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[Nittany Ned2]

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[LionJim]

Yeah, Doug Kenney really burned out spectacularly.

 

[psuro]

That sounds like it could be good.

As an aside (and not to hijack this thread), I was glued to the TV this Saturday watching the "History of Mankind" from 8 AM to 6 PM. It was all about how mankind evolved, how nothing happens in a vacuum, how everything is a domino effect.

Back to your regularly scheduled thread.

 

[wex18]

There's also some early clips of John Belushi, Bill Murray and Gilda Radner doing sketch comedy pre-SNL.

 

[Obliviax]

They did, when I was in college, some kind of special cartoon edition. I recall cartoons that they said were handed to GI's in WW2 by Germans showing their gals at home getting schtuped by the milkman. My favorite was the (not so) superman cartoon where superman was wearing one of those shoes with the extra sole because one leg was shorter than the other. Finally, one of a character named "Ver-man" (Vermin) where this guy turned into anything he ate and defeated the bad guys. Of course, the episode was when he was with his skanky G/F and turned into a crab.....you can imagine the rest.

I still laugh when I picture superman with one of those shoes.

Wait...wrong photo

 

[Ranger Dan]

That sounds like it could be good.

As an aside (and not to hijack this thread), I was glued to the TV this Saturday watching the "History of Mankind" from 8 AM to 6 PM. It was all about how mankind evolved, how nothing happens in a vacuum, how everything is a domino effect.

Back to your regularly scheduled thread.

I'll have to check that out. I'm interested in that kinda stuff, although not on an academic level. Just superficial interest in why we are who we are and specifically why certain cultures are different. Along your comments, I understand that the most advanced civilizations were those who have expansive trade routes and could readily exchange concepts and ideas with other cultures. You can see this follow the geography of Europe/Asia and North/South America. Our continents have major mountain chains going north and south, and the trade routes follow suit. In Europe/Asia, the major mountains facilitate a more east west route. Of course, water is the great equalizer.

 

[psuro]

I'll have to check that out. I'm interested in that kinda stuff, although not on an academic level. Just superficial interest in why we are who we are and specifically why certain cultures are different. Along your comments, I understand that the most advanced civilizations were those who have expansive trade routes and could readily exchange concepts and ideas with other cultures. You can see this follow the geography of Europe/Asia and North/South America. Our continents have major mountain chains going north and south, and the trade routes follow suit. In Europe/Asia, the major mountains facilitate a more east west route. Of course, water is the great equalizer.

Here is the most interesting component (to me) of this - they connected Genghis Khan to the rise in slavery.

It started with Khan having all those kids, to one of them heading west to parts of Persia to pillage, whereby he had his soldiers slowly dying from black plague - so he catapulted the dead soldiers over the walls of the city/state to infect the villagers - which they did. The villagers went west, to Europe, where they took the infection with them (along with the rats they all lived with). As the lower echelons of the European society were dying off, the wealthy landowners realized that they did not have people to work the fields....but because the plague did not spread into Africa (due to the heat and dry weather of the Sahara), the indigenous people there were not affected....so that led to slave ships from Europe heading to Africa to get this cheap labor....

I paraphrased for the sake of brevity, but It was jaw droppingly fascinating TV.

 

[Ranger Dan]

Here is the most interesting component (to me) of this - they connected Genghis Khan to the rise in slavery.

It started with Khan having all those kids, to one of them heading west to parts of Persia to pillage, whereby he had his soldiers slowly dying from black plague - so he catapulted the dead soldiers over the walls of the city/state to infect the villagers - which they did. The villagers went west, to Europe, where they took the infection with them (along with the rats they all lived with). As the lower echelons of the European society were dying off, the wealthy landowners realized that they did not have people to work the fields....but because the plague did not spread into Africa (due to the heat and dry weather of the Sahara), the indigenous people there were not affected....so that led to slave ships from Europe heading to Africa to get this cheap labor....

I paraphrased for the sake of brevity, but It was jaw droppingly fascinating TV.

So, in Europe serfs were replaced with slaves... and in the south, slaves were replaced with share croppers. Huh....

 

[Bob78]

Sure, the Nat'l Lampoon Radio Hour and the various stage shows drew heavily from Second City alums. Basically, the Harvard Lampoon guys focused on the magazine and then when they branched out in to more performance type stuff they drew the talent from Second City.

The High School Yearbook Parody, which I still have, is just unbelievably funny cover to cover. I love looking over the names of the 9th - 11th grade students. They used a few of the same names from the yearbook in the Animal House movie. They also did a Sunday paper parody a few years later that was more hit-or-miss. I didn't keep that. I had a bunch of their magazines for many years beyond HS when I first read it, but they are all long gone. There was Nat'l Lampoon website a number of years back, but I think it was short-lived.

A HS buddy and I used to read NL during lulls in shop class, when we were supposed to be drawing up some plan for a wood project that was destined to fail in a major way. I remember being struck by with a "yeah, why not?" moment when they had a plea from men to women that we should have free, nonthreatening access to boobs at certain times, like when bored while standing in a long line. Just something to do to pass the time. This was in one of their photo cartoons, where they often had the same very buxom young woman with her top off at least halfway for one reason or another. All for the art of the story line, of course.

Penn State's Froth magazine was pretty good overall when I was in school. One of my fave letters to the Editor of the Collegian (parody) in one was signed:
Sandi Terry Napkin
12th Term
Women's Complaints

 

[simons96]

still one of the greatest magazine covers of all time: