Gossip columnist surprised that 80% in poll want Bush 'eaten by sharks'

[Algorem]

(Last Saturday,Cleveland Plain Dealer celebrity-gossip column writer Chuck Yarborough asked people to tell him who they'd like 'used as shark bait')-

...American television honchos have lifted most of their best - or at least most commercially successful - ideas. "American Idol" is "Pop Idol" in Britain, for example. How about taking this one: "Celebrity Shark Bait?" It's exactly what it sounds like. It's a Brit show that takes celebs and sticks them underwater - in cages, darn it - surrounded by great white sharks. I have a few nominees, and I'll bet you do, too. Tell ya what: Send your picks to [e-mail], and this time next week, we'll share who we think should star in a show we'll call "Celebrity Fish Food."

http://www.cleveland.com/search/index.ssf?/base/entertainment/112574022640950.xml?expeo&coll=2

(Today he put in the results,surprised that 80% put Bush at the top of the list)-

Readers serve up bounty of celebrities for fish to eat

Saturday, September 10, 2005
Chuck Yarborough
Plain Dealer Columnist

...Boy, did you guys come through. The funny thing is how many of you are soooooooo political. I expected Paris Hilton, Tom Cruise, the Simpsons (Jessica and Ashlee, not Homer et al) and Michael Jackson to be on the list. What I didn't expect was that almost 80 percent of those who wrote and e-mailed had one name at the top: George W. Bush. That should scare the heck out of the incensed conservative who wrote Friday to tell me that nine o's was too many to use to describe Dubya's looooooooong vacation.

Condi Rice, Karl Rove, Bob Taft and others made it, too. They did so by name in several e-mails and in a guilt-by-association ballot by Raphael, who just wanted to feed the poor fishes "the entire Republican Party."

And to prove that I can diss both sides of the aisle, I have to in clude Jerry M.'s nomination of two people he dubbed - tongue-in- cheek, of course - "America's best: Hillary Clinton and Dennis Kucinich."

But my favorite nominees were the unexpected ones. Like the guy who wanted TV Batman Adam West to wind up in Jaws' utility belt. Or the fella who would get a little afternoon delight out of seeing the Starland Vocal Band in the water. The same dude said he'd "give God 50 bucks" to call all the televangelists home. I assume he meant $50 for each...

http://www.cleveland.com/search/index.ssf?/base/entertainment/112634504812790.xml?expeo&coll=2

[Nikki Stone 1]

1. The Starland Vocal Band????????

Why?

[Gabi Hayes]

2. because they really REALLY......

suck?

at least enough to get a rise out of one respondee

[Nikki Stone 1]

4. Aren't they dead? or very old? Their last hit was, what, 1975?

??

[Algorem]

5. Time for them to parody their song-"Impeachment Delight".Googled 'em,

they were from the "Washington D.C. folk scene" so I guess they're political,and they had a CBS TV show that featured then-unknown David Letterman,so I guess he'll let him sing their "Impeachment Delight" on his show.Sure,what a great plan.Vodka good.

http://www.coolforever.com/html/lps/starlandvocalband.html

Starland Vocal Band dominated American airwaves during the Bicentennial summer of 1976 with their quintessential soft rock chart-topper "Afternoon Delight." The group emerged from the Washington, D.C. folk scene of the late 1960s, its roots dating back to the formation of the acoustic duo Fat City, which comprised future husband and wife Bill Danoff and Taffy Nivert. Together the couple wrote a song titled "I Guess He'd Rather Be in Colorado" which was recorded by John Denver and Mary Travers; with Denver, they also penned the smash "Take Me Home, Country Roads." In 1969 Fat City recorded their debut LP, Reincarnation; after 1971's Welcome to Fat City the duo began working as simply Bill and Taffy, regularly opening for Denver on tour.

