George Clinton, aka Dr. Funkenstein, has a message for President Bush: Go get funked!

www.rgj.com ^ | 4/3/2003 | Neil Baron

[B4Ranch]

George Clinton, aka Dr. Funkenstein, has a message for President Bush: Go get funked!

[B4Ranch]

Go get funked? Where do these people come from?

[Consort]

What the world needs is more......fuddle.

[Notforprophet]

Bump for discussion of funk

[dighton]

Maggot Brain

A good self-description.

[B4Ranch]

Do maggots have brains?

[Pokey78]

"Ow, we want the funk
Give up the funk
Ow, we need the funk
We gotta have that funk"

[InvisibleChurch]

1976,

when you haven't had a hit in 27 years you're going to say just about anything to boost sales ... maybe hook up with the pearljam and the dixietwits for a 'freefall tour'

[Puppage]

We’re giving up all our rights just to be protected.”

And, just what RIGHTS have YOU given up, hmm? Go get disenfranchised, will ya?

[God luvs America]

Our President does not sit around, smoke pot and do nothing all day, as did P-Funk and its' members.

[TLBSHOW]

Looks like all the rats are crawling from the rat holes.

[Rocko]

Clinton, decked out in his multi-colored dreadlocks

Methinks his dreadlocks are made of tinfoil.

[2timothy3.16]

You know, when I see statments like this: “People don’t realize what’s going on,” he said. “(Bush’s) nose is growing longer. They’re trying to turn the country into (Nazi) Germany. That’s the idea, to keep you in a state of fear so you’ll need their protection. We’re giving up all our rights just to be protected.”

I can not help but feel bad for the ignorant fool who wrote them. For to be so ignorant about the nazi's and nazi germany is trully a shame.

[nomad]

I remember this a$$ h*le refugee from the 70s, well HE can go F*C# OFF!

[dighton]

Do maggots have brains?

"In a housefly all the ventral ganglia of the maggot become fused together into one large compound ganglion. From the brain of an insect, circumoesophageal connectives pass ventrally (and posteriorly), one to either side of the gut and then join again below in the suboesophageal ganglion. Like the brain this is considered to be a compound ganglion, the phylogenetic result of incorporating the mandibular, maxillary and labial segments into the head."

[TC Rider]

not worth the anger

[ricpic]

Fankly, I don't give a fonk...you fink!

[ScholarWarrior]

I am Sir Nose, Devoid of Funk.

And I will NEVER dance.

Prepare to meet your end, StarChild.

(Lines from one of Clinton's better works)

[Buckeye Bomber]

Is this all we can do? Curse at harmless drug-addled musicians from the 70's? We may control Congress and the White House, but we're awfully angry about it. George Clinton consistently sings about the necessity of all the world getting together and dancing, and I think that opposition to a war fits into the category of his idealistic and crazy "ideology". He sings songs about being Dr. Funkenstein and about Atomic Dogs. It's not like he's Rage Against the Machine trying to lead an armed revolution.

If you ever want to see what I'm talking about, see the movie PCU. It's an Animal House for the early 90's. They make fun of political correctness a lot, and then everyone gets together to get funky with George Clinton, since it is funk that cuts across all barriers. I personally believe that there is nothing wrong with a little funk, and that in an ideal (read as impossible) world, there'd be no need for war. I think George Clinton may hope for that ideal world as well, even if drugs played a large part in his hopes. In closing, leave George Clinton and his funk alone!

[Paul Atreides]

Another I-play-music-therefore-I-have-depth-and-enlightenment member of the cultural cesspool.

Go pick the gnats out of your dreadlocks and leave the safety of the country to those who know!

[Buckeye Bomber]

What kind of life can be lived devoid of funk? :-)

How can we dislike a guy who titles songs things like:

Do fries go with that shake?
If anybody gets funked up (it's gonna be you!)
Mothership Connection
Night Of The Thumpasorus Peoples
Count Junkula (I Didn't Know That Funk Was Loaded)
Supergroovalisticprosifunkstication

This is not a man with a serious political agenda. This is a guy who thinks we should all get together and dance (as my tag line says, "One nation under the groove").

I really hope this discussion doesn't turn into the evils of dancing. Although I'd be amused by that discussion I suppose.