Bad news, my costco card got declined, i forgot i maxed it out buying oil drums to make sure we had enough supply going forward in case it was peak oil. Not to worry though men, I have been to pound land, it was mobbed with ex floor traders, but I managed to fight my way past the bic razors and have stocked up on Hi Karate and Brut. They may smell us coming but that will give them fair warning before we strike at the very heart of their complex financial system. Gps co-ordinates will be uploaded forthwith, get those night vision goggles ready.
Declined? Stll - credit crunch eh Bondage? Never mind - I love Hai Karate. The guv and I once drank 8 bottles each of the stuff before we burnt down the local whorehouse (no whores inside) in Fanny Me Won province back in the seventies. We'd ironed out all the rotters the previous evening by the way. Bloody marvellous. Double Hard Bastards.
Phew!! Just back from a whistle-stop tour of the US of A(America) helping my new buddy(friend) Barton Obarmy finish off his election campaign in the race to become tra-la-la-la-la-America's (America's) first black (mocha) President (Prime Minister) and beat frozen chip supremo and really old person Jim McCain to the hot seat. Spent a lot of time Westside (Californ I A ((California)) ) persuading some fellow brothers (espressos through to lattes) to vote for Bart (short for Barton NOT as in Bart Simpson. Although they do have a splendid new Simpson's ride at Universal which is strictly for double hard bastards.) The booty (fanny,crumpet) factor is totally awesome (off the fucking richter) in LA with loads of hot chicks (fit birds) commenting on my chiselled hard-bastard torso and remarking how cute my Australian accent was (the last bit left me confused and a couple of chicks got caught in some chinning crossfire until I realised they were somewhat dim in the accent/geography department) Great climate (not snowing or bollock freezing) and loads of time to work-out (do three thousand one-fingered press-ups), hang out (get pissed) and just really chill dude (fuck knows) whilst helping Burt secure his way to the soon-to-be-renamed White House. So back to work - must catch up with Bundus and Willy to put the finishing touches to the top secret mission to Iceland. So well done Barty. Ugh. It's all good mofo. Straight Outta Compton and all that. "It was all a dream - I used to read word-up magazine..." etc etc (A congratulatory message followed by some 90's rap speak) Have a nice day (fuck off) Hard men at work and play. Bloody Marvellous.
This thread reminds me of Duran Duran songs from the early 1980s. None of their songs from then made any coherent sense. They were just random one liners. I mean other than some bad 1970s like porn fiction it was all over the place. That Military Mum user was pretty funny, though.
Loved their videos Simon LeBon seems like a pretty nice guy, all that early fame and success and money hasn't affected him adversely seems like. "Teacher jokingly tells 10-year-old going on a trip to England to 'find Duran Duran'—and so she kind of does. And just like that, Simon LeBon appeared in the doorway. Imagine this: you're a fourth grade language arts teacher in Dallas, and like many Gen X-ers, your obsession with Duran Duran never waned. So much so that you still have dolls of each member of the band in the classroom and, according to Austin Wood's article for the Lake Highlands Advocate, even an old telephone in case (lead singer) "Simon LeBon calls." This describes Miriam Osborne, a fourth grade teacher at White Rock Elementary in the Lake Highlands district of Dallas, Texas. Wood shares in "White Rock E.S. student, inspired by teacher, meets Simon LeBon" that one of Osborne's students, 10-year-old Ava Meyers, was getting an early pickup for Christmas break, as her family was heading to the U.K. for a holiday wedding. As they were saying their goodbyes in the hallway, Osborne kiddingly said to Meyers, "Find Duran Duran." Cut to: Ava and her family, including her mom Zahara, fly across the pond to find themselves in the Putney neighborhood of London. After a day of sightseeing, Zahara shares, "I was just Googling things to do in Putney, and the first thing that popped up was 'Simon Le Bon lives in Putney from Duran Duran.'” Zahara did a little sleuthing and found Simon's house, thinking perhaps a Christmas stroll by the home would be exciting. But, according to the article, Ava felt they could do better. She and "an 83-year-old relative named Nick, who apparently has courage in droves, went to the door and tried a knock. Zahara was initially hesitant but assumed Le Bon would be away on vacation, so she figured it was harmless. Le Bon’s son-in-law answered, his wife came to the door next, and following a few moments of getting pitched the idea by Nick, agreed to get her husband 'because it was Christmas.'" And just like that, Simon LeBon appeared in the doorway. He warmly greeted Ava and her family and even took pictures. "It was just crazy," Ava exclaimed. But possibly more excited was Miriam Osborne, back in the States. She proudly shared the photo (which had been texted to her) with many of her friends and even encouraged Ava to recount the story to her classmates when they returned from the break. Wood shares, "Osborne’s connection to the band goes back to her childhood in El Paso in the ’80s. As the daughter of a Syrian immigrant, she says she had trouble fitting in and finding an identity. Some days, she and her brothers would travel across town to get records from a British record store." Miriam explains she used her babysitting money to buy her first Duran Duran record. "And so I had been a fan, literally, for 43 years—my entire lifetime." Osborne's love of Duran Duran, and many '80s bands in general, nostalgically connects her to a throughline for her life that she tries to impart onto the students as well. "Music is a connector, and it connected me to a world that I didn’t always fit in as a child. It helped me find people who I still love to this day, and it’s a big part of this classroom with me and the students I teach, because everybody has a story, and there’s something really incredible about hearing something and it taking you to a happy moment." As for Ava? She's now taking guitar lessons. And perhaps one day, she can become so famous and inspirational, a teacher sends a student off to find her on a Christmas vacation in the future." https://www.upworthy.com/10-year-old-meets-duran-duran