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Post by BobWilliston on Jun 20, 2016 0:21:19 GMT -5
Paul Anka had class. He didn't perform in a tank top, shirtless or with purple hair like the trash of today. What's wrong with purple hair? Ellie has purple hair & I think it looks nice!I saw a kid at convention once with green hair.
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Post by ellie on Jun 20, 2016 6:15:18 GMT -5
I agree banning things like TV leaves people without the skills to deal with those things when they do eventually encounter them or similar things. Thus you see professong people TV binging while on holidays or these days with Netflix. People who have watched television all their lives do that... Even if you were right, what's worse, an occasional few wasted hours in a hotel room, or 10-20+ wasted hours per week over a childhood or a lifetime? It might depend on what is being watched some of those kids educational shows are quite good. However, it's young professing adults staying up late often and saying they go to work the next day unable to function properly because they couldn't stop watching a TV series the night before that I'm thinking about. Some even admit to accessing Netflix from the US as apparently we don't have the range here. Then there are other kinds of unethical imo file sharing. Of course non-professing people do these things but imo I don't think the banning of TV followed by unlimited access is working in the professing adults favour . I didn't have TV in my early childhood if that's what you mean. I certainly had access to TV in later years growing up not that I cared much one way or another. That's the thing with banning something though, it may not actually work.
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Post by ellie on Jun 20, 2016 6:32:11 GMT -5
Paul Anka had class. He didn't perform in a tank top, shirtless or with purple hair like the trash of today.I see. Interesting. There are many people in the world with different shades of hair or skin colour or different types of clothing. Reminds me of this cool cover
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2016 6:56:13 GMT -5
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Post by ellie on Jun 20, 2016 7:55:41 GMT -5
What does it mean do you think? Cyclic nature to life?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2016 8:10:06 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2016 8:19:20 GMT -5
Bette Davis on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2016 10:07:41 GMT -5
What does it mean do you think? Cyclic nature to life? A probability, who really knows for certain?
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Post by rational on Jun 21, 2016 13:25:11 GMT -5
I wished people aspired to be great. What are your aspirations?
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Post by rational on Jun 21, 2016 13:32:12 GMT -5
If you are looking at actors from long ago you must consider Thespis! He was unquestionably number one in his field.
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Post by calleduntoliberty on Jun 21, 2016 13:34:49 GMT -5
If you are looking at actors from long ago you must consider Thespis! He was unquestionably number one in his field. Yes, but did he wear a tie?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2016 13:43:53 GMT -5
Dean Martin (DINO) and Perry Como.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2016 13:45:54 GMT -5
This crap in the last 3 decades including Grateful Dead, Genesis, Red Hot chili Peppers, Guns and Roses, can't come up to the Golden Age.
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Post by calleduntoliberty on Jun 21, 2016 14:01:52 GMT -5
This crap in the last 3 decades including Grateful Dead, Genesis, Red Hot chili Peppers, Guns and Roses, can't come up to the Golden Age. That trash from the 1940s and 1950s doesn't compare well to what came before it, either. Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Wagner, Beethoven, Bach, Mendelssohn, Haydn.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2016 15:10:27 GMT -5
This crap in the last 25 years or so makes me want to vomit..Horrible.
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Post by calleduntoliberty on Jun 21, 2016 16:34:28 GMT -5
It's bad... but such is the way of the world. I just ignore it.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2016 18:33:07 GMT -5
Nat King cole had a great voice and dressed professionally. NKC died too soon at 46. He had so much class unlike the rappers of today. NKC is another great American.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2016 19:09:30 GMT -5
No class
1960 CLASS!!!!!
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Post by rational on Jun 21, 2016 22:10:21 GMT -5
If you are looking at actors from long ago you must consider Thespis! He was unquestionably number one in his field. Yes, but did he wear a tie? I would not be surprised to learn that he wore nothing. The Greeks were like that at times! And no, I doubt he ware the traditional phallic symbol that some posting here seem to revere!
