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Welcome to the Wednesday (EBD) edition of SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight we feature a cartoon mash-up in which the audio of Peter Lorre’s monologue in Fritz Lang’s 1931 film M is completely mis-translated and the resulting subtitles added to an old episode of Quick Draw McGraw.
Here then, without further ado, is the historic SDA premiere of Merrill Markoe’s nightmarish Quickdraw Noir.
The thread is open for your relentless Reader Tips.

49 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. Colby Cosh, in fine form at the National Post:
    “Doctors deal with the new weirdism every day. Bitter jokes about their patients’ Internet reading habits have become a professional shibboleth. Dealing with anti-vaccination nonsense is especially tragic for them, since vaccination was pretty much the first really useful thing physicians could do about infectious disease. The critics always protest, of course, that they are not ‘anti-vaccine.’ They’re just opposed to giving too many vaccines, or to particular components in vaccines. But doctors instinctively recognize them as epidemiological vectors of irrationalism, propagating darkly illiberal emotional archetypes; paranoid little General Rippers, meditating obsessively on the purity of their fluids.”

  4. Thanks for both those links, EBD. Quickdraw Noir is, I think,
    both delightful and sagacious, and Mr. Cosh’s essay is, I think,
    perhaps the best I have read to date on that matter.

  5. A bit of delicious deviousness today: John Crosby escorting the Royal dodos decked out in a full-length sealskin coat. Would love to have heard Charlie’s underbreath mutterings to the missus.
    You still got it, John, but then again, subtledy never was your strong suit.

  7. my favourite John Crosby is him saying to Allan MacEachen , a known alternative lifestyle type.
    “arent we having a gay old time”
    and of course.
    “have some tequila Sheila and lie down an love me again” to Sheiler Copps……
    the large imp.

  8. I agree with you about Cosh’s essay, Vitruvius – it’s nice to read a bit o sanity on the matter. I’ve been mildly revolted by the almost prurient negativity of both the media and the provincial and federal opposition. Why, it’s as if they can’t wrap their head around the sheer logistics of such a mass immunization. As Cosh put it,
    “What the public health bureaucracy spent October emphasizing the contrary message: that the swine-flu vaccine was unconditionally and undeniably a good thing and that everyone, if possible, should have it. What they didn’t foresee is that just about everyone would, in fact, show up all at once. Considering the circumstances, the error is understandable, perhaps forgivable.”
    Now, there have been *messaging* problems, to be sure, as noted in this Edmonton Journal story. Excerpt:
    “Here is Health Minister Ron Liepert early last week: ‘I urge all Albertans to go out and get immunized.’
    “And here is Premier Ed Stelmach: ‘We’re not asking only those highrisk groups to get the vaccine first. It’s open to all.’
    (…)
    “But here’s Liepert again, later in the week: ‘The message isn’t any different today than it was four days ago. We would encourage those who are not at high risk to be patient and wait, those who are at high risk, please go and get your vaccination. Nothing has changed.’
    (…)
    “Here he is on Monday talking to reporters: ‘There is no mixed message coming from us.’
    Messaging problems are one thing, but on the other hand it’s not possible to inoculate millions of people in short order. It would be really nice if partisanship and blame-mongering could be put aside, for once, for the public good. The negativity and endless “outrage” doesn’t actually help anyone.

  9. I’ll do the thin’in’ around here Baba-Looey.
    My grandmother, nickname Annie Oakley, used Quick Draw McGraw to teach me the alternative meanings of the word draw. You know like draw your gun or draw a bead on that varmit. Of course she also taught me how to shoot responsibly and accurately.

  12. The next week opens second phase in the economic then social then political global crisis. The only question remains where the hit will come from? My bets are on China going off the rails and/or Japan’s debt. Supposedly there is a connection between those two. Brace for impact.
    You are welcome to do whatever with this information, I just post out of courtesy for SDA readers and don’t have any more comments on the subject.

  14. “It would be really nice if partisanship and blame-mongering could be put aside, for once, for the public good. The negativity and endless “outrage” doesn’t actually help anyone.”
    Word. The umbrage-and-blame frenzy we’ve been seeing is a sociological phenomenon in itself. The feeling that no one is in control, that the people who promised they had the answers and were supposed to have had their hands firmly and wisely on the tiller are letting us down at every turn, is pervasive and growing, in all areas of public life, seems like since 9-11. What was once perceived, erroneously or not, to be solid ground underfoot, is now apparently generally felt to be crumbling away.
    What’s strange is that people don’t see a larger need to rally and pull together more than ever at such a time, but rather squabble and finger-point like children riding in the back seat of a car that may or may not be heading off the road and toward a cliff because Dad’s asleep at the wheel.

  15. What has changed since 9-11, Exetaz?
    Before 9-11, there was no blogosphere.
    Now we have persistent citizens band radio.
    The result is fractious. We’ll grow out of it.

