Serious. THIS is the theme song for all who hang at General

Reid Welch

Reid Welch

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for all of us who shear ourselves or hang ourselves at General

No joking. Please to look up the significance of this still-vital song,
always performed, yearly and more, by the men of Yale, in particular,
since the year of 1908.

And, so, here =you= are, caught in The Song;

doing, talking, about...what?

Why?

I'm with you. Can't not be with you:

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"god have mercy on such as we..."

To the tables down at Mory's,
To the place where Louis dwells,
To the dear old Temple Bar
We love so well,

Sing the Whiffenpoofs assembled
With their glasses raised on high,
And the magic of their singing casts its spell.

Yes, the magic of their singing
Of the songs we love so well:
"Shall I, Wasting" and "Mavourneen" and the rest.

We will serenade our Louis
While life and voice shall last
Then we'll pass and be forgotten with the rest.

We are poor little lambs
Who have lost our way.
Baa! Baa! Baa!
We are little black sheep
Who have gone astray.
Baa! Baa! Baa!

Gentlemen songsters off on a spree
Damned from here to eternity
God have mercy on such as we.
Baa! Baa! Baa!


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Vanilla Ice tried to respond to a CLEAN and good, parody-yet-quite serious-untoned :wink: , thread, and

IT WAS IN PARODY of our long-running "universal access to health care" thread.
And it was TITLED about like this "should idiots have universal access to General?",
the comic aspect being: NONE OF US are "idiots". It was a HUMOR/Wind-in the suckers, thread title:

Vanilla gamely tried, serious, smart and also funny, man that he his, like me, but writes better than I:
I think this is an interesting question. When I first signed up there were some pretty tough questions asked to get an account.. I had to try a few times and finally got lucky and got in. I think this is no longer the case. No doubt the removal of that approval process changed the face of ES. It'd be kinda neat to see how an all smart people forum would have turned out.. but I think probably yes we do belong here..
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I replied; pressed "post".
"This topic no longer exists".
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We will serenade our Louis
While life and voice shall last
Then we'll pass and be forgotten with the rest.


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Ypedal said:
That YT video was crossing the line Reid ( seriously.. imagine ES members with their kids in the background wanting to watch spongebob ! ) !!.. :?
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OK. Your call. Why, then, did you not just ERASE only the spongebob naughty-talk posting?
WHY did you erase the entire thread? Huh? You boo-boo'd again.
Why do you never PM me and advise, "Please, Reid, that YT embed crosses the line. Erase it?"
(I would have done so, instantly, no argument).

I push the envelope, I do. People don't like me much. People don't like pushers.

I forgive you and will recreate the thread, SANS spongy bob, con permisso.

Logic: ALL kids hear all these naughty words, and the sooner the better.
YouTube is family oriented. They do not allow "obscenity", such as open pants sex stuff.
But they DO allow naughty words...words that really are not naughty.

However, the video IS controversial, YT-approved, or not.
You made a valid point. BUT you destroyed a CLEAN thread,
one that was going someplace GOOD.

Again, had you simply erased the Spongeblog filth, all would be well
I'd not complain.

Request: IS the thread intact, but just invisible?
Can you please restore it, just, then, omitting the offensive video?

If not, may I pretty please, mother-uffer, with sugar sprinkled on your topside,
RE-MAKE that thread?

OK? One way or another?

I have been here longer than you, btw.
I am a co-founder of this board.
This board would not exist were it not for the DOER, Michael Brown,
and the SPURRING of this 'reid welch', well-known PITA.
 
(royal we speech)

We note that our signature lines lead to nothing of a commercial nature.
We note that we have never asked for, nor would accept, any invitation to "moderate".
We are not interested in "power", other the Li-Fe-Po4.

We now go COMMERCIAL, for fun! Just....like.....WhyFettle :wink:
[youtube]ymrNDQ-pJpo[/youtube]
Lucky Strike Cigarette Commercial: Square Dance (1948)
Lucky Strike cigarette commercial
with stop-motion animation of square-dancing cigarettes.

Producer: Handy (Jam) Organization
Audio/Visual: Sd, B&W
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r.w. notes, this is one of the very first professionally made, truly iconic
commercials for the first years of post-war USA TV.

Smoke 'em if you got 'em?

Cheers, no hard feelings, and I mean that in the literal way.
 
This thread will now kindly morph.

Most all of you, including our Ypedal, operate under total protection of screen names.
Your bosses and co-workers cannot know who you are when you write at E.S. (Ypedal may be a rare exception)

Bob McCree has no screen name. Neither, really, does Justin.

IF I lead this thread off to tangent matters, it is earnestly hoped that YOU will be spurred
to take the conversation off in your own direction.

For instance, if I talk about the first post-war USA televisions of 1946, and how rapidly the entire USA
became hooked (by '48 most all neighborhoods had homes with TV, and TV parties were the order of the day).

But in war-ruined Europe, set back so far, and so much red-tape in the UK, in general, I think it was, what,
about 1950 or so, that ANY of the Euros got to see broadcast TV again.

The French were the true, great pioneers, offering HD black and white, their own, France-only standard,
in the pre and post war years (I think they actually did not make their TVs until post war, not en mass.

What about TV where you come from? When did it first appear?

Or shall we talk about women, or men, or about the impermanence of all things worldly,
and of the silence of the future to come?

Your call. I stand by and smoke a Lucky, for good luck.

Cough,
Reid
 
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