Hold the bus! – The Banana Splits
Since I’ve already featured the H.R. Pufnstuf theme and Land of the Lost theme before, I decided to feature the opening & closing to The Banana Splits Adventure Hour, the first Saturday morning show to feature the Krofft puppets. As a wee lass my mother enrolled me in the Banana Splits fan club, and I had the various club materials for years after the show went off the air. And it was not unusual for Grace to use one of their catchphrases, “Hold the bus!” The links above the video were provided by Franklin Harris, Ryan Marino, Jesse Walker, Ryan Cooper, Walter Olson, Radley Balko, and Jessica Pishko, in that order.
- Punctuation matters.
- “Let’s get back to work.”
- R.I.P. Sid Krofft and Don Schlitz.
- How to resurrect a bricked Kindle.
- Possibly the funniest thing I’ve read this year.
- They can’t stop demonstrating exactly what they are.
- Cops are always coming up with new ways to murder.
From the Archives
- Overseas pharmacies will sell to US customers without asking permission.
- Both sides in the culture war have completely taken leave of their senses.
- The sleazy “confidential informant” system enables corruption and abuse.
- Pretending these aren’t typical & representative by calling them “rookies”.
- Yelling “Stop faking!” at the sick & dying is one of screws’ favorite games.
- In ≈ 20 years, these stories will be about victims of “trafficking” hysteria.
- Cops will never stop this as long as the state keeps giving them pretexts.
- We need a class-action suit for booksellers affected by these evil policies.
- Politicians are avid devotees of cutting off their noses to spite their faces.
- This one directly describes very typical cop behavior as “uncharacteristic”.
- Swedish politicians angry that their law doesn’t destroy enough lives yet.
- This will continue until media stop calling senseless violence “correction”.
- A few sane judges are the only thing protecting US libraries from freaks.
- Keep plunging that ice pick in; the bad thoughts will go away eventually.
- This will continue for as long as cops are allowed to “police” themselves.
- Hey, female cops; how’s that collaboration with the police state working?
- Puritans destroy men’s lives for wanting consensual sex w/adult women.
- I was destined to be threatened with state violence regardless of career.
- Give sexually-aggressive thugs power over teens; what could go wrong?
- Politicians never bother to observe the consequences of laws they ape.
- Psychopathy is typical in politicians, but this is complete derangement.
- Cops are sexual predators who specifically target traumatized women.
- Missouri seems uninterested in controlling its psychopathic politicians.
- The Dutch scheme to Disnify De Wallen is no longer merely a scheme.
- Doctors mock cops’ fentanyl hysteria, so they invent new bogeydrugs.
- Politicians compete to make their new laws the most unconstitutional.
- Gentrification is a common motivation for persecution of sex workers.
- Petty torture of prisoners and more money for fascist state “partners”.
- One of the people the government empowers to police your sexuality.
- Only a few years ago, media outlets were lionizing wackos like these.
- These people were locked in this cage facility because of US policies.
- Your “leaders” refer to rape by state-employed thugs as “correction”.
- “Drugs” are a popular pretext for petty vindictiveness in US prisons.
- Prosecutors are rarely interested in going after rapists with badges.
- If you thought regional “fusion centers” were bad, how about this?
- Software used by “legitimate authorities” also works for abusers.
- Seems like a significant fraction of child porn is spread by cops.
- Prohibitionists’ real goal is to completely ban online sex work.
- Many people fail to realize that calling 911 = calling the cops.
- They often try to make it sound like the prisoners consented.
- More politicians cutting off their noses to spite their faces.
- A society can be judged by the way it treats its prisoners.
- Florida’s authoritarian government criminalizes kindness.
- Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors.
- Cops, Antarctica, Richard Chamberlain, and much more.
- Your “leaders” refer to these atrocities as “correction”.
- Cops, O.J. Simpson, Dickey Betts, and much more.
- Florida knows it will lose any challenge to this law.
- No religion has a monopoly on preachy molesters.
- Cops, metaphors, Mary Quant, and much more.
- A curated selection of tweets from April 2025.
- There is nothing as hard to kill as a bad law.
- A video record of each shelf of my library.
- A small shrine to Aphrodite in my atrium.
- Cop fails upward into a career in politics.
- On the passing of our little friend Aeryn.
- Puritanism is throttling the entire world.
- Now this is an interesting development.
- The Legend of Throwback Thursday.
- My three previous posts for Easter.
- They really can’t stop themselves.
- Good riddance to toxic rubbish.
- Throwback Thursday Island.
- Bolder than most chickens.
- All prohibition is the same.
- “Spiritual care coordinator“.
- This cannot be reformed.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- Well, this is different.
- Turkey in the sink.
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