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Post by gailkate on Apr 17, 2012 23:18:15 GMT -5
Now that's what a call a pome.
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Post by BoatBabe on Apr 17, 2012 23:39:00 GMT -5
I know this song from the girls (Crystal, Linda) who have sung it, but I didn't know where it came from. Ian Tyson.
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Post by BoatBabe on Apr 17, 2012 23:44:55 GMT -5
Thanks, Jay!
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Post by SeattleDan on Apr 18, 2012 13:04:05 GMT -5
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Post by gailkate on Apr 18, 2012 18:43:47 GMT -5
Oh, Danno, no, no, no! I loved Ian and Sylvia, but only one group can sing "You Were on My Mind." www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_f16t1JGHo(Somebody needs to teach me how to embed the actual vid screen.)
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Post by BoatBabe on Apr 18, 2012 23:49:54 GMT -5
Oh, Danno, no, no, no! I loved Ian and Sylvia, but only one group can sing "You Were on My Mind." (Somebody needs to teach me how to embed the actual vid screen.) After you paste the link, drag your cursor over the link to shadow it, and then click the red TUBE button on the far left bottom row. If you "qoute" this reply, you will see what it looks like in type.
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Post by BoatBabe on Apr 18, 2012 23:53:56 GMT -5
Good one, DannO! Didn't Ian write that? And if somebody else makes it a bigger song than you did, well, that's a lot more money in your pocket.
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Post by gailkate on Apr 19, 2012 8:41:09 GMT -5
Oh, Danno, no, no, no! I loved Ian and Sylvia, but only one group can sing "You Were on My Mind." (Somebody needs to teach me how to embed the actual vid screen.) After you paste the link, drag your cursor over the link to shadow it, and then click the red TUBE button on the far left bottom row. If you "qoute" this reply, you will see what it looks like in type. Hmm. I'm not seeing it yet. You mean - oh! on this page, not on the youtube page?
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Post by gailkate on Apr 19, 2012 9:08:26 GMT -5
I did some googling and reported to you all, but proboards ate my post. Apparently Sylvia wrote the song and there were some darker lyrics in the original. "Going to the corner" meant more than going to hang out with other people in order to forget her troubles. Damn, I was 19 - why didn't I get the drift? I just thought of it as a great bopping, teen angst song in the same genre as "Leader of the Pack."
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Post by BoatBabe on Apr 19, 2012 9:19:20 GMT -5
After you paste the link, drag your cursor over the link to shadow it, and then click the red TUBE button on the far left bottom row. If you "qoute" this reply, you will see what it looks like in type. Hmm. I'm not seeing it yet. You mean - oh! on this page, not on the youtube page? Yup, you already know how to copy the address for the youtube video you want to post. When you are making your "reply" here, paste the address, then drag your pointy thingy over the address while holding down your left clicker to highlight the address. Then click the left red button up there, and it will automatically put the [youtube] brackets on the left side of the address, and the "stop youtube" brackets on the right side. Viola! I wouldn't have picked up on "going to the corner" as dark lyrics.
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Post by SeattleDan on Apr 19, 2012 15:02:31 GMT -5
BB, I love the arrangement We Five did, but they chickened out on the verse, I went to the corner/Just to ease my mind. Nothing about getting drunk and sick, which makes the lyric more poignant. But I fondly remember We Five.
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Post by doctork on Apr 19, 2012 21:03:39 GMT -5
Ian is now 78 years old and a bit different from back in the day, when my husband saw Ian & Sylvia perform in a small folk club in Greenwich Village, but he still has a sense of humor.
So when we stood in line to get our CD signed, Howard reminded Ian that he had sat next to him between sets back in the 60's. Ian replied "I always wondered what happened to you. Now we know!"
One of my favorite Ian & Sylvia tunes is "Summer Wages," but the only one I can find on YouTube (I was gonna try BB's instructions) gives me a message that I have to download a new Adobe Flash, which I already did but it doesn't seem to "take."
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Post by BoatBabe on Apr 19, 2012 22:27:07 GMT -5
This is a great version, and the afore-hand talk about Bobby Dylan makes it ever so much so.
