The Great Cheesy Music Debate

Boy we have a lot of email debates....

From: Gabbi
TO: Earth Girl
10:10
You're in a very good mood this morning!!
Send some happiness my way!!! I’m perfectly happy but not all hyper-dyper like you!!!

From: Earth Girl
To: Gabbi
10.19
I was shit until the Venga Boys popped into my head on the walk from the Station. The Venga Boys are great, they can solve all your problems. They are even better than S Club 7 'cos they don’t have any stupid love songs slowing down the good vibes. The Venga boys are pure joy in a CD and we need more trashy euro pop in the charts!!!

Why The Venga boys rule:
1. They have a bus-the Venga bus, and it’s coming with every body jumpin’.
2. The Venga bus goes to New York and San Francisco- it's an inter city disco!
3. They have an uncle called John who is from Jamaica - he keeps on calling every day
4. Uncle john keeps saying 'just buy a ticket and come for a holi-holiday!'
5. "Boom boom boom boom, I want you in my room", I don’t know about you but four times in a night would put a smile on my face ! ! !
6. They're from Holland - people from Holland are cool by default.
7. Just the name 'the Venga boys' sounds happy.
8. They have wicked videos.
9. Doesn’t the Venga bus sound fun!
10.They’re just great.

From: Gabbi
TO: Earth Girl
10.35
Right, I see, now you make a very good argument there and I would be inclined to agree with you - as you especially know and appreciate my love for cheesy pop - however there is one factor that ruins them, as with Steps - these are two very cheesy, would-be credible pop combos, but the one fact remains -THEY ARE ANNOYING!!! Now you see, if they had chosen a different cast for Steps, they would have been one of the greatest -but they didn't and the one they chose was a combination of the 5 most annoying people in the world....

The problem with the Venga Boys however is quite different though -it goes far beyond this........they have that edge of seriousness that ruins a pop band, {BUSTED -fail thanks to this also -in fact they do it on a much larger scale...} and it comes through with the Venga Boys because they TRY and put a trancy/clubby edge to the music....Pop bands should NOT do this, it ruins them and makes them unobtainable by all types of people -those who love cheesy pop for being not quite poppy enough, and those who take everything too seriously and are adverse to cheese, because VBs are too cheesy -you see, everybody loses.....

From: Earth Girl
To: Gabbi
11.11
I see where you are going with this argument.
While I whole-heartedly agree that steps were incredibly annoying and yes, quite probably the most annoying band in the universe, I am unable to concur with your opinion of VB. Firstly the trancy dancy beats are a result of them being from 'the continent' where it is wholly acceptable, making them a euro pop/dance band. And you have to consider that during their hey day the charts were aflame with dance and VB were simply the cheesy edge of the genre.

From: Gabbi
TO: Earth Girl
11.30
Yes, I see where you're going with the whole Euro Pop thing and there is a valid point there, however when it comes to {and I quote} 'that during their hey day the charts were aflame with dance and VB were simply the cheesy edge of the genre. ' -I also see your point, however I disagree, no matter what is filling the charts at any specific time, there is certainly ALWAYS room for real cheesy pop, not the Venga Boys rip-off stuff, I’m sorry but it is S-CLUB7 all the way!!!! The undoubted Kings and Queens of Cheesy Popular Music!!!

the great mozzerella debate

We have a regular friday ritual in our office. The regular friday-after-work-pub-goers spend most of the day in an email debate deciding if we're going to the canteen at lunchtime for 'fishy friday' and which local pub we should all go to after work. Todays turned into a debate about the nature of mozzerella.
(it should also be noted that carlos is starting a new job in another department on Monday- I hope he has better luck than me!)

TO: Carlos, g889, OHT, Mr Tom , Jospehine
From: Anne
10.13

Hello All,
It's a bit early in the day to be thinking about this, but

1. Is anyone partaking in fishy friday today?

2. Is anyone partaking in Friday drinks tonight?

(Carl you need a leaving drinks surely?)

This information is required to get me through the day.

Yours,
Anne
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10.24
from: Carlos
to: anne, OHT, g889, Josephine, Mr Tom
Today is poisson a vendredi - canteen at 1 I think. And tonight, for my leaving do (for which I'm expecting a present and free beer all night!) I think the Freemasons should be the choice of a new generation. You see, I say probably every Friday 'let's go t'Freemasons' and we always end up in the Garden Shite, so, I'm going t'Freemasons, alone if necessary. But the food sounds really good - I may be tempted tonight to get something tasty.
Here's the link!

carlos
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11.19
from: OHT
to: carlos, Anne , g889, Jospehine, Mr Tom

I'm likin' the sound of the food but in the 'leaves' section the 3rd meal highlights 'hand torn Buffalo Mozzarella' RIGHT:

1. All Mozzarella has to be from a Buffalo, that's why it's called Mozzarella
2 Doesn't 'hand torn' just mean they can't be arsed to use a knife. I hope they wash their hands the filthy buggers!

OHT Phd.MBE.A.R.S.E.JCB
>>
11.30
from: Josephine
to OHT, Anne , Carlos, g889,Mr Tom

We should request to watch the hand tearing of the mozarella, surely messy and unneccesary with a touch of pretencion the pretensious bastards with their pretensiousness.

Maybe we should go somewhere less far....sorry i meant pretensious! (i was joking, honest)

how do you spell pretentious? Oh for a speak and spell!
josephine
>>
11.40
from: carlos
to:josphine, OHT, Anne, g889, Mr Tom

Is there any other way to break up mozarella? It's all wet and squishy, and comes in a ball shape in watery stuff. A knife would just be harder. So if they wanted to be all pretentious, they should say 'knife chopped mozarella'. Then we'd all say oooooooooo and all would be well with the world again.

Does anyone know what Salsiccia Piccante Chorizo is? I think it's sausage, but I don't know. If it is, then I've seen a pizza with my name on it. And I'm eating pizza during the England game. I'm so continental!
carlos
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11.50
from: Anne
to: carlos, OHT, g889, Josephine, Mr Tom

I have it on good authority that Chorizo is a particularly tasty sausage, a sort of high class pepperoni if you will...
Ann
>>
11.53
from: Josephine
to:carlos, OHT, Anne, g889, Mr Tom

Surely a knife is easier?

What england game?
Jo
>>
12.03
from: Carlos
to:josephine, OHT, Anne, g889, Mr Tom

But a knife means more washing up. It's easier just ripping it up putting it where you want. And more fun..... You don't need a knife or a chopping board for that...
England are playing Wales on Saturday - it's a world cup qualifier.
Carlos

It has to be said that I don't normaly give a toss about football, but will probably end up watching this game purely so i will know what everyone is talking about on Monday.