But if I put it in, that'd be a groaner.
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If this sounds like a groaner you've heard before, it is.
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Here's a groaner for you: The greyhound stopped to get a hare cut.
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Other entries that caught my eye were RUMBLE SEAT, GROANER and UP-TEMPO.
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And like the pun itself, the song is a bit of a groaner.
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The list also includes notorious groaner The Matrix Reloaded and Bond flick Die Another Day.
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What would be a groaner for most comedians turns into a well-crafted piece of comedy in her hands.
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Meanwhile, the Groaner (Zeb Wells) experiences a traditional Wheelihan Thanksgiving at the family mansion of Black Saturn (Tucker Gilmore).
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I've also wanted to sneak in a "small arms" clue for a long time, groaner as it may be, for T-REX.
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The animation is foolproof in its combination of ingenuity and obviousness, and the script obliterates the difference between a laugher and a groaner.
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Philadelphia has a groaner of a region with Philicon Valley (whoever invented this should be banished from marketing for five years or forced to market Path).
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There are fun references and slight groaner ones, but the characters are still very likable and ground the series, which is a big part of its success.
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He made a groaner of a joke about his wealth, saying that he could hardly use a plebeian instrument like TurboTax to ready his tax returns for public consumption.
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Everyone (both of you!) who has been clamoring for Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston to reteam after the 2011 groaner "Just Go With It": Your prayers have been answered by Netflix.
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My last one to fall was CURT CHILLING, but I absolutely loved the groaner clue "Next Republican nominee after Dwight D. Ice in Shower left office?" and its entry, BARRY COLD WATER.
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Today's quip by Alan Arbesfeld might not be that well-known as far as I can tell, but if you like puns and other kinds of "groaner" jokes, the payoff is definitely there.
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There was at least some expectation on Tuesday that he might let fly an ill-conceived groaner about the wisdom of retaining a pardon or two for later, with a special counsel inquiry shadowing his administration.
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My biggest groaner came with "Apple worms, say," a clue that strongly suggested creepy crawlies but actually referred to electronic Apples and the scourge of MALWARE (which Macs do catch, even though their adherents often say otherwise).
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Hosted by Paul Dabek, an English magician who wears jaunty plaids and tells groaner jokes, "The Illusionists" uses haze effects, loud music and lurid light cues to pep up familiar routines and some that haven't scaled up for Broadway, like Eric Chien's card and coin magic.
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They also find their personal relationships in disarray: Rex is estranged from his daughter, Lex Lightning (Jillian Bell); Black Saturn (Tucker Gilmore) is sorting out his feelings for the villain Groaner (Zeb Wells); and Cooch the superhero cat (Heidi Gardner, voicing what has to be the most appealing animated character currently on the small screen) is mourning Brad.
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I'm sorry this puzzle didn't run on either Easter or Orthodox Easter so I could make a groaner pun about "Easter eggs," secrets that designers conceal in animation, computer games and the like, because there's a great one here that soared above me like an albatross for a long time but is after-the-fact evident in the clues I cited above.
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In Season Two, Groaner becomes a member of Lex Lightning's Injustice Club. In "Black to the Future", his future self is implied to be married to Black Saturn's future self. In Season Three, Groaner gets jealous of having to share a room with Black Saturn and Ringler.
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Groaner (voiced by Zeb Wells) is a skull-headed clown and evil prop comic with a bright red afro. After being imprisoned by the League of Freedom for dangerous pranks, Groaner later assists the heroes with dirty work. He has an intense on again off again rivalry with Black Saturn (spoofing the Joker's intense rivalry with Batman). Introduced in Season One, Groaner would resist killing Black Saturn since it would be hard for him to find another worthy superhero to fight.
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Surrounded by his ruffianly Mescaleros, the old groaner bigs it up on a convincing batch of rebel-rockabilly songs with added rainbow colourings, with the feisty opening track Johnny Appleseed setting the scene with panache.
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After Rex's death and the defeat of the League, she turned on the other supervillains and built an army of robot enforcers using Robobot's schematics. However, with the aid of Future Groaner, Future Black Saturn travels to the past to stop Gomorrah's conception. She hunts Future Groaner, present Black Saturn, Future Robo-Dino, and Future Robobot in the future and almost kills Black Saturn. Though Black Saturn's future self manages to stop her conception causing her to fade from existence revealing her grandmother's deception to Zenith in the present.
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However, his warning causes Rex to contemplate kicking him off the team. It is also implied that Future Black Saturn and Future Groaner are a married couple. In "The Gurman Files", it is revealed that Black Saturn gets his fighting skills from his mother. His real name was also revealed to be C.J. Wheelihan.
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The group began playing dance halls around Johannesburg under a new name, Alexandra Black Mambazo. They developed vocal as well as instrumental routines, and Lerole began singing in a deep, rasping voice. This larynx-damaging vocal style became known as groaning. Zeph Nkabinde also adopted the style, but it was his younger brother Simon "Mahlathini" Nkabinde who became the more well-known groaner.
