"Unhappy Hipsters" Blog

[vitanola]

Uh, yeah, I know it is a fake. I have know for a long time. It is meant to be funny.
Grow a sense of humor man.

As I said in my earlier posting:

" Originally Posted by ButteMT61
I do believe it was here for fun, not to make a historical claim on wifedom, vitanola. <ButteMT61>

As was I.

I guess that my Ford joke was so antique that it fell quite flat.


Pardon me.

You really never heard the one about the guy who owned a second hand Ford?
He didn't have a quarrelsome disposition, but he was forever trying to start something."


Old joke, Thought that you would "get" it. Was wrong. Oh well.[huh]

You know, "TIMER LOOM", a particularly troublesome part of the Ford ignition system? You're a car guy, no?

Well I suppose you like automobiles, as opposed to Fords. They ARE (or rather WERE) different creatures, at least until Henry brought out that A model.


I recall someone once saying something about a sense of humor...

 

[jamespowers]

As I said in my earlier posting:

" Originally Posted by ButteMT61
I do believe it was here for fun, not to make a historical claim on wifedom, vitanola. <ButteMT61>

As was I.

I guess that my Ford joke was so antique that it fell quite flat.


Pardon me.

You really never heard the one about the guy who owned a second hand Ford?
He didn't have a quarrelsome disposition, but he was forever trying to start something."


Old joke, Thought that you would "get" it. Was wrong. Oh well.[huh]

You know, "TIMER LOOM", a particularly troublesome part of the Ford ignition system? You're a car guy, no?

Well I suppose you like automobiles, as opposed to Fords. They ARE (or rather WERE) different creatures, at least until Henry brought out that A model.


I recall someone once saying something about a sense of humor...

Esoterica does not for a sense of humor make.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Esoterica? Isn't that a skin cream for getting rid of liver spots? Nothing funny about that.

 

[vitanola]

Esoterica does not for a sense of humor make.

I would hardly call this "esoterica":

http://www.vintageantiqueclassics.com/fordjokebook/ford_jokes.html

" The Ford is the only car mentioned in the Bible. "Elijah ascended to Heaven on high." The Ford is the only car that could possibly ascend to Heaven on "high.""

" Why are they not going to put horns on the Ford this year?
Because they look like the devil anyway."

" Why is the Ford like a millionaire baby?
Because it has a new rattle every day."

Biff: "Why is a Ford car like a porosknit union suit?
Stiff: "Elucidate."
Biff: "It gives a lot of comfort but one does not care to be seen on the street in it."

"A party of four young men, in a Ford car, on returning from a two weeks' fishing trip were accosted by one of their rural friends.
"What in Sam Hill did you do with those tomato cans after they were emptied?"
"Oh," replied the driver, "we used them to mend the engine with on the way home.""

""Did you know that the new Ford is to be without doors?"
"Now, what's the idea?"
"A can opener will be furnished with each car and you can cut out the doors in any place you want them.""

" A rich man was making a trip from New York City to San Francisco in his large touring car to attend the Exposition. They were riding along a rough country road after a heavy shower and naturally there was more or less mud. The chauffeur was running the car at a moderate speed when they approached a long hill. Before he was aware of it, he was embedded in a thick mud and it was almost impossible to go either way. As their supply of gasoline was nearly exhausted, they decided to get in touch with a farmer and hire him to haul them to the top of the hill. While the owner of the car was going to the nearest farmhouse, a man came along in a Ford car. When he saw they were in trouble, he offered the assistance of his car to pull them out. The city people thought it was impossible for him to do this with such a small thing as his Ford. However, he made a good job of it and hauled them to the top of the hill, then proceeded on his way.
The owner of the big car watched the affair from the distance. When he saw his car drawn to the top of the hill, he started after them but before he reached his car, the man in the ford had gone.
"Do you know who that man was?" asked the owner.
"No, sir," replied the chauffer.
"Do you know what that thing was he used to pull you out with?"
"No, sir."
"Well," said the owner, "better see if we can't overtake him. We ought to have one of those things to put in our tool box."


Of course there are some who would hardly call it funny, but then...

It DOES date to the "era", and cannot by any strech of the imagination be considred "ironic", nor is it a modern parody.

I am really sorry that you didn't "get" the joke.

I see that cultural context has everything to do with humor.

Those ancient Ford jokes amuse me because I relate to them, having driven a flivver in daily service for nearly twenty years. It appears that I forgot that very few save the fifty thousand modern Model T motorists remain who have any familiarity with this once ubiquitous machine.


