On the First Day
SirJohn
...of Christmas my true love sent to me
a partridge in a pear tree.
(Mirth Without Mischief)
Now, please continue with the 12 days with each response containing
(in this case) a quote with/about/referrring to the gift given for
each day.
I hope everyone will enjoy this endeavor. Tis the season of spirit,
is it not? :)
SirJohn
SteveMR200
<cc2b8844-1d0d-4eba...@m11g2000vbo.googlegroups.com>:
>...of Christmas my true love sent to me
>a partridge in a pear tree.
>
>(Mirth Without Mischief)
>
>
>Now, please continue with the 12 days with each response containing
>(in this case) a quote with/about/referring to the gift given for
>each day.
>
>I hope everyone will enjoy this endeavor. Tis the season of spirit,
>is it not? :)
>
>SirJohn
I can shoot a partridge with a single cartridge.
I can get a sparrow with a bow and arrow.
--Irving Berlin (1888-1989)
_Annie Get Your Gun_ [1946],
"Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better"
--
Steve
Soundtrax
> On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 12:13:55 -0800 (PST), SirJohn wrote in message:
>
>
> >...of Christmas my true love sent to me
> >a partridge in a pear tree.
> I can shoot a partridge with a single cartridge.
> I can get a sparrow with a bow and arrow.
> --Irving Berlin (1888-1989)
> _Annie Get Your Gun_ [1946],
> "Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better"
...of Christmas my true love sent to me
two turtle doves,
I don't want a ricochet romance,
I don't want a ricochet love
If you're careless with your kisses,
find another turtle dove.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EAuXkkEpCQ
-- Soundtrax
SteveMR200
<7bcc7e59-8e28-48ac...@g26g2000yqe.googlegroups.com>:
On the third day of Christmas, my true love sent to me
Three French hens. . . .
His doctrine for "reverence for life" was to
be literally obeyed. It accounted for his
vegetarianism, as well as for his attitude
toward all animals.
The American TV star Jack Paar once visited him at
his hospital in Lambarene. A dog appeared, chasing
a chicken. In French, Dr. Schweitzer shouted, "No!
No! Remember we have won the Nobel Peace Prize!"
--Clifton Fadiman and Andre Bernard
_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ [2000], "Schweitzer, Albert"
--
Steve
Ignar DePointe
> On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 09:19:13 -0800 (PST), Soundtrax wrote in message:
>
On The Fourth Day Of Christmas, my true love sent to me
Four calling birds...
A light broke in upon my soul--
It was the carol of a bird;
It ceased -- and then it came again
The sweetest song ear ever heard.
-- Byron
-- Ignar
Violette Harte
> On The Fourth Day Of Christmas, my true love sent to me
> Four calling birds...
>
> A light broke in upon my soul--
> It was the carol of a bird;
> It ceased -- and then it came again
> The sweetest song ear ever heard.
> -- Byron
On The Fifth Day Of Christmas, my true love sent to me
Five Golden rings....
But just ONE would do!
...
Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.
~ Mae West 1892-1980, quoted in Joseph Weintraub, Peel Me a Grape (1967)
--
//Violette Harte
Pics of AL
http://aussieladiesofaq.blogspot.com
_____________________________________
The Fantasy Contessa
> On The Fourth Day Of Christmas, my true love sent to me
> Four calling birds...
Butterfield 8, with its call-girl heroine working her way down the
alphabet of men from Amherst to Yale, appeared at a very formative
moment in my adolescence and impressed me forever with the persona of
the prostitute, whom I continue to revere. The prostitute is not, as
feminists claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror, an
outlaw, who controls the sexual channels between nature and culture.
~Camille Paglia, Vamps and Tramps
--
//The Fantasy Contessa
Heidi
> On the third day of Christmas, my true love sent to me
> Three French hens. . . .
>
> His doctrine for "reverence for life" was to
> be literally obeyed. It accounted for his
> vegetarianism, as well as for his attitude
> toward all animals.
>
> The American TV star Jack Paar once visited him at
> his hospital in Lambarene. A dog appeared, chasing
> a chicken. In French, Dr. Schweitzer shouted, "No!
> No! Remember we have won the Nobel Peace Prize!"
My doggie got sick once eating chicken. :-(
...
Dogs can eat Raw Chicken Bones but not cooked Chicken Bones....
Dogs should never be allowed to eat cooked Chicken Bones. Never feed
them, and never let them loose in areas where people may have been
eating Cooked Chicken.
Cooked Chicken Bones become very brittle. They will splinter easily and
can break in to very sharp shards. If your Dogs ate Cooked Chicken Bones
there is risk of it getting a splinter of Bone stuck in its Mouth, its
Throat or in its Intestine. The Bones can pierce Intestines or form a
hard blockage that can be life threatening.
