d.: Well, Cal.E is on the run from Tom and “The Tuxedo” again, so I would like to take the next few days to turn to more serious issues.
I put a direct quote from Mike Tyson on this blog a few days ago. I looked up the quote to make sure that I was quoting “Iron Mike” correctly. It WAS one of the more intelligent things the former heavyweight champion of the world ever said. Here are some things that have been quoted (incorrectly) that were NEVER said in a movie.
“Play it again, Sam.” This line was never uttered in the movie, “Casa Blanca." I have watched the movie three times. The actual line was “play it Sam.” Both of the main characters, Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart said it. If I remember correctly, it is the last line uttered in the movie, by Bogart as he looks into the camera and the camera fades.
“Luke, I am your father, Luke,” was never said, either. The correct line is “No, I am your father” during a sword fight between Luke and Darth Vader. (and, if you have ever watched the movies in chronological order, it’s kind of an anticlimactic line).
This reminds me of the old kids game “telephone,” when one person whispers something to the person beside him or her, and that person does the same to the person beside him or her, etc. until the saying gets to the last person. S/he is then asked to repeat the line. Something like ”Karen ate carrot cake” may end up being “Karen HATES carrot cake,” or much worse.
There is now may be a “conflict" between two countries on the other side of the world, over something that the Russian president claims to have never said. The United States is obligated to solve this conflict. Is this beginning to sound vaguely familiar to those of us “of a certain age?”
Well, come on all of you, big strong men,
Some of us have more “skin in the game” than others.
Uncle Sam needs your help again.
We have relatives; children, uncles, cousins, siblings, or maybe even spouses that may be sent to defend a country that is “David” to Russia’s “Goliath." The U.S. Armed Forces, I suppose, are the proverbial stone.
He's got himself in a terrible jam
Our armed forces are expected to police the world
Way down yonder in Vietnam
Even when we have no reason to be involved in a conflict
put down your books and pick up a gun,
Yes, there is a LOT of oil in that part of the world
We're gonna have a whole lotta fun.
But the U.S. has many capped oil wells within its borders
And it's one, two, three,
AND the president wants us all to switch to “cleaner fuel” (hehe, like Cal.E. would say) electricity {have you ever been to the main supplier of Southeast Texas’ electricity, Parish Plant, just outside of the Richmond city limits? Take a field trip if you live in or near Houston})
What are we fighting for?
What WOULD we be fighting for, if President Biden gets his wish?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,
Next stop is Vietnam;
And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why,
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.
In bold-faced print are the lyrics to the first two verses of “Country” Joe McDonald’s “Vietnam Song” that he sang at Woodstock in protest to the Vietnam “Conflict.”
Tomorrow and Saturday, I will print a couple of chapters in one of my books about the war that affected my generation most.
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