Open thread
When I recently came across this photo from a couple of years ago, I couldn’t remember why I took it. Did I think it was an especially pretty apple? Did it remind me of a Cezanne?
And then I remembered – it was a piece of marzipan I was about to eat.
Freckles…
On an apple.
Gives it character, but tastes the same. Or not –
I would have guessed an odd variation on a candy apple. How big is that? 1.5 or 2″ across?
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Did you see the United flight out of Denver execute a mayday emergency return with a wrecked engine? No injuries anywhere. Here’s the DailyMail. Check out the flaming engine video.
Apparently, they know that the engine had two broken fan blades on the Pratt & Whitney engine. My guess is that those flames in the video are actually the normal combustion chamber area of the engine, except with the outer structural panels ripped off. Could be flaming lubrication oil instead.
Over the years the aircraft industry has gone from 3 and 4 engine planes to two engine planes, in part because of the super reliability of the dominant GE engines. All of those engines had all turbine disks mounted on a common rotating shaft.
The modern, more efficient design pioneered by Pratt has a gear set so that the compressor and power disks spin at different speeds. I’m sure they claim the reliability is as good as the old GE’s. It’ll be interesting to see; Did it just throw a couple blades on a bad blade disk, or did a broken gear throw a tooth or cog chunk into the blades?
“Marmalade” would be another for me.
“Marzipan” is one of those words like “treacle”, or “sweets”, that I only expect to encounter in children’s books written in England; or in some English reminiscence, anyway. And like “treacle” or “aspidistra”, or “toffee” , or ” biscuits”, I have for some reason always been weirdly indifferent to their exact reference.
I mostly have a kind of driving natural urge to know the precise meaning of almost every word I encounter; except for some of these “homey” or food item terms. There, some vague and possibly inaccurate idea will do. I don’t know why.
Like, what the hell is a “pudding”, really?
Just recently, I finally asked a waiter what the proffered “creme brule” was, instead of just turning it down automatically. I don’t recall now what he actually said it was. It came with raspberries on top though and was pretty good, even though I don’t eat desserts. Wasn’t custard, at least. I hate custard – whatever that, is.
Do they know for certain which stages the blades were from? You figuring the blades could have separated at the root from gearing effects? Jarring, or transmitted vibration of some sort?
Weren’t “whiskered” ceramics being investigated some years ago for combustion turbine airfoil material? I recall that it portended some consequences for the builders of 6 axis mills and grinders.
I lost touch with aircraft engine industry trends and developments some years ago.
Probably would not hurt me to look it up myself LOL
DNW, you’d turn down a crème brûlée? How did you come to be in a situation in which it was suggested? Maybe you’re just very practical and un-fussy about food.
I have this bunch of lemons and limes to use up. Got them from work. I’ve been trying out marinades. I tried one with lime/oil/thyme/crushed red pepper last night. It was okay, but that red pepper is a bit strong, I think. Similar effect as in Monterey Jack, but with chicken instead. But I have to use these up soon and don’t think I’ll make it through them all.
DNW,
I don’t know anything about ceramics issues. I heard that two blades were were completely fractured. Don’t know where or on which disk. Or even if they flew off the engine or not. Also, that many or all of the blades on one disk had been damaged from impacting some object.
I was thinking that if a gear cog fractured into two pieces, a piece could be thrown into a turbine disk.
Here is an cut-away diagram example. The proper name is a geared turbofan. There is a planetary gear set disk located right behind the big leading fan turbine disk. If you look closely you can see 4 cogs of a 6 or 8 planetary set illustrated.
I think I stated it incorrectly at 11:09. It’s not the compressor turbines that are spinning at a different speed, but the fan. I don’t think the big fan does much compressing.
Notice on your cut-away diagram of the engine (thank you very much), TommyJay, that in each stage, the fan==>the low pressure compressor==>the high pressure compressor==> the high pressure turbine and then lastly, the low pressure turbine….each has a different and 90 degree opposite angle of the fan blades. I don’t understand this because as we know from playing with fans, when you switch the angle of the blades by 90 degrees, the air is given opposite impulses, first forward, then backward, then forward, then backward momentum. But I must be reading this wrong.
So, to change the subject, it appears as if the greatest stress on the blades is probably in the high pressure turbine area, just after the combustion chamber where the heat and pressure is the highest. This fits with the picture of the broken engine taken by the passenger which shows that there is a hole in the casing roughly in the engine’s middle third to rear area.
