What's most galling about this double post is that mine was up first, but because you took longer to write yours, it looks like I posted second.
So our posts count as popularity votes for either Becks or ogged?
So that the rest of you don't need to play around in the hoo-hole.
I pity the soul who has to be his new editor.
I can't believe Ogged's post is winning. Y'all suck.
I happen to think this is the finer post of the two.
Gay jokes might play in your provincial backwater, but the rest of us find them a bit tired.
And the Berkeley PC squad strikes again.
Get over here and help me braid my leg hair, Joe.
There are so many reasons to prefer thos post over the other, it's simply inconceivable that the other could have more comments.
I do not think that word means what you think it means.
Unless what they've been saying all these years has come true: blatant sexism.
I was looking to see if I quote the line from the song correctly in 19. There are a whole lot of different versions. Who knew.
So, as it turns out, neither the line nor any of its variants is in the original Bonnie Dobson version. Tim Rose added it in 1967: What they were saying all these years is true.
I, of course, was thinking of the Beck Group version, where Rod Stewart sings What they've been saying all these god-darn' years has come true, I knew it would too.
So, once again, the woman has a perfectly good text, some man comes along, rewrites it, and everyone goes around acting like it's the original.
Well, just because I do like Beck's post better (and because this seems to be one of the 5-6 days of the year when I have a compulsive urge to post comments on blogs) I'm posting this comment.
This is a sad and transparent attempt to bump up the comment count here, Charley.
I don't actually like Becks' post better, but I do like Becks better.
Mark Slackmeyer's radio show with his conservative partner is/was a pretty long-running schtick in Doonesbury, too.
It's a tight race as they come into the stretch folks...
Wait, I don't think that idiom is correct.
Looking a little further, it's even worse. here's Bonnie Dobson:
Last night I was watching a program about Bert Janche and Martin Carthy was on and he was talking about how he felt all those years after what happened with Paul S/mon and Scarboro Fair, you probably know that story. Carthy taught Simon the arrangement, Simon recorded it and copyrighted it, the whole thing. Timmy Rose, I've never met him, he was written into the contract subsequently, I think it was 1967 maybe early '68. I had a call from Manny Greenhill saying Tim Rose is going to record your song but he wants to make a few changes, can you write a new lyric. I remember I was sitting on a plane flying from Toronto to Vancouver, I was doing a television show, sitting writing this thinking "What am I doing this for?" you know sort of thing. I was searching desperately through my desk trying to find the correspondence with Manny because I think what happened was there was no way we could not actually cut him in on the lyric because I had performed it and [then] published it. I hadn't done it the way your supposed to do things so it was somewhat in the public domain. I must admit when I heard his version I suddenly said "Uh Oh, hey what's going on here?" because to me there was no substantial change and actually if we're really honest about this, if anyone is going to be credited as co-writer or co-lyricist it should have been Fred Neil because all Time Rose did was take Freddy Neils changes.
So that was difficult, but the worst part was that when I came to England in 1969 and I gave my debut concert at Queen Elizabeth Hall everybody had thought that Time Rose had written that song because he had never ever given me any credit at any time for anything to do with that song. I've written songs with other people and I have never claimed them for my own. I just think it was really a dreadfully dishonest thing to do. I still get my royalty check, but I still consider it quite a grievous injury. I remember when Lulu brought it out, that was what '67, and they took out a full page ad in Billboard and it said Tim Rose's great hit and I nearly went crazy but there was nothing we could do.
...And she's pulling ahead!
Content-free comment to throw my support to Becks.
Even I'm bored with the comment popularity contest now (although thanks guys!)
We'll all just concede that everyone likes me better than Ogged and move on.
How much content-free content can reasonably be generated?
35 betrays a surprising level of unfamiliarity with the blogosphere.
"How much content-free content can reasonably be generated?"
According to Apo, a little over 20,000 posts.
And, yes, I am moved by Becks' attempt to call the game on account of boringness in a shallow, obvious attempt to lock down her increasingly tenuous hold on victory.
"How much content-free content can reasonably be generated?"
According to Apo, a little over 20,000 posts.
I think it would all depend on your definition of "reasonably".
So, anyway, how about that local sports team?
As we learn from Nerdlinger's Atlas, oops, never mind, gotta go.
"How much content-free content can reasonably be generated?"
"How much content-free content can reasonably be generated?"
"How much content-free content can reasonably be generated?"
"How much content-free content can reasonably be generated?"
Looks like it's SCMT against the world.
Surely OPINIONATED GRANDMA meant "44 TO 43?"
49 to 48 to 44 to 43 to 49 aaaaaand, liftoff!
Ggged has claimed in the past that he could have easily written Seinfeld scripts, though his link to his standup routine doesn't support this claim.
Yay, Ygglz! I'd have a more trenchant comment, but I think I broke something in my brain over the last week.
Wow, the final tally wasn't even close.