Andy’s word features are fascinating and entertaining, and Bob’s comments are a great addition to them and all the others he adds comments to here. Mary Ann, with all due respect to your feelings, I think you’re way off base in your criticisms of Andy Hollandbeck, Bob McGowan, jr., and the current format of the Post. This is a timely article I discovered just now, as I was at a party just last night where there was some karaoke but I didn’t participate. I HAVE to wonder though, if YOU wouldn’t have secretly enjoyed being at that party yourself with the other witches doing a little naughty touching of your own! The indoor smoking (still allowed then!) would be the worst offender, of course.Īlthough I may have been shirtless, I did have everything else on, including the collar and cuffs. Today, very likely though, I suppose it WOULD be considered sexual molestation/harassment everyone would be in a lot of trouble for. It was s little risque fun, and no one did anything to warrant getting in trouble for, verbal/written up or fired. Although you may have meant well, you did state I was molested/sexually harassed by my female co-workers dressed as witches the 2nd year. Froley, Debbie and Matthew covered pretty much everything without my repeating anything to you. My only complaint was a dog feature that should have been on the POST’s website semi-recently wound up on Instagram even the guys at the Apple store couldn’t figure out. I also agree with you on the Post’s current magazine and online format. I’m glad you and the people you know love my comments. In addition our bankcard collection center was located in a business park where the public was not allowed in like with your friend at Wells Fargo. I also wish people in general would stop “retroactively” applying today’s uptight, neurotic consciousness on everything to times long past, that have nothing to do with our screwed up present-day perceptions.ĭebbie, thank YOU as well here!! You’re totally correct about the Halloween work party being a relaxation day where (truthfully) very little work got done.
It was fun putting on those shows despite the work involved, and my unit got 1st place both years! I had no idea mine would stir up controversy, and didn’t know about it until today. It was karaoke’s ability to bring people together to not only tolerate but celebrate our musical mediocrity that earned Daisuke Inoue the 2004 Ig Nobel Peace Prize and that solidified karaoke’s place as the ear-splitting and unapologetic joy it is in both the U.S. The audience will cheer your half-drunk, off-key rendition of “Born to Run” as if you were Springsteen himself regardless of your lack of talent, so you have nothing to prove. But that’s also a major part of its allure: Karaoke lets you slough off your inhibitions and become a singing fool in a safe space. After all, when you sing karaoke, you’re allowed to be bad - expected to be bad even. Many would have preferred the vocal pastime remain isolated in the Land of the Rising Sun. That means that when karaoke was adopted into English in the late 1970s, it marked the culmination of an etymological round trip to Japan and back - a partial reborrowing into English of a Japanese word that was originally borrowed from English. Ōkesutora is a Japanese loanword based on the English orchestra. You’re probably noticing that the words orchestra and ōkesutora look a lot alike. The meaning of karaoke is pretty well known, especially among its (often inebriated) practitioners: It literally means “empty orchestra.” The kara is Japanese for “empty.” The oke comes from a shortened form of the Japanese word for “orchestra,” ōkesutora. Though karaoke - both the word and the activity - came to us from Japan, the word isn’t entirely of Japanese origin. Inoue is widely regarded as the inventor of karaoke.
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But if you’ve got a voice like a chain-smoking chimpanzee with a mouth full of marbles, you shouldn’t let that stop you! Although you won’t be signing a recording contract anytime soon, you can, thanks to Daisuke Inoue, still find your audience. If you can sing well, reality TV shows like America’s Got Talent, The Voice, and American Idol could launch you to musical superstardom. Remember: Etymology tells us where a word comes from, but not what it means today. Managing editor and logophile Andy Hollandbeck reveals the sometimes surprising roots of common English words and phrases.
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