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Monty Python's Terry Jones Is Dead
He'd had dementia for a while.
The Pythons filmed their shows at the O2 theater in London, and you could see that Terry Jones wasn't fully "present" behind the scenes or on stage. I'm pretty sure that I heard other Pythons saying it took a lot of time and a lot of prompting to get him to say his lines. These guys who were big performers in the late sixties and the seventies are going to be dying at a fast clip now, unfortunately.Terry Jooooones. It's got rather a good woody kind of sound to it, doesn't it? Jooooones. Good woody word. Not like "Cleese." Frightfully tinny.
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Do you own a ferret?
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 22, 2020 02:14 PM (1ISKN)
Posted by: pep at January 22, 2020 02:14 PM (T6t7i)
Terry brought so much joy into my life, and he will continue to for a long time.
I've gotten through more tough spots than I can remember by watching his comedy.
Can we trade him back for RBG?
Posted by: Hesco Gypsy at January 22, 2020 02:14 PM (xx41w)
Posted by: Caliban at January 22, 2020 02:15 PM (qEujL)
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 22, 2020 02:15 PM (iBBEC)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 22, 2020 02:15 PM (KP5rU)
Much as I enjoyed Python back in the day, I have gone so fully "Who - Whom" here in the 21st century that my only reaction is "commie s**tbird, fuggim".
SAD !
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at January 22, 2020 02:15 PM (zlgJP)
Posted by: DaveA at January 22, 2020 02:15 PM (FhXTo)
are going to be dying at a fast clip now, unfortunately.
Yep. Had a conversation with a very good guitar-playing friend about this just last Sunday. Later on, I started thinking about all the friends I've already outlived. Even if I just counted the musician friends, that's a whole bunch.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy. #DemocratsSuck at January 22, 2020 02:16 PM (HaL55)
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I guess this isn't a good time to point out that Monty Python isn't very
funny. Although we laughed hysterically back in the 70s.
Posted by: Caliban at January 22, 2020 02:15 PM
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Disagree. Love their stuff.
Posted by: Buster Douglas at January 22, 2020 02:16 PM (pMGkg)
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Posted by: Mr. Peanut at January 22, 2020 02:17 PM (lHr8/)
Clintons ... this is the source ... says 'indictment'
https://tinyurl.com/usmycgy
Have not read yet but probably not a Clinton indictment.
Posted by: Enquiring Minds Want to Know at January 22, 2020 02:17 PM (XzVUd)
ace, I'm pretty sure you've linked before the discussions about how over the next decade or so, the greats of rock music are going to start dying off. So will movie stars, and tv stars, and writers, etc. because time, it marches on.
Upper end Boomers are now pushing mid 70's. A whoooole lot of cultural icons are going to be heading off to the great commune in the sky soon.
Life, it just keeps chugging along.
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at January 22, 2020 02:17 PM (mf5HN)
I guess this isn't a good time to point out that Monty Python isn't very
funny. Although we laughed hysterically back in the 70s.
Posted by: Caliban
They certainly had their share of dreck, and even the stuff we can all quote at length from memory wasn't necessarily so good on first hearing. It stuck with you, though, and that's why we all remember it now.
Posted by: pep at January 22, 2020 02:17 PM (T6t7i)
Posted by: Caliban at January 22, 2020 02:15 PM
They had some hit and misses but I always thought they were hilarious. It was like the early 70's and 80's SNL. Yea, you had to sit through some shit skits. But when they were on, they were hilarious. (now of course it's all unfunny sjw bullshit)
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 22, 2020 02:17 PM (iBBEC)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 22, 2020 02:13 PM (a4EWo)
They're going to wear us down until we cry "Uncle." It's their only hope.
Posted by: m at January 22, 2020 02:17 PM (M5wRT)
Posted by: DaveA at January 22, 2020 02:17 PM (FhXTo)
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Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 22, 2020 02:18 PM (so+oy)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 22, 2020 02:18 PM (VzbI8)
What I always found most amusing about Terry Jones was, in the Python sketches, when his character gets agitated, his voice goes up like two octaves. So you get this squeaky Welsh accent along with his dialog. It was almost like a live action cartoon at times.
Loved it. He may have been a clueless lefty, like most Brits, but he was mostly harmless.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at January 22, 2020 02:18 PM (l4C/z)
Posted by: Caliban at January 22, 2020 02:15 PM"
It's OK. When you die we will note you were "dickish".
Posted by: Marcus T at January 22, 2020 02:18 PM (VpIIl)
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Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at January 22, 2020 02:19 PM (l4C/z)
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 22, 2020 02:19 PM (1CjJc)
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Posted by: Pete in Texas at January 22, 2020 02:20 PM (MZ4uV)
Posted by: m at January 22, 2020 02:17 PM (M5wRT) "
It's about all they've got left anymore.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at January 22, 2020 02:20 PM (zlgJP)
Life, it just keeps chugging along.
Posted by: alexthechick
You are correct, Empress. First boomers, 1946, are 74.
And that group, wasn't known for clean living in the late 60's/early 70's.
Dropping brown acid will catch up to you.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 22, 2020 02:20 PM (Jk+3L)
Posted by: Burnt Toast at January 22, 2020 02:18 PM (1g7ch)
Late stage dementia. Not a fun way to go.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at January 22, 2020 02:20 PM (l4C/z)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Purveyor of Locally Sourced artisinal Hogwash at January 22, 2020 02:20 PM (xPJvm)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 22, 2020 02:20 PM (q80AH)
Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at January 22, 2020 02:20 PM (COzlW)
Posted by: Caliban
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Fish slapping isn't funny?
The Philosopher's Football Match isn't side busting hilarious?
Good Day to you Sir!!
Posted by: Tonypete at January 22, 2020 02:20 PM (Y4EXg)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 22, 2020 02:20 PM (KZzsI)
"Summer's going fast
Nights growing colder
Children growing up
Old friends growing older"
-Neil Peart (Time Stand Still-Rush)
Posted by: Puddleglum at January 22, 2020 02:20 PM (vN4+Q)
Posted by: Surprise Remote Control Wombat at January 22, 2020 02:20 PM (lHr8/)
Posted by: Pete in Texas at January 22, 2020 02:20 PM (MZ4uV)
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Pretty sure he had AIDS.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 22, 2020 02:20 PM (q80AH)
ace, I'm pretty sure you've linked before the discussions about how over the next decade or so, the greats of rock music are going to start dying off. So will movie stars, and tv stars, and writers, etc. because time, it marches on.
Upper end Boomers are now pushing mid 70's. A whoooole lot of cultural icons are going to be heading off to the great commune in the sky soon.
Life, it just keeps chugging along.
Posted by: alexthechick
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Thanks for your uplifting post!
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 22, 2020 02:21 PM (so+oy)
Life, it just keeps chugging along.
Posted by: alexthechick
Just mentioned other day that Tommy Chong is 83 years old.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 22, 2020 02:21 PM (VzbI8)
Every time I see their skits they make me laugh just as hard. I don't think Holy Grail was ever as funny as people made it out to be, but it does have a lot of great repeatable lines.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 22, 2020 02:21 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Marcus T at January 22, 2020 02:22 PM (VpIIl)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 22, 2020 02:19 PM (KP5rU)
Fair point.
I shall now tell a Bander story since I think he is trying to shove knowledge into mush filled brains.
Last year he was teaching German at a college and he made a passing reference to Like A Virgin. You know, the song. The students were staring at him blankly and he had to explain the reference.
And then the students got into a vigorous discussion as to whether or not Madonna was still alive.
So, you know, we're all 29 here.
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at January 22, 2020 02:22 PM (mf5HN)
I was shocked to see a billboard advertising the Beach Boys appearing at a local casino. My wife said she saw one for Tony Bennett the other day.
Goggled his age - 95.
Posted by: jwest at January 22, 2020 02:22 PM (U6f/q)
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 22, 2020 02:22 PM (iBBEC)
He got throat cancer from eating to much snatch.
Which is odd given he preferred snails.
Posted by: Kirk D at January 22, 2020 02:22 PM (lHr8/)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 22, 2020 02:21 PM (VzbI
Grim Reaper: "I'm looking for Dave."
"Dave's not here, man!"
Posted by: Roy at January 22, 2020 02:22 PM (DDeWs)
Posted by: Pete in Texas at January 22, 2020 02:20 PM (MZ4uV)
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Pretty sure he had AIDS.
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i thought we knew it was AIDS.
Posted by: ace at January 22, 2020 02:22 PM (PbpT7)
Posted by: Benji Carver at January 22, 2020 02:23 PM (OD2ni)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 22, 2020 02:23 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Marcus T at January 22, 2020 02:23 PM (VpIIl)
Posted by: Caliban
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yeah.. except for The Spanish Inquisition sketch..
oh.. and the dead bird sketch..
oh yeah.. and the Lumberjack song..
and Nudge Nudge?
Are you fookin' nuts?
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 22, 2020 02:23 PM (so+oy)
Posted by: James Comey at January 22, 2020 02:23 PM (9qOCq)
Personally, I found the first three seasons hilarious*. The random and surreal aspects of it really tickled me. I didn't get most. of the cultural references, but it made me go read and study history.
This came in handy when Dennis Miller came along.
*After John Cleese left, the quality drop off was steep AF
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at January 22, 2020 02:23 PM (l4C/z)
Posted by: Marcus T at January 22, 2020 02:23 PM (VpIIl)
In human years, dog years, or Keith years?
Posted by: Roy at January 22, 2020 02:23 PM (DDeWs)
Posted by: Marcus T
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he's gotta be pushing 80..
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 22, 2020 02:24 PM (so+oy)
Posted by: Marcus T at January 22, 2020 02:22 PM (VpIIl)
If you did not save the link to the Victory Tits, that is not my problem.
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at January 22, 2020 02:24 PM (mf5HN)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 22, 2020 02:20 PM (q80AH)
I'd listened to a lecture series about the Authurian legend a while back and I was struck by how absolutely absurd some of the original stories were. Some of them were *weird.* Even weirder than parts of the Holy Grail.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 22, 2020 02:24 PM (KUaJL)
icons are going to be heading off to the great commune in the sky soon.
Life, it just keeps chugging along.
Posted by: alexthechick
It's a good thing, too. Otherwise, society would totally freeze up and make no progress. We need new blood, even at the cost of having to perpetually relearn why society does things the way it does.
Posted by: pep at January 22, 2020 02:24 PM (T6t7i)
Posted by: ace at January 22, 2020 02:24 PM (PbpT7)
Posted by: Marcus T
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Hell, how would we know?
Posted by: Tonypete at January 22, 2020 02:24 PM (Y4EXg)
Posted by: Enquiring Minds Want to Know at January 22, 2020 02:24 PM (XzVUd)
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at January 22, 2020 02:17 PM
That it does, your malevolence. And it goes faster every year.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 22, 2020 02:24 PM (ejd/p)
Well, I mean that's like dropping a reference to a Cab Calloway song to us in school. Its harder and harder to keep the perspective as I age, but the 1980s were a long time ago, especially to kids.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 22, 2020 02:24 PM (KZzsI)
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No sweat, mate. I got this.
Posted by: Keith Richards at January 22, 2020 02:24 PM (CqE5x)
'I wanted to be a...lumberjack!"
This thread needs a video, slackard.
Posted by: Marcus T at January 22, 2020 02:17 PM (VpIIl)
No it doesn't.
https://youtu.be/xpAvcGcEc0k
I taught my kids the "getting hit on the head lessons." Wah!
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 22, 2020 02:25 PM (1CjJc)
Posted by: Marcus T at January 22, 2020 02:25 PM (VpIIl)
Posted by: Twatforbrains at January 22, 2020 02:25 PM (lHr8/)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 22, 2020 02:25 PM (VzbI8)
Posted by: Marcus T at January 22, 2020 02:23 PM (VpIIl)
There's a point in every man's life, as age begins to catch up, when he must stop and reflect on what kind of world he's going to leave Keith Richards.
Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at January 22, 2020 02:25 PM (J+mig)
On Fringe, Walter Bishop has an acid trip with a distinctly Pythonesque feel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxP18YhI16w
(Skip to about 30 seconds in)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 22, 2020 02:25 PM (Dc2NZ)
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at January 22, 2020 02:24 PM
Wait,
What if we were not here for said linkage? What if we were in the hospital? What if we were somewhere with no internet connection?
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 22, 2020 02:25 PM (iBBEC)
Posted by: Marcus T
You'll need to ask someone older than me.
Posted by: Dirt at January 22, 2020 02:25 PM (DDeWs)
definitely, BUT that fourth season (which is just called "Monty Python" instead of "Monty Python's Flying Circus") does have some dynamite sketches and some of the weirdest stuff they did.
I think when they couldn't come up with much funny stuff they just went weird.
the fourth season had "Anything Goes," the Woody/Tinny sketch, "Michael Ellis."
Posted by: ace at January 22, 2020 02:26 PM (PbpT7)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards,"
Kind of like SCTV and John Candy.
Posted by: Benji Carver at January 22, 2020 02:26 PM (OD2ni)
What if we were not here for said linkage? What if we were in the
hospital? What if we were somewhere with no internet connection?
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 22, 2020 02:25 PM (iBBEC)
I got you.
Posted by: Betty White at January 22, 2020 02:26 PM (sjdRT)
This bears repeating -
"Dennis! There's some lovely filth down here ... oh, how do you do?"
One of my favorite lines from Holy Grail.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 22, 2020 02:26 PM (xHTCV)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 22, 2020 02:24 PM (KZzsI)
Further Bander story, we were talking the other night and he said that was in 2000, wait, no, that was in 1980 and I replied, to be fair, those are both 20 years ago.
The local listen at work radio station has a tag line of the best of the 80's, 90's, and today and I realized the other day that's 40 years of music history.
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at January 22, 2020 02:26 PM (mf5HN)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at January 22, 2020 02:26 PM (l4C/z)
Posted by: gaius martius at January 22, 2020 02:26 PM (hMlTh)
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 22, 2020 02:24 PM (KUaJL)
Not to mention that Dennis the Peasant was right - Farcical Aquatic Ceremonies are no basis for a System of Government.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 22, 2020 02:26 PM (Kpl3J)
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 22, 2020 02:27 PM (1CjJc)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 22, 2020 02:20 PM (q80AH)
I'd listened to a lecture series about the Authurian legend a while back and I was struck by how absolutely absurd some of the original stories were. Some of them were *weird.* Even weirder than parts of the Holy Grail.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 22, 2020 02:24 PM (KUaJL)
You got something against incest, rape, and baby murder?(wait are we talking about the French or Welsh traditions)
Posted by: Someguy at January 22, 2020 02:27 PM (po7Gy)
Posted by: rammajamma at January 22, 2020 02:27 PM (PQRcz)
Posted by: Marcus T at January 22, 2020 02:23 PM
He's actually been petrified and animated like RBG. Do NOT watch their porn tape though.
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 22, 2020 02:27 PM (iBBEC)
So funny. One of their absolute best.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2ni9j3
Posted by: ace at January 22, 2020 02:27 PM (PbpT7)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 22, 2020 02:27 PM (vRd8t)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 22, 2020 02:24 PM (KZzsI)
True, but Boomers and Gen Ex'ers do have a longer cultural memory than Millenials. We didn't live through WW2, but we knew a lot about it or at least who was fighting who and when.
Millenials are a cultural and historical void.
Posted by: JoeF. at January 22, 2020 02:27 PM (CqE5x)
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 22, 2020 02:27 PM (1CjJc)
No it's not.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 22, 2020 02:27 PM (KUaJL)
What if we were not here for said linkage? What if we were in the hospital? What if we were somewhere with no internet connection?
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 22, 2020 02:25 PM (iBBEC)
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VOTE IN NOVEMBER.
As many times as necessary
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at January 22, 2020 02:28 PM (9qOCq)
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at January 22, 2020 02:17 PM
That it does, your malevolence. And it goes faster every year.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
That it does. We are already three years and two days into Trump's Presidential term.
Literally a blink of the eye.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 22, 2020 02:28 PM (Jk+3L)
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at January 22, 2020 02:24 PM (mf5HN)"
I'm more of a "seeing is believing" kinda guy.
Posted by: Marcus T at January 22, 2020 02:28 PM (VpIIl)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 22, 2020 02:28 PM (VzbI8)
Posted by: MHK at January 22, 2020 02:28 PM (iQIUe)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 22, 2020 02:29 PM (Dc2NZ)
If it wasn't for daddy issues, there's be fewer slutty strippers in the world.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at January 22, 2020
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True enough. Not that I've ever been, ah, involved with any strippers. But Ex-Wife No. 2, La Sociopath, certainly had some daddy issues. I think one of the reasons she found me attractive was that I looked quite a bit like her father when he was younger. . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 22, 2020 02:29 PM (Ejm1K)
So give to FTD foundations and research if you can. A lot of people know what Alzheimer's is, but FTD is entirely different.
Posted by: Saber Alter at January 22, 2020 02:29 PM (D9E0b)
Posted by: ace at January 22, 2020 02:29 PM (PbpT7)
Posted by: MHK at January 22, 2020 02:28 PM (iQIUe)
Damn, you're being a little harsh on Lou Gehrig, aren't you?
Posted by: josephistan at January 22, 2020 02:30 PM (7HtZB)
I smacked the kids clinging to my leg hair off and hit him with a chain, which I wore on my belt. It was the fashion at the time.
Word as a Biden.
Posted by: Joe Biden at January 22, 2020 02:30 PM (LQtHg)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 22, 2020 02:30 PM (VzbI8)
Heard he remembers jamming with Moses by a burning bush in the middle of the night.
Posted by: The Man from Athens at January 22, 2020 02:30 PM (Xrqz7)
Posted by: alexthechick
The first realization that you are old as dirt?
The rock station that played the oldies, the 50's Sock Hop music?
It's now playing the 70's & 80's.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 22, 2020 02:30 PM (Jk+3L)
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there was less content back then, so you also got older stuff. I grew up on reruns of 60s shows.
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at January 22, 2020 02:30 PM (9qOCq)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 22, 2020 02:30 PM (xHTCV)
Posted by: Hesco Gypsy at January 22, 2020 02:31 PM (xx41w)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 22, 2020 02:28 PM (VzbI
True as far as it goes.
But no one was listening to Cab Calloway on the radio in the '80's.
The cultural landscape is laid out differently than it was pre-WW2 and pre-Boomer
Posted by: JoeF. at January 22, 2020 02:31 PM (CqE5x)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 22, 2020 02:24 PM (KZzsI)
True, but Boomers and Gen Ex'ers do have a longer cultural memory than Millenials. We didn't live through WW2, but we knew a lot about it or at least who was fighting who and when.
Millenials are a cultural and historical void.
Posted by: JoeF. at January 22, 2020 02:27 PM (CqE5x)
The chronological equivalent is perhaps the Spanish American war. WWII still exists in modern cinema and literature so there's probably a good deal of awareness of it.
Posted by: Someguy at January 22, 2020 02:32 PM (po7Gy)
They played aliens who gave Simon Pegg superpowers to judge his worthiness for them. They deemed him unworthy because he became a better person. He was supposed to become destructive and evil.
It's amusing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 22, 2020 02:32 PM (q80AH)
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 22, 2020 02:25 PM (iBBEC)
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trust every link the horde is about to provide
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at January 22, 2020 02:32 PM (9qOCq)
Fawlty Towers was pretty brilliant, but perhaps only because Cleese only did 6 episodes in 1976 and another six in '79
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at January 22, 2020 02:32 PM (4a9Vv)
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there was less content back then, so you also got older stuff. I grew up on reruns of 60s shows.
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Gen X stuff is largely Boomer stuff because of the influence and sheer numbers of the Boomers.
Posted by: SH at January 22, 2020 02:32 PM (sX1BW)
Pretty sure a lot of local youths are saying "Who?"
Posted by: Dave in Fla at January 22, 2020 02:32 PM (AGMq9)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2020 02:32 PM (eYD0A)
Posted by: Axeman at January 22, 2020 02:32 PM (+yOfk)
Posted by: The Man from Athens at January 22, 2020 02:32 PM (Xrqz7)
Posted by: Terry Jones at January 22, 2020 02:33 PM (1CjJc)
Posted by: rickb223 at January 22, 2020 02:33 PM (Jk+3L)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 22, 2020 02:33 PM (KP5rU)
Rock and Roll was a big factor.
Most people did not listen to 20 year old music when I was growing up. Today, 80's rock nostalgia is mainstream (see synthwave and Stranger Things)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at January 22, 2020 02:33 PM (l4C/z)
Posted by: Hall Dall MD at January 22, 2020 02:33 PM (iXxg2)
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there was less content back then, so you also got older stuff. I grew up on reruns of 60s shows.
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at January 22, 2020 02:30 PM (9qOCq)
Less content, but it was more--and I hate this term-"diverse.' We grew up on the Honeymooner's and I Love Lucy and The Twilight Zone. But also The Brady Bunch and The Partrdge Family, All in the Family and The Jeffersons.
And rock and R&B from the 50's to the '90's.
Posted by: JoeF. at January 22, 2020 02:34 PM (CqE5x)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at January 22, 2020 02:32 PM (AGMq9)
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Pretty sure it's just whatever Phil Ehart calls his current band.
No Walsh, no Livgren, no Steinhardt...
Posted by: Axeman at January 22, 2020 02:35 PM (+yOfk)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 22, 2020 02:28 PM (VzbI
Well, it would be like listening to 40's music in the 80's, IF all music had died and was buried in the 60's.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 22, 2020 02:35 PM (Kpl3J)
Upper end Boomers are now pushing mid 70's. A whoooole lot of cultural icons are going to be heading off to the great commune in the sky soon.
Life, it just keeps chugging along.
Posted by: alexthechick
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True. We've lost Robert Vaughn, and Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley -- in fact I think only William Shatner of the original TOS main cast is still alive? Though they weren't Boomers themselves, they were Boomer icons.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 22, 2020 02:35 PM (Ejm1K)
Posted by: arminius256 at January 22, 2020 02:35 PM (382aI)
He was a raging alcoholic as well. It's a miracle he didn't bleed out from the throat before the cancer came along.
Posted by: Bringer of Info at January 22, 2020 02:35 PM (7s3Gx)
Posted by: rickb223 at January 22, 2020 02:33 PM (Jk+3L)
During the blitz, mate.
I was born in a crossfire hurricane....
Posted by: Keith Richards at January 22, 2020 02:35 PM (CqE5x)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at January 22, 2020 02:32 PM (AGMq9)
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Pretty sure it's just whatever Phil Ehart calls his current band.
No Walsh, no Livgren, no Steinhardt...
Posted by: Axeman at January 22, 2020 02:35 PM (+yOfk)
Isn't that the Guess Who?
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 22, 2020 02:36 PM (Kpl3J)
It might seem like using a shotgun to get a chipmunk; but I did it and got my care. Insurance companies don't want this to become a discussion yet they bully patients regarding their care by using denials. Twitter can be a very useful thing.
Posted by: Cheribebe at January 22, 2020 02:18 PM (pGrg3)
Posted by: Cheribebe at January 22, 2020 02:36 PM (pGrg3)
Posted by: pep at January 22, 2020 02:24 PM (T6t7i)
I've thought about trying to write a scifi story where human lifespans were doubled, with good health up until the final few years, but female fertility wasn't. You become fertile at 15-16, and become infertile by 45, and live until 160.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at January 22, 2020 02:36 PM (wCmLp)
The stories the other Pythons tell -- and they're not funny, cute stories.
