Ladies and gentlemen - and DUers too - I present to you my 10,000th post.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

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I had thought the song's title was "10,000 Light Years From Home." Instead, it's "2000 Light Years from Home." Watch it five times, and we'll call it even.

In post number 9,999, I went after Nazi ***** supporter - yes, I know that's redundant - Richard Spencer:

Spencer follows in the footsteps of previous Arlington Nazi George Lincoln Rockwell.

In this post, let's combine the Nazi theme and the Russian theme and thereby note the train wreck that our country will experience in but a month by showing something from Red Square:

In honor of the occasion, I'm wearing a pair of Nocona cowboy boots, made in Nocona, Texas, not China. But I wear them everyday, so it's not much of a stretch.

Hat tip, progree. The last I looked, I was at 9,992, so I knew I was getting close. He set me mail this morning to point out that I was at 9,999. Thanks, progree.

Celebrate responsibly. If you're not responsible, please designate someone who is responsible to operate the keyboard for you.

Please enjoy.

[femmocrat]

1. Congratulations, mahatmakanejeeves!

(P.S. What does your user name mean? It is not easy to spell! )

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. It's three words in one - Mahatma Kane Jeeves.

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=mahatma+kane+jeeves

The Bank Dick

The Bank Dick (released as The Bank Detective in the United Kingdom) is a 1940 comedy film. Set in Lompoc, California, W. C. Fields plays a character named Egbert Sousé who trips a bank robber and ends up a security guard as a result. The character is a drunk who must repeatedly remind people in exasperation that his name is pronounced "Sousé – accent grave {sic} over the 'e'!", because people keep calling him "Souse" (slang for drunkard). In addition to bank and family scenes, it features Fields pretending to be a film director and ends in a chaotic car chase. The Bank Dick is considered a classic of his work, incorporating his usual persona as a drunken henpecked husband with a shrewish wife, disapproving mother-in-law, and savage children.

The film was written by Fields, using the alias Mahatma Kane Jeeves (derived from the Broadway drawing-room comedy cliche, "My hat, my cane, Jeeves!&quot , and directed by Edward F. Cline. Shemp Howard, one of the Three Stooges, plays a bartender.

In 1992, The Bank Dick was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Bonus film clip:

If I Had a Million

....
Road Hogs

Directed by Norman Z. McLeod

Ex-vaudeville performer Emily La Rue (Alison Skipworth) is very content with her life, running her tea room with the help of her partner, ex-juggler Rollo (W. C. Fields). Only one thing is lacking to make her satisfaction complete, and it is delivered that very day: a brand new car. However, when they take it out for a drive, it is wrecked when another driver ignores a stop signal. The heartbroken woman returns to her tea room, where Glidden finds her.

She comes up with an inventive way to spend part of her great windfall. She and Rollo purchase eight used cars and hire drivers. They all take to the road in a long procession. When they encounter an inconsiderate road hog, Emily and Rollo immediately set off in pursuit and crash into the offender's automobile. They then switch to one of their spare cars and repeat the process, until they run out of automobiles. At the end of the day, Emily purchases another new car, but it too is destroyed in a collision with a truck. No matter. Emily tells Rollo it has been "a glorious day".

I'm looking for it now.

W. C. Fields Makes "Road Hogs" Pay For Their Driving Sins

No luck - the video has been removed. I last watched it a few years ago. Watch it if you can find it.

[femmocrat]

3. Thanks!

When you break it down, it's much easier. "my hat, my cane, Jeeves!"

[Phentex]

4. Congratulations!

Cool videos. I was hoping to make it to 13,000 this year but it's not gonna happen.

[hibbing]

5. Congrats!

I'll get there eventually, like if I live another 20 years.


Peace