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Re: how tall is Vernon Kay?
« Reply #75 on: June 24, 2005, 12:05:06 PM »
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Is the guy real tall, or are all the stars just real short?  It's kind of the reverse of the Daily Show, when it takes someone like Robert Reich to not call attention to Jon Stewart's height, or lack of.


He appears to be quite tall, either that or he's wearing huge platform heels.  From guardian.co.uk :

"Vernon Kay, TV's village idiot.

Kay is a one-man walking blight-on-our-culture, a dog-haired Toby jug, a self-satisfied banality engine, a git, a twit, a twat and an oaf. He dribbles tedious, repeated references to down-home life back in Bolton, presumably to underline what a Phoenix Nights-style man of the people he is, although from where I'm sitting he looks and sounds more like an unjustly elevated simpleton than a likable everyman. He shouldn't be on television - he should be sitting on a country stile wearing a peasant's smock and chewing on a hayseed, some time during the Dark Ages (and preferably at the height of the Black Death)."

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Re: how tall is Vernon Kay?
« Reply #76 on: June 24, 2005, 12:09:27 PM »
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Is the guy real tall, or are all the stars just real short?  It's kind of the reverse of the Daily Show, when it takes someone like Robert Reich to not call attention to Jon Stewart's height, or lack of.
He appears to be quite tall, either that or he's wearing huge platform heels.  From guardian.co.uk :

"Vernon Kay, TV's village idiot.

Kay is a one-man walking blight-on-our-culture, a dog-haired Toby jug, a self-satisfied banality engine, a git, a twit, a twat and an oaf. He dribbles tedious, repeated references to down-home life back in Bolton, presumably to underline what a Phoenix Nights-style man of the people he is, although from where I'm sitting he looks and sounds more like an unjustly elevated simpleton than a likable everyman. He shouldn't be on television - he should be sitting on a country stile wearing a peasant's smock and chewing on a hayseed, some time during the Dark Ages (and preferably at the height of the Black Death)."

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« Reply #77 on: June 24, 2005, 12:11:29 PM »
If anyone called me a "dog-haired Toby jug"? I'd kick their ASS!

Just as soon as I figured out what that meant....
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« Reply #78 on: June 24, 2005, 12:22:25 PM »
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If anyone called me a "dog-haired Toby jug"? I'd kick their ASS!

Just as soon as I figured out what that meant....


LOL! I didn't know either:

toby jug , small pottery pitcher or mug modeled in the form of a jolly, stout man wearing a cocked hat, a corner of which serves as pourer. The jug is also called fillpot, both names taken from Toby Fillpot, inebriate character in the 18th-century song "Little Brown Jug." Popular in England and America of that day, the toby jug has become a collector's piece.
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« Reply #79 on: June 24, 2005, 12:37:12 PM »
Thanks, RGMike!

Heh. "dog-haired Toby jub". I love when Brits go off.

ETA: Toby jugs for all my friends!

http://images.google.com/images?biw=&q=toby+jug&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images

ETAA: Omigod! I totally hereby call "Tobi Jugs" as my drag name....
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Re: Greg Kihn's singing voice
« Reply #80 on: June 24, 2005, 12:53:12 PM »
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I always thought Greg Kihn succeeded more on cleverness than actual musical talent, at least as far as his voice was concerned.  Remember, he came out of the whole 'Berserkely' scene.  If you listen to his old hits, which I like, you can hear a pretty stiff style.


Yep, that and most of the girls I knew thought he was cute.

But yeah, his Beserkeley stuff was pretty catchy. His take on For You was the first version of that song that I knew. (But I caught on quick). And Madison Avenue was another big fave.

About 1989 or so I remember going into a bar in Walnut Creek and seeing Dave Carpender, the original guitarist from the Greg Kihn Band playing in some bar band. He was flattered that I remembered him.
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« Reply #81 on: June 24, 2005, 04:13:43 PM »
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BTW Ali, word on the street is that the Bewitched movie blows huge chunks (as of this afternoon it was averaging 21 points on metacritic.com [out of 100]).


So guess who likes it?

Mick (I gave Catwoman a B+ too!) LaSalle.

Among other things he says, "it's funny, easily the funniest and least self-conscious movie that director Nora Ephron has made."

Ebert gave it a B-, called it "tolerably entertaining", and his was the 2nd highest rating (after Mick) among over a dozen other critics.

Whenever Mick likes something that nobody else does, you know it really sucks.
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« Reply #82 on: June 24, 2005, 05:59:24 PM »
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Whenever Mick likes something that nobody else does, you know it really sucks.


That's the yardstick I go by.
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« Reply #83 on: June 24, 2005, 08:29:41 PM »
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Whenever Mick likes something that nobody else does, you know it really sucks.


That's the yardstick I go by.


ROTFLMAO! He really is a tool.  And he fancies himself a film historian (has written several books) and his reviews and think-pieces in the Chron are always riddled with errors.
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« Reply #84 on: June 24, 2005, 10:20:51 PM »
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Whenever Mick likes something that nobody else does, you know it really sucks.


That's the yardstick I go by.


ROTFLMAO! He really is a tool.  And he fancies himself a film historian (has written several books) and his reviews and think-pieces in the Chron are always riddled with errors.


The Chronicle has had so many better film critics over the years (Michael Sragow, Peter Stack, Edward Guthmann, to name three)--it's sad to see that LaSalle is what they're left with. But when you consider the quality of the rest of the Chron's meager content, maybe that's not so tough to figure. The New York Times it ain't.
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« Reply #85 on: June 24, 2005, 11:02:17 PM »
Damn, damn, damn. I must stay objective. Must see movie.
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« Reply #86 on: June 25, 2005, 10:29:18 AM »
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Thanks, RGMike!

Heh. "dog-haired Toby jub". I love when Brits go off.

ETA: Toby jugs for all my friends!

http://images.google.com/images?biw=&q=toby+jug&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images

ETAA: Omigod! I totally hereby call "Tobi Jugs" as my drag name....


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« Reply #87 on: June 26, 2005, 04:16:23 PM »
Bewitched was OK, I liked it. Yeah, yeah, I had to see it. Nicole is adorable. The actress who played her neighbor looked so familiar but I still can't place her. Shirley/Emdora was great. Not a lot of lines but she looked the part.
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« Reply #88 on: June 26, 2005, 04:23:32 PM »
All roads lead to Katrina-ville.

Maybe it's just me after listening to over 1,000 1980's retreads earlier in the week but nothing being played on the radio has been too satisfying. Are playlists being subtly tweaked? Who are the stations trying to be popular with? Perhaps I'm getting old and cranky.

Seems liked I have been hearing an overload of Eagles, Doobies, Genesis, Cars...et cetera, ad nauseum. I've been flipping between KFOG, Bone, KUFX, and MAX. It's all the same and no one is digging deep.
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I tuned in during Missing Persons
« Reply #89 on: June 30, 2005, 09:35:05 PM »
missed the rest of the first half.  Juice Newton doing Ashlee Simpson doesn't turn me on, but what the hey!
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