Have you guys seen the picture of both of them from the article?

Goddamn are these dudes cool... I mean, never mind how old they are, these are probably the coolest looking people I KNOW OF! WHo the fark else could carry a purple farking jacket and a multicolored dreaded hair-do? Farking CLinton and Sly, that's farking who

And you don't need to buy no watch, these cats will tell you what time it is

Daaaaaaaaaamn.

That must've been one hell of a show.

Admit it, you'd eat the banana.

FTFC:
Dan E | 2/11/2009, 6:54 pm EST

"The crowd responded in spades"? Really? What editor let THAT slip through?

Shaw | 2/11/2009, 9:10 pm EST

Would you rather have seen "The crowd responded with clubs?"


bahahaha

A comeback would be doubleplus sweet. Maybe a record? A duet with Clinton, even?

/As a matter of fact, we do need the funk.

If they'd invited Gil-Scott Herron, they could have wiped out the crack problem in LA in one night.

Good thing there wasn't any Bootsy or the funk would've gotten inescapably deep.

TFA: Both were in great spirits, with Sly decked out in a purple velvet pimp suit, and the crowd responded in spades

In other news, RS has hired Michael Richards as copy editor.

Sly also arrived with zero warning and, once seated, was bombarded by starry-eyed admirers like Will.I.Am and Barry Manilow.

Manilow?! Were the guys from Firefall and Gallery trying to beat down the doors too?

Elmo Jones: /As a matter of fact, we do need the funk.

What the world needs now, is funk. Of this I am sure. Can we get these guys some stimulus money?

Elmo Jones: /As a matter of fact, we do need the funk.

May The Funk Be With You.

/Obscure.

After months of ceaseless debate, including last week's
record 76-hour filibuster slap-bass solo from Senate Rubber Band Minority Leader Bootsy Collins (D-OH), the National Funk Congress is no closer to resolving its deadlock over the controversial "get up/get down" issue, insiders reported Monday.

"Get up-uh, get on up! Get up-uh, get on up!" shouted Getuplican Party supporters on the steps of the Capitol as the debate, as well as a massive 14-piece instrumental jam, raged within. The pro-up-getting demonstrators' chants were nearly drowned out by those of a nearby group of jungle-boogie Downocrats, who called upon all citizens to "Get down, get down!"

The bitter "get up/get down" battle, which has polarized the nation's funk community, is part of a long-running battle between the two factions, rooted in more than 35 years of conflict over the direction in which the American people should shake it.

"The time has come to face facts: To move forward, we've got to get on up, and stay on the scene, like a sex machine," said Brick House Majority Leader James Brown (G-GA), one of getting on up's most vocal supporters. "Say it loud: Only when we have gotten up offa that thing will we, as a nation, finally get back on the good foot."

Upon learning of Brown's remarks, Downocratic leaders openly questioned his commitment to getting up. Said Robert "Kool" Bell, a top-ranking Brick House Downocrat: "It is a well-known fact that Brown has, on many past occasions, urged his supporters to get down with they bad selves. In response to his inconsistent voting record and history of waffling on this
crucial issue, we will not rest until every American, as is their
birthright, has gotten down." "You got to get down," Bell added. "Hyuh!"

The disagreement, which has paralyzed all efforts of the National Funk Congress to get it together and get funky for one and all, has reached crisis proportions, experts say. "Until our country's funky leaders can resolve this deadlock, U.S. funk leadership, and the booties of all Americans, will remain immobilized," said Gregory Tate, domestic motorbooty-affairs reporter for The Washington Funkenquarterly. "Unless a compromise can be reached soon, the entire nation's thang could be in serious jeopardy."

"Our leaders' refusal to budge, let alone move it from front to back, has crippled the move-your-body politic," said current U.S. Mothership Ambassador George Clinton, one of the most outspoken critics of the deadlock. "These legislators must keep it real and understand that no matter what party policy may dictate, they cannot fake the funk. What the partisan people in the House need to realize is this: If they ain't gon' get along,
the time has come for them to take they dead ass home."

But despite such pleas for bipartisan compromise, the two parties remain at odds. This week, a Getuplican high-treble scratch-guitar initiative called for all Downocrats to "give it up and turn it loose," sparking an angry war of words on the Senate dance floor. In response, the Downocratic
members of the Grooves & Booties Subcommittee drafted a bass-heavy resolution demanding that the initiative be voted "down, down, all the way down."

