sf wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 13:13:54 -0500, Dave Smith
> > wrote:
>
>> blake murphy wrote:
>>> i remember where i was when i found out jimi hendrix had died, but not
>>> lennon.
>>>
>> I remember where I was when Lennon died. I was just leaving "Monday
>> night at the ranch", our weekly guitar jam at a friend's place. I had
>> just started the car and was waiting for my friend Marty to leave
>> because he was parked behind me. He came over and told me that he had
>> just heard it on the radio.
>
> Oh, come on. You made that up.
>

No.

sf wrote:

> On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 02:41:40 -0500, "cybercat" >
> wrote:
>
>>"sf" > wrote in message
>
>
>>>You're a young 'un! I didn't go into a funk over this death, but his
>>>murder did make me pause because he was an icon of my generation.
>>>
>>
>>I got really upset over the death of Harry Chapin in 1981. And Frank Zappa's
>>death tore me up. (I mean *tore* me up. I adored him, his music, what he was
>>trying to do.)
>>
>
> I have to say, you get a lot more emotional over strangers than I do.
> Music is music. Nothing more.

And yet you continue posting to this thread.

It's normal to feel grief and loss, even for a stranger, when it's
someone who has touched so many lives, whether it be through music, art,
literature, humor, insight, or through research and exploration. It's
normal to feel horror and pity for a light snuffed out before its time,
and to empathize with loved ones left behind.

I feel sorry for you. I can't imagine going through life as an
emotional flat-liner.

"Kathleen" > wrote in message
...
> sf wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 02:41:40 -0500, "cybercat" >
>> wrote:
>>
>>>"sf" > wrote in message
>>
>>
>>>>You're a young 'un! I didn't go into a funk over this death, but his
>>>>murder did make me pause because he was an icon of my generation.
>>>>
>>>
>>>I got really upset over the death of Harry Chapin in 1981. And Frank
>>>Zappa's death tore me up. (I mean *tore* me up. I adored him, his music,
>>>what he was trying to do.)
>>>
>>
>> I have to say, you get a lot more emotional over strangers than I do.
>> Music is music. Nothing more.
>
> And yet you continue posting to this thread.
>
> It's normal to feel grief and loss, even for a stranger, when it's someone
> who has touched so many lives, whether it be through music, art,
> literature, humor, insight, or through research and exploration. It's
> normal to feel horror and pity for a light snuffed out before its time,
> and to empathize with loved ones left behind.

Nicely said. FZ was an iconoclastic agent for social change, obnoxious and
obscene--and funny!--as he could be. That kind of anger doesn't always come
from compassion and a keen sense of justice, but his did. I am talking about
the messages in his lyrics, not "just his music." He was also brilliant and
brave. Then there was his music, which is a whole separate issue. I would go
into his later symphonic work, but that would seem too "fannish" for sf, who
probably knows him for "Don't Eat Yellow Snow."

Harry Chapin wrote moving and beautiful songs--many people really liked
"Cats in the Cradle," I adored Taxi as a child. Poignant and beautifuly
lyrics and music. More importantly, he was contributing major money from
concert and record proceeds to the hungry worldwide, way before it was
fashionable for recording artists to do so.

In their worst hour, each of these men did more for positive change in this
world than sf--or I, for that matter--have done in a life time.

>
> I feel sorry for you. I can't imagine going through life as an emotional
> flat-liner.
>

Maybe she is overmedicated.

cybercat wrote:
>
> In their worst hour, each of these men did more for positive change in
> this world than sf--or I, for that matter--have done in a life time.

So did Da Vinci, Abraham Lincoln (and don't forget Noah if you believe
in the Bible). However, they died too. Are you still wearing black?

>
> Maybe she is overmedicated.

Heh. My Irony Meter just did a jump again...

--
Cheers
Chatty Cathy

cybercat wrote:

> "Kathleen" > wrote in message
> ...
>

>>And yet you continue posting to this thread.
>>
>>It's normal to feel grief and loss, even for a stranger, when it's someone
>>who has touched so many lives, whether it be through music, art,
>>literature, humor, insight, or through research and exploration. It's
>>normal to feel horror and pity for a light snuffed out before its time,
>>and to empathize with loved ones left behind.
>
>
> Nicely said. FZ was an iconoclastic agent for social change, obnoxious and
> obscene--and funny!--as he could be. That kind of anger doesn't always come
> from compassion and a keen sense of justice, but his did. I am talking about
> the messages in his lyrics, not "just his music." He was also brilliant and
> brave. Then there was his music, which is a whole separate issue. I would go
> into his later symphonic work, but that would seem too "fannish" for sf, who
> probably knows him for "Don't Eat Yellow Snow."
>
> Harry Chapin wrote moving and beautiful songs--many people really liked
> "Cats in the Cradle," I adored Taxi as a child. Poignant and beautifuly
> lyrics and music. More importantly, he was contributing major money from
> concert and record proceeds to the hungry worldwide, way before it was
> fashionable for recording artists to do so.
>
> In their worst hour, each of these men did more for positive change in this
> world than sf--or I, for that matter--have done in a life time.

