"Pencil Neck Geek" song - is it racist?
John Kuszewski
|> I've been familiar with this song since the early 70's, and maybe I'm just
|> tired of it, but I can honestly say that I don't find it funny anymore.
|> Isn't this song really a racist song disguised as humor? If you substituted
|> "blacks", "Jews", or "gays" for "pencil-neck geeks", wouldn't the song become
|> offensive? Maybe I'm taking the song too seriously, but it's something I
|> can't overlook anymore. It seems like a lot of hatred is buried in that
|> song, but because "pencil-neck geeks" don't actually exist, it's OK to talk
|> about snapping their necks, cutting them up for fish bait, etc. Has Dr.
|> Demento ever received flack for playing this song, or am I the only one to
|> notice this?
|>
|> Pam V.K.
|> Indianapolis
Get a grip, geek. You're next.
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Stephen W. Worth
VON...@INDY.NAVY.MIL (Pam V.K.) wrote:
>Isn't this song really a racist song disguised as humor? If you substituted
>"blacks", "Jews", or "gays" for "pencil-neck geeks", wouldn't the song become
>offensive? Maybe I'm taking the song too seriously, but it's something I
>can't overlook anymore. It seems like a lot of hatred is buried in that
>song, but because "pencil-neck geeks" don't actually exist, it's OK to talk
>about snapping their necks, cutting them up for fish bait, etc. Has Dr.
>Demento ever received flack for playing this song, or am I the only one to
>notice this?
Oh come on! It's a song by a wrestler! Don't you watch wrestling on TV?
They're always snarling and yipping about what they're gonna do to their
next challlenger. Boy, I bet you don't like the Three Stooges either.
(another gender related taste)
FREDDIE BLASSIE IS GOD! He discovered my all-time favorite Wrestler...
George (the Animal) Steele.... You should have seen the way Blassie used
to terrorize Regis Philbin (the original pencil necked geek) Also, Andy
Kaufman's "My Breakfast With Blassie" is a classic.
"Pencil necked geek! Scum sucking freak!"
It's like poetry to my ears!
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Pam V.K.
tired of it, but I can honestly say that I don't find it funny anymore.
"blacks", "Jews", or "gays" for "pencil-neck geeks", wouldn't the song become
offensive? Maybe I'm taking the song too seriously, but it's something I
can't overlook anymore. It seems like a lot of hatred is buried in that
song, but because "pencil-neck geeks" don't actually exist, it's OK to talk
about snapping their necks, cutting them up for fish bait, etc. Has Dr.
Demento ever received flack for playing this song, or am I the only one to
notice this?
Pam V.K.
Indianapolis
Carl McCaskey
: I've been familiar with this song since the early 70's, and maybe I'm just
You're the only one to notice something that doesn't exist. Lighten up.
[BTW, do you know of Freddie Blassie's history at all?]
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Carlos May
"geek" hater who sings it is, showing how absurd prejudice can
be in warping someone to an obsession. So I've thought it's
a sarcastic ANTI racist song, sort of like Randy Newman's
"Short People". Of course some people not familiar with the
concept of satire thought Randy Newman really did hate short
people. I guess different people get different things out of
the same song.
Of course the main point of "PNG" is just to be silly.
Mark Loop
Not quite...
Freddie Blassie used to be a professional wrestler. He worked mostly
out of the Olympic Auditorium in downtown LA. He would refer to his
opponents as a "Pencil Neck Geek". Eventually this became his trademark,
so when he set out to record a record (which he did *not* write, BTW),
PNG was the result for a 4 song EP on Raunchy Tonk records.
Mark