Re: Durden Roundup

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Ahem, it's Lara Croft.


Posted by: Lara | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 5:32 PM
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The Opera Guy was much, much better. I'm a sap, but I was genuinely moved. Both times I watched it.


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 5:36 PM
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Opera guy?


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 5:36 PM
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Y'know I watched that little girl clip earlier today, and I totally did tear up.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 5:36 PM
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Opera Guy.


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 5:40 PM
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It seems to have escaped your attention that Opera Guy is singing opera.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 5:45 PM
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Amanda's comments about the frog/prince, coal/diamond thing were pretty awful.


Posted by: A White Bear | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 5:45 PM
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Things that make me cry -- well, tear up a little: "Even God Loves America."


Posted by: slolernr | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 5:47 PM
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That awful "do'nt wanna close my eyes..." song at the end really ruined it for me.

I think 'somewhere over the rainbow' stands up to nessun dorma. pretty equal songs i'd say.


Posted by: yoyo | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 5:47 PM
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What's he got against Navajos?


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 5:48 PM
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What's he got against Navajos?

Buncha damn nipple-hiders.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 5:48 PM
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I'd image gamespot geeks would be all about the sci-fi symbol shit on petra nemcova.


Posted by: yoyo | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 5:49 PM
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song at the end really ruined it for me

Really, a factory guy completely nails Puccini on national TV, and he gets sent off with an Aerosmith power ballad?


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 5:51 PM
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I know someone who knows Petra Nemcova. Cool, huh?


Posted by: A White Bear | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 5:52 PM
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I suppose long-sleeved velvet blouses aren't very sexy to the demographic in question. But still.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 5:52 PM
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You should get her to post here, AWB


Posted by: yoyo | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 5:54 PM
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What do you want her to say?


Posted by: A White Bear | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 5:56 PM
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6: You really hate the plebs, don't you?


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 5:57 PM
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If i knew what she might say, what would be the point of her posting?


Posted by: yoyo | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 5:59 PM
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I am so unpredictable!


Posted by: Petra Nemcova | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 6:01 PM
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haha, like, so RANDOM!


Posted by: yoyo | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 6:01 PM
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I think you mean MANDOM.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 6:12 PM
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Nemcova is the one whose fiancee was killed in the tsunami (which she barely survived); I'm sure she's got stuff to say.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 6:15 PM
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23: Actually, I've heard a good deal of it secondhand.


Posted by: A White Bear | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 6:19 PM
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MAybe she got that star tattoo out of emo-ness.


Posted by: yoyo | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 6:23 PM
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Ogged hates opera?


Posted by: Jesus McQueen | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 6:26 PM
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I knew you'd notice that McQueen. Indeed I do.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 7:11 PM
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A lot of closeted gays pretend to hate opera.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 7:13 PM
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It takes guts to admit you hate opera.


Posted by: parsimon | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 7:18 PM
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Ogged, dude, I offered you Anna Netrebko, you heathen.


Posted by: Jesus McQueen | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 7:21 PM
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It takes guts to admit you hate opera.

People, only a tiny sliver of the population even listens to opera. And I'm sorry, Jesus, I can watch only about three seconds of that: the soundtrack to my vision of hell is all opera (and a little reggae, during commercial breaks).


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 7:26 PM
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Oh, and a lot of jazz, particularly any brass instruments. No, YOU'RE the heathens!


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 7:27 PM
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You don't like brass instruments?

Huh.

Were you beaten with a Tuba as a child?


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 7:28 PM
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So I take it I won't be seeing you at the Zoyres/Yiddiots show on Sunday, ogged?


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 7:29 PM
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You shan't, young Ben, you shan't.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 7:31 PM
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I've probably linked to this before, but all my knowledge of opera comes from this.


Posted by: eb | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 7:32 PM
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I know someone who knows Petra Nemcova.

Is that someone Drew Barrymore?


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 7:32 PM
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I've probably linked to this before, but all my knowledge of opera comes from this.

I like the narrator's Canadian accent.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 7:33 PM
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31: Agreed on the opera.

Though if you also rule out reggae and jazz, I have to think about what you're left with. I render a bizarre visual, cutting out swaths left and right (with a broadsword, no doubt) until you're left with a narrowing tunnel which leads .. where? Straight to heaven?

Blues?


Posted by: parsimon | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 7:33 PM
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Blues and old-timey music are ogged's drugs of choice.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 7:35 PM
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Blues, precisely. But also old-timey stuff and bluesy rock. But enough about me. Let's talk of the celebrities AWB knows.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 7:36 PM
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I don't think Ogged has ever been so Other to me as after his last few posts.