Posted by: ace at January 22, 2020 02:36 PM (PbpT7)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 22, 2020 02:30 PM (VzbI
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when you're 8, you have maybe 4 years of memories. 3 more months is over 6% of your life experience.
comparable to 3 years at age 50.
yes, there will be math
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at January 22, 2020 02:36 PM (9qOCq)
Posted by: The Man from Athens
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Which reminds me, have we heard from Vic lately? I have not seen a comment by him in some while?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2020 02:36 PM (eYD0A)
ISWYDT
Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 22, 2020 02:36 PM (vRd8t)
Posted by: jhawk90 at January 22, 2020 02:36 PM (Xvo1a)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 22, 2020 02:37 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 22, 2020 02:37 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: The Man from Athens
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Which reminds me, have we heard from Vic lately? I have not seen a comment by him in some while?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2020 02:36 PM (eYD0A)
I saw Vic today, a few threads back!
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at January 22, 2020 02:37 PM (l4C/z)
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at January 22, 2020 02:32 PM
Looks around, shifty eyes.
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 22, 2020 02:37 PM (iBBEC)
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 22, 2020 02:37 PM (1CjJc)
Completely agree. Never understood the appeal. And by and large, I imagine half of Monty Python's "fans" exist simply to fit in with the cool kids.
Posted by: PacosMojo at January 22, 2020 02:37 PM (he/dn)
I love the Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman movies.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 22, 2020 02:37 PM (VzbI8)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 22, 2020 02:35 PM (Ejm1K)
Who's the annoying Asian gay guy? He's an original and still alive.
Posted by: Cheribebe at January 22, 2020 02:38 PM (pGrg3)
Posted by: jhawk90 at January 22, 2020 02:36 PM (Xvo1a)
Karma, chameleon...
Posted by: JoeF. at January 22, 2020 02:38 PM (CqE5x)
Posted by: pep at January 22, 2020 02:24 PM (T6t7i)
I've thought about trying to write a scifi story where human lifespans were doubled, with good health up until the final few years, but female fertility wasn't. You become fertile at 15-16, and become infertile by 45, and live until 160.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at January 22, 2020 02:36 PM (wCmLp)
If you account for men dying faster to get away from them too, woo boy.
Posted by: Someguy at January 22, 2020 02:38 PM (po7Gy)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 22, 2020 02:35 PM (Ejm1K)
Shatner was born in 1931 - he's been around a LONG time now. Never would have picked him as the star most likely to live 100 years, but maybe in hindsight I should have guessed.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 22, 2020 02:38 PM (Kpl3J)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 22, 2020 02:38 PM (KP5rU)
Are you selling something?
Posted by: DamnedYanbkee at January 22, 2020 02:38 PM (O8SrN)
Posted by: pep
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Well, that's the rub, contemporary 'culture' invests no time at all in understanding why established norms are norms. Life has become a devotion to 'wants'.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2020 02:39 PM (eYD0A)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 22, 2020 02:39 PM (VzbI8)
41 Tweets aren't news. My God, the link was nothing but regurgitated tweets. He deserves much better. Shame on journalism.
Posted by: skwilli at January 22, 2020 02:19 PM (zllbf)
I was reading a "news" article online this morning. It simply was this --
Some text from a tweet (actually, all of it)
A screen shot of the tweet
Repeat those two steps, but using different tweets
-- that was it.
This ... is "urinalism" today.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 22, 2020 02:39 PM (xHTCV)
Except Jones was a member of the Silent Generation, not Boomer...
Posted by: Bringer of Info at January 22, 2020 02:39 PM (7s3Gx)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 22, 2020 02:35 PM (Ejm1K)
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FUCK YOU
Posted by: Lt. Uhura at January 22, 2020 02:39 PM (9qOCq)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 22, 2020 02:35 PM (Ejm1K)
Who's the annoying Asian gay guy? He's an original and still alive.
Posted by: Cheribebe at January 22, 2020 02:38 PM (pGrg3)
George Takei?
Yes, very annoying prog
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at January 22, 2020 02:39 PM (l4C/z)
Karma, chameleon...
Posted by: JoeF. at January 22, 2020 02:38 PM
I'll tumble for ya..I'll tumble for ya...(ducks as he runs from room)
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 22, 2020 02:39 PM (iBBEC)
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile
Work it backwards. You start out at 120, old and feeble, but full of knowledge and experience.
Every year you get younger until, blip! You disappear.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 22, 2020 02:39 PM (Jk+3L)
Gen X will keep much of it in play, but our numbers will be small.
Posted by: SH at January 22, 2020 02:39 PM (sX1BW)
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at January 22, 2020 02:40 PM (/jcxk)
His secret? He keeps getting rid of his wives.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 22, 2020 02:40 PM (VzbI8)
Posted by: PacosMojo at January 22, 2020 02:37 PM (he/dn)
Monty Python is absurdist humor - so were the Marx Brothers. You either love it, or you don't get it at all.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 22, 2020 02:40 PM (Kpl3J)
Posted by: Max Power at January 22, 2020 02:40 PM (q177U)
He shows up now and again posting news links in the waning hours of the Overnight Thread...
Posted by: Bringer of Info at January 22, 2020 02:40 PM (7s3Gx)
He's...not bright. But he was nicer back then, in the closet and not trying to compete in the woke olympics.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at January 22, 2020 02:40 PM (l4C/z)
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 22, 2020 02:35 PM (Kpl3J)
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*Huff's bewildered*
Posted by: Don McLean at January 22, 2020 02:40 PM (+yOfk)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 22, 2020 02:40 PM (VzbI8)
Gen X will keep much of it in play, but our numbers will be small.
Posted by: SH at January 22, 2020 02:39 PM (sX1BW)
Mozart will make it through.
Posted by: DamnedYanbkee at January 22, 2020 02:40 PM (O8SrN)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 22, 2020 02:35 PM (Ejm1K)
Who's the annoying Asian gay guy? He's an original and still alive.
Posted by: Cheribebe at January 22, 2020
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You're right -- George Takei. Possibly Walter Koenig, Chekov, still is around, too. But I think Majel Barrett (Gene Roddenberry's wife) is gone, and I know James Doohan is. Maybe Nichelle Nichols is still here.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 22, 2020 02:41 PM (Ejm1K)
I dunno, all I knew about WW2 in high school was Germans enemy, something about camps, and Hogan's Heroes. Not many kids are culturally or historically aware.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 22, 2020 02:41 PM (KZzsI)
They aren't Boomers, though. All born during WWII.
Posted by: Annalucia at January 22, 2020 02:41 PM (S6ArX)
I love the Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman movies.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
The War Years Big Band music. +1.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 22, 2020 02:41 PM (Jk+3L)
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A safe bet. But perhaps not as safe as I would have made it 20 years ago.
Posted by: SH at January 22, 2020 02:41 PM (sX1BW)
I love the Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman movies.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
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Right through the mid 60's, flip on a radio, you'd hear Ella Fitzgerald, Sara Vaughn, etc., etc.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2020 02:41 PM (eYD0A)
As a teenager love Monty python shows
Posted by: Skip at January 22, 2020 02:41 PM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: PacosMojo at January 22, 2020 02:37 PM (he/dn)
Monty Python is absurdist humor - so were the Marx Brothers. You either love it, or you don't get it at all.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 22, 2020 02:40 PM (Kpl3J)
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I think it's great.
The contrast between the silliness versus the seriousness of the visuals in Holy Grail is what works to me.
It subverts your expectations of what an Arthurian movie should be.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 22, 2020 02:41 PM (q80AH)
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 22, 2020 02:42 PM (iBBEC)
One reason I always liked Monty Python was that they were the first "adult" type comedy group that I thought was funny. And I thought they were funny because they were silly like Bugs Bunny.
Posted by: ace at January 22, 2020 02:42 PM (PbpT7)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 22, 2020 02:42 PM (vRd8t)
Muzak versions of Kraftwerk.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 22, 2020 02:42 PM (ppBhU)
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 22, 2020 02:42 PM (Kpl3J)
wait, what does Robert Vaughn have to do with TOS main cast?
Nichelle Nichols, Walter Keonig, & George Takai are all still on this side of the lawn AFAIK
Posted by: AltonJackson at January 22, 2020 02:42 PM (ceIDk)
Posted by: PacosMojo at January 22, 2020 02:42 PM (BuiC1)
I may be a Boomer, but I do not intend to take part in the die off with the rest of you pricks
There's graves of my contemporaries that'll need some micturating on first.
Then I'll go.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 22, 2020 02:42 PM (xHTCV)
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at January 22, 2020 02:42 PM (/jcxk)
#BREAKING
Jan 22 - Basrah, southern #Iraq
Protesters torch the HQ of #Iran-backed Badr Org. in this important city. Shiites in southern Iraq are constantly expressing their abhorrence of Tehran's meddling in their country.
Posted by: Ghost of Qassem Soleimani at January 22, 2020 02:43 PM (BqBId)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2020 02:36 PM (eYD0A)
He tends to get in earlier and do his link dump in the overnight before the JJ full post
Posted by: Burnt Toast at January 22, 2020 02:43 PM (1g7ch)
The 2nd generation holds onto the best stuff from their parents time. But the 3rd it's gone.
Similar to how culture fades out for immigrants.
Great grandmother came over from Poland
Grandmother could speak Polish, but not write it
Mom can't
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at January 22, 2020 02:43 PM (9qOCq)
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 22, 2020 02:42 PM (iBBEC)
Posted by: Roy at January 22, 2020 02:43 PM (DDeWs)
Posted by: rickb223 at January 22, 2020 02:43 PM (Jk+3L)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 22, 2020 02:43 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Roy at January 22, 2020 02:43 PM (DDeWs)
Gen X will keep much of it in play, but our numbers will be small.
Posted by: SH at January 22, 2020 02:39 PM (sX1BW)
Mozart will make it through.
Posted by: DamnedYanbkee at January 22, 2020 02:40 PM (O8SrN)
Bach, Mozart Beethoven for sure
I'd bet on Led Zepplin, The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, The Who and the Doors. Elvis maybe?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at January 22, 2020 02:43 PM (l4C/z)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 22, 2020 02:41 PM (Ejm1K)
Sadly, in body only.
Posted by: Adriane the Quaker Philosophy Critic ... at January 22, 2020 02:43 PM (LPnfS)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 22, 2020 02:43 PM (vRd8t)
Each ep was a parody of some victorian era adventure story or coming of age story.
Posted by: ace at January 22, 2020 02:43 PM (PbpT7)
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 22, 2020 02:44 PM (iBBEC)
Posted by: Annalucia
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In Newspeak, 'The Silent Generation'
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2020 02:44 PM (eYD0A)
Ambassadul DamnedYankee was kirred duling hunting accident while farring out of window onto exproding bomb.
I am Ambassadul Aktinson
Posted by: DamnedYankee at January 22, 2020 02:44 PM (O8SrN)
The 2nd generation holds onto the best stuff from their parents time. But the 3rd it's gone.
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Same for most family wealth.
Posted by: SH at January 22, 2020 02:44 PM (sX1BW)
I guess this isn't a good time to point out that Monty Python isn't very
funny. Although we laughed hysterically back in the 70s.
Posted by: Caliban
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yeah.. except for The Spanish Inquisition sketch..
oh.. and the dead bird sketch..
oh yeah.. and the Lumberjack song..
and Nudge Nudge?
Are you fookin' nuts?
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 22, 2020 02:23 PM (so+oy)
Dimsdale!
Posted by: Giant Hedgehog at January 22, 2020 02:44 PM (ymnmz)
Posted by: JoeF. at January 22, 2020 02:27 PM (CqE5x)
Kids These Days, which now is both Millenials (upper end Millenials are pushing 40) and Gen Z, have been trained like particularly stupid seals.
Moar Bander! He's teaching eighth graders and they don't know what a noun is. And they aren't joking. They've never been taught basic grammar. But they sure can use PowerPoint!
