Yup. This month I’ve been saying, “March, comes in like a lion. Goes out like a lion.”
And now it’s time for April showers.
It’s with all the Marches of yesteryear.
This is what Liberal Hell is like. All the time of your life, wasted, empty, unforgotten.
:-/
ObloodyHell,
I remember thinking, when the economy really started taking off during Trump’s Presidency, “Oh Joy! My children will get to know what it was like to live in the Reagan years. When we came out of a recession and malaise and everything seemed possible!”
That didn’t last long.
.
MAY 31st
Will from now on be known as
NORMAN OSBORNE DAY
Because it is the end of May.
.
}}} That didn’t last long.
The Left has grown far far more obnoxious and driven in the intervening 50 years, and far far more willing to violate all rules of social propriety to Win At All Costs.
This is the difference between the Classical Liberal and the PostModern Liberal.
Most liberals were still Classical Liberals in the 70s and 80s.
>95% of self-identified liberals are PostModern Liberals now.
tcrosse:
Yeah, but where ARE the Marches of yesteryear?
The trouble is … you think you have time.
– (fake) Bhudda
Gone with the wind, Scarlet. Gone with the wind.
The prospect of nuclear war makes the time fly by.
I learned “June is Bustin’ Out All Over” in 6th grade music class. Back when public schools had music classes and taught show tunes and old-fashioned American songs like “Little Liza Jane.” (I got the impression that “Moon River” was written in the 1920s.)
‘
Anyway, I loved the lyrics:
______________________
March went out like a lion
Awakin’ up the water in the bay;
Then April cried and stepped aside,
And along came pretty little May!
May was full of promises
But she didn’t keep ’em quickly enough for some
And the crowd of doubtin’ Thomases
Was predictin’ that the summer’d never come
______________________
Pretty little May! Such a heartbreaker. And those Doubtin’ Thomases…
The official statement from the academy claiming that they explicitly asked Smith to leave was a lie. They explicitly told him he could stay.
Hmmm. The soft bigotry of low expectations? (Had to look that one up.) Or just raw celeb. power?
huxley,
That would have been awkward for any girls in your class named, June.
Rufus:
My mother was named June, but otherwise I’ve never known a June. It’s been in decline since the 20s, though has made a mild comeback:
____________________________
June was a very popular girl’s name and somewhat popular boy’s name in the early to mid 20th century in the United States. As a girl’s name, it reached a peak in 1925 as the 39th most popular name, but then gradually declined until it dropped off the top 1000 list of names in 1987. In recent years, it has started to make a comeback: in 2018 it ranked 241st.
I’m not sure the lyric would have been a big deal in a 1964 sixth grade class.
huxley,
April seems to be the month name I’ve encountered most in real life. I’ve run into a few Augusts and Junes, fewer Mays. Lots of Julies, but no Julys that I know of.
I can’t recall ever meeting anyone named for a day of the week. There’s Tuesday Weld and Wednesday Addams and Friday in Robinson Crusoe.
Neither of my kids’ names were in the top 100 the year our kids were born. My wife and I tried to pick names we liked that were not overly common (my wife has a very uncommon name). However, two ended up becoming rather popular later.
If your home is powered by safer, cheaper, cleaner electricity, like solar or heat pumps, you can save about $500 a month [year] on average.
I gotta get me one of them homes powered by heat pumps.
Rufus:
Name frequencies are strange in how they rise and fall, often against one’s intuitive sense.
My real given first name is (shh!) Jack. Which is a great All-American sounding name and one often runs across Jacks in books and movies. But I’ve only known two other American Jacks in my entire life.
Wiki says that Jacks are common in Ireland and Australia, but in the US we are roughly 3 per 1000.
I like being a Jack.
Neo: it just hare-ied away.
huxley on March 31, 2022 at 5:49 pm: Surely you were acquainted with June Cleaver?
“However, two ended up becoming rather popular later.” RTF, trend setter!
R2L:
Even as a child I made a distinction between real people and television characters.
Although I was rather indignant when the “Bewitched” sticom switched in a different actor to play Samantha’s husband, Darrin.
Turned out to be a sad story. Dick York, the original Darrin, had suffered a terrible back injury while making a Western in 1959, which worsened over the years and included an addiction to painkillers, which forced him to leave “Bewitched” in 1969.
@ Mike Smith > “If you want to see something really beautiful to end the month, go here:”
That was a lovely video – I guess watching snow fall is kind of like watching grass grow.
Sped up to 2x, it looks more like what we’ve been getting this winter in Denver.
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A little musical enhancement to your question:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITXBjDTXS90
Enjoy.
Looks to me like March went to hell in a handbasket.
