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.
TheMightyTrowel
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.
Mark S.
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.
hep kitty
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. :)
Punchy
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.
hep kitty
@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”
jurassicpork
I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own– A Psychological Profile of Mitt Romney.
Tom Levenson
@Punchy:
Ahhh. One more mental image that will, no doubt, prove frighteningly difficult to dislodge.
Face
@Punchy: Replacement zebra or the real thing?
Woodrowfan
that was GREAT! And that song will be running through my head all morning. thanks! 8-)
hep kitty
@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”
Woodrowfan
@Face:
the one from the movie “Madagascar”…
SteveinSC
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.
Anatoliĭ Lъudьvigovich Bzyp (Mumphrey, et al.)
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…
chopper
NOOOOOOOOOOOO
raven
@Punchy: I had this damn “blue light” cancer prevention treatment monday and my face is all blotched and peeling. sux
Comrade Mary
@chopper: There can be only one thread — where that joke is made.
J.
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.
Comrade Nimrod Humperdink
Aaaand, the campaigns are doing their best “Lou Holtz before the Navy game” sandbagging jobs to pre-work the media… heh
Dork
Can somebody translate this?
Shawn in ShowMe
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.
Wag
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.
Punchy
@raven: Outsourcing yer cancer treaments to K-mart, eh?
PaulW
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.
Linda Featheringill
LOVED the video! Thanks.
Linda Featheringill
@raven:
Time to baby yourself a bit.
Linda Featheringill
@Punchy:
:-)
YellowJournalism
@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.
HeartlandLiberal
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.
hep kitty
@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.
Wag
@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.
SteveinSC
@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.
hep kitty
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!
hep kitty
Snoopy Dance in anticipation of Oct. 3
((tappity tappity tappity!))
We are gonna get sooooooooooooo drunk!
Rex Everything
Jesus, that clip isn’t as bad as that Gap ad with Audrey Hepburn dancing to “Back in Black,” but it’s close.
piratedan
@Linda Featheringill:yeah, shame he can’t get it done at Walgreens, where the Pap Smears are done :-)
SiubhanDuinne
Tom, I swear, when I first glanced at that, I thought it said: “Hey. I’m stoned.”
someofparts
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.
Tom Levenson
@SiubhanDuinne: Works either way, doesn’t it? ;)
Vico
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.
JustAnotherBob
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.)
Kathleen
Thanks so much for posting the video. It lifted my spirits.