And now for a fifth that needs no proof:1
Hey! I think it’s fun!
More thread…
1: Though I imagine a wee dram2 or many was involved in the making of this enjoyable silliness.
2: Or a satisfactory supply of gills, or jiggers, or ponies, or snorts or hookers or snits.3 I’m not picky about my units.
3: No. I’m not making these up.
satby
I love this! So imaginative in how they wove the figures through the music.
A Ghost To Most
Per Sgt. Schultz: I see nothing.
Wapiti
Very nice. Very holidayish with the bescarfed ragdolling.
Divf
“Champagne cold as Valley Forge and with about three ponies of brandy under it.”
SiubhanDuinne
Love this, Tom! Thank you.
Omnes Omnibus
I am about to head out to my first meeting in a few minutes. It is at an Episcopal Church two buildings from me. If I do this, I have chosen this as my higher power.
debbie
Silly, but very impressive! The guy in green took a real beating, but I loved the one in red who was panting at the end. He should have won.
debbie
@Omnes Omnibus:
Great choice! Good luck!
TenguPhule
A day ending in day again.
Mnemosyne
@Omnes Omnibus:
EC stopped drinking in 1996, so good choice.
SFAW
@Omnes Omnibus:
Good luck! And I’m glad you chose the “real” version of the song, not the “lite rock” version.
SFAW
Tom
As the locals say, that was wicked pissah.
Thanks.
TenguPhule
Warning, Strong stomach needed.
Shameful, Wapo.
Real Shitshow.
He is fucking bonkers.
Absolutely bonkers.
chris
@Omnes Omnibus: Whatever works for you. I went as an atheist, tried really hard but 26 years and 7 days later I’m still an atheist. I’m sober and that is what counts.
khead
Tonight is the first showing of Rudolph. Just letting you know because everyone can use a little Holly Jolly Christmas.
Major Major Major Major
@Omnes Omnibus: you’ll do great! But make sure you find the right meeting. Helped me a lot for the first six months.
Major Major Major Major
I was assuming here that you’d pivoted to talking about drugs, but I see from the link you had not.
SiubhanDuinne
@Omnes Omnibus:
Thinking of you with all positivity. You will do this. Great admiration and respect to my birthdatemate.
Patricia Kayden
@TenguPhule:
The tax cuts for the wealthy was passed without any Democratic votes. Funding for the wall doesn’t need Democratic votes either.
Baud
Michael Moore on Chris Hayes again. Someone should send him a memo about the need for fresh blood.
Elizabelle
Come on, Mike Espy.
Don’t expect a win, but it would be sweet, sweet, sweet.
Baud
@Omnes Omnibus: We’re all rooting for you.
Baud
@Elizabelle: It would be earth shattering.
Elizabelle
@Baud: Meh. Not paid to watch Chris Hayes, so I never do.
Just learned i can watch early Perry Mason episodes via Amazon Prime. Look forward to that.
Elizabelle
@Baud: Some lizard brains would pop, fer sure. Please make it happen.
Baud
@Elizabelle:. How are you doing?
Elizabelle
@Omnes Omnibus: Yea, Omnes. You have to drive through snow to get there?
PsiFighter37
Hoping that Mississippi demonstrates it has some sanity and prefers not to be stuck in the 1800s/early 1900s. Not optimistic, but you never know. I could get used to having Southern Democrats back in the big tent.
Elizabelle
@Baud: I’m well, Baud, and thanks for asking. A tiny bit of post-campaign letdown. Miss the intensity, greatly, but so relieved we won.
How are you?
Amir Khalid
@Omnes Omnibus:
Good for you.
Baud
@Elizabelle:
I’m actually not sure how to answer that. But very happy about the election results.
Viva BrisVegas
@TenguPhule:
So WaPo is a practitioner of redacted journalism.
No journalist worth a cup of warm spit should allow an interview subject to speak off the record.
They needed to tell Trump that this is an interview, nothing is off the record. We are not your cosy confidants.
It’s a travesty.
Elizabelle
@Baud: Oh. Hugs. All the best to you, bud.
delk
@chris:Took me a while to find a couple meetings that I like so ask around. Sending good thoughts.
TS (the original)
@TenguPhule: He’s had 2 years with total control of congress – and still wants to blame democrats because he hasn’t got his wall.
TS (the original)
@Baud: More hugs – look after you.
