Open Thread Saturday

thanx to breitbart,krauthamer,and talk radio. sarah,michelleb, and ann coulter. conservative women are classy,intelligent and va-va-vommers.thanx to the emails of the skyisfallingcrowd, finally proving that algore is a big bag of manure. thanx to mark lavin,glenn beck,and rush for always being correct. most of all thanx to the left for truly being yourselves and giving us the means to stomp the life outta everyfrigging thing you stand for.

Instead of fluff lets talk about America.. The promise of America. The dream that is America.. Who is looking out for the working person, the person who makes America work? Neither government party… to them it is all about the money and lobbyist.. To lobbyist it is all about the return on their money so next election they can use the money they got from the taxpayer to contribute to the politicians again, but this time with no out pocket expense. I know your guy is the good guy.. But it is hard for him to fight corruption with his hands full of money.. I know he will say I make up my own mind not what the lobbyist want.. That is like him being caught in a motel with a naked women not his wife, yes it could be innocent but it is clearly a conflict of interest…register unaffiliated and make politicians earn your vote.

DOJ: Pay ACORN for contracts
The Justice Department has ruled that the federal government can honor some existing contracts to fund ACORN, despite a law barring the flow of all federal money to the beleaguered community group.

David Barron, the acting assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel, concluded in a five-page ruling that the funding ban signed by President Barack Obama in October as part of the legislative branch appropriations bill does not direct the Department of Housing and Urban Development to breach pre-existing contracts to pay ACORN. Much of ACORN’s federal funds come in the form of housing subsidies.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29945.h...
/ Spit !
Who can we sue ?

Too bad A & C aren't still around to meet Freddy and Jason and Michael and Jigsaw…

Hey Abo-o-o-o-o-tt!,

Didja hear? Their religion is dead!

Long live their new religion!

THIS IS WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE WHEN GODS DIE

http://naturalfake.wordpress.com/2009/11/28/this-...

Sorry but for me A and C was a good 5 minute comedy routine stretched to 1+ hours.

Mark Steyn — He's the guy who continually amazes me.

His writing is funny as hell, fresh, original and incisive.

Full text, audio and video file of Abbott & Costello's classic stage act Who's on First:
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/abbott&a...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sShMA85pv8M

Watt

They're still funnier than the Coen Bros.

Love their zany play on words…….Abbott and Costello in a car trying to park….Abbott says to Costello "Go ahead, Back up." Costello, exasperated by this bit of instruction, can't move the car because he doesn't know whether to go forward or back up.

What Story?
Michael Gerson has lousy timing. In The Washington Post, in one of those now familiar elegies for old media, he writes:
And the whole system is based on a kind of intellectual theft. Internet aggregators (who link to news they don't produce) and bloggers would have little to collect or comment upon without the costly enterprise of newsgathering and investigative reporting. The old-media dinosaurs remain the basis for the entire media food chain.
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NWI1MDg3...

This'll sound sacrilegious but I never got into Abbott and Costello for some reason. I was always more of a Marx Brothers and Three Stooges fan. Of course, since I don't have much A & C experience, I guess I should head over to Netflix and maybe after a few of their films, I'll change my mind.

Personally though, I'll take "Why a duck?" and "Nyuk nyuk nyuk" before "Who's on first?"

Hey, with comments like that, you'll have to change your name from SomeDame to TheOneAndOnlyDame, LOL.

Isn't it amazing how the left hates talent? Of course, they're sort of obligated to hate Steyn's talent. Mark Steyn has a real gift, a genius for finding just the right words to properly put the left in their places. Thanks ever so much for replying. It's great to see SomeDame who appreciates this wonderful writer (and speaker).

"…slowly I turned…step by step…." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr6VBg1SiYI

It's an old vaudeville sketch, but I love this! The audio is a bit out of sync here, but this clip has the whole sketch, including Abbott at the start and finish.

This isn't to change the subject: Several years ago, I was amazed that Leon Uris, in "Battle Cry," had Danny, the jitterbug fan among the Marines, discover classical music and love it. I never realized the culture gap Uris was describing, or just how powerful pop music was in firing up the public's martial spirits back then, until I watched two A&C movies: "Buck Privates" and "In The Navy." Both movies have the Andrews Sisters in them, and both movies were incredibly popular. (Pop quiz: Off the top of your head, which movie has the "Boogeywoogie Bugle Boy of Company B" performed in it?**)

It's terrific stuff, perhaps Abbott and Costello's best movie work. After watching those, you realize just what a step the fictional Danny took, moving on to "Peer Gynt."

"Hold That Ghost" came right after "Buck Privates" and "In The Navy"–all of them in 1941–and it was good, too (I already mentioned the Costello-Davis version of "The Blue Danube" in 'Ghost' back in the Lucille Ball thread; here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rukdZRPqUBA ). The Andrews Sisters were in that one, too, but sort of added in afterwards — it has kind of weird continuity, unlike the two previous ones.

Abbott and Costello were so good; some of their work was uneven, but when they were on top of their form, nobody could beat 'em.

