he said "about"

Dec 19, 2001 11:25

We all have weird, tiny, stupid reasons for smiling, don't we? Some of us smile because we saw a cute puppy. Some of us smile because we heard a particularly apt song play on a mall sound system. Today's stupid reason for Cris smiling is hearing Connection host Dick Gordon say "about."

Listen to him say it. Listen to him say "out", the ( Read more... )

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eeyrg December 19 2001, 09:31:59 UTC
um, I for one, am happy Brian Adams is Canadian. :-)

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ooh and... eeyrg December 19 2001, 09:36:24 UTC
Celine Dion too....

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you want to play that game? cris December 19 2001, 09:42:32 UTC
we may have inflicted Bryan Adams upon the world, but we haven't produced a Michael Bolton.

and Celine Dion? that was retribution for Whitney Houston.

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Re: you want to play that game? ayun December 19 2001, 09:44:54 UTC
See that right there's a good argument for Quebec independence.
If that had happened, then Canada proper would no longer be technically responsible for Celine Dion.

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Re: you want to play that game? cris December 19 2001, 10:58:27 UTC
heh ... and to take that a step further, we could advocate the idea of Quebec as cultural penal colony. Fabricate some ancient genealogical link between William Shatner and some village near Montreal.

tho, losing Quebec means that we'd lose ownership over Leonard Cohen and that would be bad.

... but it is Celine Dion ...

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Re: you want to play that game? eeyrg December 19 2001, 09:54:08 UTC
yeah but you also have such greats as: Loverboy, Triumph, Corey Hart, Alanis...

And HA! This website even lists Bryan Adams as ALTERNATIVE! HA!! :-)
http://www.canehdian.com/genre/rockpop.html

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Re: you want to play that game? cris December 19 2001, 10:51:27 UTC
yeah, but I never pretended that we were perfect.

and besides ... Loverboy? you're scraping the barrel going back that far. Let's just clear the table and name Snow, Alannah Myles, and Bruce Cockburn.

so, yeah, we've produced our lame pop stars too. But, hey, we also gave the world Leonard Cohen and Sarah Mclachlan, and that's worth some kind of pardon, no?

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Re: you want to play that game? eeyrg December 19 2001, 10:54:03 UTC
Oh hey..."Life is a Highway....I wanna ride it...."

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Re: you want to play that game? loxocele December 19 2001, 09:56:02 UTC
oh jesus...yeah, we really fucked up there. michael bolton = far, far worse than bryan adams. by a long shot. evil, evil evil evil.

although you, c'ris, are also evil....now that i know you can listen to The Connection via computer, i'm going to be here all afternoon! :P

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Re: you want to play that game? cris December 19 2001, 11:08:49 UTC
although you, c'ris, are also evil....now that i know you can listen to The Connection via computer, i'm going to be here all afternoon! :P
oh, like that's such a horrible fate. You'll notice that I dropped links to the This American Life archive too, so you get all sorts of public radio goodness.

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