Old songs are the best.
That’s actually the oldest version of that song I could find. It’s not the original version; it was recorded before the original version. Xavier Cugat with Don Reid — not the one from The Statler Brother; now I want to play a Statler Brothers song — recorded it before it debuted in “Jubilee” though Cugat’s recording was released later. The big hit came later with a recording by Artie Shaw.
Anyway, what’s been on your mind? Got something you’d like to share? A topic to discuss? It’s Tuesday Night Open Thread.
Who wants to start?
I’ve heard of “Begin the Beguine” — perhaps via a Bugs Bunny cartoon? — and likewise Xavier Cugat — perhaps through a Groucho Marx wisecrack? But I never experienced them firsthand.
Now that I have switched to a browser that un-blocks IMAO ads, let me say that it is High Comedy to see the ads that internet servers and their algorithms think will appeal to me.
Of course there are fashion models, though the foreign babes slipped away somewhere, in their slinky outfits, rather quickly.
In their stead came all sorts of farming and cattle-separating equipment, which I can swear to never having a need for, or expressing an interest in. The same goes for the ad for the opportunity to earn my M.D. in St. Kitts.
If this is a reflection of the kind of software that our government is buying or employing, I would dearly love to see my file. Oh, how I must appear in it!! And I also can stop worrying about them knowing too much about me.
This week I got an ad about where I can buy eyeglasses. This replaced a bewildering number of revolving displays of hypothetical attractive Arabian women wanting to meet me in negligees — which seems out of the realm of possibility for several reasons. Or maybe I needed those glasses.
Am I paranoid?
I jokingly wrote to a friend this past week that, since we both overlooked the same typo in the same sentence, “maybe we both need glasses.” Was it blind — or myopic — chance that quickly brought me that ad for cheap eyeglasses (kicking to the curb yet another 19-year-old pajama-model)? Me, who’s had nothing to do with either optometry or optometrists since 1991?
Yup…you’re paranoid. No doubt about it.
The real question is if you’re paranoid enough.
Probably not if you have to ask if you’re being paranoid.
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!
I’ve started using Brave which blocks ads by default. But, as I found out, I was able to add an exception for IMAO. So I still get the hot foreign chicks along with the Ashley Madison hot USA chicks.
Have you posted any reviews or commentary on the Brave experience? Firefox has been doing a lot of things lately that irritate me, and I’m seriously considering a new browser.
I might write about it. Here’s the short. It’s Chrome, just stripped down. If you click to add an extension, it actually takes you to the Chrome Web Store. The only bad thing do far are the pop-ups. Yeah, it self promoes c and I haven’t seen how to turn that off. I mean, that’s why I’m trying it out, to NOT get those things.
Not paranoid. Your phone is listening to every word say.
Try saying bacon a lot. See what happens
Mmm. Bacon.
Hey! That makes the Babes reappear!
Dude, don’t listen to them, you’re paranoid…probably schizoid too.
I like country music. Not all of it, but then again I don’t like all R&R music either…about 17% of each. But I do like this song that sounds like U2 is the backing band.
It turns out — as far as I can see — that 17% is about the right percentage to like of any musical genre.
There are just too many people who aren’t Muddy Waters who muddy the waters.
(And if this be true, Rap still owes us a pretty huge debt.)
I gave it a listen. Smooth! But now Russian babes want to sell me U-Hauls, luggage, and mirrors.
lololol…collusion if I’ve ever heard it.
Tonight’s history lesson……………
It’s a damn shame when a man wants to serve his country and isn’t allowed to.
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