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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2014 11:51:32 GMT
I read that same thing BJD and had the same reaction.
Apparently, she is not the first to do this. In 2010 Brad Pitt's exhale in a jar was sold on e-bay for some astronomical amount of money.
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Post by questa on Oct 28, 2014 13:45:53 GMT
bjd...have you not heard about the Great Australian Irony. I don't know anyone who has heard of Sia Furler...not a household name. The whole thing sounds like a great sendup of the OTT attendees of the Festival. On re-reading Duthrie's words, they echo the use of this phrase by a high profile arty woman.
If it is for real...shoot me.
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Post by bjd on Oct 28, 2014 16:35:04 GMT
Questa, I would hope it is meant as irony but I'm beginning to think that nothing would surprise me any more when it comes to human idiocy. Keep your eyes open to see how much someone is willing to pay for a jar of breath -- it might make the news in Adelaide.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2014 17:27:33 GMT
Well, for years the souvenir shops of Paris have been selling empty tins of "air de Paris" albeit not for a fortune.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 28, 2014 22:27:18 GMT
For decades, and probably still, you could buy cans of "Florida sunshine".
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Post by questa on Oct 29, 2014 0:18:30 GMT
In true Aussie style and taste they sell canned "Bunyip farts" in places along the Murray river.
I rest my case.
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Post by questa on Oct 29, 2014 0:26:42 GMT
BTW Apologies to Ms Furler, I Googled her name and found she has a large and impressive oeuvre, a bit out of my experience though.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 29, 2014 2:29:16 GMT
This is so stupid, so backward on my part that I am reluctant to admit it, but ......... Only a few minutes ago I found out that Bob Dylan wrote I Shall Be Released. How could such a major cultural fact have completely escaped me all these years?!
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Post by bjd on Oct 29, 2014 9:07:59 GMT
I didn't know that either, but I can imagine Joan Baez singing it.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2014 10:59:58 GMT
At least Ms.Furler is donating the proceeds to charity.
With reference to "I Shall Be Released", I can't believe you didn't know it was a Dylan song, although covered by many others. (Bixa, I seem to remember you being particularly fond of Nina Simone's cover of it.)
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 29, 2014 16:22:24 GMT
I know! That's true that I adore the Nina Simone version, but before I knew of hers, I must have listened to The Last Waltz album at least a million times. Also, it feels like something I never knew, not something that I simply forgot.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2014 19:05:21 GMT
Well, you get a D on your Rock and Roll report card.
Actually, more people I know think that Jimi Hendrix wrote "All Along The Watchtower" rather than Dylan.
Admittedly, Hendrix's cover of it is phenomenal.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2014 19:35:48 GMT
I know you're all going to stone me for this, but I have never really liked Bob Dylan, so I have no idea what he has written besides "Blowin' in the Wind."
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2014 19:50:56 GMT
I already knew that K2, so, no fears from me.
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Post by questa on Oct 29, 2014 21:47:30 GMT
"Ev'ry body's gunna get stoned..."
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 30, 2014 1:46:47 GMT
Questa!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2014 19:34:31 GMT
Same as for pizza, the French are the 2nd largest consumers of chewing gum in the world after the United States. I have always hated it myself.
One thing that I did not know is that the gum itself is now synthetic. It is no longer made of chicle but of synthetic rubber.
I feel that my hatred of chewing gum is even more validated.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 8, 2014 19:53:16 GMT
Fear not! The very second that I become Absolute Dictator, chewing gum will be outlawed around the world. Anyone caught spitting gum on the ground will be shot on sight. People chewing in public will be stripped naked and forced to graze in a pasture with other ruminants. Stockpilers and black marketeers will be hunted down and dealt with harshly.
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Post by mossie on Nov 8, 2014 20:33:14 GMT
One of my favourite expressions when miscreants are discussed is that "they should be put up against the wall" and shot.
While using this at work one day during a discussion about bankers and similar low life a colleague asked me how big a wall I needed as the list was growing. My response
"How about the Great Wall of China"
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Post by questa on Nov 8, 2014 21:56:39 GMT
Whenever a work colleague or friend etc was starting to annoy me, my expression was, "come the Revolution you'll be first against the wall."
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 8, 2014 23:39:24 GMT
My husband once told me that after a while being Absolute Dictator wouldn't be any fun for me, since EVERYONE would be dead.
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Post by htmb on Nov 11, 2014 21:43:56 GMT
Tonight in Washington, DC there will be a concert on the National Mall to commemorate veterans. There are many headliners scheduled to perform such as Bruce Springsteen and Eminem. Because of the concert, the whole blue line of the DC Metro, a major line, has been stopped for the day and many employees who use the line, but whose work did not stop for the holiday, are working from home.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2014 22:02:29 GMT
If it was not a holiday for everyone, I disapprove of what they did.
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Post by htmb on Nov 11, 2014 22:08:10 GMT
I disapprove, also, but believe it SHOULD have been a holiday for everyone. Apparently there are some companies that did not give employees the day off, though I imagine the numbers are relatively small.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2014 23:05:46 GMT
Watching many of the commemorative programmes for November 11th today, I learned "once again" (because I realised that I had heard it before) that the American troops who arrived in Europe in 1917 were called "Sammies."
This was because of "Uncle Sam."
I also saw something more distressing -- the fact that General Pershing refused to allow American troops to be placed under any centralised European command. In any case, it was very quickly determined that the American troops were complete neophytes anyway and needed to be trained by the French and the British, because they had not the slightest concept of military combat.
In the meantime, Pershing released the "nigger soldiers" to the French and British as a symbolic offering. This was both wonderful and terrible. The American black soldiers were amazed and thrilled to be treated like human beings, but they were also used as normal combat soldiers and died accordingly. The black soldiers under American command were never used in combat but just as kitchen help or cleaning staff. A lot of the ones who survived were the ones who introduced the Europeans to a totally new kind of music -- jazz.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2014 23:39:53 GMT
I am often accused of jumping to conclusions or wallowing in stereotypes, but it's official:
The average French video game player is male, young (average age 31), Parisian and not gainfully employed (but not necessarily on the unemployment lists).
That was already what I thought, but I did not spend money to do an official survey like the TNS Sofres institute.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2014 12:23:28 GMT
Fear not! The very second that I become Absolute Dictator, chewing gum will be outlawed around the world. Anyone caught spitting gum on the ground will be shot on sight. People chewing in public will be stripped naked and forced to graze in a pasture with other ruminants. Stockpilers and black marketeers will be hunted down and dealt with harshly. Please appoint me as a deputy Bixa so that I can assist you. I promise I'll do a good job.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 22, 2014 15:05:10 GMT
I have no doubt that you will discharge your duties with zeal & verve!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2014 18:05:07 GMT
PHEW!!!
I'll start compiling a list of the gum manufacturing facilities pronto!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2015 5:12:32 GMT
The average age at which most people claim to have been the happiest is 33.
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