Apparently, the F.B.I. *does* have a sense of humor. We’ll see how long Bud has to stay in the slammer on Monday as he begins to recall the Lost Weekend.
A little Carlin for your Thursday. Here George describes the Class Clown and it’s the best 16 minutes you’ll spend laughing today. And it’s totally safe for work as the Class Clown album was one of his cleanest albums, except for the 7 Words bit. Who knew?
Despite Bud getting arrested this still made me laugh pretty damn hard.
The FBI are a right bunch of clowns…
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Me thinks I see an Efrem Zimbalist Jr. reference in our future.
I can remember my dad dictating into this old machine. We have come a long way.
My folks had a cassette player/recorder from the late 60’s that I would use to record songs off of the radio, too! It was the size of a large shoebox & probably weighed about 12 pounds, seemed like it used about 10 D cells…
My first recording unit was about the same time frame as yours, Byron, but it was an 8-track in my 1st stereo unit – no portable for me until I was well into collage (Walkman anyone?) about ’78. I guess my version of the iPod from when I was a kid in the early 60’s, was an AM transistor radio with the single earbud piece that I got for my 6th birthday. I used to spend all of my allowance then on 9-volt battries cause I’d listen to it at night under my covers & would inevitably fall asleep with it on & run down the battery! At night I would usually listen to XERF out of Del Rio Texas – the “Outlaw X” that ZZ Top sang about. The advertizing & commercial breaks would run from the offices in Del Rio, but the studio & transmitter was across the border in Mexico pumping out 250K watts – 5X the max power that a US station could do, so the signal came in like they were broadcasting from the house next door! The nighttime jock at that time was none other than Wolfman Jack, & he’d play mostly R&B/Soul, some blues, & the occasional jazz or latin big band number. He was also pretty salty & suggestive for the times, not being constrained by US FCC rules – pretty heady stuff for a 6-7 year old & quite the formative musical education!
I wonder if Lenny Bruce was the first person arrested on humorous charges…or does it go all the way back to medieval times and executing the court jester?
I grew up in El Paso, just across the border from Juarez Mex. in the ’70s. They had a high out put radio tower just across the border for their station XEROK 80. A mormon friend of mine told me that on a good day they could pick up X-Rock in Salt Lake City. Utah.
P.S. Oh and there ain’t nuttin’ wrong with a little Neil Diamond, particularly when you want to get your lady in the mood.
Would they have even called this “piracy” in 1977? I don’t recall the term getting applied to that until a lot later, and think they might have referred to it back then as “bootlegging.”
Then again, who am I to get in the way of a good one-liner…?
I really enjoyed this one, Byron. Each panel was stand-alone hilarious. 😀
My parents have the lp “varning för barn” (watch out for children) and now I know where the original for “klassens clown” (the class clown) come from.