Wednesday, May 20, 2020

Da Boids Is Da Woid - Part Th' Antecedent

The Jet Set. Their story is the stuff of legend. Three Grit newsboys singing harmony at the local maltshop were spotted by itinerant carney huckster Bert "Bertie" Buglebuster and forced to sign a contract requiring them to behave like assholes for the rest of their lives.

"He promised us chicks," laments Jim-Roger McGuinn (lead guitarist). "Yeah," avers cuddly Davy Crosby (drums),"we's really swell guys and th' greatest buddies an' he made us behave real bad we wus ashamed to tell our moms whut he made us do th' drugs an' bitchin' and whinin'." Gene Clark, the quiet intellectual of the group, puts it thusly - "signing that Faustian contract was a curse. Sure, we became world-famous, but at what cost? Whither the merry newsboys of yore?"

 Still, here's seventy-nine tracks [79 - Ed.] of protonymical ur-Byrds you'll be too daunted to sit through what with, you know, your *cough* little problem.
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40 comments:

  1. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIMay 20, 2020 at 4:32 AM

    To qualify for this Byrds Bonus Bonanza, simply state who you'd like to spend a steamy three-way sex romp with at a luxurious billionaire playground with absolutely NO hidden cameras! No worries there! Uh-uh!

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  2. AnonymousMay 20, 2020 at 5:37 AM

    3 way with Cody and Creme! or Myra and Buttermilf?

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  3. Jack Kerouac's CatMay 20, 2020 at 7:18 AM

    Nicki Minaj and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Call me kinky......

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  4. Kwai ChangMay 20, 2020 at 7:22 AM

    Raquel Wellll...WAIT A MINUTE!!!
    Me, Myself and I?
    Is there a doctor here? Is there a doctor here?
    Excuse me, Sir...
    She's not the patient!
    "I'm not the doctor"!
    But he could play them boobs like a ringin'-a-bell!
    Groucho B. Goode!
    I suppose that Raquel Welch and Melody Nelson would be okay for a Tuesday night!
    Hey, Mister! Don't you think it's time we had James Tiberius Kirk grace the site Marquee artwork? If not, then change out Raquel Welch for Yvonne Craig as the green strumpet from Star Trek(Orion slave girl, Marta...Whom Gods Destroy).
    ...possibly in aqua blew!
    KC

    Kirk out!

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    1. Kwai ChangMay 20, 2020 at 7:26 AM

      Did Crosby ever really play a 12 string?
      Just sayin'/askin'/sayin'
      If only I could remember my address.
      To everything there is a time and a purpose.
      Nevermind my address...gimme the lyrics!

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  5. One Buck GuyMay 20, 2020 at 2:44 PM

    Hollywood rules, huh?!

    Once a series has run its course, we go back to making prequels, huh?!

    Welcome to the Machine! Have a cigar! By the way, which one's Byrd?

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  6. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIMay 20, 2020 at 3:02 PM

    "I am disappoint" no-one has suggested a Golda Meir/Eleanor Roosevelt triad.

    "Stealth Link" in this comment.


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    1. Jack Kerouac's CatMay 21, 2020 at 12:21 AM

      I thought they had to be living.

      I'm reminded of the Frenchman who was arrested for necrophilia. Under interrogation he was heard to say: "Dead? I thought she was English!"

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    2. Kwai ChangMay 22, 2020 at 7:16 AM

      Once at a party, I talked to the drunkest girl I ever met for five minutes before it was revealed that she WASN'T drunk...she was visiting from Wales!
      Whoa! Lysergia and the sacremental rites of passage!
      Long ago...on a bunch of micrograms!
      Man, I felt as though I had understood every word.

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    3. Kwai ChangMay 22, 2020 at 7:16 AM

      Please, pass the OED!

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    4. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIMay 22, 2020 at 7:39 AM

      OED'd On Life Itself

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  7. sambgodotMay 20, 2020 at 3:02 PM

    I'll go with Lee Grant and Gloria Grahame. They'd keep me happy for a while. 79 tracks?

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    1. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIMay 20, 2020 at 3:14 PM

      Yup. Soixante-dix-neuf titres. There may be one or two dupes, but from the timings, different versions are different. This is way more than anybody needs, which is what everybody wants, apparently.

      I refer you to outside counsel regarding corrections, complaints etc. I've only listened to a few tracks.

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  8. expramtravellerMay 20, 2020 at 4:00 PM

    I'll have the two cuties from the fishmonger's around the corner.
    BTW, this is the only place on the entire internet that forces me to consult the unabridged iteration of the Oxford English Dictionary.

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    1. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIMay 20, 2020 at 6:27 PM

      I am surprise and disappoint you gots to consult a word book - I have always espoused the eschewal of obfuscation. Words is my business, after all.

