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oOo..... taking retards to the zoo

PostPosted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 8:08 am
by DearGod
Ok......

let's think of all the 80's songs talking about "The Mentally Challenged"

i've already got the milkmen.......your turn[:D]

PostPosted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 8:24 am
by ElectricBlue
'Making Plans for Nigel"-XTC

"There Goes Norman" - The Undertones

"Norman Bates" - Landscape

"Mongoloid" - DEVO

"Take My Breath away"--Berlin...no wait, that would be physical ailments

ha and ha.

PostPosted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 8:39 am
by DearGod
LMAO!!!!![:X] doesnt that smiley look down syndrome?????

PostPosted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 10:21 am
by trilemma
Some of these may be stretching it a bit:

Christine-Siouxsie and the Banshees (schizophrenia)
Candyman-Siouxsie and the Banshees (child molester)
Bird Mad Girl-The Cure
The Lunatics(Have Taken Over the Asylum)-Fun Boy Three

PostPosted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 11:29 am
by Frau_Blucher
Ronnie's Song - LAX
[;)]

PostPosted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 12:04 pm
by Plata66
Pretty insensitive. Obviously your all mental wizards ..or prefect

PostPosted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 12:52 pm
by EchoBeach
Here's Some...

Fuzztones - Ward 81
Germs - Now I Hear Laughter
Killing Joke - Sanity
New York Dolls - Personality Crisis
Pat Benatar - Anxiety (gay, I know)
Cramps - I was a Teenage werewolf (it'd freak me out)
The Tubes - White Punks on Dope (ca

PostPosted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 12:56 pm
by Justj0hn
I agree with hensoneno, pretty tasteless. I like the Dead milkmen but always detested that song or anything that overtly made sport of the mentally challenged. There but for the grace of whatever power that be... Born or made so through accident or diseas

PostPosted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 2:45 pm
by DearGod
people....this is also a punk message board......

Punk is controversial.......

If you dont like like the posts......simply dont respond or read them when you see my name by them [:D]

Because that's MY angle

PostPosted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 2:47 pm
by DearGod
i personally think it's my favorite milkmen song......
but what do i know......i'm Tasteless[^]

PostPosted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 3:07 pm
by DearGod
[quote]Originally posted by hensoneno
[br]Pretty insensitive. Obviously your all mental wizards ..or prefect
<hr height="1" noshade

PostPosted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 11:48 pm
by Polly
I thought the 'Takin' Retards to the Zoo' song was funny too, but I was a teenager then, I would never listen to it now. Let's not get all overly PC, the Milkmen were pretty funny most times. MY friends & I used to crack up over

"Violence rules & guns

PostPosted: Wed Mar 03, 2004 3:35 am
by DearGod
if we spent all day debating whether or not a song was appropriate...... where would be the fun in that

Thousands of people die, I still watch horror movies
and still sing Holiday in Cambodia.....

When i made my post it wasnt to offend anyone

PostPosted: Wed Mar 03, 2004 4:49 am
by ExRat
Really. That was the fun of being involved in the punk and new wave scenes - there were no taboos and everyone knew irony when they heard it. It isn't an offensive topic to me. Lighten up a little.

"Normality is what cuts off your sixth finger and your

PostPosted: Wed Mar 03, 2004 6:48 am
by DearGod
exactly....well spoken ExLax!!!!!!![:p]