Some indie film distributor sent me this quote in a press release today:
During the Depression, when the spirit of the people is lower than at any other time, it is a splendid thing that for just 15 cents an American can go to a movie and look at the smiling face of a baby and forget his troubles.
– President Franklin Roosevelt
Yeah, FDR? Well what if my “troubles” are that I blew all my savings buying up all these extra babies, and now these babies are WORTH NOTHING?! You think I want to pay to look at the gigantic smiling face of a fucking baby? The literal pink wrinkled face of my financial ruin, just sitting there smiling at me? Stupid fucking baby investment.
Worthless money-pit baby photo from Wikipedia.
If you can’t afford food, you could always make a nice spicy sausage out of the baby.
Best Nirvana album … other than Heart Shaped Box.
Of course, back then movies were 5 cents to watch.
what r u talking about?
will you and paul constant take a romantic rant-o-holic cruise together?
Just 15 cents! Try just 10 dollars now, or 20 with popcorn.
My baby was worth WAY more to me in tax breaks than she has cost so far.
What if there’s no movies out with babies in them? I can’t wait forever for Baby Geniuses 3.
The other day on Craigslist, I encountered a person selling ten Furbies for thirty dollars.
http://atlanta.craigslist.org/tag/105441…
This makes me think of that.
Adjusted for inflation that 15 cents would be $2.30. That’s a lot cheaper than what movies cost now, but then again we don’t have watch a bunch of smiling babies all the time.
I spent 12 bucks to watch a baby for way too long, and it only depressed me. I want my money back, Benjamin Button.
Be nice to the babies, they’re going to be paying for your old age someday.
jack handey’s “deep thought”…
a baby’s face says a lot of things.
especially the mouth part.
Hey hey we’re the babies.
We keep on smiling around.
Whenever we get together.
Nobody wants to put us down.
If it’s any satisfaction to you, most of those babies born during the Depression are dead by now.
You don’t need to buy the entire babies, Lindy.
Just their faces.
Why do presidents think it’s their jobs to push the bread, circus and Buy More! crap on us all the time? Mind your own bee’s wax, FDR! :p
Truth be told, people just love their Houses of Films.
@13 – omg, who killed them?
Was it you?