Random Thoughts or Whatever

[Mystic]

Czech anecdote (joke) popular in the 1960s:

A citizen requests a visa to emigrate. The official asks him, ”Where do you want to go?” ”It doesn’t matter.” He is given a globe. ”Please, choose.” The man looks at the globe, turns it slowly and says, ”Don’t you have another globe?”

 

[Mystic]

When Chrissie Hynde and Ray Davies showed up to at the local registry office in Guilford to marry, “the guy took one look at us and suggested we come back another time”. (Davies)

PS: They never went back.

 

[Mystic]

Johnny Marr, guitarist for The Smiths, has just released a photo-memoir of his career titled Marr’s Guitars, which he says “documents my life and career through over 100 guitars.”

Note: Lightnin’ Hopkins only needed one, which he bought for about $20 from the Sears catalogue.

 

[Mystic]

Georges Simenon’s mother to the novelist after the funeral of his brother, Christian, a Belgian diplomat: “I’m sorry, Georges, but I just can’t help thinking the wrong son died.”

 

[Mystic]

During the golden age of the silent movie (1912-29), 10,919 silent feature films of American origin are known to have been released in the US. Of these, only 2,749 (25.2 per cent) survive as complete films.

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/missing-pieces/lost-movies

 

[NH-MAN]

The EPA has approved a plan to allow the world’s largest Chevron refinery (Pascagoula, Mississippi) to convert plastic waste into fuel, even though EPA’s own review found that the production poses a cancer risk that is 250,000 times greater than the EPA itself has deemed unreasonable.

Yet also in Mississippi, the EPA allows open pit burning of toxic waste for disposal. which is actually true.

 

[noogies]

During the golden age of the silent movie (1912-29), 10,919 silent feature films of American origin are known to have been released in the US. Of these, only 2,749 (25.2 per cent) survive as complete films.

You've been a very busy fellow, haven't you?

 

[Mystic]

You will drink our beer because you have no choice, peasant.

- AB InBev

 

[Mystic]

German tourist in America buys a can of Bud Light, brings it home and sends it to a lab for content analysis. A few weeks later he gets the results: Your horse has diabetes.

 

[Mystic]

So, an American in Paris walks into a bistro and orders an American beer.

- "But monsieur, we have no American beer."

- “Well, then give me the closest thing to American beer.”

The waiter hands him a glass of tap water.

 

[noogies]

The waiter hands him a glass of tap water.

Coulda been worse!

 

[Bill Ferris]

Coulda been worse!

 

[Mystic]

Listening to the HI-FI in the Soviet Union (1925)

 

[Bill Ferris]

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Listening to the HI-FI in the Soviet Union (1925)

AM broadcast= HiFi ?! ,

 

[Mystic]

 

[Mystic]

AM broadcast= HiFi ?! ,

ANY content, broadcast in ANY manner, was HI-FI to these folks, in that place, in 1925.

 

[Mystic]

 

[SolderIron]

“The young make love, the old make obscene gestures.”

- Paris, 1968

Because the old can't do it anymore

 

[Mystic]

 

[Mystic]

EVERYTHING HAPPENS GRADUALLY. THEN SUDDENLY. GOES TO HECK IN A STRAIGHT LINE.