I’m hoping Robert Gore’s solemn nature will draw some serious minds to look at my post.
If you were looking for Robert Gore’s very fine essay and landed here by mistake, well, be that way…
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Irreverent Details: A Viral Anthem for Our Times
Because this is funny and might not stay up long.
P.S. This is not the next episode of Bike-Seat Journalism.
Which, thank you, Jay? I am reviewing it right now!
Due to the macabre mental state of mankind, viruses have proven profoundly ineffective on senses of humor:
I found my corona parody before you found yours.
Dude pulled a good solo on that version
You’ll die laughing so there’s that.
where is the hot biker
this is funny but it ain’t all that
Ring around the rosie, pocket full of posies.
The Great Plague explanation of the mid-20th century
Since after the Second World War, the rhyme has often been associated with the Great Plague which happened in England in 1665, or with earlier outbreaks of the Black Death in England. Interpreters of the rhyme before World War II make no mention of this;[23] by 1951, however, it seems to have become well established as an explanation for the form of the rhyme that had become standard in the United Kingdom. Peter and Iona Opie, the leading authorities on nursery rhymes, remarked:
The invariable sneezing and falling down in modern English versions have given would-be origin finders the opportunity to say that the rhyme dates back to the Great Plague. A rosy rash, they allege, was a symptom of the plague, and posies of herbs were carried as protection and to ward off the smell of the disease. Sneezing or coughing was a final fatal symptom, and “all fall down” was exactly what happened.[24][25]
The line Ashes, Ashes in colonial versions of the rhyme is claimed to refer variously to cremation of the bodies, the burning of victims’ houses, or blackening of their skin, and the theory has been adapted to be applied to other versions of the rhyme.[26] In its various forms, the interpretation has entered into popular culture and has been used elsewhere to make oblique reference to the plague.[27]
Can you believe how this thing has blown up over the last week?
dammit… this was funny
This song was peaking during the summer of my 8th birthday.
Let’s say I accept Doom Porn Snyder’s 15 million dead (overwhelmingly outside the U.S.) by summer for now.
May I go back to spending the rest of Sunday praying as usual and forgetting about Earthly distractions?
I hoped I could catch Stucky’s attention.
El Coyote sent this to me just a couple hours ago and I’m dedicating it to Stucky, without his permission. Because, I am the Red Rope.
For those of you without Air Force Basic Training and Technical School background? Red Rope is a student commander of the students. Basically, they march the students to and from training so the military training instructors don’t have to do anything.
I was in Tech School for ten months and was a student commander for a long time, becoming friends with a lot of people on staff. El Coyote was a road guard. The road guards are the shortest folks in the marching group because of the way the group is “sized.” If you are taller than the person in front of you tap them on the shoulder and move up.
I believe EC was probably an excellent Road Guard. A Red Rope approaching an intersection would call “Road Guards Out!” and never have to even look. The road guards were usually already there protecting us from attack by car. EC is still good like that.
I asked him if he could come up with lyrics and look what he sent!
Why Corona
The Knack (Parody by EC not me)