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From: ash50842@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Avumede)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dave_barry
Subject: Re: People Magazine Worst Books
Date: 27 Jan 93 05:14:14 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

cazuzek@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov (Zuzek, John E.) writes:

>In article <C16nMK.FLJ@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, ash50842@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Avumede) writes...
>>Pardon me if this was discussed over Winter Break, but I was flipping through
>>a People magazine (I don't subscribe I swear!  I was just bored!) and they
>>had a list of the Worst books of the year, and P.J. O Rourke was in there
>>with his book (I don't remember the name) and Dave Barry got a runner-up
>>spot with "Dave Barry Does Japan".
>> 
>>I couldn't believe it.  I can't vouch for P.J. O'Rouke's book, but Dave's book
>>.... well we all know how good it is.   

>Well, although Dave's book may not have been best (sorry if that's 
>blasphemy), it certainly was still very funny.  P.J.'s book "Give War A 
>Chance" was poignant and quite humorous.

Yes, but even Dave at his not-best is terrific.  Certainly not BAD at all.
In fact, I was under the impression that most people thought it was one
of his best, since the reviews on this group were all extremely positive...

But that's besides the point.  The point is that regardless of how it stands
on the Dave scale, on the Real scale it's a great book.

-Avumede
From: bh419@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ted B Samsel)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dave_barry
Subject: Iron Joe Bob
Date: 28 Jan 1993 12:43:24 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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Is Joe Bob Briggs the redneck Dave Barry????
-- 
Ted....
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From: dlphknob@cs1.bradley.edu (Jemaleddin Cole)
Subject: Re: I'm a loser...
Organization: Panty of the Month Club
Date: 22 Jan 93 19:34:16 GMT

In <TmcsXB1w165w@monsoon.com> sg@monsoon.com (Sunil Gupta) writes:

>Arrggh! This probably means that neither of my two nominees
>("Seasons in the Sun" and "Rubberband Man") won.

Could someone who has access to a paper or clarinet post for those of us
with no money or time when they find out?  Thanks......
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From: rescigno@cwis.unomaha.edu (Michael V. Rescigno)
Subject: Re: I'm a loser...
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:58:36 GMT

<EWN1@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
> In article <3187@tymix.Tymnet.COM>, filfeit@rael.Tymnet.COM (Fil Feit) says:
> >Anybody make a suggestion that he _didn't_ mention?  Meaning it might be
> >the worst song ever (according the the keeper of bad taste, Dave Barry,
> >in any event)?
> 
> Well, I nominated "I'm Your Boogie Man" (by KC and the Sunshine Band?
> I can't remember), and he didn't mention it in Sunday's column.
> Somehow I don't think it'll be a winner, though.
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   My vote goes to S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y Night by the infamous Bay City Rollers --
who were hailed, and I'm not making this up, as the second coming of the
Beatles.
From: sgupta@coral.cs.unm.edu (Sarang Gupta)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dave_barry
Subject: Re: People Magazine Worst Books
Date: 22 Jan 93 04:52:50 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, University of New Mexico

In article <1993Jan22.030644.12193@edsr.eds.com> hkelly@tantalum.eds.com (Kelly Shuldberg) writes:
>In article <C17vCJ.1J2@wrs.com> gak@wrs.com writes:
>>In article JJx@willamette.edu, bbrown@willamette.edu (Brian Brown) writes:
>>>
>>>I am not going to defend People magazine, but did you really think that
>>>_Dave Barry Does Japan_ was that good?
>
>Yes, I think it was his best effort so far.  It displayed a maturity that
>his earlier work doesn't have.  It wasn't all slapstick.  Rather, he tried
>to describe the differences between our cutures with humor, but also with
>grace.  I thought it was a great book!
First of all, let me say that I am one of Dave's BIGGEST FANS, so what 
follows applies ONLY to his Japan book...

I read this book a few days ago, and I didn't think it was up to his usual
standards either.  It certainly wasn't one of the WORST books of the year,
but it wasn't one of the BEST either.  For one thing, he uses the phrase
"I'm not making this up..." too many times.  In most of his columns, he uses
this once or twice, and then proceeds to followup on the fact he has 
introduced us to.  In this book, he just gives us the facts and expects us
to laugh... even people who have never been to Japan would know some of those
"I'm not making this up..." stuff, so its neither surprising nor funny.  I
think he really did try to write a semiserious book (for example, the 
chapter on Hiroshima which has only 1/2 of a joke in it), but its one of those
deals where if you try to do two things at once, you might not end up getting
either of them done.... I don't think it was informative enough to be a
guide to Japan, nor was it funny enough to be a laugh-out-loud comedy.  This
book gave me about 2 or fewer laughs per page... All of his other books
generally average closer to 15-20... (and his columns even more). Sorry, Dave,
this isn't one of your best works....

Sarang Gupta

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From: leej@sgi.com (Lee Jones)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dave_barry
Subject: Re: Bad Songs
Date: 25 Jan 93 21:09:21 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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In article <1k0oelINNro0@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> bh419@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ted B Samsel) writes:
>
>MACARTHUR PARK won.... I KNEW it was BAAAAD!
>I've know for years

OK, I have to announce this here.  I *voted* for MacArthur Park, sending
in the official postcard to his Research Department, Judy Smith.
Along with it, I included the following (not made up) story:

In my senior year of high school ('75), I was in the school jazz band.  We
were playing the final concert of the year.  The last song was
an instrumental version of, yes, MacArthur Park.  As we got to the grand
finale, we played the 

    BOM! BOM! BOM! 

and the conductor raised his baton for the final crashing chord.  Before
he could bring it down, senior trombonist George Roth, sitting in the 
front row, STOOD UP, slapped his forehead, and shouted "Oh Jesus - the CAKE!"
George went onto Princeton and greatness.


Sadly, DB chose not to mention me as an alert voter, probably the closest
I'll ever get.  

Regards, Lee
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From: cazuzek@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov (Zuzek, John E.)
Subject: Re: People Magazine Worst Books
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Date: 25 Jan 1993 10:21 EST  

In article <C16nMK.FLJ@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, ash50842@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Avumede) writes...
>Pardon me if this was discussed over Winter Break, but I was flipping through
>a People magazine (I don't subscribe I swear!  I was just bored!) and they
>had a list of the Worst books of the year, and P.J. O Rourke was in there
>with his book (I don't remember the name) and Dave Barry got a runner-up
>spot with "Dave Barry Does Japan".
> 
>I couldn't believe it.  I can't vouch for P.J. O'Rouke's book, but Dave's book
>.... well we all know how good it is.   

Well, although Dave's book may not have been best (sorry if that's 
blasphemy), it certainly was still very funny.  P.J.'s book "Give War A 
Chance" was poignant and quite humorous.

>It certainly is probably one of the 
>BEST books of the year (at least in the humor field).   Who makes that list?

Why, idiots, of course!  ;-)

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From: hkelly@tantalum.eds.com (Kelly Shuldberg)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dave_barry
Subject: Re: People Magazine Worst Books
Date: 22 Jan 93 03:06:44 GMT
Organization: EDS Research, Albuquerque, NM

In article <C17vCJ.1J2@wrs.com> gak@wrs.com writes:
>In article JJx@willamette.edu, bbrown@willamette.edu (Brian Brown) writes:
>>
>>I am not going to defend People magazine, but did you really think that
>>_Dave Barry Does Japan_ was that good?

Yes, I think it was his best effort so far.  It displayed a maturity that
his earlier work doesn't have.  It wasn't all slapstick.  Rather, he tried
to describe the differences between our cutures with humor, but also with
grace.  I thought it was a great book!  As for People Magazine, the only
time I give it my attention is when I'm having my truck lubed at JiffyLube,
and I have to waith ten minutes in their waiting room.  That's usually
plenty enough time to catch up on all the Peoples since my prior visit.


h. kelly shuldberg
hkelly@edsr.eds.com
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From: lindbe894@snake.cs.uidaho.edu (Kristina Lindberg)
Subject: Re: People Magazine Worst Books
Organization: University Of Idaho.
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 02:20:15 GMT

I've read other Dave Barry books I like better (Dave Barry 
Turns 40, Dave Barry's Bad Habits, Dave Barry's Greatest Hits)
but I liked Dave Barry Does Japan.  Sure, it wasn't as funny
as some of his other books, and I really hope he does
another book containing his best articles, but it was funny
and actually kind of thoughtful.
From: dap@portal.vpharm.com (David A. Pearlman)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dave_barry
Subject: Re: Bad Songs
Date: 27 Jan 93 15:59:29 GMT
Organization: Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.


In article <1993Jan26.071043.17781@clarinet.com> brad@clarinet.com 
(Brad Templeton) writes:
>But you don't understand.  According to what I have heard, McArthur Park
>was the result of an attempt to see how insipidly stupid a song could be
>made into a hit if it had famous people behind it and a good tune.
>
>They were successful, but such should be disqualified for a worst song of
>all time contest, which should pick as a winner a song that was stupid
>but which the artists involved actually meant seriously.
>-- 


McArthur Park is the worst song of all time??? Get real...Lyrically it's
no Seventh Wonder (for years, I wondered if Jimmy Webb--author of the 
song--had meant anything by these seemingly obtuse lyrics; I then read
an interview where he claimed that, no, there was no real meaning). But
the lyrics are certainly no worse than those in any of dozens of
well known songs (Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" anyone? Or seemingly
any early REM song; I say seemingly since you can only guess at what
Michael Stipe is singing in those songs anyway). And from a poetic
standpoint, they're more than a little better than those in gazillions
of novelty songs over the years (Pa pa ooh mow mow?) 

Musically, it's something of a MOR tour-de-force. It's a pretty, and pretty
complex, pop piece, with a number of good themes. 

I suppose the drama of the music (and Richard Harris' impassioned
vocals on the original hit) imparts an importance to the lyrics that
is not rewarded by analysis. But does this make for the worst song of
all time? Sheesh...

I thought about replying to Dave's call for bad song nominations. But
I figured it would just be another rehash of the old and tired obvious
suspects. And from what I've seen (though I haven't read Dave's articles
about this), it was. Oh well...

dap



-- 
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Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc.                     email: dap@vpharm.com
From: sg@monsoon.com (Sunil Gupta)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dave_barry
Subject: Re: I'm a loser...
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 10:52:52 EST
Organization: Monsoon Software, Inc. +1 (410) 235-2365

brad@clarinet.com (Brad Templeton) writes:

> I must say I am a bit disappointed by the winner for worst song.  You'll
> find out in 2 days, but suffice to say this is a song that was deliberately
> written to be a bad song, and as such I think Dave should have disqualified
> it, even if it got the most votes.

Arrggh! This probably means that neither of my two nominees
("Seasons in the Sun" and "Rubberband Man") won.

Sunil Gupta
Monsoon Software, Inc.
sg@monsoon.com
From: sshankar@td2cad.intel.com (Sadasivan Shankar)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dave_barry
Subject: Re: People Magazine Worst Books
Date: 28 Jan 93 18:36:28 GMT
Reply-To: sshankar@td2cad.intel.com (Sadasivan Shankar)
Organization: Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA USA


His father's demise is very gracefully dealt with by Mr. Barry in his book, "Dave Barry's
Greatest Hits".  This was one of the columns that earned him the pulitzer price.

S.Shankar
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From: wallsj@CS.ColoState.EDU (jeffrey joel walls)
Subject: Re: Dave on NPR
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 03:33:36 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Colorado State University, Computer Science Department

In article <14312@pogo.wv.tek.com> sueba@pogo.wv.tek.com writes:
>Yes, I was somewhat disappointed because there was very little new
>material.  It's like he had practiced the best lines and used them 
>again.  Perhaps I am expecting him to be like a standup or something?

