At work. Get home around 5:20. Well, it’s work for as long as it lasts, which, I hope, will be towards the end of the month, after Christmas. It may end sooner. Then, again, they need, really need, a guy just like me! Anything can happen. I just keep my head down and plow away.
Here’s something to watch while slurping coffee and inhaling krullers and bacon. This is a little known Oscar winning animated short of A Christmas Carol from 1971, produced by Chuck Jones, and directed by Richard Williams (animation supervisor on “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?”). Someone finally uploaded the whole 25 minutes uncut.
I have not seen that in decades. Great find Matt. There are a few animated Scrooge’s running around. The ghost of Marley and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come always freak me out more in animation…well except for Frank Finlay’s in the George C Scott version.
They usually make those ghosts closer to the characters in the book. I think the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come is one none of the live action movies got right. The Ringwraiths/Nazgul from Jackson’s LOTR would make the perfect GOCYTC. Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol is good too.
They have the entire uncut Lemon Drop Kid on there too (see Floyd’s yesterday’s CPOD), for those who don’t have TCM (Tink!) either. I watched it last night and it comes in surprisingly good quality if you can stream it to your TV. I haven’t seen it in decades and it was funnier than I remembered. One of Hope’s best performances.
They’re always antsy. I keep them in line this time of year by warning them that they won’t participate in our Christmas party if they don’t behave. There’s always a couple who think I’m joking, or making hollow threats, that end up as Christmas party casualties. Rather than send them to another room, I make them sit and watch the well-behaved kids enjoy the party. I may even lay in some melodrama by exaggeratedly savoring a cupcake to show them what they’re missing by being idjits.
So anyway, as we touched on yesterday, I’m thinkin’ we’re gonna’ piss away a gimmie election. I think if the vote were held today, Obama’d get a second term. Six months ago, he wouldn’t. Six months from now he *may* not, but we’re not really putting forth a particularly vigorous and confidence-inducing alternative at the moment.
I fear we’re pulling a “Gore.” We’re so confident victory is assured that we’re just sorta’ half-assing it, and it’s going to work against us. That’s my fear, anyway. We’ve spent the last three years more-or-less bitching about the guy, and not really trying to develop any credible candidates. C’mon, Newt? Mitt? Perry….MAYbe….but only maybe. Best card in a very weak hand.
>>Is there anyone you see that should have been developed?<<
That's my point: The party should have been on the lookout for viable candidates, and should have been packaging them for the run over the last three years.
One note, you make it sound like we’re Communists or the Gestapo. “The Party” doesn’t recruit from the youth/lower echelons of the Republicans and forge the Ubermensch of politics (see Obama). This is contradictory to the essence of modern American Conservatism regarding our respect for individuality, self assurance and reliance and the choice of people who decide to serve the public as a representative. This concept is alien to most conservatives who want someone to make the moral case for free enterprise is a vital link to liberty, how liberal’s denial of this truth has warped our social fabric.
We want a candidate who can weave their thoughts into a vision and are far more prepared than only able to look dumbstruck when the acolytes of Obama like Wasserman-Schultz shovel their garbage. People far more cunning than her are going to try this stuff in the general campaign and we want a candidate who will be able to strike them down intellectually like a thunderbolt from the sky; but not because they were doing it for the cameras, because they actually BELIEVE it.
This is why Newt both currently has the banner as he has a sparkle of this power. However people are reticent to vote for him because they don’t trust him. I personally think he is getting far worse a rap than deserved, but I understand why. The same reality applies to Romney, conservatives certainly don’t trust him. There are those here who think Cain is a joke, but that’s because they are dbags. Simply put, he caught fire because he had that vision and forces went to work on his weaknesses until he collapsed instead of any real honest debate as to why he wouldn’t make a great candidate (and there were real reasons for that).
Huntsman gleefully jumped on a landmine by telling conservatives to screw off and by doing so could never create that cohesive gel for voters to stick to. Perry for some reason decided to intentionally dig up a similar landmine and hit himself over the head with it and has caused his message to swing wildly, making him look dumb up until this last debate. Hopefully he got his mojo back from his alternate ego, Dr. Evil Perry.
