Is Neil Diamond bad?

[flatlander#2]

is that why she is an ex?

was she forever in blue jeans?

[Bunion 2020]

Your buddy must be sexually attracted to him and is using the chainsaw as an extension of his short penis to "saw" his feelings for Neil. Don't pass out around him because he will for sure try to fuck you in the butthole while singing Neil songs and crying.

Not that patrolling is ghey, I'm just saying this dude is obviously hugely gay like Manilow homo.

You are certainly entitled to your own opinion Sigmund. Just because the guy is married with children doesn't prove his is or isn't a flaming pirate.

Chain saws and destruction of patrol property has a long and chequered history in the Big Sky patrol. My first year there, a rather tall guy named Derek got drunk, fired up a a saw with the intent of installing a new door in the locker room. He stopped just before he hit the 440V main feed for the mountain mall. Most likely, we would have all be cremated when the fuel tank cooked off in that instance.

BTW, I am a fan of Mr. Diamonds songwriting and music. He does kill it in the Last Waltz. Song Sung Blue.... well lets just say I could live without it. And in Todds defense, they did need a new Stereo.

[Professor]

I hated N. Diamond as a kid, cuz it was "my parents" music. But as I have mellowed with age, I have realized all the songs I was forced to listen to as a kid are the best driving music I could ask for. Singing along simply helps me stay awake. Problem is... then I leave it in the CD player after a trip and get really funny looks when it is still turned way up while I am putting on my boots at the hill

[Mountainsurf]

I am forever in bluejeans.

My thoughts, exactly...babe.

[4matic]

She must have an endless supply of stories from those days, although 'Circus-Circus' and 'private jet' seems like a bit of an oxymoron...

Late 80's early nineties.. It was Gulfstream G5 with gold plated interior fixtures leased by Circus Circus and Bill Pennington; hangared at Reno International along with the Helicopter. I met Pennington..

"Bennett and his partner, Bill Pennington, took over Circus Circus when it was bleeding red ink, and turned it into a money machine."

http://www.1st100.com/part3/bennett.html

Pennington also developed International Game Technologies..

The flight attendant job was pretty crappy. Low pay and she was on 24 hour call. She said all the celebs had girlfriends. The funny thing is she talked about Bill Cosby always having a different woman. Mr. superdad was quite a player!

[4matic]

is that why she is an ex?

I couldn't afford her for sure.. She's been through two husbands since so I'm the lucky one..

[Mountainsurf]

I couldn't afford her for sure.. She's been through two husbands since so I'm the lucky one..

She should get together with my ex, he's been through two wives, one of which was me...and now he's living with the next poor sucker.

[The AD]

So in the end, is Neil Diamond really that bad?

I'm just happy you never felt compelled to say "to make a long story short..."

[lph]

No, most certainly does not suck.

In fact, str8line is a BIG fan, FWIW.

[frozenwater]

In the 9th grade the school bus stop was directly across 9400 S. from the ski bus that went to Alta. It was truly unbearable at times.

So one day my friend Brandon & I couldn't take it, conditions were epic and we hoped on the ski bus. (we had lockers with gear up at alta)

This became habbit forming and before we knew it a week had gone by without us making it to school.

Naturally we got busted eventually and our parents collectively were trying to figure out a way to punish us.

Unfortunately it was announced in church the next day that they needed males to volunteer to perform at the Salt palace for some ballroom dance event. We were fucked.

I spent the next three months after school learning a dance to the song "AMERICA" by Neil Diamond.

Yeah I learned how to ballroom dance, but in the process I fostered a hate unknown to most who will ever live. If I ever see that evil demon disguised as a man and named Neil I will surely kill him with whatever spoon I happen to be wielding at the time.

DEATH TO NEIL DIAMOND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Tye 1on]

In the 9th grade the school bus stop was directly across 9400 S. from the ski bus that went to Alta. It was truly unbearable at times.

So one day my friend Brandon & I couldn't take it, conditions were epic and we hoped on the ski bus. (we had lockers with gear up at alta)

This became habbit forming and before we knew it a week had gone by without us making it to school.

Naturally we got busted eventually and our parents collectively were trying to figure out a way to punish us.

Unfortunately it was announced in church the nest day that they needed males to volunteer to perform at the Salt palace for some ballroom dance event. We were fucked.

I spent the next three months after school learning a dance to the song "AMERICA" by Neil Diamond.

