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April 11, 2011

Ken BurnsÂ’ Â“The VowelsÂ”
— Genghis

A Documentary

(And mid-day open thread/respite from DOOM)

Includes multiple quotes from Â“Stuff Jefferson Said,Â” annotated 3rd printing from 1924, leather-bound edition with limited-print dust jacket. And startling information about Abigail Adams you were probably unaware of. Video is SFW but headphone use is highly recommended.

Part One of Â“The Vowels:Â”

Part Two below the foldÂ…

Posted by: Genghis at 09:15 AM | Comments (61)
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What, no comments?

Posted by: Grey Fox at April 11, 2011 09:23 AM (KB6lF)

2 Oh, and "First!"

Posted by: Grey Fox at April 11, 2011 09:23 AM (KB6lF)

3 Chapter One: The Introduction ROFLMAO! Abigail Adams' wooden vagina and Gregory Peck,,,priceless.

Posted by: Constantine's Sword at April 11, 2011 09:28 AM (QHAZ6)

4 OT, but Rush is getting on my nerves.

Posted by: Whatever! at April 11, 2011 09:30 AM (LyOUH)

5 Will we see another flame war over the "E".

Posted by: Vic at April 11, 2011 09:30 AM (M9Ie6)

6 not in the mood for frivolity

Posted by: Sunday Soothsayer with extra nuts at April 11, 2011 09:31 AM (uFokq)

7 not a good day for hijinx

Posted by: Sunday Soothsayer with extra nuts at April 11, 2011 09:31 AM (uFokq)

8 i before e except after c was a Commie plot

Posted by: Chuckit at April 11, 2011 09:32 AM (NAaLp)

9 4OT, but Rush is getting on my nerves. It's an open thread. Rush, wooden vaginas and anything else is fair game.

Posted by: genghis at April 11, 2011 09:35 AM (4T2lB)

10 Y: vowel, consonant or some kind of weird hybrid?

Posted by: huerfano at April 11, 2011 09:35 AM (6zFxS)

Hmmmmmm...

Not sure what to think.

Posted by: Abby Adams at April 11, 2011 09:35 AM (pLTLS)

12 8 i before e except after c was a Commie plot

Posted by: Chuckit at April 11, 2011 01:32 PM (NAaLp)

standerdisd seling iz a goverment ploi to stel ur freedum!

Posted by: Grey Fox, who IS in the mood for levity at April 11, 2011 09:35 AM (KB6lF)

13 If this is narrated by Vanna White, I'm not listening.

Posted by: The Poster Formerly Known as Mr. Barky at April 11, 2011 09:36 AM (qwK3S)

14
Q: What type of finish do you use on a wooden vagina?

A: Tung oil.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at April 11, 2011 09:37 AM (tf9Ne)

15 you two, when you change your name you have to clear it with the AoS Name Change Clearing Committee I was not informed.

Posted by: AoS Name Department at April 11, 2011 09:38 AM (uFokq)

16 The Vowel? I've heard of it. Great production by Barbara Walters. Bunch of gals sit around a table and talk without using consonants. Think Clan of the Cave Bear movie without the blond gal. Killer.

Posted by: Charles Gibson at April 11, 2011 09:38 AM (qwK3S)

17 10 Y: vowel, consonant or some kind of weird hybrid?

Posted by: huerfano at April 11, 2011 01:35 PM (6zFxS)

In old English it was a vowel, a rounded i. If you wanted a consonant you used yogh, which looked like a 3 with a flattened top. We should bring it back, along with ash, thorn, and eth. Those were useful letters.

Posted by: Grey Fox at April 11, 2011 09:40 AM (KB6lF)

18 Y: vowel, consonant or some kind of weird hybrid?

Created by the consonant-freaks to eventually wean us off of vowels.

Posted by: John P. Squibob at April 11, 2011 09:41 AM (/U/Mr)

19 @4, I'm not listening to Rush -- what's going on?

Posted by: Ella at April 11, 2011 09:43 AM (DmnMk)

20 OMG, I'm peeing my pants laughing.

Posted by: mpfs at April 11, 2011 09:45 AM (iYbLN)

21 18 Created by the consonant-freaks to eventually wean us off of vowels.
Posted by: John P. Squibob at April 11, 2011 01:41 PM (/U/Mr) Wll,ts nt lk th r mprtnt r smthng!

