Topic: A DAY FOR ALL YOU MOTHERS (Read 29086 times)

Rodzinski · « **Reply #150 on:** May 08, 2005, 09:07:40 PM »

Anyone familiar with a restaurant chain called Lum's? I had least eaten at one when I was about 7. Frankly, I didn't know they existed anymore. But there was one way upstate when I was returning from Canada last week, so I had to go. They had a burger called the Ollie Burger that claimed to have 22 herbs and spices in it or something crazy like that. So I get it and doggone it if the thing wasn't one of the tastiest burgers I've had.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #151 on:** May 08, 2005, 09:08:17 PM »

Page 6 Dance: The Tower's Trot

Rodzinski · « **Reply #152 on:** May 08, 2005, 09:09:42 PM »

Anyone know the Tower's Trot?

First you walk across the floor, and do that little step
Then you walk a little more, and do that little step
Clap your hands
Tie your ties
Make believe your catching flies
When you feel your feet get hot
You're doing the Tower's Trot

George · « **Reply #153 on:** May 08, 2005, 09:10:20 PM »

I taped "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" and am now watching "Desperate Housewives." Oooo...our plot doth thicken!

George · « **Reply #154 on:** May 08, 2005, 09:11:39 PM »

Actually, when has the plot to "Desperate Housewives" not thickened??

Dan (the Man) · « **Reply #155 on:** May 08, 2005, 09:12:52 PM »

"M" is for the Many things she gave me.
"O" is for the Other things she gave me.
"T" is for the Tons of things she gave me.
"H" is for the Hundred things she gave me.
"E" is for Everything she gave me.
"R" is for all the Rest of the things she gave me.
"P" is for the Presents that she gave me.
Put them all together,
They spell "MOTHERP".
The one who means the world to me.

--Madeline Kahn, Saturday Night Live, circa 1976

Rodzinski · « **Reply #156 on:** May 08, 2005, 09:13:26 PM »

Actually, if anyone knows what "Tower's Trot" is, let me know. I have it on a 45 by Dick Jacobs and his Orchestra. It is credited to all the "Your Show of Shows" writers, so it must have something to do with that. It describes the zany dance above, but I don't know who or what "Tower" is.

Tomovoz · « **Reply #157 on:** May 08, 2005, 09:14:18 PM »

Thank you for the thank you DR Rodzinski.. Interesting to hear a "youngan" has listened to Senator Bobby. Hope you are also familiar with BK's friend José Jiminez and his Orbit songs. Novelty songs have short listening lives but are fun as nostalgia. Have you decoded the data base yet?

Rodzinski · « **Reply #158 on:** May 08, 2005, 09:21:07 PM »

I think I have to get onto a PC to decode that, Tomovoz. I was able to look at it as a text file, but the pertinent info was buried in a lot of weird code, so I'm still on that.

I have seen TV footage of Bill Dana as Jose, but haven't really heard the hits.

bk · « **Reply #159 on:** May 08, 2005, 09:23:23 PM »

Bill Dana - a classic.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #160 on:** May 08, 2005, 09:30:09 PM »

Who is doing good novelty music anymore? Nobody, that's who. Or whoever is doing them has no outlet for their skills. I long for the days when some silly idea could become a national phenomenon.
The Streak
Energy Crisis '74
Convoy
Dinner With Drac
The Monster Mash
The White Knight
etc.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #161 on:** May 08, 2005, 09:33:38 PM »

I mean, there was a whole genre of CB Radio-themed songs!
Incidentally, just reached the point in Kritzer Time where Benjamin is intrigued by his uncle's ham radio.

MBarnum · « **Reply #162 on:** May 08, 2005, 09:41:31 PM »

Quote from: Rodzinski on May 08, 2005, 09:30:09 PM

Who is doing good novelty music anymore? Nobody, that's who. Or whoever is doing them has no outlet for their skills. I long for the days when some silly idea could become a national phenomenon.
The Streak
Energy Crisis '74
Convoy
Dinner With Drac
The Monster Mash
The White Knight
etc.

And let's not forget Disco Duck.

Or maybe we should forget

TCB · « **Reply #163 on:** May 08, 2005, 09:41:57 PM »

I was going to post a picture of my Mother holding me when I was a baby, but no such pictures exist!

Apparently, like a certain Benjamin character we all know, I too was adopted.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #164 on:** May 08, 2005, 09:42:57 PM »

Those who do not remember are destined to repeat. For this reason we should remember Disco Duck.

TCB · « **Reply #165 on:** May 08, 2005, 09:44:05 PM »

Hmmm. no one here but Rodzinski, MBarnum, and me.

