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OT: Name one song that when it comes on the radio...
posted by tmdb51128542STAFFMOD on June 5, 2019 at 9:27 PM
… you can't turn the station fast enough. And why (if you choose to share)?
I'll start with a couple:
1."Open Arms" by Journey (Was "our song" with an old boyfriend and now makes me want to barf.)
2.Anything by Bruce Springsteen. If I wanted to listen to someone who sounds like they're grunting on the toilet while constipated I'd watch an Ex-lax commercial.
Disclaimer and fine print: No offense meant to lovers of any of the above music.
Reply by Tim-Buktu
on June 12, 2019 at 9:10 PM
OK Lemons, while this song doesn't bother me, I'm sure it would cause at least half the people listening to make a wild leap for their radio.
https://youtu.be/v_MZKaZqNTw
Reply by tmdb51128542
on June 12, 2019 at 9:31 PM
It's not that bad, though I wouldn't seek it out. So are there no songs you detest? Z doesn't seem to have any either. Maybe I'm just too musically picky.
Well if there are no songs that you detest how about a crawdad story?
Reply by Tim-Buktu
on June 12, 2019 at 10:57 PM
sigh... I'm talking to the unenlightened. That's the theme song for the Rush Limbaugh Show.
I never make wild leaps about songs. Now if the topic were TV commercials that would be a different matter.
As far as a crawdad story is concerned, do you think I just make this stuff up? And I'll have you know that crawdads are a very secretive folk. There ways are mysterious not to mention at times sinister. Not a bit like newts. Newts are trustworthy but not very talkative. But I can tell you this: if you're ever at a party and a newt is there stay close because when they do start talking you will be in for a treat.
Reply by Knixon
on June 13, 2019 at 2:06 AM
This whole topic has stuck in my craw, dad.
Reply by tmdb51128542
on June 13, 2019 at 2:16 PM
Well, I'm going to gloss over that first paragraph and head straight into the second one. So you have some TV commercials you don't like, huh? Well then you've come to the right place! Just so you know, I dislike about 90% of commercials out there. In fact, I generally ask Mr. Lemons to mute all commercials that come on. (He finds that rather annoying.) What would be an example of a TV commercial that you don't like?
On another note, if you can write a script I feel quite certain that you could come up with a crawdad story on command. Don't try to pull any wool over my eyes, Tim. Here, I'll show you how easy it is. Here is a crawdad story based loosely on an experience I had in the shower this morning.
One morning Noreen Newt was taking a shower in the hotel where she was staying for her very important business. With every move she made the stupid shower curtain liner practically wrapped itself around her legs. She fought it off as if it were an aggressive octopus. Once her shower was completed Noreen did some research on the manufacturer of the shower curtain. It turns out it was a sinister crawdad! Specifically Elvis Myron Marvin Crawdad, CEO of "Really Obnoxious Shower Curtain Liners R Us". Noreen put a sharply worded piece of feedback on yelp.com and destroyed his business forever. The end.
See how easy that was? And I wrote it all while sitting in the lobby of a place between sessions of this stupid thing I'm attending.
Reply by znexyish
on June 13, 2019 at 5:41 PM
Notice how I bolded up all the crawdad mentions
As for Newts I wouldn't trust any of them. Read Karl Capeks 1936 Czech novel "War with the Newts" (Válka s mloky in the original Czech) to get the whole story. First they are your amphibian friends then they are talking over the earth.
An Aggressive Octopus
Reply by tmdb51128542
on June 13, 2019 at 7:21 PM
Z, you and Tim seem to have a great amount of knowledge about "animals of the stream". I'm starting to wonder if you both live in a stream yourselves, but if you do, how do you post without getting electrocuted?
Reply by Tim-Buktu
on June 13, 2019 at 11:15 PM
I don't know about Z but I have a streaming service. I, in fact, have read "War with the Newts". As I recall, the good guys won. (And don't be so specieist.)
As for YOU Ms. Lemons, it seems to me that Noreen Newt (If that is in fact her real name ) is a very cruel and thoughtless person. Had she even considered the possibility that the shower curtain just wanted to be friends? Perhaps there was an octopus lurking (in the drain?) Maybe the hotel ordered the extra special deluxe "massage-o-matic" shower curtain liner for the pleasure of special guests. (All of the Bates Hotels that I've stayed at had them) But NO! She decided to destroy poor Mr. Elvis Myron Marvin Crawdad, CEO of "Really Obnoxious Shower Curtain Liners R Us". Without once pausing to consider the struggles he had putting himself through college while caring for his aged mother. And what of his children? Does she care that they will be left to fend for themselves in a dangerous world as he is led off to prison. I doubt it. She probably had a self-righteous sneer as she anointed herself with precious ointments from foreign lands. No Ms. Noreen Newt does not seem like the kind of person I would care to play shuffle board with.
Reply by znexyish
on June 14, 2019 at 2:32 PM
Seems to be that you Tim might just be an undercover newt. In fact I found the evidence to prove it.
A day in the life of Tim-Bukto the Secret Newt
As for The Marvelous Ms. Lemons and her "animals of the stream". I love that phrase and will definitely work that into conversation in the future.
Also I just saw the film "Rocketman" and to my surprise it was not about Howard at all.
Would you turn this off if it came on the radio ?
Reply by censorshipsucks06
on June 14, 2019 at 2:55 PM
I actually found a box of old mixtapes on cassette. Only I don't have a working cassette player! lol
Reply by tmdb51128542
on June 14, 2019 at 3:19 PM
Mixtapes really were cool. When I was in high school I only listened to pop and R&B. Zero classic rock. A boyfriend made me a mixtape of classic rock- Eric Clapton (including some of his groups), Led Zeppelin, Yes and Grateful Dead. Maybe some others. That mixtape changed my life. No joke.
Reply by tmdb51128542
on June 14, 2019 at 3:23 PM
Z, had I previously told you of my love for Undercover Angel, or are you just clairvoyant? As soon as my phone pulled up that link my smile was a mile wide and I was in the dreamy zone. That's in my top 3 favs of all time. Just sublimely brilliantly sexily delicious.
Reply by znexyish
on June 14, 2019 at 3:29 PM
Since there was no song called "Undercover Newt" I had to post the closest thing I could find. Newts: The angels of the stream
Reply by tmdb51128542
on June 14, 2019 at 3:32 PM
And now for YOU Timlet vonTimmington. Do you, the person who told me that crawdads were sinister, mean to tell me that now you are defending one? Why, I centered my whole story around him being the bad guy because of your description! (And I didn't mention nuthin' about prison.) And the reason she didn't want the shower curtain liner wrapping itself around her legs is because shower curtain liners collect mold and she didn't want mold legs!
Also, you can still make me giggle so hard that people around me wonder what is going on.
And also, also, Noreen wouldn't play shuffleboard with you anyway. She prefers canasta.
Reply by Knixon
on June 15, 2019 at 1:39 AM
If you were interested in getting one to relive old times, there are some good ones on ebay, including some still new-in box. I recommend JVC or Luxman. That's mostly what I've collected. The Luxman K-15, for example, sold for up to $1200 new. I got one in mint condition, in the original box with manual, for about $60. The JVC KD-55 is another good choice.