[78-L] HMV in doggie do?

[David Lennick]

So I went to Hoboken to forget. Then I went to Hackensack to forget Hoboken.

--J. Durante

On 1/20/2011 9:41 AM, N7MW at aol.com wrote:
> My Dad, who did a lot of business in the Philadelphia area back in the day
> (1950's and 60's), used to say that Camden's sole reason for existence was
> to  make Philadelphia look good...
>
>
> In a message dated 1/19/2011 9:28:07 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
> mbiel at mbiel.com writes:
>
> That  article concerned the HMV stores, not the record company.  But
> actually it is Camden New Jersey which is REALLY in doggie do.  You
> might have noticed in the news that the mayor has laid off HALF of the
> POLICE and one third of the firemen.  When I was in college in
> Philadelphia in the mid-60s, Camden was a a place you RUSHED through as
> FAST as you could after you went over the Ben Franklin Bridge.  The
> comedy news program "The Daily Show" just did a piece about the crisis
> showing Camden as a video game of doom, and one of the shots was a dog
> with a human head in its mouth.  No mention of Little Nipper, but  that
> was my interpretation.  HMH, His Master's Head.
>
> Mike  Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>
> On 1/18/2011 2:45 PM, Kristjan Saag  wrote:
>> It should be noted, perhaps, that HMV today, not His Master's  Voice, is
>> the name of a media company, with music stores in the UK and  Ireland.
>> There's no connection to former mother company EMI anymore;  EMI having
>> sold its last shares in 2002.
>> EMI, however, still  holds the copyright for the His Master's Voice
>> label, and occasionally  issues both old and new recordings, using the
>> Nipper and gramophone  logo.
>> Here's one from 2007:
>>
> http://www.gigwise.com/news/30217/Brinkman-%E2%80%93-I-Wish-His-Masters-Voice-Released-090407
>>   Kristjan
>>
>>
>>
>> Julian Vein skrev 2011-01-18  18:41:
>>>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpeston/2011/01/hmv_it_gets_worse.html
>>>
>>>    Julian  Vein
>