Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

People are complicated. Love is not.

The GOP couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

“Squeaker” McCarthy

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

This fight is for everything.

This blog will pay for itself.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

I wonder if trump will be tried as an adult.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

Not all heroes wear capes.

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

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Annual Christmas music thread

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Time for the annual Christmas music thread. I’ve discovered a lot of great Christmas music this year, including the Atlantic Christmas album (much better than most of the Motown Christmas stuff), the Andrews Sisters Christmas songs, and best of all, the Duke Ellington version of the Nutcracker Suite. Here were my favorite Christmas songs this year, one from Sir Duke and two others that were already on my Christmas playlist but struck my fancy especially this year.

What are your favorite Christmas songs, new and old? Let’s keep the discussion respectful and Bublé-free.

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  2. 2.

    JMG

    The Booker T & the MGs Christmas album is awesome! Great playing, more jazzy than soul. Also, on Sirius radio this week, I heard a Ventures version of Frosty the Snowman. This means there has to be a Ventures Christmas album. I must have it!

  4. 4.

    Eric NNY

    David Bowie and Bing Crosby, Little Drummer Boy in honor of Ziggy Stardust’s passing this year.

  9. 9.

    Elizabelle

    Thank you, Doug. We need this. Merry Christmas to you and Mrs. Doug.

    This year, I heard a song by Dolly Parton on the car radio. Like it a lot. Hard Candy Christmas, from 1984. Works great this year too.

    And like this song a lot too. Vince Vance and the Valiants, vocalist is Lisa Layne. Tacky still video, but great song.

    Especially love it since I heard it a few years ago, on KBON, driving around the bayous of Louisiana. Wish I could remember some of the other Cajun Christmas songs. Some great lyrics.

  19. 19.

    Yarrow

    This reminds me that I haven’t heard “Grandma got run over by a reindeer” yet this Christmas season. It’s always my official “Christmas is here” song. I guess Christmas isn’t here yet.

  21. 21.

    Elizabelle

    @DougJ: Surprised it was from 1984, because I don’t recall it from before.

    This year, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, (“if the fates allow”), by many artists, was the song most frequently played. Long driving car trip around the midwest and Appalachia. And then back to Blue State Land.

  22. 22.

    Booger

    May I suggest “Fairytale of New York” as simply the best Christmas song ever? For those of us who never experienced sleigh bells et cetera?

  23. 23.

    AliceBlue

    “Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want to Fight Tonight)” by The Ramones.

    Stevie Wonder’s version of “The Christmas Song” (with India Arie).

    I’m not a big country music fan, but Reba McEntire does a kick-ass job with “Up on the Housetop.”

  27. 27.

    Elizabelle

    Gotta do a bit of grocery shopping. Catch your song suggestions on the other side.

    Getting near eggnog hour.

  43. 43.

    mai naem mobile

    Not so much my favorites but songs that I like that you don’t hear a lot –

    Billy Squires Christmas is a Time To Say I Love You and Boney M’s Mary’s Boy Child. Also, technically not a Christmas song but the BandAid song. I think i am finally getting tired of the Mariah Carey All I Want for Xmas is You. Good lord,enough .

  44. 44.

    burnspbesq

    @Yarrow:

    This reminds me that I haven’t heard “Grandma got run over by a reindeer” yet this Christmas season

    it is rumored that this year there is a new video, with Paul Ryan driving the sleigh.

  47. 47.

    Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism

    I always have to stop and remind myself that the Carol of the Bells is the “ding dong ding dong” song that my mother hated singing. My first thought always goes to:

    The incomparable Julie Andrews. The Bells of Christmas

  49. 49.

    frosty

    @Elizabelle: Another vote for Vince Vaughan and the Valiants. I backed up a really good singer at an open mic doing this one a couple of Christmases ago. Bottleneck on a resonator. She made us sound good.

  55. 55.

    Pogonip

    @germy: Remember that animation of Santa and the reindeer singing the Drifters’ “White Christmas” several years ago? Cute as could be!

    Merry Christmas or winter-holiday-of-your-religion, whichever fits!

  58. 58.

    germy

    @Pogonip: I never saw that animation.

    Ceiling Cat is my religion. That Great Cat God protects us (although I’m pissed at Her for 2016)

  59. 59.

    Pogonip

    @p.a.: There’s a song about standing in a long line in an overheated store while a frazzled clerk struggles with a computerized cash register in a quixotic attempt to get it to ring the sale price?

    (This episode of “Sesame Street” has been brought to you by Adjectives.)

  60. 60.

    lamh36

    Welp I’m at work and by the time i get home, I’m sure a new thread will be up.

    Still…better than Motown Christmas stuff (of which I am listening now at work)…How dare you Doug!?

    ?

    Marvin Gaye – I Want To Come Home For Christmas

  61. 61.

    germy

    @Mnemosyne:

    “She told the people that were there that Trump gave her the stroke,” Sharon Jones’ band mate, Gabriel Roth, told the newspaper of the 60-year-old, who died Friday.
    “Well, she’d been fighting fighting cancer for a few years now, and there’s been all kinds of stuff coming at her. But the thing that actually got her in the last couple of weeks was, she had a stroke watching the election results,” he said.

    She could still talk, and, “She was blaming Trump for the whole thing.”

    Jones suffered another stroke the day after the election, according to Roth.

  66. 66.

    zhena gogolia

    “Jingle Bells” is not my favorite song, but this has to be the greatest version of it ever performed, by my favorite singer-songwriter.

    And not a Christmas song, but he wrote what has to be the greatest song about drinking ever written, “Spirit in a Bottle.”

  69. 69.

    EBT

    So statefarm had a TV commercial where an interracial couple gets engaged and tweets about it. The replies to the tweet are as ugly as one would expect.

  72. 72.

    Shell

    Going thru my old cassette tapes, Mahalia Jackson’s Christmas album. Going waaaay back to my childhood, “Mitch Millers Christmas albums!”
    The Chieftains, “Bells Of Dublin”.

  73. 73.

    zhena gogolia

    @Yarrow:

    Oh, yeah. The last time it was on TV, first I was in tears with Hugh Grant’s initial narration, then Bill Nighy had me laughing my ass off with that song. I said to my husband, “I don’t care that I’ve seen it 50 times, any movie that has me crying and laughing in the first 30 seconds is a movie I want to see again and again.”

  78. 78.

    Louise B.

    Listening to Take 6 now while cooking the Bolognese ragu. A capella vocal music, a mix of R&B and jazz. All of their Christmas albums are excellent if you’re into that sort of music.

  79. 79.

    Brachiator

    “Gloria” from “Misa Criolla” by Ariel Ramírez is simply beautiful. And one of the better interpretations is this one sung by Jose Carreras. Love the mix of chorus and traditional Adean instruments.

  81. 81.

    ThresherK

    Two recent ones I like:

    One is vaguely folky; a woman describing coming back to her (childhood) home and being on the back porch where her grandpa used to sit watching the sunset. Can’t find it.

    “This Christmas” (not that song you’re thinking of) by the Nelson twins and Alyssa Bonagura in a song which is just so much better than it has a right to be: Nothing incredibly new in the words of the lyric. But a nice pair of vocals, and melody and chord changes, and just relaxed enough to hit the narrow, narrow spot between pop and country.

    Also, Blink182, “I Won’t Be Home for Christmas”.

  83. 83.

    Mnemosyne

    @Hal:

    The “12 Pains of Christmas” video I linked to above actually addresses that a bit in captioning. Clearly influenced by Monty Python, but that’s not a bad thing.

  88. 88.

    Brachiator

    Joni Mitchell, “River”

    It’s coming on Christmas
    They’re cutting down trees
    They’re putting up reindeer
    And singing songs of joy and peace
    Oh I wish I had a river
    I could skate away on

  90. 90.

    Iowa Old Lady

    @Elizabelle: When my son was maybe 6 or 7, we were driving along and he was reading signs out loud. We passed a theater and he read “The best little– I don’t know that word.” Being the liberal mom I was, I took a deep breath and said “whorehouse,” then braced myself for a question. But he heard it as “horror house” and just kept going.

  91. 91.

    ThresherK

    @Elizabelle: When the play was on B’way the radio ads on WNEW-AM (home of America’s popular standards) (yes, it was my favorte station as a teen) bleeped out the word “whorehouse”. To this day I don’t know if it was to be reverse-salacious, or if that word was simply not used on the radio for ads which would be running any hour of the day.

  101. 101.

    Another Scott

    I’m feeling a little more Grinchy this year than usual. I usually can’t stand Xmas music, because it’s overplayed for weeks on end. It’s one of the reasons why I hate shopping. I haven’t heard that much this year.

    But I do enjoy hearing The Little Drummer Boy (the version in the animated show) once a year. That’s enough. I like the sentiment, especially in these days of non-stop shopping…

    Cheers,
    Scott.

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    dr. luba

    @Mustang Bobby: The best version is the original–Shchedryk, a Ukrainian New Year’s carol. It predat es christianity, and sings of a little swallow announcing the coming of spring. New Year’s used to be celebrated in spring (March IIRC). This is the Kary Melua version she released this year, called “Little Swallow.”

    The entire album is amazing–she sings Georgian Xmas music with a women’s choir, too.

  104. 104.

    jurassicpork

    I tend to stick with the classics. Nat King Cole’s “The Christmas Song” comes to mind. But since I’m a head banger from way back, I also tend to listen to “Carol of the Bells” featuring Metallica and the Trans Siberian Orchestra. Mrs. JP likes The Tractors’,, “Santa’s Comin’ On a Boogie Woogie Choo Choo Train.”

    Anyway, on the home front:

    Mrs. JP and I are in a very bad way this Christmas season. I’ve made an appeal at Welcome Back to Pottersville for assistance and I’ve also included a special book gift offer for those who chip in beyond a certain amount.

  109. 109.

    ThresherK

    @NotMax: I may have read that already, but it’s worth going over again.

    However it forgot Cosmos soccer. And the theater beat. This station sent reporters to opening night of shows great and awful, including in the latter, “Bring Back Birdie” (yes, a sequel, no you’re not missing anything) and a stage play of Frankenstein.

    And the successor, WQEW, has been gone for ages.

    Jeez. Time to tie an onion on my belt.

  111. 111.

    Another Scott

    @hilts: Great stuff. Pete and the rest of The Who gave us a bunch of wonderful, powerful music.

    Thanks.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  112. 112.

    cynthia ackerman

    Washboard Pete, “Christmas Blues”
    Dan Grisson, “Wonderful Christmas Night”
    Guarnieri and Stewart, “Santa’s Secret”

  114. 114.

    NotMax

    @ThresherK

    Seem to vaguely recall a scathing review of Moose Murders, a play so dreadful the closing notices reportedly were posted during opening night intermission.

    Shame, as it starred Eve Arden.

  117. 117.

    SG

    There’s one great Christmas song I recently really listened to. The lyrics could have been written for the Age of Trump, although they were about the Great Depression. Here it is, performed by the incomparable Angela Lansbury: We Need A Little Christmas, from Mame.

  118. 118.

    JMG

    We did Booker T., Duke Ellington, and are now on Frank’s album. Low key through dinner. After we’ll do the Phil Spector album.
    Merry Christmas my friends, who I hope with all my heart I meet someday.

  120. 120.

    hilts

    @DougJ:

    Doug,

    Ever since early November, I’ve been unable to shake feelings of depression, despair, anger, etc. This thread is a partial antidote to those feelings.

    In addition to all this great music everyone is sharing, I could really use some good laughs.

    Is it possible for you to put up a thread for people to post links to comedy sketches and routines?

  121. 121.

    NotMax

    Sometime around ’64 or ’65 there was a single which sold like hotcakes, billed as the brand new Christmas carol destined to become a classic. Called either “Bambino” or “Il Bambino,” if memory serves.

    Disappeared with nary a trace after that one holiday season.

  124. 124.

    The Lodger

    @NotMax: Are you thinking of Gesu Bambino? (Our church choir sang it a couple of years ago; I haven’t heard it so far on the radio this year.) My phone is not so good with the links or I’d Google it for you.

  127. 127.

    Calming Influence

    Just set up our tree, cut barely over our property line. Now listening to “Steely Dan Christmas Classics”. Kid Charlemagne due to show up at any moment… Happy whatever the fuck there is to be happy about!

  128. 128.

