Comments on: GEORGE LEE: THEY DID NOT RESPECT MY AUTHORITAH!

By: Donagh

Donagh — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:02:31 +0000

Funny you should mention Gainsbourg. Otis has a J’taime style track on the album that Two-Time Slim is on. Definitely X-rated, of course. I blushed when I heard it.

By: Sean Baite

Sean Baite — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:18:32 +0000

Donagh - you’re only suspended from the Dublin Opinioners Insufferable Over-40s 3-a-side football team. You can still post and link to blogs by race-angst ridden Yanks.
Horrible association of ideas thanks to ye though, nonetheless.
That Johnny Otis track is just a wee bit ruder than Richie Kavanagh alright. Good job the kids have their headphones on listening to Gainsbourg in the corner

By: Donagh

Donagh — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:50:07 +0000

Well now, if I’m on suspension I can’t tell you this. Your reference to that very fine Nick Cave song reminded me of a great article I read on 3QuarksDaily about two years ago, which talked about how the Stagger Lee story was used by various musicians, including the Isley Brothers over the years. The article says Cave’s version is the best, but it also provides this interesting snippet of information:

Cave is no doubt the first self-described Christian apologist ever to have sung: “I’ll crawl over fifty good pussies just to get to one fat boy’s asshole. He claims to have heard this line in an old blues recording by a man identifying himself as ‘Two-Time Slim’ (google this last phrase and you will get nothing but the MySpace pages of insufferable 20-year-olds).

It seems that since it was published there is more on the web, because I was able to find out that Two-Time Slim is a song on an album of ‘blue’ Blues songs called Snatch & The Poontangs. It was recorded in 1969 by Johnny Otis. All details are in Wikipedia of course:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snatch_and_the_Poontangs

And the song itself is on YouTube. But Seán before you listen to it make sure you have the headphones on, or the kids are out of the room - it’s pretty rude stuff.

By: Sean Baite

Sean Baite — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:21:11 +0000

Donagh - a straight red card and an automatic 3 month suspension for bringing up an association of Beckett and George Lee in my mind. As my own retaliation - here's the song for the hour (apologies to Nick Cave for tethering such a great performance to such a tawdry petty event) :

By: Donagh

Donagh — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:32:23 +0000

Thanks for your comment. It’s clear that the crisis precipitated by a TV pundit like George Lee stabbing his party in the back and leaving the Dail after 9 months, and reciprocal to that, but to a much lesser degree the trifling matter of the current crisis in the government’s finances, has brought about widespread confusion. Its very disorientating to be sure. Which way is up, which way is down? Did I put my trousers on this morning? I can’t tell because George Lee is on the radio again, telling me that we can’t go on the way we are, so because of that he said that he can’t go on. I can’t go on, but I will go on, he can’t go on, but he still goes on.

By: noreeng

noreeng — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:11:37 +0000

George was a voice crying in the wilderness. What’s needed is another Party comprised of the trusted media personalities who rely on logic for their analysis. I believe that F Gael would be successful if they had the opportunity, for a coalition with another select thinking alternative who supported the middle income majority. This particular group of people would need small funding for their election campaign. Instead of writing books get off the fence. Awful choices need to be made, but these choices must be just and implicated, with discussion and consideration of consequence. Too many pressure groups shouting the odds, will create a breakdown of society. Is this the intention? Then where are all the sheep going to be? When the worker bees are taken out of the system, there is no supporting substance, just rich and poverty-stricken. Government and slaves and the ones in the middle, who implement their wishes.

By: Another nail in the coffin for the Glasaigh « Splintered Sunrise

Another nail in the coffin for the Glasaigh « Splintered Sunrise — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:11:33 +0000

[…] covering Gorgeous George Lee’s political suicide, fun as it was, because it had already been done so well elsewhere. But what do you know, here comes a resignation letter from Green Party Senator […]

By: culchie comment

culchie comment — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:25:50 +0000

Is it not obvious that the system is wrong? Party politics wears down all of them except the bad guys. those of you roasting george lee and deirdre de burca ask yourself isnt it about time someone tried to destabilise a system that missed a glorious opportunity to use all the tax money to build us a paradise of supergood infrastructure and education etc.

the electorate cant do it - cowards that we are.

no-one respects our elected politicians, not bankers, not civil servants, not trade unionists, not church because it is perceived rightly in most cases not all that THEIR HANDS ARE DIRTY and had to be dirtied to get to where they are.

By: healthy sceptic

healthy sceptic — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:43:07 +0000

It took George Lee to tell the Irish people that Fine Gael were a bunch of spoofers !!!!

And still Denis O’Brien’s radio stations want to prevent people joining all the dots.

By: Conor McCabe

Conor McCabe — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:28:34 +0000