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     Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1127 Registered: 03-2006 |
From "Mike Post Theme", off of Endless Wire: If there really is a God, we all should get laid tonight | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1141 Registered: 03-2006 |
And this, from Robert Christgau's great piece in Salon on the Gypsy Music Festival: "Great music exemplifies what a good world might be like". It certainly applies to a rockin' little Brisbane combo I can think of... | ||
| Wolfgang Steinhardt Member Username: Berbatov Post Number: 22 Registered: 09-2006 |
Rock appeals to the intelligence without interference from the intellect. Chester Anderson | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1185 Registered: 03-2006 |
"Everyone has their reasons" - from the film, "Rules of the Game". | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 85 Registered: 05-2005 |
Some great lines on the new Pernice Brothers record 'Live a Little', my favourite being this from 'Cruelty to Animals' (track 3): "She believes what doesn't kill her, only takes more time to kill her". | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 318 Registered: 01-2005 |
Robyn Hitchcock took one of Dirty Harry/Clint Eastwood's best lines 'A man's got to know his limitations', and made a song about it, "A Man's Got To Know His Limitations, Briggs" on Ole! Tarantula. The line was from the second Dirty Harry movie, Magnum Force. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1194 Registered: 03-2006 |
That's very amusing, Michael. I thought that line sounded familiar. I think it's safe to say that Robyn and Dirty Harry are not oft-mentioned in the same sentence! | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 162 Registered: 09-2006 |
One great line that says it all, from the goddamn Bible, of all places: "Judge not, lest ye be judged." " Two longer quotes from the same damn place, both of which also lay it down: "Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things." The other is that bit from Ecclesiastes that the Byrds musicalized...I've yet to run across a more succint statement of How Life Is. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1471 Registered: 03-2006 |
"If you want a safe job, go sell shoes." - Chuck Hagel | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1548 Registered: 03-2006 |
Here's two: "Baby, baby, you were my drug/And I was just your cigarette" - Patty Griffin "I know every day is a gift, but does it always have to be a pair of socks?" - Tony Soprano | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1248 Registered: 05-2005 |
"You work in a petrol station Michael. It's not the Gulf War. Which ironically is like a large petrol station" Alan Partridge | ||
| julia motzko Member Username: Julia Post Number: 31 Registered: 05-2005 |
"it ain't over till it's over." has gained recent actuality with the new and last Rocky Balboa film. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 339 Registered: 09-2006 |
Woody Allen, from back in his stand-up days: "I always remember my mother telling me, 'If a strange man comes up to you, and offers you candy, and wants you to get into his car with him...go.'" | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1473 Registered: 05-2005 |
Stephen Wright the comedian talking about how his family had a quicksand pit in their back garden while growing up. "I was an only child......eventually" | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 471 Registered: 09-2006 |
"Do you know what it's like to fall in the mud...and get kicked in the head...with an iron boot?? No, of course you don't, Ted, nobody does, that never happens. That's a dumb question, Ted, skip that one..." | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1557 Registered: 05-2005 |
"I was walking down the road the other day, this chap walked up to me and said 'Do you want to buy some grass, mate?' I said 'No thanks, mate, I've got crazy paving. Haven't got a garden, you see.'" Ted Chippington | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 642 Registered: 01-2005 |
"I understand how everything sometimes turns out to be nothing," you say. But I wonder if you do. And if we understood each other, there'd be no need to talk. But even that, even talking is out of reach. Should I say it with flowers or should I say it with nails? I'm not the kind to push you around, but I don't want to make myself vulnerable. And if I was on my knees, you'd have a pretty good view of my skull. And I happen to know you're carrying a chisel. Robyn Hitchcock - Linctus House | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1983 Registered: 03-2006 |
I'm curious, Michael. Being the consummate fan of Hitchcock and the Soft Boys, have you followed Kimberly Rew's solo career? Though I can't quite bring myself to grab you by the lapels and swear up and down that it'll change your life (virtually speaking), it's very good. I just picked up one of the old ones used, "South Central Revisited", or something like that, and it's quite nice... And, I know you know he's written some great, classic stuff, like "Walking On Sunshine" and "Going Down to Liverpool"... | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 472 Registered: 09-2006 |
I'm not familiar with his solo stuff, but admit to quite a fondness for Katrina and the Waves, especially the two albums they did before breaking national... | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1984 Registered: 03-2006 |
Yeah, that was great stuff, AB. You gotta admire a guy that can write catchy ditties about such disparate subjects as Screaming Lord Sutch and Phillip Larkin (sample line: "Sex was invented in 1963/ Too late for him but not for me") as he did for the record I mentioned (GREAT Central Revisited, not South).... | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 222 Registered: 05-2005 |
