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MAYBE The FBI Really Should Dedicate Their Resources To...
...deciphering a 40 year-old song? (Resources that include the manpower and equipment needed to conduct the study, then write the reports, submit the reports, revise the reports, resubmit the reports, then call a conference on the results of the study, write a report on the conference on the study, submit those reports, revise those reports, resubmit the reports, do a "lessons learned" analysis of how they might conduct future studies on 40 year-old songs a litte more efficiently, write those efficiency reports, submit those efficiency reports, revise those efficiency reports, resubmit those efficiency reports, write the wrap-up reports [refill the toner in the copy machine], submit the wrap-up reports, revise the wrap-up reports, resubmit the wrap-up reports, review the feedback from the consuming agencies, write a feedback review report, submit that feedback review report...oh, and then there's the cash awards ceremonies for the dedicated staff.) Yes...all over a few lyrics that might suggest that The Kingsmen possibly "...f~ck all kinda girls all kinda ways." (Those are the lyrics from Louie, Louie under scrutiny.)
Or maybe the FBI could instead dedicate its resources to tracking down the hundreds of sexual predator fugitives currently infesting America and horny for your 11 year-old daughter?
I think you get my point.
DM
posted by
Dennison..Mann
on May 6, 2005 at 11:27 AM
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MHW---I go through this with our yokel school system all the time.
My son started school a year early, has been jumped a grade, and they wanted to jump him again in 10th, but I like his friends and his social life now. He needs that as much as he needs to be Doogie Howser.
I get into stuff all the time with archaic school officials. The teachers are generally okay with stuff. Then like you said about snitches and whiners, invariably one person with an agenda says something to a higher up, and all hell breaks loose.
Ryan wore a t-shirt to school in middle school that said: Spear Brittany. Brittany Spears annoys most kids into real music. It's like Menudo for another generation. Disco for me. Okay, I went through the '70s, but disco is not my personal fault.
About 5 out of 6 of his teachers laughed at the shirt. One was offended. Now, the rule is, if one person is offended, the kid has to turn the shirt inside out. Okay, that's the rule. I'm good with that.
Here's the thing: I was called into a meeting of all his teachers and the vice principal for the offense. The other teachers weren't copping to laughing at the thing. I flat out say to Ryan all the time, "In this place, the teacher is God" (inside lawful paramenters). Suck it up, go home, graduate, change the world. So, I have no problem with the woman who took offense. It's her right, and those are the rules there. I have a problem with the teachers who acted like he was a criminal, and the vice principal who made it sound like this 8th grader was a sexual deviant. It was a tshirt.
Then I was seriously badgered as to whether or not I was "aware" that he came to school this way. (We're talking I'm in a circle in little school desks with about 8 school officials.) The answer was---of course I was aware of the shirt. I BOUGHT him the shirt for Christmas. Brittany Spears annoys me, too. I had no sexual thoughts on my mind when I bought it---the implication of the school officials. I was thinking I wanted her gone. .. which would have been acceptible for the school. Go figure.
Then I had to go home and explain, somehow, to Ryan that I didn't think he did anything wrong. He was very confused. He's very verbal, but he doesn't like to hurt a person's feelings or make someone feel uncomfortable either.
This stuff takes on a life of its own.
posted by
terpgirl30
on May 6, 2005 at 11:13 AM
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here's lyrics
http://search.netscape.com/ns/boomframe.jsp?query=song+lyrics&page=1&offset=2&result_url=redir%3Fsrc%3Dwebsearch%26requestId%3D9173f573bd9fe3af%26clickedItemRank%3D2%26userQuery%3Dsong%2Blyrics%26clickedItemURN%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Flyrics.astraweb.com%252F%26invocationType%3D-%26fromPage%3DNSCPToolbarNS%26amp%3BampTest%3D1&remove_url=http%3A%2F%2Flyrics.astraweb.com%2F
posted by
Xeno-x
on May 6, 2005 at 11:12 AM
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Okay, so there are words. Some people have implied that the orginal words are different from the version that went popular which then had bands just making up their own versions along the way.
Why couldn't the FBI figure them out? You know when you explain it like that, I wonder if it's a case of the words not being understood literally (garbled), or it's like a foreign language, so they thought it was garbled.
posted by
terpgirl30
on May 6, 2005 at 10:59 AM
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TerpGirl30, good for those parents. It's obvious they know what's up. &
there is nothing "controversial" about the lyrics of "Louie, Louie," at all. The words to the song are based on every-day L.A. "Chicano-speak" which is real cool lingo.
posted by
Feenix
on May 6, 2005 at 9:43 AM
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That song has always been popular but controversial based on words
that no two people can agree on and so what if a band plays it, unless they start to sing it no one wil know what it says.
posted by
scoop
on May 6, 2005 at 9:06 AM
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