  16. Quite right, Vitruvius, the blame lands squarely and wetly on the nose/upper-lip of the inter-web. It’s no coincidence at all that the red-faced, spittle-flecked, hair-pulling apoplecticizers who nailed our lord to a crossbeam did so at the very moment when the internet made its first all-too-brief appearance, before it disappeared entirely for a couple thousand years. What a peaceful interim that was!
    /:>’>
    Hey, just out of idle curiosity I did some fun calculations on the matter of the vaccine rollout in the Alberta context (and lord knows, if anyone knows how someone like myself can publish them somewhere other than on this cursed medium, *please* let me know.) Anyhooo, if we were to assume, just for the sake of discussion, that three-quarters of Albertans decided to get the vaccine, and that they all stood in one lineup, and with a distance of 20 inches — half a metre – between them, the resulting lineup would be about 1,500 kilometres long – in other words, a little less than the distance between *Saskatoon and Vancouver.*
    What conclusion should we draw from this? It’s pretty obvious: Start pushing. Get mad. Get as many people mad as you possibly can. Write big headlines – it’s your duty as a journalist. Demand the resignation of members of the current government. Get people as stressed as possible.
    In the vernacular, “Hurry up in the front! What the hell’s wrong with you….” etc.
    Repeat relentlessly.

  18. Back to Quick Draw McGraw. The original English version is named “Choo Choo Chumps.” That was back in 1959, when cars had tail fins, men were men and women “honoured and obeyed.” Just kidding–just kidding!

  19. Quickdraw Noir sagacious Vitruvius? I was leaning towards capricious; Apocalyptica’s ability to perform classical metal is more along the lines of what I’d call sagacious.
    Full agreement with the Cosh article, most Canadians over 40 have a rather large scar on their arm from a smallpox vaccine they received as a child. No one thought twice about their kid getting the vaccine.

  20. And as Pelosi stands of the bow of the Titanic her famous last words kind of sound like – “We are victor……glug – glug – iru….glug glug…s oh my!…. WTF!!!!!!!!!!!

  21. Gore Clears Carbon Dioxide Of Most Blame
    A useful statement for him in any fraudsuits to come.
    Helpful in promoting his Karbon Kult – not so much.

  22. Blame, EBD? What blame? I mean, I think that there are many things that haven’t change since before 9-11, and indeed that have effectively always been (journalists have never been unbiased, good guys and bad guys have always co-existed, advances continue to be made in all facets of science and technology), yet it remains the case that if we take a look at what the biggest changes in the body politic have been since 9-11, or at least since a few months before 9-11, then the biggest new thing is the Internet and in particular the conversational part of the persistent blogosphere.

    This particular medium didn’t exist before then. And we’ve seen this sort of thing with new media before, from early eras of pamphleteers to later cases of, as I mentioned above, citizens band radio. I make no overall judgment of the net balance between the relative advantages and disadvantages of these new technologies, but certainly the new abilities for edge cases to pump-up- the-volume on some of the kinds of misbehaviours that Mr. Cosh is talking about in his essay you referenced supra are part of the equation.

    In the old days, we could have simply relied on the retail media market to get it all wrong, what’s new is that now we have the assistance of the blogosphere to help us get it, to help us get it, to help us get it what, exactly? Sometimes to help us get it right. Sometimes to help us get it wrong.

    It’s exhilarating. It’s good to be alive!

  25. “There’s been a feeling in Washington that you could wrap yourself in the Obama cloak and be okay – you could cast votes that your constituents didn’t like and you’d still be alright. The Virginia experience [Nov 3rd governor’s vote] shows that that’s not only not so but is not even remotely so. I think that’s going to send a chilling message to the Democrats.” – Dick Morris on the Dennis Prager Show, Nov 4, 2009

  26. “red-faced, spittle-flecked, hair-pulling apoplecticizers”
    Ah, EBD, I am too entertained with this apt and lovely turn of phrase to be motivated to get mad and push and call for action. My capacity for umbrage is neutralized. I officially resign my membership in An Arbitrary Number of People Demanding That Some Sort Of Action Be Taken.
    http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=59306991210

  28. cal2 AT 834 – my favourite Crosbyism is outdated – but he said during an election a while back that “the only poll you can trust is the pope” (Pole).

  31. Marc, thanks for the link. Here’s the comment I left:
    “Oh, I’m disappointed to learn that you actually intend for her to come back to the U.S.
    After all, isn’t Cuba under Castro the nirvana of the Left? That’s what I’ve long been told by my Democrat friends.”

