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Friday!

by Tom Levenson|  September 28, 20128:47 am| 41 Comments

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Hey.  I’ve atoned. The year stretches before me, sins to accumulate!

And it’s almost the weekend.  Not even the prospect of a visit with my periodontist can dampen that reality.  So how about a completely non-political demonstration that someone else on the internet has too much time on their hands:

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With that, consider this a completely Conor free, start-the-workday-as-you-mean-to-go-on Open Thread.

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  1. 1.

    TheMightyTrowel

    September 28, 2012 at 8:53 am

    down here on the arse end of the planet a very soggy Friday is coming to a close. i just got back from seeing looper which was absolutely superb, beautifully realised and perfectly acted. highly highly recommended.

  2. 2.

    Mark S.

    September 28, 2012 at 8:56 am

    Mitt’s 47% quote is the gift that keeps on giving. This ad is brutal.

    I can’t wait for the first debate. It’s going to be a 90 minute train wreck.

  3. 3.

    hep kitty

    September 28, 2012 at 8:56 am

    Another gorgeous, talented actress! (We were discussing Natalie Wood on another thread)

    I guess another part of your atonement is posting something other than pretentious douche art. :)

  4. 4.

    Punchy

    September 28, 2012 at 8:57 am

    Not even the prospect of a visit with my periodontist can dampen that reality

    Here’s where you and I are very, very different. I think I’d rather get mugged, punched, sodomized by a zebra, and then forced to eat Fatburger than see a dentist/periodontist. Fuckin’ teeth’zis.

  5. 5.

    hep kitty

    September 28, 2012 at 8:59 am

    @Mark S.: Saw that yesterday – that is pure 14K gold. Devastating and yes, I thought the same thing, bru-tal!

    I think it’s time to start officially calling him “Mittstain”

  6. 6.

    jurassicpork

    September 28, 2012 at 8:59 am

    I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own– A Psychological Profile of Mitt Romney.

  7. 7.

    Tom Levenson

    September 28, 2012 at 8:59 am

    @Punchy:

    sodomized by a zebra

    Ahhh. One more mental image that will, no doubt, prove frighteningly difficult to dislodge.

  8. 8.

    Face

    September 28, 2012 at 9:02 am

    @Punchy: Replacement zebra or the real thing?

  9. 9.

    Woodrowfan

    September 28, 2012 at 9:02 am

    that was GREAT! And that song will be running through my head all morning. thanks! 8-)

  10. 10.

    hep kitty

    September 28, 2012 at 9:03 am

    @Punchy: You obviously didn’t have a torture artist for a dentist as I did as a child. After that, any trip to the dentist or orthodontist was a walk in the park by comparison. He pulled one of my teeth from the roots w/o enough novacaine and I just laid there and cried while the assistant squeezed my hand. Later, he says “woopsie, I guess I didn’t shoot you up enough”

  11. 11.

    Woodrowfan

    September 28, 2012 at 9:03 am

    @Face:

    the one from the movie “Madagascar”…

  12. 12.

    SteveinSC

    September 28, 2012 at 9:03 am

    I would like someone to give some informed view on the following: How can it be that Romney puts his money in the Cayman Islands for no tax benefit? That is what even Steve Rattner goes along with. Yet we know that he has a “charitable” family trust fund there as well. His current tax return pulled a punch on his charitable tax deductions by not donating money to his own family charity. In fact he could have claimed an additional $2.25 million of income deduction from this donation to himself and family. The average dick can only give, tax free, $1Million over his lifetime. Thus Romney gives money to himself and his sons and writes it off as a deduction from income. How is this not avoiding taxes on income and bypassing the gift tax via the offshore account. If the answer is what I think it is, Rattner, Ed Rendell, Corey Booger and the Ed Shoats net an e-mail to improve their minds.

  13. 13.

    Anatoliĭ Lъudьvigovich Bzyp (Mumphrey, et al.)

    September 28, 2012 at 9:03 am

    I’m having fun this morning baiting the racist assholes at noquarterusa.net. Kind of pointless in the bigger scheme of things, but still kind of a fun way to while away the slow times when I’m watching the baby…

  14. 14.

    chopper

    September 28, 2012 at 9:04 am

    Conor

    NOOOOOOOOOOOO

  15. 15.

    raven

    September 28, 2012 at 9:04 am

    @Punchy: I had this damn “blue light” cancer prevention treatment monday and my face is all blotched and peeling. sux

  16. 16.

    Comrade Mary

    September 28, 2012 at 9:05 am

    @chopper: There can be only one thread — where that joke is made.

  17. 17.

    J.

    September 28, 2012 at 9:05 am

    Samuel L. Jackson tells apathetic Dems and undecided voters to Wake the F**K up and vote for Obama on November 6. Best get-out-the-vote ad EVER.

  18. 18.

    Comrade Nimrod Humperdink

    September 28, 2012 at 9:09 am

    Aaaand, the campaigns are doing their best “Lou Holtz before the Navy game” sandbagging jobs to pre-work the media… heh

  19. 19.

    Dork

    September 28, 2012 at 9:14 am

    If the answer is what I think it is, Rattner, Ed Rendell, Corey Booger and the Ed Shoats net an e-mail to improve their minds.

    Can somebody translate this?

  20. 20.

    Shawn in ShowMe

    September 28, 2012 at 9:14 am

    No wonder Rita Hayworth went crazy, she was a funky white girl born thirty years before her time. Should have been popping and locking with Toni Basil.

  21. 21.

    Wag

    September 28, 2012 at 9:15 am

    After seeing that I finally understand the Stayin’ Alive scene in Airplane as more than just a bizarre bar fight scene. Rita Hayworth’s red dress in a smoky bar in a couple clips in that video made the connection.

