Yup, off to Sweden, and then we come back and then we're off to Salt Lake City for a sendoff game and then we head to Scotland for pre-Olympic preparations.
The day also, unfortunately, has taken them from a refreshing bite of rattlesnake cake in Torrey right out of wireless range, so we're forced to say goodnight without a sendoff from Marcel in Hanksville.
Earlier scripts had the character insistent on keeping hold of the babies, with the writers later deciding it would better off having a sendoff, to keep it dramatic.
"And where will they send you?" "They've not said," he says, but talks of where he'd like to go, she - in a teasing send-up of a sendoff - polishing his brass buttons for him while he speaks.
And a procession planned with great fanfare, involving a sendoff in Bozeman, Mont., next Friday — meant to coincide with National Fossil Day Celebration — has been canceled, along with a Smithsonian program for hundreds of school children who were going to be deputized as "junior paleontologists" to welcome the dinosaur to the nation's capital.
The undertaker even hopes to purchase dirt from the defunct stadiums of the Mets and Yankees to burnish the occasion: "You know, toss infield dirt on the casket as a sendoff".
On January 27 , 2009 at a public sendoff in Phoenix for the Arizona Cardinals before they faced the Steelers in Super Bowl XLIII, Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon produced a towel and called the Cardinals mascot, Big Red to the stage, where he used the towel to wipe his armpits.
John mostly yields the stage to Turner ― he wasn't a headliner, after all ― and kisses her hand at the end, a sendoff for the ages. .
But then few of them have had such a sendoff.
Probably these days he would have been given a sendoff.
