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History's 10 biggest disappointments: from Y2K to Jar-Jar, don't believe the hype
New York Post ^
| December 7, 2008
| Reed Tucker
Posted on 12/07/2008 3:18:37 PM PST by EveningStar
When was the last time you waited 15 years for something? Besides the N train, that is? It's been a decade and a half since Guns N' Roses released its last album, but last week (no doubt in a bid to win himself a free bottle of Dr Pepper) mercurial Axl Rose finally unleashed "Chinese Democracy," and the result was . . . general indifference. Sorry, Axl. Maybe America was too busy watching that crazy person Britney Spears.
Which is not to say "Chinese Democracy" doesn't have some decent songs. It does. But it is far from the world-devouring success the band enjoyed in the early 1990s. It joins the ranks of some of history's other great disappointments:
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: disappointments; history; y2k
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To: EveningStar
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posted on
12/07/2008 3:21:02 PM PST
by
gop4lyf
(Obama wants to raise taxes and kill babies. Palin wants to raise babies and kill taxes.)
To: EveningStar
Jar-Jar is pure excitement compared to 0bama.
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posted on
12/07/2008 3:25:34 PM PST
by
smokingfrog
(Buy'em cheap. Bury'em deep.)
To: EveningStar
They hype behind the global warming scare is by far the worst of any bullcrap hysteria ever created. Non-stop frontpage coverage and school indoctrination for over two decades.
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posted on
12/07/2008 3:26:19 PM PST
by
Always Right
(Obama: more arrogant than Bill Clinton, more naive than Jimmy Carter, and more liberal than LBJ.)
To: smokingfrog; EveningStar
Jar-Jar had to be one of the gayest characters ever to come out of a computer. And that’s saying something.
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posted on
12/07/2008 3:27:19 PM PST
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: EveningStar
How about the 110th Congress that has led us into recession and perhaps a depression?
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posted on
12/07/2008 3:27:33 PM PST
by
TheThinker
(Shame and guilt mongering is the Left's favorite tool of control.)
To: EveningStar
from Y2K to Jar-Jar, don't believe the hype The first Star Trek movie.
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posted on
12/07/2008 3:28:28 PM PST
by
ElkGroveDan
(Reagan is back, and this time he's a woman.)
To: EveningStar
So it’s “history’s” greatest disappointments, but he only goes back to 1840? I guess the Battle of Cannae doesn’t rank up with the death of William Henry Harrison.
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posted on
12/07/2008 3:29:02 PM PST
by
Larry Lucido
(Sorry, all out of free Brightsides and Lazamatazes. If you took two, please return one.)
To: EveningStar
yes jar jar was the worst. I waited so long for the star wars prequels...
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posted on
12/07/2008 3:30:21 PM PST
by
ari-freedom
(Conservatives solve problems. Libertarians ignore problems. Liberals create problems.)
To: Larry Lucido
The Crusades happened in the 19th century? LOL
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posted on
12/07/2008 3:30:53 PM PST
by
JimC214
To: JimC214
LOL!
Oh, THOSE Crusades. :”)
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posted on
12/07/2008 3:32:07 PM PST
by
Larry Lucido
(Sorry, all out of free Brightsides and Lazamatazes. If you took two, please return one.)
To: EveningStar
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posted on
12/07/2008 3:32:12 PM PST
by
wastedyears
("Al Gore is an apostle of arrogance." - Vaclav Klaus, Pres. of Czech Republic)
To: dayglored
Oh. Yousa point is well seen!
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posted on
12/07/2008 3:32:22 PM PST
by
smokingfrog
(Buy'em cheap. Bury'em deep.)
To: smokingfrog
was a better senator, too! :)
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posted on
12/07/2008 3:32:40 PM PST
by
TV Dinners
(Hope is not a Strategy)
To: EveningStar
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posted on
12/07/2008 3:33:05 PM PST
by
VOA
To: EveningStar
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posted on
12/07/2008 3:34:58 PM PST
by
mnehring
To: TheThinker
The Muslim Messiah, his shrew, and their Socialist cohorts in the US Congress should be enough to have our forefathers rolling in their graves. That, IMO, should be one of the biggest disasters to ever have befallen the USA.
To: gop4lyf
Is 0bama on the list? Not yet - he will be in 4 years for sure.
To: gop4lyf
He will displace Jarjar Binks.
To: gop4lyf
I can hear it now in a couple of years. “$750 million and all we got was Obama?”
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