I love Pink Floyd, the music, the lyrics, all of it.

My daughter had to make a ceramic mask for her art class, decorated,
with a favorite poem on the inner surface. Her mask is black, with a
white feathered bird's wing laid across the brow, and the familiar pink
floyd prism and rainbow across one cheek and the chin. On the inside
she incised the lyrics to "Learning to Fly" from A Momentary Lapse of
Reason (1987).

Her teacher loved it and asked if she had the song on her IPOD, and if
so, could he listen to it. She also lent him the book about Pink Flyd
that she'd used to transcribe the lyrics. That weekend he went out and
bought the album. That was last year. My daughter is in another of his
art classes this year and says he's become a full-fledged fan.

Learning to Fly

Into the distance, a ribbon of black
Stretched to the point of no turning back
A flight of fancy on a windswept field
Standing alone my senses reeled
A fatal attraction holding me fast, how
Can I escape this irresistible grasp?

Cant keep my eyes from the circling skies
Tongue-tied and twisted just an earth-bound misfit, i

Ice is forming on the tips of my wings
Unheeded warnings, I thought I thought of everything
No navigator to guide my way home
Unladened, empty and turned to stone

A soul in tension thats learning to fly
Condition grounded but determined to try
Cant keep my eyes from the circling skies
Tongue-tied and twisted just an earth-bound misfit, i

Above the planet on a wing and a prayer,
My grubby halo, a vapour trail in the empty air,
Across the clouds I see my shadow fly
Out of the corner of my watering eye
A dream unthreatened by the morning light
Could blow this soul right through the roof of the night

Theres no sensation to compare with this
Suspended animation, a state of bliss
Cant keep my eyes from the circling skies
Tongue-tied and twisted just an earth-bound misfit, i

"sf" > wrote in message
...
> On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 14:59:22 -0500, "C.D" > wrote:
>
>>and schmidts. best german fare around.
>
> I expected you to say the Schmidt's were the best German's around.
> Fare, meaning food or toll?
>
> Playing dumb.
>
>
>
> --
> I never worry about diets. The only carrots that
> interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.
>
> Mae West

by all means food. wonderful place, highly recommended if you are in the
area.

"Andy" > wrote in message ...
> ChattyCathy said...
>
>> sf wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 02:41:40 -0500, "cybercat" >
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>"sf" > wrote in message
>>>
>>>>> You're a young 'un! I didn't go into a funk over this death, but
>>>>> his murder did make me pause because he was an icon of my
>>>>> generation.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>I got really upset over the death of Harry Chapin in 1981. And Frank
>>>>Zappa's death tore me up. (I mean *tore* me up. I adored him, his
>>>>music, what he was trying to do.)
>>>>
>>> I have to say, you get a lot more emotional over strangers than I do.
>>
>> I'm with you on this one. Getting all bent out of shape about a
>> celebrity's death (whether it be a famous musician/actor/whatever) is a
>> bit over the top. Unless one knew them personally, of course.
>>
>> FWIW, I was never a huge Beatles fan - but I did like some of their
>> stuff - as well as some of John Lennon's when he went solo. However,
>> when Lennon was assassinated I felt sorry for him and even more so for
>> his family, but I didn't go into mourning for a week...
>
>
> I remember missing Lowell George ("Little Feat") as I'd just gotten to
> know
> and love his songwriting and guitar style. I remember hearing his death
> announced on the radio while at work. I stopped in my tracks in disbelief.
>
> I also missed Richard Manuel ("The Band") after he blew his brains out
> when
> The Band stopped touring. Actually I was a little ****ed off.
>
> Andy

heck, i didn't know he blew his brains out. robertson has always been a
favorite guitarist for me.

SteveB wrote:

> "Andy" > wrote in message ...
>
>>sf said...
>>
>>
>>>>ringo: 'can i sing country? can i sing country?'
>>
>>
>>Only in the range of one octave!
>
>
> And that one in the key of a horse fart.
>
>

Oh my god, and horses are some fartin' animals. And I swear they save
them up for when you're squatting down picking out their back hooves.
And anybody who tells you herbivore farts don't stink has never been
subjected to a blast at close range.

I used to think horses were noble beasts. I was totally disillusioned
when my daughter got her first horse. They are physically delicate,
prone to all sorts of illnesses and injuries. They are fearful (ok,
they're a prey animal, it's a survival thing), and they make the
stupidest housecat look like a rocket scientist. Both females and males
require assistance with, erm, personal hygiene, and mares, especially,
are just plain gross, with an extremely messy estrus cycle every three
weeks in the summer, maybe every 4 or 5 weeks in the cold months. And
let me tell you, a thousand pounds of stupid with raging PMS is no fun
whatsoever.

