How long has the World been going mad for?

[Sensei Rob]

We've all heard phrases, such as, "the World is going mad" and "it's political correctness gone mad", well, it got me thinking....just how long has the World been going mad for? I remember people complaining from back in the '80's. At some stage, you just have to concede that it's just a mad World and there's nothing that can be done about it?

[GAjon]

That thou mayst be a queen, and cheque the world! Constance. My bed was ..... Mad world! mad kings! mad composition! John, to stop Arthur's ...

Shakespeare.

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

GAjon said:

That thou mayst be a queen, and cheque the world!

Surely it was Barclaycard?

yes, some internet excerpts do spell it like the financial instrument

13.7 million years ago, somebody looked out the window & said "wow, wtf was that! What a mad world"

[McVities]

Gary58 has suddenly become a little more cohesive

[jmorgan]

I believe a great thinker pined it when the monkeys decided to leaf the trees.

[GAjon]

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

GAjon said:

That thou mayst be a queen, and cheque the world!

Surely it was Barclaycard?

yes, some internet excerpts do spell it like the financial instrument

13.7 million years ago, somebody looked out the window & said "wow, wtf was that! What a mad world"

That’s how Shakespeare wrote it, just before he did ‘Everybody wants to rule the world ‘

[iphonedyou]

McVities said:

Gary58 has suddenly become a little more cohesive

Coherent? Or, possibly more applicable, inchoate?

[Cold]

The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you, I find it hard to take
When people run in circles it's a very very...

[TooMany2cvs]

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

Rosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, The King And I, and The Catcher In The Rye
Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron
Dien Bien Phu Falls, Rock Around the Clock
Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge On The River Kwai
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkweather Homicide, Children of Thalidomide...

Buddy Holly, Ben-Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia
Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go
U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Hemingway, Eichmann, Stranger in a Strange Land
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson

Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician Sex
J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say?

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on the airline
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan
Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide
Foreign debts, homeless Vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
Rock and Roller Cola wars, I can't take it anymore

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone
It will still burn on and on and on and on
And on and on and on and on...

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

[RemaL]

I just blame the media, hyping things up. reporting on anything bad. little good. And why I do my best to take little notice.

[TooMany2cvs]

RemaL said:

I just blame the media, hyping things up. reporting on anything bad. little good. And why I do my best to take little notice.

It's true that the vast array of current media outlets, and the expectation for instant reaction and 24x7 coverage leave a huge void to be filled - but bad news is news. Good news is not news.

"Today, life in Kabul went by as normal with nothing unusual happening. Lots of people did their shopping and went to work, then went home again."
Well, that's hardly rivetting lead-item material, is it?

[thebraketester]

Around about the same time some clown wrote the fictitious novel entitled “The Bible”

[Eric Mc]

1963 -




1982 -

[glenrobbo]

jmorgan said:

I believe a great thinker pined it when the monkeys decided to leaf the trees.

Interesting. I never twigged that it was the monkeys who leafed all the trees.
I just thought that leaves grew from buds.

A mad world indeed...



I wonder what Alfred E. Neuman would say about it?

Edited by glenrobbo on Tuesday 17th October 10:47

[john2443]

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

13.7 million years ago, somebody looked out the window & said "wow, wtf was that! What a mad world"

Are you sure? Did they have windows then!

[mko9]

john2443 said:

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

13.7 million years ago, somebody looked out the window & said "wow, wtf was that! What a mad world"

Are you sure? Did they have windows then!

What, you think window technology is beyond the pyramid building space aliens??

[TooMany2cvs]

john2443 said:

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

13.7 million years ago, somebody looked out the window & said "wow, wtf was that! What a mad world"

Are you sure? Did they have windows then!

No, they were still on DOS.

[GetCarter]

For how long has the world been going mad?

[/grammar nazi]