“Miss Welch, what have you got for me today?”
“Some memes about being old.”
“That’s all you got?”
“Fraid so sir.”
“Well get ’em up and I’m going for a nap. Care to join me?”
“Why, are you falling apart.?”
“Yes, yes I am.”
Winner
This week.
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Pump up the jam, pump it up.
Results
| Carole Bouquet | No Preference | Tonia Sitropoulou |
|---|---|---|
| 105 | 2 | 87 |
| Diana Rigg | No Preference | Lynn-Holly Johnson |
|---|---|---|
| 163 | 1 | 63 |
Week of 7/9/2025
Match 1
Ana de Armas (Paloma) vs Angela Scoular (Ruby Bartlett)
| Contestant | Record | Total Scores |
|---|---|---|
| Ana de Armas | 3 – 0 – 0 | 339 – 5 – 226 |
Ana Celia de Armas Caso (born 30 April 1988) is a Cuban-Spanish actress. She portrayed the Bond Girl Paloma in No Time to Die.
An agent of the CIA, James Bond, meets Paloma at the El Nido Bar after agreeing to Felix Leiter‘s request to go there in order to retrieve the scientist Valdo Obruchev, who has been captured by SPECTRE from a MI6 laboratory. To Bond’s bemusement, Paloma tells him that she has had only three weeks of training, though she nevertheless seems confident in her skills. She works together with Bond to infiltrate the party which is being held in the bar, though it turns out to secretly be a trap to capture and kill Bond. Bond ends up in a spotlight and sprayed with nanobots created from Project Heracles, though it ultimately transpires that Obruchev reprogrammed the nanobots to kill members of SPECTRE instead. In the ensuing chaos, Bond and Paloma manage to capture Obruchev, evading Nomi, an MI6 agent who had been sent with the same objective.
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| Contestant | Record | Total Scores |
|---|---|---|
| Angela Scoular | 0 – 3 – 0 | 41 – 3 – 737 |
Actress: Angela Scoular Nationality: English Bond Movie: On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969) Synopsis:
Ruby Bartlett was one of the “angels of death” at Blofeld’s swiss clinic. She had been brought there to cure a chicken allergy, but was in fact being hypnotized by Blofeld as part of a plot to spread a crop virus around the country. When she first met Bond, disguised as Sir Hillary Bray, she discreetly wrote her room number in lipstick on his thigh, so that he could meet her later that night.
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Match 2
Lea Seydoux (Madelaine Swann) vs Monica Bellucci (Lucia Sciarra)
| Contestant | Record | Total Scores |
|---|---|---|
| Lea Seydoux | 2 – 1 – 0 | 353 – 6 – 196 |
First appearance Spectre (2015) Last appearance No Time to Die (2021) Portrayed by Léa Seydoux Madeleine Swann is a complex character introduced in the James Bond film Spectre. Madeline Swann is the daughter of Mr. White (Jesper Christensen), a member of the criminal organization SPECTRE.
Swann studied at the University of Oxford and at Sorbonne University, and later worked with Doctors Without Borders.[1] By the time of Spectre she is working as a psychiatrist at a private clinic in the Austrian Alps.
Dying of thallium poisoning, White tells James Bond (Daniel Craig) to protect his daughter from SPECTRE, so Bond goes to see her at the clinic. Although Swann is initially hesitant to trust Bond, she agrees to share information about SPECTRE and help Bond take the organization down. The two gradually fall in love, and Bond ultimately leaves MI6 to be with her after arresting Blofeld.
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| Contestant | Record | Total Scores |
|---|---|---|
| Monica Bellucci | 2 – 1 – 0 | 243 – 11 – 271 |
Born Monica Anna Maria Bellucci
30 September 1964 (age 60)
Città di Castello, Umbria, ItalyOccupations Actressfashion model Instructed by his former superior M, James Bond is assigned to trace notorious assassin Marco Sciarra, kill him, and attend his funeral, knowing his womanizing ways will get him the answers he needs there rather from the assassin himself. Bond travels to Mexico and successfully kills Sciarra, failing his plan of targeting a stadium for a terrorist attack.
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I dislike the opposition political party, and they dislike me.
But I am getting more than a little sick of this social media stuff.
If I create a hateful, aggravating, Godawful genocidal email or text, that is a 10 on the Hitler scale. Right?
If I forward something that someone else created — well, it could be a 4, or it could be an 8. It depends on the content of what I am forwarding. Someone else created it, but I am implying that I think it’s good and worth sharing.
And if someone who “supports me” sends a message, that is like a zero on my scale of culpability.
Now, here’s the news story that generated these thoughts.
I don’t like Zohran, and I do like the NY Post, but here goes with the analysis:
Zohran Mamdani shared ‘sick’ video mocking Hannukah and ‘cosplaying Jews,’ advocacy group charges
NY Post | 7/06/25 | Shane GalvinA Jewish advocacy group slammed Democratic socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani for posting a “sick” video mocking Hannukah and “cosplaying Jews.”
OK, so he shared it. Sounds like a 6, because it seems to be humor-based and he likes the video’s anti-Jewish humor. That’s him.
They don’t say what’s “sick” about it yet.
The mayoral front-runner shared a video on his X account last year from the Geeta Brothers Duet Group, showing two men wearing wigs dancing behind a menorah, playing with dreidels and celebrating with Punjabi-style music.
Sounds like Weird Al, so farsi (heh) with Punjabi-style music.
