I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Oh man. Never piss off the queen. Bush is such a maroon.
"We are not amused, by the actions of your nation's simian prince"
First I would like to say - "The Queen is not amused.
Trashing her roses, and bringing his own chef's from KFC and Taco Bell pissed her off too.
HAH!
Nevah, nevah piss off the Qween!
Why do ya'll always say maroon, isn't it moron?
OFF WITH HIS HEAD!
Ohio is taking heavy, incoming bombardment from new swift boat televison ads and mailings.
I'm guessing he also did not like him referring to her as "Liz" or "Who's the Old Bat that looks like my mother?"
Why do ya'll always say maroon, isn't it moron?
C'mon man!Thats calssic Bugs Bunny.
Ohio is taking heavy, incoming bombardment from new swift boat televison ads and mailings.
Fuck 'em.
CHERIE BLAIR lambasts Bush over human rights
NICHOLAS CHRISTIAN
CHERIE Blair has criticised the policies of the US President George W Bush, attacking his stance on terrorist prisoners and gay rights.
The Prime Minister’s wife was condemned by supporters of the US President, after a speech to Harvard law students which contained a stinging rebuke to Bush, while on a lecture tour of the United States.
She attacked the manner in which the White House has dealt with the human rights of UK citizens detained at the US-run Camp X-Ray prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
Blair said the decision by the US Supreme Court, fiercely opposed by Bush’s government, to give legal protection to two of the Britons detained at the camp was "profoundly important" and a "significant victory for human rights and the international rule of law".
She took a sideswipe at Bush’s record on gay rights, condemning the arrest of a homosexual couple in the President’s home state of Texas, for defying a ban on gay sex. The US Supreme Court’s decision to throw out the law, which had been backed by Bush, was a "model of judicial reasoning". Blair also called the US legal code an "outdated grandfather clock".
The controversial speech was seen as flying in the face of long-held tradition that British political figures, and those close to them, do not criticise other countries during foreign visits.
Doing so just days before the US elections makes the intervention all the more embarrassing for Prime Minister Tony Blair as well as Bush.
A Downing Street spokesman said: "These were not political opinions but, as an international human rights lawyer, she was expressing a view about the use of the Supreme Court in the American judicial system."
http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman...m?
id=1259162004
Terrorism 'expert' on NBC nightly news..."It's obvious that the purpose of this tape is to allow Bin Laden to take credit if George Bush is defeated."
God Bless the Queen.
Jeez, now are we going to have to find a new name for English Muffins?
Terrorism 'expert' on NBC nightly news..."It's obvious that the purpose of this tape is to allow Bin Laden to take credit if George Bush is defeated."
i.e. "If we don't keep fucking ourselves in the ass by electing this complete boob, the terrorist win."
At this point,the election for all intents and purposes is OVER.All thats left is the shouting.
GOTV is all that stands now.All the politicians can do is stand by and cry when its over.Nothing left to do but break out the popcorn.
Metaphoricaly speaking.
got to remember that the bushies think the Queen is Harvey Fierstein in full drag regalia.......they don't know that England is a country with a civilised form of government.....
God Bless the Queen.
Liz | Email | Homepage | 10.30.04 - 9:08 pm | #
We mean it maaaaaaan....
BTW, is there any way for the Queen to send Hitchens to the Tower of London?
For the Python fans: 
An enraged pantomime Princess Margaret (still living despite her namesake's death), lying in wait for her breakfast, also endorses Kerry.
It's good to be Queen
Just as Austin Powers starts on VH1.
It must be a sign.
Yeah baby, yeah.
Cocoa? Cocoa? Even the blooming Qween drinks cocoa!
Good Queen Bess! And Cherie Blair is, I believe, a barrister.
Please, no Tex, we're British?
::running away in shame::
So by this, does the Queen mean to influence our election in favor of Bush through an overt endorsement of Kerry?
When will the Royal semioticians come on CNN and Faux to elucidate this for me??!
it's too late your majesty...you should have spoken up earlier...
Why does the Queen hate America?
It is obvious that by this position the Queen hopes to usher Kerry into the White House, in order to finally destroy the product of the colonial rebellion. Long live the Queen!
Silleigh,
Veddy, veddy good!
The Pretender may have a queen, but we have the very masculine Czar Vlad the Horrendous, ruler of the Union of Capitalist Klepocratic Republic.
Oh, and the manfully fragrant Toby Keith.
In unison and with feeling, people:
God save our gracious Queen,
Long live our noble Queen,
God save the Queen;
Send her victorious,
Happy and glorious,
Long to reign over us,
God save the Queen.
Oh Lord our God arise,
Scatter our enemies,
And make them fall
Confound their politics
Frustrate their knavish tricks,
On Thee our hopes we fix
Oh save us all.
Thy choicest gifts in store
On her be pleased to pour;
Long may she reign;
May she defend our laws
And ever give us cause
To sing with heart and voice
God save the Queen.
Our loved Dominion bless
With peace and happiness
From shore to shore;
And let our Empire be
United, loyal, free,
True to herself and Thee
For ever more.
English twits for Bush. Bingo for secretary of state!
Why does the Queen hate America?
Because the British aristocracy is really FRENCH!!!
And Sinclair's showing a movie called "Anglo Saxon Shieldsmen for Truth".
"I fought at Hastings. I had friends who died there and I can tell you from the bottom of my heart, anybody endorsed by descendents of Normans cannot be trusted".
And, when the queen stands, everyone stands.
OT: Eminem on SNL tonight. Wonder what he might perform? Wonder if he'll lipsync?
AAAUUGHH again- WTF is CSPAN-2 doing showing that lyin' sumbich John O'Neill AGAIN!
I think I've developed specific pain receptors to the sound of his voice.
I thought the British aristocracy was German?
Ashlee Simpson must be the only person in America greatful to Bin Laden.
Knocked her right off the front page.
I really would love to know what Rove has on Blair....
Ever since Bush was elected, Blair has just been in total poodle mode.
Hey, maybe it is not the ral Blair, but a clone. It would explain a lot, and perhaps it is the same with McCain. After all, Bush attacked his war record and made fun of his wifes cancer. Yet McCain will not say a word against him.
BTW, is there any way for the Queen to send Hitchens to the Tower of London?
Why not! She's the Queen of bloody England.
Think about this before you cast your vote.
Look at the following list of names and consider who they would most likely vote for if they were allowed to vote in our coming election,
Martin Luther King
Abraham Lincoln
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Paine
Gandhi
Eleanor Roosevelt
Robert Kennedy
Nelson Mandela
Bishop Tutu
The Lorax
When you cast your vote will you be voting the same way as you think the above people will vote?
How closely aligned with these people will you be?
I thought the British aristocracy was German?
Even worse since we all know now that Gerhard Schroeder has the Queen's ear.
John O'Neill should bever be able to show up anywhere without someone punching him in the face.
The Lorax! My son loved that story.
John O'Neill should bever be able to show up anywhere without someone punching him in the face.
I crashed the Swiftboat Rally in DC last month.
O'Neil had a phalanx of "Rolling Thunder" bikers protecting him.
You would have gotten the crap beaten out of you even for making a nasty remark.
Hey Jimmy. I liked your post the first 37 times I saw it, and I'm glad you're targeting all those important swing voters who read Atrios' comments.
1st the Queen and now Cherie Blair rips into Bush.
Story
When Kerry wins the whitehouse,he should sic the IRS onto John O'Neil,and find out about his financing and if he is paying his fair share.
Jimmy James,
Are you going to spam every thread with this?
Cherie Blair lambasts Bush over human rights
Cherie Blair opens a can of "whoop ass" on Bushie boy
Very telling because the Palace as a rule never gets involved in politics.
At least not publicly.
Jeez, now are we going to have to find a new name for English Muffins?
Matt Davis
Lynndie Muffins? Wonder how that incarceration thing is working out for her.. be a shame if leashes and glowsticks were involved..
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When Kerry wins the whitehouse,he should sic the IRS onto John O'Neil,and find out about his financing and if he is paying his fair share.
smalfish
I was thinking CIA Black Ops...but the IRS is just as deadly, I suppose.
Oh, crap, I meant to say "I SUPPORT THE TROOPS!" Sorry.
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"When Kerry wins the white house,he should sic the IRS onto John O'Neill, and find out about his financing and if he is paying his fair share."
John O'Neill gives me the creep. He acts like a spurned lover.
John O'Neill should bever be able to show up anywhere without someone punching him in the face.
When decent people consider that this asshole has tried to disparage the military careers of men who served this country and went to war...
My God. Max Cleland. What? He didn't lose enough limbs?
Scum. Absolute scum.
I'm ashamed of some of my countrymen.
Why do ya'll always say maroon, isn't it moron?
Apparently, "y'all" have never seen a Warner Brothers cartoon.
Bugs Bunny says "maroon" all the time!
Someone told me today that early voting ended yesterday (Friday),does anyone know if this is true?I still havent voted (havent been able to make the time).Will the polls be open on Monday?
From the front page of CNN.com:
President Bush and Sen. John Kerry are wooing crucial voters in battleground states Saturday as each candidate says he is the best to lead the nation in the war on terror. Bush did not mention a videotaped message purported to be from al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Kerry told his audience that all Americans -- Republicans and Democrats -- were united in their determination to kill bin Laden.
Guess whose internal polls say this issue is a big fat loser for them???
There is NO WAY that Bush and Kerry are tied in Michigan.
It's Kerry all the way.
It's not just the Head of State. It's Government, now. From The Independent:
Tony Blair has sent one of his closest advisers on a secret peace mission to mend relations with John Kerry, the United States presidential challenger, The Independent on Sunday can reveal.
News of the confidential meeting comes as the campaign enters its final 48 hours, with the candidates running neck and neck. Mr Blair is concerned that he will appear isolated if George Bush loses in Tuesday's poll, because of his support for the Iraq war.
The Prime Minister authorised Philip Gould, his polling guru, to seek a meeting with Mary Beth Cahill, Mr Kerry's campaign manager. Lord Gould, a co-founder of New Labour, is one of Mr Blair's closest confidants who keeps him in constantly in touch with floating voters.
Ms Cahill is tipped to be chief of staff in a Kerry administration. The meeting, which took place 10 days ago in Washington, is being seen by aides to the Kerry campaign as an olive branch by Mr Blair.
Hedging bets, I see.
The British aristocracy is French. Well, back a thousand years ago. The Royal family are indeed German.
As much as those people are anything. Philip, for instance, is British, by way of Greece, by way of Denmark.
What they are is royal, and yes, it's best not to screw with them. They sound friendly on the TV, but they've held onto what they have for fifteen hundred years by being absolutely ruthless. Liz would snap your neck like a twig if you got in her way.
Even before reading this story, I had already changed from a die-hard anti-royalist into a royalist symp. There is something to be said for separating the posts of head of state and head of government.
When George W. Bush pronounced the word "tyranny" as "tie-rannie" at the Normandy remembrance this summer, I wished we in the U.S. had a separate head of state to speak at the ceremony.
Not only has Bush fostered a following for Osama, he's rehabilitated the British monarchy as well.
God Save the Queen. At least she isn't retarded.
John O'Neill should bever be able to show up anywhere without someone punching him in the face.
patriotboy
Lear And my poor fool is hanged. No, no life?
Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life,
And thou no breath at all? O, thou wilt come no more,
Never, never, never, never, never.
Pray you, undo this button. Thank you, sir.
Couldn't resist.
I believe both Bush and Kerry have royal blood lines- Kerry has more though.
The NYT has a story about climate change in the Arctic. The Arctic Assessment and Monitoring Program will apparently be releasing their long-awaited report on the effects of climate change in the Arctic on November 9th. Those who are interested will be able to download the report, either the technical or popular versions, from AMAP's home page at www.amap.no
Having worked on the AMAP report on POPs (persistent organic pollutants), I can tell you that these reports are the state of the science - highly recommended.
John O'Neill should bever be able to show up anywhere without someone punching him in the face.
Why? Kerry becoming President will drive O'Neil down into a Dantean spiritual inferno so deep he's going to shrivel up and be transformed into a toad out of his sheer despair and die of a broken heart just before God tosses him into hell.
Damn,
I came up with 289 on my own and now electoral-vote.com has it too?? Makes me feel good.
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Thanks for clarifying where "maroon" comes from, never understood why so many of y'all use it. Still don't understand "noone".
And yeah, there aint to many people I would like to kick in the balls, but John O'Neill is second only to Tom DeLay. Both the fuckers live in my city.
SENATOR JOHN KERRY'S ROYAL LINEAGE
Burke's Peerage has now completed much of the research on Senator John Kerry.. This research proves that he is definitely more royal by blood than any former American President, including General Washington (related to 12 of the 25 British Dukes and the late Queen Mother) and both Presidents Bush (related to Queen Elizabeth II, 20 of the 25 Dukes and numerous European Princes). Senator Kerry is related to all the royal houses of Europe.
Senator Kerry's royal descent even includes the Albanian royal house. These relationships are direct through the Senator's mother, Rosemary Forbes. Her father was descended from William Forbes, Laird of Newe. The Baronets of Newe are extant. It is via this family that the Democratic candidate is descended from Henry II, King of England and father of Richard the Lionheart who was leader of the third Crusade in 1189.
Senator Kerry is also closely related to the Winthrop family of Boston, Mass.. His maternal grandmother was Margaret Tyndal Winthrop, who was the wife of James Grant Forbes and the granddaughter of Robert Winthrop, Speaker of the House of Representatives, from 1847 to 1849. The Senator's ancestor, John Winthrop, was the first Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 17th Century. It is this connection that gives Sen. Kerry a descent many times over from Henry III, King of England.
"I fought at Hastings. I had friends who died there and I can tell you from the bottom of my heart, anybody endorsed by descendents of Normans cannot be trusted".
"The Bayeux tapestry is a filthy lie! It was all a re-enactment, a deplorable display of self-aggrandizement! I'm here to tell you, Harold shot himself in the eye. It was a totally self-inflicted wound."
Guess whose internal polls say this issue is a big fat loser for them???
Love you, dave, for that bit of news. This is huge.
And yeah, there aint to many people I would like to kick in the balls, but John O'Neill is second only to Tom DeLay. Both the fuckers live in my city.
It's going to be like the end of Ghost. Shadowy black demons are going to carry O'Neil down into hell while whispering "President Kerry" in his reptillian ear.
From Freeperville:
Sinclair is going to show this shit after all, some Fox stations also. Stations listed.
Sinclair stations to air swiftvet special (In Battleground States Tomorrow!)
WorldNetDaily ^ | 10/30/04 | WorldNetDaily
Posted on 10/30/2004 5:18:42 PM PDT by wagglebee
A 30-minute television special featuring Swift Boat Veterans and POWs for Truth, the group challenging Sen. John Kerry's version of his war record and his anti-war activities, is airing in 16 markets in eight battleground states, according to a non-profit Florida group buying the broadcast time.
Campaign Truth, responsible for producing the show, has added Fox network stations in the Ohio cities of Dayton and Columbus, owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, the television chain at the center of controversy over the airing of another anti-Kerry documentary, "Stolen Honor."
The broadcasts will begin sometime after Fox's Sunday NFL preview show, Campaign Truth said.
The special, "Unfit to Lead," also is being aired on PAX network affilates in Cleveland and in seven other states, including Florida, where it will be seen in five major markets, Orlando, Jacksonville, Tampa, Miami and West Palm Beach.
In addition, it is scheduled in Denver; Minneapolis-St. Paul; Cleveland; Milwaukee; Des Moines, Iowa; Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Scranton, Pa.; and Charleston, W.Va.
The show, hosted by swiftboat vet spokesman John O'Neill, also is available exclusively to WorldNetDaily readers online for a limited time.
It features many of the men whose testimonies about Kerry were heard in the controversial advertisements played in key swing states over the past several months.
Times are listed below.
The broadcasts in Florida and Cleveland are being promoted with newspaper ads.
In the special, one of Kerry's former superior officers, Capt. George Elliott, says he believes Kerry should have been removed from command.
Elliott was commander of Coastal Division 11, where Kerry spent his four months of active duty in Vietnam.
"If I knew then what I know now, he would have been thrown out of my command and probably recommended for removal from the Navy," Elliott says of Kerry.
Stations airing "Unfit to Lead":
COLORADO
Denver: KPXC (PAX), Saturday at 1 p.m.
FLORIDA
Miami-Ft. Lauderdale: WPXM (PAX), Sunday at 5 p.m. and 11:30 p.m.
