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Points: 3525 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 03 2004 at 01:29
Originally posted by threefates threefates wrote:

When I was a kid, my parents were devout Southern Baptists, and we had a group of older, very opinionated men

(deacons in our church). One of them, every Sunday was assigned the ending prayer for the sermon. 

 Most would go on and on.. till you could hear half the church snoring.  My mother use to say that they were the type

 that just loved to hear themselves talk...

So here I think my mother would say... ya'll just love to watch yourselves type....

Now James, if you need the northern translation on that, you just let me know...

and did anyone ever bring this to their attention during church?
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Points: 4215 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 03 2004 at 01:37
You've never been to a southern baptist church evidently....
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Points: 3525 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 03 2004 at 02:16
actually, I was making a point...
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Points: 4215 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 03 2004 at 02:39
So was I....
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Points: 793 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 03 2004 at 06:52
You're right in your psychological analysis,Threefates. Being opinionated and arrogant have always been my greatest character defects and the personality traits I have struggled against all my life,obviously in vain,and I have now reached the stage where I agree with Jung when he said that reading his own words was like eating his own vomit. 
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Points: 3484 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 03 2004 at 07:28

Originally posted by Pixel Pirate Pixel Pirate wrote:

You're right in your psychological analysis,Threefates. Being opinionated and arrogant have always been my greatest character defects and the personality traits I have struggled against all my life,obviously in vain,and I have now reached the stage where I agree with Jung when he said that reading his own words was like eating his own vomit. 
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Points: 3525 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 03 2004 at 14:36

so why are we posting our opinions on a forum at all then?

ah, never mind. I'll get back to making my "Longest post 80s Norwegian female non-guitar prog song" poll. Then we can share some really important views.
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Points: 3484 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 03 2004 at 14:47
Originally posted by James Lee James Lee wrote:

so why are we posting our opinions on a forum at all then?

ah, never mind. I'll get back to making my "Longest post 80s Norwegian female non-guitar prog song" poll. Then we can share some really important views.

or another top 10 list...or how about poll on the polls to see which poll was our favorite. ..or my favorites...which guitarist makes the best grrr..grr sound or keyboard ping,ping sound or drum boom,boom sound thread again...those are always quite "interesting" topics.

my applause to Pixel was his self-revelation!
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Oh James, I don't want you to stop debating your opinions... I just wish you guys would trim them down enough that I could read them without getting bored half way thru...

And for Christ's sake... don't leave out the humor!!
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Points: 5187 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 03 2004 at 17:32
Dont know what the hell you are talking about... but I sure do like things being trimmed down.Big smile



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Points: 2779 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 05 2004 at 07:03

Trim posts???

This is a prog forum; it's in our nature to write long compositions...

...sometimes with several parts or movements

.........................possibly while wearing a wizard's hat too 

 
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Points: 4215 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 05 2004 at 09:57
Originally posted by sigod sigod wrote:

Trim posts???

This is a prog forum; it's in our nature to write long compositions...

...sometimes with several parts or movements

.........................possibly while wearing a wizard's hat too 

Maybe so.. but you need to know where to insert the humor... as you just did, or you start to realize what happened to Gentle Giant....
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Points: 3484 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 05 2004 at 11:13

Gentle Giant never wrote a song over 10 minutes...I must be missing your point again TF...god I am so blonde at times

speaking of which..what do you call a dead blonde in the closet?

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Points: 4215 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 05 2004 at 15:42

Yeh, Gentle Giant did play some songs over 10 minutes... especially on that first live album... over 10 minutes of songs that shouldn't be 10 minutes.. but actually I was referring to lack of humor... or more specifically... too complicated...

Q: Why do blondes have bruises around their belly button?

A: Because there are blond guys, too.

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Points: 15585 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 05 2004 at 16:41
Originally posted by James Lee James Lee wrote:

so why are we posting our opinions on a forum at all then?

ah, never mind. I'll get back to making my "Longest post 80s Norwegian female non-guitar prog song" poll. Then we can share some really important views.

How's that poll coming along James, I know who I'll be voting for..!
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Points: 2779 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 07 2004 at 06:43

Yes, Gentle Giant were a bit po-faced weren't they. I think humour is always a good thing in prog. It lightens the load a little.

By the way, a quick (but suprisingly Zen) Blonde joke:

Two blondes meet as they walk along opposite sides of a small river. One shouts;

'How to you get to the orther side?'

The second blonde looks puzzled and shouts 'You ARE on the other side!'

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Points: 3484 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 07 2004 at 09:36

Of course this land is dangerous/all of the animals/are capably murderous/when I was a boy/my big brother held on to my hand/and he made me slap my own face/I looked up to him then and still do/he was trying to teach something/now I know what it is/now I know what he meant/one must eat the other/who runs free before him/put him right into your mouth

Anyways...Gentle Giant must have had some kind of sense of humor and these points are why

1.They had an album out called Pretentious Just for the Sake of It

2. That very silly Schooldays song

3.Alucard...Dracula backwards

4. Some of their instumentals bordered on light hearted too
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Points: 4215 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 07 2004 at 21:47

But the music wasn't lighthearted at all... A little over complicated.  The Pretenious title wasn't as humorous as it was true...
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Points: 3484 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 08 2004 at 00:14

We could name that with a 100 different prog bands..aside from Seamus, when did Pink Floyd have a non-serious approach..how about VdGG...except for 51 seconds on one song from their 1st LP-forget about it...it is the nature of progressive to be serious all the time

Not everybody in prog could feel comfortable writing tunes like Hoedown, and Benny the Bouncer
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Points: 2779 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 08 2004 at 06:50

Floyd without a sense of humour?

Have you seen those 70's haircuts?

The cover of Atom Heart Mother?

  

Actually, I agree with you gdub in the main that they were more 'serious' than most however, there is a great tale about the 'Momentary Lapse Of Reason' tour. One of the many grand set pieces of the show was the pig that flew over the audience heads for (of all things) 'One Of These Days'. Apparently the band's management were so afraid that Roger Waters might try and sue the band over infringement of copyright (not sure how, but anyway), that the now famous was outfitted with generous genitals (6 ft in length) to differentiate it from its album cover cousin. I can confirm the latter as I was directly underneath it as it waggled about.

For my part; I was laughing my arse off...

IQ are always taking the piss, and I love 'em for it. They know full well that there is an absurd aspect to prog. In addition, there is a UK comedian called Bill Bailey, who is a rabid proghead and he hosted a 'top ten best prog acts' on TV featuring, Camel, Rush, King Crimson (hooray!!), Genesis, Floyd, etc. His links were hilarious. He's also no slouch on keyboards and guitar either.  

 
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