  32. Election Night Cable TV News Ratings (courtesy of Drudge) :
    FOXNEWS: 4,043,000 viewers (1,130,000 in A25-54)
    MSNBC: 974,000 viewers(308,000 in A25-54)
    HEADLINE NEWS: 842,000 viewers(341,000 in A25-54)
    CNN: 826,000 viewers (227,000 in A25-54)…

  33. Tamil Tigers look to regroup in Canada:
    The Tamil Tigers organization hopes to use Canada as a strategic base to continue the fight against the government of Sri Lanka, according to an authority on the alleged terrorist group.
    “I cannot think of any other country that is more important for the Tamil Tigers as Canada, to regroup and continue their campaign against Sri Lanka,” said Prof. Rohan Gunaratna, head of the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research, a Singapore
    http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/11/03/bc-tamil-migrants-gunaratna.html

  35. to the right wing types who brag about how well Ford Motor Company is doing without federal aid: what support do you offer the 1600 soon-to-be-ex-employees of the Ford Talbotville plant near St Thomas Ontariariario which company brass have decided to shut down?

  36. You breached the contract you evil bunch!
    ……No lady, actually, you did.
    Beauty queen silenced by sex tape
    * From: The Daily Telegraph
    THE legal war between former Miss California USA Carrie Prejean and pageant organizers is over.
    A joint statement released Tuesday says Prejean and the organizers of the pageant reached a confidential settlement on dueling lawsuits.
    According to TMZ, Carrie Prejean demanded more than a million dollars during her settlement negotiations with Miss California USA Pageant until the Pageant lawyer presented her with a XXX sex tape of which she is the star.
    The video has never been released and is apparently so graphic, not even TMZ would play it.
    Apparently it took her about 15 seconds to withdraw her demands and accept a $100,000 payout, all of which covers the cost of her lawyers, leaving her with nothing…..

  37. Don Martin in the Herald today. Lieberals are paranoid again saying that more conservative ridings get the torch relay than lieberals. pretty simple when the libs only populate the urban riding of a few big cities. you cant draw a line through this country without crossing mostly conservative rural ridings.
    of course Hot Cross Hedy would be scared to death to have a burning torch run through her riding.
    exit stage left.

  38. “to the right wing types who brag about how well Ford Motor Company is doing without federal aid: what support do you offer the 1600 soon-to-be-ex-employees of the Ford Talbotville plant near St Thomas Ontariariario which company brass have decided to shut down?”
    The girlfriend and I were discussing her job and it’s highly specialized set of skills. I suggested something in one of the forestry mills close by, and she shot it down saying something to the effect of “Why would I want to work there, under the constant threat of a pink slip”.
    The fact of the matter is Ford will do what it must to survive, just like all those 1600 people. If they don’t want to constantly live under the threat of plant closure, then I would suggest that these people make use of Service Canada, EI and buy outs to retrain for a job that ISN’T under constant layoff threat.

  39. Victor Davis Hanson, Afghan Mythologies
    As President Obama decides whether to send more troops to Afghanistan, we should remember that most of the conventional pessimism about Afghanistan is only half-truth…
    While Afghans have been traditionally fierce resistance fighters and made occupations difficult, they have rarely for long defeated invaders — and never without outside assistance.
    Other mythologies about Afghanistan abound…

  40. Maybe curious George the Ford workers should not have been members of the Can. Auto Workers. It seems the auto plants getting Gov’t. charity handouts and layoffs in North America are all unionized.

  42. “All jobs are under constant layoff threat. ”
    Bwahahahahahahahaha…….never heard of gubermint/”public” servants?…Oh wait….those aren’t jobs….they’re nanny state for life.

  43. Re: Ford’s lay-offs
    The solution is pretty simple, direct and local: the rest of unionized brotherhood would take proportional cut in their compensation. Otherwise, someone else has to subsidize which doesn’t make sense for a following reason: let say a fisherman in Nova Scotia to pay extra dollars for Ford automobile has to charge extra amount of dollars for his fish sold to an autoworker (and everybody else). This transaction does not create an extra value , it deflates money. Of course it works for a government debt.

  44. Oh wait….those aren’t jobs….they’re nanny state for life.
    Posted by: Justthinkin at November 5, 2009 12:51 PM
    Thanks to your conservative government, the bureaucrats (and related parasitic chafe) grew by 4.1% last year.
    Wait until you see next year’s numbers 😉
    C’mon. Let’s give Steven a weally weally big hug for expanding the civil service and the size of government faster than any PM in the history of the nation.

  45. On Nov 3 MP Dean Del Mastro was presenting a motion to committee regarding having Sheila Fraser do a audit on Adscam to find out where the missing $43 million of stolen taxpayers dollars went and to find out which 12 PQ ridings received some of this money.(and perhaps flush out a few more criminals!)I can`t see the NDP or BQ committe members blocking this but you never know.
    Has anybody heard if this passed? I can`t find this reported anywhere in the MSM. The silence is deafening
    Perhaps Kate you could highlight this so we could hear everybody`s inputs.

  47. I have apparently gone off topic, and it’s late in the day but there was a character named Baba Louie, or some such, but I don’t know whose sidekick he was. I think he was a mouse, but am not sure. Could it have been Quickdraw (who was either a horse or a dog) or Huckleberry Hound, or Yogi Bear?
    It’s not something I must know, in fact I had forgotten him until this was posted.

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