Posted by: Society of Consonant Freaks at April 11, 2011 09:45 AM (KB6lF)

22 Attn: Rich White Men

*reads transmission from WH via blackberry*

You drove us into a ditch. Time for you to pony up. Pay your fair share already

That's all I have on that

*sips Starbucks latte*

Back to you Joe

*hops into Scarborough's lap*

Posted by: Mika Brezzzzzzzzzinkkkkkkkki at April 11, 2011 09:50 AM (pLTLS)

23 And remember, you can't support NPR without...wait, what?

Oh, it's good. It's very, very good. But (and this is a big butt), the real stories of the letters probably would make a good 9-hour documentary.

And think of what we've lost, no doubt due to budget cuts! Know all those phony-colonial places, Ye Olde Shoppe? That "Y" ain't. There was an Old English letter, thorn, that looked like a flat-sign, sorta, and made the "th" sound. They used that sucker for the longest tyme before some typesetter dropped it in the crucible. Any waize, whenever you see that 'Ye' stuff, that's a thorn right there, and it just said "the" back then.

Next week, lost diphthongs. You'll find them in any encyclopaedia. The British, you know, still have haemmorhoids. Always will.

Posted by: comatus at April 11, 2011 09:51 AM (W5ilH)

24 No Y, No Peace!!!

Posted by: mpfs at April 11, 2011 09:53 AM (iYbLN)

25 ROFLMAO!

Abigail Adams' wooden vagina and Gregory Peck,,,priceless.

Does this mean Mr. Adams had a wooden dick? Naw, that would chafe. What goes with a wood vagina? Pledge?

Posted by: mpfs at April 11, 2011 09:55 AM (iYbLN)

26 Shouldn't Ace be crawling out of his cardboard box by now?

Posted by: Soona Dooma at April 11, 2011 09:55 AM (aD9cw)

How did those guys keep a straight face?

Posted by: Mama AJ at April 11, 2011 09:56 AM (XdlcF)

28 Shouldn't Ace be crawling out of his cardboard box by now?

You can't spell Ace and cardboard with the "A"

You're welcome.

Posted by: Stuff Jefferson Said, Volume V, Page 23, Section 2, Line 34 at April 11, 2011 09:57 AM (iYbLN)

29 You can't spell Ace and cardboard with the "A"

You're welcome.

Posted by: Stuff Jefferson Said, Volume V, Page 23, Section 2, Line 34 at April 11, 2011 01:57 PM (iYbLN)

So how 'bout "asshole"?

Posted by: Soona Dooma at April 11, 2011 10:01 AM (aD9cw)

30 Hey homies! How's it shaking? 'Been really busy trying to find a house.

Finally a sunny day today so I'm celebrating by spring cleaning... which will last approximately 12 hours with all the damned pets and whatnot, but at least the man will come home to a clean house.

That Masters final round was something.

Posted by: Y-not has nuthin' at April 11, 2011 10:03 AM (pW2o8)

31 I'm going back to the "Doom" thread. It's a lot more fun.

Posted by: Soona Dooma at April 11, 2011 10:03 AM (aD9cw)

32
The English invented the vowel to distinguish the English language from Welsh.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 11, 2011 10:04 AM (9daa6)

33 Ken Burns is getting almost as annoying as Tyler Perry with the insistence that his name gets top billing on everything.

Posted by: negentropy at April 11, 2011 10:04 AM (27KAF)

This explains why my first edition of SJS says "Stff JFFRSN SD" on the cover.

I'd wondered.

Posted by: Mama AJ at April 11, 2011 10:04 AM (XdlcF)

35 The Congress, boozy and disoriented from an all night nation forming.... ROFL very funny stuff.

Posted by: lauren at April 11, 2011 10:05 AM (eUmIE)

36 There is dispute among vowel scholars concerning the "U". Recent documents have been discovered at Monticello where Jefferson signed his correspondence to John Adams as Fuck off and the horse you rode in on Johnny.

Posted by: mpfs at April 11, 2011 10:07 AM (iYbLN)

37 In old English it was a vowel, a rounded i. If you wanted a consonant you used yogh, which looked like a 3 with a flattened top. We should bring it back, along with ash, thorn, and eth. Those were useful letters. Posted by: Grey Fox at April 11, 2011 01:40 PM (KB6lF) Well, I can type Ã¦(Ã†), Ã¾(Ãž), & Ã°(Ã), but I dunno how to get the others without cut & paste.

Posted by: As Your Mom Says at April 11, 2011 10:08 AM (lT0LC)

You guys all act like we're all second stringers or something. While u you.

Loses some of its impact, doesn't it?

Posted by: The Consonants at April 11, 2011 10:09 AM (QKKT0)

39 (While we're at it, let us do away with the "K". Just because you know Greek doesn't mean you should import its redundant letters, scribes.)

