I LOVE this article. No, I ADORE this article!@musiclady
I've spent the afternoon raking golden and red leaves from our back yard, enjoying the sunshine, and loving the silence of our phone.
Life, in all it's beauty and sometimes pain, goes on. And as you have said, the American people continue to shine above others in generosity and compassion.Especially when it comes as always it does from our hearts, and not the compulsion and theft of the State.
AND THANKS for mentioning the 1948 Cleveland Indians World Series victory over the Boston Braves. We Cleveland fans don't have a whole lot of victories to celebrate, so we enjoy reminiscing about those that occurred, even before our births. happy77I suspect the Indians' time will come again in our lifetimes. I say that with authority, having actually seen my Mets, my Red Sox, and the Cubs and the Astros win World Series in my lifetime. And remember 13 February!
Please, nobody post that awful Maureen McGovern song....@Cyber Liberty
@Cyber Liberty
Thank God there's more than one song with that title . . .Hank Mobley, "The Morning After"
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Please, nobody post that awful Maureen McGovern song....
This one?
No, but thanks for helping me knock down an earworm! :laugh:
Ironically Leslie Nielsen was in both Airplane! and The Poseidon Adventure.If'n youse guys are going to derail my pleasant thread, at least do it with Leslie Nielsen's best work . . .
If'n youse guys are going to derail my pleasant thread, at least do it with Leslie Nielsen's best work . . .
Police Squad was like the TV version of Stevie Ray Vaughn. Cut down at the prime of its life. :crying:
If'n youse guys are going to derail my pleasant thread, at least do it with Leslie Nielsen's best work . . .
Excellent editorial @EasyAce Thank you for the ping.@Applewood
These days, I'm becoming convinced that no matter who wins or who loses, life will go on and that it doesn't matter who is in power. I survived the hell that was the Obama administration. I was hoping for something more like heaven, but I'll settle for the purgatory we are in now. Life is never going to be 100% wonderful. There will be good times and bad times. We will all survive -- that is, until our Maker pulls the plug.
Yesterday, a dear friend of mine insisted on taking me to vote, then to an appointment for bloodwork, then to lunch at Boston Market. At first, I told her she really didn't have to do this -- after all, she had taken me to breakfast the day before -- but she insisted. She has it in her mind that walking a half mile in a mild drizzle to the polling place is going to kill me. And she thinks I can't get to the lab by myself.
But I'm glad I gave in. Spending some time with a really wonderful friend is one of my life's pleasures. And after so many months -- maybe a year or more -- of unrelenting negative campaigning and tons of junk mail (campaign literature), and fights with other supposed conservatives over what was really an awful spate of Republican and Democrat candidates, none of whom was worth voting for, I needed that fun time with my dear friend.
I agree -- there was nothing particularly awesome about this election. Tne masive gridlock in Washington will continue as it always has and nothing beneficial to us citizens will really get done as usual. So we soldier on, do the best we can with what we have and along the way savor whatever pleasures life gives us.
Stupid network execs killed it after a handful of episodes. The show was resurrected in the Naked Gun movies which were wildly successful. I believe Leslie Neilsen became an "overnight star" with the Naked Gun movies -- after toiling for years in numerous old tv shows, often playing bad guys in westerns.Unfortunately, the Naked Gun films weren't half as funny as the original Police Squad!
As to Police Squad, I loved how the special guest star in each episode was killed during the opening credits. I guess network execs didn't get the show's quirky humor.
Unfortunately, the Naked Gun films weren't half as funny as the original Police Squad!
But then the Addams Family films didn't hold a candle to the original TV series, either.
I think that kind of comedy is best doled out on 1/2 hour doses.Depends on the comedy. In the old-time radio era Fred Allen was quite successful going an hour each week, from 1934-39 as Town Hall Tonight (CBS), 1939-1940 as The Fred Allen Show (NBC; a sponsorship change necessitated the name change, which Allen wasn't exactly happy about), and 1940-42 as Texaco Star Theater. (CBS.) He inserted a very few music segments into a striking comedy hour that included some of radio's earliest news satires ("The Town Hall News! Sees nothing, says all!"---it became "The Texaco News March of Trivia!" when Texaco took him on) and sketches by his cast known as the Mighty Allen Art Players. And the show which gave the first regular weekly exposure to Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy was born as The Chase and Sanborn Hour and stayed that way for about four years before Bergen and McCarthy moved to a half-hour format.