Yes vs Genesis vs The Partridge Family |
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Psychedelic Paul
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Don't be so hard on yourself. You have a great sense of humour. Your entertaining forum posts and album reviews are testament to that. It's at tough times like these when laughter is the best medicine. I'd vote for Susan Dey any day over Genesis and Yes. I'm looking forward to the Genesis/Yes/Monkees poll and seeing how that turns out, although I can guess who's going to win. The Monkees are going to win it bigly - not even close.
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Logan
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True, and stereotypes generally have truth to them. Prog is serious business.
By the way, I was just reminded of what someone told me at a past forum, or at least the general sentiment. People either get the joke or they don’t, if they do, that’s great, if they don’t, they’re idiots. Now, I would not go that far, but I appreciate the sentiment and attitude. Edited by Logan - March 22 2020 at 11:07 |
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Just a fanboy passin' through.
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LAM-SGC
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Logan, sometimes the stereotypes about certain fans are simply just true. 😂😂😂
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Logan
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I’m only being partially serious there, see, not funny. I do find this to be a harder audience generally than I have been used to with humour and riffing off each other. Although perhaps the lols were compassionate lols at other fora. I was once told I have no sense of irony when I responded in a seemingly serious way, and politely, in an ironic fashion. That was awkward. It was hard to respond back without spoiling the joke. Also, I have noticed that when various people quote my posts while editing out parts of them, it’s my favourite bits, what I thought were the funny bits, that tend to get edited out. I’m not sure if that says more about my poor sense of humour, or a lack of humour from others.
At a former forum, I was told not to tell people when I’m joking because it spoils the humour. — figuring out if someone is joking can be part of the fun, and with the realisation, that much funnier, but sometime I have wondered if I should spell it out when I’m joking since I often wrap humour within seemingly serious posts. Anyway, I love humour, and there are various very witty people at the site, but sometimes this place can seem a bit too on the serious side fir me. Humour is a very important tool of socialization. It can bring people together, but also push them apart. I tend not to like genuinely mean-spirited humour,. I like to rib people, Nd be ribbed, but not to wound them. Like with music, there is no one taste in humour. I tend to favour dark comedy, self-deprecating humour, toilet humour and very bad puns. Since this site is so multi-national, culture and language also affects reaction. Now this ended up being an all too serious post; carry on with the fun. Edited by Logan - March 22 2020 at 10:51 |
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Logan
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I once, if only momentarily, thought this forum lacking in humour because so few laughed at my jokes. A millisecond later I realized, no, it’s not because people here lack a sense of humour, it’s because they have a good sense of humour and prefer to laugh when it’s actually funny.
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LAM-SGC
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And this humour poll should tell you everything you need to know about the humour and social skills of some prog fans, still voting for Yes and Genesis... that in itself is even funnier...
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LAM-SGC
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An observation, I saw The Partridge Family on TV a lot as a kid, I didn't once see Yes or Genesis on Tv.
And... they had Susan Dey!!! Edited by LAM-SGC - March 22 2020 at 06:02 |
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richardh
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all wide eyed and perfect features ..can't imagine why
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Mortte
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The "corner" observation from Finland, I haven´t got any idea what "The Partridge Family" is (still haven´t got, I haven´t googled it). It just when I listened a bit that what Yesesis put here, it was just so hilarious that I have to vote it!
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Progfan1958
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Danny Partridge rules !
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Progfan1958
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YESESIS
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Goes to show you just never know in life sometimes.
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AFlowerKingCrimson
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Glad to see the Partridge Family is winning. We can vote for Yes and Genesis any old day. ;) How often does the Partridge Family pop up on here?
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Logan
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I'm just happy to have a non-Genesis and non-Yes option to vote for, so no complaints from me. ;) I enjoyed the Partridge Family, I especially liked Susan Dey. Still, I would have have preferred it had The Banana Splits and The Monkees been it, instead of Yes and Genesis.* I like me some sunshine, bubblegum pop.
*I like Yes and Genesis, but I feel much the the same way some feel about certain classic rock on the radio, in this case I feel it gets overplayed in the forum sometimes.
Same. Susan Dey brightens my day. A favourite of mine with Paul Williams was The Phantom of the Paradise film and music. Edited by Logan - March 21 2020 at 17:07 |
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I prophesy disaster
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Actually, this poll could be used to surreptitiously measure the sense of humour of the forum members. It seems that 50% have no sense of humour. Admittedly, I didn't vote because I couldn't bring myself to vote for The Partridge Family, nor was I going to vote for either Yes or Genesis. |
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No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man.
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YESESIS
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^ Haha. Your 'prog card' basically then. I feel you man. I'm the one who made the poll but honestly I feel you.
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dr wu23
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Polls like these make me want to hand in my Prog Archives membership card.....oh..wait a minute
we don't get cards. |
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YESESIS
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Wasn't expecting this at all. There had been threads recently that basically turned into straight Yes vs Genesis, so I wanted to do one lol. My original idea was Yes vs Genesis vs The Archies. Then I thought what about Yes vs Genesis vs Michael Bolton, or Yes vs Genesis vs Celine Dion. Anyway, ultimately I decided that the most outrageous one I could think of was... this lol. Hey as my man Paul pointed out, we're going through a trying time right now(globally) and I just wanted to have a little fun.
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Atavachron
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"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy
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Progosopher
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I went to college with the little kid drummer of the Partridge Family after he had grown, of course. Nice guy. Rather mellow. Glad to have known him a little bit. I remember the TV show, Shirley Jones, the late David Cassidy. Voted for Yes, natch.
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The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty"
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Squonk19
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"I Think I Love You" - classic track!
...Genesis.... of course. |
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