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Posted on 04/21/2005 6:44:57 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
New verse:
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Yep, I think so... next paycheck, barring any more disasters.
Good night, 2J!
I'm right behind ya. Gotta get some sleep here soon.
Nighty night Hobbit Hole!
Nevermind... found it:
God's Own Drunk (Jimmy Buffett)
By: Lord Buckley
1974
"Well, like I explained to y'all before I ain't no drinkin' man. I tried it once, and it got me highly irregular and I swore I'd never do it again. But I promised my brother-in-law that I'd go up and watch his still while he went into town to vote.
It was up there on the mountain where the map said it would be. Friends let me tell you one thing though, it wadn't no ordinary still. It stood up that mountainside like... like a huge golden opal.
God's yellar moon was a' shinin' on the cool clear evenin', God's little lanterns just a' twinklin' on and off in the heavens and, like I explained to you once before, I ain't no drinkin' man, But, temptation got the best of me, and I took a slash... (wshew!... woah...) That yellar whiskey runnin' down my throat like honeydew vine water, and I took another slash. Took another and another and another. 'fore you knew it I'd downed one whole jug o' that sh** and commenced to get hot flashes.
Goosepimples was runnin' up and down my body and a feelin' came over me like, somethin' I'd never experienced before, It's like, like I was in love,
("why don't we have a little love Mike [Utley]")
In love for the first time, with anything that moved... animate, in-animate it didn't matter. It's like there's a great neon sign flashin' on and off in my brain sayin, "Jimmy Buffett there' a great day a comin'..." 'Cause I was drunk.
Now I wadn't, uh, knee-crawlin', slip-slidin', reggy-youngin', commode-huggin' drunk, I was God's own drunk, and a fearless man; And that's when I first saw the bear.
He was a Kodiak lookin' fella 'bout 19 feet tall he rambled up over the hill 'spectin' me to do one of two things: flip or fly, I didn't do either one. It hung him up. He starts sniffin' 'round my body tryin' to smell fear, but he ain't gonna smell no fear, 'cause I'm God's own drunk and a fearless man. It hung him up. He looked me right in my eyes and my eyes was a lot redder than his was. It hung him up.
So I approached him and I said, "Mr. Bear, I love every hair on your 27 acre body. I know you got a lotta friends over there on the other side of the hill. There's ole' Rear Bear, Tall Bear, Freddy Bear, Kelly Jair, Relly Bear, Smelly the Bear, Smokey the Bear, Pokey the Bear; I want you to go back over there tonight and tell 'em I'm feelin' right. You tell 'em I love each and every one of 'em like a brother and a sister; but if they give me any trouble tonight, I'm gonna run every Goddamned one of 'em off the hill."
He took two steps backwards and didn't know what to think. Neither did I, but, being charitable and cautious, well hell, I approached him again. I said, "Mr. Bear, you know in the eyes of the Lord, we're both beasts when it comes right down to it. So I want you to be my buddy, 'Buddy Bear.'" So I took ole' Buddy Bear by his island sized paw and I led him over to the still. Now he's a' sniffin' around that thing 'cause he's smellin' somethin' good. I gave him one of them jugs of honeydew vine water, he downed it upright, (looked like one of them damn bears in the circus sippin' sasparilly in the moonlight.) I gave him another and another and another 'fore I knew it, he'd downed eight of 'em and commenced to do the "bear dance." Two sniffs, a snort, a fly, a turn and a grunt; and it was so simple like the jitterbug it plumb evaded me.
And we worked ourselves into a tumultuous uproar and I's awful tired, went over to the hillside, and I laid down, went to sleep, slept for four hours, and dreamt me some tremulous dreams And when I woke up, Oh, there was God's yellar moon a' shinin' on the clear cool evenin'. And God's little lanterns just a' twinklin' on and off in the heavens, And my buddy the bear was a' missin'... yeah, you want to know somethin' else friends and neighbors, so was that still.
-- Spoken:
"That's a take. Wait, could uh.....you missed it?"
Hah... same place I found it...
Nitey nite! :-)
We'll keep prayin', Bear!
We've been working through cheesy 80s sci-fi movies. Tonight was "The Last Starfighter". Most excellent cheese.
Mmmmm...cheese.
I'm still boggled at just how many cliches they managed to cram into that movie. It was absolutely astounding!
Yep...he was one of the characters I did think was well cast. Perhaps not MY image of the guy (Captain Weatherby, was it?), but not at all bad.
Not yet! We actually did look at it at Blockbuster today...just ended up with the other. It's on the list...
She's never seen it! Never!
But we were on action overload. Maybe tomorrow.
If y'all are gonna watch this many movies, you should check out something like Netflix (or the Blockbuster or Walmart versions).
We've got the Blockbuster one-at-a-time $15 a month version. The Blockbuster is about half a mile from us so it's a great deal.
That's cool. I'm not sure ours offers that. But I couldn't justify it right now anyway.
Since it's summer, I've got nothing better to do most evenings. And there are a lot of movies we haven't seen.
If we watch one every other night or so, it comes to a buck per movie, which is fair.
I liked the SF in the first one - at least someone knew what the implications of the story were and wasn't afraid to show them. The visuals are cheesy, yes.
The second is less good as far as the story, but more fun as a movie. Third's not a great movie but it brings the story back to the happy life-is-fated conclusion of the first.
I'm just less likely to watch enough to justify it in the summer. I dropped Neflix for now. I'll probably pick it back up in the fall.
precious?
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