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Post by withlove on Jun 21, 2016 23:41:16 GMT -5
I am going to say one more thing. I see facebook photos of girls in short skirts on convention grounds. Early movie stars wouldn't have appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show, Dick Cavett, Merv Griffin or Johnny Carson show dresses like that. Imagine Harriett Nelson or Joan Crawford showing that much skin on one of the TV shows. From the guys at the local department store to the top entertainers and performers of today, people can't separate casual from professional. Businesses have dress down Fridays. College professors wear old jeans with the knees out of them. I can't tell the difference between a doctor and a nurses assistant. My last doctor looked like a heavy metal punk. America had better get back on track or we will fall like all great civilizations. I remember when one car out of two was a GM product. Now it is one of five and that is due to truck sales. I remember when K Mart was bigger than Wal Mart. I remember when New York had more people than Texas. I remember when A and P stores were in every small town. I remember when Philadelphia was bigger than Houston or Dallas. I remember when you never saw anything made in many of the Asian nations. All good things fall. We aren't that yet but we are on a downward spiral, I fear. I hope I don't see the day when we have to have bars over doors and windows like in some countries. I hope I don't see daily street battles and roads closes due to fighting between military and breakaway groups. I hope people don't start disappearing and rotting in jails for expressing their thoughts. I hope murder, rape, theft etc. isn't accepted and those opposing these things are labeled as bigots, narrow minded etc.....Wake up America. What if businesses had robe and sandal Fridays? And I'm not following what you mean about the populations of NY and Philly vs. Texas, Houston, and Dallas...
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Post by dmmichgood on Jun 22, 2016 2:42:09 GMT -5
What does it mean do you think? Cyclic nature to life? A probability, who really knows for certain? I thought that it was an anti-war song. Are you all too young to remember the Viet Nam war? Pete Seeger added a few verses and made the song into a cycle. Although Seeger's song was originally made popular in the time of upheaval that surrounded the protests in the United States about the Viet Nam War, the lyrics take on a wider meaning. The song is really about the cycle of history and how impossible it is to break. The first stanza goes:
Where have all the flowers gone? Long time passing... Where have all the flowers gone? Long time ago... Where have all the flowers gone? Maidens picked them every one! When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn?
Then the song asks a series of questions in a similar vein, one proceeding from the other.
Where have all the maidens gone?...Taken by young men. Where have all the young men gone?...Turned to soldiers. Where have all the soldiers gone?...Gone to graveyards. Where have all the graveyards gone?...Turned to Flowers. Where have all the flowers gone?...and so the cycle repeats. Doesn't it remind you of the Poppy Fields in France, the graveyard of so many soldiers?
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Post by ellie on Jun 22, 2016 4:40:50 GMT -5
A probability, who really knows for certain? I thought that it was an anti-war song. Are you all too young to remember the Viet Nam war? Pete Seeger added a few verses and made the song into a cycle. Although Seeger's song was originally made popular in the time of upheaval that surrounded the protests in the United States about the Viet Nam War, the lyrics take on a wider meaning. The song is really about the cycle of history and how impossible it is to break. The first stanza goes:
Where have all the flowers gone? Long time passing... Where have all the flowers gone? Long time ago... Where have all the flowers gone? Maidens picked them every one! When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn?
Then the song asks a series of questions in a similar vein, one proceeding from the other.
Where have all the maidens gone?...Taken by young men. Where have all the young men gone?...Turned to soldiers. Where have all the soldiers gone?...Gone to graveyards. Where have all the graveyards gone?...Turned to Flowers. Where have all the flowers gone?...and so the cycle repeats. Doesn't it remind you of the Poppy Fields in France, the graveyard of so many soldiers? Thanks DMG I was wondering and that makes lots of sense. Don Walker wrote a good Aussie Nam song for Cold Chisel it's called Khe Sanh. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfDI2ZjXwK8
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2016 10:19:04 GMT -5
Wow, this is the first time I am hearing this song.
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Post by ellie on Jun 22, 2016 17:54:10 GMT -5
Wow, this is the first time I am hearing this song. If you mean Khe Sanh. That doesn't suprise me. Every Aussie pretty much knows the lyrics though, that's in spite of the fact that Australia did not have ground troops in Khe Sanh. We are an odd politically incorrect lot sometimes.
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Post by dmmichgood on Jun 22, 2016 23:12:00 GMT -5
This crap in the last 3 decades including Grateful Dead, Genesis, Red Hot chili Peppers, Guns and Roses, can't come up to the Golden Age. That trash from the 1940s and 1950s doesn't compare well to what came before it, either. Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Wagner, Beethoven, Bach, Mendelssohn, Haydn. You two sure are living in the past!
Not that Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Wagner, Beethoven, Bach, Mendelssohn, Haydn AREN'T GREAT; -they are, but can't you guys tell classical music, -which is what they are, -from popular music?
Geeze!
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Post by ellie on Jun 23, 2016 8:02:49 GMT -5
Little known Aussie talent. No ties though.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2016 9:13:29 GMT -5
I don't think a tie is necessary. I only pointed it out to make a comparison from yesterday and today. But these shirtless tatted monsters on the stage today show no class whatsoever.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2016 9:15:35 GMT -5
One young man in Britain has class and that is Liam McNally.
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