This is incredible, amazing, unbelieveable!!!!
I thought Chubby Checker had died years ago.
Mind you, doesn't his 'hair' look oh so natural.
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It must be rhyming slang - chubby-checker = ginormous pecker ?
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Nah - 'Chubby' is US slang term for a tool, and 'checker' is, well, a measuring device.
I wonder what the app says if you let it analyse this pic:
tinyurl.com/cb8ac6x
Last edited by: Lygonos on Fri 15 Feb 13 at 21:28
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And since it says the app uses the shoe size, and 'shoe size' is a way of saying man parts length in a way of not mentioning them, the whole thing is a joke.
Not that funny either!
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>> Nah - 'Chubby' is US slang term for a tool, and 'checker' is, well, a
>> measuring device.
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>> I wonder what the app says if you let it analyse this pic:
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It says you need a Licence from Defra to keep Pigs.
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It serves him right for singing 'Let's twist again, like we did last summer'.
It should have been 'as we did last summer'.
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Funniest story of the week. Reading between the lines, I feel I detect a hint of collusion between PR consultants, if not downright commercial arrangement between everyone's 'people', about the whole shebang. There is such a thing as bad publicity as a bruised BBC will tell you, but this is very far from being an example of that. Trebles all round!
Herself liked the twist. It always gave me a stitch in no time, but a lot of white people liked it because it's a dance for people who can't dance.... heh heh.... Did the Chubby one ever make another super-hit like that one?
We must all refer to him as Dongrule from now on, out of respect.
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And there's me last night thinking it was a 'joke', checking around says the story is real.
Obviously the app was written by a pubescent boy for other pubescent boys
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Apparently an app for Palm OS.
Googling Chubby Checker turns up far more on this than his discography.
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It is madness, just read the story and I cannot believe he wants £330 million in damages, because around 80 people download the app. The Palm platform is not popular anyway. By sueing them he has just made himself look like a bit of an idiot (in my opinion of course!).
All they had to go is to get HP to withdraw it and that would have been in the end of it.
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About time the US courts were sensible on damages issues; one cent seems about right to me as the name ought not have been used, but he has benefited from the resultant publicity.
Oh and no costs either!
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>> I cannot believe he wants £330 million in damages, because around 80 people download the app.
£330 million? A tenth of what he deserves after being the biggest single name in the entertainment business for half a century.
Dongrule rules! £3.3 billion might just about cover it!
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I am more of a Chuck Berry fan! Another oldie still going strong.
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>> I am more of a Chuck Berry fan! Another oldie still going strong.
What a philistine you are Sheikha. Just because a man is a near-genius stage performer, the author of numerous classic songs and tunes and a perennial churner-out of music for people who actually can dance (as well as you and all the rest), you are hardly justified in saying you prefer him to the greatest single name in the entertainment industry over the last half-century. Shame on you! Let's hear it for Dongrule! Pay up HP, you know you can afford it!
And less of the 'oldie' stuff if you don't mind. Chuck Berry may be curmudgeonly, miserly and unkind, but that's just the sort of cat he is, nothing to do with his age. He's hardly older than me, a mere whippersnapper verging on what might be called middle age. But that's a harsh term that courteous people avoid.
Have you spoken to Ted lately? He seems to have gone a bit quiet.
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But rocker stars tend to die young, these days if you make it past 27 you're lucky p. Saw Ted a week or so go he was fine. Noticed he hasn't been on here for a while though.
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>> these days if you make it past 27 you're lucky
Janis Joplin that white Texan bluesy singer, did herself in really with Southern Comfort, very sickly sugary stuff bound to do your liver and stomach in... Late nights, poor diet, booze, stimulants and so on have done for many a performer. And opiates for some.
But there's a lot of superstition about these things. An intelligent, non-suicidal individual can be an intravenous heroin user and live to a ripe old age. I knew such a person (he was homosexual too) , who died in his eighties from a heart attack. Another person I knew, talented to a high degree and exaggeratedly heterosexual, but also anti-rational, ignored people's warnings and caught HIV which killed him in his late fifties. Ironically they both died in the same month, August 1997 when the Princess of Wales also died.
