Grande ZE!!







Depois dos êxitos no teatro, na televisão e na rádio, a Conversa da Treta, dos tipicamente portugueses Zezé ( José Pedro Gomes) e Toni (António Feio), vai agora estrear-se no cinema.

(dn.pt)
"A rodagem de Conversa da Treta - o Filme - assim se vai chamar a versão cinematográfica produzida por Leonel Vieira (Stopline Films), realizada por José Sacramento e com argumento de Filipe Homem Fonseca e Eduardo Madeira -, começam já na próxima segunda-feira, em Lisboa. Espera-se que estejam concluídas em quatro semanas de trabalho intensivo, sempre na área metropolitana da capital.

Quanto à estreia nas salas de cinema portuguesas, deverá acontecer no dia 12 de Outubro. Em todo o caso, como o próprio produtor alertou ontem em conferência de imprensa, poderá haver "necessidade de alterar a data", que não deve, no entanto, exceder a primeira quinzena desse mês.

A longa-metragem baseada na peça de teatro, cuja ideia nasceu de um encontro entre o produtor Leonel Vieira e os actores António Feio e José Pedro Gomes, nos camarins do Coliseu dos Recreios, manterá a estrutura original "da conversa da treta própria do 'tuga' que há em cada um de nós", disse António Feio, mas num formato completamente diferente e com outra dimensão.

O argumento da comédia que gira em torno do retiro espiritual de Zezé na Ordem dos Caracolários Descalços, a partir do qual surgem um sem fim de aventuras e peripécias, vai também, pela primeira vez, dar a conhecer ao público português a família e os amigos destes dois velhos amigos.

Ao longo de episódios hilariantes, como A descoberta do caminho marítimo para Espanha montado num burro ou Toni no papel de Jim Morrison, António Feio e José Pedro Gomes irão contracenar, entre outros, com José Raposo (Bifinhos), Marco Horácio (Zé Cágado), Maria Rueff (mulher do Zezé), Ana Bola (Noquinhas) e Bruno Nogueira (Vendedor).

O projecto, em grande parte financiado pela própria Stopline Films, contou com o apoio da LNK, que será a responsável pela distribuição da película e também da versão em DVD de Conversa da Treta- o Filme.

Para o produtor, que "não conhece outros ícones da comédia popular desde há 50 anos" a não ser o Zezé e o Toni, a única pretensão é "fazer humor para os portugueses" e, claro, "ter salas cheias"."

Death linked to spinach?

September 19, 2006

Health authorities in Ohio are investigating a death that may be linked to the nationwide outbreak of bacterial illnesses caused by contaminated spinach harvested in California's coastal valley, top Food and Drug Administration officials said yesterday.

Federal public health authorities cannot confirm the Ohio case as having a definite association with the outbreak of E.coli O157:H7 illnesses until the state laboratory has completed its examination of the patient's specimens. Ohio authorities then must report the information to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In the same vein, state microbiologists in Albany are studying five more potential cases in New York, which could push the state's total to 12 cases if those under study are confirmed, state health department spokesman Jeffrey Hammond said yesterday. All confirmed and suspect cases, he said, are in upstate counties.

Dr. David Acheson, medical director of the FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, said what has seemed an escalating outbreak could soon reach its peak. However, as of yesterday, he reported six additional confirmed cases, bringing the national total to 114 in 21 states since Sunday. Among those affected, 75 percent are women. All victims range between 18 and 60 years of age, he said.

New York City's former health commissioner, Dr. Pascal James Imperato, said there is no reason to believe that women are more vulnerable to E. coli infection than men.

"We have fairly good documentation that the gender distribution is equal," said Imperato, a professor of preventive medicine at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn.

"Why the difference in these cases is perplexing. It may be an artifact of reporting or it could simply be that women have had more exposure," to tainted spinach, he said.

Acheson, meanwhile, said the government's recommendation against consumption of fresh spinach remains until further notice.

He added that neither federal investigators nor public health officials in California have pinpointed the source of the E. coli, which contaminated countless spinach plants.

"The most likely source of initial contamination is on the farm," Acheson said. "We believe the farm is the initiating event and the key element is to try to figure out what went wrong on the farm."