Elizabelle
@TS (the original): Oh, I think a lot of us want to see some walls around Trump. Maybe a nice metal toilet too.
And, isn’t the fault with Mexico?
chris
@delk: Perhaps I wasn’t clear, I went to all the meetings! 90 meetings in 90 days, old school. Continued to go to two or three a week for 20 years but I live in a very small place now and only get out once a month or so.
SenyorDave
With 0.4% of the vote in, Espy is ahead by 36 votes.
MobiusKlein
Now that the first count is in from MS, we should follow the R suggestions and just stop counting, so no cheating can happen.
SenyorDave
I used to be able to do math in my head, but now that I’ve lost my touch. Make that 72 votes ahead.
Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho
@Omnes Omnibus: Excellent choice.All the best.
TS (the original)
@MobiusKlein: From Nate Siver blog
DeSoto county in northwest Mississippi just reported a bunch of votes and they show … basically a tie there. Not great for Hyde-Smith in a county where Espy got just 34 percent on Election Day.
Major Major Major Major
@chris: I just couldn’t with all the religion crap, that said I’ll probably check out a meeting Friday, first in a couple years.
PsiFighter37
@TS (the original): 6 out of 39 precincts…not really all that predictive.
schrodingers_cat
@Elizabelle: Do not miss shouty TV at all.
Mary G
She’s taken the lead, but not by much:
Cindy Hyde-Smith* (R) 5,775 50.2%
Mike Espy (D) 5,722 49.8%
Total Votes 11,497
I know it’s silly to hang onto every little number, but I feel I have to watch poll results to not feel blindsided.
Elizabelle
@schrodingers_cat: Hello there. Agreed. It just kind of aggravates me. As it is meant to do, I guess, but have no appetite for it. Get enough drama here.
eemom
So Mr. “Information Wants To Be Free” is panhandling for censorship when the subject of the information happens to be himself.
Haven’t been this shocked since republicans blew up the deficit
satby
@Omnes Omnibus: remember the hp is just something outside yourself to ground on. One of my friends made whatever doorknob that was handy his higher power.
All the support in the world for you Omnes.
satby
@Baud: Good thoughts for you my friend.
hilts
@Elizabelle:
I’d love to see a miracle Mike Espy win but I think the lyrics from this Phil Ochs song are sadly still true
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU3o9Tl7zTk
in a previous thread some weeks ago, you mentioned a cool sounding art movie house in your neighborhood. Seen any good films there recently? I just saw Green Book today and it was outstanding with wonderful performances from Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen.
TS (the original)
@PsiFighter37: Of course – but following Nate’s blog – it will be closer than it should have been. trump probably lost her a few votes by showing up.
Roger Moore
@eemom:
I’ve said this all along. If Wikileaks really cared about transparency, they’d be transparent themselves. They aren’t and aren’t. They’ve always been about weaponizing information.
schrodingers_cat
@Elizabelle: How have you been?
guachi
At least unlike election night, I have no expectation for Espy to win. It’s really all about how little he’ll lose by. So a victory would be a huge surprise.
But at least in scattered returns Espy is running well ahead of where he was on election day in those counties.
chris
@Major Major Major Major: Yeah, the religion stuff can be a bit much sometimes, especially for newcomers. But for me the camaraderie and understanding made up for it. Alcoholism is a very lonely disease.
MomSense
@Omnes Omnibus:
Good choice! Hope the meeting is a good fit but if it isn’t there are others you can try.
Mary G
@Viva BrisVegas: Agree with you and this guy:
There is no news value whatsoever in that WaPo interview, except that the president is nuts and lies all the time, and we already knew that.
MomSense
@Baud:
Thank you!
delk
@chris: d’oh! That was meant for omnes. I try to go M-W-F and Saturday. All 7:15 am.
Elizabelle
@hilts: Just saw an amazing film festival about and by Native Americans a week or two ago. Also an animated film this weekend, A Cat in Paris, that I liked a lot. Re the Pocahontas festival: Documentary film director Anne Makepeace is wonderful; screened a film on Edward Curtis, early 20th c. photographer of American Indians, and a film on tribal justice systems present day. More about holistic approach than vengeance. Very interesting. The Byrd Theatre in Richmond. In its 90th year. Really a treasure.
Want to see The Green Book. Love Mr. Ali; great actor.
@schrodingers_cat: Been well, thank you. Looking about for the next exciting thing to get involved in. A tad sedentary, actually. How are you?
