Great Debaters?

With all the hype about the new Denzel Washington
and Forrest Whitaker movie,
"The Grear Debaters" based on the
1930's Wiley College debate team
who would take on any and all challengers,
well they have a good story.

But the great story was, as still is, located some twenty some odd miles
west of Marshall, Texas,
and not 70+ years ago rather just a few evenings ago.
Yes, I'm talking about . . .
"The Pretty Good Debaters"



They only debate "team" with the
blindingly fast wit to
debate themselves...
You'll be amazed by such
deep and dramatic dialogue
like this, between the
debate team captain, Dr. Lucky, and
the team member playfully
known as "Trick",

Dr. Lucky: Well ?...
Trick: I dunno.
Dr. Lucky: Beer?
Trick: O.K.
Dr. Lucky:Well?
Trick: I dunno.
Dr. Lucky: Huh!
Trick: Well?
Dr. Lucky: I dunno!
Trick: I dunno, either.
Dr. Lucky: Beer?
Trick: O.K.

"THE PRETTY GOOD DEBATERS"
Catch it, Every Tuesday, Only at
Ray Gene's West End
Hangout.
Catch it soon! With Their track record,
it just might be a "Limited Engagement."

Post Script:
DO NOT CONFUSE THIS MOVIE WITH THIS X RATED VERSION:

Post First Tuesday Brain Trust Christmas Party

Christmas Countdown...Only 6 Days left of Endless Christmas Joy:

Just Got home from FTBT Christmas party and we are waiting for the pics to arrive from Dr. Lucky's Photo Processing,but while we wait here are some of the quips exchanged during the party:

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Stupid Rabbitt Brings Back Those Holiday Traditions That Mean So Much

40 whacks of Christmas Joy (Hoy,Hoy):
Since the beginning traditions are what makes Christmas so special. So are well known such as Christmas Trees, decorations, Stockings hung by the chimney with care, and good ole wassail. Some are not so well known. Such is the tradition of Christmas spankings. Which dates back to the middle ages and the Renaissance and has been the subject of many artists as seen below in Raphael's "The Whackin' at the Manger":

and carried through to the late 1800's as depicted in early "funny papers" of the time as depicted in the "Whackinjammer Kidz" strip:

This revelry carried through to the Roaring Twenty's where most of the roaring came from those flappers receiving a hearty whacking on the tush:

Christmas spanking hit its zenith during the war years where there was little else to give during Christmas due to mandatory rationing and the shortage of products from Japan, since most of their able bodied population were either in the war related industries, the army, or kamikaze corps. Hence, many Christmas movies of the time featured spanking scenes like the famous "Spanking of Baby Snookum's" series of movies:

With the post war years bringing a new wealth of inovation such as television, TV dinners, cars with fins, and dance crazes such as the twist, which actually originated when Chubby Checker's mom tried to give him his annual Christmas spanking,
the tradition of spanking was lost to the more lavish and glamorous traditions. As a matter of fact the last know instance of the tradition was part of the 1959 "Lassie Christmas Special" when Timmy at the urging of Lassie herself received his last public whacking:

You can now revive and relive this lost tradition of Christmas with:

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