Two produce companies have announced voluntary recalls of their products in the widening probe of farms in the California's Salinas Valley. Natural Selection Foods in San Juan Bautista and River Ranch Fresh Foods in Salinas have explained the scope of their recalls on their Web sites.

Kim St. George of River Ranch yesterday said the company's recall centers on its salad mixes that may contain spinach. The company buys bulk spring mix from Natural Selection, which may contain spinach.

About 75 percent of the nation's spinach crop is produced in the Salinas Valley, but Acheson said there is not enough evidence at this point to implicate a single farm or a specific practice that would have caused countless spinach plants to become contaminated.

The Salinas Valley has been the site of an ongoing investigation of its lettuce crops, following E. coli contaminations dating back to the mid-1990s.

I went to see "The queen"

A very friendly picture of a selfmade queen...

Ostias!

I think it's a genius' idea: Incorporating all beautiful londoners in the museum's permanent collection! Darwin would be proud!

"London Fashion Week

London Fashion Week this September is destined to be a week of fantastic fashion and unadulterated glamour at the Natural History Museum

In February London played host to over fifty trend setting designers on the catwalk, and many more at the Fashion Week exhibition. Those talents were housed at the specially constructed tents at the Natural History Museum and at other inspiring venues across London..."
londonfashioweek.co.uk

Because it has everything to do with. When arriving to the college I met one of the building cleaners, a spanish, or better, a galician. 'mira, estas com sono?', I replied 'Ye, um pouquito'; 'Passaste a noite nas putas?ahahah' 'eheh, sim sim fui as gatas'; saying good bye: 'tengo para cima de 62 anos, ha tempo para tudo. Olha para aqueles que dizem que aos 62 deves fazer o mesmo que aos 20, eu digo: OSTIAS!'

Eu garrincha me confesso

Como nao queriam ganhar a copa de 62 se Elza estava lá, encantando e drogando. Soares fez suas garras penetrar no coração de muita gente, mas no sangue, o veneno mistura de tesão e samba, só entrou no de Garrincha.

A ti mulata bela! Sirigaita de bunda fogosa.

"Samba sem mulata não é samba nao senhor,
e samba triste, samba só feito pra doutor,
sem a morenesa da mulata rebolando
a gente vai aos poucos até desanimando,
mulata é só quem tem aquela graça natural,
e quem nasceu pró rebolado,
pois a côr dessa figura,
quem pintou foi mãe natura,
pra deixar o branco todo assanhado
num concurso de beleza
a mulata dá cotovelada
porque sempre tá sobrando polegada
"(As polegadas da mulata)

Bin Laden 'fantasised over' Whitney Houston

RACHEL WILLIAMS IN NEW YORK

OSAMA bin Laden, the al-Qaeda leader, was obsessed with the singer Whitney Houston and wanted to marry her, a new book claims.

Kola Boof, a Sudanese poet and novelist, who says she was kept against her will as the terrorism mastermind's mistress in 1996, writes in her autobiography that he wanted to give the star a mansion and make her one of his wives.

"He told me that Whitney Houston was the most beautiful woman he'd ever seen," Boof claims in Diary of a Lost Girl, excerpts of which are published in Harper's magazine.

But bin Laden had less respect for Houston's husband Bobby Brown, apparently talking about the possibility of having him killed.

"He said that he had a paramount desire for Whitney Houston and although he claimed music was evil, he spoke of some day spending vast amounts of money to go to America and try to arrange a meeting with the superstar," Boof writes.

"He said he wanted to give Whitney Houston a mansion that he owned in a suburb of Khartoum.

"He explained to me that to possess Whitney, he would be willing to break his colour rule and make her one of his wives."

Bin Laden would speak constantly about "how beautiful she [Houston] is, what a nice smile she has, how truly Islamic she is but is just brainwashed by American culture and by her husband - Bobby Brown, whom Osama talked about having killed, as if it were normal to have women's husbands killed."

Boof, who also says the al- Qaeda leader would "ramble on" about his favourite TV shows, The Wonder Years, Miami Vice and MacGyver, adds: "In his briefcase, I would come across photographs of the star, as well as copies of Playboy ... It would soon come to the point where I was sick of hearing Whitney Houston's name."

