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ericjanssen.bsky.social @ericjanssen.bsky.social · 1m

We try, but us hippie Lutherans can’t save everyone…

ericjanssen.bsky.social @ericjanssen.bsky.social · 2m

Keep in mind, Christianity is still psychologically tied to Nobunaga in their culture, and not particularly treated with sensitivity in the first place…

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ericjanssen.bsky.social @ericjanssen.bsky.social · 4m

“Look, if people self-indulgently drink and drug themselves into an obnoxious stupor to life or relive their college years, it’s your duty to respect their wisdom!” 😠☝️

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ericjanssen.bsky.social @ericjanssen.bsky.social · 7h

If you have to think of a GOOD 70’s Roger Moore moment, you just start hearing Marvin Hamlisch’s disco-Bond theme in your head: youtu.be/RaEU_A405zA

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The Spy Who Loved Me - Austria Ski Chase

YouTube video by bondonbluray

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ericjanssen.bsky.social @ericjanssen.bsky.social · 7h

“No more than ten to twenty million, tops…Depending on the breaks.”

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ericjanssen.bsky.social @ericjanssen.bsky.social · 7h

“And the drugs got so bad, it felt like the Devil was pressing a rum raisin ring cake down on my head… And the rum would burst into flames, and the raisins would turn into little demons, and I would hold up my hands and say ‘Demonic raisins, I rebuke you!’”

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ericjanssen.bsky.social @ericjanssen.bsky.social · 7h

Granted, most of the stories of “greed and excess” were provided by Jerry Falwell, who promised them a list of living expenses during their bankruptcy, then turned around and waved it in reporters’ faces with outrage. Still, I miss when SNL’s Church Lady was still about scandals.

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ericjanssen.bsky.social @ericjanssen.bsky.social · 8h

The ‘00 documentary version of “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” particularly sheds light on the backstabbing that Jim & Tammy got after their bust, especially by those interested in their satellite network. If you’re trying to apply an After It Happens metaphor here, that’s what history is for. 😎

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ericjanssen.bsky.social @ericjanssen.bsky.social · 10h

What offends me most? Idiots who still haven’t figured out why politicians say “I approveD this message”. 🤬🤦‍♂️ Even people who misuse “Begs the question” or misquote “Wherefore art thou?” could even come close.

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ericjanssen.bsky.social @ericjanssen.bsky.social · 10h

Oh, now you’re just borrowing viral memes:

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ericjanssen.bsky.social @ericjanssen.bsky.social · 10h

That’s even a robot soullessly telling a joke without understanding it is still funnier than a self-amused passive-aggressive bully thinking she’s getting “revenge” by telling it. And for, “Tiffany” DID pretty much interpret the current-headline joke the way a female comic would: Smug and preachy.🙄

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ericjanssen.bsky.social @ericjanssen.bsky.social · 11h

There’s only one way they can get out: Hehehh…With LUCK!

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ericjanssen.bsky.social @ericjanssen.bsky.social · 11h

So…”be the bear”…that women would prefer…because it might attack them…whereas men will attack them…so serves them right if the bear attacks the men….? 🤔 So…”Be the safer guy, then”? That’s all I got. Sorry—Connie, you can post this thing a HUNDRED damn times, I’m still not quite parsing. 🤷‍♂️

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ericjanssen.bsky.social @ericjanssen.bsky.social · 11h

The Asylum knockbuster of “Iron Sky”, thinking we’d all rush to Blockbuster to ask for THAT one. To give you an idea of their desperation, at their 00’s heyday.

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ericjanssen.bsky.social @ericjanssen.bsky.social · 11h

As Henny Youngman so classically put it: “I’ll get you, even if I have to dig my way out of the grave!” “I’m going to have her buried face down, let her dig!”

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ericjanssen.bsky.social @ericjanssen.bsky.social · 11h

It was questionable game outcomes that banned sports betting in the first place.

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ericjanssen.bsky.social @ericjanssen.bsky.social · 11h

The problem with fake “Brendan Loper cartoons” is that anything you generate on ChatGPT will STILL look like 70’s Mad Magazine by way of the Garbage Pail Kids. And then there’s the issue of generative AI trying to parse the cartoonists’ abstract human concepts of “Wit” and “Point”.

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ericjanssen.bsky.social @ericjanssen.bsky.social · 12h

They also couldn’t remember where they left their pants the next morning. How many pairs of pants were they wearing? HOW MANY?? 👖👖

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ericjanssen.bsky.social @ericjanssen.bsky.social · 12h

Uh, when straight guys say “All those gays are immediately going to try and hit on me”, isn’t that considered a “homophobic stereotype”? 🤔

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ericjanssen.bsky.social @ericjanssen.bsky.social · 12h

The original infamously studio-embarrassed mis-marketed poster campaign, from the theatrical release. One of the few instances in which alternate posters are not only allowed, but encouraged:

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ericjanssen.bsky.social @ericjanssen.bsky.social · 12h

He means “Be glad I was elected, you would have had to get rid of her if she won.” (🪒 < - Occam) Uhh, yeah. Get back to you on that one. 🙄

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ericjanssen.bsky.social @ericjanssen.bsky.social · 14h

Well, yeah, apart from the sainthood, but that was more of a retirement thing.

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ericjanssen.bsky.social @ericjanssen.bsky.social · 14h

At least when the little kid published his book/movie/franchise, he later confessed his dad made him do it.

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ericjanssen.bsky.social @ericjanssen.bsky.social · 15h

While the rest sipped their wine and said “Missed a spot. 🍷”

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ericjanssen.bsky.social @ericjanssen.bsky.social · 18h

The techbros thought they would be the Power Behind the Throne by selling it to big business. And now discovers Big Business doesn’t want it, because it’s too expensive and makes mistakes. Those who do want AI are the film students, and scientific data analysts, who know the FEW things AI can do.

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ericjanssen.bsky.social @ericjanssen.bsky.social · 18h

We have people saying “Look what happened to 3DTV!”, as example of “dead” technology. Happily ignoring that A) 3DTV’s rollout was hampered by competing studios fighting a “war” of tying exclusive hardware to in-demand movies, And B) Blu3D is still being used, for niche collector film restoration.

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ericjanssen.bsky.social @ericjanssen.bsky.social · 18h

Well, Digger has just as many film bros “martyring” their movie by browbeating mainstream viewers to take a bullet and see it whether they like it or not, to support the Noble Cause… Just not as MANY as the Animationistas who want to punish Warner for canceling bad Max toons and Batman movies.

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ericjanssen.bsky.social @ericjanssen.bsky.social · 18h

Wait, whut? A movie from BEFORE I was born? Like, I didn’t live to see it play in cineplexes? That’d be, like, on VHS, or something!

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ericjanssen.bsky.social @ericjanssen.bsky.social · 18h

A rule I have always lived by. 👏

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ericjanssen.bsky.social @ericjanssen.bsky.social · 18h

“Face it, boys, just because YOU weren’t raised in a culture of paranoid self-loathing victimhood…. 😘”

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ericjanssen.bsky.social @ericjanssen.bsky.social · 18h

An AI video of Batgirl immediately protested.

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ericjanssen.bsky.social @ericjanssen.bsky.social · 18h

In the cartoons and series-bible, Charles Addams specifically described Thing as “the Thing Under the Stairs”, who wanted to help, but was just too shy. (Note balcony.)

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ericjanssen.bsky.social @ericjanssen.bsky.social · 18h

In trying to understand the mystery of WHY a generation has unironically embraced a movie we laughed off the screen when it was in theaters, I check carefully to see how many of them mistakenly think Dennis Weaver was in it. 🤦‍♂️

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ericjanssen.bsky.social @ericjanssen.bsky.social · 19h

As Republicans tried to assure us “You must believe we are magic, don’t let your head ever stray.” (Yeah, I know it wasn’t that one, but any excuse for a ref. 😛)

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ericjanssen.bsky.social @ericjanssen.bsky.social · 19h

BRIEFLY. Before his own investors Gamestopped him. 🤭

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ericjanssen.bsky.social @ericjanssen.bsky.social · 19h

They’ve tried, but Lionsgate just COULDN’T make a replacement franchise out of Now You See Me, and Keanu won’t do John Wick movies anymore. ☹️

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ericjanssen.bsky.social @ericjanssen.bsky.social · 19h

Lionsgate, still hoping for that one last grasp for the glory-days…. 🏈

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ericjanssen.bsky.social @ericjanssen.bsky.social · 19h

There’s Mel Brooks’ story of dealing with Hitchcock, back before High Anxiety… youtu.be/s5eZtpsX2Uw

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Mel Brooks on Alfred Hitchcock

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ericjanssen.bsky.social @ericjanssen.bsky.social · 19h

Hitchcock was NOT a butthead! Selznick, OTOH…

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ericjanssen.bsky.social @ericjanssen.bsky.social · 20h

Little surprises around every corner, nothing to worry about…

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ericjanssen.bsky.social @ericjanssen.bsky.social · 20h

No, just that we were picking on some OTHER annoying self-struck conversation-free meme-bot all weekend, and…he just picked bad timing to start breaking out with the new generic shock material.

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ericjanssen.bsky.social @ericjanssen.bsky.social · 20h

The story of Columbus facing the Inquisition is complete fiction (by Nathaniel Hawthorne). The Spanish church/monarchy WANTED Columbus to discover new markets for missionary work, especially peaceful tribes that didn’t kill missionaries. He had one job…

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ericjanssen.bsky.social @ericjanssen.bsky.social · 21h

It’s fun every September in our college town, and see 18-yo.’s loading their Target carts up on bedsheets, plastic coat hangers and cleaning products. Welcome to the Inevitable. 😈

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