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at January 22, 2020 02:44 PM (mf5HN)
I dunno, all I knew about WW2 in high school was Germans enemy, something about camps, and Hogan's Heroes. Not many kids are culturally or historically aware.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 22, 2020
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My parents were born in 1909 and 1916. They were young adults in the late '30s and lived through WWII. I heard lots of cool stories about those days. I wish I could ask them more about the '40s and '50s now.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 22, 2020 02:44 PM (Ejm1K)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 22, 2020 02:44 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 22, 2020 02:44 PM (iBBEC)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 22, 2020 02:45 PM (jvJCz)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at January 22, 2020 02:43 PM (l4C/z)
Dylan's a certainty. Hendrix.
Posted by: JoeF. at January 22, 2020 02:45 PM (CqE5x)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 22, 2020 02:41 PM (Ejm1K)
Sadly, in body only.
Posted by: Adriane the Quaker Philosophy Critic ... at January 22, 2020 02:43 PM (LPnfS)
You could probably say the same about Zoe Saldana's Uhura.
Posted by: Roy at January 22, 2020 02:45 PM (DDeWs)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 22, 2020 02:35 PM (Ejm1K)
Who's the annoying Asian gay guy? He's an original and still alive.
Posted by: Cheribebe at January 22, 2020 02:38 PM (pGrg3)
George Takei?
Yes, very annoying prog
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at January 22, 2020 02:39 PM (l4C/z)
Everyone forgets about me. Well I have my own life, with my own friends, and keys, and credit cards...
Posted by: Walter Koenig at January 22, 2020 02:45 PM (7HtZB)
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at January 22, 2020 02:45 PM (9qOCq)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 22, 2020 02:45 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 22, 2020 02:41 PM (q80AH)
It makes Ben Hur look like an Epic!
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 22, 2020 02:45 PM (Kpl3J)
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I'm not sure if I'd bet on those.
I honestly have no idea.
But I believe the Beatles are going to take the biggest hit.
Posted by: SH at January 22, 2020 02:45 PM (sX1BW)
Posted by: ace at January 22, 2020 02:45 PM (PbpT7)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 22, 2020 02:46 PM (VzbI8)
Posted by: JoeF. at January 22, 2020 02:27 PM (CqE5x)
Kids These Days, which now is both Millenials (upper end Millenials are pushing 40) and Gen Z, have been trained like particularly stupid seals.
Moar Bander! He's teaching eighth graders and they don't know what a noun is. And they aren't joking. They've never been taught basic grammar. But they sure can use PowerPoint!
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at January 22, 2020 02:44 PM (mf5HN)
Frankly I blame their parents. *stares disapprovingly at Gen X and Boomers*
Posted by: Someguy at January 22, 2020 02:46 PM (po7Gy)
Vic was here this morning.
What I found amazing is his neighbor cooked him and his wife a spaghetti dinner. Maybe she felt guilty for borrowing all of his liquor before she went on the wagon.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 22, 2020 02:46 PM (u82oZ)
She unfortunately had been named Eileen.
Was one leg shorter than the other?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 22, 2020 02:44 PM (KZzsI)
That was her sister, Peg.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 22, 2020 02:46 PM (1CjJc)
Now I'm curious.
Posted by: Grump928(C)
Yeah. That was just one person.
Imagine if it was everyone and it was normal.
Life is wasted on the young. By the time you figure it out and amass enough to do something, your body says, "FU"
Posted by: rickb223 at January 22, 2020 02:46 PM (Jk+3L)
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 22, 2020 02:42 PM (iBBEC)
Posted by: Roy at January 22, 2020
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I dated a girl named "Michelle" who had been about 3 when the Beatles released that song. 'Twas her *least* favorite Beatles tune, ever.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 22, 2020 02:46 PM (Ejm1K)
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 22, 2020 02:46 PM (iBBEC)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 22, 2020 02:46 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: kathysaysso at January 22, 2020 02:46 PM (vkS2Z)
Just mentioned other day that Tommy Chong is 83 years old.
Mrs. Krebs encountered him in Toronto about 25 years ago. Said he was filthy and a total skeez, and trying to hit up every moderately attractive female he encountered. "I declined."
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 22, 2020 02:47 PM (xHTCV)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 22, 2020 02:47 PM (KZzsI)
Watched MP, and the Avengers, on National Public TV in the 70's. Are You Being Served (also hilarious) in the early 80's.
Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at January 22, 2020 02:47 PM (lHr8/)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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I kick myself regularly for not asking my parents and grandparents questions, some very simple, about family history, their parents, places, times, etc.. Questions they would have been happy to answer. And now, it's too late. Dammit, dammit.
Youth is stupid.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2020 02:47 PM (eYD0A)
Posted by: LASue at January 22, 2020 02:47 PM (Ed8Zd)
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x35sc0z
Posted by: ace at January 22, 2020 02:47 PM (PbpT7)
I'd bet on Led Zepplin, The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, The Who and the Doors. Elvis maybe?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at January 22, 2020 02:43 PM (l4C/z)
Don't forget Queen - if only for all the songs they left us that got adopted for sporting events.
Posted by: DamnedYankee at January 22, 2020 02:48 PM (O8SrN)
Nichelle Nichols, Walter Keonig, & George Takai are all still on this side of the lawn AFAIK
Posted by: AltonJackson at January 22, 2020
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Vaughn is my favorite actor of all time, that's all. I thought of him first.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 22, 2020 02:48 PM (Ejm1K)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 22, 2020 02:48 PM (jvJCz)
Posted by: Walter Koenig at January 22, 2020 02:45 PM (7HtZB)
One of the great injustices of life is that Very Old Chekov is still alive, and Young Chekov (who did a great job recreating the part) is mort.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 22, 2020 02:48 PM (Kpl3J)
The 2nd generation holds onto the best stuff from their parents time. But the 3rd it's gone.
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Same for most family wealth.
Posted by: SH at January 22, 2020 02:44 PM (sX1BW)
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Grandma was an only child, as is Mom. It's been accumulating
now to liquidate my sister before she gets me!
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at January 22, 2020 02:48 PM (9qOCq)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'it's an eating disorder!' at January 22, 2020 02:48 PM (I4swC)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 22, 2020 02:48 PM (Lqy/e)
It subverts your expectations of what an Arthurian movie should be.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 22, 2020 02:41 PM (q80AH)
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"Someday lad, all this will be yours!"
"What, the curtains?"
Laugh every damn time.
Posted by: jhawk90 at January 22, 2020 02:48 PM (Xvo1a)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 22, 2020 02:41 PM (KZzsI)
As a boomer, I learned a lot about WWI and WWII, and the Great Depression, we spent most of a year of history class on this. We also discussed it in school many times before, some of the dads came in to talk about the war. One of the dads had been an army photographer and had many pictures that were quite vivid, that he took in the hospitals, liberated camps, and vanquished Germans. If a new film came out, we sometimes went on after school field trips to see them.
Posted by: CN at January 22, 2020 02:48 PM (ONvIw)
A well played ice hockey game is a thing of beauty, even if some rambunctiousness breaks out.
The Stooges are a taste that I never acquired.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 22, 2020 02:49 PM (xHTCV)
They were on Sunday nights here in the seventies on local PBS station..
followed by the other zany Brit comic shows like Benny Hill (who I did
not care for).. then Dr. Who!
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 22, 2020 02:18 PM (so+oy)
Yeah, the Tom Baker Doctor!
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 22, 2020 02:49 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
That's when my grandparents were born. 1909 & 1910. My parents in '35 & '40.
I'll be removing myself from your lawn momentarily.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 22, 2020 02:49 PM (Jk+3L)
Posted by: LASue at January 22, 2020 02:47 PM (Ed8Zd)
Very unusual for a girl. You must have had brothers.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 22, 2020 02:49 PM (VzbI8)
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 22, 2020 02:42 PM (iBBEC)
Posted by: Roy at January 22, 2020
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I dated a girl named "Michelle" who had been about 3 when the Beatles released that song. 'Twas her *least* favorite Beatles tune, ever.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 22, 2020 02:46 PM (Ejm1K)
How did she feel about Guns N Roses?
Posted by: josephistan at January 22, 2020 02:49 PM (7HtZB)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 22, 2020 02:48 PM (jvJCz)
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His bit part in Jabberwocky (which he directed, of course) might be my favorite. The rocks that are supposed to be diamonds.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 22, 2020 02:49 PM (q80AH)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 22, 2020 02:49 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at January 22, 2020 02:26 PM (mf5HN)Mm
WRSA?
Posted by: Fox2! at January 22, 2020 02:49 PM (vRd8t)
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x35sc0z
Posted by: ace at January 22, 2020 02:47 PM (PbpT7)
Carole Cleavage?
Posted by: JoeF. at January 22, 2020 02:49 PM (CqE5x)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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Don't bring me down Brrrrruce!
Posted by: Guzalot at January 22, 2020 02:50 PM (prSvo)
The contrast between the silliness versus the seriousness of the visuals in Holy Grail is what works to me.
It subverts your expectations of what an Arthurian movie should be.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 22, 2020 02:41 PM (q80AH)
For whatever reason "The Norsemen" series reminded of this style. Dry wit in the face of the absurd in conjecture with some deadly serious white going on at times. Not as much silly or slapstick as Python though,
Posted by: Burnt Toast at January 22, 2020 02:50 PM (1g7ch)
https://preview.tinyurl.com/vlgu7ne
Posted by: Junkie Hunter Biden at January 22, 2020 02:50 PM (LISuA)
Posted by: Minnfidel
Pretty sure that was all Terry Gilliam.
Posted by: Puddleglum at January 22, 2020 02:50 PM (vN4+Q)
Every year you get younger until, blip! You disappear.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 22, 2020 02:39 PM (Jk+3L)
That was the main plot device of an old Golden Amazon novel.
Posted by: zombie Benito Mussolini at January 22, 2020 02:51 PM (LxWV7)
Monty Python's Terry Jones Is Dead
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So is Lenny Bruce. He was a better comedian, and he's more-or-less forgotten. Jones will be more forgotten, by tomorrow. Limeys. Feh.
P.S. Benny Hill sucked too.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 22, 2020 02:51 PM (uKj5K)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'it's an eating disorder!' at January 22, 2020 02:48 PM (I4swC)
The reminders will stop once that dead thing kicks in.
Posted by: moon_over_vermont at January 22, 2020 02:51 PM (kUmUV)
Posted by: Puddleglum at January 22, 2020 02:50 PM
Well he must have had some grade A pot or shrooms to produce that artwork. Damn.
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 22, 2020 02:51 PM (iBBEC)
I use John Lennon as exhibit A.
Posted by: klaftern at January 22, 2020 02:51 PM (RuIsu)
Posted by: DamnedYankee at January 22, 2020 02:52 PM (O8SrN)
Posted by: Skip at January 22, 2020 02:52 PM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: Gref at January 22, 2020 02:52 PM (AMIL/)
Posted by: Guzalot at January 22, 2020 02:50 PM (prSvo)
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It's Groos.
And yes that explains nothing.
Posted by: Don McLean at January 22, 2020 02:52 PM (+yOfk)
Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at January 22, 2020 02:52 PM (lHr8/)
Right through the mid 60's, flip on a radio, you'd hear Ella Fitzgerald, Sara Vaughn, etc., etc.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2020
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I don't recall hearing Ella, but until about 1965 Frank Sinatra was still charting on Top 40 radio, as were Dean Martin and Louis Armstrong, and Peggy Lee's "Is That All There Is?", and Sammy Davis Jr.'s "What Kind of Fool Am I?"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 22, 2020 02:52 PM (Ejm1K)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 22, 2020 02:46 PM (KZzsI)
I can vouch for this. My real first name is a song title from the 80's.