Posted by: yoyo | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 7:42 PM
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Racist.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 7:43 PM
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I respek yer old-timey.


Posted by: parsimon | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 7:43 PM
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I'll cop to hating a lot of opera, even perhaps most opera. But only a philistine hates all opera. And no heterosexual man averts his eyes from Anna Netrebko after three seconds.


Posted by: Jesus McQueen | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 7:45 PM
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Ogged, I am your connection to Foghorn Leghorn, America's premier old-timey band.

However, I think that Journey, Kansas, Boston, Foreigner, etc. etc. are what you really love.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 7:54 PM
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I don't love opera; I don't know opera. But I can feel elated for someone who appears to be the prototypical less than average Joe stepping up like that. When they removed half your kidney, they must have taken the have with the soul.


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 7:56 PM
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I will also cop to still owning a copy of Boston's first album.


Posted by: Jesus McQueen | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 7:57 PM
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My love for Journey is well-known and boundless. And hooray for the average Joe; it's just that the singing didn't do anything for me. I'll watch the friggin thing again.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 7:59 PM
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When they removed half your kidney, they must have taken the have with the soul.

We all must take the ruvv with the smooth.


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 8:00 PM
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Here, ogged. You can watch this classic scene with the sound off, if you like.


Posted by: Jesus McQueen | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 8:04 PM
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Goddamn, I like Kansas. Whichever album it is,

Ah! Leftoverture. I know the freakin' songs and lyrics by heart. From 8th grade. Next time I'm in, you know, that mood, I will listen to it again. Not now, please.


Posted by: parsimon | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 8:05 PM
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Jesus, you mistake me for a shallower man. Plus, she's Russian! Avoid!


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 8:08 PM
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Plus, she's Russian! Avoid!

Come on Ogged, the war is over.


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 8:09 PM
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Cheap Trick, REO Speedwagon, Bachman-Turner-Overdrive, Styx, Kiss, Rush, Def Leppard, Air Supply.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 8:12 PM
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God, that hurts even to read.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 8:12 PM
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Just do what I say and I'll quit.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 8:13 PM
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You haven't told him to do anything yet.

If you want to tell people about Foghat Leghat so badly, go ahead and tell us.


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 8:15 PM
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I thought you might be intrigued enough to turn up the sound. What's wrong with Russians?

55: Styx! Some goddam Styx song was the anthem of our junior prom.


Posted by: Jesus McQueen | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 8:16 PM
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Emerson's list at 55 puts me in mind of Tom Petty (and the Heartbreakers).

I saw a marvelous interview on maybe David Letterman years ago in which Letterman mistakenly identified the band as "The Heartbreaks," and Petty directed an icy stare at the host and corrected him: Heartbreakers


Posted by: parsimon | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 8:23 PM
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I clicked on McQueen's link. She's very pretty, yadda yadda, but what's striking to me is that--perhaps b/c of the ready availibility of near porn everywhere, or maybe just age--her prettiness is not a particular plus. What I mean is that Kournikova is pretty, but I wouldn't watch a tennis match just to see her. I think that when I was younger I would have. Same thing with opera lady--nice voice, but not enough to make me stay, and the attractiveness doesn't add anything.


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 8:26 PM
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When did American Idol turn into a show with British people singing pretty stuff? And why did it keep the obnoxiously lame judges?


Posted by: Clownaesthesiologist | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 8:27 PM
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(Perhaps "lamely obnoxious" would be better.)


Posted by: Clownaesthesiologist | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 8:27 PM
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I know someone who survived the tsunami and who is cuter than Nemcova.


Posted by: cdm | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 8:28 PM
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you must spend an awful lot of time with porn, tim.


Posted by: yoyo | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 8:30 PM
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i dunno, even very average girls paralise me on a regular basis.


Posted by: yoyo | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 8:34 PM
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I know someone who survived the tsunami and who is cuter than Nemcova.

Any dead people in her story?


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 8:35 PM
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I suspect there are dead people in most people's stories of surviving tsunamis.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 8:40 PM
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61: That's interesting, because in the context of opera she and Villazon (the tenor in the clip linked to in 51) are fairly unusual, in that they're physically not what people expect opera singers to look like, and they're far better actors than most singers. Plus, she really does have an amazing voice, and she's young enough that she could become substantially better yet. Plus, she's famously foul-mouthed -- always a nice touch.


