Monday, April 15, 2019

Down the rabbit hole on the web

For some reason I thought of Put Down the Duckie on a Sesame Street episode that I watched with my kids.  As I watched it, I was surprised by all the stars that contributed to sketch.  One in particular was Jane Curtain.  This lead to looking up what she looks like now.  She is an elderly woman with as is with all my childhood and young adulthood icons.  This made me think, "Holy Shit. All of us really do get old."  Which reminded me of a song by Ron Wood off his album, "Gimme some neck"  So I looked up the song on youtube to listen to it.  I started listening to it and then looked up how old he is and images of what he looks like now.  Which made me wonder what his role in the Rolling Stones was.  I found out the tense should be is because he is still with band.  At that point the outside environment broke through (I became aware of what I was doing) and started to close the tabs on the browser.  As I was closing them I got back to Jane Curtin and immediatly thought of the skit with Dan Akroyd on SNL's Weeknd Update where he says, "Jane you ignorant slut".  You guessed it. Had to look that up on YouTube and watched it in amazement and amusement.  It is hysterical!  The lines both of them say are so impressive so I went on a search for the script and saw this:"Can somebody please explain to me why “Jane, you ignorant slut” is supposed to be funny?" It was on a "Reddit" post.  I wanted to add a comment and so tried but I had to sign up.  This then finally caused me to close the browser.

According to the history on my browser from the time I started down the Rabbit hole to the time I crawled out was from 11:35 to 12:01.  I just looked this information to put in this writing and found that it wasn't as long as I would have guessed.  But it was still quite some time.  I have gone way further down the rabbit hole than that to the tune of maybe 3 hours - not at work though.

Start: Put down the duckie
End: Reddit - Wanting to reply to "Can somebody please explain to me why “Jane, you ignorant slut” is supposed to be funny?"