And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Saturday, July 2, 2022
Gene Kelly (that's Gene Kelly????!) giving the censors something to think about in THE PIRATE (1948)
And this, ladies and gents, is why smoking was so big in the USA until recently. Everybody who saw that movie would think it was sexy. The men who smoked were considered manly and women thought somebody doing that to them was hot.
That's some trick.
ReplyDeleteHe can even dance with his tongue!
ReplyDeleteHey... hot broad... but a smoke is a smoke.
ReplyDeleteWC Fields did it better, but he didn't have the girl.
ReplyDeleteForget the cigerette. Fatty Arbucle out did W.C with a coke bottle and he did do it with a girl.
DeleteI thought the babe was going to wind up with the fag back in her mouth.
ReplyDeleteYeah, she flips out from inside her mouth. Now THAT would have been a trick!
DeleteGag! Nothing stinks worse than a mouth full of old cigarette smoke. Well, maybe an ashtray full of wet butts.
DeleteAnd this, ladies and gents, is why smoking was so big in the USA until recently. Everybody who saw that movie would think it was sexy. The men who smoked were considered manly and women thought somebody doing that to them was hot.
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