Top Ten Third Basemen Right Now/Greatest Westerns

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Radagast Brown

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Re: Top Ten Third Basemen Right Now/Greatest Westerns

PostTue Mar 03, 2015 11:17 pm

It takes a big man to pick on the guy the whole class picks on~! You guys are just too cool for school. If he annoys you so much, ignore him. Or maybe you like the drama as much as he does.?
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Re: Top Ten Third Basemen Right Now/Greatest Westerns

PostTue Mar 03, 2015 11:18 pm

Ninersphan wrote:Not that I'm a fan, but Rick Springfield was more than a 1 hit wonder. Jesse's girl was his biggest hit but far from his only one. "I've Done Everything For You" hit number 8 on the Billboard charts off the same album and he had a number 2 hit on billboards charts a few years later with "Don't Talk to Strangers"

I'd substitute: "99 luftballons" by Nena or "Betty Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes for Mr Springfield, just off the top of my head.

Yeah, I (blissfully) forgot about "I've Done Everything For You." It's just "jesse's Girl was such a better song than all his others, and--unlike IDEFY--has lasted as an enduring classic. 99 luftballoons--particularly the original German version and Bette Davis Eyes were great one-hit wonders and would be excellent "members" on such a list.
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Re: Top Ten Third Basemen Right Now/Greatest Westerns

PostTue Mar 03, 2015 11:21 pm

ROBERTLATORRE wrote:
Badjam wrote:How about football instead? Kiko Alonso for LeSean McCoy. Alonso is a very promising linebacker and with running backs getting drafted lower and lower lately, the Bills may have overpaid.


I'm sure he's an expert on that too.


:lol: :lol: :lol:

Radagast-
Its fine if you feel that way- I think the rest of us do not seem to agree on that characterization.

if you look at what I wrote first, there was no mention of he who shall not be named
except in asking why he must respond to everything.

If that response were at the very least, truthful, then it would be a plus.
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Re: Top Ten Third Basemen Right Now/Greatest Westerns

PostTue Mar 03, 2015 11:24 pm

Jason, I tried to send you a private message and it said you are not receiving them. Here is what I wrote;

No problem Jason! I like you and your topics and your knowledge. Just don't take the agitators bait all the time, I know it is hard..See ya soon! Your friend,

Richard Milter
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Re: Top Ten Third Basemen Right Now/Greatest Westerns

PostTue Mar 03, 2015 11:29 pm

Thanks, Radagast. That's much appreciated. I look forward to us playing in another league together sometime.
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Re: Top Ten Third Basemen Right Now/Greatest Westerns

PostTue Mar 03, 2015 11:30 pm

l.strether wrote:
Ninersphan wrote:Not that I'm a fan, but Rick Springfield was more than a 1 hit wonder. Jesse's girl was his biggest hit but far from his only one. "I've Done Everything For You" hit number 8 on the Billboard charts off the same album and he had a number 2 hit on billboards charts a few years later with "Don't Talk to Strangers"

I'd substitute: "99 luftballons" by Nena or "Betty Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes for Mr Springfield, just off the top of my head.

Yeah, I (blissfully) forgot about "I've Done Everything For You." It's just "jesse's Girl was such a better song than all his others, and--unlike IDEFY--has lasted as an enduring classic. 99 luftballoons--particularly the original German version and Bette Davis Eyes were great one-hit wonders and would be excellent "members" on such a list.


Yeah One hits wonders are tough to limit to 10, here's a few more:

Video Killed the Radio Star- the Buggles
Cars - Gary Numan
Come On Eileen - Dexys Midnight Runners
Kung Fu Fighting - Karl Davis
Funkytown - Lipps INC
Take On Me - Ah Ha
Lovin You - Minnie Riperton
Afternoon Delight - Starlight Vocal Band
Sex and Candy - Marcy Playground
Steal My Sunshine - Len
Closing Time - Semisonic
You get What You Give - New Radicals
Grove is in the Heart - Deee-light
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Re: Top Ten Third Basemen Right Now/Greatest Westerns

PostTue Mar 03, 2015 11:37 pm

:shock: Its like a flashback if you know what I mean.
The msaegse is waht mttares msot!
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Re: Top Ten Third Basemen Right Now/Greatest Westerns

PostTue Mar 03, 2015 11:39 pm

Radagast Brown wrote:Jason, I tried to send you a private message and it said you are not receiving them. Here is what I wrote;

No problem Jason! I like you and your topics and your knowledge. Just don't take the agitators bait all the time, I know it is hard..See ya soon! Your friend,

Richard Milter


Please, he thrives on the attention, he's devouring it!
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Re: Top Ten Third Basemen Right Now/Greatest Westerns

PostWed Mar 04, 2015 12:00 am

Ninersphan wrote:Yeah One hits wonders are tough to limit to 10, here's a few more:

Come On Eileen - Dexys Midnight Runners
Take On Me - Ah Ha
Afternoon Delight - Starlight Vocal Band
Closing Time - Semisonic

I don't have time to address all of your list Niners, so I edited it down to my favorites. I believe you and I were both in high school in the mid-80's, so we both know how huge Take On Me was. My senior-year girlfriend played it to death. Come on Eileen was a little earlier, but I'll still catch myself singing to it's silly chorus when it comes on. Closing Time is an excellent song and was one of my favorites of the late 90's. I have no idea what happened to Semisonic.

As to Afternoon Delight, I actually thought that song was about ice cream when I was a kid. Now it just makes me think of Arrested Development and Micheal Bluth's extremely awkward duet with his niece, Maeby... ;)
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Re: Top Ten Third Basemen Right Now/Greatest Westerns

PostWed Mar 04, 2015 12:54 am

l.strether wrote:As to Afternoon Delight, I actually thought that song was about ice cream when I was a kid. Now it just makes me think of Arrested Development and Micheal Bluth's extremely awkward duet with his niece, Maeby... ;)


Indeed! For those of you that haven't seen Arrested Development, great show and attached the clip l.strether was referring to, along with another great "cover" of Afternoon Delight

http://www.imdb.com/video/hulu/vi1144586265

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1W5vwhLcsw
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