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The Hobbit Hole XXXIV - But better than rain or rippling streams...

Posted on 08/07/2007 7:52:15 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!

O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.

O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.

O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!

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To: Lil'freeper

LOL - honest precious!


9,801 posted on 12/13/2007 9:49:00 AM PST by Lil'freeper (Don't taze me, bro!)
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To: Lil'freeper

My camera works pretty well...*but* the backup battery that holds the date and all doesn’t work, and no matter how often I replace it, it stops working almost immediately. So EVERY TIME I turn it on I have to tell it to ignore the lack of the date and deal with the fact that it doesn’t set one. It’s aggravating. It also eats batteries for breakfast, but that’s another story.

As is my lack o’ skillz.


9,802 posted on 12/13/2007 10:05:44 AM PST by RosieCotton ("Anything worth doing is worth doing badly." -- G.K. Chesterton)
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To: Lil'freeper

Sounds like your hubby needs to get you a new camera for Christmas...


9,803 posted on 12/13/2007 10:20:20 AM PST by JenB
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To: JenB

That’s how I ended up with the current camera... :)


9,804 posted on 12/13/2007 10:24:34 AM PST by Lil'freeper (Don't taze me, bro!)
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To: Corin Stormhands; Lil'freeper; osagebowman; SuziQ; LSAggie; HairOfTheDog; g'nad; ecurbh; ...
Ike Turner was a vital figure in rock and roll, soul, and rhythm & blues. It's Ike Turner's group, the Kings Of Rhythm (aka The Delta Cats), who in 1951 recorded what may be the first "real" rock and roll song, "Rocket 88." (Just so you know, Jen, the "Rocket 88" was a popular car made by Oldsmobile back then.)

Ike found Tina (her real name is Anna Bullock), in Nutbush, Tennessee. The Ike & Tima Turner Revue was a high-energy show steeped in sex, long wigs, and built women dancing in sequined rags and high heels.

Though Ike and Tina were often slotted into "R&B" or "soul," they were always "rock & roll" to me. Their biggest hit, "Proud Mary," is a classic rock song --- but it took Ike and Tina to make it both rock & roll and R&B.

I saw this 1974 performance of theirs on The Midnight Special. It highlights Ike and that amazing falsetto bass, and gives the viewer a taste of the "high-energy" sexuality that Tina could turn on and off.

And, for those deprived folks, The Midnight Special was a fantastic variety show that aired in the 70s on NBC Friday nights after Johnny Carson. Live performances, the occasional naughty word, your favorite act trying something a little different ... it was a great show.

9,805 posted on 12/13/2007 11:14:46 AM PST by Rose in RoseBear (HHD [... 2007/12/13 --- 7,254 ...])
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To: Rose in RoseBear

And she did have legs up to her armpits, didn’t she ;~)

Great video :~)


9,806 posted on 12/13/2007 11:21:13 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
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To: Rose in RoseBear
The Ike & Tima Turner Revue was a high-energy show steeped in sex, long wigs, and built women dancing in sequined rags and high heels.

Yep, that's the one we saw. It truly was an outstanding show! They knew how to entertain!

9,807 posted on 12/13/2007 11:27:32 AM PST by SuziQ
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To: Rose in RoseBear

Classic performance! I remember John Denver introducing her once, on some show, saying “God created Tina Turner so she could teach white women how to dance in high heels.” She could naturally MOVE in those things!


9,808 posted on 12/13/2007 11:35:36 AM PST by SuziQ
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To: SuziQ

That’s funny ;~)


9,809 posted on 12/13/2007 11:36:35 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
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To: Rose in RoseBear
Yeesh, I'd completely forgotten about The Midnight Special.
9,810 posted on 12/13/2007 12:18:26 PM PST by Corin Stormhands ( It's okay to tell me "Merry Christmas")
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To: SuziQ

Ginger Rogers could dance in high heels....backwards.


9,811 posted on 12/13/2007 12:18:49 PM PST by Overtaxed
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To: Overtaxed

And Fred Astaire always looked like he was having more fun. The high heels were to blame, I’m sure.


9,812 posted on 12/13/2007 12:28:19 PM PST by JenB
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To: JenB

Hehehe....except for that number where Ginger was wearing the beaded gown. Fred got popped in the face good with those sleeves every time she did a turn.


9,813 posted on 12/13/2007 12:30:39 PM PST by Overtaxed
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To: Overtaxed

I forget that one. Been a while since I’ve watched any of those movies.

One of my favorite of those old song and dance movies is “White Christmas”. I especially enjoy how one of the gals can sing and the other can dance but they can’t both do both...


9,814 posted on 12/13/2007 12:35:40 PM PST by JenB
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To: JenB

I think you’re thinking of Holiday Inn. I should know...youngest bother *literally* watched that over a hundred times one year. We started counting. It got so we could turn down the sound and say every line as the actors did.

I still like it and usually watch it a couple of times a year, which says something for the movie!


9,815 posted on 12/13/2007 1:03:14 PM PST by RosieCotton ("Anything worth doing is worth doing badly." -- G.K. Chesterton)
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To: JenB

Then again, maybe White Christmas is pretty similar. Wouldn’t surprise me. ;-)

I remember liking it, but I only saw it two or three times, years ago.


9,816 posted on 12/13/2007 1:04:59 PM PST by RosieCotton ("Anything worth doing is worth doing badly." -- G.K. Chesterton)
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To: SuziQ
When I was a teenager, I was fascinated by Tina and her long hair. I was almost sure it was a wig, but those signature Revue moves ---- whip your body at the waist, spin around with your hands in the air --- confused me, since the wigs never slipped.

<chuckling>I saw one of the wigs slip once, on a variety show. It wasn't Tina, but a member of the Revue. She just twisted it back into place and kept on dancing --- what a professional!

It's interesting ... Angela Bassett had to get all ripped and hard-muscled to do what Tina did just being Tina.

Poor Ike ... like every other Svengali, his creation broke free of his control. Now he's known as a wife-beating drug addict, and she's the queen of rock & roll.

Sad, really ...

9,817 posted on 12/13/2007 1:08:52 PM PST by Rose in RoseBear (HHD [... 2007/12/13 --- 7,254 ...])
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To: Overtaxed
Ginger Rogers could dance in high heels....backwards.

True, but she sure didn't move like Tina!

9,818 posted on 12/13/2007 1:14:12 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: Rose in RoseBear
Poor Ike ... like every other Svengali, his creation broke free of his control. Now he's known as a wife-beating drug addict, and she's the queen of rock & roll.

It IS sad, because he was so very talented. Too bad it just went wrong with him.

Another group I like a LOT, and SirKit and I saw in concert, again at Univ. of Sou. Mississippi (the Student Assn. sponsored some GREAT concerts), was Sly and the Family Stone. Not quite as raucous as Ike and Tina, but they were vey talented. "Stand" is one of my favorite songs.

9,819 posted on 12/13/2007 1:19:04 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: RosieCotton

I’m thinking specifically of “White Christmas”. It’s not too different from “Holiday Inn” exccept that it’s Christmas only. Stars Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye. And some chicks too.


9,820 posted on 12/13/2007 1:32:22 PM PST by JenB
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