    NotMax

    @The Lodger

    Unsure of the precise title but absolutely certain it was written the same year the 45 came out. “Gesu Bambino” was composed during WW1.

  131. 131.

    rikyrah

    Uh huh
    Uh huh

    Gabe Ortíz Verified account
    ‏@TUSK81

    Jason Miller resigned his Trump White House job and Trump surrogate AJ Delgado deleted her Twitter account. Somethin’ is up, y’all…

    Yashar Verified account
    ‏@yashar

    Trump camp in meltdown. Miller resigns after AJ Delgado posts cryptic tweets re Miller being dad to her child.

  132. 132.

    Mnemosyne

    @rikyrah:

    Trump camp in meltdown. Miller resigns after AJ Delgado posts cryptic tweets re Miller being dad to her child.

    It’s a little sad that this is the only kind of enjoyment we’re going to get from Comrade Trump’s reign, but I’ll take what I can get.

  133. 133.

    lamh36

    Merry Christmas Eve

    Sitting here eating some cheetos instead of a good meal, cause I mistakenly thought I’d be able to stop somewhere after working the late shift at work…

    Ugh…

  139. 139.

    Mike in NC

    @Mnemosyne: Some RWNJ sent a letter to the local paper stating how almost everybody on their election eve cruise went wild for Trump. Made a comment in return that too bad they didn’t hit an iceberg or capsize in shark-infested waters.

  140. 140.

    lamh36

    @Another Scott: ugh…just mad cause I should have gone out yesterday after work, but man…there were too many folks out and the damn lines at the market was long as fuq.

    Smh…that what I get..

    Anyway…now I’m sitting here waiting for It’s A Wonderful Life to Come on

  143. 143.

    rikyrah

    The entire hashtag had me LMAO, but this is my new favorite:

    Dave⚡️ – ‏@LOWKEYDAVEE
    #ReasonsBlackKidsGetWhoopins:
    Teacher: *calls mom*
    Mom:Put him on the phone
    Me:Yes mom
    Mom: imma deal with you when I get home.
    8:20 AM – 24 Dec 2016

  144. 144.

    jacy

    Happy holiday eve to all juicers big and small. I’m off to meet The Boyfriend’s entire family for the first time ever for Christmas Eve dinner, which I did not know was happening until about 20 minutes ago. Surprise! (Thankfully his family are all good liberals, even though his sister is supposedly a bit of a “drama queen.”) Hope everyone is enjoying whatever they’re doing to celebrate whatever they’re celebrating!

  147. 147.

    Mnemosyne

    @Mike in NC:

    WaterGirl said earlier that she was riding the Amtrak in central Illinois and her fellow (white) passengers were vocally contemptuous of Trump and sad to see the Obamas leaving. So it’s at least somewhat regional.

  148. 148.

    hilts

    @lamh36:

    It’s based on the short story “The Greatest Gift”, which Philip Van Doren Stern wrote in 1939 and published privately in 1945.

  149. 149.

    Steve in the ATL

    Link challenged on phone, but my Christmas staples are:

    Keith Richards “Run Run Rudolph”
    Run-DMC “Christmas in Hollis”
    Waitresses “Christmas Rapping”

    (Who doesn’t love the eighties?)

  150. 150.

    Mnemosyne

    @lamh36:

    It’s based on a short story, but I think the short story was sold directly to Capra’s film company without being published first. Same thing with Miracle on 34th Street, IIRC.

    ETA: Geez, @hilts, everybody is jinxing me in this thread! ?

  159. 159.

    Mnemosyne

    @jacy:

    FWIW, that’s how G met my family for the first time: he was cannon fodder to block the post-2000 election fallout with my Fox-addicted dad. We’re still together 16 years later, so it worked out.

    I have some hopes of possibly gaining a new in-law this year since my brother-in-law has been having breakfast, lunch and dinner with the same guy since August. I’m going to wait and see how New Year’s shakes out and then ask. I REALLY want someone else to dish with about my in-laws, because I love them, but they cray-cray.

  161. 161.

    hilts

    @Mnemosyne:

    Years ago, I was in a Barnes and Noble store and found an anthology of short stories that were later adapted into films. The book included the short stories that were the basis for It’s a Wonderful Life, All About Eve, and It Happened One Night.

  162. 162.