Bachman never managed to articulate that vision from the start falling head first into obvious traps, like a rabbit going for that carrot dangling under a box held up by a stick. She also had the fortune of having popular media intentionally making her appear insane. With the exception of Cain, who didn’t have the political savvy to properly defend himself, and Ron Paul there is no grand vision. That is why Paul continues to attract numbers but he is an actual insane person and not a manufactured one.
Now, you may say that what conservatives want as I listed in the opening paragraphs is anachronistic and part of the reason we are heading for a loss (which, for the record, I believed months ago and still have my bet with my friend Obama wins by a popular vote margin of 5 or more). The Conservative vision is antithetical to the state of modern politics; the two couldn’t clash any more starkly. Therefore the Republican Party is only able to produce weird political mutants that roam the landscape as they have to fake it. If you really believe in what America stands for, you are unfit for running for office.
>>One note, you make it sound like we’re Communists or the Gestapo. “The Party” doesn’t recruit from the youth/lower echelons of the Republicans and forge the Ubermensch of politics (see Obama)<<
We're a party, yes? What should I call it when I'm talking about it if not "The Party?" Are you saying it's politically incorrect
>>This is contradictory to the essence of modern American Conservatism regarding our respect for individuality, self assurance and reliance and the choice of people who decide to serve the public as a representative.<<<
SPiffy. But we *are* a party, right? That means that we've come together with similar goals, hopes, aims, and plans of action, yes? So saying a party should actually act in a reasonably coherent method to do what parties do makes sense to me. (Note; The Democrats are even worse about this than we are)
Just as a *good* football team scouts around for people with potential, so an effective party keeps an eye open for viable future candidates. Losing teams just take whatever crap comes along their way. A little planning a couple years back would be reaping major dividends now.
Well you ignore the main fact that who is making these decisions? Who in the party keeps an eye open for viable future candidates? Who dictates what qualifies as “the reasonable coherent” method? Who are the scouts then? You? Me? Why raise the specter of political correctness? Because I don’t think party heads should be the ultimate say? That I reject the notion of ideological purity in favor of letting a candidate prove their mettle? Did it ever occur to you that relying on their judgment is what got us to this point in the first place? Am I the only one tired of the pre-packaged, vacuum sealed dimwits that line the shelves of the Republican store?
I don’t think the voters are looking for plain old vanilla (ask Pawlenty), but wanted someone dynamic. Obama came into the 2008 Presidential race as a dynamic presence and was able to ride that to the White House. I think the repubs/tea partiers/conservatives wanted to find that same candidate and looked at Palin for a long time. She spiced things up in 2008, later on threw herself into the Health Care debate, and had a pulpit on FOX and reality shows to reach a lot of people. I think it made everyone feel like she was going to be the spark to take on Obama. When she didn’t pan out, what’s left? A lot of energy spent tearing away at the POTUS does not equal building something else up.
Being from Texas, I thought Perry would do better and was thinking he could take on Obama. Now I have serious doubts. Romney and Gingrich have experience but are both very plain. Cain was a joke. Does that leave you with just Trump?
Why the “does that leave you” mentality, BO? Despite differences, aren’t we as Americans all in this together? Can you honestly say President Obama deserves another four years? If so, why?
>>Obama came into the 2008 Presidential race as a dynamic presence and was able to ride that to the White House. <<
The only thing I can think of that would really hurt Obama is that a lot of the more hardline Democrats I know are *Really* disappointed. I've been saying for several years now that Obama's 1st term is George's 3rd term, since he's still following most of the same courses of action (Excepting the space program). Lately I've met a fair number of democrats who didn't realize I was (mostly) joking, and I've even met one person who insists on calling Barry "George the Third."
So it's possible that Democratic disappointment could hurt him, but I'm not placing too much stock in that because at the end of the day, who else are they gonna' vote for?
If we nominate a Gingrich or a Romney we may piss it away. That will elicit a third party run by Paul.
If we nominate Bachman…the GOP can just die of embaressment.
