Seems to me that Der Minimeister Dave would be having the same back-and-forth phone conversation all by HIMSELF just as easily as he would if there was a terrified Yes-man SeaOrger on the other end of the line…
Soon everyone will blow and Lil Davey WILL be talking to himself in a big empty building…or be moved to a nice quiet padded cell where he can ramble all he wants behind a locked cell door….
Hi Leslie Bates, Yes please, those Messenger cigladies and gentlemen were handsome & pretty way back when.We were so exhausted and covered in whatever we were scrubbing @ Asho SO ,that when members of The Messinger Corps came to visit Asho for a few days,honestly I thought they had all stepped right out of Ron’s sf fantasies!I do enjoy your posts.Always,Ann B.
Hi Peter, I adored your ladder hanging cat the minute I saw him.Our 17 yr old inside Siamese Jade,demands ice-water,white meat chicken,gets up on the bathroom sinks and drinks out of the cups if the water is cold,plus talks and sings in all the cat languages and keeps my feet warm at night! I am now so glad there were no cats or dogs at Asho anyway because the time that could have been spent with them would have been so fleeting.I love cats and dogs,just no monkeys flying or otherwise.xo Ann B.
Ann B. What a lovely story about your Siamese cat. 🙂 I love cats and dogs too, and just like you – no monkeys! lol. :-p Our two cats are smart, the calico jumps up on the clothes dryer and knows how to push the button to start it, so she can lie on top and feel the warmth. We have to make sure not to leave any clothes in the machine or they will be overdryed. We are always coming home and saying Is that the clothes dryer going? lol. Smart cat. She can open doors by jumping on something and turning the doorknob. Final thought: as much as I like dogs, I would be annoyed if I had to salute David Miscavige’s little dogs who he dressed in uniforms, lol. I read about that in Amy Scobee’s book. – T.J. (what the heck, I’ll sign my post anyway. I post at a wiki site that has a different format and they always have to remind me to sign my posts, so I might as well keep in the habit. glad you do it too so I don’t feel alone.)
Hi T.J., I really did not know that dm dressed his dogs in uniform and made one salute them! Although I wish the doggies could tell us their honest viewpoints concerning the big being who owns them! Your cats sound so purrfect and I must say adore and I do understand cats and have since my first at age one.
On the bottom of one of Mary Sue’s notes to me Ron had written that she was feeding turkey to her two little doggies under the table.It was Thanksgiving on The Apollo.I do not know if her doggies had outfits, but I do know she dearly loved them.Oh good I am happy you and I can be what is it?Ocd about signing our posts.You are so far ahead of my as to the wiki site too.I have enough trouble with Siri as it is.Laughter,xo always,Ann.
Someone better tell the members who donate big money to the I.A.S. to “help” people, that their donations are really going towards buying private investigators at $10,000 per week to follow former members, including David Miscavige’s father. That their charitable donations pay for high-priced lawyers to appear as publicity people on TV shows (what does Yingling charge per hour?) That for every $1 spent on a bottle of water for a disaster victim, another $100,000 is going towards private eyes, lawyers, expensive food clothing and transportation for the self-professed “leader” of Scientology… who by the way hasn’t actually done any Scientology for dozens of years…. is he even an O.T. of any level? People, wake up. Stop giving money to the I.A.S. because you are funding criminal activities.
Monique Yingling – attorney for the Cult of Scientology – had eyes that were “rock slamming” during the ABC 20/20 interview. Dingaling Yingling. Her evil purpose was showing.
Speaking of doggies, “Yingling” sounds like something you’d name one of those cute little dogs that Beverly Hills ladies carry in a little doggie purse. “Come to mama, Yingling. You are such a pretty giiiiiiirl. OUCH! Now don’t bite, little missy. That’s not nice for a cute doggie named Yingling.”
