Eddie Murphy and AIDS
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Just got a CD with some early Eddie Murphy stand up comedy acts. First off he should have stuck to stand up, damned funny (damned rude too.) But what struck me was this one particular skit where he is talking about AIDS and homosexuals. I suddenly realised (judging from how he was dressed) that this skit was back in the 80s when AIDS was just surfacing. Some of the stuff he joked about would definitley not go down well in this day and age. I just thought it is strange how fast times change. How things can go from, his words, "a funny faggot disease spread by kissing and toilet seats", to the situation we have (especially in Africa) now. Just an observation :)
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaRay Cassick wrote: Well I am not female, not gay and I am not Paul Watson
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I blame the '80s... :suss:
Shog9 ------
So they took me down to the gallows And this boy, he said to me: "Why do you smile, when the rope's around your neck?" I said, "I tell you boy, when i get back..."
Shog9 wrote: I blame the '80s... Someday I am going to pay someone to explain the '80s to me. Too much weird shit went down in that decade.
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaRay Cassick wrote: Well I am not female, not gay and I am not Paul Watson
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I blame the '80s... :suss:
Shog9 ------
So they took me down to the gallows And this boy, he said to me: "Why do you smile, when the rope's around your neck?" I said, "I tell you boy, when i get back..."
i blame clinton. -c
“If it turns out that I’m actually the one who did it, then looking for the real killers would be a big old waste of time.” -- OJ Simpson
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i blame clinton. -c
“If it turns out that I’m actually the one who did it, then looking for the real killers would be a big old waste of time.” -- OJ Simpson
Chris Losinger wrote: i blame clinton. What, did someone let him loose in Africa? I guess that would explain it...
Shog9 ------
So they took me down to the gallows And this boy, he said to me: "Why do you smile, when the rope's around your neck?" I said, "I tell you boy, when i get back..."
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Chris Losinger wrote: i blame clinton. What, did someone let him loose in Africa? I guess that would explain it...
Shog9 ------
So they took me down to the gallows And this boy, he said to me: "Why do you smile, when the rope's around your neck?" I said, "I tell you boy, when i get back..."
“If it turns out that I’m actually the one who did it, then looking for the real killers would be a big old waste of time.” -- OJ Simpson
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“If it turns out that I’m actually the one who did it, then looking for the real killers would be a big old waste of time.” -- OJ Simpson
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I blame the '80s... :suss:
Shog9 ------
So they took me down to the gallows And this boy, he said to me: "Why do you smile, when the rope's around your neck?" I said, "I tell you boy, when i get back..."
Sigh... the '80s... what a totally shite decade to grow up in (I was born in 1971). The music sucked, the clothes sucked, the attitude sucked ... in fact, I can't think of much to redeem the entire decade (The Smiths and New Order mebbe). So depressing. I recently ended up in a local nightclub and unfortunately it was 80s night ... the horror ... I couldn't take it for long - I mean, "Hey Mickey your so fine" just doesn't make me want to shake my tush. :-D :-D :-D Perhaps I should start lying about my age ... my lucky bastard brother was born in '63, so had his formative teenage years during the heady punk era. Not fair!
Faith. Believing in something you *know* isn't true.
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Sigh... the '80s... what a totally shite decade to grow up in (I was born in 1971). The music sucked, the clothes sucked, the attitude sucked ... in fact, I can't think of much to redeem the entire decade (The Smiths and New Order mebbe). So depressing. I recently ended up in a local nightclub and unfortunately it was 80s night ... the horror ... I couldn't take it for long - I mean, "Hey Mickey your so fine" just doesn't make me want to shake my tush. :-D :-D :-D Perhaps I should start lying about my age ... my lucky bastard brother was born in '63, so had his formative teenage years during the heady punk era. Not fair!
Faith. Believing in something you *know* isn't true.
Robert Edward Caldecott wrote: The music sucked, the clothes sucked, the attitude sucked ... Yeah, it's sad... not only was their precious little good music, but what their was wasn't even close to mainstream. Given, i was fairly young, and not really into pop music at the time, but still... it's sad that here it is 12 years later & i'm *finally* finding some music produced in the '80s i actually like.
Shog9 ------
So they took me down to the gallows And this boy, he said to me: "Why do you smile, when the rope's around your neck?" I said, "I tell you boy, when i get back..."
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Sigh... the '80s... what a totally shite decade to grow up in (I was born in 1971). The music sucked, the clothes sucked, the attitude sucked ... in fact, I can't think of much to redeem the entire decade (The Smiths and New Order mebbe). So depressing. I recently ended up in a local nightclub and unfortunately it was 80s night ... the horror ... I couldn't take it for long - I mean, "Hey Mickey your so fine" just doesn't make me want to shake my tush. :-D :-D :-D Perhaps I should start lying about my age ... my lucky bastard brother was born in '63, so had his formative teenage years during the heady punk era. Not fair!
