Comments on: I had forgotten…

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Mon, 18 May 2020 00:37:59 +0000

Rufus – I had a couple of missing comments last week, for no apparent reason.
If links were a problem, I would never get anything accepted!
However, make a note of this symptom:
if you hit “post comment” and the page refreshes so that it is back at the top of Neo’s post, rather than at the bottom of the comment thread, then your comment probably did not go through; scroll down and you can see that it is neither in the comment box nor on the posted thread.
Hit your browser back-arrow, and you can still see it from before submission (or I can, at any rate).
I have discovered that I can sometimes edit the comment and get it past the gate-keepers, but it’s an almost random event; I’m never sure what the problem really is.
Recently, I tried to post the frequently-seen paragraph by Solzhenitsyn about “what if we had all resisted the arrests?” — I eventually had to delete the middle third. No link was involved.
No idea what was going on, or why that worked.

PS: If you write up long comments in Word first, you won’t lose the painstakingly acquired rhetoric and references.
Sometimes, I save a comment at the end of a thread where I don’t intend to post it instead of opening Word.

By: Rufus T. Firefly

Rufus T. Firefly — Sun, 17 May 2020 14:02:48 +0000

I wrote a fair amount about tap dancing here last night, but the comments are gone now. I think they both had links. I’ve heard others mention similar occurrences. Maybe the blog scrubs for comments with links to limit spam by those bots neo likes to spoof?

No problem on my end. Sometimes it’s best if ramblings one makes at 3am are not forever recorded for posterity.

As my avatar, Julius Marx said, “Why should I do anything for posterity? What has posterity ever done for me?”

By: March Hare

March Hare — Sun, 17 May 2020 09:28:36 +0000

TCM recently had a tap-dancing movie marathon. One of the films was “Yankee Doodle Dandy.” I read up about the movie on IMdB and in the Trivia section was a note that Cagney mimicked Cohan’s dancing style, which was more stiff-legged than Cagney’s usual. Seems like he did the same in “The seven Little Foys” as well. And, according to IMdB, Cohan liked Cagney’s portrayal.

By: Texan99

Texan99 — Sat, 16 May 2020 19:38:43 +0000

Bob Hope is very good with his feet, but notice how he’s not really in control of his upper body the way Cagney is. That was what I loved about Fred Astaire: every single cell in his body was in exactly the spot he meant it to be every second. Every movement was perfect.

By: Esther

Esther — Sat, 16 May 2020 19:19:18 +0000

Cagney‘s dancing looks like he ever so slightly floated above the ground. I wouldn’t have been surprised if he gave a good kick and popped up to the ceiling.

By: Roy

Roy — Sat, 16 May 2020 14:08:24 +0000

That was fun, but the whole time I was watching it, all I could think was “that’s got to be hard on the tabletop finish.”

By: CaptDMO

CaptDMO — Sat, 16 May 2020 13:59:27 +0000

Of COURSE watching “The Seven Little Foys” was boring on film.
It’s like watching “Video Killed the Radio Star” on MTV.
Or getting “news” from Stephen Colbert,late at night.

By: J.J.

J.J. — Sat, 16 May 2020 03:49:09 +0000

Bob Hope and Jimmy Cagney were fixtures in the movies of my youth. But Bob Hope’s Christmas shows for the troops are what I remember most. Watched many of them on TV, but in 1965 I saw him in person as he, Jerry Colona, Jill St. John, and other celebrities entertained us at Subic Bay in the P.I. That was a real treat. He was a true patriot who loved this country and loved to entertain the troops.

By: Artfldgr

Artfldgr — Sat, 16 May 2020 03:00:29 +0000

Triple threats
some were quadruple threats

By: OldTexan

OldTexan — Sat, 16 May 2020 00:50:22 +0000

A true story, when I came back from the Army in 1970 my wife and I rented a house from the head house keeper at the top Hotel in Oklahoma City. She was a lovely lady and she told me that when Bob Hope came to town for the big 4th of July we love America shows they put on for several years he stayed with them in one of their better suites. She also said he was the neatest guest she ever saw, he made his bed every morning, wiped down the sink area and kept every personal item tucked away. When he left it appeared no one had ever used the room. He was also very kind and generous with the staff. Bob Hope was born the same year as my father and they really did not make them like they used to.