Four For the Fourth: Once More Unto the Breach... in New Brunswick

Often I use this 4th of July blogfest to offer up a clip from the film 1776. And I don't know if I've shared this one about the New Brunswick Letter that General Washington (drum roll) sent to Congress about the situation with morale:

"Oh good God..." - John Adams in real life, arguably every day of his life.

Later on, this conversation probably happened in real life as well.

Adams: Wake up, Franklin, you're going to New Brunswick!

Franklin: (nodding off) Like hell I am. What for?

Hopkins: The whoring and the drinking!

(Franklin immediately gets up and marches off right behind Adams and Chase)

Four For the Fourth 2019 The Third Act

And now, as part of my Four-Part attempt to blog like mad on the 4th of July, you get an awesome clip from the awesome musical 1776!!! Hit it, YOUTUBE!!!

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Um...

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Yeah, I need to preview these clips first.

Let's try this one.

Four For the Fourth 2018: Second The Motion With New York Abstaining

Courteously.

Here's the obligatory YouTube clip to one of my fave movies, 1776.

Independence Day 2017 Style

I'm posting FOUR FOR THE FOURTH TODAY, beeches!

That's right. I'm gonna write four blog entries today, at least one long serious muthaf (you shut your mouth!) in honor of our nation's birth!

Starting off with as always a YouTube clip showing my favorite bit from the musical 1776!

And Hamilton's reply!

Oops.

Get to work, people, it's the Schuyler Sisters (and Peggy)!

And because I can't let it go:

Lesson: Never eat peanut butter on the 4th of July. Stick to hot dogs.

Gonna Go FOUR For the Fourth, Baby!

It's the 4th of July, peoples! Yes, all eight of you regular readers of this blog - and some of you spambots from China that gained self-awareness in the last 27 nanoseconds - knows what that means!

New Brunswick tourism has never been busier.

I'm gonna blog like crazy today, people. I'm gonna try for four separate blog entries - this is the first - and I'm going to go down fighting because it's what George Washington would have wanted: More YouTube clips!

And if we had cell phones in 1776, we'd have had this:

from Elodie on Sparklife

That needs to be on a t-shirt, swear to God Elodie...

For the 4th of July I'll Do My Best To Answer Requests

Per the previous 4th of July post, there was a request to find the clip where John Adams bemoans his fate, that he'll never appear in the history books and that only Ben Franklin, George Washington, and Washington's horse (he rode several, apparently his favorite was named "Old Nelson") will be known for winning the Revolution.

Only problem with that clip is that it cuts off Franklin's response too soon.  It's pretty much the only YouTube clip I can find.  If anyone can find a longer clip that preserves the punchline, pass it on.

It's the 4th of July. You Know What That Means

TONS OF YOUTUBE CLIPS WITH "TEAM AMERICA F-CK YEAH" SONGS PLAYING!

(is warned by lawyers about abuse of copyrighted materials)

(is hit with restraining order from families sick and tired of their 5-year-olds learning how to sing "Team America F-ck Yeah" over and over)

Well, okay then.  How about video clips of "Let It Go" over and over?  I'm sure having the 5-year-olds singing THAT tune over and over has gone well in a lot of households...

(families refuse to answer that question on the grounds that it might incriminate them in front of their kids)

Well, at least you're teaching them about the Fifth Amendment right protecting against self-incrimination.

How about this?

So... Captain America F-CK YEAH!

(gets hit with restraining order from Marvel Studios) OH CMON...

Fine.  Let's go the non-fiction route:

Oh no, William and Mary won't do for you Harvard grads... sigh.

Welcome to the 4th of July here in the United States (Updated)

From Digby:

What a beautiful message of unity on our Independence Day it is to tell close to 20 million citizens that they are on their own in the worst job market since the Great Depression purely to make a cheap political point. It would make King George proud to see his aristocratic heirs flexing their muscles two centuries later in the country that once proudly proclaimed that it didn't have a class system.

Also wik.  And this:


(UPDATE: 7/5/2014) tis a pity but YouTube links go bad all the time.  I'll try to bring ya a replacement one: