I just returned from Chicago, and frankly I don’t want to blog because the two or three things I might write about today concern Very Funny bits that might make it onto this week’s “Wait Wait.”
Yes, I’m censoring Adam the blogger so that Adam the radio guy’s lines will seem fresher. But stay tuned. I’ll post a li’l sump’in this weekend.
Still, I figured you kids might need a fresh Comments thread to mess around in. Apparently there was some sort of election in Middle East. and Alito’s going to be confirmed. And, perhaps most importantly, the news that Hank Williams Jr. is set to make his fifth Superbowl appearance has got to be on all your minds, right?
So, go crazy.
Fanny Roborat
29 comments
ice weasel
January 27, 2006 at 8:10 pm
1What’s this radio show you mention?
ginny
January 27, 2006 at 8:49 pm
2I’m so confused. Am I for the filibuster, or agin it? Do we go down fighting for a principle, or look like hapless wimps because we have no hope of success?
Never mind. I’ll just watch the “Numa Numa guy” again. That always takes me to my happy place.
Although… the new art film by an American icon is very happifying, too. He flies! He eats fish! He’s a dancing machine!
Maybe I’ll feel better about the news after Saturday. Show? Show!
SeattleDan
January 27, 2006 at 9:01 pm
3As we say up here in the upper left hand corner, it just wouldn’t be the Super Bowl without Hank Williams Jr. Yeah, we go around saying that a lot here.In fact we’re getting kind of boring on the subject.
Jay
January 27, 2006 at 9:56 pm
4Well, I’ve been restraining myself, but since Adam kindly mentioned the Super Bowl, here goes: Yeeeee Hawwwww! One for the Thumb in 2006! With apologies to SeattleDan, Ann, and the other upper left hand cornerers who inhabit this space, I’ve got to stick with my sentimental favorites. I’ve been a Steelers fan almost as long as I’ve known what football is. Got spoilt during the Steel Curtain glory days of the 70’s but now we’re back! This is one of those years when I almost wish we could stop at the conference championships. However I’ve got about another week to savor supporting two winners, and I’m going to make the most of it.
Jay
dee
January 27, 2006 at 10:02 pm
5Yes, I’m censoring Adam the blogger so that Adam the radio guy’s lines will seem fresher.
Jeebus. Come the fall and that teevee show it’ll be all sweet potato recipes, all the time in here.
madbard
January 27, 2006 at 11:18 pm
6Mmmm. Sweet potatos…… just the thing to go with ginko buloba, Mssr Felber?
David
January 27, 2006 at 11:49 pm
7That Felber fellow is nothing if not thoughtful.
This Reuters story about Upton Sinclair, and how Jonah Goldberg and his rightwing cohorts are making complete assholes of themselves (what’s new?), is just too good. Boy, does the LA Times have a winner in this Goldberg schmuck, or what? Ready, fire, aim, Johah.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060126/lf_nm/arts_sinclair_dc_3
cooper
January 27, 2006 at 11:57 pm
8ginny, “…fighting for a principle…?” The Firesign Theatre suggests that “you stand UP for a principle and sit DOWN - on your own stool”, but that’s disgusting, so, do what you must.
David
January 28, 2006 at 12:07 am
9Ginny,
I envy you guys with fast downloads. My edge of the wilderness dial-up…. I did get part of the “Hooked on a Feeling,” so at least I did get some happy. Thanks. I was left to ponder the 7 pound dildo offering. Not sure what I’d do with it, but there are cows nearby.
Siobhan
January 28, 2006 at 1:31 am
10Adam, I will have to wait(wait) and listen to the show online tomorrow night, but I will spend the day in suspense wondering just what the hell could be funny about Alito at this point? You are really raising the bar with that one.
(I will be with other NPR junkies all day, as we suffer withdrawals driving through the Valley of No Radio Reception.)
SeattleDan
January 28, 2006 at 1:57 am
11Shoes for industry,cooper.Sorry,but not very,about the Panthers.
Adam Fischer
January 28, 2006 at 3:28 am
12Adam,
I was in the audience for your Wait Wait this Sat. Great show thanks for all the laughs!!
cooper
January 28, 2006 at 9:16 am
13SeattleDan, that game is water under the bridge. You’ve got a great team in Seattle. Best of luck in the SB. Shoes for the dead, Compadre. We need ‘em, too.
David, Rx for dail-up on the edge of the Green Swamp - Satellite. Mount the dish on a pole sunk deep into the ground, so you can bring it inside before those turbocharged thunderstorms of yours move through. Improves the TV reception, too, in prepartion for the new Fall line-up on late night Fox.
ice weasel
January 28, 2006 at 9:19 am
14More sugar!
