[ExI] smoke 'em dano

[William Flynn Wallace]

So... sports stars are not universally-known, entertainers are not,  spike

Are you out of your mind?  Entertainment is one of America's biggest
exports, and people watch our sports all over the world.  There's a good
reason a defensive back can make $20 million a year (and Oprah 100 million).

'Fess up - you don't know the first thing about sports; and entertainment
only from the past.   You think our politicians are more popular than
basketball stars?  You see people wearing Trump and  Biden Tshirts?  You'll
see a million LeBron James ones before you see 10 of those.

Sales of pro football jerseys are high in Japan and all over.  I could go
on.

bill w


On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 4:45 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> > *On Behalf Of *Mike Dougherty via extropy-chat
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] smoke 'em dano
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> On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 4:52 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> Every society has its silliness, and the USA is a powerfully-silly place.
> Of all of them, the 60s were a most powerfully silly decade.  …
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> >…I think humans are a powerfully-silly bunch of any age (of, at,
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> I was given the nickname Spike as a misunderstanding of someone calling me
> “Spock” from Star Trek.  The real Spike Jones was before my time, but it
> really worked, so that became my professional name, the one I used on my
> badge for nearly my entire career.
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> By fortunate accident, I became a tech lead at age 28.  It would appear a
> bit unseemly if I went to lunch with my own guys, so I went along more with
> the other leads, who were all typically 50s and even 60s.  So… they had a
> lot of fun making Spike Jones references that I didn’t get because I didn’t
> have any of his records and none of that stuff was on the radio by the time
> I had a radio.  It was a lotta fun for these guys: they would always be
> making these comments that went over my head, stuff from their misspent
> youth.
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> Unfortunately… all of those guys are passed on now, all of them, sigh.
> This was one of their favorites, not Jones but rather Bing Crosby:
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjgqQcKE3DY
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> These yahoos were always making references to Spike Jones lyrics and
> thought it great fun that I had never heard of any of it.
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