Good it did not happen while over the Pacific, Also good that fad blade didn’t fly into cabin. Also good that 23,000 gallons of fuel, the amount in one wing, didn’t start going up in flames. It suggests robust and good engineering to me and builds confidence in some respects.
Super reliability of modern gas turbine engines such as those made by GE, Pratt and Whitney, Rolls Royce. Now engines made by the CCP may be a different thing entirely. IIRC the CCP have had problems reverse engineering turbine engines from USSR/Russia in their military applications. Civilian uses? No problem Xi. 🙂
IMO to early to guess if the geared fan design is the “root cause” of the failure.
dnaxy:
Search the web “turbine rotor and stator blades” for explanation of the moving and non-moving parts in a turbine engine. Lots of videos and animations of the fluid flow and probably math too.
I’ve heard that pilots should be able to land with only one engine; glad that was true. Good job.
I’ve used marzipan on occasion. It’s almond paste.
Philip Sells…
re: lemons
Juice and freeze. They can be frozen in ice cube trays and then popped out for ease of use, or in plastic containers – in which case they should probably be frozen in 1/2 cup quantities. whichever way you freeze them, when they’re frozen, put them into plastic bags before returning them to the freezer. Maybe not ideal, but better than losing them!!
As a kid, we’d get marzipan for Christmas. I always loved how pretty and realistic the little tiny sculptures looked, but have never been been a big fan of marzipan. And I have a major sweet tooth.
I was out at dinner. I had turned them down in the past without thinking, when they were offered after the meal. ” No, just coffee, thanks”
I have probably eaten out obligatorily at too many mid level restaurants [think semi up-scale chains like Morton’s, or Ruth’s Kris, or Muer’s] to appreciate dining out anymore. And frankly, regularly dropping 400 – 500 (not incl tip) bucks (or substantially more in a rated spot) on dinner for four in order to get a worthwhile experience just seems unreasonable to me anymore. In fact, I probably have not been in more than half a dozen Michelin rated “fine dining” restaurants ever. All on business, all in Chicago.
But the waiter suggested it. He had impressed me when he had brought me a large and perfect martini – or one perfectly made to my instructions – and so after automatically saying “No” to the creme brulee, I said ” Wait, just what is that anyway?” He laughed and assured me it was not too elaborate or froufrou and was light, so I told him to go ahead and bring it.
Turkish Delight (with marzipan?) was Edmund’s undoing in the Lion Witch and Wardrobe IIRC.
I used to hate flying in those MD 80s. Especially when the airlines started loading them up.
I only briefly experienced good business class flying. It soon became zooming in a sardine can filled with obnoxious butt wipes who you would gladly see crash, if you were not there with them.
Turkish Delight (which I dislike) is nothing like marzipan.
DNW:
I wouldn’t call a creme brulee “light.” But it is very very good.
It isn’t the engines. It’s Boeing again, the 777 instead of the 737.
At Boeing, Woke HR is put in charge of indoctrinating engineers.
That’s their now, newly institutionalised, problem.
It ain’t the engineers. It’s the incompetent “leadership” that makes stupid engineers powerful.
Good catch dnaxy. The older high bypass turbofan engine actually has two concentric and independent rotating shafts, but no gearbox. Here is a diagram. The fan and rear most turbines rotate with the green shaft, and the inner turbines rotate with the purple hollow shaft.
The geared turbofan has three different shafts turning at different speeds (or directions?), with the rear most turbine spinning with the inner shaft, which is then coupled to the front fan through a gearbox or geardisk.
I thought these engines had been flying for 10 or more years, but no. The P&W geared engine first flew on a Lufthansa plane in Jan. 2016 and it looks like 2018 was when hundreds of aircraft flew them.
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dnaxy, Do you know much about the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine? The descriptions I’ve read make it sound like the inactivated adenovirus is just a delivery package for the engineered RNA to infiltrate the human cell. Is that all the adenovirus is doing, or does it facilitate the creation of the modified RNA also? (Plus other stuff maybe?)
Well, lighter than that multi-layer chocolate cheese cake-y looking stuff with raspberry syrup, I guess. I was going to use the word “torte”, but I don’t really know what that is with any certitude either.
SueK, I’ll try that! I would have been concerned about losing the volatile components while freezing; do the plastic bags hold those in well enough for a while? I think if I were to freeze them in 1- or 2-teaspoon quantities, that could be very handy. Thanks.
