I should have known better than to click the "play" button with a mouthful of coffee. Mitt, Mitt, Mitt......
recovering ex-Pentecostal
January 24, 2008 12:52 PM
Rod,
If you "know" it's "mean", why do you do it? It is not of the spirit (gentleness, meekness, KINDness, etc.)
Larry Parker
January 24, 2008 2:11 PM
39, Scott -- right on the button.
Scott Lahti
January 24, 2008 2:40 PM
Wow, it's rare to find someone who saw that performance by Mull, though I gather it's on an album of his, too. You'd have to been all of 12 or so when it first ran.
It's remarkable how this Romney brother-man shtick recalls for some of us the popcult of the 1970s more than of later decades, when a joshing, loose-limbed black-white *modus vivendi* seemed in our culture to be in the offing: Blazing Saddles, Sanford and Son, Richard Pryor, The Jeffersons, Good Times, Bill Cosby, Stevie Wonder, Three Dog Night's "Black and White," even Diff'rent Strokes, with Conrad Bain's Philip Drummond as a what's-past-is-prologue Mitt Romney...those lacking a you're-soaking-in-it exposure to the earlier jive-Romney thread herein, who recall Officer "Hoppy"'s Ted Baxterish attempts to coffee his cream on *Sanford and Son* might enjoy the targeted 101 I outlined there:
Too bad Romney could not have met one of the Fenstruck brothers. He could have learned how a "Wild and Crazy Guy" can step out of his box. "Slap my hand, black soul man!".
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I should have known better than to click the "play" button with a mouthful of coffee. Mitt, Mitt, Mitt......
Rod,
If you "know" it's "mean", why do you do it? It is not of the spirit (gentleness, meekness, KINDness, etc.)
39, Scott -- right on the button.
Wow, it's rare to find someone who saw that performance by Mull, though I gather it's on an album of his, too. You'd have to been all of 12 or so when it first ran.
It's remarkable how this Romney brother-man shtick recalls for some of us the popcult of the 1970s more than of later decades, when a joshing, loose-limbed black-white *modus vivendi* seemed in our culture to be in the offing: Blazing Saddles, Sanford and Son, Richard Pryor, The Jeffersons, Good Times, Bill Cosby, Stevie Wonder, Three Dog Night's "Black and White," even Diff'rent Strokes, with Conrad Bain's Philip Drummond as a what's-past-is-prologue Mitt Romney...those lacking a you're-soaking-in-it exposure to the earlier jive-Romney thread herein, who recall Officer "Hoppy"'s Ted Baxterish attempts to coffee his cream on *Sanford and Son* might enjoy the targeted 101 I outlined there:
http://blog.beliefnet.com/crunchycon/2008/01/the-whitest-man-in-the-world.html.comments.html
Too bad Romney could not have met one of the Fenstruck brothers. He could have learned how a "Wild and Crazy Guy" can step out of his box. "Slap my hand, black soul man!".
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