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 22, 2020 02:52 PM (Ez6QX)
Posted by: Burnt Toast at January 22, 2020 02:50 PM (1g7ch)
That show is hilarious.
I love they way they pretty much speak regular old modern English... These aren't Shakespearean characters, they're just a band of jerkoffs going about their dark-age lives.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 22, 2020 02:52 PM (FOGOI)
Posted by: rickb223 at January 22, 2020 02:20 PM (Jk+3L)
That's why we developed modern medicine. Makes up for hard living.
Posted by: NOT THAT GUY at January 22, 2020 02:52 PM (G9Y8y)
Posted by: wth at January 22, 2020 02:52 PM (v0R5T)
I use John Lennon as exhibit A.
Posted by: klaftern at January 22, 2020 02:51 PM (RuIsu)
Captain Walker didn't come home, his unborn child will never know him...
Posted by: josephistan at January 22, 2020 02:52 PM (7HtZB)
Posted by: Skip at January 22, 2020 02:52 PM
You're going to have to be a bit more specific.
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 22, 2020 02:52 PM (iBBEC)
Posted by: Minnfidel
Pretty sure that was all Terry Gilliam.
Posted by: Puddleglum at January 22, 2020 02:50 PM (vN4+Q)
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Yup.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 22, 2020 02:52 PM (q80AH)
Like the 3 Stooges, Monty Python was never my taste but I appreciate some of their skits.
Posted by: LASue
Very unusual for a girl. You must have had brothers.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
I think she means "as with the 3 Stooges, Monty Python was never my taste."
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 22, 2020 02:53 PM (aKsyK)
Posted by: Someguy at January 22, 2020 02:46 PM (po7Gy)
That is completely fair. Junior high kids cannot be blamed for not being taught basic matters. They are barely people. They cannot realistically be expected to even know that there are realms of learning they should know.
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at January 22, 2020 02:53 PM (mf5HN)
I do find that the older I get, the less I enjoy the Marx Brothers, maybe because I basically have them all memorized so almost none of the lines are new and fresh to me.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 22, 2020 02:53 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'it's an eating disorder!' at January 22, 2020 02:53 PM (I4swC)
Posted by: Wolfus"
Nichelle Nichols > Tom Nichols (aka The Expert)
Posted by: Benji Carver at January 22, 2020 02:53 PM (OD2ni)
Posted by: Axeman at January 22, 2020 02:53 PM (+yOfk)
Probably but I don't think Terry Gilliam actually needs drugs to come up with that stuff. He's just one of those talented madmen who is insanely creative but needs direction to focus.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 22, 2020 02:54 PM (KZzsI)
questions, some very simple, about family history, their parents,
places, times, etc.. Questions they would have been happy to answer. And
now, it's too late."
Maybe not. Didn't the Allegedly Greatest Generation pride itself on its stoicism and Not Talking About Things? I come from a family where all questions received, at best, a "Oh, I don't remember" or more usually a glacial stare and a "What business is it of yours?" So anything I learned about them, I found out accidentally.
Posted by: Annalucia at January 22, 2020 02:54 PM (S6ArX)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 22, 2020 02:54 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: klaftern at January 22, 2020 02:54 PM (RuIsu)
Posted by: Ghost of Qassem Soleimani at January 22, 2020 02:54 PM (BqBId)
Ah yes indeed . Stop , Reverse . continue.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 22, 2020 02:55 PM (VzbI8)
Hot enough to stand upside down with your head in a bucket of piranhas and wasted on Chapman.
Posted by: DaveA at January 22, 2020 02:55 PM (FhXTo)
"What, the curtains?"
Laugh every damn time.
Posted by: jhawk90 at January 22, 2020 02:48 PM (Xvo1a)
"Stay Here and Guard the Door" is one of my favorite sketches of all time - because EVERY time I hire a workman, that's exactly what happens.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 22, 2020 02:55 PM (Kpl3J)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
That's when my grandparents were born. 1909 & 1910. My parents in '35 & '40.
I'll be removing myself from your lawn momentarily.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 22, 2020
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My parents were almost old enough to be my grandparents. I was a late in life baby. There's plenty of room on the lawn, sir.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 22, 2020 02:55 PM (Ejm1K)
Posted by: Skip at January 22, 2020 02:55 PM (ZCEU2)
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Donna Reading.
She was in one other sketch, seducing a Milkman
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at January 22, 2020 02:55 PM (9qOCq)
Millenials are a cultural and historical void.
Posted by: JoeF. at January
stovepiping
Posted by: not so at January 22, 2020 02:56 PM (HALdu)
"What, the curtains?"
Laugh every damn time.
Posted by: jhawk90 at January 22, 2020 02:48 PM (Xvo1a)
"Stay Here and Guard the Door" is one of my favorite sketches of all time - because EVERY time I hire a workman, that's exactly what happens.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 22, 2020 02:55 PM (Kpl3J)
"If.. ahhhh.. If-- ahhhh... If-if-... uhhhhhhh."
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 22, 2020 02:56 PM (FOGOI)
Posted by: Ghost of Qassem Soleimani at January 22, 2020
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Cliff, Norm, and Woody?
Posted by: Sam Malone at January 22, 2020 02:56 PM (Ejm1K)
Posted by: klaftern at January 22, 2020 02:54 PM (RuIsu)
And Post-war Germany is Exhibit C
Posted by: josephistan at January 22, 2020 02:56 PM (7HtZB)
She was in one other sketch, seducing a Milkman
...
thanks, I could never find her name. I remember that Milkman sketch -- it was just the beginning of sketch about the joke developed in WWII, I think.
Posted by: ace at January 22, 2020 02:56 PM (PbpT7)
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7m
The Chinese government has quarantined the city of Wuhan and plans to shut down the airport and public transportation within hours, according to reports on the country's social networks. The virus has been linked to at least 17 deaths and has sickened over 400 others - Fox News
Wuhan has 11 million people, BTW.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 22, 2020 02:56 PM (nYWSF)
Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at January 22, 2020 02:56 PM (lHr8/)
Posted by: DamnedYankee at January 22, 2020 02:56 PM (O8SrN)
Posted by: Ghost of Qassem Soleimani at January 22, 2020 02:54 PM (BqBId)
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It's quite easy, actually.
Posted by: Axeman at January 22, 2020 02:56 PM (+yOfk)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 22, 2020 02:56 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2020 02:56 PM (eYD0A)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'it's an eating disorder!' at January 22, 2020 02:53 PM (I4swC)
Who names their kid Jethro Tull?
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 22, 2020 02:56 PM (Kpl3J)
Posted by: Ghost of Qassem Soleimani at January 22, 2020
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Cliff, Norm, and Woody?
Posted by: Sam Malone at January 22, 2020 02:56 PM (Ejm1K)
I just watched that episode the other day.
Posted by: josephistan at January 22, 2020 02:56 PM (7HtZB)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 22, 2020 02:56 PM (VzbI8)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 22, 2020 02:41 PM (KZzsI)
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they didn't even teach you about when the Germans bombed Pearl harbor???
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at January 22, 2020 02:57 PM (9qOCq)
Sorry... I should've thrown in an RIP. G-d rest his soul, and I'm sure he was a decent man. But I never got British comedy. It's like actual comedy, but without the funny parts.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 22, 2020 02:57 PM (uKj5K)
Posted by: Ghost of Qassem Soleimani at January 22, 2020 02:54 PM (BqBId)
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It's quite easy, actually.
Posted by: Axeman at January 22, 2020 02:56 PM (+yOfk)
oh, Wise Guy, eh?
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 22, 2020 02:57 PM (Kpl3J)
Posted by: Lebron Horowitz at January 22, 2020 02:57 PM (UFgOG)
Wuhan has 11 million people, BTW.
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China is great.
- Tom Friedman
Posted by: SH at January 22, 2020 02:57 PM (sX1BW)
Yeah, the Tom Baker Doctor!
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 22, 2020 02:49 PM (ufFY
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Damn, he'll be gone soon too.
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at January 22, 2020 02:57 PM (9qOCq)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January
going to sleep would be wrong wouldn't it?
Posted by: not so at January 22, 2020 02:57 PM (HALdu)
Posted by: garrett at January 22, 2020 02:58 PM (0zK06)
Posted by: ace at January 22, 2020 02:58 PM (PbpT7)
Wuhan has 11 million people, BTW.
Posted by: weft cut-loop
Had.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 22, 2020 02:58 PM (Jk+3L)
how can people not love the 3 stooges??
Posted by: Ghost of Qassem Soleimani at January 22, 2020 02:54 PM (BqBId)
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Moe was always a grumpy ass, no matter what. I don't laugh at comedy skits where various forms of physical brutality is the mainstay.
Posted by: washrivergal at January 22, 2020 02:58 PM (+tWDL)
Posted by: klaftern at January 22, 2020 02:58 PM (RuIsu)
Posted by: Ghost of Qassem Soleimani at January 22, 2020 02:54 PM (BqBId)
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It's quite easy, actually.
Posted by: Axeman at January 22, 2020 02:56 PM (+yOfk)
Niagara Falls!
Posted by: DamnedYankee at January 22, 2020 02:58 PM (O8SrN)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 22, 2020 02:56 PM (nYWSF)
correction - Wuhan HAD 11 million people.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 22, 2020 02:58 PM (Kpl3J)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
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His album '40 Greatest Hits', was #1 on the UK albums chart in 1975.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2020 02:58 PM (eYD0A)
Wuhan has 11 million people, BTW.
horse, barn door
Posted by: not so at January 22, 2020 02:59 PM (HALdu)
Our four year old grandson started a story the other day by saying, "When I was a baby ..."
I larfed.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 22, 2020 02:59 PM (xHTCV)
7m
The Chinese government has quarantined the city of Wuhan and plans to shut down the airport and public transportation within hours, according to reports on the country's social networks. The virus has been linked to at least 17 deaths and has sickened over 400 others - Fox News
Wuhan has 11 million people, BTW.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 22, 2020 02:56 PM (nYWSF)
Let's see, today's the 22nd, so.... *looks at calendar*... Feb. 19th.... *pencils in date*....
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 22, 2020 02:59 PM (FOGOI)
Lucky he didn't find a stud there.
Posted by: garrett at January 22, 2020 02:59 PM (0zK06)
Posted by: washrivergal at January 22, 2020 02:58 PM (+tWDL)
You probably didn't even like Kenny Rogers Jackass.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 22, 2020 02:59 PM (Kpl3J)
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 22, 2020 02:38 PM (Kpl3J)
And Buzz Aldrin: 1930.
Posted by: m at January 22, 2020 02:59 PM (M5wRT)
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 22, 2020 02:52 PM (Ez6QX)
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Sue Sue Sudio?
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at January 22, 2020 02:59 PM (9qOCq)
Posted by: Al Crapton at January 22, 2020 02:59 PM (GlmxK)
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 22, 2020 02:59 PM (d7Ww2)
Posted by: Northernlurker, still lurking after all these years at January 22, 2020 02:59 PM (aCNZ6)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob
Who names their kid Jethro Tull?
Posted by: Tom Servo
"By the way, which one's Pink?"
--Record Executive
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 22, 2020 02:59 PM (KZzsI)
Wuhan has 11 million people, BTW.
Posted by: weft cut-loop
Had.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 22, 2020 02:58 PM (Jk+3L)
I'm sure after it's too late we'll implement quarantine procedures here. Can't have anyone's right to infect other violated now can we?
Posted by: DamnedYankee at January 22, 2020 02:59 PM (O8SrN)
Posted by: Ghost of Qassem Soleimani
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Pelosi, Nadler, and Schiff have given the name a bad odor.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2020 02:59 PM (eYD0A)
He managed to 'wear Zelensky down' all by himself with his awe totallitarian powers. LOL.
"The President believes that these corrupt acts are acceptable."
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 22, 2020 02:59 PM (ufFY8)
That is completely fair. Junior high kids cannot be blamed for not being taught basic matters. They are barely people. They cannot realistically be expected to even know that there are realms of learning they should know.