Perry, is the only electable conservative. Period. Go to RickPerry.org and check out his ideas. From overhauling DC, to protecting the border, to protecting our allies and keeping our international committments, pro second amendment, pro life, anti Wallstreet and Anti DC…its awesome..we could have a complete 180 from the last four years…and momentum is truly building. He is gaining in the polls in IA.
I’d vote for him or Santorum (Even if I think Santorum would be mashed into the turf)…..we have a good guy here…just go to http;//WWW.RickPerry.org and check it out……
I am starting to agree with Republbibot that we are going to lose.
The attacks on the right-of-center candidates (especially Perry) have been over-the-top.
The Tea Party and Conservative movements have descended into a Revolutionary Jacobinsm. Which is funny, because most Revolutions wait until AFTER they have taken over the place before they start putting people up against the wall.
Not us. We take care of that BEFORE the Revolution.
Thus ensuring that no revolution takes place.
Of course, I am rather sick right now, so it could be affecting my brain-pan.
As long as the focus remains on the horse race to replace the SCOAMF, instead of taking back the Senate and keeping the House, we will continue to play by their rules on their field and will gain NOTHING. We shall see just how deep the wave really is in the down ballot primaries this spring…
I am not sure about Floyd’s Santa, Chesterfield’s AND Hennessy? Of course, he does have to put together a lot of bicycles and that can be hard on the nerves.
I’m thinking that Santa needs a dose of reality and needs to get his work done in sober fashion. He’s been so bad this year, I may have to don his persona and pay his chimney a visit!
Oh, and there’s coffee and the usual gooey goodies in abundance and …………bacon!
My Dad had nothing good to say of it. We stayed local..Heileman’s Special Export and Export light, Blatz and Blatz Light, I tried Hammes a few times…I wasn’t impressed.
Ohh ohh Fritzie check this out.
When I was a kid my Dad drank Blatz Light Cream Ale when Heileman’s made it. It was a really good beer. I remember the bottles were 8 ounce and Dad could chug one down in two or three gulps.
The Brewery is now making City Cream Ale which is the same recipe…here is a link….I may have to have my sister send some….
3 of the Muppet movie songs were written by Bret Mckenzie. I wondered about “Man or a Muppet” when I heard it in the movie, he has a pretty distinctive style. “Me Party” sounded a lot more like him the second time I saw it but I never did pick up on “Life’s a Happy Song”.
Okay, so I’ve been pretty vocal about my dislike of the first G.I. Joe movie, but based on this trailer, the sequel looks freaking awesome. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSX2oxLdcWA
Seriously – those guys climbing the rocks ever consider packing a pistol instead of a sword? That way you don’t have to swing all the way over to your enemy to kill him. Just a thought.
Yes, when I first saw the stills of Bruce Willis and Dwayne Johnson and the far more gritty military vision (as opposed to the anime style, Mission Impossible, Intelligence Organization/CIA-ish look) I became hopeful. This movie might still suck, but at least I won’t know that until after I see it.
I am in a piss-poor mood. Grading, finals week, and I can’t shake off this flu-The Stand-bug-whatever-it-is that is now entering its 16th day.
That’s all. Just wandered by to sprinkle some sunshine & then go back to bed.
Oh boy..girl you better not have Pnuemonia! Get rest, and drink a lot of hot chicken soup. I’d have you bundled up here with Buford as a footwarmer..his choice because I couldn’t stop and I’d be shoving hot Peppermint tea down your throat with Chicken soup and Ricolas….
Honestly if my husband was in command of that training company and that went on he might hvae a few choice words for the DI. Its funny don’t get me wrong but but but…they are pretty disciplined with how they train marines now. I doubt you’d hear an F word anymore. He told me once he saw one of his DIs (He actually was a series company commander at Paris Island for a tour) who was so good at crushing people that the guy could make recruits cry without raising his voice or using four letter words. I’ll show this link to him and see what he thinks. It is funny.
And he hated that frog voice some DI’s would use. They do it to save their voices but he’d ask them not to.
