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Right Angle: Backstage (01-07-2020)

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16 replies on “Right Angle: Backstage (01-07-2020)”

A little tip on Ricky Gervais, if you can see his series After Life then do so. That is, if you like your comedy dark, like most of his stuff it’s not an easy watch. It’s the blackest of comedy, staring Gervais as a man facing suicidal thoughts after the death of his wife. I laughed, and cried, harder than any six episodes of anything has made me do.

You guys are a hoot… I’d like to share some words that I’ve just acquired…. I doubt they have much usage today but the definitions are more than relevant today… look them up, I’m sure you will not only get a chuckle, but I hope you will employ them to good end…
1) Snollygoster
2)Ultracrepidarian
3)Kakistocracy

Oh man, SatireWire is one of the all time greats. My favorite from them was this story about airport screeners failing to catch anything. Here’s an excerpt:

WASHINGTON D.C. (SatireWire.com) — In a troubling sign that investigators may be getting bored with their success smuggling guns and knives onto airplanes, the U.S. Department of Transportation today disclosed that its agents have recently cleared airport security checkpoints with an M1 tank, a beluga whale, and a fully active South American volcano.

DOT investigators also boasted that they have repeatedly slipped past screeners with a six-burner Viking stove, the Field Museum of Natural History, and actor Sidney Poitier, whom they had gagged and, for some reason, painted bright blue.

The revelations were disturbing for DOT inspector general Kenneth Mead, who praised his employees for their previous work in uncovering security lapses, but suggested investigators had perhaps lost sight of their original mission. At a staff meeting yesterday, Mead urged agents to “give it a rest,” and, at some point, return the Washington Monument.

“Oh yeah, that was a good one,” said Mitch Kerling, one of hundreds of DOT field personnel assigned to test security. “Twelve out of 13 airports. Zoom. Right through. Only got caught at LAX because this one screener thought it was a knife.”

I still go back to that article when I need a laugh.

Bill keeps saying stuff posted on Facebook gets automatically tweeted. If he’s talking about the @BillWhittle account nothing’s been tweeted there, automatic or otherwise, since the end of 2018.

HEY— Heard rumor that Hot Mic may be on the cruise on the good ship Boaty McBoat Face !!! Sorry I can’t be there, so those who can, please post as much as you can so that us unfortunates can enjoy it vicariously… !! so, smooth sailin’ and the wind to your back… Have fun !! OH and Tom Hanks face pretty much says it all at the “Globes” —

Welcome back guys. Couple of things. Bill, I loved that Hot Mike schtick. That what great. Don’t know what the suits were thinking given’ ya flack for that.

And another thing! As a professional, freelance entertainment technician, I used to love this Kudos Season. cause it meant full employment for a few months. What you don’t see beyond the awards ceremony, are the HUGE gala parties that they have right after the award show. All the studios/networks hold swanky parties that are so elaborate, that they gotta hire full crews of theatre techs over a week to set the thing up. Only bad part was they expected us to make it go away and be gone right after the party’s over… at 2am.

Kudos Season was really welcome especially when I didn’t have a “Christmas Carol” or “Nutcracker” booked for the Holiday season.

…other than me? But then, I actually bought the original magazine issue in the early 1980s.

I spelled Baccus wrong and got zero returns… I tried again after finding out the correct spelling and got some results for tyranny but nothing for tyrannic – not on the first page, anyway… The results referred to a Bible reference and I think, Paul. If I remember correctly, and that’s never a given, I made this comment between the two searches…

RE media comments about the timely demise of Soleimani.
Assassination? Hah!
The recently departed general was in the field on the tarmac of Baghdad International Airport (BIC). He was not sipping his espresso in the VIP lounge at an Iranian airport terminal.

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