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By now you've read the Burke tweet, which needed three full-sized threads before everyone could get their Ha-Ha's out: One to point out its irony, one for when big brother slapped him in the face for it, and of course the wicked hangover. The oddity I saw was "People u seek out is better than those that seek u" and "EVERYONE got something to say... smh I thought this was my life!" are in a dialect totally incongruent with every tweet I found in 20 minutes of scrolling through Hollis tweets. Dude wasn't just giving Trey Burke sage advice, he was delivering it in a language that young people understand. Allow me to translate:
This will all blow over soon enough but should serve as warning to young people everywhere: NEVER under any circumstances give your handle out to old people; they think you speak Jive!
Please tell me you got that. It's somebody's general rule that people won't watch movies more than 15 years older than they are.*† ‡ By this rule you'd have to have been born in 1995 (a high school senior) to be excused from Airplane! I'm looking at you, people who didn't get dragonchild's cockpit full of Michigan defenders.
Funny thing about Airplane!: I respect that flick as a classic to the point where I'll be condescending toward someone who hasn't seen memorized it, but until recently I didn't even know it was an almost perfect spoof of Zero Hour! (1957). It's a testament to how good Airplane! is that it stands up even if you don't get the main joke; to be fair, the diary kind of doesn't. It's also ironic that I would make fun of people for a movie reference going over their heads when what that movie referenced totally went over my head.
Everything You Need to Know About Airmen. So I checked out Zero Hour! and now one of the Airplane! jokes I never really got totally makes sense. You know how Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's character is obviously Kareem Abdul-Jabbar but the narrative keeps trying force this "he's Roger the co-pilot!" thing, to the point that when they pull him away he's got his Lakers shorts on? In Zero Hour! the co-pilot was played by Elroy Hirsch.
ie Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsh…
…and when Kareem appears we're supposed to get how crazy it was that a kid could see Crazylegs in a pilot's uniform and not be like "OMIGOD YOU'RE ELROY HIRSCH!"
Crazylegs was a Badger who got moved to Michigan when a lot of WWII servicemen were transferred as part of a program to give in-training Navy and Marine officers a college education. Hirsch on the transfer:
"But I was to learn a far more important thing about Michigan. It's not something you can hold or see ... but you sure can feel it. I'm speaking about the great Michigan tradition. Corny you say? Not on your life. It's there ... it engulfs you."
Today the service academies don't get first dibs on any draft-age citizen they want, but they do have virtually unlimited scholarships, bringing in 40+ recruits a year (that makes two oversigners on the 2012 schedule). This and many more interesting facts about Air Force can be found in the very early preview by Rabbit21. The whole thing is fascinating. Diary of the Week!
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* There's a corollary rule that states you will think anything made in the 15-year span around when you were born is pure genius, but this rule is really just an observation by people my age that most of the best movies (Godfather, Star Wars, Back to the Future, etc.) all came out around then.§
† Trekkies are of course excluded.
‡ It's at least 17, since my wife agrees with me that The Lion in Winter with Peter O'Toole and Katharine Hepburn is way better than the remake with Patrick Stewart and Glenn Close. Reminder: Angevin discussion is not OT in comments. Someone's going to take me up on this eventually.
§ Which is to say if some kid thinks Harry Potter and something with Russell Crowe in it constitutes the golden age of film, they should be beaten.‖
‖ Yes I'm doing the Alt85 thing again.
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March 30th, 2012 at 8:53 AM | 
Another great dear diary!
Another great dear diary!
March 30th, 2012 at 9:07 AM |
I know it's
I know it's
I know it's a great story and all, but that TD wasn't Denard's FIRST snap.
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March 30th, 2012 at 9:30 AM |
Are you sure? I feel like a
Are you sure? I feel like a
Are you sure? I feel like a lot of us are remembering it that way.