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In August 1998, still producing influential acts, West Nkosi was caught in a large car accident whilst driving home from the studios. He was left paralysed in hospital before dying in October that year. On the very day of his funeral, Marks Mankwane died due to complications with sugar diabetes. The following year, groaner Mahlathini also died, thus ending the Makgona Tsohle Band's existence.
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But this forces Courtney to give up his superhero alter-ego after Portia quits the team. In "Home is Where the Shart Is", Ringler reunites with Black Saturn after Portia broke up with him due to him posting the video of her torturing a gimp in Flesh Fest which cost her reputation and her job. Though Groaner warns Ringler to stay out of his way of dealing with Black Saturn.
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Mbaqanga musicians received little money. For example, Simon "Mahlathini" Nkabinde, one of the most well-known mbaqanga singers (and arguably the most famous mbaqanga "groaner", nicknamed the "lion of Soweto"), died a poor man.Sowetan.co.za This was partly due to the exploitation of black South African musicians at home and abroad as Mahlathini pointed out. Mbaqanga groups of the 1960s also found it difficult to get air time on local radio stations, and had to perform outside record stores to attract audiences.
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" In the UK, the Gramophone liked it. "Bing Crosby seems to be holding back deliberately in his collection of Hawaiian-tinged songs on Reprise R6106, for he projects without any effort at all, just as he has always done during the last thirty-eight years." Also in the UK, the New Musical Express was even more enthusiastic commenting: "A four star album...With a luxury orchestral backing from Nelson Riddle, the “Old Groaner” shows he is indeed the Peter Pan of recordland.
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Billboard reviewed it saying: :Two disk album featuring three novelty tunes and one ballad from the latest Crosby-Hope flicker, Road to Rio, is directly aimed at the film fan market, with release date timed to coincide with national showing of pic. Previously out as single platters, all four tunes enjoyed some success with Crosby's "But Beautiful" ballad easily taking top honors. Bing's "Language" with the Andrews Sisters will probably gain new popularity once public ganders gals and the groaner sell it on the screen.
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The two songs performed by Artie and Quinn were not reviewed as enthusiastically. Both Futterman and Slezak approved of the harmonies in "I'm Still Standing", though Futterman thought the number felt "more subdued than we'd expect", and Slezak wrote that "the song choice was a little bit of a groaner" before he appended a "B" grade. Chaney gave the song a "C" and said that "something about this segment wasn’t as dynamic as it should have been". Votta and Strecker both described the performance as "pleasant", the latter also added a "B−" grade.
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In one sense, this may be almost mandatory, since the program needs every angle possible to differentiate it from the Crosby-less Crosby platter sessions aired by so many stations. Irrespective of the sales palaver, tho, the Crosby introductions to the records, the tunes chosen (he doesn’t limit them to his own) and the inimitable Groaner style should emerge as a potent daytime session. Ken Carpenter is on hand with his usual nifty assist and the two combine to do an easy-to-take selling job on the juice as its edge over the competish.
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Bopape formed a set group of about ten female singers, among them Hilda Tloubatla, Juliet Mazamisa, Ethel Mngomezulu, Nobesuthu Mbadu and Mildred Mangxola, who were to provide all the "girl group" recordings at Mavuthela, recording over and over again under many different names. Nkabinde was placed as Mavuthela's regular groaner. The most well-known name ended being "Mahotella Queens", and it was under this name that the Mavuthela vocal team, fronted by Nkabinde's searing groaning vocals, became highly popular and productive. The 1960s and 1970s were the salad days for Nkabinde and his associated acts.
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Billboard reviewed the album saying: :Crosby singing Porter standards is calculated to be a sure-fire formula, and this album will doubtless enjoy a good sale. Sides were all cut in recent years, however, and some of them aren’t top calibre for the Groaner. However, the incomparable Crosby intelligence and projection are there, even if the voice sometimes isn’t, and his interpretations are impressive. This is his second album of Porter tunes, but the selection is fine, with all the ditties familiar favorites, with the possible exception of "I Never Realized".
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Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times gave the movie three stars. While impressed by Zellweger's "ferociously strong performance", he found the film did not teach us "much about her society", and that the Hasidic community could have been treated in greater depth. Charles Taylor of Salon likewise appreciated Zellweger's performance, while also finding the cultural aspect treated too superficially. He described Sonia's choices as "clichés left over from the Liberated Woman movies of 20 years ago", and the movie generally as "that old middle-of-the-road groaner about the good and bad in every race".
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To promote them, he formed a new group of female vocalists and paired them with Makgona Tsohle. To front the act, he brought in a young, shy, deep- voiced, "groaner" called Simon Mahlathini Nkabinde. This pairing of mbaqanga with vocals became known as "mgqashiyo", meaning "to bounce", after the "bouncy" rhythms of the style. The female vocalists were released under different names, such as Izintombi Zomgqashiyo, The Dima Sisters, and the Mahotella Queens; the first two biggest selling Mavuthela singles had both been pressed with the same name, Mahotella Queens, so that was the pseudonym that became etched in the public's memory as the group's name.
