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Post by chron on Sept 18, 2016 17:47:33 GMT
It means "doing things they shouldn't" - like snorting coke off hookers' thighs This one is especially compromising, since etiquette dictates that you should always snort coke off a scrum-half's thighs
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Post by chron on Sept 18, 2016 17:40:38 GMT
compromising: "(of information or a situation) revealing an embarrassing or incriminating secret about someone"
position: "a particular way in which someone or something is placed or arranged"
Edit: as hometime just elucidated!
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Post by chron on Sept 18, 2016 17:20:36 GMT
Is that a bluff, Alex?
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Post by chron on Sept 18, 2016 16:26:03 GMT
Others of us have photos of the moderation team in compromising positions Agreeing to have your photograph taken while wearing a pair 1977-vintage 100% polyester ABBA portrait-emblazoned knee-socks will inevitably come back to haunt you.
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Post by chron on Sept 18, 2016 16:09:50 GMT
I think and only think... When you get to 20 posts you go bronze, and so on up.... Something as prosaic as that? Righto. Well, I don't mind being a 'junior' member for a while, then; it helps foster the impression that I'm judicious with my replies!
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Post by chron on Sept 18, 2016 15:23:24 GMT
Just to go OT for a moment: how have some of you emigrants from the ABBAforum become graded (bronze, silver, gold, etc) members? Have you lobbed in something for upkeep somewhere, or is that some sort of carry-over from your activities/histories on other ProBoards forums?
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Post by chron on Sept 16, 2016 10:13:56 GMT
Hey Hey Helen would've been my 5th single probably with Crazy World as a b side So in the course of time you'd have released the album as a series of singles, more-or-less; the only tracks exclusive to the long-player being a throwaway ( please throw it away!) instrumental and the fairly dreary (albeit with a smidgen of something approaching funk) Man In The Middle? I think pulling four singles from an LP is cynical, but pulling five borders on Moby Grape debut-album-debacle levels of misjudgement!
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Post by chron on Sept 13, 2016 16:03:50 GMT
I've never minded it; I don't think it's their worst by a long chalk. Its chug-along tempo and general air of glumness is quite endearing, and it's nice to see the spotlight falling on Benny and Bjorn as co-lead vocalists (I've always thought that Benny's voice has been underrated).
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CHEESE
Sept 13, 2016 15:34:35 GMT
Post by chron on Sept 13, 2016 15:34:35 GMT
I suppose there's also a contrived bonhomie element to the term (the 'Say cheese' plaster-a-fake-grin-over-your-face thing). As far as that Urban Dictionary definition goes, I'd agree with unsubtle, but 'trying too hard' I think is wide of the mark. The Beatles certainly produced a bit of cheese early on (and late on, too - see Rocky Raccoon and Maxwell's Silver Hammer); but they never produced an album dominated by cheese, as the Ring Ring and Waterloo albums are.
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CHEESE
Sept 13, 2016 14:19:33 GMT
Post by chron on Sept 13, 2016 14:19:33 GMT
Usually it's a derogatory term, but, I like a lot of music others call cheesy. I listen to a lot of Muzak so what do I know.... It must've started out as a synonym for 'stinker,' given that the salient characteristic of most cheeses is a pungent aroma. Its meaning has probably broadened, as kitsch has been reassessed and gained a certain kind of critical standing in more recent years.
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Post by chron on Sept 13, 2016 11:37:03 GMT
Is anyone going to buy The Power of The Daleks on DVD? I'd prefer to buy it in a more functionally useful form, such as an effective over-the-counter analgesic, or a scouring powder ('The Powder Of The Daleks').
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Post by chron on Sept 10, 2016 15:05:49 GMT
I wonder how the "brand new interview" with Tretow mentioned on the website came about. As I understand it, after his stroke he's almost lost his faculty of speech and most of his memory, sadly. Christ, that's awful. I was aware that he'd suffered a stroke, but had no idea of the extent to which he'd been incapacitated by it.
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Post by chron on Sept 8, 2016 22:29:41 GMT
Edit: According to the Museum site, the vinyl album is just the ten tracks, split into threes or twos. A bit unnecessary when it's such a short album anyway It's 45 rpm instead of the standard 33 1/3 rpm for LPs, which means there is less room on each side. Some people on Facebook were saying that 45 rpm makes for better sound quality The one album that I have that was offered as a limited edition 45 rpm double vinyl version alongside the standard single disc 33 1/3 version - Fade Out by Loop - indeed sounds excellent.
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Post by chron on Sept 6, 2016 15:03:37 GMT
If you could overlay the faces of Liv Ullmann and Bibi Andersson, you'd get a pretty good approximation of Agnetha's face: Liv Ullmann's face isn't far off by itself, but the eyes and eyebrows are a little 'soft'; the sharper look of Bibi Andersson's eyes and eyebrows would increase the resemblance. Ingmar Bergman actually did combine their faces, in a scene in the film Persona, but rather than being overlaid, longitudinal halves of each respective face were combined to make one face, to unsettling effect:
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Post by chron on Sept 5, 2016 20:44:45 GMT
I was using 'met' loosely.
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Post by chron on Sept 5, 2016 20:19:58 GMT
Nice-looking forum you've got! I've been a fan of some of ABBA's music for a good while now. I'm not really an uberfan, and a lot of the surrounding stuff - e.g. the whole Mamma-Mia franchise or the old stage costumes or ABBA Gold's current chart position - doesn't grab me; but the music, yes. I also like a wide range of other music - good power pop, post-bop and chamber jazz, folk rock, some 20th century modern and contemporary classical, and especially these days, the whole ambient/drone scene. Contemporary visual art and the works of certain film-makers are also big interests. I'd just like to point out that unlike a lot of the recently arrived above, I haven't migrated over from the other, shortly-to-close, ABBA forum. Not at all. No siree. I just happen to have shown up at the same time that a lot of members from that forum opted to make the switch-over. I look forward to having a nose around in the different sections here, and chipping in when and where I can, and just to reiterate: I'm NOT a member of the old forum, and I've never met any of the above who've come over from there seeking to be taken in here (just ask Alan). Hello!
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