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| I'd rather have luck than skill any day  |
It repeats itself frequently; contains lots of strings of numbers with no seeming releationship to each other, it's likely nationalistic German or eastern European anyway. Early 20th century I'd guess, perhaps into WW2. I can't say I've heard it in 1984, but it would certainly be fitting. It's from 28 Years Later. Here's an example of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcvLKldPM08 skip to 0:32 to skip the nonpertinent material. What is it? | ||
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Can you hum it? Open your phone's YouTube app, click the search bar, then the mic, and swap it from "voice" to "song". You can then hum and depending how close you can get the tune, it will sometimes figure out what song you are attempting. Mixed results. | |||
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A Grateful American |
"Boots" Rudyard Kipling "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא עוד | |||
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Semper Fi - 1775 |
**EDITED** I and my modern ways have been humbled by the Monkey. Well done sir, I won’t pollute this thread with my trickery. ___________________________ All it takes...is all you got. ____________________________ For those who have fought for it, Freedom has a flavor the protected will never know ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ | |||
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Damn. There you go again. How do you know stuff like this? I didn't know that, and I like Kipling. | |||
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Yep. This poem is permanently stuck in my head. "I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared." Thomas Jefferson | |||
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| Happiness is Vectored Thrust  |
Whoa. Flashback time. The last time I heard that I was locked in a 3x4x5 cell at SERE School. It played incessantly for hours over and over and over. Icarus flew too close to the sun, but at least he flew. | |||
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| A Grateful American |
My brain is weird like that. I can still remember the recordings listened to from 7th grade English of Silas Marnier, The Telltale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, Gung Din and more. Movie quotes (and in some cases almost entire movie dialogue), and my daughters are the same way, so we ended up "re-enforcing" some dialogs, and actually carried on conversations in "Movienese".  "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא עוד | |||
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I had all that in English, too. Gunga Din was my favorite poem as a kid; I would recite it with an English accent. But I never heard "Boots". | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
You’ve never heard of the infinite monkey theorem? You put an infinite number of monkeys in front of an infinite number of typewriters for an infinite amount of time, they would almost surely type any given text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare. Sigmonkey was one of the monkeys. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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| The success of a solution usually depends upon your point of view |
Damn, the Monkey, for the win, in 21 minutes. SIGforum, for all your needs. “We truly live in a wondrous age of stupid.” - 83v45magna "I think it's important that people understand free speech doesn't mean free from consequences societally or politically or culturally." -Pranjit Kalita, founder and CIO of Birkoa Capital Management | |||
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Character, above all else |
Oh yeah! I remember that wasn't a very fun time. Neither was the screaming baby for a few hours after "Boots". "The Truth, when first uttered, is always considered heresy." | |||
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First thing I thought of was Red Skeletons “Frogs” Set to the Boots cadence. https://youtu.be/Q56CiyfAuOc?si=RKAc734iCT_F6rv2 Some people spread happiness wherever they go… some whenever they go. | |||
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All great. Another strange one is the theme sing to ‘Man in the High Castle’. https://youtu.be/VVf5fuXjFrQ?si=-xAxb0bE-ijIfCzE Then the theme to ‘Vikings’ https://youtu.be/USOsp5yQhZY?si=ElUH11xinQ-4hvK5 | |||
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| I'd rather have luck than skill any day |
Indeed impressive Monkey. Tx. I should have paid closer attention in my English lit class...  | |||
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The baby! I almost forgot about that one. Almost... "I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared." Thomas Jefferson | |||
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I went through Warner Springs back in the late 80’s, December. It got very cold at night in those hills, very cold. I really didn’t care for it. I don’t mind ‘survival school’ & training, it was the other parts of the ordeal. I think one could repel most miscreants, play that ‘boots’ on a loudspeaker, continuous loop over your house. Of course you may end up a little nutty yourself. | |||
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Yup. First time I heard it was a Jocko Podcast with him reading it. Train how you intend to Fight Remember - Training is not sparring. Sparring is not fighting. Fighting is not combat. | |||
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Fighting the good fight |
Those recited numbers are the number of miles they had to march each day. | |||
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In Odin we trust |
Man in the High Castle theme song is Edelweiss, originally written for The Sound of Music. It was/is a protest against the German (Nazi) annexation of Austria. It's a popular children's bedtime song (My grandmother & mother sang it to me, and my wife and I sang it to all four of our kids when they were young). The Vikings there song is "If I Had a Heart" by Fever Ray (not real name, which I don't know). A Swedish musician. _________________________ "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than omnipotent moral busybodies" ~ C.S. Lewis | |||
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