On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:55:17 +0200, ChattyCathy wrote in post :
> :

> cybercat wrote:
>>
>> In their worst hour, each of these men did more for positive change in
>> this world than sf--or I, for that matter--have done in a life time.
>
> So did Da Vinci, Abraham Lincoln (and don't forget Noah if you believe
> in the Bible). However, they died too. Are you still wearing black?
>
>>
>> Maybe she is overmedicated.
>
> Heh. My Irony Meter just did a jump again...

Surely that was sarcasm?
--
Tim C.

"Tim C." > wrote in message
...
> On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:55:17 +0200, ChattyCathy wrote in post :
> > :
>
>> cybercat wrote:
>>>
>>> In their worst hour, each of these men did more for positive change in
>>> this world than sf--or I, for that matter--have done in a life time.
>>
>> So did Da Vinci, Abraham Lincoln (and don't forget Noah if you believe
>> in the Bible). However, they died too. Are you still wearing black?
>>
>>>
>>> Maybe she is overmedicated.
>>
>> Heh. My Irony Meter just did a jump again...
>
> Surely that was sarcasm?
> --

Cathy does "snide." I do sarcasm.

"Kathleen" > wrote
>
> I love Pink Floyd, the music, the lyrics, all of it.

You were a weed eater, weren't you?

>
> My daughter had to make a ceramic mask for her art class, decorated, with
> a favorite poem on the inner surface. Her mask is black, with a white
> feathered bird's wing laid across the brow, and the familiar pink floyd
> prism and rainbow across one cheek and the chin. On the inside she
> incised the lyrics to "Learning to Fly" from A Momentary Lapse of Reason
> (1987).
>
> Her teacher loved it and asked if she had the song on her IPOD, and if so,
> could he listen to it. She also lent him the book about Pink Flyd that
> she'd used to transcribe the lyrics. That weekend he went out and bought
> the album. That was last year. My daughter is in another of his art
> classes this year and says he's become a full-fledged fan.

It's kind of weird that your daughter likes them too. Expect a major
rebellion at some point.


>
> Learning to Fly
>
> Into the distance, a ribbon of black
> Stretched to the point of no turning back
> A flight of fancy on a windswept field
> Standing alone my senses reeled
> A fatal attraction holding me fast, how
> Can I escape this irresistible grasp?
>
> Cant keep my eyes from the circling skies
[snips]

This is one of those groups whose lyrics I need to see in print due to the
vocal styles. Very nice.

Tim C. wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:37:39 -0700, Pennyaline wrote in post :
> > :
>
>> TammyM wrote:
>>
>>> Candy, little boy?
>>>
>>> :-)
>>>
>>> TammyM, aka Mrs. Robinson (koo koo katchoo!)
>> Ah yes, semolina pilchard! Yellow matter custard, please!
>>
>> <i am the eggman, they are the eggmen...>
>
> Mrs. Robinson was Simon and Garfunkel.

Yeah, ,we know. But *I* am the Walrus and erstwhile eggman, sitting on a
cornflake waiting for the van to come.

cybercat wrote:


>
> Cathy does "snide." I do sarcasm.

Heh. At least I do it 'in your face'. Coward.
--
Cheers
Chatty Cathy

"sf" > wrote in message
...
> On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 02:41:40 -0500, "cybercat" >
> wrote:
>>
>>"sf" > wrote in message
>
>>> You're a young 'un! I didn't go into a funk over this death, but his
>>> murder did make me pause because he was an icon of my generation.
>>>
>>
>>I got really upset over the death of Harry Chapin in 1981. And Frank
>>Zappa's
>>death tore me up. (I mean *tore* me up. I adored him, his music, what he
>>was
>>trying to do.)
>>
> I have to say, you get a lot more emotional over strangers than I do.
> Music is music. Nothing more.


And a sunset is just a sunset. And a flower is just a flower. And a
waterfall is just a waterfall. And a nest of fledglings are just some hairy
little birds. Ahh, the simple delights of the common man. Too bad you're
too sophisticated to enjoy them. But, you're way too busy being important.