Y'all need to give Dave a break!  If you've ever seen the same standup
on two different shows, you'll notice that they do a LOT of the same
material (usually if the shows are performed within a short timespan).
Dave (excuse, me...MR. BARRY) is a professional writer and is very
good at what he does.  You should not expect him to be what he is 
not.

Jeff (someone's got to stand up for him)

PS  This is not a flame...just an opinion.

--
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From: frisch1@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan Katz)
Subject: Re: People Magazine Worst Books
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 03:39:44 GMT

I agree that Dave's Japan book was not up to par.  
I did not appreciate the chapter on Hiroshima, and can't for the life of me
figure out why he put that in.
Also (and does anyone want to back me up on this) I noticed a lot more
'juvenile'-type
humor, like using the words 'booger' and 'fart' too often too get a laugh.
Any comments?
-Jonathan Katz
From: bh419@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ted B Samsel)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dave_barry
Subject: Re: People Magazine Worst Books
Date: 25 Jan 1993 13:01:03 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


Books are READ. Nobody READS PEOPLE. They absorb it via osmosis.
-- 
Ted....
From: bh419@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ted B Samsel)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dave_barry
Subject: Re: Bad Songs
Date: 25 Jan 1993 13:03:17 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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MACARTHUR PARK won.... I KNEW it was BAAAAD!
I've know for years
-- 
Ted....
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From: brad@clarinet.com (Brad Templeton)
Subject: Re: I'm a loser...
Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp.
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 22:17:15 GMT

I must say I am a bit disappointed by the winner for worst song.  You'll
find out in 2 days, but suffice to say this is a song that was deliberately
written to be a bad song, and as such I think Dave should have disqualified
it, even if it got the most votes.
-- 
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Sunnyvale, CA 408/296-0366
From: janiceg@marvin.Eng.Sun.COM (Janice Gelb)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dave_barry
Subject: Dave on NPR
Date: 27 Jan 93 18:01:31 GMT
Reply-To: janiceg@marvin.Eng.Sun.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin

Hope everyone caught Dave on "All Things Considered" last night, reviewing 
his bad song list. He didn't say much more than what was already in the 
column, but they did play excerpts from the winners, plus the verses 
from other songs that he quoted in the article: "Honey" and "Sugar Sugar" 
among others. After an excerpt from "Seasons in the Sun," he said that 
if you weren't already contemplating suicide, that song would probably 
induce you to do so. 

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From: melissa@radio.wkar.msu.edu (Melissa Ingells)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dave_barry
Subject: re: tour anecdote
Date: 26 Jan 93 18:57:12 GMT
Organization: Broadcasting Services, Michigan State University
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OKAY, so I was really lucky to have some of my bookseller friends smuggle me 
into one of their events at which Dave Barry spoke.  This was last winter 
some time when he was on the book tour for the book prior to the Japan book, 
and the name of which I have forgotten at this time...Anyway, we were lucky 
to be favored with the following anecdote, which Dave prefaced with the 
famous "I am not making this up."

Dave was on a press buss covering George Bush's campaign in 1988, and the 
press was informed that there would be an impromptu stop ("Unplanned 
impromptu campaign stop in 20 minutes...." over the P.A.)...anyway, George 
and the press got out at a construction site, and for a photo 
opportunity George proceeded to don a hard hat and get behind the controls 
of a piece of equipment known to insiders in the road business as a 
"vibrating pecker"--that is, a large vibrating thing like a giant drill bit 
that smacks up and down and breaks concrete apart.  The actual operator was 
on the machine with him, assumably to keep him from doing any damage, but 
suddenly George started grabbing controls and the machine started smacking 
up and down, shaking the ground, raising an enormous amount of dust, and 
sending the accompanying reporters diving for cover.  Finally the operator 
got the pecker turned off, and, and as George dismounted, he put his arm 
around the shoulders of the shaken operator and said, (Barry says he is NOT 
making this up) "This man taught me everything I know about vibrators."

This is probably in a book somewhere, but I wanted to pass it along if it 
was not...

barry  on,  dude!    msi
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 07:58:00 EST
From: <EWN1@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dave_barry
Subject: Re: I'm a loser...

