Worlds saddest story!!!

Garion81 wrote: Rick Wakeman fails as a Busker!! http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1240751.html

Probably forgot to take the obligatory doleful-looking dog with him.

Hey Aqualung, I had to seek for the meaning of the f**king word too, here it is:

Main Entry: busk·er
Pronunciation: 'b&s-k&r
Function: noun
Etymology: busk, probably from Italian buscare to procure, gain, from Spanish buscar to look for
chiefly British : a person who entertains especially by playing music on the street
- busk  /'b&sk/ intransitive verb

Couldn't they use the words street artist? Would be much simpler.

The street is not his place, it's absurd for a prog' artist, what's he trying to prove? First stand up comedian now a busker.

The sad thing is that probably N'Sync would have gathered a crowd.

Iván

WHAT! RICK WAKEMAN! THE RICK WAKEMAN???

ivan_2068 wrote: Hey Aqualung, I had to seek for the meaning of the f**king word too, here it is: Main Entry: busk·er Pronunciation: 'b&s-k&r Function: noun Etymology: busk, probably from Italian buscare to procure, gain, from Spanish buscar to look for chiefly British : a person who entertains especially by playing music on the street - busk  /'b&sk/ intransitive verb Couldn't they use the words street artist? Would be much simpler. The street is not his place, it's absurd for a prog' artist, what's he trying to prove? First stand up comedian now a busker. The sad thing is that probably N'Sync would have gathered a crowd. Iván

C'mon Javelin Man, he was doing the "busking" for a TV show.The aim was probably to see if talent really made a difference to how much money was collected-or if it is merely a pity thing.

A music teacher here in Norway recently started a campaign to get street musicians up to a certain standard since we are daily tortured by morons who can't play an instrument to save their lives and he has had enough of it. And I agree. Pathetic folk singers who wail "Blowin' In The Wind" on a beat up old acoustic guitar on a street corner is one thing,but we are awash in people from Eastern Europe in this country right now who come over during the summer on a temporary visa and clutter the streets of the major cities with their musical mutilations. Usually on accordion,an "instrument" that's difficult to stomach at the best of times. I have been close to stuffing the accordions down the throaths of these noise terrorists more than once so I'm glad someone is finally doing something about it!

I hate reality TV but there was one show recently that was a fake one and the contestants did not know it was fake.  It was about a "billionaire mogul" and the contestants would get to be president of his company for a month or some such nonsense.  So the first day he has them out panhandling on the streets of New York.  He separated them into two groups, men and women, and who ever brought in the most money won.  The losers had to sleep outside in an empty field in a cardboard box

I only watched part of one other episode and he was showing his mansion off to them. He had this sword encased in glass and was trying to convince the contestants it was the sword Excalibur held by King Arthor.  They were showing an interview of the guy who played the “mogul” and he said that was the hardest thing he had to do was to convince these people it was Excalibur.  They did of course being the good little brown nosers they were.   I really would liked to have seen their faces when they saw how stupid they were.