Two Netflix streaming Christmas classic TV episodes that no one should miss:
The Twilight Zone – Night of the Meek (season 2, episode 11): Art Carney plays a drunken department store Santa who finds a magic bag that lets him give whatever gift anyone wishes. I haven’t missed watching this for 18 years.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents – Santa Claus and the 10th Avenue Kid (season 1, episode 12): Barry Fitzgerald plays a cynical parolee who gets a job as a department store Santa who promises a street kid that he’ll bring him a model jet on Christmas Eve.
Damn, I just looked you are right, it looks just like her though. So talking Tina from ’63 was her voice. Larrian Gillespie is credited, good correction Mr Helm. This episode will be on syfy Dec. 24th at 9 AM for the non instant crowd.
Time to put a Texan in the White House:
http://www.operatorchan.org/t/arch/src/t42209_Ron%20paul.jpg
That is…disturbing to say the least.
Mother Russia has spoken!
Happy 63rd to that great constitutionalist,Ted Nugent!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z73JWz048TU&feature=related
Rise and shine,Magnus!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_YEwquxCUE
Thanks . . .I think
Where’ve you been Sgt.?
At work. Get home around 5:20. Well, it’s work for as long as it lasts, which, I hope, will be towards the end of the month, after Christmas. It may end sooner. Then, again, they need, really need, a guy just like me! Anything can happen. I just keep my head down and plow away.
I pray it may work out for you. My dad started a 6 month temprary job on the railroad in 1927 and retired in 1970. Slightly longer than 6 months, eh?
No more disturbing than what this country has been through for the last 11 years,Doc.
Remember,this is about ears:
http://www.adweek.com/video/advertising-branding/freakiest-ads-2011-zippearz-rhythm-boobs-136820
Introducing Michelle Fields..she’s talking about economics..or something,I forget:
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2011/12/myths-of-the-new-deal.php
Excellent presentation – now if Michelle Fields could just learn that little trick from the ear buds commercial, we’d have the perfect 3D post.
She’s cute, but her delivery is pure high school forensics.
Here’s something to watch while slurping coffee and inhaling krullers and bacon. This is a little known Oscar winning animated short of A Christmas Carol from 1971, produced by Chuck Jones, and directed by Richard Williams (animation supervisor on “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?”). Someone finally uploaded the whole 25 minutes uncut.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2LLtN3YY8A
I have not seen that in decades. Great find Matt. There are a few animated Scrooge’s running around. The ghost of Marley and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come always freak me out more in animation…well except for Frank Finlay’s in the George C Scott version.
They usually make those ghosts closer to the characters in the book. I think the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come is one none of the live action movies got right. The Ringwraiths/Nazgul from Jackson’s LOTR would make the perfect GOCYTC. Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol is good too.
As crazy as it sounds (and I’m not saying this because I’m biased) I thought the Muppets had a decent ghost of Christmas Yet to Come.
Ringwraiths yes, but they can’t talk
They have the entire uncut Lemon Drop Kid on there too (see Floyd’s yesterday’s CPOD), for those who don’t have TCM (Tink!) either. I watched it last night and it comes in surprisingly good quality if you can stream it to your TV. I haven’t seen it in decades and it was funnier than I remembered. One of Hope’s best performances.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2LLtN3YY8A
Thanks, Matt! I have been wanting to see it for awhile and hadn’t made it to the video store lately to look for it.
Are the students getting antsy with their break just around the corner?
They’re always antsy. I keep them in line this time of year by warning them that they won’t participate in our Christmas party if they don’t behave. There’s always a couple who think I’m joking, or making hollow threats, that end up as Christmas party casualties. Rather than send them to another room, I make them sit and watch the well-behaved kids enjoy the party. I may even lay in some melodrama by exaggeratedly savoring a cupcake to show them what they’re missing by being idjits.
Saw that Christmas Carol in ’71,Matt…beautiful animation.
This is what becomes of empire building:
http://www.irandefence.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=23335&stc=1&d=1216557024
http://www.50statesclassifieds.com/uploadedimages/7096776il_570xN.194300856.jpg
So anyway, as we touched on yesterday, I’m thinkin’ we’re gonna’ piss away a gimmie election. I think if the vote were held today, Obama’d get a second term. Six months ago, he wouldn’t. Six months from now he *may* not, but we’re not really putting forth a particularly vigorous and confidence-inducing alternative at the moment.
