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reading some topics today at RI made me think of those songs:

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Willie Nelson: What Happened to Peace on Earth?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MezGqmMCrwo
Published on Jul 31, 2014

How much is a liar's word worth?

KUAN » Sat Jul 05, 2014 4:57 pm wrote:Dedicated to the brave soldiers on both sides of every conflict everywhere

I keep watching this every time I log in now. Not only is it hilarious and inspiring in a silly way, but it has some pathos and depth to it too - it's like an alternate world where my drunk uncles can actually sing, and I like hearing them. Can also picture Captain Picard in the role, which makes it even funnier.

it reminds me a bit of this moderned-up Gilbert and Sullivan tune, which might help some of us to show a wee bit more sympathy to the tiny and ill-resourced teams of coppers who are expected to unravel and expose perhaps the most explosive and dangerous scandal in British history - this whole ongoing paedo thing.

Can't be easy, especially since they'll know plenty about Bulic Forsythe, Carol Kasir, Lee Johns, and other dead folk who were set to give evidence (or at least had evidence, in the form of their testimony).

Fast forward to 0.30 if necessary. There's a fair bit of this that could do with fast-forwarding altogether, tbh. But it's all good overall.

It’s only the evenings in the mess keeping me in this war

Ahab, thank you for the Noel Coward. I just picked up a nice copy of this book for $1 --



I've just started it, should be a refreshing break from biographies of assholes, histories of wars and depressing social criticism. Or not...

DJ Dan presents Stereo Damage - Episode 51 (Tribute to James Brown Mixtape 1993)

https://soundcloud.com/djdanmusic/sd-po ... ts/colundi

Elvis » Fri Aug 08, 2014 1:12 am wrote:Ahab, thank you for the Noel Coward. I just picked up a nice copy of this book for $1 --



I've just started it, should be a refreshing break from biographies of assholes, histories of wars and depressing social criticism. Or not...

Hehe, well, he did have a slightly dodgy side to him - at least, dodgy by modern standards - but I doubt that biography will go into that sort of stuff too much. There's no doubt that he was doing propaganda (and probably intelligence) work during and after WW2, but considering the threat to it's very existence that Britain faced at the time, and the fact that the targets of his most savage satires were (usually) the Nazis and Soviets, it's hard to hold it against him.

Sure, he was an unreconstructed snob and aspiring aristocrat, fully supportive (most of the time) of Empire and it's evils, and made a lot of money out of how comical British people find foreigners of any kind, but at least he was funny with it.

I would not like to speculate on what might come out if anyone took a serious look at his sex life (considering what many of his peers were up to at the time) so... I won't.