{"id":6516,"date":"2013-02-27T14:43:27","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T21:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/blog\/?p=6516"},"modified":"2014-07-31T08:34:54","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T15:34:54","slug":"6516","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/?p=6516","title":{"rendered":"I’m a polite guy (Slu\u00c5\u00a1n\u00c3\u00bd \u00c4\u008dlov\u00c4\u203ak)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a song by Ond\u00c5\u2122ej Soukup<\/a>, a Czech pop star famous in the 1980s, called “Slu\u00c5\u00a1n\u00c3\u00bd \u00c4\u008dlov\u00c4\u203ak<\/a>,” which I think means something like “decent guy.” This song came out in 1987.<\/p>\n

At the time we translated the lyrics as “I’m a polite guy.” Hey, close enough!<\/p>\n

I believe it’s meant to be a commentary about hypocritical “decent” public figures — you can see him taking bribes in the middle of the song.<\/p>\n

This song came out right around the time of the split of Czechoslovakia, and I originally saw it on the local version of MTV in Prague in I think the summer of 1991. 1990? I don’t know exactly.<\/p>\n

For the last decade or so I tried to figure out what the heck it was or where I could see it again… thank you, Gods of the Internet!!<\/p>\n