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Post by My Avatar Is A Hot Babe on Mar 19, 2019 17:24:49 GMT
Ray Stevens is now in The country music hall of fame: 'Ahab' was requested on our national Australia wide ABC radio station the other night. They were discussing novelty songs from the 50's/60's and this one was suggested. The announcer said they wouldn't play it because it falls under being 'politically incorrect' and may 'offend'. What a sad and disappointing world it's become.
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Post by bradman on Mar 19, 2019 19:55:00 GMT
Stevens' later career as a flag waving, military fellating "singer" makes this shit look good.
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Post by essayceedee on Mar 19, 2019 20:33:21 GMT
DON'T LOOK ETHEL!!
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Post by sₚⲁᵣₖydₒg on Mar 20, 2019 15:41:24 GMT
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Post by Brick Wall on Mar 20, 2019 16:22:36 GMT
Hey. Greenwood said he would probably be willing to perform his signature hit for the troops during a live CBS Special, if asked. I think that counts for something.
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Post by bradman on Mar 20, 2019 21:15:22 GMT
Giddyup-a-oom-poppa-oom-poppa-mow-mow
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Post by overrated on Mar 21, 2019 12:05:51 GMT
Is there a hall of fame for obnoxious, unfunny, lowest-common-denominator hacks? If there were, Stevens would be a charter member. Playing down to the hicks for 60 years strong. Just the worst.
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Post by My Avatar Is A Hot Babe on Jun 5, 2023 17:43:59 GMT
Whatever political or nasty stuff he's said to have been involved with has not made it to me. Pronouncements by most entertainers generally weigh as heavily upon me as by a random person in the street, which is to say not a whole lot. Then again, I'm equally as oblivious to social media 'influencers' of all sorts... not a thing in my world outside someone getting me stoked to hear an album or read a book I haven't before. If Barry Manilow swore wearing a mask causes elevators to stall it wouldn't effect me. If a person with a million youtube followers declared everybody wearing Bob Seger t-shirts should be deported ditto. If you can be 'influenced' that is a choice, otherwise you just have a load of cranks heckling, cursing at clouds or making up junk.
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Post by sₚⲁᵣₖydₒg on Jun 5, 2023 18:33:01 GMT
Stevens' later career as a flag waving, military fellating "singer" makes this shit look good. He was a scream if you were about 7 years old I guess. It's funny he had tolerable "message" songs in the 60's that were left-leaning, aside from his "comedy music." I had the misfortune of hearing Stevens hosting a segment on SiriusXM a few days ago. Aside from sounding senile, toothless and about a hundred years old, he played one of his mush mouthed new ditties about Maw's good ol' home cookin' or something which was the most vomitous thing I've heard this year. It was the aural equivalent of those "Remember when" memes old morons share on th'Facebook. Fuck him and his moronic songs abouts queers, Osama and Obama.
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Post by Holly Diver on Jun 5, 2023 20:48:47 GMT
That beccabear is a weird one, I've noticed her like the most awful posts leaving me wonder if she even had a clue about what the posts meant. Similar to Mikaela posting about having a great Pride Month and then five minutes later liking horrible posts by Scroatfondler, HandInAss and Vinyl Is Final.
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Post by graucho on Jun 5, 2023 22:03:24 GMT
She's totally bonkers. Had a freakout in some Byrds thread a couple of months back. It was a bit sad to behold.
I don't think I've ever heard anything by Ray Stevens. I guess he never was big over here. Ah just saw he had a number one with a song about streaking.
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Post by bradman on Jun 5, 2023 22:56:13 GMT
Isn't she the one with the batshit crazy original music?
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Post by daved on Jun 6, 2023 0:56:44 GMT
Isn't she the one with the batshit crazy original music? No that’s some George Harrison stalker. becca has glasses from 1973.
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Post by Potsie Hoofman on Jun 6, 2023 2:35:12 GMT
Stevens' later career as a flag waving, military fellating "singer" makes this shit look good. He was a scream if you were about 7 years old I guess. It's funny he had tolerable "message" songs in the 60's that were left-leaning, aside from his "comedy music." I had the misfortune of hearing Stevens hosting a segment on SiriusXM a few days ago. Aside from sounding senile, toothless and about a hundred years old, he played one of his mush mouthed new ditties about Maw's good ol' home cookin' or something which was the most vomitous thing I've heard this year. It was the aural equivalent of those "Remember when" memes old morons share on th'Facebook. Fuck him and his moronic songs abouts queers, Osama and Obama. So thats what CleanDan looks like!
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Post by sₚⲁᵣₖydₒg on Jun 7, 2023 1:10:11 GMT
This belongs in the "anecdotes that never happened" thread. Now excuse me while I vomit.
Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the much older lady that she should bring her own grocery bags, because plastic bags are not good for the environment. The woman apologized to the young girl and explained, “We didn’t have this ‘green thing’ back in my earlier days.” The young clerk responded, “That’s our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations.” The older lady said that she was right — our generation didn’t have the “green thing” in its day. The older lady went on to explain: Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled. But we didn’t have the “green thing” back in our day. Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags that we reused for numerous things. Most memorable besides household garbage bags was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our school books. This was to ensure that public property (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribblings. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags. But, too bad we didn’t do the “green thing” back then. We walked up stairs because we didn’t have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn’t climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn’t have the “green thing” in our day. Back then we washed the baby’s diapers because we didn’t have the throw away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts. Wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right; we didn’t have the “green thing” back in our day. Back then we had one TV, or radio, in the house — not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana. In the kitchen we blended and stirred by hand because we didn’t have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn’t fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn’t need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she’s right; we didn’t have the “green thing” back then. We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blade in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn’t have the “green thing” back then. Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service in the family’s $45,000 SUV or van, which cost what a whole house did before the “green thing.” We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn’t need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint. But isn’t it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn’t have the “green thing” back then? Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smart ass young person. We don’t like being old in the first place, so it doesn’t take much to piss us off… Especially from a tattooed, multiple pierced smartass who can’t make change without the cash register telling them how much.
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