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[Al B. Sure!]

Phantom of the Opera != opera.

Excuse me, Boris, if you would kindly go back to your opera thread, you would see me defending opera among these 'philistine brutes':

And your taste in music is otherwise reasonable. Nothing wrong with either rap or opera... it's techno, metal, and punk rock that have issues.

You at least have to appreciate the emotional response something like that elicits. You'd have to be soulless to not feel it, to not have your eyes water, a lump in your throat, and your breath taken from your lungs.

That point just before the famous climax... when the female voices sing softly off in the distance... and then... Dilegua, O notte! then the great "Vincero!" WOW.

[Asher]

So if I ask you if you have listened to Yeltzin Garbachova's masterpiece, you know WTF I'm talking about?

[Al B. Sure!]

So if I ask you if you have listened to Yeltzin Garbachova's masterpiece, you know WTF I'm talking about?

Oh? You mean Perestroika?

[Asher]

Don't just ****ing make up words, you twit.

[Hauldren Collider]

here in a normal country called the land of the free .... we don't have free college educations

How can it be land of the free, if you pay for education?

There is no such thing as a free lunch

[Hauldren Collider]

That's a pretty ass-backwards way of doing it..

The US system of subsidized loans is terrible too.

[Asher]

There is no such thing as a free lunch

So you are paying for your college education?

[Al B. Sure!]

There is no such thing as a free lunch

I knew it. I called it. I knew someone would come in here and say something about free lunches.


As for you, Asher, I never did claim I knew much about opera. I know next to nothing but my next to nothing is more than an average person would know.

Although you would be surprised. You are more familiar with some operatic pieces than you think. Take the Habanera from Carmen:



You know that. Opera classics find their way into our shared cultural consciousness.

[Al B. Sure!]

So you are paying for your college education?

*plays Fortunate Son by The Doo- Clearwater something*

The US system of subsidized loans is terrible too.

Why?

[Asher]

I knew it. I called it. I knew someone would come in here and say something about free lunches.


As for you, Asher, I never did claim I knew much about opera. I know next to nothing but my next to nothing is more than an average person would know.

Although you would be surprised. You are more familiar with some operatic pieces than you think. Take the Habanera from Carmen:



You know that. Opera classics find their way into our shared cultural consciousness.

Which rapper sampled this?

[Al B. Sure!]

Which rapper sampled this?

Surely you are familiar with:

[Asher]

Michelle Phifer sure looks different than I remember.

[Egbert]

So if I ask you if you have listened to Yeltzin Garbachova's masterpiece, you know WTF I'm talking about?

There is such a word as "perestroika". It means restructuring and was one of Mikhail Gorbachov's policies (along with "glasnost" meaning openness). Yeltsin came on to the scene at about that time.
He didn't make that word up.

[Asher]

I'm so glad you came back to the site.

[Elok]

Although you would be surprised. You are more familiar with some operatic pieces than you think. Take the Habanera from Carmen:
You know that. Opera classics find their way into our shared cultural consciousness.

Yeah, that's the one piece of opera that everyone has heard. That one piece is all the opera 90% of the human race will ever hear. Oh, and they'll also think "Carmina Burana" is an opera.