Ick ick ick! We live in the woods, in the middle of a large wooded parcel with plenty of wildlife. There are many good reasons why my husband and I call the small dogs who live nearby and are LEFT OUTSIDE AT NIGHT “bait dogs” – most of those reasons are coyotes, one’s a cougar, and another is a bear. Like most people with field retrievers that I know, I wouldn’t consider a purse dog. My cats, one of whom is a terrific mouser, would probably stalk it. Dany (the mouser) might even do worse. I’d worry. Although she honestly does have ample opportunity to hunt mice downstairs; I think they’re living in the insulation again, which means it’s time to replace it again. “Yingling” sounds like the bells on their collars if you ask me.
The line “When I want to know what you think, I’ll tell you what you think!” is an absolute classic. Thanks, RB, Did you know the assho– oops, I mean man, or are you channeling him?
RB, that wuz great!! ‘Cept I think you need to put a lot more swearing in there. Some haphazard spit flying out of his mouth from all the force of the yelling….. 😉
Also the Workers Paradise plaque, the dollar sign double triangle, and Scn cross upside down as a play on the RC upside down cross being the symbol for the martyrdom of the St. Peter, considered the first pope.
I agree! This was perfect. Love the little Yingling poem as well – all the other little things – the cross the Scientology money symbol, the way david miscavige looks with his stupid way of talking and swearing and giving orders – and then, of course, his pity play – so funny.
Lou and Erin love it when you talk dirty. Blingling is a bit too high rent for you. Without you, Tom will do fine on his own. Besides, Ron Sr gives better advice.
On the 20/20 interview, Ying-a-ling was so obviously (criminally) evasive. Every time she said ‘Not that I’m aware of’ you know it’s because she operates on a ‘no questions asked’ basis. A total sell-sword.
RB you’re the best. You have shown your OT powers by reading my mind this week. This is exactly the strip I was longing for, DM trying to get Tom on phone. Too friggin funny!
Does everyone realize that North Korea refers to it’s nation as a Workers Paradise? And it’s generally used by communist countries? So…Scientology is now officially Communist. It make sense has they already have a dictator….
RB you usually pull at my heartstrings along with the laugh but this was seriously funny! Nailed it right down to the puppets eye lashes! Off to change my depends.
As always RB, right on point. Over at The Bunker Still_On_Your_Side posted a brilliant summation of the CoS response to Ruthless:
“So, David Miscavige, a man who bullies people into saluting his dogs, beats up his underlings, exiles his wife into oblivion, loses millions of dollars of church money in unauthorized high risk investments, and a man who takes great delight in destroying individuals and families, is playing the victim card?”
In honor of Monique Yingling I made a song. Worker’s Paradise.
My apologies for being late with this: In response to Monique Yingling (attorney for the Scientology cult) calling the conditions Sea Org workers have to face “A worker’s paradise” on ABC ‘s news program 20/20 as a callback to a smear story the cult propaganda magazine Freedom ran on Marty Rathbun – ( to the tune of Coolio’s Gangsta’s Paradise)
We been living all our lives in a worker’s paradise.
We eat beans and rice, living in a worker’s paradise
We get over boarded once or twice living in a worker’s paradise
We work day and night living in a worker’s paradise
We get brainwashed once or twice living in a worker’s paradise
We get ecclesiastical beatings that are oh so nice, living in a worker’s paradise
We get called lesbo and homo once or twice living in a worker’s paradise
We do the running program day and night living in a worker’s paradise
We have women and young girls get forced abortions more than once or twice living in a worker’s paradise
Our children get locked in a chain locker once or twice living in a worker’s paradise
We get the truth rundown once or twice living in a worker’s paradise
We disconnect from our families more than once or twice living in a worker’s paradise
We play musical chairs and fight for our lives living in a worker’s paradise
We try to escape once or twice living in a worker’s paradise
We get the Lisa McPherson special once or twice living in a worker’s paradise
We have our passports taken on the Freewinds once or twice living in a worker’s paradise
We get ordered to divorce our spouses once or twice living in a worker’s paradise
We bury our children without answers more than once or twice living within a worker’s paradise
We sign away all our human rights living in a worker’s paradise
We get conned once or twice living in a worker’s paradise
We get fair gamed once or twice living in a worker’s paradise
We slave our lives away so Hubbard and Miscavige can smash their names into history and live our lives in a mystery living in a worker’s paradise
We know death would be nice after living most our lives, in a worker’s paradise
Wellllll…the grass is cut very nicely, and there are lots of flower beds and pretty buildings to look at. And photos of very pretty interiors….Oh yeah….they are all built, renovated, cleaned and kept up by the dollar-a-day slave labor in 110 degree weather in the Worker’s Paradise….it’s truly a fantastic place!
