The Envy-the-Deaf Poll
- Dr. Medulla
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The Envy-the-Deaf Poll
In some polls, there are no winners, except for those who refuse to vote. You've been convicted of crimes against humanity and are sentenced to listen to one band for the rest of your days. Which option has you thinking, "It could have been worse"?
"I never doubted myself for a minute for I knew that my monkey-strong bowels were girded with strength, like the loins of a dragon ribboned with fat and the opulence of buffalo dung." - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
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Is suicide an option? Not the band but the option of choosing your own demise.
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It's gotta be DMB. Not everything Tom raves about is always bad.
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Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
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Hello,
KISS can be fun sometimes - with the correct beverages.
KISS can be fun sometimes - with the correct beverages.
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I'm probably equally cool with all of those bands (assuming #3 is Metallica?). I shall abstain since Doc didn't take the Heston poll approach of just adding all the (sometimes conflicting) options.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.
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No, not Metallica. Were they called Embrace?
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Yeah. Tom's band has to objectively be the worst of the three.
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
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Jesus, we really are Statler and Waldorf. An early draft of the poll had “Suicide (band or action, your choice)” as the third option. But Suicide (the band) are cool, which defeats the point of the poll.
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Counterpoint: Suicide never featured a killer Boyd Tinsley solo.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑04 Aug 2022, 10:47amBut Suicide (the band) are cool, which defeats the point of the poll.
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
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That’s not how counterpoints work.Flex wrote: ↑04 Aug 2022, 10:50amCounterpoint: Suicide never featured a killer Boyd Tinsley solo.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑04 Aug 2022, 10:47amBut Suicide (the band) are cool, which defeats the point of the poll.
"I never doubted myself for a minute for I knew that my monkey-strong bowels were girded with strength, like the loins of a dragon ribboned with fat and the opulence of buffalo dung." - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
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I don't remember that band being his thing. I see he posted it on a Packet of Threes, did I miss something?
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.
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I recall him lauding them a few times. They've stuck in my mind in terms of "what the hell is he going on about here?"matedog wrote: ↑04 Aug 2022, 11:09amI don't remember that band being his thing. I see he posted it on a Packet of Threes, did I miss something?
"I never doubted myself for a minute for I knew that my monkey-strong bowels were girded with strength, like the loins of a dragon ribboned with fat and the opulence of buffalo dung." - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
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Co-signed
Edit: Even if you don't like DMB, it's still the strategically correct choice because you get way more diversity out of it given all the live albums and how the songs can change in live settings. If it's all you have to listen to forever, it might as well not be something stagnant.
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No SWANS?
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board