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abuelo gringo

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  1. Another record club kiddo here, only I was with RCA Victor, as I was mostly into jazz and swing.  This was certainly one of my first that I purchased myself if not the first.  I was working at a laundromat for 50 cents an hour and LPs at the time ran $2.98 for the most part.  This was more, as it was a double album.

    Released in 1960, I still had it until a house flood about 3 years ago.  I lost hundreds of LPs, 45s, and 78s.  C'est la Vie. It goes to show you never can tell.

     

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    This was great, as it included Caruso, Tommy Dorsey, Harry Belafonte, and Maurice Chevalier, an eclectic collection. I played the hell out of it in the early 60s.

  2. 22 hours ago, RPM said:

    The FCC lifted some restraint on cursing after a certain time, I think it's 10pm. I think you get something like 1 fuck, 2 shits and a few various others per hour.  I have no link and this is all hazy memory speculation.

    I still remember the night in 1981 when Charlie Rocket said fuck in the closing moments when the cast was assembled to say goodnight.  He was, of course, canned and disappeared from tv for a while.

  3. 15 minutes ago, noharleyyet said:

    Well they all said Louise was not half bad
    It was written on the walls and window shades
    And how she'd act the little girl
    A deceiver, don't believe her that's her trade

    I'm a big Paul Siebel fan.  Also good openings by Paul:

     

    I met her at a dance, I thought I'd take a chance
    So I held her tight when I heard those fiddles play
    So now I'll tell the news: she made me lose my blues
    Just one little kiss and I threw them all away
    I got a love so true and nothing you could do could change me
    I'm gonna let it shine ... like a blinding light
    But I'll be back for more, I'll be a-tapping at her door
    And we'll climb the hill when the whippoorwills sing tonight

     

    and

     

    If you don't love her, better let her go
    You'll never fool her, you're bound to let it show
    Love's so hard to take when you have to fake
    Everything in return
    You just preserve her when you serve her 
    A little tenderness.

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  4. So I'll make my stand

    And remain as I am,

    And bid farewell and not give a damn.

     

    We're idiots, babe -

    It's a wonder we can even feed ourselves.

     

    The crowd began to cheer.

    He flew away.

    Oh my Grace, I've got no hiding place.

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  5. 1 hour ago, tantric superman said:

    A favorite one was to make a moccasined person tread in the tracks of a moccasined enemy, and thus hide his own trail. Cooper wore out barrels and barrels of moccasins in working that trick. Another stage-property that he pulled out of his box pretty frequently was the broken twig. He prized his broken twig above all the rest of his effects, and worked it the hardest. It is a restful chapter in any book of his when somebody doesn't step on a dry twig and alarm all the reds and whites for two hundred yards around. Every time a Cooper person is in peril, and absolute silence is worth four dollars a minute, he is sure to step on a dry twig. There may be a hundred other handier things to step on, but that wouldn't satisfy Cooper. Cooper requires him to turn out and find a dry twig; and if he can't do it, go and borrow one. In fact, the Leatherstocking Series ought to have been called the Broken Twig Series.

    God Bless Mark Twain.

  6. 7 hours ago, Doc Reeves said:

    1975- Francisco Franco dies after 36 years as military dictator of Spain. After his death, both parties decided on the “pact of forgetting” which basically said there would be no investigations or prosecutions for Franco or the civil war. That pact lapsed in 2000 and more pressure is mounting to investigate the civil war that brought him to power 

     

    This just in! General Francisco Franco is still dead!

  7. The week before Thanksgiving 2002.  Wife and I were sitting in the Erwin Center waiting to see Jackson Browne and Tom Petty on his Last DJ tour.  Just about the time lights went down for Browne, the people behind us arrived, with the slight commotion of hurried people.  I looked around and saw our grown daughter and a friend sit down.  Neither of us knew the other was going to the concert.  Shared tastes, maybe?

  8. 12 hours ago, dad said:

    LOL at your fucking idiotic insinuation that the Shane was the better QB solely because we won the game. Go troll on another thread you fucking mouth breather.

    Well, Brewer's ESPN QBR was 47.7 to Shane's 53.4 and Bohls in his column today says Shane's efficiency rating of 108.1 was higher than Brewer's, which he doesn't quote.

    So by preexisting standards of how we judge quarterback's performances, Shane seemed to be the better quarterback in Saturday's game.  In addition to winning, of course.

  9. 3 hours ago, Chewbacca said:

    I want indoor temps, not outdoor.  Basically, I want to know if the heaters quit working so I can get up there and keep the house from turning into a block of ice.  It gets really cold (like 30-40* below zero) up there in the winter.

    I have a Honeywell WiFi Thermostat at my beach house.  It will send an email to you when it reaches a particular high temperature for an hour or a particular low temperature.  You pick the high and low. It will also send a reminder hourly if there is no change.

     

    I paid about $80 for mine several years ago.  I think they're up to about $90-$100 now. It's great for cooling down a hot house in summer before you arrive.

     

    It's also programmable for the week.

     

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  10. 41 minutes ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

    I think that belongs in the things you are embarrassed to admit thread

    No more embarrassed by them than my ancestors who fought for the Confederacy or owned slaves.  I also had many Revolutionary Patriot ancestors. We cannot change history but only learn about it to guide how we live.

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