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Because I Will Always Love You #TBT

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My #TBT contribution:

tbtteletubbies

tbtdaly

That’s me and my running mates circa 1998-2000 in grad school on a Halloween weekend. From left to right, Adam (now a dentist), Chad (a trained nurse but now a coal mine inspector), Ryan (an accountant, I think), and Matt ( a regional sales manager). Still remember the day, as it was an Indian summer day in late October with 70 degree temps but the leaves had changed, and the position of the sun gave everything an orange hue. Adam had just bought a brand new Honda Accord (I still remember thinking how cool it was there was a sunglasses container), and I remember riding down the road to WalMart along the Mon with my four buddies listening to this:

Went to Walmart, bought all the stuff, went home and sewed up and made the costumes, and then partied. I was not one of the teletubbies, but I did dress up as John Daly’s caddy. I had a caddy uniform, and on the back put a sign that said:

DALY

.28 BAC

I also carried a golf bag around all night with nothing but a couple drivers and empty tequila and corona bottles to complete the look.

Good times.

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  2. 2.

    Villago Delenda Est

    “Went to Walmart”?

    This was back then, right…not now, that you know the Walton heirs are assholes who want all the money in the world, like the Koch Brothers?

  3. 3.

    beltane

    @Helen: Remember that? Pat Robertson said that the Teletubbies were going to turn children gay because Tinkie-Winkie carried a purse.

  6. 6.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @efgoldman: It was Falwell, although people can be forgiven for saying it was Robertson because both of them were/are Jeebofascist assholes who deserve no quarter.

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    ruemara

    I think when BHO leaves office, he should take his nice wife, lovely girls and get the hell out of this foul country. It would be the right thing to do. It just struck me as I read some of the factuals on the Bergdahl thing, his accuser and just the whole amazing reaction. Saving a serviceman’s life should be subject to political calculus? It’s not able to seen as right because it is the right thing to do? Fuck this.

  9. 9.

    gogol's wife

    @Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name):

    I was reading about Go-Go Mania/Pop Gear on IMDB, and a couple of the reviews had the heading “Spoiler Alert! This review may contain spoilers!” How the hell could there be spoilers on Go-Go Mania? Giving away how many times Matt Monro is going to appear?

  10. 10.

    Baud

    You all make fun of Falwell, but how many states allowed gay marriage before teletubbies.

  11. 11.

    geg6

    I hate Halloween and the whole costume thing. Worst holiday ever.

    I can’t watch the news. This whole Bergdahl thing is too weird and sick and I can’t deal with it. I hate these people. I really truly HATE them.

  15. 15.

    WaterGirl

    @efgoldman: Well, to be fair, it is Thursday. And the hashtag is for throwback thursdays, so I have to say this was intentional.

    Edit: Yes, I am so uncool that I had to google #TBT. So sad.

  20. 20.

    Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)

    @ruemara: How many people do you really think are buying into this bullshit? How many are disgusted by it? I would guess it is about a 27% – 73% split.

  21. 21.

    Helen

    OH WAIT – Cole broke what I thought was the number one rule of TBT. You should be in this pic. Which Tellituby is Cole?

  24. 24.

    Mnemosyne

    The year of the Falwell eruption about the Teletubbies, some gay friends of mine went to the West Hollywood Halloween Carnavale as the Telechubbies.

    The pictures were NSFW, but I laughed and laughed when they showed them to me.

  26. 26.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Baud:

    Oh yeah? Well, I’m so uncool, I had to look up Northern Light in the Encyclopædia Britannica.

    Uphill, both ways, in the snow.

  27. 27.

    Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)

    @AliceBlue: I just don’t think that many people are that shitty. If they were were would never have progress. I think they are so loud, crazy, and public because they are losing and they know it.

  29. 29.

    Joel

    @Villago Delenda Est: When I lived in Colorado — not even that far backwoods — there were no other shops in town *but* Walmart. I guess there’s Amazon now, but they’re no bargain either.

  32. 32.

    Kay

    The Democratic National Committee is staffing up in Ohio and Texas as part of its “Voter Expansion Project” aimed at pushing back on laws the party sees as restricting voting access.
    Democrats rolled out the expansion project in February with a video featuring former President Bill Clinton, who said there is “no greater assault on our values than the rampant efforts to restrict the right to vote.”
    The DNC effort looks to register more people, simplify the process and make sure all voters are counted.

    So they started this work at the county level today in Ohio, where there will be a lead and org in each county, etc. It’s from the DNC but it’s thru the state Party. I don’t know about Texas.

