The tidetime folklorist wonders when oil booms will be replaced by job booms.
The Platter: Sh Boom by the Chords (Life Would Be Dream)
The Bait: Thomas Buoyant Spoon (Will Give Up Looking For Food)
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This Week’s George T. Platter And Bait
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010This Week’s George T. Platter And Bait
Thursday, May 27th, 2010The tidetime folklorist wonders when we’ll all start ordering planes, since we’re not ordering much of anything else.
The Platter: Come Fly With Me by Frank Sinatra (Demand Takes A Holiday)
The Bait: Parachute Dry Fly (The Durability Of Unfriendly Skies)
This Week’s George T. Platter And Bait
Thursday, May 20th, 2010The tidetime folklorist wonders why it’s yes to BP but no to Iran.
The Platter: The Clouds Will Soon Roll By Henry Hall And His Orchestra (goodbye to spills we measure)
The Bait: Creme Killer Diller Shrimp Lure (somewhere the oil is shining)
This Week’s George T. Platter And Bait
Thursday, May 13th, 2010The tidetime folklorist wonders why jobs for the boys only applies to jobs for the boys in the bank.
The Platter: “The Money Tree” by Patience and Prudence (Still not happenin’ for you and me)
The Bait: The IKE-CON Rigged Leech (To sum up the last 54 years)
This Week’s George T. Platter And Bait
Thursday, May 6th, 2010The tidetime folklorist wonders why knee replacements always leave our body politic with unrepentent, cowardly jerks like Joe Lieberman, John McCain, and Lindsay Graham.
The Platter: Ragtime Cowboy Joe by the Sons of the Pioneers (whose citizenship is not a right)
The Bait: The Bead Head Woolly Bugger (who can buy an AK-47 on any no-fly list)
99 Weeks Of Checks: A George T. Special
Friday, April 30th, 2010And that will be it, apparently, didn’t you know there’s an economic recovery on?
This will of course be news to those whose unemployment benefits have run out, whose houses are being foreclosed, and whose futures look bleaker than ever…
So, George T. suggests a reprise of Nena’s old song, 99 Luft Balloons, because we can’t all be Captain Kirk:
Gorilla says: “Just to prove the real world was here!”
This Week’s George T. Platter And Bait
Thursday, April 29th, 2010The tidetime folklorist wonders when Germany will come to its neighbors without hat in hand.
The Platter: Gildo Hat Euch Lieb by Gildo Horn (Unification Is Hard To Swallow)
The Bait: The Real Image HDS Grave Digger (Nana Mouskouri Is Now Full European)
This Week’s George T. Platter And Bait
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010The tidetime folklorist wonders why the ashes of an Icelandic volcano inevitably lead to fraud by Goldman Sachs.
The Platter: All Night Stand by The Thoughts (“CDOs have a million faces”)
The Bait: The Boone Squid Daisy Chain (“Ayn Rand, who’s got the abacus?”)
This Week’s George T. Platter And Bait
Thursday, April 15th, 2010The tidetime folklorist wonders when morality will be not be solely the responsibility of liability lawyers.
The Platter: Sister Josephine by Jake Thackray (A funny nun would change the subject)
The Bait: The Persuader Double Buzzer (Never seems to go off on time)
This Week’s George T. Platter And Bait
Thursday, April 8th, 2010The tidetime folklorist wonders when non-proliferation will mean the opposite of what it means today.
The Platter: The Sherrys Put Your Arms Around Me (Don’t inspect, just respect!)
The Bait: Trophy Teasers Bait Bomb Pack (The Arsenal of Hypocrisy)
