PlaysWithTrucks

Author: Scott Duvall

  • Progress is Impossible without change

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    On the surface, this seems like another generic “leadership” quote you’d see tacked up on a wall in a random conference room. At face value, it’s a simple and quick message about openness to change. The full quote from George Bernard Shaw is this: “Progress is Impossible without Change, and those who cannot change their…

  • Mostly for the money

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    You can’t work in trucking without having memorized the entire script of Smokey and The Bandit. It’s part of the entrance exam. For those who haven’t seen it, the 1977 comedy stars Burt Reynolds, Jerry Reed, Sally Field, and Jackie Gleason, alongside a T-Top Trans Am, Kenworth W-900A, and the CB Radio in a fast-paced…

  • Madman Across the Water

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    “Tiny Dancer”, from Elton John’s 1971 Album Madman Across the Water. One of my favorite piano riffs. I always liked this version from the 60th Grammy awards, with Miley Cyrus and Elton John performing as a duet.

  • Aristotle was not Belgian

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    John Cleese’s fingerprints are all over Wanda’s epic dockside rant towards her less-than-intelligent heist partner, Otto. A Fish Called Wanda (1988) was written and directed by John Cleese, starring Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline (winning an Academy Award for his work), and fellow Python alum Michael Palin. Ranked by BAFTA as a top 100…

  • As You Wish…

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    I’m a bit surprised that The Princess Bride (1987) hasn’t appeared more on the message board. I’ll have to remedy that this year.

  • The Hwat?

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    Another My Cousin Vinny reference. It’s the 4th, if you’re counting. The First One The Second One The Third One

  • We’re on a Mission from God.

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    The Blues Brothers (1980). At the height of their Saturday Night Live fame, Dan Akroyd and John Belushi created “The Blues Brothers” characters from their shared love of blues music. Akroyd was always a life-long fan of the genre, and introduced it to Belushi during their time on SNL. What started as a live performance…

  • The Rare IT and Music Joke

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    This joke has been bouncing around the music forums on the internet for a generation, so I can’t take credit for it. It was probably first written by an IT Admin with a love of Thelonious Monk. And now it’s time to come clean…I fudged a bit for the joke. Cdom9 is actually just written…

  • The Mandela Effect

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    I love the sentiment of this quote; achieving success sometimes means you have to be a bit different. What’s more interesting, is that the entire world and internet attributes it to Dr. Seuss. Yet it never appears in his writings and was never something he said. Like Sinbad’s Shazam movie and the Fruit of the…

  • Vogon Poetry

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    From The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (1979). The first in a 5-book trilogy, the original HHGTTG is one of sci-fi writing’s foundational novels. Originally based a BBC Radio Play, Adams developed it into a novel, then a series, and then a movie (seen above) in 2005. If you ever want to…