“The captured Americans were sucked down the rabbit hole of this dystopian Wonderland. Few got out alive. The great majority ended up in labor-camp prisons seemingly run by, not for, the criminally insane. Eventually they landed in the notorious Gulag where they were beaten, tortured, worked and starved to death, when not killed outright.”
RB has perfectly captured the moment when the lines of delusion and insanity meet and tangent the circle of megalomania. Why do people hate him so much? It’s because he reminds us of high school geometry, and we all hafed high school geometry (Confession : I was once a high school geometry teacher. It messed up my mind so much, I ended up joining the Army).
If Euclid had known that 2400 years in the future, I would be making comparisons between his beloved geometry and COB, he’d have drunk hemlock.
Just another day in ‘Workers Paradise’! Another great display of the life and times of our favorite psychopath.
You have to know that when the no.2 and no. 3 biggest beings on the planet get together that relations are strained a bit!
Yo Dave,
What do you suspect Tom is really thinking right about right now? Do you need to tell him to be sure and stay away from the internet?
The biggest problem you two face is where to put your deck chairs on the Titanic so as to get the best view of the flailing masses in the water. Well let me tell you good buddy, the best view is from over here on the beach with the bitter defrocked apostates!
And don’t expect the guy on the surfboard to paddle out to help……. he’s pissed!
“I’m starting to think she’s actually bad for our image”. No, that would be you, wee Davey, that would be you.
A friend and I were talking about how toxic it would be to be an attorney for scientology right now. Once that gig is over, you are positively radioactive. It would be in any scientology attorneys’ best interests to be researching the offshore banks where David Miscavige hides his loot and put some of theirs there too. This gig is drying up fast.
Having left the Ideal Building, RB no doubt has regained his native Ohh Tea abilities and just drops in for a remote viewing session with dear leader before penning his weekly status report!
This is why I think Jason Beghe said David Miscavige was like an Octopus so having 8 arms instead of tentacles to would help to get all projects completed. 🙂
Except that Cagney and Robinson and Raft would have been ashamed to have played someone as low-rent and profane as COB.
Also, who’d be the Cruise in that scenario? It’d probably be Ramon Novarro: once the biggest star in Hollywood, still getting lots of roles despite his star dimming, and in the closet.
@Espi, you are right! My husband used to watch Deadwood. I never could because I couldn’t get past the swearing. I am NOT a prude by any stretch of the imagination, however gratuitous profanity is gratuitous profanity. I was raised to believe that people who swore had smaller vocabularies – maybe true maybe not, but someone who uses profanity on a regular basis rubs me wrong.
Just another reason to not like David Miscavige. Interesting, his father has not said anything profane on any interview I’ve seen.
Here’s a little something about Deadwood: they strived for authenticity except in one regard: the profanity. What people in the 1870s considered profane language would be either incredibly mild and undercut the characterizations, or be totally incomprehensible to a modern audience. At least DM strives for the incomprehensible part of that.
Profanity has its uses. After all, if the words exist, they mean something and have a use. Occasionally. The over-use of profanity speaks of the user’s character and (lack of) intellect. Take the F-word: Used occasionally it has power. Used frequently, it loses its power, and must be repeated again and again. The Demented Midget is a mental midget too. And it would appear that DM did not learn the profanity from his father.
RB really shows the chatterbox effect of being the only one who knows anything. What a sordid mess His Emptyness is. Clever? Yes. Intelligent? NO! Vicious? Yes. Giving a damn about any other living being? Absolutely not!