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March 30th, 2012 at 9:34 AM |
If you look at the video, it
If you look at the video, it
If you look at the video, it says the down is 1st and 15. I don't remember, but Denard's first snap was probably a false start. This was just his first meaningful snap.
March 30th, 2012 at 9:47 AM |
That would be a dead ball
That would be a dead ball
That would be a dead ball foul and not a snap, officially.
March 30th, 2012 at 9:51 AM |
Actually, according to ESPN,
Actually, according to ESPN,
Actually, according to ESPN, it was his third snap. http://espn.go.com/ncf/playbyplay?gameId=292480130 He rushed for 0 yards two drives earlier.
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March 30th, 2012 at 2:16 PM |
First snap at QB, not first snap of the game
First snap at QB, not first snap of the game
If memory serves, it was his first (live) snap at QB. He came in earlier in the game while Tate was at QB.
March 30th, 2012 at 10:29 AM |
Truthiness
Truthiness
So technically second snap, right? I'll still remember it as his first because they were just getting to his introduction. Also, it adds to the Mythos of Denard. Also, don't be a Debbie Downer with your facts and research.
March 30th, 2012 at 9:22 AM |
I got the Airplane thing
I got the Airplane thing
I hated on it because it wasn't funny.
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March 30th, 2012 at 9:25 AM |
cosine.
cosine.
cosine.
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March 30th, 2012 at 10:21 AM |
Ditto
Ditto
I got what he was trying to do, but it just wasn't that funny, and certainly wasn't diary worthy IMO. I pointed out the formation problem as a subtle dig that the whole thing just didn't work.
March 30th, 2012 at 9:33 AM |
I think I've seen Airplane!
I think I've seen Airplane!
I think I've seen Airplane! roughly a billion times, but now I'm going to have to rent Zero Hour.
Roger, Rodger.
March 30th, 2012 at 9:42 AM |
Great post!
Great post!
Knowing about Zero Hour makes Airplane even funnier. They took some of the lines right out of Zero Hour.
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March 30th, 2012 at 9:48 AM |
The Lion in Winter...
The Lion in Winter...
...is an amazing film. What a cast.
I have to increase your 15 yr rule to 18 so I can include "Better Off Dead".
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March 30th, 2012 at 10:08 AM |
didn't ask for a dime, two
didn't ask for a dime, two
didn't ask for a dime, two dollars.
classic film.
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March 30th, 2012 at 10:24 AM |
That's a darn shame...
That's a darn shame...
...people be throwin' away a perfectly good white boy like that.
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March 30th, 2012 at 10:30 AM |
The Lion in Winter
The Lion in Winter
I agree. Amazing cast, and it was apparently the first feature film role for Timothy Dalton (age 24). It was pretty early in the film career of Anthony Hopkins (age 31) as well.
March 30th, 2012 at 12:39 PM |
Hopkins is kind of overly
Hopkins is kind of overly
Hopkins is kind of overly creepy in that film. He went on to be a fantastic actor but if the '68 version has one flaw it's that Hopkins played Richard as if he couldn't decide if he's a psychopath or a charicature of Oedipal complex with his emotions too close to the surface.
I didn't realize this until I saw the play in Stratford and some actor nailed Richard as a pleaser who needed a father (thus he is a casualty of the senseless wars between the royal couple, rather than just a casualty of Eleanor). The words are the same but the different take on the character made Richard more about the jealousy he had for his father's favorites (Henry the Young King, then John). I also liked that this Richard aped a lot of what Henry did, especially when he was around Eleanor.
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March 30th, 2012 at 11:41 AM |
Better Off Dead
Better Off Dead
"Play hard and with great effort"
March 30th, 2012 at 10:10 AM |
MGoConfession: I have never
MGoConfession: I have never
MGoConfession: I have never seen Airplane! all the way through. Bits and pieces when it's on AMC, but never start-to-finish.
Should I Zero Hour now to get the full experience of the Airplane jokes, or should I just go ahead and see Airplane!, and go back to Zero Hour later.
