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Home page for the classic radio comedy of Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding. You can buy a thumb drive with the complete Bob & Ray audio archive -- 90 hours, 1837 routines -- for a mere $349. Bob & Ray audio is also available for download at Amazon MP3. Bob & Ray are (is?) on Facebook, too. And here's a New York Times story about Bob Elliott, his son Chris ("Get a Life"), and Chris' daughter Abby, a featured player on SNL.
Some of these are pretty funny. Reid and Pelosi: "We crafted this Valentine's card behind closed doors." Obama: "I've saved or created millions of valentines." Algore: "I'll charter a flight to bring you this Valentine's card in person."
A new blog of funny political Photoshops from a conservative perspective. (Via The Other McCain.)
Language Log » Singular y'all: a "devious Yankee rumor"?
An exchange between Bob Wills and Tommy Duncan at the beginning of "Oozlin' Daddy Blues" is evidence in a discussion about the use of "y'all" to refer to a single person. (Via Ace of Spades HQ.)
YouTube - Kim Peek speaks at the Kircher Society Meeting Pt 1
A public appearance by the megasavant with the prodigious memory who inspired the film Rain Main.
news from me: Arnold Stang, R.I.P.
The voice of Top Cat and Herman the Mouse has fallen silent at age 91. Mark Evanier shares some memories, including Stang's response to the offer of a limo ride to a New York recording session: "No, I like to walk. You don't stay in touch with the city in the back of a limo."
Irony mark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The irony mark or irony point (؟) (French: point d'ironie; also called a snark or zing) is a proposed punctuation mark that was suggested to be used to indicate that a sentence should be understood at a second level (e.g. irony, sarcasm, etc.). It is illustrated by a small, elevated, backward-facing question mark. The irony mark has never been used widely. It appears occasionally in obscure artistic or literary publications.
"[In his book Plumons l'Oiseau (1966), Hervé Bazin] proposes several other innovative punctuation marks, such as the doubt point (
), certitude point (
), acclamation point (
), authority point (
), indignation point (
), and love point (
)."
A British documentary about the ways in which the making of the classic film was intertwined with the real-life underworld.
Basil's Blog: Andy Williams and the Health Care Bear
Basil has a classic TV take on a the singer's recent comments about President Obama. In this photo-cartoon, Cookie Bear's knocking on Andy's door with a new scam, and he's got Bob Hope to help.
