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Re: Douglas Adams Interview
« Reply #15 on: January 27, 2009, 02:37:40 am »
Quote from: smick on January 26, 2009, 07:04:45 pm
To build on what doc was saying, as a kid, I'd watch the Queen videos on MTV and god damn everything Mercury did just dripped of MACHO.  There's no irony in me telling you, him slapping his own white lycra covered ass, made me think he could punch out any dude and walk away with their girl.

Same thing is true of George Michael.  Him in the "Faith" video, against the Jukebox.  That is a tough, manly hombre that could just put his arms around me and hold me tight into his leather jacket with his strong arms and just... never let me go...

What I'm trying to say is: MTV made me gay for leather daddies.

Yeah this too, Freddy Mercury is only gay in retrospect and because he has been aped by the gay community.
Also because I would totally do him.
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Re: Douglas Adams Interview
« Reply #16 on: January 27, 2009, 02:44:42 am »
Wow.  I love Freddy Mercury and I always have, but I think the guy was kind of homely.  I mean, wasn't there a whole chapter dedicated to him in The Big Book of British Smiles?
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Re: Douglas Adams Interview
« Reply #17 on: January 27, 2009, 03:48:48 am »
Freddy Mercury owned the stage.  I've never seen a performer with more charisma.
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Re: Douglas Adams Interview
« Reply #18 on: January 27, 2009, 11:05:13 pm »
Don't drink and drive my car!  Don't get breathalyzed!
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Re: Douglas Adams Interview
« Reply #19 on: January 28, 2009, 12:51:25 am »
I think olde Freddles may have taken the maxim "have a good time, all the time" as far as it can possibly be took.

I do miss the insanely talented bastard.
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Re: Douglas Adams Interview
« Reply #20 on: January 28, 2009, 03:16:33 am »
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hipster-geek cutesy-wootsey irony? what the fuck?

You know what I mean. Uppercrust Boarding School insulated wankery. The kind of arrogantly condescending silliness that suffocates all of the actual humor in a sea of masturbatory smug self-satisfaction and all that's left is the twin residues of non-sequitur and secret buggery. Trying to be like Monty Python without realizing that unless you're supremely talented, that kind of thing isn't actually funny. Analogous to trying to be like The Simpsons and ending up with a karmabortion like The Family Guy.
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Re: Douglas Adams Interview
« Reply #21 on: January 28, 2009, 04:04:55 am »
Quote from: littlefallsmets on January 28, 2009, 03:16:33 am
Analogous to trying to be like The Simpsons and ending up with a karmabortion like The Family Guy.

And I thought I was alone--most people I know love The Family Guy. I need to meet new people.
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Re: Douglas Adams Interview
« Reply #22 on: January 28, 2009, 04:08:00 am »
Well, you've got us.
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Re: Douglas Adams Interview
« Reply #23 on: January 28, 2009, 04:38:03 am »
Of course, but it helps in life to know a few non-imaginary people too.
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Re: Douglas Adams Interview
« Reply #24 on: January 28, 2009, 04:50:50 am »
If real-life humans don't understand the difference between "referencing something from the popular culture" and "making a joke" just call me Fakey McMadeup.
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Re: Douglas Adams Interview
« Reply #25 on: January 28, 2009, 04:56:54 am »
Fair enough.
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Re: Douglas Adams Interview
« Reply #26 on: January 28, 2009, 05:19:24 am »
After all this I almost forgot I actually listened to the interview. It was actually pretty good, mainly because the DJ seemed happy enough to let the conversation wander where it would, a few tidbits in there I was previously unaware of. Thanks Paul.
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Re: Douglas Adams Interview
« Reply #27 on: January 28, 2009, 05:50:36 am »
Ha, I was just coming to ask if anyone had actually listened to the interview.
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Re: Douglas Adams Interview
« Reply #28 on: January 28, 2009, 04:23:12 pm »
Quote from: littlefallsmets on January 28, 2009, 04:50:50 am
If real-life humans don't understand the difference between "referencing something from the popular culture" and "making a joke" just call me Fakey McMadeup.

Yet somehow they keep incrementing the *Blank* Movie franchise.

It is my greatest sorrow to tell you that I actually went and saw Date Movie.  The ladyfriend and I saw it because of Alyson Hannigan.  Slightly unrelated and parallel, I was once at a pentecostal service and ended up the only person in the room not speaking in tongues.  Ladyfriend and I were the only movie goers who didn't find any of it funny.  Punch line after punch line of "I certainly saw that in a trailer for a different movie."
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Re: Douglas Adams Interview
« Reply #29 on: January 28, 2009, 06:48:27 pm »
I've been to a Pentecostal church and watched that scene.  It's hard to keep a straight face, but it's pretty hilarious to watch.

When I lived in Utah I dated a girl who insisted White Chicks was the funniest film ever made.  I figured I had to watch it if I was going to get laid.  I gotta say The Wayans Brothers have really made me appreciate the good work that Pauly Shore was doing back in the 90's.*

*The joke here is that The Wayans Brothers are so unfunny that Pauly Shore seems funny by comparison.
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