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buzzsawmonkey
12/22/2019 5:37:09 AM
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With reference to last night's notes on "It's a Wonderful Life," here's a recording of "It's A Great Life, If You Don't Weaken," the song on which the film title riffs.
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buzzsawmonkey
12/22/2019 6:05:13 AM
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BTW, as long as we're talking about songs, and riffing on songs, the first song Kosh posted last night, Handsome Harry the Hipster's "Who Put the Benzedrine in Mrs. Murphy's Ovaltine?", is a riff on the old song "Who Threw The Overalls in Mrs. Murphy's Chowder?", which is the reason for the line in Harry the Hipster's song, "Who put the Nembutals in Mr. Murphy's overalls?"
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Occasional Reader
12/22/2019 8:02:59 AM
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Buzz, A tubular package arrived, I assume that has the toy sword in it, thank you very much! I wrapped it up and put it under the Christmas tree for little guy with a tag saying that it is from daddy’s friend (plus your name).
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buzzsawmonkey
12/22/2019 8:16:56 AM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 3: I'm so glad the parcel-pilferers didn't get there first. Yes, the tubular package is the sword; the books are due on the morrow. Remember; the blade and guard are now loose; the blade was originally secured by a brad or peg through the hilt (you can see the hole(s)), and the guard was secured to the hilt by glue which has long since abandoned its duty. All of this can be fixed in an instant or two with a small application of glue and/or a small wire brad. I left that element of adjustment to you. BTW, for what it's worth, that wooden "blade" has been mine for at least 50 years, since it was still in my parents' house---so it is kind of semi-antique, if that enhances anything.
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lucius septimius
12/22/2019 9:57:30 AM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 4: Excellent analysis. I fear that the micro-Stalins have already won, though. And, speaking as someone who has been "cancelled," the road to the new gas chambers is nearly finished.
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Kosh's Shadow
12/22/2019 12:18:40 PM
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Reply to lucius septimius in 6:
My novel was about all this where you have to go along with society or be ostracized and sent to a reeducation camp, essentially. But current events have gone much further.
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lucius septimius
12/22/2019 1:16:55 PM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 8: In a fit of pique, I started a dystopian novel in which men were exterminated following a feminist revolution. The trans crowd were akin to the Anarchists in the Russian Revolution -- they are part of the movement at the beginning but then are liquidated in a great purge. I got about a third of the way through before running out of steam. Blind hatred can only get you so far.
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buzzsawmonkey
12/22/2019 1:30:10 PM
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In #9 lucius septimius said: Blind hatred can only get you so far.
The LGBTQWERTY crowd is looking to find out how far that is.
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doppelganglander
12/22/2019 4:00:20 PM
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Reply to lucius septimius in 9: I have neither seen nor read The Handmaid's Tale, but from what I know of it, it doesn't sound like a bad way to organize society.
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buzzsawmonkey
12/22/2019 4:14:33 PM
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Reply to doppelganglander in 12:
"The Handmaid's Tale" is Islamic oppression of women plus a fat dollop of fascism/Soviet communism, grafted onto a fantasy "Christian fundamentalism" to play to the Leftist book-buying public.
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