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    2. expramtravellerMay 20, 2020 at 6:44 PM

      I am sorry for your disappointment. I appreciate your motives are of high moral standing, but consulting such books is a long established habit with me, one which I find it hard to kick.

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    3. Kwai ChangMay 20, 2020 at 8:45 PM

      Have no fear. I own a copy of the Oxford and used to read it because it is not like ANY other dictionary. I also think it is one of the most clever pieces of Colonial Weaponry ever devised. I consider it a huge compliment to have read such a comment about this site...and, this isn't even my site. I love our host and I'm of the belief that he might have read the compliment from West to East. Vocabulary can be priceless! (Let that thought console you).

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    4. expramtravellerMay 20, 2020 at 9:25 PM

      You have a hard copy? I have always craved one but haven't been able to afford the multi-volume wonder. Count yourself lucky then, I have to make do with a digital version.

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    5. Kwai ChangMay 20, 2020 at 10:40 PM

      Mine is soft-bound AND(sadly) it is the whittled down traveller's(?) edition. It is about two inches thick and I scored it at a local Salvation Armt Thrift Store for $1.00! Nevertheless...it is full of Pilcrows!
      I've always thought that the University was built around the book!
      It's still something I will never part with. It is like a loaded firearm just waiting(however poised) in fully formal dark blue(Black???) clothing.
      Bang, bang you're Terry Reid's dictionary.
      You'll notice that farq never uses Oxford commas...
      I wonder if they have a fox-hunt edition.

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    6. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIMay 21, 2020 at 2:46 AM

      I recognizea compliments okay. I was indulging in irony, as anyone who understands what I wrote will understand!

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    7. B.B.May 21, 2020 at 8:21 AM

      Not only do I resent dat allegation, I rekkanize the alligator...

      - Da Kingfish

      Salvation Armt Thrift Store . . . ???

      Hmmm... I think they have Starvation Armory Shrift Thors near here. Either that, or right next to the Oldwill Shift Throp...

      Coming soon to a neighborhood near you or someone who looks like you.

      Me, myself and I (3-way? No way!), I prefer Church Charity shops. More often than not, they won't price-gouge you when you are getting that "G" grade late '70s Rod ElPee you so need to complete the erect... er, COLLECTION...

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    8. Kwai ChangMay 21, 2020 at 8:59 AM

      Have Pilcrow: Will grovel...
      (Matt Bastard's Son)
      My dad always called me Squirt!
      When I asked him "Dad, what's a pussy"?
      He unfolded the centerfold and drew a circle around the triangle...
      "Inside that circle, son...THAT's a pussy"!
      Then what's a cunt???
      "A cunt??? That's everything OUTSIDE of the circle"
      ...the end...

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    9. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIMay 21, 2020 at 2:07 PM

      Why, what a simply charming after-dinner anecdote! Ideal for the annual meet of the Left-Handed Ladies Steeplejack Association.

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  9. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIMay 20, 2020 at 6:30 PM

    Boids fans will be incontinent with excitement to learn there's a couple more yrly-byrd comps coming up - a "complete" Preflyte, comped by the same guy what did all the others, and the extended Never Before. And then my work here is done.

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  10. sambgodotMay 20, 2020 at 7:26 PM

    I think I might lose the will to live sitting through 2 hours and 50 minutes of this........

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    1. Kwai ChangMay 20, 2020 at 10:41 PM

      Or, play them in reverse order and wind up back in the womb.

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  11. expramtravellerMay 20, 2020 at 11:15 PM

    The number of spelling variants of Pilcrows!
    And then the history of the word is obscure, and evidence is wanting.
    Where else but in the OED would one find such information?

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  12. expramtravellerMay 20, 2020 at 11:17 PM

    Damn,wrong box. This was meant for you, Kwai.

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    1. Kwai ChangMay 21, 2020 at 3:17 AM

      I read all the comments...
      so, I caught it in spite of...the irony!

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    2. expramtravellerMay 21, 2020 at 4:57 PM

      Do you or did you read all the comments?
      The pitfalls of English spelling! Ambiguity reigns supreme.
      And now for the fire hydrant.

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    3. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIMay 21, 2020 at 5:33 PM

      Kwai not only reads all the comments, he writes most of them too, including mine. The amazing thing is he does all this with an Etch-A-Sketch, two penlight batteries, the transmission from a 1937 Hupmobile, and a bag of reds.

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    4. B.B.May 22, 2020 at 1:21 AM

      ...Anxiously awaiting the Farq Ltd. Ed. Trading Card on THAT character...

      (Quite the mental picture.)(Either that, or menial picture.)(Depends on which Speak 'n' Spell from deep within the E-Waste archives I am using at the time to typo alla this...)

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  13. StanleyMay 24, 2020 at 6:38 AM

    Me, Donald Trump and Boris Johnson. Link please!

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