West Palm Beach: WPXP (PAX), Sunday at 5 p.m. and 11:30 p.m.
Orlando: WOPX (PAX), Saturday at 5 p.m. and Sunday at 5 p.m.
Tampa: WXPX (PAX), Sunday at 5 p.m. and 11:30 p.m.
Jacksonville: WPXC (PAX), Sunday at 5 p.m. and 11:30 p.m.
MINNESOTA
Minneapolis-St.Paul: KPXM (PAX), Sunday at 1 p.m.
OHIO
Cleveland: WVPX (PAX), Saturday at 1:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. and Sunday at 1 p.m.
WISCONSIN
Milwaukee: WXPE (PAX), Sunday at 1 p.m.
IOWA
Des Moines: KFPX (PAX), Sunday at 1 p.m.
Cedar Rapids: KPXR (PAX), Sunday at 1 p.m.
PENNSYLVANIA
Scranton: (PAX), Sunday at 1 p.m.
WEST VIRG
Trashing her roses? What'd he do, take a leak off the balcony onto the..ahem...Queen Elizabeths??
WEST VIRGINIA
Charleston: WLPX (PAX), Sunday at 1 p.m.
SWR
The current occupants of the palace
are of GERMAN descent actually!
Long Live Mary Queen of Scots
and Bonnie Prince Charlie.
Still don't understand "noone".
Spelling error or typing mistake.
It's two words - no one.
Boycott TEA! Only freedom leaves shall be dunked into hot water by good patriots!
Why? Kerry becoming President will drive O'Neil down into a Dantean spiritual inferno so deep he's going to shrivel up and be transformed into a toad out of his sheer despair and die of a broken heart just before God tosses him into hell.
Either that, or Kerry will use one of his three free Presidential secret murders on O'Neill.
Ummm...Lets stay away from the royal heritage of John Kerry for now.I really really hate the aristocracy and I dont want to ruin my good feelings for him.Maybe when he gets the office I can then start to critise him for that,but at this point I would rather forget it.
By the way,Junior is more of the aristocracy than Kerry is,but the fact that we can only vote for those that have lineage really sucks.Lets get off that topic hmmm?
"The Bayeux tapestry is a filthy lie! It was all a re-enactment, a deplorable display of self-aggrandizement! I'm here to tell you, Harold shot himself in the eye. It was a totally self-inflicted wound."
I knew Harold. Harold took my daughter's virginity on her wedding night as his aristocratic privilage. Harold's men also stole pigs and grain from my farm. Harold is no true Saxon. Harold cannot be trusted.
Kerry becoming President will drive O'Neil down into a Dantean spiritual inferno
May he reach the ninth level post haste.
I almost feel sorry for O'Neill. He's so pathetic with his books and his endless copies of god-knows-what that he uses to support his position.
He's his own dog and pony show, and he doesn't realize how foolish it looks.
Trashing her roses?
No, when he went to London, his security detail walked all over her gardens.
As I've said before, assassination is too good for him. What crap.
He's not important enough.
Have you contacted your Corporate Media Whore today?
http://www.fair.org/media-contac...ntact-
list.html
SWR - I just cannot imagine carrying around the singular and visceral hatred for someone like O'Neill has for Kerry, 34 years and counting he has been a stalking horse against one man. Reminds me of the old show Dallas with O'Neill as the loser Cliff Barnes and JR kicking his ass at his pleasure.
"Ohio is taking heavy, incoming bombardment from new swift boat televison ads and mailings.'
BFD. Here in Cleveland the ads today have been 2:1 for JK, and they are fucking beautiful.
Well there goes the Irish American vote for Kerry.
Unless we are talking about Queen Beatrix when we say "The Queen."
Is there a link for the independant article?
May he reach the ninth level post haste.
I have prepared the "Room Full of Angry Carvilles" for Mr. O'Neil.
smalfish
I know what you mean, when you look at all the presidents elected to office in the US=English/Irish names only. The day I know we are moving forward as a country is when the president name ends in "oski" or "illiano" or "stein"
In response to an earlier posting, it isn't Rove that has something on Blair, it's the Bushies' US ambassador to London.
This Jimmie James fuckstick is really starting to piss me off.
Kick his ass off this blog. He's worse than a troll.
I know what you mean, when you look at all the presidents elected to office in the US=English/Irish names only.
Barrack Obama?
Elliot Spitzer?
Joe Lieber...
Forget that last one.
S in Mich,
You think Blair's hedging his bets? I dunno. I think he may be declaring a winner.
But that could just be me... I always liked Blair, thought he tried to do right by Ireland, which is my issue. I'm sure he's just horrified by his alliance to this boob. I'm sure when this story is told, he'll come off as someone seduced by the dark side for a while but then returned to the ideals which animated him originally. Can we get Colin Firth to play him in the movie?
Arrrrgh. I HATE the Swift Boat gang's ad new running here in Pennsylvania (and in all battleground states I am certain)and I have seen it 3 times in about an hour! Has anyone seen a DNC response ad to this crahhhhp?
This Jimmie James fuckstick is really starting to piss me off.
Kick his ass off this blog. He's worse than a troll.
If Ohio is seeing those tired, retread swift boat ads they must be SOOOOO desperate it's almost laughable.
I bet people see them and think Oh man, georgie must really be in trouble to be hauling out those cartoons.
Here's to seeing these traitors hanging on the national mall Mussolini-style once congress is through with them.
Well there goes the Irish American vote for Kerry.
The Irish don't like clean air? WTF?
This Independent article?
maternal blood line of Kerry makes him more royal than any previous American president," Mr Brooks-Baker said.
"Because of the fact that every presidential candidate with the most royal genes and chromosomes has always won the November presidential election, the coming election - based on 42 previous presidents - will go to John Kerry."
The full story and other links can be found at www.prisonplanet.com
It's two words - no one.
Unless you're one of Herman's Hermits, natch.
Well there goes the Irish American vote for Kerry.
One quarter Irish. One Quarter German. One Quarter Italian.
All voting for Kerry.
Oh my God, I forgot Poland.
One quarter Polish. Voting for Kerry.
Part of US September 11 commission report has not been released
NEW YORK (AFP) - >i>The US Justice
Department has
reportedly not released a final chapter
of the September 11 commission's report
related to conflicting accounts of
efforts to track and chase the jets
hijacked that day, and is unlikely to do
so before Tuesday's presidential vote.
...
"Officials at the Federal Aviation
Administration testified that they had
notified the military within a few
minutes of each hijacking, but the
investigation found that tape recordings
contradicted that assertion," it noted.
I love you guys.
Where else could I get an obscure running gag about the Battle of Hastings?
Even the brownshirts can read the writing on the wall:
There is a good deal of nail biting going on at the mostly picture-perfect campaign rallies held for President Bush.
Terry Buck, a first-grade teacher from Cleveland, feels the nervousness. So does Jim Nichols, a municipal purchasing officer from Saginaw, Mich. Both turned up this week at big events for the president near their homes. While they cheered endlessly, they also fretted some.
Ms. Buck and Mr. Nichols say the election is much too close. Mr. Bush should be trouncing Senator John Kerry. Something is not quite right, and like many of their fellow Republicans, they share the belief that the news media has played a role by skewing coverage in Mr. Kerry's favor.
For unsettled Republican voters in battleground states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan and New Hampshire, the last leg of the presidential contest has at times been more of a group therapy session than a victory march.
In turning out by the thousands at airports, in stadiums, on farms and along roadsides - some waiting four or five hours for a chance to spend 40 minutes listening to the president - many Republican loyalists are seeking the strength and comfort that large numbers often bring.
There is certainly no panic, Mr. Nichols says. Mr. Bush's supporters believe in him too much for that. Some of the loudest ovations come when the president predicts, as he almost always does in his speeches, "a great victory on Nov. 2."
But for every measure of hope there is some measure of anxiety gnawing at the adoring crowds that are shadowing the president the last days of his re-election campaign.
"I haven't talked to anybody who is not concerned," said Mr. Nichols, who took a day's vacation on Thursday to see the president at a hockey rink in Saginaw. "I think it is closer than it should be."
The videotaped message by Osama bin Laden on Friday served to heighten the uneasiness.
Linda Bentley, a real estate agent who attended a Bush rally on Saturday in Grand Rapids, Mich., said she was infuriated by Mr. bin Laden's interjection into the campaign. She was also a bit worried about it.
"He is trying to make the president look incompetent," Ms. Bentley said. "I just hope people will realize that he is trying to influence our democracy and our election."
Ms. Buck said the race's worrisome arithmetic was as plain as counting the lawn signs on her way to a Bush rally that same day in Westlake, a suburb of Cleveland. Even on the front yards of Ohio, she lamented, Mr. Bush and Mr. Kerry seemed locked in a dead heat, something she and most of her Republican friends did not expect this election.
Unless you're one of Herman's Hermits
I'm Henry the VIIIth I am...
(Wasn't that there one hit wonder song?)
Unless you're one of Herman's Hermits, natch.
Hahaha. Peter Noone.
Yowas, blast from the past. The movie was on TCM yesterday(?).
Long Live Mary Queen of Scots
"I think she's dead."
"No I'm not!"
And that was Episode 2 of "The Death of Mary, Queen of Scots"
Unless you're one of Herman's Hermits
I'm Henry the VIIIth I am...
(Wasn't that there one hit wonder song?)
chris/tx
Mrs. Brown, You Have a Lovely Daughter?
"He is trying to make the president look incompetent,"
Lady, he doesn't need any help. He's done that all by himself.
chris/tx,
Yep. And "Mrs Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter," but I'm not sure if that was a hit. Lead singer named Peter Noone, a staple on VH-1 Classics. If you're a music fan, allow me to blogwhore my new blog of incredibly narrow interest, at my homepage link.
I have prepared the "Room Full of Angry Carvilles" for Mr. O'Neil.
Excellent!
Go Liz go! Never been happier to have her on our money... 
(Wasn't that there one hit wonder song?)
Don't forget "Mrs. Brown you have a lovely daughter."
Two hit wonders.
allow me to blogwhore my new blog of incredibly narrow interest, at my homepage link - NYMary
Something tells me you're into something good....
and like many of their fellow Republicans, they share the belief that the news media has played a role by skewing coverage in Mr. Kerry's favor.
What,the press is'nt doing enough to influence the leection for frurious George?
I dont get it,well I guess I do.The right has effectively convince a majority of AMericans the media is "liberal" and now we hear it all the time from even thelittle people.I really hate politics and the nastiness it generates.
As someone said last night,might have been Matthew Yglesias,that made the comment that America ought to look into mandatory voting,it would help in the fight against this disinformation society.
I am beggining to believe that this might be the only way to solve our political discourse.
Far OT:
Japanese Ping Pong by NTV.
On Topic(!): It was nice to see Kerry talking explicitly about the environment in the Rolling Stone interview. Jann Wenner's endorsement was good, too... none of this tepid shit we're getting from the newspapers. Definitely more pro-Kerry than anti-Bush.
I have prepared the "Room Full of Angry Carvilles" for Mr. O'Neil.
"What's worse than a locked room full of angry Narn?"
"I don't know..."
"One angry Narn... with the key!"
Everytime I visit a bookstore lately, I refile O'Neill's book in the Science Fiction and Fantasy section.
re:Mr Blair is concerned that he will appear isolated if George Bush loses in Tuesday's poll, because of his support for the Iraq war.
So is Cherie part of his secret mission?
I have prepared the "Room Full of Angry Carvilles" for Mr. O'Neil.
Excellent!
We've essentially cloned Mr. Carville's soul for our Republican guests.
We take 20 or 25 Carvilles, starve them for a few days, then throw them down into a pit.
After they've moshed around for awhile, we pour beef boulion over Mr. O'Neil and throw him down into it.
His body, of course, will regenerate immediately, after which, he will be taken to the Sullivan/Cohn wing where he will be taken sexually by demons who have transformed themselves into remarkably lifelike images of Roy Cohn and Andrew Sullivan.
Mr. Sullivan graciously sold his soul to us three years ago for success in the "blog world". We intend to collect shortly.
i guess i take back everything i ever said about the queen next to my sex pistols poster in 1979 -- she is a human being after all
unlike dubya, i can admit a mistake and go in a different direction
Oops. I have to start clearing my cookies if I want to troll as Satan.
On the other hand, this is actually Japanese ping pong
Oops.
Long as we're on HH, let's not forget:
John O'Neill- he's a must to avoid!
Bush on UBL- there's a kind of hush, all over the world...
Cheney - can you hear his heartbeat?
Ok, I can't think of any more
I am now watching THE FOR OF WAR.
I am now watching THE FOG OF WAR.
Just Me,
was that song from The Lion King?
"He is trying to make the president look incompetent," Ms. Bentley said. "I just hope people will realize that he is trying to influence our democracy and our election."
Ms. Bentley now, now...We all know it's not that hard and Mr. bush seems all too capable of doing that to himself...As for people realizing he's trying to influence our democracy and our election, why yes Ms. Bentley America DOES think that george bush is doing exactly that.
That's why we're going to kick his fucking ass out of OUR house come Tuesday...Praise the lord halleluja Ms. Bentley.
See you in church Sunday?
Whoa-
I refreshed the page and the font is completely different.
WTF is that?
NYMary, you're fascination with power pop reminds me waaaay to much of another ny'er I knew once. you don't have/had a computer geek boyfriend named Mike from Northern Virginia, do you? And had a friend of his from down there spend the night on your couch once? A friend who's favorite band in the world was/is Big Star?
"The Bayeux tapestry is a filthy lie! It was all a re-enactment, a deplorable display of self-aggrandizement! I'm here to tell you, Harold shot himself in the eye. It was a totally self-inflicted wound."
Seraphiel
"And well known is it that Harold rode a BROWN horse, yet in the after action report, which he probably wrote himself after he died, states that 'Harold did'st a most noble BAY steed ride'. I should know, having arrived in England a mere three weeks after Hastings! And now, I must hie me hence, for John of O'Neill is nigh, bearing my new large dining room screen."
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JeffCO,
I love you, man, but you are seriously scary....
I had completely forgotten about "Kind of Hush"...
grr, that's your, not you're. damn fingers.
Oops. I have to start clearing my cookies if I want to troll as Satan.
Heh,BUSTED! 
the great thing about John O'Neill (now, after all these months) is that people have pretty much tuned him out about now and he's turned into a cartoon of himself - actually his vietnam campaign is probably swaying more people in kerry's direction about now
rule number one: once leno and letterman call you out as a part of their monologues, the run is about over
now the rest is left to karma and the Texas Bar Association -- make sure he pays a hard price when this is all done.
Long as we're on HH, let's not forget:
Why not move on to the Kinks.
La La La Coulter. Well I'm not dumb but I can't understand....
As someone said last night,might have been Matthew Yglesias,that made the comment that America ought to look into mandatory voting,it would help in the fight against this disinformation society.
No, that's not the answer, especially because too many people are uninformed and easily led.
A friend told me two days ago that she probably wouldn't make her decision until she entered the voting booth.
The most controversial election in our lifetime, and she hadn't made up her mind. This woman doesn't work, so she doesn't even have that excuse.
Nope. I don't want people like that in the mix.
I heard a story (don't know how true it is)
After Bush was 'selected' a certain Right wing think tank went to see Blair, and told him that they were not pleased that he had supported Gore. They said that if Blair did not fully support Bush,, they would remove many American firms fron the UK. That would result in 100s of thousands of jobs.
One thing is true, Blair is scared shitless of Murdoch. He spent years trying to get The Murdoch press to give him a fair deal when he was in opposition. He knows that Murdoch supports Bush and so he must tow the line.
Wonderful, Satan. Now what about the others (Cheney, Rich, Rumsfeld...)?
SMELLS LIKE SULFUR.
Put your money where your mouth is!
Monica A: I have no idea. The Japanese ping pong is a lot funnier than Nader, though.
Gosh, a music conversation without Backslider, even though I think he would be appalled at Herman's Hermits.
Forgive me, Satan. The heat has made me quite delusional. I meant Rice, not Rich.
The new swift boat ad resembles a bad Vincent Price horror flick. It's a dream sequence of phony accusers. I can't believe anyone would believe this or that it would help Bush. A few though will say, some of this must be true or why would a Rear Admiral lie?
bunny,
uhhhh..... nope. Lotsa computer geeks in my history (oh, there's a surprise), but none from VA.
Thanks for the link.
It was a joke, chill?
Anonymous!
