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Gammarae's avatar

well, this is pretty bizarre. i went to sleep last night thinking of the lumberjack song, for reasons i won't get into except that i stole the theme to write a pirate song for my grandchildren years ago.

NH is for πŸ¦‘πŸ„πŸ's avatar

I wonder if the people who drive the giant deforestation machines they cut trees down with nowadays call themselves β€œlumberjacks?”

Satanisreal's avatar

" I don’t think it ever occurred to me that lumberjacks were not a thing anymore. "

Yeah, not even at the gym.

Hollysdower's avatar

We should do lumberjacking the way Finland does it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdCaYEffB0Q

Babe Paley's avatar

Okayβ€”y’all talked me into itβ€”just ordered Sometimes A Great Notion.

I don’t think I ever heard about it, and honestly I consider myself well read.

marydn's avatar

Monty Python's Lumberjack Song was the first skit of theirs that I ever saw. I turned to PBS to see what was on and had my 12-year-old mind blown. Thought I would die laughing and looked forward to the show each week. PBS showed me many things that network tv did not. Thanks PBS and fuck Stinky for defunding you.

Gammarae's avatar

i once made my friends leave a ballet so that i could get home in time to see monty python. in my defense, i had warned them in advance.

Anarchy Pony's avatar

I did just buy a plaid jacket, so I'm something of a lumberjack myself...

Biff52 Lost Canadian's avatar

Plaid, check

Subaru, check.

Hey, wait a minute...

Babe Paley's avatar

I can see you in that kind of jacket!

Thixotropickle's avatar

you a real cool plaid daddy naow

Sister Artemis's avatar

gonna grow out your beard and a snappy mustache?

Randy Bender's avatar

/seen online/ LOL

"Maybe if we renamed AI to 'uterus,' Republicans would feel compelled to regulate it despite not being smart enough to do so."

Little Miss High and Mighty's avatar

Ken Kesey wrote the novel

The Stampers were helped by Henry Fonda Paul Newman (prod. also) Lee Remmick , Michael Sarazin Nor' West logger intrigues: SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION. https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=sometimes+a+great+notion+film+you+tube&mid=9079B66E6E4D38FD37009079B66E6E4D38FD3700&churl=https%3a%2f%2fwww.youtube.com%2fchannel%2fUCjsIDBBdBbMFO-Jh50MtVCQ&FORM=VIRE

Antifa Commander's avatar

If Troy Jackson does well in Maine this November, it’ll be π™Žπ™šπ™£π™–π™©π™€π™§ Lumberjack to you, thank you very much.

Hollysdower's avatar

Our transportation secretary and former Real World contestant Sean Duffy got his start in competitive lumberjacking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Duffy

455 Rocket Cat, Space Donkey's avatar

In related news, Sandra Bullock was spied at a Brandi Carlile concert wearing a plaid flannel shirt. Needless to say, Lesbian America went minorly crazy over this news. Yes, minorly is an adverb from the 1980s when majorly was coined :)

OneYieldRegular's avatar

I heard about this from lesbian friends. Apparently, the sales for "I'm a Bullock Dyke" t-shirts were through the roof.

okay, I just made up that last part.

Alpaca22's avatar

The Smartless podcast has a fabulous interview with her.

Mr Beeep's avatar

I happened to see the 2001 adaptation of Bartleby starring Crispin Glover. It was a short story written by Herman Melville in 1853. Also had Joe Piscapo in a supporting role.

The film was also made in 1970 and 1976 but I didn’t see those.

OneYieldRegular's avatar

I'm waiting for someone to make a contemporary film of that story in which Bartleby's job is data entry.

Thixotropickle's avatar

Piscapo turned into a piss kapo.

Mr Beeep's avatar

Did he? He opened for my first concert in 1982 which was Joe Jackson Night and Day tour

Thixotropickle's avatar

Last I checked he went full RW Nutjerb.

Not aware of his Trump cultificationary status but am suspish.

EyeQueue's avatar

I would prefer not to.

OneYieldRegular's avatar

Friend who taught high school English in inner city LA had her students read that story and make a creative work about it. One wrote a rap track, which included a line that went something like, "When the man Bartleby was asked about a job he 'sposed to do, he'd sit right there and say, 'I'd prefer not to.'"

William Donnell's avatar

Lumber John Silver's pirating days were cut short when he chopped down his mainmast.

Antifa Commander's avatar

That Mr. Rogers song would be better if Kermit sang it.

And if it only had one verse.