DNW:
Isn’t it pretty to think so.
Creme brulee.
Chocolate torte.
Chocolate cheesecake.
Well i’ll add
German Chocolate cake
Chocolate Beignets … hmmmmmmmm
TJ:
It’s not the engine, it’s really just ….. or try and wait for some information. Because an Airbus has never crashed, nor a Lockheed, nor a McDonnel Douglas. Nor a, or not. You be you.
It appears that there are things even a know-it-all has left to learn.
Like wines for example. I doubt that I could tell a Cabernet from a Merlot, or a Pino Noir from a Shiraz, unless the latter was distinctly peppery. Even then, you would have to clue me in on what the choices were in the first place. Now, a typical Bordeaux from a glass of Mogen David? … yeah, probably.
@DNW:
Nothing like being spam in a flying can to remind oneself that Hell is Other People.
Custard can have that died and been resuscitated twice institutional food vibe, but nothing beats Sambayon (= their version of Zabaglione) + a coffee after inhaling an Argentinian grass-fed rib eye.
It certainly can be. Speaking of which, I think Neo did a post on Sartre sometime back, and even I (whose studies should have clued me in better than they did) had no real idea what a total, depraved, and despicable miscreant he was.
Sold.
Z
Had to look that up … LOL
Now I’ll take the version that has Congac!
@DNW:
Next to Genet, Satre was a stylite monk. But our team lost. Were he alive in the current year, Genet might be head of children’s programming at Disney.
Paul Johnson wrote a book called “Intellectuals” — is likely Neo has mentioned it in one of her many past posts. In it he looks into the putrid private lives of a bunch of of fine upstanding citizens like Rousseau, Satre, Baldwin (James), etc. It’s Enlightening (pun intended).
SueK @ 3:30pm,
Juice and freeze?!?! Juice, mix with gin, use unjuiced portions for a garnish and drink. Limes never go bad in the Firefly household!
Have just been reading Sarah Hoyt over my morning coffee.
https://accordingtohoyt.com/2021/02/22/a-badger-among-kittens-by-denton-salle/
“ Certain stories make the rounds about wild animals that get mistaken for pets. It can be someone from another country trying to pick up a skunk because it looks like a cat, a coyote or bear cub thought to be a stray dog, or a feral dog left alone with a house cat. The stories never end well. Once of the worse I heard (and some of these are true) was a young woman who found a badger cub and thought it a lost kitten so she took it home and put it in the basket with her kittens. Whether true or not, it makes a good model for a multicultural society that has scrapped the idea of a common culture, particularly when that culture ignores the differences between classes and ethnic groups for the simplistic broad groupings of race and sex. Whether you realize it or not, there are badgers in the basket.”
Longish article, but it’s a book review of this:
Beyond The Picket Fence: Life Outside the Middle-Class Bubble
Author Mark MacYoung
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B076KVC6C3/
Looks like it could be a useful gift for grandchildren, nephews, nieces, etc. who have grown up in a bubble and are about to find out that a great deal of what they think they know about the world ain’t necessarily so.
@Jack:
Heh!
And the best part is that you don’t even need very good cognac to make great Zabaglione. It’s like mulled wine: greater than the sum of its parts.
Come to think of it, my most vivid memory of Kindergarten on the Bluff in Durban in a world now lost to time is of some pint-sized Deplorable scooting a bowl of colorfully regurgitated custard down the long lunch table. Charming.
Checked the yard today and will only know for sure in month or so but it looks like …
Azaleas … dead
All palms … dead
Grape fruit … dead
Navel orange … dead
Lime … dead
Only thing still green is underbrush trash.
ObloodyHell,
I posted the below on Saturday’s thread about music, but you may have abandoned that thread already.ObloodyHell,
I think we are saying a lot of the same things, and I agree with your redefinition of the term, “Pop.” No argument and I debated using that term for the same reasons you list, but since it was the term used in the discussion leading up to my comment I stuck with it so folks would know I was referring to the same thing.
I agree with what you are saying about fragmentation, and that’s my point about the ’30s to ’90s being the anomaly. Since that covers some or much of most of our lifetimes we keep comparing trends to that period, and wondering why they don’t conform. To stay with the example of music; troubadors, minstrels, military bands, court musicians, church musicians… That’s about the only way any musicians earned a living. Almost all “local” followings. So now groups put their stuff on-line and sell directly to their fans, their “local” audience and travel to perform where groups of them congregate. How is Anheuser Busch hiring Sting to perform at their Christmas party different than a wealthy Medici hiring Rossini to compose a funeral mass for his uncle?
