Okay, class, everybody turn your seats to face the screen; we’re going to watch movies today. (Seriously, was there anything better when you were a kid than to walk into class and discover it was movie day?)
From the Department of “They Don’t Make Them Like They Used To”:
This video from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety celebrates the progress made in automobile safety design over the last fifty years by staging a head-on collision between a 1959 Chevy Bel Air and a 2009 Chevy Malibu.
Our next video is a musical highlight from “The Lawrence Welk Show”, which my grandmother and I watched faithfully every Saturday night for many, many years. In this clip, the lovely Dale and Gail perform the druggie hit…ahem, modern spiritual “One Toke Over The Line”. Note how the lovely Myron Floren chokes on his own introduction. Also notice that Dale and Gail are not fooling anybody with that wholesome bullshit.
And finally….OMG KITTIEZ!!!!1!!ELEVEN!!
Please remember to take notes on all the things you see today. We will have a test on this material on Friday.
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Please, please, PUH-LEEZE stop talking about “What do we call the last decade?” Nobody could come up with an acceptable choice ten years ago, and nobody’s going to come up with one now. “Aughties” and “Naughties” are contrived and stupid, and so is the very idea that anything wraps up all nice and neatly into [...]
A trifecta! I want a Kitty!
Kittehs!1!!!!!!one!1!
Also, headless crash-test dummehs!!!11111!!!eleven!1!1
I watched Lawrence Welk with my grandfather, it was his favourite. We had TV dinner trays in the living room. It’s hard for me to fathom that a show like that was on in the not so distant past.