Old songs are the best.
By the way, this song was the first to hit number one on the Billboard chart twice. Billboard started the charts in the summer of 1940. This song hit number one in December of that year and held that spot until knocked off the top for a week in March of 1941, then went back to number one for one more week.
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Britain’s Ambassador to Washington has described Donald Trump as ‘inept’, ‘insecure’ and ‘incompetent’.
Are they sure that was the Ambassador? Because if it was only overheard, he might’ve just had CNN on in the background.
[What Happens to Lasers Underwater? – Smarter Every Day 219] (Viewer #1,608,753)
Kayaks with frickin’ laser beams!
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During the Independence Day celebration on the National Mall, President Trump at one point jumped up on a tank, yelled “Wolverines!”, and motioned the tank to roll toward the Capitol. A ridiculous gesture on his part, since none of the Democrats would get the reference.
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The punchline’s garbage, but the other three panels serve as a reminder that we should’ve cut off the environmentalist camel’s nose in the 80s, the second he put it under out tent.
Unquestionably the malevolent personification of all mankind’s crimes against our planet.
Simon Legree, movie critic for the San Francisco Daily Evening, said that Toy Story 4 posed a “subversive threat” under the guise of children’s entertainment.
“There’s a lot of things wrong with this movie,” Legree said. “First, they went and rated it ‘G’. Who does that in this day and age? It’s supposed to mean it’s safe, but what it really means is that it doesn’t speak a single word of truth to power. It means that it’s an unquestioning tool of societal norms and conventions. Plus, Forky – like the other two main protagonists – is white. Way to toot the racist dog-whistle, Pixar.”
“But that’s not the worst of it,” said Legree. “Here in California, we’ve done a lot of work to stop the deadly plague of plastic straws, or ‘murder tubes‘ as we call them – that kill thousands of people every year with their insidious plasticity. Fortunately, we’ve been able to make a lot of progress in that realm. Most of the forward-thinking people I know just refer to them as ‘the s-word’ now.”
“But it’s not so much the plasticality of Forky as it is the disposability, and that’s what Pixar blatantly glosses over. Instead of being portrayed as an unnatural abomination made of man’s most environmentally deadly material, this disposable piece of pernicious filth is treated like a fun, harmless toy. A TOY! A plastic spork isn’t a TOY! It’s a misbegotten atrocity of man’s technological reach outreaching his sustainable grasp! It’s a nightmare! An outrage! A primeval Lovecraftian horror of doom and madness! Also the tines aren’t very long so it’s hard to eat a salad with one.”
In states where laws are more s-word friendly, however, the opposition to Toy Story 4 tends to be somewhat less strident, with some reviewers actually going so far as to recommend the movie, despite its message of irresponsible profligate mass-consumerism and subtextual promotion of human convenience over environmental responsibility.
Henry Rearden, an online movie reviewer based in Plano, TX, offered his take.
“Yeah, I read Simple Simon’s review,” Rearden said. “He’s a progressive ogre who hates fun like Dracula hates beach volleyball. In 2010, he totally trashed Toy Story 3 because Woody & company got rescued instead of recycled. Anyway, go see Toy Story 4. But only if you like smiling, laughing, and having your heart warmed.”
“As for Simple’s ‘racist dog-whistle’ crack,” added Rearden, “seems to me that if you’re hearing dog whistles, it likely means that you’re the dog. In this case, probably Cujo.”
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Works like this: I feed you Moon Nukers a straight line, and you hit me with a punch line in the comments.
Just before casting their vote for AOC, what goes through the mind of one of her voter base?
Hey, it’s me Frank J. again. I’m doing all sorts of writing! In addition to my new novel, Hellbender, I have a new short story you can check out for free called The Demon Capitalism.
A struggling, feudal-era farmer is tempted with an easier, more luxurious future, but there’s a catch…
It’s sort of an exploration of the Faustian bargain at the heart of capitalism. Enjoy.
Iran warned US that it will turn the Persian Gulf into a “sea of blood” if war comes.
Not if we turn Iran into a sea of glass, first.
This should be fun to argue over.
Say you met someone who’s never seen Monty Python. What would be ESSENTIAL for that person to know in order to get by?
Personally, I think they’d only need “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” as far as movies, and for sketches:
Dead Parrot
Cheese Shop
Argument Clinic
Spanish Inquisition
Lumberjack Song
[update] Spam
Now, I’m not saying that nothing else is good, or even worthwhile. I’m saying these are essential to surviving in modern nerd culture, and that unless you know these, you will be shunned by everyone in the IT department.
Which may or may not be a bad thing, but that’s a separate argument, and you haven’t paid.
