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| Tweet Topic Started: Aug 10 2007, 03:23 AM (176 Views) | |
| John D'Oh | Aug 10 2007, 03:23 AM Post #1 |
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MAMIL
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I was hopping through the channels last night in the vague hope of finding something worth watching (the delightfully uncouth Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares is a wonderful programme, which I eventually settled on) when I stumbled on CNN, covering the Utah mining cave-in, and speculating on the fate of the poor devils trapped down there. There was a barely-disguised (and in some cases undisguised) excitement to the whole coverage - and it's not just CNN, the Fair and Balanced Fox network is equally odious in this regard. It left a very sour taste. Imagine being the family of one of these people and having to watch this. I honestly wonder how they sleep at night. |
| What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket? | |
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| Mikhailoh | Aug 10 2007, 03:49 AM Post #2 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Don Henley, Dirty Laundry I make my living off the evening news Just give me something, something I can use People love it when you lose, they love dirty laundry Well, I could've been an actor, but I wound up here I just have to look good, I don't have to be clear Come and whisper in my ear, give us dirty laundry Kick 'em when they're up, kick 'em when they're down Kick 'em when they're up, kick 'em when they're down Kick 'em when they're up, kick 'em when they're down Kick 'em when they're up, kick 'em all around We got the bubbleheaded bleach-blonde, comes on at 5 She can tell you about the plane crash with a gleam in her eye It's interesting when people die, give us dirty laundry Can we film the operation? Is the head dead yet? You know the boys in the newsroom got a running bet Get the widow on the set, we need dirty laundry You don't really need to find out what's going on You don't really want to know just how far it's gone Just leave well enough alone, keep your dirty laundry Kick 'em when they're up, kick 'em when they're down Kick 'em when they're up, kick 'em when they're down Kick 'em when they're up, kick 'em when they're down Kick 'em when they're stiff, kick 'em all around Dirty little secrets, dirty little lies We got our dirty little fingers in everybody's pie Love to cut you down to size, we love dirty laundry We can do the innuendo, we can dance and sing When it's said and done, we haven't told you a thing We all know that crap is king, give us dirty laundry |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Frank_W | Aug 10 2007, 04:05 AM Post #3 |
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Resident Misanthrope
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Bingo. Mik nailed it. (Great song, by the way) |
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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin." Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!" | |
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| The 89th Key | Aug 10 2007, 07:28 AM Post #4 |
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I could never be a coal miner. Incredibly hard and dangerous work. |
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| Horace | Aug 10 2007, 07:55 AM Post #5 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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well, I think the families are the last ones who should have a problem with the national attention and all the resources that come with it. Anything that can be done is being done to get those miners out - hang the expense. And the size of jury awared law suit judgements will skyrocket because of the attention as well. |
| As a good person, I implore you to do as I, a good person, do. Be good. Do NOT be bad. If you see bad, end bad. End it in yourself, and end it in others. By any means necessary, the good must conquer the bad. Good people know this. Do you know this? Are you good? | |
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| RosemaryTwo | Aug 10 2007, 08:01 AM Post #6 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I find the newscasters teeth increasingly white, and their hair tinted to colors never found naturally on a person. I'm all right with beautiful people, it's the artificial ones that have me wondering what's going on in Atlanta. |
| "Perhaps the thing to do is just to let stupid run its course." Aqua | |
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| ivorythumper | Aug 10 2007, 08:25 AM Post #7 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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You should see "Ace in the Hole" with Kirk Douglas. It was on TV last month. Very topical. |
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| Red Rice | Aug 10 2007, 08:30 AM Post #8 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I hate TV news. |
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Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool. I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss! - Cecil Lewis | |
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| Larry | Aug 10 2007, 09:26 PM Post #9 |
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Mmmmmmm, pie!
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One thing they *all* do that makes me want to slap the snot out of them - they'll stick a microphone in the face of someone who's just lost a loved one and ask utterly stupid questions like... "and how does the fact that your son was just hacked in half by a madman make you feel?".... Why don't they just go ahead and ask things like... "Are you suffering?" "Want me to ask you some more STUPID QUESTIONS so you can suffer more?" Idiots..... |
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