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[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
What can I tell you, everything I know about England, Scotland, and Ireland I learned from Princess Diana's wedding, Rob Roy, Braveheart, and Circle of Friends.

do you have Ironweed on ignore?

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
May I recommend a bit of Joyce or some good Celtic poetry?

Will you read it to me in your brogue? I'm sure yours is better than Minnie Driver's.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
May I recommend a bit of Joyce or some good Celtic poetry?

Celtic poetry is what originally tuned the beer green.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
I'm not cranky today because of St Pat's Day. I'm cranky because my commute, while relatively short, is highly frustrating, and is made that much worse by the crap that passes for morning radio. Who decided that people on their way to work want to hear four obnoxious, loud, buffoonish assholes, both those who are employed by the radio "network" and those who have an inexplicable desire to call in to said network for their 10 seconds of non-fame, make bad, scatological, obvious, unfunny jokes at intolerable decibel levels for endless intervals between horrendously overplayed songs?

You know that whatever Clear Channel station you listen to in the morning will have the above format every single morning, yet you continue to tune in. You are part of the problem.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
You know that whatever Clear Channel station you listen to in the morning will have the above format every single morning, yet you continue to tune in. You are part of the problem.

Go ahead, blame the victim.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Go ahead, blame the victim.

I am the victim.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Will you read it to me in your brogue? I'm sure yours is better than Minnie Driver's.

I think they're both good for a laugh.

At least a bad brogue can be funny. The bad British accents (e.g., anything on PBS) are just painful.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
The bad British accents (e.g., anything on PBS) are just painful.

Are you suggesting that Judi Dench and Patricia Routledge et al are faking their British accents? Or that they're just not pleasing to the ear?

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Are you suggesting that Judi Dench and Patricia Routledge et al are faking their British accents? Or that they're just not pleasing to the ear?

I love Judi Dench. Talk about aging gracefully.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by bilmore
Celtic poetry is what originally tuned the beer green.

And any suggestion re Irish Literature that omits Yeats can't be taken seriously.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by bilmore
...worst of all, (and especially if you've ever brewed beer), no beer should ever, ever be green. That's just so wrong.

2.

But I still like it when they dye the Chicago River green.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
You know that whatever Clear Channel station you listen to in the morning will have the above format every single morning, yet you continue to tune in. You are part of the problem.

Speaking of market control, here's a good site for you anarchistic and counterculturistic economists...and Ty:

http://www.oligopolywatch.com/

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Are you suggesting that Judi Dench and Patricia Routledge et al are faking their British accents? Or that they're just not pleasing to the ear?

Not the reruns of British shows, the ones PBS produces themselves. All those Masterpiece Theatre specials where the only bona fide accent comes from the host.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
2.

But I still like it when they dye the Chicago River green.

They don't. That's just the only day they call attention to it.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
Not the reruns of British shows, the ones PBS produces themselves. All those Masterpiece Theatre specials where the only bona fide accent comes from the host.

Ah. I am more of a Monsterpiece Theatre fan.