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Being English, I have a legal obligation to misuse, misrepresent, and generally abuse anything French -- and that includes the language.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I read the title as "Happiness just drips off some panties".
Crude, I know, but I do live in the gutter.
"the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
"No, that is just the earthly manifestation of the Great God Retardon." - Nagy Vilmos (2011)
"It is the celestial scrotum of good luck!" - Nagy Vilmos (2011)
"But you probably have the smoothest scrotum of any grown man" - Pete O'Hanlon (2012)
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You obviously live in a more fun gutter than I do.
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"Lady Gaga fans gush, critics blast fake-watch Tweet"[^]. from "The Nation," Bangkok English-language newspaper on-line.
Excerpt: "A crew of more than 1,000 has been working to prepare Rajamangala National Stadium for the big event, and police have stepped up security and traffic-control measures. For the biggest concert ever put on by promoter BEC-Tero, props and gear have been hauled in by three 747 aircraft and by sea in 23 shipping containers. One piece of equipment was so large that a gate at the stadium had to be removed to fit it in.
Fans have camped outside the stadium for days, hoping to be first inside and win the prize of meeting the Lady Gaga in person."
Once again, glad I don't live in Bangkok !
best, Bill
p.s. my first views of Lady Gaga's songs on YouTube left me as nauseated as most of Madonna's previous hits, from which a lot of LG's material is clearly taken. But, then, a friend, sent me to a link to her doing a solo acoustic (piano) performance of "Poker Face," I believe in front of a live audience in Amsterdam, and I was delighted by it: my sense is that behind the vast marketing machinery that created and sustains the LG brand/icon, is a person with real musical talent.
"Humans are amphibians ... half spirit and half animal ... as spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. This means that while their spirit can be directed to an eternal object, their bodies, passions, and imaginations are in continual change, for to be in time, means to change. Their nearest approach to constancy, therefore, is undulation: the repeated return to a level from which they repeatedly fall back, a series of troughs and peaks.” C.S. Lewis
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I want a fake pop star!
Oh wait...
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I want fake pop corn.
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I want fake pop tarts!
Oh wait...
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We'll do you a deal - you can have Jedward[^]. Two for the price of one! 
Anna ![Rose | [Rose]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
Tech Blog | Visual Lint
"Why would anyone prefer to wield a weapon that takes both hands at once, when they could use a lighter (and obviously superior) weapon that allows you to wield multiple ones at a time, and thus supports multi-paradigm carnage?"
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AJ! You've been told before, the Lounge is PG rated and we don't need that kind of filth here!
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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Would you prefer a bit of turkey action[^] instead?
Anna
Tech Blog | Visual Lint
"Why would anyone prefer to wield a weapon that takes both hands at once, when they could use a lighter (and obviously superior) weapon that allows you to wield multiple ones at a time, and thus supports multi-paradigm carnage?"
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'Tis more genuine than those two things.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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Indeed!
Anna
Tech Blog | Visual Lint
"Why would anyone prefer to wield a weapon that takes both hands at once, when they could use a lighter (and obviously superior) weapon that allows you to wield multiple ones at a time, and thus supports multi-paradigm carnage?"
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BillWoodruff wrote: a person with real musical talent.
As much as I dislike her particular style, I have to agree; she is a person of rare talent, and I wish her only the best in her career. I won't be buying her albums, but millions of others will, and that's as it should be. Differences of opinion are what make horse races interesting and possible...
Will Rogers never met me.
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Roger Wright wrote: As much as I dislike her particular style, I have to agree; she is a person of rare talent, and I wish her only the best in her career.
Good on ya!
It's a refreshing change to hear grown up comments when discussing likes and dislikes of various things.
(I'm not complaining about conversations on CP, btw...)
Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike... me...
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Ladyboy show storms Bangkok. Move along, nothing to see here 
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I just searched for Gaga doing an acoustic set. Okay, she can play a tune on a piano and sing at the same time - not as easy as it sounds.
That is the limit I will accept. She has some musical ability, but her only real talent is being 'her'.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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BillWoodruff wrote: my first views of Lady Gaga's songs on YouTube left me as nauseated
I am a big fan. I love the way she marketed herself. I love her way to provoke, and I am fascinated by the way she manipulates all these people. I went to see her show when she was in France, and really enjoyed it. It was a complete crazy thing, and that's precisely what people need today, crazy things.
