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I hate last minute posting. Always happens when I get a late idea and mess with it for too long, and then the BlogMockRadio shows up without warning. Oh well, this’ll have to do for tonight, on The Overnight Open Thread.
[This episode of the OOT was originally scheduled for 1 May. It was pre-empted for obvious reasons. –Bunk X]
“May Day! May Day! It’s time to take the capitalist system down, because it’s b-a-a-a-a-a-d! If you create wealth and try to keep it, you’re greeeeedy! The People, Anointed, Will Never Be Disjointed! Wealth is evil! Poverty is good! Everybody now! Bah-Ram-Ewe! Bah-Ram-Ewe!”
According to the purveyors of International Communist Day, you’re not a Worker unless you do manual labor, and if you’ve crossed the threshold to being an employer of Workers, you’re not only a turncoat, you’re an enemy of The People.
So let’s raise our glasses in solidarity, toast those who pay us the wages that keep us miserable, and march forward into The Overnight Open Thread.
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Is there anything more annoying than a picture of a dork on a step stool holding a Papier-mâché turtle? Yep. Just click on the image – I dare you. Actually, I was about to double dare you, but then I wondered about the origin of the phrase, and found this:
Chapman’s Dictionary of American Slang mentions it and dates it carefully as being current at least as far back as the 1940s. Many subscribers to this newsletter have long memories, so I’ve no doubt that they could take it back further without much effort. Jonathon Green, in the Cassell Dictionary of Slang, says it’s nineteenth century. He’s certainly right, since it’s listed in a book of 1896, The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought by Alexander F Chamberlain.
Mr Chamberlain also mentions several other forms. As well as the immemorial I dare you, he gives I dog dare you, I double dog dare you, I black dog dare you, and the ultimate challenge that must surely have been impossible to pass up without appearing totally chicken, I double black dog dare you.
And after reading that, I double black dog dare you to stick around, because it’s time for The Overnight Open Thread.
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Shortly after recording what was arguably their best album at Abbey Road Studios, the Fab Four crossed that now famous intersection and posed for this publicity shot. (L to R: Paul, George, John and Ringo.)
Some say the Beatles were too popular, but you’ve got to admit that without “the British Invasion” of the 1960s there’d likely be no Overnight Open Thread.
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