I think I died and went to heaven!

MBarnum · « **Reply #166 on:** May 08, 2005, 09:46:51 PM »

TCB, does that mean that you are our God?

Rodzinski · « **Reply #167 on:** May 08, 2005, 09:47:08 PM »

LOL!

MBarnum · « **Reply #168 on:** May 08, 2005, 09:49:00 PM »

I will now have to break up this menage-a-trois and go to bed! Night all (or as JRand54 would say Nytol)

Rodzinski · « **Reply #169 on:** May 08, 2005, 09:51:05 PM »

I've given long and hard thought to your questions, TCB. I have not read any Zane Grey. I haven't had any really difficult dental procedures done as of yet, but I really hate when the dentist is scraping with the sharp scraping thing. Right at the gumline. I think Robert Stack when disguised as a Nazi in "To Be or Not To Be" was not bad.

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #170 on:** May 08, 2005, 09:51:58 PM »

Rodzinski, There was a Lum's in Lexington when I went to school. I remember they used to have a pretty good hot dog on a very nice bun.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #171 on:** May 08, 2005, 10:01:21 PM »

A google search reveals there are a few Lum's sprinkled here and there throughout the US. Who knew?
If anyone sees one, go in and get the OllieBurger.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #172 on:** May 08, 2005, 10:03:15 PM »

CharlesPogue: You ever been to Pleasant Hill, Kentucky?

Just looking at a coffee cup on my desk from that town where we went on vacation when I was a youngster.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #173 on:** May 08, 2005, 10:14:55 PM »

It was a Shaker Village. As opposed to Quakers, there were people called Shakers who shook, instead of quaking I guess, when the spirit moved them. The thing I remember was that they were big on clean floors. No furniture could be left sitting on the floor, so it was all hung up on these peg boards on the wall. Just thousands of pegs everywhere. And a fellow taught us how to make brooms.

A tribute to my mom is she often took a carload of us kids to some interesting places.

My work is done here, G'night.

Sandra · « **Reply #174 on:** May 08, 2005, 10:29:06 PM »

Well, the essay test that ate Cincinnati is tomorrow. I think all essay tests are pure evil, but HISTORY essay tests qualify as cruel and unusual punishment. I spent all day today cramming my head full of every single thing that happened in England between the years 1600 and 1713. That's a lot of stuff!

Can I have some vibes please starting at 12:20 tomorrow? Pretty please? That and my lucky red plaid socks may be the only thing going for me as far as this test is concerned.

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #175 on:** May 08, 2005, 10:29:38 PM »

Rodzinski, oddly enough, though Shaker Town is close to Lexington, I never went there.

vixmom · « **Reply #176 on:** May 08, 2005, 10:32:29 PM »

I just popped in to say goodnight. I was watching a TV broadcast version of Four Weddings and A Funeral.

Even in this commercial ridden showing the funeral speech had me in tears....

The main story really never gripped me, but all the little side stories and the acting really grabbed me in this show... I'm still feeling a little teary

vixmom · « **Reply #177 on:** May 08, 2005, 10:34:31 PM »

Quote from: Sandra on May 08, 2005, 10:29:06 PM

Well, the essay test that ate Cincinnati is tomorrow. I think all essay tests are pure evil, but HISTORY essay tests qualify as cruel and unusual punishment. I spent all day today cramming my head full of every single thing that happened in England between the years 1600 and 1713. That's a lot of stuff!

Can I have some vibes please starting at 12:20 tomorrow? Pretty please? That and my lucky red plaid socks may be the only thing going for me as far as this test is concerned.

I 'm sorry I didn't know about this test earlier... I could have sent Mr. Vixmom to help you study, he was still living in England during that time period. Oh, the stories he could tell!

TCB · « **Reply #178 on:** May 08, 2005, 10:36:50 PM »

Quote from: MBarnum on May 08, 2005, 09:46:51 PM

TCB, does that mean that you are our God?

That's right, Michael, and just wait till you get my ten commandments!

vixmom · « **Reply #179 on:** May 08, 2005, 10:38:27 PM »

I remember reading about the Shakers just recently, I think it was in a Smithsonian magazine. They were talking about how this particular Shaker community had just about died out, there were only a handful of people left, as they practice sexual abstinence, and the old method of "replenishing the pews" as it were was to take in orphans, but that was no longer an option in the latter part of the 20th and the 21st century

News:

Author Topic: A DAY FOR ALL YOU MOTHERS (Read 29086 times)

MBarnum

MBarnum

MBarnum