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Posted on 06/01/2005 7:12:04 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
New verse:
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Upon the hearth the fire is red, |
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Still round the corner there may wait |
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Home is behind, the world ahead, |
Where, oh where are you tonight?
Why did you leave me here all alone?
I searched the world over and I thought I found true love.
You met another and phffft! you were gone!
Bear!! How's it going?
Had to re-read the graphic novel Batman: Year One which had influenced the movie more than a little bit.
The "Gloom dispair and agony on me" was Jr. Samples and a few of the others lying around in front of a "house" drinking from a jug.
The other "regular song" was when Minnie Pearl and the wimmin would sing:
Now, we're not ones to go 'round spreadin' rumors.
Why really we're just not the gossipin' kind.
You'll never hear one of us repeating gossip.
So you'd better be sure and listen close the first time.
He died at the relatively young age of 94.
Yep, you're right. My memory is faulty... but then I haven't seen Hee Haw in 25 years at least.
I'd just die if I lived to be that old.
Don't think I wasn't thinkin' things through this afternoon though. When I had the CAT Scan they were explaining the procedure and the dye they would inject into my veins. She asked "now you don't have a problem with the dye, do you?"
I never have. But it ultimately killed my dad. He was in for kidney stones and they were going to do the x-rays. He had a reaction to the dye and his heart stopped.
He was 49. I'll be 47 on Sunday.
Ew. But if you're 94, something's gonna get you...
Not the way I'd like to go.
I met Minnie Pearl when I did an event at Opryland in 1988. She was an amazing woman. Highly educated, proper society. She started the routine making fun of the country folks. It turned into a career.
'Nite folks.
I was gonna go watch a movie or somethin'. Think I'll just go on to bed. I'm right exhausted.
I still invoke her name when someone forgets to take a price tag off something before they wear it. I'll call them "Minnie Pearl" and they look at me like I got two heads or somethin. They just ain't got no culture!
nuthin' hard on theschedule till Monday... we're goin' down tuhSpringfield fer the firewerks at a HUGH churh there (James River Crossing)(I thought it was in VA at first too)... don't now what I wuz thinkin'... Lord gimme strenth...
might cut a new trail, and spray some vetch tuhmorrow... if'n I feel like it... may take thekidz berry pickin' fer wild blackberries and huckleberries 'tween trips tuh theneighber's pool...
Years later, during one of his chemotherapy treatments, he mentioned the episodes to his oncologist. Oncologist said, "While you're here, why not let us give you an ultrasound, take a look at your gall bladder?" They did, and found it was full of stones; that had been the cause of his "heart attack"-like symptoms all along.
Nearly four years ago, I had the same symptoms; severe chest pain, nausea, sweats, etc. After a couple of hours I let Rose take me to the emergency room; tests for a heart attack were negative. While I was laying there on Cloud 9 from the Demerol, one of the techs wheeled up a portable ultrasound machine and took a look at my gall bladder; sure enough, it was full of stones. They admitted me to the hospital and removed my gall bladder the next morning.
Just one of many reasons I live in Austin, and not in Northern Michigan.
Incidentally, both my Dad and I had moderate-to-severe acid reflux (just like my grandpa). But since I had my gall bladder removed, acid reflux hardly ever bothers me any more.
brings back mem'ries...
yuh know, that's one big hole in the ground....
I wanna see all the fireworks go off at the same time.
Guess you don't want to hear about my uncle.
Went to the ER with heart attack symptoms like you described. They checked him out, said he was okay and sent him home. He died of a heart attack the next day.
My step-grandpa (2nd husband of my maternal grandma) died at the age of 95. He was walking home from his weekly poker-and-beer party and was hit by a car.
that can be arranged...
sounds like my luck...
Kewl! Who's arranging one?
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