buzzsawmonkey 1/5/2020 5:12:23 PM

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Variety has returned to television!  Anybody else watching the Dead Soleimani Show? 

They've got some great acts, which is why they get such a big hand!

Kosh's Shadow 1/5/2020 5:14:26 PM

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In #1 buzzsawmonkey said: Variety has returned to television!  Anybody else watching the Dead Soleimani Show?  They've got some great acts, which is why they get such a big hand!

I love the chorus line of 72 virgins!

Kosh's Shadow 1/5/2020 5:17:25 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 2:

And how he ends the show with:

May Allah bless...the faithful and CURSE THE GREAT AND LITTLE SATANS!

buzzsawmonkey 1/5/2020 5:20:06 PM

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72 virgins led the big jihad

With 110 martyrs right behind

They had strict orders from Qom

To set off lots of car bombs

On any Western street that they could find

72 virgins led the big jihad

While 110 martyrs cried "Allah Akhbar!"

It was easy to tell that they hated infidels

By the way they brandished scimitars...

Kosh's Shadow 1/5/2020 5:20:27 PM

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Buzz, the next time Israel defends itself and there are articles on the "cycle of violence", I;d like to see a cartoon of an explosive-laden motorcycle ridden by a Palestinian, with the caption "The Cycle of Violence"

I could probably get you the contacts at Boston's Jewish newspaper, The Jewish Advocate. Tends to be conservative, ,in a political sense, but with some leftist articles.

Most articles are behind paywall, but you can get an idea at https://www.thejewishadvocate.com/

Kosh's Shadow 1/5/2020 5:22:37 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 4:

We got trouble, right here in Tehran City
With a capital T and that rhymes with T and that stands for Trump

Kosh's Shadow 1/5/2020 5:35:04 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 6:

We got lots and lots of trouble
I'm thinkin' of the kids in keffiyahs, shot-tailed young ones
Blowin up in the pizza hall after school

Now I know you're all the right kind of parents
So I'm gonna be perfectly frank
You know what kinds of conversations to get them to be shaheeds one fine night?

Occasional Reader 1/5/2020 5:36:19 PM

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Kosh: “ Mad did as parody of West Side Story, called East Side Story...””

... which, of course, was actually the title of the original script for the musical.

doppelganglander 1/5/2020 5:37:56 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 2:

There's a great Soleimani parody account on Twitter. Sample: "Why are all the virgins down here men?"

Kosh's Shadow 1/5/2020 5:38:28 PM

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In #8 Occasional Reader said: ... which, of course, was actually the title of the original script for the musical.

And it involved Jews. Yes, I know.

Occasional Reader 1/5/2020 5:45:22 PM

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In #10 Kosh's Shadow said: And it involved Jews

“Goy, goy, crazy goy... get cool, goy...”

Kosh's Shadow 1/5/2020 5:55:09 PM

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Come to think of it, West Side Story was something else my parents wouldn't let me see

Probably afraid I'd run off with a shiksa

buzzsawmonkey 1/5/2020 6:03:04 PM

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Occasional Reader 1/5/2020 6:11:15 PM

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Candlelight vigil held in Toronto for Suleimani; journalist attempt to interview attendees, receives threats; Canadian police intervene... by threatening to arrest the journalist:

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/353747/#respond

Kosh's Shadow 1/5/2020 6:23:00 PM

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In #14 Occasional Reader said: Candlelight vigil held in Toronto for Suleimani; journalist attempt to interview attendees, receives threats; Canadian police intervene... by threatening to arrest the journalist:

Oh, Canadiran!

Kosh's Shadow 1/5/2020 6:24:00 PM

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buzzsawmonkey 1/5/2020 6:29:13 PM

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In #16 Kosh's Shadow said: In this year of 2020, I wish everyone perfect vision

JUKEBOX

Kosh's Shadow 1/5/2020 6:40:04 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 17:

One of my favorite Kinks jukeboxes

Occasional Reader 1/5/2020 6:42:14 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 15:

Drone the whole f**king candlelight vigil, I say.

Kosh's Shadow 1/5/2020 6:49:16 PM

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In #19 Occasional Reader said: Drone the whole f**king candlelight vigil, I say.

That would be a problem. Round them up and deport them to Iran.

buzzsawmonkey 1/5/2020 6:50:20 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 18:

That one is really quite sweet.  It also reminds me of the British film "Hope and Glory," from a few decades ago, about a kid living through the London blitz.  His sister was not unlike the sister in this song.

Kosh's Shadow 1/5/2020 6:52:17 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 21:

It really is an excellent song about nostalgia and the way things used to be.

He didn't know the night would end in frustration
He'd end up blowing all his wages for the week
All for a cuddle and a peck on the cheek

buzzsawmonkey 1/5/2020 6:53:21 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 18:

I would add that the song, obliquely, is reminiscent of my comment in the daytime thread about the social commonalities forged by shared music.

Occasional Reader 1/5/2020 6:56:49 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 21:

It took me years to figure out that that word they were singing in the first verse was “palais”.

buzzsawmonkey 1/5/2020 7:00:12 PM

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In #24 Occasional Reader said: It took me years to figure out that that word they were singing in the first verse was “palais”.

Actually, I think it's "pally," which is short for "palace."  There's a strain in British slang, going back to at least the late 19th century, of doing short, first-syllable diminutives to refer to certain things; in "Stalky & Co.," the three protagonists are discussing the unexplained absence of the Head of their school, and one of them speculates that he "got thirty days for kicking the chucker-out (bouncer) of the Pavvy (the Pavilion, a then-famous nightspot) on the shins."

buzzsawmonkey 1/5/2020 7:01:02 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 24:

Followup: Yes, I know that "palais" is merely the French for "palace," but I figured the slang locution was worth mentioning.

Occasional Reader 1/5/2020 7:04:09 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 25:

I seem to recall reading that it was fairly common for the archetypal local Dancehall in England in the 50s or 60s to be called the “palais”; either having that as its formal name, or part of its formal name; this, as a sort of nod to the idea that everything French is (somehow) more sophisticated. But I could be wrong.

Occasional Reader 1/5/2020 7:05:28 PM

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Kosh's Shadow 1/5/2020 7:08:07 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 26:

Apparently, a "Palais du Dance" was common in England at one time

And here's a song about a bouncer at one

buzzsawmonkey 1/5/2020 7:11:44 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 27:

I suspect both things run in parallel.  Certainly the Brits have a love-hate relationship with things French---e.g., French cooking is "sophisticated," but the lower-middle to lower classes consider it "messed-up stuff" that they can't stomach; there's a scene in "The Lavender Hill Mob" where one of the Cockney burglars can't go to Paris with Alec Guinness and Stanley Holloway to dispose of the swag because...it's Paris.  Birmingham, or some place like that, fine---but not the Sin City.  You get this in the lyrics to "The Roast Beef of Old England," too.   And, for another cite to the habit of first-syllable abbreviation, that's done in Noel Coward's 1930s routine "The Red Peppers," where "two men about town" say, "Gad---eleven o'clock; let's pop into the Troc (the Trocadero, another club/dancehall)..."

So, I think that they both are interconnected.