Steve

"Blinky the Shark" > wrote in message
. ..
> sf wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:59:11 -0800, Blinky the Shark
>> > wrote:
>>
>>>Lin wrote:
>>>
>>>> Virginia Tadrzynski wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> December 8, 1980.........Mark David Chapman shot and killed
>>>>> John Lennon in front of his home in the Dakota building in
>>>>> NYC. Da-yam I feel old, I was in college and my roommate and
>>>>> I went into mourning for a week. Who's up for a 'dead
>>>>> spread' in honor of John Lennon. If you were going to one,
>>>>> what would you bring......think not only 'dead spread' but
>>>>> 'beetles' as well.
>>>>
>>>> Well, a Savoy Truffle, of course!
>>>
>>>I'm having walrus.
>>>
>> At least it's not fur seal or polar bear.
>
> Or bipolar bear.
>
>
> --
> Blinky

Is that the one that makes a fur rug with a tail on both ends?

cybercat wrote:
> "Tim C." > wrote in message
> ...
>> On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:55:17 +0200, ChattyCathy wrote in post :
>> > :
>>
>>> cybercat wrote:
>>>>
>>>> In their worst hour, each of these men did more for positive
>>>> change in this world than sf--or I, for that matter--have done in
>>>> a life time.
>>>
>>> So did Da Vinci, Abraham Lincoln (and don't forget Noah if you
>>> believe in the Bible). However, they died too. Are you still
>>> wearing black?
>>>>
>>>> Maybe she is overmedicated.
>>>
>>> Heh. My Irony Meter just did a jump again...
>>
>> Surely that was sarcasm?
>> --
>
> Cathy does "snide." I do sarcasm.

Cathy has a new word.. irony She is using it all the time.. Ain't she
clever

"Andy" > wrote in message ...
> sf said...
>
>>>ringo: 'can i sing country? can i sing country?'
>
>
> Only in the range of one octave!

And that one in the key of a horse fart.

"sf" > wrote in message
...
> On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 12:55:00 -0500, "Virginia Tadrzynski"
> > wrote:
>
>>
>>"Wayne Boatwright" > wrote in message
>>>
>>> I thought so, too, and I also thought she had a big hand in separating
>>> the
>>> Beatles. She certainly had her own agendas.
>>>
>>
>>Linda McCartney (orignally Eastman of Eastman/Kodak family) tried to look
>>the innocent in it all, but she had a hand in it as well. If
>>Lennon/McCartney were left to their own devices, they may have continued
>>to
>>work together a while longer, I think each spouse saw their husband as the
>>one doing all the work and both added their little bit of poison to the
>>water. George Harrison was winding into his 'spiritualness' which the
>>others passed thru like a fad and Ringo, well, he just went along for the
>>ride.
>>-ginny
>>
>
> I don't even want to ask you how you know all of this. It's too much
> "fan club" stuff for me.
>
>
>
>
> --
Hubby is a die hard Beatles fan, mostly Lennon. All of this I have picked
up hearing him discuss the merits of the Beatles compaired to other
musicians for 25 years..........ad infinitum, ad nauseum.....Don't even ask
him about the Stones, he might throw one at you.
-ginny

Ophelia wrote:

>
> Cathy has a new word.. irony She is using it all the time.. Ain't
> she clever

And ain't you another coward. The pair of you go around announcing to
the world that you've killfiled so-and-so, yet you both keep humping
other people's posts to pass remarks about said people.

Go knit yourselves a nice pair of 'socks' might come in handy.
--
Cheers
Chatty Cathy

"Ophelia" > wrote in message
...
> cybercat wrote:
>> "Tim C." > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:55:17 +0200, ChattyCathy wrote in post :
>>> > :
>>>
>>>> cybercat wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> In their worst hour, each of these men did more for positive
>>>>> change in this world than sf--or I, for that matter--have done in
>>>>> a life time.
>>>>
>>>> So did Da Vinci, Abraham Lincoln (and don't forget Noah if you
>>>> believe in the Bible). However, they died too. Are you still
>>>> wearing black?
>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe she is overmedicated.
>>>>
>>>> Heh. My Irony Meter just did a jump again...
>>>
>>> Surely that was sarcasm?
>>> --
>>
>> Cathy does "snide." I do sarcasm.
>
> Cathy has a new word.. irony She is using it all the time.. Ain't she
> clever

Bless her heart.

"Virginia Tadrzynski" > wrote in message
...
> December 8, 1980.........Mark David Chapman shot and killed John Lennon in
> front of his home in the Dakota building in NYC. Da-yam I feel old, I was
> in college and my roommate and I went into mourning for a week. Who's up
> for a 'dead spread' in honor of John Lennon. If you were going to one,
> what would you bring......think not only 'dead spread' but 'beetles' as
> well.
> -ginny
>
>


I attended a 'religious' college. 1980 was the first year they allow
'women' to wear dress slacks, prior to that it was all dresses or
skirt/blouse suit combos. We HAD to do something rebellious. My roomie and
I, both 'worldly women' as they referred to us in our 'discipline' actually
listened to non-Christian music and were genuinely saddened by Lennon's
senseless killing......HOWEVER the opportunity to tweak the administration
was TOO great to pass up. Hence, black garments for a week, black bunting
over our door and a picture of Lennon (you'd think it was Lenin they way
they reacted) with candles in front of it by our window (candles were a big
no-no as well, they reeked of Papism.........something Fundies recoil at).
We raided our food stashes and laid out a 'dead spread of sorts, chips,
cheetos, popcorn.....all sorts of dorm food and played his music until we
were shut down......we still wore black tho.....