~The Three Dog Blogger
--
//Heidi
Betty
... of Christmas, my true love sent to me. Six geese
a-laying....
...
A goose is a silly bird, too much for one, not enough for two.
~ proverb in Jacob Poole 1774-1827, Archaic Words
--
//Betty xx
Ignar DePointe
> ... of Christmas, my true love sent to me. Six geese
> a-laying....
>
> ...
> A goose is a silly bird, too much for one, not enough for two.
> ~ proverb in Jacob Poole 1774-1827, Archaic Words
... of Christmas, my true love sent to me.
Seven swans a-swimming....
“Just because swans mate for life,
I don't think its that big a deal.
First of all, if you're a swan, you're
probably not going to find a swan
that looks much better than the one
you've got, so why not mate for life?”
-- Jack Handy
-- Ignar
SteveMR200
message:
<2edd7a4c-ac78-4d22...@d21g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>:
>On the seventh day of Christmas, my true love sent to me.
>Seven swans a-swimming....
>
>"Just because swans mate for life,
>I don't think its that big a deal.
>First of all, if you're a swan, you're
>probably not going to find a swan
>that looks much better than the one
>you've got, so why not mate for life?"
>-- Jack Handy
On the eighth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me.
Eight maids a-milking. . . .
Then there was discussion about breasts, which are
an ornament to women if they are well proportioned.
Large and flabby breasts cause unhappiness, it was
said, because they promised much but produced
little. Firm breasts, and even the small ones
of tiny women, are fruitful and can provide
milk for many children.
--Martin Luther (1483-1546),
_Table Talk_ [1569], Number 4105
--
Steve
Violette Harte
On the eighth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me. Eight maids
a-milking.....
...
They may talk of love in a cottage,
And bowers of trellised vine �
Of nature bewitchingly simple,
And milkmaids half-divine;
They may talk of the pleasure of sleeping
In the shade of a spreading tree,
And a walk in the fields at morning,
By the side of a footstep free!
But give me a sly flirtation
By the light of a chandelier �
With music to play in the pauses,
And nobody very near;
Or a seat on a silken sofa,
With a glass of pure old wine,
And mama too blind to discover
The small white hand in mine.
~ N.P.Willis 1790-1870, Love in a Cottage
--
//Violette Harte
Violette Harte
> .... of Christmas, my true love sent to me.
> Seven swans a-swimming....
>
> �Just because swans mate for life,
> I don't think its that big a deal.
> First of all, if you're a swan, you're
> probably not going to find a swan
> that looks much better than the one
> you've got, so why not mate for life?�
> -- Jack Handy
__________________________
Just mating would be nice..let alone for life!
<sigh>
...
Thus, like a dying swan, to a sad tune, I sing my own dirge.
~Philip Massinger 1583�1640,The Emperor of the East (1632).
--
//Violette Harte
SteveMR200
Maidens will dance and be glad . . . . I will turn
their mourning into gladness; I will give them
comfort and joy instead of sorrow.
--The Bible, Jeremiah 31:13 NIV
--
Steve
Dora M
> .. . . my true love sent to me Nine ladies dancing.
> Maidens will dance and be glad . . . .
________________________
Dancing is wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to
guess what a man is going to do before he does it.
~ Christopher Hurley 1890-1957 Kitty Foyle (1939)
--
//Regards
Dora M.
SteveMR200
<zxAYm.64403$ze1....@news-server.bigpond.net.au>:
>Dancing is wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you
>learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.
>~ Christopher Hurley 1890-1957 Kitty Foyle (1939)
[Dancing is] a perpendicular expression of a
horizontal desire.
--George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
_New Statesman_ [March 23, 1962]
--
Steve
Lucas Ramieux
news:0gr6j55h76gm81ehp...@4ax.com...
Methodists don't like sex because it might lead to dancing.
Baptists don't have sex standing up because people might think that they
were dancing
= Unknown (sorry)
________________________________________
Lucas Ramieux - "Live purposefully, memento mori"
SteveMR200
<kHPYm.64522$ze1....@news-server.bigpond.net.au>:
>Methodists don't like sex because it might lead to dancing.
>
>Baptists don't have sex standing up because people might
>think that they were dancing.
>
>= Unknown (sorry)
>
>________________________________________
>Lucas Ramieux
But to what shall I compare this generation? It
is like children sitting in the marketplaces
and calling to their playmates, "We played
the flute for you, and you did not dance."
--Jesus, Matthew 11:16-17 ESV
--
Steve
** Stunning Celeste **
> Methodists don't like sex because it might lead to dancing.
