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hagiography: Tuskegee airmen celebrated during aircraft exchange ceremony on joint base Andrews

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wednesday, july 26, 2023 at 10:22:53p.m. edt

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Anonymous said...

Hagiography.I had to look it up and that word covers a lot of what's happening in media today.Quite the word.How anyone came up with it originally and then decided it would mean what it means in THIS context,well...there should be a documentary or a Woody Allen movie.

In history,it literally meant,"writing about saints,"but in recent years,"it's painting certain subject matter in a virtuous light."

blacks riots--wonderful.
black crime--more wonderful.
Mex pouring over the border--magnifico.

(Let's imagine the characters from "Play it Again,Sam" have a sequel and they're meeting at a restaurant.)

Tony Roberts' character,Dick:Okay,we rushed right down here,why are you so excited,Allan?Did someone FINALLY pay you for one of your movie reviews?

Diane Keaton's character,Dick's wife,Linda:Yes,tell us Allan--are you writing a great novel,did you pen a script that was accepted by a studio?TELL US!

Woody as Allan Felix:I've invented a new word--hagiography.

Tony Roberts:Allan,that word has been around for centuries--it's in the Sunday NY times crossword puzzle three times a year.

Woody:Yes,but I'm RE-inventing it. Dick,this is my new calling--forget movie reviews--I'm going to take obscure words and make them current with new meanings and copywrite them so that every time it's used,I get paid a royalty--I'll make millions.

Tony Roberts:For hagiography.

Woody:Yes,it's already been used TWICE ON the NSU website in its alternate meaning,in the last year alone--it's catching on.I'll let NSU off the hook on payments as thanks for being the first site to use my word,but if the NY times does it--cha-ching.

Tony Roberts(to Linda):And you were thinking of leaving me for ALLAN?

Diane Keaton:I was thinking very hagiographically at the time...

Tony Roberts:What other words have you "re-invented",Allan?

Woody:Cockamamie--so far--that's all.I'm trying to make it fit with the Eisenhowers somehow.

Tony:Let's go Linda.

Diane Keaton:Good luck,Allan,let me know how this works out.When you get that first royalty check for over $100,000,I'll leave Dick.

(kiss on the cheek)

Tony:Bye,Allan.
(They leave restaurant)

Woody:Okay,time to go home and get to work.I can FEEL IT--this is going to be a huge success.

Narrarator:Unfortunately for Allan Felix,things did not become a success--for him."Others" with deep pockets,who had been listening at the restaurant to Allan's excited,loud voice,took his idea and became millionaires.

The End.

P.S.Woody has made his 50th movie--a French film--no English,to be released in September.Reviews are fantastic:"His best movie in 12 years."

--GRA

Thursday, July 27, 2023 at 2:57:00 AM EDT
Anonymous said...

GRA:"Copyright" of course.

--GRA

Thursday, July 27, 2023 at 10:25:00 AM EDT
Anonymous said...

Tuskegee airmen single-handedly won the war. Red Ball Express single-handedly won the war. Go for Broke battalion single-handedly won the war. Navajo code talkers single-handedly won the war. In WW1 it was the Harlem Hellfighters. Damned whitey didn't even show up.

Thursday, July 27, 2023 at 1:24:00 PM EDT
Anonymous said...

The French loved Jerry Lewis movies too.

--GRA

Thursday, July 27, 2023 at 8:46:00 PM EDT

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