Eating dorm food now sometimes brings that memory back. Being 19 and
thumbing our noses at the establishment. So, what kind of bizarro memories
like this do you have?
-ginny

cybercat wrote:

> "Kathleen" > wrote
>
>>I love Pink Floyd, the music, the lyrics, all of it.
>
>
> You were a weed eater, weren't you?
>
>
>>My daughter had to make a ceramic mask for her art class, decorated, with
>>a favorite poem on the inner surface. Her mask is black, with a white
>>feathered bird's wing laid across the brow, and the familiar pink floyd
>>prism and rainbow across one cheek and the chin. On the inside she
>>incised the lyrics to "Learning to Fly" from A Momentary Lapse of Reason
>>(1987).
>>
>>Her teacher loved it and asked if she had the song on her IPOD, and if so,
>>could he listen to it. She also lent him the book about Pink Flyd that
>>she'd used to transcribe the lyrics. That weekend he went out and bought
>>the album. That was last year. My daughter is in another of his art
>>classes this year and says he's become a full-fledged fan.
>
>
> It's kind of weird that your daughter likes them too.

My son as well. He likes to listen to Pink Floyd while playing some
sort of Lord of the Rings type video game. He chooses his music
according to what game he's playing.

They were probably predisposed to it by in utero exposure.

> Expect a major rebellion at some point.

Been there, done that, no biggy. When she fell in with the horsey crowd
she started listening to country, especially after she went to the
Chuckwagon races for the first time last year. Three days of racing,
barn dances, concerts and camping, it was like Woodstock for the western
set. It's happy memories for her, of an amazing, life-imprinting weekend.

She had even more fun this past Labor Day weekend, except nobody would
race her for money, (she won a couple hundred off some local boys the
previous year). However, a local racing team, Outlaw Women, had asked
her to sub in as an outrider for them last year, and this year they
invited her to run with them again and she and her chrome horse (slang
for a flashy paint) got out there and kicked ass.

I let her pick the playlist whenever we have to go somewhere in the van
and I've come to appreciate it as well. Her tastes are eclectic. Pink
Floyd, pop, progressive, blues, Bollywood, scottish folk music,
bluegrass, and yeah, country. Who can avoid laughing at a song that
includes a line like, "I'd like to check you for ticks"?

I may be her mom but that doesn't mean she's got nothing to teach me.

>>Learning to Fly
>>
>>Into the distance, a ribbon of black
>>Stretched to the point of no turning back
>>A flight of fancy on a windswept field
>>Standing alone my senses reeled
>>A fatal attraction holding me fast, how
>>Can I escape this irresistible grasp?
>>
>>Cant keep my eyes from the circling skies
>
> [snips]
>
> This is one of those groups whose lyrics I need to see in print due to the
> vocal styles. Very nice.

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/p/pink+floyd/

"Virginia Tadrzynski" > wrote in message
...
>
> "Virginia Tadrzynski" > wrote in message
> ...
>> December 8, 1980.........Mark David Chapman shot and killed John Lennon
>> in front of his home in the Dakota building in NYC. Da-yam I feel old, I
>> was in college and my roommate and I went into mourning for a week.
>> Who's up for a 'dead spread' in honor of John Lennon. If you were going
>> to one, what would you bring......think not only 'dead spread' but
>> 'beetles' as well.
>> -ginny
>>
>>
>
>
> I attended a 'religious' college. 1980 was the first year they allow
> 'women' to wear dress slacks, prior to that it was all dresses or
> skirt/blouse suit combos. We HAD to do something rebellious. My roomie
> and I, both 'worldly women' as they referred to us in our 'discipline'
> actually listened to non-Christian music and were genuinely saddened by
> Lennon's senseless killing......HOWEVER the opportunity to tweak the
> administration was TOO great to pass up. Hence, black garments for a
> week, black bunting over our door and a picture of Lennon (you'd think it
> was Lenin they way they reacted) with candles in front of it by our window
> (candles were a big no-no as well, they reeked of Papism.........something
> Fundies recoil at). We raided our food stashes and laid out a 'dead spread
> of sorts, chips, cheetos, popcorn.....all sorts of dorm food and played
> his music until we were shut down......we still wore black tho.....
>
> Eating dorm food now sometimes brings that memory back. Being 19 and
> thumbing our noses at the establishment. So, what kind of bizarro
> memories like this do you have?
> -ginny
>
>

thats hard to beat. i was 20 and drinking beer watching monday night
football.
i can still see howard cossel's face telling the viewing audience that
lennon had been shot.