You are back on your meds!
NYMary- having just checked out your blog, I'm sure you'll appreciate that Mrs. Brown's daughter may be lovely, but her mom has got it going on!
SWR,
Bwahahahahahahaha!
"He is trying to make the president look incompetent," Ms. Bentley said. "I just hope people will realize that he is trying to influence our democracy and our election."
Oh, I love that. Uh, Ms Bentlay? Sweetie? The very fact he's still suckin' air is a testament to Bush's incompetence!
I just hope there aren't too many morons out there who see this as "Fuckin' raghead flipped off our Prez!", and give Bush a sympathy vote.
It was a joke, chill?
Okay, sorry. It's been hard to have a sense of humor, but it's definitely getting better.
whew. I thought the world had gotten much, much smaller. The girl I was thinking of was huuuuge into power pop, and actually stopped me in the middle of my standard explanation of who the hell Big Star were. That's the kinda thing that makes you jealous of your friends.
As someone said last night,might have been Matthew Yglesias,that made the comment that America ought to look into mandatory voting,it would help in the fight against this disinformation society.
Mr. Karin was just saying the same thing at the dinner table today. It should be like jury duty, can't get out of it without a damn good excuse. And it should be a paid day off work, like in other civilized countries.
I am the Queen of England
I like to sing and dance
And if you don't believe me
I'll punch you in the pants!
Nevermind the bollocks: a big shout out to my boys in Miami who hollered down those Martinez spokesmen.
All queens {and kings} should be taken out back and shot.
heard tonite in DC ...
1>. andy card shredding the documents
2>. cheney's last hollow heartbeats
3>. trent lott screaming, "where did it all go wrong?!?!?!?"
4>. sam brownback -- "that freakin idiot is sending us back to the grass roots!"
5>. novakula -- "listen, scottie ... i called them scumbags on "capital gang"
6>. rummy -- "there are knowns and unknowns and things we know that we don't know"
7>. falwell -- think the dems will use the IRS on us like we did to them negroes now that they won?
8>. reagan's ghost -- and they called me dumb?
9>. g. gordon liddy -- "you need a break-in?"
10>. carville -- "cha-ching!"
11>. hastert -- "alan keyes is the antichrist"
No, that's not the answer, especially because too many people are uninformed and easily led.
Thats just the point.Our electorate is uninformed because of all the bullshit rhetoric that is slung around in the campaign.If all voting was mandatory,like Austrialia,then the candidates would have to win votes as opposed to trashing the opponent.Therefore making the electorate more informed via a rational debate about real issues and a more intrested population.
You need to read this article as I am an illerate when it comes to making talking points.
Wonderful, Satan. Now what about the others (Cheney, Rich, Rumsfeld...)?
Mr. Cheney will be placed on a witness stand to be cross examined by demons shaped like John Edwards.
Mr. Rumsfeld will be locked in a room and his most famous one liners will be piped in for an eternity. He will have to listen to himself.
Mrs. Cheney will be denied female company.
Me slow, finally got SWR's Coulter/Kinks reference (walks like a women and talks like a man, Lola).
Gould, a co-founder of New Labour, is one of Mr Blair's closest confidants who keeps him in constantly in touch with floating voters.
.................Floating voters?Are they dead bodies floating on the Thames,or Anglo raptured jeebus freaks?
No, when he went to London, his security detail walked all over her gardens.
Where's valentine Michael Smith when ya need him?
Man From Mars, bitches!
OK, maybe a bit too obscure, but I couldn't resist.
MMM smells like sulfur.
All queens {and kings} should be taken out back and shot.
Incognito won't be too happy with that remark....
bunny, This is absolutely true: When Thersites and I were first hanging out, he told one of his friends "she's the kind of girl we would have killed to know in high school." I blushed.
My music fascination is weird, especially for a woman. I think most of my sisters are generally more sensible and less obsessive about this stuff.
and like many of their fellow Republicans, they share the belief that the news media has played a role by skewing coverage in Mr. Kerry's favor.
I feel like I am in a different dimension when I hear this. I'm still searching for a full cable TV
news coverage that can mirror fox, but for the liberals. Haven't found it yet, so I watch TDS as the closest I can get to my "Liberal" views. sometimes an hour a week of Bill Maher.
He is trying to make the president look incompetent," Ms. Bentley said. "I just hope people will realize that he is trying to influence our democracy and our election."
Lady, you're a fucking idiot - just like your president.
If Bush steals another one, this will no longer BE a democracy!
George W. Bush will magically transformed into a 5 year old boy and chained to a bathtub to look his his father's enhanced sexual organ.
A copy of My Pet Goat will be handed to him and, after burying his face in the book to hide from the images in front of him, he will read typed over and over again in 14 Point (kerned) New Times Roman "You Will Never Measure up".
Good on the Queen. This does make up a bit for her snottiness to Diana...
"Because of the fact that every presidential candidate with the most royal genes and chromosomes has always won the November presidential election, the coming election - based on 42 previous presidents - will go to John Kerry."
Meme
Also, if the Washington Redskins win tomorrow, that means the incumbent party returns to the White House. Keith Olbermann said that that trend has held true ever since the 'Skins moved to DC.
Go whoever-is-playing-against-the-skins! (okay, so I don't know football).
The most controversial election in our lifetime, and she hadn't made up her mind. This woman doesn't work, so she doesn't even have that excuse.
Does she have 8 kids? Live in a shoe? At this point... I find undecideds hard to understand myself. Still...rather talk to them than to certain members of MY family who are the lovely 1 issue voters... "I think of those unborn babies...." to which I reply..."How about the LIVE ones in Iraq? Or the ones without healthcare HERE?" grrr.
I had to laugh when Chimpy gave his "speech" at Ronnie Raygun's funeral.
He put both Prince Charles (usually the epitome of good manners on such an occasion) and Bill Clinton to sleep.
Hey, Hecate,
I have my 7-power candle burning. How 'bout you?
sometimes an hour a week of Bill Maher.
and not even dependably....
NYMary, that's answers my "any more at home like you" question. Damn. There's be fewer women in DC whining about the "lack of men" if there were more copies of Radio City on the streets. I had a tasteless joke in the same vein about Sister Lovers to go here.
This does make up a bit for her snottiness to Diana...
Oh, please - I am SO sick of hearing about SAINT Diana.
All queens {and kings} should be taken out back and shot.
gary in fl
Jacobins in the hizzouse, yo!
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OT: Here's to John and Annie Glenn!
As a novice to political activism, I'm proud to say I attended my third Kerry rally today. Annie Glenn introduced Elizabeth Edwards in Columbus this morning. I remember someone posting, long ago, that Kerry should have John Glenn at his side at every Ohio appearance. Kudos to John and Annie Glenn - they have been there!!! The atmosphere today was ELECTRIC!! The most intense of all. Here in the Buckeye state, we're ready to take back our country! No rest!!
NY Mary,
You are already a goddess in my book because you can appreciate the genius of "Bedazzled-1968. Dudley Moore and Peter Cook were at their finest(Peter Cook's "magic" words and the pop singer fantasy are the best. Jackie O! LOVE ME!")
Ronald Reagan is still dead... Developing.....
"All queens {and kings} should be taken out back and shot."
No, neo-fascist Repugs and right wing dictators, yes.
I have no problems with royals.
TENA
You're a poll watcher right?
How does it work? Do you have a running tabulation as the votes come in?Do you spot check the voting machines? How can you verify an accurate vote count? How can you detect hacking?
thanks.
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Does she have 8 kids? Live in a shoe?
Two (fairly lazy) sons - one's a junior in college and the other's a senior in high school, who will probably end up in community college.
If all voting was mandatory,like Austrialia,then the candidates would have to win votes as opposed to trashing the opponent
My Inner Libertarian screeches when I say this, but I agree. Voting should be mandatory. Odd that a country inhabited by what have to be some of the most liberty-oriented sumbitches on the planet--descendants of depsrted convicts all--would come up with it.
Last week I saw a piece a British reporter did showing that Bush and Kerry are related. Eighth or ninth cousins. Probably on CNN, but not sure.
Go whoever-is-playing-against-the-skins! (okay, so I don't know football).
The Boss of You
PACKERS!! GO PACKERS!! WOOOO!! (/channeling MST3K)
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Monica,
I always clarify which Bedazzled I mean, because the new one is just so awful. Sorry, Brendan Fraser, I love you to death, guy, but Elizabeth Hurley is as smug and evil as Dennis Miller in that film. Plus, ya gotta love the throwaway moments in the original film, like Peter Cook stealing the old lady's raspberries for no reason. Except, you know, that he's the devil.
I am crushed. Read line 107 over again and again. Why do they not see that I the King of Zembla had endorsed Kerry a full six months ago.
But I will have my revenge. Mr. Bin Laden (after providing me with the company of several handsome tawny Arab youth) has promised me that he would see to it that I am to be made the official scholar at his court when the new Caliphite is established.
I am genuinely sick of Americans.
As a Brit
God save the Queen, she's a human being.
Bill Maher mentioned last night that Bin Laden was one of those "undecideds".
Dear Boss of You,
Tomorrow. Here's wishing you a very happy new year!
Oh, and everyone remember to set your clocks back tonight.
Oh, and everyone remember to set your clocks back tonight.
Thanks for the reminder, Hecate!
The genius of the movie lies in this exchange between Spigott and Moon:
Spiggott: Everything I've ever told you has been a lie. Including that.
Moon: Including what?
Spiggott: That everything I've ever told has been a lie. That's not true.
Moon: I don't know WHAT to believe.
Spiggott: Not me, believe me!
Classic!
Oh, Monica,
Did you know that the band Bongwater (fronted by the actress Ann Manguson) covered the song "Bedazzled"? The one Peter Cook's pop star sings.
As a Brit
God save the Queen, she's a human being.
As a Brit
God save the Queen, she's a human being.
George W. Bush will magically be transformed into a 5 year old boy and chained to a bathtub to look like his father's enhanced sexual organ.
A copy of My Pet Goat will be handed to him and, after burying his face in the book to hide from the images in front of him, he will read typed over and over again in 14 Point (kerned) New Times Roman "You Will Never Measure up".
Satan, you read through georgie's soul when coming up with his version of hell.
I would only add an audience of Clinton clones pointing, laughing and shouting (in Hillary's voice) "One-term like your daddy! One-term like your daddy" as georgie wore a dunce cap and made to suck his thumb.
It would complete the eternal hell all the more sweeter.
Is there an mp3 available?
Bill Maher mentioned last night that Bin Laden was one of those "undecideds".
Oh, man! Bill Maher stole my line?!
I really enjoyed the outfits Elizabeth Hurley wore in Bedazzeled,other than that,the movie was lost on me.
But then again,I have a very dry sense of humor.I dont get off on the stupidity of todays comedy.I really get off on the cerebral humor that is to be found on sites like these.
The maher rerun is on now. Wes is on fire, and Belzer, Costner, and Maher are all openly hostile to Bush.
Oh, man! Bill Maher stole my line?!
We heard it here first from you, watertiger.
GMTA?
forgot about putting the clock back.
Thanks.
Monica,
Gee, I don't know. I have it on (ulp!) cassette. It's from the mid-90's, though.
Oh! Found it streaming here:
http://tinyurl.com/5bbsj
"Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl..."
With binny and the 9-11 report, I'm starting to smell LIHOP.
smalfish,
You're a smart guy. Try the original, really.
Thanks, Mary. I also don't like the new Bedazzled. Not only did they waste Brendan Fraser, but Frances O' Connor as well. She is such a talented actress. Complete waste of film and talent.
speculative question: if there were to be a big scary terror alert, who would be more likely to stay home - bush supporters or kerry supporters?
I would only add an audience of Clinton clones pointing, laughing and shouting (in Hillary's voice) "One-term like your daddy! One-term like your daddy" as georgie wore a dunce cap and made to suck his thumb.
Yes. He will be subjected to that.
But he will also be shown newsreels of President Kerry examining the bullet riddled body of Osama Bin Laden, gunned down by a squad of Marines who are shown, in the photos, lighting cigars and joking around with the tall ex Senator from Massachussetts.
I grok it,
Doozer among Fraggles.
He'd have wasted their water for sure.
In fullness.
"The Bayeux tapestry is a filthy lie! It was all a re-enactment, a deplorable display of self-aggrandizement! I'm here to tell you, Harold shot himself in the eye. It was a totally self-inflicted wound."
Seraphiel
“Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch; marry, ‘tis enough.
Where is my page?
Go, villain, fetch a surgeon.”
Bush is a macaroon.
Freep this poll http://www.weeklystandard.com/de...sp?
idsurvey=175
speculative question: if there were to be a big scary terror alert, who would be more likely to stay home - bush supporters or kerry supporters?
Good point, nascardaughter. Bushies, obviously.
Go vote.
nascardaughter,
I'm with Karin. We would (and the way we feel now, will) probably go and vote while deathly ill. Besides, if Frankencheney is right, it's not like staying home's gonna keep you safe...
VIENNA, Austria (AP) - Human Rights Watch said Saturday it alerted the U.S. military to a cache of hundreds of warheads containing high explosives in Iraq in May 2003, but that officials seemed uninterested and still hadn't secured the site 10 days later.
The disclosure, made by a senior leader of the New York-based group, raised new questions about the willingness or ability of U.S.-led forces to secure known stashes of dangerous weapons in Iraq.
The question became a heated issue in the U.S. presidential campaign after Iraqi officials told the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency that some 377 tons of high explosives reported missing from another site - the Al-Qaqaa military installation south of Baghdad
Peter Bouckaert, who heads Human Rights Watch's international emergency team, told The Associated Press he was shown two rooms ``stacked to the roof'' with surface-to-surface warheads on May 9, 2003, in a warehouse on the grounds of the 2nd Military College in Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad.
Bouckaert said he gave U.S. officials the exact location of the warheads, but that by the time he left the area on May 19, 2003, he had seen no U.S. forces at the site, which he said was being looted daily by armed men.
Bouckaert said displaced people he was working with in the Baqouba area had taken him to the warheads. ``They said, `There's stocks of weapons here and we're very concerned - can you please inform the coalition?''' he said in a telephone interview from South Africa.
After photographing the warheads, Bouckaert said he went straight to U.S. officials in Baghdad's Green Zone complex, where he claimed officials at first didn't seem interested in his information.
One term like his Daddy sounds exactly right .
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Go whoever-is-playing-against-the-skins!
OK, I've always thought that complaints about the Braves, Chiefs, and Indians, Native-American bigotry-wise, were a crock, but count me among those who can't fathom why there is still a team--and in our Capital, no less--named the "Redskins". I mean, it's not quite up there with Nigger, no, but I'd put it at about the "Darkies" level on the ol' Bigot-O-meter, you know? Come on, NFL, 21st Century and all that? Hmmm?
Or, we could have a special exhibition game, where the redskins play a team composed of the best members of all the other NFL teams. We'll call that team the Palefaces, and all of their players will be given some really really good drugs right before the game, and we'll watch the Redskins trample the holy fuck out of 'em for three hours every Thanksgiving.
George W Bush dies and goes to hell.
The only problem is, Hell is full.
The devil tells the chimp that he's been so bad that he can't leave, but he gives him a choice as to how he will spend eternity, and that he has to take someone's place, who then will be free to go.
First, he shows him Strom Thurmond, upside-down and screaming, buried to his waist in redhot coals.
Then he shows him Bill Clinton, laying on his back, receiving a blow-job from Monica Lewinsky.
Young bush quickly says,"I choose this one."
The Devil says,"OK Monica, you're free to go."
Bushies, obviously.
yeah, i'm leaning that way, too. although i guess putting the big scare on could knock some undecided voters into the W. category -- or at least that's what CW would have us believe.
One term like his Daddy sounds exactly right
Wouldn't that be rubbing salt in Shrub's Oedipal wound.
Last week I saw a piece a British reporter did showing that Bush and Kerry are related. Eighth or ninth cousins. Probably on CNN, but not sure.
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Yeah, we are sending the duffer cousin back to Maine and the cooler handsomer smarter cousin to the White House .
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George W Bush dies and goes to hell.
The only problem is, Hell is full.
Sir. Halliburton is currently building us a new wing, complete with rubber turkey for 600 dollars a plate.
Two (fairly lazy) sons - one's a junior in college and the other's a senior in high school, who will probably end up in community college.