Posted by: Jesus McQueen | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 8:40 PM
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What's wrong with Russians?

Here.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 8:45 PM
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There is something about a foul-mouthed woman isn't there?

I'm with ogged, even though I like a lot of opera. Because I know what it means to walk along the lonley street of dreams. Not sure how that follows, but it needed to be said.


Posted by: text | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 8:48 PM
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The Australian Broadcasting Corporation had a version of "American Idol" where the goal was to find an Opera singer. It was great, and the winner got to sing at the Sydney Opera House.

As for little girls singing songs to make the audience cry, what about that kid from the Langley Schools Music Project singing "Desperado"? Google it or iTunes it or whatever it is you kids do.


Posted by: Gonerill | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 8:49 PM
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69: Thank you for adding some explanation. I can't look at video links on dial-up. I'd been stifling a diatribe on what appeared, from the comments, to be feedback primarily on the singer's looks.


Posted by: parsimon | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 8:53 PM
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70: But surely, what's wrong with Russians is not that ogged won't date them, it's the as-yet-unknown reason for ogged not dating them. Or more precisely, for his not wanting to date them, as there are likely myriad reasons for ogged not dating certain women whether he wants to or not.


Posted by: Jesus McQueen | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 8:56 PM
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Here, Jesus.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 8:57 PM
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You want a hot fashion show, you should let high school jocks and the staff at GameSpot run one.

Uh-uh. The nerds would want to make the models all dress like Queen Amadala and the jocks would insist on making them walk naked. They'd start fighting over that and at the sight of nerd blood some of the girls would leave, followed by the rest when the triumphant jocks began snapping towels at them, so that finally the entire fashion show would be only a bunch of horny, bloody nerds and jocks laughing at each other's farts. And that isn't very hot at all. The end.


Posted by: Populuxe | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 9:00 PM
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And that isn't very hot at all.

I'm sure there's a specialty website somewhere.


Posted by: Gonerill | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 9:02 PM
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Ah, I see; I kind of like that, actually.

More important, shouldn't you go back and redact that emoticon?


Posted by: Jesus McQueen | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 9:03 PM
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78 to 75.


Posted by: Jesus McQueen | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 9:04 PM
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singing "Desperado"

Wow, that is beautiful. Look it up, people.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 9:14 PM
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78: The emoticon should remain but be googleproofed. For ogged's sake.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 9:14 PM
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The thread linked at 75 is a conversation stopper.


Posted by: parsimon | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 9:17 PM
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#80. Yeah, that whole CD is affecting in a weird sort of way.


Posted by: Populuxe | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 9:18 PM
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In the same vein, "Creek Lullaby" by "Margaret" is another beautiful song sung by a child. On one of the library of congress field recording albums, and also on the Deadwood soundtrack.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 9:19 PM
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Boo, boo, boo to the byproducts of Don Henley.

An idiosyncratic sentiment. Don't try to argue.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 9:20 PM
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Wow, that is beautiful. Look it up, people.

Oh, sure, nobody pays attention when I say it.


Posted by: NickS | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 9:21 PM
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Listen to the song, hoser.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 9:21 PM
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Hoser to SB.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 9:23 PM
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I am performing epistemic deeds beyond your ken. Donhenlic protoplasms whisper their badness to me.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 9:26 PM
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Also, "page not found" at NickS's old comment. Linky?


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 9:28 PM
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Hmm, I listened on Rhapsody. Maybe Amazon has a clip?


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 9:29 PM
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The Eagles were the secret weapon with which I was to have destroyed Ogged utterly, but I fear that 85 has tipped him off.

Eagles! Don Henley! Joe Walsh! Glenn Frey! Bob Seger! Ted Nugent! Meat Loaf!


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 9:31 PM
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Meh. I'll stick with the protoplasms.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 9:31 PM
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iTunes URL. I do all the work in this relationship, SB.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 9:31 PM
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Psychobilly musician Mojo Nixon, long-time satirist of George W. Bush, wrote a song called "Don Henley Must Die". Some years later, Mojo was playing at Austin's Hole in the Wall when the Eagles, who were also scheduled to play in Austin, came in. Mojo announced he was going to play the song when Don Henley himself climbed up on stage and began to sing along, which left Mojo utterly speechless. The two have since become friends.

Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 9:32 PM
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Domestic labor is work, ogged.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 9:32 PM
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When's the last time you blew me, SB?