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Post by doctork on Apr 19, 2012 22:45:40 GMT -5
Thanks BB! You are correct, this is a great version of "Summer Wages."
A BC boy writes about BC:
//Through the gray fog bound straights Where the cedars stand waitin I'll be lost and gone Like summer wages//
And that is why he is a cowboy poet as well as a highly successful singer-songwriter.
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Post by BoatBabe on Apr 21, 2012 13:22:17 GMT -5
Here's a really good one:
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Post by BoatBabe on Apr 22, 2012 21:53:36 GMT -5
And there is the classic Depressing As Hell good:
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Post by doctork on Apr 22, 2012 23:39:36 GMT -5
I better pencil in the Elko Cowboy Poetry Festival for next year right now!
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Post by jspnrvr on Apr 23, 2012 18:57:45 GMT -5
I've been wanting to get to Elko for a long time now. It's always kind of rough to get time off that time of year, it's the busy time for us down here in Florida healthcare.
Thanks to everyone who contributed and commented. This was fun!
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Post by BoatBabe on Apr 23, 2012 22:17:07 GMT -5
Well now, let's not forget Wilie Gustofson. That 2008 Elko Show musta been sumthin!
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Post by gailkate on May 7, 2012 23:50:56 GMT -5
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Post by joew on May 8, 2012 9:24:59 GMT -5
The Bri'ish accents are awways fun to listen to. The act i'sewf pu' a big smiwe on me face.
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Post by jspnrvr on May 12, 2012 8:44:53 GMT -5
It's not really a talent, more like a newly acquired skill. Since there's no computer at Mom's, and no neighbors close enough to bootleg off of, I went ahead and connected the "wi-fi hotspot" capability on this smartypants phone I got last summer. It works! Basically just use the phone as a router, or similar situation where you'd plug in at your library, B&N, Starstruck Coffee, etc. Cool. Now, If I can avoid strangling myself with all the dumb cords I carry these days I'll be in good shape! I'll be heading out for the Redneck Riviera in a little bit.
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Post by doctork on May 13, 2012 10:47:08 GMT -5
I've said for a long time that my smartphone is smarter than I am! Gotta be a kid to outwit them. Or even make full use of their capabilities.
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Post by jspnrvr on May 19, 2012 17:29:21 GMT -5
One block from the Manatee County Courthouse in downtown Bradenton, Florida there's a little "joint", that appears to have survived the tests of Time and Urban Renewal: The Tip Top Tavern. On a large sandwich poster, taken outside every afternoon, "We don't serve Women at Happy Hour, You have to bring Your Own!"
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Post by gailkate on May 30, 2012 8:34:28 GMT -5
I missed this, Jay - love it!
And here are more from the dedicated Church Ladies. Some of these are truly LOL. Belly laughs are good for us.
Church Ladies With Typewriters
They're Back! Those wonderful Church Bulletins! Thank God for church ladies with typewriters. These sentences actually appeared in church bulletins or were announced in church services:
The Fasting & Prayer Conference includes meals. -------------------------- The sermon this morning: 'Jesus Walks on the Water.' The sermon tonight: 'Searching for Jesus.' -------------------------- Ladies, don't forget the rummage sale. It's a chance to get rid of those things not worth keeping around the house. Bring your husbands. -------------------------- Remember in prayer the many who are sick of our community. Smile at someone who is hard to love. Say 'Hell' to someone who doesn't care much about you. -------------------------- Don't let worry kill you off - let the Church help. -------------------------- Miss Charlene Mason sang 'I will not pass this way again,' giving obvious pleasure to the congregation. -------------------------- For those of you who have children and don't know it, we have a nursery downstairs. -------------------------- Next Thursday there will be tryouts for the choir. They need all the help they can get. -------------------------- Irving Benson and Jessie Carter were married on October 24 in the church. So ends a friendship that began in their school days. -------------------------- A bean supper will be held on Tuesday evening in the church hall. Music will follow. -------------------------- At the evening service tonight, the sermon topic will be 'What Is Hell?' Come early and listen to our choir practice. -------------------------- Eight new choir robes are currently needed due to the addition of several new members and to the deterioration of some older ones. -------------------------- Scouts are saving aluminum cans, bottles and other items to be recycled. Proceeds will