What made you smile today?

George wrote:

Ok, IronLionZion, now you've got to tell us something that made you smile. You do smile every once in a while, don't you?

IronLionZion doesn't smile. He grins sardonically. Or giggles.

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Time we tickled him, then...

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It's squinney's birthday and I'm taking her to drink Maragaritas and watch Cirkus play. good times.

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a toast to squinney and a song that just popped into my head:

The Buggles---Video Killed The Radio Star

I heard you on the wireless back in Fifty Two
"ying awake intent at tuning in on you.
If I was young it didn't stop you coming through.

Oh'a oh

They took the credit for your second symphony.
Rewritten by machine and new technology'
and now I understand the problems you can see.

Oh'a oh

I met your children
Oh'a oh

What did you tell them"
Video killed the radio star.
Video killed the radio star.

Pictures came and broke your heart.
Oh'a'a'a oh

And now we meet in an abandoned studio.
We hear the playback and it seems so long ago.
And you remember the jingles used to go.

Oh'a oh

You were the first one.
Oh'a oh

You were the last one.

Video killed the radio star.
Video killed the radio star.
In my mind and in my car' we can't rewind we've gone to far
Oh'a'aho oh'
Oh'a'aho oh

Video killed the radio star.
Video killed the radio star.

The tune is what made me sit up and take notice.

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Craven de Kere wrote:

Danced in the bus, with a really big really drunk black guy who had a smile so big that I couldn't help but smile. He kept baning his head on the roof as we pranced around to "Sweet home Alabama".

At first I was wary of the guy, he was big (think the dude in The Green Mile) and kept drinking from his backpack. He was so big that even squished in his seat his arm was way way into my space.

He started leaning in towards me in a really odd way, I thought he was going to collapse on me or something.

He started rocking his head and then I realized he was listening to my music on my head phones.

He smiled at me and said "Sweeeeet home Alabama" with a huge grin.

We ended up dancing around the bus with half the bus singing along. even an old lady was singing and clapping and it was a surreal experience.

Craven

That was one of the most surreal, moving and evocative anecdotes I've yet seen on this thread.

Thanks.

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Craven de Kere wrote:

The scarcity of native speakers abroad means just about any can teach ESL on some level.

True for just about anywhere except for the Netherlands, apparently ...

Anastasia was hired to teach ESL in Slovakia without any relevant papers and scarce teaching experience. But even now that she has a TEFL certificate in hand, she finds it almost impossible to get a proper job teaching English here.

Apparently this is the one country where the supply of willing native-speaking teachers outdoes the demand ... I guess it's partly because of the number of Americans etc around, but even more because most everyone interested here already speaks English on a high school+ level, so that they need professional, advanced classes rather than just some random conversation practice and the like ...

The further east you go, the easier it gets (to earn your way teaching ESL), it seems ...

It sucks.

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dlowan wrote:

margo wrote:
I'm going to Melbourne to terrorise msolga! That'll stop her smiling!

And the really scary thing is that I just MIGHT be able to join her!!!

I guess poor Msolga will now leave town!!!

Oh, possibly the 2 of you! Now THAT makes me smile! Very Happy

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That made me smile, Msolga!

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Oh good!

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msolga wrote:

dlowan wrote:
margo wrote:
I'm going to Melbourne to terrorise msolga! That'll stop her smiling!

And the really scary thing is that I just MIGHT be able to join her!!!

I guess poor Msolga will now leave town!!!

Oh, possibly the 2 of you! Now THAT makes me smile!

Well - there ya go, Deb - get ya skates on! 2 weeks to go - can you see msolga's anxiety levels rising!

Craven

I just loved your bus story. Sometimes unexpected things give us a huge amount of joy!

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I loved the bus story, too, Craven! It showed a lighthearted side of you we don't see around these parts nearly often enough. Good for you!

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Anxiety levels, Ms Margo? Never! Very Happy

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George wrote:

Ok, IronLionZion, now you've got to tell us something that made you smile. You do smile every once in a while, don't you?

For me: a slightly smaller number on the scale. Very slightly. But hey, I'll take what I can get. (Or lose in this case).

IronLionZion never smiles. He grins in sardonic satisfaction.

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I think IronLionZion smiles every time he wakes up to see another day and then puts on the sardonic grin.

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...but Bill Maher, Jon Stewart, PJ O'Rourke, and George Bush make me giggle like a giddy school girl.

My life, however, has never been the same since the Iraqi Information Minister, