Muuuuuuum, billytea is putting bad thoughts in my brain! Make him stop! I haven't seen the Wait Up video, so I can't really judge how disturbing it is (THOUGH I'M SURE IT'S PERFECTLY INNOCENT), but that wasn't technically the Wiggles, was it? So I can ignore it anyway.
Gunn: Well, how horrible is this thing? Lorne: I haven't read the Book of Revelations lately, but if I was searching for adjectives, I'd probably start there.
'Hell Bound'
All Ogle, No Cash -- It's Not Just Annoying, It's Un-American
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Min - Dec 10, 2002 9:18:45 pm PST #799 of 9843
Is that Narrative Causality or Historical Imperative or just plain weird?
billytea - Dec 10, 2002 9:21:31 pm PST #800 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Muuuuuuum, billytea is putting bad thoughts in my brain! Make him stop! I haven't seen the Wait Up video, so I can't really judge how disturbing it is (THOUGH I'M SURE IT'S PERFECTLY INNOCENT), but that wasn't technically the Wiggles, was it? So I can ignore it anyway.
It is perfectly innocent, and insufferably cutesy. Which to me is the disturbing part. (They used to play in pubs, fer cryin' out loud.) As to whether it was technically the Wiggles, it was three quarters of the Wiggles, and the remaining quarter was too busy playing bagpipes in the Australian Army.
Frankly, I think your grounds for ignoring it are a tad shaky.
Min - Dec 10, 2002 10:30:48 pm PST #801 of 9843
Is that Narrative Causality or Historical Imperative or just plain weird?
t bounces around on perfectly solid ground
AFAIK, only Jeff and Anthony were part of The Cockroaches, which would make them half of The Wiggles, not three quarters. I refuse to blame the other half, Murray and Greg, for insufferable cuteness that they didn't even take part in. I further refuse to diminish their contribution to The Wiggles by implying that Jeff and Anthony can obtain optimal Wiggletude without their brightly coloured bandmates.
Now Megan and I are going to go dance like big uncos to a Christmas album by a certain much discussed band.
DavidS - Dec 11, 2002 12:00:12 am PST #802 of 9843
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I now own a Wombles videotape. I always thought of them as British Banana Splits. Of course, I had their LP already since I needed it for the book. Mike Batt did The Wombles music and wore a womble suit for an entire week to get into character.
The Wiggles are a regular presence on the Disney Channel now and Emmett likes them a lot. Their songs are pretty catchy, but the one without eyebrows is a little freaky looking.
Jim - Dec 11, 2002 1:54:07 am PST #803 of 9843
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
Ah, videotape? They're much odder than the banana splits - they were early eco-warriors (and have given their name to one of the main #Reclaim The Streets crews) . You'll love them, David - and if you do, I recommend the equally brilliant Flumps.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Dec 11, 2002 6:07:30 am PST #804 of 9843
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
I find it slightly disturbing that I now know the first names of all four Wiggles. This doesn't do much for my 'I know nothing about pop culture' street-cred. And doesn't exactly help me get 'I know about pop culture' credit either.
Min - Dec 11, 2002 8:10:34 pm PST #805 of 9843
Is that Narrative Causality or Historical Imperative or just plain weird?
Am-Chau, I think you'll be ok, as long as you can't tell me which colour skivvy each Wiggle wears. If you know that, then I'm sorry, your street-cred card will have to be cut up. t waves scissors in a vaguely menacing fashion, sure in the knowledge that I won't have to use them but admiring the shiny
I'm blaming Hec for my current Wombles earworm, by the way.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Dec 12, 2002 2:21:50 am PST #806 of 9843
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
I think I'm out of danger as long as I remain ignorant of what a 'skivvy' is.
P.M. Marc - Dec 12, 2002 2:24:14 am PST #807 of 9843
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I think I'm out of danger as long as I remain ignorant of what a 'skivvy' is.
Pants. Undies. Panties.
Daisy Jane - Dec 12, 2002 2:26:10 am PST #808 of 9843
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Goolie covers.