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  1. The Rented Crowd: Nero’s Five Thousand, the Paris Claque, and the Box That Laughed for America

    For the better part of two decades, the laughter of the United States lived inside a padlocked box. Charles Rolland Douglass, a CBS sound engineer who had spent the war helping the Navy develop shipboard radar, built the device in the early 1950s and guarded it the way a sexton guards a reliquary. The laff box, as he called it, stood a little over two feet tall and worked like an organ: keys for titters, chortles, belly laughs, shrieks, a foot pedal to let a wave of mirth swell, crest, and die on command. Douglass wheeled it from studio to studio himself. Clients heard the output and never saw the mechanism. Only his immediate family knew what the inside looked like, and when he finally stepped back from the work, his sons carried the trade forward like a guild secret. The industry word for what he did was sweetening, which tells you the industry understood the product. Sugar is what you add when the thing itself goes down easier disguised. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/06/15/the-

  2. The Rented Crowd: Nero’s Five Thousand, the Paris Claque, and the Box That Laughed for America

    For the better part of two decades, the laughter of the United States lived inside a padlocked box. Charles Rolland Douglass, a CBS sound engineer who had spent the war helping the Navy develop shipboard radar, built the device in the early 1950s and guarded it the way a sexton guards a reliquary. The laff box, as he called it, stood a little over two feet tall and worked like an organ: keys for titters, chortles, belly laughs, shrieks, a foot pedal to let a wave of mirth swell, crest, and die on command. Douglass wheeled it from studio to studio himself. Clients heard the output and never saw the mechanism. Only his immediate family knew what the inside looked like, and when he finally stepped back from the work, his sons carried the trade forward like a guild secret. The industry word for what he did was sweetening, which tells you the industry understood the product. Sugar is what you add when the thing itself goes down easier disguised. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/06/15/the-

  3. Patriots Fans Criticized For Their Behavior With Mike Vrabel Wednesday

    Mike Vrabel made his first public appearance with the New England Patriots since his scandal with Dianna Russini…
    #NFL #NewEnglandPatriots #NewEngland #Patriots #daveportnoy #DiannaRussini #Football #MikeVrabel #standingovation
    rawchili.com/nfl/878356/

  4. RE: mastodon.social/@racunbrigitta

    Celyne sempat kecetit, kepeleset dikit sih pas sesi sama Eka semalam. Luckily she could manage to secure 3SOs and be the first contestant to make Solehcore do #standingovation during duet session 🫡

  5. Novità e aggiornamenti a @ladigitale
    L'incredibile Emmanuel Zimmert ha creato #Digiflip una app on line per creare dei #flipbook a partire da un file pdf e ha aggiornato le app #Logiquiz, #Digibunch e #Digicard #StandingOvation #LaDigitale si sostiene con un modello di finanziamento partecipativo, vale la pena di considerare un piccolo contributo 😃 ladigitale.dev/it/ #Softwarelibero
    @[email protected] @[email protected]
    @maupao @informapirata
    @orporick
    @alephoto85
    @dado
    @prealpinux
    @lealternative

  6. In Bangalore, many so-so plays & stand-up acts get a standing ovation, much to my grumpy chagrin 😒:

    “Ovation Inflation Has Spread From Broadway To London’s West End”, The Economist (economist.com/culture/2025/01/ or archive.is/Ua8aI).

    #LiveEntertainment #StandingOvation

  7. In Bangalore, many so-so plays & stand-up acts get a standing ovation, much to my grumpy chagrin 😒:

    “Ovation Inflation Has Spread From Broadway To London’s West End”, The Economist (economist.com/culture/2025/01/ or archive.is/Ua8aI).

    #LiveEntertainment #StandingOvation

  8. "What the hell are you doing, standing there?"

    "Don't you see? I'm giving you a standing ovulation."

    "Good god!"

    I'll let you imagine what this would look like.

    :catthinking:

    It would probably look pretty boring.

    #StandingOvation #ovulation #nonsense #joke

  9. In der Bevölkerung ist Olaf Scholz so unbeliebt wie noch nie, auf dem Parteitag stärken ihm die Genossen den Rücken. Der Bundeskanzler trifft den Ton der Partei - doch Brücken zur FDP wurden an diesem Wochenende nicht gebaut.#Bethke-Hannah #SPD #Scholz #Olaf #OlafScholz #Ukraine #FDP #StandingOvation #Politik #Konflikt #Migrationspolitik #Parteitag
    „Jeder spürt, dass du hier zu Hause bist“, ruft Esken dem Kanzler zu
  10. Commenter nuked 2 billionaires in 2 sentences. A #standingovation for you King.

  11. Digifflashcards è un servizio online per creare delle #flashcard che possono contenere sia immagini che testo: ladigitale.dev/digiflashcards/ Con questa sono ben 20 (!!!) le applicazioni libere online create da @ladigitale Chapeau 👏 👏 👏 #StandingOvation #scuola #softwarelibero @[email protected] @[email protected] @maupao @mauriziocarnago @paolo @rresoli @lealternative @opensource

  12. @Troll @Sans_DeC C'est dingue ... sérieux, ils abattent un boulot incroyable ! #StandingOvation pour @yunohost !!