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Friday, July 18, 2008 12:00 AM

Knowing me, knowing ABBA

How did a cheesy Scandinavian pop group in jumpsuits and blue eye shadow become as seriously beloved as the Beatles?

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  • Saturday, July 19, 2008 06:46 AM

    Pseudo-highbrows need a butt-kicking

    I am really tired of the enclave of pseudo-highbrows that inabits this site, and constantly sniffs how their tastes and insights supersede all others. Since the rest of us can't measure up, we are either "lowbrows", low class or some other lower form of the food chain.

    ABBA's music is my third favorite after the Beatles, and Simon and Garfunkel. Often listen to it while lounging on the beaches in the W. Indies. "Cheesy"? Says who? Some nimrod who thinks s/he is god's gift to musical adjudication?

    Same with that odious piece of trash-garbage that most of us thought was abominable, but which the snooty pseudo-highbrows bragged about "gettiing" - while most of us (including Obama) found it decidedly unfunny.

    What the pseudo-highbrows of Salon really need is a thorough butt-kicking, tol knock the snot (and pseudo sense of superiority) out of their miserable, officious little hides.

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