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[TSBench]

unlike dumber, I actually googled "lip service" and "dictionary of slang", and while there is no such thing

Instead of 'Googling', you should have 'TSB'd'.... I actually have a copy in my library. Partridge's Concise Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English. edited by Paul Beale. MacMillan, NY 1989.

Glad to have been of service.

Have an enjoyable Thanksgiving.

Regards,
TSB

 

[Finn]

unlike dumber, I actually googled "lip service" and "dictionary of slang", and while there is no such thing

Instead of 'Googling', you should have 'TSB'd'.... I actually have a copy in my library. Partridge's Concise Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English. edited by Paul Beale. MacMillan, NY 1989.

Glad to have been of service.

Have an enjoyable Thanksgiving.

Regards,
TSB

darn it, I should have! So, are there pictures of Al and Jesse under the entry "lip service" ??

P.S. by the way, I've experienced both tornados and divorce, but I've never lost a trailer. ;D

P.P.S. and, in retaliation I offer: Redneck Haiku http://mssamantics.us/haiku/redneck.htm

P.P.P.S. I am thankful for each and every one of you on this board. even the wack jobs. (you know who you are)

 

[Finn]

He cares not one single bit about the people he presumes to speak for. He cares about one person: Al Sharpton. Period.

By the way, you may be right, you may be wrong, but this is most certainly your opinion which you have presented as fact. We've been sticklers about this lately, so couldn't let it go by without a comment.

I mean, how can you presume to know his state of mind? (sheesh, don't you watch Law and Order??)

Okay, off to the relatives ...

and some of you might find this either familiar or informative!

NFL Football on Thanksgiving: An American Tradition http://football.about.com/cs/news/a/thanksgiving.htm

 

[dumber than a box of hair]

The real question for (the alleged Rev) Al and Jesse is how’s the soapbox thing going against the rap music industry?????????

When you look up the term "lip service" in the dictionary of slang, you see their pictures.

unlike dumber, I actually googled "lip service" and "dictionary of slang", and while there is no such thing, there is of course the urban dictionary. Al and Jesse's pictures did not come up, but a whole lotta other things did that may or may not be pertinent to this discussion.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lip+service ;D

I also found this clip of Sharpton talking about rap music lyrics that was filmed in February 2006 (pre-Imus) - do you disagree with anything he's saying here?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsEAlaCj54U

Please look up the definition of "hyperbole" before you give yourself a stroke. Do you always have to be told when someone is kidding?

 

[bjohns]

Not to interrupt a fascinating conversation about how big of a crook Al Sharpton is, but back to the original topic of this thread:

Imus comes back, and there are no protests, no complaints and ( after a month or two of curiosity seeker listeners), no ratings.

Agreed?

 

[ciao99]

Does anyone think there will be protestors at Greater Media when Imus signs on? Are any of the reverends in Boston strong enough to get a crowd out?

So far it seems like theres not much protesting. I guess if Deval Patrick is OK with Imus being on WTKK, the rest of the black community is, too?

Who has time for a protest, aside from self-appointed leaders and the unemployed? I have a job during the day.

 

[rapking]

The real question for (the alleged Rev) Al and Jesse is how’s the soapbox thing going against the rap music industry?????????

When you look up the term "lip service" in the dictionary of slang, you see their pictures.

unlike dumber, I actually googled "lip service" and "dictionary of slang", and while there is no such thing, there is of course the urban dictionary. Al and Jesse's pictures did not come up, but a whole lotta other things did that may or may not be pertinent to this discussion.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lip+service ;D

I also found this clip of Sharpton talking about rap music lyrics that was filmed in February 2006 (pre-Imus) - do you disagree with anything he's saying here?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsEAlaCj54U

Its amazine That Al Sharpton is being paid by Radio One ( Own alot of Hip Hop Stations ) and Cathy ( Radio One Owner ) sittin' right next to Al ( nod her head up and down ). Get Paid by Rap Music ( Cathy and Al ) and then talk trash about Rap music . WOW !

 

[BLUESDUDE]

Does anyone think there will be protestors at Greater Media when Imus signs on? Are any of the reverends in Boston strong enough to get a crowd out?

So far it seems like theres not much protesting. I guess if Deval Patrick is OK with Imus being on WTKK, the rest of the black community is, too?

Who has time for a protest, aside from self-appointed leaders and the unemployed? I have a job during the day.

Only AL and JESSIE have time since it IS thier day job...professional protesters and race pimps.

 

[GovtMule1979]

What is the over under on how long it will take Imus to make "Ho Ho Ho" joke as we get closer to Christmas?

Mule

 

[Finn]

Imus comes back, and there are no protests, no complaints and ( after a month or two of curiosity seeker listeners), no ratings.
Agreed?

Anybody know what WTKK's morning ratings were pre-whore comment? (don't remember if anyone posted them here for this time slot)

It's hard to imagine that Imus would do better once the curiosity factor dies down, as bjohns says.

 

[Finn]

The real question for (the alleged Rev) Al and Jesse is how’s the soapbox thing going against the rap music industry?????????