Bin Laden was first married in 1974, at the age of 17, to Najwa Ghanem, his mother's niece.

Although bin Laden has reportedly married four other women, he divorced one, Umm Ali bin Laden, a university lecturer, who studied in Saudi Arabia, and spent holidays in Khartoum, Sudan, where Osama later settled during his exile in the years 1991 to 1996.

The three latter wives of bin Laden were all university lecturers.

The al-Qaeda leader has fathered at least 24 children. His wife Najwa reportedly has 11 children by him.

Scientology is a body of teachings and related techniques developed by American author L. Ron Hubbard over some thirty years beginning in 1952 as a self-help philosophy, an outgrowth of his earlier self-help system, Dianetics. It claims to offer an exact methodology to help humans achieve awareness of their spiritual existence across many lifetimes and, simultaneously, to become more effective in the physical world. The name "Scientology" is also used to refer to the controversial Church of Scientology, the largest organization promoting the practice of Scientology, which is itself part of a network of affiliated corporations that claim ownership and sole authority to disseminate Dianetics and Scientology.

A stated goal of Scientology is to "rehabilitate" the thetan (roughly equivalent to the soul) to regain its native state of "total freedom." Church spokesmen and practitioners attest that Hubbard's teachings (called "Technology" or "Tech" in Scientology terminology) have saved them from a plethora of problems and enabled them to better realize their highest potential in business and their personal lives.^[1][2] However, outside observers—including journalists, lawmakers, and national governing bodies of several countries—have reached conclusions about Scientology that are sharply at odds with the Church's self-representations. These include allegations that the church is an unscrupulous commercial enterprise that harasses its critics and brutally exploits its members.^[3] .^[4]

Although some scholars accept Scientology as a bona fide religion,^{[5] [6]} it has also been characterized as a pseudoreligion or a cult.^[7]

Contents

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• 1 Beliefs and practices
  • 1.1 Auditing
  • 1.2 ARC triangle
  • 1.3 Tone scale
  • 1.4 Past lives
  • 1.5 The Upper Levels of Scientology
    • 1.5.1 Xenu and Body Thetans
  • 1.6 Silent birth and infant care
• 2 Origins
  • 2.1 Meaning of the word 'Scientology'
• 3 Membership
  • 3.1 The Church of Scientology
  • 3.2 Independent Scientology groups
  • 3.3 Scientology and celebrities
• 4 Controversy and criticism
  • 4.1 Scientology and other religions
  • 4.2 Scientology as a state-recognised religion
  • 4.3 Scientology as a cult
  • 4.4 Scientology as a commercial venture
  • 4.5 Scientology and psychiatry
  • 4.6 Scientology versus the Internet
  • 4.7 Scientific criticism of Scientology's beliefs
• 5 See also
• 6 General References
• 7 Notes
• 8 External links

Poll: Many Americans Feel Less Safe

Five Years After 9/11, Many Feel Terror Threat Has Grown

NEW YORK, Sept. 6, 2006

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(CBS/AP) Fast Fact By a four-to-one margin (48 percent to 12 percent), Americans think the war in Iraq has made the threat of terrorism against the United States worse rather than better.

(CBS) Do Americans feel safer now than before 9/11? For many, the answer is no, according to a CBS News/New York Times poll.

Fifty-four percent of Americans say they generally feel safe, but 46 percent say they feel somewhat uneasy or in danger.

Compared with five years ago, 39 percent of Americans say they feel less safe now, compared with only 14 percent who say they feel safer. Forty-six percent say they feel the same.

More also say the threat of terrorism has grown since 9/11 than said so a year ago. Forty-one percent say the threat has increased since the attacks, an 11 percent jump from last year. Just 14 percent say the threat has decreased, while 43 percent say the threat has not changed.

How safe do you feel compared to five years ago?




More Safe
14%
Less Safe
39%
Same
46%

Also, by a four-to-one margin (48 percent to 12 percent), Americans think the war in Iraq has made the threat of terrorism against the United States worse rather than better.

Five years after 9/11, most Americans say life has returned to the way it was before the attacks, at least in part. However, some behavior has changed: One in four Americans say they are less likely to fly now, and one in five are less likely to attend large events with thousands of people.

Has life in America returned to what it was before the 9/11 attacks?

