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  1. On 1/27/2020 at 1:39 PM, Chad Fuck said:

    So I've been on kind of an Autumn Leaves kick since my kids piano teacher played a killer version of it at the piano recital this year.  Cliche, perhaps, but it's the "Johnny B. Goode" of jazz.  Every can play it, and you never hear it the same way twice as everyone puts their own spins on it.  Here are some variations that have blown me away.

    We'll call this the base line, perhaps the most familiar version.

     

     

    Wonderful version of Autumn Leaves. One of my favorite albums.

  2. Just watched the documentary Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool.  Well done.  I was more a fan of the Sketches in Spain to Quiet Nights era, and I didn't care as much for Bitches Brew onward, so I learned a lot about him in those days.  I had turned my interest more to Folk, Rock, and Country by that time, so I didn't pay much attention to his music anymore.

     

    Also love the Birth of the Cool sessions.

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  3. The story was well reported on TV and in the paper for those of us adults in Austin at the time.  The crime of this is the unevenness of justice for Christian and young people of color (or poor whites) of the same age who paid much more severely for lesser or the same crimes.  Tried "as an adult."  Texas and America still shows no shame over the way the system has been stacked for wealth and white privilege.  Maybe Christian was treated right.  But we KKK'd a lot of other youth.

     

    Free Lee Otis. (not a juvenile)

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  4. 16 hours ago, elfenix said:

    if prime 1 hadn't already jumped the shark with brisket burgers, this week prime 1 chuck roast is on sale. 

     

    also i spotted "heirloom" navel oranges.  now, don't get me wrong, i like an heirloom tomato as much as, and probably more than, the next guy.  but a navel orange?  a navel orange is a clipping of a clipping of a clipping of a single tree with a genetic mutation in brazil a couple hundred years ago.  might as well sell an heirloom haas avocado. 

    I don't know why they call them "heirloom", but we've found they're one of the best reasonably priced small oranges.  Probably just a marketing description, but we buy them when available.

  5. Also I've Been Loving You Too Long.  Too bad many only know him from Sitting on the Dock.  He was a magnificent singer/performer.

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  6. 18 minutes ago, HornOnTheBayou said:

    Sorry, I should have clarified my question. Obviously, I get the Rebel name in the South. And I understand why California schools would want to change the names now because of the connection to the Confederacy. I can't figure out why they were named the Rebels in the first place.

    Okies (generically).  Per Woody G, "Oklahoma, Kansas, Georgia, Tennessee".  Mebbe not Kansas, but you get the drift.

  7. 5 hours ago, ulukinatme said:

    My dad was an ol' country boy, used to hit us with stuff from this thread all the time.

    I haven't heard a lot of people use this one, but anytime I'd say "Hey" to him he'd always respond:

    "Straw is cheaper, grass is free, buy a farm you'll have all three."

    Also, if I ever asked him to repeat himself, he'd respond with the ol' "I don't chew my cabbage twice."

    One of the more popular ones:  "If a frog had wings it wouldn't bump it's ass when it hopped."

    MIL used to always use "Tough titty, said the kitty."

    When we would say "hey!", my mom would always say "Hay's cheaper than corn."  Never really understood what it meant, other than hay is really cheaper than corn.

     

    Oh - and if we asked "Why" about something, she would say "Cat fur, want a pair of kitten britches?"  Doesn't make a lot of sense either.

    It was when we asked "What for?" (said what fur?) that she would answer about the kitten britches, which makes more sense.

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  8. 1 hour ago, ImissWallyPryor said:

    I always thought it was PICTURES, kinda like a fly on the wall.

     

    I worked with an ol' boy once who was commenting on the attractiveness of a woman at work.  Someone else said she was a bit on the hefty side.  His replay:  Cowboys like fat calves.

    Nope.  Water jugs, called pitchers, have large ear shaped handles.  Thus little pitchers have big ears. You have to be careful what you say around kids.

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  9. If it were a snake, it woulda bit me.

    He's too old to cut the mustard. (from a song or a song was written about the countryism)

    Were you raised in a barn?  (If you didn't close a door behind you.)

    A day late and a dollar short.

    Little pitchers have big ears.

  10. Been watching The Thick of It, a British comedy on Britbox, but noticed that it's on Amazon Prime, also.  Produced and written (with others) by the guy HBO had develop and write VEEP.  Great satire on government incompetence and self protection.  I watch with subtitles to miss less.  Watch it after the kids go to bed - the language is strongest I've heard on any TV show.

    Peter Capaldi (one of the many Dr. Whos) is great as Malcolm.  What an asshole.

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