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Sex Pistols turn down hall of fame

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Never mind the Rock Hall, there go the Sex Pistols.

Britain"s most infamous punk rabble rousers are giving the big middle finger to the music industry types who"ve tapped the band for enshrinement in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, issuing a grammatically impaired open letter saying they have no intention of attending the induction ceremony scheduled for Mar. 13 at New York"s Waldorf Astoria Hotel.

"Next to the sex Pistols, rock and roll and that hall of fame is a piss stain. Your museum. Urine in wine. We"re not coming," the band says via a handwritten note posted on frontman Johnny Rotten"s Website, thefiilthandthefury.co.uk. "Were [sic] not your monkey and so what? Fame at $25,000 if we paid for a table, or $15,000 to squeak up in the gallery, goes to a non-profit organization [sic] selling us a load of old famous."

The Sex Pistols, who had been passed over by voters for several years before making the list, had been expected to inject a little anarchy into the proceedings as one of five acts being inducted. Black Sabbath, Blondie, Lynyrd Skynyrd and the late Miles Davis will also be feted.

But, in a nod to the rebel spirit that inspired generations of mohawk-wearing youth, and helped them sell more than a million records, the Sex Pistols made it perfectly clear where their loyalties lie--with themselves.

"Congratulations," the missive continues. "If you voted for us, hope you noted your reasons. Your [sic] anonymous as judges, but your [sic] still music industry people. Were [sic] not coming. Your [sic] not paying attention. Outside the sh-t-stem is a real Sex Pistol."

With the Sex Pistols apparently sitting out the ceremony, there could still be some fireworks courtesy of Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne. In 2000, tired of repeated rejections by voters who opted for tamer acts like Percy Sledge and Bob Seger, Osbourne and his "War Pigs" comrades slammed the Rock Hall selection process, calling it "meaningless" because it"s not voted on by fans. However, the bat-chomping metalhead is expected to turn up at next month"s induction.

Despite releasing only one album, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here Comes the Sex Pistols, the Sex Pistols--whose lineup included Johnny Rotten, Paul Cook, Steve Jones, Glen Matlock and the late Sid Vicious--gave 1970s rock "n" roll a major kick in the ass with blistering, two-minute odes to self-destruction, rebellion and generally bad behavior, including the indelible punk anthems "Anarchy in the U.K." and "God Save the Queen."

The band split in 1978, but surviving members regrouped in 1996 and 2003 for two extremely lucrative tours, which caused some longtime fans to grouse that the band sold out.

In a 2003 interview with Billboard.com, Rotten dissed the band"s induction into the "Hall of Shame" and explained why the Sex Pistols have never issued new material since their heyday.

"We only needed to make one album to absolutely define how the world is," the snarling singer said. "Quite frankly, I think it"s a miracle that we"re still alive, and that"s historical in itself. We fought this industry tooth and nail nonstop for 25 solid years, and we"re still here."

They just won"t be in New York for the ceremony.

Well, I can"t say i"m really surprised about this. Personally, I find it somewhat amusing that middle-aged men are still acting like rebellious teenagers.

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Best game on The Price is Right

When I was young, staying home sick from school meant two things: sipping on ginger ale, and daytime TV. The shows for pre-school children were entertaining, the soap operas novel, but it was gameshows that held the most appeal for me. Programs like Liars Club and Family Feud made for great distractions while stretched out on the couch with a mild fever, but it was The Price is Right that got my sister and I the most excited. It was like a refugee from an earlier TV era, all flashing lightbulbs, vivid 70s colour schemes, beautiful hostesses and a flamboyantly dressed announcer. It was a surreal celebration of consumer culture. It taught me the words "spayed and neutered."

Naturally, I wasn't all that interested in the prices of "stylish luggage" or 2000 Flushes Blue. In fact, because I'm Canadian, the U.S. dollar values of such products are still beyond my comprehension. I was interested in the games.



Many of the games were mind-numbing in their simplicity. It must have been a major letdown for a contestant to be picked to "Come on Down!", avoid being out-bid by a dollar on Contestants' Row, and then discover they're playing a game like Take Two or Swap Meet, two of the dozens of games which essentially required the contestant to guess whether one item was more or less expensive than another, or to find the two products out of three which added up to a certain value. Those games were dull, but they only served to heighten the anticipation.



The Price is Right has a canon of over 70 games. In all truth, only a handful were actually exciting, but even the prospect of seeing them was enough to keep me tuned in. I'd turn up the volume especially loud if I went to the bathroom, out of fear of missing them. For me, they were:



1. Clock Game

This game was exiting for one reason only; suspense. The contestant was given a total of 30 seconds to guess the values of the two items. Through the ingenious use of split-screen technology, it appeared to me in TV-land that the contestant was dwarfed by the immense clockface, its deafening ticking sound matching the accelerating pace of my heart.

Sadly, I could find no images of this game.



2. Punch a Bunch





My little brother's favourite. $10,000 is at stake, and the game is played (like many) in two phases. First, the contestant must demonstrate his or her shopping aisle savy by determining if the prices of four small items is higher or lower than the displayed value. For each correct guess, the contestant receives a single "punch" on the punch board - an impressive grid of paper circles, each guarding a prize worth anywhere from $50 to $10,000. Punching styles varied from contestant to contestant, with old grannies sometimes karate chopping the board, or beefy college students in football sweaters sometimes delicately sliding their hands into the cavity.



3. Cliff Hangers





Commonly called "The Yodel Game". If I were in the bathroom for this one, I'd be downstairs in a seconds, with my pants still around my ankles. It was one of the most rare games of its day, always certain to start a frenzy in the studio audience that almost matched my elation at home. It was a sinister type of joy, laced with cruel hope that the contestant would fail. Failure, of course, resulted in the gruesome death of the mountain climber.

The contestant sees three items. He or she must estimate the price of the first item. The climber is sent one step closer to his death for every dollar that the contestant is away from the actual price. It was always my sinister hope that the contestant would exceed $25 in mistakes, and the happy Swiss alpine adventurer would plummet to the rocks below.



4. Plinko





For many, this seems to be the only Price is Right game that mattered. It was the only game capable of exceeding Cliff Hangers for sheer excitement. Like all Price is Right games, it was deliciously low-fi, simply a slanted peg board and some flat discs. But it had the power to make dreams come true.

One again, the player must guess the prices of four small grocery items. For every correct guess, Bob Barker gave the contestant a Plinko disc. Then he or she climbed the curving stairs, and met their destiny. Many would try to strategize, experimenting with disc placement. Once released, the disc would fall into the game, bounce from peg to peg (making the "plink" sound that gave the game its name), and land in a slot with an assigned value. It was enough to put me into delerious ecstacy.



Also entertaining: Septuagenarian Bob Barker liked to molest his 'beauties'!



I was going to make this a poll, but with seventy games to choose from, I decided to present it like this. Also, I would love to have a sound file of the failure sound the show used. You know, the sad trumpets. Anybody have it?

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