Obama in the Bunker
Rich Galen
Monday June 14, 2010
- "� This is Spinal Tap ... ": Here's one of the classic bits in movie-dom from the 1984 movie This is Spinal Tap. Band member Nigel Tufnel (played by Chistopher Guest) is explaining to the reporter, Marty DiBergi (played by Rob Reiner who also directed) why all the numbers on the band's amplifiers go to eleven:
Nigel Tufnel: The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and...
Marty DiBergi: Oh, I see. And most amps go up to ten?
Nigel Tufnel: Exactly.
Marty DiBergi: Does that mean it's louder? Is it any louder?
Nigel Tufnel: Well, it's one louder, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where?
Marty DiBergi: I don't know.
Nigel Tufnel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?
Marty DiBergi: Put it up to eleven.
Nigel Tufnel: Eleven. Exactly. One louder.
Marty DiBergi: Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?
Nigel Tufnel: [pause] These go to eleven.
- "� Sprio Agnew ... ": Here's the Wikipedia entry for the 39th Vice President of the United States.
- "� Nattering Nabobs ... ": According to the Congressional Record, Agnew used this phrase during a speech at the GOP State Convention in San Diego on September 11, 1970. The speech was reportedly written by William Safire who was a WH speechwriter during the Nixon-Agnew years before moving on to the New York Times proving that F. Scott Fizgerald was wrong when he said, "There are no second acts in American lives."
- "� 72-hours ... ": Here's a link to the NY Post's report on the 72-hour letter.
Mullfoto of the Day
Ignore the Bernie Madoff hairdo. Focus, instead, on Mr. Early Adopter using the 1960s technology of listening to a baseball game on a transister radio which has an antenna as we begin the second decade of the 21st Century.
I was listening to Stephen Strasburg working his second game (in which he got the win) striking out 8, but walking five. He left the game with one out in the sixth having allowed one run on two hits. Didn't stop the world from spinning like his first appearance, but not a bad outing.
(Mullfoto by the Mullings Director of Standards & Practices)
Catchy Caption of the Day
Actual Caption:
A fan uses paper ear plugs to block the sound of a vuvuzela in Johannesburg. You either love them or you hate them and the vuvuzela is stirring up some impassioned debate on Facebook, YouTube and other sites online.
Put me down as "hate them."
(AFP/Alexander Joe)
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