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 9:32 PM
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In 1990, Henley founded the Walden Woods Project to help protect Walden Pond from development. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods was started in 1998 to provide for research and education regarding Henry David Thoreau.
Henley co-founded the non-profit Caddo Lake Institute in 1993 to underwrite ecological education and research. As part of the Caddo Lake Coalition, CLI helps protect the Texas wetland where Henley spent much of his childhood.

Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 9:33 PM
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Ditto to SB's 90, alas.


Posted by: parsimon | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 9:35 PM
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It's true, I haven't blown you in a while.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 9:36 PM
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Henley would have to end global warming single-handed to make up for his music, Ogged.

Barbra Streisand! Bette Midler! Tiny Tim! Engelbert Humperdinck! Seals and Crofts! Hall and Oates!


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 9:38 PM
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Next, a blockquote of Henley's dog rescue mission statement.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 9:39 PM
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Some scientists believe Henley to be the Christ.

Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 9:41 PM
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Walden Pond is basically paved over now, by the way. No diss against Henley, but the paths are paved. With asphalt. Bummer.


Posted by: parsimon | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 9:41 PM
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A free copy. More information here.

My two other favorite Langely Schools cuts are "Rhiannon"--the first cymbal crash is marvelous--and "Wildfire."


Posted by: Populuxe | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 9:42 PM
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Seasons in the Sun! Little Drummer Boy! In the Year 2525!

I fear the battle is lost.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 9:43 PM
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90, 99 -- odd, the link works for me. Let me try again.

98 is awesome. My favorite Mojo Nixon song is his version of "this land is your land" which is awesome.


Posted by: NickS | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 9:46 PM
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Irony has destroyed hatred, John. Now that we know that everything is stupid, we can love unconditionally in a way that you in the Sixties never could.


Posted by: Walt Someguy | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 9:46 PM
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105, 107: No no, the problem link is the aitch tee tee pee mumble bastamusic whatever.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 9:48 PM
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But the keyofz page is still up.


Posted by: NickS | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 9:49 PM
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Certainly some musician is kryptonite to Ogged's invulnerabilty. Joni Mitchell? Melanie? Billy J Kramer? Frampton?

I feel my strength waning/


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 9:49 PM
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Oh no, they killed Kenny the old guy.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 9:51 PM
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I believe ogged likes Joni Mitchell.


Posted by: NickS | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 9:51 PM
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Ogged is the Stay-puff man of the third millenium. I cannot touch him.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 9:53 PM
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Shhh, not until he's dead, Nick.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 9:53 PM
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He said that Blue was like, the best album evar.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 9:53 PM
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This is a guy who blogs about Paris Hilton going to m-jail, Dandas and cute little girls singing a song from Wizard of Fucking Oz, etc., and he's pissed at We Fags for fucking up heterosexual fantasy lives? Neighba, please don't.


Posted by: Robust McManlyPants | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 9:54 PM
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Us Fags, McManlyPants.


Posted by: Jesus McQueen | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 9:55 PM
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mentioning that you liked journey didn't stop him.


Posted by: NickS | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 9:56 PM
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Fuck Ye, Jesus.

Oh, somewhere in my psyche my United Methodist upbringing just cringed.


Posted by: Robust McManlyPants | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 9:56 PM
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Everyone was enjoying being heterosexual until you gays came along.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 9:57 PM
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Vigorously heterosexual.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 10:02 PM
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My dad's summer camp had a recording made of the kids singing back in the 1940s or 50s. I don't think they sang anyone else's songs like the Langley kids, though. I'd actually be interested in digitizing the record, which is in my parents' house somewhere and which I haven't heard in years, except I have no idea how one would go about doing that.


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the problem link is the aitch tee tee pee mumble bastamusic whatever.

So it is. If anyone really doesn't want to buy "Desperado" off itunes, wait 'till tomorrow. I'll post a yousendit link.


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Wait, Ogged professed to liking Joni Mitchell and you gave him shit?

he's pissed at We Fags for fucking up heterosexual fantasy lives?

I missed that part.


Posted by: parsimon | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 10:05 PM
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parsimon, I love Joni Mitchell's music. I gave him shit because that's what we do.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 10:06 PM
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The radio features on the keyofz page work, at least.


Posted by: eb | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 10:07 PM
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Joni Mitchell and tennis. Basically, we're staying together for the kids.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 10:07 PM
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Olivia Newton-John.....

[dies]


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 10:09 PM
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Joni Mitchell is a genius, like Jackson C. Frank.


