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...still hard not to laugh at the comic turns they wrote for the Coasters, such as Charlie Brown and Love Potion No. 9. Such story songs as Along Came Jones and Young Blood were inspired by Leiber's love of radio series like The Shadow. Their subjects ranged from knife fights and no-accounts to class clowns and the clap. That last can be found in what Leiber calls the "snide innuendo" of their hilarious Poison...
...things young men might like to e-mail one another, though, Tim assured me, it wouldn't include porn, sports or stock quotes. I already saw a major flaw in his business plan. Then he showed me a clip of a guy being wheeled into surgery with a bowie knife embedded in his skull. In focus groups, this was by far the most popular clip on the site. I sat there wondering how Tim got my name, vowing to change my writing style...
Still, this company might IPO, so I tried to impress him with funny ways to use the bowie knife bit. I was halfway to developing a sitcom in which the wacky dictator's catchphrase was "Shut up, or I'll give you a head stabbing," when Tim told me the job he was offering me wasn't writing jokes, but controlling the site's content and managing a group of 30 producers. I asked Tim if it concerned him that I had no experience in technology, entertainment or managing people. "I'd much rather take a risk on a young...
Come on! If you're the opposing team, do you really worry that Brett Favre is going to come after you postgame with a knife? Of course not! When's the last time an NFL player... hmmm. Never mind...
...despite his stepping down, even Haider himself does not seem to be able to remain silent for a while. He called French President Jacques Chirac a "pocket Napoleon." He accused Alfred Gusenbauer, head of the moderate Social Democrats, of eating with a hammer and sickle instead of fork and knife. Haider even claimed to have "reunited" Bill and Hillary Clinton after Monica Lewinsky "separated" them, since both Clintons condemned Haider's party's participation in the Austrian coalition government...