Here at work, we're having a bake sale. Someone brought in "mystery" cookies...actually, oatmeal raisin cookies from a recipe from a mystery novel. Anyway, there is a "mystery ingredient" in the recipe and I was told (I don't like raisins, so I didn't have any) that the mystery ingredient was/is tomato soup! Someone else did have some of the cookies and said that she could not taste any tomato at all. Has anyone ever heard of such a thing??
And don't forget Harriet Tubman. She'd be an interesting person to go back and talk to... And, of course, Annie Sullivan would have to accompany Ms. Keller.
I'd love to go back and talk to Lizzie Borden and find out what really happened, too.
I feel half Tijuana, half Boston;
Partly Jane Fonda, and partly Jane Austen
Most reviled song (holiday category): "Frosty the Snowman" (Prevenance unknown, and I don't care enough to research it, but I am thinking Johnny Marks)
Most reviled song (stage category): "Motherhood" (by Jerry Herman and/or Bob Merrill)
Most reviled song (pop category): "Laughter in the Rain" (by Neil Sedaka)
Most reviled song (holiday category): "Frosty the Snowman" (Prevenance unknown, and I don't care enough to research it, but I am thinking Johnny Marks)
That reminds me of this "fun" little ditty:
Fish heads
Fish heads
Roly, poly fish heads
Fish heads
Fish heads
Eat them up...
Yum!
DRs DerBrucer and Noel: the world needs a medley of your two dog songs, sent in MP3 format, to the aforementioned Mr. Newport of RATM. :)
About 40 years ago - I bought a 45 rpm record for ten cents...it was a lovely country song written and sung by Jenny Clay. Its title was TREASURES WITH THE TRASH.
One of my distant relatives wrote THE TEDDY BEAR PICNIC. Go figure.
Re: The Puppets in Avenue Q question posted yeterday. It wouldn't let me quote :-\
It was, indeed, J.K. Bratton. Other sources list him as J.W. Bratton. Either way, the only thing I think he's known for (that I can find) is that silly song. And so far, the only thing I'm sort of known for is POOP: THE MUSICAL... :-\
"A Hundred Bottles of Beer on the Wall"
(The latter had to have been written by the Devil himself.)
MacArthur Park, no question, wins hands down in my book. I either have to leave the room or change the station when that song appears.
Richard Harris' version is the ONLY version as far as I'm concerned.
This Donna Summer fan respectfully disagrees.
To add to the Teddy Bears Picnic lore... Dear Daughter is one of the tykes on a Lamb Chops Play-Along Video - "Get Your Teddy Ready" (it's in all your collections, I'm sure) in which I believe she takes part in the Teddy Bears Picnic production number.
...and the plastic lawn flamingo I keep in my room.
Re: worst song. I guess I must be dating myself (no mean feat), but I cannot believe people are naming "Michelle" and "The Shadow of Your Smile." .
I think Mr. L and Ms. C have put us into Cinerama
Dear Daughter is one of the tykes on ... - "Get Your Teddy Ready"
Don't feel bad, JMK, I have been going steady with myself for four years.
I thought Channing looked terrible.
She barely seemed able to support the weight of the dress (her "Jazz Baby" dress, no less); her legs looked very frail and skinny, and I thought the wig looked awful.
That she was funny, to me, made it sadder.
This Donna Summer fan respectfully disagrees.
I saw her in one of her rare appearances in "Hello Dolly" in LA some 20 odd years ago
I thought Friday was your short day anyway!
Our Governor still has not decided whether Oregon state workers, like Federal workers, will have this Friday off as an official day of mourning.
[Since seeing/hearing CAROLINE, OR CHANGE, I've been hooked again on hearing Ms. Tesori's VIOLET. Such a great score. I want to be in that show someday...but not as Violet, of course.Not in your vocal range?
Am I the only one who thought that Carol Channing / LL Cool J bit was funny? It wasn't the best thing I've ever seen. But it was amusing.
One of the most damnably addictive -- and maddening -- songs to ever enter my head is "Teddy Bears Picnic."Which, as it happens, is the significant song quoted at the start of Armistead Maupin's Significant Others.
...If you go down in the woods today,
You'd better not go alone.
It's lovely down in the woods today,
But safer to stay at home.
