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Post by Kapitan on Jan 1, 2020 16:37:28 GMT
I started rewatching Parks & Rec over the holidays.
(Somehow, the day before I return to work for the first time since a bit before Christmas, the books I meant to read and other assorted projects I meant to tackle remain woefully under-accomplished, yet I got through several seasons of P&R...)
Just want to say again that anyone looking for a good sitcom who hasn't seen this one really might want to give it a shot.
The cast is amazing: Amy Poehler, Nick Offerman, Aziz Ansari, Rob Lowe, Rashida Jones, Chris Pratt, Aubrey Plaza, Retta, Adam Scott, and Jim O'Heir mostly, with others coming and going over the episodes and years.
The writing is really great, a perfect blend of relatability with absolute absurdity. And it's a great mix of running themes and jokes that make watching over time rewarding with self-contained plotlines that mean you can check in for an episode here or there without being lost.
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Jan 3, 2020 9:26:18 GMT
Post by jk on Jan 3, 2020 9:26:18 GMT
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Jan 4, 2020 12:05:55 GMT
Post by jk on Jan 4, 2020 12:05:55 GMT
Here's some more funny-ish stuff I found while ripping up some old diaries: At a hotel in Ankara: You are invited to visit our restaurant where you can eat the Middle Eastern food in a European ambulance. One in Poland: As for the tripe served you at the Hotel Monopol, you will be singing its praises to your grandchildren on your deathbed. In Rio de Janiero: Visit the hairdresser in the Sub Soil of this hotel. At a motoring event on the French Riviera: Competitors will defile themselves on the promenade at 11 a.m., and each car will have two drivers who will relieve themselves at each other's conveniece. A German hotel replies in response to an enquiry about accommodation: A vivacious stream washes my doorsteps. So do not concern yourself that I am not so good in bath. I am superb in bed! In Seoul: Measles not included in room charge. In Rome: Please dial 7 to retrieve your auto from the garbage. Sign outside Mexican disco: Members and non-members only. Slogan on mugs produced by Warwickshire County Cricket Club, who wanted to bill their star bowler "King of Spin": Ashley Giles - King of Spain From a Russian chess book: A lot of water has been passed under the bridge since this variation has been played. Sign announcing a resort at Iguaco Falls on the border between Argentina and Paraguay: We offer you peace and seclusion. The paths to our resort are only passable by asses. Therefore, you will certainly feel at home here.
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Jan 4, 2020 14:59:59 GMT
Post by Kapitan on Jan 4, 2020 14:59:59 GMT
This is an interesting sentence. So have you been collecting these over time? Please, do tell.
Here's some more funny-ish stuff I found while ripping up some old diaries:
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Jan 4, 2020 15:25:16 GMT
Post by jk on Jan 4, 2020 15:25:16 GMT
This is an interesting sentence. So have you been collecting these over time? Please, do tell.
Here's some more funny-ish stuff I found while ripping up some old diaries: All these were in a single notebook cum diary. Most of my diaries just have instructions in them (appointments, birthdays, etc.) so there's little point in keeping them for posteriority. My wife's diaries, on the other hand, are definitely worth keeping, being filled with pasted illustrations, museum and concert tickets and suchlike--and they look beautiful to boot. So now you know.
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Jan 4, 2020 15:29:25 GMT
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Post by Kapitan on Jan 4, 2020 15:29:25 GMT
I kept diaries religiously through high school, I think from 9th at least through 11th grade. (I don't believe I maintained them my last year of high school, but I could be wrong.) This just makes me think I ought to dig them out. They've got to be amusing, full of the righteous passions of a teenager.
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Jan 7, 2020 11:46:07 GMT
Post by jk on Jan 7, 2020 11:46:07 GMT
I kept diaries religiously through high school, I think from 9th at least through 11th grade. (I don't believe I maintained them my last year of high school, but I could be wrong.) This just makes me think I ought to dig them out. They've got to be amusing, full of the righteous passions of a teenager. I still have one very full diary from 1975. I foolishly threw away a diary for 1966 in a throw-away-every-fucking-thing spree in the '70s. It included the date of the first UK radio broadcast of "Good Vibrations", probably on Radio London--I've been looking for that date ever since...
