Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Outtakes show!
Outtakes show: Intro, waiting for Godot/vices, sniffling/poverty impacting the poor, best and worst Southern accents/Texas, Olympic outtakes, “Knights in White Satin,” religion and humor, mowing Bet’s lawn, Hucklebug as sleeping aid, Microsoft/Freeman’s Free Flex Shoes, blue & gray, extended stupid names rant, Thunderbirds Are Go, Urban Legends outtakes, extended fuck-off for Lynn Westmoreland, Magic Mirror redux.
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I’ll tell ya, if I hadn’t heard Sten’s beginning intro I would swear that Bet passed away!
Maryland certainly should be considered part of the South. It was only because of some political trickery and skullduggery in 1861 that Maryland didn’t secede.
“My Maryland, My Maryland” was a very popular “patriotic” song of the Confederacy.
Just as a side note : I got the sheet music to “The Hucklebuck” at the library, if anyone wants a scanned pdf, let me know.
I consider anyone who doesn’t live in New York or California from the South.
Good point about Scientologists and humor.
I disagree about humor coming from anger. I’m angry a LOT and I feel like I get less funny every day :( Unless you mean funny (strange). That I can agree with.
I don’t trust Google anymore. I use gmail, maps and calendar, but I don’t trust them. Don’t know what they’re getting at… nice to have another choice of mega-corporation to sell my soul to, though. That’s nice.
Thunderbirds in HD?? You can TOTALLY see the strings!! Personally, I prefer Captain Scarlet. Somehow it ends up being much more intense when none of the characters move or are seen walking
Actually, “Pete” never got seen on Romper Room--though my arch-nemesis “Peter” was mentioned once.
Bastards!
Say, how do you sweep up the digital cutting room floor?
All southerners I know, starting w/ my wife, consider Texas to be, among other things, NOT part of the South. Who knows what Texans think? Texas did fight for the confederacy, though. Growing up in Orygun, I always thought of Texas as the South. Tangentially, I always found it odd that “Northwestern” University was in Chicago.
I believe the Mason-Dixon line is the border between Pennsylvania and Maryland; thus Maryland is technically “the south,” although they did not secede during the Civil War.
Here’s the Wikipedia* lowdown on who’s who in the Confederacy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America
Arkansas was the 25th state to join the union, in June of 1836; it joined as a slave state.
*Shameless pimping: I recently did a blog entry for my law journal on the problem of government agencies placing undue reliance on Wikipedia entries—in this case to vet an asylum-seeker’s identity documents. You can read it here:
http://jolt.unc.edu/blog/2008/09/09/eighth-circuit-bia-wikipedia-seriously-0
Mr, Middlebrow,
Northwestern U. is “northwestern” because that area was part of what is now known as the Old Northwest: Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan. The first big migration from the East was into this area at the beginning of the 19th century.