Posted on 11/21/2006 11:14:02 AM PST by raccoonradio
The phone lines might be back to normal.
...or the door to the studio might be boarded over.
Howie ought to do Jukebox from Hell again on a "slow day"...
people call in to say what are the worst songs. The Globe's
website listed 10 songs which, in the opinion of their
Arts and Entertainment staff (note: these are THEIR
choices! Don't blame me! :)) that are really bad...
10.Kevin Federline, Popozao
9.Black Eyed Peas, My Humps
8.Eddie Murphy, Party All the Time
7.Corey Hart, Sunglasses at Night
6.Los del Rio, Macarena
5.Journey, Separate Ways
4.Billy Ray Cyrus, Achy Breaky Heart
3.Vanilla Ice, Ice Ice Baby
2.Jefferson Starship, We Built this City (which topped
VH-1's list of worst songs--well, some magazine actually
did the poll...)
1.Don Johnson, Heartbeat
Some actual country song titles--no I'm not saying these songs are bad but the titles can be funny
Dropkick me Jesus Through the Goalposts of Life (Bobby Bare)
Here's a Quarter, Call Someone Who Cares (Travis Tritt)
I'm a People (George Jones)
Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off (Joe Nichols)
They Ain't Makin' Jews Like Jesus Anymore (Kinky Friedman)
The Old Home Fill her Up and Keep On A-Truckin' Cafe
(CW McCall)
I'm Gonna Hire A Wino to Decorate Our Home (David Frizell)
Get Your Biscuits In The Oven And Your Buns In The Bed
(Kinky Friedman)
Jeremiah Peabody's Polyunsaturated Quick Dissolving Fast Acting Pleasant Tasting Green and Purple Pills (Ray Stevens)
Up Against the Wall Redneck Mother (Lost Gonzo Band
feat. Jerry Jeff Walker)
What Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made A Loser Out Of Me)
(Merle Haggard)
If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It
Against Me (Bellamy Brothers)
plenty more here: http://www.countrysongtitles.com/
Bubba Shot the Jukebox--Joe Diffie
Four on the Floor and a Fifth Under the Seat
You Ain't Much Fun Since I Quit Drinkin'
If the Devil Danced in Empty Pockets, He'd Have a Ball in Mine
May The Bird Of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose
Thank God And Greyhound She's Gone.
The callers are what make that show worth listening to. Especially the chump line. People around here have that...je ne sais quoi. I hope we don't have to listen to him reading stories from Fark.com.
There are some titles that are kinda risque--another
Kinky Friedman song, set to the tune of "Okie from
Muskogee", is "A--hole from El Paso". And one title
on the page I quoted said something like "lipstick
on my dipstick"...
how about the two callers from Montreal--Steve the
Socialist, and Wally (who makes sense!!)
When the OJ topic was big news, I used to refer to Howie's
flagship station as "WRKO.J."
amazon.com: If I Did It
If I Did It by O. J. Simpson (Hardcover - Nov 30, 2006)
Currently unavailable
"This item was originally scheduled for release on November 30, 2006, but was canceled by the publisher on November 20, 2006"
Product Details
* Hardcover: 240 pages
* Publisher: Regan Books (November 30, 2006)
* Language: English
* Amazon.com Sales Rank: #139,585 in Books
(It was #51 yesterday, #31 before that in pre-orders...
Wonder if any "preview copies" are for sale on Ebay
and what they're charging for them? Big bucks, or 75 cents?
Ebay:
The seller ended this listing early because the item is no longer available for sale.
Buy It Now price: US $3,999.99
(though bid prices were considerably lower. moot point...
but i wonder if "preview copies" got out and could be for sale...?
Remember when people tried to get ahold of John Kerry's
"The New Soldier" and it was selling for a big price on EBay?
Whatever happened to Giles?
Phones seem to be back.
ERNESTINE THE TELEPHONE OPERATOR: "See this? (pushes button)
Just lost Peoria. You see we here at the phone company
have a system so complicated that even WE don't understand it. But that's YOUR problem, isn't it. We don't care, we don't
have to. We're The Phone Company."
Graphic:WE DON'T CARE. WE DON'T HAVE TO
THE PHONE COMPANY
--Saturday Night Live, around 1976 or so...
His wife made him retire or maybe he didn't want to drive
off Cape anymore...lives in Falmouth.
6 lines flashing! Full lines!
Yay!!!
Yes. I was kinda doing the Lily Tomlin bit from memory but here's the script (did a search)
LILY TOMLIN: Here at the phone company, we handle 84 billion calls a year, serving everyone from presidents and kings to the scum of the earth. We realize that every so often you can't get an operator. For no apparent reason your phone goes out of order, perhaps you've been charged for a call you didn't make. We don't care.
You see, this phone system consists of a multi-billion dollar matrix of space age technology that is so sophisticated - that even we can't handle it, but that's your problem, isn't it? So the next time you complain about your phone service why don't you try using two Dixie cups with a string. We don't care; we don't have to. We're the phone company.
Michael Richards, is he racist? Howie says so.
Poll:RACIST RICHARDS?
Michael Richards claims he is not a racist despite his outburst on stage earlier this week - do you agree?
current: Yes 36%
No 64%
Early SNL was great!
> Whatever happened to Giles?
Upstaged the Captain too often? Didn't like playing the drunken fool? Got too old to drive up from the Cape? All of the above? I don't know...he was a funny guy. Once Howie got this idea he had to say "I'm Howie Carr" before every station break, and Giles started mimicking him..."I'm Howie Carr, I'm Howie Carr. Who the heck do you think it is? I'm Howie Carr." Howie got a little pissed at that ;-)
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