August 22, 2004

LBJ orders pants.
posted by Agent X9 20 years ago
  • Found in this AskMe thread.
  • LBJ: "See if you can't leave me an inch from where the zipper (burps) ends, round, under my, back to my bunghole, so I can let it out there if I need to." heehee! Priceless.
  • Heaven forfend any Potus be caught short! -- in his stride or elsewhere.
  • Those sound like nice pants, but the rest of the site really has some excellent transcripts of some *serious* coversations. Nice link
  • That's the funniest fucking thing I've read all week. Thanks X9.
  • Amazingly enough, I heard that clip on Howard Stern a few years ago. I never listen to the radio, so it was dumb luck that I encountered it. It was pretty damn funny.
  • I looked around a little on the site but didn't find an explanation of that thumping noise in the background that sounds like a heartbeat. The sound of old technology, perhaps? It wasn't anything critical*, but I did notice a few discrepancies between the audio and the written transcript as I followed along. Maybe that's inevitable given the large volume of LBJ recordings and the nature of transcription. If you liked that one, you might like LBJ & the Helium Filled Astronaut too. *Like, say, the time "he was heard to refer to a 'pack of bastards,' but he was really speaking of the 'Pakistani ambassador.'"
  • I like to think the little pause in the middle when he says hold on, he's getting an ultra serious national security briefing. (PS: I'm the one who posted this in AskMe, and I got it from Mimi Smartypants.)
  • The thumping noise in the background is indeed an artifact of the older technology used to record the conversation. This could be generated by a number of things, but most likely a kink or damage to the tape itself (I'm guessing this is tape rather than dictabelt or wire). Possibly the tape has also been spliced, but owing to the regularity of the thump, it is a kink in the tape spool as it wound around the reel at some point. There is also evidence of the classic 'print thru' where the adjacent layer of tape's magnetic imprint affects the next one and literally 'prints thru', causing a faint echo of words spoken before or after to occur in a portion of tape. In the old days in studios it was a religious duty for engineers (muggins) to wind the tape spools thru the machines at least once every few weeks to prevent this happening (quite so badly cos u can't stop it altogether). Even so, I remember it being common back in the old days of vinyl to be able to hear the first note of a song or the first word slightly echoed just before the track proper began on a record, due to this effect occurring on the multitrack or master tape prior to cutting. I seem to remember this happening on my first gen copy of Sgt Pepper's (I am not that old, but I inherited an original pressing of the album - now sadly lost). That shit is all in the past if you use digital mastering/multitracking, because digital tape will not do this (actually it will but the decode process ignores such errors). sorry for the length of that. I need an editor. And this was a great link. The belch had me in stitches. He was a venal man! A venal man!!!
  • Good comment, nos. I hadn't realised that's what that 2-second preview was. Which is odd, because I've done a lot o' work with tape! Also -- I am obtuse.
  • I am obverse.
  • This is why I post comments to old threads. Stumbling across something like this in the archives just makes my day. I like to post a comment to it so I can see what other current monkeys think of a classic post like this. It also shows how much things have changed. Can you imagine Bush ordering his own clothes? Can you imagine Bush needing extra room in the "package" department?
  • Mmm. Hadn't realized he had a sock collection before ... *smacks forehead with heel of hand* Mais non, imbecile! Up till now, would have supposed he kept 'em in his mouth where his feet are always going.
  • Anytime I ever watched an episode of MST I always had the same reaction. I always found myself wishing that I could watch the wonderful old movie without the inane comments and shadows being layed on top. Those old movies are amusing enough, they don't need anything added.
  • I do have a special place in my heart for the MSTied movies I had seen un-MSTied beforehand.
  • I like to post a comment to it so I can see what other current monkeys think of a classic post like this. Just . . just . . . arg *massages brow, inhales sharply* Oh, I think I'm secreting something bad Definitely, definitely very bad, mmyyeahh.
  • I always found myself wishing that I could watch the wonderful old movie without the inane comments Quite, quite. Berek, sometimes MonkeyFilter is a wonderful old movie itself. Which may be why inane comments on wonderful old threads might seem unnecessary, if I may make so bold. Just saying. Please try not to comment unless you have a honest-to-goodness thought-provoking addition, okay? If you have a new angle or a link that is directly related, all well and good, but probably it's not necessary to go through all of the old threads and state your opinion of the topic at hand. Thankee kindly!
  • Oh for god sakes! Ifin you don't like to see people put their $.02 in on old threads just don't read the damn comments when they appear!