Monty by Jim Meddick for December 05, 2024

Anything else you forgot to tell him?

As Tommy Roe used to sing…dizzy, I’m so dizzy my head is spinning…

I feel like I am in a Metallica video! (“The Memory Remains”)

Who’s going to clean up all the puke ???

[nerd alert] “To Say Nothing Of The Dog” by Connie Willis is a great comic time travel novel. One of the things the author postulates is that time travel is far worse than jet lag; her heroes feel half drunk and disoriented most of the time. It’s also a riff on ‘Three Men In A Boat,’ a famous novel I’ve never read myself, but is apparently still popular with many Anglophiles.

Who’s going to siphon out the bed pan?

Happens every 4th November, to half of the US population.

Reminds me of the time(s) I had vertigo!

Fred Astaire danced on the walls and ceiling in the movie Royal Wedding. Check it out.

A free amusement park ride.

Worst house guest ever.

Call a priest. :)

♫ What goes up must come down

Spinning Wheel got to go ’round

Talkin’ ’bout your troubles

It’s a cryin’ sin

Ride a painted pony

Let the Spinning Wheel spin ♫ (Blood Sweat and Tears)

In 1848 the 3 Fox sisters of Rochester NY began a long career of fraudulently claiming to be able to summon and communicate with spirits via a rapping code. (No, not that kind of rapping.) This was the beginning of the spiritualist movement, which had quite a following during the 19th Century. One consequence of it was that other fake “mediums” started holding séances, some of which featured “table-tipping” and having objects move around the room. All done with trickery, of course, but there was apparently an endless supply of gullible rubes willing to pay good money to be wowed by the experience.