Foam-O-Graph© - Leisure Solutions For The Mature Adult!
Say, youse bums - that's Victoria Principal in her Secret Garden O' Herbs™, inviting you to play her swell new game!
How to play? Glad you axed, youngster! Firstly, ignore visual distractions! Focus on albums! Cover distractions with hand, find albums! Albums protruding from Pammie's bush! Then, simply state in five words or less - more, if you can't think of five - what albums have in common (other than artiste, and hiding in Pammie's bush)!
As Chandler out of Friends might of said - could it be any easier? No - wait - could it be any easier? No - wait -This post made plausible thru th' felonious conspiracy of messrs. Scotch and Sitarswami!
I'm hoping to attract a few Millennials with this especially "woke" piece, celebrating as it does womyns' empowerment through physical fitness, world music from diverse artists, and sustainable eco-harvesting of non-Big Pharma herbal remedies! This is the post that should put th' IoF© up there with Slate and Quietus and Exy's comments section in terms of sensitivity to today's issues!
ReplyDeleteAttracting Millenials? Fine, sir, but pandering to them by accepting their lazy ways of degrading the English language? "As Chandler might of said"? As a fellow man of letters I am utterly outraged. Egads, old chap, egads.
DeleteMy not infrequent use of "of" over "have" in this context questions our accepted investment of belief in language - that it is immutable and only correct (ie truthful) in one sense. English - an inaccurate name for a language culled from many cultures worldwide - is in every way a bubbling cauldron of ingredients. The problem lies in when the mix is lessened, reduced, and made bland by dictates of political fashion, to suit prevailing notions of what is acceptable from a supposedly moral/ethical standpoint, not when language is played with, flexed, set free. Try telling that to the precious assholes fretting about using the full point.
DeleteYeah, uh, no. No buys from me on that one, Farqster. This has nothing to do with blandness or dictates.
DeleteTo replace "might have" with "might of" isn't playing with language, flexing it or setting it free, it's bowing to the lowest common denominator which seems to be that if enough doofuses make the same mistake it becomes acceptable. I'm not some prissy Oxford comma type either, but the way we accept every generation with less knowledge to just shrug and then say "but that's the way I know it" is pretty sad. Maybe because language is my business (as it is yours) I am not willing to concede such obvious idiocy. Which you get when no one knows how to spell anymore and we now have two generations whose habits are influenced by mainly communicating in text messages: nothing is spelled like it should and everything is based on how things sound. This dumbing down is of course not only limited to English, I see it in every language I speak fluently. If I correct the copies of my pupils I correct their English which is my job and then also their French which isn't. They do the exact same thing, if it sounds right to them, it doesn't matter how it's written. "C'est", "ses", "ces" - three distict words describing three different things, yet most young French use them interchangeably because like English speakers who use "might of" or "should of" don't even think for a second what it is they want to say and how to correctly say it.
I have to say--I wasn't expecting that.
ReplyDeleteI think anyone who's spent some time digging around here could have visualized the possibilty only too clearly.
DeleteWell, distractions aside, for what they have in common... None distracted me from Victoria.
ReplyDeleteSorry, I am a weak man.
Men are weak! We are fools! That is why Pammie Ewing wants to walk all over us in high heels!
Delete4 - that's what i found. 4 of them.
ReplyDeleteThis is nothing to be proud of, Hermann, but yours is the most intelligent comment so far. Still a long way from being the right answer, though.
DeleteWell, not all of this may be true but what I think is that 1) the artiste's brother was a comedian, named after four body parts and 2) the albums are all film soundtracks.
DeleteCheers, Peanuts Molloy.
Unfortunately, Peanuts, the point you gained from your correct answer was negated by the point you lost for the other. I don't make the rules.
DeleteRandy's waistline's proximity to his armpits is wonderful. Context, baby. I can almost believe it wasn't Photoshopped. Maybe it was GIMPed.
ReplyDeleteFour words: Lalo Schafrin? Got nuthin'.
As I have been at pains to elucidate antecedently, there is no Photoshopping going on here. The sophisticated visual techniques invented and exploited artistically by the Foam-O-Graph© Corp. are secret, but involve a handful of free apps, mostly "Preview" - the mysteriously undervaunted image software that comes modestly bundled with Apple Macintosh Brand™ Home Computers.
DeleteRandy Randomguy's apparel is used with permission of the Smithsonian Institute.
All tracks of sound
ReplyDeletealbums soundtracking revenge?
ReplyDeleteI'd tell you, but I don't have a death wish.
ReplyDeleteWoe unto me Master Throckmorton, prithee I must say that once, the humble vassal and baseborn knave that is me realized that the closest I would get to taking yon Victoria in holy wedlock and o'er the ensuing years, pipes in front of the fireplace, 10-2-4 tea round the back door, the closest I would ever get to winning her hand and sundry other parts and having a family with her was to cum in her shoes and let the flies do the rest....I can no longer gaze upon her once loved countenance and see beyond to the many holy grails of albums there to see. Veni, Vide, Verdun, anyone?
ReplyDeleteAll four are emblazoned with a Weedy Signature?
ReplyDeleteFirstly, there seems to have been technical issues with this week's Foam-O-Graph©. Some subscribers have been seeing a crudely animated version. The concept of the "moving picture" (ie slightly different still images shown in quick succession to give the illusion of movement) is still very much in its infancy, and we here at th' Iof© are proud of our pioneering efforts to advance the technology!
ReplyDeleteNextly, youse bums hintimating that the featured albums are all "soundtracks" (? - me neither) are all holding winning tix!
The Spook Who Sat By The Door is interesting because it's apparently not an official release - there never was one. They'll all be loadupped shortly, Shirley!
ReplyDeleteIt's Herbaceous!
They named a volkswagen in his honour.
ReplyDeleteThat was a real missed opportunity - "Herbie Original Soundtrack By Herbie Hancock".
DeleteNow that was a hard one, and I'm not talking about my state of early morning arousal.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't seem to matter how difficult the game is - there's always a few of th' 4/5g© who know the answer. Poor, shrunken souls who have wasted away their lives building record collections and stuffing their brains with useless music-related facts [*guilty cough*].
DeleteMy friends think I've got my brain stuffed with useless music-related facts, but it's nothing compared to th' 4/5g© knowledge.
DeleteGot it! they're all albums i don't own!
ReplyDeleteYou do now, Elwood! At least in a virtual sense. If you feel the need to validate your ownership, I urge you to exchange currency (in whatever form is convenient) for a physical form of media. But remember that Mark Suckerberg plans a world where all meaningful transactions - including economic - are effected in a virtual headset world of his design, so ownership will become an even vaguer concept than it is now. Suckerberg wants nothing less than to own you, and he's well on the way to getting what he wants.
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