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Howard Stern; Don Cherry’s love child.
Just goes to show that people have MUCH better things to spend their hard earned money on. I have a feeling that much of his former audience, regarded him as a car accident. You don’t want to look but just can’t help yourself.
Gerry
I have Sirius. I really enjoy Howard. Driving as much as I do, it is nice to listen to something that require absolutely no thought.
He was “just at his psychiatrist…”
Gee, that’s a shocker…
More free publicity for a Master Manipulator.
Uhh Howard, maybe it’s because people [b]don’t want to pay yet [i]another[/i] monthly bill[/b]..
It’s why I havn’t gone to satelite radio, and I’m in my car quite a bit.
Thanks for the article reference Kate, it just proves I’m not missing anything.
Steve d: That too, reminds me of Marilyn Manson, everything that guy ever did was designed to make people talk about him. But really, that’s what most celebs do these days, just different markets and marketing strategies.
“You cheap bastard”
That’s funny!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freak_show …
“A freak show is an exhibition of rarities, “freaks of nature”�such as unusually tall or short humans, and people with both male and female secondary sexual characteristics�and performances that are expected to be shocking to the viewers. Heavily tattooed people have sometimes been seen in freak shows, as have fire-eating and sword-swallowing acts.” http://www.historybuff.com/library/refbarnum.html …
“P. T. Barnum is most often associated with the circus sideshow and the display of freaks. While this is true, he is also the founding force behind one of America’s most famous circuses: Barnum & Bailey Circus. Barnum is also affiliated with the famous quote “There’s a sucker born every minute.” History, unfortunately, has misdirected this quotation. Barnum never did say it. Actually, it was said by his competitor.”
Howard Stern is a total joke. When he first appeared he was moderately interesting for a brief moment in time… but only because of his out spoken approach. That got old real quick… now he is just a loud mouth has been who is obnoxious and obscene. He still thinks he can win people by pure shock value. He has a following of shallow souls, an he can yell all he wants however, his audience will probably never get real big again. He is old news… and bad news…. and he is now stale dated.
firstly, I never heard him, only OF him, but what I think I understand is that his humour was largely dependent on shock, of surprising us, so it’s easy to see if this is the case, that to continue to shock us, he needs to dig a little deeper every week. So you just know that the most offensive thing he can do is whatever hasn’t shocked us lately. and really with the rise of the internet, nothing much surprises or shocks me anymore. I suppose some things that when used out of context shock me still, but do we need more? guess I already voted then… and I saved myself some bucks.
There’s a Monty Python sketch called “Oscar Wilde” that involves the characters of Wilde, Whistler, Shaw, &c, in which they are challenging each other to out-wit them in the Prince of Whales’s court.
At some point Whistler says, “Yes, thank you. Right, Your Majesty is like a stream of bat’s piss.” The court gasps. Questioned by the Prince, Whistler claims it was Wilde’s comment, which Wilde deftly deflects by claiming, “It sodding was not! It was Shaw!”
Put on the spot, George Bernard hums and haws a bit and then in a stroke of genius conjours up “I, um, I, ah, I merely meant, Your Majesty, that, ah, you shine out like a shaft of gold when all around is dark.”
Brilliant. Meanwhile, as you can read at http://www.phespirit.info/montypython/oscar_wilde.htm
Wilde goes on to in my opinion make a fool of himself, so of course the court loves it.
And that’s what’s wrong with Howard Stern, he has a loud potty mouth, but he’s just not that clever, is he, compared to Wilde and his merry bunch of pranksters?
Howard Sterno?? Prefer to use the little brown plastic bag after my dog while walking in the park. TG
If one were to take the obscenities, profanities, general junior high school level of sex “humor” away from Howard Stern, he has precisely 0 humor and 0 talent. BO-RING!
Why would I pay a monthly subscription fee for tasteless penis jokes (Stern) when I can get that kind of thing for free on the Net? And that’s assuming I want that kind of garbage in the first place.
ha maybe the next time they send a satellite up howard oughta sit on the nose cone . no hands howard just hang on reeeeeeeal tight with your sloppy sorry ass buttocks. write if you find work
i apologise for the above comment if i offended anybody but i couldn’t stop myself
I have to admit to Howard being a bit of a guilty pleasure. I liken it to a warm, spring breeze in your face. Granted, a profanity laced breeze, but a breeze none the less. You can put your mind in neutral, and let it flow over you. And when it is over, it is just – poof – gone. Hot air disipates.
It’s junk like Howard Stern’s stuff that would put me off satellite radio. That and the fact that there’s umpty zillion stations to listen to and I’m only going to tune in to may three or four. Too expensive for what you get, and then to have to listen to Howard Stern? I think I’d rather put a CD in the player if I was LD driving.
don’t knock satellite radio until you have heard Tammy Bruce. I agree with almost everything she says. She was a former U.S. Liberal and now has moved more to the center-right.
You can also get G. Gordon Liddy, Laura Ingraham, NRA radio, etc and a bunch of wacked out left-wingers! The left wingers are hilarious!
I got Sirius radio a year before Howard ever announced that he was going there and I have to say it is great!
If I ever got satellite radio, it most certainly not be for Stern. If I’m lucky (?) I get to see him on the boob tube around the same time as the realestate huxters, diet pill, exercise and viagra infomercials start to play all night. The curse of working a late shift, sighhhh.
Anyway, Stern is a one trick pony, a Jerry Springer of the late night with a potty mouth and girls with fuzzed out naughty bits.
If I was back in Canada doing a lot of driving I’d think seriously about it. I still remember driving through Northern Ontario and getting 15 minutes of a repeater station when you got close to some civilization. I’d also buy American if only to piss off the CRTC.
Yeah there’s a price problem! I can’t personally justify paying to hear the type of shock jock crap Stern pioneered….it’s bad enough when it’s free but paying for it puts one into an intellectual category generaly reserved for the lesser primates.
This is just the voice
of an ordinary Canadian
yelling back at the radio –
“You don’t speak for me.”
Absolutely . . . awesome. Good stuff. Thanks.
Somehow I have to think that the kind of people who like Howard Stern’s garbage are not the kind of people who have money for satelite radio subscriptions.
I would think they are mostley early teenaged boys who are still amused with big farts and big tits.
The real entertainment might be whatching the advancing psychotic behaviour of a shock jock in a downward spiral.
Perhaps the bizaar antics may bring his audience back, but only just in time to see him carried away in a well-deserved straight jacket.
In any case … this guy is definitely a castle built on sand.
“don’t knock satellite radio until you have heard Tammy Bruce. I agree with almost everything she says. She was a former U.S. Liberal and now has moved more to the center-right.
You can also get G. Gordon Liddy, Laura Ingraham, NRA radio, etc and a bunch of wacked out left-wingers! The left wingers are hilarious!
I got Sirius radio a year before Howard ever announced that he was going there and I have to say it is great!”
Posted by Trent at April 1, 2006 10:04 AM
Trent is exactly correct. I’ve had my Sirius radio for almost 2 years now and there’s far more to the programming than just “Howie”. Commercial free music and some excellent talk channels.
If you’re going to get a subscription I’d highly recommend the US version.
As for the cost, my quarterly payment (every 3 months) is less than I’d spend on a single Chinese take-out meal for the family.
Who cares?
Guys who like naked lesbians rubbing and licking each other and feigning sex with midgets.
The generation that never grew up.
I think that having more choice in the digital market would be good, the same argument from cable Tv, that not everyone wants to pay for what they can have “for nothing” (CBC, CTV, Global). Maybe the real reason I don’t have anything good to say regarding Sirius is that CBC is a partner / investor in this, and how can you tell without reading the financials? there are 10 Canadian channels, 1 is Radio Canada International, 2 of the 4 english channels are CBC, (“Radio One” and “Radio 3”) and the other 5 (50%) are french.
Of the 5 french channels, Premi�re Plus is Radio Canada-CBC, Infoplus is “Best of” Radio Canada-CBC and other international public radio including of course Radio France Internationale, and Bandeapart is Radio Canada-CBC. So of 10 Canadian channels, 5 are CBC, and the other includes some CBC, “Best of…”
that brings it to +50% CBC, “your tax dollars at work”
I’d be more interested in signing up for a choice of “home town” radio, where you may hear your local station when you are traveling… instead of only the “local CBC” shit. http://www.cbc.radio-canada.ca/newsreleases/20051102.shtml
Howard Stern; Don Cherry’s love child.