Posted by: As Your Mom Says at April 11, 2011 10:10 AM (lT0LC)

40 Nvr hrd f thm.

Posted by: Charlie Gibson at April 11, 2011 10:11 AM (2MnHJ)

"The blacker the berry, the freer the juice."

-T.Jefferson

Posted by: Thomas Jefferson at April 11, 2011 10:11 AM (CKF0y)

42 Any waize, whenever you see that 'Ye' stuff, that's a thorn right there,

I know exactly what thou I mean you or is that still thou? It's so CONFUSING! Ãžou! Ãžere Ã¾at haÃ° Ã¾e faiÃ°ful orÃ°ography!

Posted by: MikeTheMoose at April 11, 2011 10:11 AM (0q2P7)

43 35 The English invented the vowel to distinguish the English language from Welsh.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 11, 2011 02:04 PM (9daa6)

That is funny. I will have to remember it.

Posted by: Society of Consonant Freaks at April 11, 2011 10:13 AM (KB6lF)

It's an open thread. Rush, wooden vaginas and anything else is fair game.

Wooden Vaginas?

Someone just got back from Amsterdam.

Posted by: garrett at April 11, 2011 10:14 AM (CKF0y)

45 So this is what "the stupid" looks like in video?

To many people with too much time on their hands.

Posted by: Kemp at April 11, 2011 10:14 AM (JpFM9)

46 14
Q: What type of finish do you use on a wooden vagina?

A: Tung oil.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at April 11, 2011 01:37 PM (tf9Ne)

I prefer something with a little more penetration.

Posted by: Unclefacts Luxury-Yacht at April 11, 2011 10:14 AM (6IReR)

ppty flks n hr, dm!dm! jst dsnt hve th sm mpct

Posted by: willow at April 11, 2011 10:15 AM (h+qn8)

I've always been taken by why Jefferson became such an obscure figure in this country's history.

These videos clear up a lot.

Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at April 11, 2011 10:16 AM (r1h5M)

49 dmn t scrwd p

Posted by: willow at April 11, 2011 10:16 AM (h+qn8)

50 Just a thought.

Without vowels Obama would be one giant BM.

Think about it.

Posted by: mpfs at April 11, 2011 10:17 AM (iYbLN)

Posted by: mpfs at April 11, 2011 02:17 PM (iYbLN)

He's got the stinky part down.

Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at April 11, 2011 10:18 AM (r1h5M)

52 Oh and just a thought, I do those announcers, they were kinda cute.

Posted by: Barney at April 11, 2011 10:18 AM (JpFM9)

53 Whattttt??????????? This is horrible.....

Posted by: TheGarbone at April 11, 2011 10:20 AM (rPQFv)

54 FNC just reporting that there are now calls for a federal investigation of the Prosser/Kloppy election. See, I told y'all not to celebrate early. This ain't over yet. The fraud is going to start now.

Posted by: Soona Dooma at April 11, 2011 10:22 AM (aD9cw)

55 Well, not that I have time to reflect on this post I wish to...... Crawl into my PC and travel on the interwebs ALA Tron and find someone to bludgeon with a heavy metal rod.

Posted by: TheGarbone at April 11, 2011 10:24 AM (rPQFv)

56 I hope the many little anti-American digs were part of the joke. But it sounded too much like a real PBS clusterfuck to be a joke.

If I keep watching things like this (and Hobo with a Shotgun) that make me stupider I will pass for Joe Biden's stunt double.

Posted by: sifty at April 11, 2011 10:43 AM (zD+IT)

57 The African-American is responsible for all of the most beautiful use of vowels in American history.

Posted by: ken burns, maybe at April 11, 2011 11:06 AM (Y1DZt)

58 This is the funniest thread--post and comments--that I've read here in a long time.

I was chuckling all along during Part One of The Vowels, but what started me LOLing was the attribution to Atticus Finch. That was a dogwhistle that told me that, OK, these guys do really get it.

Speaking, of course, as one who had To Kill A Mockingbird jammed down his throat in 10th grade, book and film. Hated Gregory Peck for years after that. And Robert Duvall.

Posted by: Otis Criblecoblis at April 11, 2011 11:49 AM (fjoLg)

59 Sounds like Firesign Theatre.

Posted by: The Oracle at April 11, 2011 12:26 PM (FadLv)

Abigail Adams' wooden vagina and Gregory Peck,,,priceless.

Does this mean Mr. Adams had a wooden dick? Naw, that would chafe. What goes with a wood vagina? Pledge?

Termites?

Posted by: Miss South Carolina at April 11, 2011 01:11 PM (mQMnK)

61 Liberals too stupid to tell who the founding fathers are

Posted by: Spurwing Plover at April 12, 2011 08:46 AM (vA9ld)

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