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bradzilla posted:I'm pretty sure this is what's known as a metaphor and people never actually did this. Hth op I've read a vaudeville history that reported some audience members did do this, in vaudevlle days. At least one performer was hired and paid handsomely to perform on a major American theatre circuit because her act was was "so bad it's good". She was absolutely pelted with rotten fruit, veg and more every performance. And I somehow doubt audiences in the 1800s and before were better behaved.
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Big Beef City posted:They should bring those back to garden catalogs. Get on that, horticulturists
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BigBadSteve posted:I've read a vaudeville history that reported some audience members did do this, in vaudevlle days. At least one performer was hired and paid handsomely to perform on a major American theatre circuit because her act was was "so bad it's good". She was absolutely pelted with rotten fruit, veg and more every performance. ...what was the act
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Feb 21, 2020 20:30
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maybe some dude started by spitting his cherry or peach pits at the actors and it just escalated from there
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Feb 21, 2020 20:31
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plays are just movies with lovely special effects and you can give real time performance reviews to the actors
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Feb 21, 2020 20:32
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sudonim posted:The ideal hucking tomato would be between a baseball and softball in size, have a thin skin for easy breaking, and be heavy with pulp for maximum impact and splatter. Skin / internally has to be strong enough to withstand the g's you give it while throwing, but weak enough to make the impact hilarious. A delicate balance.
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Big Beef City posted:...what was the act The Aristocrats!
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Nastyman posted:The Aristocrats! I'll admit, a one woman production of that that made it around to multiple cities and performances WOULD be a pretty impressively bad rendition of that.
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Feb 21, 2020 20:39
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Grape tomato buckshot 
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Feb 21, 2020 20:54
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roarpower posted:yes. in olden times, people would bring rotten fruit to throw at the stocks Grab your old food, and head on over to pelt a captive target. Fun for the whole family.
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Feb 21, 2020 23:45
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Big Beef City posted:...what was the act https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRgNbis14pE&t=6s
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Feb 21, 2020 23:56
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there's a reason it's called a purse op, its short for persimmon. old timers would carry a hollowed out persimmon to stash coin and such, The rigid dried husk of the fruit could be looped onto a belt, and other fruits could be stored inside to throw ad lovely idiot entertainers.
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OP: The fruit is rotten because it was old. Old timely things are old... thought this was clear.
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Feb 22, 2020 01:46
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watch this, i'm gonna hit Tybalt right in the cock with this potato
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Caesar Saladin posted:watch this, i'm gonna hit Tybalt right in the cock with this potato Prince of Cat[ch thi]s!
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Feb 22, 2020 02:11
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rotten vegetable and guy hiding behidn the curtain with a giant shepherds crook were the "siskel and ebert" of their day
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Big Beef City posted:...what was the act From the book Vaudeville From The Honky Tonks To The Palace (1953), available (in a badly OCR'd version with lots of typos) here: https://archive.org/details/vaudevillefromth013372mbp Known as the "vegetable twins", the Cherry Sisters Effie and Addie played Hammerstein's Olympia on Broadway in 1896. They played behind a net for eight weeks at $500 per and that "direct from Broadway" billing kept them going for years in smaller towns. The idea of playing behind a net to encourage the audience to throw vegetables at the actors wasn't new. In the 1800s Shakespearian actors (?) ... hammed it with Hamlet (all worked behind a screen) and got rich from the box office. Many came just to try out their pitching arms with eggs and vegetables. It was Oscar Hammerstein, who got the idea of using a screen in front of these gals. The papers said they were "so bad they were good." [The Cherry Sisters sang, in character costumes. It was said they "had voices like the rattle of an empty coal scuttle."] Years later Billy Rose tried to bring back the idea at the Casino de Paree during Prohibition, and it died. His ads read, "Sunday Nite - Amateur Nite. Come and throw vegetables at actors!" A few drunks threw ice cubes and almost blinded the performers. (They were not amateurs but hired for the occasion and didn't know about the ads inviting the audience to throw things.) It was a terrific flop, not funny, but very sad! And in the book The Comedians by Kliph Nesteroff (2015), Harpo Marx said of the Marx Brothers' pre-movie making days Vaudeville performences, “If an audience didn’t like us we had no trouble finding out. We were pelted with sticks, bricks, spitballs, cigar butts, peach pits and chewed-out stalks of sugar cane.” BigBadSteve fucked around with this message at 01:40 on Feb 23, 2020 |
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Feb 23, 2020 01:36
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The wow react of olden times
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Feb 23, 2020 02:09
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If you think that's bad, you wouldn't believe what they throw in India!
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Feb 23, 2020 07:20
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The forum's the stage, all posters are actors, and my shitposts are flung rotten tomatoes.
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TODD BONZALEZ posted:there's a reason it's called a purse op, its short for persimmon. old timers would carry a hollowed out persimmon to stash coin and such, The rigid dried husk of the fruit could be looped onto a belt, and other fruits could be stored inside to throw ad lovely idiot entertainers. And then it was the style at the time to tie an onion to your belt. dracky posted:rotten vegetable and guy hiding behidn the curtain with a giant shepherds crook were the "siskel and ebert" of their day That's basically Statler and Waldorf, the old rich fucks with a box seat. And when you think about it, used batteries are the rotten produce of the modern day.
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