Mary G
@Omnes Omnibus: Agree with everyone who’s said you may need to check out a few meetings. They are supposed to be all the same, but birds of a feather flock together and some will be full of godbotherers and some won’t. There is always a certain percentage of unhelpful people – I had a therapist tell me once that alcoholism is about eighth down the list of some people’s pathologies, but they are too poor or unwilling to face themselves to go anywhere else.
PsiFighter37
@TS (the original): We shall see. The bad guys are up by 2% with 5% counted…really early. That said, I have no idea how statewide races in MS play out, as for the 15 years I have paid close attention to politics, there has never been 1 statewide race in Mississippi that was worth watching.
CaseyL
@Omnes Omnibus: Good going, and good luck! You can do this!
StringOnAStick
To everyone who saw my comments about how Omaha Steaks took advantage of my senile mother to order tons of expensive food, get this: I looked up the corporate HQ address for the screed I’m writing, and HQ is on…. wait for it….. John Galt Blvd. Says it all, no?
This might be one thing Facebook is useful for, because my social media campaign to shame these bastards starts now.
Elizabelle
@Mary G: Like this response to the Schwartz thread by Herrongate (whatever):
I wish Philip Rucker of the WaPost would get his “Pulitzer Prize” winning ass off Brian Williams’ set. Same for a lot of them. Do your day jobs. Stop magnifying the speech (not even speech — tweets, for dog’s sake) of a wannabe Banana Republic dictator. Stop giving him the microphone.
chris
@delk: Hahaha! I did wonder.
And good for you going to all those meetings. We have two a week here, with the same 12-15 people some of whom started to get on my nerves a little after ten years or so, so I find once a month is good. I also like checking out new meetings when I get to the city every couple of months. Guess I’m just an oldtimer but I’m still looking forward to my cake tomorrow night.
TS (the original)
@PsiFighter37: Nate’s probably trying to turn it into a race – but it’s a good read – and as you have said where the early votes come from is most important.
As others have pointed out, where the votes are coming from is very important in a state with such racially-polarized voting. That might be happening in DeSoto County.
(GEOFFREY SKELLEY)
(Hyde-Smith now increasing her lead in Desoto)
?BillinGlendaleCA
@TenguPhule:
Is this Trump or Colbert from the Colbert Report? I really can’t tell the difference.
guachi
I think the vote on November 6 was (combined) 58R-42D. So a 16 point loss on election day. I’d guess that single digits would be a kind of moral victory for Espy.
Ben Cisco
@Omnes Omnibus: I’m sensing that I’ve missed something. Good luck.
schrodingers_cat
@Elizabelle: I am good thanks. This week has been pretty hectic. I had my annual today and my doctor’s wife who is a Canadian immigrant has just filed her naturalization papers. She wants to be able to vote in 2020.
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: {{}}. Hope everything is okay. When do you start your virtual campaign?
Ohio Mom
@Omnes Omnibus: As they say, Take what you need and leave the rest.
lamh36
Good evening BJ.
So today was my last full day of class until the final exam day (2 weeks from today). if i do well on the quiz tonight and the next quiz on Finals day and do well on my term paper, i’ll finish with a strong B. If I do REALLY WELL…i.e. perfect scores and REALLY WELL on my term paper…I might just end up with a low A!!!
So that’s mostly it for my first class as a grad student. One more quiz to go and my grade in the term paper. I swear it looked like he was reading my paper already. when I turned in todays quiz, I swear it looked like my paper he was reading was mine??. i don’t know if I included enough economics in it, but I sure hope it’s enough to get a good percentage of the points for the term paper. tI think I will get the score I needed it to be on the quiz today to continue on track for a B..and if I remembered everything correctly I might even get a higher score.
Luckily my scores on the other quizzes average pretty well so I don’t need a perfect of even close to a perfect score on the last quizzes. One more quiz to go in 2 weeks, but it’s the same day as the final exam. I have to decide if I want to take the final exam or not. Hey, at least I’ve got 2 weeks to prepare for that last quiz…Although calling it a quiz is not quite right. 2 of the questions will be opened ended from the last chapter taught, but then the last 1/3 of the “quiz” will be 10 multiple choice questions encompassing the ENTIRE semester of learning…
So…long story short…I need to ace that final quiz and at least mostly ace the term paper. Term paper is turned in, so it’s out of my hands, but the last quiz, I have time to prepare for!
opiejeanne
@Omnes Omnibus: ((Omnes)). <– that's a hug for you. Good luck, and I think we're all pulling for you.