  22. 22.

    Punchy

    September 28, 2012 at 9:15 am

    @raven: Outsourcing yer cancer treaments to K-mart, eh?

  23. 23.

    PaulW

    September 28, 2012 at 9:20 am

    Just remember – on the Presidential Character chart designed by James David Barber – Romney would score closely with an Active-Negative: someone who runs for office simply because he thinks he HAS to, has disdain for service to the public even though that’s what the job requires, will be inflexible in office, aggressive in pursuing a specific agenda, and most likely won’t show much bipartisanship if elected.

    The main difference between Passive and Active Negatives are that Passives show more flexibility in their jobs if outside pressures become obvious: Actives want to maintain their belief that they’re in control and will reject any pressures or any attempt at influence from outside their circle (much like Nixon, Hoover, and Bush the Lesser).

    Not all Active-Negatives are bad – well, not EVIL – but the list includes Nixon, LBJ, Hoover, Wilson, John Adams (not Q): not necessarily the best Presidents we’ve had.

  24. 24.

    Linda Featheringill

    September 28, 2012 at 9:21 am

    LOVED the video! Thanks.

  25. 25.

    Linda Featheringill

    September 28, 2012 at 9:23 am

    @raven:

    Time to baby yourself a bit.

  26. 26.

    Linda Featheringill

    September 28, 2012 at 9:24 am

    @Punchy:

    Outsourcing yer cancer treatments to K-mart, eh?

    :-)

  27. 27.

    YellowJournalism

    September 28, 2012 at 9:44 am

    @Wag: I think it adds a little something to the Saturday Night Fever reference, but I always thought that scene was spoofing old war movies anyways.

    Rita Hayworth was wonderful and sexy, but Ginger Rogers has her beat for dancing. Would love to see a “dance off” video of the two’s movie clips.

  28. 28.

    HeartlandLiberal

    September 28, 2012 at 9:51 am

    On the one hand, brilliant video concept, and a fun trip back over half a century.

    On the other hand, let me remind all you women watching this: Baby, you have come a long way, and you better a) be grateful, and b) keep fighting to hang on to the freedom and equality you have achieved in this society.

    These films were already old when I was a teen in early 1960’s. And at that time, going to high school, I remember that women still could not wear pants, and by $DEITY still knew their place in the scheme of things relative to the superiority of men. The along came those Feminazis in the 1970’s and started talking up equal rights.

    Just keep things in context.

  29. 29.

    hep kitty

    September 28, 2012 at 10:01 am

    @HeartlandLiberal: I love old movies but I keep them in context, for what they are, an unrealistic fantasy. And it’s very interesting to observe the movie industry’s attitudes towards women’s roles over the years. Not that I would want to go back to those times.

    And to be fair, with the internets, vidya games and pr0n, there is more objectification of women now than ever. We are still oppressed by society’s general expectations for us to be sexual beings, first. Then after that gets a bit old, baby-machines.

  30. 30.

    Wag

    September 28, 2012 at 10:07 am

    @YellowJournalism:

    Check out the scene at 1:37-1:41, then again at 4:26-4:31. I look at those clips and see Julie Haggerty.

  31. 31.

    SteveinSC

    September 28, 2012 at 10:15 am

    @Dork: Er, I don’t know if you’ve noticed but Booger (uebersetzug: Booker), Ed Rendell (uebersetzung: Ed Rendell) and other “private equity Democrats” have bought into the “essential goodness” of Bain Capital (i.e. harvesting) firms.

  32. 32.

    hep kitty

    September 28, 2012 at 10:21 am

    Can’t wait, can’t wait
    Debate, debate debate

    Mop that Mittstain off the floor
    Flush it down and out the door!

    Can’t wait, can’t wait
    Debate, debate, debate

    47% gonna scream and shout
    Mittstain, Mittstain, gonna wipe you out!

  33. 33.

    hep kitty

    September 28, 2012 at 10:22 am

    Snoopy Dance in anticipation of Oct. 3

    ((tappity tappity tappity!))

    We are gonna get sooooooooooooo drunk!

  34. 34.

    Rex Everything

    September 28, 2012 at 10:30 am

    Jesus, that clip isn’t as bad as that Gap ad with Audrey Hepburn dancing to “Back in Black,” but it’s close.

  35. 35.

    piratedan

    September 28, 2012 at 10:46 am

    @Linda Featheringill:yeah, shame he can’t get it done at Walgreens, where the Pap Smears are done :-)

  36. 36.

    SiubhanDuinne

    September 28, 2012 at 12:43 pm

    Hey. I’ve atoned.

    Tom, I swear, when I first glanced at that, I thought it said: “Hey. I’m stoned.”

  37. 37.

    someofparts

    September 28, 2012 at 1:05 pm

    Just added a couple of Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth movies to my wish list. Had no idea they had done movies together. Easy to see how she kept that great figure in shape! Thanks.

  38. 38.

    Tom Levenson

    September 28, 2012 at 1:46 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: Works either way, doesn’t it? ;)

  39. 39.

    Vico

    September 28, 2012 at 3:49 pm

    Have to add my accolades to your Rita post. She was a glorious dancer and stunningly beautiful. And “Stayin’ Alive” is one of the better songs of the disco era.

  40. 40.

    JustAnotherBob

    September 28, 2012 at 4:40 pm

    Fvcking wonderful video.

    And one of only a couple of listenable songs from the disco era. (Yeah, get drunk, on the floor and more sound not so bad.)

  41. 41.

    Kathleen

    September 28, 2012 at 9:03 pm

    Thanks so much for posting the video. It lifted my spirits.

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