Advertisers Exploit
Rude Boy Advertisers exploit the masculine mystique by implying that a man can be as distant, cool and strong as the image in the ad … … if he will just use the product.
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Love Stinks (Yeah Yeah)
Love Stinks “Love Stinks” is a song written by Peter Wolf and Seth Justman that was the title track of the J. Geils Band’s 1980 album Love Stinks. The song was released as a single and peaked in the US at #38, spending three weeks in the Top 40. You…
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And Then Pay The Bill
From the past … Because the masculine role requires a man to be the leader and the decision maker …. … he must propose a date – and then pay the bill.
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Welcome To Oklahoma!
Hey there, welcome to Oklahoma! Oklahoma is a state located in the South Central United States. Oklahoma is the 28th most populous of the 50 United States. With small mountain ranges, prairie, mesas, and eastern forests, most of Oklahoma lies in the Great Plains and the U.S. Interior Highlands. This…
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An Ode To The Spell Checker Run this through your spell checker. It’s a clever poem written by Jerrold H. Zar. It’s been floating around the web for years and years. But, this points out the importance of actually reading your copy instead of merely spell checking the text. Ode…
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Gangsta! Yeah, I Know.
Gangsta! Yeah, I know. Of course, this is a reference to a character called Andy Pipkin on the super-charged funny BBC show called Little Britain . Andy’s distinctively British catchphrases include, “Yeah I know”, “Want that one” and of course, “I don’t like it.”
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The 2 Tone Story: A Checkered Past (Part 3)
The 2 Tone Story: A Checkered Past (Part 3) Part 3 of 3 Soon after the mass defection Roddy Radiation left to pursue his more rock ‘n’ roll-oriented muse with The Tearjerker. The remaining Specials and some newly hired hands reverted to The Special A.K.A. name for legal reasons, backed…
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The 2 Tone Story: A Checkered Past (Part 2)
The 2 Tone Story: A Checkered Past (Part 2) Part 2 of 3 And so was the Special A.K.A. Personnel stabilized with the addition of drummer John Bradbury, who’d co-written and played on “The Selecter.” The single became an underground hit; the band’s high octane live sets attracted numerous record…
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The 2 Tone Story: A Checkered Past (Part 1)
The 2 Tone Story: A Checkered Past (Part 1) Part 1 of 3 The Selecter’s Pauline Black perhaps put it best: “2 Tone was basically about black and white people playing together.” Label chief and Specials keyboard player Jerry Dammers could almost equally be succinct: “I just wanted 2 Tone…
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