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at January 22, 2020 02:53 PM (mf5HN)
Yep. No matter where we were going or who we were seeing. Mom: "dont forget your manners." Then for good measure she begin to remind me. "Say please and thank you, use your napkin, ask someone to pass the dish... etc. Etc. Lol. But she never me my hot 'cousin' wasn't really my cousin. I'll never forgive her.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'it's an eating disorder!' at January 22, 2020 03:00 PM (I4swC)
I never liked the Three Stooges.
Different strokes for different folks. Not much else to analyze, really.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Purveyor of Locally Sourced artisinal Hogwash at January 22, 2020 03:00 PM (xPJvm)
Now the Marx Brothers, on the other hand, inspired mayhem.
Posted by: Axeman at January 22, 2020 03:00 PM (+yOfk)
Posted by: Ghost of Qassem Soleimani at January 22, 2020
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Cliff, Norm, and Woody?
Posted by: Sam Malone at January 22, 2020 02:56 PM (Ejm1K)
I just watched that episode the other day.
Posted by: josephistan at January 22, 2020
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Rebecca: "Sam! What about the Stooges?"
Sam: "Ah, they all left early. Went over to Cliff's."
Rebecca: "No, the *Three* Stooges!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 22, 2020 03:00 PM (Ejm1K)
I'll never blow your cover, Footloose
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 22, 2020 03:01 PM (KZzsI)
and grandparents questions, some very simple, about family history,
their parents, places, times, etc.. Questions they would have been happy
to answer. And now, it's too late. Dammit, dammit.
Youth is stupid.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2020 02:47 PM (eYD0A)
Dad went to the WWII early and came home early. He left to come home in the middle of the battle of Monti Cassino. He went over on the Queen Mary. I don't know how he came home. Never will.
Posted by: NOT THAT GUY at January 22, 2020 03:01 PM (G9Y8y)
Posted by: Jasper Moore at January 22, 2020 03:01 PM (B+t5k)
Posted by: garrett at January 22, 2020 03:01 PM (0zK06)
I can vouch for this. My real first name is a song title from the 80's.
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 22, 2020 02:52 PM (Ez6QX)
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Sue Sue Sudio?
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at January 22, 2020 02:59 PM (9qOCq)
Cherry Pie?
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 22, 2020 03:01 PM (1CjJc)
going to sleep would be wrong wouldn't it?
Posted by: not so at January 22, 2020 02:57 PM (HALdu)
It is definitely a cause for concern. Subdural hemotoma.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 22, 2020 03:01 PM (xHTCV)
Best Ever!
Posted by: The Man from Athens at January 22, 2020 03:01 PM (Xrqz7)
Posted by: garrett at January 22, 2020 03:01 PM (0zK06)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 22, 2020 03:02 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: Northernlurker, still lurking after all these years at January 22, 2020 03:02 PM (aCNZ6)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 22, 2020 02:56 PM (nYWSF)
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how long till they nuke it from orbit
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at January 22, 2020 03:02 PM (9qOCq)
Who is this Bander dude, I keep hearing about ?
Posted by: Jasper Moore at January 22, 2020 03:01 PM (B+t5k)
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 22, 2020 03:02 PM (1CjJc)
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at January 22, 2020 03:02 PM (JRaU+)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 22, 2020 03:02 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 22, 2020 03:02 PM (iBBEC)
I can vouch for this. My real first name is a song title from the 80's.
I'll never blow your cover, Footloose
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
Sister Christian is here?
Posted by: imp at January 22, 2020 03:02 PM (SFOr6)
Posted by: wth at January 22, 2020 03:02 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: klaftern at January 22, 2020 02:58 PM (RuIsu)
Even the Dead Milkmen?
Posted by: josephistan at January 22, 2020 03:02 PM (7HtZB)
Posted by: Zombie Mao at January 22, 2020 03:02 PM (0zK06)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 22, 2020 03:02 PM (pnA/u)
How you doing Veronica?
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 22, 2020 03:03 PM (VzbI8)
You must be a hoot at parties.
Posted by: Spank Me at January 22, 2020 03:03 PM (Dzxm7)
353 I can vouch for this. My real first name is a song title from the 80's.
Well, how de do, 867-5309!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 22, 2020 03:03 PM (xHTCV)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Purveyor of Locally Sourced artisinal Hogwash at January 22, 2020 03:03 PM (xPJvm)
"Four hours burying a cat" is kinda funny.
This is actually funny:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTobHOyLvRU
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 22, 2020 03:03 PM (uKj5K)
The very first joke of all was probably "HA HA HA!!! THAG JUST GOT MAMMOTH TUSK UP BUM!!! HA HA HA!!!"
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 22, 2020 03:03 PM (Kpl3J)
I hate this little shit more very time I see or hear him.
Posted by: Ripley at January 22, 2020 03:03 PM (MxEKc)
3 I can vouch for this. My real first name is a song title from the 80's.
How you doing Veronica?
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 22, 2020 03:03 PM (VzbI
You are not mine, Sharona.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 22, 2020 03:03 PM (ufFY8)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVuB31rDESI
Posted by: ace at January 22, 2020 02:58 PM (PbpT7)
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Do you need some 'me' time?
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at January 22, 2020 03:03 PM (9qOCq)
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 22, 2020 03:01 PM (1CjJc)
You don't get to play. You know my real name.
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 22, 2020 03:03 PM (Ez6QX)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 22, 2020 03:03 PM (KZzsI)
Bille Jean!
Posted by: garrett at January 22, 2020 03:01 PM (0zK06)
Wild Fire ?
Posted by: Adriane the Music Critic ... at January 22, 2020 03:03 PM (LPnfS)
Posted by: 70s Horse posting from the Desert at January 22, 2020 03:04 PM (0zK06)
The very first joke of all was probably "HA HA HA!!! THAG JUST GOT MAMMOTH TUSK UP BUM!!! HA HA HA!!!"
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 22, 2020 03:03 PM (Kpl3J)
Daddy Mammoth: "... and then my tusk went right up the hairy little f*cker's keister! HAAAAhahaha!"
Junior Mammoth: "That's hilarious!"
Mommy Mammoth: *shakes head*
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 22, 2020 03:04 PM (FOGOI)
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It is truly amazing how uninterested the American people are in this farce.
Posted by: SH at January 22, 2020 03:04 PM (sX1BW)
Posted by: Ripley at January 22, 2020 03:04 PM (MxEKc)
Posted by: Ghost of Qassem Soleimani at January 22, 2020 02:54 PM (BqBId)
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It's quite easy, actually.
Posted by: Axeman at January 22, 2020 02:56 PM (+yOfk)
Niagara Falls!
Posted by: DamnedYankee at January 22, 2020
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Moe: "Quiet, you numbskulls! I'm broadcasting!"
I liked the Stooges when I was very young, but I grew out of it fast. MeTV is running episodes on Saturday evenings at 5 pm, and I looked at one, and came back to check out the episode where Moe is mistaken for a Hitler-like dictator (and that was sort of neat), but I don't appreciate that kind of humor any more.
The Marx Brothers had wordplay ("On my last safari, I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know") as well as sight gags.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 22, 2020 03:05 PM (Ejm1K)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 22, 2020 03:05 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: josephistan at January 22, 2020 03:05 PM (7HtZB)
The very first joke of all was probably "HA HA HA!!! THAG JUST GOT MAMMOTH TUSK UP BUM!!! HA HA HA!!!"
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 22, 2020 03:03 PM (Kpl3J)
Stepping or falling in shit.
Posted by: Someguy at January 22, 2020 03:05 PM (po7Gy)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 22, 2020 03:05 PM (VzbI8)
He managed to 'wear Zelensky down' all by himself with his awe totallitarian powers. LOL.
"The President believes that these corrupt acts are acceptable."
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 22, 2020 02:59 PM (ufFY
**********
#AdamSchiffRocks is trending on Twitter. His fan club wants him to run for president.
Posted by: redridinghood at January 22, 2020 03:05 PM (wiXsO)
Posted by: garrett at January 22, 2020 03:05 PM (0zK06)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 22, 2020 03:06 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January
Hope he's ok, but calling EMT's wasn't necessary. You have a skilled crew of EMTs right here in this thread. They are trained in every facet of emergency medicine. Helped Heidi save my life.
*weeps*
Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'it's an eating disorder!' at January 22, 2020 03:06 PM (I4swC)
Bille Jean!
Posted by: garrett at January
Gloria
Posted by: not so at January 22, 2020 03:06 PM (HALdu)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 22, 2020 03:06 PM (w63cY)
I don't know if I'd still like Laugh In.
Posted by: Northernlurker, still lurking after all these years at January 22, 2020 03:06 PM (aCNZ6)
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at January 22, 2020 03:06 PM (oZ6kz)
...barely an Inconvenience.
Posted by: Zombie Mao at January 22, 2020 03:02 PM (0zK06)
10,999,983 at last count
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 22, 2020 03:06 PM (LxWV7)
Nobody did it better.
Posted by: garrett
makes me feel sad for the rest
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 22, 2020 03:06 PM (d7Ww2)
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 22, 2020 03:06 PM (iBBEC)
>>My real first name is a song title from the 80's.
Bille Jean!
Posted by: garrett at January 22, 2020 03:01 PM (0zK06)
Wild Fire ?
Posted by: Adriane the Music Critic ... at January 22, 2020 03:03 PM (LPnfS)
Good thing you weren't born in the 70's - Paranoid would be a terrible first name.
Posted by: DamnedYankee at January 22, 2020 03:06 PM (e284m)
You had a name?
Posted by: 70s Horse posting from the Desert at January 22, 2020 03:04 PM (0zK06)
^^^This is why I stay in the comment section all day, every day.
Posted by: seriously yall at January 22, 2020 03:06 PM (sI15f)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVuB31rDESI
Posted by: ace at January 22, 2020 02:58 PM (PbpT7)
It is. IMDB credits her as Girl in Bikini in that episode.
Posted by: Gref at January 22, 2020 03:07 PM (AMIL/)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 22, 2020 03:07 PM (KZzsI)
I mean I guess we've got Lady Gaga.
Posted by: ... at January 22, 2020 03:07 PM (uEbPt)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 22, 2020 03:07 PM (VzbI8)
Physical humor is probably the most purely Male humor of all.
The very first joke of all was probably "HA HA HA!!! THAG JUST GOT MAMMOTH TUSK UP BUM!!! HA HA HA!!!"
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 22, 2020 03:03 PM (Kpl3J)
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I think this is probably spot on. I don't ever remember being with a bunch of girls and remarking about slapstick stunts in a movie or tv show. Guys, on the other hand always seem to have them memorized.
Posted by: washrivergal at January 22, 2020 03:08 PM (+tWDL)
Bille Jean!
Posted by: garrett at January
Gloria
Posted by: not so at January 22, 2020 03:06 PM (HALdu)
For a fairly uncommon name, there's been a lot of songs called "Gloria" - the Van Morrison song, U2 did one, Laura Branigan's
Posted by: josephistan at January 22, 2020 03:08 PM (7HtZB)
Eileen? Is that you? Damn you were hot. Sorry all the guys sang about cumming on you. I never did but really wanted to.
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 22, 2020 03:08 PM (iBBEC)
...barely an Inconvenience.
Posted by: Zombie Mao
Statistical anomaly.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 22, 2020 03:08 PM (Jk+3L)
Gloria, Gloria?
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 22, 2020
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Self Control?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 22, 2020 03:08 PM (Ejm1K)
Bille Jean!
Posted by: garrett at January
centerfold
Posted by: not so at January 22, 2020 03:08 PM (HALdu)
Posted by: seriously yall at January 22, 2020 03:09 PM (sI15f)
Nobody did it better.