Mostly Returned
28%
Somewhat Returned
48%
Has Not Returned
23%

Nearly one in four people say they still feel nervous and edgy. Women are more likely than men to say their behavior has been affected.

Both the war in Iraq and the war in Afghanistan are viewed as having created breeding grounds for terrorists. Fifty-four percent say the wars have created more terrorists, while just 15 percent say they've eliminated terrorists.

There's also increased pessimism about the overall war on terrorism, with 21 percent — the highest number ever — saying the terrorists are winning. Thirty-six percent say the United States is winning and 38 percent say neither side is winning.

Fewer than half of Americans are confident the United States will capture Osama bin Laden, the man believed responsible for the 9/11 attacks.

Still, a majority of Americans, 55 percent, say they approve of how President Bush is handling the war on terror — his highest rating in more than a year, but a sharp decrease from December 2001, when 90 percent approved.

About half of those polled say Bush administration policies have made America safer, but one in four say they've made the United States less safe. A similar number say they've had no effect.

One explanation for that skepticism may be that nearly half of Americans don’t think terrorism is a problem a president can do much about.

Americans are split on how prepared the United States is to deal with another terrorist attack: 49 percent think the country is prepared, 43 percent think it is not. Americans are especially worried about a potential biological or chemical attack — 73 percent say the United States is not prepared for that.

The number of Americans who say another attack on the United States is likely has dropped to 59 percent, down from a high of 78 percent in the weeks after 9/11. People in the Northeast, where the attacks on the World Trade Center occurred, are the most concerned that their area will be targeted, while those in the Midwest are the least concerned.

Nearly six in 10 say the government has not done all it could to make the country safe from future attacks.

For detailed information on how CBS News conducts public opinion surveys, click here.

FBI following 'best lead' in Hoffa search

Teamsters boss last seen July 1975 at a Michigan restaurant

Friday, May 19, 2006; Posted: 3:01 a.m. EDT (07:01 GMT)

(CNN) -- The FBI is using everything it has to find the remains of Jimmy Hoffa after agents received what they say is "a fairly credible lead" on the former Teamsters boss' 1975 disappearance.

The arsenal includes forensic experts from the bureau's Washington laboratory and a team of scientists that includes anthropologists, archaeologists, engineers and architects who will accompany local police and cadaver dogs for the next two weeks.

The architects and engineers are needed because authorities may need to remove a 30-foot-by-100-foot horse barn during their search, said Daniel D. Roberts, special agent in charge of the FBI's field office in Detroit, Michigan. (Watch what authorities are willing to say about probe -- 3:00)

Authorities converged Wednesday on an 80-acre horse farm after receiving and confirming a tip that the former union boss may have been buried in Milford Township, about 30 miles west of Detroit.

"There have been a number of leads out in this area that have been covered previously in the last 30 years," said Roberts, who has held his post for the last two years. "This is the best lead I've seen come across in the Hoffa investigation."

As for further details, Roberts said the affidavit was sealed, and "unfortunately, I'm not going to be able to give you the answers that you want."

He added that the FBI would not hold another briefing for reporters until agents found something significant. He estimated that agents would be on the property for about two weeks.

The property owners, who have been cooperative, did not own the property when Hoffa disappeared, Roberts said.

The tip

An informant reported seeing a backhoe and other "suspicious activity" around the farm on the night Hoffa disappeared in 1975, a law enforcement official said Thursday.

That tip triggered Wednesday's search for Hoffa's remains at the farm.

The tipster said the backhoe was operating near a barn that organized crime members used for meetings, a law enforcement official familiar with the search said.

The informant said that the night after Hoffa disappeared, the mobsters never went back to that area of the farm, according to the official.

Police had received the information several years ago, but verified it only recently, said the official, who asked for anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.

"This is probably a fairly credible lead," Roberts told reporters Thursday.

The hunt

Aerial footage from the scene on Wednesday showed at least 15 people outside a barn, most of whom were digging a rectangular hole. (Watch the mystery of Hoffa's disappearance -- 2:04)

FBI agents were back at the site Thursday, and investigators were seen pushing metal rods into a field, creating a grid and marking areas where the rods might have struck something underneath the soil.