>
> Baptists don't have sex standing up because people might think that they
> were dancing
>
> = Unknown (sorry)
A woman dies and goes to heaven, and St. Peter takes her on a tour of
heaven. They pass a pit where there were people gnashing their teeth and
wailing, and the woman says, "Who's down there?"
St. Peter says, "Those are the Catholics who ate meat on Fridays."
They walked a little farther and there was another pit with more
groaning and wailing, and she says, "O.K., who's down there?"
St. Peter answers, "Those are the Baptists who went to dances."
And a little farther along, there was another pit and people down there
gnashing their teeth and crying and ripping their garments, and she
says, "And those people?"
And St. Peter says, "Those are the Episcopalians who ate their salads
with their dessert forks."
--
//** Stunning Celeste **
Yabby
>> Dancing is wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you
>> learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.
>> ~ Christopher Hurley 1890-1957 Kitty Foyle (1939)
>
> [Dancing is] a perpendicular expression of a
> horizontal desire.
> --George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
> _New Statesman_ [March 23, 1962]
Sects, sects, sects! That's all you religion majors ever think about.
~ Garth Snyder
--
//Yabby
SteveMR200
message: <xtnZm.64807$ze1....@news-server.bigpond.net.au>:
>On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:56:00 GMT, Lucas Ramieux wrote in message:
><kHPYm.64522$ze1....@news-server.bigpond.net.au>:
>
>> Methodists don't like sex because it might lead to dancing.
>>
>> Baptists don't have sex standing up because people might think that they
>> were dancing
>>
>> = Unknown (sorry)
>_____________________________________________
>
>A woman dies and goes to heaven, and St. Peter takes her on a tour of
>heaven. . . . They walked a little farther and there was another pit
>with more groaning and wailing, and she says, "O.K., who's down there?"
>
>St. Peter answers, "Those are the Baptists who went to dances."
I have walked that crooked road and I have danced
with the demon, Satan. I've been face down in
the gutter and looked up into the face of God.
--"Reverend Jonas Nightengale" (Steve Martin)
(In the film _Leap of Faith_ [1992]; written
by Janus Cercone, directed by Richard Pearce)
--
Steve
Flykke~
> I have walked that crooked road and I have danced
> with the demon, Satan. I've been face down in
> the gutter and looked up into the face of God.
> --"Reverend Jonas Nightengale" (Steve Martin)
> (In the film _Leap of Faith_ [1992]; written
> by Janus Cercone, directed by Richard Pearce)
Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight? I always ask
that of all my prey. I just like the sound of it.
~ dial., Batman (1989) [Joker]
--
//Flykke ~
Charlie
[Dancing is] a perpendicular expression of a
horizontal desire.
--George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
_New Statesman_ [March 23, 1962]
... desire legalised by music" is the complete quotation.
Flykke~
> [Dancing is] a perpendicular expression of a
> horizontal desire.
> --George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
> _New Statesman_ [March 23, 1962]
>
> .... desire legalised by music" is the complete quotation.
________________________________________________
The rumba is the vertical expression of a horizontal wish. You have to
hold her, like the skin on her thigh is your reason for living. Let her
go, like your heart's being ripped from your chest. Throw her back, like
you're going to have your way with her right here on the dance floor.
And then finish, like she's ruined you for life.
~ dial, Shall We Dance? (2004) [Paulina]
--
//Flykke ~
Ignar DePointe
...my true love sent to me, Ten lords a-leaping.
[heh, good luck on that one, :) ]
“The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne
that has stood for five days.”
-- Clement Atlee
-- Ignar
P. Dante
> On The Fourth Day Of Christmas, my true love sent to me
> Four calling birds...
____________________________________________
Although, and I love to be a pedant, in the fourth stanza it is not
�calling birds� but more correctly �collie birds� � blackbirds that is,
a plentiful food source when this roundelay was originally penned, and
therefore a most useful gift. The �four-and-twenty blackbirds baked in a
pie� from the old nursery rhyme Sing a Song of Sixpence refers to the
same food source.
~ The Iconoclast, New English Review (December 14, 2009)
And according to snopes.com collie (or colly) means black as coal and
the 5 golden rings are actually 5 ring-necked birds such as pheasants.
Which restores the patterns that the first seven gifts are all birds.
--
//P. Dante
Owen McManus
> ....my true love sent to me, Ten lords a-leaping.
> [heh, good luck on that one, :) ]
______________________________________________
[Morris dancing] is principally a fertility dance, performed especially
in the spring. Danced by groups of men often dressed in white and
wearing bells on their legs, the steps are varied and intricate and are
maintained in a jog-trot while handkerchiefs are waved in both hands. It
calls for individual characters such as a hobby-horse and a fool.
~Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
Pic: http://tinyurl.com/yalzxkk
...
"As for [the Morpork Folk-Dance and Song Club] -- well, no problem
there. You know you always wondered what Corporal Nobbs does on his
evenings off?"
Colon's face split into a watermelon grin.
"No!" said Vimes incredulously. "Not Nobby?"
"Yep!" said Colon, delighted at the result.
"What, jumping about with bells on and waving his hanky in the air?"
"He says it is important to preserve old folk-ways," said Colon.
"Nobby? Mr Steel-toecaps-in-the-groin,
I-was-just-checking-the-doorhandle-and-it-opened-all-by-itself?"
"Yeah! Funny old world, ain't it? He was very bashful about it."
"Good grief," said Vimes.
"It just goes to show, you can never tell," said Colon.
~Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man, Discworld series (1991)
--
//Owen McManus
Soundtrax
> Ignar DePointe wrote:
> > On The Fourth Day Of Christmas, my true love sent to me
> > Four calling birds...
>
> ____________________________________________
>
> Although, and I love to be a pedant, in the fourth stanza it is not
> a plentiful food source when this roundelay was originally penned, and
> pie’ from the old nursery rhyme Sing a Song of Sixpence refers to the
> same food source.
> ~ The Iconoclast, New English Review (December 14, 2009)
>
> And according to snopes.com collie (or colly) means black as coal and
> the 5 golden rings are actually 5 ring-necked birds such as pheasants.
> Which restores the patterns that the first seven gifts are all birds.
>
> --
> //P. Dante
Word up. It’s Wordgirl !
Flying at the speed of sound,
Vocabulary that astounds,
From the planet Lexicon,
Watch out villains, here she comes !
When faced with a catastrophe
We need a living dictionary,
Her superior intellect
Keeps the crime world in check.
Go girl!
Huggy Face is by her side,
Vocabulary a mile wide.
She'll make sure that crime won’t pay
And throw some mighty words your way.
Word up. It’s Wordgirl !
-- Soundtrax
Verbi Vore
> Word up. It�s Wordgirl !
> Flying at the speed of sound,
> Vocabulary that astounds,
> From the planet Lexicon,
> Watch out villains, here she comes !
>
> When faced with a catastrophe
> We need a living dictionary,
> Her superior intellect
> Keeps the crime world in check.
> Go girl!
>
> Huggy Face is by her side,
> Vocabulary a mile wide.
> And throw some mighty words your way.
_____________________________________
A long time lurker in AQ, I have often been struck
by a word that I've seen a dozen times suddenly becoming
quite startlingly beautiful (or weird) as I repeat it to myself a few
times. Also intrigued by the guesses my spell-check makes eg maigemu is
nursemaid and dePointe is disjointed.
...
He liked words and images. �Blue� was one of his favorite words. He
liked the feeling it made on his lips and tongue when he said it. Words
have physical feeling, not just meaning, he remembered thinking when he
was young. He liked other words, such as �distant,� �woodsmoke,�
�highway,� �ancient,� �passage,� �voyageur,� and �India� for how they
sounded, how they tasted, and what they conjured up in his mind.
~ Robert James Waller 1939- , The Bridges of Madison County (1992)
--
//Verbi Vore
*Carnivores eat meat; herbivores eat plants and vegetables; verbivores
devour words.
-Richard Lederer*
______________________________________________
Owen McManus
> ....my true love sent to me, Ten lords a-leaping.
_____________________
On the eleventh day of Christmas,
My true love gave to me:
Eleven pipers piping.
...
I got to try the bagpipes. It was like trying to blow an octopus.
~ James Galway 1939- [The Man with Golden Flute], An Autobiography (1978)
bobgnome
"Verbi Vore" <VERB...@XCAPSbigpond.net.au> wrote in message
news:msz0n.66931$ze1....@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> Soundtrax wrote:
>> Word up. It�s Wordgirl !
>> Flying at the speed of sound,
>> Vocabulary that astounds,
>> From the planet Lexicon,
>> Watch out villains, here she comes !
>>
>> When faced with a catastrophe
>> We need a living dictionary,
>> Her superior intellect
>> Keeps the crime world in check.
>> Go girl!
>>
>> Huggy Face is by her side,
>> Vocabulary a mile wide.
>> And throw some mighty words your way.
> _____________________________________
>
> A long time lurker in AQ, I have often been struck
> by a word that I've seen a dozen times suddenly becoming
> quite startlingly beautiful (or weird) as I repeat it to myself a few
> times. Also intrigued by the guesses my spell-check makes eg maigemu is
> nursemaid and dePointe is disjointed.