Ah...Apples not far from the tree ... hope not ... no judgements passed. I just do not know of many REAL undecided voters at least out my way (Pgh) with one exception who has have 3 very small children and simply no time to keep up with the news...I have tried to work her toward Kerry on the facts over playground time.
Sorry...and aside to Pie..I have lurked for a while here and your moniker makes me smile as my little is going as a Pirate for Halloween and he tells people he is dressing as a "Pie"
*shush, it's a silly mum thing*
CS,
I (heart) that joke!
watertiger I thought he wanted to be just like his Daddy, one term and they are done. .
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I read that Colin Powell is related to Bush by marraige. -Seriously
I've been married 2 times and I still keep typing it wrong-Marriage
Why?
Last week I saw a piece a British reporter did showing that Bush and Kerry are related. Eighth or ninth cousins
And apparently, they both can be traced back to Vlad the Impaler, if that story is to be believed.
Unfortunately, it looks like Shrub got a little of Renfield's blood mixed in.
"speculative question: if there were to be a big scary terror alert, who would be more likely to stay home - bush supporters or kerry supporters?"
Raising hand. Bush supporters. Although it never ceases to amaze me why they think the OBL will strike next in Antelope Balls, WY.
Ohio belongs to Kerry, it is all the ground game now.
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Wow, Dems even running ads in Louisiana, this is good, I love them .
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Hugs and kisses from the Deep, deep South.
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very frustrating to watch the Oxford Union's parallel prepared-in-advance speech readings, as Norquist and the Unionist terrorist guy told outright lies easily refuted but never gotten to.
Clinton was asleep at the wheel--yeah, that's how he caught the bastards who did it, just like Bush caught Bin Laden, right?
Kerry has no record--yeah, he was real soft on the Republican terrorist-financing schemes of the Iran Contra debacle, and BCCI.
Enemy combatants are prisoners of war except that this new category was invented specifically to avoid the rights of POWs, and the Unionist terrorist misses the point that a person taken without Geneva is called a "hostage".
Richard Dreyfuss introduces lightly the point about Jewish-Dominionist cooperation, misssing his own larger point, that in Revelation, ALL JEWS ARE ENTIRELY ANNIHILATED AND SPEND THE REST OF ETERNITY BURNING IN HELL. That's actually how it ends, unless they convert (in which case they are no longer Jews). Why you would opt to not use that is beyond us.
And the old social security thing, and on and on.
more obscure 1-hit wonders:
Arroz con pollo-"So Happy Together"
And apparently, they both can be traced back to Vlad the Impaler, if that story is to be believed.
Vlad is down in Hell (or wherever), shaking his head and saying, "No son of MINE would be a dingbat."
After Bush was 'selected' a certain Right wing think tank went to see Blair, and told him that they were not pleased that he had supported Gore. They said that if Blair did not fully support Bush,, they would remove many American firms fron the UK. That would result in 100s of thousands of jobs.
From Buzzflash Palast Interview
http://tinyurl.com/5p1v
The answer is Irwin Stelzer. He is the guy who is a good friend of George Bush from the Hudson Institute, and the most powerful lobbyist in Britain representing British-American interests and, by the way, chief lobbyist for Rupert Murdoch. As soon as Bush seized the White House, Stelzer walked into Blair's office and said ‘we noticed that you were supporting Mr. Gore during the Presidential election' - even though clearly that didn't carry many states. Blair's effective endorsement of Al Gore did not go unnoticed. And there was a price to be paid. Blair was given a list of the things that would befall Britain from military subsidies and equipment, to a reduction of value in the dollar versus the pound, which would destroy England's exportability. And Blair was basically told get in line, stand up and salute or "here's your last cigarette, Tony."
thank you central scrutinizer, or is that screwtizer? Best laught I've had all week.
meme, I thought Colin Powell was related to Princess Diana .
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And Cherie Blair is, I believe, a barrister.
Not just 'a barrister'. A top human rights barrister, who, under the monicker 'Cherie Booth, QC' earns more than her husband, and wants Tony to retire so that she can advance her career and become a judge... where it's far harder to outstay your welcome.
While HMQ isn't considered a greenie, she has spent most of her life living on various country estates, and she's seen the effects of climate change: Balmoral is warmer, Sandringham soggier. Charles is famously big on sustainable and organic farming.
And Bush is a putz. Hereditary monarchy is fine, as long as it's divested from power. Britain learned that a while ago, and the US will show that it's learned the same lesson on Tuesday.
C Scrute: !!Rimshot!!
You write for letterman?
You oughtta.
Is Kerry going to run an ad featuring the footage of Bush saying (paraphrasing), "He doesn't worry about OBL anymore"?
more obscure 1-hit wonders:
Arroz con pollo-"So Happy Together"
Karin
how about "kung fu fighting" by carl douglas
PS -- the next person who mentions "afternoon delight" by Starland Vocal Band gets sent to crawford for eternity
You write for letterman?
I can't take credit for that, I heard it awhile back.
S'funny stuff.
Philly Eagles, try to keep the focus this year.
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Big push on Sunday to consolidate the communities.
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Senate seats count too.
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Is there any truth to the rumor that Ann Coulter is the lovechild of Queen Liz and Barry Manilow?
Central S., Very Nice.
NEW 60 MINUTES BROADCAST ON IRAQ!
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ann coulter is the byproduct of grandpa munster and gladys kravitz from "bewitched"
Ru Paul rocks the vote .
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Dean Martin was my uncle.
Oh tut tut, the sky is falling!
As much as I'd like to save the environment, the endorsement of the queen is about as worthless as tits on a squid.
If she truly cares about the environment, why doesn't she put up some windmills and solar panels on her fancy estates and give the electricity generated to the poor?
Cheerio.
Frontline: Rumsfeld's War
Online
mena!
I lost your addy (I have it now), I'll send you some pics tomorrow.
Good to see you again!
Did someone mention one-hit wonders?
Good sirs and madams, may I offer: The Night Chicago Died by Paper Lace
The Devil says,"OK Monica, you're free to go."
Central Scrutinizer
Thanks...I'd forgotten all about that joke!
They don't get much more to the point than that.
Though I always wanted to see it end with Clinton saying, "And if ya rake me, I'll wring your scrawny neck."
I mean, isn't Prince Charley the poster boy for "Chromosomes Gone Bad?"
Obscure one hit wonder:
"Pilot of the Airwaves" by Charlie Dore
In honor of Anne "coconut nuts" Coulter:
Well I'm not the world's most physical guy but when she squeezed me tight she nearly broke my spine oh my Lola
Well I'm not dub but I can't understand why she walked like a woman and talked like a man
Well we drank champagne and danced all night under electric candle light she picked me up and sat me on her knee and said "Dear boy won't you come home with me ?"
Girls will be boys
and boys will be girls it's a mixed up muddled up shook up world
Shel P., when I think of all the Halloween costumes I made...
What fun. Enjoy this time. They grow up way too fast.
na na na na na
na na na na na
na na na na na
na na na na na
The Night Chicago Died
Rumors by the Timex Social Club
Dean Martin was my uncle.
Mitch Miller is my fourth cousin. I'm serious.
A one and a two...
Central S., cool beans!
http://
www.whatreallyhappened.co...osamatape2.html
Check out this site-kind of makes you wonder
more obscure 1-hit wonders:
Frank Zappa. Yup, only one. "Valley Girl", 1982.
There aint no justice.
Re: One hit Wonders......I dedicate to MSNBC and CNN....
Baby. you spin me RIGHT round baby RIGHT round....
syntallic-no dissing Grandpa Al. He's on our side, has a show on Pacifica Radio in New York
Oh, I have lots of one-hit wonders . . . A few for the old people.
The Israelite - Desmond Dekker
Little Black Egg - Tarnation
Hey Joe - The Leaves
I had too much to dream last night - The Electric Prunes
Omaha - Moby Grape
Pictures of Matchstick Men - Status Quo
Let It All Hang Out - The Hombres
Clint Black is my cousin.
So?
The Night Chicago Died by Paper Lace
"Daddy was a cop... on the eeeeast side of Chicago. Back in the USA, back in the Bad old days...."
That brings memories of eating in a restaurant while that played on the jukebox, in La Junta Colorado way back when.
Thanks.
We are on track for historic turnout in this election. Voters are coming out in record numbers for John Kerry.
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Keep up the pressure, 58,000 ballots lost in Florida.
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oooh .. that was a great on watertiger
here's a couple more:
i want candy - bow wow wow
pina colada - rupert holmes
maniac - michael sembello (this is also the BC/04 theme song)
seasons in the sun - terry jacks
safety dance - men with hats
my personal favorite:
turning japanese - the vapors
"and there was no sound at all,
Except the clock up on the wall..."
Hmmm, let's see.
"Jackie Blue" by the Ozark Mountain somethingorothers?
From Salon's The Fix:
"Weird Halloween factoid (insert your own "bloodsucking politician" joke here): George W. Bush and John Kerry are ninth cousins twice removed and each can trace their lineage back to Vlad II Dracul, the 15th century Transylvanian warlord who inspired Bram Stoker's "Dracula."
Dean Martin was my uncle.
Mitch Miller is my fourth cousin. I'm serious.
My first cousin twice removed was mentioned in a Beatles song.
Obscure one hit wonder:
"Pilot of the Airwaves" by Charlie Dore
I'll see ya, and raise you "Telephone Man" by Meri Wilson AND "Pop Pop Pop - Pie" by the Sherrys.
Ms. Bentley you've got a lousy leader
Guys as dim as 'im are something rare
He's an ass'ole
His days are numbered now
I'll get down on my knees
When 'e's gone out the door
He wants four more years to fuck us over
Tell him he can fuck himself instead
Things have changed
He's going to be on trial
He and his vice president
Are going to rot in hell
Walkin' about
Even in a crowd, well,
You'll pick him out
Makes a bloke
Want to up-chuck
If he finds that I've been round to see you
Tell him that I'm well and feeling fine
Don't let on
Don't say "go cheney yourself"
I'll get down on my knees
When 'e's gone out the door
Ms. Bentley you've got a lousy leader
Ms. Bentley you've got a lousy leader
So, basically if I understand this correctly, if Bush wins
We are in perpetual war
Massive deficits
Poor health care
No social security
Restriction or elimination of constitutional rights
and we won't be able to get a decent cup of tea.
That tears it...
Bushie theme song, Desperado .
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John Kerry we need a President who can do more than one thing at the same time.
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Oh, and my brush with greatness? I saw Ethel Kennedy naked.
She came to give a speech at a University where I was taking a summer course. She got dizzy drunk and started taking her clothes off in some little tavern near campus. By the time the "attendants" got her to her room in the student union hotel, she was naked as Willie Wonka's weenie!
Herman's Hermits would be the answer to who sang "Mrs.Brown you've got a lovely daughter"....well, there it is
Oh yeah, and for one-hit wonders who can forget Question Mark and the Mysterians - "96 Tears"!
"and there was no sound at all,
Except the clock up on the wall..."
"Night Chicago Died," Paper Lace.
Ask me a hard one.
syntallic-no dissing Grandpa Al. He's on our side, has a show on Pacifica Radio in New York
Karin
i know, i know, i know .. any friend of ron jeremy can't be all that bad
it was just too good to resist - had to go there
Lololololoooolaaaaaaaaaa...
"Come on Eileen"
"Heartbeat(It's a lovebeat) by The DeFranco Family is a pretty scary one-hit wonder.
Frankie Valli lived down the street from me. I'm serious.
And Rupert Holmes lived in an apartment complex in town.
Radar Love. Golden Earring. Ah, the memories...
Friedman endorses Bush!
(George H.W. that is).
Left unsaid is that he sees Kerry as the one more in the internationalist mold of dear old dad.
I thought the British aristocracy was German?
Cpt. Darling: I'm as English as Queen Victoria!
Cpt. Blackadder: So, your father was German, you're half-German, and you married a German?!?
One hit wonder -
Santa Esmerelda - Please don't let me be misunderstood (and a cover at that).
"Safety Dance"
Philalethes,
How 'bout "Popcorn" by Hot Butter?
Pffpffpfft.
My roommate dated GWB in grad school.
Doozer among Fraggles,
Go back a few years, and there was "Don't eat the yellow snow."
It was banned on some stations, but it did get some airplay.
Frank was muy misunderstood.
seasons in the sun - terry jacks
And don't forget its remarkable flipside, "Put the Bone In."
It's on a somewhat lower moral plane than the 'A' side.
Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) - Edison Lighthouse(?)
Venus - Shocking Blue
pina colada - rupert holmes
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Syntallic, damn you.
Please don't forget the Macarena.
Moon light, feels right...
Big Clinton Rally in Ohio, so popular, hadda be moved to a bigger site .
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Philalethes,
How 'bout "Popcorn" by Hot Butter?
Pffpffpfft.
watertiger
Who you sneering at? I own it. On vinyl. Fold-out popcorn box and all.
Off the coast of Iceland, there's something called the Thermal Pump, and it's the reason that the UK and the British Isles enjoy such a temperate climate. Lately, the efficiency of this pump has been reduced due to global warning and this means that in a short time period, climate change will affect the UK drastically - it will be as cold as Labrador is. I believe that the evidence of climate change they are seeing in the UK would have any normal person scared silly.
Moon light, feels right...
BlakNo1
God help us...that was Starbuck, right? I think they're a Christian group now.
Dean Martin was my uncle.
Mitch Miller is my fourth cousin. I'm serious.
My first cousin twice removed was mentioned in a Beatles song.
Capital J
i have uncles who appeared on the walls of FBI offices in the 1960s and 1970s -- i swear it was because they were Italians and the government didn't like last names ending in vowels -- i bet a few of them knew your uncle - nephew of dean martin
One hit wonders:
Thomas Dolby "She Blinded Me With Science"
Tommy Tutone "867-5309/Jenny"
A Flock Of Seagulls "I Ran" (sadly, one of the first MTV videos I remember)
"Heartbeat(It's a lovebeat) by The DeFranco Family is a pretty scary one-hit wonder.
THE definitive one hit wonder.
Correct. Don't know about the christian part tho.
Yikes, I'm getting positively queasy from the memories dredged up by some of these song titles. "Seasons in the Sun" has a particularly emetic effect. I'm outta here.
Peter No One: Good one!
Smoking in the Boys Room
Disco Duck
Beach Baby, Beach Baby
Ack.
I think the worst OHO of all times might well be "We Eat Cannibals" by Toto Coelo (sp?). Especially if you factor the video in.
>>>Trashing her roses?
The news of the Bush's visit to Buckingham Palace and the damage caused by the support Black Hawk helicopters and US security forces cost the UK taxpayer tens of thousands of pounds.
The damage which included high tech wires punched through walls and the destruction of rare plants from Queen Victoria's time did not get much coverage in the US but was widely covered in the Commonwealth.
from the Guardian:
"The repairs will cost tens of thousands of pounds but the damage to historic and rare plants will be immense. They are still taking an inventory.
"The lawns are used for royal garden parties and are beautifully kept. But 30,000 visitors did not do as much damage as the Americans did in three days."
Much interest was also taken in the fact the Bushes took no less than FIVE personal chefs along with them to Buckingham Palace.
He's more Royal than the Queen and why Americans haven't been in the streets with pitchforks is beyond me.
From the "Is this Nazi Germany or America" files... Check out this photo...And don't forget to rank it high!
"Supporters of US President George W. Bush tear up a sign from a protestor that said "Republicans for Kerry" during a campaign rally at Verizon Wireless Arena in Manchester, New Hampshire.
http://tinyurl.com/3o68y
I say the definitive one-hit wonder is "Billy, don't be a hero" by Bo Donaldson + The Heywoods.
Lies... The Knickerbockers
Double Shot of My Baby's Love... The Swinging Medalions
Louie Louie... The Kingsman
Christ I'm old :-(
Heartbeat(It's a lovebeat) by The DeFranco Family is a pretty scary one-hit wonder.
Sigh. I loved that song. I'm serious.
Alabama: Hell Yes, We Have Electricity
Alaska: 11,623 Eskimos Can't Be Wrong!
Arizona: But It's A Dry Heat
Arkansas: Literacy Ain't Everything
California: By 30, Our Women Have More Plastic Than Your Honda
Colorado: If You Don't Ski, Don't Bother
Connecticut: Like Massachusetts, Only The Kennedy's Don't Own It-Yet
Dean Martin was my uncle.
Mitch Miller is my fourth cousin. I'm serious.
My Mother always swore Bobby Vinton was like a 2nd cousin of hers. That was around the time of that Polish hit of his in the '70s.
