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How the good C-WORD became the bad C-WORD!
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----Dawn----
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Once upon a time, there was a c-word... and this c-word was called Catchy.
catch-y (kach'e, kech'e)
adj., -i-er, -i-est.
1. Attractive or appealing: a catchy idea for a new television series.
2. Easily remembered: a song with a catchy tune.
3. Tricky; deceptive: catchy question on an exam.
4. Fitful or spasmodic: catchy breathing.
Catchy was a melody... and everyone liked him! For thousands of years Catchy was a very popular little guy. He saw the building of the pyramids, he lived through many bloody wars, he even survived the Black Death... and along the way became best friends with many different music styles. In the latter part of the 20th century, one style in particular took a real shine to him... and this style was called Electronic. Catchy and Electronic became a great double act and they started to gain lots of fans! This didn't go unnoticed by the local gangsters... ‘Record "The Slasher" Label’ and ‘Music "The Hatchet" Press’.
One night, while coming home from yet another award ceremony, they jumped Electronic and began to push and pull the little fellow in all different directions. They pushed and pulled and pushed and pulled... until suddenly something happened...
Electronic split!
Not just once, but over and over again - breaking into many, many different genres. As they continued to push and pull, even those genres themselves split - breaking into yet smaller and smaller niches and trends. The poor guy was all over the place. After the attack, the assailants gathered up the pieces and stuck a little label on each of them.
The electronic scene was reborn.
Still dazed and confused, and now supporting their newly given identities, the genres got up and all wandered off their own separate ways. Some of the genres still remained friends with Catchy and became very rich... but the others resented this and soon began to really hate these guys’ guts... especially that happy, fluffy little bastard labelled ‘Euro Trance’. God, they hated him!
Rejected and angry, they decided to start a smear campaign against these money-making ‘Catchy-lovers’. They mocked them... they called them cheap and tacky... some even questioned their sexuality!
Genre-warfare had begun!
Then, one dark day, the militant press-wing of the ‘Catchy-haters’ called a meeting to plan a new strategy of attack... and they hit upon a great idea. They would attack Catchy himself and developed a weapon of mass destruction to do the job. This weapon was to change Catchy’s name to another c-word... and this new c-word would be Cheesy!
chees-y (che'ze)
adj., -i-er, -i-est.
1. Containing or resembling cheese.
2. Informal. Of poor quality; shoddy.
Unlike Catchy, no one admitted to like Cheesy... and almost overnight, Catchy’s name had turned to mud.
Ridiculed by the music press, the newly named Cheesy became a laughing stock to be avoided at all cost by any artist who wanted to retain a shred of respectability in the music industry.
As the ‘Cheesy-bashing’ campaign went on, more and more formally great artists began to fall... backing away from anything slightly resembling a melody to avoid being shat on by every pseudo-intellectual loudmouthed music-bigot and blind trend-follower in the land.
And that, my friends, is the story of how the good c-word turned bad.
...Now, what the hell was that all about? I really must stop smoking these things!
PS. if you clicked on this thread thinking that one of the c-words was cunt then i’m sorry to disappoint you but i would never use a word like that on a fine forum like this... and quite frankly... well... i’m disgusted at you! 
Peace! 
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Nobita
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Posted : Feb 25, 2006 03:18
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That was entertaining. But there's one thing that troubles me in this story: you seem to imply that Euro-trance isn't all that bad, merely very catchy. Well if you've ever gotten a godamn Tiesto anthem stuck in your head you'll understand that some people sharpen their knifes and start looking up mr. Catchy's address....
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FluoSamsara (Oxygen)
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Posted : Feb 25, 2006 12:30
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I think what he was triyng to imply is that he misses the melodic side of psy, and that now every melodic tune gets labeled cheesy...and that by something being melodic and catchy, it doesn´t strictly makes it cheesy.
Lol, that was my interpretation, now lets all give our interpretations to Dawn stoned phylosophies lol 
Or maybe he´ll come in a sober state and explain it loll 
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nyama
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Posted : Feb 26, 2006 00:55
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On 2006-02-25 15:22, Voxmulox wrote:
then there was another c-word
cunt..with a cherry laced with cheese that caught the catchy cock and called it cuma cuma camaleion and cranked up the crunked cokewhore who lingered around the crackhead called c-something..catch the cheesy crackhead calling the cokewhore
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----Dawn----
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Posted : Feb 26, 2006 05:39
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Thanks for the comments!
