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In reply to the discussion: A bloodied nose approval rating among liberal democrats has risen to nearly 100% [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)21. Awesome! The Mothership! The Mothership!
The Blimp
Mothers band member: "One, two . . ."
Frank Zappa: "You ready?"
MBM: ". . .three, four"
FZ: "Okay, go"
Master master
This is recorded thru uh flies ear
'n you have t' have uh flies eye t' see it
It's the thing that's gonna make Captain Beefheart
And his magic band fat
Frank it's the big hit
It's the blimp
It's the blimp Frank
It's the blimp
When I see you floatin' down the gutter
I'll give you uh bottle uh wine
Put me on the white hook
Back in the fat rack
Shad rack ee shack
The sumptin' hoop the sumptin' hoop
The blimp the blimp
The drazy hoops the drazy hoops
They're camp they're camp
Tits tits the blimp the blimp
The mother ship the mother ship
The brothers hid under their hood
From the blimp the blimp
Children stop yer nursin' unless yer renderin' fun
The mother ship
The mother ship's the one
The blimp the blimp
The tapes uh trip it's uh trailin' tail
It's traipse'n along behind the blimp the blimp
The nose has uh crimp
The nose is the blimp the blimp
It blows the air the snoot isn't fair
Look up in the sky there's uh dirigible there
The drazy hoops whirl
You can see them just as they were
All the people stir
'n the girls knees trembles
'n run 'n wave their hands
'n run their hands over the blimp the blimp
Daughter don't yuh dare
Oh momma who cares
It's the blimp it's the blimp
Dialogue:
Don Van Vliet: "That's it . . . hello?"
Frank Zappa: "Hello."
DVV: "Did you get it?"
FZ: "Sure did. It's beautiful. (laughs) I think that we have enough on the tape to, er, just use that as it is for the album. Okay, I'm gonna listen to it back now. I gotta go right to where . . ."
From "Hot Rats."
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A bloodied nose approval rating among liberal democrats has risen to nearly 100% [View all]
hootinholler
Aug 2013
OP
I was under the impression there was no difference between the bloody nose and the poke in the eye.
Robb
Aug 2013
#3
That line of reasoning might work if the President's approval was measured against the GOPs.
stevenleser
Aug 2013
#28
get with the program.. all the "true liberals(TM)" can't stand the president and anyone who
dionysus
Aug 2013
#30
That is not the argument the OP is making, but you did manage to turn dionysus into a seer. nt
stevenleser
Aug 2013
#39
No, it's the argument I'm making. And I don't believe in 'seers' so I'm sorry
sabrina 1
Aug 2013
#42
The OP is about the polling for Obama being high because the OP alleges it is in comparison to the
stevenleser
Aug 2013
#43
You can look up the meaning of thread-jacking yourself. Google has over 3 million hits on the term
stevenleser
Aug 2013
#57
Said it before, I'll say it again, it's entertainment to see how people conduct themselves when...
stevenleser
Aug 2013
#58
outside of political junkie message boards, no one knows what the fuck the Third way is.
dionysus
Aug 2013
#50
So, you're reduced to dismissing everyone who calls themself a liberal Democrat.
geek tragedy
Aug 2013
#88
Ah, so you've been appointed the Pope of Liberal Democrats, with the power
geek tragedy
Aug 2013
#92
+1,My experience it's mostly wingers who think the world revolves around their forums
uponit7771
Aug 2013
#73
It means that every time one of these Gallup nebulas shows an increase in approval
hootinholler
Aug 2013
#84