Just goes to show that people have MUCH better things to spend their hard earned money on. I have a feeling that much of his former audience, regarded him as a car accident. You don’t want to look but just can’t help yourself.
Gerry
I have Sirius. I really enjoy Howard. Driving as much as I do, it is nice to listen to something that require absolutely no thought.
He was “just at his psychiatrist…”
Gee, that’s a shocker…
More free publicity for a Master Manipulator.
Uhh Howard, maybe it’s because people [b]don’t want to pay yet [i]another[/i] monthly bill[/b]..
It’s why I havn’t gone to satelite radio, and I’m in my car quite a bit.
Thanks for the article reference Kate, it just proves I’m not missing anything.
Steve d: That too, reminds me of Marilyn Manson, everything that guy ever did was designed to make people talk about him. But really, that’s what most celebs do these days, just different markets and marketing strategies.
“You cheap bastard”
That’s funny!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freak_show …
“A freak show is an exhibition of rarities, “freaks of nature”�such as unusually tall or short humans, and people with both male and female secondary sexual characteristics�and performances that are expected to be shocking to the viewers. Heavily tattooed people have sometimes been seen in freak shows, as have fire-eating and sword-swallowing acts.”
http://www.historybuff.com/library/refbarnum.html …
“P. T. Barnum is most often associated with the circus sideshow and the display of freaks. While this is true, he is also the founding force behind one of America’s most famous circuses: Barnum & Bailey Circus. Barnum is also affiliated with the famous quote “There’s a sucker born every minute.” History, unfortunately, has misdirected this quotation. Barnum never did say it. Actually, it was said by his competitor.”
Howard Stern is a total joke. When he first appeared he was moderately interesting for a brief moment in time… but only because of his out spoken approach. That got old real quick… now he is just a loud mouth has been who is obnoxious and obscene. He still thinks he can win people by pure shock value. He has a following of shallow souls, an he can yell all he wants however, his audience will probably never get real big again. He is old news… and bad news…. and he is now stale dated.
firstly, I never heard him, only OF him, but what I think I understand is that his humour was largely dependent on shock, of surprising us, so it’s easy to see if this is the case, that to continue to shock us, he needs to dig a little deeper every week. So you just know that the most offensive thing he can do is whatever hasn’t shocked us lately. and really with the rise of the internet, nothing much surprises or shocks me anymore. I suppose some things that when used out of context shock me still, but do we need more? guess I already voted then… and I saved myself some bucks.
There’s a Monty Python sketch called “Oscar Wilde” that involves the characters of Wilde, Whistler, Shaw, &c, in which they are challenging each other to out-wit them in the Prince of Whales’s court.
At some point Whistler says, “Yes, thank you. Right, Your Majesty is like a stream of bat’s piss.” The court gasps. Questioned by the Prince, Whistler claims it was Wilde’s comment, which Wilde deftly deflects by claiming, “It sodding was not! It was Shaw!”
Put on the spot, George Bernard hums and haws a bit and then in a stroke of genius conjours up “I, um, I, ah, I merely meant, Your Majesty, that, ah, you shine out like a shaft of gold when all around is dark.”
Brilliant. Meanwhile, as you can read at http://www.phespirit.info/montypython/oscar_wilde.htm
Wilde goes on to in my opinion make a fool of himself, so of course the court loves it.
And that’s what’s wrong with Howard Stern, he has a loud potty mouth, but he’s just not that clever, is he, compared to Wilde and his merry bunch of pranksters?
Howard Sterno?? Prefer to use the little brown plastic bag after my dog while walking in the park. TG
If one were to take the obscenities, profanities, general junior high school level of sex “humor” away from Howard Stern, he has precisely 0 humor and 0 talent. BO-RING!