Where we may differ (I haven’t noticed you citing this) is music history is also a history of technology. There weren’t symphonies in Ancient Rome, Greece, Egypt or China. I suspect that is due to a lack of standardized craftsmanship and production processes. But once industrial standards were good enough to consistently make instruments that could stay in tune and tune to other, similarly well crafted instruments, we started having quartets, quintets, bands and symphonies. Mozart, Liszt, Beethoven… All doing wonderous things on the piano-forte shortly after it was invented. Just as the prog rock guys in the ’70s did wondrous things on Mr. Moog’s synth nearly the day after he produced his first, commercial version. And look at the history of the electric guitar. It was barely a week after folks like Les Paul started messing around with pickups that Chuck Berry was shredding licks like, “Johnny B. Goode.” And the invention of microphones allowed vocalists to be heard over Big Bands. And the nascent radio allowed those bands performances to be transmitted live to the nation. And the recently invented long playing record allowed folks to buy the music they heard and listen to it in their own homes whenever they wanted. Producers exploited technological advances like tape looping and multi-track recording very early into those developments. And when computing made digital recording and production possible, musicians pushed those technologies to the limit.
All a long way of saying, there has been no, new innovation in the technology of music lately*, so that’s why things stopped in the 2000s. Hip hop, sampling, dubstep… are all newish things that have come out of playing around with new technology developments, and some are huge, but because of the distribution side balkanizing stars in those genres are not household names.
*Except on the distribution side.
Rufus T.,
Great stuff. The technological part is fascinating. I had a friend who was very proficient on the recorder (instrument) and I have heard a full up medieval ensemble on a couple occasions.
Having watched the director’s cut of the film Amadeus recently, I was curious about the many scenes with keyboard instruments being played. I believe the filmmakers were very accurate in obtaining period correct instruments. A couple scenes had harpsicords. I think one scene had a clavier (clavinet?) which sounded to me like a piano but wasn’t. Many scenes had a piano sound, but they were too small.
Apparently, before there was the piano-forte (Beethoven’s time) there was the forte-piano (Mozart’s time). The forte-piano was much smaller and spanned a smaller number of octaves. Usually it had a less substantial wood frame that was easier to move but probably required re-tuning after being moved.
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I was thinking about pipe organs lately, so I pulled up a few youtube versions of Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor. If you can play this one on a stereo with great bass and crank it up, it’s awesome. And the organist cracks me up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHNLdHe8uxY
While the organist is top notch, I think the star is the organ itself.
@TommyJay:
Way back before recording and reproduction technology when only the merchant class and aristocracy had access to chamber music, let along a nifty blinged out court orchestra along Esterhazy or Mannheim lines, just imagine going into a church in North Germany and hearing pipe organ turned up to 11. Out of body conversion experience on the spot! 😀
Was a bit disappointed with the movie Gladiator for not having some basketball game style flourishes on the Hydraulis.
Haha. I recall sitting in the department head’s office – he was my advisor – and seeing a biography of Genet on the shelf. Who’s he? “Oh, a French intellectual and writer”
A couple years later I picked up a book in the reminder bin – on Andre Malraux, an obligatory Gauloise dangling from his lips in the cover image – after having forgotten exactly whose biography it was that I had seen in my advisor’s office. Some significant Frenchman who was not Camus or Sartre, was all I recalled.
From Getty, not the Lacouture bio.
https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/andr-malraux-19450400-andr-malraux-son-retour-dalsacelorraine-picture-id956682928?s=2048×2048
Probably a lucky mistake on my part.
If you are willing to fast forward, there are some funny scenes in the old and not-so-great-overall Astaire movie “Funny Face”, having to do with the Parisian intellectual scene at that time; sending up the originator of a supposedly fashionable philosophy called “Empathicalism”.
I read somewhere that these scenes caused offense among certain intellectuals.
For that reason alone, the movie deserves respect.
In college I had a box of the Brandenburg Concertos played on their original instruments. It got lost somewhere in the confusion of my 20s. Occasionally I look for another version on Amazon but am overwhelmed by the multitude of regular Brandenburgs available.
Tonight I found a remarkable HD video of the Brandenburg No. 3 with original instruments — including a five-string cello and a double manual harpsichord, whatever that is. (Two keyboards, apparently.)