Virginia Tadrzynski wrote:
> "Virginia Tadrzynski" > wrote in message
> ...
>> December 8, 1980.........Mark David Chapman shot and killed John Lennon in
>> front of his home in the Dakota building in NYC. Da-yam I feel old, I was
>> in college and my roommate and I went into mourning for a week. Who's up
>> for a 'dead spread' in honor of John Lennon. If you were going to one,
>> what would you bring......think not only 'dead spread' but 'beetles' as
>> well.
>> -ginny
>>
>>
>
>
> I attended a 'religious' college. 1980 was the first year they allow
> 'women' to wear dress slacks, prior to that it was all dresses or
> skirt/blouse suit combos. We HAD to do something rebellious. My roomie and
> I, both 'worldly women' as they referred to us in our 'discipline' actually
> listened to non-Christian music and were genuinely saddened by Lennon's
> senseless killing......HOWEVER the opportunity to tweak the administration
> was TOO great to pass up. Hence, black garments for a week, black bunting
> over our door and a picture of Lennon (you'd think it was Lenin they way
> they reacted) with candles in front of it by our window (candles were a big
> no-no as well, they reeked of Papism.........something Fundies recoil at).
> We raided our food stashes and laid out a 'dead spread of sorts, chips,
> cheetos, popcorn.....all sorts of dorm food and played his music until we
> were shut down......we still wore black tho.....
>
> Eating dorm food now sometimes brings that memory back. Being 19 and
> thumbing our noses at the establishment. So, what kind of bizarro memories
> like this do you have?
> -ginny
>
>
Absolutely none, never liked the Beatles or their music. Of course I'm a
hard core fifties greaser anyway. If it ain't real rock and roll it
ain't music.

On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:47:14 -0500, Virginia Tadrzynski wrote:

> "Virginia Tadrzynski" > wrote in message
> ...
>> December 8, 1980.........Mark David Chapman shot and killed John Lennon in
>> front of his home in the Dakota building in NYC. Da-yam I feel old, I was
>> in college and my roommate and I went into mourning for a week. Who's up
>> for a 'dead spread' in honor of John Lennon. If you were going to one,
>> what would you bring......think not only 'dead spread' but 'beetles' as
>> well.
>> -ginny
>>
>>
>
>
> I attended a 'religious' college. 1980 was the first year they allow
> 'women' to wear dress slacks, prior to that it was all dresses or
> skirt/blouse suit combos. We HAD to do something rebellious. My roomie and
> I, both 'worldly women' as they referred to us in our 'discipline' actually
> listened to non-Christian music and were genuinely saddened by Lennon's
> senseless killing......HOWEVER the opportunity to tweak the administration
> was TOO great to pass up. Hence, black garments for a week, black bunting
> over our door and a picture of Lennon (you'd think it was Lenin they way
> they reacted) with candles in front of it by our window (candles were a big
> no-no as well, they reeked of Papism.........something Fundies recoil at).
> We raided our food stashes and laid out a 'dead spread of sorts, chips,
> cheetos, popcorn.....all sorts of dorm food and played his music until we
> were shut down......we still wore black tho.....
>

not bob jones, surely? affectionately known as 'b-j u.'

your pal,
blake

On Wed 10 Dec 2008 08:50:11a, Kathleen told us...

> And
> let me tell you, a thousand pounds of stupid with raging PMS is no fun
> whatsoever.
>

OMG! That sounds exactly like a boss I used to have! :-)))

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On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 11:00:40 -0500, cybercat wrote:

> "blake murphy" > wrote in message
> ...
>> On 09 Dec 2008 03:24:44 GMT, Michael "Dog3" wrote:
>>
>>> Pete C. tossed this tasty morsel into the pot
>>> ter.com:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Virginia Tadrzynski wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> December 8, 1980.........Mark David Chapman shot and killed John
>>>>> Lennon in front of his home in the Dakota building in NYC. Da-yam I
>>>>> feel old, I was in college and my roommate and I went into mourning
>>>>> for a week. Who's up for a 'dead spread' in honor of John Lennon.
>>>>> If you were going to one, what would you bring......think not only
>>>>> 'dead spread' but 'beetles' as well. -ginny
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps I'm slightly too young, being just shy of 11 at the time, but
>>>> I was never much of a beetles fan and gave it little note.
>>>>
>>>
>>> OMG!!! We have an infant among us ;-) I was just past 30 at the time. I
>>> wan't a huge Beetles fan as far as the group was concerned but I loved
>>> John
>>> Lennon and Paul McCartney.
>>>
>>> Michael
>>
>> i remember where i was when i found out jimi hendrix had died, but not
>> lennon.
>>
>
> I still love his music and listen to it regularly. The first album I ever
> heard was "Cry of Love," which I think was a posthumous compilation. There
> is something of the sound and motion of the sea in his guitar. I even like
> his vocals.

