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Ugh. Painful.
Ugh. Painful.
The British actually won at
The British actually won at the Battle of Bunker Hill.
Just sayin'.
Victory
Yes, it was, technically, a British victory, They took the ground and the enemy retreated, though the Brits had twice as many casualties as their opponents. It was after the Battle of Bunker Hill that one of the British generals said "another such victory would have ruined us."
I wish football was like that, but though irony is dear to the hearts of many sports fans, and even some athletes, it is not sanctioned by the National Football League.
Pyrrhic Victory
The expression you quote is a lot older than our revolution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrhic_victory
Not quite
Most of the fighting was at Breed's Hill.
While that is true, it's not
While that is true, it's not known as the Battle of Breed's Hill. That said, I clarified in my original post.
‘Twas Breed’s Hill dear boy.
‘Twas Breed’s Hill dear boy.
Hurtful
"Boston's not even a real city, it's a college town with a fishing pier."
That's wicked awesome
I guess this is where someone mentions that the British won the Battle of Bunker Hill. It was a pyrrhic win, but they took it and Charlestown (and then burned the town, which had been pretty much empty since Lexington and Concord two months earlier, to the ground).
Already accounted for and as
Already accounted for and as frickin' awesome as the skit is, it's based on a flawed premise.
But what do you expect from a bunch of Yankees?
The beauty of this matchup
New Yorkers hate both teams.
SNL....
Maybe I'm just getting old, but I feel this skit would have been 10x better with the writers and/or actors from 10-20 years ago. I used to find 2-3 random skits (even the ones others don't find funny) to be good but now every single one of them seems horrible and forced.
Weekend update is ok, and seems to get a little better each year but this show needs a major overhaul.
Not Ready for Prime Time
Some more than others.
One thing, though
The most important actresses in this skit left the show 10 years ago.
Huh?
Now every single one of them seems horrible and forced? Please. SNL was always weak. The skits take an idea and run it into the ground, then run it for another minute after that because it's almost time for commercial break.
Family Guy's thing with Peter hurting his leg and saying "Ah" seven or eight times? That's an homage to SNL skits.
Meh..
3/10 SNL skits were "good" back in the day with 1 beating great and 7/10 being meh-bad. Now it seems 10/10 are unfunny bad.
Like I said I enjoyed the random unique black comedy sketch every once in a while and I agree they would get run into the ground after a while. Now they don't even get a change to run something funny into the ground because nothing is ever funny anymore.
Bring back In...
Living Color....Homey the clown, men on film, handiman, Fire Marshall bill...classic
They were fantastic just 2 years ago.
You missed another Golden Age with the Kristin Wiig, Bill Hader, Andy Sanberg, Jason Sedakis Will Forte, Maya Rudolph and even Bobby Moynihan all leaving at the same time. 2 years before that Seth Meyers held down the chair at weekend update.
The cupboard is now pretty bare: Kate McKinnon is fantastic but that means she has to be in Every sketch. Cecily Stong is great and Kenan keeps on rolling along. Meanwhile all the new guys are sidekick/straight men at best: Not funny at all and it's unclear what they are doing there.
It is amusing that some peoples' ideas on SNL seem to be as current as Joe Piscopo.
Two words
Pete Davidson.
I kind of feel bad that for a few years I was laughing at him because he was high as a kite, but then again so was Belushi and Farley. He still puts a smile on my face with some of his work, especially when him and Jost go at it on Update. I love the bit where Davidson talks about how all of Staten Island hates him while they love Jost, mainly because the two of them together is an example of what Staten Island is (Davidson) and what it could be (Jost.)
Oh, and Leslie Jones. I almost feel that I should rewrite this whole thing so that it is a love letter to the comedic stylings of Ms. Jones, but I am more like Pete Davidson, so there we are.
Yea I should have said 5 years....
Wiig, Hader, Sedakis, Forte were very good. I feel like they have been gone for a while now.
Drinking beer would have been expected
Temperance was not a thing until later. One reason so many wealthy colonials had bad teeth was that they drank so much hard cider. The beer usually wasn't as strong as what we drink now - but it was drunk at all times of day!
A leftover habit from cultures that did not have safe clean water - like England.
Dratch
Rachel Dratch is a treasure, makes everything instantly better
Please
Philadelphia honors it sports tradition by booing Santa, punching police horses and building a statue of a fake white fighter named Rocky Balboa.
Boston is the Athens of America and New England is the region of the country that has the best athletes and the best schools in the country.
I look forward to the day two of the toughest athletes in New England history get their well deserved statues Nancy Kerrigan and Aly Raisman.
Philadelphia has their
Philadelphia has their "fake white fighter". New England has its fake white Indian.
Philadelphia is the city of brotherly love. "Athens of America" has its boy lovers.
That's not the Athens of America
It's the Sparta, of Greece.
You're full of shit with your Indian slur, too.
Is that
supposed to be a Spartan, calling the Athenians "boy-lovers" in that clip? That's hilarious. The Spartans were the most notorious boy-lovers of ancient Greece. For the Athenians it was an occasional thing, for the Spartans it was a way of life.
...a statue of a fake white fighter named Rocky Balboa.
Played by an actor who spent his draft eligibility years during the Vietnam War teaching gym at a girl's school in Switzerland, then made millions playing a murderous Vietnam Vet. What a hero.
Wrong. He was a student at
Wrong. He was a student at American College in Switzerland.
https://www.biography.com/people/sylvester-stallone-9491745
Opinions vary
Depends on which biography you like.
None of which alters the fact that he was a draft-dodger who got rich pretending to be a veteran.
I always heard
He didn't dodge the draft. Rather, he was deemed medically unfit due to some mental issues.
SNL is like the Simpsons
Both are mere shadows of their former selves and should have been ditched over twenty years ago.
Jeesh, what a bunch of killjoys UHub has
Skit isn't winning any Emmy's but it was amusing enough.
Poked fun at both teams and their respective fans' accents and stereotypes.
Fun to watch Natalie Portman have fun with the attitude and accent.