When you look up the term "lip service" in the dictionary of slang, you see their pictures.

unlike dumber, I actually googled "lip service" and "dictionary of slang", and while there is no such thing, there is of course the urban dictionary. Al and Jesse's pictures did not come up, but a whole lotta other things did that may or may not be pertinent to this discussion.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lip+service ;D

I also found this clip of Sharpton talking about rap music lyrics that was filmed in February 2006 (pre-Imus) - do you disagree with anything he's saying here?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsEAlaCj54U

Please look up the definition of "hyperbole" before you give yourself a stroke. Do you always have to be told when someone is kidding?

Not only did you not answer the question, but you resorted to the tactic of attacking the person who posed it.

Look, I'm no big Sharpton fan, but I don't get the magnitude of the response. Seems totally out of proportion to his faults.

 

[greg11]

Do you think his ratings will be bigger this time around?

 

[dumber than a box of hair]

I don't get the magnitude of the response. Seems totally out of proportion to his faults.

When a person presumes to be a spokesman for any large group, it should be a given that what he says be of some benefit to that group. Sharpton is, as I have stated previously, a professional victim. If he's so all-fired interested in helping black people, he wouldn't be showing up only when "whitey" slips up...but that's what he does, repeatedly. That's the only time we ever hear from him in the mainstream media. He devotes his life to making sure that race continues to be a factor in American life. It's people like him who are dividing us. Dr. King urged us to judge people by the content of their character, and he would have been disgusted that people like Sharpton, Louis Farrakhan and Jesse Jackson presume to speak for the African-American community. (If an African-American radio host had called the basketball team "nappy-headed hos," we wouldn't have heard a peep out of Sharpton and his cronies. But, because Imus is white, Sharpton couldn't wait to get at him.)

Of course, Sharpton doesn't operate in a vacuum. He is regularly aided and abetted by the press, which used to be the watchdog over people like him. In another era, they would have exposed him for the charlatan he is. Now they just act like his personal megaphone.

Whether or not I agree with Sharpton on rap music (and I do agree with him) isn't the point. (How many people watch C-SPAN, BTW?) If he wants to, as he put it on that video, "uplift" the black man, he needs to stop expoiting our divisions and start emphasizing our common ground. That's how you get racism to disappear. (Just as a sidebar, rap music won't disappear until the corporations which underwrite it...the major music labels...decide to stop producing it.) If Sharpton were always as articulate and pithy on race relations in this country as he was on that video denouncing rap music, I'd have no problem supporting him.

 

[Finn]

I don't get the magnitude of the response. Seems totally out of proportion to his faults.

When a person presumes to be a spokesman for any large group, it should be a given that what he says be of some benefit to that group. Sharpton is, as I have stated previously, a professional victim. If he's so all-fired interested in helping black people, he wouldn't be showing up only when "whitey" slips up...but that's what he does, repeatedly. That's the only time we ever hear from him in the mainstream media. He devotes his life to making sure that race continues to be a factor in American life. It's people like him who are dividing us. Dr. King urged us to judge people by the content of their character, and he would have been disgusted that people like Sharpton, Louis Farrakhan and Jesse Jackson presume to speak for the African-American community. (If an African-American radio host had called the basketball team "nappy-headed hos," we wouldn't have heard a peep out of Sharpton and his cronies. But, because Imus is white, Sharpton couldn't wait to get at him.)

Of course, Sharpton doesn't operate in a vacuum. He is regularly aided and abetted by the press, which used to be the watchdog over people like him. In another era, they would have exposed him for the charlatan he is. Now they just act like his personal megaphone.

Whether or not I agree with Sharpton on rap music (and I do agree with him) isn't the point. (How many people watch C-SPAN, BTW?) If he wants to, as he put it on that video, "uplift" the black man, he needs to stop expoiting our divisions and start emphasizing our common ground. That's how you get racism to disappear. (Just as a sidebar, rap music won't disappear until the corporations which underwrite it...the major music labels...decide to stop producing it.) If Sharpton were always as articulate and pithy on race relations in this country as he was on that video denouncing rap music, I'd have no problem supporting him.

Dumber, thanks for the reply.

I agree that "That's the only time we ever hear from him in the mainstream media." So, what IS Sharpton doing when he's not in the mainstream media. He's got the radio show, but I've never listened to it. I will now, and I've listened to quite a few clips on youtube and other media sources. I'm curious.

I also appreciate that you mention that rap music exists as it currently does because of the corporations. I agree. Most of my black friends do not like rap at all; as I've said on this board before, the vast majority of the people I know who listen to it are white (well, not surprisingly, the vast majority of people that I know are white).

This is a topic that I could go on and on about, but am unable to at the moment and shouldn't here. However, if Sharpton, Jackson, Farrakhan and others disappeared tomorrow, I don't think the conversation about race would end because, quite frankly, it isn't just in the heads of black people. The funny thing about being white is that white people think they can confide in you, and believe you me, I've heard the darndest things come out of the mouths of people who didn't know where I stand on some issues.