John Howard, hopefully soon to be former PM of Australia: "Who are you going to trust??" NOT YOU ****er!!!!!!!!!!! | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 645 Registered: 01-2005 |
LK, I haven't explored KB's solo records yet. I heard "The Bible of Bop" from 1981 was going to be re-issued though. I should explore them. I haven't got any Cpatain Sensible yet either, Robyn was a member circa 1982 and wrote some songs for the Cap. I bought "Katrins and The Waves" US album version on vinyl in late 84 or early 85 when it first came out. That was a good 6 months or so before I even bought "Fegmania!" and became a Robyn fan. I did pick up the 2 disc Katrina and the Waves cd which contains all the early stuff a couple of years ago. Tasty stuff. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 644 Registered: 08-2006 |
Michael, they recently released Katrina and the Waves' pre-US, Canadian releases as a two-disc set titled "The Original Recordings 1983-1984." I really recommend it. It's less produced than their big-label stuff and hearing "Walking on Sunshine" without the blaring horns is a treat. Really great pop. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 645 Registered: 08-2006 |
Okay, somehow I completely missed the last sentence of your post, Michael. D'oh! | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 649 Registered: 01-2005 |
I think you missed it on purpose just so you could match my numbers of posts! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1495 Registered: 05-2005 |
"Mom, this isn’t right." PARIS HILTON, after being ordered back to jail. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 649 Registered: 08-2004 |
"You know it's gone to hell, when the best rapper out there is a white guy & the best golfer is a black guy." Charles Barkley. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2009 Registered: 03-2006 |
"I hope his clubs aren't heavy." - Hilarious Latino comic George Lopez on his upcoming golf date with Donald Trump. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2010 Registered: 03-2006 |
"Clothes don't make the man; God does. Stop taking credit, my pants!" - Stephen Colbert | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1514 Registered: 05-2005 |
Why is "I hope his clubs aren't heavy" hilarious LK? What part of pop culture am I not understanding? | ||
| david sigston Member Username: Futuretarded Post Number: 11 Registered: 04-2006 |
Ms. Hilton once again..."I felt like I was in a cage" | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 664 Registered: 08-2006 |
Padraig, I think the underlying assumtion in Lopez's quip is that he'd be caddying for Trump, not playing with him. | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 261 Registered: 01-2006 |
From Brendan Behan, Irish Playwright and author: Upon landing in Canada "I saw a notice which said 'drink Canada Dry' and I've just started". Here's a few others... "Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day but they're unable to do it themselves". "I've never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make worse". "It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody". | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2021 Registered: 03-2006 |
"New Jersey?" - Tony Soprano's response to daughter Meadow's statement that, "the state can crush the individual". | ||
| Eddie Member Username: Lewisdhead Post Number: 10 Registered: 01-2007 |
Tony Soprano in response to Dr. Melfi's query as to whether he has had a prostate exam recently: "Hey, I don't even let anyone wag their finger in my face." | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1518 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks Rob! Yeah, now it's funny! Oh, XY, I've seen the same Canada Dry quote attributed to George Best! | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 263 Registered: 01-2006 |
Padraig, haven't seen that one attributed to Georgie Best but I'm pretty sure it's Behan's, must google it to make sure. My favourite one about Best was the time he was in an hotel when he called room service to order more champagne. As the night porter delivered the bubbly to his room there was a scantily clad former Miss World in there and lots of money strewn around the room...the porter looked around and said 'where did it all go wrong George?'. Speaking of Behan I've seen on a Wilco related site that they have performed the Ould Triangle before, now that's a cover version I'd love to hear. I read a very good biography on Behan by Ulick O'Connor yeare ago and in it there's some really excellent poetry in Irish by him. They translated it into English and it's still stunning even in English. | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 264 Registered: 01-2006 |
wowee zowee i love the internet, a 3 minute search and i found tweedy's version of the auld triangle... | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2060 Registered: 03-2006 |
"I don't pray. It bags my nylons." - uttered by a waitress in Billy Wilder's "Ace in the Hole". | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 511 Registered: 09-2006 |
"Those were different times" - Lou R. Along with the aforementioned "Forget it Jake" line, a thoroughly eloquent line that fits itself to any number of discussions about how things have changed. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 669 Registered: 08-2004 |
Homer Simpson, while playing pool with Ned Flanders. "They Don't call me Springfield Fats just because I'm morbidly obese." | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2091 Registered: 03-2006 |
I bet a funny thing about driving a car off a cliff is, while you're in midair, you still hit those brakes. Hey, better try the emergency brake. Jack Handey | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 523 Registered: 09-2006 |
