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Re: The Dwacon® Blog: Fly the VERY FRIENDLY Skies…

It's So Hanna-Barberaesque — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 17:17:47 -0000

What about Amtrak?

Re: The Dwacon® Blog: J&R

dwacon — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 14:01:11 -0000

Appreciate your support and your consistent patronage of our blog. Hope we can keep the good stuff coming!

Re: The Dwacon® Blog: J&R

HisFishHawk — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 01:44:40 -0000

"The Dwacon Blog" has been included in this weeks A Sunday Drive. I hope this helps to attract even more new visitors here.

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Re: Stay Away From Those GOTCHA Journalists...

HisFishHawk — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 07:53:46 -0000

I suppose it shouldn't be any wonder that the party that takes NO!!! to an entirely different level would have such of bevy of babes. Well, at least that is what I have mostly heard from women who looked like Sarah and Christine.

Re: The Dwacon® Blog: Resolve Episode 5: “Danny Lives Here”

Holdon — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 14:38:57 -0000

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Re: The Dwacon® Blog: Resolve Episode 5: “Danny Lives Here”

Holdon — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 14:37:50 -0000

Great show!

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Re: How Did This Slip Past the Censors?

dwacon — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 17:23:03 -0000

All very good points. We have a set of videos that will be posted in a few weeks that show the tables turned... where Barbara is the master and Larry is the... well, I shan't spoil it.

Re: How Did This Slip Past the Censors?

uberrob — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 10:36:05 -0000

There was a lot going on in the 60's with regards to censorship - much of it confusing and self-deprecating. A large portion of what you see in the 60's sitcoms (check out the Munsters, Gilligan's Island, even Batman and F-Troop). Racism, sexism and thinly-veiled sexual innuendo abound. To figure out what was going on, its probably important to separate the gaffs you've noticed into two camps: cultural and societal ignorance (racism and sexism) from censorship (sexual innuendo and sponsor-baiting, which is really all the censorship board cared about). What the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour got cancelled for had nothing to do with sexual innuendo, it had to do with sponsor-baiting. Tom and Dick Smothers (and - let's not forget, writers Steve Martin, Mason Williams, and the brilliant Bob Einstein, among others) wrote and acting material that not just promoted racial/sexual equality and the US's foreign policy (most notably our involvement in Vietnam), but ridiculed people, government institutions, and (this is the important part) SPONSORS that supported the status quo in the US....*by name.* It's that last part that got them tossed off the network - and, I've loved the brothers Smother ever sense.

We forget how much times have not only changed, but have been altered forever, because of people like the crew of the Smothers Brothers show - and they weren't alone: Rod Serling's Twilight Zone had a pretty profound episode or two (check out the episode with George Takei that was banned after a single airing because it chose to show the US as the aggressors in the WW2). Now, with the exception of 5 of the Carlin 7 Dirty Words, you can pretty much say/do what you'd like on network television - ok, not completely, but you get my drift.

As to the navel thing on Beverly Hillbillies? Think of the CBS censors like the folks who admit apps into the Apple app store - hey, occasionally something slips through. I suspect that it just wasn't caught since it wasn't a weekly occurrence as it would have been on I Dream of Jeanne. (Although they seemed fine with an blonde/blue-eyed Arab girl, and an uptight white guy she calls "Master" keeping her in a bottle.)

Re: If You Thought SyFy was Bad...

dwacon — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:13:46 -0000

Such a brilliant genius should invent a better wheelchair...

Re: The Dwacon® Blog: Honest Men Still Exist!

HisFishHawk — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 01:29:36 -0000

Be assured that I didn't do any figurin' in my head, and I wouldn't be surprised if those numbers were way off.

Re: The Dwacon® Blog: Honest Men Still Exist!

dwacon — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 20:31:49 -0000

All those numbers... I need a calculator...

Re: The Dwacon® Blog: Honest Men Still Exist!

HisFishHawk — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:17:36 -0000

Sadly, they seem to be getting fewer and farther between with each passing day, but since it is really the same today as it has been since the very beginning of this world, it is arguable that there being fewer honest people with each passing day is just a misconception. For 1% of a million people is 10,000 while 1% of a billion people is 10,000,000, but having 990,000,000 more dishonest people around greatly overshadows having 9,990,000 more honest people.

Re: True Story?

dwacon — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 14:31:14 -0000

I sadly had many similar encounters... so perhaps jot it down as a cautionary tale?

Re: True Story?

HisFishHawk — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 13:04:05 -0000

It sounds like a fictitious story, but it is a really good one!

Re: It’ll Tickle Your Innards

dwacon — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:59:41 -0000

Hmm...

Re: It’ll Tickle Your Innards

HisFishHawk — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 07:12:15 -0000

Hmm, evidently my memory is corrupted. For I thought it was Kickapoo Joy Juice that used that slogan.

Re: The Coolest TV Theme Evah !!!

dwacon — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 12:19:48 -0000

Sisko was cool... being from N’Awlins and having a pop who made great gumbo. Still... nothing like that strong silent anti-hero who said “SpenSAH” like no other.

Re: The Coolest TV Theme Evah !!!

HisFishHawk — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 04:43:24 -0000

Wow, it's been a while since I've seen the show. I loved his character--both in this show and in Spencer For Hire. Althought, I liked the character he played on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine even better. In fact, if I had my choice of who I would prefer to serve under of the Star Trek captains, Captain Sisko edges out Captain Picard because of having a better sense of humor.

Re: Obama Kick Ass Song

dwacon — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 23:19:31 -0000

The fingers are faster than the brain at times... :^[

Re: Obama Kick Ass Song

Philhartmen — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 11:34:09 -0000

Ill take some Canadian Dwacon please....

Re: Obama Kick Ass Song

HisFishHawk — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 06:09:58 -0000

This hilarious bit of what? You wouldn't be trying to sneak around our aversion to expanding our vocabulary--would you?

Re: The Creepiest Man on Television?

Batman — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:23:39 -0000

Apparently, that clip is from some Canadian show in the 80's.... I guess they had different laws back then, however, if I saw the guy on the street, they'd have to call the coroner after I was done with him....

Re: SEC + SEX = Two Wrongs... Nothing Right...

S.O — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 15:34:25 -0000

A close friend of mine was married to a high ranking attorney at SEC. As far back as 20 years, he had a serious addiction to porn. She divorced him, but it was a very ugly divorce. He had other attorneys from SEC threatening her and she came close to losing her children when she refused to let him take them for visits. The children were exposed to porno, since he could not go a minute without watching it.
I pray he is one of those caught. I wish I knew how to make sure.
So, this problem goes back many years.

Re: SEC + SEX = Two Wrongs... Nothing Right...

dwacon — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 13:14:10 -0000

You prolly hit the nail on the head there.

Re: SEC + SEX = Two Wrongs... Nothing Right...

HisFishHawk — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 06:44:50 -0000

Well, I suppose that could help explain Bernie Madoff and the rest of that "stuff" they were supposed to be monitoring? Yeah, bad joke, I know.