"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile) 02/28/2020 at 10:45 • Filed to: far side friday

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Chariotoflove > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 02/28/2020 at 10:50

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Fake news. Everyone knows the old west only had player pianos. 

TheRealBicycleBuck > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 02/28/2020 at 10:51

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Friday! This will be a working weekend, so no travel today. I’m gearing up for a big change coming soon....

ttyymmnn > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 02/28/2020 at 10:55

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I like the single naked lightbulb. The symphony did a series of children’s concerts this week, and the conductor talked to the kids and said, “What do you think the composer was thinking about when he wrote this piece?”

And I replied, “I’m hungry.”

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 02/28/2020 at 10:58

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(explanation reply)

^from the C lint Eastwood version, which would likely be fresher in peoples’ minds.

Chariotoflove > ttyymmnn 02/28/2020 at 10:59

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Yeah shouldn’t it be an oil lamp or something?

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Chariotoflove 02/28/2020 at 10:59

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Chariotoflove > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 02/28/2020 at 11:02

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That’s different. That’s the incidental music. Larson loved to break the fourth wall. 

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > Chariotoflove 02/28/2020 at 11:05

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But they had effective law enforcement...

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 02/28/2020 at 11:09

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You ought to enjoy today’s FSF offerings. I decided to do a theme of sorts with song joke ones.

ttyymmnn > Chariotoflove 02/28/2020 at 11:11

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It just means that they are poor.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Chariotoflove 02/28/2020 at 11:12

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something something Elton John album titles something

ttyymmnn > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 02/28/2020 at 11:13

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Gotta go stamp out ignorance teach some lessons. I’ll hit it when I get back.

TheRealBicycleBuck > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 02/28/2020 at 11:26

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Does the wind named Maria cry “Mary”?

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > TheRealBicycleBuck 02/28/2020 at 11:57

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See, when I first read the strip as a kid, I didn’t get it - because I knew my Hendrix but not my litany of classic musicals. I was up on Singin’ in the Rain and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, but Paint Your Wagon had escaped me.

TheRealBicycleBuck > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 02/28/2020 at 11:58

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Imagine how much of Far Side will be lost on future generations.

Nom De Plume > ttyymmnn 02/28/2020 at 11:59

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Better than “ I’m horny!” followed with a few short sharp blasts to drive it home.

ttyymmnn > Nom De Plume 02/28/2020 at 12:07

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I had to go back and see what your reply was referring to. 

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > Chariotoflove 02/28/2020 at 12:09

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I went down the Brisco County rabbit hole and just noticed the jet contrail clearly visible in this clip. They never took it too seriously... It was a great, short-lived show.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > TheRealBicycleBuck 02/28/2020 at 12:12

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Speak for yourself, I’m going to be making the younger generation watch musicals. By force, if necessary.

ttyymmnn > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 02/28/2020 at 12:15

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I had no idea that Harve Presnell was in Saving Private Ryan and Fargo . Now I’ve got to go find the scenes. Though I had promised myself I’d never watch Ryan again.

TheRealBicycleBuck > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 02/28/2020 at 12:19

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My daughter loves musicals, but I don’t think she’s watched many of the older ones. She’s currently at practice for the school’s spring production.

My son? Forget about it.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 02/28/2020 at 12:22

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Apparently he’s the skinflint father in law in Fargo. I can sort of see how there wasn’t a way for him to have a singing scene, though obviously the Coens don’t have a problem with musical numbers on thin pretext. I mean, Oh Brother Where Art Thou and the hallucination from Big Lebowski aside, they made flipping Hail Caesar...

(^if you haven’t seen it, one of the movie-in-movie scenes being shot in the Hollywood studio setting of the movie)

Nom De Plume > ttyymmnn 02/28/2020 at 12:33

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May I ask what composer was under question at the moment?

Chariotoflove > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 02/28/2020 at 12:51

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There was so much “future seeing” in that show.  It was awesome.

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > Chariotoflove 02/28/2020 at 13:08

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My two favorite “quick gags” were:

1) They are in the saloon, decide to get food, and call the waiter over: “My name is Todd, I’ll be your server today— Let me take a moment to go over our specials for you...” And Bowler does this double-take, “Specials!???!?”

2) IN the background of one street scene in the dusty little western town you can clearly see the row of riders-on-horses lined up for the Drive-Through (Ride-Through?) at the coffee shop across the street.

ttyymmnn > Nom De Plume 02/28/2020 at 13:59

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I think we had just finished the first piece, Hedwig’s Flight from Harry Potter. The conductor asked the kids if they recognized the music (most did), and he used it as an example of how John Williams used the music to portray the owl, much like the students might do when using words in an essay to express their point. We followed that with the Infernal Dance from Firebird, with it’s depiction of the battle between Ivan and Katschei.