I realize in reading some of Pierre Igot’s latest posts that the intent of the title of my last post on bugs was not very clear. In the absense of some specific cultural knowledge of American popular music of the early 1980s, my title “Bugs stink! Yeah Yeah!” could very easily be interpreted as condescending or as a brush-off of user concerns.
That is not what I intended, however. See, there’s a song called “Love Stinks” (from an album of the same name) that was performed by the J. Geils Band in 1979 or 1980 that was very popular on the radio when I was growing up. The chorus of the song is roughly this:
(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah
(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah
(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah
(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah
where each of the “yeah yeah” bits is an affirmation of the sentiment that “love stinks.”
That’s the spirit in which I used the lyric as a title for my post — bugs do stink, and there is much agreement about that. If you look at my post titles, you’ll see that many of them are silly puns or simple plays on words. As I was writing my last post, “Love Stinks” was playing on the radio and I thought it might be a silly little pun to use.
So, if my post title sounded like a brush-off or a put-down, I’m sorry. I definately didn’t intend it to be one.