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2004-04-12 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Man Bites Dog 2004-04-12 3:25:55 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 This will give rise to a new saying: "It ain't over til the flat lady sings."

Posted by Dave D. 2004-04-12 9:40:39 AM|| 2004-04-12 9:40:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 The set is fantastic, and the cast is quite talented, but I thought the girl in the lead role was a little flat.

Posted by Dar 2004-04-12 9:40:52 AM|| 2004-04-12 9:40:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 " Gaza Flapjacks: The story of Saint Pancake. "

Posted by Charles 2004-04-12 9:49:27 AM|| 2004-04-12 9:49:27 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 dar....;-]

Posted by B 2004-04-12 9:52:15 AM|| 2004-04-12 9:52:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Dave D hilarious!!!!!

Posted by Phil B 2004-04-12 10:03:40 AM|| 2004-04-12 10:03:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Brought to you by.... Caterpiller!

Posted by tu3031 2004-04-12 10:04:46 AM|| 2004-04-12 10:04:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Is it really a good idea to have everything in the key of B-flat?

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-04-12 10:05:20 AM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2004-04-12 10:05:20 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Featuring songs by Mandy Moore (Ooh,I got a crush on you/I hope you feel the way that I do/I get a rush when I'm with you/Ooh,I got a crush on you. A crush on you.) and Badly Drawn Boy (the instrumental "Rachel's Flat").

Posted by Mike 2004-04-12 10:20:51 AM|| 2004-04-12 10:20:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 . . . and "Bulldozer" by Machine Head.

Posted by Mike 2004-04-12 10:25:17 AM|| 2004-04-12 10:25:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 I tried to pitch my own Opera version of the conflict in Israel,
but I found noone seemingly interested in my lyrics:

"I survived the horrors of Aushwitz,
and moved to a land where I was supposed
to live out my years in peace.

I was blessed with a family,
a new life there,
Children and grandchildren
whom I tearfully named after
my own parents and siblings,
murdered for no other reason
than being Jewish.

Some of them joined me
at the hotel that evening to celebrate Passover
with others like me,
Grandfathers,
Grandmothers,
little grandchildren
who also carried the names, and
in some part, the lives of those
lost to senseless evil.
Young, innocent
smiles, old grateful smiles.

We were blown to pieces.
The old smiles, reborn on new faces - erased again.
The old prayers for renewal and freedom, reborn from new mouths - erased again.
murdered for no other reason
than being Jewish.

Sorry, gang. I didn't mean to get heavy, especially after Dave, Dar and Charles' hysterical comments. This just kind of came out.
Rantburg and LGF are my favorite 'blogs, and I
have no problem with the myriad thousands of "Saint Corrie" jokes. But, when I have a second to think of her, I lose my smile as the images that LGF makes sure we never forget remind me of what she really was about, who she really aligned herself with.
Every day she outlived the people at that hotel, or the teenagers at the Sbarro's pizzeria was a sad day for the world.

Posted by Ken B. 2004-04-12 10:36:08 AM|| 2004-04-12 10:36:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 just curious... does the role start out as a soprano, or does it start as an alto and ascend the scales as the steamroller moves up her body, a la Judge Doom near the end of "Roger Rabbit?"

Posted by Dripping sarcasm 2004-04-12 10:41:25 AM|| 2004-04-12 10:41:25 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 No matter how much they try to portray the incident as a tragedy, it still comes across as a farce. There is nothing in the world so pitiful as a flat farce.

Posted by Old Patriot 2004-04-12 10:56:32 AM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2004-04-12 10:56:32 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 Is it really a good idea to have everything in the key of B-flat?

C-flat.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-04-12 11:03:41 AM|| 2004-04-12 11:03:41 AM|| Front Page Top

#14 Ken B - I bet your opera, even if I sang the lead (well...ok, maybe not) would be better, pull larger crowds and find a better place in history. But alas, it and nothing ever like it, will receive the massive publicity needed to make it a success...like St. Rachel's will get.

I look at the bright side. The more young people who learn about Rachel, the more they will discover what she was really about and the more they will think their boom'n grandparents are a bunch of senile dopes.

