#2. To: Turtle, Christine, Jethro Tull, Itistoolate, Diana, All (#0)
Suddenly, I feel so old. What a collection. So many of these groups sang what became prophecies - and you knew that's what they were, when you listened to them.
Now, they are appropriately being revived from what were though to be the ashes and dust of time, long gone.
That's great, as the current generation has been conditioned to deny reality & not believe in what was once a great America. No passion left - or permitted.
Actually, Opera is much faster and has better features. Chrome by Google is better too. Mozilla is just not at the cutting edge of browsers any longer.
I use IE for posting as I am addicted to IESpell for fast repair of words fat fingered to death by the rapsody of thumbs my typing is.
Lately though, it suffers severe disfunction and crashes on a whim. USA Today (McPaper) is an example of a site where IE 8 seems to be unable to display on my newest HP laptop that still also is afflicted with Vista Pro. The wonders and joys of Microshaft products never cease to amaze me.
IE splits the code somehow so i use Firefox when i want to embed a 'tube in a thread.
Disregard previous post. LOL! I use Firefox all the time. And would be using Linux but where I am now the rest of them all use Windows on a home network and I don't know how to configure the modem so that I can use what I would rather be using. So I am stuck with Windows but not with Exploder.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton
I'm surprised you have enough sense to know good music when you hear it
Turtles can't be surprised. All they can do is retract their little appendages and give up laying in a defensive posture to die or become permanently mutilated. In the modern world of mankind (note: not silly turtles espousing their little stubs at the ends of their legs as toes or fingers) they are a dying species no matter where they live.
On the other hand, you have time to live. It is not just by the grace of the almighty, either. But more by some of us that look down upon you and consider you another meal for another day.
As you know chris, Hound Dog was originally recorded by Big Mama Thornton which is why some DJs called Elvis songs "nigra music" and refused to play the songs.
If those jocks were alive and spinning today they'd be boycotting The Chix, waving the flag and advocating the repeal of the 22nd amendment.
That's why I have to laff my ass off when "country greats" like Porter Wagoner and Kenny Chesney are outed.
And, if Toby Keith gets caught in bed with a jig tranny I'll know there is a Goddess! ;)
shouldn't that be 'negress', as phil hendrie used to say? lol!
Glory to God in the highest, and Peace to His people on Earth. "I don't know where Bin Laden is. I truly am not that concerned about him" George W, Bush, 3/13/02 http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/03/20020313-8.html
I was thinking the 22nd so their demigod Dubya could be President-For-Life like Idi Amin Dada or Papa Doc Duvalier.
But, I suppose some would support states rights over neofascism masquerading as conservatism. At least the ones who aren't involved up to their draft dodging pencil necks in multinational contract swindles like BushCo and his buddies are.
For some Zio-Christian Jihadists it would be quite the horny dilemma, having to choose between their state having the power to execute women seeking abortions and the sheer Christian joy they derive from America leading a mercenary coalition to slaughter Muslims, Arabs, browns, foreigners, women and children and in no particular order depending on the individual bigot spreading the gospel as he understands it.
#38. To: Itistoolate, christine, Jethro Tull, Diana, All (#6)
"The Letter"
Talk about inducing nostalgia!
When I was a senior in high school, I fell in love with a gal (out of Texas) living in a village about 200 miles away & flew my Aeronca Champ over & through some weather that should have earned an award for stupidity - with that song banging around in my head.
What an adventure that ultimately led to. I'd give anything to be able to talk to her long enough to apologize for the outcome. I was one of those who couldn't make the distinction between thoughts & feelings. There was logic & pleasure; (God, 'feelings' hurt, what can these gals be rattling on about?)
I was 42, before the fog lifted. Kinda like driving down the road, doing 70, seeing the oil pressure light come on, realizing that you forgot to secure the oil filter. (Too late, now!)
When I was a senior in high school, I fell in love with a gal (out of Texas) living in a village about 200 miles away & flew my Aeronca Champ over & through some weather that should have earned an award for stupidity - with that song banging around in my head.
I just read your post and I have to say this:
An Aeronca Champ?
A VFR-only plane with "no electrical system" that must be hand-propped to start? (hopefully it had both magnetos operational!)
You were one kewl high school senior to actually leave the ground and fly through bad weather (a nein nein with VFR only aircraft) and I would have assumed that the chick would have been impressed.
Turtle never had an airplane...or a car. He did have a minibike that he rode down by the railroad tracks. It had a lawn-mower engine, and when Turtle had a girl on the back it wouldn't go up the slightest incline.
Turtle was indeed cool.
Dancing Turtles and Bouncing Boobs...that's Turtle Island.
A VFR-only plane with "no electrical system" that must be hand-propped to start? (hopefully it had both magnetos operational!)
It was a 90 HP version (7EC) and did have an electrical system, with a VHF coffee-grinder radio. The turn & bank indicator didn't work, though. That airplane definitely taught me that God loved me, more than I did. I built my flying time for my commercial license in that thing. It made for a lot of great adventure stories to tell my grandson ( only a year & a half, at this time.) Gramps was a lucky guy.