Besser by 1958. The act regained momentum throughout the 1960s as popular kiddie fare until Larry Fine's paralyzing stroke in January 1970 effectively marked the end of the act proper. Moe tried unsuccessfully one final time to revive the Stooges with longtime supporting actor Emil Sitka filling in for Larry. Larry ultimately succumbed to a series of additional strokes in January 1975, followed by Moe, who died of lung cancer in May 1975.


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Moe Howard
Real Name: Moses Harry Horwitz
Born: June 19, 1897
Died: May 4, 1975 (aged 77)
Stooge years: 1922–1975

Larry Fine
Real Name: Louis Feinberg
Born: October 5, 1902
Died: January 24, 1975 (aged 72)
Stooge years: 1925–1971

Curly Howard
Real Name: Jerome Lester Horwitz
Born: October 22, 1903
Died: January 18, 1952 (aged 48)
Stooge years: 1932–1946

Shemp Howard
Real Name: Samuel Horwitz
Born: March 11, 1895
Died: November 22, 1955 (aged 60)
Stooge years: 1922–1932, 1946–1955

Joe Besser
Born: August 12, 1907
Died: March 1, 1988 (aged 80)
Stooge years: 1956–1958

Joe DeRita ("Curly Joe")
Real Name: Joseph Wardell
Born: July 12, 1909
Died: July 3, 1993 (aged 83)
Stooge years: 1958–1975



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posted April 05, 2012 04:48 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for RegardesPlatero     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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posted April 05, 2012 04:50 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for PixieJane     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Btw, I don't click on youtube links that have no explanation as to what they are or about. I've done it too many times and regretted it, even when whoever posted the link promised that anyone who did would not.

I'm just saying, for the record, because too many here do it. Even if it's just too much trouble to give a brief explanation then copy & paste the YT description (assuming there is one) in quotes. If you can't be bothered to do at least that much then I can't be bothered to click on it.

And just to be clear I'm NOT complaining, I'm simply stating the way it is. After skipping scores of YT links posted here at LL (including in this thread) I thought maybe I should say something since presumably people post the links because they want us to click on them. I'm sure many do click on them, but I'm also sure I'm not the only one who skips them. But if you're ok with that then so am I. I just thought some who share these links might want to know that.

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posted April 05, 2012 09:33 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for juniperb     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
They frightened me as a child.

Now I see the antics , violence and noises clearly that a child couldn`t understand and realize it`s the primal nature of humans.


How we react to the stooges is how we react to the under currents of primal urges.

IMHO only

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posted April 05, 2012 09:55 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Faith     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Yeah, I always hated the Three Stooges growing up, my four older brothers thought it was the best thing since sliced bread, but I thought that was where they were learning to beat me up and laugh about it.

My husband, though, is a big fan, and he can recite the dialogue slowly so that I actually understand it. (They talk so fast, I had difficulty understanding them when I was little.)

"If I gave you a dollar and your father gave you a dollar, how many dollars would you have?"

"One dollar."

"You don't know your arithmetic."

"You don't know my father."

A lot of it IS really funny to me, now that I'm older.


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posted April 05, 2012 11:34 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Sashar     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I don't care for the stooges.

Marx Brothers is more my type of humor. Higher brow, I guess, but subtly (and sometimes not so subtly) raunchy.

I prefer humor that I can relate to with in some way. None of the stooges are anything like me in anyway, therefore I don't really find them funny.

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posted April 05, 2012 11:40 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for RegardesPlatero     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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posted April 05, 2012 11:47 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for aquaguy91     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by PixieJane:
Btw, I don't click on youtube links that have no explanation as to what they are or about. I've done it too many times and regretted it, even when whoever posted the link promised that anyone who did would not.

I'm just saying, for the record, because too many here do it. Even if it's just too much trouble to give a brief explanation then copy & paste the YT description (assuming there is one) in quotes. If you can't be bothered to do at least that much then I can't be bothered to click on it.

And just to be clear I'm NOT complaining, I'm simply stating the way it is. After skipping scores of YT links posted here at LL (including in this thread) I thought maybe I should say something since presumably people post the links because they want us to click on them. I'm sure many do click on them, but I'm also sure I'm not the only one who skips them. But if you're ok with that then so am I. I just thought some who share these links might want to know that.


its a three stooges clip

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posted April 05, 2012 12:07 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Love them and can't wait to see the new movie version.