"Flirting with Disaster" Molly Hatchet
I don't think I know anyone famous, and one of the worst things you could tell me about my ancestors would be that they were aristocracy. I'd rather believe I come from a long line of white trash with intellectual pretensions.
God save the Queen!
that's right, mena .. macarena was right on my list, then I killed it cuz that wasn't even a song -- it was the latin version of "monster mash" in my mind -- kinda like the ghetto version of "who let the dogs out"
i'm too sexy - right said fred
the hustle - van mccoy
it's raining men - the weather girls (where's ru paul when you need her? him?)
smokin in the boys room - brownsville station
i am starting to sound like casey kasem and i don't like the image i'm creating
gotta stop this shit now -- i'll have these terrible songs in my head all night now
Who you sneering at? I own it. On vinyl. Fold-out popcorn box and all.
(dusting off room on shelf for bust of new hero)
Damn, Philalethes. That IS good.
"Everybody have fun tonight.
Everbody Wang Chung tonight."
I should add, my Mother was half polish...
Delaware: We Really Do Like The Chemicals In Our Water
Florida: Ask Us About Our Grandkids
Georgia: We Put The "Fun" In Fundamentalist Extremism
Hawaii: Haka Tiki Mou Sha'ami Leeki Toru (Death To Mainland Scum, But Leave
Your Money)
Idaho: More Than Just Potatoes...Well Okay, We're Not, But The Potatoes Sure
Are Real Good
Illinois: Please Don't Pronounce the "S"
Indiana: 2 Billion Years Tidal Wave Free
Iowa: We Do Amazing Things With Corn
Kansas: First Of The Rectangle States
Kentucky: Five Million People; Fifteen Last Names
Pie,
Speaking of early MTV,
"Working Girl"
"Mexican Radio"
"Never say never"
And my personal Fav-
"Over the Hills With the Swords of a Thousand Men"
Louisiana: We're Not ALL Drunk Cajun Wackos, But That's Our Tourism Campaign
Maine: We're Really Cold, But We Have Cheap Lobster
Maryland: If You Can Dream It, We Can Tax It
Massachusetts: Our Taxes Are Lower Than Sweden's (For Most Tax Brackets)
Michigan: First Line Of Defense From The Canadians
Minnesota: 10,000 Lakes... And 10,000,000,000,000 Mosquitoes
Mississippi: Come And Feel Better About Your Own State
Missouri: Your Federal Flood Relief Tax Dollars At Work
Montana: Land Of The Big Sky, The Unabomber, Right-Wing Crazies, And Very
Little Else
BlakNo1,
How can you forget "Brother Louie"? Who the hell sang that?
"Louie, Louie, Louie, Looo-EEE,
Louie, Louie, Louie, Looo-IIII..."
BING BING BING -- the defranco family thing was a real earth mover -- man, you HAD to like that song to remember it
Here's a name to conjure with: "Gimme Dat Ding," by the Pipkins. Later covered by the Shaggs.
BTW, my wife's directly related to Stephen Foster and Trotsky. The original odd couple!
Nebraska: Ask About Our State Motto Contest
Nevada: Hookers and Poker!
New Hampshire: Go Away And Leave Us Alone
New Jersey: You Want A ##$%##! Motto? I Got Yer ##$%##! Motto Right Here!
New Mexico: Lizards Make Excellent pets
New York: You Have The Right To Remain Silent, You Have The Right To An
Attorney....
North Carolina: Tobacco Is A Vegetable
North Dakota: We Really Are One Of The 50 States!
Ohio: At Least We're Not Michigan
Oklahoma: Like The Play, Only No Singing
Oregon: Spotted Owl... It's What's For Dinner
Brother Louie was by Story, or was it Stories? Something like that.
How about "Indiana Wants Me" by R. Dean Taylor?
CS,
Stan Ridgway! He was cool!
Don't forget Big Country. They were faves of Alan Hunter, JJ, and Nina ...what the hell was her name?
Three words: One Tin Soldier.
now early MTV was the nuts ...
"video killed the radio star" still looks like a mylar orgy
and adam ant was the first metrosexual
More good news for dear leader:
Cutbacks Threaten Work Of Homeland Security Unit
Sunday, October 31, 2004
A key unit of the Department of Homeland Security has slipped into a state of financial turmoil that could endanger its ability to investigate terrorists, pay informants and perform wiretaps, some department employees and officials say.
All hiring and transfers at the department's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) division have been banned for two months, as have almost all training, purchases of supplies and equipment, and maintenance of vehicles. Top department officials say they are committed to protecting ICE's ability to perform investigations, but agents in the field say ICE's budget shortfall of perhaps $500 million may soon threaten its national security work.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/
articles/A12489-2004Oct30.html
Brother Louie was by Story, or was it Stories? Something like that.
BlakNo1
Stories.
"Chevy Van" by Sammy Johns
Pennsylvania: Cook With Coal
Rhode Island: We're Not REALLY An Island
South Carolina: Remember The Civil War? We Didn't Actually Surrender
South Dakota: Closer Than North Dakota
Tennessee: The Educashun State
Texas: Si' Hablo Ing'les
Utah: Our Jesus Is Better Than Your Jesus
Vermont: Yep
Virginia: Who Says Government Stiffs And Slackjaw Yokels Don't Mix?
Washington: Help! We're Overrun By Nerds And Slackers!
Washington, D.C.: Wanna Be Mayor?
West Virginia: One Big Happy Family... Really!
Wisconsin: Come Cut The Cheese
Wyoming: Where Men Are Men... and the sheep are scared
Hell, Ive got it.
"Timothy" by The Buoys.
It doesn't get much worse than that.
syntallic ,
The thing about John O'Neill is that he should have paid a hard price 30 years ago.
Since the swift boat thing first showed its ugly head, I trusted that John O'Neill would bring it down. I remembered him. I knew him, I gave my insights to whomever would listen. He was a bonafide asshole way back then. I didn't have to be reminded about him slow dancing with Colson.
If the Texas Bar Association doesn't curtail his career as an attorney, we need to help them.
I trust Karma only so far. John O'Neill should be a lawyer no more forever.
Good heavens,
"Spirit in the Sky"
"Indian Reservation"
(I'm channeling my grade school years)
How 'bout that Singing nun, there? Domininininini, or whatever it was...
It doesn't help that Me First + The Gimme Gimmes do awesome covers of most of those songs.
and whatever happened to eddie money - isn't he hocking cellphones these days?
in about two more years were going to see hairpins in faces and spiked colored hair - it's gonna move from the 70s to the 80s any day now
Way way back:
Purple People Eater
The original Rockin' Robin
"Chevy Van" by Sammy Johns is enough to make anyone puke.
Nina ...what the hell was her name?
Blackwood.
She posed for Playboy.
(Don't ask me why I remember that.)
the worst one hit wonder IMHO is
"Never been to Me" by Charlene
now early MTV was the nuts ...
I loved Adam and the Ants. I'm serious.
The funniest video had to be the aforementioned "I Ran" because you could always see the tinfoil-wrapped camera in the mirrors behind the musicians. Really didn't get any cheesier than that.
Why don't Republicans want a big turn out? Why do Republicans want to make it hard for people to vote?
Cameron in Vancouver, I wasn't downplaying the damage. I remember what the morons did and how embarrassed I was that Bush's entourage had such disregard for these grounds.
Bush could have prevented the destruction if he'd been so inclined, if he had any manners, if he weren't such a self-important, inconsiderate prick.
There has never been any good reason for the behavior of the Bush thugs.
5 Millyun people and 15 last names.
Classic!
What, no Gilbert O'Sullivan fans?
Alone Again (Naturally)
This one goes out to George, who'll soon have plenty of time to ponder how he so displeased his god:
To think that only yesterday
I was cheerful
bright and gay
looking forward to well who wouldn't do
the role I was about to play
but as if to knock me down
reality came around
and without so much
as a mere touch
cut me into little pieces
leaving me to doubt talk about
god in his mercy who if
he really does exist
why did he desert me in my hour of need
I truly am indeed
alone again naturally.
"Timothy" by The Buoys.
It doesn't get much worse than that.
Central Scrutinizer
Ladies and gentlemen...I give you..."Shannon" by Henry Gross.
What, no Gilbert O'Sullivan fans?
Bet ya can't name his other hit. I can, sad to say.
She posed for Playboy.
(Don't ask me why I remember that.)
Okay.
Falstaff,
Yer killin' me! "I've Never Been to Me" was right up there with "Indiana Wants Me". Or "Sometimes When We Touch." Or "Wildfire". Or "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald."
Okay, I'm going to go pierce my own eardrums now.
Walk Like An Egyptian -- the Bangles
"kings of the wild frontier" is great stuff.
BTW, new thread.
Three words: One Tin Soldier.
Yeah cheesy as hell, but have you checked out Billy Jack's (Tom Laughlin's) site?
He's one of the good guys.
"Spirit in the Sky"
"Indian Reservation"
(I'm channeling my grade school years)
watertiger
Norm Greenbaum and Don Felder. We must be roughly the same age!
And who could ever forget that Feminist Anthem of 1962;
Joanie Sommers, "Johnny Get Angry"
Yer killin' me! "I've Never Been to Me" was right up there with "Indiana Wants Me". Or "Sometimes When We Touch." Or "Wildfire". Or "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald."
"Stay Awhile" by The Bells.
We owe allegiance to no crown. Fuck the queen.
"..we made lovein my Chevy Van, and that's alright with me..." (gagging sound..)
watertiger...
I'll be honest. I have always loved Maria Muldaur's Midnight at the Oasis.
There I said it... Hang my head in shame.
Or "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald."
I kinda like that song! "Sometimes When We Touch" is up there with the worst of 'em, though.
Betcha didn't know that the Starland Vocal Band has a brand-new album out...
if it's bad you want, and apologies to Paper Lace, but what about
The Eggplant that Ate Chicago
by Dr. West's Medicine Show and Junk Band?
Oh, good god. I go to pick up my soggy band geek after the football game, and you all go crazy on me. Peter No One, that was priceless.
And even I won't go vinyl-to-vinyl wih Philalethes.
Did the 1910 Fruitgum Company have more than one hit?
"..we made lovein my Chevy Van, and that's alright with me..." (gagging sound..)
mena
Try watching the movie that used it for a theme song..."The Van," featuring Danny DeVito's first screen appearance.
It's so awful it'll take years off your life.
I loved Adam and the Ants. I'm serious.
Still do, sister.
Unashamed, flamboyent, tounge in cheek commercialism at it's best?
I have always loved Maria Muldaur's Midnight at the Oasis.
Me too.
Betcha didn't know that the Starland Vocal Band has a brand-new album out...
Whoa. (Album? )
Stand and deliver!!
SNL is doing a Bin Laden video.
heehee.
She wore a rasberry berret.....the kind you buy at a second hand store.
(kind of like the one monica lewinsky wore_
Did the 1910 Fruitgum Company have more than one hit?
NYMary
Perish the thought!
syntallic, you must have missed my blogwhore before. Click my homepage. We're simpatico, baby. I swear.
>>We owe allegiance to no crown. Fuck the queen.
Ahhh..But have you taken the Bush Loyalty Pledge yet?
Pie,
Thanks for bringing me out of the 70's....
Falstaff, I love the Swingin' Medallions, seriously.
>>We owe allegiance to no crown. Fuck the queen.
Or to King George the Stupid
why Americans haven't been in the streets with pitchforks is beyond me.
We're going to give our neighbors an opportunity to correct the mistake that is George W. Bush.
Norm Greenbaum and Don Felder. We must be roughly the same age!
Ohmigod, that's right. Norman Greenbaum! Didn't he ever think to change his name? (And for the Eddie Izzard fans out there, I have two words for you: Englebert Humperdinck)
Philalethes, I'm 42, but I'm told I don't look a day over 40.
Ahhh..But have you taken the Bush Loyalty Pledge yet?
Do you believe that shit? I told my husband about that and he was flabbergasted. I believe he mentioned something about a 1930's wacko.
Betcha didn't know that the Starland Vocal Band has a brand-new album out...
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Nuh-uh!
What was that stupid one about the roller skates?
Bet ya can't name his other hit. I can, sad to say. -Philalethes
Well, let's see, there was
Clair
I told you before don't you dare
Get back into bed
Can't you see that it's late
No you can't have a drink
Oh alright then but wait just a minute
While I in an effort to babysit,
catch up on my breath
what there is left of it...
'Nuff said!
Fuck the MAYFLOWER!
CS,
Adam Ant is insane though, as in institutionalized, IIRC.
Alright, time to pull out the big guns:
"Convention '72" by the Delegates.
"Playground In My Mind" by Clint Holmes.
And one of the most disgusting songs ever written, "Undercover Angel" by Alan O'Day.
I'll see you and raise you-
The Johns are here and you're gonna be in trouble
(Hey-la, hey-la, the Johns are here)
When you see them comin', better cut out on the double
(Hey-la, hey-la, the Johns are here)
Georgie's spreading lies, and he hasn't got a clue
(Hey-la, hey-la, the Johns are here)
So look out now 'cause they're comin' after you
(Hey-la, hey-la, the Johns are here)
Hey, we know they've been tryin'
And we know how they've been lyin'
We've been waiting for such a long time
(Hey-la, hey-la, the Johns are here)
Now they're back and things'll be fine
(Hey-la, hey-la, the Johns are here)
Some neocons be sorry they were ever born
(Hey-la, hey-la, the Johns are here)
'Cause when we stick together, we're awful strong
(Hey-la, hey-la, the Johns are here)
Hey, we know that they've been cheatin'
Now they're gonna get a beatin'
What made you think we'd believe all your lies? (Aah-ooh, aah-ooh)
W thinks he's big now but they'll cut him down to size(Aah-ooh)
Wait and see!
The John's are here, they're gonna save our reputation
(Hey-la, hey-la, the Johns are here)
If I were a Repug, I'd take a permanent vacation
(Hey-la, hey-la,the John's are here)
(Hey-la, hey-la,the John's are here)
Hey, we can see them comin'
Now you better start a'runnin'
(Aah-ooh, aah-ooh) (Aah-ooh)
Wait and see!
Oh yeah, they're here right now
Well look out now, we can see them comin' so you better get a'runnin'
a'right now
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.....
Has no one mentioned "Mickey" by Toni Basil?
Shorter Queen re Gee-dubya:
They fought a revolution to throw us out of their country for...for this???
'Nuff said!
JeffCO
I take it back. Your brain's almost as ruined as mine.
Has no one mentioned "Mickey" by Toni Basil?
The cheerleader video! Another MTV golden oldie.
"Spirit in the Sky"
Bad career move for ol' Norman, there. His band "Doctor West's medicine Show & Junk Band" had a couple hits, oncluding the immortal "The Eggplant that Ate Chicago".
"I've got a brand new pair of roller skates..."
Undercover Angel?! AAAAAAAAAAAAAH! I'ts in my head! Get it out! Get it out!!!!
Falstaff, I love the Swingin' Medallions, seriously.
...And now thanks to the internet, you can finally figure out the words to Double Shot.
Woke up this morning, my head was so bad
The worst hangover that I ever had
What happened to me last night
That girl of mine, she loved me so right (yeah!) (oh, oh)
She loved me so long and she loved me so hard
I finally passed out in her front yard (whoo!)
It wasn't wine that I had too much of
It was a double shot of my baby's love
Double shot of my baby's love, yeah yeah, yeah
Double shot of my baby's love, yeah yeah, yeah
A potion that I had too much of
It was a double shot of my baby's love
[repeat intro]
Verse 2:
It was such a thrill it was hurtin' me (ooh!)
I was sufferin' in ecstasy
She had me turnin' flips and-a shoutin' out loud (yah-hah!)
A sip of her love and I was walkin' one a cloud
One night a week is-a plenty enough
It's a good thing for me they don't bottle that stuff [pop!]
Well, my heart begins to fly like a dove
When I take a double shot of my baby's love
[repeat chorus]
CS,
Never, never did I expect to see a Temple Tudor reference ere at Eschaton.
And no surprise to those who know me, but early MTV was rife with Shoes videos: Tomorrow Night, Too Late, In My Arms Again. All shot on one day, on videotape.
"rock me gently" is good for some gag reflex action.
What was that stupid one about the roller skates?
mena
"Brand New Key" by Melanie?
OTOH, there's King Harvest and Dancing in the Moonlight!
And might I just add that everybody here is outta sight, they don't bark and they don't bite - they keep things loose, they keep things light....
