Roost Air Lounge => Current Strip => Topic started by: Rooster Cruiser on June 16, 2009, 02:44:21 PM
Title: Do you have some Change?
Post by: Rooster Cruiser on June 16, 2009, 02:44:21 PM
I'll try to not get too political with this one... ::banghead:: ::banghead:: ::banghead::
In 1931, at the beginning of the Great Depression, someone in president Herbert Hoover's administration asked a Broadway songwriting team to write something uplifting to get people to feel better about their plight. Basically, it was a request for propaganda. Instead, lyricist Yip Harburg and composer Jay Gourney wrote, "Brother, can you spare a dime?" It was a huge hit, and helped define the helplessness most people were feeling at the time. It didn't win them any friends in the White House, but it did become a #1 hit in 1932 when Bing Crosby recorded a version of it. It helped set the stage for Herbert Hoover's defeat for reelection by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932.
I see that today's propaganda has reached Roost Air, but I don't think it is having the desired effect... Seems like what is old is new again.
RC
Title: Re: Do you have some Change?
Post by: Mike on June 16, 2009, 05:20:42 PM
Wow, that's pretty deep Rooster! :o
It's almost as if we'd known about what you just wrote and tried to make a statement. But we never went that far. We werejust talking about change (money) and how we never have enough. But it kinda proofs that history repeats itself, huh?!
I wouldn't mind becoming a #1 hit in the US though! ;)
Title: Re: Do you have some Change?
Post by: TheSoccerMom on June 16, 2009, 06:15:36 PM
Anyone who hasn't had to count pennies hasn't been a pilot very long!!!!!!!! ::)
::)
::rofl::
Title: Re: Do you have some Change?
Post by: tundra_flier on June 17, 2009, 06:10:28 AM
I just figured Chuck was one of the millions who thinks our Governor is HOT! :-* :o
Phil
Title: Re: Do you have some Change?
Post by: Rooster Cruiser on June 17, 2009, 06:13:46 AM
I was wishing for some change while standing at the vending machines at work last night :-\
change you can believe in? ;) ::whistle::
Seriously, that's as far as our thought process went. But we decided to put the strip up anyways and see what happens. Should we make a new section in the forum where political discussions ARE allowed??
Also, I promise, the next strip will be aviation related again. Don't wanna strive too far from the original Chicken Wings idea.....
Title: Re: Do you have some Change?
Post by: tundra_flier on June 17, 2009, 05:59:27 PM
Discussions about hot babes are still allowed though right? ::whistle:: Or does that belong in the fire flyers section? ???
Phil ::cowboy::
Title: Re: Do you have some Change?
Post by: Fabo on June 17, 2009, 07:35:55 PM
That depends - if they are smokin' hot, it better be there ::whistle::
Title: Re: Do you have some Change?
Post by: TheSoccerMom on June 18, 2009, 03:15:53 AM
Then Chicken Wings would be like those other aviation forums........ NOT about aviation, and certainly not about fun...... Say it ain't so!!!
I hung out in one last winter and it was UGLY....... they couldn't "discuss" anything without being nasty.... it was so pathetic I finally quit looking at it.
Barf-O-Rama............... ::sick::
;)
Title: Re: Do you have some Change?
Post by: Ragwing on June 18, 2009, 03:37:58 AM
Soccer mom is right. Keep away from Politics and everybody is soooooo much nicer.
Another site I visit is pretty much out of politics. Unfortunately, somebody kept bringing in the presidential election and we had to keep beating it down.
Title: Re: Do you have some Change?
Post by: Oddball on June 18, 2009, 06:52:57 AM
Dont bring in the P word. this forum would be doomed, doomed I say DDDDDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEDDDDD!!!!!
Title: Re: Do you have some Change?
Post by: Mike on June 18, 2009, 09:46:03 PM
OK! point taken! ::bow::
no politics it is!
just wanted to see what you guys think. my own brother and I don't agree on a lot of political issues, so that way we can keep CW from splitting up as well.....
Title: Re: Do you have some Change?
Post by: Stef on June 19, 2009, 08:37:21 AM
