Monday Night Open Thread

I like pizza. I eat more than I should. Because I like pizza.

Which reminds me of a commercial, an old one, that I saw for the first time the other day. It’s from 1995, and it’s selling pizza, but somehow I totally missed it. And, it features Ringo and the lads.

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Anyway, what’s on your mind? Got something you want to talk about? It’s Monday Night Open Thread, and you get to choose the topic.

Who wants to start?

19 Comments

  1. Cute. I don’t remember seeing it, either. (Eating pizza crust-first, though, never caught on, and never will.)

    I liked the fact that the Beatles and the Monkees were always capable of satirizing themselves. Name a joke that the Stones, Sting, or U2 have ever pulled on themselves or on their image. (Paul Simon did, in a chicken suit on Saturday Night Live, and in his “You Can Call Me Al” video.

    “The Rutles” wouldn’t have existed without George’s assistance. There’s no better monument to distancing yourself from a legend than that.

  2. In loving memory of Lactose The Intolerant, who would have done it with so much more finesse:

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    Liberal: ‘Evening, squirrel!

    Squirrel: Good evening.

    Liberal: Is, uh . . . the Mueller Report a goer, eh? Know what I mean — Know what I mean? Nudge-nudge, know what I mean? Pry no more?

    Squirrel: I, uh, I beg your pardon?

    Liberal: The, uh, Mueller Report: Is it a goer, eh? Is it a goer, eh?

    Squirrel: (flustered) Well, it seems to have gone, yes.

    Liberal: Aaaaaaaah bet it did, I bet it did, say no more, pry no more, know what I mean, nudge-nudge?

    Squirrel (confused): I’m afraid I don’t quite value you.

    Liberal: Value me. Value me. That’s good, that’s good! A fraud’s as good as a wink to an blind bot!

    Squirrel: Are you, uh,…are you selling something?

    Liberal: SELLING! Very good, very good! Ay? Ay? Ay? (pause) Oooh! Ya Wikipedia, aye? Wickipedia, eh? Ooh Hoo! Pry no MORE!

    Squirrel: Well, I, uh….

    Liberal (confidentially): Do you, uh, like courts, aye?

    Squirrel: Um, I like courts, yes!

    Liberal: I bet you do, I bet you do!

    Squirrel: As a matter of fact I’m very fond of litigants.

    Liberal: Who isn’t, eh? Like claims, eh? Knew you would, knew you would! You’ve been around a bit, been around?

    Squirrel: I’ve traveled, yes. I’ve been to Trump Tower.

    Liberal (pause): SAY NO MORE!!
    Trump Tower! Saynomore, saynomore, saynomore, Squirrel!

    Squirrel: I wasn’t going to.

    Liberal: Oh! Well, never mind. Is your, uh, is your ‘Trump Tower” friend interested in . . . politics, eh? “Politics,” eh? — he asked him, knowingly.

    Squirrel: Politics?

    Liberal: Trump, Trump, grin grin, wink wink, nudge nudge, say no more?

    Squirrel: Policy traps?

    Liberal: They could be, could be, taken on policies. Candid, you know, “CANDID” photography?

    Squirrel: No, no I’m afraid there are no cameras in Trump Tower offices.

    Liberal: Oh. (leeringly:) Still, mooooooh, ay? Mwoohohohohoo, ay? Hohohohohoho, ay?

    Squirrel: Look… are you insinuating something?

    Liberal: Oh, no, no, no………………………………………Yes.

    Squirrel: Well?

    Liberal: Well, you’re a man of the world, Squirrel.

    Squirrel: Yes?

    Liberal: I mean, you’ve been around a bit. You know; like, you’ve, uh . . . You’ve “done it” . . .

    Squirrel: What do you mean?

    Liberal: Well, I mean like, . . . you’ve ACCOMPLISHED something. Wif your life.

    Squirrel: Yes?

    Liberal: What’s it like?

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