Posted by: garrett at January 22, 2020 03:05 PM (0zK06)
You have to remember that several of their hit movies were adaptions of stage shows, written by Kaufman and Hart. So the brothers were taking a well-honed act, and getting it on film.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 22, 2020 03:09 PM (LxWV7)
Posted by: klaftern at January 22, 2020 03:09 PM (RuIsu)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 22, 2020 03:09 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 22, 2020 03:07 PM
I went through the desert on a horse with no mane. His name was baldy.
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 22, 2020 03:09 PM (iBBEC)
Posted by: redridinghood at January 22, 2020 03:05 PM (wiXsO)
Good. Then we can impeach him ...
Posted by: Adriane the Silver Lining Political Critic ... at January 22, 2020 03:09 PM (LPnfS)
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 22, 2020 03:09 PM (1CjJc)
He doesn't sleep well at night so it's not unusual tor him to fall asleep this time of the day. I just wish men weren't so hard headed about going to the doctor.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 22, 2020 03:10 PM (Lqy/e)
Yeah, but the reason isn't a lack of talent (I mean lets face it a lot of the cultural icons of the past were pretty much hacks) but saturation. Back when you could really only see a movie at the theater or really old ones on TV, there were 3 channels, and radio controlled music, you were pretty limited in your entertainment options. Today its like drowning in an ocean of entertainment, its hard for anything to stand out.
The last real cultural touchstone was Harry Potter, which is why everyone kept referencing it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 22, 2020 03:10 PM (KZzsI)
You sir, are banished from Freedonia.
Posted by: garrett at January 22, 2020 03:10 PM (0zK06)
Posted by: imp at January 22, 2020 03:10 PM (SFOr6)
Nobody did it better.
Posted by: garrett at January 22, 2020 03:05 PM (0zK06)
When I was in grad school in Boston back in the very early 80's one of the stations would play reruns of Groucho's "You Bet your Life" sometime after midnight. I found it to be one of the funniest things I've ever seen on TV. He was one of a kind.
Posted by: moon_over_vermont at January 22, 2020 03:10 PM (kUmUV)
The very first joke of all was probably "HA HA HA!!! THAG JUST GOT MAMMOTH TUSK UP BUM!!! HA HA HA!!!"
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 22, 2020 03:03 PM (Kpl3J)
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I think this is probably spot on. I don't ever remember being with a bunch of girls and remarking about slapstick stunts in a movie or tv show. Guys, on the other hand always seem to have them memorized.
Posted by: washrivergal
Because male siblings will pull it on each other. Most wouldn't dare pulling physical humor on little sister, but little brother? Fair game.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 22, 2020 03:10 PM (Jk+3L)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 22, 2020 03:11 PM (KP5rU)
Our grandson is a sweet young man. He won't enter the public schools meat grinder for another year and a half.
I am so dreading what those assholes will do to him because, "boy".
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 22, 2020 03:11 PM (xHTCV)
He was a force of nature. Guy had a mind like the Horde.
Posted by: garrett at January 22, 2020 03:11 PM (0zK06)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 22, 2020 03:11 PM (pnA/u)
>>My real first name is a song title from the 80's.
Bille Jean!
Posted by: garrett at January 22, 2020 03:01 PM (0zK06)
Wild Fire ?
Posted by: Adriane the Music Critic ... at January 22, 2020 03:03 PM (LPnfS)
Rosanna? Rosanna Rosannadana? Is that YOU?
Posted by: DamnedYankee at January 22, 2020 03:11 PM (e284m)
Gloria, Gloria?
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 22, 2020
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Roxanne, I've told you and told you, you don't have to put on that damned red light.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 22, 2020 03:11 PM (Ejm1K)
I don't know if I'd still like Laugh In.
Posted by: Northernlurker, still lurking after all these years at January 22, 2020 03:06 PM (aCNZ6)
I tried watching Laugh-In episodes a few years ago. Made it through one and a quarter. Very, very few 60s and 70s TV shows, comedy or drama, have held their enjoyment appeal to me.
Posted by: Gref at January 22, 2020 03:11 PM (AMIL/)
Posted by: wth at January 22, 2020 03:02 PM (v0R5T)
Yeah, some of the best sound design for the time. The original Star Trek had great sound too.
Posted by: Al Crapton at January 22, 2020 03:11 PM (GlmxK)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVuB31rDESI
Posted by: ace at January 22, 2020 02:58 PM (PbpT7)
"Full Frontal Nudity" - One of their BEST episodes!!! And I remember the backstory to it; they were always arguing with the BBC about what they would be allowed to do, and what they wouldn't, and the BBC had given them an order - NO Full Frontal Nudity! Never!!! So of course after they were given that Order by their bosses, they wrote an episode called Full Frontal Nudity, and of course the episode is about anything else but that.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 22, 2020 03:11 PM (Kpl3J)
That's it. Not blustery at all and not very radical.
Does that mean it's going well?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 22, 2020 03:12 PM (I2dne)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 22, 2020 03:11 PM (KP5rU)
I regret to inform you that the American tax system applies internationally.
Posted by: Someguy at January 22, 2020 03:12 PM (po7Gy)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 22, 2020 03:10 PM (KZzsI)
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Marvel and maybe Game of Thrones (though its audience was much smaller than its media footprint implied).
The new cultural touchstones need to be in the collective consciousness for years to take hold. One movie won't do it.
It's why Avatar isn't a cultural touchstone despite being the (now) second biggest movie ever financially.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 22, 2020 03:12 PM (q80AH)
Jolene? Wait, no, that was the 70s.
Roxeanne? Nope, 70s again.
I got it! Sherrie!
Posted by: bonhomme at January 22, 2020 03:12 PM (9t0Zz)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 22, 2020 03:10 PM (KZzsI)
"Everyone"? Geeze, if I had a brush that broad, I could paint my house in one stroke.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 22, 2020 03:12 PM (LxWV7)
Posted by: Minnfidel
F'n earworm.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 22, 2020 03:12 PM (Jk+3L)
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at January 22, 2020 03:12 PM (/jcxk)
I hate this little shit more very time I see or hear him.
Posted by: Ripley at January 22, 2020 03:03 PM (MxEKc)
Just glanced at Gateway's stories and it looks like Schiff is repeating every scurrilous rumor and slander about Trump as his presentation why Trump should be Impeached for Abuse of Power... and whatever the hell the other thing was they ginned up.
Posted by: Burnt Toast at January 22, 2020 03:13 PM (1g7ch)
Posted by: USNtakim profoundly deplorable. at January 22, 2020 03:13 PM (0OmEj)
Everyone forgets about me. Well I have my own life, with my own friends, and keys, and credit cards...
Posted by: Walter Koenig at January 22, 2020 02:45 PM (7HtZB)
Futurama! Well done!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 22, 2020 03:13 PM (xHTCV)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'it's an eating disorder!' at January 22, 2020 03:13 PM (I4swC)
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 22, 2020 03:13 PM (Ez6QX)
That's it. Not blustery at all and not very radical.
Does that mean it's going well?
Posted by: Joe Mannix
For them? No. LOL.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 22, 2020 03:13 PM (Jk+3L)
Posted by: Adriane the Music Critic ... at January 22, 2020 03:03 PM (LPnfS)
OK, I LOLed.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 22, 2020 03:13 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: rickb223 at January 22, 2020 03:13 PM (Jk+3L)
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Odd. CNN usually cranks up the insanity when things aren't going well.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 22, 2020 03:13 PM (I2dne)
marx brothers were as funny as a busted crutch used by a gimp. stupid fucking shit. i wanted to shoot the tv every time those fuckers came on.
Posted by: chavez the hugo
you, sir, must be very widely sought after for jovial get-togethers in intimate settings.
Marx Brothers weren't the Stooges, but they had their moments.
Posted by: imp at January 22, 2020 03:14 PM (SFOr6)
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It also sucked.
Something you cannot explain.
Posted by: SH at January 22, 2020 03:14 PM (sX1BW)
Outstanding news!
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 22, 2020 03:14 PM (1CjJc)
Posted by: Archer at January 22, 2020 03:14 PM (w6f/8)
I went through the desert on a horse with no mane. His name was baldy.
Posted by: Minnfidel
F'n earworm.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 22, 2020 03:12 PM (Jk+3L)
Southern Man don't need Neil Young around anyhow.
Posted by: DamnedYankee at January 22, 2020 03:14 PM (e284m)
Posted by: USNtakim profoundly deplorable. at January 22, 2020 03:13 PM (0OmEj)
Oh that's wonderful news!
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 22, 2020 03:14 PM (Ez6QX)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 22, 2020 03:14 PM (a4EWo)
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It also sucked.
Something you cannot explain.
Posted by: SH at January 22, 2020 03:14 PM (sX1BW)
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Cultural touchstones don't need to be good pieces of art.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 22, 2020 03:14 PM (q80AH)
Posted by: Gref
No Benny Hill?
Posted by: rickb223 at January 22, 2020 03:15 PM (Jk+3L)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 22, 2020 03:05 PM (KP5rU)
Curly's Oyster Soup scene is one of my all-time favorite comedy scenes.
Posted by: Gref at January 22, 2020 03:15 PM (AMIL/)
Posted by: Skip at January 22, 2020 03:15 PM (ZCEU2)
Cab asked the kid if he knew who he was and Bruce not only knew but had one of his records so he went upstairs and got it. Can signs it and all were merry.
Years later Bruce comes home from the Navy after WWII and is bummed to discover his mother sent the record off for recycling during one of the drives for goods to be used in the war effort.
Posted by: DanMan at January 22, 2020 03:15 PM (XTiHL)
Posted by: Liver Donors Incorporated at January 22, 2020 03:15 PM (4YltB)
Posted by: Archer at January 22, 2020 03:14 PM (w6f/
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I see that as more of a Gilliam movie than a Jones movie (though they co-directed).
Should have done Life of Brian.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 22, 2020 03:15 PM (q80AH)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 22, 2020 03:15 PM (ufFY8)
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It also sucked.
Something you cannot explain.
Posted by: SH at January 22, 2020 03:14 PM (sX1BW)
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Cultural touchstones don't need to be good pieces of art.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 22, 2020 03:14 PM (q80AH)
I hate sand.
Posted by: Someguy at January 22, 2020 03:15 PM (po7Gy)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 22, 2020 03:15 PM (LxWV7)
Posted by: Skip at January 22, 2020 03:15 PM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 22, 2020 03:10 PM (KZzsI)
The thing about Harry Potter was that J. K. Rawling released books on a quick enough pace that the middle of the millennial generation actually grew up as Harry did, and then the movie series let the tail end of the millennial generation do the same thing.
It helps when a cultural touchstone is literally coming of age the same time as you are.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 22, 2020 03:15 PM (KUaJL)
Maybe Iron Man, but the rest of the big names and culturally significant characters were already established. And people knew who Iron Man was, he just wasn't a big name. Spidey, Avengers, Hulk, Dr Strange and all that were already part of the cultural language before the films came out.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 22, 2020 03:16 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 22, 2020 03:13 PM (Ez6QX)
Really? I thought they were trying real hard, and would have nailed it.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'it's an eating disorder!' at January 22, 2020 03:16 PM (I4swC)
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 22, 2020 03:13 PM (Ez6QX)
Sharona?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 22, 2020 03:15 PM (LxWV7)
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Weird Al version. Balogna.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 22, 2020 03:16 PM (q80AH)
Any man who doesn't find at least some of the Stooges, Benny Hill, MP and the Marx Brothers funny should see a surgeon to have their undescended testicles fixed and asshole loosened.
Posted by: Spank Me at January 22, 2020 03:16 PM (lHr8/)
Posted by: SH at January 22, 2020 03:16 PM (sX1BW)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'it's an eating disorder!' at January 22, 2020
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Part of Johnny Carson's brilliance was to use that innocent-looking Midwestern farm boy face. You'd think the joke was going in Direction A, because nobody with that face could possibly be evil-minded, and then boom! Direction B.
