Yeah, “Spur Of The Moment” is a classic, and a fun time capsule. It would be interesting to remake it today and see what viewers say.

Pre 1960: Anne should listen to her father and marry Robert!

After 1960: Anne should listen to her heart and marry David!

Now: Anne should go to business school so she can learn to manage the estate herself and forget about marrying either one of them.

#141 “Spur of the Moment” was also good and also the product of a different time if you watch it all the way through.

So many good episodes to choose from, which I guess is why the show is considered to be one of the all-time greats.

bif, bop, BAM, splat

“In France, every Frenchman knows his language from A to Zed — the French don’t care what you do, actually, so long as you pronounce it properly.” — Henry Higgins

I’ve got a decent vocabulary and a decent grasp of grammar, but there are all these brief expressions with short words which baffle me.

Chat tells me: Of course you are confused. French schoolchildren are confused. They spend many hours in school rehearsing dictées (dictations) to get all those little distinctions straight.

The French actually have nationally televised contests on this stuff.

Good, I guess. I thought it was me.

“If you want a state, kill some Jews. That’s the sick message Sir Keir Starmer has just broadcast to the world.”

https://evebarlow.substack.com/p/the-year-that-was-5785

Before we get to the year we are closing out, I have to report the latest just in. Jimmy Kimmel is returning to the air! To his own show! ABC have reversed their decision. Wow would you look at that? Commiserations to everyone who got excited that they were victims of their own fantasy Third Reich. Afraid not. You’ll have to resurrect Mussolini and vote him in for that. Never before now have I seen so much confirmation bias from never-Trumper media guzzlers desperate to prove that it’s happening – and by it, they mean the Holocaust, and they’re not talking about the 48 hostages remaining in Gaza. Oy.

I realized why Kimmel is the hero now. All the opposition have is the same old jokes about Trump. They’ve done all they can to dehumanize him. It’s lost the election. It’s continuing to lose. It’s the only plan of attack. Bullying the President and then calling the President the bully. The jokes are tired. They’re not selling any more for the networks. Hollywood is losing its influence and its grip. Who is the narcissist so desperate to control the narrative here?

So let me just say this to our Jews in Hollywood. The managers. The publicists. The agents. The bookers. The comedians. The writers. Etc. Find your ruach. That’s your inner being. I bid you all a pensive Rosh Hashanah, and I would like to give you something to chew over as we venture towards Yom Kippur. How dare you finally choose to speak out about a late night show host being suspended, opining about free speech, after spending the last 700+ days remaining completely silent as your talent, your products and your projects have waltzed down red carpets, signed petitions, jeopardized press campaigns and co-opted their acceptance speeches to promote Jew hatred, Islamism and Jihad. You haven’t so much as worn a yellow pin for the hostages yourselves. You haven’t said a word about Hamas, or the hostages. You haven’t posted a thing about October 7.
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Anyway onto the real world.

While you’re all reeling about authoritarianism in America, I’d just like to update you that over in the UK and Australia and Canada (and now France, who are fashionably late), the leadership have recognized a state of Palestine, rewarding terrorism and Jihadists with sovereignty. Where, we don’t know. Because borders and people are undefined. That didn’t matter to these leaders who prize terrorism over common sense. It is so not serious, and a stain on the histories of these Western nations, reverse-winding them at speed to days of true colonialism. But worse. This time there is no personal gain and a guarantee of this returning with a blast upon their own shores pretty soon. Pay for slay is now state sanctioned by these former bastions of Western progress. In the 1940s, Great Britain defeated Nazism. In the 2020s, Great Britain surrendered to it.

Keir, Sir, do you know what we Jews did this year? We took out our enemies.
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This weekend in America, there was another shooting outside a country club, and the shooter screamed Free Palestine before he fired. This move to recognize a state of Palestine does not Free Palestine. No, they have not just somehow come up with the magic solution that neither Israelis nor American diplomats haven’t been able to achieve in 80 years. “Free Palestine” is not about Palestinians or civilians in Gaza. “Free Palestine” is a call to violence. That’s why the Palestinian leadership have never once accepted any offer of land by which to name a state. “Free Palestine” will never exist other than in the bullets and knives and bombs that carry its message. This move to recognize a state is but a self-congratulatory hallucination, paid for by Qatar.
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Let’s briefly turn our attention to the UN, aka Useless Nitwits. The UN Security Council has deliberately scheduled an important briefing regarding the war in Gaza for Tuesday, as in tomorrow, [9/23] as in the first day of Rosh Hashanah. The UN General Assembly will meet without Jews and Israelis. It’s like agreeing to a boxing match on the one day that the defending champion can’t show up, and going home with the medal. Could they be more pathetic?
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David Levy [Jewish agent recently fired by artist Dua Lipa], I am sorry this happened to you. I have made the mistake of assuming they wouldn’t do it to me but every single one of them did, even the ones I had a personal history with. And I am glad they did, because now I can stop explaining myself to them. I can stop defending myself to them as they force me to turn out my empty pockets. I can stop believing and deluding myself that they were really good deep down and would understand. I can stop wondering why they insisted so much that they love Jews! Instead I can stand tall, alone, a Jew who won’t compromise.

Except I’m not alone. I’m with all of you.

Shana Tova everyone. This has been a year. And what I’m taking with me into the next one is that roots run deep, and so does loyalty – to myself, to my people, and to the age-old truth. Here’s to rebuilding as Am Yisrael, one bold and honest step at a time.

I haven’t seen many of those. Only a few.

Art Bell used the effect of listening to radio at night to create brilliant theater. He was a true, broadcast genius!