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Topic History of: Pete Seeger RIP Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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Pattaya
In The Know (as always) wrote: In The Know (as always) wrote: ALL now extinct !
Forgot to mention, there are some who survived - the Union leaders !
They looked after themselves (as they always do)
The £145,000-a-year union chief, who last month urged militant action to stop 'the rich getting richer', enjoyed the ship's unlimited champagne, sushi and caviar all the way from Barbados to Brazil.
He sat by the pool most days in a prime position nearest to the bar before returning to his luxury cabin complete with private balcony, marble bathroom and walk-in wardrobe. First up on Karaoke night, he serenaded guests with Neil Diamond's Sweet Caroline which includes the line 'good times never seemed so good'.
After disembarking at Rio, he checked in to a £250-a-night five-star hotel on Copacabana beach and shopped in designer boutiques before heading home to his tax-payer funded council house.
Talking of the 70s....and a certain Rio place.....
In The Know (as always)
In The Know (as always) wrote: ALL now extinct !
Forgot to mention, there are some who survived - the Union leaders !
They looked after themselves (as they always do)
The £145,000-a-year union chief, who last month urged militant action to stop 'the rich getting richer', enjoyed the ship's unlimited champagne, sushi and caviar all the way from Barbados to Brazil.
He sat by the pool most days in a prime position nearest to the bar before returning to his luxury cabin complete with private balcony, marble bathroom and walk-in wardrobe. First up on Karaoke night, he serenaded guests with Neil Diamond's Sweet Caroline which includes the line 'good times never seemed so good'.
After disembarking at Rio, he checked in to a £250-a-night five-star hotel on Copacabana beach and shopped in designer boutiques before heading home to his tax-payer funded council house.
WorldView wrote: Sadly, as before, we thought you might post it and then bottle out JK.
ALL taken from academic texts of the type that were bread and butter to open-minded, bright young Cambridge JK.
Sad, but sadly not surprized.
One of the things Seeger showed was how effective ideas can be when communicated clearly and engagingly. Why you continue, smugly and arrogantly, to think writing in your own weird private language is impressive is a mystery. It doesn't mean, as you clearly think it does, that you're a good writer; far from it, only poor writers hide behind such sophomoric gimmicks. So if you don't want to be understood, do us all a favour and stop posting. If you do want to be understood, grow up, have a read of Orwell's 'Politics and the English Language,' and communicate instead of obfuscating.
In The Know
david wrote: Tony Blair pretended to be Labour but was actually pretty much a Tory, i.e. a Thatcherite in Labour clothing.
Pete Seeger was nothing like that.
Hopefully that answers your question.
Maybe you are right - maybe you are wrong (and just gullible).
All I know is that I don't simply accept something just because someone else tells it to me !
Maybe Pete was a peoples' champion - and maybe it was just a bandwagon that he jumped on - hoping it would promote his career. (If it was the latter it clearly failed, as he was branded a Communist and banned from US TV for 20 years ! His career never really recovered).
david
In The Know wrote:
Tony Blair was 'supposed' to be Labour - but we now know he wasn't !
Just doing / saying what he thought would earn him a crust.
Tony Blair pretended to be Labour but was actually pretty much a Tory, i.e. a Thatcherite in Labour clothing.
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