[Rhodes22-list] Don Imus

[Brad Haslett]

Slim and Wally,

There used to be a club in Laclede's Landing in St. Louis called Muddy
Waters (may still be there). Bob Weber, help me out here! The house band
would stop in the middle of a song and single someone out for ridicule or
harassment.  For example, they'd quit playing on cue and the lead singer
would say something like, "look at the hooters on that girl in the red
sweater, they look like two puppies fighting in a gunny sack".  I was there
one night and needed to pee so I picked a rip-roaring song I was quite
certain they wouldn't interrupt to make my way across the dance floor.
Nope!  Right in the middle of the heavy rips they stopped.  "Look at that
skinny loser trying to sneak off to the bathroom!"  It was part of the
environment and part of the fun.  Thin-skinned people could always party
somewhere else.  Imus got busted for rapping while white.  I never did like
the guy but I hope he bounces back on his feet.  This country gets too much
enjoyment from seeing successful people fall.

Brad

On 4/13/07, TN Rhodey <tnrhodey at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Slim,
>
> LOL....yes sir you are right...it is all in the delivery. Remember Andrew
> Clay the "Dice Man"?  He could lay the insults down with the best of them
> ....from the videos I saw the women were laughing just as hard as the men.
> I
> remember him complimenting a man about his nice looking wife....then he
> asks
> the man if his wife was good at oral sex ( he didn't ask it that way of
> course) and the guy says she was great....Diceman says"ever wonder how she
> got that good?"  badading!
>
> Wally
>
>
> >From: DCLewis1 at aol.com
> >Reply-To: The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> >To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org
> >Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Don Imus
> >Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:28:58 EDT
> >
> >
> >Slim,
> >
> >Good points.  Like Imus you're a performer. On your next engagement I
> >recommend you single out some couple in the audience and the gentleman
> >about the
> >whore he's sitting next to.  Use your freedom of speech for a little
> >humor.
> >Great way to end your act, huh?
> >
> >The young women on the Rutgers girls basketball team are not ho's, or if
> >they are neither I, nor you, nor Imus are aware of it.  If anyone on this
> >board
> >wants to degrade any woman, or group of women - in the name of good humor
> >and
> >free speech, of course -  I seriously recommend they nominate
> their  wives,
> >mothers, and daughters to Imus.  Perhaps his calling them whores on
> >nationally
> >syndicated shows will not upset those board members.  All  those who
> would
> >like to have their daughters, wives, or mothers identified as  whores on
> a
> >nationally syndicated TV show feel free to sign up at the end of  this
> >message.  If
> >Imus won't slam the women in your life maybe we can slam  them on this
> >board,
> >post their names to other message boards, etc - all in  the name of fun
> and
> >free speech, of course.  Slim?
> >
> >Imus is free to be a shock jock, but that does not give him permission to
> >say whatever pops into his head or out of his mouth.  There is no special
> >category of citizen called "shock jock" that is above the law or who is
> >allowed  to
> >be beyond the bounds of decency.  When Imus, or any of them, begin to
> >libel
> >people, particularly private people, and very particularly young private
> >people, they've crossed the line.  If I were the father of any of those
> >young
> >ladies, I'd be pissed - and I suspect some are.  I suspect his  sponsors
> >and the
> >network are pulling out because it's occurred to them that they  are
> >accessories.
> >
> >Dave
> >
> >
> >
> >
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