Barbara
@lamh36: Go you!
SFAW
@guachi:
So far, Espy seems to be over-performing (so to speak) in some counties, relative to the figures from 11/6. In other words: in counties where McDaniel and Cindy Racist-#$%^& (combined) got about 60% of the votes cast on 11/6, she’s only pulling 50 to 55 percent. Since it seems unlikely that McDaniel voters would vote for Libtard Espy, those numbers are relatively good.
That said: it’s a heavy lift for Espy to top 50 percent, but not impossible.
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus:
Righteous choice. Good luck, brother!
Shana
@StringOnAStick: Best of luck to you. Don’t forget social media – twitter etc., companies seem to respond better that way.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: So many good thoughts for you in this thread, I can’t think of anything that hasn’t already been said. #TeamOmnes
edit: Can’t help myself. Excellent choice with the song.
Mary G
@Elizabelle: I don’t watch any TV anymore, but I did read in the WaPo column by Eric Wemple that MSNBC alone declined to cover Sarah “I Can’t Stop Lying or My Boss Will Fire Me” Sanders “press briefing” today.
Right on, good job MSNBC.
opiejeanne
@Viva BrisVegas:
Not sure it would make much difference if they had published what he said. I had trouble figuring out what he said during the interview that they did publish, and I’m still not sure about half of it.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@lamh36: That sounds great! You’re kicking it!
Omnes Omnibus
Thanks everyone. It was great. Full of weirdos. My kind of place. Not unlike here.
SFAW
@Ben Cisco:
A couple of nights ago, Omnes discussed his alcohol consumption with us (so to speak). The meeting being discussed tonight relates to that.
SFAW
@Omnes Omnibus:
So I guess you didn’t feel out of place by wearing your Cheesehead?
Glad to hear it went well.
Major Major Major Major
@Omnes Omnibus: then keep coming back, as they say.
Omnes Omnibus
@Major Major Major Major: I will.
SenyorDave
People should keep in mind that in Alabama Moore lost by a couple of points and he was an actual pedophile, plus Jones had a background that helped for a Democrat. Smith is just your average dumbass southern politician who made some asinine racist comments that showed her to be on overt bigot, but that probably didn’t hurt her much, if at all with whites. It undoubtedly helped with black turnout, so she might underperform, but Espy had a huge hurdle to overcome. Smith should win, she is pretty representative of the majority of voters in Mississippi. Ultra conservative, loves Trump, poorly informed, not very bright.
BTW, in 2008 Obama got 11% of the white vote in Mississippi, in 2015 Clinton got 15% of the white vote. I don’t see a Democrat winning Mississippi in a statewide national election for… the rest of my lifetime unless things change drastically.
Steeplejack
@Elizabelle:
I’m your guy for Masoniana. MeTV has it on twice a day on weekdays (9:00 a.m. and 11:30 p.m.), and I catch some episodes every week to restore my sense of order in the universe.
chris
@Omnes Omnibus: Happy laughing weirdos, right? My favourite line in the Big Book is: “We are not a glum lot.”
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: So glad you found a good group on the first try. Weirdos unite! You will have to tell us if the crowd changes based on time slots or day of the week.
Jay
“The international arrivals area of Vancouver Airport has seen many, many hugs, but none quite like the one between Hassan Al Kontar and Laurie Cooper on a dark, particularly stormy November night.
Al Kontar, a 37-year-old from Dama, Syria, had just landed after a nine-month ordeal that saw him living for seven months in the transit area of Kuala Lumpur airport, followed by two dark, isolating months in a Malaysian detention centre.”
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4921926
Ruckus
@Omnes Omnibus:
You are probably back from that meeting but a belated good meeting anyway. Hope it works for you. If you need to talk and your sponsor isn’t available there are lots of shoulders here to lean on. Just give a shout, someone is always about.
Omnes Omnibus
@chris: Yes.
@WaterGirl: This is a once a week group.
Frankensteinbeck
@Roger Moore:
From what his memoir writer wrote, Assange is a raging narcissist who thinks rules are for other people, has an enemies list that combines both deranged paranoia and pathetic toddler tantrum, and of course that he is a genius hero battling evil, where what he wants defines good and what he doesn’t want defines evil.
TL:DR, the leader of Wikileaks believes in nothing but himself.
