Been away for 2+ years. What's the latest with our good old friend Nancy?

Well, she continues to post on Zetatalk and re-post much of it on GLP. Planet X is still just to the right of the sun, the Earth is still stopped in its orbit and wobbling, the sun and moon are still in the wrong places and the Navy is still covering it up.

Oh, and the North American continent is going to be ripped in two along the St. Lawrence Seaway,

In other news, Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.

It just gets more and more pathetic. Even at GLP it doesn't seem like anyone actually believes her claims anymore. Instead she gets a sort of woo-woo solidarity/sympathy vote on account of her being so sorely beset by those awful debunkers.

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Please enjoy your trip through this door.

Thanks. Now I have Garrett Morris yelling in my head. The original voices are feeling put out.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

You might want to explain the joke for those who didn't watch SNL in the 1970s (I was a kid at the time, and watched occasionally, but I don't remember that particular gag--Google is a wonderful thing ).

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--Doug

"When your statics problem becomes a dynamics problem, you're in trouble." --me

Moor's Law: "As you go from freshman engineering to Ph.D., the amount of work required per credit hour doubles approximately every 18 months." --me, inspired by Prof. Scott Moor

On Weekend Update in The Old Days (tm), they would occasionally have "News for the Hard of Hearing." You'd get Chevy Chase reading the news and Garrett Morris repeating it, but shouting. Hence--

"Our top story for tonight . . . ."

"OUR TOP STORY FOR TONIGHT . . . ."

"Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead."

"GENERALISSIMO FRANCISCO FRANCO IS STILL DEAD!"

Only he pronounced it "day-id," presumably enunciating or something.

Now, note that I didn't watch SNL in the 70s, either--or until the 90s, actually, given that I was born in '76. But I saw this bit a lot when Comedy Central went through a brief stint of playing really old SNL. Also it's on their record.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

I remember that well. Before he died, you kept hearing these real news reports where they were taking more and more drastic measures to keep the poor guy alive. He hung on quite awhile, but it was a foregone conclusion where this was heading. The repeated "Franco is still in a coma, etc." stories were pointless.

I probably wouldn't remember any of that except for the SNL skits. They finally gave up on that bit . . . but (and this is a pretty vague memory, so there may be errors in detail) they had one last fling with it. There was the anniversary of Houdini's death, and the SNL people were supposedly at Houdini's grave. They mentioned that Houdini said he would come back if it was possible. They exclaim as they see a figure coming out of the darkness. Was it Houdini? NO! It was Generalalissimo Francisco Franco!

Well, it was pretty funny then, especially since they had given the joke a long rest so it was unexpected.

In some ways, the early SNL was sort of the American answer to Monty Python. Different humor styles and all that, but it has a similar experimental/memorable/fun/cult feel to it.

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Disclaimer: Avatar is not an official NASA image and does not imply any specific interplanetary or interstellar capability.

The Leif Ericson Cruiser

Heh, The controversy that to this day more 30 years after Franco died still exists in Spain about him might have something to do with the continous news bulletins that inspired the skit

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Sic Transit Gloria Mundi

I owe much of my sense of humor to Monty Python guys and early SNL. Which would explain why my wife just doesn't understand me........

tbm

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Paddle faster!! I hear banjo music!!

Not even when you sing, "Here I come to save the day!"?

Well, actually not you singing, but the phonograph instead. It's all in the gestures, right, Andy?

Yep, I saw the first show live.

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