Just read this one in a cartoon in one of the weekly papers. Concerns a guy trying to remember what song that he's got a line from stuck in his head is from. In this panel he's Googling. The series of thought balloons read: "'Do you really wanna see me crawl." "Enter." "Wow, that's not what I had in mind." "Add to Favorites." Hey, I laughed. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 532 Registered: 09-2006 |
"I think I'm losing my mind, but that's the way that it goes." - Mr.Bernard Sumner, from "Let's Go" by New Order Now that's a damn healthy attitude for you. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2213 Registered: 03-2006 |
"I guess heaven needed a power forward" - Marcus Toney-El, talking about his former Seton Hall teammate, the late Eddie Griffin. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1506 Registered: 04-2005 |
Ah, so it was that God fella who jammed Griffin's foot to the floor and drove his SUV full speed into the side of the passing train! Look out, Kobe Bryant--if heaven needs a shooting guard, you could be next. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2216 Registered: 03-2006 |
Toney-El also said that "Griffin's heart was as big as his wingspan", which was a close contender for line du jour. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2254 Registered: 03-2006 |
"Everybody's talking about the MTV Awards. ... Did anybody see Britney Spears? ... They said that she appeared sluggish. They said she was glassy-eyed. Sounds to me like somebody could use another hour in rehab. ... Although, General Petraeus thought it went quite well." --David Letterman | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 233 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hear the latest? It seems she had an argument with her hairdresser for using the wrong shampoo, just before she went on stage... | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2261 Registered: 03-2006 |
Yeah - apparently it was everybody else's fault, but hers...that's what happens when you base your career on shaking your ass. As opposed to say, the GBs, who based theirs on making good music. They would never don a spangly bikini...well, maybe Robert... | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 236 Registered: 05-2005 |
Oh dear God, that's a mental image that'll be hard to get rid of! What's scary though, is that I CAN picture it. As for that sad wench - how can she blame it on the shampoo? She's got no bloody hair!! | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 98 Registered: 02-2007 |
Oops!.. I rinsed it again!! I played with my hair Got lost in my mane Oh baby, baby, Oops!.. You think I'm a skank That my mind is just blank I'm not that talented!!! | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 800 Registered: 01-2005 |
LK, her latest single that she was barely moving to at the awards show was dreadful. The vocal didn't sound human, it sounded like something made up in the studio like CGI effects for a Hollywood move are made in a studio. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2263 Registered: 03-2006 |
I've never been a huge fan of her music, though I have to admit that some of them are beautifully constructed pop songs. Speaking of, did you ever hear Richard Thompson's version of "Oops! I Did it Again"? It's actually very good... No, I think poor Britney - and I actually do feel sorry for her, I think she seems to really be in trouble - is pretty much over, at this point. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 886 Registered: 08-2006 |
I know it's been discussed to death on the Internets, but her VMA performance was as fascinating as it was saddening. I'm no fan either, but I had to check it out, and it was as bizarre as advertised. I think Jack White or someone - someone who actually plays music - could have gotten away with it. But to be so listless and glassy-eyed when your only job is to lip-synch and dance is asking a bit too much of your audience. I'm serious, I could have pulled off a better performance, which, as anyone who has seen me dance will confirm, is saying something. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 291 Registered: 07-2006 |
oh we could do a whole barney one "your hair was long your eyes was blue guess what i'm gonna do to you" *squeal* | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 715 Registered: 09-2006 |
The "Get Your War On" strip always has some good, blunt punchlines. A recent one: (Conversation between two clipart people) "How can Karl Rove quit the White House? He hasn't built his permanent Republican majority yet!" "Oh shit, you're right! How will America survive the twenty-first century without a permanent Republican majority?" "The same way a baby survives without a steel-toe boot kicking her in the face every seven seconds." .......... Sorta ties in with that great line from "If...," when Malcolm McDowall's character tells the prefect who's about to give him an extremely harsh caning, not for anything he's done, but for general attitude, where McDowall tells him that the thing he hates about him is how "you expect us to lick your frigid fingers for the rest of your frigid life." | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2298 Registered: 03-2006 |
"Don't tase me, bro!" (Actually, from last week, but it still resonates.) | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 919 Registered: 08-2006 |
"In Iran, we don't have homosexuals like in your country. We don't have that in our country. In Iran, we do not have this phenomenon. I don't know who's told you that we have it.'' -Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Interesting fact, his last name translates to "Bush" in Arabic. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2305 Registered: 03-2006 |
