> -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Olson - SunPS [mailto:Chrisf.Olson at Sun.COM] > Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 6:36 PM > To: dragaera at dragaera.info; jhereg69 at earthlink.net > Subject: Re: Dragaera and Shakespeare [Spoiler for POTD] > > > > Chris Olson - SunPS wrote: > > > Chris (Who, as an actor, has NO problem mentioning Macbeth in a > > > theater house, and gets a certain morbid pleasure out of it....:) > > > > Is that some sort of acting faux pas? > > Well, I know I've been threatened with saying it backstage. > > So, yeah. Along with a couple of other theater faux pas like > whistling back stage. (Why would anyone care, unless it's > during a performance, if I whistle back stage?) I remember an episode of _Murder She Wrote_ where that was explained. Whistling was the way they signalled when to raise & lower curtains. Heavy sandbags were involved and accidents could happen if someone carelessly whistled and that was interpreted as a signal. Someone, who remembers the darnedest things but can't always recall her own name, oh yeah it's Rachel