Bing Crosby @Bing_Crosby sings Leo Robin ; Ralph Rainger in 1937 film "Blue Hawaii" 🏝️thinking he's serenading his "Waikiki Wedding" co-star unaware that she's left her bungalow so he's actually serenading her comic sidekick Martha Raye 1/2https://t.co/5LcdNTX7Xbpic.twitter.com/SUZMM7eFYG
"The Judy Garland Show" included a wittily arranged and executed trio with three performers, each singing a separate medley of tunes, artfully interwoven and braided together @3:45:
A highly motivated youtuber by the moniker TheManThatGetsAway already reversed engineered the song titles for each singer's medley. The closed captioning keyboard exploded in places, so I transcribed the tidbits of lyrics from each song as bet as I could make out:
Ain't Misbehavin' (Judy) /
With lyrics by Andy Razaf and score by Thomas "Fats" Waller and Harry Brooks
"No one to talk with
All by myself
No one to walk with
But I'm happy on the shelf
Ain't misbehavin'
I'm savin' my love for you"
"The trees are the sappiest
The days are the nappiest
The dogs are the yappiest
The kids are the scrappiest
The jokes the snappiest
The folks the happiest
Way back home"
ABC ruined a perfectly fine homage to "A Charlie Brown Christmas" with this pagan drivel from the Obamas:
POTUS: Hi, everybody. We'll be brief, because we know that adults all sound like 'Wah-wah-wah-wah-wah' Especially here in Washington.
FLOTUS: Good grief!
POTUS: But, we want to wish a Happy 50th Anniversary to one of our country's most beloved traditions - 'A Charlie Brown Christmas'.
FLOTUS: For half a century, people of all ages have gathered around the TV to watch Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, and the rest of the gang teach us the true meaning of Christmas.
POTUS: They teach us that tiny trees just need a little love. And that on this holiday we celebrate peace on earth and goodwill toward all.
FLOTUS: Because as Linus knows, that's what Christmas is all about.
POTUS: So, Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown. Here's to 50 more years.
Good Grief! Obama thinks Christmas is about loving tiny trees | Fox News | https://t.co/HUtW4tHGd1 OBAMA IS "NOT WHO WE ARE!"
Neither POTUS nor FLOTUS mentions that Christmas is a celebration of Jesus' birthday, not some druid celebration over little trees.
Snoopy creator, Charles Schultz, points out how important it was to him to include the Biblical reason for Christmas in his special
POTUS and FLOTUS evoking Linus, who quotes the Bible: Luke2: 8 during the special, just seems to add insult to injury:
And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field , keeping watch over their flock by night. 9 And, lo , the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid . 10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold , I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. 11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. 12 And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes , lying in a manger. 13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying , 14 Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
This saccharine pablum translation of Luke 2:14 "peace on earth, good will toward men" has been incorporated into Longfellow lyrics of "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day":
However, as persnickety people have noticed, Luke 2:14 is a faulty English translation from the Latin, from woodyoubelieveit Tuesday, November 17, 2015 post "PEACE ON EARTH TOWARD MEN OF GOOD WILL"
My cousin, Julie Greenman has been studying Latin. She made the comment, In the KJV of the Bible it says, "Glory the God in the highest, and peace on earth, goodwill toward men". However, the literal translation should be, "Glory to God in the highest, and peace on earth toward men of goodwill.
No, God is NOT like a doting, half-senile grandpa, who is sitting there on the porch smiling at everyone who passes by, including the neighborhood thugs who have been harassing the little kiddos. Those who merit goodness are meted goodness. All else will suffer with the wicked and be cast out into a place of indescribable hell until they find it in themselves to bend that knee and confess Jesus as their Savior (whether they take advantage of it, or not).
So, there you have it. No smooth words and no false doctrine here.
Ironically the lyricists who put together the counterpoint to Bing Crosby's duet with David Bowie at the last minute at least got the translation correct:
Bob Newhart in "Hell is for Heroes" according to imdb wrote his own lines for these comic scenes:
Director Don Siegel did not want to shoot the scene where Bob Newhart's character has a fake telephone conversation with "headquarters" to fool the Germans listening through a microphone planted in the US bunker, believing that it had no place in the story. He was overruled by the studio, however. Newhart at the time was a hugely popular stand-up comic, and a major part of his act was having one-sided phone conversations. The studio ordered that the scene be shot in order to capitalize on Newhart's popularity. Newhart wrote his own lines for this scene.
Pfc. James E. Driscoll: [fake telephone conversation with "headquarters" to fool the Germans listening in] Uh - Hi. Temple Red to - uh - Abel 6. This... This is Lt. Driscoll - the - uh - the entertainment officer.
Pfc. James E. Driscoll: About the morale, sir, it's been rather low. Uh - the main complaint seems to be about the evening movie.
Pfc. James E. Driscoll: Y-Yes, sir. I've had to show 'Road to Morocco' five evenings now in a row, sir.
Pfc. James E. Driscoll: Well, the men are beginning to be a little surly, sir.
Pfc. James E. Driscoll: Yes, sir. They know all the lines.
Back to "Hell is for Heroes", Bob Newhart complains that the vichyssoise tastes like potato soup. FYI footnote to the joke: Mayo Clinic Recipe: Cold potato-leek soup (vichyssoise)
In intro to his famous King Kong shtick, Newhart, volunteers that he actually served in the Army, in real life, during the Korean War:
"I said, 'Shoo ape! You're going to have to leave, sir!'"
"I thought maybe I could smear the Chrysler Building with bananas"
And as long as we're discussing Christmas carols, the most famous one of all is, of course, Mrs Carol Brady singing Adeste Fideles in English:
Not as good as the liberal media's new BFF the Pope's choir singing "O Come All Ye Faithful" in Latin:
and Bing Crosby singing "Hail Mary" in Latin (whose song lyrics seem to generally be the same as the prayer but composed by someone with ADD since it just randomly repeats lines):
and finally in the spirit of ecumenical multiculturalism and total kumbaya the Aaronic Blessing in Hebrew from Messianic Rabbi Kirt Schneider:
The blog title, "noli insipientium iniurias pati" is Latin for "Don't let the turkeys get you down." Benjamin Franklin bookcases the blog header title for two reasons:
1) He allegedly suggested the US adopt the turkey as its official mascot
2) His discovery of electricity helped Al Gore invent the internet
Quantum Physics equation under profile picture explained here
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