"There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible." -Auberon Waugh
Monday, April 1, 2024
I'm glad April finally agreed to drop by
Cruel!
Here's something cool about a 10-day period in April this year.
Yeah, they had to cancel the show because of the stressed out writers trying to write all of the dialogue so it read the same backward as it did forward.
A colleague and friend of mine at the federal agency where I worked, who is a few years older than I am, was a big fan of the show when he was a kid. One time I mentioned the program (I don't recall the context), and he immediately began singing the lyrics to the theme song.
People always astonish me. I mentioned the Canterbury Tales to one of my subordinates once (again, I have no recollection of the context), and damned if he didn't start spouting one of the stories in the original Middle English. An odd bird that one, although I liked him a lot. He once got in trouble with agency security for using his government computer during his lunch hour to visit (and, I believe, actually shop at) a web site that specialized in crossbows.
Btw, I had a "Have Gun Will Travel" gun and holster set when I was about six years old. Black holsters with the "knight" (chess game) emblem. My brother went the Zorro route.
It was easier to recite Chaucer's English in high school, when we had to study it. Basically mock-Scandinavian I think: 'Whan that Ah-pril with his showres soo-te...March hath perc-ed to the roo-te'...
But I get lost as the story goes on to unfamiliar words.
'April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land', eh?
- I never noticed before that Canterbury Tale and Waste Land begin together.
I watch Have Gun Will Travel whenever I can. I will say that's an interesting casting choice. Richard Boone is not an attractive person. I like him in it, he has just the right amount of arrogance, but man that nose. Sorta OT, The Twilight Zone had an episode where a 50s western star went back in time and he was a real wimpy loser. I have decided they were skewering Rory Calhoun.
N-a-h, I don't think their target was Rory Calhoun. Check out his Wiki entry. He grew up rough, was in and out of trouble with the law from a young age and eventually did a stretch in prison. Before he got into acting, he worked a variety of tough jobs, including logging, mining and was a for-real cowboy in Arizona.
He was apparently one of Hollywood's premier skirt chasers. Funny story from Wiki: when his first wife sued him for divorce, she charged him with something like 79 adulterous relationships. He responded, "Heck, she didn't even include half of them".
Palindrome! I loved that TV western about him back in the '60s, Have Gun - Will Travel.
ReplyDeleteYeah, they had to cancel the show because of the stressed out writers trying to write all of the dialogue so it read the same backward as it did forward.
ReplyDeleteA colleague and friend of mine at the federal agency where I worked, who is a few years older than I am, was a big fan of the show when he was a kid. One time I mentioned the program (I don't recall the context), and he immediately began singing the lyrics to the theme song.
People always astonish me. I mentioned the Canterbury Tales to one of my subordinates once (again, I have no recollection of the context), and damned if he didn't start spouting one of the stories in the original Middle English. An odd bird that one, although I liked him a lot. He once got in trouble with agency security for using his government computer during his lunch hour to visit (and, I believe, actually shop at) a web site that specialized in crossbows.
Btw, I had a "Have Gun Will Travel" gun and holster set when I was about six years old. Black holsters with the "knight" (chess game) emblem. My brother went the Zorro route.
ReplyDeleteIt was easier to recite Chaucer's English in high school, when we had to study it. Basically mock-Scandinavian I think: 'Whan that Ah-pril with his showres soo-te...March hath perc-ed to the roo-te'...
ReplyDeleteBut I get lost as the story goes on to unfamiliar words.
'April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land', eh?
- I never noticed before that Canterbury Tale and Waste Land begin together.
I never noticed before that Canterbury Tale and Waste Land begin together.
ReplyDeleteGood catch!
I watch Have Gun Will Travel whenever I can.
ReplyDeleteI will say that's an interesting casting choice.
Richard Boone is not an attractive person.
I like him in it, he has just the right amount of arrogance, but man that nose.
Sorta OT, The Twilight Zone had an episode where a 50s western star went back in time and he was a real wimpy loser.
I have decided they were skewering Rory Calhoun.
N-a-h, I don't think their target was Rory Calhoun. Check out his Wiki entry. He grew up rough, was in and out of trouble with the law from a young age and eventually did a stretch in prison. Before he got into acting, he worked a variety of tough jobs, including logging, mining and was a for-real cowboy in Arizona.
ReplyDeleteHe was apparently one of Hollywood's premier skirt chasers. Funny story from Wiki: when his first wife sued him for divorce, she charged him with something like 79 adulterous relationships. He responded, "Heck, she didn't even include half of them".
Huh, he looks like a poseur to me.
ReplyDeleteOf course, I always thought Bogie was a tough guy, he grew up privileged.