In his early Tonight days in New York, he used to tell jokes about the NBC commissary. One day, he said, as he was heading to lunch, he met a giant cockroach coming out of the commissary. The roach shouted at him, "Go back! Go back!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 22, 2020 03:16 PM (Ejm1K)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 22, 2020 03:15 PM (LxWV7)
Nope. That was the 70's.
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 22, 2020 03:16 PM (Ez6QX)
Posted by: moon_over_vermont at January 22, 2020 03:16 PM (kUmUV)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 22, 2020 03:16 PM (VzbI8)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'it's an eating disorder!' at January 22, 2020 03:16 PM (I4swC)
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at January 22, 2020 03:17 PM (JRaU+)
Posted by: Spank Me at January 22, 2020 03:17 PM (lHr8/)
Posted by: redridinghood"
Sound like Avennatti fan bois have a new idol to give them hope.
Posted by: Ripley at January 22, 2020 03:17 PM (MxEKc)
Serial killers have groupies too.
Posted by: Puddleglum at January 22, 2020 03:17 PM (vN4+Q)
Physical humor is probably the most purely Male humor of all.
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Poop and farts.
I laughed at these things when I was three. I'm thirty-six now. Nothing has changed. When a kid farts and laughs about it, I do too. Can't help it.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 22, 2020 03:17 PM (uKj5K)
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 22, 2020 03:17 PM (Ez6QX)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if anyone gives a shit at January 22, 2020 03:17 PM (C+We0)
That's as awful as moms giving away or recycling Action Comics 1. Moms mean well but sometimes should be more careful of collectables.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 22, 2020 03:17 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 22, 2020 03:17 PM (Rarvo)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if anyone gives a shit at January 22, 2020 03:17 PM (C+We0)
Is Adam still talking?
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Always leave them wanting more.
Posted by: SH at January 22, 2020 03:16 PM (sX1BW)
Yeah, that bug-eyed balloon-headed bitch is still yammering.
Cocaine Mitch said they would take a break at an appropriate time after about two hours. They are just over that mark, I believe.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 22, 2020 03:17 PM (ufFY8)
Where's the beef?
Oh, look, that rascal Klinger has a dress on!
*dabs*
Posted by: bonhomme at January 22, 2020 03:17 PM (9t0Zz)
Sharona?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 22, 2020 03:15 PM (LxWV7)
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Weird Al version. Balogna.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 22, 2020
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To this day I think of Weird Al's "Eat It" when I hear Michael Jackson's original, and Al's "I Lost on Jeopardy" when I hear "Our Love's in Jeopardy."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 22, 2020 03:17 PM (Ejm1K)
Posted by: Aud at January 22, 2020 03:17 PM (uBywd)
Posted by: Gref at January 22, 2020 03:17 PM (AMIL/)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'it's an eating disorder!' at January 22, 2020 03:18 PM (I4swC)
Brandy?
Mandy?
Suite Judy Blue Eyes?
(I know, all 60s or 70s, shut up)
Ruby, Josie, Rhiannon?
No, I'm going with Eileen.
Posted by: imp at January 22, 2020 03:18 PM (SFOr6)
Posted by: Archer at January 22, 2020 03:18 PM (w6f/8)
Posted by: Horus Hearsay at January 22, 2020 03:18 PM (DB16e)
Posted by: Ghost of Qassem Soleimani at January 22, 2020 03:18 PM (BqBId)
Good lord, he got theme park rides, merchandising, he pushed that like Vince McMahon on crack. If you mean another movie, well its not easy to find another story to steal and film.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 22, 2020 03:18 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 22, 2020 03:18 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: garrett at January 22, 2020 03:18 PM (0zK06)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 22, 2020 03:18 PM (Rarvo)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'it's an eating disorder!' at January 22, 2020 03:18 PM (I4swC)
Posted by: Skip at January 22, 2020 03:18 PM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: DamnedYankee at January 22, 2020 03:18 PM (e284m)
Posted by: moon_over_vermont at January 22, 2020 03:18 PM (kUmUV)
Posted by: Vince Gill at January 22, 2020 03:19 PM (ceIDk)
https://mobile.twitter.com/Jack_Burkman/status/ 1220036002485428224
Posted by: squirrelly dan at January 22, 2020 03:19 PM (O8P7E)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 22, 2020 03:14 PM (a4EWo
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Yep. He won't shut the F up.
Posted by: redridinghood at January 22, 2020 03:19 PM (wiXsO)
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 22, 2020 03:19 PM (1CjJc)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if anyone gives a shit at January 22, 2020 03:19 PM (C+We0)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 22, 2020 03:18 PM (Rarvo)
Pop.
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 22, 2020 03:19 PM (Ez6QX)
470 Nobody's guessed it yet.
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 22, 2020 03:13 PM (Ez6QX)
Sharona?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 22, 2020 03:15 PM (LxWV7)
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Weird Al version. Balogna.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 22, 2020 03:16 PM (q80AH)
Steve Dahl's version: Ayatollah.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 22, 2020 03:19 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 22, 2020 03:13 PM (Ez6Q
Would you happen to have a gun?
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 22, 2020 03:19 PM (VzbI8)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'it's an eating disorder!' at January 22, 2020
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Part of Johnny Carson's brilliance was to use that innocent-looking Midwestern farm boy face. You'd think the joke was going in Direction A, because nobody with that face could possibly be evil-minded, and then boom! Direction B.
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Wasn't that part of his appeal. That is monologues often were lousy. Or at least a lot of lousy jokes.
I've watched some old interviews - obviously with some selection bias.
But there is some great humor in some of those.
Posted by: SH at January 22, 2020 03:19 PM (sX1BW)
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 22, 2020 03:19 PM (iBBEC)
Work it backwards. You start out at 120, old and feeble, but full of knowledge and experience.
Every year you get younger until, blip! You disappear.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 22, 2020 02:39 PM (Jk+3L)
That was the main plot device of an old Golden Amazon novel.
red dwarf did it better
Posted by: Anachronda at January 22, 2020 03:19 PM (sGtp+)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if anyone gives a shit at January 22, 2020 03:19 PM (C+We0)
Bingo!
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 22, 2020 03:19 PM (Ez6QX)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 22, 2020 03:19 PM (Ejm1K)
Posted by: Gref
No Benny Hill?
Posted by: rickb223
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Enjoy Benny Hill and some of their antics. Was flipping through the channels the other night and came across Match Game Pm.. they had some doozies on there - LOL I did.
Posted by: NALNAMSAM - Not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at January 22, 2020 03:19 PM (9B/d8)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- current occupation: cat furniture at January 22, 2020 03:19 PM (0oVJn)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if anyone gives a shit at January 22, 2020 03:20 PM (C+We0)
"Yes it was funny"
"No, you're wrong!"
..............
How many of you are just arguing in your spare time?
Posted by: Rex B at January 22, 2020 03:20 PM (X8Oz/)
Posted by: DamnedYankee at January 22, 2020 03:20 PM (e284m)
Posted by: imp at January 22, 2020 03:20 PM (SFOr6)
Posted by: Ripley at January 22, 2020 03:20 PM (MxEKc)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 22, 2020 03:21 PM (VzbI8)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if anyone gives a shit at January 22, 2020 03:21 PM (C+We0)
Posted by: imp at January 22, 2020
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Name sounds familiar. I think I dated her.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 22, 2020 03:21 PM (Ejm1K)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 22, 2020 03:21 PM (VzbI
*snort*
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 22, 2020 03:21 PM (Ez6QX)
Posted by: Jasper Moore at January 22, 2020 03:21 PM (B+t5k)
questions, some very simple, about family history, their parents,
places, times, etc.. Questions they would have been happy to answer. And
now, it's too late."
Maybe not. Didn't the Allegedly Greatest Generation pride itself on its stoicism and Not Talking About Things? I come from a family where all questions received, at best, a "Oh, I don't remember" or more usually a glacial stare and a "What business is it of yours?" So anything I learned about them, I found out accidentally.
Posted by: Annalucia at January 22, 2020 02:54 PM (S6ArX)
Thank you for this.
Posted by: m at January 22, 2020 03:22 PM (M5wRT)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 22, 2020 03:19 PM (ufFY
https://tinyurl.com/s248bk5
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 22, 2020 03:22 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 22, 2020
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I stopped paying much attention to pop music in 1985-86, except I recall Mike and the Mechanics' "I Need a Miracle." Never heard of Europe the band.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 22, 2020 03:22 PM (Ejm1K)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 22, 2020 03:23 PM (pnA/u)
The very first joke of all was probably "HA HA HA!!! THAG JUST GOT MAMMOTH TUSK UP BUM!!! HA HA HA!!!"
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 22, 2020 03:03 PM (Kpl3J)
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"Quest for Fire" depicted the invention of the practical joke.
Posted by: Captain Obvious at January 22, 2020 03:23 PM (jW9oF)
The local Musicland manager would put the Europe albums next to the Asia records.
Well, I thought it was funny.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if anyone gives a shit at January 22, 2020 03:23 PM (C+We0)
Carrie? Europe?
Well at least you couldn't have gotten made fun of much since no one ever heard that song...
Posted by: imp at January 22, 2020 03:23 PM (SFOr6)
Who's the annoying Asian gay guy?[...]
Posted by: Cheribebe at January 22, 2020 02:38 PM (pGrg3)
Can you be more specific?
Posted by: jwpaine at January 22, 2020 03:24 PM (eYbxr)
"So, Honorable Schitt, all the quote evidence endquote to impeach President Trump is #OrangeManBad?"
"You do realize that to Impeach you need actual verifiable crimes, verifiable evidence, and verifiable evidence, usually in that order, that the President did in fact commit those crimes?"
"After three years of in depth investigation, starting with an individual, trying to find a crime committed by him, and all you have is your personal opinions?"
"As presiding Justice and suggest the full Senate move to vote for dismissal with prejudice for all crimes real or imagined through to the day at the hour of the vote."
Nah, He'll sit there like a potted plant.
Posted by: Burnt Toast at January 22, 2020 03:25 PM (1g7ch)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 22, 2020 03:26 PM (pnA/u)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 22, 2020 03:27 PM (VzbI8)
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Posted by: m at January 22, 2020 03:35 PM (M5wRT)
Posted by: Chicago Vota at January 22, 2020 03:36 PM (g9x4e)
No. Instead we memorized all the Firesign Theater we could put our hands on. (33 1/3 LP or 8 track for the road.) At the time, they were hilarious.
(It was hotter than Heater in Hooker today, and hotter than Hooker in Hellmouth.) I guess you had to be there.
Posted by: Oh look! Squirrel! Let's treat it to snackies shall we! at January 22, 2020 03:41 PM (64PZ4)
Posted by: Oh look! Squirrel! Let's treat it to snackies shall we! at January 22, 2020 03:44 PM (64PZ4)
Wild Fire ?
Posted by: Adriane the Music Critic ... at January 22, 2020 03:03 PM (LPnfS)
hahahahaha
Posted by: m at January 22, 2020 03:49 PM (M5wRT)
I don't know if I'd still like Laugh In.
Posted by: Northernlurker, still lurking after all these years at January 22, 2020 03:06 PM (aCNZ6)
I think Hee Haw is still funny.
Posted by: m at January 22, 2020 03:53 PM (M5wRT)
No matter what you dooooo..."
Posted by: Donovan Nuera at January 22, 2020 04:00 PM (krUee)
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Posted by: pawn at January 22, 2020 05:09 PM (+LeF+)
I think it's great.
The contrast between the silliness versus the seriousness of the visuals in Holy Grail is what works to me.
It subverts your expectations of what an Arthurian movie should be.============My favorite bits are from their other movies, probably because they don't get overused as much as all of Holy Grail.
#1 is Biggus Dickus giving Brian his Latin lesson.
Posted by: jdgalt at January 22, 2020 08:47 PM (3SFo/)
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