Well, most of the time
watertiger,
From waaay upthread...
Golden Earring was *not* a one-hit wonder band. They also had a hit with "Twilight Zone" in the 80's.
And yes, poor Adam Ant (ne Stuart Goddard) lost the plot earlier this year, brandishing a pistol in a pub and demanding his due.
So sad...
I suggest a thread in which we debate the virtues of America's version of Muskrat Love vs The Captain and Tenille.
Never, never did I expect to see a Temple Tudor reference ere at Eschaton.
Oy. We had a program on the West Coast called "Videowest" that used to show low-budget videos by Tenpole Tudor and the Stranglers and Polyrock and God knows who else, circa 1980.
Ugh...then there was Peter Ivers' "New Wave Theatre." Now I'm really dating myself.
How about "Snow-Blind Friend" by Hoyt Axton? "Someone should call his parents or a sister or a brother/They'll come and take him back home on a bus."
This thread has seriously gone deranged.
That was it Ph.
I loved Adam and the Ants. I'm serious.
Still do, sister.
I'm a Bow Wow Wow man, myself. C30 C60 C90 Go!
NYMary,
Okay, okay. 1.5 hit wonder.
"Kiss You All Over" by Exile. My first (and only) cigarette...
That was it Ph.
mena
She wasn't a OHO, though. Who could forget "Lay Down (Candles In the Rain)"?
"Kiss You All Over" by Exile. My first (and only) cigarette...
watertiger
Gah. Can't think of that without recalling "Magnet and Steel" by Walter Egan.
The Crossfire transcript is finally up: here's the relevant portion (sadly missing Novakula's whiny "Don't hit me")
SHIELDS: A huge turnout and I would say, I think Texas is going to be a lot better (INAUDIBLE) doesn't upset him too much when the Democrats do overcome this illegal, unjust, unfair and despicable action.
NOVAK: I think it is really terrible that you're going to have a congressional delegation from Texas that reflects the state, instead of the back room Democrats
(CROSSTALK)
SHIELDS: Are you ready? Would you be willing to take the Iowa system to Texas, I mean to make the Iowa system where it's drawn absolutely fairly and whatever you say about
(CROSSTALK)
NOVAK: Your people have been down there as scumbags, wait a minute.
SHIELDS: Hey, hey, hey, back off.
NOVAK: All right. All right.
Somewhat OT, but I now see why I stopped watching SNL lo those many years ago. It just isn't funny. But Eminem is supposed to be on, so I must weather through.
"The Morning After", by Maureen McGovern. I had a crush on Gene Hackman after that movie.
Just for circa '79 Angelenos, and apropos the new threads:
I'm too hip. I gotta go.
"Hold Your Head Up" Argent
"DOA" Bloodrock
"Hot Rod Lincoln" Commander Cody And His Lost Planet Airmen
Adam Ant is insane though, as in institutionalized, IIRC.
And yes, poor Adam Ant (ne Stuart Goddard) lost the plot earlier this year, brandishing a pistol in a pub and demanding his due.
Wow, I'm bummed. Stuart got me out of some serious funk back in the day.
I guess he took "Stand and Deliver" too seriously.
If we're gonna get into early new-wave, how about "Where's Captain Kirk?" by Spizzenergi?
What a fucking nightmare that was.
Personally, I always preferred Tenpole Tudor's "Wunderbar." There's a great video segue where the drummer throws up a sword (on the field of battle) and catches a drumstick (in performance). Beautiful. Almost as goos as the moment in CT's "She's Tight" where Rick Neilsen turns the camera lens and it smears into a shot of the girl's mouth."
This one was good... in an odd and haunting way... "Her Name was Joanne". I think it was written by one of the Monkees. Seriously.
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I should amend that: my first (and only) tobacco cigarette.
Man, SNL is unbearably unfunny. Even with Kate Winslet.
BTW, not to wax prematurely nostalgic, but something I'm really gonna miss from the WH Briefing Room after next week is (wait for it)...
Watchin Scotty Grow!
Goddamn Haloscan....
Anon 11:55 was yours truly.
Watchin Scotty Grow!
JeffCO
You and God, eh?
You're sick in the head!
Money by the Flying Lizards.
Josie Cotton: "Johnny Are you Queer?"
I could tell you some stories about her, if I had a mind to...
Watchin Scotty Grow!
Fuckin' HA!!!
Was that Bobby Goldsboro?
I used to cut his records from the back of fck'n cereal boxes. (Honeycombs)
Money by the Flying Lizards.
watertiger
They actually had a second hit with "Sex Machine." (And yes, I own the 12"...filed incongruously somewhere between Flipper and the Germs.)
In Australia, we have a democratically elected Queen. Yep, we voted for her.
A couple of years back, we had a referendum on whether we should become a republic, or remain tied to the Queen's coat-strings.
If we'd voted against her, she would have accepted the vote and withdrawn whatever-the-heck-power that she's got in Australia. Nice old biddy.
Democratically, we voted (a close thing) to keep the
Queen, for the time being at least.
.
Money by the Flying Lizards.
...a classic rendition.
Josie Cotton: "Johnny Are you Queer?"
I own it. On vinyl. The whole album.
NYMary ... just checked your blog -- if you're a friend of the replacements, you're a friend of mine
i went post punk and never looked back in a hurry and then hung out in europe for a while in the 1980s ----haven't heard of Loudon Wainwright in God knows how freakin long
anyone for a little Frankie Goes to Hollywood? How about Divinyls (i touch myself)?
Was that Bobby Goldsboro?
Oh yeah, and Honey, I miss him...
My sister had all the teen heartthrob crushes of the day: Bobby Goldsboro, Bobby Sherman, David Cassidy...
I own it. On vinyl. The whole album.
NYMary
Mazel t'ov!
dum dum .. tainted love (by soft cell)
and some martha and the muffins --- echo beach
Achy-Breaky-Heart, by Billy Ray Cyrus...
.
Seriously though, people: "We Eat Cannibals." What the hell is worse or more inexplicable than that?
I used to cut his records from the back of fck'n cereal boxes.
...Oh My God, I remember that.
That also reminds me of Bobby Sherman's In Seattle.
"Turning Japanese" is the famous one, but The Vapors had another, weirder song, "Jimmie Jones" off their next album.
Achy-Breaky-Heart, by Billy Ray Cyrus...
.
TelltaleHeart
I had blocked that from my memory.
Damn you for re-introducing it.
anyone for a little Frankie Goes to Hollywood?
Not without a full-body condom!
How about Divinyls (i touch myself)?
syntallic
Or their not-that-bad debut hit "All the Boys in Town."
Okay, syntallic. Martha and the Muffins were seriously, seriously cool. They were Canadian, as I recall, and I totally loved that record.
Here we go guys: Blotto, "I Wanna Be a Lifeguard"
Now I can't believe no one has brought up Muskrat Love.
Muskrat Susie,
Muskrat Sam . . .
and whatever happened to eddy grant -- of "electric avenue" fame? i had this strange thought that he became half of milli vanilli cuz he ran outta cash
and what about ..... these ... insane ... lyrics
I don't drink or smoke ain't into dope
Won't try no coke, ask me how I do it, I cope
My only addiction has to do with the female species
I eat 'em raw like sushi
Rico Suave - by Gerardo the cuban pimp
Philalethes,
You're that guy I see at yard sales, coming through the albums, aren't you.
You are the Woman by Firefall.
How ya like that, trolls? We're so confident about our guy that we can sit around chatting about Josie Cotton!
Kerry landslide!
martha and the muffins
Which reminds me of the Mojo Nixon/Skid Roper classic paean to MTV pixie Martha Quinn,
Stuffin Martha's Muffin
And let me just add, that if you ain't got Mojo Nixon, then your collection could use some fixin!
That also reminds me of Bobby Sherman's In Seattle.
Ye Gads, My brain is spinnin'
Don't forget the Brides! That lasted like what, 7 episodes?
Indiana Wants Me by R Dean Taylor....yech, yech, yech
Yeah, I'm an old fart...
You asked for it-
"Brandy,You're a Fine Girl"(Looking Glass)
Phila, Pardon my pedantry, but it's *I* Eat Cannibal" and I believe it is an oral sex reference.
I eat cannibal
It's incredible
You bring out the animal in me
I eat cannibal.
The multicolored garbage bags I cannot help you with, however.
All Bobby Goldsboro tunes make me gag. The syrupy sound in his voice will give you diabetes.
okay NYMary .. "riding on the metro" by berlin
and 68 guns by the alarm
which one tickles the wishbone for powerpop?
Philalethes,
You're that guy I see at yard sales, coming through the albums, aren't you.
Yes. I'm also the guy with a milkcrate strapped to the back of his bicycle, who's cramming it full of Living Stereo and Folkways LPs in hopes of making rent on eBay.
NYMary & Co:
"Too Many Creeps" by the Bush Tetras
JeffCo,
If we're gonna start on The Dead Milkmen, we're really in trouble.
just had to flip on bananarama's "anything, anything" and I no longer need viagra -- i'm reaching back into my youth now
99 red balloons by Nena
Eminem's on SNL.
more obscure 1-hit wonders:
Arroz con pollo-"So Happy Together"
The Turtles! The Turtles!
They played with FZ at UC Santa Barbara in 1974. I mean, they were the band.
Mudshark.
Oh boy.
"DOA" Bloodrock
There was a station in Houston in the early '80s, 1070 AM Stereo -yup, stereo-that was one of the first, if not the first of the Classic Rockers, started up by Paul Christy and ted Carson, (who are both still at it, doing Oldies, now) that played that fucking song, I swear, four times a day. That, and that "Children of the Sun" abortion, by whom I mercifully forget.
syntallic,
Well, you know The Alarm is generically closer, but anyone who was young in that era had to do the synth pop thing, too. Funny, I had Berlin's "No More Words" stuck in my head all day.
Don't forget the Brides! (Wait a minit)
Here come the Brides!
Phila, Pardon my pedantry, but it's *I* Eat Cannibal" and I believe it is an oral sex reference.
I don't think it's possible to be pedantic while talking about Toto Coelo. No matter how educated you are, you're going to come across as utterly retarded.
But thanks for the heads-up on oral sex...the thought of those women going down on some poor bozo should keep me perfectly chaste for a week or two.
Oh god, the Brides. Does anyone remember this puker:
She went riding wiiiiildfiiiire..
My best friend wanted nothing more than that guy and a 240Z..
whoever brought up Muskrat Love needs to be stopped before he/she multiplies .. but since we went there:
"feelings" and "you light up my life"
and really shrill air supply music playing through the elevator speaker
And yes, he's lip synching, too.
Gary Puckett & the Union Gap.
The ultimate vomit inducing band of all time.
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Jeez, by the time I got all the way down here to mention Muskrat Love, someone already beat me to it.
I'd like to thank you all for the amazing collection of earworms. Like THANKS!
Does anyone remember a catchy little tune about Arrow, maybe 1966, 68?
Me and my arrow,
straight up and narrow . . .
...in hopes of making rent on eBay.
Philalethes
Great. I just started working for eBay. Doing their live chat support and their email support. We need more people to sell stuff on eBay, so I can chat with them, and guarantee myself a permanent job with them.
The money that passes through that place per day is insane.
"Children of the Sun"
I think that was Aldo Nova
All Bobby Goldsboro tunes make me gag. The syrupy sound in his voice will give you diabetes.
raspberry
Ooooooo....See the tree how big it's grown, but friend it hasn't been too lonnng......it wasn't big...
That's a drinking song amoung friends and me.....drink, laugh...sing "And Honey, I miss you....and I'm beeeeing goooood!!"
strawhat -
i think that was Harry Nilsson, who was kind of cool... I forgive him anything...
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ear worm...
Incense and Peppermints... The Strawberry Alarm Clock.
laugh at yourself, laugh at yourself.
The syrupy sound in his voice will give you diabetes. -raspberry
Oh yeah, what about the Raspberries?
Who could resist their plaintive cry to Go All The Way? Even though I was Never Gonna Fall in Love Again, what choice did I have? Otherwise I'd have been All By Myself....
THE BEATFARMERS
I'm a happy boy-hubba-hubba-hubba!
Jeez, by the time I got all the way down here to mention Muskrat Love, someone already beat me to it.
I'd like to thank you all for the amazing collection of earworms. Like THANKS!
Does anyone remember a catchy little tune about Arrow, maybe 1966, 68?
Me and my arrow,
straight up and narrow . . .
"Too Many Creeps" by the Bush Tetras
watertiger
Yeesh. I saw them live...they were awful. Next you're gonna be invoking...what was it?...Pulsallama. Or Eight-Eyed Spy.
And yes, Eminem did say Fuck Bush on live TV.
"Wherever we go, everyone knows
it's Me and my Arrow"
It's Harry Nilsson from The Point.
That "Honey, I miss you" post was mine....frikking HaloScan!!
Okay, I can turn off SNL now. Eminem just lip-synched his way through "Mosh."
Me and my arrow,
straight up and narrow . . .
strawhat
Harry Nilsson, I believe.
strawhat,
That would be Harry Nilsen, from the soundtrack for "The Point"
And i am so suprised that "men at work" has not come up yet
thought i'd have me a "vegemite sandwich"
Thanks, BlakNo1! I've wondered that for DECADES. Now I know!
"The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" Vicki Lawrence
Jenny FTB- ah, Nilsson Schmilsson!
That poor little round-headed kid in The Point!
We need more people to sell stuff on eBay, so I can chat with them, and guarantee myself a permanent job with them.
I've been doing it for about four years now. It's a lot of work, but I vowed I'd never return to an office after my last fulltime job.
wow, strawhat. Scared yet? (But I think I stumped them with Blotto)
I'm a Bow Wow Wow man, myself. C30 C60 C90 Go!
Saw the video for that about a month ago on VH1 Classic (a deadly time waster if ever there was one.) May have even taped it.
Was Tarnation's version of "Little Black Egg" actually a hit? I had no idea, but good for them. Paula Frazer is one hell of a singer.
And philatheles and NYMary. Thanks! Isn't it cool to think that we're all actually typing away at each other right now, live, in person?
and the song Shrub would like to dedicate to the American people:
"Everybody Plays the Fool"
JeffCO -
Nilsson sings Newman! Or was it Newman sings Nilsson...?
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And i am so suprised that "men at work" has not come up yet
When I was in Canberra, there was a two-story nightclub blaring "Down Under" into the night...with hundreds of nearly nude Aussie gals singing along.
NYMary,
"Iiii wanna be a lifeguard
(Get a good tan now)
Iiiiii wanna guard your life..."
I've been doing it for about four years now. It's a lot of work, but I vowed I'd never return to an office after my last fulltime job.
It's amazing how many people are taking that route.
Over 100 million members on eBay across the world. It's insane. And yet, as multinational corporations go, it really isn't that bad. Treats their employees right, that's for damned sure...
i just had a blast from the past -- wall of voodoo ...
I wish I was in Tiajuana
Eating barbequed iguana
I'd take requests on the telephone
I'm on a wavelength far from home
I feel a hot wind on my shoulder
I dial it in from south of the border
I hear the talking of the dj
Can't understand just what does he say?
I'm on a mexican radio
I'm on a mexican radio
I'm amazed at the amount of ticket scalping that goes on on Ebay. And planning on doig it myself: we got tickets to Guided by Voices' last show in CHicago. Ironically, they're going for so much that if we sell them, we could afford the trip, but then we wouldn't have tickets.
Defining this election is very simple if we think in simpler terms; good vs evil. Kerry represents all that is good and Bush embodies all that is evil. Bush uses the name of God in vain in order to gain popularity and to gain support from the right wing Christian movement. Bush is misleading everyone who believes in God because his actions are un-Godly. Bush is the modern Anti-Christ!!!!!!!!Therefore,this evil force must be removed. May God bless us all on Tuesday, and may God help Kerry win.
I may be alone in this...
... but man, I miss Tone Loc.
oh, shit .. another blast from the past
Wendy O Williams and the Plasmatics
Now there was a great use of electrical tape
watertiger,
Yesssssss! That's the one!
Philalethes,
My sister lives in Canberra, and she's led me to believe there IS no nightlife there.
joe mcgee, I know it was by the Turtles. I was just making a little joke about Condi & Bush.
OK, saw Eminem hold the sign up, now I can go to bed.
And my poor, long-lost Shoes. I loved those guys. Still do, actually.
Hey Syntallic.....how bout:
It's a deadman's party!
OINGO BOINGO!
