On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 4:22 PM, azgrey <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJdKK6L8Z2o here, > > > > who bears a strong resemblance to our Author's Friend. > > > > > Yes indeed she does, Tom. Very observant of you. The censorious editor > could most definitely be judged a Tuklu of Carry Nation. Several other > qualities also appear to be in common in addition to the prominent sagging > jowls on a sallow face completely devoid of humor and warmhearted > compassion. > > Namely: > > -failed in the theatre. > -missionary zeal for highly questionable goals. > -"Defender of the Faith" (boy, Skolnick sure hit a bulls-eye on that one) > -considered herself of the highest moral character and considered anyone > who disagrees with her as morally defective and really really stoooopid. > -was considered even by most of her supporters as mentally unstable and, > purportedly, at least 50% of her closest supporters considered her quite > insane. > > Could it be the we, the fair readers of FFL have discovered a true American > Tuklu? > > I believe you are incorrect on the start date of the film, Tom. Did you > miss episode one? > > I think I tuned into episode 1 last night. I'm in the Deep South. Takes a while for those radio waves to propagate. BTW, you forgot the hatchet. As in hatchet job on her opposition and what do editors do with other peoples' writing? Now that I'm chewing up my quota of posts. I found the crap about the Anti-Saloon and Temperance movements being an Anglo cause looking out for the welfare of the huddled masses to be a bit patronizing. It is true, however, that by the time Prohibition came into effect the vast mass of Americans lived in cities, we had a large amount of immigrants living in Hells Kitchen type places where the saloon was the parlor for a man going home to a family of 17 living in one room, where the saloon was a bit of feeling like a man after 18 hours a day of dehumanizing, not to mention emasculating work, a place to receive mail, have wakes, ethnic appreciation meetings, get translations, learn to speak English, learn to read English, a place to vote, to find a job and on and on. While the Anglos were in their uptown clubs talking about buying Venezuela and getting piss drunk, that was all good because it was in suits and in private. Saloons weren't private. How interesting that the Queen Mother carried a flask, as does the Queen. Now that wasn't mentioned. I think Burns should have quit years ago or gotten better funding. One historian, two readers? Burns brought the pathos of the Civil War to life, though there to he didn't go into the events up to and the real causes of the War of Northern Aggression. Burns took a very interesting subject, anti-saloons and temperance, and made them boring. BTW, I have a special interest in Prohibition. When my maternal grandfather got hurt in the coal mines in, I believe, Allentown, PA, he moved to South River, NJ with the family and became a bootlegger to support the family. My mother and father met years before they met when my paternal grandfather drove the wagon full of the wealth of his truck farm into South River and bartered veggies, milk, eggs and chickens for hooch. My grandfather had blessings from the Church. He supplied the priests and nuns with wines, beer and whiskey.