He was the funniest cat I can ever recall being owned by, Victoria. That was the way he would look at us from the top of a ladder, just hanging off. We adored him.
Has RB ever said anything about the mask under DM’s desk?
Hey RB, we who are about to die—laughing—salute you!
Seems to me that Der Minimeister Dave would be having the same back-and-forth phone conversation all by HIMSELF just as easily as he would if there was a terrified Yes-man SeaOrger on the other end of the line…
Soon everyone will blow and Lil Davey WILL be talking to himself in a big empty building…or be moved to a nice quiet padded cell where he can ramble all he wants behind a locked cell door….
This is Good RB.
Lots of Media exposure about David Miscavige now
and Ron Miscavige on T.V.
Yingling on a String is priceless
Keep up the good work.
How about another Birthday Party for TOM on
the Fleecewinds ( lots of girls in hottie outfits)
Or perhaps a retro episode of RB with LRH on the Apollo with some Messengers?
Hi Leslie Bates, Yes please, those Messenger cigladies and gentlemen were handsome & pretty way back when.We were so exhausted and covered in whatever we were scrubbing @ Asho SO ,that when members of The Messinger Corps came to visit Asho for a few days,honestly I thought they had all stepped right out of Ron’s sf fantasies!I do enjoy your posts.Always,Ann B.
Hi Peter, I adored your ladder hanging cat the minute I saw him.Our 17 yr old inside Siamese Jade,demands ice-water,white meat chicken,gets up on the bathroom sinks and drinks out of the cups if the water is cold,plus talks and sings in all the cat languages and keeps my feet warm at night! I am now so glad there were no cats or dogs at Asho anyway because the time that could have been spent with them would have been so fleeting.I love cats and dogs,just no monkeys flying or otherwise.xo Ann B.
Ann B. What a lovely story about your Siamese cat. 🙂 I love cats and dogs too, and just like you – no monkeys! lol. :-p Our two cats are smart, the calico jumps up on the clothes dryer and knows how to push the button to start it, so she can lie on top and feel the warmth. We have to make sure not to leave any clothes in the machine or they will be overdryed. We are always coming home and saying Is that the clothes dryer going? lol. Smart cat. She can open doors by jumping on something and turning the doorknob. Final thought: as much as I like dogs, I would be annoyed if I had to salute David Miscavige’s little dogs who he dressed in uniforms, lol. I read about that in Amy Scobee’s book. – T.J. (what the heck, I’ll sign my post anyway. I post at a wiki site that has a different format and they always have to remind me to sign my posts, so I might as well keep in the habit. glad you do it too so I don’t feel alone.)
Hi T.J., I really did not know that dm dressed his dogs in uniform and made one salute them! Although I wish the doggies could tell us their honest viewpoints concerning the big being who owns them! Your cats sound so purrfect and I must say adore and I do understand cats and have since my first at age one.
On the bottom of one of Mary Sue’s notes to me Ron had written that she was feeding turkey to her two little doggies under the table.It was Thanksgiving on The Apollo.I do not know if her doggies had outfits, but I do know she dearly loved them.Oh good I am happy you and I can be what is it?Ocd about signing our posts.You are so far ahead of my as to the wiki site too.I have enough trouble with Siri as it is.Laughter,xo always,Ann.
Someone better tell the members who donate big money to the I.A.S. to “help” people, that their donations are really going towards buying private investigators at $10,000 per week to follow former members, including David Miscavige’s father. That their charitable donations pay for high-priced lawyers to appear as publicity people on TV shows (what does Yingling charge per hour?) That for every $1 spent on a bottle of water for a disaster victim, another $100,000 is going towards private eyes, lawyers, expensive food clothing and transportation for the self-professed “leader” of Scientology… who by the way hasn’t actually done any Scientology for dozens of years…. is he even an O.T. of any level? People, wake up. Stop giving money to the I.A.S. because you are funding criminal activities.
Monique Yingling – attorney for the Cult of Scientology – had eyes that were “rock slamming” during the ABC 20/20 interview. Dingaling Yingling. Her evil purpose was showing.
