Amy's Place ... Poetry and Potpourri .. June 16-17, 2004

6-16-04 | JustAmy, St.Louie1, MamaBear and Billie

[JustAmy]

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Never Forget!



Howdy!
I'm the mouser at Amy's Place. Amy named me 'cootblanch'.... (don't ask why. hahaha)







Amy's personal guardian ~
the always charming, lovable, huggable,
LouieWolf




Many thanks for stopping by. : )

[ST.LOUIE1]

Bless you!

[OESY]

I was wondering where the aggravation came from. LOL!

[Mama_Bear]

I've never heard of a Klyben Cat, so I did a Google search. They are EVERYWHERE! LOL

That mousie song is hilarious. "Nibble they tiny feet"! LOL!

I even managed to find your mug in Google. :-)

[NicknamedBob]

If you turn this upside down, you'll see that it resembles a map of the United States.

[Darksheare]

LOL!
That's the mug!
(I also have one named 'Mouserschmidt' complete with little mouse sillouhettes on teh side of the plane and a cat tail coming from the plane's tail.)

[PreviouslyA-Lurker]

Laura Earl makes up for my cranky old manness.

That's usually how it works...

[NicknamedBob]

I love "whole kernel corn" but I hate creamed corn.

I'll eat lima beans, but I don't eat succotash.


Some ways, I'm still eight years old.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Yeah I went to a map and flipped it in my head. Darwin is in upsidedown Texas.

[Conspiracy Guy]

She does a good job of it.

[tuliptree76]

Thank you for the poem, Amy!

[Gabz]

LOL!!!!

And it gets worse........before the 21 years in DE was 22 in NYC.

I just keep moving further and further south!

[Conspiracy Guy]

I love cream corn. I'm only 6 in most ways.

[Conspiracy Guy]

It looks like a fat US.

[Gabz]

You're weird.

I love corn in any way shape or form.......and I've got both corn and limas growing in the garden.

We're going to put another 5 or so rows of corn in this weekend....we're staggering the plantings so we don't have it all at once. We put in 5 rows, 40 feet each, about 10 days ago.

I may have been born and raised in NYC - but I'm a suthren gal at heart!!!!

[JustAmy]

I'm not good with graphics but this is what I did. Maybe Lori or Billie can work on it.



Aussie -- U.S. See?

Half a day ahead in time, and halfway through tomorrow,
There is a place beloved of our old west’s place of sorrow.
Perhaps not Rattlers or stampedes, nor hostile indian,
But snaggy little torments that are just Australian.

Who would have thought that bunnies could become a nasty pest,
But there they are in millions as a most unwelcome guest.
And who hired that crazy weatherperson when the circus was in town?
That when we are dripping puddles they see snowflakes drifting down.

I say the place is upside down. We all knew that from the start,
But I can at least explain it with a little bit of art.
Just turn that map the right way up, it takes a little fuss,
But then you’ll recognize the place because it looks like us.

You’ll note that things get warmer as you move down to the bottom,
And all that California stuff, it’s clear that Queensland now has got ‘em.
You’ll see the Lakes are in the right place after all,
And Tasmania’s like New England where we see the leaves in Fall.

There’s a finger just like Florida, complete with lovely keys,
And the Rio Grande is really grand, the Pacific if you please!
There is a place like Texas where it comes down to the coast,
With a sturdy bit of railroad and a place for Darwin’s ghost.

Lake Disappointment marks the spot where Bonneville once lay,
Before it just curled up and died of too much sun one ancient day.
For better understanding flip around the map you know,
And you’ll have a way of knowing just where everything should go.

NicknamedBob . . . . . . . . June 15, 2004

[Mama_Bear]

(I also have one named 'Mouserschmidt' complete with little mouse sillouhettes on teh side of the plane and a cat tail coming from the plane's tail.)

Well, take good care of it. Apparently it is rare. I did a search and the only Kliban "Mouserschmidt" anything that I could find was a "rare Mouserschmidt sweatshirt" that was being auctioned off (and the page is no long viewable). No Mouserschmidt mugs to be found anywhere...not even in eBay. Lots of other Kliban Cat things on eBay though.

[NicknamedBob]

I just printed out the above map, and compared it to my globe.

The resemblance is even more striking than I had pictured.

Houston corresponds to Darwin, Australia.


Australia is still a thousand miles closer to the equator than we are. Their Outback is much like the worst parts of our western desert country.

'Bama appears to correspond to the area around the Flinders river, and there's a town called Dobbyn near there.

I was also confused about the position of Queensland. Jacqui had said they had a great climate, so I was thinking California.

Kinda fun to note the similarities.

[Darksheare]

Weird.
Search for alternate spellings as well, like Mouserscmitt, mouserschmitt and such.

I'll be keeping it in it's packing very carefully then.

[tuliptree76]

I downloaded the latest version of realplayer during my lunch break...and the music works now!

[OESY]

And it gets worse........before the 21 years in DE was 22 in NYC.

U2? Me2! So you must have heard of.......dah, dah......

Forbidden Broadway

Concept, Parody Lyrics & Direction by Gerard Alessandrini
Opened January 15, 1982 at Palsson's Supper Club in New York and ran
for 2332 performances. (You were there for one year before you left.)

Synopsis

A Humorous Parody about various Broadway shows, their creators and
the actresses and actors who are in them.

Song List (a smattering)

Non Plu Andral (Amadeus)
Don't Cry for Me Argentina (Don't Cry For Me)
Tomorrow (Annie's Favorite Showtune)
Beautiful Girls (Bankable Stars)
That's Entertainment (I'm Entertainment)
If He Walked Into My Life (If The Show Had Run Past Labor Day)
They're Playing Our Song (I'm Sick of Playing Their Songs)
It's De-Lovely (It's De-Merman)
My Heart Belongs to Daddy (I'm Larry Hagman's Mother)
Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend (Dolly Is a Girls Best Friend)
Hello Dolly (Oh, No, Carol)
Tradition (Ambition)
Mutual Admiration Society (Mutual Aggravation Society*)

* All current and former NYC residents are lifetime members.