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Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform => Straight, Inc. and Derivatives => Topic started by: Carmel on May 15, 2002, 02:20:00 PM
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...."I am Straight,
hear me roar in numbers too big to ignore..
And I know too much to go back and pretend...
'cause I heard it all before and I've been down there on the floor...
No ones ever gonna keep me down again....
Yes I'm wise but its wisdom born of pain....
Yes I paid the price, but look how much I've gained....
If I have to, I can do anything....
I am strong, I am invincible, I am Straight...
-Song sung every Friday before Open Meeting
Dallas-Straight
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yeah...
Hey look me over, Over hill over dale, we sung those mostly before rip raps....
I just find it ironic that the words in that Open meeting song have a whole new ironic meaning and perspective now than they did then...
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That song was originally bastardized at the Seed.
Replace I am straigtling with I am seedling, and you get the idea....
I hated that bitch Helen Reddy ever since forced to sing that song with that phony enthusiasm we used to have to muster up. Not only that, I sing like shit.
Seriously, ever since those days, I hate being in any organized group, church, clubs, whatever, they all creep me out.
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the one I've always hated the most has got to be:
Straight is IT
the free-est place we've ever found
Straight is it!
the one that never lets you down
Straight is it
the most refreshing place around
Straight is it!
(to the tune of "coke is it")
it's just irony upon irony. surely this wasn't just a cinci. thing?
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90% of them were lifted directly from the seed, like almost everything else about the straight.
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Carmel:
Really, you shouldn't have!!!! Now I've gotten that God forskaen and cursed thing running throughmy head. Complete with the hand motions!!!!
I could have gone happy to my grave with out that.
Clay
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aaaagh. I had forgotten most of that song but now I remember it all too clearly. I have a theory that those song were to keep people from being able to think clearly enough during the breaks to know what was happening to them...god awful method of repression.
-Leslie
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I'm on my way
out the "C" room door
Im on my way
Out the C room door
Im on my WAYYYY..
I got sat on for that one. Thanks Doug H.
God, shall I now puke? True that on the Helen Reddy associations too. Christmas Carolers have dissapeared after knocking on MY door.
So here is another "jerk classic" from 1981
Zippin' a do dah
Twistin' a Jay
Put me on the girls side 'cause I wanna get laid....
Love you group..
BILL
PS>>> HOW ABOUT "GOING BANaNAS??" hopefully that didn't get passed on forever too....
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How about "alice the camel"...used to request that song every time that Alice staff member was in the room. Think she married William Rollins; bet that was one ugly marriage.
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That bitch Alice sure did marry William Rollings. I was on first phase when she came into group wearing her wedding dress with her boobs falling out all over the place - telling us about "saving ourselves for marriage" and how if we work our programs "we can have what she has". I remember thinking "bitch, I don't want what YOU have." LOL
Shelby
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I still remember those stupid songs, they treated us like we were a choir sometimes and that we had to hit the notes just perfect.
I remember once I stood up and sung like Ethel Merman (at the time I could make my voice sound just like hers) I was nervous the whole time, but I got a standing ovation.
LOL
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Remember having to flap your arms around so you could request a stupid song. I use to pick 9 to 9 just for the irony. My mom came down from Orlando when I first made second phase and we stayed at Todd Toth's aunts place in Treasure Island. I remember one day coming out and seeing Alice and William Rollins right after they got married. For some reason I was always afraid of William and later I found out that he works as a detective for the Sherriffs as an investigator espessially in drug cases, scary thought. Also, remember Jim Sailor, later I found out he got into the adult porn business. Remember Mark McGire or something like that he married another chick that was a staff member. I got all sorts of stories and it is facsinating hearing about old names long forgotter. Sorry for getting off the subject, Zippedeee dooooo da, another song.
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Jim Sailor:He was very kind and decent to me on more than one occasion. I dont recall him being one of the nut-types on staff. Well, Rollins is a drug warrior? I respect nobody who wears a badge to enforce unjust laws. Cops are an interaction I cannot avoid in my work at times, and I have gotten to know a few. Most are not smart enough to critically think through the laws to see the people they affect. A porn star or producer has a higher place in my book, as that is a man who says, this is what I do, and I won't let you stop me. You don't have to buy his product. More satisfaction at the end of the day for Jim knowing the straighty laced types rent his flicks on the sly then William can get knowing he stopped another ounce of pot and probably ruined some guys year for it.
Hmm
Bill
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Back to the flapping arms thing, we needed to do that constantly (except in open meetings, guess they didn't want the parents knowing about it). Anyway, both my middle fingers on my hand are bent in an awkward way when I straighten them out, guess that tells you how messed up things can still be physically, mentally and emotionally today
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On 2002-09-15 21:35:00, Tampa survivor wrote:
Well, Rollins is a drug warrior? I respect nobody who wears a badge to enforce unjust laws. Cops are an interaction I cannot avoid in my work at times, and I have gotten to know a few. Most are not smart enough to critically think through the laws to see the people they affect.
And some are
[link=http://leap.cc/publications/endprohnow.htm]End Prohibition Now![/link]
An Essay
By Retired Narcotics Cop Jack A. Cole
May 8, 2002
That essay reminds me very much of some of the introductory posts from former staff members. I wonder if Rollins might ever read this forum or Mr. Cole's essay.
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Holy Moly - Jim is a porno star? That is beautiful.....and funny as hell! We used to pal around while we were on our program. BTW - does anyone know how to get in touch w/Jim or his brother John? Would love to chat w/them.
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good old rockytop..
oh hell.
all these straight songs are rippin' through my mind now.
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I am straight, hear me roar, problems don't ignore, just a little prinrik in my head. You don't know who I am, just a little ding, just like an accident ahead. I am me, leave me alone, just little ding dongs along, you know, just who I am. Bite an apple, peach or fig, Newton's in your head. Jim is just a guy, with a ding a ling aling, not to confuse the eye, don't ignore me hear me roar, just another door. Peace.
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If I hear Clouds I feel the urge to vomit!!!Theres a few others that trigger :scared: that response .
[ This Message was edited by: aynsmom on 2002-11-29 18:32 ]
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funny you mention that, clouds make me cry also, too bad, aI say, these are the days of new improvement within, no more clouds or crap, only in the typographical error, Timothy Leary would have loved this.
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I started out in the second building of the original Straight, and we used to sing some pretty damn wild songs back then. We had a lady who was the wife of a preacher of an Epistople Church off 30th Ave in St. Pete. Their daughter was in the program and I can't remember her name offhand, but her mom had a piano placed in the building and twice a week she would play it and we would sing our asses off! It was the only thing I looked forward to and the only thing that I did right when I was being a jerk, because I did not want to piss her off and possibly ruin the only good thing the damn place had going at the time.
One of the wildest songs that we got to sing was a bastardized version of "Won't Last A Day Without You" by the Carpenters. We changed it to "Won't Last A Day Without Straight." It was one of the few songs that I could really belt out loud. After awhile we started singing the song the original way, and staff never noticed. It was a favorite for Love Raps. It was really good for bringing about a feeling of unity. We even got into a thing during lunch where girls side or guys side would request a solo from one of the group "favorites." I remember that I was called on quite a bit by the girls side to sing this one particular song. I guess in a way it was their way of showing their admiration for the way I could take a shitty rap and make it into something just as long as I got called on. Hey Marnie, you were there, got any angles on this that you could add?