Seeing ..... an open thread

damn i love this woman.

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[jj]

pamela:

i pity the poor sod whose life has been so barren that this song does not touch his soul, with a sweet melancholy.

so beautiful, as was she before the ravages of time and choice. "ain't nobody's business but my own" struck a little close to home.

beautiful. just beautiful. damn i love this blog.

john jay

now, i will watch/listen to the rest of her songs on the post.

[jj]

post script. from the song, the very thought of you, comes a very beautiful line about love, of people doing "...those little old ordinary things everybody ought to do." not everybody can/could sing that line, not everybody understands it, as they ought to. thanks again, pamela, for a lovely post.

[EJO]

Dear Pamela;

Three-Legged Chickens

A man was driving along a freeway when he noticed a chicken running alongside his car. He was amazed to see the chicken keeping up with him, as he was doing 50 mph. He accelerated to 60, and the chicken stayed right next to him. He sped up to 75 mph, and the chicken passed him. The man noticed that the chicken had three legs. So he followed the chicken down a road and ended up at a farm. He got out of his car and saw that all the chickens had three legs. He asked the farmer, "What's up with these chickens?" The farmer said "Well, everybody likes chicken legs, so I bred a three-legged bird. I'm going to be a millionaire." The man asked him how they tasted. The farmer said, "Don't know, haven't caught one yet."
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A farm boy joke

A young farm lad from North Iowa goes off to college, but about 1/3 of the way through the semester, he has foolishly squandered away all of the money his parents gave him.

Then he gets an idea. He calls his daddy. "Dad," he says, "you won't believe the wonders that modern education is coming up with! Why, they actually have a program here at Iowa State that will teach our dog Ole
Blue how to talk!"

"That's absolutely amazing," his father says. "How do I get him in that program?"

"Just send him down here with $1,000" the boy says. "I'll get him into the course." So, his father sends the dog and the $1,000. About 2/3 way through the semester, the money runs out. The boy calls his father again.

"So how's Ole Blue doing, son," his father asks.

"Awesome, Dad, he's talking up a storm," he says, "but you just won't believe this - they've had such good results with this program that they've implemented a new one to teach the animals how to READ!"

"READ," says his father, "No kidding! What do I have to do to get him in that program?"

Just send $2,500, I'll get him in the class." His father sends the money.

The boy now has a problem. At the end of the year, his father will find out that the dog can neither talk, nor read. So he shoots the dog.

When he gets home at the end of the semester, his father is all excited.

"Where's Ole Blue? I just can't wait to see him talk and read something!"

"Dad," the boy says, "I have some grim news. Yesterday morning, just before we left to drive home, Ole Blue was in the living room kicked back in the recliner, reading the Wall Street Journal, like he usually does.
Then he turned to me and asked, 'So, is your daddy still messin' around with that little redhead who lives in town?'

The father says, "I hope you SHOT that son of a bitch before he talks to your Mother!"

"I sure did, Dad!"

"That's my boy!"

(The kid went on to be a successful lawyer.......)
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Goodnight folks, and don't forget to tip the waitress.
EJO

[jusa]

Thank goodness, an open thread.

Anyone else bothered that the only time we've seen certain elements in our society ever claim to support cops is the one in this "troopergate" thing? And the stories about this guy doesn't sound like the type that the elements would normally stand behind.

And by elements, I mean the L word. Since I'd expect, with big city politics gone national and all, that some elements would think I'm using some type of "code word". Talk about your mass paranoia. But now I'm bringing up 2 points...