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« Reply #180 on: June 08, 2004, 05:13:18 PM »

And one for Mahler!
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« Reply #181 on: June 08, 2004, 05:22:27 PM »

Just posting to say hello. I actually wrote a long "story" but decide it was lame - on crutches, man - so I have nothing other thatn "hello" to say. Hello.
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« Reply #182 on: June 08, 2004, 05:25:19 PM »

....AND
 
                                 PAGE SEVEN!

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« Reply #183 on: June 08, 2004, 05:27:17 PM »

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.

Are you sure it wasn't first published in the UK? It is an Irish song, he songwriter (Jimmy Kennedy - TB's Pinic, above) was Irish and the song was Irish inspired:

"Just about everyone is familiar with Jimmy Kennedy's lyrics, but very few people have ever heard of him and even fewer know that Red Sails in the Sunset was inspired by a beautiful summer evening in Portstewart, which is located on Northern Ireland's famous Causeway Coast. "
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"And, recently, the little boat that inspired Red Sails in the Sunset was discovered rotting away in Belfast. "Kitty of Coleraine" was restored and Kennedy was honored with a celebration in Portstewart."

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« Reply #184 on: June 08, 2004, 05:37:30 PM »


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?

To make amends, here is a song where the animals win!

Cows With Guns
Fat and docile, big and dumb
They look so stupid, they aren't much fun
Cows aren't fun

They eat to grow, grow to die
Die to be eat at the hamburger fry
Cows well done

Nobody thunk it, nobody knew
No one imagined the great cow guru
Cows are one

He hid in the forest, read books with great zeal
He loved Che Guevera, a revolutionary veal
Cow Tse Tongue

He spoke about justice, but nobody stirred
He felt like an outcast, alone in the herd
Cow doldrums

He mooed we must fight, escape or we'll die
Cows gathered around, cause the steaks were so high
Bad cow pun

But then he was captured, stuffed into a crate
Loaded onto a truck, where he rode to his fate
Cows are bummed

He was a scrawny calf, who looked rather woozy
No one suspected he was packing an Uzi
Cows with guns

They came with a needle to stick in his thigh
He kicked for the groin, he pissed in their eye
Cow well hung

Knocked over a tractor and ran for the door
Six gallons of gas flowed out on the floor
Run cows run!

He picked up a bullhorn and jumped up on the hay
We are free roving bovines, we run free today

We will fight for bovine freedom
And hold our large heads high
We will run free with the Buffalo, or die
Cows with guns

They crashed the gate in a great stampede
Tipped over a milk truck, torched all the feed
Cows have fun

Sixty police cars were piled in a heap
Covered in cow pies, covered up deep
Much cow dung

Black smoke rising, darkening the day
Twelve burning McDonalds, have it your way

We will fight for bovine freedom
And hold our large heads high
We will run free with the Buffalo, or die
Cows with guns

The President said "enough is enough
These uppity cattle, its time to get tough"
Cow dung flung

The newspapers gloated, folks sighed with relief
Tomorrow at noon, they would all be ground beef
Cows on buns

The cows were surrounded, they waited and prayed
They mooed their last moos,
they chewed their last hay
Cows outgunned

The order was given to turn cows to whoppers
Enforced by the might of ten thousand coppers
But on the horizon surrounding the shoppers
Came the deafening roar of chickens in choppers

We will fight for bovine freedom
And hold our large heads high
We will run free with the Buffalo, or die
Cows with guns

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« Reply #185 on: June 08, 2004, 05:41:20 PM »




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.)


I know what you mean.  I found my glasses on the floor the other morning.   ;D

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« Reply #186 on: June 08, 2004, 05:52:21 PM »

BK:  I have been involved in my own close-to-a-lawsuit moment with eBay and PayPal.  I got ripped off by a seller who charged an outrageous fee for insurance, then did not insure her package to me.  When I had the temerity to actually politely ask for my insurance fee back, she immediately left inflammatory negative feedback for me (the first I have ever had in over 6 years on eBay as a seller and buyer).  eBay and PayPal refuse to investigate.  I've already spoken to my attorney about it, and we may subpoena her records from PayPal and sue.

