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

8-16-04 | JustAmy, St.Louie1, MamaBear and Billie

[PreviouslyA-Lurker]

Scary!

[PreviouslyA-Lurker]

Huh? Sorry, I was using the Microsoft for blondes pencil just now...

[PreviouslyA-Lurker]

Anyone got some music for that dancing pencil?

[JustAmy]

"Is Fess Parker still alive?"

I think so ... This is what I found .....

Actor Fess Parker of Santa Barbara, California has been called by some an American icon. His portrayal of frontiersmen Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone impacted millions of young viewers in the late 1950's and 60's.

Originally from Texas, Parker enrolled at the University of Texas where he graduated in 1950 with a degree in history. Moving to California, he completed academic work on his Masters degree in drama at the University of Southern California. Parker began acting professionally in 1951 as a stage performer in the national company of Mister Roberts. In 1954, Walt Disney signed Parker to play the title role in Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier.

FESS PARKER, CEO
THE FESS PARKER WINERY & VINEYARD

[Darksheare]

Mimi was a good cat, just slightly vacant..

[PreviouslyA-Lurker]

Got this in e-mail. Wanted to let y'all know work is slow this week so they're giving us catch up work which may take the whole week up, no time for FReeping. They took one of our employees and moved her to the office next door and gave us all of her work. I don't know if we will be able to handle it all, but we don't have a choice (the employee we lost told me she is doing absolutely nothing right now). Regular work load will pick back up next week and we'll have all of the lost employees responsiblities along with it. Unless we get internet at home again (hooked up the phone myself this weekend and appears that we no longer have service) I don't know when I'll be back here or how much time if any to FReep from work. It was nice getting to know everyone and I sincerely hope I will be able to FReep again. : )

OLD VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he's a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!

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MODERN VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he's a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving. CBS, NBC, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so? Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody cries when they sing, "It's Not Easy Being Green." Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, "We shall overcome." Jesse then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake. Tom Daschle & John Kerry exclaim in an interview with Peter Jennings that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his "fairshare." Finally, the EEOC drafts the "Economic Equity and Anti-Grasshopper Act," retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government. Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a defamation suit against the ant, and the case is tried before a panel of federal judges that Bill appointed from a list of single-parent welfare recipients. The ant loses the case. The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around him because he doesn't maintain it. The ant has disappeared in the snow. The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Vote Republican and the "Work First" welfare program.

[Old Sarge]

See you next week, Lurk! ;]

Chin up! We'll be here when you return!

[Darksheare]

Yikes!!

[JustAmy]

Let the bosses know how much you are missed when you can't freep with us. :)

Hope you get your internet service at home connected soon.

We missed you yesterday!!! We may not be able to survive an entire week without our PAL!!!

[JustAmy]

"Anyone got some music for that dancing pencil?"



How's this?

[Darksheare]

LOL!

[OESY]

Music for that dancing pencil?"

Perfect. Fantasia (1940). Was that the Dance of the Hours, by Ponchielli, or the Nutcracker Suite, by Tchaikowsky? I must confess I don't recall.

[JustAmy]

This is the dancing pencil music ......

We introduce the composer Peter Tchaikovsky and his wealth of melodic music in the form of Symphonies and Overtures. More than any other classical composer though, Tchaikovsky is particularly known for his ballet music, including "Swan Lake", "The Sleeping Beauty" and "The Nutcracker". The Nutcracker is a story set at Christmas Time and uses loads of tunes which are familiar to everyone across the world from Television and Adverts as well as the ballets themselves. The perennial favourite among all these tunes must be that of the Sugar Plum Fairy. Tchaikovsky is well know for his inventive orchestration and in this piece he uses the Celesta, an instrument that was relatively new at the time. Its tinkly little bell-like sound is ideal for fairy music, fairy tales and Christmas songs. A celesta just looks like a small upright piano, but the part can also be played on a piano.

This one sounded like it fit the dancing pencil. :)

[JustAmy]

*grin*

I meant to ping to you #133.

[Darksheare]

*chuckle*
Try to find 'marche slave', it's somewhat hard to find I am told.
(I have it on CD.)

[JustAmy]

This is all I could find .. I'll keep looking.

"Marache Slave" Clip

[Darksheare]

A clip.. yeah I understand that.
"Marche Slave" is 9 minutes 4 seconds long..

[OESY]

Walt Disney's Davy Crockett at the Alamo,
comic book, 1955. (Collection of Paul A. Hutton)

The Alamo-Davy Crockett Site

[MeekOneGOP]

hehehehe !

[MeekOneGOP]

:^)