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  • One of my favorite Wikipedia entries comes from this song. This entire passage just cracks me up.

    “Spirit in the Sky” makes several religious references to Jesus, and Greenbaum himself is Jewish. In a 2006 interview with The New York Times, Greenbaum told a reporter he was inspired to write the song after watching Porter Wagoner singing a gospel song on TV. Greenbaum said: “I thought, ‘Yeah, I could do that,’ knowing nothing about gospel music, so I sat down and wrote my own gospel song. It came easy. I wrote the words in 15 minutes.” Greenbaum had previously been a member of psychedelic jug band Dr. West’s Medicine Show and Junk Band.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_in_the_Sky







  • I’m only commenting this because you said you’re stuck on Win11 and not defending it, but…

    Using winget and Chocolately will make your app installation much better.

    Also, to reload your path variable in a PowerShell prompt you can run the following:

    $env:Path = [System.Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable("Path","Machine") + ";" + [System.Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable("Path","User")

    Again, your gripes are all legitimate, but these might help ease your pain.







  • I coach youth soccer, so yeah, I’ve had a couple of confrontations. Usually I can stop them pretty quickly. It helps that I’m a 6’1" 220 lb male. The worst (or stupidest) one I had was a parent trying to sit on the kids side because there was no shade on the parents side. I told him he needed to move and he refused. I explained to him that only coaches and players are allowed on this side for player safety. He told me he was a coach, so I asked to see his coach’s card. Which of course he didn’t have. I told him he needed to move or the game would be forfeit and I would call the police because he did not have the proper background checks to be near the players. He moved, but moved behind the goal. So he technically wasn’t on the players side. You know like something a 10 year old would do, not a grown ass person.



  • hactar42@lemmy.worldtoFunny@sh.itjust.worksSo true
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    We have a couple of them. Bonsai Lady is my favorite. She just randomly shows in different parking lots and sets up a stand to sell her bonsai trees.

    We also have the Denton Spider-Man who is a good dude who just wants to entertain kids.

    We don’t talk about the conspiracy theory asshole who just takes up good parking spots to spread lies he wrote all over his car.


  • It’s crazy to go back and look at a lot of the top 40 stuff from the 90s. So many songs that are still popular today, didn’t chart as high as you would think. Even Smells Like Teen Spirit only got to number 6 on the billboards. It got beat by:

    1. Michael Jackson - Black or White (understandable nope could hold a candle to MJ at the time)
    2. Color Me Bad - All 4 Love
    3. Mariah Carey - Can’t Let Go
    4. Boyz II Men - It’s So Hard To Say Goodbye To Yesterday
    5. M.C. Hammer - 2 Legit 2 Quit

  • The following people are credited as writers on this song.

    • Jermaine Dupri
    • Joe “The Butcher” Nicolo
    • Alphonso Mizell
    • Berry Gordy
    • Deke Richards
    • Freddie Perren
    • Marshall “Rock” Jones
    • Leroy “Sugarfoot” Bonner
    • Ralph “Pee Wee” Middlebrooks
    • Gregory “Greg” Webster
    • Clarence “Satch” Satchell
    • Bruce Napier
    • Walter “Junie” Morrison
    • Marvin “Merv” Pierce
    • Roy C. Hammond
    • Louis Freese
    • Lawrence Muggerud
    • Senen Reyes
    • Lowell Fulson
    • Jimmy McCracklin
    • James Brown
    • J.B. Weaver Jr.
    • Anthony Criss
    • Kier Gist
    • Vincent Brown
    • Herb Rooney

    Talk about writing by committee. And there are some big names on that list.