Fashionistas you have arrived 3-25-03 - 10-3-03 - Page 712

ThrashersFan · 06-24-2003, 04:57 PM

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,90296,00.html

Spree: NEW YORK — The city violated the First Amendment rights of two firefighters and a police officer when it fired them for riding on a parade float in blackface in 1998, a judge ruled Tuesday.
U.S. District Judge John E. Sprizzo said the government "may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because a segment of society finds it offensive."

I totally did not hear about this when it happened but the decision seems solid. I gotta ask though, what were these guys thinking???

Not Bob · 06-24-2003, 04:57 PM

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Originally posted by ThrashersFan
Also, I was suprised not to see Squeeze's "Tempted" on the VH1 list -- or was it and I missed it? I hearted Squeeze when I was like 12 but never knew that Tempted was popular at all until one of those VH1 specials -- I prefer just about any one of their other tunes over "Tempted."

Well, they had at least one other hit -- the much beloved "Black Coffee in Bed." Good video, too.

And I happen to like "Tempted."

SlaveNoMore · 06-24-2003, 04:59 PM

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purse junkie
Agreed. And having given us both Taco and Falco, the Germans have a lot to apologize for, so our shipping over our talentless dreck to them is fair play.

You forgot the hirsuite Nena.

not7yS

PS - the Germans did give us MSG, the Scorpions and Accept

bilmore · 06-24-2003, 04:59 PM

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Originally posted by ThrashersFan
U.S. District Judge John E. Sprizzo said the government "may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because a segment of society finds it offensive."

I totally did not hear about this when it happened but the decision seems solid. I gotta ask though, what were these guys thinking???

This on the day after the SC rules that the Fed can order libraries to filter porn?

I sense a conflict . . .

ThrashersFan · 06-24-2003, 05:00 PM

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Originally posted by Not Bob
Well, they had at least one other hit -- the much beloved "Black Coffee in Bed." Good video, too.

And I happen to like "Tempted."

I don't not like Tempted, but I love so many of their other tunes that it isn't my fav by any stretch. In a nutshell, their sound is classic and I always love to sit on the deck at night and listen to them after a game while slurping beers. I guess I didn't realize that Black Coffee had been a hit either -- I just wasn't in touch in the 80s.

Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) · 06-24-2003, 05:01 PM

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Originally posted by Aloha Mr. Learned Hand
here are a few slightly harder ones:

1. Tarzan Boy
2. Life in a Northern Town
3. One Night in Bangkok
4. Mexican Radio
5. Love Plus One
6. Talk Talk

Where are the 4 choices?

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1. Baltimora
2. Dream Academy
3. Murray Head
4. Wall of Voodoo
5. Haircut 100
6. Talk Talk (edited to correct error based on GWNC's post)

06-24-2003, 05:01 PM

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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
She is soooo not.

She actually has talent. And she seems so filthy. Love that.

not7y(got a 100 on that quiz - waay too easy)S

Granted, I have only seen her on Punk'd but based on that , I wouldnt bang her with Less's dick. Can you post a pic of her where she looks attractive? I have actually been told I look like her and this was before I got my own baby butch haircut.

greatwhitenorthchick · 06-24-2003, 05:02 PM

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Originally posted by Aloha Mr. Learned Hand
The quiz was a tad too easy... here are a few slightly harder ones:

1. Tarzan Boy
2. Life in a Northern Town
3. One Night in Bangkok
4. Mexican Radio
5. Love Plus One
6. Talk Talk

Those are harder. Without googling, I know that 2 is Dream Academy, 3 is Murray Head (from the musical "Chess") and 6 is Talk Talk (I think, wasn't the band name the same as the song). I forget who sang 1, 4, and 5.

Did you all have the one hit wonder band the Payola$? That song was stuck in my head the other day. They may have been mercifully confined to Canadian airplay.

I also had the Romantics' Talking in your Sleep in my head the other day as well. Ugh.

Aloha Mr. Learned Hand · 06-24-2003, 05:02 PM

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Originally posted by Not Bob
Well, they had at least one other hit -- the much beloved "Black Coffee in Bed." Good video, too.

And I happen to like "Tempted."

Squeeze is a good example of a group that doesn't belong. While they only had one major hit, they had enough of a career and a body of work to merit exclusion... "Black Coffee in Bed" and "Mussels From a Shell", among others, are great songs.

"Now-w she's gone..."

ThrashersFan · 06-24-2003, 05:02 PM

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Originally posted by bilmore
This on the day after the SC rules that the Fed can order libraries to filter porn?

I sense a conflict . . .

The City plans to appeal so we may one day get to see how the Supreme Court goes on this one and whether or not it can uphold this while keeping the porn filters ("I know it when I see it").

SlaveNoMore · 06-24-2003, 05:05 PM

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Originally posted by Aloha Mr. Learned Hand
The quiz was a tad too easy... here are a few slightly harder ones:

1. Tarzan Boy
2. Life in a Northern Town
3. One Night in Bangkok
4. Mexican Radio
5. Love Plus One
6. Talk Talk

1) Baltimore-A [a great song]
2) Dream Acadamy
3) Murray Head [?]
4) Wall of Voodoo (Celtic Frost also did a cover)
5) Haircut 100
6) Talk Talk

I scare myself sometimes.

not7yS

ThrashersFan · 06-24-2003, 05:05 PM

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Originally posted by Aloha Mr. Learned Hand
Squeeze is a good example of a group that doesn't belong. While they only had one major hit, they had enough of a career and a body of work to merit exclusion... "Black Coffee in Bed" and "Mussels From a Shell", among others, are great songs.

"Now-w she's gone..."

I totally agree. Then again, I don't think there is total agreement on the definition of one-hit wonder.

What about, uhhhhh, Big Country? Was that on VH1s list??

purse junkie · 06-24-2003, 05:07 PM

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Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I also had the Romantics' Talking in your Sleep in my head the other day as well. Ugh.

I liked that song. They also did "What I Like About You."

Though visually, those guys were the embodiment of "Video Killed the Radio Star."

Flinty_McFlint · 06-24-2003, 05:07 PM

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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
there's a one hit wonder quiz right here: http://www.selfnetwork.com/tests/test.asp?testnum=7

I got a 72.

Woo hoo! I have no life! I got 92.

notcasesensitive · 06-24-2003, 05:09 PM

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Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Those are harder. Without googling, I know that 2 is Dream Academy, 3 is Murray Head (from the musical "Chess") and 6 is Talk Talk (I think, wasn't the band name the same as the song). I forget who sang 1, 4, and 5.

Did you all have the one hit wonder band the Payola$? That song was stuck in my head the other day. They may have been mercifully confined to Canadian airplay.

I also had the Romantics' Talking in your Sleep in my head the other day as well. Ugh.

Talk Talk's better song was It's My Life. The video had animals running across the plains and drawn in birds (and this was pre-Lion King). I also knew the Murray Head one, but I wouldn't have remembered the name if it wasn't on the quiz. Saw both Squeeze and Paul Young in an old theater venue during the 80s, so maybe now I can be TF's best friend... Well maybe not.

n(got a 92)cs