Motley Moose – Archive

A look at a ground-breaking short film series of the 1920’s-1940’s, after the jump …..

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SEPARATED at BIRTH – two former politicians: Gilles Vaillancourt – set to stand trial for his actions while mayor of Laval, Québec – and former US House speaker Dennis Hastert.

   

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I post a weekly diary of historical notes, arts & science items, foreign news (often receiving little notice in the US) and whimsical pieces from the outside world that I often feature in “Cheers & Jeers”. For example …..

WHO WOULDA THUNK that one of the GOP senators who voted to override President Reagan’s 1986 veto of sanctions against apartheid was a freshman named … Mitch McConnell … probably viewed as a ‘youthful indiscretion’ today.

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This has been a bizarre past twelve months as far as mayoralties go in our northern neighbor, as we will see after the jump ……

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By Request DIRECT DESCENDANTS from lineatus – “Lost in Space” anti-hero Dr. Zachary Smith and Senator Rand Paul from Kentucky. Whaddya think?

   

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A look at someone whom I consider the best consumer audio innovator of his (post-1960) generation, after the jump ……….

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A look at America’s first interracial stand-up comedy duo and – sadly – its last, after the jump …..

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OLDER-YOUNGER BROTHERS? – Guns N’ Roses singer Axl Rose and Jesse Tyler Ferguson (from “Modern Family”).

   

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SEPARATED at BIRTH – the late Monkees singer Davy Jones and Star Trek’s Walter Koenig.

   

OK, you’ve been warned – here is this week’s tomfoolery material that I posted.