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Ahh Annabelle Lwin aka Myant Myant aye, only half Burmese, her mother is English. Many a lad celebrated Palm Sunday with Annabelle I have found out now that what American called New Wave is not what the UK did. In the UK new wave was and extension of late 70ls Punk until the early 80’s to be replaced by the smartly dressed Nancy boys with their coiffured hair know as the New Romantics. America didn’t get the memo and caught on in the early 80’s and labeled every synth pop tune as new wave and not New Romantic, typical yanks late to the party and get it all wrong. New Wave Music ,

I never said that is was Blondie were mentioned in the IMDB write up. I chose Blondie as an example, you know a particular instance of something that is representative of a group, or an illustration of something that's been generally described, rather than go through each band individually.

Parallel Lines (1978) broke the band into the rock mainstream thanks to hits such as “Picture This,” “One Way or Another,” and the disco-influenced “Heart of Glass.” Eat to the Beat (1979) was similarly successful Blondie were mainstream in America in 1978 Source

The one that always tickles me is that a UK radio DJ Sarah Cox named her son Isaac. Fortunately for the poor little blighter she later married the boys father and he took / was given his surname

Well Talking Heads and Blondie were American, are you trying to tell me a “Cutting Edge” radio station in NYC had only just picked up on them in 1982, doesn’t sound very “finger in the pulse” to me unless checking the pulse of a corpse. in 1977 when the Buzzcocks released Spiral Scratch on their own label was the birth of Indie, half the bands listed were pop music not new wave. Typical American pap

Not sure that I would TBH, checked the IMDB write up U2, Talking Heads, Depeche Mode, Blondie, Duran Duran, Tears for Fears, The Clash, The Cure 1982, a small group of radio visionaries knew they couldn't compete with the mega-stations in New York City. By 1982 U2 had already released Boy and October, Talking Heads had previously released Psycho Killer and Once in a Lifetime the Eno years were over, Blondie had already split up as did the Clash in 82 after 6 years. The Cure had also been together for 6 years by then, so far from being visionaries WLIR were essentially playing mainstream UK pop music since that is what Depeche Mode, Duran Duran and Tears for Fears were. Indie music 1982 included The Smiths and Durutti Column (that’s just Manchester) or REM stateside

I realise that, just wanted to clear it up I case bust didn’t understand

I wouldn’t go that far, in Thailand there is a marked difference in quality between local and imported beef and even I can tell the difference between a $2 Bottle of wine and a $20 Bottle. People can tell the difference between good and bad, but they cannot tell the difference between good and alleged better than good, i.e. Aussie Beef V Wagyu or a $20 Bottle v $200 Bottle of wine

It was a play on the a court scene with the glove “it doesn’t fit”

A Vietnamese man and a Jewish man are waiting in the Doctor’s office for an appointment and as the time goes on they become more and more irritated until finally the Jewish man says, “I hate you Vietnamese people!”. Shocked, the Vietnamese man says, “What in the world would compel you to say something like that? Why do you hate Vietnamese people?” To which the Jewish man replies, “Because you bombed Pearl Harbor!” The Vietnamese man goes, “You idiot! That wasn’t the Vietnamese, that was the Japanese!” To which the Jewish man shrugs and says, “Vietnamese, Japanese, what’s the difference?” Stunned, the Vietnamese man says, “Yeah, well I hate all you Jewish people!” To which the Jewish man replies in great indignation, “That’s anti-Semitic! Why would you hate all Jewish people?” And the Vietnamese man says, “Because you sank the Titanic!” “You idiot,” bawls the Jewish man, “That was an iceberg!” To which the Vietnamese man replies, “Iceberg, Goldberg, what’s the difference?”

I was going to reply “More Money than Sense” ten I realised that someone with a couple of Cents would have more money than the sense of people paying this much.

I just heard they tried to put him in a coffin but it doesn’t fit

OJ Simpson, NFL star acquitted in ‘trial of the century’, dies aged 76 Link