Doowah and Satire: 10/3/10

DOOWAH AND HORATIAN SATIRE

The Doo-wah Application to My Blog is for Pure Fun and Fantasy. I Like to Think it is as Therapeutic for Release of Tension and Anxiety. I have posted what I believe to be Interesting and Amusing and added the elements of Game Interaction as well.

My Intent with Gentle Satire Here, is Tongue-in-Cheek for the purpose of Amusement, and to Allow the Viewer Questioning Contemplation and Thoughtful Peruse.

I Believe it is along the line of Horatian Satire. Horatian Satire is Named after the Roman satirist, Horace; this type of satire playfully criticizes some social vice through gentle, mild, and light-hearted humour. "It directs wit, exaggeration, and self-deprecating humour toward what it identifies as folly, rather than evil. Horatian satire's sympathetic tone is common in modern society...." (as Defined by the Wikipedia)

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Friday, October 8, 2010

"Cheaper is not Better"

Somewhere over the intercom in the mega department stores of the USA this might be heard ...

"Attention 'Blah Blah Blah' Customers.... We have been asked why we do not support USA manufacturing.

The answer is simple. We have sold out to China... You have been officially Shanghaied.

We do realize their product is inferior and perhaps @ times deadly, but we believe we are providing what you have asked for. Face it... Cheaper is not Better.

Thank You for Shopping with us .... and Have a Nice Day..."

CEGordon 10/8/10

A Couple of Riddles From Aesop's Fables

Fable of The Eagle and the Arrow

AN EAGLE sat on a lofty rock, watching the movements of a Hare
whom he sought to make his prey. An archer, who saw the Eagle
from a place of concealment, took an accurate aim and wounded him
mortally. The Eagle gave one look at the arrow that had entered
his heart and saw in that single glance that its feathers had
been furnished by himself. "It is a double grief to me," he
exclaimed, "that I should perish by an arrow feathered from my
own wings."

Moral of the Story: Be Aware of that Which Surrounds You
So as not to give the enemy the Means for Your Own Destruction

The Ass's Brains

The Lion and the Fox went hunting together. The Lion, on the
advice of the Fox, sent a message to the Ass, proposing to make an
alliance between their two families. The Ass came to the place of
meeting, overjoyed at the prospect of a royal alliance. But when
he came there the Lion simply pounced on the Ass, and said to the
Fox: "Here is our dinner for to-day. Watch you here while I go
and have a nap. Woe betide you if you touch my prey." The Lion
went away and the Fox waited; but finding that his master did not
return, ventured to take out the brains of the Ass and ate them
up. When the Lion came back he soon noticed the absence of the
brains, and asked the Fox in a terrible voice: "What have you done
with the brains?"

"Brains, your Majesty! it had none, or it would never have
fallen into your trap."

Jabberwocky Nonsensical Poem by Lewis Carroll 1872 from Alice,"Through the Looking Glass"

Jabberwocky

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves
And the mome raths outgrabe

'Beware the jabberwocky, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious bandersnatch!'

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought-
So rested he by the tumtum tree
And stood awhile in thought

And as in uffish thought he stood
The jabberwock, with eyes of flame
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood
And burbled as it came!

One, two! one, two! and through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back

'And has thou slain the jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! calloh! callay!'
He chortled in his joy

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves
And the mome raths outgrabe

"Riki Tiki Tavi" Song Lyrics

Riki Tiki Tavi (Original Version)

You Better get into what you gotta get into
Better get into it now, no slacking please
United Nations ain't really united
And the organizations ain't really organized

Riki tiki tavi mongoose is gone
Riki tiki tavi mongoose is gone
Won't be coming around for to kill your snakes no more my love,
Riki tiki tavi mongoose is gone

Every body who read the Jungle Book knows that Riki tiki tavi's a
mongoose who kills snakes

(Well) when I was a young man I was led to believe there were organizations
to kill my snakes for me
(i.e. the) church ie the government ie the school
(but when I got a little older) I learned I had to kill them myself

(I said) Riki tiki tavi mongoose is gone
Riki tiki tavi mongoose is gone
Won't be coming around for to kill your snakes no more my love
Riki tiki tavi mongoose is gone...

(16 bars instrumental)

People walk around they don't know what they're doing
They bin lost so long they don't know what they've been looking for...
Well, I know what I'm a looking for but I just can't find it,
I guess I gotta look inside of myself some more

oh oh oh inside of myself some more
oh oh oh inside of myself some more

Riki tiki tavi mongoose is gone
Riki tiki tavi mongoose is gone
Riki tiki tavi mongoose is gone
Riki tiki tavi mongoose is gone

I saw you today on a number twelve
bus you were going my way
my way.... Going my way...

Donovan Leitch

Bubble Game Goal

Clean off the field by matching 3 or more bubbles of the same color. Use the Pointer and Shoot. All exploded bubbles will appear on the field time and again. In order to clear the playing field & get to the next level you must detonate them all. You can get more popped by ricocheting too. From Time to Time, Adds Pop Up. Just Click on the X to Close them. Somebody Always wants to Mess with our Game, but We are In Control! For more explicit details, click on the directions on the Purple "help" Button on the right. If you can read it, you are seeing better than me. Good Luck!

About the Song, "Rocky Raccoon"

From the Original Beatles White Album from 1968

PAUL Explains~ 1968: "I was sitting on the roof in India with a guitar-- John and I were sitting 'round playing guitar, and we were with Donovan. And we were just sitting around enjoying ourselves, and I started playing the chords of 'Rocky Raccoon,' you know, just messing around. And, oh, originally it was Rocky Sassoon, and we just started making up the words, you know, the three of us-- and started just to write them down. They came very quickly. And eventually I changed it from Sassoon to Raccoon, because it sounded more like a cowboy. So there it is. These kind of things-- you can't really talk about how they come 'cuz they just come into your head, you know. They really do. And it's like John writing his books. There's no... I don't know how he does it, and he doesn't know how he does it, but he just writes. I think people who actually do create and write... you tend to think, 'Oh, how did he do that,' but it actually does flow... just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down, you know. And that's what happened with this. I don't know anything about the Appalachian mountains or cowboys and indians or anything. But I just made it up, you know. And the doctor came in stinking of gin and proceeded to lie on the table. So, there you are."

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Friday, October 8, 2010

"Cheaper is not Better"

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"The Secret Sits"

Dr Suess on "Love"

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It Wasn't Me

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Jabberwocky Nonsensical Poem by Lewis Carroll 1872 from Alice,"Through the Looking Glass"

Jabberwocky

Riki Tiki Tavi Mongoose

"Riki Tiki Tavi" Song Lyrics

The Bursting Bubble Game aka "Busting Your Balls" Game

Bubble Game Goal

Rocky Raccoon Cartoon Video as created by "PaulJohnGeorgeRingo"

About the Song, "Rocky Raccoon"

Steve Martin "The Dentist" in Little Shop of Horrors (Steve is Very Bad Here!)

"Little House of Horrors"

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