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From deep in the bowels of Reddit, one user shouts a high wattage truism out into the void...
Meanwhile.
Where the heckfire can I find an uncut, crisp and sharp version of Frosty The Snowman?
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Personally, I still kinda like Reddit. It seems to be one of the few gigantic online platforms, like Wikipedia, that hasn't totally ensh*ittified...
Tip 'O The Toque to Katherine Trendacosta writing at one of my new favourites, Techdirt.
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From deep in the bowels of Reddit, one user shouts a high wattage truism out into the void...
"(T)heir entire existence relies on being slightly more convenient than piracy."
Meanwhile.
Where the heckfire can I find an uncut, crisp and sharp version of Frosty The Snowman?
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Personally, I still kinda like Reddit. It seems to be one of the few gigantic online platforms, like Wikipedia, that hasn't totally ensh*ittified...
Tip 'O The Toque to Katherine Trendacosta writing at one of my new favourites, Techdirt.
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10 comments:
Happy Bir... I mean Oligopoly!
Well its me, really, really.
Oh it has been a fun week and called aTroll a couple of times by people who should no better ........... ah well.
Frosty the Snowman - tried YouTube?
Anyways, have a "Jolly, Holly" Christmas and a safe and prosperous New Year and so, as Tiny Tim said, 'A Merry Christmas to us all; God bless us, everyone!
I could score you the album. You're on your own if you are looking for one of those picture shows.
, as Tiny Tim said, 'A Merry Christmas to us all; God bless us, everyone!
Is that the guy that sang, tiptoe through the tulips?
Merry Xmas everyone.
TB
Reality EE--
Frosty's up the tubes, but the resolution is crap!
All the best to you and yours too!
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Gar--
Ha!
Have a Holly Jolly Holiday!
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Beer--
Album - yes. I will pay!
Hey - is 2026, perhaps, the year of a new puppy?
Personally, while I stilll really miss the original, I've warmed to the Whackadoodle, Mark II.
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TB--
May all your X's be merry, of very large mass, and bright!
(as for the tulip guy - he was not actually that tiny,so I think not)
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Not really in the spirit of Christmas, but Burl Ives was a bit of a stool pigeon.
Chuck--
Oh my gosh.
Your are correct, sir!
"...In 1952, Ives took over the lead role in Lerner and Lowes’s Broadway musical Paint Your Wagon, which ran from November 1951 to July 1952. In April, famed director Elia Kazan took a newspaper justifying his own appearance as “friendly” witness before the House Un-American Activities Committee and urging other to do the same. On May 20, Ives also decided to go before Congress “voluntarily.” In his testimony he defended folk music as patriotic, not subversive. He distanced himself, as required, from his former associates, explaining that his first audience had just happened to have been “various unions and so-called progressive organizations.” “I am very sorry that I have to bring up names in this manner,” he said, “because I would like to be able not to mention other names, but I can’t [avoid it].” He thanked the Committee “for the very fair and democratic way in which you have heard my story. I believe that in no Communist country would such a hearing be possible at all” (quotes from Ron Cohen’s Rainbow Quest, p. 80). According to Cohen, Ives named four people, including his former publicity director, Arthur Meltzer and his friend Richard Dyer Bennet (whose bookings were cancelled forthwith and whose career basically ended), but the popular impression was that he had named many more. Sing Out! Magazine (in its 1995 obituary of Ives) wrote that he “named more than 110 people he knew to have left-wing or communist leanings. Many of these names were previously unknown to the committee.” Ed Cray’s biography of Woody Guthrie, Rambling Man, (2004) says that “according to newspaper accounts” he named “hundreds.”...
Apparently, in the end, Pete Seeger forgave him - but not until the mid-90's when both were very old men.
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