    Mnemosyne

    @hilts:

    That’s why Edmund Gwenn’s reported last words were, “Dying’s easy. Comedy’s hard.” There are very few things as personal as one’s taste in comedy.

  163. 163.

    lamh36

    It never ceases to take me aback when you see the telegram saying the ice cream shop guy’s son died of Influenza! And ya still got folks don’t want to get Flu vaccine…
    #ItsAWonderfulLife

    I know alot of folk think you shouldn’t get the vaccine because it can make you sick…and yeah…a small number can get sick from the attenuated vaccine…

    But STATISTICALLY it’s a small number…not a valid reason IMHO

  164. 164.

    hilts

    @lamh36:

    I’ve never read Stern’s story, but from what I’ve read about it, it’s extremely brief and many of the details included in the film were provided by Capra and the screenwriters.

  166. 166.

    Calming Influence

    @jacy: Yes. Focus like a ninja; Ms. Influence and I have been together 36 years, but that 1st “meeting of the family” is seared into my brain.

  167. 167.

    hilts

    @Mnemosyne:

    A few weeks ago, I saw a Dick Cavett interview with Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon and Matthau made the point that many dramatic actors seriously underestimated the difficulty of playing comedic roles.

  173. 173.

    schrodingers_cat

    @Mnemosyne: Husband kitteh’s cousin by marriage was on a brief visit from Delhi, this summer. We were dishing about how difficult it was to be married into a super traditional Tamil Iyer family. She is Punjabi. It was fun!
    Husband kitteh’s maternal unit is formidable. Although conservative in daily life, very liberal in her politics. People are weird.

    ETA: BTW I sent you an email.

  178. 178.

    Jacel

    This year was the first time I’ve heard Bette Midler’s “Cool Yule” album, and it’s just great. The title song was written by Steve Allen (originally for Louis Armstrong).

  180. 180.

    lamh36

    Wow…before Cell phones…folks had to actually go out and spend time finding you if there was an emergency

    #ItsAWonderfulLife

  189. 189.

    Mike J

    @jeffreyw: I’m on the schedule to bake a carrot cake too. I’ll post a picture after I finally get around to it. I’ve got precisely jack done. No presents wrapped (piled up here though), the only cooking I’ve got done is cornbread for the dressing (stuffing for those of you raise outside the south.)

  190. 190.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @rikyrah:

    Trump camp in meltdown.

    Dunno about any of those details (barely know who the people involved are), but any sentence that includes the words “Trump” and “meltdown” in close proximity is my kind of sentence.

  192. 192.

    lamh36

    Fuq’n Harry is the epitome of the selfish younger child to the older sibling who’s been doing it all…smh

    George is that person, esp sibling, that always takes care of the others, at the expense of their own happiness
    #ItsAWonderfulLife

  193. 193.

    Mnemosyne

    @lamh36:

    Most people already know this, but the guy who plays Nick the bartender is Sheldon Leonard, who gave up acting shortly afterward to go into TV producing and made some of the most classic TV shows of all time, including “The Dick Van Dyke Show.”

  194. 194.

    hilts

    @Mnemosyne:

    Thanks, I’d never heard of this production, but I’m a big Twilight Zone fan and I’m intrigued by the cast, so I’ll try to find it.

  196. 196.

    NotMax

    @Mnemosyne

    Interesting period piece, although suggest wearing a goalie mask while watching to avoid injury from being repeatedly clubbed with the message.

    Robert Shaw is particularly noteworthy. Sellers carries his character beyond the satirical and into the realm of the grotesque, IMHO.

  197. 197.

    Mike in NC

    @Mnemosyne: That show was aired on one of the cable networks last Christmas and was a fascinating period piece. Not sure I could sit through it every year, unlike National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.

  198. 198.

    What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?

    Ella Fitzgerald’s Christmas album (Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas) is fantastic. This year I discovered Merry Christmas Baby – the Otis Redding version, and that’s really good. I’ve always liked The Preyenders’ 2000 Miles.

  200. 200.

    Mnemosyne

    @hilts:

    Turner Classic Movies did a restoration of it a few years ago, so it’s much more easily available than it used to be. If you like Serling, you’ll like it — it was directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and has some really interesting visuals, especially given the constraints of the medium at the time.