The Getuplican-Downocratic rift has been further complicated by confusing rhetoric from both sides. A call from Parliamentary leaders to "get up for the down stroke" was interpreted by members of both parties as a statement of support. Equally unclear was a statement made earlier this week by Funky
Chinatown Big Boss-Elect Carl Douglas, who baffled observers with the assertion that Funky Chinamen were "chopping men up and chopping men down."

For all the confusion and divisiveness, there are signs of hope. A bipartisan coalition of funky drummers is gaining strength, urging Downocrats and Getuplicans to find common ground by "getting together, on the one." Also on the rise is a small grass-roots campaign calling upon party people not to get up or down, but simply to get it on.

Whether any of these fledgling reform movements will have a genuine impact on the entrenched groove machine is uncertain. One thing, however, is not: A growing number of citizens are fed up with the nation's current leadership for putting party politics before the need of the people to turn this mother
out.

"Big government has lost sight of the fact that we should not be divided along Getuplican and Downocratic lines, but should be one nation under a groove, getting down--or up--just for the funk of it," said Clinton at a recent Mothership rally calling for an end to the deadlock. "The point is not that we must get up or down, but rather that, working together, we've got to get over."

Thats not the mothership taking off, that is a giant cloud of crack smoke!

apeiron242: After months of ceaseless debate, including last week's
record 76-hour filibuster slap-bass solo from Senate Rubber Band Minority Leader Bootsy Collins (D-OH), the National Funk Congress is no closer to resolving its deadlock over the controversial "get up/get down" issue, insiders reported Monday.


1. Someone has too much time on their hands.
2. Seriously, that was brilliant. Yours or copied? I never know anymore with you Farkers.

TManPsycho: apeiron242: After months of ceaseless debate, including last week's
record 76-hour filibuster slap-bass solo from Senate Rubber Band Minority Leader Bootsy Collins (D-OH), the National Funk Congress is no closer to resolving its deadlock over the controversial "get up/get down" issue, insiders reported Monday.


1. Someone has too much time on their hands.
2. Seriously, that was brilliant. Yours or copied? I never know anymore with you Farkers.

Copied from an old Onion article

Sly Stone is still alive? I'll be damned!

I liked Clinton back when he was President.

Dr. Jam (in the Slam) (new window)

This is by far my favorite funk song. It is about an intergalactic basketball player concerned with the problems of Earth. Oh yea he also tears it up on the basketball court. Enjoy.

Sly Stallone?

vernonFL: Thats not the mothership taking off, that is a giant cloud of crack smoke!

Gay troll is gay

Glitchwerks: May The Funk Be With You.

God made_(nsfw?) them funky and I'm pretty sure they are glad he blessed them that way.

farkingshiat!!! I live six blocks from that club!!!!

My two favorite P. Funk clips:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxS4P_P6V-M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npRoTv1gNy8&feature=channel_page

Billed as George Clinton And The Parliaments. Live on Say Brother way back in 1969.

First clip: Medley: I Wan na Testify / I Was Made To Love Her/ Friday Night, August 14th / Music For My Mother

Second clip: Medley: Into Our Own Thing / What Is Soul

Cope_Freeland: My two favorite P. Funk clips:

Just a small tip, in the reply box there's a button with a little arrow that's 3rd from the right. Hit that then paste your links in them. Just in case you want to set it off with your funky links.

LewDux:
God made them funky and I'm pretty sure they are glad he blessed them that way.

I'm surprised you didn't go with this or this.

Maybe because they were too obvious!

Glitchwerks: I'm surprised you didn't go with this or this.

Maybe because they were too obvious!

"I replied that I didn't find it funky"

Actually I thought about "da funk" by Redman but it's not on youtube. So I found Redman track with Parliament and Sly & the Family Stone samples

I don't remember hearing 2nd

vernonFL: Thats not the mothership taking off, that is a giant cloud of crack smoke!

I love you.

bonkmeist:

Glitchwerks:

Awwwwww yeaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!

LewDux: Actually I thought about "da funk" by Redman but it's not on youtube. So I found Redman track with Parliament and Sly & the Family Stone samples

I was going to suggest some Digital Underground, particularly "Rhyming On the Funk"...I also thought about Detroit Grand Pubahs but most of their videos throw up the YouTube content warning so I figured it wasn't a spiffy idea.

Put a glide in your stride and a dip your hip...and come on up to the mothership...and do the loose booty.

/Free your mind...your ass will follow.

Gunny Highway: Dr. Jam (in the Slam) (new window)

This is by far my favorite funk song. It is about an intergalactic basketball player concerned with the problems of Earth. Oh yea he also tears it up on the basketball court. Enjoy.

You're white, aren't you...

/Just sayin'