I don’t think I have swine flu
As
I haven’t been to Mexico
But
I don’t feel well at all
I
feel like crap if you must know
I
thought of the NHS for advice
On
the flu and perhaps its tackling
So
I phoned the swine flu hotline
But
all I got was crackling
One, two, three, four, five.
Once I caught a fish alive,
But
what we couldn’t see
The
fish was full of Mercury
“The
Shop Around the Corner” is a romantic comedy, based on a play by Nikolaus
Laszlo and Directed by Ernst Lubitsch.
In
Budapest, Hungary, Matuschek and Company’s gift store is owned by Mr. Hugo
Matuschek (Frank Morgan) and bachelor Alfred Kralik (James Stewart) is his best
and most experienced salesman.
But
everything seems to go awry when Klara Novak (Margaret Sullavan) is hired by Mr
Matuschek, but from the first moment Kralik and she meet they do not get along.
Over
the weeks that follows the lonely and dedicated Kralik has an anonymous pen pal
and through their correspondence he falls in love with her and intends to
propose to her.
Simultaneously
however his relationship with his employer deteriorates and he is fired without
explanation by Mr Matuschek on the very same night that he is going to meet his
secret love and propose.
He
goes to the bar that night regardless where they have scheduled their meeting
with his colleague Pirovitch (Felix Bressart) and he surprisingly finds that
Klara is his correspondent, however he chooses not disclose his identity to her
because he feels ashamed after being sacked.
But
following a shocking incident, involving salesman Ferencz Vadas (Joseph
Schildkraut), shop boy Pepi Katona (William Tracy) and Matuschek himself, he
has a change of heart and hires Kralik back again but this time to manage the
shop.
However
as Klara is still fascinated with her correspondent she pays little or no
attention to Alfred so it would take all his guile and cunning to work out a
plan to reveal himself to Klara who exactly he is.
But
anything is possible, it is Christmas after all and everyone loves a happy
ending.
When you’re on the pull
If
you want to break the ice
Say
something funny
Or
say something nice
Be
devastatingly witty
Or
say something clever
Be
complimentary
Or
just lie in your endeavour
“If
I had a star for every time
You
brightened my day”
You
can say to her
“I'd
have a galaxy to display”
There is definitely a difference,
So
please make no mistake,
Between
crisps and a condom
One
of them you salt and shake
I got an elephant, for my sons’ room
Though
it’s really more like a bedsit
And
he was incredibly grateful to me
But
I said in response “Don't mention it”
“Break a leg?” is an actors saying
Which
is from the distant past
And
has become a tradition
Because
every play has a cast