Faith. Believing in something you *know* isn't true.
Robert Edward Caldecott wrote: The music sucked, the clothes sucked, the attitude sucked My friends during high school (graduated '88), used to tell me I was stuck in the '70s. I generally listened to Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Rush, Boston, Sabbath, Floyd, etc... I had shaggy hair, and liked my denim jacket. Somewhat out of place, but damn I was happy. :-D BW "I'm coming with you! I got you fired, it's the least I can do. Well, the least I could do is absolutely nothing, but I'll go you one better and come along!" - Homer J. Simpson
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Sigh... the '80s... what a totally shite decade to grow up in (I was born in 1971). The music sucked, the clothes sucked, the attitude sucked ... in fact, I can't think of much to redeem the entire decade (The Smiths and New Order mebbe). So depressing. I recently ended up in a local nightclub and unfortunately it was 80s night ... the horror ... I couldn't take it for long - I mean, "Hey Mickey your so fine" just doesn't make me want to shake my tush. :-D :-D :-D Perhaps I should start lying about my age ... my lucky bastard brother was born in '63, so had his formative teenage years during the heady punk era. Not fair!
Faith. Believing in something you *know* isn't true.
Lets blame all of our problems on the decadce we grew up in. Wow, that takes a load of the shoulders!
Jason Henderson
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Just got a CD with some early Eddie Murphy stand up comedy acts. First off he should have stuck to stand up, damned funny (damned rude too.) But what struck me was this one particular skit where he is talking about AIDS and homosexuals. I suddenly realised (judging from how he was dressed) that this skit was back in the 80s when AIDS was just surfacing. Some of the stuff he joked about would definitley not go down well in this day and age. I just thought it is strange how fast times change. How things can go from, his words, "a funny faggot disease spread by kissing and toilet seats", to the situation we have (especially in Africa) now. Just an observation :)
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaRay Cassick wrote: Well I am not female, not gay and I am not Paul Watson
Paul Watson wrote: Just got a CD with some early Eddie Murphy stand up comedy acts. First off he should have stuck to stand up, damned funny (damned rude too.) I've got his Delirious and Raw albums (on MP3), and they're really funny, as old as they are. I agree with your observation as to how back then his gay jokes were much more widely accepted than they are today... at least that's how it seems. If you're looking for other really funny comedians from the 80s, check out Sam Kinison (RIP). He's got some outrageous comedy, which in my opinion, blows Eddie Murphy away. Regards, Alvaro
I hope this is an original quote. - Alvaro Mendez
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Lets blame all of our problems on the decadce we grew up in. Wow, that takes a load of the shoulders!
Jason Henderson
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"If you are going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston ChurchillActually, i'd rather blame the decade i grew up in on the problems of others... there's a lot more of them, and most probably already know it.
Shog9 ------
As we celebrate mediocrity, our boys upstairs wanna see how much you'll pay for what you used to get for free...
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Sigh... the '80s... what a totally shite decade to grow up in (I was born in 1971). The music sucked, the clothes sucked, the attitude sucked ... in fact, I can't think of much to redeem the entire decade (The Smiths and New Order mebbe). So depressing. I recently ended up in a local nightclub and unfortunately it was 80s night ... the horror ... I couldn't take it for long - I mean, "Hey Mickey your so fine" just doesn't make me want to shake my tush. :-D :-D :-D Perhaps I should start lying about my age ... my lucky bastard brother was born in '63, so had his formative teenage years during the heady punk era. Not fair!
Faith. Believing in something you *know* isn't true.
Robert Edward Caldecott wrote: The Smiths and New Order mebbe And The Cure and Depeche Mode...
Know Jesus, no peace. No Jesus, know peace.
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Just got a CD with some early Eddie Murphy stand up comedy acts. First off he should have stuck to stand up, damned funny (damned rude too.) But what struck me was this one particular skit where he is talking about AIDS and homosexuals. I suddenly realised (judging from how he was dressed) that this skit was back in the 80s when AIDS was just surfacing. Some of the stuff he joked about would definitley not go down well in this day and age. I just thought it is strange how fast times change. How things can go from, his words, "a funny faggot disease spread by kissing and toilet seats", to the situation we have (especially in Africa) now. Just an observation :)
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaRay Cassick wrote: Well I am not female, not gay and I am not Paul Watson
The bit where his girlfriend comes home with AID's on her lips ? You have to admit, life is funnier when it's not PC. I especially love the sequence about the family BBQ on that one. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002 Hey, at least Logo had, at it's inception, a mechanical turtle. VB has always lacked even that... - Shog9 04-09-2002 During last 10 years, with invention of VB and similar programming environments, every ill-educated moron became able to develop software. - Alex E. - 12-Sept-2002
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I blame the '80s... :suss:
Shog9 ------
So they took me down to the gallows And this boy, he said to me: "Why do you smile, when the rope's around your neck?" I said, "I tell you boy, when i get back..."