Why would I pay a monthly subscription fee for tasteless penis jokes (Stern) when I can get that kind of thing for free on the Net? And that’s assuming I want that kind of garbage in the first place.
ha maybe the next time they send a satellite up howard oughta sit on the nose cone . no hands howard just hang on reeeeeeeal tight with your sloppy sorry ass buttocks. write if you find work
i apologise for the above comment if i offended anybody but i couldn’t stop myself
I have to admit to Howard being a bit of a guilty pleasure. I liken it to a warm, spring breeze in your face. Granted, a profanity laced breeze, but a breeze none the less. You can put your mind in neutral, and let it flow over you. And when it is over, it is just – poof – gone. Hot air disipates.
It’s junk like Howard Stern’s stuff that would put me off satellite radio. That and the fact that there’s umpty zillion stations to listen to and I’m only going to tune in to may three or four. Too expensive for what you get, and then to have to listen to Howard Stern? I think I’d rather put a CD in the player if I was LD driving.
don’t knock satellite radio until you have heard Tammy Bruce. I agree with almost everything she says. She was a former U.S. Liberal and now has moved more to the center-right.
You can also get G. Gordon Liddy, Laura Ingraham, NRA radio, etc and a bunch of wacked out left-wingers! The left wingers are hilarious!
I got Sirius radio a year before Howard ever announced that he was going there and I have to say it is great!
If I ever got satellite radio, it most certainly not be for Stern. If I’m lucky (?) I get to see him on the boob tube around the same time as the realestate huxters, diet pill, exercise and viagra infomercials start to play all night. The curse of working a late shift, sighhhh.
Anyway, Stern is a one trick pony, a Jerry Springer of the late night with a potty mouth and girls with fuzzed out naughty bits.
If I was back in Canada doing a lot of driving I’d think seriously about it. I still remember driving through Northern Ontario and getting 15 minutes of a repeater station when you got close to some civilization. I’d also buy American if only to piss off the CRTC.
Yeah there’s a price problem! I can’t personally justify paying to hear the type of shock jock crap Stern pioneered….it’s bad enough when it’s free but paying for it puts one into an intellectual category generaly reserved for the lesser primates.
This is just the voice
of an ordinary Canadian
yelling back at the radio –
“You don’t speak for me.”
Absolutely . . . awesome. Good stuff. Thanks.
Somehow I have to think that the kind of people who like Howard Stern’s garbage are not the kind of people who have money for satelite radio subscriptions.
I would think they are mostley early teenaged boys who are still amused with big farts and big tits.
The real entertainment might be whatching the advancing psychotic behaviour of a shock jock in a downward spiral.
Perhaps the bizaar antics may bring his audience back, but only just in time to see him carried away in a well-deserved straight jacket.
In any case … this guy is definitely a castle built on sand.
Trent is exactly correct. I’ve had my Sirius radio for almost 2 years now and there’s far more to the programming than just “Howie”. Commercial free music and some excellent talk channels.
If you’re going to get a subscription I’d highly recommend the US version.
As for the cost, my quarterly payment (every 3 months) is less than I’d spend on a single Chinese take-out meal for the family.
Who cares?
Guys who like naked lesbians rubbing and licking each other and feigning sex with midgets.
The generation that never grew up.
I think that having more choice in the digital market would be good, the same argument from cable Tv, that not everyone wants to pay for what they can have “for nothing” (CBC, CTV, Global). Maybe the real reason I don’t have anything good to say regarding Sirius is that CBC is a partner / investor in this, and how can you tell without reading the financials? there are 10 Canadian channels, 1 is Radio Canada International, 2 of the 4 english channels are CBC, (“Radio One” and “Radio 3”) and the other 5 (50%) are french.
Of the 5 french channels, Premi�re Plus is Radio Canada-CBC, Infoplus is “Best of” Radio Canada-CBC and other international public radio including of course Radio France Internationale, and Bandeapart is Radio Canada-CBC. So of 10 Canadian channels, 5 are CBC, and the other includes some CBC, “Best of…”
that brings it to +50% CBC, “your tax dollars at work”
I’d be more interested in signing up for a choice of “home town” radio, where you may hear your local station when you are traveling… instead of only the “local CBC” shit.
http://www.cbc.radio-canada.ca/newsreleases/20051102.shtml