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Omnivorous Member  Posts: 3990 From: Adirondackia Joined: Member Rating: 6.9 |
Percy writes: I don't think I've heard the song you're referring to. Are you sure it's by them? Wouldn't mind a link to it. Yeah, I'm sure--but I doubt we'll find a link to a recording. I heard it in concert in nineteen-sixty-ohmigodthatlongago, and it wasn't the sort of thing that made it onto vinyl in those days Too bad it wasn't a decade later; we'd have bootleg tapes. But I'll look. I'll even blow the dust off my crates of vinyl, just in case. One of my faves is The John Birch Society:
quote: Edited by Omnivorous, : No reason given."If you can keep your head while those around you are losing theirs, you can collect a lot of heads."
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Dogmafood Member (Idle past 375 days) Posts: 1815 From: Ontario Canada Joined: |
"I'm a Rotarian."  Pretty smooth.
Let me pause here a moment to assure you that I went gustatorily native in Asia Yeah I don't know that I could ever willingly bring myself to eat a chicken's foot or a pig's brain. I suppose that it is all just protein but still. Did you ever try the dog?
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Omnivorous Member Posts: 3990 From: Adirondackia Joined: Member Rating: 6.9 |
Percy writes: Given what I assume would be the singing voice of the average business traveler, they must have a remarkable tolerance for pain. I wonder how far into American Pie I'd get before they stopped me, which given their style of manners I assume would be truly remarkable! By the time the singing starts, all are deep in their cups--everybody sounds good. Drink enough makkoli (rice wine) or soju (rice vodka), and you'll think you sound good, too. I fondly recall rocketing through Seoul in a taxi, trying to beat the midnight curfew, the driver and I belting out Arirang, a sort of unofficial national anthem of unrequited love. In Korea specifically, and East Asia in general, everyone I met could sing quite well. They know that we are more inhibited about public performance: they will insist, implacably, that you sing, but they will also erupt into enthusiastic applause, no matter what violence you do to their ears. I love song; I love to sing. It was a revelation to me to live in a culture where any effort to sing was genuinely welcomed, instead of becoming an occasion for semi-jocular groans and complaints. I once sat all night in a moon-watching pavilion above a small lake near Pusan, sipping soju and singing American folk songs with a group of Korean college students I met on the trail. I was soju soused, for sure, but I've never felt so moved by the common humanity found in song. Interestingly, I read recently that a survey study found perfect pitch far more common in East Asia than in the West, possibly because of languages that employ pitch to shade, or even completely change, meanings. I suspect the lack of cultural barriers to the pleasures of song also plays a role. Oh! This is Humor! One of the first tests of my capacity to avoid Ugly Americanism was attendance at a professionally-produced musical revue by Korea's most popular stars, performed as a thank you to U.S. troops. I am proud to say that I sat through a long, rockin' version of "Lolling on the Liver" without a single snicker.  "If you can keep your head while those around you are losing theirs, you can collect a lot of heads."
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Omnivorous Member Posts: 3990 From: Adirondackia Joined: Member Rating: 6.9
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Dogmafood writes: Did you ever try the dog? Yeah, but I didn't know it until afterward. A formal Korean dinner might have 20-30 dishes, none of them featuring large amounts of animal protein, and all of them thoroughly spiced. It was good, but I soon learned the words that let me avoid it. Elsewhere in Asia, I may have, but I doubt it: dog is an expensive delicacy, and seldom served without fanfare. Also, the tradition of hospitality is powerful there, and Western objections to eating Fido are well known. One of my landlords in Seoul, who was a senior government bureaucrat, had a pet dog, which was unusual in the 70s. I came home one night three sheets to the wind and sat with the dog for a while, explaining to him in Korean (since he was a Korean dog  ) that I wouldn't let them eat him, no matter what. My landlord listened at his window and told me later I had given him the best drinking story ever. One day the dog was missing, and I asked Mr. Lee about it: he smiled, patted his stomach, and said, "Good dog!"-- then roared with laughter at my expression. The dog was at the vet."If you can keep your head while those around you are losing theirs, you can collect a lot of heads."
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