Posted by B 2004-04-12 11:21:27 AM|| 2004-04-12 11:21:27 AM|| Front Page Top

#15 Ken B--Don't apologize. That was a poignant reminder just why I'm so disgusted with Corrie and her support of such murderous filth. One can get so depressed thinking about the victims of this senseless violence that it is more tempting to mock her idiotic suicidal act than to dwell on just what she supported and represented. We shouldn't lose sight of that.

That being said, I think the key is actually D(-9) flat.

Posted by Dar 2004-04-12 11:24:35 AM|| 2004-04-12 11:24:35 AM|| Front Page Top

#16 I thought that our own UAA (University of Alaska Anchorage) was infected by the LLL, but not this bad. Boy, what tommyrot. And ripping off the "Rivers of Babalyon" too. I came back from a memorial get together for a good friend that passed away too young in Fairbanks. There were 450 people there sharing their experiences with her. She had such love for everyone and did so much for others, even despite her debilitating disease in the end.

Unfortunately, Rachael Corrie, in her misguided and twisted way, enabled hate and terrorists. I will never forget her hateful look in the picture of her burning the American and Israeli flags in front of young kids. Take a good look at at the faces of those young children in the picture. Little kids do not hate. They learn it from older people. People like Rachael Corrie and others who teach it to others. So this hateful person is the one that Phillip Munger celebrates. This little dittie will wind up on the dustbin of history.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-04-12 11:25:26 AM|| 2004-04-12 11:25:26 AM|| Front Page Top

#17 AP - well said - but I don't think she will wind up in the dustbin of history. I think she'll be around for a long, long time. And sadly, for Rachel, she won't be a saint. She will be remembered for that picture and the dramatic contrast of her visible hated v/s her own misguided belief in the purity of her deeds. Of course, sealing her place among the library shelves...will be her tragic end set in the rubble of the thousand year old Israel/Arab conflict.

I really think it is a story of such dramatic proportions along that Shakespeare would have been hard pressed to out do it. I don't think she will soon be forgotten.

Posted by B 2004-04-12 11:44:17 AM|| 2004-04-12 11:44:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#18 oh wait..it was the dittie you were referring to....

Posted by B 2004-04-12 11:47:15 AM|| 2004-04-12 11:47:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#19 Alaska Paul,

I agree with what you say about the faces of those kids in the picture, but - and maybe I'm just projecting here - I can almost swear some of them look as as if they might be saying,

" Check out the American-bitch Poser! She's trying way too hard to say, Hey, look you poor oppressed people, I'm totally just like you! Love me!"

"I know, right? Hell, my brother is in Hamas and he doesn't make faces like that! And if my sister made a public spectacle of herself like that, I think my father would have pull an honor killing on her ass! What a loser!"

Posted by Dripping sarcasm 2004-04-12 11:52:11 AM|| 2004-04-12 11:52:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#20 This story so depressed me that I knew I had to do something, so I started writing a cantata about the Saudi in the white robe that showed up in Ain al-hellhole. See that posting. Now I feel better. *sigh*

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-04-12 11:52:58 AM|| 2004-04-12 11:52:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#21 This is just flattening! Into the Classics it goes!

Posted by Steve from Relto 2004-04-12 11:53:30 AM|| 2004-04-12 11:53:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#22 I think, in a way, Rachel will come to represent the entire generation of Anti-American, Vietnam, Boomer confused kids who believed in their purity as they spread the hate and shilled for tyrants who left piles of skulls stacked in shallow graves.... A generation whose "purity" was laid bare on September 11, 2001...when the WTC was flattened.

That is the opera I'd write.

Posted by B 2004-04-12 11:56:10 AM|| 2004-04-12 11:56:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#23 "It ain't over til the flat lady sings."

ROFLMAO

Posted by mojo 2004-04-12 12:18:06 PM|| 2004-04-12 12:18:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#24 Agree with the comments about the lead singer's voice. It sounded like the high notes were squeezed out of her.

Posted by Infidel Bob 2004-04-12 12:28:51 PM|| 2004-04-12 12:28:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#25 [Off-topic or abusive comments deleted]

Posted by Antiwar TROLL 2004-04-12 1:25:33 PM|| 2004-04-12 1:25:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#26 OK, that last one makes it clear that Antiwar is a sock-puppet. Who's the joker?

C'mon! 'Fess up!

