Red State Update On Guns

Jackie and Dunlap on the Supreme Court’s decision on gun ownership.  Funny!

Red State Update: Guns

July 1, 2008

Revisit Movie “The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly”

The Italian epic spaghetti western, The Good, The Bad, The Ugly, with Clint Eastwood as Blondie, Lee Van Cleef as Angel Eyes, and Eli Wallach as Tuco, was released in Italy in 1966 and the United States in late 1967.  “The plot centers around three gunslingers competing to find a fortune in buried Confederate gold amid the violent chaos of gunfights, hangings, Civil War battles, and prison camps.” 

Sergio Leone, Italian director, noted after criticisms that film was violent, “the killings in my films are exaggerated because I wanted to make a tongue-in-cheek satire on run-of-the-mill westerns… The west was made by violent, uncomplicated men, and it is this strength and simplicity that I try to recapture in my pictures.”

Produced by Alberto Grimaldi.  Music by Ennio Morricone.  The music track is famous and unforgettable. 

The film was shot in Spain with the Spanish Army.  International array of actors spoke in their native languages.  They were dubbed later.  This accounts for the lack of synchronization with lip movements. 

No matter.  The movie has been credited as a great film.

But Leone’s mixture of seemingly incompatible elements is what makes The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly so great. Not only does he combine a Cinemascope-era outlook with an eye for grittiness, but he mingles tasteful realism with a flamboyant, self-conscious style. Freeze frames, intertitles, and point-of-view shots brilliantly co-exist with the meticulously appointed period sets and sweeping frontier vistas. This fusion, in addition to a surplus of creativity and lack of restraint, makes the third in the so-called “man with no name” series the crowning glory of his career.

The last part of the film, the Mexican Standoff, is classic.  To be enjoyed thoroughly. 

The Good The Bad And The Ugly (17/18)

The Good The Bad And The Ugly (18/18)

Rescue In The South

Email in circulation.

Never choke in a restaurant in the South.  There just may be someone there to rescue you.

Two hillbillies walk into a bar. While having a shot of whiskey, they talk about their moonshine operation.

Suddenly, a woman at a nearby table, who is eating a sandwich, begins to cough. And, after a minute or so, it becomes apparent that she is in real distress.

One of the hillbillies looks at her and says, ‘Kin ya swallar?’

The woman shakes her head no.

Then he asks, ‘Kin ya breathe?’

The woman begins to turn blue and shakes her head no.

The hillbilly walks over to the woman, lifts up her dress, yanks down her drawers and quickly gives her right butt cheek a lick with his tongue. The woman is so shocked that she has a violent spasm and the obstruction flies out of her mouth. As she begins to breathe again, the Hillbilly walks slowly back to the bar.

His partner says, ‘Ya know, I’d heard of that there ‘Hind Lick Maneuver’ but I ain’t niver seen nobody do it!’

If you don’t send this to five friends, there will be five fewer people laughing in the world!!

So the Hind Lick maneuver made you snicker.  Now enjoy this satirical image over at Bhatnaturally Ramblings on Advertising, Apple and New Media from India, with their great post on KayaKing Jumbo Peanuts: you will choke with laughter.  You will always remember how to perform the genuine Heimlich maneuver in case of an emergency anywhere, now that Kaya King has given instructions.

“Kaya King.  Jumbo Peanuts.  Elephant rescues small, fellow elephant with Heimlich maneuver.”
Image courtesy of http://www.lbhat.com/advertising/kayaking-jumbo-peanuts/.