I fear we’re pulling a “Gore.” We’re so confident victory is assured that we’re just sorta’ half-assing it, and it’s going to work against us. That’s my fear, anyway. We’ve spent the last three years more-or-less bitching about the guy, and not really trying to develop any credible candidates. C’mon, Newt? Mitt? Perry….MAYbe….but only maybe. Best card in a very weak hand.
I’m concerned about this.
Is there anyone you see that should have been developed? (serious, not sarcastic, question)
I’m not happy with the list but I don’t know who else should’ve been there or what would have happened when they were exposed to the press.
>>Is there anyone you see that should have been developed?<<
That's my point: The party should have been on the lookout for viable candidates, and should have been packaging them for the run over the last three years.
One note, you make it sound like we’re Communists or the Gestapo. “The Party” doesn’t recruit from the youth/lower echelons of the Republicans and forge the Ubermensch of politics (see Obama). This is contradictory to the essence of modern American Conservatism regarding our respect for individuality, self assurance and reliance and the choice of people who decide to serve the public as a representative. This concept is alien to most conservatives who want someone to make the moral case for free enterprise is a vital link to liberty, how liberal’s denial of this truth has warped our social fabric.
We want a candidate who can weave their thoughts into a vision and are far more prepared than only able to look dumbstruck when the acolytes of Obama like Wasserman-Schultz shovel their garbage. People far more cunning than her are going to try this stuff in the general campaign and we want a candidate who will be able to strike them down intellectually like a thunderbolt from the sky; but not because they were doing it for the cameras, because they actually BELIEVE it.
This is why Newt both currently has the banner as he has a sparkle of this power. However people are reticent to vote for him because they don’t trust him. I personally think he is getting far worse a rap than deserved, but I understand why. The same reality applies to Romney, conservatives certainly don’t trust him. There are those here who think Cain is a joke, but that’s because they are dbags. Simply put, he caught fire because he had that vision and forces went to work on his weaknesses until he collapsed instead of any real honest debate as to why he wouldn’t make a great candidate (and there were real reasons for that).
Huntsman gleefully jumped on a landmine by telling conservatives to screw off and by doing so could never create that cohesive gel for voters to stick to. Perry for some reason decided to intentionally dig up a similar landmine and hit himself over the head with it and has caused his message to swing wildly, making him look dumb up until this last debate. Hopefully he got his mojo back from his alternate ego, Dr. Evil Perry.
Bachman never managed to articulate that vision from the start falling head first into obvious traps, like a rabbit going for that carrot dangling under a box held up by a stick. She also had the fortune of having popular media intentionally making her appear insane. With the exception of Cain, who didn’t have the political savvy to properly defend himself, and Ron Paul there is no grand vision. That is why Paul continues to attract numbers but he is an actual insane person and not a manufactured one.
Now, you may say that what conservatives want as I listed in the opening paragraphs is anachronistic and part of the reason we are heading for a loss (which, for the record, I believed months ago and still have my bet with my friend Obama wins by a popular vote margin of 5 or more). The Conservative vision is antithetical to the state of modern politics; the two couldn’t clash any more starkly. Therefore the Republican Party is only able to produce weird political mutants that roam the landscape as they have to fake it. If you really believe in what America stands for, you are unfit for running for office.
>>One note, you make it sound like we’re Communists or the Gestapo. “The Party” doesn’t recruit from the youth/lower echelons of the Republicans and forge the Ubermensch of politics (see Obama)<<
We're a party, yes? What should I call it when I'm talking about it if not "The Party?" Are you saying it's politically incorrect
>>This is contradictory to the essence of modern American Conservatism regarding our respect for individuality, self assurance and reliance and the choice of people who decide to serve the public as a representative.<<<
SPiffy. But we *are* a party, right? That means that we've come together with similar goals, hopes, aims, and plans of action, yes? So saying a party should actually act in a reasonably coherent method to do what parties do makes sense to me. (Note; The Democrats are even worse about this than we are)
Just as a *good* football team scouts around for people with potential, so an effective party keeps an eye open for viable future candidates. Losing teams just take whatever crap comes along their way. A little planning a couple years back would be reaping major dividends now.
