Let's talk about this brilliant, forgotten gem of a song. ILG'ers will know what I'm talking about!
(Also, is this actually racist like I kind of dread? Or just a brilliant denouncement of modern alienating society?)
― Mordy, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 11:07 (seventeen years ago)
bongo!
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 11:47 (seventeen years ago)
On a sidenote, Thorbjørn Jagland, who was the Norwegian prime minister then, got very infamous for joking about Gabon's then current president Omar Bongo calling him "Bongo from Congo". Maybe kind of worked as an inside joke among people in the foreign department (and obviously with lots of irony, joking more about old children's books than about the man himself), but when the prime minister made the same joke on prime time TV it was hardly very funny anymore.
― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 12:43 (seventeen years ago)
(hmm.. This happened in 2001, so he wasn't the prime minister anymore. But still...)
― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 12:45 (seventeen years ago)
(jokes have a half life o n retelling. By then, it was maybe only 0.0001 funny)
― Mark G, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 13:09 (seventeen years ago)
"I'ma call you back. I'm snitting next to Borpo" is still 100% funny.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 23:10 (seventeen years ago)
nothing can go wrongo, I'm in the congothis song might be better
― ❤ⓛⓞⓥⓔ❤ (CaptainLorax), Tuesday, 11 November 2008 23:42 (seventeen years ago)
skip to 1:36
― ❤ⓛⓞⓥⓔ❤ (CaptainLorax), Tuesday, 11 November 2008 23:44 (seventeen years ago)
then skip to 4:20
― ❤ⓛⓞⓥⓔ❤ (CaptainLorax), Tuesday, 11 November 2008 23:47 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.channel4.com/news/video-ukips-bloom-i-dont-see-why-bongo-bongo-is-racist
― glumdalclitch, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 19:28 (twelve years ago)