he also writes better lyrics than he's given credit for.

your pal,
blake

On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 13:21:07 -0500, Dave Smith wrote:

> blake murphy wrote:
>>
>>> You are my vintage. I went to see their concert in Toronto. All the
>>> girls were screaming so loud that I never hear anything. One of the
>>> opening acts was King Curtis, and what I didn't know until a few years
>>> ago was that Jimi Hendrix was played guitar for King Curtis.
>>>
>>> So I went to a Beatles convert and never heard a note, and I saw Jimi
>>> Hendrix playing and didn't know it.
>>
>> king curtis is a fine musician, too.
>
> Was. He was stabbed outside his apartment in 1971.
>

oopsie.

your pal,
blake

On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:06:43 -0800, sf wrote:

> On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:52:31 GMT, blake murphy
> > wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 21:00:11 -0600, Sqwertz wrote:
>>
>>> Virginia Tadrzynski > wrote:
>>>
>>>> December 8, 1980.........Mark David Chapman shot and killed John Lennon in
>>>> front of his home in the Dakota building in NYC. Da-yam I feel old, I was
>>>> in college and my roommate and I went into mourning for a week. Who's up
>>>> for a 'dead spread' in honor of John Lennon. If you were going to one, what
>>>> would you bring......think not only 'dead spread' but 'beetles' as well.
>>>> -ginny
>>>
>>> His favorite food was corn flakes.
>>>
>>> I'll pass.
>>>
>>> -sw
>>
>>him and elvis presley with the peanut butter and banana sandwiches. jeez!
>>
>>your pal,
>>blake
>
> Are you dissing Peanut Butter and Banana sandwiches? Next thing I see
> is you dissing Peanut Butter and Dill Pickle sandwiches. Where will
> this END??? I'm assuming peanut butter and honey is ok with you. If
> not, this means we're at odds over what's ok with peanut butter.
>
> LOLOL

the truth is that most of the peanut butter i eat these days is in a
reese's peanut butter cup.

your pal,
blake

On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:11:37 -0800, sf wrote:

> On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:09:52 GMT, blake murphy
> > wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 04:03:33 GMT, Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> All that is true, but Yoko certainly provided no cement.
>>
>>at least she didn't sleep with eric clapton.
>>
> How do you know?

i think clapton had more sense. besides, he was after george's wife patti.

your pal,
blake

Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> On Wed 10 Dec 2008 08:50:11a, Kathleen told us...
>
>> And
>> let me tell you, a thousand pounds of stupid with raging PMS is no fun
>> whatsoever.
>>
>
> OMG! That sounds exactly like a boss I used to have! :-)))


There was no PMS problem with my stupidest boss. I think he had more of
a little man/testosterone problem. He always looked at the negative. No
matter how well we did he was nitpicking and any time you tried to
suggest anything to him you could hear the wheels churning as he was
looking for the negatives. One night I screwed up big time and knew I
was going to be in trouble. I went into work the next day prepared to
face the problem. Knowing that he would disagree with anything I said, I
went up to his office and told him I had screwed up big time. I didn't
need to go into details. As soon as I said I screwed up he took the
opposite view.

A few months later I had to go for my yearly evaluation. He brought up
that incident and said that he should have raked me over the coals.
"Yeah, I really screwed up. That was really bad judgement on that part".
It threw him right off balance and the asshole said not to worry about
it. It was no big deal :-)

I did have a problem once with a female boss. I had written her a
letter about something. It was the sort of letter I probably should have
held onto for a few days to reconsider sending it, but it was too late.
She was livid. I had to go down to the office about it. She was yelling
and screaming at me and demanded an apology. I was not prepared to
apologize because I was right and she was wrong. Realizing that she had
to hear the words " I am sorry", I said "I am sorry you feel that way" .
She heard the words she wanted to hear and I didn't really apologize.
It was a win-win.

In article >,
"SteveB" <toquervilla@zionvistas> wrote:

> "sf" > wrote in message
> ...

> > I have to say, you get a lot more emotional over strangers than I do.
> > Music is music. Nothing more.
>
>
> And a sunset is just a sunset. And a flower is just a flower. And a
> waterfall is just a waterfall. And a nest of fledglings are just some hairy
> little birds. Ahh, the simple delights of the common man. Too bad you're
> too sophisticated to enjoy them. But, you're way too busy being important.

Like Ronald Reagan didn't say:

"If you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all."

[from Snopes]

It was in this context that candidate (not yet governor) Ronald Reagan,
while speaking before the Western Wood Products Association in San
Francisco on 12 March 1966, said the following:

I think, too, that we've got to recognize that where the preservation of
a natural resource like the redwoods is concerned, that there is a
common sense limit. I mean, if you've looked at a hundred thousand acres
or so of trees ‹ you know, a tree is a tree, how many more do you need
to look at?