[video=youtube_share;hUzxcApgdUc]http://youtu.be/hUzxcApgdUc[/video]

 

[vitanola]

Esoterica? Isn't that a skin cream for getting rid of liver spots? Nothing funny about that.

I thought that the cream was called was Sal Hepatica, but then I realised that good old "Sal" used to work in Chicago at The Everliegh Club.

 

[jamespowers]

Esoterica? Isn't that a skin cream for getting rid of liver spots? Nothing funny about that.

:rofl: Now THAT is funny.

Actually Esoterica Fade is indeed just that. I meant the Greek version without the Fade. Although Esoterica is old and faded.

 

[jamespowers]

I would hardly call this "esoterica":

http://www.vintageantiqueclassics.com/fordjokebook/ford_jokes.html

" The Ford is the only car mentioned in the Bible. "Elijah ascended to Heaven on high." The Ford is the only car that could possibly ascend to Heaven on "high.""

" Why are they not going to put horns on the Ford this year?
Because they look like the devil anyway."

" Why is the Ford like a millionaire baby?
Because it has a new rattle every day."

Biff: "Why is a Ford car like a porosknit union suit?
Stiff: "Elucidate."
Biff: "It gives a lot of comfort but one does not care to be seen on the street in it."

"A party of four young men, in a Ford car, on returning from a two weeks' fishing trip were accosted by one of their rural friends.
"What in Sam Hill did you do with those tomato cans after they were emptied?"
"Oh," replied the driver, "we used them to mend the engine with on the way home.""

""Did you know that the new Ford is to be without doors?"
"Now, what's the idea?"
"A can opener will be furnished with each car and you can cut out the doors in any place you want them.""

" A rich man was making a trip from New York City to San Francisco in his large touring car to attend the Exposition. They were riding along a rough country road after a heavy shower and naturally there was more or less mud. The chauffeur was running the car at a moderate speed when they approached a long hill. Before he was aware of it, he was embedded in a thick mud and it was almost impossible to go either way. As their supply of gasoline was nearly exhausted, they decided to get in touch with a farmer and hire him to haul them to the top of the hill. While the owner of the car was going to the nearest farmhouse, a man came along in a Ford car. When he saw they were in trouble, he offered the assistance of his car to pull them out. The city people thought it was impossible for him to do this with such a small thing as his Ford. However, he made a good job of it and hauled them to the top of the hill, then proceeded on his way.
The owner of the big car watched the affair from the distance. When he saw his car drawn to the top of the hill, he started after them but before he reached his car, the man in the ford had gone.
"Do you know who that man was?" asked the owner.
"No, sir," replied the chauffer.
"Do you know what that thing was he used to pull you out with?"
"No, sir."
"Well," said the owner, "better see if we can't overtake him. We ought to have one of those things to put in our tool box."


Of course there are some who would hardly call it funny, but then...

It DOES date to the "era", and cannot by any strech of the imagination be considred "ironic", nor is it a modern parody.

I am really sorry that you didn't "get" the joke.

I see that cultural context has everything to do with humor.

Those ancient Ford jokes amuse me because I relate to them, having driven a flivver in daily service for nearly twenty years. It appears that I forgot that very few save the fifty thousand modern Model T motorists remain who have any familiarity with this once ubiquitous machine.


[video=youtube_share;hUzxcApgdUc]http://youtu.be/hUzxcApgdUc[/video]

Ok, I went and got a letter from 1981 from a friend of mine that would now be about 110 or so. He comments:
"We are doing ok for the shape we are in. The old model "T" Fords used to use that adage. At one time they used to have all kinds of things(Grafiti etc.) written on the back of them, one was "I may rattle, I may be tin, but BOY! I'm steppin for the shape I'm in!" That covers us two quite well."
I miss old Chalice.

 

[vitanola]

When I went away to college, my coupe bore a hopeful inscription on the hood: "The Mayflower. Many a little Puritan has come across in her."

Wishful thinking to say the least.

On the other hand there was the Paige...

 

[ButteMT61]

Jeezus H.
I'm going out to look for hipsters to mock.

 

[MikeBravo]

Didn't Al Bowly do the theme for Goodnight Sweetheart? I think Bing was great, pre-war. Post-war, just crooning. I don't like crooners at all. Not a hipster here either

Most recent addition to my vinyl collection:

Pretty swinging (for 1932-1933), never really counted Bing as a swinger before. After this I will put on

(recorded 1970) for a comparison

 

[vitanola]

Most recent addition to my vinyl collection:

Pretty swinging (for 1932-1933), never really counted Bing as a swinger before. After this I will put on

(recorded 1970) for a comparison

Sweet Georgia Brown, which Bing sings accompanied by Isham Jones' excellent orchestra has alway been one of my great favorites. The waxing of St Louis Blues, with Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra is mighty fine, too, and greatly benefits from the extended time available on a 12" disc.

