Did the guy wander into a Billy Bragg concert without knowing the politics or did he pay money just to get to shout that?
I mean, I had to google Mr. Bragg, but my dad was only a non-combat veteran so I may have not been told everything.
He defended Guam, but apparently Guam was mostly safe by 1951.
It is kind of ironic that, decades after standing up to Hitler, the British have such limited rights of free speech, with their McLibel trials and super injunctions and stuff.
We don't all know very much about British freedom of speech, or irony.
All British know very much about freedom, or irony of speech, don't we?
six very much embodies irony of some form.
I saw a guy at a Fugazi show with a tshirt that said "Keep YOUR politics out of MY music." I am thinking it had to be a joke. (And I think the heckler was being funny too.)
Politicians do stupid stuff like that all the time- Reagan with Born in the USA, many politicians with an "unbiased" song like This Land is Your Land.
Or when Clinton thought that Fleetwood Mac would somehow help attract voters.
I earwormed myself on that, but I'm going to blame SP.
I earwormed myself
You should probably go to the bathroom to do that. Or Nantucket.
Although Billy Joel once pointed out that Piano Man is just a bunch of limerick verses.
"And the waitress is practicing politics,
as the businessmen slowly get stoned.
They're sharing a drink they call Loneliness,
because they suck at nicknaming."
They're sharing a drink they call Loneliness,
And arguing homed versus honed.
Well, we're all in the mood for a melody
But we've got another thing coming.
17,18: My cow-orker loves the phrase "six dozen or the other." I know what he means, but how the hell do you get to that?
18, 19 -- I had a vision of Judas Priest storming onto stage and smashing Billy Joel's piano, and then realized that in this fantasy world I am pretending to be in Judas Priest, and now I'm confused and feel disoriented but still want to smash Billy Joel's piano.
20: I've heard "Six of one and a dozen of the other" and I love it. If only all decisions were that easy.
22. IME it means, "nothing to choose between them", so it may make for a difficult decision if you have to pick one and dump the other.
The standard form, "six of one and a half dozen of the other" would be a hard choice to make. The garbled version in 22 is pretty easy.
"Sixty-one and a half dozen of the otter" is what I've always heard.
Mr. Robot (Mr. Roboto?) is in Allentown today for work, and I blame him (and Billy Joel) for my current earworm.
I frequently misremembered it as "six and a half of one, a dozen of the other." I figured this applied to things with an exchange rate of 13:24.
Basically I figured it was some archaic reference that used to make sense, like "dollars to doughnuts."
I've found it amusing for a while that "dollars to doughnuts" now describes pretty even odds.
The donut stand at the farmer's market charges three bucks per.
This thread made me laugh surprisingly hard. Like, tears. Not that you guys aren't funny, but I'm also really tired at the moment.
Which is to say that I needed that.
The donut stand at the farmer's market charges three bucks per.
Well that's what you have to pay to get them fresh picked from the donut trees.
29: We need a new phrase that reflects the reality of inflation.
Jacksons to jellies?
Grants to granola bars?
Franklins to fritters?
C-notes to cenotes? (work with me here -- a hole in the ground can't be worth much, right?)
The problem with "Grands" is that I don't think it's ever pluralized in use -- it's the number, not a name for the bill. That is, "five hundred", in context, means $500, and "five hundreds" means five green rectangular pieces of paper with Franklin's face on them that are collectively worth $500. But no one ever says "two grands" to refer to two rectangles of paper with Grover Cleveland on them.
no one ever says "two grands" to refer to two rectangles of paper with Grover Cleveland on them.
Two non-consecutive pieces of paper, that is.
"New and different": would you describe "and different" as redundant, not quite redundant, or adding substantially significant information to the word "new"?
Once I get into this loop I just can't get out.
"New and different":
would you describe
"and different"
as
New,
Different,
New and different,
or None -
New and different,
Different,
New,
as
different
describe:
Different and New.
44: Horseshoes to handgrenades to atomic* bombs as we neighborhood wits would have it back in the day.
Or as Ron Burgundy would say, "Boy, that escalated quickly... I mean, that really got out of hand fast."
*Why we didn't go continue the alliteration with "hydrogen bombs" I don't know, but we didn't.