>
> ...
> liked the feeling it made on his lips and tongue when he said it. Words
> have physical feeling, not just meaning, he remembered thinking when he
> �highway,� �ancient,� �passage,� �voyageur,� and �India� for how they
> sounded, how they tasted, and what they conjured up in his mind.
> ~ Robert James Waller 1939- , The Bridges of Madison County (1992)
>
> --
> //Verbi Vore
>
> *Carnivores eat meat; herbivores eat plants and vegetables; verbivores
> devour words.
> -Richard Lederer*
> ______________________________________________
|||
Welcome to the group!
Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes, and prism, are all very
good words for the lips: especially prunes and prism.
--Charles Dickens (1812�1870)
_Little Dorrit_, bk. 2, ch. 5 [1857]
Words fascinate me. They always have.
For me, browsing in a dictionary is like
being turned loose in a bank.
--Eddie Cantor (1882�1964)
_The Way I See It_ [1959]
k
~~seadancer~~
> "Verbi Vore" <VERB...@XCAPSbigpond.net.au> wrote[...]
>> A long time lurker in AQ, I have often been struck
>> by a word that I've seen a dozen times suddenly becoming
>> quite startlingly beautiful (or weird) as I repeat it to myself a few
>> times. Also intrigued by the guesses my spell-check makes eg maigemu is
>> nursemaid and dePointe is disjointed.
>> ...
>> liked the feeling it made on his lips and tongue when he said it. Words
>> have physical feeling, not just meaning, he remembered thinking when he
>> sounded, how they tasted, and what they conjured up in his mind.
>> ~ Robert James Waller 1939- , The Bridges of Madison County (1992)
>>
>> *Carnivores eat meat; herbivores eat plants and vegetables; verbivores
>> devour words.
>> -Richard Lederer*
>> ______________________________________________
> |||
> Welcome to the group!
>
> Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes, and prism, are all very
> good words for the lips: especially prunes and prism.
> _Little Dorrit_, bk. 2, ch. 5 [1857]
>
> Words fascinate me. They always have.
> For me, browsing in a dictionary is like
> being turned loose in a bank.
> _The Way I See It_ [1959]
> k
Welcome //Verbi Vore.
Your Richard Lederer quote ("...verbivores devour words")is
a new slant on the expression: "eat your words". :)
http://www.englishclub.com/ref/esl/Idioms/E/eat_your_words_158.htm
Verbivores ENJOY words. :)
"Wordstruck is exactly what I was--and still am:
crazy about the sounds of words, the look of words,
the taste of words, the feeling for words on the
tongue and in the mind." -Robert MacNeil, _Wordstruck_ [1989]
[posted by Stevemr200 at aq 12/28/08]
"Whenever I wondered what Sara saw in me--
and I wondered more than once--I always came
back to the fact that she loved to read.
She read everything, every spare moment.
She was a junkie for the printed word, and
lucky for me, I manufactured her drug of choice."
-"Professor Grady Tripp" (Michael Douglas)
(In the film _Wonder Boys_ [2000], screenplay by Steven Kloves
[posted at aq by Stevemr200 12/12/08]
"All books are either dreams or swords,
You can cut, or you can drug, with words."
-Amy Lowell, Sword Blades and Poppy Seeds
Words are loaded pistols. -Jean-Paul Sartre
---Sea
~~seadancer~~
> "All books are either dreams or swords,
> You can cut, or you can drug, with words."
> -Amy Lowell, Sword Blades and Poppy Seeds
>
> Words are loaded pistols. -Jean-Paul Sartre
> ---Sea
"The rat-a-tat-tat of a typewriter strafes the soundtrack repeatedly to
remind us of the power of storytelling and to suggest that words can hit
like bullets." -John Beifuss, Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
(Review of movie "Atonement", 2007)
Found at: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/atonement/
The tongue like a sharp knife...Kills without drawing blood.
-Chinese Proverb
A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is with words as with sunbeams, the more they are condensed, the
deeper they burn. -Robert Southey
Words have the power to both destroy and heal.
When words are both true and kind, they can change our world. -Buddha
---Sea
bobgnome
"~~seadancer~~" <seadan...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Happy New Year Sea!
ps: If you sent me a Christmas card with lots and
lots of money, it never arrived. :(
[On the most beautiful words in the English language:]
The ones I like . . . are 'cheque' and 'inclosed.'
--Dorothy Parker (1893�1967)
Quoted in "N.Y. Herald Tribune" [12 December 1932].
k :)
~~seadancer~~
> Happy New Year Sea!