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Colbert didn’t make his shit up. He was the perfect example of Poe’s law, parodying conservative attitudes so purely that a lot of conservatives thought he was on their side. Truthiness isn’t just big in conservatism, it’s one of the fundamental underpinnings. The facts don’t agree with them, so fuck the facts, they know they’re right.
Mary G
@Omnes Omnibus: Yay you!
ETA: @lamh36: Yay you too!
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: That’s great. Seems like that would be a consistent group. Happy for you.
Ruckus
@Major Major Major Major:
I understand there are meetings that really don’t stress the religion much at all. For me I would have had to find one without any. But I’m in the few – far between – lucky group, didn’t need meetings or medical assistance to stop.
opiejeanne
@lamh36: Good luck! Sounds good.
Omnes Omnibus
@Ruckus: I don’t know if I need the help to stop, but, fuck it, I’ll take if it is there.
Mnemosyne
@lamh36:
Hooray! Grad school is a long, tough road, but you are going to be SO glad you did it. You just need to keep your head down and keep going.
G’s grad school advice: find some people in your program to have a study/support group that meets regularly. You will all do much better and have people to vent to who understand exactly what you’re going through.
Mnemosyne
@Omnes Omnibus:
It’s not 100 percent comparable, but when I was struggling with depression and then with ADHD, the absolute dumbest thing I did was think that I could handle it by myself. It set me back years in getting my life on track. So you’re already being way smarter than I was.
Suzanne
@Omnes Omnibus: I hope you find it illuminating and supportive. My ex was (is?) in AA and I oddly always enjoyed attending meetings with him. Always found it worthwhile and centering, even though I am not an alcoholic or addict.
Jay
“So from the outset, in the conflict that the United States dates from September 2001, our ostensible ally has been the principal source of the problem. In the Long War, Saudi Arabia represents what military theorists like to call the center of gravity, defined as “the source of power that provides moral or physical strength, freedom of action, or will to act” to the enemy. When it comes to Salafist jihadism, Saudi Arabia fits that definition to a T.
So there is more than a little poetic justice — or is it irony? — in General Abizaid’s proposed posting to Riyadh. The one senior military officer who early on demonstrated an inkling of understanding of the Long War’s true nature now prepares to take up an assignment in what is, in essence, the very center of the enemy’s camp. It’s as if President Lincoln had dispatched Ulysses S. Grant to Richmond, Virginia, in 1864 as his liaison to Jefferson Davis.”
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176499/tomgram%3A_andrew_bacevich%2C_rule_number_one_in_warfare%3A_know_your_enemy/
Jay
@Omnes Omnibus:
Glad that the meeting went well.
The biggest battle is offen not the “stopping drinking”, but figuring out and fixing why you were self medicating.
My Mom quit drinking,
My Dad just became a dry drunk for the next 20 years.
hilts
@Elizabelle:
All those films you mentioned sound very interesting and I look forward to tracking them down. If I ever visit Richmond, I’ll make sure to check out the Byrd Theatre.
Ruckus
@Omnes Omnibus:
Whatever works for you is what you need.
There is a point that most people come to when they can accept a life without alcohol as normal. It’s a step in the process. For some it comes early, for some it takes a while. Many people you know will still drink and won’t fully understand. Some really will. Remember it’s not about them, it’s about you, what’s good for you.
I’ve been off for long enough, about 15 yrs, that it’s easy now, second nature. I was offered the other day and it slid right out, “I don’t drink.” – “It’s just beer.” Answer – “I don’t drink alcohol.” – What I didn’t say was – “And besides that isn’t beer, it’s watered down donkey piss.” I would have said that out loud 10 yrs ago as part of the excuse. Now I just own my decision not to drink. It’s mine, I made it, I live with it, it’s good for me, and I owe it me to be honest with myself about it.
hilts
@SFAW:
Fuck those clueless, racist, goddamn Mississippi.assholes.
NotMax
Sigh. Just finished changing the battery in landlady’s spare car, which she’s using while the newer one is in the shop getting some body work done. Of course,
the nut on one of the battery clamps was frozen
the under the battery tray was rusted out and part of it disintegrated when I pulled the battery out.
Icing on the cake was finding that one of the snap-down filler covers on the old battery was just – gone.
Did convince her to let me go to Sears yesterday to get a sealed DieHard instead of a generic house brand at the closer to home auto parts place. Turned out that I had Sears points (or whatever they’re called) and the final cost was significantly less than elsewhere.
