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Matt Cherette
09/07/09

In reply to For The Workforce!
Anybody know if we're going to get posts tonight? This is vital information to me, considering the fact that I don't have a life.
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God
09/07/09

In reply to For The Workforce!
You mean SLOTH day, Kamesy. SLOTH day. How long will the tyranny of socialized R&R destroy our magnificent nation? I just heard that Satan actually encouraged his minions to take naps and play with their kids. The evil bastard.

As usual, I did the right thing and told my angels over my morning pedicure that if anyone slacked off today, I'd cut off their vision and dental. But then Archangel Michael reminded me that I had already done that to everyone last Sloth Day because I was totally coked out of my mind and it seemed like a great way to fuck with those nerds. So, I'll be reinstating my angels' vision and dental later this evening just so I can cut them again tomorrow morning. Fighting communism is a 24/7 job.
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Magister
09/07/09

In reply to For The Workforce!
Labor Day... Socialists!
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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
09/07/09

In reply to For The Workforce!
Labour Day 2009, and Jimmy Hoffa is President of the AFL-CIO.
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Glib and Bitchy
09/07/09

In reply to For The Workforce!
Favorite workforce dance number -- ever.
Happy Labor Day to all.
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jasonelias
09/06/09

In reply to For The Workforce!
A clip of Young Michael Jackson at the MDA telethon in 1974...
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Banjo-Sea Kitten
09/07/09

@jasonelias: this is one of the better MJ dance videos I've seen. Stunning.

Ah, what memories --those wee hours of the telethon when Jerry would start to get extra crazed and cocky.
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Glib and Bitchy
09/07/09

@Banjo-Sea Kitten: Vague recollection of the days when the telethon was an almost all-New York affair, Jerry was happy to break into 7 figures and every $5 donation seemed so important.
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Banjo-Sea Kitten
09/07/09

@Glib and Bitchy: I probably gave him my paper route money a time or two.
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jasonelias
09/07/09

@Banjo-Sea Kitten: Wasn't that cool? Heh, I used to like to see Jerry get amped up like that. It's a far cry from that now...
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lobstr
09/06/09

In reply to For The Workforce!
..old tymes..
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lobstr
09/06/09

In reply to For The Workforce!
wait, you mean we're not liveblogging Jerry Lewis' MDA Telethon??
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Foster Kamer
09/06/09

@lobstr: I mean, we can.
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jasonelias
09/06/09

@lobstr: I'm glad to see Jerry's slimmed down. I thought he was going to bust about 5 yrs ago.
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jasonelias
09/06/09

@Foster Kamer: Why not? I'm waiting for Sammy Davis Jr. to come on. Oh god that's right...
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snugbug
09/06/09

@lobstr: I was hoping this would turn into one of those FNFFs of legend I keep hearing about.. Well, the Labor Day weekend is still young.
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lobstr
09/06/09

@Foster Kamer: the local phone bank was my first attempt at a tv hax, age 16.. ;D

[haxxor.tv]
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Foster Kamer
09/06/09

@snugbug: Ha. They were epic. I'll be around. If anything breaks, I'm sure I'll be on it, too. But yes! We can play here. Maybe Ian'll join us, who knows.
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Glib and Bitchy
09/07/09

@jasonelias: Oh man, No Ed.
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jasonelias
09/07/09

@Glib and Bitchy: Yep, I was just thinking about that...
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Mo MoDo
06/29/09

In reply to Maureen Dowd Needs to Brush Up on Her Hollywood Classics
Frankly the whole concept of a Jack Black romantic comedy is disturbing enough.
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TedSez
06/29/09

In reply to Maureen Dowd Needs to Brush Up on Her Hollywood Classics
Definitely Roman Holiday, in which a leader with too much responsibility back home falls for a journalist in a romantic setting and considers chucking it all, but instead returns to a life of country and duty.

Of course, Mark Sanford is no Audrey Hepburn.
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BookishLookish
06/29/09

@TedSez: Too bad Eddie Albert wasn't there shooting video.
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MisterHippity
06/29/09

@TedSez: I knew it! I knew it was one of the movies on my list!
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Kid Twist
06/29/09

In reply to Maureen Dowd Needs to Brush Up on Her Hollywood Classics
Maybe he was thinking of National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, which was released in the UK as National Lampoon's Winter Holiday. This whole affair turned out about as good as anything Clark Griswold ever attempted.
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MisterHippity
06/29/09

In reply to Maureen Dowd Needs to Brush Up on Her Hollywood Classics
I agree with other posters that Sanford probably wasn't either of those two "Holiday" movies (2006 or 1932).

