Jim Henson Company Christmas Card from 1972.

Danny Boy

https://gameraboy1.tumblr.com/post/171016868250/jane-henson-and-jim-henson-sam-and-friends

Running through my head.

Muppets - Don't sugar me

The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)

For some reason Jaye P Morgan popped into my head this morning,

I knew she'd been on the gong show forever but had forgotten that she had guest starred on the Muppet show.


And I thought the arrangement sounded familiar....

Rowlf the Dog and Baskerville for Purina Dog Chow, 1960s ad

The Muppets by mr-book-faced

via

Statler And Waldorf As Golden Age Flash And Green Lantern by Nick Perks

One brings the other to mind

Flash mobs the early years.

Engraving of Hendrik Hondius portrays three women affected by the plague. Work based on original drawing by Peter Brueghel, who supposedly witnessed a subsequent outbreak in 1564 in Flanders.

The Dancing Plague (or Dance Epidemic) of 1518 was a case of dancing mania that occurred in Strasbourg, Alsace (then part of the Holy Roman Empire) in July 1518. Numerous people took to dancing for days without rest, and, over the period of about one month, some of the people died from heart attack, stroke, or exhaustion
The outbreak began in July 1518, when a woman, Frau Troffea, began to dance fervently in a street in Strasbourg. This lasted somewhere between four to six days. Within a week, 34 others had joined, and within a month, there were around 400 dancers. Some of these people eventually died from heart attack, stroke, or exhaustion.

Historical documents, including "physician notes, cathedral sermons, local and regional chronicles, and even notes issued by the Strasbourg city council" are clear that the victims danced.[1] It is not known why these people danced to their deaths.

As the dancing plague worsened, concerned nobles sought the advice of local physicians, who ruled out astrological and supernatural causes, instead announcing that the plague was a "natural disease" caused by "hot blood." However, instead of prescribing bleeding, authorities encouraged more dancing, in part by opening two guildhalls and a grain market, and even constructing a wooden stage. The authorities did this because they believed that the dancers would only recover if they danced continuously night and day. To increase the effectiveness of the cure, authorities even paid for musicians to keep the afflicted moving.Some of the dancers were taken to a shrine, where they sought a cure for their affliction.

A Muppet Wicker Man

Full comic online at: http://issuu.com/soundofdrowning/docs/muppetwickerman

                         

Copa Cabana

Three lectures yesterday, two lectures today and irritatingly, the entire time from dawn to dusk this song running through my head.

What the world needs now....

is more Janice!!