Note: much of this decision depends on Neflix/Amazon/shady internet site availability.
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March 30th, 2012 at 10:22 AM |
My two cents...
My two cents...
See Airplane first, laugh at it....then go watch Zero Hour because that movie is not intended to be funny, but will be funny because you'll see how closely the movie's really are in dialogue and plot. It'll be like watching Airplane twice...well, almost.
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March 30th, 2012 at 10:20 AM |
Wow...
Wow...
"as part of a program to give in-training Navy and Marine officers a college education."
I knew all the references to Airplane and Zero Hour and all that, but didn't know this little tid bit of information about Hirsh. Its interesting to me because my father, a 1947 grad of Michigan, was in Navy ROTC and split his time in Ann Arbor by doing a tour on a destroyer in WWII. I have to imagine that he knew Crazylegs while he was there....I'll have to ask.
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March 30th, 2012 at 3:26 PM |
Hirsch was specifically part of the...
Hirsch was specifically part of the...
....Navy's V-12 Program at Michigan. V-12 was added to increase the throughput of midshipmen through colleges and universities. Candidates underwent an accelerated baccalaureate program and got very basic Navy or Marine Corps training on campus. They they were sent to a few months of midshipman training, then off they went to war.
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March 30th, 2012 at 3:48 PM |
Yep
Yep
that sounds a lot like what my dad went through. I'll have to ask him the details of this program and see if its the same thing. 90 yrs old next year, and still sharp as a tack...reads MGoWolverine magazine cover to cover, an entire newspaper each day, and tells me stories of The Pretzel Bell when he was in AA. Good stuff...
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March 30th, 2012 at 10:35 AM |
Obligatory "Oh stewardess- I speak Jive" clip
Obligatory "Oh stewardess- I speak Jive" clip
Skip ahead to :57 seconds
March 30th, 2012 at 10:44 AM |
No matter your age
No matter your age
If you're not watching movies 15 years older than you, you're missing out*.
(*Unless you're like 80. Then you probably aren't missing much).
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March 30th, 2012 at 10:52 AM |
Agreed
Agreed
Some of my favorite movies are more than 40 years older than me.
March 30th, 2012 at 11:57 AM |
The same thing could be said about music. Maybe more so.
The same thing could be said about music. Maybe more so.
TV to some extent is problematic, because it does date a bit more as something current to it's time, and isn't as easily accessible, outside of buying boxed dvd sets. Nick and those channels don't even rerun stuff as much.
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March 30th, 2012 at 12:44 PM |
What have you got against
What have you got against
What have you got against Charlie Chaplin?
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March 31st, 2012 at 6:58 PM |
Well, I said "like"
Well, I said "like"
And 80+15 puts you around 1917. Chaplin really didn't start doing stuff till around 1915, and most of his classic stuff was closer to 1930. If you were "like" enough to be 82, that takes you to 1915....and there weren't a lot of great silents before then.
"I love him, he's a great coach, he's a great mentor, he's a great friend. He's every single thing you want a college coach to be, and he does it flawlessly." -David Molk
March 30th, 2012 at 11:07 AM |
I thought I was the only one
I thought I was the only one
I am only 26 but I love Airplane, probably too much. I have made everyone around my age watch it and everyone seems confused or doesnt laugh. Surely they have to get that its one of the greatest comedies ever.
*Find the reference
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March 30th, 2012 at 11:11 AM |
It is one of the greatest
It is one of the greatest
It is one of the greatest comedies ever. And don't call me Shirley.
March 30th, 2012 at 11:15 AM |
It's one of the four corners of comedy
It's one of the four corners of comedy
Along with Blazing Saddles, Caddyshack and Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
"I love him, he's a great coach, he's a great mentor, he's a great friend. He's every single thing you want a college coach to be, and he does it flawlessly." -David Molk
March 30th, 2012 at 11:19 AM |
Very cliche', but can't live
Very cliche', but can't live
Very cliche', but can't live without Animal House either.