BTW, in an interesting eBay purchase, I won a photo today from none other than Kristoffer Tabori!
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« Reply #187 on: June 08, 2004, 05:57:22 PM »

JMK, perhaps your lawyer would like to be famous - doing a class action lawsuit against eBay and their "customer service".  My guy bilked over three hundred people and they allowed it.  Furthermore, they've charged us not only the listing fees but the final value fees.  Even though the peckerhead has been suspended, we cannot file a non-paying bidder alert for seven days, and then must wait a further ten days to file for the credit.  They say they don't give us back the listing fee, but that they might credit the relist.  I mean, all someone has to do is take these cocky little mofos on and they will topple the way they should.
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« Reply #188 on: June 08, 2004, 05:58:46 PM »

DerBrucer, I enjoyed the bio on Jimmy Kennedy even if he isn’t related to Jason.

Yes, Jay.  I also hate I SHOT THE SHERRIF.    

MBarnum, ELUSIVE BUTTERFLY is also one of Keith’s favorite songs.  Do you feel better now?

I’m not a Reagan fan.  I was very unhappy while he was governor of California, so unhappy I registered as a Republican in order to vote for Bush Sr. in the primaries.  However, it seems to me if anyone is responsible for not speaking up about Aids in the early years, it would be the general surgeon, not the President.

TCB I thought “They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa!!” was a hoot, not that it is a “song” I would like to hear very often.

I’m only up to page six.  Stop posting so I can catch up.  Just teasing Bruce. :)
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« Reply #189 on: June 08, 2004, 06:07:25 PM »

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...


Oh, my gosh Robin...another favorite song of mine! LOL!

You and I may share similar taste in movies..but when it comes to pop songs...!!
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« Reply #190 on: June 08, 2004, 06:09:12 PM »

BK, I think you and the lawyer should go after the guy who made all those unfullfilled bids! What really pops my cork is that guys like that get away with causing the trouble in the first place! So he gets suspended...big woop...I would gather he really doesn't care one way or another. I believe he should be held financially responsible for his bids!
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« Reply #191 on: June 08, 2004, 06:09:14 PM »

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.

I love wax lips and cherry mash!  A local burger place makes a cherry mash malt!  I think I must go get one right now!

I used to get wax lips and candy cigs at the gorcery store, but only when my mom wasn't around.  She didn't approve, but my dad didn't care.  If I was with him, he would buy them for me!

Ahh...memories!!   ;D
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« Reply #192 on: June 08, 2004, 06:10:14 PM »


MBarnum, ELUSIVE BUTTERFLY is also one of Keith’s favorite songs.  Do you feel better now?



Keith is a fine man!
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« Reply #193 on: June 08, 2004, 06:10:22 PM »

The hilarious (meaning infuriating) thing about eBay "customer service" is they have templates to respond to customers with.  I have gotten the same form paragraphs over and over no matter what the problem has been.  The other hilarious (meaning I want to kill them, slowly and with a lot of pain) thing is their noms de plumes--my two latest emails have been signed by "Shango" and "Rohan."  I actually waited on hold for almost an hour to talk with a marginally articulate PayPal person who claimed she was in Omaha, but who sounded suspiciously like she was from far off Rangoon.  She reacted with disbelief when I told her I was going to take legal action against PayPal.  She then hilariously (meaning idiotically) told me my problem was "an eBay problem," ignoring of course that they are the same company.

BTW, my particular seller is a "famous author" (her own words) named Judi McMahon who has a couple of her books on Amazon, such as the blockbuster "Removing Hair Permanently."  I think we should all post scathing reviews.
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« Reply #194 on: June 08, 2004, 06:10:49 PM »

I can agree with you all on I SHOT THE SHERIFF. I do try to avoid that song! LOL!
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« Reply #195 on: June 08, 2004, 06:11:59 PM »

BK, a little good news--the same thing happened to me a couple of weeks ago, and, actually, once they are suspended, you get your Final Value Fee Credit as soon as you file your Non Paying Bidder alert.
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« Reply #196 on: June 08, 2004, 06:12:00 PM »

Shoes on tables - BAD LUCK. Do not do it.