Anyone remember "The Tubes"??
I'm amazed at the amount of ticket scalping that goes on on Ebay.
And every state has different rules for scalping. Which makes it a logistical nightmare.
We've got a department specifically set up to supervise ticket sales. And they are BUSY.
"Indian Reservation"
Paul Revere & the Raiders had a bunch of great hits in the 60s. This was one of their later crappy ones.
Okay, was it the Waitresses who sang "I Like 'Em Big & Stupid"?
I kinda remember Blotto, but for sea shanties, I've always preferred
I Want To Marry a Lighthouse Keeper!
Which leads me to Lighthouse and One Fine Morning... who among us can resist Canadian fusion?
JNeo,
Sure you're not thinking of Cherokee People?
OINGO BOINGO!
Local Diego Boy
elfman was way ahead of his time .. too bad he's making so much off film scores
Actually, it's going on SIX years that I've been on eBay. Time flies when you're degrading yourself!
OK, I'm gonna get out of here. Gonna go put on some Telemann, read some Leibniz, and watch...I don't know..."Diary of a Country Priest." All at once. I need to pretend for a couple of hours that my head isn't a pop-culture garbage dump.
Anyone remember "The Tubes"??
Fee Waybill!
Okay, was it the Waitresses who sang "I Like 'Em Big & Stupid"?
I think that was Julie Brown (the redhead, not Downtown Julie Brown...) Loved that song, actually, made me laugh out loud...
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how about "half breed" by Cher ... i swear it motivated a generation of transvestites to dress up and release their inner frenchman
Wendy O Williams and the Plasmatics
Wendy O Williams also starred in the unforgettable Reform School Gils, a classic of the women's prison genre.
The Turtles! The Turtles!
They played with FZ at UC Santa Barbara in 1974. I mean, they were the band.
Mudshark.
Oh boy.
joe mcgee
Well, sorta. Flo & Eddie (who are still happy together) sang with Zappa from June 1970 to December 1971 (yes, I had to Google the dates).
They probably did Zappa material themselves after that, many ex-Zappa musicials did. Still do. Could be FZ showed up at one if their shows for a lark, though that was never his kinda thing, really. By '74, Volman & Kaylan were pretty much Zappa history.
My sister lives in Canberra, and she's led me to believe there IS no nightlife there.
watertiger
Don't you believe it! My experience is that people there are very...uh...frisky. That's true everywhere in Australia, really, but Canberra's really got nothing else going for it...'cept the bicycle museum. And some good food.
'Night, all!
righteous, watertiger .. "sushi woman" being sung on an episode of "fishin musician" with john candy on Second City TV is one of the funniest spots ever shown on television
watertiger,
Not sure. The Waitresses big hit was "I Know What Boys Like." And of course they did the theme to Square Pegs.
,i>I may be alone in this...
... but man, I miss Tone Loc.
Bomp bomp bompbompbomp...Wild Thing...
I blew out speakers with that sheeit.
I once saw Harry Nilsson on a live, locally produced talk show in Salt Lake City. It was on the Mormon flagship station, KSL.
He was drunk on his ass. It was hilarious. The host--Bruce Lindsey as I recall--asked him what his favorite song was. Nilsson lainched into:
"You're breakin' my heart
You're tearin' it apart
So fuck you."
The broadcast was cut off shortly after that last line.
hardcore punk?? anyone?? anyone???
GG Allin -- DOA: 6/28/93 (heroin overdose)
Now I'm thinking of David Gates and Bread's many mellow moods. But much as there is to love and revile from the 70's, I have to admit I'm more a fan of the early to mid-80's alternative scene. Torn between two decades, feelin like a fool....
I'll always have a soft spot in my heart - or is it more a healed-over scar - for Lydia Lunch!
"Too Many Creeps" by the Bush Tetras
Aw teah! Now you're speaking my language.
"You can't be funky if you haven't got a soul..."
i can still remember Howard Stern on WOR from Seacaucus, NJ .. i can't imagine how that show ever got on the air and it shows you how far we've retreated to the fundies and corporate media
Does anyone remember a catchy little tune about Arrow, maybe 1966, 68?
Me and my arrow,
straight up and narrow
Nilsson. Harry Nilsson.
Night Phil'!
Like Philalethes, my head is also a pop culture garbage dump. Bet he ends up getting loopy and playing his old Cars albums till 3am.
My brother had MTV from the beginning, and a VHS VCR (luckily). He taped videos from the first year or so of MTV. A priceless historical document. I pull it out and watch it end to end at least once a year. It's pretty representative, though it does reveal his rather concerning taste for girl metal like Girlschool and Cheetah.
And no, JeffCO, I'll never cut up the tape and distribute it in garbage bags around my house....
Some classic hardcore punk bands -- their names tell you everything:
The Jabbers, Scumfucs, Texas Nazis, Cedar Street Sluts, Drug Whores, Sewer Scum, Afterbirth, Psycho, Disappointments, AIDS Brigade, Bulge, Toilet Rockers, The Murder Junkies, Jason and the Transplants ....
Okay, one more real bad one and them I'm off to dreamland.
Winchester Cathedral. (vo-do-de-o-do)
Okay, was it the Waitresses who sang "I Like 'Em Big & Stupid"?
I think that was Julie Brown (the redhead, not Downtown Julie Brown...) Loved that song, actually, made me laugh out loud...
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Jenny from the Blog
A Dr Demento Classic.
And I can't believe he's still on the air after all these years. On XM, yet.
Philalethes (if you're still here),
Oh, I've partied with some wild Aussies in Melbourne and Adelaide. But Canberra . . . ?
No. Night!
Don't forget the Waitresses Christmas Wrapping!
And don't forget the cranberries, too.
Someone told me today that early voting ended yesterday (Friday),does anyone know if this is true?I still havent voted (havent been able to make the time).Will the polls be open on Monday?
Smalfish:
I don't know if anyone answered this for you, but Friday was the last day for early voting in Texas. The polls won't be open again until Tuesday.
syntallic,
We know the guy who filled GG Allen's space in the Murder Junkies. Nice guy, but a seriously misguided idea.
Reminds me of a band we saw once, The Remains. Formed exclusively of ex-members of the Ramones, chiefly DeeDee. Oh, and DeeDee's disturbingly young wife.
Just dusted of my "gang of four" and "buzzcocks" LP's -- i wonder if the turntable still works?
Dr. Demento ... time capsule material
fishheads, fishheads ... eat them up .. yum!
Girlschool!!! Oh, man!
I've got two words for you: 10cc
Bleah.
That's "yeah", not "teah", of course.
Anyway, when I saw the Bush Tetras, they were great. We'll have to agree to disagree.
I guess it's pretty sad that I've probably done more posting on this thread than any other Eschaton thread ever, but damn, we need some comic relief at this stage of the game, don't we?
"You're breakin' my heart
You're tearin' it apart
So fuck you."
The broadcast was cut off shortly after that last line.
patriotboy
So they were trusting in their Republican Jesus, and forgot about the li'l 7-second delay thing there, eh?
and somene mentioned Argent upthread. But no Tull fans? Perish the thought. I know a guy with a Tull vanity plate.
Oh watertiger, dragging me back to the '70's!
I keep your picture upon the wall. It hides a nasty stain that's lying there. So don't you ask me to give it back. I know you know it doesn't mean that much to me...
right on, NYMary .. gotta love that GG Allin and his merry band of deviants ... kinda brought sociopathic behavior to the stage in a remarkable way
a old friend of mine back in boston is trying to sell a book on GG - and he knew him real well -- i saw some of the most vile video tapes i ever saw one night ... this stuff was a dead body removed from a snuff film -- total punk debauchery at the highest form - this guy took it to the edge and if this was a posting area for the informed, I could blast some amazing stuff in here ... dementia on steroids, that GG
JNeo,
I'm with Phil on this one. We're relaxed, we're confident, we're unwinding a little. Hell, I went out today, as promised, and bought a bottle of Moet and Chandon White Star for Tuesday night.
for the uninformed on GG: Allin would ingest literally any substance put in front of him without even asking what it was. He took sporadic blue-collar jobs, lived on peanut butter and dog food in single rented rooms, and played whenever possible. For a short while, it was a lot, but word got out on him quickly. His personal habits got downright nasty, while the music and the shows went from snotty to sleazy to scary in a hurry. Around town, he was always whacked. People avoided him, but he got off on it - this was a unique, viable gift, and he would roll with it. In the earliest years, it was almost humorous, but aberrances grew daily. By 1986, he was the Underground's most feared and despised figure. He still is, but a core of believers remain unwaveringly supportive.
Hah- I wasn't going to admit this, but just about everytime I see NYMary, a few neurons fire over to those holding on to Cross-Eyed Mary
NYMary,
Saw Tull at MSG. Was stoned at the time. (As you might have guessed, I spent a lot of time stoned when I was a teen). Was stoned when I saw Queen at MSG . . . twice! Wasn't stoned when I saw Peter Frampton there, though. Couldn't score any weed for the night.
But that doesn't mean I didn't appreciate the music, maaaaaaaaan!
(Wasn't that there one hit wonder song?)
Don't forget "Mrs. Brown you have a lovely daughter."
Didn't Herman's Hermits do "Kind of Hush" too?
Herman's Hermits...
Nooooooooo!!!!!!
LJ,
Yep. They were around for a concerningly long time.
NYMary,
Just checked your blog and saw that you dig Provan!
I work with Bill Lutz! And he is one of the cooler people I know; so mellow, but so sharp!
NYMary:
GG Allin - Dirty Water - The Boston Rock & Roll Museum
crazy stuff ... performance art gone horrific for sure
Hell, I saw them in 1986 on a reunion tour. Don't worry though... I was really there to see The Monkees.
Musically OT, sorta;
Roger Gray, a sort of Moderate Democrat, and quite a religious guy, who was in Houston TV & radio for decades--now in Wacko, I think--once had Kinky Freidman on a TV show, and edited out Kinky's "Dropkick Me Jesus", since the show was on tape.
His heart and head were both in the right place on so many issues, (I loved listening to his radioo show in the '90s), but he could still do that.
Religion can do some strange things to otherwise nice people.
Watertiger,
Wasn't there a Tull/Blue Oyster Cult tour that just went really psychodelic there for a while?? Like two years or something?
Just saw the Bush WMD Moveon ad during SNL here in the Denver market.
[Tapping fingers together slowly] Ehhhx-cellent!
whoops
and Marc Bendian (hit return too soon)!
I love those guys. Make a very square office that much more tolerable.
And they like my sense of humor.
watertiger,
You're shitting me, right? Bill is one of our closest buddies--he and Thersites went to high school together (as did Kevin Murphy, the Murder Junkies guy). I love his music, but he's also a seriously decent human being.
The British aristocracy is French. Well, back a thousand years ago. The Royal family are indeed German.
Nope. Norman. It's an important difference. We're mostly liberals here, so we can deal with the nuance. The Duchy of Normandy was established by Rollo - a Viking. William later conquered England and ruled both England and the Duchy from London. (Hence the basis for claims on Northern France made by subsequent English Monarchs: Agincourt, Henry IV, V etc...)
-B
Dunno about you snappier folks, but I could use some Red Peters right about now:
How's your whole ... family
If it was in 1978, then I'll say yes.
Oh, Jebus Christi. "Burning for You" by Blue Oyster Cult. On HEAVY rotation on early MTV.
That damned burning car...
Damn, SNL is seriously unfunny. I know there's a whole 'nother thread for that, so let me just characterize it by saying there are some things you can't cover up with lipstick and powder!
yupperz, watertiger ... right about then .. my first exposure(s) to stadium rock shows that went really hazy quickly
dang, there was a time when you get really crazy and not worry about 5000 cops kicking the doors down
NYMary,
No way. Bill, Marc and I work for Law Journal Press.
Bill puts up with such shit from the idiot managers above him (ask him about Marlene sometime), yet he always manages to exude a calm that astounds me. I would have driven shivs into their carotid arteries, but Bill just rises above it.
And Marc is so quiet, you really have to listen to what he says. Cuz it's usually killer.
Mn, as Stephen Wright would say: "It's a small world . . . but I wouldn't want to paint it."
syntallic,
That Allin article is seriously disturbing.
Syntallic,
Not too brag, but I saw The Clash at Bond's in NYC the night the fire marshals closed us down. 26 people passed out from the crush.
Ah, those were the days...
One hit wonders?
Oh God--Don't make me drag out Torn Between Two Lovers. WORST. SONG. EVER.
okay, brush with greatness moment -- i did sound in a club one thursday night in 1979 at a club called The Channel in Boston -- don't know if it exists anymore out here in LA and all
opening act -- U2 -- they were seventeen and played the six or seven songs on their first album -- had a coupla beers with the edge that night -- we were 17 and could drink back then even tho we were underage - nowadays in cali you get arrested for walking around with an open container
wow, it's getting late. "Not TOO brag?"
So much for higher education.
All I have to do to drive my son around the bend is sing a bit of "I'm Henry the VIII I am" and he's a quivering bowl of jell-o for the rest of the day. It's a remarkably successful tool for getting him to do his chores. He will do ANYTHING to keep me from making him think of it.
Okay, two for ya.
I once was nearly crushed to death in a crowd push between... wait for it...
Flock of Seagulls and the Gogos. But this was 1982, still close enough to Cincinatti to be scary.
And, I once got high with Robert Pollard. In the basement of Maxwell's in Hoboken.
NYMary, you should see the video tapes of this stuff ... i had to watch it several times before i actually believed that somebody could be THAT deranged
it's like watching a car crash in slow motion or driver education films warning you about the dangers of high speed on the highways
My brother had MTV from the beginning...
Do you mean back in the day when there was lotsa empty air and endless concert footage from the likes of the Doobie Brothers?
I remember thinking at one time (as I was trying to get into this young girls pants) that mtv would go over like a lead zeppelin. Guess I have that in common with Pete.
watertiger- now I'm jealous. Due to inexplicable stupidity, I missed out on seeing The Clash back in Philly in '82. Dammit.
Putting on the Ritz - Taco
Don't Worry be Happy - Bobby McFerin
Eh? See, No Queen songs mentioned tonite
real real early MTV was like watching Don Kirschner's rock concert with the speed turned up a hair
really grainy films flipped to video and TONS of dead air and bad camera work -- it was like watching an early David Cronenberg movie -- Videodrome
My brush with greatness?
I was in a writers forum online and the meeting had devolved into social chit-chat. I was new, so I didn't know many people, just some of the people who were running the gig. Anyway, we were all joking around, and some guy sent me an instant message, saying, "Hey, you're really funny, really quick. I work for Letterman. Send me some of your stuff." I thought it was just some guy trying to hit on me. I blew him off.
I told one of my friends about it a few months later while talking about creeps and pervs on the 'net. She said, "Um, LJ, you ding-dong. That guy really does work for Letterman!" We didn't know his email address, though, so I could never get in touch with him again. 
Oh, I really don't know what you were talking about with the songs and artists, but felt like jumping into the conversation... I guess I have some bad habits to look at....
My Spinal Tap moment came when I was writing for a now-defunct rock magazine called "Faces" (no, not The Face). I was so excited that I was interviewing Cheap Trick on my birthday.
What a letdown. Rick Nielsen was coked out of his mind, and Robin Zander talked to me from behind a handkerchief, because he had an embarrassing cold sore. They were also really defensive because they hadn't had anything hit in a while.
I left nearly in tears.
real real early MTV was like watching Don Kirschner's rock concert with the speed turned up a hair
I remember the first week it was on. They had like 3 videos and just kept running them over and over and over and over and...
CS,
You know, MTV thought it was going over like a lead balloon, too. But they never knew what it meant to kids in the sticks who had no other access.
My other brush with greatness is that I email somtimes with Jeff Murphy, of Shoes & the Nerk Twins. He told me that Shoes were with Elektra, and in these days MTV used to show Shoes videos all the time (1x/hour), because they had nothing else. But the band had another album by then and wanted money to make videos, and the label said no. MTV and Elektra were owned by the same company, and the band were assured that MTV was a flash in the pan they didn't need to worry about. He talks about this in the interview linked from my blog.
but I did get an autograph of one of REO many years ago at a March of Dimes walkathon.
watertiger, the clash were the shits ... one of the great creations of the 1980s
and flock of seagulls should be a "where are they now?" episode .. those dudes were out there
Oh, and LJ?
Thank you SO much for that. Torn between two lovers...feeling like a fool...
Mommy!
