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Tuesday, August 19, 2008

I would actually go to this church

Hey, at least they have fun songs.

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23 comments:

  1. TJHAugust 19, 2008 at 6:12 PM

    When I was a child I lived in a low income housing project. There was a "black" church in the neighborhood. The music was great.

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  2. nonmagicAugust 19, 2008 at 6:20 PM

    Rufus, did they sing hymns about Richard Gere?

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  3. TJHAugust 19, 2008 at 6:27 PM

    No, this was the 70's. Jimmie "JJ" Walker, The Fonz, David Soul, like that.

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  4. nonmagicAugust 19, 2008 at 6:31 PM

    Well, maybe they at least got to sing the theme to 'Good Times'.

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  5. The MudSkipper ShowAugust 19, 2008 at 6:31 PM

    Andrew W was going to pay me $5 a week to go to church. IT's not enough for this shit. I want to remover my eardrums with a screwdriver when I hear this stuff.

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  6. TJHAugust 19, 2008 at 6:36 PM

    "keepin' your head above water
    makin' a wave when you can
    temporary lay offs
    good times
    easy credit ripoffs
    good times
    scratchin' and survivin'
    good times
    hanging in a chow line"
    good times
    ain't we lucky we got 'em
    good times"

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  7. nonmagicAugust 19, 2008 at 6:44 PM

    just lookin' out of the window.
    watchin' the asphalt grow.
    thinkin' how it all looks hand-me-down.
    good Times, yeah, yeah good Times

    keepin' your head above water
    makin' a wave when you can

    temporary lay offs. - good times.
    easy credit rip offs. - good times.
    ain't we lucky we got 'em - good times.

    ----

    I loved that show when I was a kid and I loved singing along to the theme song.

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  8. TJHAugust 19, 2008 at 6:48 PM

    Yes, I'm a child of the 70s. On Chapelle's Show, Dave did a skit about a game show called I Know Black People. One of the questions was finish this Good Times Lyric. The line they were looking for was "hanging in a chow line". One of the white contestants came closest with hanging in a jury. The judges gave him the point because it's the most contested line in the entire song.

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  9. nonmagicAugust 19, 2008 at 6:53 PM

    Oh I loved Chapelle !!

    I never understood a lot of the lyrics when I was growing up so I made up my own.

    'makin' a wave when you can' became 'makin' your way when you can'.

    'easy credit ripoffs' became something about ripples.

    'scratchin' and survivin' became something about driving.

    And the much contested 'hangin' in a chow line' became something about a challenge.

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  10. FroggieAugust 19, 2008 at 6:58 PM

    Rufus,

    I have achieved a new and higher level pf appreciation for you.

    I love you, man.

    dale

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  11. TJHAugust 19, 2008 at 6:59 PM

    Okay, Dale. Thanks. Tell me what it was, in case I want to do it again.

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  12. TJHAugust 19, 2008 at 7:02 PM

    Since these comments have moved into humor, has anyone else ever seen the Mad TV skit with Oprah Winfrey and three former first ladies, Barbara Bush, Nancy Reagan, and Betty Ford, doing The Vagina Monologues? If you haven't, I recommend going to You Tube and finding it. Mo Collins as Barbara Bush ("No pun intended"), is hilarious.

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  13. FroggieAugust 19, 2008 at 7:06 PM

    NM,
    You said,
    " Oh I loved Chapelle !!

    I never understood a lot of the lyrics when I was growing up so I made up my own."

    I can remember very well standing in church and they said, "Who art in heaven." I always heard that as, "A wart in heaven."

    That pleased me at the time beause i had a wart on my finger but I knew god would still let me in.

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  14. FroggieAugust 19, 2008 at 7:13 PM

    Rufus,
    You said,
    "Okay, Dale. Thanks. Tell me what it was, in case I want to do it again."

    I think it started with you saying,
    "When I was a child I lived in a low income housing project."

    I am now wondering if that is true.

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  15. nonmagicAugust 19, 2008 at 7:19 PM

    Rufus,

    I'll have to look that up.

    Dale,

    I love the wart lyric! Oh, I dunno about Jeebus and warts...I hear he blocks the gates of heaven for people just because they get angry with others and equates it with murder so I'm sure he has a wart phobia, too.

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  16. TJHAugust 19, 2008 at 7:36 PM

    Why, yes, Dale. From the age of five until I was fourteen, I lived in an apartment in a low income housing project in Keyser WV. How does that make you love me?

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  17. nonmagicAugust 19, 2008 at 8:11 PM

    Rufus, I don't know if you are interested in such things, but the housing project that is shown in the beginning of Good Times is Cabrini Green. I've been interested in the history of Cabrini Green for years from a sociological standpoint and never knew that was what was pictured there.

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  18. TJHAugust 19, 2008 at 8:23 PM

    NM:

    Yeah, I know a little about Cabrini Green. The 70's movie Cooley High was set there, though it wasn't filmed there.

    I may have given the wrong impression. I lived in low income housing, but it wasn't like Cabrini Green, or anywhere like that. It wasn't inner city projects, the town wasn't big enough to be a city, let alone have an inner city. There was poverty, some crime, some drugs, but nothing like a large inner city. I'm not one of the "thousand points of light" or anything. It was more of a rural area. I remember in the late 70s/early 80s when we started getting Super Station WTBS. That was a big deal.

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  19. felixAugust 20, 2008 at 6:39 AM

    Wasn't Cabrini the project they used in Candyman (the horror movie) too?

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  20. FroggieAugust 20, 2008 at 7:22 AM

    Rufus said...
    Why, yes, Dale. From the age of five until I was fourteen, I lived in an apartment in a low income housing project in Keyser WV. How does that make you love me?

    I have a ghuge admiration for people that overcome adversity and come out of experiences like you lived through to become happy and viable adults. In that situation you must have navigated through some temptations.

    Not that my family was rich. I grew up in a little house out in the country- in the Allegheny national forest in NW PA.

    We didn't have much money, but I had good fresh air and miles and miles of river and woodlands to roam around in.

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  21. nonmagicAugust 20, 2008 at 8:27 AM

    Felix, yep! Good catch!

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  22. FroggieAugust 20, 2008 at 12:20 PM

    That's OK, Rufus, when I was a kid I had to walk ten miles to school in waist deep snow and it was uphill both ways........

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  23. TJHAugust 20, 2008 at 4:07 PM

    The horror movie "Candyman"?

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