stringertom
Bionic Poster
Stirred by the music and life styles of the 60's rock bands, a young stringytom became hippietom with long hair, love beads, bell bottom jeans and tie-dyed tee shirts.
Yet another word game
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Rafa.the.Magnificent
G.O.A.T.
Tie-dyed tee shirts will always have a certain appeal.
stringertom
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Appeal of the sexual variety for me is still raised delightfully by @Mike Bulgakov 's photo contributions despite being lambasted here for being a dirty old man engaged in objectification of young female tennis pros.
Mike Bulgakov
G.O.A.T.
stringertom
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"Join the party" phrase is augmented a bit to keep a poetic rhythm in the classic Mel Brooks film, "The Producers"..."Don't be shtuppid, be a schmarty, come and join the Na-zi Party" was the line and "Springtime For Hitler" was the song.
Rafa.the.Magnificent
G.O.A.T.
"Song and dance" is an expression which indicates a sorry and unbelievable excuse.
Mike Bulgakov
G.O.A.T.
Excuses for a party were abundant in 1967's San Francisco.
stringertom
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1967's San Francisco hip community traveled south 120 miles to Monterey to start the summer right with a pop festival that featured a rather wild performance from a 24-year-old lefthander guitarist from Seattle backed by two English musicians. I'm wondering how many in the audience had ever seen a Wild Thing that set a guitar on fire???
Mike Bulgakov
G.O.A.T.
On fire was Joplin.
stringertom
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Janis and Scott Joplin are not related or from Joplin, Missouri.
Mike Bulgakov
G.O.A.T.
Missouri has many pig farms and a place called the Badlands, which is a song by Bruce Springsteen.
stringertom
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I am familiar with The Badlands of South Dakota, which are partially carved by the Little Missouri River and were named that by French explorers commenting on the rugged terrain they experienced in traversing the "mauvais terres" (badlands).
Mike Bulgakov
G.O.A.T.
Bad landslides sometimes hit the Malbu hills, but not the Malibu beaches.
Rafa.the.Magnificent
G.O.A.T.
Beaches in Mexico are faring well at the moment, but Mexico Beach in Florida and its close neighbors are facing utter havoc and devastation.
stringertom
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Devastation occurs all too often in San Poobiego after AYCE raids, both to the establishments' bottom lines and their restrooms.
Rafa.the.Magnificent
G.O.A.T.
Restrooms are apparently more often termed washrooms by Canadians.
Mike Bulgakov
G.O.A.T.
Canadians slur their "ehs" after too many La Fin Du Mondes.
stringertom
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Too many Fin de Mondes could make me shop in the tent aisle for my sportswear shirts.
Mike Bulgakov
G.O.A.T.
Shirts are best when large and green,
so don't let your wife put them in the drying machine.
Shirts are meant to be kept clean,
even when covered in ice cream.
so don't let your wife put them in the drying machine.
Shirts are meant to be kept clean,
even when covered in ice cream.
Rafaisdabest
Hall of Fame
Ice Cream is delicious, I had some Vanilla Ice Cream earlier and it was mmm mmm!
Rafa.the.Magnificent
G.O.A.T.
Mmm mmm mmm was a phrase of which Andy Griffith was fond.
stringertom
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Andy Griffith was fond of hot dogs during his years portraying cantankerous lawyer Benjamin Matlock in the popular television series.
Mike Bulgakov
G.O.A.T.
The popular television series "Curb Your Enthusiasm" filmed a scene at Canter's Deli, a place where I used to enjoy dining after midnight.
stringertom
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Dining after midnight on International Drive becomes limited to about a dozen restaurants that keep their kitchens open until close to 2 AM. Then it's down to fast food, Denny's and IHOP for 24-hour service.
Rafa.the.Magnificent
G.O.A.T.
Service in the United States Coast Guard was a part of my father's young life, and he spent that time largely in Galveston.
stringertom
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Galveston was ground zero for the worst American natural disaster when the Great Hurricane of 1900 made landfall and killed upwards of 6,000 people. This was before hurricanes were given names.
Mike Bulgakov
G.O.A.T.
Names given are guilty until proven innocent.
Soviet Tradition of Snitching Makes Comeback in Russia
A soviet propaganda poster from 1954 urges against snitching which, the poster says, may "help the enemy."
Last week Anna Reshyotkina, editor-in-chief of a glossy magazine in Yekaterinburg, was unexpectedly summoned to the Prosecutor's Office for a 30-minute conversation about the cover of the May issue.
She was asked to explain who was responsible for putting a photo of Sofia Nikitchuk — this year's Miss Russia — draped in silky material in the colors of the Russian flag under the headline "The Taste of Victory" on the cover of Stolnik, a local lifestyle magazine.
Prosecutors told Reshyotkina that the probe had been prompted by a request from an unknown individual, who was apparently offended by the cover and thought it desecrated the Russian flag, a criminal offense that carries up to a year in prison under Russian law.