Speaking of doggies, “Yingling” sounds like something you’d name one of those cute little dogs that Beverly Hills ladies carry in a little doggie purse. “Come to mama, Yingling. You are such a pretty giiiiiiirl. OUCH! Now don’t bite, little missy. That’s not nice for a cute doggie named Yingling.”
Ick ick ick! We live in the woods, in the middle of a large wooded parcel with plenty of wildlife. There are many good reasons why my husband and I call the small dogs who live nearby and are LEFT OUTSIDE AT NIGHT “bait dogs” – most of those reasons are coyotes, one’s a cougar, and another is a bear. Like most people with field retrievers that I know, I wouldn’t consider a purse dog. My cats, one of whom is a terrific mouser, would probably stalk it. Dany (the mouser) might even do worse. I’d worry. Although she honestly does have ample opportunity to hunt mice downstairs; I think they’re living in the insulation again, which means it’s time to replace it again. “Yingling” sounds like the bells on their collars if you ask me.
Hey Rock and Roll Mike keep up the good work. Wish you the best,
The line “When I want to know what you think, I’ll tell you what you think!” is an absolute classic. Thanks, RB, Did you know the assho– oops, I mean man, or are you channeling him?
RB, that wuz great!! ‘Cept I think you need to put a lot more swearing in there. Some haphazard spit flying out of his mouth from all the force of the yelling….. 😉
This. Is. Perfect! “Yingaling On A String”, and that face, with that nose…RB, I’m dying here…
Also the Workers Paradise plaque, the dollar sign double triangle, and Scn cross upside down as a play on the RC upside down cross being the symbol for the martyrdom of the St. Peter, considered the first pope.
Priceless, RB. You’ve outdone yourself yet again.
I agree! This was perfect. Love the little Yingling poem as well – all the other little things – the cross the Scientology money symbol, the way david miscavige looks with his stupid way of talking and swearing and giving orders – and then, of course, his pity play – so funny.
Put in a quarter and watch her squirm…….I mean dance.
Hey Aquamarine!! How you be??
I know, right! I was laughing from the first frame! I feel a song coming on…
“Yingling. Yingling. Yingling on a striiiing.
You don’t know, can’t tell
What the hell he means…
He rants, he raves – nothing you can doooo
You say, his words
But you think he’s nuts, tooooooo.”
LOL!
Dave,
Lou and Erin love it when you talk dirty. Blingling is a bit too high rent for you. Without you, Tom will do fine on his own. Besides, Ron Sr gives better advice.
On the 20/20 interview, Ying-a-ling was so obviously (criminally) evasive. Every time she said ‘Not that I’m aware of’ you know it’s because she operates on a ‘no questions asked’ basis. A total sell-sword.
“Ying-a-ling”! Bwahahaha
Yup. Rhymes with…
RB you’re the best. You have shown your OT powers by reading my mind this week. This is exactly the strip I was longing for, DM trying to get Tom on phone. Too friggin funny!
Does everyone realize that North Korea refers to it’s nation as a Workers Paradise? And it’s generally used by communist countries? So…Scientology is now officially Communist. It make sense has they already have a dictator….
Now all that is left is for the Orgs to reform themselves into councils, or soviets, then the Revolution can begin!
Let’s break out the vodka!
DAH!
RB you usually pull at my heartstrings along with the laugh but this was seriously funny! Nailed it right down to the puppets eye lashes! Off to change my depends.
As always RB, right on point. Over at The Bunker Still_On_Your_Side posted a brilliant summation of the CoS response to Ruthless:
“So, David Miscavige, a man who bullies people into saluting his dogs, beats up his underlings, exiles his wife into oblivion, loses millions of dollars of church money in unauthorized high risk investments, and a man who takes great delight in destroying individuals and families, is playing the victim card?”
Like I said, brilliant.
Hey Scott.
Fill in the blanks on the “loses millions of dollars of church money in unauthorized high risk investments,” part. Got links?
