buzzsawmonkey 6/20/2021 5:03:38 AM

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Chicago used to have radio ads for auto-racing on Sunday: "Sunday! Sunday! Sunday! At beautiful US-30 dragstrip!"

If they still have such ads nowadays---despite cars being, you know, evil because fossil fuels and climate change---I wonder about the "intersectionality" between the "racing" and the "dragstrip."

lucius septimius 6/20/2021 5:12:06 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 1:

I remember those ads.  They're still ringing in my ears, along with the ads for Empire Carpets.

From a later date, the ads for Homemakers furniture, with a very young Shelly Long, and the spawn-of-Satan Timmy the News boy.

buzzsawmonkey 6/20/2021 5:23:15 AM

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BTW, my friend/neighbor---someone I've known by sight for over 40 years, since he used to live in SoHo when I did and ran a nightclub there (so you would expect him to be at least nominally familiar with American song/history, etc.), is now in a marriage with a black same-sex partner, AND is involved with both a New York school that caters to "gay teens," and with New York politics, was totally unfamiliar with Gladys Bentley, the black lesbian nightclub owner/performer in Harlem to whom I linked in the Pub thread last night.

They are both lovely people.  But I have to tell you, I am getting pretty damned sick of the gay-activist types who are totally ignorant of the history of their chosen persuasion.  As with the wokie blacks, who keep trying to persuade everyone that life was all groaning oppression until the day before yesterday, they have no idea of what existed in this country, either artistically or as to the level of acceptance, before the Great Dawn of the current wokie plague broke upon the land.

buzzsawmonkey 6/20/2021 6:10:55 AM

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In #2 lucius septimius said: I remember those ads.  They're still ringing in my ears, along with the ads for Empire Carpets.

Magikist, Magikist---Magikist rug cleaning

Magikist, Magikist---Magikist rug cleaning

Makes rugs and carpets look like new

Upholstery, furniture, draperies too

Call Magikist and you will see, it's truly "kiss of beauty" cleaning...

lucius septimius 6/20/2021 6:13:11 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 4:

I always remember feeling excited seeing the Magikist sign off the Dan Ryan when we came into downtown.

buzzsawmonkey 6/20/2021 6:21:24 AM

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In #5 lucius septimius said: I always remember feeling excited seeing the Magikist sign off the Dan Ryan when we came into downtown.

Me, I miss the old "Formfit" lady---a five-story cutout of a woman wearing a bra and girdle, illuminated by side-lights, who was on the outside wall of the "Formfit Bra" factory.  It was on the north side of the Eisenhower (formerly, "Congress") Expressway, just before you got into the tangle of roadways prior to entering the Loop---just west of Greektown.

The old Formfit factory has been renovated into lofts, and the Formfit Lady is now long gone.  Ah, how we've diminished.

lucius septimius 6/20/2021 6:30:14 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 6:

The post office straddling the Eisenhower was always impressive.  So too the Merchandise Mart.  They didn't have to be tall, but the sheer bulk of those buildings.

buzzsawmonkey 6/20/2021 6:37:01 AM

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In #7 lucius septimius said: The post office straddling the Eisenhower was always impressive.  So too the Merchandise Mart.  They didn't have to be tall, but the sheer bulk of those buildings.

The Merchandise Mart was for many years touted as "the largest office building in the world"---because of its footprint, not its height.  I've no idea if it was ever true.

I remember my father---this is "Fathers' Day," right?---telling me how he'd scoured the Merchandise Mart to find an establishment that had the proper brass catch for the pass-through he built between the kitchen and the dining room in our house, and how they ended up giving him the catch he wanted to buy because it would cost them more to fill out the paperwork than to sell it to him.

Meanwhile, the same-sex couple who bought our old house (thank God we got it sold before the Chicago covid riots) have apparently painted over all the wormy-cypress tongue-and-groove paneling in the dining area with white paint.  Barbarians.

Occasional Reader 6/20/2021 7:13:14 AM

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Occasional Reader 6/20/2021 7:17:53 AM

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In #9 Occasional Reader said: the C2

Sheesh, dating myself there…

RB!