> ps: If you sent me a Christmas card with lots and
> lots of money, it never arrived. :(
> [On the most beautiful words in the English language:]
> The ones I like . . . are 'cheque' and 'inclosed.'
> Quoted in "N.Y. Herald Tribune" [12 December 1932].
> k :)
Oh, dear. The card must have gotten lost in the mail.
I'll put a stop-payment on the check.
Sorry about that. :) Happy New Year anyway. :)
Every time I look at the book about NY, I think of you.
(_New York-An Illustrated History_)
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/350129.New_York_An_Illustrated_History
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/group_folder/4190
PS-Your card never arrived either. :)
Between us, we have saved 88 cents in postage. :)
I promise to send a card next year, but you'll have to send us one first
because I'm not sure I have the right address. Hi to M.
PPS-Here's what you would have rec'd in the card: ===>
http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL25/911599/21588968/355468909.jpg
---Sea
ObQ:
"Give me the strength to change the things I can,
the grace to accept the things I cannot, and
a great big bag of money." -Author unknown
bobgnome
> bobgnome wrote:
>> Happy New Year Sea!
>> ps: If you sent me a Christmas card with lots and
>> lots of money, it never arrived. :(
>> [On the most beautiful words in the English language:]
>> The ones I like . . . are 'cheque' and 'inclosed.'
>> Quoted in "N.Y. Herald Tribune" [12 December 1932].
>> k :)
>
> Oh, dear. The card must have gotten lost in the mail.
> I'll put a stop-payment on the check.
> Sorry about that. :) Happy New Year anyway. :)
> Every time I look at the book about NY, I think of you.
> (_New York-An Illustrated History_)
> http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/350129.New_York_An_Illustrated_History
> http://www.goodreads.com/topic/group_folder/4190
> PS-Your card never arrived either. :)
> Between us, we have saved 88 cents in postage. :)
> I promise to send a card next year, but you'll have to send us one first
> because I'm not sure I have the right address. Hi to M.
> PPS-Here's what you would have rec'd in the card: ===>
> http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL25/911599/21588968/355468909.jpg
> ---Sea
> ObQ:
> "Give me the strength to change the things I can,
> the grace to accept the things I cannot, and
> a great big bag of money." -Author unknown
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lol, a writer after my own heart! ... That's a nice card
Sea, you both look happy and rather countrified.
There is nothing good to be had in the country,
or, if there is, they will not let you have it.
--William Hazlitt (1778�1830)
_The Round Table_ [1817]
k <vbg>
~~seadancer~~
> lol, a writer after my own heart! ... That's a nice card
> Sea, you both look happy and rather countrified.
> There is nothing good to be had in the country,
> or, if there is, they will not let you have it.
> _The Round Table_ [1817]
> k <vbg>
"Anybody can be good in the country.
There are no temptations there."
-Oscar Wilde
PS-That pic was from our 49th Anniversary dinner-out.
Next month brings our 50th, Lord willing.
We were so stupid to get married during the winter.
You can't plan any celebrations because of the weather.
---Sea
Obq: "Every mile is two in winter." -George Herbert
Soundtrax
> On the eleventh day of Christmas,
> My true love gave to me:
> Eleven pipers piping.
...............
On the Twelfth day of Christmas, my true
love sent to me, twelve drummers drumming….
Little Baby,
Pa rum pum pum pum
I am a poor boy too,
Pa rum pum pum pum
I have no gift to bring
Pa rum pum pum pum
That's fit to give our King
Pa rum pum pum pum
Rum pum pum pum
Rum pum pum pum
Shall I play for you!
Pa rum pum pum
On my drum…
Mary nodded
Pa rum pum pum pum
The ox and lamb kept time
Pa rum pum pum pum
I played my drum for Him
Pa rum pum pum
I played my best for Him
Pa rum pum pum pum
Rum pum pum pum
Rum pum pum pum
Then He smiled at me
Pa rum pum pum pum
Me and my drum.
-- Soundtrax
bobgnome
> bobgnome wrote:
>> lol, a writer after my own heart! ... That's a nice card
>> Sea, you both look happy and rather countrified.
>> There is nothing good to be had in the country,
>> or, if there is, they will not let you have it.
>> _The Round Table_ [1817]
>> k <vbg>
>
> "Anybody can be good in the country.
> There are no temptations there."
> -Oscar Wilde
> PS-That pic was from our 49th Anniversary dinner-out.
> Next month brings our 50th, Lord willing.
> We were so stupid to get married during the winter.
> You can't plan any celebrations because of the weather.