For every bear that ever there was
Will gather there for certain because
Today's the day the Teddy Bears have their picnic....
And if the melody eludes you, turn on your speakers and visit this URL:
http://www.northern-pine.com/songs/tbpicnic.html
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!
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M Barnum - What channel shows 77 SUNSET STRIP and SURFSIDE 6?
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!
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The most complicated cake I've ever baked took only 40 minutes in a 350-degree oven, and even then, I could have remembered the friggin' recipe--1 box of Duncan Hines, 2 eggs, some water and some oil and voila! Another cake!
Okay, today's challenge: Just got off the phone with our very own Harvey Schmidt - we needs a copy of the ORIGINAL sheet music to Red Sails in the Sunset - apparently the images is a setting sun of some sort. Sparkling prize to he/she who locates it in a timely fashion (red toreodor pants and a blouse with fringe).
Okay, today's challenge: Just got off the phone with our very own Harvey Schmidt - we needs a copy of the ORIGINAL sheet music to Red Sails in the Sunset - apparently the images is a setting sun of some sort. Sparkling prize to he/she who locates it in a timely fashion (red toreodor pants and a blouse with fringe).
Apparently the state of NY has also granted state employees the day, in recognition of the national day of mourning. (I just got a cockamamie "campus broadcast message" indicating that all non-essential employees are able to take the day without consequence. Followed by a load of parameters as to what essential employees are entitled to in recompense if they have to work that day. You can't imagine the lovely feeling that being deemed "non-essential" imparts. I also have to say that even though I work for the State University of New York, I often forget that I am a state employee.)
So anyway, you know what they say, DR Barnum: As NY goes, so goes the nation. (Isn't that what they say?)
So many posts. Whilst I have been asleep you have indeed being having joy having fun in your seasons in the sun.
What about the sweet green icing flowing down, though?Food coloring. And a dash of mint extract.
Man, I really like a lot to of these songs that you guys hate! LOL! My friends are right...I do have bad taste!
How about LOVING YOU by Minnie Ripperton? When that one comes on I turn the radio up really loud and sing along! Ha!
There will be another song for meDamn, but that's a good lyric. How'd it get in the middle of the rest of that mess?
For I will sing it
There will be another dream for me
Someone will bring it
I will drink the wine while it is warm
And never let you catch me looking at the sun
And after all the loves of my life
After all the loves of my life
You'll still be the one
I will take my life into my hands and I will use it
I will win the worship in their eyes and I will lose it
I will have the things that I desire
And my passion flow like rivers through the sky
And after all the loves of my life
After all the loves of my life
I'll be thinking of you
And wondering why
A perfect pairing with the lovely tea service you showed us the other day! Have you considered interior design, Sandra?
MBarnum, you never cease to amaze me.
Oh my God! My mom put the shoes on the piano again!
Isn't that bad luck?Only when you're still wearing them.
Oh my God! My mom put the shoes on the piano again!
Isn't that bad luck?
Only when you're still wearing them.
And you're performing in Blood Brothers. ::) (putting them on a piano is probably as bad as putting them on a table...don't you think?)Eeewww, Blood Brothers. Put the entire score on our list of terrible songs.
Joey: to quote from a previous day's thread you can highlight the text, do a CTRL-C copy, then go to the current message you are composing and click on the "Quote" icon - (Line 2, 2nd from the right) and copy the text between the bracketed "quote" boxes.
der Brucer
Always prefered The Four Tops to the Left Banke MBarnum. Maybe "don't bother me at all" about the lyrics. Now I'll have to listen. Better than "Goodbye To You My Trusted Friend".
Evening all!
As far as songs go, anything by the Bee Gees. God, how those voices make me want to run shrieking, “Make it stop!” from the room. Also The Pirates Of the Caribbean. I was stuck on that ride, right under the pirate who had his foot dangling from the bridge. Five thousand choruses of “Yo Ho, Yo Ho. It’s a pirates life for me!” later I was ready to pull my hair out.
I imagine one of Hades worst punishments is being stuck on one of those rides and forced to listen to one of those songs. Over and over and over and over and over again. Aggghhhh!!!
Guess what?! We get Friday off WITH pay! YAY!!! Now THAT’s something to be happy about. I know it’s because someone died . It’s really not really nice of me to be glad but I’ll take the day and sleep in.
