The Culture of Tapology

This MMA community has many non-MMA threads already.  Music, Jokes, baseball, football, etc.

So, I thought it might serve a purpose to create a thread for all the other contributions to each other's lives that don't fit anywhere else.

Do you have something that would enrich the community culturally?  Maybe dance, comedy, nutritional, inspirational, arresting visuals?  But please let's keep this positive, and appropriate to the general public.

Maybe a video clip of a movie, broadway show, highly unusual, utterly creative, a cutting edge piece of information, a new computer application, or something that would make someone's life better or richer.

@Jaff That computer is not 1993.  It's flat-screen.  At least 2005 or later.  

Got to give it up for Steve Jobs.  Apple computer, I-pad, itunes, iphone.  He did more that Bill Gates of Microsoft, hands down.  Gates stole everything from Exrox

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That's not the point

That laptop's not from 2005.

@Bill Burgess Do you like comedy? 

If so, dig up Blackadder, Only Fools and Horses and Fawlty Towers on Netflix.

I've seen sooo much stand-up on Netflix. I've always had a soft spot for stand-up comedy. I can watch that **** for days. 

It's a PowerBook 100 series from the early 1990's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook_100_series

I remember I wanted a pager because a lot of my friends had them. My step-mom, who was a police officer at the time, told me that pagers were "only for drug dealers and important people." I've never forgotten that. Thanks, Mom.

@grizzly You missed a show which far surpasses all of those! 

Ask her now for an iPhone and she'll say it's mobsters and millionaires.

@jaffacakehero The only show that surpasses those is Seinfeld.

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@grizzlyedwin I would have to respectfully disagree with you on that one. Have you ever seen Father Ted?

@jaffa Seinfeld > Anything you say

@Swick Haha Cmon man... Father Ted is by far my favorite show of all time but I wouldn't even attempt to argue that it's better than Seinfeld. I wouldn't even know where to start...

I'll happily argue that Father Ted is better than all 3 of those British sitcoms that @grizzly listed though. I'm not sure how far I'd get though seeing as I have no idea how well known it is over there.

I like that 70s show.. I thought that show was kinda the ****. 

Frank Sinatra
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Sinatra

Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and film actor. Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra found unprecedented success as a solo artist from the early to mid-1940s after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the "bobby soxers", he released his first album, The Voice of Frank Sinatra in 1946. His professional career had stalled by the 1950s, but it was reborn in 1953 after he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in From Here to Eternity. He signed with Capitol Records in 1953 and released several critically lauded albums (such as In the Wee Small Hours, Songs for Swingin' Lovers!, Come Fly with Me, Only the Lonely and Nice 'n' Easy). Sinatra left Capitol to found his own record label, Reprise Records in 1961 (finding success with albums such as Ring-a-Ding-Ding!, Sinatra at the Sands and Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim), toured internationally, was a founding member of the Rat Pack and fraternized with celebrities and statesmen, including John F. Kennedy.  

His small group of pals included Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Joey Bishop & Peter Lawford. The media dubbed them, The Rat Pack. Frank was justifiably known for his careful musical phrasing, impeccable intonation, rigid loyalty to the composer's melody line, and avoidance of fads, trends and contrivance.  He chose the best musicians and orchestras to back him.

He initially supported the Democratic Party and the Kennedys but when Bobby Kennedy went after organized crime, he switched to the Republican Party.  He was called ol' blue eyes, and The Chairman of the Board.

Strangers in the Night, 1966
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlSbSKNk9f0

It Was a Very Good Year, 1965
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emAe6IClGys

That's Life, 1966
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIiUqfxFttM

I Fall In Love Too Easily, 1945 (from 1945 movie, Anchors Away)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UesYWymYKBE

Nobody Wins, 1973 (ol'blue eyes is back) (written by Kris Kristofferson)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEFHq5LFo8E

Dream Away Child, 1973 (ol' blue eyes is back) (written by P. Williams & J. Williams)(From 1973 movie The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTHQuBYdd1s

Send In The Clowns, 1973, (live concert performance)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3lkBmNVDrM

Send In The Clowns, 1973, (studio recording)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7u6d54jI4k

Someone To Watch Over Me, 1945 (written by George and Ira Gershwin)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E07b0SbWWFc

My Way, 1969, (written by Paul Anka) (live concert performance)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXr59ZKaVTI

Both Sides Now, 1968, (written by Joni Mitchell)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DrRnI-1Ssg

Theme from New York, New York, 1979, (studio recording)(Theme from 1977 Martin Scorsese movie)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-ZUXQuFcnw

Theme from New York, New York, 1979, (live concert performance)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMfz1jlyQrw

Love's Been Good To Me, 1969
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsam6HRDJNI

Summer Wind, 1966
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2e6DAIaIbI

High Hopes, 1959
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWR3IkfHdLE

What'll I Do, 1948
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DID9ruqhzUA

Something Stupid, 1967
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoSbnAFvqfA

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Season 1: Episode 1 of Father Ted. If you've never seen it then watch it. Watch it now!!

@jaffacakehero I've watched some of Father Ted, but didn't enjoy it as much as the ones I've mentioned.

Everyone seems to love Father Ted, but I've just never dug it. Maybe I should it give it another watch as there's been some sitcoms like OFAH and Green Wing which I've liked on the second watch.

I love sitcoms. I've watched a bunch of British and American sitcoms.

My favorite British sitcoms are the Office, the IT Crowd, Not Going Out, Peep Show, Knowing Me, Knowing You... With Alan Partridge, I'm Alan Patridge, Fawlty Towers, the Thin Blue Line, Only Fools and Horses, Blackadder, Mr. Bean, Coupling and Green Wing.

My favorite American sitcoms are the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, the Office, Parks and Recreation, the Big Bang Theory, Seinfeld, Arrested Development and Better Off Ted.

I highly recommend you guys check some of those out if you haven't.

"Fresh Prince of Bel-Air"
The GOAT, /end debate

No sticom beats Seinfeld or Arrested Development.

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Your all wrong power rangers always was and always will be the goat of tv(the old seasons not the new garbage)

With respect to that computer's time era, I stand reproved and corrected.  Thanks, Gregory.  Of course, I enjoy nothing more than being proved wrong.

But those gadgets comparison?  Wow!  It could only be shown by a young pup.

I remember when the latest stuff was microwave ovens, VCRs, phone answering machines, TV remote controls, cordless phones, bank ATMs & bank cards, banks stayin' open past 3PM, cable TV and its multi-channel menus, and department store layaway plans.  

I was one of the earliest MCI people and I did many people's friends and circles.  I used to have a spiral binder and written down all the phone companies, like ATT, MCI, Sprint, dime-line, and about 5 others.  I had all the features written down, and assisted lots of people who were overwhelmed by the barrage of new technologies.

I remember when Proquest came along and digitalized all the major newspapers.  I no longer had to spend weekends sitting at the Palo Alto Library microfilm reader, feeding it a roll of quarters equalling $20.

Now I can do most of my research from the comfort of my own home, sitting at my computer, compliments of Proquest, paperofrecord, google, google news archives, WorldVital Records, Kansas City Mid-Continent Library, Baseball Magazine, Sporting Life, Latter Day Church archival records, and so many other databases.

I was one of the early Napster 'outlaws'. 

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