  33. 33.

    lamh36

    Someone alert DougJ. Everyone please stay calm and seek shelter, the Earth may actually fall off it’s axis and earthquakes may ensue…

    President Obama Was Right

    …Soldiers in combat not only protect their buddies, they show amazing devotion to anyone in the uniform, without asking about state or ethnicity. This is the cohesion that makes armies effective.

    These commitments, so crucial, are based on deep fraternal sentiments that have to be nurtured with action. They are based on the notion that we are members of one national community. We will not abandon each other; we will protect one another; heroic measures will be taken to leave no one behind. Even if it is just a lifeless body that we are retrieving, it is important to repatriate all Americans.

    The president and vice president, the only government officials elected directly by the entire nation, have a special responsibility to nurture this national solidarity. So, of course, President Obama had to take all measures necessary to secure the release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. Of course, he had to do all he could do to not forsake an American citizen.

    It doesn’t matter if Bergdahl had deserted his post or not. It doesn’t matter if he is a confused young man who said insulting and shameful things about his country and his Army. The debt we owe to fellow Americans is not based on individual merit. It is based on citizenship, and loyalty to the national community we all share…

  34. 34.

    Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)

    @Helen: No, my question was how many people believe the current Bergdahl shitshow that the GOP is trying put across.

  35. 35.

    Punchy

    Teletubbies implicitly endorse childhood obesity, the yellow one is clearly pro-jaundice, and they’re all a trademark violation-worthy knockoff of Grimace.

  39. 39.

    Mnemosyne

    @lamh36:

    Apparently Charles Krauthammer was on teevee today saying that bringing Bergdahl home was the right thing to do.

    My guess is that Frank Luntz saw the polling numbers on how these attacks are going over with ordinary people and screamed, Oh, shit! Retreat! Retreat!

  40. 40.

    Kay

    @Baud:

    I was glad they got to us because that must mean they’re hitting every county :)

    There’s only 5000-6000 D votes here in a non-presidential year. In the whole county.

  43. 43.

    Kay

    @Mnemosyne:

    I think Luntz said they shouldn’t attack , early.

    I don’t know if he stuck to it, what with the angry mob forming and all. The peer pressure at that table in the middle school lunchroom must be incredible :)

  46. 46.

    Kay

    @Baud:

    We had a National Lawyers Guild lawyer lead one year. They’re Lefty lawyers. I’m not a member but they’re fun to work with because they’re so, I don’t know, fierce. She was actually a very good election lawyer, besides being a Lefty.

    They used to send me solicitations to join after that and I would worry about them because it came with an individual first class stamp. You expect a metered letter that looks like a large-list solicitation. You’re like “are there about 37 of you, or what?”

  48. 48.

    Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)

    @Kay: I’ve never joined either. I am not really a militant person and they are very militant. I’ve just never been sure of the fit. I might pull the trigger someday when I become a truly radicalized Old.

  49. 49.

    Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)

    @Helen: My family has been here for many, many generations. I am not leaving.

  51. 51.

    Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)

    @Helen: My family has been here for many, many generations. I am not leaving. Further, I think they are losing and they know it. That’s why they are so nuts. Death throes. Ugly and violent.

  54. 54.

    Mnemosyne

    @Kay:

    Verrrry interesting. This has all of the hallmarks of a coordinated attack, so if not Luntz, then who? Have the Kochs slipped the leash again?

  55. 55.

    Kay

    @Mnemosyne:

    I think it was coordinated too. My sense is it would be grounded in a lesser military presence in various places, the reliance on special forces and “in and out”, etc.

    That has to worry a lot of people because it means that giant, wildly expensive contracting machine isn’t going to just keep rolling like it has for the last decade and keep getting bigger. It’s a lot of money. They could ALSO have genuine national security hawkish leanings or whatever, but the money’s gotta be part of the screeching.

  57. 57.

    Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)

    @Kay: It seems to be that since 2012, the Luntzs who are careful and smart have lost their influence of the GOP. It’s becoming all id all the time.

  58. 58.

    Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)

    @Helen: As I said, I don’t. Fuck them; it’s my country and they can’t have it. YMMV.

  60. 60.

    Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)

    @Kay: I believe you are correct, but I also think that it was because they stopped listening to him. In my view, he basically did a “noisy withdrawal.”

  61. 61.

    Matt McIrvin

    Europe is turning more and more wingnut, I think. It’s no longer as relatively sane as American liberals imagine. Going there now might be getting out of the frying pan, into the fire.

  63. 63.

    Paul in KY

    @ruemara: I would like him on the Supreme Court. That would cause all kinds of teeth gnashing wailing from the RW scum.

  64. 64.

    bryan

    @Paul in KY: Yes, please. How about HRC nominating him the day after Clarence strokes out at her inauguration. Young and healthy enough, we could see him on the court for three decades easy. Dictator-for-life, indeed.

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