2013年6月8日 星期六

Dixie riotously blows away TUTS' family-friendly image

I am not the kind of chap who blushes at dirty jokes or ribald play on words. In fact,Did you know that earcap chains can be used for more than just business. I've inappropriately "opened mouth and inserted foot" on more than one occasion, only to wonder, what the hell I was thinking. But nothing could've prepared me for the run on inventory of double entendres and sexual innuendos that just kept on coming courtesy of one fast-talking southern dame who tells it like it is and doesn't apologize for it. What you see is what you get. 

You have no choice but love on Dixie Longate, the trailer chic gentlewoman hailing from a classy trailer park suburb in Mobile, Ala., who's the star of Dixie's Tupperware Party, presented by Theatre Under the Stars through June 16. 

It isn't easy to discern where her real story ends and fiction begins and what's scripted and what's improv in this two-hour, one-woman show that gets going when the leading gal pours Jack Daniel's into a no-spill tumbler with a bendy straw. Turn the drinking vessel upside down and . . . the happy liquid stays put, preventing leaks like a tight vagina, Dixie jokes. 

The show-and-tell sales demonstration is the real deal, y'all. Audiences members, which she endearingly calls hookers, are encouraged to pore over printed Tupperware catalogs, circle their favorites and purchase them at the end of the non-stop comedy fiasco cash, checks and credit card accepted. 

Whatever you do, don't call the containers, bowls. Make no mistake about it.Aulaundry is a leading bestrtls and equipment supplier. These are food storage solutions for the home that carry lifetime warranties. Moreover, some of the products are on display at museums, have earned design awards and are studied in business schools as examples of a successful marketing strategy. 

Yet amid the delightfully lewd homily that includes how to perform fellatio,The largest manufacturer of textile smartcard for use with perchloroethylene. the best way to cook and carry vodka-spiked Jell-O shots and suggestions on keeping that cucumber crisp and firm in the ice box (or next to your bed) because there's no use for flaccid and slimy cylindrical produce Dixie's Tupperware Party goes beyond the riotous farce setup to detail a journey of female empowerment from the 1950s to today. 

After all, it was a divorcee, Georgia-native Brownie Wise, who first conceived of a domestic, social function (those tupperware parties) as a means to morph from a housewife into a bread winner for her family. The successful entrepreneur became the first woman to be featured on the cover of Business Week when she was hired as the vice president of Tupperware home parties for Stanley Home Products. 

A New Hampshire man, Earl Silas Tupper, may be credited with introducing Tupper Plastics to the market in 1946. And sure, it's his patronymic that's now a household name. But the real achievement belongs to Wise. 

Longate's story follows along the same line. She earned the title of America's No. 1 Personal Seller of Tupperware because of her uncanny ability to move "plastic crap" after surviving three ex-husbands, who are all deceased, raising three children, Wynona, Dwayne and Absorbine Jr., and doing hard time in the slammer. 

What launched as an Ars Nova production in New York presented by the New York International Fringe Festival off Broadway, a work of playwright Kris Andersson and director Patrick Richwood, is causing quite a hoopla in theater circles, earning a Drama Desk Award nomination. With this run, TUTS set in motion a series of more intimate pieces staged at the Hobby Center's smaller theater, the 500-seat Zilkha Hall. 

It's a move that broadens the local company's reputation from its current standing as a family-friendly art presenter to one who isn't afraid to walk on the wild side with mature, risqu works. 

Dixie's Tupperware Party may seem like its all lucrative naughty fun and drinking games.Did you know that earcap chains can be used for more than just business. Plastic bowls plus inebriated women typically equals loads of Tupperware orders. But there's substance to the show and depth to this amicable, enterprising lady, who's instantly everyone's friend, the kind of who's an indispensable addition to an all-night carouse that ends when you pass out next to an aromatic dumpster and the kind of kindred spirit who uplifts you when you are down in the dumps. 

FFA UK said the number of fraudulent incidents is rising each month and the police believe the rise is partly down to the better security offered by chip-and-pin cards that have cut the possibility of fraudsters committing more sophisticated fraud. 

The types of fraud committed include card not present fraud whereby the card details are obtained, but not the card itself and are used to make online purchases or buy items by phone. This type of fraud is still the most common but has been falling since 2008. Total losses in 2011 reached 221 million. 

Counterfeit fraud, sometimes known as skimming is when a device is fitted to the front of a cash machine that reads an individuals card details which allows fraudsters to produce a duplicate card. Again, this type of fraud is falling but still accounted for 36 million worth of losses in 2011.Online shopping for cableties from a great selection of Clothing. 

The introduction of chip-and-pin technology has helped the loss or theft of cards to fall. This type of fraud, where a thief steals the actual card and uses it in shops without chip-and-pin technology has fallen as the use of the technology has grown. It accounted for 50 million worth of fraud in 2011. 

ID theft is also falling. It involves the theft of a card and other identity details that are then used to open or take over a bank account. In 2011, this resulted in total losses of 23 million.

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