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Amy's Place .. Poetry and Potpourri .. Apr. 12 - 13, 2004
4-12-04 | JustAmy, St.Louie1 and MamaBear

Posted on 04/12/2004 3:18:26 AM PDT by JustAmy

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To: Mama_Bear
Thank you, Lori. :-)
41 posted on 04/12/2004 11:34:22 AM PDT by Victoria Delsoul (Kerry said he wasn't at the '71 plot-to-kill meeting, then, he was but voted NO, now he can't recall)
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To: Mama_Bear
Very nice. I love it.
42 posted on 04/12/2004 11:35:32 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Join the "More Than a Dollar Per Day Donor Club.")
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To: SheLion
You are welcome for the ping. :-)

I love that poem too. Even though most all of us here honor our military daily and keep our troops high on our prayer list, still, it never hurts to be reminded that while we go about our lives in relative safety, there are men and women putting their lives on the line so we can do just that.

Have a great day, SheLion.

43 posted on 04/12/2004 11:41:48 AM PDT by Mama_Bear
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To: OESY

HAPPY HOTDOG DAY!
44 posted on 04/12/2004 11:47:03 AM PDT by hookman
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To: JustAmy; hookman; archy; All

Today is hookman's birthday!!!!


We love ya, kiddo!!!


(Send hookman a clown today. Clowns are special to him.)



(tee-hee! love, mom)


45 posted on 04/12/2004 12:18:32 PM PDT by spatzie (Jude 17-25)
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To: Conspiracy Guy
Have I told you how much I am enjoying your poetry? I am. :-)

Have a great day.

46 posted on 04/12/2004 12:18:47 PM PDT by Mama_Bear
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To: Mama_Bear
Nice graphics inspire. My poems are too rhymy for the artsy crowd. But I like em.
47 posted on 04/12/2004 12:23:12 PM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Happily Freeping since January 22, 2003. Dollar Per Day Donor's Club. Member FDIC.)
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To: hookman
Happy Birthday. But don't eat the puppy.
48 posted on 04/12/2004 12:25:27 PM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Happily Freeping since January 22, 2003. Dollar Per Day Donor's Club. Member FDIC.)
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To: spatzie; hookman
Thanks for the heads-up....we love birthdays around here. :-)


49 posted on 04/12/2004 12:28:40 PM PDT by Mama_Bear
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To: Conspiracy Guy
My poems are too rhymy for the artsy crowd. But I like em.

So do I, and what does the "artsy crowd" know anyway? ;-)

50 posted on 04/12/2004 12:30:14 PM PDT by Mama_Bear
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To: Mama_Bear
Artsy people support the National Endowment for the Arts.
51 posted on 04/12/2004 12:36:42 PM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Happily Freeping since January 22, 2003. Dollar Per Day Donor's Club. Member FDIC.)
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To: Conspiracy Guy
Artsy people support the National Endowment for the Arts.

Yep....and with our money.

52 posted on 04/12/2004 12:39:33 PM PDT by Mama_Bear
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To: hookman; spatzie
Today is hookman's birthday!!!!

We love ya, kiddo!!!

(Send hookman a clown today. Clowns are special to him.)

Good clowns are getting hard to find, since so many have gone into politics or journalism. But here's a few. And BTW, do y'all know what other notable event occurred on this date?


53 posted on 04/12/2004 12:39:57 PM PDT by archy (The darkness will come. It will find you,and it will scare you like you've never been scared before.)
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To: Mama_Bear
I want my money back.
54 posted on 04/12/2004 12:43:40 PM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Happily Freeping since January 22, 2003. Dollar Per Day Donor's Club. Member FDIC.)
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To: archy

?


55 posted on 04/12/2004 12:43:53 PM PDT by hookman
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To: Mama_Bear


this is one of my favorite local clowns!
56 posted on 04/12/2004 1:03:38 PM PDT by hookman
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To: hookman; onyx
This is the day Rock-and-Roll music really began, with the recording of Bill Haley and the Comets Rock around the Clock
True, "Rock Around the Clock" wasn't the first Rock and Roll record. It wasn't even the first Rock and Roll record to become a national hit -- Bill Haley's own "Crazy Man Crazy" had hit the charts in 1953, and he scored a major worldwide hit with "Shake Rattle and Roll" in 1954, months after recording "Rock Around the Clock" which was at first considered a commercial disappointment. Meanwhile, an obscure truck driver in Memphis named Elvis Presley started to generate some buzz in the summer of 1954 with his own brand of rockabilly recordings out of Sun Records in Memphis. But it was "Rock Around the Clock" that finally opened the floodgates.

Bill Haley and the Comets' seminal version of "Rock Around the Clock" celebrates its 50th anniversary on April 12th, 2004. Over the years, many writers have tried to downplay its impact on popular music, just as revisionists continually try to reduce if not eliminate Haley's place in the history of Rock and Roll. Several recent major publications and documentaries on the so-called 50th Anniversary of Rock and Roll omit Haley and "Rock Around the Clock" completely.

But there was at least one even more spectacular event, if maybe one with less widespread impact, more focused on one individual. But what that individual might have gone on to accomplish....
57 posted on 04/12/2004 2:06:10 PM PDT by archy (The darkness will come. It will find you,and it will scare you like you've never been scared before.)
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To: archy; WKB; speedy
What's this?
A post that's NOT about Jan Berry?
GOOD!

Pinging WKB and speedy to the anniversary of Rock n' Roll.

I remember the song well,
but not from 1953.
Even I was very YOUNG in '53.
58 posted on 04/12/2004 2:12:54 PM PDT by onyx (Kerry' s a Veteran, but so were Lee Harvey Oswald, Timothy McVeigh and Benedict Arnold)
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To: All; JustAmy; Victoria Delsoul; Conspiracy Guy
I have just now caught up on reading all of the "my comments" messages from this weekend, and now it is time to go home. Have a wonderful evening!
59 posted on 04/12/2004 2:21:16 PM PDT by PreviouslyA-Lurker
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To: PreviouslyA-Lurker
You timed out your day perfectly.

Later
60 posted on 04/12/2004 2:23:16 PM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Happily Freeping since January 22, 2003. Dollar Per Day Donor's Club. Member FDIC.)
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