Well you ignore the main fact that who is making these decisions? Who in the party keeps an eye open for viable future candidates? Who dictates what qualifies as “the reasonable coherent” method? Who are the scouts then? You? Me? Why raise the specter of political correctness? Because I don’t think party heads should be the ultimate say? That I reject the notion of ideological purity in favor of letting a candidate prove their mettle? Did it ever occur to you that relying on their judgment is what got us to this point in the first place? Am I the only one tired of the pre-packaged, vacuum sealed dimwits that line the shelves of the Republican store?
Tracy, Dang! but that is the cutest avatar!!
That’s my #5 child. You can’t see it very well, but he’s flipping me off for stuffing him in the stocking.
Don’t panic quite yet:
http://www.sunshinestatenews.com/blog/barack-obama-would-lose-all-12-swing-states-today-poll-says
I don’t think the voters are looking for plain old vanilla (ask Pawlenty), but wanted someone dynamic. Obama came into the 2008 Presidential race as a dynamic presence and was able to ride that to the White House. I think the repubs/tea partiers/conservatives wanted to find that same candidate and looked at Palin for a long time. She spiced things up in 2008, later on threw herself into the Health Care debate, and had a pulpit on FOX and reality shows to reach a lot of people. I think it made everyone feel like she was going to be the spark to take on Obama. When she didn’t pan out, what’s left? A lot of energy spent tearing away at the POTUS does not equal building something else up.
Being from Texas, I thought Perry would do better and was thinking he could take on Obama. Now I have serious doubts. Romney and Gingrich have experience but are both very plain. Cain was a joke. Does that leave you with just Trump?
Why the “does that leave you” mentality, BO? Despite differences, aren’t we as Americans all in this together? Can you honestly say President Obama deserves another four years? If so, why?
>>Obama came into the 2008 Presidential race as a dynamic presence and was able to ride that to the White House. <<
The only thing I can think of that would really hurt Obama is that a lot of the more hardline Democrats I know are *Really* disappointed. I've been saying for several years now that Obama's 1st term is George's 3rd term, since he's still following most of the same courses of action (Excepting the space program). Lately I've met a fair number of democrats who didn't realize I was (mostly) joking, and I've even met one person who insists on calling Barry "George the Third."
So it's possible that Democratic disappointment could hurt him, but I'm not placing too much stock in that because at the end of the day, who else are they gonna' vote for?
If we nominate a Gingrich or a Romney we may piss it away. That will elicit a third party run by Paul.
If we nominate Bachman…the GOP can just die of embaressment.
Perry, is the only electable conservative. Period. Go to RickPerry.org and check out his ideas. From overhauling DC, to protecting the border, to protecting our allies and keeping our international committments, pro second amendment, pro life, anti Wallstreet and Anti DC…its awesome..we could have a complete 180 from the last four years…and momentum is truly building. He is gaining in the polls in IA.
I’d vote for him or Santorum (Even if I think Santorum would be mashed into the turf)…..we have a good guy here…just go to http;//WWW.RickPerry.org and check it out……
I am starting to agree with Republbibot that we are going to lose.
The attacks on the right-of-center candidates (especially Perry) have been over-the-top.
The Tea Party and Conservative movements have descended into a Revolutionary Jacobinsm. Which is funny, because most Revolutions wait until AFTER they have taken over the place before they start putting people up against the wall.
Not us. We take care of that BEFORE the Revolution.
Thus ensuring that no revolution takes place.
Of course, I am rather sick right now, so it could be affecting my brain-pan.
Yeah, that’s the thing: I’m finding it harder and harder to find a way in which we don’t lose.