Air outside hanging very hot and heavy today and now am a little short of breath (plus dehydrated) after finishing; quickly beginning to pass, however.
zhena gogolia
@Steeplejack:
Did you catch Warren William in Lady for a Day last night? Sublime.
I just learned he was Warren William Krech from Minnesota, married to the same woman all his (too-short) life, and liked to tinker with inventions. And Joan Blondell said he was an old man even when he was a young man.
NotMax
@zhena gogolia
Studio hype promo short, but still rare color footage of him, along with his DIY skills.
zhena gogolia
@NotMax:
FABULOUS! But I don’t like what he did with his dog . . . .
captnkurt
Anyone else a fan of Peter Schickele aka P.D.Q. Bach? This is his take on that famous piece of music.
NotMax
@captnkurt
Suppose there must be someone, somewhere, who isn’t. Probably hidden behind a pile of hen’s teeth.
zhena gogolia
@captnkurt:
Without listening, I can say, Bobby Corno really blew that note!
Mnemosyne
@Ruckus:
An interesting trick of psychology that I first learned in Weight Watchers: if you tell yourself I can’t have X or I’m not allowed to have X, you will inevitably backslide, have/eat X, and feel like a failure.
However, if you say to yourself I choose not to have X, you will be much more successful, because you made a conscious choice and decision.
So what you have been successfully telling yourself is not that you can’t drink. It’s that you choose not to drink. Making it a conscious choice cements the decision.
Steeplejack
@zhena gogolia:
I didn’t see it. My viewing has been limited since my TV died in September. I have been experimenting with the TV-free lifestyle but catching some screen time via streaming on my tablet. Cox Cable’s Contour app works surprisingly well.
That said, I finally bought a new TV yesterday. I hate shopping, much less Black Friday/Cyber Monday shopping, but I rode the wave and got a good deal on a 49" Samsung. I haven’t deployed it yet. I need to dispose of the old TV and rearrange my media setup somewhat.
(“Media setup” is a bit highfalutin for my jury-rigged mess. Trying to neaten it somewhat.)
ETA: I just remembered that a few months ago I saw one of those little interstitial newsreel-type features that TCM runs to round out the hour that was Warren William being interviewed in his inventor’s workshop. There was also one of him and some actress getting a golf lesson from Bobby Jones.
Ruckus
@Mnemosyne:
Exactly.
I call it owning the decision but it’s the same thing. It’s kinda the opposite of immaturity, going along to get along. When you realize that you don’t have to do that, that your good and bad decisions are yours and yours alone, that you can choose to do whatever. The reason I say own it is that it makes you realize that you made the decision to drink, you can make the decision not to drink, no one else did that. No one tied you up and poured it down your throat, you did that. That same person can make the opposite decision, to stop. —- Of course there is an issue with alcohol and drugs and that is that we are susceptible to physical addiction, or depending on the substance, guarantied to become addicted. But in the end starting or stopping is a decision we have to make. The method to carry out that decision, the will to stick with it, the will to suffer the withdrawals if necessary, that is separate from that decision.
But if you don’t own your decisions, you can’t really be free or be an mature adult.
Steeplejack
@NotMax:
Yeah, that’s the one I saw on TCM.
NotMax
@Steeplejack
re : TV
Woo-hoo!
The interstitial features are what first drew me in to TCM. When they were introduced by their own “one reel wonder” theme music, hearing that would be enough for me to interrupt whatever else was doing and check it out.
Steeplejack
@NotMax:
They are fascinating. I started seeing them when I would flip to TCM ahead of a movie I wanted to watch, especially late at night. Then I started lingering after the ends of movies to see what would show up before the next feature started. For some reason I really like the weird travel/leisure ones—“Sun Valley Winter Carnival,” “Calgary Stampede,” etc. They’re sort of weird but “normalized” at the same time. And the narrators all affect this chatty, wise-guy tone. Actually, it was probably one guy who narrated them all; that would be a typical Hollywood thing.
Mart
I loved the Beetovan. It had a good beat and I could dance to it.
NotMax
@Steeplejack
Probably the voice of Pete Smith, who graduated to having an eponymous series of “specialties” at MGM.
zhena gogolia
@Steeplejack: @NotMax:
I first encountered the parody of that, maybe on Looney Tunes? You know, “And as the sun sets over Bora Bora, we bid a fond farewell . . .”