2023 Advent calendar

[bobpbx]

Absurd! Where did they dig that idea up. I watched it twice because the absurdity was so good.

 

[M1 Abrams]

December 13​

We hope you both enjoy this sketch.

Here's the clue for tomorrow: "I'm afraid what you've got hold of there is an anteater."

 

[manumuskin]

December 13​

We hope you both enjoy this sketch.

Here's the clue for tomorrow: "I'm afraid what you've got hold of there is an anteater."

Those videos on Kiliminjaro were awesome! I thoroughly enjoyed both of them!

 

[M1 Abrams]

Those videos on Kiliminjaro were awesome! I thoroughly enjoyed both of them!

Good God, I'd forgotten about that sketch!

 

[M1 Abrams]

December 14​

“Banking, that’s a man’s life, isn’t it?”

Here is the clue for tomorrow: “Applicants are not required to fill in their species.”

 

[M1 Abrams]

December 15​

Four legs good, two legs bad, two overdue library books very bad!

Here is the clue for tomorrow: "Oh! I must be in the wrong house!"

 

[M1 Abrams]

December 16​

Now you're (so close to) cooking with gas!

Here is the clue for tomorrow: "La marche futile?"

 

[manumuskin]

December 16​

Now you're (so close to) cooking with gas!

Here is the clue for tomorrow: "La marche futile?"

Now I"ve got gas :-(

 

[M1 Abrams]

Now I"ve gpt gas :-(

This is not the first time one of my efforts has had that effect on somebody...sorry!

 

[M1 Abrams]

December 17​

One large step for a man, one giant leap for silliness.

Here is the clue for tomorrow: "The film from two books that once shocked a generation."

 

[manumuskin]

Is there a way that we could put the sound "Walk This Way" in the background of this?

 

[bobpbx]

I noticed the stove service men and salesmen still lined up in that one. Did you notice that?

 

[manumuskin]

I noticed the stove service men and salesmen still lined up in that one. Did you notice that?

I did not.You don't miss much in the woods Bob,apparently not on the screen either.

 

[M1 Abrams]

I noticed the stove service men and salesmen still lined up in that one. Did you notice that?

Yep! One drawback of presenting individual sketches is that some of the great "connective tissue" the group used to tie the sketches together (both in an individual episode and in the series as a whole) is lost. Sometimes it would be a sight gag as in the line of cooker men, sometimes just a line of dialogue (such as a man in a theater eating a piece of Crunchy Frog), sometimes it would be some Terry Gilliam animation such as Harold the flying sheep trying to wing his way to freedom.

Is there a way that we could put the sound "Walk This Way" in the background of this?

An admirable suggestion! After seeing it, I wondered if someone had actually done one. While I haven't found any such video so far, I did find lyrics to a parody Walk This Way/Silly Walks song:

Walk This Way/Silly Walks parody lyrics

 

[M1 Abrams]

Success!

 

[manumuskin]

Success!

I LIKE IT!

 

[M1 Abrams]

December 18​

Lots of flags and moor besides!

Here is the clue for tomorrow: "Burma!"

 

[bobpbx]

I read that "masterpiece" to see what the hype was about. I got very little out of it. Can't even recall anything from it except the memory of a brooding Heathcliff.

 

[M1 Abrams]

I read that "masterpiece" to see what the hype was about. I got very little out of it. Can't even recall anything from it except the memory of a brooding Heathcliff.

I'm tempted to make a bad joke about your interest in Wuthering Heights "flagging," but that would just be asking for me to wind up deposited out in some isolated bog with my mouth taped and only an Aldis lamp with a weak battery to signal for help! Wuthering Heights doesn't rank among my favorites either.

 

[bobpbx]

I'm tempted to make a bad joke about your interest in Wuthering Heights "flagging," but that would just be asking for me to wind up deposited out in some isolated bog with my mouth taped and only an Aldis lamp with a weak battery to signal for help! Wuthering Heights doesn't rank among my favorites either.

Go ahead, I like jokes. In the late 1990's through about 2007, I had in my cubicle, on the wall a list of the greatest novels of all time. I was determined to read them all. I would read during lunch. I checked off only a third of them. The worst ones were like that, including Jane Austen stuff and Anna Kareninina (old romance stuff). Some of the the ones I really liked:

As I lay Dying
The Grapes of Wrath
The Catcher in the Rye
Moby Dick
The Illiad
The wind in the willows

But those lists are numerous, and created by various sources, and they change with the times as well.