I'm sure Hunagrain folklore contributed to this list extracted from Shoe-perstitions

Set your removed shoes higher than your knees and you will be sick. (Superstitions: 10,000 You Really Need)

If shoes or boots are lying on the table, they must be put back on the floor before putting them on or they will bring bad luck (Strackerjan, L. Aberglaube und Sagen aus dem Herzogtum Oldenburg. 1867)

It is bad luck to put shoes on the table, even brand new, still in the box shoes (Randolph, Ozark Magic and Folklore)

The reason you never leave shoes on a table -- your soul will go to get the shoes and fall off the table to hell (Source unknown)

Do not place shoes upon a table, for this will bring bad luck for the day, cause trouble with your mate and you might even lose your job as a result (Source unknown)

Never put your shoes on the table or you will die by hanging (Source unknown)

Never put new shoes on a table, it would cause a family fight (Source unknown)

If you let your shoes or slippers rest on a table, you will quarrel with someone soon/before night (Superstitions: 10,000 You Really Need)

Putting new shoes on a table is unlucky (Superstitions: 10,000 You Really Need)

It is an omen of bad luck to place your shoes on a table. (Superstitions: 10,000 You Really Need)

It is fatal for one's success to lay shoes on a table. (Superstitions: 10,000 You Really Need)

It is bad luck to place hat, shoes, or a gun (other than a pistol under your pillow) on a bed.  {Randolph, Ozark Magic and Folklore); Never put your shoes on the bed, that means a death in your family (Missouri); To lay your shoes on the bed means bad luck (Superstitions: 10,000 You Really Need)

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« Reply #197 on: June 08, 2004, 06:13:08 PM »

Jane, you asked about the other Dune books and I’m sorry I didn’t get back to you.

There are two sets.  The first, the “House”Books:

House Atreides,
House Harkonnen,
House Corrino

deal with Duke Leto when he was boy coming into manhood.  They tell how the Emperor Shaddam IV came to power. How the Duke met the Lady Jessica, among other things.  A very good read.  You learn a lot of the background of Dune.  I really enjoyed them.

The 2nd set:
The Butlerian Jihad,
The Machine War,
Don’t know what the 3rd will be titled.

Is set way back in time.  There's an exact number of years before House  Atreides but I don't remember it.  It doesn't matter to me.  It's set when there still was an Earth.  How the machines took over and the war to overthrow them.  The first person to ride a worm.  How the ability to fold space was discovered.  Again, a very interesting read.

I’ve just really started on The Machine War but am enjoying it.

I’m also working on Wicked.  

My Mom says she can't understand how I can read two or more books at the same time and not get the story lines mixed up.  I tell her, "How do you watch your soaps and not get them mixed up?"  :)
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« Reply #198 on: June 08, 2004, 06:17:38 PM »

Can't speak for anyone else but I'm not going to put MY shoes on the table or the bed ever again.

Danise (who doesn't believe in that stuff for one moment but who isn't going to tempt fate either!)

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« Reply #199 on: June 08, 2004, 06:18:47 PM »

Ebay is frustrating in that they make you wait so many days to file a complaint about this, and then so many days to do that and you have to do this other thing after so many days! I get so confused that I usually just give up.

I have only had a couple of bad situations with auctions as a buyer, however. One I think the seller actually passed away. He had tons of wonderful feedback and no negatives at all. Eventually all at once people, including myself, started leaving negative feedback. When I called him by phone his voicemail was full. Never heard a thing. Called another week or so later and it was still full. Then the phone was disconnected. Gave up. Not much you can do in a situation like that.

On the other hand Ebay will suspend a sellers auction at the slightest provocation...just complain about the product he/she is selling. They will pull the auction faster then lightning....regardless if the complaint was legit or not and they make no attempt to find out the sellers side of a story. I think Ebay takes the easiest way out in any given situation...including completely ignoring the problem.

