PS: Still on a Pretenders bender here, I read more on Wiki, just because I had thought they were American, not British. Well, Miss Hynde was from Ohio (Akron), of course, but she'd move to London and worked with various bands there, and I guess many of her band were British.

However, I only commented here again because of this:

"Hynde's own provocative band project, centred around her own songwriting, was initially called (Mike Hunt's) Dishonorable Discharge."

LOL! That's freaking clever! (I'm guessing they may not have made the Billboard Top 40 so much with that name...)

PS: That'd be "single", not "singly", haha.

Also, note in that Wiki blurb that, although we had our differences, the country was not so divided in the 80's-'90s to where things couldn't be settled with a little humor and common sense.

PS: Thanks for the Rush lyrics, GAnderson.

I kid, I kid, I'm guessing there are some people that think of that Chrissy Hynde/Pretnders song as the El Rushbo theme song. That'd be just the instrumental introduction though with the great bass guitar. That was Tony Butler, though the band had a couple of other bass players through most of their time.

From Wiki about the use of the bass intro by Rush:

"In 1999, Rolling Stone magazine reported that, according to Hynde's manager, neither KFBK (which owned the show prior to national syndication) nor Limbaugh had licensed the song nor asked permission to use it. According to Rolling Stone, EMI took action after Limbaugh told a pair of reporters in 1997 that "it was icing on the cake that it was [written by] an environmentalist, animal rights wacko and was an anti-conservative song. It is anti-development, anti-capitalist and here I am going to take a liberal song and make fun of [liberals] at the same time."[8] EMI issued a cease and desist request that Limbaugh stop using the song, which he did. When Hynde found out during a radio interview, she said that her parents loved and listened to Limbaugh and she did not mind its use. A usage payment was agreed upon which she donated to PETA."

That song is 42 years old! The "Learning to Crawl" album, on which this song appeared (had first been a B-side of a singly) is from 40 years back. Geeze!

Finally:

"The farms of Minnesota
had been replaced by one big shopping mall,
and Muzzie-Yak filled the air
from Mary Richard's house to Minnehaha Falls.
I said, ay, oh, where did you go, ..."

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The West Germans may have had "issues" with the Ossies, but the Wessies were and are a serious problem for the Ossies, who havve lived under thirty years of occupation and plunder by the West. It is no wonder they long for the days of Trabbis, Spreewalder Gurks, and summers
at the FKK.

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“ I went back to Twin Cities
But my city was gone…”

PS: "During this conference someone had the idea of getting Taiwanese and mainland Chinese in the same room to pray together. She, being Taiwanese, said this was one of the most difficult moments of her experience as a Christian! (She said this in some surprise and in a spirit of regret.)"

That's amazing. They actually are the same people and are only divided by 75 years of ideology. The West Germans may have had a lot of problems with those who finally came from the East after the end of the Cold War - Communism messes with the mind and morals after 40 years (in the China case 3/4 of a century). However, I doubt they'd have any problem worshipping in Church together.

I LOLed very heartily at your combination Blonde/Polish joke, Fred. Thanks!

PS This sense of loyalty to "the old country" has always perplexed me.

I used to work at a bilingual Taiwanese-English church. This church was famous for cancelling the service one Sunday so that people could fly back to Taiwan to vote in the presidential election.

They also imported their conflicts with mainland Chinese. One deacon said to me, "We have to be careful or mainlanders will come and take our church."

The problem was that people were no longer immigrating in numbers from Taiwan, so the church was becoming increasingly old and gradually shrinking as people died or moved away. Now (about 15 years later) they are no longer a church but a "Taiwanese cultural association".

One of the younger people in this church talked about how she went to an Inter-Varsity missions conference. During this conference someone had the idea of getting Taiwanese and mainland Chinese in the same room to pray together. She, being Taiwanese, said this was one of the most difficult moments of her experience as a Christian! (She said this in some surprise and in a spirit of regret.)

My mother's grandparents came from Poland but my only sense of being Polish was eating pierogis, Polish sausage and horseradish with beets. My mom still spoke Polish but wouldn't teach us kids because she wanted to be able to talk without us listening in.

So I'm left with Lobachevsky and Chopin and Solidarity and the like, along with Polish jokes, as my cultural heritage.

Did you hear about the blonde who told a man a Polish joke? When he complained that he was Polish, she asked, "Do you want me to tell it again slower?"

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Lulz ... didn’t even notice the Moor.

Joe Biden as Ted Baxter, Bibi Nuyjobyahoo as Murray.

Minneapolis... the joke that keeps on giving.

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PS Okay, “Moor”, pretty good. The Moors are actually West African and Berbers not Negroes, but, still pretty good.

PS: Guys, I also hoped you liked that joke "Omar Tyler Moor", not "Moore". That one was total luck.

PS “Dual loyalty”. You said “dual loyalty”. That could get you on a lot of lists.

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Breathtaking... America’s Fifth Column doesn’t even feel the need to conceal their true loyalties.

I originally thought the USA was done by 2032, but 2026 is starting to look dicey.

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