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-04-12 1:58:31 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2004-04-12 1:58:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#27 You are obviously all Zionnazis.
Antiwar, you are such a dumbshit...
You and St.Pancake, walking hand in hand into the future - swathed in burkhas head to toe, three feet behind your man, where you belong. That is, when you're let out of the house at all.

What you're too puny to understand, you fear, so you have to label it something vile, so YOU feel better. How very defining of you. Every time you post, you define yourself a bit more. The overall picture is definitely very unflattering. Thankfully, it's not like the ones of you at three months that your mother will show of you to your future fiance that will embarass you, or that someone will pull out for your children when they're in their formative years, showing your missing front teeth. Still, the impression you give others is extremely unflattering. Are you sure you want to project this ugly, bitter image for the entire world to see?

Posted by Old Patriot 2004-04-12 2:00:24 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2004-04-12 2:00:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#28 The goofy bitch deserved to be squashed like a ripe pimple. Anyone who doesn't have sense enough to get out of the way of a bulldozer, is a goddamn idiot and should be flattened....smashed into the dirt. Smushed like the cockroach she is/was.

Posted by Halfass Pete 2004-04-12 2:04:27 PM|| 2004-04-12 2:04:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#29 OK, folks. I am over my depression and I am back. The story of Rachel Corry is so tragic and stupid that I find it hard to get a handle on it. Then I got inspired and realized that her memory should be preserved in a ballad. I have written the chorus below. More time will be needed to get all the verses composed. Mike Morley, I can sure use your help! So here it is, a work in progress, to the tune of the Ballad of Jesse James:

Ballad of Rachel Corrie

[Chorus]

Rachel took a stand
In Gaza's troubled land
The Israeli Army she did face
But an IDF catskineer
Made Rachel much more thinner
And left his D-9 tracks upon her face

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-04-12 2:10:53 PM|| 2004-04-12 2:10:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#30 Oh no! It's the Zionists!! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh!

Stick a fork in "Antiwar", it's done.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-04-12 2:13:31 PM|| 2004-04-12 2:13:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#31

Posted by Yosemite Sam 2004-04-12 2:28:38 PM|| 2004-04-12 2:28:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#32 Don't be so unhappy antiwuz, 2 space isn't bad altho you gotta know yer moibius strip ramps to get anywhere in our transportation system.

Posted by Flat Lander 2004-04-12 4:07:47 PM|| 2004-04-12 4:07:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#33 What? Moibius strip? Is that near Gaza? I can't seem to change directions.

Posted by St Rachel De Jemimuh 2004-04-12 4:10:58 PM|| 2004-04-12 4:10:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#34 St. Pancake was mortally wounded by falling debris and died in an Israeli hospital.

Posted by Korora 2004-04-12 5:18:45 PM|| [http://basementburrow.blogspot.com] 2004-04-12 5:18:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#35 oh please...all zionists...now that is funny.....bottom line this chick put herself in the middle of a warzone..and not a very smart place to pluck yourself either..who the hell would want to die for a paleo!

if anything there should be a play written about that chinese dude who stood in front a tank in '89. now that dude had balls!

more intelligent ranting from our little aussie!

Posted by Dan 2004-04-12 6:27:16 PM|| 2004-04-12 6:27:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#36 Anal-War: "Zionnazis" - can't seem to find it on a map. Is that anywhere near "Zion Crossroads"? Which state (or country)?

Inquiring minds want to know.

Davd D.: ROFLMAO! You da' man!

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2004-04-12 11:05:13 PM|| 2004-04-12 11:05:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#37 Hey Barbara Hole-Out--my country right or wrong applies to America--not Israel--why don't you move there if you want to continue your Amen Chorus?

Posted by Not Mike Moore 2004-04-13 12:45:17 AM|| 2004-04-13 12:45:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#38 Ok--it's OK for Israelis to kill Americans--just not Arabs?

Posted by Not Mike Moore 2004-04-13 12:46:39 AM|| 2004-04-13 12:46:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#39 Last minute Mike is on message!

Posted by Shipman 2004-04-13 6:57:43 AM|| 2004-04-13 6:57:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#40 Off-topic or abusive comments deleted]

Posted by Antiwar 2004-04-12 1:25:33 PM|| 2004-04-12 1:25:33 PM|| Front Page Top

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