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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
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 Posted - 05/10/2005 : 19:44:25
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yet i can't stop listening to it.
does anyone else share this problem?
this show is so irritating because everyone tries so hard to be witty and intelligent, and everyone LAUGHS hysterically at EVERY single thing everyone says, and in that very "i'm Harvard educated and i get the obscure reference so i'll giggle excessively, even though it's not really that funny" type of way.. hahahaha!!!
i would love to be a part of the studio audience and try to out-laugh people. just keep laughing until people look over at me and become disturbed.
ok, i have to go. Says You is on |
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
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Posted - 05/10/2005 : 19:47:40
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This thread and the Garrison Keilor thread must mate and create
annoyingly witty self-referential over-educated threads which will
be under constant pressure by the Republicans.
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
15297 Posts |
Posted - 05/10/2005 : 19:54:18
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i just want to reach through my speakers and strangle each and every one of them.
and yet, i can't stop listening |
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kathryn
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Belgium
15320 Posts |
Posted - 05/11/2005 : 10:10:27
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Sad how no one else posted here....
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darwin
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
USA
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Posted - 05/11/2005 : 10:17:37
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
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Posted - 05/11/2005 : 10:30:29
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Same. And Terry Gross? I know I'm supposed to rave
about her and her show, but, jeez, it's all so....self-congratulatory
and high-brow and smug. Or maybe I'm confusing the programming with the listeners I know.
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
15297 Posts |
Posted - 05/11/2005 : 10:33:08
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i actually like Terry Gross.. i like her voice and her interviewing style. for a long time i was convinced that she must be hot. i was mistaken.
nonetheless, Terry Gross doesn't bug me |
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
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Posted - 05/11/2005 : 10:54:35
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To be fair, she does kickass interviews. And I think it was
on her show that I heard something about DITS, which I am now
completely spacing on.
Still....
Though it's the last bastion of semi-free thinking and despite its
American Life spawning the mirth-y David Sedaris, NPR gets on my nerves
if only because I know way too many of its smug, overly educated
listeners.
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darwin
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
USA
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Posted - 05/11/2005 : 11:18:49
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| I really like Fresh Air and This American Life. Even this morning Fresh Air had a very good interview with Brooke Shields. You would think it would suck, but it was about her post-partum depression and touched slightly on the myth that parents instantly and completely fall in love with their kids. The old, everything is different now bullshit. |
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
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Posted - 05/11/2005 : 11:47:14
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darwin, I know you're the one with the fancy Ph.D.
so far be it from me to correct you, but I believe the expression is:
"everything is new."
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darwin
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
USA
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Posted - 05/11/2005 : 12:14:34
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I was parroting the 9/11 theme. Maybe that was "everything has changed". The other was the "Death of Irony" - thank god The Daily Show killed that idea quickly.
I also still like listening to All Things Considered/Morning Edition (not as much as I use to) and an occassional episode of Car Talk. But, I am an overeducated listener. |
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
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Posted - 05/11/2005 : 12:17:37
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I was parroting the Frank Black song. Seriously, now that I've bashed NPR I have to say that I wished I'd heard that episode of Fresh Air. I'm curious about Brooke
Shields' book and I know that Terry Gross asks good questions.
P.S. To floop, there's an expression that goes "he/she has a face for radio". It came to mind when you mentioned that you mistakenly assumed Terry Gross would be hot.
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Erebus
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
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Posted - 05/11/2005 : 12:19:34
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quote:
Originally posted by kathryn
Though it's the last bastion of semi-free thinking and despite its
American Life spawning the mirth-y David Sedaris, NPR gets on my nerves
if only because I know way too many of its smug, overly educated
listeners.
No mind is so enslaved as that which regards itself as free. |
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
15320 Posts |
Posted - 05/11/2005 : 12:23:01
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That's thought provoking, E.
Is that an original quote or one taken from The Greats?
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Erebus
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
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Posted - 05/11/2005 : 12:30:55
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
15320 Posts |
Posted - 05/11/2005 : 12:37:10
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Bing bang boom!
Erebus, ladies and gents! He's here all week! Try the veal!
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
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Posted - 05/11/2005 : 13:43:40
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quote:
Originally posted by kathryn
and I know that Terry Gross asks good questions.
why did you rip on Terry Gross in the first place? |
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
15320 Posts |
Posted - 05/11/2005 : 16:14:53
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I just...I just... I'm sorry! I don't have a good reason.
I'm just a bad, bitter, horrible person. I am wrong. It
was wrong to have done so.
I have to listen to This American Life right now.Talk to you later.
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VoVat
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
USA
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Posted - 05/12/2005 : 10:57:12
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quote:
i actually like Terry Gross.. i like her voice and her interviewing style. for a long time i was convinced that she must be hot.
Her last name didn't make you suspect otherwise? :P
I was all out of luck, like a duck that died. I was all out of juice, like a moose denied. |
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
15297 Posts |
Posted - 05/12/2005 : 11:24:05
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i used to have a crush on a girl in jr. high with that last name (she was hot).. so no, i was fully aware that girls with the last name Gross can, in fact, be hot.
I guess floop WAS right!
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kathryn
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Belgium
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Posted - 05/12/2005 : 11:45:15
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I dated a guy whose last name is Crabs and his dad's
a ob-gyn, Dr. Crabs. No joke.
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VoVat
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
USA
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Posted - 05/13/2005 : 12:05:07
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Dr. Crabs sounds like he could be some comic book villain. Although preferably without that S at the end.
I was all out of luck, like a duck that died. I was all out of juice, like a moose denied. |
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
15297 Posts |
Posted - 05/17/2005 : 19:38:13
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guess what i'm listening to?
god i hate this show |
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darwin
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
USA
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
15297 Posts |
Posted - 05/17/2005 : 20:57:02
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darwin
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
USA
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Posted - 05/17/2005 : 21:05:41
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dayanara
* Dog in the Sand *
Australia
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Posted - 05/17/2005 : 21:37:27
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i'd like to know.
i just spent 15 minutes shopping for a child to adopt through a link on her site. nice little adolescent meat market DCFS has got going, pictures and everything.
"that one's not too ugly, dear. what about her?" |
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VoVat
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
USA
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Posted - 05/18/2005 : 17:31:50
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I kind of don't see how anyone could NOT know about Delilah. All you have to do is flip through the easy listening stations in the late evening, and you'll hear her about 80 times.
I was all out of luck, like a duck that died. I was all out of juice, like a moose denied. |
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
15297 Posts |
Posted - 05/18/2005 : 17:37:01
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quote:
Originally posted by VoVat
I kind of don't see how anyone could NOT know about Delilah. All you have to do is flip through the easy listening stations in the late evening, and you'll hear her about 80 times.
i only listen to heavy metal |
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darwin
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
USA
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Posted - 05/18/2005 : 17:53:02
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| And once you get trapped into one of Delilah's inspiring stories about her kids you can never leave. NEVER. |
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
15297 Posts |
Posted - 05/18/2005 : 17:54:17
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| children shmildren |
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VoVat
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
USA
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Posted - 05/18/2005 : 18:42:37
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quote:
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Originally posted by VoVat
I kind of don't see how anyone could NOT know about Delilah. All you have to do is flip through the easy listening stations in the late evening, and you'll hear her about 80 times.
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i only listen to heavy metal
But you don't ever catch a snippet of Delilah while flipping between metal channels?
I was all out of luck, like a duck that died. I was all out of juice, like a moose denied. |
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the NPR show 'Says You' makes me want to puke
