DocMarten 5:21 Sun Jan 3
Power Ballards...
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Caught a few on an MTV special recently. A tsunami of nostalgia crashed over me. Whatever happened to them? Nothing really like the old one's from the 80's and 90's.
My top pick..'You're the Voice' by John Farnham in '86. A rip roaring sing a long ballard.
What's yours?
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Texas Iron
7:18 Sun Jan 17
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Bollards...!!!
http://www.fsindustries.com/more_info/sphere_bollard_model_tf6102/images/ball_bollards.jpg
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Far Cough
7:14 Sun Jan 17
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Sorry my sweet :-)
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Nurse Ratched
7:13 Sun Jan 17
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Et tu, Cough?
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Far Cough
7:12 Sun Jan 17
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Nurse should have a BEIGE plaque
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chajonbubble
7:07 Sun Jan 17
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Nurse's plaque would be upside down. To give the alternate perspective,....
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Nurse Ratched
4:33 Sun Jan 17
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Yes, that's just what the world needs. You in positions of authority.
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Infidel
4:14 Sun Jan 17
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I think I should be on the Plaque Committee.
I can be trusted to use my unbiased, objective and completely fair scrutiny to weed out all the undeserving Lefties.
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Mike Oxsaw
3:14 Sun Jan 17
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You couls always give it a protective coating of KUMB-sterene, nursey. Would keep the cool set at arms length,
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Coffee
3:05 Sun Jan 17
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Suggestions?
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Nurse Ratched
3:03 Sun Jan 17
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I fear it would be covered in graffiti. And worse.
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Coffee
3:01 Sun Jan 17
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I like the idea of a WHO Wall of Plaques, and can easily imagine Nurse's plaque sending a frisson to its neighbours.
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Hammer and Pickle
2:59 Sun Jan 17
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The Blue Cheese Mines of Kamchatka beckon.
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Nurse Ratched
2:56 Sun Jan 17
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He'd send me to the WHOlag.
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Swiss.
2:52 Sun Jan 17
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Js_WUsXpxg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-WP6POdTgY
Great stuff
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Infidel
2:51 Sun Jan 17
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Kollontai wasn't dreary! She was a fiery,ambitious Bolshevik famous for her immense sexual appetite.
She had a lot in common with you. Her personality was not to everyone's liking. Some of the other leading Bolsheviks despised her and called her every name under the sun.
Sound familiar?
Eventually Lenin gave in and banished her (to Scandinavia, to become a lowly Russian ambassador to Sweden.)
On a recent trip to Moscow I noticed that she doesn't have a memorial plaque on the Kremlin wall where all the other luminaries of the revolution are honoured. I looked for it for about an hour (there are a lot of plaques) thinking I must have missed it. But they actually airbrushed her out of history.
I hope that doesn't happen to you. If there is ever a wall of plaques to commemorate the luminaries of WHO you will surely have earned your place.
Unless H&P is in charge of the Plaque Committee of course.
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Nurse Ratched
2:39 Sun Jan 17
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You could lobotomise me and I could still never be as dreary as a russian/slavic woman.
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Swiss.
2:39 Sun Jan 17
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sorry take that back Belinda Carlisle is queen
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Infidel
2:36 Sun Jan 17
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Nurse, if we're talking revolutionaries I see you as more of a Kollontai.
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Nurse Ratched
2:34 Sun Jan 17
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We need another Robespierre.
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Swiss.
2:30 Sun Jan 17
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Bryan Adams is the king and Bonnie Tyler the Queen>
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Infidel
12:04 Sun Jan 17
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Anybody who likes 'Total Eclipse of the Heart' has lost the ability to discern music from noise.
The title of the song makes no sense. The lyrics are appalling and childish. The harmony is irritating. And Tyler's voice is simply not good enough for a professional singer.
It has no musical merit whatsoever.
As an economist, I have to point out the opportunity cost to consider here too.
Life is short. Three minutes wasted listening to a power 'ballard' (arf!) is time that could be spent listening to musical genius, like Sweet Home Alabama, Beast of Burden or Kashmir.
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