This will be my 12th to the last post on the main board!

[Jim VB]

Originally Posted by Matt

15 yard penalty for re-using a joke.
http://www.net54baseball.com/showpos...3&postcount=32

I'm challenging that! Jeff's previous abuse of Brad carried no mention of gays, no reference to Venn diagrams, and, in fact, accused Brad of BEING Sammy Davis Junior.

I think Brad HATES SDJ. (Also, I included a link to a GREAT video.)

Totally different joke. (That... and I must have missed Jeff's the first time around.)

[Matt]

Originally Posted by Jim VB

(Also, I included a link to a GREAT video.)

Jim - I just assumed the video was of SDJ - having now viewed said video, I completely retract the flag.

[Jim VB]

Originally Posted by Matt

Jim - I just assumed the video was of SDJ - having now viewed said video, I completely retract the flag.

Correct terminology is:

"Upon further review..."

[calvindog]

Matt, you've got a great memory. Next, Jim's joke was a pale comparison to mine and unoriginal; however, putting up that video of an incredibly obscure, early 70s(?) annoyingly horrible song that was completely forgotten by me (but now will live with me forever) deserves some serious merit -- and of course it is completely applicable to the situation at hand.

[Jim VB]

Originally Posted by calvindog

...video of an incredibly obscure, early 70s(?) annoyingly horrible song that was completely forgotten by me...

1966.


That absolves anyone your age for forgetting it.

[calvindog]

I was just one year old then...but I know I had heard that song before so somehow, someway it must have had some shelf-life (God only knows why). I love the video, however. Different, non-politically correct era.

[Jim VB]

Originally Posted by calvindog

I love the video, however. Different, non-politically correct era.

Of course, videos had no footprint back in 1966, but that song took incredible heat. I think it climbed to a Top 5 hit but then radios stations started getting pressure not to play it. I lived in NY back then and I think both WABC and WMCA took it off their playlists and the record company (BMI ???) withdrew it.

[calvindog]

Originally Posted by Jim VB

Of course, videos had no footprint back in 1966, but that song took incredible heat. I think it climbed to a Top 5 hit but then radios stations started getting pressure not to play it. I lived in NY back then and I think both WABC and WMCA took it off their playlists and the record company (BMI ???) withdrew it.

Sounds like a conspiracy to me. Were there many 'bankers' living in NYC back then?

[ChrisStufflestreet]

Originally Posted by Jim VB

Of course, videos had no footprint back in 1966, but that song took incredible heat. I think it climbed to a Top 5 hit but then radios stations started getting pressure not to play it. I lived in NY back then and I think both WABC and WMCA took it off their playlists and the record company (BMI ???) withdrew it.

But it was good enough to be "revived" in 1973. It only hit #87 on the national charts, but it's interesting that it could get re-issued seven years after it was supposedly blacklisted.

I was only a year old in '73 but maybe somebody here can answer: was the song's re-emergence brought on by Dr. Demento? Perhaps he was playing the song on his radio show and a populace that had lived through what happened between '66 and '73 could appreciate it better.

[timzcardz]

Originally Posted by calvindog

Different, non-politically correct era.

Yeah, Back then it was was considered acceptable for dog catchers to secure loose dogs and take them away.

[barrysloate]

I was in a camp in Maine that summer of 1966 and remember the song well. It was really popular but a lot of people felt it was just too strange...and for good reason. I believe the flip side of the 45 was a song recorded backwards, perhaps that very tune.

[FrankWakefield]

From the Merriam-Webster online dictionary:

Homonym- one of two or more words spelled and pronounced alike but different in meaning.

Homophone- one of two or more words pronounced alike but different in meaning or derivation or spelling.


Calmly, now.... the words have to be spelled alike and pronounced alike to be homonyms; but need only be pronounced alike to be homophones.

That allaboutspelling site is incomplete and a bit ambiguous. Admittedly, some definitions for homonyms allow an "or" instead of an "an" for the spelling and pronunciation, and therein is the confusion. Wikipedia explains the too better, as does the Merriam Webster awn lion dictionary. To give precision to the meaning of homonym, and in looking at its origin, it seems that heat and heat would be homonyms, heat (to make hot) and heat (a grouping of contestants in a race), and also they would be homophones. While meat, meet, and mete would only be homophones....

With this attempt at explaining the too, I'm now dun.

[murcerfan]

sew..too plus too makes fore? oar are we getting know wear hear?

[FrankWakefield]

love it !