John and Deb Koskovich have lived on a neighboring property since 1985. When they saw the men digging next door Wednesday, John Koskovich asked them what they were doing. "They just said they were executing a search warrant," Deb Koskovich said.

John Koskovich said there have been reports over the years that Hoffa may be buried in the area, but "we just thought it was just another one of those crazy rumors."

Who did he meet at the Red Fox?

Hoffa was last seen at Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Township. He was reportedly there to meet Detroit mob street enforcer Anthony Giacalone and New Jersey Teamsters official Anthony Provenzano. (Who is Jimmy Hoffa?)

Hoffa believed Giacalone had set up the meeting to help settle a feud between Hoffa and Provenzano, but Hoffa was the only one who showed up for the meeting, according to the FBI.

Giacalone and Provenzano later told the FBI that no meeting had been scheduled.

The FBI said Hoffa's disappearance could have been linked to the union boss' efforts to regain power in the Teamsters after he was released from prison.

After serving time for jury tampering and fraud at a federal penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, Hoffa was pardoned by President Richard Nixon on December 23, 1971.

Nixon included in the pardon a condition that Hoffa "not engage in direct or indirect management of any labor organization" until at least March 1980.

Hoffa was 62 at the time of his disappearance.

In September 2001, the FBI found DNA that linked Hoffa to a car that agents suspected was used in his disappearance, but they couldn't prove it.

In May 2004, authorities in Oakland County, Michigan, removed floorboards from a Detroit home and found blood that they thought might be linked to Hoffa's disappearance. Milford Township is in Oakland County.

Authorities went to the Detroit home in 2004 after a biography of former Teamsters official Frank Sheehan stated that Sheehan shot Hoffa in the home, just beyond the front door.

Investigators ruled blood found in the house was not Hoffa's. The FBI has a sample of his DNA.

Sheehan, who was considered a confidant of Hoffa's, died in December 2003. Provenzano died in 1988 after being convicted in another murder case and Giacalone died of kidney failure in 2002 at age 82.

Hoffa's son, James P. Hoffa, is the current president of the Teamsters.

Still...

8

Phil Lynott

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Phil Lynott performing on stage

Philip Parris Lynott (20 August 1949 – 4 January 1986) was an Irish singer, instrumentalist and songwriter, who first came to prominence as a member of Thin Lizzy.

Lynott was born in Hallam Hospital (now Sandwell General Hospital) in West Bromwich (then in Staffordshire), England, the son of a Brazilian father, Cecil Parris, and an Irish Catholic mother, Philomena (aka Phyllis) Lynott, whose surname he took. His father left his mother just three weeks after he was born and returned to his native Brazil[1] Philip was brought up in Crumlin, Dublin by his grandmother, Sarah. His parents reportedly kept in touch for a number of years after his birth, but Philip did not meet his father until the late 1970s.

In the mid-1960s, Lynott began singing in his first band, the Black Eagles. It was around this time that he befriended Brian Downey. He formed Thin Lizzy around 1969 in Dublin after a short stint in Brush Shiels' Skid Row with Gary Moore. Lynott was the main songwriter for Thin Lizzy, as well as the lead singer and bassist. Lynott was half black, and was inspired by Jimi Hendrix as an example of how a black man could be successful fronting a hard rock band. Their first top ten hit was in 1973 with the traditional Irish song "Whiskey In The Jar".

In 1978, he was featured in Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds, singing and speaking the role of The Parson. In 1979 he recorded a Christmas single, "A Merry Jingle", featuring other members of Thin Lizzy as well as Steve Jones and Paul Cook of the Sex Pistols.

Though Thin Lizzy were still enjoying considerable success, in 1980 Phil Lynott launched a solo career with the album Solo in Soho, which was a Top 30 UK album and yielded two hit singles that year, "Dear Miss Lonelyhearts" and "King's Call". The latter was a tribute to Elvis Presley, and featured Mark Knopfler on guitar. His second solo venture, The Phil Lynott Album was a chart flop, despite the presence of the single "Old Town", which became a hit many years later for the Corrs. The song "Yellow Pearl" (1982), was a Top 20 hit and became the theme tune to Top of the Pops.

