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Posted on 01/27/2005 9:59:05 AM PST by ecurbh

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To: ecurbh

Yech.

On the other hand...is it to the tune of anything I'd know?


6,841 posted on 03/03/2005 6:30:21 AM PST by RosieCotton (A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it. - GK Chesterton)
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To: RosieCotton

Probably not... I think it's a Wierd Al original composition.


6,842 posted on 03/03/2005 6:32:35 AM PST by ecurbh (All I've ever wanted was an honest week's pay for an honest day's work.)
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To: 2Jedismom; osagebowman; ecurbh; Corin Stormhands; 300winmag

g'mornin...

goin' to a friends house (he's a doctor I know from church choir, great guy) to take his tractor on a high performance trial... not lookin' at gettin' another tractor anytime soon, but wanted to try a newer tractor and see how well I could operate the new-fangled controls...

another fella from our church staff is comin' out this afternoon to cut some wood... won't be any help to him, cuz muh wrist still ain't no better... might have somethin' tuh do with the clearin' I'muhdoin'...


6,843 posted on 03/03/2005 6:32:46 AM PST by g'nad
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To: g'nad

What kind of wood?


6,844 posted on 03/03/2005 6:35:24 AM PST by 2Jedismom (http://kimsbug.blogspot.com/)
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To: 2Jedismom

dead...


6,845 posted on 03/03/2005 6:36:07 AM PST by g'nad
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To: g'nad; 2Jedismom; JenB
Did you hear about the movie biography they made about Natalie Wood?

It's called Driftwood.

JenB: Who is Natalie Wood?

6,846 posted on 03/03/2005 6:38:25 AM PST by Corin Stormhands (One Iraqi purple finger took more courage than John Kerry's three purple hearts.)
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To: g'nad

Heh!! I figured...but what's he gonna do with it? Use it in a smoker? Build a tree fort? Or just haul it off?

We have this hugh dead bradford pear you know, that Steve and I shopped down here while back? It's piled up in our back yard. Just about every day Steve is home, he starts a fire in the Brinkman smoker...he's burning up that tree little by little.


6,847 posted on 03/03/2005 6:38:53 AM PST by 2Jedismom (http://kimsbug.blogspot.com/)
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To: Corin Stormhands

Ewww! LOL!


6,848 posted on 03/03/2005 6:39:29 AM PST by 2Jedismom (http://kimsbug.blogspot.com/)
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To: RosieCotton; JenB
I went over to the Netflix site and put several on the Queue. I'be heard OF Gilbert and Sullivan, and am even familiar with a few of the tunes, but have never seen a whole production.

I love the beginning of Star Trek:Insurrection where Jean Luc and Warf are chasing after Data, and Jean Luc starts singing "A British Tar" to get Data to sing along in order to distract him.

6,849 posted on 03/03/2005 6:40:34 AM PST by SuziQ
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To: 2Jedismom

he needs it fer his wood stove...

mostly oaks and hickory around here...


6,850 posted on 03/03/2005 6:40:36 AM PST by g'nad
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To: g'nad

Ahh...

I'd love a wood stove. I'd use one in my kitchen even. In the winter, at least.


6,851 posted on 03/03/2005 6:42:08 AM PST by 2Jedismom (http://kimsbug.blogspot.com/)
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To: RosieCotton

LOL!! I've never heard the entire "Modern Major General". I wonder how long it takes for someone to master that particular song? Talk about a tongue twister!!


6,852 posted on 03/03/2005 6:43:15 AM PST by SuziQ
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To: SuziQ; RosieCotton

Doh! I'd forgotten "The Mikado" was Gilbert and Sullivan.

We saw a production of that at the Kennedy Center years ago.


6,853 posted on 03/03/2005 6:43:55 AM PST by Corin Stormhands (One Iraqi purple finger took more courage than John Kerry's three purple hearts.)
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To: RosieCotton

Our #1 son rents a house with two other guys in the Law school at Cornell. They were going to get Netflix for the house, so the three of them could split the cost.


6,854 posted on 03/03/2005 6:44:07 AM PST by SuziQ
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To: RosieCotton
The song in "Chariots of Fire" is from HMS Pinafore.

I always thought that was from The Mikado.

6,855 posted on 03/03/2005 6:46:39 AM PST by SuziQ
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To: RosieCotton
But it irks me sometimes that if I, say, rent any kinda musical or opera, I feel like I hafta do it furtively.

Don't be furtive! Be LOUD and PROUD!

6,856 posted on 03/03/2005 6:47:33 AM PST by SuziQ
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To: Corin Stormhands
Did I ever tell you guys that we had missionary friends who were in prison with Eric Liddle in China?

That's interesting; did they have any stories about him? I loved the movie Chariots of Fire, and it's the first time I remember actually rooting for a picture to win an Oscar.

6,857 posted on 03/03/2005 6:49:24 AM PST by SuziQ
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To: SuziQ; RosieCotton
I always thought that was from The Mikado.

It's both. He does the "He is an Englishman" song at school.

The woman he meets (and marries) is in "The Mikado."

Trivia time: Name the actress in "Chariots of Fire" and name the other role we'd know her in.

Hint: There have been "connecting" references today...

6,858 posted on 03/03/2005 6:50:13 AM PST by Corin Stormhands (One Iraqi purple finger took more courage than John Kerry's three purple hearts.)
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To: SuziQ
That's interesting; did they have any stories about him?

They wrote a book about their time in prison and mentioned him. He died in prison there. They spoke well of him.

6,859 posted on 03/03/2005 6:51:18 AM PST by Corin Stormhands (One Iraqi purple finger took more courage than John Kerry's three purple hearts.)
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To: RosieCotton
There are definitely some really lousy, immature, or gay musicals, though. I'll admit that.


6,860 posted on 03/03/2005 6:53:20 AM PST by SuziQ
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