Occasional Reader 6/20/2021 7:26:04 AM

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Occasional Reader 6/20/2021 7:29:48 AM

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In #11 Occasional Reader said: 4/20

Gah, what the hell… 6/20, whatever

lucius septimius 6/20/2021 7:39:11 AM

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In #10 Occasional Reader said: Sheesh, dating myself there…

I've found that dating myself is much cheaper and results in less heartache.

lucius septimius 6/20/2021 7:39:47 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 9:

Happy Father's Day, or as my dad would say "Muthah's Day."

Occasional Reader 6/20/2021 7:55:31 AM

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Occasional Reader 6/20/2021 8:17:35 AM

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In #15 Occasional Reader said: and in perhaps

Voice transcription blues. 

Kosh's Shadow 6/20/2021 8:29:09 AM

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In #16 Occasional Reader said: Voice transcription blues. 

I sent a text to my baby
Said baby was nice
Voice transcription said 
She was crazy ice

Now she done left me
I'm lonely and empty
I got the voice transcription blues

doppelganglander 6/20/2021 8:30:25 AM

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buzzsawmonkey 6/20/2021 9:09:28 AM

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In #13 lucius septimius said: I've found that dating myself is much cheaper and results in less heartache.

You certainly experience a nice 50% saving in restaurant meals.

Occasional Reader 6/20/2021 9:15:52 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 19:

It’s complicated. About a dozen years ago,  the very same absolutely gorgeous young woman who absolutely insisted on picking up the tab for dinner on our second date, was the same one who afterward excused herself to go to the bathroom to snort cocaine.

🤷🏻‍♂️

buzzsawmonkey 6/20/2021 9:19:20 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 20:

Powder to the people!  Right on!

buzzsawmonkey 6/20/2021 9:27:06 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 20:

I'm so old that I can remember when "going out for a snort" meant visiting the corner tavern.

Occasional Reader 6/20/2021 9:30:10 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 21:

Heh.

it was really bizarre. The date was going absolutely swimmingly, we wrapped up dinner, she paid, again at her insistence, and she excused herself to the ladies’ room. Came back out dabbing at her nose. She saw me seeing her doing that. I asked rather literally, “is everything OK?”  She replied, “yes. I… sniffed something.”  [Awkward pause]. “So, do *you* want any?”  Me: Uh, no.  Whoa, hey, look at the time!…

buzzsawmonkey 6/20/2021 9:35:16 AM

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@PBJ3 6/20/2021 9:51:45 AM

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I'm wishing all of the Rude Bridge dads a wonderful Fathers Day!

Occasional Reader 6/20/2021 10:49:28 AM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 17:

++++

Kosh's Shadow 6/20/2021 10:56:24 AM

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The campaign coverage parody from the 1950's I've talked about

The victory speech at the end left me with a hearty appetite for meaty puns.

buzzsawmonkey 6/20/2021 11:02:56 AM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 27:

I note that the script is credited to "Gene Sayet."  I wonder if that's Evan Sayet's father.

Occasional Reader 6/20/2021 11:12:44 AM

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When the perp is inconvenient to The Narrative, the Left talks entirely about the inanimate object.

A (former) friend who is knee-jerk Dem and lives near Boulder, CO, was apoplectic over the shooting in the King Soopers supermarket there in March. Virtue-signalled like mad about how "shocked and saddened" he was that our country "accepts" mass shootings (huh?). I talked to him earlier this week. He literally did not recognize the name of the shooter when I mentioned it; and was convinced that Ahmad Al-Alawi Al-Issa was a "Christian white guy". Instead, he went into a spittle-flecked diatribe about guns, and the evil people (like me) who own them.

Leftism is a form of mental illness.

buzzsawmonkey 6/20/2021 11:17:25 AM

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In #29 Occasional Reader said: Ahmad Al-Alawi Al-Issa

Would it be wrong to wonder why we are Al-Alawing some people to enter the country?

Occasional Reader 6/20/2021 11:26:26 AM

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In #28 buzzsawmonkey said: I note that the script is credited to "Gene Sayet."  I wonder if that's Evan Sayet's father.

Sayet once, Sayet loud, I'm black and I'm proud... 

Kosh's Shadow 6/20/2021 11:39:30 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 29:

And note the media (except the Jewish media) never even speculates that a Syrian would go a distance to shoot up a supermarket known for its kosher section shortly before Passover.

buzzsawmonkey 6/20/2021 11:42:15 AM

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Kosh's Shadow 6/20/2021 11:46:21 AM

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buzzsawmonkey 6/20/2021 11:48:04 AM

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