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Bama Llama

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  1. Yeah! High pants wearin, fast talking movies! Love dem movies, just vaudeville with a little extra mustard! Well portrayed in satire on SNL by Phil Hartman yelling at Jon Lovitz (or was it vice versa?) to tell him what the word was on the street, y’know, the scoop, the skinny, the dish!
  2. I think the new documentary will show Bryant, after four subpar seasons, was mulling over going to coach the Dolphins, but those negotiations went sideways and Royal recommended the wishbone, so Bryant gave it a shot. Bama averaged 10 wins for ghe decade of the 70s. Not bad when considering teams played 11 games per year then. Notre Dame and Texas beat Bama in 72, 73 and 74 bowls, which could have been championship seasons for Bryant. Bama was undefeated champ in 79 after splitting the title with USC in 78. Texas whipped Bama in the 80 Cotton Bowl. Bryant had a couple more decent years before hanging it up after 83. He died in January 83. Mrs Llama and I went to stand as the funeral procession went by the stadium en route to Birmingham kne final time. I think Royal, Wilkinson and Woody Hayes all went to the funeral. My old man played end for Bama when Bryant was a freshman. He took me to practice in 61 and Bryant shook my hand and said something about “ASS” and “HELL,” but I honestly couldn’t understand what he said otherwise. He was a helluva coach and wanted to integrate long before the white conservatives on the UA board of trustees would allow it.
  3. And rescued Alabama football - Bryant practiced the wishbone all summer and sprang it on USC in game 1 of 1971 after warming up in the same old pro set. Halftime score 17-0 zip Bama. Ole Bear true to form sat on the lead and the defense made it stand. Final 17-10. After 6-win seasons in 69 and 70, Bama went through the 71 reg season undefeated but ended up being stomped by Johnny Rodgers, Rich Glover, Jerry Tagge and the Nebraska Corncobbers in the Orange Bowl, 38-6, and it wasn’t that close.
  4. Ya left out the reference to “kep tyres,” delivered in Dan’s copyrighted Fred Garvin, bass-o-matic huckster, pimp of Christy Christina, rapid fire Bears fan on speed accent. Good old Dan, one of the True Blue Modern Vaudevillians.
  5. This one is so good and under appreciated I just had to go ahead and put it here. Duvall and Dern at their finest.
  6. He is the Antithesis of Enlightenment but he attracts lazy, formerly apolitical voters. “Hey, I can vote for Donald without having to know ANYthing or learn ANYthing. He appeals to all of my base instincts, like tying a helium balloon to a kitten’s tail. Sorry shitasses. Sonsabitches! BUMPUSES!
  7. James Lee Burke books featuring the semi-alky take no shit Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux, read by Will Patton, are superb. His Scotch and smokes voice as Dav’s former NOLA PD partner Clete Purcel puts you right there in the mysterious Atchafalaya basin with the criminals and gators. The early John Sandford “Prey” series books are also good. Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers and an assortment of kooky Minneapolis/ St Paul LEO characters (think Lenny and Squiggy) flesh out Sandford’s good stories. Sonewhat formulaic but really good listens.
  8. I would watch The Commitments on a loop until the world ends. God dayum, that was a foyne fillum. And what I wouldn’t give to spend a month one weekend with those three backup singers. Then again, Try a Little Tenderness is my favorite song. Otis sang, “Young girls, they do get wearrriiett, . . . Wearing that same ol shaggeh drayuss, yayuss” Cropper, Dunn and Booker T, tempo changes, perfect harmony horns, beautiful piano and organ riffs straight from the aorta, and the big GOT-ta GOT-ta GOT-ta GOT-ta finish. Best shit evah!
  9. If (when) the defecation really hits the ventilation, these Lt Cols will pay floor sweepers from their corporate HQs to serve in their places a la 1861. Motherfuckers conjured up by Motherfuckers. Next the Orange One will appear on the White House balcony in a full Plaza Doorman uniform getup, as the Commander-In-Chief. I’m figna vommick!
  10. Biopic series from a few years ago: GRANT. Very, very well done and revealed so much history I never knew before. Brit actor Justin Salinger portrayed Grant and did a fine job of showing how USG never lost sight of the objective. Plotline shared common themes with Surly CR threads. Grant was branded “dictator” for sending US troops to quell mobs during Reconstruction. When Grant died in 1885, Reconstruction was essentially over and America devolved. Jesus, my _grandfather_ was born in 1880! A gritty, bloody biopic. Sherman was right. War is all hell.
  11. What’s wrong with singing the Anthem in Spanish? Hell, the first word is “Jose,” right?
  12. Point taken. Who gets to define “so evil”? It’s a Twilight Zone episode and I think Rod Serling just stepped out of the scenery and into the foreground.
  13. NO ONE deserves to be atomized. Don’t even send that idea out into the Van Allen belt.
  14. Have a good time ALL the time!
  15. I stand corrected, sir. Good on you. Where I come from we look up to a feller from Moro Bottom, Arkansas, played high school football at Fordyce.
  16. Becoming Led Zeppelin was primo. In August of 1969 I began college life with a 4-ft long Led Zeppelin “misplaced” by an Alabama record store hanging from my dorm room ceiling at the Institute on South Main. It held its air all year, a quality item, Clark. A gift from a comely female companion (no pics). LZII, Abbey Road and The Band were all released that fall. Ahh, yes, Stimpy, those were the days. Gimme a hit, dude, side 2’s next. Tuyn it up.
  17. His hillbilly accent eas real as it gets, buddy. I think Levon was from Arkansas somewhar. As fine and soulful a drummer and sanger as they ever was. He was born to be in the Band.
  18. Levon WAS Loretty’s papa in Coal Miner’s Daughter. “Don’t do it, Loretty. Don’t thow yore young laff aweigh. Girl, you’re my shinin pradd. Stay in Butcher Holler.” I had no idea that was Levon Helm until I read it somewhere. Made me feel like a fool! I thought they rounded up a coon hunter from fown the holler somewhere. He was so beautifully authentic.
  19. So glad this heinous douche is in custody. Caveat the entrance of Jack Ruby. He’s been dyin oot theer et tha leek, doncha know? Come to think of it, the killer looks kinda like the guy shoveling snow who said that line. Hmmmm.
  20. This is a healthy thread and good on the OP for starting it. Somewhere in America, Donald Trump is trying to figure out how he can con someone with actual wisdom into telling him how to broker a truce between Iran and Israel. I lived through October 1962 listening to air raid drill sirens in the night not knowing if my family and I would live through the next week. A gang of steel tank manufacturers somehow ended up in my fifth grade classroom showing films of Hiroshima and Nagasaki walking dead with radiation burns and scaring the shit out of ten year olds. We all went home begging our parents to go immediately and hire Dixie Steel (their real name) into putting a fallout shelter in our back yard. My father listened to my ranting and calmly said “We are not having a fallout shelter installed. We have a basement. If that won’t save us, then . . . we’ll just have to tough it out.” He asked me what I would do if my buddies from the neighborhood tapped on our “lid” wanting to get in and share our shelter, which was knly big enough for three? I had no answer in my pea brain. Right then I decided to find a way not to face that horrible choice. It is up to us. Elect good people.
  21. I’m enjoying my 42nd father’s day, much the same as my first. My daughter left out a basket of nice goodies and dark roast coffee for me, and my sweet and beautiful bride just wished me a good day. This has been a difficult year but we are rallying. I’m so thankful to have my girls living under the same roof again just as we were in 1984. I can honestly say I am married to the most beautiful female I have ever seen and she is more beautiful inside than out. I am one lucky dog. I hope all Surly fathers have a very pleasant day.
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