Archive for the ‘oddities’ Category

Almost an instalance

Posted: April 16, 2009 by datechguy in fun, oddities, personal
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Boy those Boston Tea party photos are pretty popular. I haven’t had this many hits since my instalance.

However since my kids are having computer issues general conversation will have to wait.

Meanwhile those new episodes of Red Dwarf have to be online somewhere.

Levin who’s Levin?

Posted: April 14, 2009 by datechguy in oddities
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Glenn mentions that Liberty and Tyranny is still #1 at Amazon.

Wasn’t planning on buying it myself but when I went out to buy Escape From Hell. (I’m in my 2nd reading of it awesome book review will follow later this week.) I noticed something interesting.

At B.J’s wholesale they had about a dozen copies of Levin’s book I was really surprised to seem them there. I then went to Barnes & Noble. They not only didn’t have the book (tons of Michael Fox’s all over) but the people at checkout seemed to not have heard of it.

After all this is Massachusetts.

The Obama Operation

Posted: April 7, 2009 by datechguy in oddities
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Picking up on the Drums along the Mohawk quote I imagined how the exchange would go with the president:

America: “President Obama have you ever run any kind of business or economy or even gotten a paycheck from a profit making business?”

President: “No but I need to run GM and get control of the banks and the health care system.”

America: “Well that’s ok, a man’s got to start somewhere. We have hope for your change”

Just a reminder, the general who is the source of the other quote in the movie…he died.

That Bigot Betty White…

Posted: April 3, 2009 by datechguy in oddities
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…at least that must be what Richard Cohen would conclude.

Was watching the old Match Game on the game show network this morning after sleeping late. It’s one of those old shows that are still funny as the years go by.

Well a younger Betty White was on and a question was “Sgt Preston was so alone for so long he married his blank.” when she said Husky she shouted to the booing audience: “Who else would he marry?”

Obviously the entire Match Game cast and crew and audience under the Cohen rule must have been a bunch of racist bigot, homophobes etc etc etc since the concept that he might have married another Mountie never occurred to them.

When you watch old television you can’t help but notice this kind of stuff, it’s amazing what film can do.

(Actually it’s amazing what was considered racy on those old shows too…)