you could hear the inner monologue. i’ll salute, that will look good. look how good i look saluting, i’m saluting!
What song is being parodied? I must be losing touch with Broadway.
I don’t know either, but it’s so catchy, by the time the “Now Kindly Fuck Off” line came up, I was singing along.
[stolen from twitter]
Republicans in 2010: “Obamacare will kill your grandma.”
Republicans in 2010: “We have to let grandma die so we can all go to the mall.”
Apparently ol’ Methamphetamine Mitch whined to Trump that Pelosi was not cooperating sufficiently in negotiations.
That’s not an apostrophe. It’s a hyphen. As in Liddle’
No… this is a hyphen: - (i.e., a “dash”)
hy·phen
/ˈhīfən/
noun
noun: hyphen ; plural noun: hyphens
- the sign -, used to join words to indicate that they have a combined meaning or that they are linked in the grammar of a sentence (as in pick-me-up , rock-forming ), to indicate the division of a word at the end of a line, or to indicate a missing or implied element (as in short- and long-term ).
You can call the mark in this word, o’clock, a “single quotation mark,” if that floats your boat, but it’s definitely NOT a hyphen.
That “single quotation mark” indicates that letters have been left out. As in “it’s” meaning the letter i has been left out: it is.
‘Bout Fuckin’ Time has two places where letters have been left out: About and FuckinG. So for the acronym we just need the apostrophe at the beginning.
<puts down baseball bat>
If Mama were Married from Gypsy.
One of my favorite shows, and I was pretty sure when I saw the title, but I listened to a few seconds to be sure. IIRC, LuPone starred in a revival ( but not as one of the characters in the scene with that song)
A hyphen is not a dash. A hyphen is smaller and connects words, a dash is longer and connects statements.
Aw, Thelma, I can’t believe a lowly lurker like me has managed to whoosh you! How soon we all forget:
“Trump kicked off his day with a profoundly strange tweet attacking CNN for not making painstaking distinctions between the smears he uses to attack House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff (D-CA); he also misspelled “describing” and revealed he may not know the difference between an apostrophe and a hyphen.”
[“Liddle’, not Liddle”: Trump’s latest tweets among his strangest yet - Vox]
I’ll accept that.
Oops. I’d forgotten about that. 
It’s hard to keep up!
Well, yes. Apparently the helicopter outranks him.
A rally.
Obligatory:
“If Mama Was Married,” from Gypsy (Jule Stein/Stephen Sondheim).
Oh, absolutely wonderful!
I don’t think I would have recognized it as from Gypsy without Ann_Hedonia; I might have picked up on it when the “Let Me Entertain You” theme came in, and Randy was dressed in a Shirley Temple dress.
My favorite line was the “I’d be back on Broadway and belting Sondheim / Instead of cheap internet parody songs.”
People, please, stop your cruelty to assholes. The asshole is a noble portal that serves in freeing us from our darkest needs, retiring modestly to its secure enclave when its work is done. It may be full of shit, but only for very brief intervals – the lion’s share of its existence is spent not full of shit. To compare MAGAts to assholes is a rank disservice to our most faithful excretory servants.
(And a hyphen is an alpine bog.)
Another question for Pence at the debate.
“What is the Republican Party platform?” Pence blathers on. Follow on question, “No one thought to write that down?”
Especially fitting, since Sondheim wrote the lyrics for Gypsy.