The URL for this page is http://www.snopes.com/quotes/reagan/redwoods.asp

--
Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA

On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:05:06 -0500, cybercat wrote in post :
> :

> "Tim C." > wrote in message
> ...
>> On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:55:17 +0200, ChattyCathy wrote in post :
>> > :
>>
>>> cybercat wrote:
>>>>
>>>> In their worst hour, each of these men did more for positive change in
>>>> this world than sf--or I, for that matter--have done in a life time.
>>>
>>> So did Da Vinci, Abraham Lincoln (and don't forget Noah if you believe
>>> in the Bible). However, they died too. Are you still wearing black?
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Maybe she is overmedicated.
>>>
>>> Heh. My Irony Meter just did a jump again...
>>
>> Surely that was sarcasm?
>> --
>
> Cathy does "snide." I do sarcasm.

Aha. Right :-)

--
Tim C.

On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:19:52 +0200, ChattyCathy wrote in post :
> :

> cybercat wrote:
>
>>
>> Cathy does "snide." I do sarcasm.
>
> Heh. At least I do it 'in your face'. Coward.

One post away on a public newsgroup is hardly behind someone's back though
is it?
--
Tim C.

"Tim C." > wrote in message
.. .
> On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:19:52 +0200, ChattyCathy wrote in post :
> > :
>
>> cybercat wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Cathy does "snide." I do sarcasm.
>>
>> Heh. At least I do it 'in your face'. Coward.
>
> One post away on a public newsgroup is hardly behind someone's back though
> is it?
> --
I think Cathy may have an arterial flow problem to the brain.

cybercat wrote:

>
> "Tim C." > wrote in message
> .. .
>> On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:19:52 +0200, ChattyCathy wrote in post :
>> > :
>>
>>> cybercat wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Cathy does "snide." I do sarcasm.
>>>
>>> Heh. At least I do it 'in your face'. Coward.
>>
>> One post away on a public newsgroup is hardly behind someone's back
>> though is it?
>> --
> I think Cathy may have an arterial flow problem to the brain.

Heh. If you had another brain cell it would die of loneliness.
--
Cheers
Chatty Cathy

Tim C. wrote:

> On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:19:52 +0200, ChattyCathy wrote in post :
> > :
>
>> cybercat wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Cathy does "snide." I do sarcasm.
>>
>> Heh. At least I do it 'in your face'. Coward.
>
> One post away on a public newsgroup is hardly behind someone's back
> though is it?

OK. Have it your way.

If cybercat had another brain cell it would die of loneliness. (And I am
beginning to think the same thing applies to you).

BTW, I see the socks she made for you fit perfectly.

--
Cheers
Chatty Cathy

On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 21:12:42 -0500, "Virginia Tadrzynski"
> wrote:

>December 8, 1980.........Mark David Chapman shot and killed John Lennon in
>front of his home in the Dakota building in NYC. Da-yam I feel old, I was
>in college and my roommate and I went into mourning for a week. Who's up
>for a 'dead spread' in honor of John Lennon. If you were going to one, what
>would you bring......think not only 'dead spread' but 'beetles' as well.

Dear lord *that* long ago?? Hard to believe!!! Nearly 30 years... geez
that makes me feel even older than I did before.

Welshdog
--

News and views... from 'the land down under'.
Australian Opinion
http://australianopinion.com.au and
http://australianopinion.com

On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:24:45 -0000, Ophelia wrote in post :
> :

> cybercat wrote:
>> "Tim C." > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:55:17 +0200, ChattyCathy wrote in post :
>>> > :
>>>
>>>> cybercat wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> In their worst hour, each of these men did more for positive
>>>>> change in this world than sf--or I, for that matter--have done in
>>>>> a life time.
>>>>
>>>> So did Da Vinci, Abraham Lincoln (and don't forget Noah if you
>>>> believe in the Bible). However, they died too. Are you still
>>>> wearing black?
>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe she is overmedicated.
>>>>
>>>> Heh. My Irony Meter just did a jump again...
>>>
>>> Surely that was sarcasm?
>>> --
>>
>> Cathy does "snide." I do sarcasm.
>
> Cathy has a new word.. irony She is using it all the time.. Ain't she
> clever

Except she doesn't know what it means.

--
Tim C.

On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:54:28 +0200, ChattyCathy wrote in post :
> :

> Tim C. wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:19:52 +0200, ChattyCathy wrote in post :
>> > :
>>
>>> cybercat wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Cathy does "snide." I do sarcasm.
>>>
>>> Heh. At least I do it 'in your face'. Coward.
>>
>> One post away on a public newsgroup is hardly behind someone's back
>> though is it?
>
> OK. Have it your way.

Can you explain to me why that is "having it my way"?


--
Tim C.