Listen... I understand it's a tribute to Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper all dying in the plane crash, but the song could've easily been a fitting tribute at the four minute mark. I'd even take five. But nearly nine minutes? Number one on my list of most annoying pub sing-a-long songs - best time to take a piss or a cigarette break outside.
My take: it's a maudlin song of cheap sentimentality, and it's way too long for a pop song.
Azrael wrote:My take: it's a maudlin song of cheap sentimentality, and it's way too long for a pop song.
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Listen... I understand it's a tribute to Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper all dying in the plane crash, but the song could've easily been a fitting tribute at the four minute mark. I'd even take five. But nearly nine minutes? Number one on my list of most annoying pub sing-a-long songs - best time to take a piss or a cigarette break outside.
My take: it's a maudlin song of cheap sentimentality, and it's way too long for a pop song.
nice pick; and I'm going to throw the Eagles and "Hotel California" in the mix.
Listen... I understand it's a tribute to Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper all dying in the plane crash, but the song could've easily been a fitting tribute at the four minute mark. I'd even take five. But nearly nine minutes? Number one on my list of most annoying pub sing-a-long songs - best time to take a piss or a cigarette break outside.
My take: it's a maudlin song of cheap sentimentality, and it's way too long for a pop song.
nice pick; and I'm going to throw the Eagles and "Hotel California" in the mix.
+1 to both.
and while we are at it and im freshly reminded, oliver stone and john lennon.
the former for doing high school levels of depth and the latter for doing primary school levels.
Listen... I understand it's a tribute to Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper all dying in the plane crash, but the song could've easily been a fitting tribute at the four minute mark. I'd even take five. But nearly nine minutes? Number one on my list of most annoying pub sing-a-long songs - best time to take a piss or a cigarette break outside.
My take: it's a maudlin song of cheap sentimentality, and it's way too long for a pop song.
nice pick; and I'm going to throw the Eagles and "Hotel California" in the mix.
+1 to both.
and while we are at it and im freshly reminded, oliver stone and john lennon.
the former for doing high school levels of depth and the latter for doing primary school levels.
Sometimes people get older than the level of a particular subject matter without surpassnig that subject matter. It's not the fault of review instructors that there is a lot of remedial education that needs to be done.
Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
-Alexander Hamilton
Listen... I understand it's a tribute to Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper all dying in the plane crash, but the song could've easily been a fitting tribute at the four minute mark. I'd even take five. But nearly nine minutes? Number one on my list of most annoying pub sing-a-long songs - best time to take a piss or a cigarette break outside.
My take: it's a maudlin song of cheap sentimentality, and it's way too long for a pop song.
nice pick; and I'm going to throw the Eagles and "Hotel California" in the mix.
Seconded re the Eagles and Hotel California.
May the gods preserve and defend me from self-righteous altruists; I can defend myself from my enemies and my friends.
A friend of a friend just won a landmark legal case against the Charlie Rose show, saying that they are able to come in at a low budget because they use Interns to do work that would normally be paid for. This victory is likely to cause a landslide of such cases to come about with people suing organizations for back wages. As this issue affects millions of people, it could be fairly significant.
Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
-Alexander Hamilton
According to the media, she's practically a god; but one of the first things she does after taking the helm of Yahoo! was to scrap Yahoo! Babel Fish (formerly AltaVista Babel Fish). That was incredibly stupid. Babel Fish was great. It was one of the best things about Yahoo!, probably the best thing they had after Yahoo! email and Yahoo! Directory. What's next, Marissa? Are you going to sabotage Yahoo! Directory, too?
Edit: it looks like somebody beat her to it. It looks like Yahoo! Directory hasn't had much new material or editing to fix broken links since 2005.
It looks like Open Directory may be becoming a better bet.
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A friend of a friend just won a landmark legal case against the Charlie Rose show, saying that they are able to come in at a low budget because they use Interns to do work that would normally be paid for.
Unfortunately, that sordid practice is becoming more and more commonplace, eg Huffington Post.
This victory is likely to cause a landslide of such cases to come about with people suing organizations for back wages. As this issue affects millions of people, it could be fairly significant.
-- have both made careers out of dim wit and needing more emotional maitenance than a British race car. As Venus-vicarious as crashing cop cars are on Mars, any man foolish enough to lash himself to one of these monu-mental millstones deserves to drown in the inevitable rising ocean of tears, or spend his life chasing the next big emotional realization.
I once thought about a remake of Gone With The Wind. Jennifer Aniston had too narrow a range to play Melanie Wilkes, and the role of Aunt Pittypat would probably send Julia straight down Sunset Boulevard the rest of her days.
Edited for clarity.
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Stacy, Lesley, Ashley, Courtney, Casey, Lindsay . . . they all used to be boys names.
if you write a letter to "Stacy Smith" starting with "Dear Mrs. Smith", and Stacy turns out to be a he, you might lose a client.
Sometimes you can't find a picture on Google to determine the gender, or it's a picture of the wrong "Stacy Smith".
You can assume that anything that ends with a 'wye' or an 'ee' sound is a girly name. That's something the culture has decided. Hard consonants or nasty-sounding fricatives - that will be reserved for the guys.....'>>......
Stacy, Lesley, Ashley, Courtney, Casey, Lindsay . . . they all used to be boys names.
if you write a letter to "Stacy Smith" starting with "Dear Mrs. Smith", and Stacy turns out to be a he, you might lose a client.
Sometimes you can't find a picture on Google to determine the gender, or it's a picture of the wrong "Stacy Smith".
You can assume that anything that ends with a 'wye' or an 'ee' sound is a girly name. That's something the culture has decided. Hard consonants or nasty-sounding fricatives - that will be reserved for the guys.....'>>......
I would have liked to have seen someone try to tell that to Audie Murphy.
May the gods preserve and defend me from self-righteous altruists; I can defend myself from my enemies and my friends.
Stacy, Lesley, Ashley, Courtney, Casey, Lindsay . . . they all used to be boys names.
if you write a letter to "Stacy Smith" starting with "Dear Mrs. Smith", and Stacy turns out to be a he, you might lose a client.
Sometimes you can't find a picture on Google to determine the gender, or it's a picture of the wrong "Stacy Smith".
You can assume that anything that ends with a 'wye' or an 'ee' sound is a girly name. That's something the culture has decided. Hard consonants or nasty-sounding fricatives - that will be reserved for the guys.....'>>......
I would have liked to have seen someone try to tell that to Audie Murphy.
Stacy, Lesley, Ashley, Courtney, Casey, Lindsay . . . they all used to be boys names.
if you write a letter to "Stacy Smith" starting with "Dear Mrs. Smith", and Stacy turns out to be a he, you might lose a client.
Sometimes you can't find a picture on Google to determine the gender, or it's a picture of the wrong "Stacy Smith".
You can assume that anything that ends with a 'wye' or an 'ee' sound is a girly name. That's something the culture has decided. Hard consonants or nasty-sounding fricatives - that will be reserved for the guys.....'>>......
My daughter is named Logan. Incidence is about 2/3 male, most common female usage is in Ireland and has been for a long time.
One reason we picked it was because of the sexual ambiguity. We figured she will have to be picked off a list of names more than once and deliberately chose a strong given name, plus all the female names in our families are rather old-fashioned.
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