Also in 1980 he married Caroline Crowther, with whom he already had a child, Sarah. She later gave birth to their second daughter, Cathleen. Caroline is the daughter of British comedian Leslie Crowther.

In 1983 Thin Lizzy disbanded, and later that year he recorded a rock'n'roll medley single, "We Are The Boys (Who Make All The Noise)" with Roy Wood, Chas Hodges and John Coghlan, and collaborated with former bandmate blues,/ rock guitarist Gary Moore on "Out in the Fields" (a No. 5 UK hit in 1985, his highest-charting single ever) and "Parisienne Walkways" (a UK no. 8 hit). His last single, "Nineteen", released a few weeks before his death, was produced by Paul Hardcastle. It bore no relation to the producer's chart-topping single some months earlier.

Philip also loved football - Manchester United specifically - and was very proud to have been a shareholder at the club at a time when it was in private hands.

The statue in Dublin

Lynott's last years were dogged by drug and alcohol dependency, and the night of December 25, 1985, he had a health breakdown caused by a heroin overdose, collapsed and was sent to Salisbury Infirmary, where he died of complete system failure on January 4, 1986 at the age of 36.

A life-size bronze statue of Lynott was unveiled on Harry Street, off Grafton Street, Dublin in 2005. The ceremony was attended by former band members Gary Moore, Brian Robertson, Brian Downey and Scott Gorham, and by Lynott's mother. Thin Lizzy played together live. His grave in St. Fintan's cemetery in Sutton is regularly visited by family, friends and fans.

In November 2005, American actor Gary Dourdan revealed in a radio interview that he has carried out preliminary work with a view to playing Phil Lynott in a possible film biography.

Pirates
Ao que parece o filme porno mais caro da indústria.
Dinheiro bem gasto???
Depois de o visionar tecerei a minha opinião.

Along the years I've met the famous and peculiar British insularity, what someone might call ignorance, but I keep being overwhelmed by their slow thinking...or have they been learning with G.W.(Am)Bush

(independent.co.uk)

Félix "The Irish Cook"

Things we should Know

"www.avnawards.com
About the AVN Awards Show

The 24th Annual AVN Awards Show is back. This year's show is being held on Saturday, January 13, and it promises to be the biggest and best show ever. For the first time, the AVN Awards Show is being held at the Mandalay Bay Events Center, and tickets will be sold to both industry luminaries and the general public.

The AVN Awards are achievement-based awards dedicated to recognizing the outstanding products and talented individuals that have contributed to the advancement of the adult entertainment industry. AVN Award recipients are determined by a vote of qualified industry peers and fellow professionals. The integrity of this process, together with a broad-based voting population, makes the AVN Awards the most credible, respected and recognized awards in adult entertainment.

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"

e foi assim que descubi que em 2006: "Best actress. And the oscar goes to..."

Jenine Lindmulder


p.s. just to say that I find superb to find such an widely interesting subject as this in a encyclopedia! long live the wikipedia!

The root of "boycott"



"
wikipedia.org

A boycott is to abstain from using, buying, or dealing with someone or some organization as an expression of protest or as a means of coercion.

The word boycott entered the English language during the Irish "Land War" and is derived from the name of Captain Charles Boycott, the estate agent of an absentee landlord, the Earl Erne, in County Mayo, Ireland who was subject to social ostracism organized by the Irish Land League in 1880. In September that year protesting tenants demanded from Boycott a substantial reduction in their rents. He not only refused but also ejected them from the land. The Irish Land League proposed that, rather than resorting to violence, everyone in the locality should refuse to deal with him. Despite the short-term economic hardship to those undertaking this action, Boycott soon found himself isolated — his workers stopped work in the fields, stables as well as the house. Local businessmen stopped trading with him and the local postman refused to deliver post.

