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The J6 Hyperbole Olympics Off to a Good Start
“Certain dates echo throughout history, including dates that instantly remind all who have lived through them where they were, and what they were doing, when our democracy came under assault. Dates that occupy not only a place on our calendars, but a place in our collective memory: December 7th, 1941, September 11th, 2001, and January 6th, 2021.” – Vice President Kamala Harris
It’s going to be hard to top that. She could have mentioned August 4, 2003, the date ‘Firefly’ went off the air. Or September 20, 1999, the date Shania Twain released “Man, I Feel Like a Woman” and ruined country music forever.
Update: MSNBC ups the ante, comparing January 6 to the Holocaust. You knew someone was going to go there. Who had MSNBC in the pool?
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November 3rd, 2020 a date which will live in infamy!
How about July 10, 2013, the day that the Twinkie was reintroduced after a nine month hiatus? Of course, those Twinkies remaining in the distribution chain from prior to the shutdown remain indistinguishable from the new product as the confection, as we know, has the half-life of a troy ounce of radium and is just as digestible. Yet, there are those who love them.
I have a question that’s been bouncing around my head for a week or two and this is probably as good a place to ask it as he might pop up today. Has the formerly mute President, who miraculously regained his voice in 2017, lost his voice again? He probably said something in September as Biden blew the Afghanistan exit. Doubt anything else has raised his ire as much as Trump implementing conservative ideas.
I gotta disagree about this part, VTK. Shania didn’t ruin country music forever, though it was a pretty bad song.
But there’s still some pretty good country after 1999. Dierks Bentley, What Was I Thinking. Luke Bryan, Drinkin’ Beer and Wasting Bullets. A whole bunch by Toby Keith, from Whiskey For My Men to As Good As I Once Was to God Love Her. Brad Paisley, I’m Gonna Miss Her.
The last one is a pretty good answer to Shania’s Any Man of Mine, actually.
I do agree about Firefly.
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When I was a kid, as best I can recall, Twinkies had real sour cream in them, and they were good. I can’t eat the ones they sell now.
According to Wikipedia, “Man, I Feel Like a Woman” was inspired by drag performers.
speaking of which, how many times will (MS)NBC mention the ongoing Uighur genocide in China during their Olympics coverage. I am betting on zero.
How about 11/21/21? Where people actually, you know, died. In a horrific act of racist hatred.
Will that day live in infamy? That was barely a month ago. Does anyone put flags on their lawn to remember that day?
Did you forget You’re the Reason our Kids are ugly, by Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty? (Or was that released prior to 1999?)
This deserves promotion to the main feed for this passage alone:
“She could have mentioned August 4, 2003, the date ‘Firefly’ went off the air. Or September 20, 1999, the date Shania Twain released “Man, I feel like a woman” and ruined country music forever.”
Jim, you must be even older than I am, and I’m older than dirt. :)
That song was released in 1978. I do remember 1978, but it doesn’t seem recent to me. 1988 does seem recent.
I consider all music released after 1975 “new music.”
I consider almost all music released after about 1987 “bad music”.
I sorta liked Robert Earl Keen.
Jim, you must be even older than I am, and I’m older than dirt. :)
That song was released in 1978. I do remember 1978, but it doesn’t seem recent to me. 1988 does seem recent.
The Koreans have started doing country now.
Nashvirre