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 10:10 PM
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eb, get a cable to connect the line-out (or headphone jack) of the thing you're playing the music from to your computer's line-in, and use some recording software (I know Total Recorder, but there are probably free ones) to record. Should be pretty easy, actually.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 10:10 PM
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129: Gotta keep fightin' the good fight: Steve Winwood!


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 10:11 PM
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I know The Hero hates Joni Mitchell, but based on Blue, I'd have to say you're right, Ned.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 10:11 PM
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Mr. Emerson forgot to mention ABBA, the BeeGees, and Rick James.


Posted by: John Emerson Estate | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 10:12 PM
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Yes, I realize I have no idea what's going on. It's liberating, when you think about it.


Posted by: parsimon | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 10:12 PM
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Some of us are unable to use iTunes, populuxe.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 10:13 PM
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Olivia Newton-John


Posted by: NickS | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 10:16 PM
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Some of us are unable to use iTunes, populuxe.

Apparently you can run iTunes in Wine under Linux, Benjamin Dub.


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131: Thanks. In that case, all I have to do next time I'm there is find the record and the record player, which should still be in working condition.


Posted by: eb | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 10:18 PM
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A record player/turntable doesn't usually have a pre-amplified line-out. You'll probably have to go turntable->receiver with phono input->line out (etc), or find a separate pre-amp designed for a turntable.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 10:23 PM
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Just when you thought life was simple.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 10:24 PM
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God, s/he's so undermining. Try the headphone jack first; might work; I've recorded things that way before.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 10:25 PM
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If you go the Bridgeshrew route, there are some instructions here.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 10:29 PM
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We can be happy undermined.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 10:30 PM
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The last time the record player was connected, it was connected to a tuner or receiver or whatever you kids call this stuff that I'm pretty sure had a line out. I don't actually listen to music enough to pay attention to what's been connected to what in what ways, but it doesn't sound that complicated.


Posted by: eb | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 10:31 PM
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You could just listen to the albums and tell people about them later. Sorta like in the old country.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 10:32 PM
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140: How do you get from the turntable/sound system/pre-amp to the computer?

Is this a stupid question? I'd like to digitize some of my albums.

There are some audio-head (dj) lists I'm subscribed to who have these things under their belts; embarrassing to ask them for such petty details.

I don't understand what ogged is saying. The jacks are not of the same type between audio system and 'puter. Feel free to tell me if I'm missing something obvious.


Posted by: parsimon | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 10:34 PM
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Speaking of music by young people, you should all listen to the version of Iko Iko on this collection.

I have no skills at finding mp3s, but This has a "listen" link.


Posted by: NickS | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 10:36 PM
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Apparently you can run iTunes in Wine under Linux, Benjamin Dub.

Seems like an awful lot of trouble to go to just to pay for something.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 10:42 PM
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From pitchfork media:

Part schoolyard taunt, part Mardi Gras chant, part found-sound experiment, "Iko Iko" was allegedly born when New Orleans' Dixie Cups started singing a hometown melody during downtime in the studio, accompanying themselves by hitting an ashtray, a bottle, and a chair for percussion. Not until the reign of the Neptunes would anything this weirdly minimal again reach the top of the charts.

Posted by: NickS | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 10:45 PM
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Just because you say "'puter" like a helpless girl doesn't mean we're going to help you, parsimon.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 10:50 PM
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147: How do you get from the turntable/sound system/pre-amp to the computer?

You need to adjust the gain stage. Basically, the signal from a record player isn't sufficient for an amplifier. It needs help. Many receivers have an input that adjusts for it, and you can go from there (or, as ogged notes, right from the headphone jack with a cable adapter [probably quarter-inch to mini-jack, which is what your computer has]). Or you can buy something like this. N.B., not a specific product recommendation.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 10:53 PM
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Wait. Disregard 152. What ogged said.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 10:55 PM
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I know a 2 year old that calls them 'puters too. Parsimon's true age revealed!

The link in 122 is like the plot summary of the movie 'The 300' in convenient dictionary form.


Posted by: Walt Someguy | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 10:55 PM
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152: Thanks. Adaptor, but I just wasn't getting what kind. My sound system is pretty old, so I'll have to see.

Ogged, I don't feign helplessness. I just ask when I don't know. Don't make me regret that.


Posted by: parsimon | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 11:02 PM
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Of course, the asking isn't what I noted, trickster. But I'm willing to have comity on "adaptor," even if you do spell it like a foreigner.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 11:08 PM
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Adaptor! The new "Comity!"


