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Ping Pong:

it's alright 'cos the historical pattern has shown how the economical cycle tends to revolve in a round of decades three stages stand out in a loop a slump and war then peel back to square one and back for more

bigger slump and bigger wars and a smaller recovery huger slump and greater wars and a shallower recovery

you see the recovery always comes 'round again there's nothing to worry for things will look after themselves it's alright recovery always comes 'round again there's nothing to worry if things can only get better

there's only millions that lose their jobs and homes and sometimes accents there's only millions that die in their bloody wars, it's alright

it's only their lives and the lives of their next of kin that they are losing it's only their lives and the lives of their next of kin that they are losing

it's alright 'cos the historical pattern has shown how the economical cycle tends to revolve in a round of decades three stages stand out in a loop a slump and war then peel back to square one and back for more

bigger slump and bigger wars and a smaller recovery huger slump and greater wars and a shallower recovery

don't worry be happy things will get better naturally don't worry shut up sit down go with it and be happy

dum, dum, dum, de dum dum, de duh de duh de dum dum dum... ah ah dum, dum, dum, de dum dum, de duh de duh de dum dum dum... ah ah

Ah! I hadn't heard that song for so long, thanks!

But I think maybe she's too big for those britches - why don't ya run back to da university, baby, nobody wants to hear it. Why do ya always have to stir up a controversy just for the sake of it?

Mission Accomplished!

Oh wait, you're famous. Get her a mog artist page, pronto!

Fedge, I can't recall the date, but about a year ago seem like a good guess.

And Kristiana, completely unrelated to your comment here, but I found it got a little personal, what with being one with my ASS BLOCKED...

It's a little funny, actually, as I never posted a comment on his MOG, and never even wound up in the same post as him until you shared Mumia's thoughts. Premptive strike, I suppose. His instincts assured him that I was the type to really stir up the shit...

And Fedge, because I know you can't get enough family guy:

You gotta be kidding me?

Yeah, I was teasing... I know Fedge hates family guy.

Other than that though, True Story.

THE SOCIALS!

AGGGGH! Here too!

I lalalalooove STEREOLB! I am anxiously awaiting for new stuff and tour....

I actually responded to the "babies with beards" part, mostly to see if I'd gotten my first "block."

I said, "I have not now, nor ever, had facial hair. I am sad. I feel excluded. Do I gotta go find a big ol’ Sharpie and draw that shit on or what?"

CP sez, " '“I am sad. I feel excluded.' ...agreed."

Am I just real dumb or does this make no fucking sense at all?

I think that is Mr. Positive's way of letting you know that he finds you pathetic and not welcome inside his bubble.

this is what it looks like when you get blocked:

I guess he's only into cock-blocking because even my pathetic ass still got away with posting another furry ball of sunshine over there. Thanks, BX, for the clarification. Wow, my "edgy card" and "street cred" officially revoked in the same week. Now I know how Anna Nicole Smith felt.

"Yeah, waving a fucking gun around!"

That is some jim dandy artwork you found there fedge, worthy of hanging on my wall, anyways.

Thank you, Fedge, for further clarification as well as some excellent artwork from one of my favorite films.

You know what? I wish Sean Tejaratchi would come and insult me on MOG. Hell, that guy could insult me at my own wedding telling me how fat I look in my dress and it would be cool with me. At least he'd be funny about it.

Do either of you know where to find the article that went with that picture?

http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/Content?oid=28769&category=34029

Say what you will about Iran, but it produced half of Tej. That's good enough for me.

Many of the funniest things I have ever read were written by Tej. I haven't been to the NetJerk Lounge in ages, which, I guess, means I'm doing something wrong.

I don't know from art, Fedge, but that certainly is something to look at. While I can recognize that the artist made it look easy, I had no idea that was in spite of its difficulty. Thanks for the details.

A few days ago, this comments page looked more like this. It's a shame to lose all of these things:

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Fedge says:

WIKI : “Sadier’s lyrics, in both French and English, often read like highly condensed sociological texts, standing in deliberate and distinct counterpoint to the lush hedonic pop sound of the band. A prime example would be “Ping Pong” from Mars Audiac Quintet, which is an explicit restating of Marxist theory concerning the relationship between economic cycles and war cycles.”

How’d you like to keep her entertained on a first date?

Flop sweat just thinking about it.

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brand X says: Ping Pong:

it’s alright ‘cos the historical pattern has shown
how the economical cycle tends to revolve
in a round of decades three stages stand out in a loop
a slump and war then peel back to square one and back for more

bigger slump and bigger wars and a smaller recovery
huger slump and greater wars and a shallower recovery

you see the recovery always comes ‘round again
there’s nothing to worry for things will look after themselves
it’s alright recovery always comes ‘round again
there’s nothing to worry if things can only get better

there’s only millions that lose their jobs and homes and sometimes accents
there’s only millions that die in their bloody wars, it’s alright

it’s only their lives and the lives of their next of kin that they are losing
it’s only their lives and the lives of their next of kin that they are losing

it’s alright ‘cos the historical pattern has shown
how the economical cycle tends to revolve
in a round of decades three stages stand out in a loop
a slump and war then peel back to square one and back for more

bigger slump and bigger wars and a smaller recovery
huger slump and greater wars and a shallower recovery

don’t worry be happy things will get better naturally
don’t worry shut up sit down go with it and be happy

dum, dum, dum, de dum dum, de duh de duh de dum dum dum… ah ah
dum, dum, dum, de dum dum, de duh de duh de dum dum dum… ah ah

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Fedge says:

The lyrics when sung are accented in a manner wholly different from the way they’d be spoken. This, coupled with Sadier’s French accent, makes them hard to decipher without a lyric sheet. Once you read them, you may still find them hard to decipher.