In Wichita, it has been snowing on March 31. If you want to see something really beautiful to end the month, go here: http://www.mikesmithenterprisesblog.com/2022/03/slow-motion-snow-falling.html
Nice tree and that snow is great (especially since I know I’m not gonna have to shovel any of it…)
In the spirit of “soothing”, Norwegian style, I’ll raise ya’…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-GWhx68HuI
(If that’s not quite long enough, try this:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-21482313 )
sdferr for the #1 thread comment
sdferr and physicguy,
Yup. This month I’ve been saying, “March, comes in like a lion. Goes out like a lion.”
And now it’s time for April showers.
It’s with all the Marches of yesteryear.
This is what Liberal Hell is like. All the time of your life, wasted, empty, unforgotten.
:-/
ObloodyHell,
I remember thinking, when the economy really started taking off during Trump’s Presidency, “Oh Joy! My children will get to know what it was like to live in the Reagan years. When we came out of a recession and malaise and everything seemed possible!”
That didn’t last long.
.
MAY 31st
Will from now on be known as
NORMAN OSBORNE DAY
Because it is the end of May.
.
}}} That didn’t last long.
The Left has grown far far more obnoxious and driven in the intervening 50 years, and far far more willing to violate all rules of social propriety to Win At All Costs.
This is the difference between the Classical Liberal and the PostModern Liberal.
Most liberals were still Classical Liberals in the 70s and 80s.
>95% of self-identified liberals are PostModern Liberals now.
tcrosse:
Yeah, but where ARE the Marches of yesteryear?
The trouble is … you think you have time.
– (fake) Bhudda
Gone with the wind, Scarlet. Gone with the wind.
The prospect of nuclear war makes the time fly by.
I learned “June is Bustin’ Out All Over” in 6th grade music class. Back when public schools had music classes and taught show tunes and old-fashioned American songs like “Little Liza Jane.” (I got the impression that “Moon River” was written in the 1920s.)
‘
Anyway, I loved the lyrics:
______________________
March went out like a lion
Awakin’ up the water in the bay;
Then April cried and stepped aside,
And along came pretty little May!
May was full of promises
But she didn’t keep ’em quickly enough for some
And the crowd of doubtin’ Thomases
Was predictin’ that the summer’d never come
______________________
Pretty little May! Such a heartbreaker. And those Doubtin’ Thomases…
The Will Smith and Chris Rock story won’t die.
The official statement from the academy claiming that they explicitly asked Smith to leave was a lie. They explicitly told him he could stay.
Hmmm. The soft bigotry of low expectations? (Had to look that one up.) Or just raw celeb. power?
huxley,
That would have been awkward for any girls in your class named, June.
Rufus:
My mother was named June, but otherwise I’ve never known a June. It’s been in decline since the 20s, though has made a mild comeback:
____________________________
June was a very popular girl’s name and somewhat popular boy’s name in the early to mid 20th century in the United States. As a girl’s name, it reached a peak in 1925 as the 39th most popular name, but then gradually declined until it dropped off the top 1000 list of names in 1987. In recent years, it has started to make a comeback: in 2018 it ranked 241st.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_(given_name)
____________________________
I’m not sure the lyric would have been a big deal in a 1964 sixth grade class.
huxley,
April seems to be the month name I’ve encountered most in real life. I’ve run into a few Augusts and Junes, fewer Mays. Lots of Julies, but no Julys that I know of.
I can’t recall ever meeting anyone named for a day of the week. There’s Tuesday Weld and Wednesday Addams and Friday in Robinson Crusoe.
Neither of my kids’ names were in the top 100 the year our kids were born. My wife and I tried to pick names we liked that were not overly common (my wife has a very uncommon name). However, two ended up becoming rather popular later.
From today’s Joe Biden speech:
If your home is powered by safer, cheaper, cleaner electricity, like solar or heat pumps, you can save about $500 a
month[year] on average.I gotta get me one of them homes powered by heat pumps.
Rufus:
Name frequencies are strange in how they rise and fall, often against one’s intuitive sense.
My real given first name is (shh!) Jack. Which is a great All-American sounding name and one often runs across Jacks in books and movies. But I’ve only known two other American Jacks in my entire life.
Wiki says that Jacks are common in Ireland and Australia, but in the US we are roughly 3 per 1000.
I like being a Jack.
Neo: it just hare-ied away.
huxley on March 31, 2022 at 5:49 pm: Surely you were acquainted with June Cleaver?
“However, two ended up becoming rather popular later.” RTF, trend setter!
R2L:
Even as a child I made a distinction between real people and television characters.
Although I was rather indignant when the “Bewitched” sticom switched in a different actor to play Samantha’s husband, Darrin.
Turned out to be a sad story. Dick York, the original Darrin, had suffered a terrible back injury while making a Western in 1959, which worsened over the years and included an addiction to painkillers, which forced him to leave “Bewitched” in 1969.
He seemed like a good fellow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_York
@ huxley > “I like being a Jack.”
Not Ernest?
@ Mike Smith > “If you want to see something really beautiful to end the month, go here:”
That was a lovely video – I guess watching snow fall is kind of like watching grass grow.
Sped up to 2x, it looks more like what we’ve been getting this winter in Denver.