Speaking of vain....

[Packard, Steven R.]

I don't have a hostility for music about weddings. Just a hostility for
gibberish and for people taking Grant's name in vain.

-----Original Message-----
From: Gerald Hall [mailto:gerald.h...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 11:42 AM
To: Oak-Hill-High-Sch...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Carol "McHenry" Jones



Just water. I swear. I'm not a teetotaller but close enough except when
I'm in Ireland or France (that would just be wrong). If you don't have a
copy of the soundtrack from THE HARDER THEY COME, you should acquire one
with all possible dispatch. Just be careful you don't become a Rastafarian.
I've heard that U.S. Grant had a fondness for island music.

Why the hostility to music about weddings?

Jerry


On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 10:36:06 -0800, Packard, Steven R. <srpa...@lasd.org>
wrote:
>
> Jerry's message, start to finish, should serve as an example to all of
> us. Let's all be careful to not drink and email.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gerald Hall [mailto:gerald.h...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 8:03 AM
> To: Oak-Hill-High-Sch...@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: Carol "McHenry" Jones
>
> My daughters think I'm an alien or a crazy old man. The older two are
> deeply disturbed when they like the same music that I do or, even
> worse, when I start listening to something they bring home (I have to
> say the the Miseducation of Lauryn Hill might make my top 25 "discs"-
> I hope that's not what you would call rap). Never heard this song but
> I clearly need to check it out.
>
> I managed to trade most of those high school records in college,
> probably for pennies, at various used record stores for mostly
> forgettable 80s stuff. Heaven knows what happened to the 8-tracks. For
> some reason, I haven't felt the need to replace the long gone vinyl of
> Boston, Kansas, Aerosmith, Nazareth or Ted Nugent with CDs much less
> MP3s. I still have a couple of Bob Seger cds and Bruce Springsteen
> but in college I fell in love with all that stuff that was out there
> but don't remember hearing in high school plus every note that John
> Coltrane ever played. I'm also on my fourth or fith copy of Astral
> Weeks.
>
> I guess my favorite lyric from the 70s (although technically it might
> have been written in 1969) was probably never heard in our beloved
> school:
>
> "Etty in the room a cry
>
> Mama say she must wipe her eye
>
> Papa say she no fi foolish
>
> Like she never been to school at all
>
> It is no wonder
>
> It's a perfect pander
>
> While they were dancing in that bar room last night.
>
> Johnson in the room afret
>
> Uncle say he must hold up him head
>
> Aunty say she no fi foolish
>
> Like a no time fi him wedding day
>
> It is no wonder
>
> It's a perfect pander
>
> While they were dancing in that bar room last night.
>
> One pound ten for the wedding cake
>
> Plenty bottle of cola wine
>
> All the people them dress up in a white
>
> Fi go eat out Johnson wedding cake
>
> It is no wonder
>
> It's a perfect pander
>
> While they were dancing in that bar room last night.
>
> ..But they were sweet an' dandy, sweet an' dandy,
>
> sweet an' dandy, sweet an' dandy
>
> They were sweet an' dan-deh... sweet an' dan-deh"
>
> Very sweet. I'm hoping to talk my daughters into playing it at their
> weddings--may that not be any time soon.
>
> On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 08:40:45 -0500, Jones, Carol M.
> <CJo...@chsmail.org>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > My kids think they wrote the "Stuck in 1985" song about me - I keep
> > telling them that I am really a child of the 70's.
> >
> >
> >
> > Dream on...
> >
> > Dream on...
> >
> > Dream on...
> >
> > Dream until your dreams come true...
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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[Gerald Hall]

Ain't gibberish fun? Especially when it is at least half Scots warmed
by the Jamaican sun (not to be confused with Scotch wamed by the
Jamaican sun). Being mickle Scots, Grant would hae kenned it straight
away. Can you dig? Sure half your man Shakespeare is the finest of
gibberish. Word. ;)

Jerry


On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 14:33:24 -0800, Packard, Steven R.

[Julie (Cramer) Pulley]

As for me...lying in the Midwestern sun on a hammock in the back yard,
dragging my toes through the half-dried yellowed grass while sipping a
diet Cherry Coke and reading...J. K. Rowlings. (sigh) Life doesn't
get any better than that. Who needs Shakespeare? As for you two
bickering...."Let us have peace".

Grant was married to a woman named Julia, sorry Jerry but he gets my
vote.

Word

[Gerald Hall]

Bickering? Just playful banter. Nought against Grant...or Mr. Packard.

We've two copies of the Goblet of Fire and three of the Order of the
Phoenix because we couldn't stand to wait on slow children. I mean it
took my eldest a whole day to read the Goblet. How can you get things
done when you read that slow?

Did you ever think that maybe kids today are in some ways nicer than
we were. The only thing I remember being read with the same assiduity
as Harry were the naughty bits in some book that was being passed
around. On the other hand, those bits might not be considered so
naughty these days.

Boring old regular diet coke and toes in Lake Michigan. Same sun.