But I'm closing in on the right movie, I think. I've done some research and narrowed it down, and I'm pretty sure it's one of the following:

Roman Holiday (1953)

M. Bean's Holiday

Holiday Inn (1942)

Last Holiday (2006)

Death Takes a Holiday (1934)

Christmas Holiday (1944)

Heber Holiday (2007)

Holiday Affair (1949)

Billy's Holiday (1995)

Holiday Romance (1998)

Last Holiday (1950)

Summer Holiday (1963)

The Perfect Holiday (2007)

Every Day's a Holiday (1937)

Holiday on the Buses (1973)

Holiday on the Moon (1994)

Knickerbocker Holiday (1944)

Paris Holiday (1958)

Half-Wits Holiday (1947)

Hawaiian Holiday (1937)

Holiday in Mexico (1946)

The Devil's Holiday (1930)

A Holiday Pageant at Home (1901)

Confessions from a Holiday Camp (1977)

Holiday Around My Bedroom (2003)

Holiday for Drumsticks (1949)

Holiday for Shoestrings (1946)

Holiday Land (1934)

Lena's Holiday (1991)

Sinners' Holiday (1930)

Sin Takes a Holiday (1930)

Summer Holiday (1948)

Tropic Holiday (1938)

Bank Holiday (1938)

Blondie's Holiday (1947)

Holiday Camp (1947)

Holiday for Lovers (1959)

Holiday in Seoul (1997)

Hoppy's Holiday (1947)

Russian Holiday (1992)

The Devil Takes a Holiday (1996)

Bosko's Holiday (1931)

Busman's Holiday (1961)

Canoeman's Holiday (1956)

Cinerama Holiday (1955)

College Holiday (1936)

Country Music Holiday (1958)

Cowboy Holiday (1934)

Habana Holiday (2004)

Holiday for Sinners (1952)

Holiday Greetings 1941 (1941)

Holiday Highlights (1940)

Holiday in Havana (1949)

Holiday Rhythm (1950)

Holiday with George (2000)

Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday (1939)

Johnny Holiday (1949)

Roamin' Holiday (1937)

Strange Holiday (1945)

The Stork's Holiday (1943)

Twigger's Holiday (2004)

Two Minute Holiday (2002)

A Country Holiday (1912)

A Cowboy's Holiday (1949)

A Day's Holiday (1908)

African Holiday (1937)
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Parah_Salin
11/03/09

@MisterHippity: It was definitely Half-Wits Holiday (1947). Only a moron would think taking a state jet to get a $10 haircut was "fiscally conservative." In fairness, I should mention he is extremely fiscally conservative with the Poors. He offered to pray for people whose unemployment benefits were running out. Sweet. It probably would've worked if he didn't make Jesus so angry by shtupping someone other than his wife. #maureendowd
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MisterHippity
06/29/09

In reply to Maureen Dowd Needs to Brush Up on Her Hollywood Classics
Actually, you've all got it wrong. I think it was "The Star Wars Holiday Special" (TV; 1978).
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MisterHippity
06/29/09

In reply to Maureen Dowd Needs to Brush Up on Her Hollywood Classics
This just happens to be my favorite movie ever.

If Sanford really was referring this film, he's an even bigger bigger hypocrite than I thought. In Sanford's shoes, the Cary Grant character in Holiday would have said, in the end: "The hell with this "political image" crap - I'm gonna follow my heart!"

Also, unlike Sandford, the Cary Grant character wasn't married yet and didn't have any kids.
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momof3wildkids
06/29/09

@MisterHippity: I think he more or less followed his penis.
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MisterHippity
06/29/09

@MisterHippity: I was especially fond of "Holiday" because the Hepburn character's brother had the same first name as I do, and I could totally relate to him. I was like, "That's me! That's the tragedy of my life, right there on film!"
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MisterHippity
06/29/09

@momof3wildkids: Yes. His penis wrote those e-mails too.

It was pure "poetry of the penis."
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Awesome X
06/29/09

@MisterHippity: And all this time I thought Mister was your first name ...
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bytememehard
06/29/09

@MisterHippity: So, you're Mr. Ed?
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MisterHippity
06/29/09

@bytememehard: Ned. IMDB lists his first name wrong, doesn't it? In the movie, Kate calls him "Ned." Or "Neddy."

In my dreams, Katherine Hepburn sometimes visits me and says, "Oh, Neddy!"

That was probably TMI, huh? Sorry.
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Wrapitup
06/29/09

In reply to Maureen Dowd Needs to Brush Up on Her Hollywood Classics
Regarding Gawker's previous post about the needing to go to college, this is what going to college hath wrought on the world: Maureen Dowd. I would pay 5 grand to watch this pompous hack clean toilets at a truck stop. She exemplifies the absolute worst of a liberal arts education. Had she gotten a degree in science or engineering, she would have at least learned to STFU before spewing obscure bs.
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