It was thus kind of cringe-making when Abbott was old, in the 1970s, and used one of the tabloids to beg for money from the public, this long after Lou had passed on. They had had tax troubles, I guess, and lost most of their money. Too bad.

But, oh, the laughs they gave us….

**No — I'm not going to tell you; you'll have to watch both movies. Enjoy!!! Just wanted to offer extra points for knowing *who* the real-life bugler was and which Company B it was and what war it happened in, but unless you happen to have passed through Cohoes, NY, and visited the local VFW post, you probably won't know where to start looking it up.

As a Marx and Stooges fan myself, I salute you.

Why a Duck and Nyuk, Nyuk, Nyuk…hey, you have a great song title there!

NYT: Obama’s an amateur
Peacemaking takes strategic skill. But we see no sign that President Obama and Mr. Mitchell were thinking more than one move down the board. The president went public with his demand for a full freeze on settlements before securing Israel’s commitment. And he and his aides apparently had no plan for what they would do if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said no.
Most important, they allowed the controversy to obscure the real goal: nudging Israel and the Palestinians into peace talks. (We don’t know exactly what happened but we are told that Mr. Obama relied more on the judgment of his political advisers — specifically his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel — than of his Mideast specialists.)
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/11/28/nyt-obamas-...
/Ok fess up who hit the NYT with the clue bat ?

You're not the only one. I have yet to read anything by any critic (or media hack) concerning Springsteen who doesn't simply GUSHHHHHHHH! Maybe it's just me. Bruce Springseen is OK and that's about it. I've never had any life-changing epiphany listening to his music. To read guys like Brooks you have to think they can't get out of bed in the morning without a Springsteen fix. Very odd.

Abbott & Costello Meet….Dracula, The Wolfman, The Mummy, Frankenstein, et al.
=)

Ah, bliss on October weekends. Get the popcorn ready and your soft drinks at hand, because here comes the funny!

Barney and Nancy, both in drag and doing what they do best – comedy.

Just in time for the holiday season!

THE BARACK OBAMA DIET PLAN

http://naturalfake.wordpress.com/2009/11/28/the-b...

thumbs up

Go here: http://www.baseball-almanac.com/humor4.shtml to hear the famous "Who's on First" skit. It's at the bottom of the page. Enjoy a laugh!

LMAO!!!! I love it, great one SomeDame!!! They had a lot of great lines, watching Seinfeld, you can tell he was a big fan of Abbot & Costello.

The eternally stupid Lou:
from WHO DONE IT?
BUD – Pick a number between one and ten.
LOU – Seven.
BUD – No. You lose.
LOU – (enlightened) Hey! Let me do that part.
BUD – OK
LOU – Pick a number between one and ten
BUD – Four.
BUD – (no dialog – he just clucks his tongue and shakes his head much chagrined b/c BUD has guess the number!)
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From A&C MEET FRANKENSTEIN:
BUD or LOU (I can't remember) to owner of hokey House of Horrors monster exhibit:
"Do you still want your exhibits?
OWNER : Yes!
BUD or LOU – (indicating the approaching real FRANKENSTEIN monster) "Well, here comes one of them now."
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From WHO DONE IT?
Lou in a phone booth desperately and unable to make a phone call to ALEXANDER-2222 across the street while everyone else is making calls all over the country and the world and are instantly connected by the operator to exactly the person they want to speak to – "Operator? I want to talk to Professor Liturgy at the Moscow Conservatory in Russ……(and before she can even finish the word "Russia" – "Oh, hello, Professor!"

Hahahahahahaha!

From the top of my head – 5 greatest film comedy teams in history

LAUREL AND HARDY
THE MARX BROTHERS
ABBOTT AND COSTELLO
MARTIN AND LEWIS
OUR GANG

and a personal favorite – OLSEN and JOHNSON

and from the love 'em or hate 'em department – THE RITZ BROTHERS (I finally saw a film that I thought they were funny in and which showed off their many talents – ON THE AVENUE from 1937. Now to go back and see the ones I thought were stiffs.)

That's it WPIX 11!!! My grandmother lived in Jersey, and while growing up and visiting in the 60's & 70s I was amazed at all the channel choices that were available in NYC, unlike Charleston SC, or Newport News VA. Loved watching the 3 Stooges, Little Rascals, & Abbott & Costello, as they seemed to be on more often than other places I lived. WNEW 5, and WOR 9 were also great for old movies reruns and cartoons, back in the day.

I thought she was driving wood

So bizarre…I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

Maybe one of the irons, or perhaps a putter.

LOL!!! I know, I know, It was corny, but what the hey!

"Is that a Susquehanna hat?"

Hope and Crosby

Spinalcracker-

Thx, but, no, regretfully. I left NY in 1976, so it is the 50s, 60s and early 70s intros I may remember.

I remember the intro to MILLION DOLLAR MOVIE had a shot of an escalator with one or two people on it and other NYC locations. I had no idea that the MDM theme was the theme from GWTW.

Here is one I do remember – CHILLER THEATER from the 1960s on WPIX on Saturday nights.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXi4NFgG_Vs

btw – your link worked fine. it hyperlinked once you posted it.

My post vanished – check the IMDB and WIKIPEDIA