...and February will soon be upon us. Time keeps marching on, relentlessly, in spite of all our efforts to slow it down.
The ink on the New Year's resolutions isn't even dry yet (I didn't make any, by the way) and this year is already 8% gone, or will be as of 12:01 a.m. on Sunday, er, Saturday night, er, take your choice.
This is now my fifth post of 2026, my 2,321st since this blog began on September 28, 2007. That's a lot of water under the bridge or over the dam or wherever it goes/went.
I'm rambling.
I'm so old I remember B.O. Plenty and his daughter Sparkle Plenty in the Dick Tracy comic strip. I remember Jubilation T. Cornpone and Mammy Yokum in the Li'l Abner comic strip. I remember Mutt and Jeff. I remember the Katzenjammer Kids.
Mrs. RWP (the lovely Ellie) and I must be regressing. We have spent many an evening recently watching old black-and-white episodes of What's My Line? and To Tell The Truth from the 1950s and 1960s. Seems like yesterday, but it was 65, 70 years ago that we watched them originally. Another sign of my advanced age.
I'm not complaining. It's good to be alive and kicking, even with all the alarming and disheartening goings-on in the news as of late. As some wag (not me) once said, "Halitosis is better than no breath at all."
T.T.F.N.
Well , we have the age and experience. Let's own it.. We lived in the best of times.
ReplyDeleteAnd also arguably in the worst of times. It depends on whom you ask. Thanks for commenting, Red.
DeleteCould it be that older programmes, cartoons, series are simply better than most current offerings?
ReplyDeleteI vote YES but I may be prejudiced. My favorite cartoon strip from recent decades has been Dilbert by the late Scott Adams. Thank you, Janice.
DeleteI grew up with the Phil Silvers Show on a Friday night and What's My Line on a Sunday (a British version with Katie Boyle and Cyril Fletcher, Barbara Kelly, Isobel Barnett and David Nixon and Gilbert Harding). I say all this from memory. I now occupy myself with Netflix and Amazon Prime documentaries, films and dramas. I am currently watching a Russian documentary on sex in the Soviet Union and oppression over the years. My favourite films are Ingmar Bergman directed of the 1950s and 1960s which I see on Amazon Primes. Thank you for your comment on my blog today Bob. Rachel
ReplyDeleteI like all the characters you mentioned. Do you remember Hekyll and Jekyll from the old cartoons. I can't find anything about them and my children think I am in my dotage. Anyway in the Lil Abner movie they had a song about Jubilation T. Cornpone. I loved it. I watch I've Got A Secret and What's My Line too.
ReplyDeleteI do remember H and J. On TV I remember Soupy Sales’s not-quite-imaginary dog friends (at least I think they were dogs), White Fang and Black Tooth. We watch those old game shows via YouTube on a Roku system. They’re a lot of fun. Thank you, Emma.
DeleteJust tuned back in to check that all is still ticking over nicely at The Brague Mansion. Nice to note that your self-deprecating wit has not deserted you yet Bob.
ReplyDeleteStill here, still ticking. Readership has dwindled somewhat and comments are fewer these days, but no matter. So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. That last sentence is by the American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and appears as the final line of The Great Gatsby (I know American literature is not your thing). Speaking of the past, your poem "Song for Lost Youth" hasgraced my sidebar since the year you wrote it, 2013. Good to hear from you, Neil. Thanks for stopping by.
DeleteAlthough you are right about most things Bob, I have enjoyed some American literature. It has been years now but I believe that I read everything that John Steinbeck had published. And back in 2005, when I visited California with my family, I made a point of visiting The John Steinbeck Museum in Salinas. Also I must have been ten years old when the school prize I received was "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" - a book that I still cherish to this day.
DeleteI remain greatly honoured that you still keep my poem in your sidebar. After twelve years, I wonder if I should tinker with it or leave it just as it is and was.
Kind regards,
Neil
"halitosis is better than no breath at all"
ReplyDeleteCan i comment that the truth in that statement probably depends on whose halitosis it is?
Enjoy your week :)
I’m sure you are correct, but I’m not going to do any field testing to prove it.
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