Happy 75th Birthday to Sleepy LaBeef

Today is the 75th birthday of the great Sleepy LaBeef, one of the great rockabilly pioneers who for some reason has bever really gotten his due.

Lyrics That Somehow Snuck Past The Censors

#1: Start Me Up, by The Rolling Stones

As the song fades out, Mick Jagger repeats the line
"you, you, you make a grown man cry."
But in the last repetition of this line, he clearly says
"you, you, make a dead man cum."

How that ever got on the radio without being bleeped is a mystery to me, and no matter how many times I've heard it on various radio stations, I have never heard that line censored.


The Rolling Stones - Start Me Up - MyVideo

#2: Who Are You? by The Who

Towards the end, while Pete Townsend, John Entwhistle and Keith Moon are repeating "who are you? Who, who are you?" He slips in the line "Well, who the fuck are you?" I have never heard this line bleeped.
It happens at about the 5:40 mark in this video:


CSI- The Who- Who Are You - MyVideo


#3: Walk on the Wild Side, by Lou Reed
The line "But she never lost her head,
even when she was giving head"
got past the censors in 1972, and it still gets played on the radio today.
The story I heard, which may not be true, is that the expression "giving head" as a slang term for oral sex was not in the common parlance in '72, and so the censors just didn't realize what the line meant.



#4: Relax, by Frankie Goes To Hollywood

The entire song could really have been bleeped, I think it was banned by the BBC. The song is about trying not to climax too soon during gay sex.
Here are a few sample lyrics:

Relax, don't do it
When you want to go to it
Relax, don't do it
When you wanna cum

Relax, don't do it
When you wanna suck it to it
Relax, don't do it
When you wanna cum.


And it's not like the video wasn't a tip-off:



Although, I think they did end up having to make a different video for MTV with the band performing on syage with lasers and whatnot but still, this has to be the dirtiest song to ever get mainstream airplay.

Another (alleged) Domestic Terrorist

I-580 shootout suspect mad at left-wing politics

Bob Egelko,Henry K. Lee, Chronicle Staff Writers

San Francisco Chronicle July 18, 2010 05:59 PM Copyright San Francisco Chronicle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Monday, July 19, 2010

Oakland -- A 45-year-old parolee, described by his mother as angry at left-wing politicians, opened fire on California Highway Patrol officers on an Oakland freeway early Sunday and was hit by return fire while wearing body armor, authorities said.

Williams' mother, Janice Williams of Groveland. . . said her son, who had been a carpenter and a cabinetmaker before his imprisonment, was angry about his unemployment and about "what's happening to our country."

Williams watched the news on television and was upset by "the way Congress was railroading through all these left-wing agenda items," his mother said.

Police found in the truck a suspicious object that prompted investigators to call a bomb squad to the scene. The object was detonated Sunday without mishap in the center divide of the freeway.

Law enforcement sources said Williams has a history showing he is both anti-government and anti-corporation, and against liberal causes.

The Alameda County Bomb Squad robot takes a handbook from the shootout suspect's truck on I-580 in Oakland on Sunday.

"There is no doubt in our mind, given the body armor and the extensive amount of ammunition he had, that he was on his way to do a very serious crime against either someone or a group of people," Cross said.

Among that evidence was a white three-ring binder recovered from the truck by a bomb squad robot. Scrawled by hand on the cover of the binder was the word, "California." Officials would not describe the contents of the binder.

(full story here)

Janice Williams [the suspect's mother] said she kept the guns because "eventually, I think we're going to be caught up in a revolution." But she said she had told her son many times that "he didn't have to be on the front lines."

She said she had no explanation for his actions.

Really? I can think of one. Being raised by a paranoid lunatic, maybe?

This Song Goes Out to Dick Cheney, Who's Recovering From Heart Surgery

Attractive Eighties Women: Gonna Throw A Party When You Die



I have only one wish for when your life ends,
Come back as a zombie, I'll kill you again!

How can One person be This Dumb?

Remember how we all laughed at Sarah Palin for coming up with the word "refudiate" a couple days ago? Well, apparently, it was not so much a slip of the tongue as she honestly thinks that this is a real word:

Then she took that "tweet" down and replaced it with this:

re·fute

–verb (used with object), -fut·ed, -fut·ing.

1.

to prove to be false or erroneous, as an opinion or charge.

2.

to prove (a person) to be in error.

You know, Sarah, I actually would like to refute the "Ground Zero Mosque Plan," if I may. There is no plan to build a mosque at "Ground Zero." No Muslim church or organization owns that land and therefore, they can not build anything there. The land is owned by, I believe the Port Authority, or maybe the City of New York, but either way, there is not going to be a mosque built there.

There is a plan to build a mosque and Islamic Community Center a couple of blocks away from ground zero, that is true. But since the Cordoba Institute owns that land, they can do with it as they wish. Property Rights. Look it up, it used to be a core conservative value.

Never one to just let something drop, Palin has responded to criticism thusly:

No. No we don't got to celebrate it. And Shakespeare coined new words on purpose, not by misunderstanding already existing words. And what the fuck is "wee-wee'd up?" Where the hell does that come from? Never mention Shakespeare again, you stupid, stupid person!