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Posted 12-01-2008 at 02:00 PM by Lisa
This is just total randomness. Totally wired tonight... at 4am!
I was chatting to a friend a couple of months back, and we were drinking -and you know how conversations go weird on alcohol... We started thinking up 'weird jobs' and strange things... like, those people who are paid to be the screaming voice in horror movies (though I hate horrors!). Can you imagine going to your boyfriend's house for a meal or something, and someone asks you what you do for a living, and you say: "I'm a professional screamer." *sweet smile*. Well, that's an ice breaker! :smile:
Now we're just past Christmas, and every year at Christmas someone asks me "What subject is it again you're studying?" and I tell them a psychology degree. And someone, usually a cousin or someone I bump into I used to know, replies "That's such a doss subject!". When it happens now I always think of a professional screamer! Neither careers are great for starting a conversation - you're either asked to scream (I would guess!), or to justify that you're not thick and psychology is not a "doss" subject, dammit. Well, it could be worse I guess. I'd really hate to have to do my 'professional scream' every time I met someone new. :wink:
I was chatting to a friend a couple of months back, and we were drinking -and you know how conversations go weird on alcohol... We started thinking up 'weird jobs' and strange things... like, those people who are paid to be the screaming voice in horror movies (though I hate horrors!). Can you imagine going to your boyfriend's house for a meal or something, and someone asks you what you do for a living, and you say: "I'm a professional screamer." *sweet smile*. Well, that's an ice breaker! :smile:
Now we're just past Christmas, and every year at Christmas someone asks me "What subject is it again you're studying?" and I tell them a psychology degree. And someone, usually a cousin or someone I bump into I used to know, replies "That's such a doss subject!". When it happens now I always think of a professional screamer! Neither careers are great for starting a conversation - you're either asked to scream (I would guess!), or to justify that you're not thick and psychology is not a "doss" subject, dammit. Well, it could be worse I guess. I'd really hate to have to do my 'professional scream' every time I met someone new. :wink:
Total Comments 6
Comments
 |  I think going for a psychology degree is cool. Just, for this U.S. speaker, can you explain what "doss" means? |
Posted 12-01-2008 at 02:15 PM by hodge  |
| |  Whoops, sorreee! "Doss" means lazy or easy in this context. :smile: |
| Posted 12-01-2008 at 02:21 PM by Lisa |
| | Oh, okay - kind of like being an English major? That's what I was, haha. For the record, honestly, a lot of people have trouble with language and literature and couldn't write a decent paper to save their lives, just as many do with psychology, so throw the "doss" right back at 'em! |
| Posted 12-01-2008 at 02:25 PM by hodge |
| |  I sure don't think psychology is easy at all. It's very complex and difficult to work with humans. |
| Posted 06-03-2008 at 02:35 AM by 2quilt |
| |  I am a fellow Psyc student - Lets tell them about stats - a great conspiracy that no-one ever tells you about before you enter the subject. It is not easy at all! :-) |
| Posted 10-03-2008 at 10:08 AM by spiritofnow |
| | Professional screamer dies. LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Hazel Court, an English actress who co-starred with the likes of Boris Karloff and Vincent Price in popular horror movies of the 1950s and '60s, has died. She was 82. Court Hazel Court appeared in films such as "The Raven" and "The Masque of the Red Death." Court died early Tuesday of a heart attack at her home near Lake Tahoe, daughter Sally Walsh said Wednesday. While she had a substantial acting career both in England and on American TV, Court was perhaps best known for her work in such films as 1963's "The Raven." She co-starred with Price, Karloff and Peter Lorre in director Roger Corman's take on the classic Edgar Allan Poe poem. Corman directed her in five movies. Like other "scream queens" of the era, Court often relied on her cleavage and her ability to shriek in fear and die horrible deaths for her roles. "The Premature Burial," "The Masque of the Red Death," "The Curse of Frankenstein" and "Devil Girl from Mars" helped propel her to cult status and brought her fan mail even in her later years. "She'd probably get over 100 pieces of fan mail a month and she would reply to every single one," her daughter said. Court had finished an autobiography, "Hazel Court -- Horror Queen," which will be published in Britain, Walsh said. The daughter of a professional cricket player, Court was born February 10, 1926, in the English town of Sutton Coldfield. As a teenager, she was appearing in stage productions when she was spotted and signed by the J. Arthur Rank Organisation, which owned movie studios and theaters. She got her first movie bit part by the time she was 18 and went on to become a popular actress and pinup girl, her daughter said. |
| Posted 18-04-2008 at 01:10 AM by 2quilt |
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