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Jan 9, 2020 11:30:22 GMT
Post by jk on Jan 9, 2020 11:30:22 GMT
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bellbottoms
Pacific Coast Highway
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Jan 11, 2020 20:22:05 GMT
Post by bellbottoms on Jan 11, 2020 20:22:05 GMT
I’ve started watching the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel… well I’ve just finished season 1 and watched the first episode of season 2, so I guess “started watching” isn’t exactly true, but I’ve blown through season 1 quite quickly. Good show, gets funnier with every episode. It took a few to get into it, but I think it hit its stride about halfway through season 1. I loved the Susie Meyerson character instantly, she’s hilarious. The abduction episode? Amazing.
The writing is very clever - the way they immediately trick you into forgiving Midge for being rough around the edges in the beginning, and then you’re rooting for her as she progresses and evolves her “tight ten”. Sometimes I can’t stand her, but she always wins me over.
I’ll admit that sometimes when it slips into that super-snappy, too-clever-to-be-believable “Gilmour Girls” style dialogue, it sort of gets to me, but I get that it’s part of the world that’s being created. Oddly the world sort of clicked for me in the scene where the department store girls are dancing at their Christmas party. There’s nothing natural about it, but that’s the point - the world of this show is all about putting on appearances.
Anyway, there are a lot of things to love about this show. Looking forward to seeing more of Midge’s mom in Paris, I love her transformation back to her self-sufficient, bread-eating “real” self. Great recommendation.
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Jan 12, 2020 23:14:38 GMT
Post by jk on Jan 12, 2020 23:14:38 GMT
This topic seems to have created a dichotomy between American and European posters. Maybe the Atlantic Ocean dampens enthusiasm for the humour on the opposite shore. Hopefully this wondrous sketch from Not the Nine O'Clock News will bridge those differences. On second thoughts... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_the_Nine_O%27Clock_News
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Jan 24, 2020 12:36:40 GMT
Post by jk on Jan 24, 2020 12:36:40 GMT
Heath Robinson, Learning the Goose Step, First World War (1973):
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bellbottoms
Pacific Coast Highway
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Feb 6, 2020 19:25:06 GMT
Post by bellbottoms on Feb 6, 2020 19:25:06 GMT
The sad news of Kirk Douglas' passing immediately got me thinking about my all time favourite Kirk Douglas movie. It's not a classic. It's not well known (I don't think, I've mentioned it to a number of people and no one but me ever seems to know about it), and honestly it's not... good. But it is so so funny. Not even so bad it's funny, just regular old funny funny.
It's called The Villain, and it's an insanely cast, low quality (is that a boom in the shot? yep that's a boom in the shot), hilarious work of ridiculous, slapstick art that I have loved since childhood. On "Dad" weekends, my sister and I would go visit him and we'd watch this together. Parts of it are probably not super appropriate for kids, but they, that was my Dad, he didn't care, and we didn't care, and boy did we love that movie. I used to be able to recite it off by heart.
Here's a nice little assemblage of Kirk Douglas' moments as Cactus Jack Slade from The Villain (also starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as Handsome Stranger and Ann Margaret as Charming Jones).
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Apr 5, 2020 11:54:31 GMT
Post by jk on Apr 5, 2020 11:54:31 GMT
Lee Mack cracks everyone up on The Graham Norton Show:
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Apr 5, 2020 12:57:37 GMT
Post by Kapitan on Apr 5, 2020 12:57:37 GMT
That is wonderful, jk! Thanks for posting it.
One question though: what's a bluecoat?
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Apr 7, 2020 20:58:25 GMT
Post by jk on Apr 7, 2020 20:58:25 GMT
That is wonderful, jk! Thanks for posting it.
One question though: what's a bluecoat?
I watch that several times a day!!!! A bluecoat is a member of the entertainment staff at Pontin's holiday camps in the UK:
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