The concerted action taken against him meant that Boycott was unable to hire anyone to harvest the crops in his charge. Eventually 50 Orangemen from Cavan and Monaghan volunteered to harvest his crops. They were escorted to and from Claremorris by one thousand policemen and soldiers – this despite the fact that Boycott's complete social ostracism meant that he was actually in no danger of being harmed. Moreover, this protection ended up costing far more than the harvest was worth. After the harvest, the "boycott" was successfully continued. Within weeks Boycott's name was everywhere. It was used by The Times in November 1880 as a term of organized isolation. According to an account in the book “The Fall of Feudalism in Ireland” by Michael Davitt, the term was coined by Fr. John O' Malley from County Mayo to “signify ostracism applied to a landlord or agent like Boycott”. The Times of London first reported on November 20, 1880: “The people of New Pallas have resolved to 'boycott' them and refused to supply them with food or drink.” The Daily News wrote on December 13, 1880: “Already the stoutest-hearted are yielding on every side to the dread of being 'Boycotted'.” By January of the following year, the word was being used figuratively: "Dame Nature arose....She 'Boycotted' London from Kew to Mile End" (The Spectator, January 22, 1881).

On December 1, 1880 Captain Boycott left his post and withdrew to England, with his family.
"

Vou mandar uma deliberada...

Thin Lizzy




Wiskey in the Jar

As I was goin over the cork and kerry mountains
I saw captain farrell and his money he was countin
I first produced my pistol and then produced my rapier
I said stand and deliver or the devil he may take ya

Musha ring dum a doo dum a da
Whack for my daddy-o
Whack for my daddy-o
Theres whiskey in the jar-o

I took all of his money and it was a pretty penny
I took all of his money and I brought it home to molly
She swore that shed love me, never would she leave me
But the devil take that woman for you know she tricked me easy

Being drunk and weary I went to mollys chamber
Takin my money with me and I never knew the danger
For about six or maybe seven in walked captain farrell
I jumped up, fired off my pistols and I shot him with both barrels

Now some men like the fishin and some men like the fowlin
And some men like ta hear a cannon ball a roarin
Me I like sleepin specially in my mollys chamber
But here I am in prison, here I am with a ball and chain yeah

Well...

You are the king of smooth -- enough said. Take the What Pulp Fiction Character Are You? quiz.

BIOGRAPHY:

When Theodore Roosevelt "Hound Dog" Taylor sat down on his battered folding chair, slipped his steel slide onto his six-fingered left hand and tore into one of his foot-stomping shuffles, supercharged boogies or a searing slow blues, he had one thing in mind--making people forget their troubles, either by dancing or by immersing themselves in the deepest of bottleneck blues. And whether he was playing for old friends at one of Chicago's inner-city bars or for thousands of college kids and hippies at clubs and campuses around the country, Taylor's music never changed. With just two guitars and a drum set, Hound Dog Taylor and the HouseRockers created a rocked-out, hypnotic, ultra-danceable sound that is as emotionally powerful and wildly energizing today as it was the day they produced it.

Until he recorded his (and Alligator Records') first album, HOUND DOG TAYLOR AND THE HOUSEROCKERS in 1971, Taylor was largely unknown outside of Chicago. He played blues guitar for 35 years before reaching a wider audience and gaining the status of a beloved blues icon. From the mid-1950's until 1975, Taylor and his band--second guitarist Brewer Phillips and drummer Ted Harvey--kicked out the blues jams all over the South and West sides, including a regular Sunday afternoon gig at Florence's Lounge. It was at one of these performances in 1970 where a young blues fan named Bruce Iglauer decided to start a blues record label for the sole purpose of recording Hound Dog Taylor and the HouseRockers.

Without a drop of slickness, Taylor's electrified blues was feral, rocking and raw. Village Voice music critic Robert Christgau referred to the band as "the Ramones of the blues," and it's easy to understand why. Taylor played fast, loud and sloppy, and would sometimes hit bad notes or get out of tune. But he always made primeval, soul-satisfying music. Nobody could match him when it came to emotional fervor and the pure joy of making music. Songs like Give Me Back My Wig, She's Gone, and Walking The Ceiling are now considered blues classics. "Live wire exuberance and hard-as-nails force," said Rolling Stone, "natural for partying, drinking and talking loud."

Now, for the first time in 22 years, there's finally more Hound Dog Taylor music to be heard. RELEASE THE HOUND is a sizzling collection of some of the best previously unreleased Hound Dog Taylor material in existence. Featuring over 68 minutes of music, RELEASE THE HOUND boasts 14 live and studio performances, including stunning versions of Wild About You, Baby, What'd I Say?, She's Gone, Sen-Sa-Shun and Gonna Send You Back To Georgia. Taylor's wild guitar exuberance and joyous, soulful abandon fuel each and every song. Three instrumentals on the CD showcase Brewer Phillips' crazed lead guitar playing. From the audience reactions on the live cuts to the untamed blues energy of the studio tracks, RELEASE THE HOUND will delight old fans and introduce new ones to Hound Dog Taylor and the HouseRockers' one-of-a-kind blues experience.