In article <3187@tymix.Tymnet.COM>, filfeit@rael.Tymnet.COM (Fil Feit) says:
>Anybody make a suggestion that he _didn't_ mention?  Meaning it might be
>the worst song ever (according the the keeper of bad taste, Dave Barry,
>in any event)?

Well, I nominated "I'm Your Boogie Man" (by KC and the Sunshine Band?
I can't remember), and he didn't mention it in Sunday's column.
Somehow I don't think it'll be a winner, though.
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From: sueba@pogo.wv.tek.com (Sue Bartlett)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dave_barry
Subject: Re: Dave on NPR
Date: 27 Jan 93 22:08:25 GMT
Reply-To: sueba@pogo.wv.tek.com
Distribution: usa
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Wilsonville,  OR.

In article <lmdjfrINNktv@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM> janiceg@marvin.Eng.Sun.COM writes:
>Hope everyone caught Dave on "All Things Considered" last night, reviewing 
>his bad song list. He didn't say much more than what was already in the 
>column, but they did play excerpts from the winners, plus the verses 
>from other songs that he quoted in the article: "Honey" and "Sugar Sugar" 
>among others. After an excerpt from "Seasons in the Sun," he said that 
>if you weren't already contemplating suicide, that song would probably 
>induce you to do so. 

Yes, I was somewhat disappointed because there was very little new
material.  It's like he had practiced the best lines and used them 
again.  Perhaps I am expecting him to be like a standup or something?
-- 
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From: dan@cafws2.eng.uci.edu (Dan Harkless)
Subject: Re: Bad Songs
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dave_barry
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 26 Jan 93 22:05:52 GMT

In article <1993Jan26.164748.18368@netcom.com> jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer) writes:
>
>So it's a sort of musical version of "Naked Came an Ape," huh? Now I 
>understand! Thanks for finally revealing one of the great mysteries of
>music (10 to 1, though, that musicologists 100 years from now will 
>still be debating about what McArthur Park means).

	Hmm?  What's "Naked Came an Ape"?  I realize what type of thing it
must be by allusion to McArthur Park, but what is it, a fake text on evolution
or something?

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From: ben_wen@athena.mit.edu (Benson Wen)
Subject: Re: People Magazine Worst Books
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 21:27:44 GMT

In article <C17sCo.JJx@willamette.edu> bbrown@willamette.edu (Brian Brown) writes:

   In article <Do you really care which?> ash50842@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Avumede)
   writes:
   >Pardon me if this was discussed over Winter Break, but I was flipping through
   >a People magazine (I don't subscribe I swear!  I was just bored!) and they
   >had a list of the Worst books of the year, and P.J. O Rourke was in there
   >with his book (I don't remember the name) and Dave Barry got a runner-up
   >spot with "Dave Barry Does Japan".
   >
   >I couldn't believe it.  I can't vouch for P.J. O'Rouke's book, but Dave's book
   >... well we all know how good it is.   It certainly is probably one of the 
   >BEST books of the year (at least in the humor field).

   I am not going to defend People magazine, but did you really think that
   _Dave Barry Does Japan_ was that good?  I was very dissapointed in it
   myself -- it was simply not up to Dave's standards, I felt.  I only
   laughed at a few things in it, and the whole book had a rather depressing
   feeling to it, like Dave didn't really want to write about Japan, but
   Random House had already paid him to do it.

   I love Dave's writing, but I just don't think that Dave should have done
   Japan.



Huh.  I agree.  By far, DBDJ is the WORST book that he's turned out.
It was okay, but he got away from where he's the best and tried to say
something dorky.  You can tell he really didn't feel like writing the
book.  It's not that well organized and he spews.  Well, he got his
free trip and probably some royalty stuff (with my few cents in there)

I guess it's like musicians.  They're good and sensitive when their blue
and unfamous, but when they hit it big, they get all lazy and dorky.

Dork dork dork.  Al Gore, Dave Barry...separated at birth?

-Ben
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