<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">So... sports stars are not universally-known, entertainers are not, spike</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">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).</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">'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. </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">Sales of pro football jerseys are high in Japan and all over. I could go on.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">bill w</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 4:45 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-1126732376921258194WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal">> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Mike Dougherty via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] smoke 'em dano<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 4:52 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><blockquote style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:1pt solid rgb(204,204,204);padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><br>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. …<u></u><u></u></p></blockquote><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">>…I think humans are a powerfully-silly bunch of any age (of, at, whatever)…<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">We are!<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">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:<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjgqQcKE3DY" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjgqQcKE3DY</a><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">These yahoos were always making references to Spike Jones lyrics and thought it great fun that I had never heard of any of it.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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