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   From: wog-NotThisBit-george@amd-p.com   
      
   "Jeßus"  wrote in message   
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   > Wog George wrote:   
   >> "Charles & Mambo Duckman"  wrote in message   
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   >>> Wog George wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>> When it cut to him pointing and sing-screaming at withered-away   
   >>>>> Africans, I rolled on the fucking floor.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Ah yes.  I nearly puked.  Is that the extent of Bono's help?   
   >>> Yes, of course. Because these two Colorado hypocrites say so on TV, it   
   >>> must be true.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >> I agree wholeheartedly!   
   >>   
   >> On a more (or less) serious note, Bono irritates me because he's always   
   >> in costume.  Richard Burton didn't dress up as King Henry VIII whenever   
   >> he stepped out, yet Bono seems exactly how Trey portrayed him.   
   >   
   >   
   > Correct. Bono has a gargantuan ego, and a pathological need to be in the   
   > public eye. That is the real impetuous for all of his humanitarian work.   
   >   
      
   That's my view.  We see people like Eric Clapton who are humble and distant   
   about their achievements, and others who haven't done anything for anyone   
   but are just normal people when they're off the stage.  Then there's Bono,   
   would attend his local pub but wear the pink glasses and carry on like a   
   ponce.   
      
   John Entwistle from The Who would visit his local pub (a couple of years   
   before the Queen's Head at Stow-on-the-Wold was briefly my local), bring his   
   dog (as in the canine variety), drink, chat, play pool and darts, and just   
   be one of the boys, and then walk home, often leaving his dog behind to walk   
   home when the pooch decided he'd also had enough.  The locals spoke of John   
   in such glowing terms that I regret that I never actually met the man before   
   he joined the big concert in the sky.   
      
   I get the impression that Bono goes to the local to see the locals simply to   
   feed off the adulation.  He should seek therapy for what is an apparent   
   personality defect.   
      
      
   > I've been closely following him since 1980 (as a fan of U2 - up to 2000 at   
   > least), and I predict at some point he will either conquer his ego problem   
   > (unlikely) and bow out gracefully, or go on to become even more more   
   > ridiculous and irritating...   
   > The other alternative is he will enter politics - and if successful there   
   > he may tone his act down - just as long as he is successful at it - in   
   > other words - very much in the public eye.   
   >   
   >   
   It's interesting to compare Bono and Bob Geldof.  Geldof was only a minor   
   yet well-known rock/pop star, and became a world-known figure respected by   
   world leaders.  Bob conforms very much to the "dumb Irishman" stereotype due   
   to the softly-spoken humourous self-deprecating nature of his delivery.  I   
   never liked Boomtown Rats nor Bob Geldof in musical respects, although I   
   very much like the man from everything I've seen from him in interviews.   
   Bono, also from "Dooblern", always strikes me as a big-headed git.  Maybe   
   Bono is a Geldof wannabe, which is why he always makes sure his good works   
   (admittedly valuable to the recipients) are very well publicised.   
      
   If Bono wants people to like him, he need merely become likeable.   
      
   --   
   George   
   "The standard measuring unit for human faeces.  One Katie Couric is   
   approximately 2½ pounds of excrement." - European Faecal Standards &   
   Measurements  - 10 October 2007   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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