"I was not told the name of the person who was offended by our cover," Reshyotkina told The Moscow Times, adding that the summons from prosecutors had taken her by surprise. Prosecutors have not contacted Reshyotkina since the meeting, she said.
The phenomenon of informants appealing to state bodies such as the Investigative Committee has become rife in recent years, prompting some pundits to draw parallels with the purges of the 1930s, when people would denounce their neighbors, colleagues and love rivals to improve their living conditions, advance their career or curry favor with the authorities.
"Everything is sliding back to 1937: denunciations, secret informants and squealers," said Irina Khaly, a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/soviet-tradition-of-snitching-makes-comeback-in-russia-46997
Soviet Tradition of Snitching Makes Comeback in Russia
A soviet propaganda poster from 1954 urges against snitching which, the poster says, may "help the enemy."
Last week Anna Reshyotkina, editor-in-chief of a glossy magazine in Yekaterinburg, was unexpectedly summoned to the Prosecutor's Office for a 30-minute conversation about the cover of the May issue.
She was asked to explain who was responsible for putting a photo of Sofia Nikitchuk — this year's Miss Russia — draped in silky material in the colors of the Russian flag under the headline "The Taste of Victory" on the cover of Stolnik, a local lifestyle magazine.
Prosecutors told Reshyotkina that the probe had been prompted by a request from an unknown individual, who was apparently offended by the cover and thought it desecrated the Russian flag, a criminal offense that carries up to a year in prison under Russian law.
"I was not told the name of the person who was offended by our cover," Reshyotkina told The Moscow Times, adding that the summons from prosecutors had taken her by surprise. Prosecutors have not contacted Reshyotkina since the meeting, she said.
The phenomenon of informants appealing to state bodies such as the Investigative Committee has become rife in recent years, prompting some pundits to draw parallels with the purges of the 1930s, when people would denounce their neighbors, colleagues and love rivals to improve their living conditions, advance their career or curry favor with the authorities.
"Everything is sliding back to 1937: denunciations, secret informants and squealers," said Irina Khaly, a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/soviet-tradition-of-snitching-makes-comeback-in-russia-46997
stringertom
Bionic Poster
Russian Academy of Sciences Nobel laureates list includes Pavlov, Sakharov and a whole bunch of less familiar names.
Rafa.the.Magnificent
G.O.A.T.
Naming a girl Bobbie Jo is more common in the southern states than out west.
Mike Bulgakov
G.O.A.T.
Westwood Baby Bears are going down in BERKELEY!
stringertom
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Axe is a brand of personal hygiene products that have been promoted for two decades with a series of very controversially provocative ad campaigns.
Mike Bulgakov
G.O.A.T.
Ad campaigns can work all-too-well or can misfire, and Calvin Klein did both with Kate Moss, who I met in the Viper Room.
stringertom
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Room 105 is an echo chamber of laughter as I watch the misfires during viewing of the full length YouTube version of the Technicolor Pachydermal Ballet.
Rafa.the.Magnificent
G.O.A.T.
Ballets often tell a story, such as Romeo and Juliet or The Merry Widow.
stringertom
Bionic Poster
Widow's peak is the most apt description of fedr's receding hairline; inconsistency is the most apt description of his recent performances.
Rafa.the.Magnificent
G.O.A.T.
Mismeasurement of first-down lines by NFL referees would provoke fan outrage.
Mike Bulgakov
G.O.A.T.
Outrageous fortune and a sea of troubles were contemplated in Hamlet's "To be, or not to be" soliloquy.
stringertom
Bionic Poster
Soliloquies such as this match the eek expressed in my new avatar:
Rafa.the.Magnificent
G.O.A.T.
Avatars can be very expressive and some are even animated gifs put together by graphics editors.
Mike Bulgakov
G.O.A.T.
Editors play an important and often under appreciated role in films.
stringertom
Bionic Poster
Roles in films by Alfred Hitchcock often included brief snippets of the auteur himself in crowd scenes. Here is a compilation of them all:
Mike Bulgakov
G.O.A.T.
"Allentown" is a song by Billy Joel, who is best known for having married Christy Brinkley, who is best know for being in a National Lampoon film.
stringertom
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National Lampoon film "Animal House" set the bar pretty high for classic scenes, including "Food Fight", "Toga Toga Toga", peeping Bluto on a ladder, horse heart attack, homecoming parade hijacking and the immortal line of advice from Dean Wormer to Delta House pledge Dorfman, "Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life,son."
Mike Bulgakov
G.O.A.T.
"Songs of the Doomed" is worth a read these days.
Rafa.the.Magnificent
G.O.A.T.
"Days of Our Lives" has the fourth-highest episode count (13,436) among all television programs in the world and depicts the lives of the happy, lustful, the doomed and the damned.
stringertom
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Damned if you do, damned if you don't could be translated as being stuck between a rock and a hard place.