BLAME ? The 80's RULED. 80's music especially blows the garbage they have today out of the water. Anyone can wear baggy pants, detune their guitar and yell into a microphone. Give me Dio, old Metallica, Ozzy and Motley any day. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002 Hey, at least Logo had, at it's inception, a mechanical turtle. VB has always lacked even that... - Shog9 04-09-2002 During last 10 years, with invention of VB and similar programming environments, every ill-educated moron became able to develop software. - Alex E. - 12-Sept-2002
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Shog9 wrote: I blame the '80s... Someday I am going to pay someone to explain the '80s to me. Too much weird shit went down in that decade.
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaRay Cassick wrote: Well I am not female, not gay and I am not Paul Watson
What would you like to know ? Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002 Hey, at least Logo had, at it's inception, a mechanical turtle. VB has always lacked even that... - Shog9 04-09-2002 During last 10 years, with invention of VB and similar programming environments, every ill-educated moron became able to develop software. - Alex E. - 12-Sept-2002
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Robert Edward Caldecott wrote: The music sucked, the clothes sucked, the attitude sucked ... Yeah, it's sad... not only was their precious little good music, but what their was wasn't even close to mainstream. Given, i was fairly young, and not really into pop music at the time, but still... it's sad that here it is 12 years later & i'm *finally* finding some music produced in the '80s i actually like.
Shog9 ------
So they took me down to the gallows And this boy, he said to me: "Why do you smile, when the rope's around your neck?" I said, "I tell you boy, when i get back..."
What is wrong with you people ? Can anyone say Diamond Dave ? Joe Satriani ? Stevie Ray Vaughan ? U2 ? Iron Maiden ? Judas Priest ? Motorhead ? The Angels ? Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002 Hey, at least Logo had, at it's inception, a mechanical turtle. VB has always lacked even that... - Shog9 04-09-2002 During last 10 years, with invention of VB and similar programming environments, every ill-educated moron became able to develop software. - Alex E. - 12-Sept-2002
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Robert Edward Caldecott wrote: The music sucked, the clothes sucked, the attitude sucked My friends during high school (graduated '88), used to tell me I was stuck in the '70s. I generally listened to Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Rush, Boston, Sabbath, Floyd, etc... I had shaggy hair, and liked my denim jacket. Somewhat out of place, but damn I was happy. :-D BW "I'm coming with you! I got you fired, it's the least I can do. Well, the least I could do is absolutely nothing, but I'll go you one better and come along!" - Homer J. Simpson
Yeah !! What about Deep Purple ? How could you like all that stuff and NOT like the 80's stuff that evolved from it ? Surely you liked GnR ? Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002 Hey, at least Logo had, at it's inception, a mechanical turtle. VB has always lacked even that... - Shog9 04-09-2002 During last 10 years, with invention of VB and similar programming environments, every ill-educated moron became able to develop software. - Alex E. - 12-Sept-2002
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Paul Watson wrote: Just got a CD with some early Eddie Murphy stand up comedy acts. First off he should have stuck to stand up, damned funny (damned rude too.) I've got his Delirious and Raw albums (on MP3), and they're really funny, as old as they are. I agree with your observation as to how back then his gay jokes were much more widely accepted than they are today... at least that's how it seems. If you're looking for other really funny comedians from the 80s, check out Sam Kinison (RIP). He's got some outrageous comedy, which in my opinion, blows Eddie Murphy away. Regards, Alvaro
I hope this is an original quote. - Alvaro Mendez
Robin Williams Live at the Met is also funnier than Eddie, but Eddie is sure at his best in front of a crowd. Didn't he just go on to make some of the worst movies in history, 48 hrs and Beverly Hills Cop notwithstanding ? Oh, Trading Places also rocked. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002 Hey, at least Logo had, at it's inception, a mechanical turtle. VB has always lacked even that... - Shog9 04-09-2002 During last 10 years, with invention of VB and similar programming environments, every ill-educated moron became able to develop software. - Alex E. - 12-Sept-2002
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Shog9 wrote: I blame the '80s... Someday I am going to pay someone to explain the '80s to me. Too much weird shit went down in that decade.
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaRay Cassick wrote: Well I am not female, not gay and I am not Paul Watson
Paul Watson wrote: Someday I am going to pay someone to explain the '80s to me. Send me your credit card info, and I'll reveal all! I work cheap, but if it's more convenient, I'll explain it at a discount for payment in gold or diamonds.:-) "Another day done; all targets met; all systems fully operational; all customers satisfied; all staff keen and well motivated; all pigs fed and ready to fly." - Jennie Agard, McGuckin Hardware Systems Manager