As long as the focus remains on the horse race to replace the SCOAMF, instead of taking back the Senate and keeping the House, we will continue to play by their rules on their field and will gain NOTHING. We shall see just how deep the wave really is in the down ballot primaries this spring…
Others have ideas similarly along these lines.
http://www.redstate.com/erick/2011/12/13/3-weeks-and-counting-are-we-in-a-suicide-pact/
Well there you go. Things are looking grim.
Santa chug-a-lugs cognac? I knew he had superpowers, but never suspected that. Sometimes great power brings great irresponsibility.
I am not sure about Floyd’s Santa, Chesterfield’s AND Hennessy? Of course, he does have to put together a lot of bicycles and that can be hard on the nerves.
I’m thinking that Santa needs a dose of reality and needs to get his work done in sober fashion. He’s been so bad this year, I may have to don his persona and pay his chimney a visit!
Oh, and there’s coffee and the usual gooey goodies in abundance and …………bacon!
Gooey? Knowing this crowd, you said that word?
Yeah, I know! I pondered using something more like “sloppy” but I knew that would creat havoc.
The Santa I knew chugalugged Blatz Light Cream Ale (I’d bet Lars remembers that stuff) Heileman’s Brewing Company…..8 ounce bottles.
I remember Blatz. Never drank it but heard of it. Stephanie, do you remember the old, very cute Hamms Beer commercials with the dancing bears?
Bum-bum-bum-bum, bum-bum-bum-bum (Half-beat) FROM THE LAND OF SKY BLUE WATERS!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o83xxWCel8g
Yup that’s it. I defy you to find a better beer jingle. As to the beer itself, I’ve never drunk the stuff.
I haven’t either.
My Dad had nothing good to say of it. We stayed local..Heileman’s Special Export and Export light, Blatz and Blatz Light, I tried Hammes a few times…I wasn’t impressed.
I grew up about 5 miles from the Coors Brewery, so one thing led to another.
Yes I do..in fact…lets see if I can find it..
Here’s one from the 70′s. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq6wYSo9uPM
Youtube has a plethora!
Ohh ohh Fritzie check this out.
When I was a kid my Dad drank Blatz Light Cream Ale when Heileman’s made it. It was a really good beer. I remember the bottles were 8 ounce and Dad could chug one down in two or three gulps.
The Brewery is now making City Cream Ale which is the same recipe…here is a link….I may have to have my sister send some….
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/city-cream-ale/9300/2640/
Cool!
Your Emperor of Japan:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqG7iDCxgqc&feature=related
I just saw this at Althouse – kind of relevant (and totally hilarious) since everyone seems to have Newt on the brain:
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2011/12/Separated-at-Birth-Jermaine-from-emFlight-of-the-Conchordsem-and-Young-Newt-Gingrich
Don’t get caught looking at Newt’s sugar lumps Tink…
3 of the Muppet movie songs were written by Bret Mckenzie. I wondered about “Man or a Muppet” when I heard it in the movie, he has a pretty distinctive style. “Me Party” sounded a lot more like him the second time I saw it but I never did pick up on “Life’s a Happy Song”.
“hungry for my dungarees. . .”
Pretty funny stuff. I’ve never seen the show, but it looks like I might need to give it a try.
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Okay, so I’ve been pretty vocal about my dislike of the first G.I. Joe movie, but based on this trailer, the sequel looks freaking awesome. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSX2oxLdcWA
Okay, the last part of the trailer did it for me.
Seriously – those guys climbing the rocks ever consider packing a pistol instead of a sword? That way you don’t have to swing all the way over to your enemy to kill him. Just a thought.
Gunshots would start an avalanche. Duh.
Yes, when I first saw the stills of Bruce Willis and Dwayne Johnson and the far more gritty military vision (as opposed to the anime style, Mission Impossible, Intelligence Organization/CIA-ish look) I became hopeful. This movie might still suck, but at least I won’t know that until after I see it.
Yeah, that’ll work. Bruce Willis remains so damn cool. Glad he’s getting more screen-time in the Expendables sequel.
Since Russia, Iran, Pakistan, N. Korea and China are such good friends of ours – I guess this plane was unnecessary after all: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/12/13/last-f-22-raptor-rolls-off-assembly-line/
(Yes, this post is dripping with sarcasm.)