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Jeez, has it been over a year since we saw ‘em?

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kristiana says:

Ah! I hadn’t heard that song for so long, thanks!

But I think maybe she’s too big for those britches – why don’t ya run back to da university, baby, nobody wants to hear it. Why do ya always have to stir up a controversy just for the sake of it?

Mission Accomplished!

Oh wait, you’re famous. Get her a mog artist page, pronto!

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Fedge says:

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Did Bobby McFerrin co-write “Ping Pong”?

I have this unshakable image of the whole band beating him with sacks filled with oranges (no bruising).

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brand X says:

Fedge, I can’t recall the date, but about a year ago seem like a good guess.

And Kristiana, completely unrelated to your comment here, but I found it got a little personal, what with being one with my ASS BLOCKED ...

It’s a little funny, actually, as I never posted a comment on his MOG , and never even wound up in the same post as him until you shared Mumia’s thoughts. Premptive strike, I suppose. His instincts assured him that I was the type to really stir up the shit…

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brand X says:

And Fedge, because I know you can’t get enough family guy:

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         kristiana says:  
       
You gotta be kidding me?

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brand X says:

Yeah, I was teasing… I know Fedge hates family guy.

Other than that though, True Story.

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two miles out of his way to avoid the “bad kids”.

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”...if you don’t like someone then BLOCK HIS / HER ASS and get on with your bidness…I’ve had to do it on more than one occasion and can honestly say that my instincts have served me well…the process is plain-and-simple, short-and-sweet…I know we have some teenagers in here but damn, son…”

“Bidness”. So street. And he knows who Kant is too, “son”.

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BAND NAMES FOR BANDS :

SmooshPliers & The Sure Instincts

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http://mog.com/Fedge/blog_post/46185

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kristiana says:

THE SOCIALS !

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Fedge says:

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kristiana says:

AGGGGH ! Here too!

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glammerhammer says:

I lalalalooove STEREOLB ! I am anxiously awaiting for new stuff and tour….

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Fedge says:

“I laughed and laughed at that little daisy chain of derision as it clearly exemplifes the toxic twerp et al while at their scumbag lowest common denominator, it’s vindication, yo—some people are too pathetic for words…”

Yes, indeed, that Smoosh dwells far above name-calling on his own special, slingslangin’, educated-but-”street” cloud.

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But wait: what is “baby with beards” if not a slur?

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Hey, Smoosh: “Baby-With-Suck-My-Dick-You-Pseudointellectual-Pussy”.

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Smooth Hegemon says:

I actually responded to the “babies with beards” part, mostly to see if I’d gotten my first “block.”

I said, “I have not now, nor ever, had facial hair.
I am sad. I feel excluded.
Do I gotta go find a big ol’ Sharpie and draw that shit on or what?”

CP sez, ” ‘“I am sad. I feel excluded.’ ...agreed.”

Am I just real dumb or does this make no fucking sense at all?

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brand X says:

I think that is Mr. Positive’s way of letting you know that he finds you pathetic and not welcome inside his bubble.

this is what it looks like when you get blocked:

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Fedge says:

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(SH spake: “I said, “I have not now, nor ever, had facial hair.
I am sad. I feel excluded.
Do I gotta go find a big ol’ Sharpie and draw that shit on or what?”

CP sez, ” ‘“I am sad. I feel excluded.’ …agreed.”

Am I just real dumb or does this make no fucking sense at all?”)

It would make sense if he expressed himself like a non-pussy.

He refers, ultra-obliquely, to the supposed “sour grapes” attitude of the “Negs”, of whom I am a “prime example”. As though none have basis for adjudging the likes of Smoosh and Oss as two-legged turds but their own jealousy at the boys’ overwhelming gifts.

So, no, it makes no sense, dear. And it makes no sense on at least two levels. The boys in the lab are examining it for further traces of pussified nonsensicalness. We feel confident that a third or fourth will be uncovered. For the time being, we express gratitude to Ms. Hegemon, who has increased the common store of knowledge with her discovery of the strain of inanity which allows Smoosh to use (the increasingly tiring) “babies with beards” as a catch all for “immaturity” on a website hosting ...a large number of females of varying degrees of theoretically Smoosh-appraisable maturity.

Maybe he was traumatized as a child by The Bearded Lady, and now he sees them everywhere.