I think the meaning of these allegory type thingies is best left to the reader.
... and i'm sure most of you guys are far more sober than i'm ever likely to get!
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On 2006-02-25 15:22, Voxmulox wrote:
then there was another c-word
cunt..with a cherry laced with cheese that caught the catchy cock and called it cuma cuma camaleion and cranked up the crunked cokewhore who lingered around the crackhead called c-something..catch the cheesy crackhead calling the cokewhore
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Wow! Is that a quote from the little-known Dr Seuss book written when he was self-medicating?
I do not like green eggs and ham so go stick em' up ya' fuckin' arse!
That is a very rare book... but what the Grinch does with that donkey on page 19 is just plain wrong!
Sell it on E-Bay and buy some soap to wash your mouth out, you dirty monkey!
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zooter
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Posted : Feb 26, 2006 12:43
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Hey good story....
aren't u gonna continue on how killah evolved? |
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----Dawn----
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Posted : Feb 26, 2006 18:01
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On 2006-02-26 12:43, zooter wrote:
Hey good story....
aren't u gonna continue on how killah evolved?
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Hehe, thanks... but i think i better not.
It would contain too much strong language, drug use and scenes of a sexual nature.
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----Dawn----
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On 2006-02-27 21:31, clown wrote:
ahhh man, you really had me going.. i though you were going to explain the story of how "creative" turned into "commercial".
maybe next week???
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Ok...
Once upon a time, there was a record label called Snatchy...
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Vagator Vibhushan
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Posted : Feb 27, 2006 23:31
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i love this story, but for its etymological flaw - catchy, in the sense it suggests, is first attested 1645, so how could it have been bouncing off pyramids and boo-hooing unwary soldiers in the bloody wars, I so angrily demand to know 
cheesy bought himself a cheap existence 251 years later, while cheesed, which anyone would be right now, is young and sprightly at a tender age of 65
now, pray, can we get sloshed, dear watson? we need to urgently figure out what psychedelic (1959) was doing for 30 long years before it went to a rave (1989)
ps: kewl (yet to be recorded) shit (1585 onwards, depending on what shit you talkin about) helping apple pies take over the world since Damion predicted so
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I didn't even guess what I was getting myself into. Thanks for helping me get through the working day once again. |
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DiMiTry
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Posted : Mar 1, 2006 05:57
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catchy does not equal cheesy. Cosmosis is catchy.. Hypersonic is cheesy. there's a difference.
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----Dawn----
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Posted : Mar 2, 2006 20:40
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On 2006-03-01 05:57, DiMiTry wrote:
catchy does not equal cheesy. Cosmosis is catchy.. Hypersonic is cheesy. there's a difference.
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Isn't irony brilliant!
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On 2006-02-27 23:31, Vagator Vibhushan wrote:
i love this story, but for its etymological flaw - catchy, in the sense it suggests, is first attested 1645, so how could it have been bouncing off pyramids and boo-hooing unwary soldiers in the bloody wars, I so angrily demand to know
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What??? Are you saying the ancient Egyptians didn't speak English???
This must be a joke... Let me check...
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My god... You're right!!! Those sneaky Hollywood bastards! How red is my face! 
Hmmm... anyway, i can understand you being very angry (who wouldn't be?) and seeing has how you are demanding (and mainly because i love a really pointless argument) i better try to explain...
See... i never actually said the word catchy had been around for that long.
Once upon a time, there was a c-word... and this c-word was called Catchy
The word 'Catchy' begins with 'C'
Catchy was a melody...
The word 'Catchy' was given to a certain type of melody.
For thousands of years Catchy was a very popular little guy...
Implying that the melody has been around for thousands of years. If you heard a melody today that was created thousands of years ago you may call it 'catchy'... but just because it wasn't called 'catchy' back then doesn't mean that it didn't exist. To put it another way... 'he' was around at the time of the building of the pyramids but was given the name at a later date.
Anyway, even if i had have meant the word 'catchy' i never specified which pyramids. I may have meant a couple that i built last week.
This wasn't meant to be an exercise in semantics - just a daft little allegory. An allegory by it's very nature requests interpretation... but literal interpretation kinda defeats the objective.
To be serious for a moment... glad you liked it, bud - and thanks for the etymology. Not sure how it fits in with your argument but it was very entertaining nevertheless!
All the best.
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