# Mick Jagger: what was it all for? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 15, 2002, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mick-jagger-what-was-it-all-for/114212 "2002-06-15T13:37:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![G.Nome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c89c15/32.png) [@G.Nome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G.Nome)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mick-jagger-what-was-it-all-for/114212/41 "2002-06-18T00:53:25Z")
Well, to be honest although I have every Led Zeppelin album up to Coda I must have lost the only couple of Stones albums I ever bought. Before I started working my pocket money was meagre and I couldn’t risk buying an album without being sure I would love every track. I was so poor that I couldn’t even relate to acid wash jeans. I could never be a goth either because I have freckles. Oh well. About Mick Jagger: I think the value of a good rebel is ever increasing. I don’t even mind Eminem’s misogeny especially after I heard about the dozens game which seems to have been invented by African Americans to teach people how to cope with verbal abuse without cracking. You don’t seem to hear much about that when Eminem’s lyrics are discussed which they constantly are. Rather than just keeping silent though I love a chance for verbal retaliation. All women should. There just seems to be a definite whiff of fascism in the air these days, that’s all. Generation x, y and z or whatever they’re called seem so fanatical (almost scarily so) in their beliefs. It’s like the left has gone so far in that direction that it’s become the right. Rebels aren’t supposed to be captured by the ruling government and that’s what seems to have happened in Mick Jagger’s case. If anyone reads this thank you very much. It’s way too long. If everyone confined themselves to one paragraph a post the amount of words actually read would probably sky rocket. Do you at least agree with that? ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mick-jagger-what-was-it-all-for/114212/42 "2002-06-18T05:26:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Steve Wright \* > \*\* > I’m not even getting the frame. No matter; I shall paint my own picture, with the pigment of the imagination, upon the canvas of unrealised dreams, and hang it in the gallery of perplexity… \*\* Man, that was _beautiful_… ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mick-jagger-what-was-it-all-for/114212/43 "2002-06-18T06:19:44Z")
That part o’ **Steve Wright’s** post is very sig-worthy. Gorgeous stuff. (Just confinin’ myself to **G.Nome’s** requirement of a one-paragraph post for readability. Hope it meets with her approval.) ---
**Author:** ![leechbabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@leechbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leechbabe)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mick-jagger-what-was-it-all-for/114212/44 "2002-06-18T06:25:49Z")
This is great, such a giggle of a thread (thanks **woolly** for pointing it out). Only problem now is to explain to my boss why I am sitting here laughing 😃 Way to go **Wolfie** you 'th bomb 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mick-jagger-what-was-it-all-for/114212/45 "2002-06-18T19:44:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by The Griffin \* > \*\*Nobody should be knighted anymore imho. \*\* Speaking from across the pond, this Yank doesn’t think being knighted is such an affront to social equity in any event. OK, so now Mick Jagger gets to call himself Sir Mick if he wants, but it’s not like it’s medieval times and he’s going to be given a castle and a gaggle of oppressed peasantry to work his fields. Oh wait, he could easily have that if he wants in any case, but not because he’s been knighted. Isn’t being knighted these days really just a recognition of achievement, like getting a medal? ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mick-jagger-what-was-it-all-for/114212/46 "2002-06-18T19:53:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by The Griffin \* > \*\*Nobody should be knighted anymore imho. \*\* Speaking from across the pond, this Yank doesn’t think being knighted is such an affront to social equity in any event. OK, so now Mick Jagger gets to call himself Sir Mick if he wants, but it’s not like it’s medieval times and he’s going to be given a castle and a gaggle of oppressed peasantry to work his fields. Oh wait, he could easily have that if he wants in any case, but not because he’s been knighted. Isn’t being knighted these days really just a recognition of achievement, like getting a medal? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mick-jagger-what-was-it-all-for/114212.md?page=2)