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 11:09 PM
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Oh. Adapter? Looks wrong. Anyways* my sound system is from, like, the 70s or 80s or something.

*Canadian spelling


Posted by: parsimon | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 11:21 PM
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Or something like this -- just google USB turntable:

http://www.amazon.com/Ion-iTTUSB-Turntable-USB-Record/dp/B000BUEMOO

J


Posted by: John | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 11:33 PM
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Way off-topic, but I'm watching Daily Show clips, and Harry Reid sucks. Can he be replaced and soon?

With whom? I dunno. Chuck Schumer? Barbara Boxer? Russ Feingold? Anyone with some fight in 'em. Gah.


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159: Beautiful. More what I was thinking.


Posted by: parsimon | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 11:41 PM
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160: Reid's a terrible spokesman, but he's a brilliant parliamentarian, and that's what really matters in a majority leader.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 11:43 PM
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he's a brilliant parliamentarian

Show me the Dems' accomplishments since the 2006 elections.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 11:45 PM
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I haven't been keeping track. Surely they've done something.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 11:46 PM
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Minimum wage. That's about it, by my count.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 11:49 PM
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What more do you want?


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 11:51 PM
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What more do you want?

Such low expectations from one so young. Truly this is the twilight of the Republic.


Posted by: Jesus McQueen | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 11:53 PM
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the flower fades to make fruit, the fruit rots to make earth, you know, Jesus.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 11:55 PM
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In fairness, there's a good amount of investigation going on.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 11:55 PM
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My youthful cynicism aside, Reid's only got a one-vote majority, and the Senate's a notoriously undemocratic institution. This level of accomplishment seems about right for this point in the session.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 06-14-07 11:59 PM
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Okay, but he's a brilliant parliamentarian suggests he could get an immigration bill supported by the president through the cloture vote.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 06-15-07 12:02 AM
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If Reid kills this bullshit about subsidizing coal liquification or whatever they call it, should I be happy with Reid or pissed that so many Democrats are parochial enough and clueless enough to support it?


Posted by: DaveL | Link to this comment | 06-15-07 12:06 AM
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True, Ben. But for my children, I would have them keep their distance from the thickening center.


Posted by: Jesus McQueen | Link to this comment | 06-15-07 12:07 AM
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I also don't think it's asking too much that we kill abstinence only sex ed.


Posted by: gswift | Link to this comment | 06-15-07 12:08 AM
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Reid looks worse to me since the election, in contrast to Pelosi who looks much better
(as far as results--neither of them is much as a speaker). I think this must be partly because the Senate is set up so that the minority can stop stuff from passing, & the House isn't...


Posted by: Katherine | Link to this comment | 06-15-07 12:10 AM
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175: I agree, and I think that was teo's point. But grandstand, yo, GRANDSTAND.


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171: With a one-vote majority? He's not a miracle-worker.

175: Pretty much, yeah. It's mostly just really, really hard to get stuff through the Senate.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 06-15-07 12:12 AM
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67,68: Indeed there are.


Posted by: cdm | Link to this comment | 06-15-07 12:41 AM
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Reid's only got a one-vote majority

And that one vote is Joe Lieberman, so really only sort of.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 06-15-07 5:02 AM
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Here is Desperado for anyone who's still interested. Also, two of my other favorites off the CD , Rhiannon and Wildfire.

Provided for evaluative purposes only. Offer good until it isn't. Prizes are subject to availability and blackout. Coupon must be presented at time of write-up. No cash value. Void where prohibited by law, including the countries of Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Sudan and Syria. Do not taunt Super Magic Happy Fun Ball. Dilute! Dilute!


Posted by: Populuxe | Link to this comment | 06-15-07 7:19 AM
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I think there should be an "is" at the end of the hovertext. On the other hand, I like it the way it is.


Posted by: washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 06-15-07 8:42 AM
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an "is" at the end of the hovertext

Or, a "to" prior to "Kim".


Posted by: Clownaesthesiologist | Link to this comment | 06-15-07 8:51 AM
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(Come to think of it, "is" would be better positioned immediately before "Kim" than at the end of the clause.)


Posted by: Clownaesthesiologist | Link to this comment | 06-15-07 8:53 AM
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Ok, so can I be a horrible person and say that, despite Simon Cowell's lovely comments, the adorable little girl was not, in fact, pitch-perfect?

But, totally adorable and ridiculously talented for her age! She and Opera Guy should form an unstoppably heartwrenching duo.


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