  202. 202.

    Mnemosyne

    @NotMax:

    Sellers carries his character beyond the satirical and into the realm of the grotesque, IMHO.

    Well, sure, but it’s Serling, so that’s part of the point. Grotesquerie is the order of the day.

  203. 203.

    lamh36

    Always love Mary’s mom c**kblocking…lol. Boy when yo mama don’t like who ur datin…
    #ItsAWonderfulLife

  208. 208.

    NotMax

    @raven

    Judging from the architecture, would guess built during the 1970s.

    @Mnemosyne

    Sellers was pretty good about putting a toe (or five) across the line and discerning when to pull back, but he leaped clear across with both feet in that role. IMHO, YMMV, and all that good acronymic stuff.

  210. 210.

    raven

    @NotMax:

    E. W. Grove began to accumulate the land for the inn and his Grove Park-Kimberly Avenue developments in 1910. He bought several farms and sloped areas all the way to the top of Sunset Mountain. Grove bought and demolished several TB sanitariums in his zeal to change the face of Asheville. Construction began in 1912 and was completed in 11 months and 27 days. This was accomplished by paying high wages to the dedicated workers. Circus tents were erected on the job site to house the workers. Just three days shy of one year, The Grove Park Inn opened on July 12, 1913. Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan delivered the keynote address to four hundred of the most distinguished men of the South, gathered for the opening banquet. He had no idea of how true his words would become when he proclaimed that The Grove Park Inn “was built for the ages.”

  212. 212.

    hilts

    @Aleta:

    Is there a time period (comedy) you like ?

    There are comedians across the generations that I enjoy. A few months ago, I heard an interview with Kliph Nesteroff, author of The Comedians, who said that comedy has a shelf life and doesn’t age well. I disagree with him 100%. I was born in 1963, but I’m a big fan of the Marx Bros, Laurel & Hardy, Bob Hope, Sid Caesar, W.C. Fields, etc. Two of my favorite sitcoms are the Burns and Allen Show and the Jack Benny program.

    On the other hand, I’m also a big fan of Monty Python, Woody Allen, George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Robin Williams, Lily Tomlin, 1st 5 seasons of SNL, the Larry Sanders Show, and Curb Your Enthusiasm.

    Also, RIP to Andrew Sachs, aka Manuel from Fawlty Towers, one of my favorite sitcoms.

  213. 213.

    ThresherK

    @Mnemosyne: I thinkj he was in so many gangster movie roles as a heavy that gangsters liked him. He was born to stand behihnd Cagney and Robinson and look menacing.

  215. 215.

    hilts

    @Mnemosyne: @NotMax:

    If you’re looking for something completely different, with respect to a Peter Sellers performance, you need to check out I’m All Right Jack in which he plays a communist shop steward.

  216. 216.

    Sab

    @Mike J: I was raised in the south by Yankees. We called it stuffing when we cooked it inside the bird and dressing when we cooked it separately.

  217. 217.

    hilts

    @Aleta:

    As an addendum to my previous response to your question “Is there a time period (comedy) you like?”, I’m still pissed off at those jackasses running Comedy Central who cancelled The Nightly Show. Now, more than ever we need Larry Wilmore on the air to mock and ridicule Donald Trump.

  219. 219.

    Bruuuuce

    @Lizzy L: Assuming you’re on a computer, and not a mobile device:
    (1) Type the text you want to use as the link into your working entry
    (2) Select and copy the link itself
    (3) Select the text you typed, then click the “link” tab above the FYWP entry box
    (4) When the prompt pops up, paste the link into the box and tell it yippee-ki-yay!

    Good luck!

  225. 225.

    Steeplejack (tablet)

    @Bruuuuce:

    Addendum: you must erase/​overwrite the http prefix supplied in the hyperlink field or else your eventual link address will be screwed by FYWP.

  227. 227.

    SFBayAreaGal

    @hilts: I still find myself laughing out loud in so many scenes of The Great Race. Jack Lemmon was hilarious as Professor Fate/Crown Prince Frederick Hoepnick and Peter Falk as Maximilian Meene. Tony Curtis as the Great Leslie and Natalie Woods as Maggie Dubois. I loved the whole cast in this movie.

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