> ---Sea
> Obq: "Every mile is two in winter." -George Herbert
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Compared to you, we're newlyweds. Last month was
our 43rd. Hey Sea, maybe a winter marriage isn't
such a bad thing. Consider: The average duration of
our two winter marriages is 46 years, thus far! "Stupid,"
you say? I think not! :)
He uses statistics as a drunken man
uses lampposts � for support rather
than illumination.
--attributed to Andrew Lang (1844�1912)
Scottish writer and poet.
Bret Harte (1836�1902)
American writer.
Bret Harte once attended a lecture in Richmond, Virginia,
suffering from a miserable headache. Afterward, to clear
his head, he took a walk with a Richmond friend, who
expatiated on the city's wholesome air and location,
adding proudly that its mortality statistics reflected
only one death per day. Harte, still in agony with his
headache, exclaimed, 'Heavens, let's hope today's
candidate is already dead.'
--_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_
edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andr� Bernard [2000 ed.]
k :)
~~seadancer~~
> Compared to you, we're newlyweds. Last month was
> our 43rd. Hey Sea, maybe a winter marriage isn't
> such a bad thing. Consider: The average duration of
> our two winter marriages is 46 years, thus far! "Stupid,"
> you say? I think not! :)
> He uses statistics as a drunken man
> than illumination.
> --attributed to Andrew Lang (1844�1912)
> Scottish writer and poet.
>
> Bret Harte (1836�1902)
> American writer.
> Bret Harte once attended a lecture in Richmond, Virginia,
> suffering from a miserable headache. Afterward, to clear
> his head, he took a walk with a Richmond friend, who
> expatiated on the city's wholesome air and location,
> adding proudly that its mortality statistics reflected
> only one death per day. Harte, still in agony with his
> headache, exclaimed, 'Heavens, let's hope today's
> candidate is already dead.'
> --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_
> k :)
Happy 43rd Anniversary, k and m.
"As you sit side by side through this roller coaster of life remember to
scream from the peaks, hold hands through the dips, laugh through the
loop-the-loops and enjoy every twist and turn for the ride is better
because you share it together." -Anon.
As a gift, I found a PERFECT video cartoon for you.
(It's about the many aspects of courting.):
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=640_1243735155
---Sea :)
bobgnome
"~~seadancer~~" <seadan...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
[...]
> As a gift, I found a PERFECT video cartoon for you.
> (It's about the many aspects of courting.):
> http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=640_1243735155
> ---Sea :)
lol, there's no way to top that Sea!
Holding hands at midnight
'Neath a starry sky,
Nice work if you can get it,
And you can get it if you try.
--Ira Gershwin (1896�1983)
"Nice Work If You Can Get It" [1937 song]
k
~~seadancer~~
> "~~seadancer~~" <seadan...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> [...]
>> As a gift, I found a PERFECT video cartoon for you.
>> (It's about the many aspects of courting.):
>> http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=640_1243735155
>> ---Sea :)
>
> lol, there's no way to top that Sea!
> Holding hands at midnight
> 'Neath a starry sky,
> Nice work if you can get it,
> And you can get it if you try.
> "Nice Work If You Can Get It" [1937 song]
> k
k, those lyrics are a PERFECT response!
You're amazing. (So was Ira Gershwin.)
I recently watched the following Netflix DVD:
"Richard Rodgers: The Sweetest Sounds" (2001)
http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Richard_Rodgers_The_Sweetest_Sounds/60021981?trkid=190393
You would LOVE it! The DVD is a feast for lovers of Richard Rodger's
music. There I was at two o'clock in the morning, singing along with
Gordon McCrae as he rides his horse through the scenic cornfields: "Oh
What a Beautiful Morning"! LOL
---Sea
ObQ:
Every morning - Every evening
Ain't we got fun
Not much money - Oh but honey
Ain't We Got Fun
The rent's unpaid dear - We haven't a bus
But smiles were made dear
For people like us
-Music by Richard A. Whiting,
lyrics by Raymond B. Egan & Gus Kahn (1921)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ain%27t_We_Got_Fun%3F
bobgnome
> bobgnome wrote:
>> "~~seadancer~~" <seadan...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> [...]
>>> As a gift, I found a PERFECT video cartoon for you.
>>> (It's about the many aspects of courting.):
>>> http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=640_1243735155
>>> ---Sea :)
>>
>> lol, there's no way to top that Sea!
>> Holding hands at midnight
>> 'Neath a starry sky,
>> Nice work if you can get it,
>> And you can get it if you try.
>> "Nice Work If You Can Get It" [1937 song]
>> k
>
> k, those lyrics are a PERFECT response!
> You're amazing. (So was Ira Gershwin.)