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Jenna Busch from IGN rated the episode 8 out of 10, noting that "political correctness in comedy is sort of a divisive issue". Busch enjoyed Mary "spouting groaner lines" and compared her to Pierce Hawthorne from Community, saying "the funny thing about [Pierce] is how offensive he is." Oliver Sava of The A.V. Club gave the episode a B, saying that "this episode's biggest failing is not having Amy and Mary share a scene". The episode was rated 42 out of 100 by the TV critic; it was said to be "dull" and "stasis", with Mary's insistence on the gang praying described as "inappropriate".
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Mac Miller figures into the great "Coming Back", but the bits about Domo's family, his autistic brother, and his own search for self make this a meatier album than expected." Keith Nelson Jr. of HipHopDX said, "It's the subtle sequencing--deliberate to show his progression--that elevates the project from merely a delinquent to being the tale of a reformed man." Sheldon Pearce of Pitchfork said, "Sometimes the hooks on Genesis get wonky, there are portions of the record that feel unfinished (like the second half of "Wanderer"), and every now and then Domo will sneak in a groaner. But for the most part, Genesis is a revelation.
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He scored hits on Mavuthela's Motella and Gumba Gumba with very popular numbers including "Sithunyiwe" ("We Have Been Sent", later recorded as "Thokozile" in 1986), "Umoya" ("The Wind"), "Imbodlomane" ("Groaner"), and "Bantwanyana" ("Children", later recorded as "Nina Majuba" in 1986). Nkabinde's success was represented by his national nickname, "Indoda Mahlathini" ("Mahlathini the main man"), and he made thousands upon thousands of concert appearances alongside the Mahotella Queens and the Makgona Tsohle Band. In 1971, Nkabinde fell out with Bopape and left Gallo-Mavuthela, joining Satbel Record Company under producer Cambridge Matiwane. He recorded with a new female troupe called "The Mahlathini Queens" and a new backing band, "The Mahlathini Guitar Band" (also known as "Indlondlo Bashise").
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Lead groaner Mahlathini had already moved to rival label EMI (in early 1972), where he had successful records with backing team Ndlondlo Bashise and new female group the Mahlathini Girls. The new Mahotella Queens line-up over at Gallo found just as much success as the original Queens, recording on-and-off with new male groaners such as Robert Mbazo Mkhize of Abafana Baseqhudeni. Ladysmith Black Mambazo, headed by the sweet soprano of Joseph Shabalala, arose in the 1960s, and became perhaps the biggest isicathamiya stars in South Africa's history. Their first album was 1973's Amabutho, which was also the first gold record by black musicians; it sold over 25,000 copies.
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The Crosby show majors in sentimentality, but cleverly so, stopping short of goo, gush or schmaltz. He introduced his family who went through some musical romps while wife Kathryn showed a real talent for dancing. Crosby’s nostalgic repertory was spiked with a handful of new songs, indicating an awareness of what gives these days, though the crowd stood after his reprise in singalong style some 30 or so standards from the ‘20s, ‘30s and ‘40s… Show was well balanced, perfectly paced, expertly interlinked and a satisfyingly complete presentation." Also Geoffrey Wansell writing for the prestigious newspaper The Times saw the show and commented: "The voice of the Old Groaner may not be quite as smooth now at 72.
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Aaron Jack Lerole of Black Mambazo added groaning male vocals to the female harmonies, later being replaced by Simon 'Mahlathini' Nkabinde, who has become perhaps the most influential and well-known South African "groaner" of the twentieth century. Marks Mankwane and Joseph Makwela's mbaqanga innovations evolved into the more danceable mgqashiyo sound when the two joined forces with Mahlathini and the new female group Mahotella Queens, in Mankwane's backing group Makhona Tsohle Band (also featuring Makwela along with saxophonist-turned-producer West Nkosi, rhythm guitarist Vivian Ngubane, and drummer Lucky Monama). The Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens/Makhona Tsohle outfit recorded as a studio unit for Gallo Record Company, to great national success, pioneering mgqashiyo music all over the country to equal success. In 1967 Miriam Makeba released US hit "Pata Pata".
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The legendary group boasts three grammy wins. The Mahotella Queens also remain high-selling, and – with the death of long-time groaner Mahlathini in 1999 – have recorded several new albums, including their 2007 release Siyadumisa (Songs of Praise). 2008 has also seen the return of a former singer with the Mahotella Queens, Irene Mawela. Mawela appeared on thousands of mbaqanga and mgqashiyo recording sessions well throughout the 1960s and the 1970s, recording mainly for Gallo Record Company, often as part of the line-ups of the Mahotella Queens, the Mgababa Queens, Izintombi Zomgqashiyo, and also under her own name (though sometimes as Irene & The Sweet Melodians, or Irene & The Zebra Queens). In 1983 she left the company to record as a solo artist, with a successful Venda- traditional release Khanani Yanga.
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