R.I.P.

This just serves to remind me . . .
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Leno, you can't hold a candle to this bunch! You would NEVER allow something as unscripted as this to occur. And you would NEVER do it to yourself.
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RIP, Dom.

Indeed, the reason I stopped watching late night tv until Jon Stewart came along. No reason to bother after Carson left.

Michael Scherer:
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Even though I realize that my exposure to the gang was at the very end of their decline, I never liked this bizarre Burbank rat-pack, but I will say that this is a phenomenal clip you've dug up.
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The entire Carson freakshow can be summed up thus.

Indeed. Dom was one hell of a funny comedian. RIP Dom!

Sheeot, first Gilligan and now this throwback. Can't... stop... childhood flashbacks on my mom's florid sofa...
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And then the SCTV clip with Candy--I'm really getting weepy now.

The good old days. Johnny Carson, Gilligan's Island, Bewitched, The Outer Limits, The Twilight Zone, Star Trek, MASH (before Alan Alda started taking estrogen), I Dream of Jeannie...those were the good old days. Now there's American Idol. I'll vote to cut the defense budget and give some money to the Borgen Project if we can nuke American Idol.

About as far off topic as one can get, but since Joe's threads are already dead. Jeremy Scahill on our proselytizing troops in Afghan:
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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/05/05-10

Bloody h*ll jcapan! I were thinkin' this sort o' thing were endin' wi' th' Air Force Academy "heathen flight" shenanigans! What be we thinkin'?!
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Michael, me lad - here be th' ball, me boy - run wi' it!

"I'll vote to cut the defense budget and give some money to the Borgen Project if we can nuke American Idol."
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Pure Swampland gold, sacredh.

Rest in Peace Dom. This is for you.
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@gunny: wow. just. wow.
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@MS: Great clips, Michael. The term "infectious laugh" had to have been created for Dom.
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Godspeed.

Seems I've been saying this a lot, but baruch dayan emet.

Gunny - it be a fittin' clip...in no small part b'cause this be th' month o' th' Holy Mother, fer pirates o' th' Catholic persuasion .

Pirates? Catholics? Somebody needs to warn the Virgin Islands.

Avast, sacred, it be too late fer th' warnin'...WAY too late !
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Come t' think o' it, I could o' used some sort o' virgin warnin' me ownself, long ago...tho' in me own case it shoulda' been a warnin' regardin' Greek Lutherans...it be way too late fer THA' now, too!
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Arrgh!

pirate wench: You are responsible for diet coke making an exit through my nose.

sacred - Some days I do be spot on wi' th' wit...mostly those days when th' (Greek Lutheran) cap'n fails in 'is
god-given duty t' be wi'holdin' me rum ration(s)...
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Arrgh!