"Childrens do learn" - George W. Bush | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1540 Registered: 04-2005 |
I walked into the local record store/ and asked for an American music anthology/ It sounds fun New Pornographers, "Myriad Harbor" Dan Bejar's delivery of "it sounds fun" kills me because he manages to convey with his voice how little fun he really thinks it would be. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2316 Registered: 03-2006 |
Do ya think it's an allusion to Harry Smith's Anthology? Talk about slaying a sacred cow... And if he is, he's right. I fully understand the importance of it, I own it, but geez, as a listen, it's about as much fun as watching flies fuck. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 734 Registered: 09-2006 |
"Only one man ever understood me...and he didn't understand me." - Hegel | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1819 Registered: 05-2005 |
"What f*cker said that?" - Withnail, from Withnail and I. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2356 Registered: 03-2006 |
Don't really care much for Kid Rock's music, but this line amused me: His son came home from his first day at Malibu High complaining, "Dad, all the kids there care about is skateboards and drugs". The Kid's response: "son, don't you get up on one of them skateboards". | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 746 Registered: 09-2006 |
Randy Newman, regarding "A Horse With No Name" : "It's a song about a kid who thinks he's taken acid." | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 98 Registered: 10-2006 |
Some idiomatic expressions from Rome I read recently: "That guy's so unlucky that if his dick fell off it would bounce back straight up his arse." To an annoying road-patrolling officer of the law: "Why don't you go and whistle between your wife's legs, there's more traffic there." And on the theme of the inevitability of Fate: "When it's your turn to get f***ed, the wind is always ready to blow your shirt up." Colourful bunch, these Romans. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 762 Registered: 09-2006 |
How many fratboys does it take to screw in a lightbulb? None. Fratboys screw in pools of vomit. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1839 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Docks are no more, but the pubs survive, they wouldn't let us in here, if the Dockers were alive, they wouldn't serve a woman, they wouldn't call time, the bell in poet's corner, has got this thieving kinda rhyme, Shakespeare, was a man of wit, upon his shirt, he had some buttons, get us to the heart of it and scatter yer money on the floor. Gerard Langley. - The Blue Aeroplanes. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2401 Registered: 03-2006 |
"Have you ever tried to shoot pool with a piece of rope?" - George Burns on being asked what it was like to have sex at 93. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1806 Registered: 05-2005 |
That sounds like a Grant lyric! And I assumed it was until I saw it was George Burns. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 782 Registered: 09-2006 |
"Treat me like a farm animal on a wild goose chase." Didn't know Bob was that kinky, but I probably should have guessed... | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 787 Registered: 09-2006 |
"The world might end, but at least it hasn't." Some might see this as too pessimistic, but it seems more like realistic optimism to me...rather like the reply I've given for many years when people ask me "How are you?": "Not too bad." | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 727 Registered: 08-2004 |
The Simpsons again Ned Flanders: "With great power comes great responsibility." Homer: "Who said that? I'll kill them with my power." | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 852 Registered: 09-2006 |
Danny Glover: "No Royal, I don't think you're an asshole. I just think you're kind of a son of a bitch." Gene Hackman: "Thank you, that means a lot to me." | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 892 Registered: 09-2006 |
A couple of great ones from George Orwell: "In a time of universal deception, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." It is the first duty of intelligent men to restate the obvious." And one from a source closer to this board: "Heard somebody say 'Ain't nothing wrong with need.'" | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 984 Registered: 09-2006 |
"The television, a samaritan during tribulations, had been re-po-SSESSED!" | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 197 Registered: 02-2008 |
Great diss, courtesy of Mr. Diddley: "It looks like your process took a recess." | ||
| Peter Collins Member Username: Tyroneshoelaces Post Number: 154 Registered: 05-2005 |
Homer Simpson again: "If at first you dont' succeed, give up." | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 174 Registered: 05-2005 |
"In the local news today, a young man on acid realized that matter is merely energy condensed to a slower vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves...Now here's Tom with the weather" - Bill Hicks | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 475 Registered: 01-2006 |
Leonard Cohen saying goodbye to the Dublin audience at last Saturday's gig: "At the risk of offending any atheists, god bless everyone" | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2160 Registered: 05-2005 |
Leonard Cohen in Dublin's very rustic National Stadium 20 years ago. "I saw billboards on the way in from the airport saying this is Dublin's millenium year. Well it's nice to play in one of the original buildings." | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 470 Registered: 05-2005 |
"I can't believe Amy Winehouse self-harms. She's so irritating she must be able to find someone to do it for her." Comedian Zoe Lyons, (won the public vote for funniest joke at Edinburgh Festival) | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 184 Registered: 02-2007 |
