Subject: Stream of Consciousness: a thread that cannot be hijacked
Date: Fri Aug 13 00:31:11 2021
User: mrbuck
Message:When the test results come back, possibly in a day or two, I'll know if the vaccine kept me from experiencing harsh symptoms or if I have picked up some other mild bug.
In any case we all isolate here now until I hear back, so can someone go get me some orange juice, ginger ale, saltines, and this weeks copy of Bigfoot Sightings.
mrbuck
Date: Fri Aug 13 00:49:16 2021
User: redberet
Message:I'm sorry to hear that. I can offer some capri sun's along with my Funk & Wagnall's complete set. I have been saving it for a good cause. The Bigfoot section is pretty concise, probably stuff you might have witnessed.
ATW!
Date: Sun Jan 2 09:13:12 2022
User: outskirts
Message:Word for the day!
Rockoon
Hint: it's something scientific
Date: Sun Jan 2 13:51:42 2022
User: TitanicTony
Message:A "rockoon" (from rocket and balloon) is a solid fuel rocket that, rather than being immediately lit while on the ground, is first carried into the upper atmosphere by a gas-filled balloon, then separated from the balloon and ignited.
[It can go higher due to less thick atmosphere, and somewhat less gravity.]
Date: Sun Jan 2 14:47:05 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:I was hoping to see a guess about 'the White Album'.
Date: Sun Jan 2 14:52:33 2022
User: cellmate
Message:
ever notice the similarity between the first few of bars of Rocky Raccoon and the intro to Bohemian Rhapsody
Date: Sun Jan 2 16:43:32 2022
User: redberet
Message:I thought for sure it had something to do with the Rockettes and a rising moon.
Date: Sun Jan 2 18:13:42 2022
User: redberet
Message:I got it. The Rockettes are going to populate the moon courtesy of Elon. Rockoons.
Date: Sun Jan 2 19:25:24 2022
User: hawaiian
Message:Have no idea how to interpret the Ilo.
Could someone, please explain? I get the red and green triangles, see a - when I lose, but don’t see the relevance.
Thanks.
Date: Sun Jan 2 19:25:24 2022
User: hawaiian
Message:Have no idea how to interpret the Ilo.
Could someone, please explain? I get the red and green triangles, see a - when I lose, but don’t see the relevance.
Thanks.
Date: Mon Jan 3 06:26:35 2022
User: outskirts
Message:Some folks like to obsess over their personal numbers. (not me). If you don't see the relevance, then just ignore it, like I do. I can relate to your queries, but I don't care enough to ask, or to read the explanation, which is around here somewhere.
Date: Mon Jan 3 06:28:18 2022
User: outskirts
Message:Maybe it's on the last rockoon to mecca.
No, that's wombats.
Date: Mon Jan 3 06:35:47 2022
User: outskirts
Message:This just might help. Or not. It certainly helps me.
Link: wombat
Date: Mon Jan 3 06:44:49 2022
User: outskirts
Message:Oh okay. I myself have built countless hot air balloons and launched them. There is just no end to my surprises.
Date: Mon Jan 3 14:30:12 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:Don't know that I'd ever heard that Stever Miller cut before. Maybe long ago, but don't remember it.
Date: Mon Jan 3 16:48:19 2022
User: Klepp
Message:What a shame I arrived a quarter century late for having enjoyed Steve Miller as incipient musical juggernaut: The Mifflin Street Madman, as he was allegedly known as during his time (circa '63?) as UW undergrad (Comparative Literature major?)...dude chose the optimum path, sure...*still* legendary in the Madison downtown, when I attended...
Date: Tue Jan 4 13:53:56 2022
User: outskirts
Message:Yeah okay. As a high schooler I copied that album cover for art class. A cover cover if you will. And, wore out the vinyl and the songs are imprinted on me over 50 years later. I listened to much of it last night, so I know.
Date: Wed Jan 5 01:18:16 2022
User: redberet
Message:This thread is hijacked. It will be landing in Havana shortly.
Date: Wed Jan 5 03:55:29 2022
User: redberet
Message:Welcome to Havana. Enjoy your stay.
All The Way.
Date: Wed Jan 5 12:50:04 2022
User: redberet
Message:Looks like Geoff and Maria are the ones who ended up with my crochet blanket.
Date: Wed Jan 5 13:31:48 2022
User: outskirts
Message:Hope you listened, it's such a delightful little song 🎵🎵🎵
Date: Wed Jan 5 13:43:42 2022
User: redberet
Message:I had trouble making out the lyrics. Probably because I was still mad about the blanket. Yea that's my Awake too, the people were very persuasive when they came to my door, I couldn't say no.
Date: Wed Jan 5 13:48:10 2022
User: Kumquat-of-Conciliation
Message:If by chance you're addressing that question to me, outskirts, then yes, I did. Interesting, and somewhat enjoyable.
Date: Wed Jan 5 17:28:09 2022
User: BuzzClik
Message:That song is also available on the soundtrack from the motion picture, "Brazil."