-ice weasel (not insane)
Matt
January 28, 2006 at 2:26 pm
15Cooper
I thought the Firesign Theatre summed up the school experience as only learning how “to stand up for the ‘Principal’ and to sit on your own stool”
Think about it, and take off your shoes . . .for Industry!
Ann
January 28, 2006 at 3:45 pm
16I can’t remember all the Firesign jokes because I was always impaired when we listened to it. Nick Danger seems to have remained in my memory better than Porgie Tirebiter (was that his name?) except for the joke about the maid. And something about entrenching tools.
Anyway, whoo-hoo for the Seahawks and thank Lobster it’s an away game ’cause I hate what local games do to the traffic.
And speaking of which, it’s raining buckets here in Seattle today (surprise!), and I was driving while listening to WWDTM. I laughed so hard at the rock jokes that I almost went off the road! Congrats, Adam. (I don’t think I’m giving anything away by saying that…)
ginny
January 28, 2006 at 5:41 pm
17Wow, so much material to work with.
“Rocky Roccoco at your cervix.”
“Aliens! Do you want to meet…other aliens?”
“Heh, heh…raw, RAH rah!”
And my personal, even iconic favorite: “She’s no fun, she fell right over.”
Yes, I too was impaired in college, but these albums were constantly on the spinning-vinyl-around thingy and so, hundreds of repetitions later, I could have majored in Firesign and minored in Python.
I’m shocked that the Republicans have nothing better to do than swift-boat dead guys. But then, half their rhetoric has to do with murdering, poisoning, executing, or otherwise eliminating everyone who dares disagree with them, so I guess I’m not that surprised.
After dragging those links in here, I feel like I’d better finish with something we’ll all enjoy.
Linkmeister
January 28, 2006 at 6:02 pm
18Y’all do know Firesign has a website, right?
Who’s a bozo?
SeattleDan
January 28, 2006 at 8:01 pm
19Why we’re all bozos on this bus! It’s the bees mister President, it’s the bees…
Ann
January 28, 2006 at 8:09 pm
20I’ll never forgive you, Nick.
David
January 28, 2006 at 8:56 pm
21Linkmeister,
No, I didn’t. Got a black page when I clicked on. Don’t know what I’m doing, so I never successfully navigated the website. Sometimes I just need someone who knows what to do to be holding my cyber-challenged hand (ok, ok, the thing that is challenged is my brain, whose inception corresponds to our entry into WWII).
Adam,
Big win today!
SeattleDan
January 28, 2006 at 9:44 pm
22Yeah, Ann, it was pouring when the show was on. Lucky for me that people like to read when it’s raining outside and business was ok.
I always plan my travels around town on game day based on the game time. No one is on the road when the game is going on and it’s a fine time to get errands done.
Nice job, Adam!
Scooby
January 28, 2006 at 11:34 pm
23(sung to the tune of “Hooked on a Feeling” - inspired by ginny… I probably have no prospects with even the Capitol Steps… discretion may have been the better part of valor… but here goes…)
I can’t stop this feelin’
Deep inside of me
Karl you just don’t realize
What you do to me
When you probe me
NSA so tight
You let me know
Everything’s alright
You – you copped a feeling
You’re high on believin’
That you’re above the law
Lies as sweet as candy
Your case is on my mind
Karl you got me thirsty
For another bribe for DeWine
Got a bug from you now
But I don’t need a cure
I’ll just stay affected
If you can’t be sure
You – you copped a feeling
You’re high on believin’
That you’re above the law
(arrg.. couldn’t get the formatting right…)
David
January 29, 2006 at 1:53 am
24Love it, Scooby.
cooper
January 29, 2006 at 4:14 pm
25Let’s not forget that tomorrow “Kenny-Boy” Lay gets strapped beneath the “Million Pound Shit-Hammer of Justice” and let the chips fall where they may! We’ll see if the *Idiot Defense* still holds water amongst his peers in Texas. This should be amazingly entertaining.
Matt
January 29, 2006 at 10:35 pm
26Fudd’s 1st law: If You Push It Hard Enough . . .
It Will Fall Over.
David
February 2, 2006 at 3:38 pm
27Matt,
It did.
ginny
February 4, 2006 at 1:59 am
28Ah, Scooby, I are not worthy. The ultimate inspiration is the divine Hasselhoff, holy be His mane.
Kerry Johnson
February 4, 2006 at 3:08 pm
29Re your show. At the end, all were supposed to say what photo’s of Bush and Abramoff were going to show. I thought of a response, that fit into the earlier remarks about a current popular movie, but which might not go over so well on NPR.
I thought that the photo’s might merely show that the two “guys” had on cowboy hats.
Eh?
P.S. Adam, you were really on a roll for that show. Great!