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More power to ya bro:' if you dig her thang !
I'm just a cranky old fart who can never get over seeing live:
1. The Grateful Dead at the Trips Festival, Longshoreman's Hall, 1966. I vaguely remember being part of a large group of people dancing, all of us holding up a twenty or thirty foot long cloth-stuffed python-snake like thing.
2. Jimi Hendrix at Winterland in SF, maybe 1968 or so, on a basically bare set flanked by two scrawny Englishmen on bass and drums, and behind him the famous "wall of Marshall amps." When he did Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone," I, and many other people in the crowd around were crying.
3. Janis Joplin live at the Hell's Angels' anniversary bash at Fillmore (1967 ?). Also at the Tim Leary "event" in Berkeley (Janis and Big Brother and the Holding Company made a very strange follow-up to Leary's psychedelic ravings under a light show: 1966 ?).
4. The Who performing "Tommy" at (I think it was the Avalon Ballroom, but I'm not sure, might have been Fillmore West): that's where I am pretty sure I damaged my hearing since I was trance-dancing near a giant loud-speaker.
5. Other bands like Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks, It's a Beautiful Day, Kaleidoscope, Captain Beefhart, Neil Young, Bob Dylan live, in the early days (1963) at Gerde's folk city in NY. Captain Hook and the Medicine Show.
6. Dylan on his first tour after he went electric, in Knoxville, Tennessee (date hazy, maybe 1964 ?).
Yeah, I'm a fossil, and I'll never get over those memories
I do think Gaga's brand/icon/persona "total whatever" is much more "fun" than Madonna's schtick which I never related to, at all. But, then I think Cyndi Lauper was also a much more upbeat phenom.
But, each generation should have their own idols. And, the great music continues, because rock-and-roll is forever.
best, Bill
"Humans are amphibians ... half spirit and half animal ... as spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. This means that while their spirit can be directed to an eternal object, their bodies, passions, and imaginations are in continual change, for to be in time, means to change. Their nearest approach to constancy, therefore, is undulation: the repeated return to a level from which they repeatedly fall back, a series of troughs and peaks.” C.S. Lewis
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BillWoodruff wrote: I was delighted by it: my sense is that behind the vast marketing machinery that created and sustains the LG brand/icon,
It was my understanding that much of the public face of Gaga was approved by her.
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India is facing yet another increase in fuel price. It got doubled in almost 2 years of time. The best way the impact of that can be visualized by this picture
Batman's Commute[^]
I don't know who made this picture but it sure looks true as per our condition right now. I now feel so good that I sold my car and got myself a bike.
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Superman can't even do that any more, apparently. Scroll down a few folds[^].
... But there's something not quite convincing about a Superman with Asian features and a costume in the the wrong colours.
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Rahul Rajat Singh wrote: India is facing yet another increase in fuel price.
Sounds a lot like here.
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You probably weren't born yet when the Arab oil embargo of 1973 occurred, but it was ugly. Overnight, gasoline prices went from $0.35 to $0.70 per US gallon, and we had to stand in line for hours to days to buy a tank of fuel. Gas stations couldn't get fuel to sell to us at any price, and I spent several nights sleeping in my car at school because there were no gas stations open in the entire county for me to buy enough fuel to get home. The excuse they used for raising the price was that we have to conserve because in 20 years, there will be no oil left in the world. Well, 1993 came and went, and we're still finding new sources of petroleum. What's the excuse for these prices now? And who's going to believe the lie du'jure? Today I filled the tank at $3.61 per gallon, and I'm glad that I found that bargain. But I question why I should consider that a bargain. Labor costs have doubled since then, and materials have also become more expensive; that I can deal with. But they haven't gone up enough to justify the prices we're paying today.
Still, we survived the attack, and so will India. It will take some time, and some adjustments in the quality of life, but you'll adapt to the new reality. Hang on; you'll make it, as we did and continue to do...
Will Rogers never met me.
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Last time I filled up (last week) I paid £1.349 per litre: that works out around $9.60 per gallon, most of which is UK taxes. So yes, I think you got a Elephanting bargain indeed!
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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