Yeah I learned how to ballroom dance, but in the process I fostered a hate unknown to most who will ever live. If I ever see that evil demon disguised as a man and named Neil I will surely kill him with whatever spoon I happen to be wielding at the time.

DEATH TO NEIL DIAMOND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

great story. Another hazard of church.

[Huckwheat]

I think Neil Rocks.....from old school Jazz Singer, to new school 12 Songs. I dig him.

And the fact that a coverband in N.Cali named SuperDiamond has thrived for years now, proves the point that even the X/Y generation likes Neil!

[mnflyfish]

Martin Zeller formerly of Gear Daddies also does a great set of Diamond covers. I think he's fine, he has that pot smoking song that is pretty funny.

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Martin Zeller is playing my wife's church's fundraiser next month! I miss those wonderful hours in the 400 Bar drinking beer and listening to the Gear Daddies while I should have been home studying for some random class at the U of M.

Jay

[mnflyfish]

38 posts and not a single reference to Saving Silverman??? I'm disappointed.

Jay

[Toadman]

was she forever in blue jeans?

Don't cha mean Reverend Blue jeans?

[Mofro261]

I am, I said, to no one there
and no one heard at all, not even the chair

I have never bought an album/gone to see, yet so many of his songs are somehow burned into my brain.

Money talks, but it can't sing and dance and it can't walk
and as long as I can have you here with Me
I'd much rather Be...

Please make it stop.

[bagtagley]

I went to a fund raiser at a local college a few years ago. They hired Black Diamond (an extremely flamboyant black man who sang Neil Diamond tunes) as the night's entertainment. He single-handedly (with the help of his Karaoke machine) rocked the house.

Long live Black Diamond...and Neil Diamond too.

[flatlander#2]

Martin Zeller is playing my wife's church's fundraiser next month! I miss those wonderful hours in the 400 Bar drinking beer and listening to the Gear Daddies while I should have been home studying for some random class at the U of M.

Jay

Church fundraiser? That sure as hell ain't no MN Lutheran potluck. Think they'll throw down "Cryin neath the statue of Jesus?" He played my wifes ten year at Carleton. Hadn't heard him in years, sounded very tight, good. Danced my ass off barefoot and loopy as hell, it is Carleton after all. He's some dude in the Dem party for the southern part of MN isn't he?

Sometimes I swear, I need a drink.
And sometimes I swear to god, I just don't stop to think.
And I know tomorrow I'll regret all these things I did.
I drank so much tonight I just feel stupid.

[Professor]

Money talks, but it can't sing and dance and it can't walk
and as long as I can have you here with Me
I'd much rather Be...

Please make it stop.

How about, "Love on the rocks.....

aint no big surprise.....

Pour me a drink, I'll tell you some lies"

Some of the best lyrics ever

[StuntCok]

obviously the chiansawer has never watched the Last Waltz. I even thought his scene in Keeping Up with The Stiens was classic.

Ohhh yah. "dry your eyes" in the Last Waltz is one of the concert's/film's high points.

[G]

Yep, music promotes violence. Especially the satanic stuff:











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[Chemical Ali' The Wax Master]

i like Neil, but some of his lyrics are gibberish

[mnflyfish]

Church fundraiser? That sure as hell ain't no MN Lutheran potluck. Think they'll throw down "Cryin neath the statue of Jesus?" He played my wifes ten year at Carleton. Hadn't heard him in years, sounded very tight, good. Danced my ass off barefoot and loopy as hell, it is Carleton after all. He's some dude in the Dem party for the southern part of MN isn't he?

Sometimes I swear, I need a drink.
And sometimes I swear to god, I just don't stop to think.
And I know tomorrow I'll regret all these things I did.
I drank so much tonight I just feel stupid.

No Lutheran, this is the Catholics, hence my wife's church. Actually they (Gear Daddies) played the Basilica Block Party two summers ago, it was a GD reunion show. And YES, they played all the music including Cryin. Right infront of the Cardinal and everyting.

Carleton huh? Wow, so is your wife one of the ones that shaves and has a job not involving throwing ones self in front of whaling ships? Just messing, my Dad went to St. Olaf.

Good Luck,
Jay

[flatlander#2]

She didn't live in the women with a y (womyn) house, she was a runner and is now a middle school principal.
I used to live behind Liquor Lyles so I know the block party. When are they playing? We'd fly back for the weekend for sure.

[irul&ublo]

No, most certainly does not suck.

In fact, str8line is a BIG fan, FWIW.

Boy George and George Michael are his other favorites.