Curses for mentioning Kung Fu Fighting! The last time y'all were talking about that, I had it stuck in my head for three days.
I have their CD of the "Best Of"...Y'know, there's been all these groups and soloists who have recorded "The Best Of...", as a title song no less, and I still can't remember what the melody sounds like.
Strange how certain songs can pluck at our emotional strings - "Seasons In The Sun" does not do it for me but I get teary when I listen to Red Sovine's "Teddy Bear". I tell myself it is pure corn but that does not stop the effect.
George, are you feeling better today?Much, much better. Thanks Jane.
And who here is as fanatical about "Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band" as I am????I used to have one of their albums (I don't remember which), but I sold a bunch of my records when I was in college and that was one of them. I just remember that there was one or two songs that I really liked, but I don't even remember what songs they were. The album title had "King Pedditt" in it...or something like that. Anyone know what the hell I'm talking about?
I'd found the Fred Waring one - I'm getting it for him anyway, but it doesn't sound like what he's describing. The eBay one is definitely not it - it's from the UK. The Waring one is from 1935 but the song was first published in 1925, so keep looking.
DerBrucer-ROTFLOL. Thanks for the warning. Of course I couldn’t resist and had to read the lyrics. So where was my warning before I read SQUIRRELS?
Reading at home? I'm more likely to do that late at night, when I'm in bed. I've found non-fiction is better reading material at these times, because I never can tell when I'll drop off to sleep, which is usually within a page or two. (At least I'm now in the habit of taking off my glasses before nodding off. I used to take them off after the nod point, and have had trouble finding them again in the morning.)
Oooohhh...here's another one for the Hall of Shame!
"Shannon" by Henry Gross. And a more appropriate surname I couldn't've have made up.
Shannon is gone, I heard
she's drifting out to sea,
she always loved to swim and swim...
My package from Candy you Ate as a Kid arrived. I got me some wax lips, baby. I got me some wax liquid bottles. I got me some Cherry Mash and Cherry Mountain. I got me some Chocolate Babies. I got me some Cherry Buds. I got me some coconut stacks. I got me some red licorice rolls.
MBarnum, ELUSIVE BUTTERFLY is also one of Keith’s favorite songs. Do you feel better now?
Shoes on tables - BAD LUCK. Do not do it.
BTW, in an interesting eBay purchase, I won a photo today from none other than Kristoffer Tabori!
And God forbid someone at work open their umbrella indoors! I break out in a sweat! LOL!
U R XTC
Yes dRJOSE, I am watching TALES right now.....it only points up how bad QAF is....sad sad sad.
I know what you mean. I found my glasses on the floor the other morning. ;DOh, I've done worse than that. I've found them across the room! (Two days later, I might add.) :-\
Oh, I've done worse than that. I've found them across the room! (Two days later, I might add.) :-\
Thanks thanks thanks MB...of course it won't be here until Saturday or Monday! :'(
Man, I really like a lot to of these songs that you guys hate! LOL! My friends are right...I do have bad taste!
How about LOVING YOU by Minnie Ripperton? When that one comes on I turn the radio up really loud and sing along! Ha!
Watching The Gene Krupa Story with Mr. Sal Mineo.
Glad you liked the owlet picture.DRLaura, I work with a woman who collects owls. I showed her the picture and she loved it too. I downloaded and forwarded it to her in an e-mail. I hope you don't mind. ;D
Some bad songs not yet mentioned:My sister and I LOVED this song. We had the 45. A couple of years ago, I downloaded it from Morpheus, but then my computer died and it's gone. We also had (and loved) a 45 of "The Night Chicago Died," by...someone. I think that that would also be an appropriate addition to today's topic.
"Sugar, Sugar" -- The Archies
Started to watch a Josh Groban concert on PBS but turned it off after a short while. I didn't think he was bad, but I didn't think he was very special, either.
Your thoughts on the fellow's artistry, Dear Readers?
I'm glad she liked the photo. Thanks for sending it to her. I think this is an even better picture:
Started to watch a Josh Groban concert on PBS but turned it off after a short while. I didn't think he was bad, but I didn't think he was very special, either.
Your thoughts on the fellow's artistry, Dear Readers?
too tired to do the Page Nine Dance.