As our plot slowly dribbles down the drain – should you have never heard of, “Mississippi Paddlewheel Daze,” why not take a listen to Stan Freberg hisself, as he explains all about “Elderly Man River,” political incorrectness and other things that you probably didn’t wish to know…
Aaaah… Well, at least Bubba didn’t land them in a giant vat of cheap pancake syrup at the Karo factory… And, considering they obviously threw together their “Egyptian” disguises from any oddments ready to hand, they might have fit right in… about 3000 BCE…
Seems that Bunz & Katz are no respecters of megalomanic deranged despots with god complexes and no respect for the Law or Constitution… An attitude that it would benefit more ‘Mericans wake up and consider…
Ha! You’re not fooling me, that’s not the “Bunny Belle” that’s the Spirit of Peoria! ROTFLMAO. (For Josh’s old ((er)) fans – the fact that such a thing exists as a riverboat named Spirit of Peoria is just freaking hilarious.) Where was the Spirit when master criminal Gelving Shavinski was tearing up the Peoria waterfront in his monster crab robot? Ah, good times.
But I digress. Bunz and Katz have come to Cairo… and now what? I mean, they’re in Cairo Ill, pretty much the bottom of the location-al plot intensity barrel. Where do you go from here? UP? (Nowhere else to go eh?)
I’m a bit surprised that you or anyone spotted “The Spirit of Peoria,” a modern replica paddlewheel riverboat… I had been unaware of it until looking for reference material for this page… Something else I’d been unaware of, is that Cairo Illinois is a failed city! Once a thriving river port on the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, today seems it’s more of a ghost town with a boarded up downtown, this apparently due to a mix of racial intolerance and lynchings, resulting in an exodus of the non-white residents, plus the construction of major bridges, resulting in no real need for Cairo as a river port, even for ferry boats… Seems all this has made Cairo, a not particularly desirable place to live…
Didn’t take much for those old river towns to drag up. Natchez was killed off by the rail roads and only survives today because of all the antebellum mansions that tourists come to sleep and eat breakfast in. Vicksburg got cut off by the river sometime after the Civil War but has that really great national battlefield memorial park going for it. However New Orleans, like Venice (Italy), is just going to quietly sink into the swamp. Gurgle, gurgle, gurgle.
I’m um… not 100% certain, it could be… Fields certainly made similar remarks, “Go ‘way boy, you bother me!” or, “Go home and tell your mother she wants you!” …Hot Tip* Next time around, we do have a recognizable WC Fields quote…
Addendum 2022: The other day I was watching WC Fields in: “You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man” 1939 in which he does tell a kid to, “Go away you draw flies!”
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As our plot slowly dribbles down the drain – should you have never heard of, “Mississippi Paddlewheel Daze,” why not take a listen to Stan Freberg hisself, as he explains all about “Elderly Man River,” political incorrectness and other things that you probably didn’t wish to know…
Aaaah… Well, at least Bubba didn’t land them in a giant vat of cheap pancake syrup at the Karo factory… And, considering they obviously threw together their “Egyptian” disguises from any oddments ready to hand, they might have fit right in… about 3000 BCE…
Paint a graffiti mustache on the statue of an Egyptian god/king of thousands of years ago – both creative and a little bit mean.
Seems that Bunz & Katz are no respecters of megalomanic deranged despots with god complexes and no respect for the Law or Constitution… An attitude that it would benefit more ‘Mericans wake up and consider…
Ha! You’re not fooling me, that’s not the “Bunny Belle” that’s the Spirit of Peoria! ROTFLMAO. (For Josh’s old ((er)) fans – the fact that such a thing exists as a riverboat named Spirit of Peoria is just freaking hilarious.) Where was the Spirit when master criminal Gelving Shavinski was tearing up the Peoria waterfront in his monster crab robot? Ah, good times.
But I digress. Bunz and Katz have come to Cairo… and now what? I mean, they’re in Cairo Ill, pretty much the bottom of the location-al plot intensity barrel. Where do you go from here? UP? (Nowhere else to go eh?)
I’m a bit surprised that you or anyone spotted “The Spirit of Peoria,” a modern replica paddlewheel riverboat… I had been unaware of it until looking for reference material for this page… Something else I’d been unaware of, is that Cairo Illinois is a failed city! Once a thriving river port on the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, today seems it’s more of a ghost town with a boarded up downtown, this apparently due to a mix of racial intolerance and lynchings, resulting in an exodus of the non-white residents, plus the construction of major bridges, resulting in no real need for Cairo as a river port, even for ferry boats… Seems all this has made Cairo, a not particularly desirable place to live…
Didn’t take much for those old river towns to drag up. Natchez was killed off by the rail roads and only survives today because of all the antebellum mansions that tourists come to sleep and eat breakfast in. Vicksburg got cut off by the river sometime after the Civil War but has that really great national battlefield memorial park going for it. However New Orleans, like Venice (Italy), is just going to quietly sink into the swamp. Gurgle, gurgle, gurgle.
Great work! Is that draw flies line from WC Fields?
I’m um… not 100% certain, it could be… Fields certainly made similar remarks, “Go ‘way boy, you bother me!” or, “Go home and tell your mother she wants you!” …Hot Tip* Next time around, we do have a recognizable WC Fields quote…
Addendum 2022: The other day I was watching WC Fields in: “You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man” 1939 in which he does tell a kid to, “Go away you draw flies!”