Thursday Night Open Thread

You remember the classic Warner Bros. cartoon High Diving Hare? That’s the 1949 cartoon where Yosemite Sam is expecting to see Fearless Freep, but when he doesn’t show, Sam makes Bugs Bunny do the high diving act.

In it, there’s a scene (at the 6:13 mark) where Bugs puts up a door on the diving board, and Sam beats on it and yells, “Open up that door!” then turns to the camera and says, “Didya notice I didn’t say ‘Richard?'”

When I was young, I didn’t really get the joke. I thought it was kinda silly, but I didn’t know the reference behind it.

I do now. And so will you.

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That skit inspired a song, which was recorded by several artists. How popular was it? There were four different recordings by different artists in the Billboard Top Ten in a seven week period from late January to mid-March 1947.

Now, we’ll open up the floor. Joke, wisdom, links, whatever. It’s Thursday Night Open Thread.

Who wants to start?

If You’ve Never Used Film in a Camera, This Video Will Be Meaningless to You

[Kodak: How George Eastman revolutionized photography] (Viewer #143,326)

Pictures used to be a way to say “this moment is meaningful enough for me to make everybody pose, and then wait a week while I get the film developed so that I can capture this image forever”.

Now it just means “I have my phone handy, and I will never look at this image again”.

If These Schools Were Worth Squat, They Wouldn’t Need to Worry About What Graduates Did Afterward

New rule: to graduate from a public high school in Chicago, students will soon have to show that they’ve secured a job, or received a letter of acceptance to college.

I guess they can always get jobs with the city thinking up new useless paperwork for people to fill out. Or just get rich selling fake college acceptance letters.

Wednesday Night Open Thread

I like a lot of music by people that I really don’t agree with politically. Of course, I am way to the right of many, many people. Possibly even you.

Yep, definitely to the right of you. So, if I can ignore the singer’s politics, I can enjoy the songs. But every so often, they go heavy handed with the politics. Like Don Henley’s “The End of the Innocence.” Remember that song? Well, today’s an interesting day regarding that song, as I mentioned over at my little blog.

Anyway, apart from that, I’m curious what you have to say, whether it’s about politics, music, silly stuff, or whatever. It’s Wednesday Night Open Thread, and your turn to take control.

Who wants to start?

Eat a weenie

Didja see where Joey Chestnut won another Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest yesterday?

He does that a lot.

I won a hot dog eating contest at the Georgia National Fair in Perry some years back. But, since a ten-year-old came in second, I asked them to give him the prize. The knowledge that I was champion weenie eater kinda lost its charm in short order. And, a kid was happy with his prize, so it worked out.

Anyway, Joey Chestnut ended up eating 72 hot dogs and buns in ten minutes. That’s a new record. So, congratulations, I guess.

What about you, though? Do you have any contests that you’re proud of? Or ashamed of? Share, won’t you?

Random Thoughts: Trump Tweets and Independence Day

You don’t have a right to anything someone else has to provide.

For people who have it better off than anyone else in human history, we sure whine a lot.

Free markets gives no guarantee, but consistently delivers best results. Government gives guarantees it can’t honor. People want guarantees.
It’s like from Tommy Boy, but people would rather you take a dump in a box and mark it guaranteed.

I guess the NYT’s defense in Palin’s suit will be that their editorial board wasn’t malicious but just some of the dumbest people in print.
I might be sympathetic to that argument.

I don’t know the merits of Palin’s lawsuit, but NYT wrote an editorial based on slanderous nonsense. Someone should have been fired.

I was once on the cover of Time, but I don’t hang it up in my country clubs.

"…and that’s why you got Trump."

Single-payer sounds like a great idea unless you’re the one selected by lottery to pay for everyone’s health care.

I’m sure by year six he’ll start acting presidential.

Anyone want a hot take on why it’s good the president is attacking someone about her facelift? I can get you a 1000 words, but I’m not cheap.

We’d rather a right to health care than health care.

Hadn’t read comic book in a while and thinking of getting the Elmer Fudd/Batman crossover. $5! What rich elitists comic book readers must be.

Supergirl is by far the dumbest of the CW DC comics shows, but I like their Superman better than the current movie Superman.
Superman is supposed to be hopeful and uplifting (counterpoint to Batman). That’s why DCEU Wonder Woman is better Superman than Superman.

I don’t care for the new NRA ad, but I’m also not outraged by it.
They lose me early on with the “They’re saying mean things about the president!” line.

My wife woke me at 2am to kill a spider. Didn’t she learn anything from watching Wonder Woman?

Baby Driver’s nemesis is Toonces the Driving Cat.

Trump is a terrible human being, but if he continues to be ineffective implementing any of his plans, he could be an above-average president.

I might be in a bubble, but so far I haven’t seen anyone on the left comment on the Charlie Gard case one way or another.
When you’re pushing more government control over health care, it seems like you might want to address worst-case horror stories.
Of course, this is beyond single-payer. It’s not just the government saying it won’t pay; it’s saying you can’t pay either.

So what are the parameters on a preferred pronoun? Like, can I state that it always has to be capitalized?
I’m going to make my preferred pronoun 135 characters long to make it really hard to make fun of me on Twitter.

If they repeal Obamacare, is there a repeal ceremony? Like dumping the law into a fire pit while Obama is forced to watch?

lit by the burning law, Trump points a finger at a weeping Obama
“Ash is your legacy now! ASH!”

In Trump’s defense, vomiting every incoherent thought he has onto Twitter did make him president, so I’m not sure why he should stop now.

Of the sociopaths in DC, the Dems are the more annoying ones since they really really want everyone to believe they care about people.

“I am the very model of a modern U.S. president…”

For twelfth anniversary, did the tasting menu at Barley Swine in Austin. Highly, highly recommend.

In Chris Christie’s defense [ERROR: Second half of sentence not found.]

I constantly get Alison Brie and Brie Larson confused.

Happy Independence Day! Try to whine less and do more with the insane amount of advantages you’ve inherited.

Wait. What do I say to followers from other countries on the 4th? “Our condolences.”

If you’re cool and from another country, come live in America. It’s the best. If you’re not cool, stay where you are.

What makes US great is it’s dedication to freedom, not government programs. Plenty of countries with govt that make promises they can’t keep.
But a dedication to freedom is truly respect for all people. That is rare and worth fighting for.