be used to cripple children. -------------------------- Please place your donation in the envelope along with the deceased person you want remembered. -------------------------- The church will host an evening of fine dining, super entertainment and gracious hostility. -------------------------- Potluck supper Sunday at 5:00 PM - prayer and medication to follow. -------------------------- The ladies of the Church have cast off clothing of every kind. They may be seen in the basement on Friday afternoon. -------------------------- This evening at 7 PM there will be a hymn singing in the park across from the Church. Bring a blanket and come prepared to sin. -------------------------- Ladies Bible Study will be held Thursday morning at 10 AM . All ladies are invited to lunch in the Fellowship Hall after the B. S. is done. -------------------------- The pastor would appreciate it if the ladies of the Congregation would lend him their electric girdles for the pancake breakfast next Sunday. -------------------------- Low Self Esteem Support Group will meet Thursday at 7 PM. Please use the back door. -------------------------- The eighth-graders will be presenting Shakespeare's Hamlet in the Church basement Friday at 7 PM. The congregation is invited to attend this tragedy. -------------------------- Weight Watchers will meet at 7 PM at the First Presbyterian Church Please use large double door at the side entrance. -------------------------- The Associate Minister unveiled the church's new campaign slogan last Sunday: 'I Upped My Pledge - Up Yours.
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Post by BoatBabe on May 30, 2012 9:28:53 GMT -5
;D ;D
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Post by doctork on Jun 15, 2012 20:55:11 GMT -5
This year is the 200th anniversary of the founding of the New England Journal of Medicine. I am old; I have been a subscriber for most of those years! They are inviting readers to comment and answer a different question each month. This month the question is "What advice would you give an aspiring medical student today?" In May they asked "What is the best advice a nurse has ever given you?" In April they asked "Tell us about a physician who has inspired you." Here is one answer to April's question from a current medical student who has been inspired by Lansing, Michigan physician Barry Saltman: //A Physician Who Inspired Me by Rachel Wolfson, Harvard Medical School Posted on April 6th 2012 I walked out into the small waiting room at the Care Free Medical Clinic in Lansing, Michigan. Waiting for me was a gaunt 40-year-old man who sat hunched over in a wheelchair. He had big, black rings under his eyes and a scruffy, unshaven look. I led Richard to the examination room, where it was my duty as a volunteer to take his history and vitals. Richard was so weak that he could barely get out of his wheelchair to get on the scale, which measured him 30 pounds underweight. His arm was so frail that I thought the blood pressure cuff would squeeze the life out of him. He told me that despite noticing the deterioration of his health for over a year, he had waited until then to be seen because he didn’t have health insurance. He had not been able to afford healthcare for the past twenty years. Dr. Barry Saltman came to examine him and instantly knew that the situation was dire. Dr. Saltman spent a long time with Richard, hearing his story and treating him with respect. After some tests, Richard was diagnosed with advanced metastatic cancer. Dr. Saltman then took the time to teach Richard about his illness and explained the treatment options. Unfortunately, Richard succumbed to the cancer soon thereafter. Had Richard had health insurance and access to healthcare, however, he could have received his diagnosis earlier and lived a longer and healthier life. Dr. Saltman, as a primary care physician in mid-Michigan, had realized that there were hundreds of people in the area just like Richard. In 2004, Dr. Saltman started a free clinic. At first, the clinic had barely enough patients’ records to fill one bookshelf, but eight years later, Dr. Saltman and his colleagues have seen thousands of patients who otherwise had no one else to turn to. Dr. Saltman saw a need in his community and, unlike many others, took the initiative to act upon that need. His drive, compassion, and ability to relate to others continue to inspire me today as a medical student, six years after Dr. Saltman and I met Richard.// And here is the website if you wish to read more, "We each play a role in advancing medicine": nejm200.nejm.org/share/role-in-advancing-medicine/?query=pfw
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Post by BoatBabe on Jun 15, 2012 21:24:48 GMT -5
Well, that's pretty cool!
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Post by gailkate on Jun 18, 2012 23:21:42 GMT -5
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Post by BoatBabe on Jun 18, 2012 23:35:31 GMT -5
Very Cute!
And laugh inducing.
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