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Valerie B should have the complete list.

According to the Swedish piece, she had been getting bad reviews and many complaints from concertgoers.

????? ????? Perhaps not...

I am told by leading historians that no recording is as funky as the Bolden cylinder.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CLARK!

I bet many young people thing "free jazz" is an illegal download.

Good story--I love happy endings.

If y'all stop noting that it's time to stop, perhaps it will stop!

Kitty Genovese says "spot on!" Thank you, moose, I couldn't think of her name.

I received two that were never written--one of them was never sent. Perhaps the PM stands for Plodding Messages.

Maybe because they were true New Yorkers????

And I bet dumpy still doesn't get it!

Of course not--that would be like going to Spears for talent. I assume, however, that you go to the Stooges for humor and--as I see it--they are severely handicapped in that area. Well, there is also an audience for bathroom humor--different strokes for different folks.

Not according to DEEP!

I voted no, but only because I no longer have a good turntable setup. I think that may be something I share with many members. Cylinder? Well, that would be quite another matter.

I have never understood what so many people see in the Three Stooges--I always found them to be exceedingly unfunny and and crass. None of the humor and sophistication of the Marx Brothers, whom I never tire of.

Dumpy: "i am not trying to stir up any trouble. i find your "spin" on the story to be offensive. and it is tough for me to not see your spin having something to do with the stupid anti-israel/anti-arab battle you and your nemesis are having." Well, that's your problem--I hope you resolve it. In the meantime, I am not going to be allow your venom and twisted logic to further interfere with my enjoyment of this board. Now, where is that ignore list option?

You either have your head in the sand or you have a problem with reality. Actually, I am more inclined to conclude that you are simply out to stir up controversy. Why all that venom? Are you really bothered by a story that shows how New Yorkers aren't all bad? You obviously missed the point entirely and I just wonder if it was by design. If you really live in New York, perhaps you should make it a point to watch local news this evening (or NY1 at any time), then you will no longer have to make assumptions based on how little you know about this incident.

Kindly specify line.

That surely is a difficult task because the forum is named "Politics & Religion". Good point.

You might be sticking it to the RIAA, but you're also sticking it to the artists. For the most part, I avoid secondhand recordings these days because I want to make sure the artists get something, especially if it's a less popular artist. Hasn't the RIAA been sticking it to the artists for years? This organization was never set up for the benefit of the industry's creative member, just the record companies--and we all know how they have treated the majority of artists.

Should we, perhaps, initiate a Sound Sniffer's thread? Excluding, of course, the many recordings that would stink on any label or tape.

Indeed--I think "dumpy"'s irrational objections are just a troll's deliberate attempt to be a contrarian nuisance.

So, dumpy, do you see a need to leave out the Muslim? For that matter, leave out the fact that at least one fellow passenger chose not to do the New York no-see thing? I really don't know why we couldn't just have had a straight report on what happened. Would you have preferred it if the reporter also had not mentioned what sparked this attack? Jim, my first inclination was to post this in the political forum, but then I decided that the story really is about religion--I believe in separating the two whenever possible and that this story ought to be equally upsetting to Democrats and Republicans. I also used it as an instance of poor reporting. Dumpy is apparently not bothered by the press giving us partial stories. The fact that a Muslim joined the fight to help fellow Jewish passengers is, I think, noteworthy, and pointing it out does not indicate any bias on my part. I really think Conrad would agree.

This appeared in today's NY Times, but the AP failed to report that a bystander who intervened and was hurt during his rescue effort is a Muslim! That was reported on local TV news, which also showed a menorah in the window of an attacker's home. I have noticed that the AP's reporting is very sloppy and sometimes deliberately misleading (remember the PhotoShop Beirut photo?). I guess the mainstream press, in general, is not to be trusted. December 11, 2007 NYC Subway Attack Possible Hate Crime By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 8:45 p.m. ET NEW YORK (AP) -- A group of people exchanging holiday greetings on a subway last week hurled anti-Semitic slurs and beat four Jewish riders who had wished them ''Happy Hanukkah,'' authorities said Tuesday. The prosecutor's office was investigating the Friday night incident as a possible hate crime. The four Jewish riders were on a train in lower Manhattan during the eight-day Jewish Festival of Lights when they were approached by a group of 10 people who offered holiday greetings. When they wished the group ''Happy Hanukkah,'' they were assaulted, police said. Police caught up with the train one stop later in Brooklyn and arrested eight men and two women, ages 19 and 20. The four Jewish riders had bruises and welts on their faces and heads, police said. The group of ten people was arraigned Saturday on several charges, including third-degree assault and menacing and second-degree riot and harassment. They pleaded not guilty. One of the men charged, Joseph Jirovec, 19, pleaded guilty last year to attempted robbery as a hate crime and was awaiting sentencing, prosecutors said. Jirovec, who is white, was part of a group that yelled racial epithets and assaulted two black teenagers in Brooklyn, prosecutors said. Jirovec's lawyer, Peter Mollo, said Tuesday it was very unlikely his client would attack another person because he or she was Jewish. ''His mother was Jewish,'' he said. ''It's very unlikely he would do something like this at all.''