With the aid of Tommy Lucia and his highly trained sheep dog, imported from Scotland, "Whiplash" rounds up a herd of wild sheep. Although the agility and skill of his canine companion are unmatched, it is the unpredictable antics of this pint size primate, that keeps the onlookers in stitches.
Posted by adampsyche at July 24, 2002 03:00 PMI had something really great and thought-provoking to say about mind control and Master Blaster from "Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome", encompassing references to The Manchurian Candidate and Patty Hearst. Then I started googling for Master Blaster pictures and it all went to hell.
Posted by: kafkaesque on July 24, 2002 03:32 PMI got a whole bunch of peculiar and varied images on that search, but few rival this one.
Posted by: adampsyche on July 24, 2002 03:39 PM
soon you won't be able to add new comments to posts more than a month old and this requested feature will be moot.
posted by mathowie at 12:10 PM PST on July 24
The hand of Matt is just and fair.
Posted by: ColdChef on July 24, 2002 03:51 PMi wanna tell her that i love her
but the point is pra'bly moot
and she's watchin' him with those eyes
and she's lovin' him with that body
(i just know it)
Rick Springfield's was the first concert I ever attended. I was 13 years old, had ninth-row seats, and they cost seven bucks.
Posted by: Crash on July 24, 2002 04:08 PMColdchef, you are moot. Wait maybe I should go see the definition, before slinging my banana.
Posted by: thomcatspike on July 24, 2002 04:12 PMCrash, you can still see him. Now it'll cost you $75, though.
(My first concert? Asia. I was 12)
Posted by: Jeff nee pardonyou? on July 24, 2002 04:13 PMquite possibly the one feature that was the longest time coming. I finally did it.
You can't double-post a comment in either MetaFilter or MetaTalk ever again.
posted by mathowie to feature requests at 1:02 PM PST - 12 comments
"Jessie's Girl" was possibly my first 'favorite song'. I had Working Class Dog on vinyl, right next to Tattoo You (which we discussed earlier).
On a related note, I hate that I can't search amazon for some crappy 80s record without then having all sorts of other crappy 80s records jammed down my throat.
"We all need the human touch
We all need the human touch
I need it, the human touch"
"Coldchef, you are moot. Wait maybe I should go see the definition, before slinging my banana."
thomcat, that is one very cool post. I suggest, however, that you keep your banana sheathed. Banana slinging should only be used in cases of extreme emergency.
Posted by: Jeff nee pardonyou? on July 24, 2002 04:16 PMYou can't double-post a comment in either MetaFilter or MetaTalk ever again.
That sounds like a challenge...
Posted by: jpoulos on July 24, 2002 04:18 PMSpringfield's role in the show was created to showcase the success of his 30-year career in the music industry. He's sold more than 18 million records in a 13-album career
13 albums?
first concert: billy joel, i was 16. i believe erasure was the next one i went to.
Posted by: witchstone on July 24, 2002 04:23 PMMoot.
That's one of those words that cause me to rapidly forget it's definition if I hear it too many times in a row.
Right now it seems like a vaguely rude sound effect to me.
Excuse me.
Posted by: MarsCrash on July 24, 2002 04:27 PMMy first concert was ZZTop...1984, I think.
Y'see, Frank Beard was the only one who *didn't* have a beard...That's irony.
Opening act was Jimmy Barnes. I remember this because it remains perhaps the worst live performance I've ever seen.
Posted by: jpoulos on July 24, 2002 04:28 PMThe Cure - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me tour. I think I was probably 13? 14? I don't know.
Imagine my surprise later in life when I went to shows where the lead singer moved!
Posted by: kafkaesque on July 24, 2002 04:31 PMDead Milkmen - Bealzebubba tour. Elvis Hitler opened up for them. Roseland, Michigan. I was 13.
Posted by: adampsyche on July 24, 2002 04:38 PMAll I can think of is that old SNL sketch where Jesse Jackson kept saying "The question is moot"....(the highlight of that show was him reading "Green Eggs & Ham" out loud.)
Posted by: b****fire on July 24, 2002 05:19 PMb****fire: That was actually two different shows. The first, he did a talk show called "The Question is Moot." mid 80s. (That's also the first thing I think of when I hear mootmootmoot) and the second was about a decade later, where he read "Green Eggs and Ham" during Weekend Update.
You spent half the thing going, "Wait, that's not really Jesse, is it? No. Wait. I think it is. No. Oh my g*d, it is." like me?
Posted by: ColdChef on July 24, 2002 05:24 PMFirst concert - Woodstock - my parents took me, I was still a baby. :)
First concert I remember - Frank Zappa - I was 8, again, my mom took me. (My mom gets mad props for cool factor.)
First concert I paid for: Pink Floyd, I was 12 and allowed to go with friends and no parents. (Although, they were there somewhere too.)Waters was still in the band...it rocked.
First car date was a concert: Rolling stones
I've spent way, way too much money seeing concerts, now that I come to think about it. :)
Posted by: dejah420 on July 24, 2002 05:58 PMoh oops, that belongs one thread over...doh.
Oh well, I'll blame it on hormones and wander away cat-like, pretending that I meant to do that. :)
Posted by: dejah420 on July 24, 2002 05:59 PMThe question is moot! It's my show! I get the car!
That SNL bit was, in fact, what I was talking about. I think in the intervening years I may have munged up the exact quote in the stygian depths of my memory.
Posted by: kafkascampi on July 24, 2002 06:08 PMI didn't watch snl very much if at all in the '90s. Could what you saw have been a rerun? (the Green Eggs and Ham bit that is).
Actually the best rendition of that I have ever heard was a very very drunk Korean friend of mine who recited the whole book from memory. Korean accent + crapface drunk = comedy genius.
Posted by: b****fire on July 24, 2002 06:55 PMI'd just like to say God Bless Whiplash the Cowboy Monkey. Death to the pretenders!
Posted by: kafkajayhawkins on February 5, 2003 06:02 PMHi I am with the Indiana State Fair and I was just wondering if we could use the picture on your website of Whiplash the Cowboy Monkey for our media kit. He will be at the fair this year and we needed a visual and that pic is what were were looking for. thanks
natalie
Natalie, check out the offical home fo the pic: http://www.whiplashrides.com/images/whipalshBanner.jpg
Posted by: kaf on May 23, 2005 12:31 PMKafkaesque, that was so mature and socially responsible of you. Very un-monkeylike, dude.
Posted by: tizzie on May 23, 2005 02:45 PMYeah, what gives? You're setting the bar way too high for the rest of us.
Posted by: aine42 on May 23, 2005 03:12 PMwell, the site is getting on in years, it may be time for it to grow up a bit.
aw hell who am I kidding... we are just trying to promote monkeys ridin dogs all rodeo stylie
well, the site is getting on in years
Maybe we should consider toilet training it...
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