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posted April 05, 2012 12:09 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Angelsea     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I'll have to admit that I am quite fond of The Stooges, most likely because I grew up with them. The show "Adventure Time" with Paul Shannon, airing throughout the 1960's in Pittsburgh http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_Time_%28WTAE-TV_series%29
showed a steady rotation of all of their short films and they credited Paul Shannon with enhancing their career (careers? )

Granted, it's not at all subtle humor (or subtler ala Marx Brothers) but it was always great for some really good belly laughs for me, and you know how therapeutic those can be! My husband, who is five years older than I am, also watched a lot of Three Stooges growing up, so we sometimes lapse into repeating some of their lines ("Niagara Falls... Slowly I turn, step by step, inch by inch.....", "I am now in Sing Sing......." - my apologies if not exact, I didn't research to get the exact lines... ).

Two of my favorites are the one where they dress in Santa Claus suits in order to break into somewhere undercover (have probably only seen it once or twice and the title escapes me) and the "dancing" part of "Ants in the Pantry." My husband and I tried a few years back to get our son (who just turned 15 on 4/3) into the Stooges when I found that Spike TV (? - I think) was showing them daily and I recorded them for us to watch together. He just didn't seem to be all that interested at the time, maybe because he tends to resist anything that Dad likes, including the Beatles! (He also has Asperger's Syndrome, though I don't think that is much of a factor here.)

Now I wanna go watch some!

- Edited to add - I am a Girl (slightly older than some, but still Female, lol!)

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posted April 05, 2012 12:44 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Lexxigramer     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by RegardesPlatero:
So far, I'm the only girl who likes the Stooges here (always have, too!): any others?
Well even though I am androgyne;
I have given birth and my son is 30 years old now.
So I am mostly female;
and as I posted above,
loved/love the Stooges.
Maybe it is my age, 57,
and grew up exposed to the Stooges and other
old time slapstick like Harold Lloyd, Charlie Chapman, Marx Brothers, and Ma and Pa Kettle and such from the 1940s back to the silent film era because of grandparents who exposed me to such.

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posted April 05, 2012 04:35 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for aquaguy91     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Love them and can't wait to see the new movie version.

haha same here,i actually just saw the preview for the first time last night,i will definitely be going to see it next week.


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posted April 05, 2012 05:15 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for juniperb     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Slapstick comedy:

Slapstick is a type of comedy involving exaggerated violence and activities which exceed the boundaries of common sense.

dictionary30.com

I do enjoy comedy of that variety like Lucy Ball, Dick Van Dyke and their ilk. I think you will find many abused children grow up to have a distaste for the Stooges and their type of bumbling yet violent slapstick.

IMHO

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posted April 05, 2012 05:31 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Lonake     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by PixieJane:
Btw, I don't click on youtube links that have no explanation as to what they are or about. I've done it too many times and regretted it, even when whoever posted the link promised that anyone who did would not.

I'm just saying, for the record, because too many here do it. Even if it's just too much trouble to give a brief explanation then copy & paste the YT description (assuming there is one) in quotes. If you can't be bothered to do at least that much then I can't be bothered to click on it.



I skipped it too due to the lack of explanation.

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posted April 05, 2012 05:32 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for RegardesPlatero     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by Lexxigramer:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by RegardesPlatero:
[b]So far, I'm the only girl who likes the Stooges here (always have, too!): any others?

Well even though I am androgyne;
I have given birth and my son is 30 years old now.
So I am mostly female;
and as I posted above,
loved/love the Stooges.
Maybe it is my age, 57,
and grew up exposed to the Stooges and other
old time slapstick like Harold Lloyd, Charlie Chapman, Marx Brothers, and Ma and Pa Kettle and such from the 1940s back to the silent film era because of grandparents who exposed me to such.

[/B][/QUOTE]


*oops, I missed that you liked them for some reason! my mistake! didn't see that, though I did see the posting of their birthdays (I feel proud to share a sign with Larry and Curly!). Sorry!

but YAY! :-)

also, I hope that you're doing well!

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posted April 05, 2012 09:26 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for mockingbird     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
My Mom loves 'em...but, then, she has a Saggi Moon.
Oddly enough, my husband (also a Saggi Moon) loves them, too.

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posted April 05, 2012 09:56 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Delilah     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I grew up watching it and loved it. Can't wait to see the film.

Then again, I have three older brothers, so I didn't have a chance in liking more girly things back then.

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posted April 05, 2012 11:24 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for aquaguy91     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by RegardesPlatero:

*oops, I missed that you liked them for some reason! my mistake! didn't see that, though I did see the posting of their birthdays (I feel proud to share a sign with Larry and Curly!). Sorry!

but YAY! :-)

also, I hope that you're doing well!


Isnt curly on the cusp? Is he for sure a Libra, because I think he kinda looks like a scorpio , although Libra matches him too because I think he got married and divorced a lot, either way he probably has planets in both, but Moe is my favorite, he is a Gemini.

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