 

[jamespowers]

Jeezus H.
I'm going out to look for hipsters to mock.

Good luck.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Crosby's stuff from 1932-35 was just about as perfect as popular music can get -- if you've got that Crosby Classics album, you've got a good sampling of the best Bing there is. I've heard records where the artist was obviously just putting in the time, but I've heard every record Crosby made during that particular time period, and there honestly isn't a clinker in the lot. I think some of them stand as among the finest recordings of the entire decade.

 

[Edward]

darned '40s disco...

Ha! For some reason this reminds me of the opening legend in the M*A*S*H pilot: "Korea, 1950. A hundred years ago". (First aired in 1972). The point being it was a "forgotten" war. (Disco, I think, is best forgotten. Though I do love Abba).

My sister told me that earlier this spring that she'd come across a list of new Swedish words from 2011 and one was the verb "tjejsamla". It means "girl-collecting" basically, and contrary to what I thought, it doesn't mean that you collect girls, but that you collect something but without being obsessed and geeky and OCD about it. Basically, to collect "like a girl".

Oh, I do love that!

Somehow that pic looks less like a hipster than someone who belongs in The Chap...

No, the glasses (most likely with plain plastic lenses, no prescription) are pure hipster. Hipsters (at least the Shoreditches over here) tend to favour 'taches very similar to many Chaps, except worn ironically, of course. Much to the annyone of many in the Chappist community, who loathe it when people think they are trying to be funny or ironic when they sport facial hair.

Should I be grateful that this video Is Not Available For Viewers From My Country?

Ah, that's a shame.... though there are an awful lot of rabbits, and one very phobic Roman Catholic Bishop who ends up in a bedroom full of them. Hilarity ensues.

 

[Flicka]

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No, the glasses (most likely with plain plastic lenses, no prescription) are pure hipster. Hipsters (at least the Shoreditches over here) tend to favour 'taches very similar to many Chaps, except worn ironically, of course. Much to the annyone of many in the Chappist community, who loathe it when people think they are trying to be funny or ironic when they sport facial hair.

*thoseareexactlymynewglasses* >_< Only mine are rounder, hence a little more ironic. Gawd, I'm a hipster! And here I was, thinking I'd shaken the habit... Although I always thought that hipsters had bigger glasses. Kinda like these.

I'm going to put on my other small, wire-framed, 30s-looking glasses now...

But here hipsters tend to have beards if they sport facial hair. Used to be porn-staches, but now it's beards. Scraggly-looking, unkempt, ironic beards. Or what we call a "moppe-stache"; the sort of moustache 15-year-olds sport before they learned to shave (which coincides with being of an age to drive a moped here, hence "moppe" which is slang for moped). Très ironic, obviously.

And I do believe we're back on topic! Insofar the topic is hipsters, that is.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I'll never understand why anyone would wear fake glasses for the sake of just wearing glasses. What's next, "ironic" hearing aids?

 

[Flicka]

I'll never understand why anyone would wear fake glasses for the sake of just wearing glasses. What's next, "ironic" hearing aids?

Me neither. I mean, I'd gladly be rid of mine. How about ironic crutches?

Anyway, to tie this in with something vaguely vintage-related - in the 1890s there was a set of "hipsters" here who actually dressed ironically with baggy jackets like people from the local workhouse, yellow waistcoats and too short walking sticks. Very avantgarde, that. Especially the walking sticks.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

And then the most recognizably ironic style are the all too common idiots wearing their pants below their backside. The style which of course had its origin in prison where inmates are not allowed to have belts. Some correctional institutions have gone back to the traditional prison stripes. Unfortunately I suspect that if the practice became more widespread that it would end up becoming the new hip hop style. :doh:

 

[Feraud]

I'll never understand why anyone would wear fake glasses for the sake of just wearing glasses. What's next, "ironic" hearing aids?

Don't give them any Ideas.. Some of ours local hipster kids don't bother with lens in their oversized eyeglasses. Oh irony!!

 

[ButteMT61]

I'll never understand why anyone would wear fake glasses for the sake of just wearing glasses. What's next, "ironic" hearing aids?

An, the phony glasses faction. Nothing could prove shallow better than that. Well, maybe pretending to be of little means whilst caching the trust checks is worse...Meh.