“Zohran Mamdani posts Indian men cosplaying Jews, spinning dreidels and lighting the menorah,” pro-Jewish group Stop Antisemitism wrote in a post to X Saturday, which included the controversial song.
Again, it’s Weird Al territory. I liked his video about the Amish.
“Our holidays and traditions are sacred and not for your comedic pleasure _ZohranKMamdani — this is sick.”
Okay, so that’s where the Post got their headline.
Next, it’s described as a campy song:
Mamdani, 33, shared the campy song called “Hey Hannukah” during last year’s Festival of Lights.
“Happy 3rd night of Hanukkah from Astoria and Long Island City,” the Queens lawmaker wrote on X at the time.
Does not sound insulting. He probably intended it as a pun-jab (heh), but by itself it is not insulting.
The video is from the 2015 parody album “Punjabi Christmas Album Hits” from the Geeta Brothers — a side project of Sikh-Canadian musician and comedian Jus Reign.
Judging by the title of the “album” (how many songs were on it?) — it was divided between poking fun of Christians and poking fun of Jewish traditions — so why is the Jewish mocking played up in this story, and not the Christian mocking? Hmmm, Post?
Mamdani shared a similar video from the same comedy group on Christmas Eve 2024.
Oh, he did, did he? So why does the Post not find that worthy of a big, splashy headline?
“Wishing you all a very merry Christmas from Astoria and Long Island City,” the self-described “nepo-baby” wrote, sharing a video for the song “Jingle Bells,” in which the performers wear similar wigs.
As a Catholic, I’ve gotta give this communist butthead a pass on this.
Wigs?
“Nepo-baby” is a complete non-sequitur, and wigs are not offensive to believers with an appreciation of sometimes controversial uses of extraordinarily lame humor. Remember, humor is not tone-deaf until you label it so.
The tone-deaf post is not the only reason Jewish New Yorkers are outraged over the rise of the socialist pol.
Well, I’m glad to hear that, because there are three reasons to get outraged, and they have limited connection to the socialist pol:
Some Big Apple voters were gobsmacked when they received pro-Mamdani text messages that invoked the horrors of the October 7th attack in Israel.
First, how did the pro-Mandani Boy contingent get their email addresses? That should have been the first thing investigated in this story. Failure #1, NY Post.
Second, supporters are not the same as the candidate. Supporters say things the candidate doesn’t. We know that. We’re adults. Trump’s supporters spout off. Mandani Boy gets a pass on this.
Third, invoking Oct. 7th is absolutely beyond the pale unless you’re mourning the victims. It’s like invoking Auschwitz. This aspect should have been the focus of the story, not an afterthought after some parody-album stupid-useless video, in my opinion. Failure #2.
Example:
Several years ago while doing research for a project, I came across a book that went into great detail about the subject I was researching. I bought the book and as I do, tore sections of a random paragraph or two out of the book and searched for them.
Bingo — the “author” of the book had lifted pages and pages of text verbatim from other books, like from “Great Expectations.” He also claimed to be involved in extensive nuclear fission for the Army in his basement.
I ran into him at an event and asked if I could ask him some questions about the book, specifically some of the paragraphs he lifted from other authors. “It’s all classified so I can’t talk about it other than what’s in the book, ya weirdo. Stop stalking me.”
The classic “it’s classified” and “Oppo, ya weirdo” and “Keep your hands off my wife’s dress” stuff. I resolved to tell a couple of other PhD black ops nuclear researchers I know to steer clear of this kook. I know I will!
Good night
Emmanuelle Chriqui vs Joely Richardson
Emmanuelle Chriqui (1-1-0 pts. 114 Avg. 57.00)
VS
Joely Richardson (0-2-0 Pts. 73 Avg. 36.50)
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Good evening.
Anya Taylor-Joy vs Laurie Holden
Anya Taylor-Joy (1-1-0 Pts. 77 Avg. 38.50)
VS
Laurie Holden (0-2-0 Pts. 49 Avg. 245.50)
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Good afternoon.
Jenna Ortega vs January Jones
Jenna Ortega (2-0-0 Pts.139 Avg. 69.50)
VS
January Jones (2-0-0 Pts. 114 Avg. 57.00)
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Good morning.
Jamie Murray vs Dina Meyer
Jamie Murray (0-2-0 Pts. 60 Avg. 30.00)
VS
Dina Meyer (2-0-0 pts. 118 Avg. 59.00)
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Week two is in the books.
Results
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Standings
| Contestants | Record | Points | Average | Points Against | Average Score |
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| Jenna Ortega | 2 – 0 – 0 | 139 | 69.50 | 54 | 69.50 – 27.00 |
| Dina Meyer | 2 – 0 – 0 | 118 | 59.00 | 70 | 59.00 – 35.00 |
| January Jones | 2 – 0 – 0 | 114 | 57.00 | 69 | 57.00 – 34.50 |
| Emmanuelle Chriqui | 1 – 1 – 0 | 114 | 57.00 | 77 | 57.00 – 38.50 |
| Anya Taylor-Joy | 1 – 1 – 0 | 77 | 38.50 | 114 | 38.50 – 57.00 |
| Joely Richardson | 0 – 2 – 0 | 73 | 36.50 | 105 | 36.50 – 52.50 |
| Jamie Murray | 0 – 2 – 0 | 60 | 30.00 | 125 | 30.00 – 62.50 |
| Laurie Holden | 0 – 2 – 0 | 49 | 24.50 | 131 | 24.50 – 65.50 |
Week 3
