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Wednesday's Condensed News Cartoons & Memes (Original Post) KS Toronado 11 hrs ago OP
'Turning water into slime' Conjuay 10 hrs ago #1
Yay Toons Ray Bruns 10 hrs ago #2
Kick dalton99a 10 hrs ago #3
Thank you for the cartoons LetMyPeopleVote 9 hrs ago #4
Swamp rumleyfips 9 hrs ago #5
Excellent - Pete Seeger 1967 erronis 6 hrs ago #9
Thank you. murielm99 8 hrs ago #6
The "clown" theme keeps coming back, doesn't it? FakeNoose 8 hrs ago #7
Yay! Toons! planetc 7 hrs ago #8
Thanks for the toons! PatSeg 6 hrs ago #10

erronis

(24,929 posts)
9. Excellent - Pete Seeger 1967
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 12:05 PM
6 hrs ago
https://genius.com/Pete-seeger-waist-deep-in-the-big-muddy-lyrics

Written by Seeger in 1967, the song was an allegory for the turn of events in Vietnam at the time. In the song, a company commander criticizes his sergeant, which was widely seen as Johnson's arguments with (and ultimate firing of) his Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara.

Seeger performed this song at anti-war rallies, and the Smothers Brothers asked him to perform it on the first episode of their second season. CBS cut it from the show before airing though. That censorship only brought more attention to the song by the anti-war movement.

It was back in nineteen forty-two
I was a member of a good platoon
We were on maneuvers in-a Loozianna
One night by the light of the moon
The captain told us to ford a river
That's how it all begun
We were -- knee deep in the Big Muddy
But the big fool said to push on

The Sergeant said, "Sir, are you sure
This is the best way back to the base?"
"Sergeant, go on! I forded this river
'Bout a mile above this place
It'll be a little soggy but just keep slogging
We'll soon be on dry ground."
We were -- waist deep in the Big Muddy
And the big fool said to push on


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FakeNoose

(42,985 posts)
7. The "clown" theme keeps coming back, doesn't it?
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 10:31 AM
8 hrs ago

There are many different ways to call him one. This is clever I think ....



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