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>> But there's a lot of superstition about these things. An intelligent, non-suicidal individual can be an intravenous heroin user and live to a ripe old age
Of course I don't need to tell you Sheikha that I don't recommend anyone to try this at home. Opiates are very boring unless you are that way inclined, and if you are they are best avoided altogether unless medically prescribed.
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"Opiates are very boring "
They also cause terrible constipation!
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Do you know any long-term heroin users (apart from GP's) Sire?
I've always fancied myself as a life-long heroin user - if I had Lud's sort of money.
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I don't know any now I don't think, dead or given up. It isn't for everyone and it certainly isn't for me. Not everyone has the self-discipline or luck to use without getting careless and slobbish. Of course you don't need to be very bright to avoid killing yourself with an overdose, you just need a minimum of information (which alas is not always available in convincing form).
It's not for nothing though that opium and its derivatives have been a medical standby since the beginning of time. Modern medics are pretty good with them in my experience.
By the way Perro, money won't save you from stupidity combined with junk addiction. Who were those stone-rich foreign people quietly falling apart in their nice big house?
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>>Who were those stone-rich foreign people quietly falling apart in their nice big house?<<
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/9390163/Billionaire-Hans-Kristian-Rausing-arrested-after-wifes-body-found-in-London-home.html
I've never touched heroin, or cocaine, could have done though, quite easily, in the late 60's.
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>> I've never touched heroin, or cocaine, could have done though, quite easily, in the late 60's.
Well I have. You can touch them but you need to keep your wits about you, especially if you have a strong impulse to touch them again and again. The problem arises if you like them too much, if they seem to fill a gap or hole in your life. Any enthusiastic response needs to be treated with grave suspicion. In their totally different ways - they are almost opposites in their effects - each can lure you onto a slippery slope that can cost you more than you can afford financially and in other (even more important) ways too.
People take all sorts of funny chemical powders these days, new substances that mimic or are related to amphetamine (another very addictive stimulant) and all these E and MDMA thingies. It's youngsters who take them and I would be willing to bet that the Sheikh has tried E, perhaps often. However I wouldn't want to embarrass him or misjudge him so I didn't really say that.
They don't seem to have any effect on me but I am too old and knackered to take a huge amount just to see what they are like. I've lost interest really.
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To revert to part of the original subject, I can't complain about the pretty cheap all-purpose HP printer we have. Like all printers it had to be introduced to the computers and is a bit pernickety. It sulks if you ask it to print more than 20 pages, so you have to break longer texts up a bit, but once you have understood that it prints with great and violent energy if you tell it that what you want is b&w fast draft. What's more the black ink cartridges, though small, last quite well in that mode. Just as well because part of herself's work involves printing stuff out, and I've just done 100 or so pages for her.
It did some Whistler paintings rather well for the daughter's thesis/PhD essay thingy too, on colour best. Never knew a girl like her for being late. She delivered that paper with 7 minutes to spare after making her daughters aged 10 and 4 run across Waterloo Bridge from the station to Somerset House. She is a cruel neglectful mother, poor nippers.
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It's an eye opener the concoction of mind altering substances some folk take Sire:
Zac Foley [1971–2002 Musician (EMF)] had a mixture of heroin, cocaine, ecstasy, barbiturates and alcohol in his blood when he OD'd.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_drug-related_deaths
When I was on amphetamine, barbiturates, cannabis, or LSD, I wouldn't take them all at the same time,
or I wouldn't be here now :)
I wonder how many accidental OD's are actually intentional, and how many suicide verdicts are in fact accidental OD's,
too easily done I'll wager.
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Yes Perro, speed is incredibly effective, the most effective drug and the fastest to get you hooked. Pity it's so bad for most parts of you really. Back in the day everyone was chucking it down happily without a thought. Of course in those days dodgy quacks prescribed it as a slimming drug, and my parents' generation lived on it during the war.
Naturally all drug users are multiple, booze, tobacco and whatever else. But these extreme cases, like yr man Foley, can't get rid of the delusion that more of everything might do the trick. You can only get so high on a given day and more drugs after that will do more harm than good as any fule kno.
One of the things I've noticed about depraved old rock stars is that they tend to be physically robust. The weedy ones peel off or snuff it.
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Chubby Checker sues HP - Boxsterboy
