Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION Spaceopoly Kill This Thread IX: The 24-Hour Version (Fifth Time)

was he better shirtless in the '90s than in Dune of the '80s?

Was the '90s shirtless Sting better than the '80s shirtless Sting. For comic timing I mean.

I think that's a question better answered by Rocky. I know Sting more for his music.

While I enjoy some of Sting's work, I wish he'd shut his yap about environmental issues. Dude, you sired like fifty kids and you probably live in a house bigger than my entire state. Don't lecture other people about how we're not being easy enough on the freakin' planet! Gah!

Alas, some people want us to do what they say, and not as they do.

Yes, and the more money you have, the easier it is to lecture those with less about how they're doing everything wrong.

Too bad that sometimes, having more money lets people feel more confident about shouting louder.

On the other hand, "Every Little Thing She Does" is still a pretty good song. Ignore the breathtakingly mediocre Shawn Colvin cover, however.

Often, the originals stand the test of time best

If I'm listening to a cover someplace other than a wedding or at a karaoke bar, I want it to be adventurous, not slavish. The jazz singer Fay Victor, for instance, pretty much cuts up and then reconstructs the parts of The Doors "People Are Strange" when she covers it. That, to me, is an awesome cover. (The usual gang of idiot commenters on YouTube can kiss my -ed.)

The best artists dare to be different.

(and the Youtube comments section is one of the best places to find examples of trolls in the flesh. ugh!)

Like the cover band on the Loverboy video posted up in one of the chart threads

I agree, a song that's instantly recognisable as someone else's, and that brings no change of depth or meaning, is pretty much a waste.

There's been quite a debate over that here in the Philippines. Many of the popular songs on the charts are, sadly, just remakes of other songs which don't make many changes to the original. Most new artists lack funding or opportunities to make it big, while celebrities whose main talent is looking good are pushed by their studios to dabble in singing, dancing and acting even when they lack the talent for it.

The same all over, I guess.

I always thought it was a lot worse here than, say, in the USA. but I guess celebrities face the same pressures everywhere.

I once ate at a dumpling restaurant popular with Chinese celebrities. The food was a bit spicy, but we got a plum drink afterwards, which was delicious.

Have you tried duck or chicken with plum sauce, Emily? It's quite delicious.

So we're back to birds again, eh? And fruit.

Hey, I'm a bird! I've also been referred to as a fruit.

I bet you've been referred to as beef too!

You probably have been referred to thus more than I, Ibby.

We really are pluming the depths of puns...

I've heard of breadfruit, but never of bird-fruit.

Though any gardener can tell you that parrot tulips are real.

The "Five Points of Calvinism" are remembered from the mnemonic device "TULIP":
Total Depravity
Unconditional Election
Limited Atonement
Irresistable Grace
Perseverance of the Saints

Personally, I think Calvin may have been smoking those tulips.