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Greetings one and all! Well, this little piece of the Internet is the contents (or part contents, anyways) of my head! Obscure, nutty and hopefully a little groovy! Well, a little about myself. I`m a 17 year old English bloke who is at the moment applying to universities to read law, so......fingers crossed! I hope you like my little site and as always I welcome comments. |
Oscar Wilde was undoubtedly the most gifted wit this country has ever known. However, this country is not one which greatly appreciates the revolutionary mind. Wilde, the man who left behind such masterpieces as The Picture Of Dorian Gray and The Importance Of Being Earnest, was shunned by the very society who bathed in the reflected glory, but like the rats they were, deserted him when he needed friends. He died a reclusive down-and-out in Paris, barely recognisable from the great wit of his prime. Well, here are a few of my favourite quotes from Wilde. Email me with your comments, or any other Wildeian quotes. Enjoy! 'A little sincereity is a dangerous thing, but a great deal of it is absolutely fatal' 'To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness' 'I couldn`t help it. I can resist everything except temptation' 'Work is the curse of the drinking classes' 'We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars' 'Pardon me, you are not engaged to anyone. When you do become engaged to someone, I, or your father, should his health permit him, will inform you of the fact' 'The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever' Well, those were a few of my favourites. Email me to let me know what you think, or if you have any others. | ||||||||||||||||
| THE 1970`s. (I was born in 1980, but what the hell!) | |||||||||||||||||
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Well, obviously i can`t 'do' the whole of the 1970`s in this little page, so I`ll pick out a few highlights. I`ll kick off with cheesy 70`s music. Anyone who knows me will no doubt know about my horrendous taste in music, and i will doubtless have subjected them to ABBA, The Carpenters, Boney M and the like! I feel that there are a number of reasons why people should praise these cheesy bands. For example, ABBA, the 1974 winners of Eurovision with Waterloo, single handedly kept the world sequin industry in business ! (Like there`s a big sequin industry!) The other, more important, reason why cheesy 70`s music vital is that it keeps the Kappa Slappers busy on Karaoke Nights. If they`re making an arse of themselves singing I Will Survive, they can`t get in your way can they! (Apologies to anyone who owns a Kappa tracksuit!). My mum sums up the argument for 70`s music when she says 'In my day there was proper music, music with lyrics that made sense not like the rubbish you get today. Like that 'Oldagepiss'. They`re drug addicts, you know'. Hmmm, thanks for that mum, whatever you say. Methinks you mean Oasis! You`ll have to excuse my mother, it`s the senility setting in. (GOD! If she ever reads this, she`ll kill me!) As well as cheesy 70`s music, there`s cheesy 70`s TV. (no, not transvestites, you knew very well I meant television, you dirty person you!) Such examples include Charlie`s Angels, Starsky and Hutch, Hawaii 5-0 and Quincy. All these programs are groovy, but my favourite of all is Prisoner: Cell Block H! I know a lot of you (if not all of you) will be thinking that Prisoner is the worst thing to come out of Australia since Rolf Harris, but, just watch it if you get the chance. Well, those are an ickle list of people I think are groovy, here`s another list of people, places and a whole lot of other bollocks that I find groovy! In no particular order: Friends and family, Audrey Hepburn, Malcom X, Grace Kelly, Sydney, Gandhi, Marilyn Monroe, Karen Carpenter, Martin Luther King, Jim Morrison, The Charlatans, Eddie Izzard, Jackie Onassis, Tennesse Williams, Breakfast at Tiffany`s, Eastenders, Liverpool FC, Sylvia Plath and South Africa. And a shorter list, this time of things I hope burn in the perpetual pit of Hell: Manchester United FC, Dr Quinn Medicine Woman, the woman on the phone who says 'please replace the hand set and try again', old people who wear baseball caps, American Football, T-shirts that say 'Same shit - different day', and darts Well, thanks for taking the time to read this. Email me with your comments. Bye. James. | |||||||||||||||||
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