Oh, well...I still love Ebay and couldn't live without it! LOL!
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« Reply #200 on: June 08, 2004, 06:21:16 PM »

Der Brucer, I had to skip past your list of shoe superstitions...I already avoid putting them on a bed...or walking on a crack, or under a ladder or any number of other silly things like that. I know it is all the bunk, but I just can't help myself! If I learn of any other superstitions I will go looney!

And God forbid someone at work open their umbrella indoors! I break out in a sweat! LOL!
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« Reply #201 on: June 08, 2004, 06:22:32 PM »

I am now going to the post office to mail a (not so) surprise package to DR JRand53!
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« Reply #202 on: June 08, 2004, 06:23:50 PM »

And while we are talking stupid lyrics, the seldom used lyrics to the Jack Paar Tonight Show" went (read them out loud)

I M 4 U
S I M
S I M
G I 1 2 B 4 U 4 FR.

U R XTC
S U R
S U R.
I N 10 2 B 4 U 4 FR.
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« Reply #203 on: June 08, 2004, 06:23:57 PM »

I hope it isn't shoes so Jrand doesn't put them on the table or the bed!
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« Reply #204 on: June 08, 2004, 06:29:14 PM »

BTW, in an interesting eBay purchase, I won a photo today from none other than Kristoffer Tabori!

I used to know his brother, Noel Siegel.

Off to a Trustees' meeting where I hope they feed us real good 'cause I is hungry.

Laters! (a Jose reference!)

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« Reply #205 on: June 08, 2004, 06:32:39 PM »


And God forbid someone at work open their umbrella indoors! I break out in a sweat! LOL!

We'll tell Mary Poppins to stay away!

der Brucer

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« Reply #207 on: June 08, 2004, 06:37:05 PM »

Danise, yes I still want to hear about your SLC trip.  
I want to know how you can read one book and move to another without knowing how the first book ends.  I rarely read more than one book at a time, unless it is a collection of stories or thoughts.

George, glad you are much better.  It sounded as if you might have been coming down with something big.

DerBrucer that was really sad.  Was it written by a vegetarian?

I must have some sort of magic charm to protect me from the evils of putting my shoes in the wrong place.  So, MBarnum you will be safe with me when I break all of your superstitious rules.
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« Reply #208 on: June 08, 2004, 06:52:07 PM »

Good Evening!

I had a nice dinner with my friend, Mark, and we both ate way more food than we should have - that "bathtub" salad bar is just too tempting.  -And they had some very good Eastern Shore Crab Soup too tonight!  -Oh, and I got the Strawberry Shortcake for dessert - I think I got through 1/2 of it before I cried, "Uncle!"  They use thick slices of pound cake instead of biscuits.  -And I think my stomach is still crying "Uncle" right now.

After dinner, I headed up to school and practiced.  Piano practice.  On a real grand piano in my teacher's studio - they still haven't changed the locks in 15 years!  WOW!  It was kind of exciting and "depressing" at the same time.  My fingers are definitely not where they used to be technically speaking.  I brought along some of the rep I used to play.  I was laughing at myself as I was trying to muddle through the second movement of the Franck Violin Sonata (the piano part, of course).  Then came some Bach and some Haydn.  And more laughing.  One of my "summer projects" was to get some regular "real piano" practice, and, after tonight, it will be more of a mission than a project.

-Now if I can just figure out what's causing me to sneeze in my apartment, all will be well.  Sheesh!  I haven't sneezing fits like this in a while.

-And I forgot that Showtime is rebroadcasting their "Tales of the City" series this month... Billy Campbell... Colin Ferguson... YUM!

Of course, I was planning on doing some major cleaning and putting away-ing in my bedroom tonight... Hmmm....
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« Reply #209 on: June 08, 2004, 07:03:18 PM »

Just had my wardrobe fitting: It's a little alarming how none of my clothes fit me anymore - this happens as we get older, I suppose.  But, that's it - no more food - just Candy I Ate As A Kid - that's my new diet.  Tomorrow I shall eat only lean cuisines.
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