That is one thing I hadn’t heard yet…except for when David Miscavige and Pat Broeker would go and blow thousands in Vegas. 🙂
In honor of Monique Yingling I made a song. Worker’s Paradise.
My apologies for being late with this: In response to Monique Yingling (attorney for the Scientology cult) calling the conditions Sea Org workers have to face “A worker’s paradise” on ABC ‘s news program 20/20 as a callback to a smear story the cult propaganda magazine Freedom ran on Marty Rathbun – ( to the tune of Coolio’s Gangsta’s Paradise)
We been living all our lives in a worker’s paradise.
We eat beans and rice, living in a worker’s paradise
We get over boarded once or twice living in a worker’s paradise
We work day and night living in a worker’s paradise
We get brainwashed once or twice living in a worker’s paradise
We get ecclesiastical beatings that are oh so nice, living in a worker’s paradise
We get called lesbo and homo once or twice living in a worker’s paradise
We do the running program day and night living in a worker’s paradise
We have women and young girls get forced abortions more than once or twice living in a worker’s paradise
Our children get locked in a chain locker once or twice living in a worker’s paradise
We get the truth rundown once or twice living in a worker’s paradise
We disconnect from our families more than once or twice living in a worker’s paradise
We play musical chairs and fight for our lives living in a worker’s paradise
We try to escape once or twice living in a worker’s paradise
We get the Lisa McPherson special once or twice living in a worker’s paradise
We have our passports taken on the Freewinds once or twice living in a worker’s paradise
We get ordered to divorce our spouses once or twice living in a worker’s paradise
We bury our children without answers more than once or twice living within a worker’s paradise
We sign away all our human rights living in a worker’s paradise
We get conned once or twice living in a worker’s paradise
We get fair gamed once or twice living in a worker’s paradise
We slave our lives away so Hubbard and Miscavige can smash their names into history and live our lives in a mystery living in a worker’s paradise
We know death would be nice after living most our lives, in a worker’s paradise
From http://mbnest.blogspot.com/2016_05_01_archive.html
But….but….it’s still a paradise, right? Right? RIGHT???
Wellllll…the grass is cut very nicely, and there are lots of flower beds and pretty buildings to look at. And photos of very pretty interiors….Oh yeah….they are all built, renovated, cleaned and kept up by the dollar-a-day slave labor in 110 degree weather in the Worker’s Paradise….it’s truly a fantastic place!
“…where life is beautiful all the time…”
You gotta watch. Eerily familiar. 😀
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0rgeQ0QD-o
It is OSD, it is, just as Stalin’s labor camps were a “worker’s paradise”:
http://www.post-gazette.com/ae/book-reviews/2008/08/03/The-Forsaken-An-American-Tragedy-in-Stalin-s-Russia-by-Roger-K-Miller/stories/200808030207
“The captured Americans were sucked down the rabbit hole of this dystopian Wonderland. Few got out alive. The great majority ended up in labor-camp prisons seemingly run by, not for, the criminally insane. Eventually they landed in the notorious Gulag where they were beaten, tortured, worked and starved to death, when not killed outright.”
RB has perfectly captured the moment when the lines of delusion and insanity meet and tangent the circle of megalomania. Why do people hate him so much? It’s because he reminds us of high school geometry, and we all hafed high school geometry (Confession : I was once a high school geometry teacher. It messed up my mind so much, I ended up joining the Army).
If Euclid had known that 2400 years in the future, I would be making comparisons between his beloved geometry and COB, he’d have drunk hemlock.
Espi, I *loved* high school geometry. Took to it like the proverbial duck. Now ALGEBRA……. grrrrrrr!!!
Just another day in ‘Workers Paradise’! Another great display of the life and times of our favorite psychopath.
You have to know that when the no.2 and no. 3 biggest beings on the planet get together that relations are strained a bit!
Yo Dave,
What do you suspect Tom is really thinking right about right now? Do you need to tell him to be sure and stay away from the internet?
The biggest problem you two face is where to put your deck chairs on the Titanic so as to get the best view of the flailing masses in the water. Well let me tell you good buddy, the best view is from over here on the beach with the bitter defrocked apostates!