On Bill and Taffy's second album, 1974's Aces, the duo enlisted 18-year-old singer and pianist Jon Carroll; the couple was so impressed by Carroll's performance they decided to form a new group, adding the youngster as well as vocalist Margot Chapman to become the Starland Vocal Band. They soon signed to Denver's Windsong label and in 1976 issued their self-titled debut LP, with the lead single "Afternoon Delight" quickly reaching the top of the charts on its way to helping earn the group five Grammy nominations. (They won two, including Best New Artist.) "Afternoon Delight" was so enormously popular that the group even landed their own short-lived CBS variety series The Starland Vocal Band Show, which featured a then-unknown David Letterman.

The second Starland Vocal Band album, Rear View Mirror, followed in 1977, but failed to match the success of its predecessor; Late Nite Radio, issued a year later, also fared poorly by comparison, and after scoring one last minor chart entry with the single "Loving You with My Eyes" the group disbanded in the wake of their fourth and final LP, 1980's 4 x 4. In the wake of Starland Vocal Band's demise the Danoffs divorced; Carroll and Chapman, who had also married at the peak of the group's success, later split up as well. All four members of the group later went on to mount solo careers, though never agan recapturing the success of "Afternoon Delight." -- Jason Ankeny, All-Music Guide.

[Gabi Hayes]

6. giving me a flashback nausea attack

I lived there then, and they were all over the place with their Capt. and Tenille shlock

bleaaahhhh

[Algorem]

7. I admit,it's no "Muskrat Love",but still...

[IndyOp]

19. Were Capt and Tenille the ones with the bulldog in the sailor cap? (nt)

[johnfunk]

8. Way off topic, but I always wanted to hear...

... Milwaukee-based band Killdozer cover "Afternoon Delight" and "Love Will Keep Us Together."

[spooky3]

11. uh, if they were in their 20s then, they'd now be in their 50s

"Very old"?????

But some people are still scarred by having to listen to their one hit.

[Maru Kitteh]

13. Don't you know? 50 is almost dead, one foot in the grave

:sarcasm:

[Alamom]

22. Sharks won't eat him, (GWB) he was raised by two.

Unless they eat their own...Do they do that?

[Mabus]

10. I worked in a candy store in a mall in OKC

(Shepard's Mall at 23 & Villa) and that friggin' song was on the radio constantly - day in/day out, for seemingly forever. It got to me after a while. Think of Kramer from Seinfeld whenever he heard Mary Hart's voice, that's how I felt inside. Now thanks to you point out their name, the song has come back to haunt me.



I feel the same way about most disco music too.

[Nikki Stone 1]

14. But they had ONE hit that no one plays anymore! WHO is so obsessed w/them

that they vote them in frigging 2005! as shark bait?

[Mabus]

16. Someone who was more traumatized by that song

than I was.

Maybe it was someone who got turned down by a band member. LOL

[Nikki Stone 1]

18. 30 years of trauma? For a 3-minute single?

The song sucked, but was it powerful enough to induce trauma? psychosis?

Considering how many times it WAS played in 1976, many over 40-types would have had to be heavily medicated.

[crispini]

3. LOL! Recommended!

tks!

[pbartch]

9. I WOULD RATHER HAVE BUSH & CHENEY BE SENT TO PLANET MARS

Just send them both there.....let them live in a little Scientifically constructed building that will let them live their life out.....they can "rule" Mars (ruin).

[Maru Kitteh]

12. May I suggest dogs and alligators would be appropriate?

Don't get me wrong, the shark bait idea does hold appeal, but under the circumstances I thinking the only REAL justice would be provided by dogs and alligators.

[Uncle Joe]

15. The other 20% must be shark lovers. n/t

[IndyOp]

20. ROFL! ROFL! Shark lovers...

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Roland99]

17. "Former President Gerald Ford was eaten by wolves."

[IndyOp]

21. US Citizens are sooooooo political !?!?

My cynical take: :wtf:

My optimistic take: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

[I Have A Dream]

23. I'm sure that the Freepers who see this would just say that it...

was DUed. Sorry, not THIS time! :woohoo:

[LisaL]

24. The poll was done in Cleveland. I am not surprised 80 %

of people in Cleveland want Bush eaten by sharks. It's the most democratic city in OH.