Wow. What a treat. I didn’t realize there were so many players. The sound is amazing and the video too. I’ll have to get this when it’s released.
“Bach – Brandenburg Concerto No. 3: First Movement, Allegro; Original Instruments; Voices of Music”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKgLEWv9imE
I have it … somewhere. It’s one of those books you buy for edifying entertainment. Or that people would buy you for Christmas if they knew that, admirable fellow that that Limbaugh guy was, you were not in need of, nor interested in, one of his tomes.
I specifically recall Johnson’s remarks characterizing Rousseau’s conceit that he was unmatched in his devotion to and expertise in, the “art” of, uh, self-abuse.
That, is the first thing which students of sufficient maturity should be taught concerning Rousseau. It would then morally liberate them from the obligation of ever taking anything the degenerate son-of-a-bitch had to say seriously.
Zaphod,
I was going add a short paragraph exactly along the lines of your comment, but my editor brain got the best of me. I’ve heard pipe organ recitals about three times and one organ was good, but nothing like “the great Sauer Organ of the Berliner Dom.”
@DNW:
“I have it … somewhere. It’s one of those books you buy for edifying entertainment. Or that people would buy you for Christmas if they knew that, admirable fellow that that Limbaugh guy was, you were not in need of, nor interested in, one of his tomes.”
Now, this, Ladies and Gentlemen is how you damn with faint praise. Masterful, Sir!
I’ve seen Funny Face in the last decade. Can’t remember where. Maybe on TCM before I junked the TV. Seem to remember the atrociously over-the-top club and the avant-garde ‘music’ in it.
My first and only introduction to Malraux was La Condition Humaine — the scene where captured communists are being fed alive into a locomotive’s firebox and noble whitey gives up his cyanide to his comrades has stuck in my mind for many years now.
@TommyJay:
If you see one of those Editing Brains on sale, please do let me know.
Just as the prog rock guys in the ’70s did wondrous things on Mr. Moog’s synth nearly the day after he produced his first, commercial version.
Rufus T. Firefly:
But before the prog rock guys there was … Walter Carlos (now Wendy Carlos) and his/her transcendental “Switched-on Bach” albums. (I imagine you know this.) It was Carlos who really took the Moog out for its shakedown cruise. (And got a discount from Robert Moog. The first Moogs were hideously expensive.)
Those records went off like bomb in my young mind. I was so gratified that Glenn Gould himself was quoted in the liner notes of “The Well-Tempered Synthesizer”:
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Carlos’s realisation of the Fourth Brandenburg Concerto is, to put it bluntly, the finest performance of any of the Brandenburgs . . . I’ve ever heard.
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A couple years ago I bought a digital Yamaha piano, then started thinking about synths. I discovered that you can now buy the equivalent of Carlos’s Moog for $300 and it’s smaller than a breadbox. So I bought one and used the Yamaha for keyboard input.
Then I discovered the big limitation of the old Moog — one voice. Which means no chords! And if you play with too heavy legato you lose notes.
So when you listen to Carlos’s old albums, you have to understand those albums were assembled from single notes played one at a time, then layered together. Oh, the tedium!
But wait! It gets worse. The old Moogs would go out of tune within a matter of seconds. So Carlos would play a couple bars of single notes, pause, and retune before playing the next couple bars.
What a trooper.
@Huxley:
You’re better off with this recording or others of recent vintage. When I were a young ‘un back in the mid-80s, I was all for CDs with period instrument recordings. Trevor Pinnock, John Elliot Gardener, etc. With benefit of much hindsight the early bright, harsh sound quality before better CD mastering techniques is a bit too much on period instruments.
I do like watching as well as listening to classical music performance recordings. This unfortunately is likely going to affect who we get to hear given that what they look like has now become more of an issue.
Switched on Bach FTW. Don’t forget ‘Popcorn’!
For Jazz aficionados, there’s Jacques Loussier Plays Bach and have just learned from the Oracle that he did the Four Seasons too.
Zaphod:
Re: Popcorn… Have you seen the Muppets’ Swedish Chef version?
–“The Muppets | Popcorn Music Video”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gwg5ey6236o
One of the funniest things I’ve ever watched. No, I won’t tell you how many times.
This exuberantly youthful Danse Macabre is good case of video adding to the musical experience.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNMzBnuBC6Y
I do like watching as well as listening to classical music performance recordings. This unfortunately is likely going to affect who we get to hear given that what they look like has now become more of an issue.