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March 30th, 2012 at 11:44 AM |
While not quite on that
While not quite on that
While not quite on that level, Slap Shot at least deserves a mention.
Also, if we're talking comedies from that era, I feel the need to express my love for Trading Places.
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March 30th, 2012 at 11:46 AM |
Oh wow, YES!
Oh wow, YES!
Ownnnza, ownnnza....
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March 30th, 2012 at 12:03 PM |
Slapshot is quite possibly
Slapshot is quite possibly
The greatest movie ever made.
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March 30th, 2012 at 1:29 PM |
I want a soda! Grape or an
I want a soda! Grape or an
I want a soda! Grape or an orange....and none of that stinkin' Root Beer, neither.
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March 30th, 2012 at 12:10 PM |
There are certainly others.
There are certainly others.
Stripes, Blues Brothers, Young Frankenstein, etc. But those four are kinda universal, and represent the zenith of those particular comedy greats. I'm sure we forget all the so-so or awful comedies they pumped out back then too (Murray also had Meatballs), but stand the test of time, funny beginning to end comedies seems fewer and farther between. You've got your Hangover, your Anchorman, and all...the modern quotables...but you have Adam Sandler still making movies too. (And his best have some quotable lines, and scenes..but most are pretty awful movies). I think what's changed in comedy is that there used to be ideas for comedic movies, and then they'd cast funny guys in them...or the funny guys themselves were coming up with the ideas, along with the director/writer. Now it almost seems like they need to create a new vehicle in the Sandler/Ferrell/etc. career train, and let's get it out there. If it's funny trappings, and at that time the comedian has enough good material to ad lib in it, it can work. But if the movie works with washed up actors, up and comers, or no names...you've got a good movie on your hands.
"I love him, he's a great coach, he's a great mentor, he's a great friend. He's every single thing you want a college coach to be, and he does it flawlessly." -David Molk
March 30th, 2012 at 11:09 AM |
Movies
Movies
Some movies I've enjoyed over the years include Charade (1963), Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948) and The 39 Steps (1935). I was born in 1977. I don't mind the hate (I did post arguably irrelevant content that wasn't going to entertain everyone and hell, the Internet would troll the Bard himself were he alive today), but I think being born in the wrong decade isn't a good excuse for missing a classic.
Peter Graves also carried himself. His deadpan demeanor in the movie was a parody of his more serious roles in the old Mission: Impossible series, but I enjoyed his performance knowing nothing about his prior roles.
I didn't know about Elroy Hirsch, but it's interesting how everything always goes back to U-M athletics. There's apparently even an autobiographical movie about Hirsch, Crazylegs (1953), starring himself. I think we can safely give that one a pass, though.
March 30th, 2012 at 11:29 AM |
That
That
clip of Shawn socking that dude to the ground never gets old, I love that guy.
Go Blue!
March 30th, 2012 at 3:31 PM |
Hitchcock movies
Hitchcock movies
Don't forget the Hitchcock movies like Rear Window, North by Northwest, Vertigo, The Birds, and of course, Psycho.
Unfortunately, for me, the 15 year rule encompasses all of these movies. Now that I think about it, Citizen Kane and The Wizard of Oz fall under the rule. Scary.
"You're fat and you're mine". Bo to Dan Dierdorf.
March 30th, 2012 at 5:10 PM |
Airplane - Zero Hour side by side
Airplane - Zero Hour side by side
It is a good 7 minutes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q__vuyH1JEI
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April 4th, 2012 at 6:51 AM |
Charade is the best movie I'd couldn't believe I hadn't heard of
Charade is the best movie I'd couldn't believe I hadn't heard of
before I saw it. It's just brilliant, the cast is unbelievable and well worth the effort.
"Hah - you fell for that like an egg from a tall chicken!"
Another great dear diary! Can't think of a better way to kick off this Friday morning.