I am in a piss-poor mood. Grading, finals week, and I can’t shake off this flu-The Stand-bug-whatever-it-is that is now entering its 16th day.
That’s all. Just wandered by to sprinkle some sunshine & then go back to bed.
Sorry you are feeling under the weather. Rest up and hope you heal up soon.
Thanks MS! I am currently shoving Vick’s up my nose and putting on my eighth pair of socks.
Sexy, huh?
Verily!
Get well and/or drink more whiskey.
Oh boy..girl you better not have Pnuemonia! Get rest, and drink a lot of hot chicken soup. I’d have you bundled up here with Buford as a footwarmer..his choice because I couldn’t stop and I’d be shoving hot Peppermint tea down your throat with Chicken soup and Ricolas….
Why yes it is!
But seeing as how you’re under the weather…I hope you feel better soon.
” … I can’t shake off this flu-The Stand-bug-whatever-it-is …”
I hope it’s not Walkin’ Dude pneumonia. Grade those papers in bed and get some rest. Eric is right about the whiskey … make a hot toddy. Get well!!!
WOw! toddy is a great idea. But all I have is Veuve. Can you make a champagne toddy?
A little military humor for you all. Steph, did you husband experience anything like this? Whaddya say, Outlaw, did you ever see anything like this?
http://rhinoden.rangerup.com/boot-camp-christmas/?utm_source=RangerUp.com&utm_campaign=04cc69cdad-20111213_RU_Infantry12_11_2011&utm_medium=email
Btw, this is definitely NSW.
While you’re there, take the time to enter the “Douche of the Year” contest: http://rhinoden.rangerup.com/douche-of-the-year/?utm_source=RangerUp.com&utm_campaign=04cc69cdad-20111213_RU_Infantry12_11_2011&utm_medium=email
You won’t win much, except bragging rights; but, hey, that’s something, right?
I like “Douche of the Year” much better than the “Darwin Award.” DEFINITELY much more “Hit Girl:” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G97hFwZ5jb4
(Oh, yeah, probably NSFW.)
I glad somebody finally put that part on YouTube…the INTERNET screms for that.
Honestly if my husband was in command of that training company and that went on he might hvae a few choice words for the DI. Its funny don’t get me wrong but but but…they are pretty disciplined with how they train marines now. I doubt you’d hear an F word anymore. He told me once he saw one of his DIs (He actually was a series company commander at Paris Island for a tour) who was so good at crushing people that the guy could make recruits cry without raising his voice or using four letter words. I’ll show this link to him and see what he thinks. It is funny.
And he hated that frog voice some DI’s would use. They do it to save their voices but he’d ask them not to.
This is either JUST WRONG – or, oddly appropriate, given that it’s a Subaru:
http://jalopnik.com/5866018/car-thongs-are-the-new-truck-nutz
Well, why not? Cars have been wearing bras for years.
Two Netflix streaming Christmas classic TV episodes that no one should miss:
The Twilight Zone – Night of the Meek (season 2, episode 11): Art Carney plays a drunken department store Santa who finds a magic bag that lets him give whatever gift anyone wishes. I haven’t missed watching this for 18 years.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents – Santa Claus and the 10th Avenue Kid (season 1, episode 12): Barry Fitzgerald plays a cynical parolee who gets a job as a department store Santa who promises a street kid that he’ll bring him a model jet on Christmas Eve.
Marsha, Marsha, Marsha! Maureen McCormick alert in the referenced Twilight zone.
Ah … no, Goat. She would have been about 4 years old when this TZ episode aired. But the elf girl does look like her.
Damn, I just looked you are right, it looks just like her though. So talking Tina from ’63 was her voice. Larrian Gillespie is credited, good correction Mr Helm. This episode will be on syfy Dec. 24th at 9 AM for the non instant crowd.
Amen Mr. Takei!
http://gizmodo.com/5867469/george-takei-wants-to-unite-star-wars-fans-and-star-trek-fans-in-war-against-twilight
BRILLIANT! That’s hilarious!
Takei knows all about boyfriends, so yeah …