Zaphod:
Now there’s a Crit-Race angle too. In some classical music auditions the judges wear blindfolds, but it seems BIPOC players don’t do so well against their white supremacist competition, so there is a call to remove blindfolds … for equity!
https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/07/ny-times-chief-classical-music-critic-end-blind-auditions-pick-orchestra-musicians-based-on-race-and-gender/
I can’t stand it.
@Huxley:
Had not but it’s about to be inflicted upon everyone I know!
I do like watching as well as listening to classical music performance recordings. This unfortunately is likely going to affect who we get to hear given that what they look like has now become more of an issue.
Zaphod:
Now there’s a Crit-Race angle too. In some classical music auditions the judges wear blindfolds, but it seems BIPOC players don’t do so well against their white supremacist competition, so there is a call to remove blindfolds … for equity!
https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/07/ny-times-chief-classical-music-critic-end-blind-auditions-pick-orchestra-musicians-based-on-race-and-gender/
I can’t stand it.
@Huxley:
It’s nuts.
I can still recall the first time I encountered the expression ‘Politically Correct’; it was 1985. A friend’s mother was studying to become a clinical psychologist. He’d picked it up from her. Somehow he mentioned it while showing off his brand new Apple IIc. I was green with envy. So was the monitor that came with it, for that matter.
Anyway the expression and the memory only stuck because it sounded so weird and made no sense. Little did I know!
This exuberantly youthful Danse Macabre is good case of video adding to the musical experience.
Zaphod:
You’re right. I could get into classic videos of this quality. I never got the point of going to concerts when I was young. I had to get dressed up, sit in poor seats and all I could see was the conductor’s back.
They had to destroy art and music for justice. Beauty is oppression don’t you know.
But The Swedish Chef! “Bloondeboos!” And popcorn shrimp too.
Before the Moog synthesizer, there was the Mellotron. Mike Pinder, keyboardist of the Moody Blues, worked at the factory, so he was quite adept at using them.
Many of the Moody Blues albums used the Mellotron heavily.
Here’s Pinder explaining how it worked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajGdNTFxRy0
om:
I got curious about the Swedish Chef last summer when Ben Shapiro characterized the upcoming Trump-Biden debates as the Swedish Chef vs. Chewbacca.
–“The Swedish Chef vs. Chewbacca | Ep. 1069”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWEC4l-909Y
It’s worth looking up the other Swedish Chef episodes on the Muppets channel. The standard plot is “When food fights back.”
Woke culture is pretty far gone when The Muppet’s is viewed as “problematic” by our “betters.”
I heard there would be chocolate.
https://i1.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2021/02/18.jpg?resize=768%2C1130&ssl=1
One of my kids mentioned the other day that the streamed Muppet Show was only on the “adult” channel of Disney+.
Good thing we have our DVD copies already!
(I’m boycotting them anyway because of Gina.)
https://notthebee.com/article/it-aint-easy-being-green-muppets-get-slapped-with-content-advisory-as-old-series-debuts-on-disney-streaming-service/
https://babylonbee.com/news/disney-warns-viewers-that-the-muppet-show-was-made-in-a-different-era-when-creativity-was-more-culturally-acceptable
https://notthebee.com/article/watch-someone-made-a-muppets-version-of-1984-and-honestly-id-watch-it
Don’t tell them I have a DVD of “Song of the South” as well.
But don’t let anyone tell you we have a Cancel Culture.
https://babylonbee.com/news/frenzied-crowds-rush-stores-to-pick-up-copy-of-blazing-saddles-before-it-goes-down-memory-hole
https://i1.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2021/02/Screen-Shot-2021-02-10-at-8.51.21-AM.png?w=958&ssl=1
AesopFan:
The woke will have to cancel the Library of Congress (they will) to purge Blazing Saddles:
https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=2754999
“But don’t let anyone tell you we have a Cancel Culture.
https://babylonbee.com/news/frenzied-crowds-rush-stores-to-pick-up-copy-of-blazing-saddles-before-it-goes-down-memory-hole”
Heh. Count me as one of that crowd! I have a grandson I wanted to save this for – but I have also realized that there’s the possibility that the humor will be completely incomprehensible to him. After all, if you have to explain why something is funny, the humor pretty much evaporates!
However….I thought it was pretty darn funny and definitely worth saving!
How much of our culture will they have to eliminate in order to “save” our culture, I wonder?
The only active culture will be in the yogurt.