Don Kirschner's Rock Concert?!
Now we REALLY are getting down to the Nitty Gritty . . . Dirt Band!
God, staying up late to watch the DKRC...
watertiger,
I'm totally bummed by your CT story! They're supposed to be nice guys generally, and liberals to boot--hell, Neilsen was in Michael Moore's "The Big One," IIRC.
talk about a missed opportunity moment - aerosmith played my cousin's prom in dedham massachusetts and got booed off the stage for screwing up the led zep cover they were supposed to be playing
aerosmith used to play the rathskeller in kenmore square (just outside of fenway park) at least three times a week and just tear up the place -- they really did suck back then, but they were loud and angry -- the way that all great rock should be played
Hey, I'll lighten your nausea. Just a little...
Billy Don't Be a Hero.
And what was that other one? Magic, by Pilot or some other crap group.
"Oh ho ho it's magic."
We used to say, "Oh hold onto my dick," when it came on. What shits, huh?
Guten nacht, volks.
I gotta get up early for my Pastry Techniques class tomorrow.
Mmmmm....chocolate eclairs....
"And I'd really like to see you tonight..."
Trying to tie 3 different references together, that reminds me of Paul Schaffer's fabulous Don Kirschner impression in the pre-Letterman days when he was the SNL band director!
Girlschool!!! Oh, man!
I've got two words for you: 10cc
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I Wanna Rule the World - 10CC - Wonderful song!! Just wonderful... I love it sooooooo much.
HA HA HA JeffCO
arnie fufkin from "this is spinal tap"
NYMary,
They probably are. Just not to the press. And not in 1985.
Don't you know that my iPod has every song of their on it...
10cc wasn't so bad. What was that song that two of the guys from it did in the 80s, the one with the video of people's faces morphing?
alrighty then .. dusting off the foreigner and foghat albums
"i feel like making love" - bad company .. now if there ever was a misplaced song for a band, that had to be it
My fave one-hit wonder: Hot Child in the City. I wanna say Nick Rivers? Does that sound right?
okay .. no one has mentioned old Rush -- and I don't mean limbaugh
Tom Sawyer - still the best car stereo tune ever made
I'm still a 10cc fan, and even though snopes.com debunked the story about the origin of their name, I nevertheless think of Hannity
NYMary -- Nick Gilder did that one, I think
"And I'd really like to see you tonight..."
Actually... England Dan & John Ford Coley had at least one more Top 40 hit. "Love is the Answer" is the one I can think of right now.
Dan Seals (related to Seals of Seals & Croft) went on to have some success in country later on, like "Meet Me in Montana" with Marie Osmond.
I have a pretty good memory, but how did I live without the internets?
It was Nick Gilder.
NYMary: Don't ask how my friends and I corrupted that one...
syntallic,
well, I knew it wasn't Nick Lowe, anyway....
JeffCO,
If the apocryphal story isn't true, what is? And what about the similarly named Lovin' Spoonful?
Of those I didn't miss, I recall a fun show with Elvis Costello in his Napoleon Dynamite persona and Nick Lowe & his Cowboy Outfit opening.
"i feel like making love" - bad company .. now if there ever was a misplaced song for a band, that had to be it
I have hated every single song that band did. Without fail.
how about "jeopardy" by the greg kinn band
or
"i wear sunglasses at night" by corey hart
now there was a tune so bad that even the guys from Mr. Mister puked
Long Live the Queen !
I must say I am impressed. A class act.
PAZ
skypilot 18
Greg Kihn had a pretty good tune in Breakup Song. "Well we had broken up for good just an hour before..."
Well, according to the story at snopes, they were named by the guy who signed them, who says:
There's a lot of apocryphal stories about names, and unfortunately, most of them are much more amusing than the ugly reality, which in this case is that the name came to me in a dream . . ."
NYMary,
Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians???
and a really obscure one --- Gary Myrick and the Figures -- they had some marginal stuff that got tons of northeast play
LOL JeffCO .. urban legends unite
I have hated every single song that band did. Without fail.
LJ
Girl, I knew you wuz alright.
F'rinstance, I feel like makin' love.
How fucking embarassing.
syntallic- I've seen Robyn Hitchcock several times, but not for years now. He is touring for his new album though. Tying more references together, I once saw him do a kick-ass version of Kung-Fu Fighting!
Best one- Robyn Hitchcock with the Egyptians at Villanova University in maybe 1985 plus opening act They Might Be Giants! I bought the Johns' first album from them in the lobby for $8 afterwards, but only after they autographed it.
JeffCO,
Oh, please. That's like Lennon's argument about Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. I don't believe it for a second.
Gary Myrick? Nope, I got nothing.
Here's an oldie, but goodie :
Tullemore Dew - Dan Fogelberg
and a really obscure one --- Gary Myrick and the Figures -- they had some marginal stuff that got tons of northeast play
Hey! Gary Myrick was from Dallas, and I got to see him all the time at the clubs there in the early 80s. He always put on a great show.
Garry Myrick: She talks in stereo (she sounds so real you know she talks in stereo). LOL I heard it enough times that it managed to penetrate the near-constant alcohol fog I was in circa 1982.
LJ,
Have you ever seen Dwight Twilley? He's down your way, no?
Nope, never seen him. Heard his stuff though. He's okay.
Okay, I have a one hit wonder--
Da da da, by Trio. Anyone remember that piece of shit? LOL
She talks in stereo? I remember that song, so I guess I must have been aware of this band on some level.
JeffCO,
About 6 months ago I got hustled by a friend out here who said we were going to an angels game and we ended up at a Motorhead/Dio/Iron Maiden concert -- what a freakin riot -- the dope really preserves these guys, but not the audience for a second. It was a hoot seeing all these people who were stuck in a timewarp wearing the same fishnet clothes with beer bellies and tripping on acid and contact highs ... Lemmy still looks ugly and sounds great after all of this time
Well if we're going obscure, I was a big fan of Swamp Thing. They started in Madison and used to open for VIolent Femmes a lot, but I don't think they ever were well-known nationally. They came to Philly a lot in the mid '80s. My roommates and I all worked at our campus radio station and once sponsored them for a show. IIRC, we also took them out for eggels, a local fried egg on bagel favorite.
OK folks, gotta run. My presence is demanded by Baby Thersites. It's been a hoot, though!
Motorhead/Dio/Iron Maiden concert
That's not gonna be good for anybody!
Right on, LJ ... myrick played a sick guitar and had a great sound .. never got the label support
NYMary- it's been fun! Maybe you can sing Shriekback's Cradle Song
shriekback??? can aztec camera be far behind??
Actually, the timewarp shows are funny sometimes. I remember a New Wave show from the 80's that had PiL and a pot-bellied John Lydon in some ridiculous outfit preening and sneering his way through their set in front of mostly screamy-boppers who had no idea who he was. They were there for the headliners, New Order. Me- I came for the opening act, The Sugarcubes.
no kidding JeffCO ... motorhead was the shit though ... kinda like brian eno for metal heads or something
bjork was a monster with the sugarcubes -- ever since then she's been playing the deranged faerie role ... i missed seeing joy division and the sex pistols ... the new order reference sparked a need to download some more j.division
Syntallic:
I had his 1986 LP... Um... Can't remember the name of it right now, but the "hit" off it was Stand for Love.
When I saw him at the Hot Klub (don't ask) in Dallas, on New Year's Eve, 1981/2, his mike went out. His voice was so strong, though, that the backup vocalists' mikes picked it up and you could still hear him--clearly! That was frickin' amazing!
saw an interview with malcolm mclaren trashing lydon some time back .. i sure miss the days when the musicians were really twisted bastards and just spoke their minds ad nauseum .. now they are all plastic (most of the time) and worry about offending people -- which is what music and art is all about
it used to be they lived in their cars and trashed hotel rooms -- now they show up on MTV Cribs
I ran like the wind whenever "Shannon" came on. A song about somebody's dog getting run over with a car. That and "third rate romance, low rent rendezvous" - Amazing Rythm Aces. Gaark.
Guilty pleasure was "All by Myself" by Eric Carmen.
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Never had any reason to like the Queen before. I take it all back if she can wake up the world to the disaster.
People are afraid of the wrong things, IMHO. I've never worried about terrorists, but global warming scares the shit out of me.
yup .. had it too, LJ ... he played up in the northeast a bunch of times (I didn't get to see it, because went overseas for a while), but I heard it again in France/Belgium about six months later
myrick sold some product in europe because he wasn't considered mainstream over there
oh shit!!! rupaul is on CNN doing a "rock the vote" thaaaang! ROFL
transvestite singers are working overtime, so I guess the turnout is going to be huge this time!
No Aztec Camera that I can remember, though I did see Fine Young Cannibals during their first tour. They played to a couple hundred people and the two English Beat guys kept their backs to the audience the entire time. And I believe Roland Gift moved so little he could have been catatonic.
I don't recall New Order being all that interesting. Their synthbeat was so loud it drowned out all the melodies (such as they were) so every song sounded identical. Oh, wait- all their songs did sound identical!
Never had any reason to like the Queen before. I take it all back if she can wake up the world to the disaster.
People are afraid of the wrong things, IMHO. I've never worried about terrorists, but global warming scares the shit out of me.
stinky feet
Oh, right! THAT'S what this thread was about in the beginning!
*slaps head*
Yeah. Queen. Dissing Bush. Good.
English Beat was great band .. even better than Fine Young Cannibals
Early New Order was pretty kickass, before they got wrapped up in the synthetic stuff too heavy -- i can even recall early depeche mode on stage with a tape machine playing all of their drum tracks on stage
of course, that whole manchester sound from the 1980s was a more interesting version of american grunge that came along about a decade later --- the the, the smiths, the list goes on
OK, music fans - the apocalypse is upon us. I just heard The Band's version of "The Weight" used on a frigging cell phone commercial. Even worse than using "Senator's Son" to sell jeans, IMHO.
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Hey, English Beat were awesome.
I also liked the offshoot band from it, um... General Public! Ha! I remembered!
Fielding Mellish -
Now that is truly disgusting. The Weight?! I weep...
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Lord, I am sooooo tired.
How long - can this go on?
Time for me to duck out. I'll leave you with Philly local favorite Robert Hazard, who tried hard with Escalator of Life, which I believe did make it into early MTV rotation, but never really went anywhere.
Not like them boys in The Hooters: who among us can resist the dulcet tones of the Melodica!
Of course, the real favorite son was Upper Darby's Todd Rundgren.
Smell ya later!
Bye JeffCO -
As always, you're an inspiration...
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Disco Tex and His Sex-o-Lets and their hit : Get Dancing!
"...my chiffon is wet,darling...my wig is wet..."
Other really bad songs from the memory archives of LJ:
Blue Jeans On
Chevy Van
You Make Me Feel Like Dancing - Leo Sayer
Dazz (Disco Jazz)
I Just Died in Your Arms Tonight
Seasons in the Sun
Don't Give Up on Us Baby - David Soul (Starsky & Hutch fame)
Okay. Enough torture. For now.
Note: If I didn't list the artist, it's because I have blissfully, thankfully forgotten (if only I could have done the same with these awful songs).
LJ - hee hee... truly craptacular!
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Daddy don't you walk so fast
(my daughter cried)
Daddy don't you walk so fast
Dad-dy slow down some
cos you're makin' me run
Daddy don't you walk so fast.
Aaaaah Wayne Newton, who besides everybody could forget him?
Oh God--Bruce, there's a special place in hell for you for mentioning that one.
Hey--What about--Dang, it was just in my head and thankfully popped out. Never mind. I won't waste the neuron firings to recapture it.
Funniest album ever -- Dr Hook and the Medicine Show, Revisited. It's too bad they're best remembered for the sappy "Please Mrs Avery" rather than "Penicillin Penny" or "I Got Stoned And I Missed It" (both written by Shel Silverstein.)
Damn. Daddy Don't You Walk so Fast--that's going to play in my head now. I'll return the favor by mentioning "Close to You" by the Carpenters.
I ran like the wind whenever "Shannon" came on. A song about somebody's dog getting run over with a car.
Oh man, it's way worse than that. It's about Carl Wilson's dog getting swept out to sea!
I ran like the wind whenever "Shannon" came on.
I just thought of that Christopher Cross song when I saw that. Ride Like the Wind. Not a bad one, but not the point now. He had those two songs that I really, really hated: Sailing and the Arthur theme song.
Just...the....thought....of...them....
Somebody give me some Valium. No, give me some Dran-o. I'd rather drink that to escape hearing either of those songs again.
Patriotboy, you dingdong, that Dr. Hook song was called "Sylvia's Mother." LOL
And that's the song I was thinking of earlier that slipped my mind, damn you!
The aristocracy is french. The monarchy is german. We had a dutch monarchy for a while, too. Oh, and Prince Phillip is greek. And as a matter of fact the Normans were descended from danes (Norsemen->Normans).
I envy you colonials' lack of history, sometimes.
LJ -- The morphing faces vid was "Cry". I think that was Godley & Creme, after 10cc split up.
Surely the big Waitresses hit was Christmas Wrapping?
Man, that's the way to finance your pension: come up with a Christmas hit, and watch the money roll in every Christmas for the next forty years....
NelC:
Thanks. I'm at that age when some of these things sorta slip through the chasms in my memory banks. And I didn't start out with that great of a memory-retention ability, anyway.
Oh, and NelC:
Your distinction between aristocracy and monarchy isn't quite right.
Aristocracy and monarchy have no basis in regional difference, really. A monarchy is merely a form of government that confers supreme power on one person. These days, such monarchs are rare. More of them are like your Queen Elizabeth, who is a figurehead or symbol to represent steadiness and tradition in the face of political fads, a balance, if you wil. Personally, I've no use for it, but I do understand why that would work for some countries.
Aristocracy, on the other hand, is a term used to define a form of government that has a wealthy, elite ruling class usually (but not always) holding hereditary titles. England continues this tradition by having the House of Lords. They still hold onto power within the government in a way that we can't imagine here in America. I noticed, too, that, when a major government investigation is necessary in England, it's often Lord this-or-that called upon to head it. So, technically, England does have an aristocracy, under this definition.
Not that America doesn't have its own aristocracy. We've no titles, but power and privilege often lasts for many generations of certain families that basically makes them aristocrats. For instance, look at the Rockefellers, the Bushes or, even more tellingly, the Kennedys. All of these families still have members occupying high positions in our government and other spheres of influence in American society.
Now, if you want to get into the differences between nobility and the peerage, yes, you probably would have a grievance to settle with colonial misinterpretations. I doubt many know those at all.
If the apocryphal story isn't true, what is? And what about the similarly named Lovin' Spoonful?
Ha! NYMary, I'll ask Joe Butler (drums). He's a friend of mind. Seriously.
No, really. Seriously. His wife and I are running buddies.
"Got up this morning, feelin so fine," then I started reading this thread. Damned if I not old. My whole life defined by songs.
Lying in bed
Don't care much about history (or is it geometry?)
Thanks for the bad memories everyone.
God Save The Queen
We mean it, man...
Adam Ant is insane though, as in institutionalized, IIRC.
And yes, poor Adam Ant (ne Stuart Goddard) lost the plot earlier this year, brandishing a pistol in a pub and demanding his due.
To quote Chief Wiggam on the Simpsons:
"Why are the beautiful ones always insane?"
ann coulter is the byproduct of grandpa munster and gladys kravitz from "bewitched"
Actually, (M)ann's parents threw out the baby and kept the afterbirth.
I mean, isn't Prince Charley the poster boy for "Chromosomes Gone Bad?"
Charles beats the shit out of Bush.
From what I' ve heard, one can have intelligent conversations with him.
I've seen sheep smarter than DUMBya.
What, no Gilbert O'Sullivan fans?
Bet ya can't name his other hit. I can, sad to say.
"Claire"
"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"
Gordon Lightfoot is NO one-hit wonder.
Not by a long shot.
Funniest album ever -- Dr Hook and the Medicine Show, Revisited. It's too bad they're best remembered for the sappy "Please Mrs Avery" rather than "Penicillin Penny" or "I Got Stoned And I Missed It" (both written by Shel Silverstein.)
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Get My Rocks Off a mountain and roll em on down the hill.... Ooooh what a good fun filthy song.
LJ, I was really talking about the families and lineages. The people who live in the big houses in England tend to be descended from the Normans (there was an invasion, see...), whereas the family that lives in the big house has been changed several times, and at present is half-german, half greek....
As to our system of government, that is home-grown, so it's all British.
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