June 15, 1987: Pet Shop Boys released the single ''It's a Sin''.
'When we brought out “It’s a Sin,” it was quite interesting, because people took it really seriously; the song was intended as a camp joke and it wasn’t something I consciously took very seriously. The local parish priest in Newcastle delivered a sermon on it, and reflected on how the Church changed from the promise of a ghastly hell to the message of love.'' - Neil Tennant
''I’ve become less religious as I’ve got older. Even when I wrote ''It’s a Sin'' part of me was probably still a Catholic. The thing that I always liked about Catholicism they got rid of! I liked the Latin and the incense and the sort of music and plainsong. When I was eight years old I could sing the Latin mass in plainsong because I was an altar boy.'' Neil Tennant
''When I first walked into a big gay disco, my first thought was, “This is like a Cathedral, this is like a Church.” The combination of this transcendent music, a lot of...
Ok one more but not mine. This one was told to me and worth sharing.
Two Alligators were sunning in the swamp shallows. One was much larger than the other. The little one said I don’t get it. We are the same age. We grew up together. How are you so much bigger?? The larger gator thought for a minute and asked —well, what are you eating? And the little one replied same as you, lawyers and politicians from the Courthouse over there. So the larger gator says how do you catch ‘em? And his little companion replied —I crawl up to the parking lot and get underneath a Lexus and I wait. When they come to unlock the car door I grab their leg and shake the crap out of them. Aha said big gator. That’s the answer. You are not getting enough nutrition because once you shake the crap out of lawyers and politicians, all that’s left is a butthole and a briefcase! 💼
Hey G2 ( @GregGutfeld )
Rush Limbaugh used to quote a statistic, wherein the top 10,000 tax payers in NYC, account for 40% of the cities’ tax revenue.
That number may be smaller now, but if only 2500 of those tax payers leave.
NYC is screwed.
Instituting a tax on ‘Millionaires’ and the general feeling of anti-Semitism is a sure way to get a sizable portion of that 10k to leave.