And don’t expect the guy on the surfboard to paddle out to help……. he’s pissed!
Damn right I’m pissed!
We traded in our frocks for swimsuits. We’re pissing so much, nothing else is practical
LOL 🙂 Priceless.
“I’m starting to think she’s actually bad for our image”. No, that would be you, wee Davey, that would be you.
A friend and I were talking about how toxic it would be to be an attorney for scientology right now. Once that gig is over, you are positively radioactive. It would be in any scientology attorneys’ best interests to be researching the offshore banks where David Miscavige hides his loot and put some of theirs there too. This gig is drying up fast.
Ying-a-ling on a string! Awesome!
You can play with it all day long and never get bored…
yea. Almost looks like she is holding the foot-bullet gun too,
I STILL think that RB has His office bugged…
Having left the Ideal Building, RB no doubt has regained his native Ohh Tea abilities and just drops in for a remote viewing session with dear leader before penning his weekly status report!
Welcome Newcomer. Glad to see Newbies. Were you in Scientology ?
We should all pity COB. Indeed he has to do everything himself. Poor Davey. 😛
This is why I think Jason Beghe said David Miscavige was like an Octopus so having 8 arms instead of tentacles to would help to get all projects completed. 🙂
He never completes anything, Lawrence. Remember your lessons about SPs now. lol
Workers paradise sign is a wonderful touch.
Very good RB! You nailed him once again!
Yingling on a string.That is seriously funny.
We’re missing two strings.
The ones that need to operate the flickering, blinking eyelids. And a rapid motion machine to assist in that.
Miscavige sounds like a character in one of those gangster movies of the 30’s and 40’s.
Awe yes the “pity play.”
Except that Cagney and Robinson and Raft would have been ashamed to have played someone as low-rent and profane as COB.
Also, who’d be the Cruise in that scenario? It’d probably be Ramon Novarro: once the biggest star in Hollywood, still getting lots of roles despite his star dimming, and in the closet.
@Espi, you are right! My husband used to watch Deadwood. I never could because I couldn’t get past the swearing. I am NOT a prude by any stretch of the imagination, however gratuitous profanity is gratuitous profanity. I was raised to believe that people who swore had smaller vocabularies – maybe true maybe not, but someone who uses profanity on a regular basis rubs me wrong.
Just another reason to not like David Miscavige. Interesting, his father has not said anything profane on any interview I’ve seen.
Here’s a little something about Deadwood: they strived for authenticity except in one regard: the profanity. What people in the 1870s considered profane language would be either incredibly mild and undercut the characterizations, or be totally incomprehensible to a modern audience. At least DM strives for the incomprehensible part of that.
Profanity has its uses. After all, if the words exist, they mean something and have a use. Occasionally. The over-use of profanity speaks of the user’s character and (lack of) intellect. Take the F-word: Used occasionally it has power. Used frequently, it loses its power, and must be repeated again and again. The Demented Midget is a mental midget too. And it would appear that DM did not learn the profanity from his father.
Thumbs up, Espi.
RB really shows the chatterbox effect of being the only one who knows anything. What a sordid mess His Emptyness is. Clever? Yes. Intelligent? NO! Vicious? Yes. Giving a damn about any other living being? Absolutely not!
I think my big win for this day was finally realizing that your avatar is an upside down cat, and not a cow nose.
LOL! I know, silly;)
Dang, not silly at all. *Cough* Just realized it’s not a cow’s nose as well. But only because you pointed it out.
/Stands in corner wearing a dunce cap
I’m going to need that cap when you get done with it.
I was in the cow nose camp too, but I’ve spent so long dealing with animals that become food that it was natural for me.
The real dunce cap is the Sea Ogre uniform cap. Mooo!
He was the funniest cat I can ever recall being owned by, Victoria. That was the way he would look at us from the top of a ladder, just hanging off. We adored him.
I got cat radar, like Ms. Ann Watson. I saw the cat from the beginning, but I’ll be darned if I can see the cow nose. lol! Even squinting. 😀