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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Nov 20, 2020 8:54:27 GMT -5
I don't care what anyone says, I still like Ike.  I just didn't like he beat up Tina Turner. This is immediatly where my brain went after reading becca's post but before reading cody's post. At least I can still feel young here, if not anywhere else on the internet. ;-) |
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 20, 2020 9:28:24 GMT -5
The song “Having my baby” by Paul Anka is the strangest hit song of all time.
There I said it.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2020 9:33:28 GMT -5
The song “Having my baby” by Paul Anka is the strangest hit song of all time. There I said it. For me, it's Batdance by Prince....I still scratch my head and wonder WTF?
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Post by Cei-U! on Nov 20, 2020 10:24:48 GMT -5
The song “Having my baby” by Paul Anka is the strangest hit song of all time. There I said it. There are no words to express how much I hate that song.
Cei-U! I summon the antipthy!
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Post by berkley on Nov 20, 2020 12:08:07 GMT -5
The song “Having my baby” by Paul Anka is the strangest hit song of all time. There I said it. There are no words to express how much I hate that song.
Cei-U! I summon the antipthy!
I'm not a fan either, though I do think it's cool that 50s hit-makers like Paul Anka and Neil Sedaka were able to have comeback Top 40 chart-toppers in the 70s.
There's a whole slew of male/female duets that I can't stand but were big hits in the 70s: "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" by Elton John and Kiki Dee, for example - the beginning of the end for Elton John, as far as I'm concerned. Also everything I've ever heard from Captain and Tenille.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Nov 20, 2020 12:37:37 GMT -5
The song “Having my baby” by Paul Anka is the strangest hit song of all time. There I said it. For me, it's Batdance by Prince....I still scratch my head and wonder WTF? Big fan of his music throughout most of his career. But the Batman soundtrack is the strangest one in that I either love a song or hate it. I've never had such polar opposite reactions to any other of his albums. But yes Batdance is a terrible terrible song. |
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Post by beccabear67 on Nov 20, 2020 14:39:04 GMT -5
I don't care what anyone says, I still like Ike. I just didn't like he beat up Tina Turner. "Whatta revoltin' development.... I knew I shoulda added pics!" (spoken like Ben Grimm)   |
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Post by impulse on Nov 20, 2020 17:38:28 GMT -5
If anyone is interested, Chris Claremont just did a Q&A on the Comic Books subreddit this week. While his work can be rather polarizing, particularly his more recent stuff, his interviews and ideas are always interesting to read about.
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Post by Batflunkie on Nov 20, 2020 19:52:37 GMT -5
So much like MRP mentioned, my internet has kind of been all over the place. On phones, I'm getting one or two bars. On computer, browsers just do what they want with pages either needing to be refreshed several times in order to fully load properly or just not doing so at all and our Direct TV has been acting up as well.
I called AT&T customer support earlier and the automaton said that everything was fine on on my end through a quick test (i.e. good download and upload speed), but I might need to restart my box.
Honestly, I'm not sure if that will really help things
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2020 23:01:48 GMT -5
So much like MRP mentioned, my internet has kind of been all over the place. On phones, I'm getting one or two bars. On computer, browsers just do what they want with pages either needing to be refreshed several times in order to fully load properly or just not doing so at all and our Direct TV has been acting up as well. I called AT&T customer support earlier and the automaton said that everything was fine on on my end through a quick test (i.e. good download and upload speed), but I might need to restart my box. Honestly, I'm not sure if that will really help things We ended up having to replace the modem. Customer service diagnostics said everything was good on our end, but we couldn't connect and ended up having to have a service call and have someone come out. Things have been fine since they replaced the modem, but hopefully things work out for you. -M |
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 20, 2020 23:08:01 GMT -5
Had to have been the 20th anniversary of D-Day, since Ike died in '69. Cei-U! I summon the calendar! It was....finger slip on the number keypad |
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Post by Confessor on Nov 20, 2020 23:13:49 GMT -5
I just finished re-uploading all the images to my old Star Wars at Marvel review thread (they were all deleted when tinypic.com shut down last year). I've been idly re-uploading images in fits and starts since then and today I finally finished. Fingers crossed that the current image hosting site they're stored on lasts a good long while. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 20, 2020 23:19:47 GMT -5
There are no words to express how much I hate that song.
Cei-U! I summon the antipthy!
I'm not a fan either, though I do think it's cool that 50s hit-makers like Paul Anka and Neil Sedaka were able to have comeback Top 40 chart-toppers in the 70s.
There's a whole slew of male/female duets that I can't stand but were big hits in the 70s: "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" by Elton John and Kiki Dee, for example - the beginning of the end for Elton John, as far as I'm concerned. Also everything I've ever heard from Captain and Tenille.
Ugh, I don't. I was tortured by that through the 70s, on the radio station my parents listed to. I'd rather have hot pokers jammed through both eardrums than hear Neil Sedaka. Paul Anka isn't quite as bad. I'm okay with Captain and Tenille on a few songs, though not Muskrat Love. Stupid and overplayed until I could escape to the land of New Wave. I don't mind some Easy Listening/Adult Contemporary/Soft Rock/Boring Pap whatever you want to call up; but, I much preferred something with some life to it. Our local station played a lot of that junk, some crossover country, a bit of pop, the occasional R&B/Funk, disco (later 70s); but, I had to suffer through a lot of The Carpenters and Bobby Goldsboro and John Denver to get the occasional ELO or Earth, Wind & Fire. Salvation came in the form of my own radio, WLS Chicago, and Pat Benatar, The Cars, Cheap Trick, Blondie, Toto, Devo, the Motels, The Tubes, and then an explosion of stuff when we got cable and MTV, in 1982. Even worse was the stuff my mom played on their AM/FM clock radio which was a parade of the stuff they make fun of on Good Morning Vietnam. Ray Coniff still sends me into a fetal position! |
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 20, 2020 23:20:19 GMT -5
I just finished re-uploading all the images to my old Star Wars at Marvel review thread (they were all deleted when tinypic.com shut down last year). I've been idly re-uploading images in fits and starts since then and today I finally finished. Fingers crossed that the current image hosting site they're stored on lasts a good long while. Green rabbits everywhere!!! |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2020 23:26:33 GMT -5
Welp the Health Department in the county I live in issued a stay-at-home advisory going into effect Sunday and lasting until Dec. 20th or until they cancel it. It's not an order, the Health Department has no enforcement mechanisms behind it, but it is basically saying you shouldn't be out there right now except for necessities. It won't shut down my place of employment, but it could affect the volume of custom we see. Of course, we are in the predicament we are because a lot of folks in our county still think COVID is a hoax. over-exaggerated and/or that requiring masks/social distancing and limiting gatherings is too inconvenient for them and "infringes on their god-given constitutional freedoms" (as one fellow loudly proclaimed in our establishment tonight when he was asked to have a mask on to enter), so it will likely be ignored by the bulk of the people in my county anyways. Meanwhile, our state (and our county in particular) continues to set records for cases, hospitalizations and COVID-deaths on a daily basis. I guess they reap what they sow.
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