Date: Thu Jan 6 12:23:37 2022
User: outskirts
Message:What, no wikipedia quotes? Brazil is an old Latino classic been done millions of ways by everybody for idk how long. Been heard by all of us a lot, because it's all over the place. I purposely am not going to google right now, but come on. This "particular" version also happens to be the one in Terry Gilliam's Brazil, and happens to be the one I describe as a delightful little song.
Date: Thu Jan 6 12:36:24 2022
User: outskirts
Message:Well, maybe not the one in the movie. But wikipedia says the song, from 1939, is like Brasil's most famous song.
Date: Thu Jan 6 12:46:14 2022
User: outskirts
Message:If that version wasn't in the movie, it should have been. I'm thinking from memory, it was. But have no time for this, I'm digging the pit for my insurrection fire 🔥. It so happens I was having a beautiful bonfire one year ago and have pics for it. It was a celebratory fire 🔥.
I will watch Brazil again
Date: Sat Jan 8 20:32:17 2022
User: Klepp
Message:Here's raising a glass to enjoying a repeat of the First AFL-NFL World Championship Game (retroactively known as SBI) in the upcoming long, long anticipated **SBLVI**--to be (hopefully) held in SoCal next month...
Date: Sat Jan 8 22:15:51 2022
User: redberet
Message:Guess you haven't heard about the Curse of Chucky.
Date: Sat Jan 8 23:19:46 2022
User: Klepp
Message:The Packers (NFL champs) beat the Chiefs (AFL champs) in the first Super Bowl, at the time referred to as the "AFL-NFL Championship Game"...John Gruden may not have even been born then...
Link: First "Super Bowl"
Date: Sat Jan 8 23:35:22 2022
User: redberet
Message:There is no curse. It's just that I've been out of sorts ever since they moved to LA. One of my favorites has always been Biletnikoff and his globs of stickum.
Date: Sun Jan 9 03:39:21 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:One of the best route-runners of football history. Not overly speedy, but tough as nails. (And those 'hands'.)
Date: Sun Jan 9 07:25:25 2022
User: outskirts
Message:Lol. You so called music experts never heard of Brazil. I'm betting James has.
Date: Sun Jan 9 10:37:39 2022
User: outskirts
Message:Lol. As usual, I have a big personal story behind Brazil the song, the movie, and the country. But it's too good for the likes of these stragglers lolol
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Date: Sun Jan 9 10:51:15 2022
User: redberet
Message:I learned something. The Tropicália movement, Jim Kweskin & the Jug Band and I won't be able to listen to Midnight at the Oasis without thinking about Geoff. And my blanket.
Date: Sun Jan 9 11:24:32 2022
User: outskirts
Message:Had to google that! Well.. I will dedicate this one to our Mrs Bob in Hawaii, and the late Mr Bob. Hoping she's well and kicking, aloha.
Link: Hawaii by. Jug Band
Date: Sun Jan 9 15:38:36 2022
User: redberet
Message:The washboard is underrated as a musical instrument, as proven by the Jug Band and Tuba Skinny.
Date: Mon Jan 10 03:45:28 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:All fine and well............but give me some nice zydeco rubboard. This isn't the greatest example, but what I came across quickly. The Broussard brothers are hot stuff. I was fortunate enough to see, 3 times, the guy who was likely the hottest ever, but all I know is his first name, Keith. He was with Terrence Simien & the Mallet Playboys for a long time, but not *in* a long time. Insanely hot. Would totally take over a room. The guy who was with Buckwheat Zydeco for a long time was all over it, too. While usually used as a percussion or rhythm instrument, hung on the right shoulders.........it can lay a deep, infectious, almost entrancing groove. And while most peeps likely don't know this, it was actually invented by Clifton Chenier himself. True dat.
Here's (fairly early) Clifton with his brother, Cleveland, playing said invention:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSRcxdTqNiM
I know some here don't like the accordion.......and I just don't get that. In Lawrence Welk's hands, that I get.
Link: zydeco rubboard
Date: Tue Jan 11 07:24:32 2022
User: RottinJohn
Message:Got to boogie several times to Terrence Simien and Buckwheat Zydeco at the now gone legendary Double Door Inn in CLT.
Date: Tue Jan 11 07:31:12 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:THOSE ARE MY PEEPS!
Date: Tue Jan 11 07:34:58 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:Was responding to outskirts's post..................but RottinJohn, was The Playboys' rubboard guy the amazing "Keith" of which I mentioned?
Date: Tue Jan 11 07:49:53 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:All those cats were at the Ryman the night before that. We've talked multiple times about that conglomeration at that Byrds/Dylan/Neil thing way back when...............but as far as sheer amount of talent on one stage, this may have that beat, just in a different genre and with no good recording or format - yet(?). Billy dyed his hair some weird red/fucshia color for a while last summer. Clown. LOL.
Date: Wed Jan 12 04:23:36 2022
User: Klepp
Message:Brilliant of me to start enjoying James Joyce' Ulysses on Audiobook, with thanks to YouTube...I read the tome couple decades past, so, listening to its entirety counts as reading again one-third, or no?
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