Born in Mississippi in 1917, Taylor didn't start playing guitar until he was 20. He worked as a sharecropper by day and played at Delta juke joints and house parties in the evenings. After a harrowing encounter with the Ku Klux Klan in 1942 (he had a cross burned in his yard), Taylor moved north to Chicago, where he performed at the famous outdoor market on Maxwell Street, competing for tips with Muddy Waters and Robert Nighthawk. Hound Dog played in ghetto bars at night while working a factory job until the late 1950's, when he became a full time musician. He recorded one single, Christine/Alley Music, for Firma Records and another, Take Five/My Baby's Coming Home, for Bea & Baby Records in the early 1960's. Both records were good local sellers but went largely unnoticed outside of Chicago. A session for Chess remained unissued until the 1990's. Taylor toured Europe without his band as part of the American Folk Blues Festival, playing behind Little Walter and others, but never got a chance to show European audiences the magic of his own music.

Hound Dog Taylor and the HouseRockers appeared at the second Ann Arbor Blues Festival in 1970 (and became a featured attraction at the third, fourth and fifth Ann Arbor Blues festivals), playing to thousands of cheering college kids. When his Alligator album hit the streets in 1971, Taylor's transition from local hero to national and international blues icon was almost immediate. He began touring the country, continuing to win new, young fans. And he never changed a bit. Taylor played his music with furious abandon whether he was at Florence's on the South Side of Chicago or entertaining college kids at Yale or Harvard. "Nobody but nobody brings the house down with a frenzy and madness like these cats," raved Living Blues. "Deliciously raucous," said Guitar Player.

In all, Taylor recorded a total of three Alligator albums before dying of cancer in 1975. Aside from his self-titled 1971 debut, Taylor's records are 1974's NATURAL BOOGIE and 1976's live, Grammy©-nominated BEWARE OF THE DOG!, released shortly after his death. The success of these records gave life to Alligator, allowing the fledgling label to survive and eventually thrive. In 1982 Alligator issued the Grammy©-nominated GENUINE HOUSEROCKING MUSIC, a collection of unreleased studio tracks. The continuing demand for more of Taylor's material has brought forth a number of poorly recorded, bad sounding bootlegs over the years--recordings for which Taylor and his bandmates never saw any payments or royalties.

Years after his death, Taylor's legendary status still continues to grow. He was inducted into the Blues Foundation's Hall Of Fame in 1984. And his debut album received the Blues Foundation's Classics of Blues Recordings Award in 1996. His influence on slide guitarists who came after him is immeasurable. Artists from George Thorogood to Sonny Landreth to Vernon Reid to Gov't Mule continue to be inspired by Hound Dog's music. That's why these artists and others, including Elvin Bishop, Luther Allison, Ronnie Earl, Lil' Ed and the Blues Imperials, Son Seals, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Dave Hole, Michael Hill's Blues Mob and Steady Rollin' Bob Margolin contributed songs to Alligator Records' HOUND DOG TAYLOR - A TRIBUTE in 1998. A 1999 "Best Of" collection entitled DELUXE EDITION continued to spread Hound Dog's legend around the world.

Hound Dog Taylor and the HouseRockers played foot-stomping boogies to make fans forget their troubles and dance. They played grinding slow blues to exorcise their demons. "I'm with you, baby I'm with you," Taylor would shout when someone yelled a request out of the audience. "Let's have some fun," he'd holler after sitting down and plugging in his ultra-cheap Japanese guitar into his cracked-speaker Sears Silvertone amp. And with Brewer Phillips playing bass lines on his old Fender and Ted Harvey pounding away at the drums, this three-piece blues band made a lot of wonderful noise. "When I die," Taylor once said, "they'll say, 'he couldn't play shit but he sure made it sound good.'" Almost 30 years after his death, RELEASE THE HOUND proves just how good that sound can be.

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