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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2012 14:37:24 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2012 14:53:18 GMT -5
Ah! Written by my splendid Facebook friend Stephenson Billings!!  Here is a link to lots more of his important investigative journalism - stephensonbillings.wordpress.com/ |
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Post by dickt on Sept 8, 2012 15:33:08 GMT -5
Don't stop there. What about The Odd Couple, Starsky and Hutch, Cagney and Lacey, and Batman? Not to mention every Western hero or cop who had a "sidekick"--clearly a coded term for a deviant relationship
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Post by Rob Hanesworth on Sept 8, 2012 15:48:24 GMT -5
I couldn't make it all the way through the article, but it seemed the author was arousing himself about midway.
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Post by Lonnie on Sept 8, 2012 16:14:42 GMT -5
Laurel and Hardy must have been positively FLAMING.
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Post by Russell Letson on Sept 8, 2012 16:45:02 GMT -5
And one shudders to think what the Marx brothers were really up to--in vaudeville there were five of them!
On a less serious note, he certainly nails the family-values angle of Gunsmoke--the marshal's relationship with Miss Kitty is probably monogamous, at least on his side. (Though one does wonder about Chester.)
And he's certainly on the money in identifying the "different tact" of Gilligan's Island--the producers were very tactful in dealing with what must have been the seething cauldron of sexual frustration on the island. And the Skipper's role as paterfamilias in the tradition of Bill Bendix's Chester A. Riley shows a deep knowledge of television history (to say nothing of Anglophone theatre). Inspired.
One does wonder about the "hello, Sailor!" passages, though, especially coming from a "Motivational Children's Party Entertainer."
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2012 16:51:42 GMT -5
I have corresponded with Stephenson at some length over the years. His knowledge of antique soda bottle collecting is most impressive.
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Post by Russell Letson on Sept 8, 2012 16:52:51 GMT -5
I'm not sure what to do with satire that is indistinguishable from actual crazy.
But then, I never knew what to do with Andy Kaufman, either. Certainly nothing that might include being in the same room with him.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2012 16:56:32 GMT -5
Stephenson has been thinking the same for some time Russell. Looking for some new directions.
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Post by Russell Letson on Sept 8, 2012 17:14:41 GMT -5
I think the Internet is trying to write poetry. When I went to clean out my account's spam filter, I found this embedded in the 80 message headers. I had to omit some of the obvious errors, but I believe this is probably publishable, at least in an on-line poetry magazine:
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Post by Ann T on Sept 8, 2012 17:20:44 GMT -5
I couldn't make it all the way through the article, but it seemed the author was arousing himself about midway. +1 This article had a very strong whiff of homoerotic fantasizing. Sorry, I never saw all this subtext. I just thought it was a funny silly show. This article kinds of ruins it.  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2012 17:33:42 GMT -5
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Post by Chesapeake on Sept 8, 2012 18:12:17 GMT -5
I always thought Mary Ann was a little butchy.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2012 18:19:26 GMT -5
Yep.
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Post by Russell Letson on Sept 8, 2012 19:57:07 GMT -5
Then there's Zelda Gilroy. . . .
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Post by omaha on Sept 8, 2012 20:37:05 GMT -5
I couldn't make it all the way through the article, but it seemed the author was arousing himself about midway. The picture of Ginger and Mary Ann did it for me. |
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Post by Village Idiot on Sept 8, 2012 21:25:36 GMT -5
I couldn't make it all the way through the article, but it seemed the author was arousing himself about midway. HA! |
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Post by Village Idiot on Sept 8, 2012 21:34:11 GMT -5
Don't stop there. What about The Odd Couple, Starsky and Hutch, Cagney and Lacey, and Batman? Not to mention every Western hero or cop who had a "sidekick"--clearly a coded term for a deviant relationship You forgot Bert and Ernie. |
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Post by mnhermit on Sept 9, 2012 8:59:41 GMT -5
I sure hope he's not serious.
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Post by patrick on Sept 9, 2012 9:22:01 GMT -5
By any chance, has this guy ever seen any of the original Wonder Woman comic books? The ones where WW usually ends up getting tied up and spanked by another female?
And he's wondering about Gilligan's Island?
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