occupying wall street - will it do any good

[Arising_uk]

You're quackers bob. Not sure how it works in the 'land of the free' but in the UK we have the British Medical Association to licence and regulate doctors. We also allow the "many qualified people who can diagnose and treat a wide variety of medical problems"(care to give an example of what you talk about?) to provide treatments as long as they cause no obvious harm, we ust don't allow them to call themselves doctors. Tell you what, lets do a thought experiment, can you think of a reason why our govt decided to formalize and licence those who practiced medicine in the first place?

[chaz wyman]

I'm sure they're all still listening to ABBA, trying to figure out what made ABBA so successful. The answer, of course, is the free-market USA.

Abba is successful because the US has a free-market?!?!?!?!?

1) Abba is not longer successful
2) The USA does not, and never has had a free-market.
3) You are as mad as a brush!

[John]

I'm sure they're all still listening to ABBA, trying to figure out what made ABBA so successful. The answer, of course, is the free-market USA.

Abba is successful because the US has a free-market?!?!?!?!?

1) Abba is not longer successful
2) The USA does not, and never has had a free-market.
3) You are as mad as a brush!

It's particularly ironic that they were, apparently, hugely popular in Eastern Europe at the time and yet the USA was one of their least successful markets.

Why I took the time to research that when bob's obviously trolling I don't know. Something to fill a free moment I suppose. I'm assuming he's trolling mind you because if not then you're probably right when you said he was "mad as a brush".

[chaz wyman]

That's absolutely right. The Earth belongs to everyone, and you should be able to live anywhere in the world without restrictions or immigration laws. The problem, of course, is that when you have a country that everyone wants to emigrate to, legally or illegally, it causes problems. The answer, of course, is to crush oppressive governments causing people to want to emigrate.

WHy has the US government been supporting those oppressive governments and has been actively suppressing democracy all over the world for 60 years?

[bobevenson]

I'm sure they're all still listening to ABBA, trying to figure out what made ABBA so successful. The answer, of course, is the free-market USA.

Abba is successful because the US has a free-market?!?!?!?!?

1) Abba is not longer successful
2) The USA does not, and never has had a free-market.
3) You are as mad as a brush!

It's particularly ironic that they were, apparently, hugely popular in Eastern Europe at the time and yet the USA was one of their least successful markets.

Why don't you put this in your pipe and smoke it with your drugs:
Success in the United States During their active career, from 1972 to 1982, fourteen of ABBAs singles reached Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and on Cashbox Top 100 singles chart, ten of them reached Top 20 and four of them placed in Top 10 on both charts, with "Dancing Queen" peaking at number 1 also on both charts. While "Fernando" and "SOS" did not break Top 10 on Billboard Hot 100 chart they reached Top 10 on Cashbox ("Fernando") and Record World ('SOS") charts.

The group also had twelve Top 20 singles on Billboard Adult Contemporary chart with two of them, "Fernando" and "The Winner Takes It All", peaking at number 1. "Lay All Your Love on Me" was ABBA's fourth number 1 single on Billboard charts, topping its Hot Dance Club Play chart. "Dancing Queen" and "Take a Chance on Me" singles were certified gold (more than 1 million copies sold) by RIAA.

Nine ABBA albums made their way into the Top 100 on Billboard 200 album chart with seven of them getting into the Top 50. Four of those albums reached Top 20 with ABBA: The Album at number 14 being the highest position. Five albums received RIAA gold (more than 500,000 copies sold) certification, and three acquired platinum (more than 1 million copies sold) status. ABBA Gold: Greatest Hits collection released in the United States in 1993 became a 7-time platinum bestseller and topped Bilboard Top Pop Catalog Albums chart (it also peaked at number 11 on a Billboard Comprehensive Albums chart).

[Arising_uk]

Why do the barking Americans always think that big fonts adds import to their words?

Still, as I wondered as a youth who was to blame for ABBA being a success. What a bunch of dancing queens the Yank appears to be.

[Bill Wiltrack]

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[bobevenson]

Why do the barking Americans always think that big fonts adds import to their words?

They're not my words, they're Wikipedia's. I figure that hitting you over the head with a big font is metaphorically like using a sledgehammer to drive some sense into it.

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[bobevenson]

The best photo is ABBA sitting on a park bench, an awesome and very philosophical shot used for one of their albums.

[Arising_uk]

I wish to defame every goddamn last one of them!

Who's this "them" numbnuts?

[Arising_uk]

They're not my words, they're Wikipedia's. I figure that hitting you over the head with a big font is metaphorically like using a sledgehammer to drive some sense into it.

I doubt wiki uses such fonts. But you appear to be answering your own question about why some 'europeans' dislike the Yank.

Who's this "you"? As I doubt you'll find me disagreeing that ABBA sold a lot of records.

[John]

Why don't you put this in your pipe and smoke it with your drugs:
Success in the United States ...............

Why don't you try reading the article from their official website that makes it quite clear that they achieved modest success in the USA that was not comparable to the success they achieved elsewhere. I've already provided the link so it shouldn't be too hard.

Now stop making a full of yourself. If you want to keep trolling at least retain a semblance of knowing what you're talking about or it will get boring pretty quickly.

[chaz wyman]

The answer, of course, is the free-market USA.

WHy has the US government been supporting those oppressive governments and has been actively suppressing democracy all over the world for 60 years?

Why are you such an asinine parochial moron?

[chaz wyman]

Why do the barking Americans always think that big fonts adds import to their words?

They're not my words, they're Wikipedia's. I figure that hitting you over the head with a big font is metaphorically like using a sledgehammer to drive some sense into it.

WHy has the US government been supporting those oppressive governments and has been actively suppressing democracy all over the world for 60 years?

Why are you such an asinine parochial moron?