Bill Hicks on the fact that there was a group of Christians protesting FOR the death penalty somewhere in California. "I don't think it's ironic that Christians could be for the death penalty at all. Cos if it wasn't for capital punishment..........we wouldn't have Easter!" | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 356 Registered: 02-2008 |
I'm sick of following my dreams, man. I'm just going to ask where they're going and hook up with 'em later. - Mitch Hedberg | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 854 Registered: 08-2004 |
"Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand" Homer J Simpson | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1264 Registered: 01-2005 |
“I underestimated the dilapidated, horrific conditions our city was in. ... My biggest failure was not communicating. We have a long way to go, but we've come a mighty long way.” Kwame Klipatrick, former Detroit mayor who will soon be serving 4 months in the big house for many transgressions. He got caught lying to a grand jury from thousands of text messages between him and his woman on the side. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1174 Registered: 09-2006 |
"Never trust meteorological symbolism. Never." Especially the mindbogglingly lazyass sort that equates rain with horrible travails and sunshine with happyhappyhappiness. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 384 Registered: 02-2008 |
"I didn't know whether to duck or run, so I ran." - Bob Dylan | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2334 Registered: 05-2005 |
"At this point I should note that for the first time, both the United States secretary of state and secretary of defense have doctorates in Russian studies. A fat lot of good that’s done us." US Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, being admirably honest. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 402 Registered: 02-2008 |
Paul Krugman, hirstute but boyish, justly lauded economist on yesterday's failure to reach a "bailout" deal: "The U.S. now is just a banana republic with nukes". | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1246 Registered: 08-2006 |
Barney Frank, Democrat, Chairman of the House Banking Committee and a guy who's never at a loss for words, speaking after it was announced that the Republicans had voted down the bailout bill because Nancy Pelosi took Bush to task for our economic problems: "Here’s the story. There’s a terrible crisis affecting the American economy. We have come together on a bill to alleviate the crisis. And because somebody hurt [the Republicans'] feelings, they decide to punish the country. I mean, I would not have imputed that degree of pettiness and hypersensitivity. We also have — as the leader will tell you, who’s been working with them — don’t believe they had the votes, and I believe they’re covering up the embarrassment of not having the votes. "But think about this. 'Somebody hurt my feelings, so I will punish the country.' That’s hardly plausible. And there are 12 Republican members who were ready to stand up for the economic interest of America, but not if anybody insulted them. I’ll make an offer. Give me those 12 people’s names and I will go talk uncharacteristically nicely to them and tell them what wonderful people they are and maybe they’ll now think about the country." | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2354 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks for posting that Rob. A friend of mine in Mass used to work on Barney Frank's campaigns. He probably still does in fact. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1248 Registered: 08-2006 |
Barney Frank's one of the great quippers in the House of Representatives. I once remember him talking about abortion and saying something to the effect that Republicans believe life begins at conception and ends at birth. Classic stuff. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 446 Registered: 02-2008 |
"The reason Republicans are excited about Joe the Plumber is they're glad to have someone hanging around a toilet other than Larry Craig." James Carville | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1264 Registered: 08-2006 |
File under WTF, this comment from Alan Greenspan, once (and hopefully never again) known as "The Oracle": "I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interest of organizations, specifically banks and others, was such as they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders." As of this post, the Dow is down 350 points for the day and, what, a bazillion points in the last month? That's a heckuva mistake, Al. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1266 Registered: 08-2006 |
From McPain at a rally yesterday: "You know, the other night in the debate with Senator Obama, I said his eloquence is admirable, but pay attention to his words. We talk about offshore drilling and he said he would quote, consider, offshore drilling. We talked about nuclear power, well it has to be safe, environment, blah, blah, blah." | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1267 Registered: 08-2006 |
The great Randy Newman (apologies, Jeff!) talking politics and the sorry state of our nation with, of all places, Pitchfork: Pitchfork: Oh, it's pretty shitty everywhere. RN: It's because we're not taxed like other Western countries are. They lowered my taxes! How can a country countenance lowering taxes on the upper income? I can't believe it! | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 902 Registered: 08-2004 |
Hey this needs a revival. "The most stolen book of all time is The Bible. Which is fair enough. Until you've read it, how are you supposed to know you shouldn't be stealing?" Jimmy Carr |