> I recently watched the following Netflix DVD:
> "Richard Rodgers: The Sweetest Sounds" (2001)
> http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Richard_Rodgers_The_Sweetest_Sounds/60021981?trkid=190393
> You would LOVE it! The DVD is a feast for lovers of Richard Rodger's
> music. There I was at two o'clock in the morning, singing along with
> Gordon McCrae as he rides his horse through the scenic cornfields: "Oh
> What a Beautiful Morning"! LOL
> ---Sea
> ObQ:
> Every morning - Every evening
> Ain't we got fun
> Not much money - Oh but honey
> Ain't We Got Fun
> The rent's unpaid dear - We haven't a bus
> But smiles were made dear
> For people like us
> -Music by Richard A. Whiting,
> lyrics by Raymond B. Egan & Gus Kahn (1921)
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ain%27t_We_Got_Fun%3F
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Thanks Sea, I have added that movie to the top
of my Netflix queue. ... I am forever singing
in the house .... to the despair of all.
Swans sing before they die; 'twere no bad thing
Should certain persons die before they sing.
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772�1834)
"On a Bad Singer"
k :)
~~seadancer~~
> Thanks Sea, I have added that movie to the top
> of my Netflix queue. ... I am forever singing
> in the house .... to the despair of all.
>
> Swans sing before they die; 'twere no bad thing
> Should certain persons die before they sing.
> "On a Bad Singer"
> k :)
"There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer."
-Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864), _To Robert Browning_ [1846]
---Sea
Kenneth S.
>"SteveMR200" <Steve...@aol.com> wrote in message
>news:0gr6j55h76gm81ehp...@4ax.com...
>> On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 02:41:35 GMT, Dora M wrote in message:
>> <zxAYm.64403$ze1....@news-server.bigpond.net.au>:
>>
>>>Dancing is wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you
>>>learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.
>>>~ Christopher Hurley 1890-1957 Kitty Foyle (1939)
>>
>> [Dancing is] a perpendicular expression of a
>> horizontal desire.
>> --George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
>> _New Statesman_ [March 23, 1962]
>>
>> --
>> Steve
>
>
>Methodists don't like sex because it might lead to dancing.
>
>Baptists don't have sex standing up because people might think that they
>were dancing
>
>= Unknown (sorry)
>
>________________________________________
>Lucas Ramieux - "Live purposefully, memento mori"
>
Of course, I never could dance at all, having grown up in a
fundamentalist home, which you can tell by the way I move. The
Plymouth Brethren believed that any rhythmic physical movement would
awaken our carnal desires, just as sure as aspirin dissolves in a
bottle of Coke, so we kids had to sit in study hall when they taught
dancing in phys ed., couldn't go to dances, not even square ones,
couldn't even join the marching band. I wanted to dance. Wanted girls
to know that what I lacked in aptitude I made up for in sheer avid
interest. Couldn't dance because it would awaken carnal desire, which
in my case was not only awake, it was dressed and down on the corner
waiting for the bus. The Brethren are good people abut they do leave a
mark on a boy, and even today, when I try to sweep into a room holding
a glass of [expensive wine], people look at me sweep and say, 'I
didn't know you were a Baptist.' I wasn't. We considered Baptists
loose.
Garrison Keillor
Joe Fineman
> [Dancing is] a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
> --George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
> _New Statesman_ [March 23, 1962]
_Waltz_, in Music, the name of a riotous and indecent German dance.
-- Definition in an art dictionary (1825), cited in OED s.v. waltz
--
--- Joe Fineman jo...@verizon.net
||: The evil of being burnt alive is more certain than any of :||
||: the propositions of theology. :||
SteveMR200
<idtui59tfcb685f02...@4ax.com>:
>On the eighth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me.
>Eight maids a-milking. . . .
>
>Then there was discussion about breasts, which are
>an ornament to women if they are well proportioned.
>Large and flabby breasts cause unhappiness, it was
>said, because they promised much but produced
>little. Firm breasts, and even the small ones
>of tiny women, are fruitful and can provide
>milk for many children.
> --Martin Luther (1483-1546),
> _Table Talk_ [1569], Number 4105
Some of the pieces we publish [in _L.A. Youth_, a
nonprofit newspaper written by and for Los Angeles
teenagers, include:] . . . .
Seventeen-year-old Sherry Lee, in a piece titled
"My So-Called Boobs," wrote good-naturedly about
the advantages of small breasts: "I can hug people,
pull them closer to me, run around without a bra
and sleep face down!"
--Donna Myrow
_Los Angeles Times_ [December 22, 2010],
"The Power of Young Pens"
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-myrow-teen-stories-20101222,0,7360795.story
--
Steve