Today's record has no sleeve and apparently is a boring looking record, so I had nothing to use as an illustration. It is one of my favorite types of records, a disc created by a corporation (in this case, Standard Oil) for use by its employees at annual meetings or pep talk rallies. The tune is called "I Love a Salesman", and as owner Evan describes it, is sung by a group of "blowsy-sounding chorines".
I thought I might find a suitable image by searching the words "chorine" or "blowsy", but Google thought I wanted to search for chlorine (thanks for being a know-it-all, G) and showed me pictures of beakers, and the only description I could locate for "blowsy" was for Carrie Fisher (no thanks). But finally someone in a blog described the chorus girls in the movie "Palmy Days" with Eddie Cantor as "chorines", and since I sort of relate blowsy with doughy, it seemed suitable enough.
So let's sing the praises of those fabulous corporate hucksters who can take our money whether we want them to or not. Hit it, chorines!
I Love a Salesman
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In general, Google is a pretty good search engine. But the thing I hate about Google is when, after having entered my search request correctly for, let's say xyx, it persists in asking me "Did you mean xyz?" And I pound my fists on my desk and yell back (as if that would help any), "No, idiots - I did NOT mean xyz"... and then 100 possibilities for xyx come up. And they still persist...
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