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Smooth Hegemon says:

I guess he’s only into cock-blocking because even my pathetic ass still got away with posting another furry ball of sunshine over there. Thanks, BX, for the clarification.
Wow, my “edgy card” and “street cred” officially revoked in the same week. Now I know how Anna Nicole Smith felt.

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Fedge says:

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Also, Dude, “SmooshPliers” is not the preferred nomenclature any longer.

“ShmushPliers”, please.

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“Smoosh” is uncomfortably similar to the first half of the screen name of a much-respected MOGger. I would like to avoid any confusion here, if I can help it.

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I’d hate to make an ash of myself by mistakenly naming one when I meant the other.

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Fedge says:

“Calmer’n you are…”

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brand X says:

“Yeah, waving a fucking gun around!”

That is some jim dandy artwork you found there fedge, worthy of hanging on my wall, anyways.

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Smooth Hegemon says:

Thank you, Fedge, for further clarification as well as some excellent artwork from one of my favorite films.

You know what? I wish Sean Tejaratchi would come and insult me on MOG . Hell, that guy could insult me at my own wedding telling me how fat I look in my dress and it would be cool with me. At least he’d be funny about it.

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with that picture?

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Smooth Hegemon says:

http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/Content?oid=28769&category=34029

Say what you will about Iran, but it produced half of Tej. That’s good enough for me.

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Fedge says:

I love the kicky, pop art evocation of the swirling ashes. Very nice. And for the specialist, nice work on the can. The ridges and the logo are each fully rendered without one impinging on the other. A tough task in this silhouette style, I can tell you. Retaining a likeness of a person in this style is hard, too. The artist here made it look easy.

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brand X says:

Many of the funniest things I have ever read were written by Tej. I haven’t been to the NetJerk Lounge in ages, which, I guess, means I’m doing something wrong.

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Fedge says:

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All must know the splendour that is Tej.

Thanks for the link Smooth. Here’s his infamous Harry Potter film review.

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WELCOME BACK , POTTER
Sea Elves, Blind Robots, Thai Prostitutes
BY SEAN TEJARATCHI

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
dir. Columbus
Opens Fri Nov 15

In the second film based on the books by J.K. Rowling, young sorcerer Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) awakes on a dirty fishing trawler, suffering from amnesia and pinworms. Quarantined in the ship’s hold, he is befriended by the ship’s gardener, a former Thai prostitute with secrets of his own. From a tiny book implanted beneath his skin, Harry learns of his schooling at Hogwart’s. Despite the book’s dire warnings, Harry returns to find the academy empty, his classmates and teachers alive, but frozen inside the school’s computer lab. After freeing his friends Hermione (Emma Watson) and Ron Weasely (Rupert Grint), Harry digitizes himself and prepares to face the Master Computer Programme (played by Patrick MacGoohan), the electronic overlord that has enslaved the minds of Hogwart’s faculty and students in order to magically crack military encryption codes and gain control of the world’s nuclear arsenal.

Director Chris Columbus stays faithful to Rowling’s wildly imaginative tale, bringing to life a horde of lascivious sea elves, a robotic blind man, an enchanted elevator that doesn’t move at all (or does it?), a hatchback that drives on the wrong side of the road, and a shrieking diaper that may or may not hold the key to Harry’s identity. The film is a wonderfully giddy rollercoaster ride from start to finish, climaxing in a breathtaking chase on digital broomsticks across a glowing grid.

Darker in tone than The Sorcerer’s Stone, The Chamber of Secrets (originally titled Welcome Back, Potter!) stumbles slightly in parts. A sequence in which a power-mad Harry pulverizes the skull of a talkative school chum, gouges out and eats the boy’s eyes, and then laughingly urinates into the empty sockets, may disturb younger children. David Caruso’s cameo as a nude unicorn jockey might also be problematic for those under six. Another misstep is the use of a two-foot-high, foam-rubber puppet to replace the late actor Richard Harris, who died of misadventure halfway through filming.

Still, these flaws are minor, and hardly detract from what amounts to a cinematic tour de force, a triumph of storytelling that will charm and excite the most jaded child. Welcome back, Potter, indeed!

http://portlandmercury.com/portland/Content?oid=27948&category=22133

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brand X says:

I don’t know from art, Fedge, but that certainly is something to look at. While I can recognize that the artist made it look easy, I had no idea that was in spite of its difficulty. Thanks for the details.

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Smooth Hegemon says:

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Fedge says:

(Young Tej relaxing with giant version of Patton Oswalt’s teeny-tiny dog [at least they think it’s a dog] Grumpus)

– Gut-shaking laughter. –

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Fedge says:

(Smooth’s kittyfrog avatar inspired me to go bright green with mine. As far as MOG avatars go, it’s a good and woefully underused color.)

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Thanks for putting that up. I didn't ever get to see the last two comments because my internet was down Monday night and most of Tuesday. It's pretty annoying that all the comments he made were erased. Now we just look like we have a collective imaginary friend.

Actually, how did you reconstruct his comments after they were deleted?

It just happened that I left the browser window open from before he was erased. So I just copied the source code from that window and put it into the comment box here and it came out mostly right, but some of the formatting is a little off.

Thanks, dude.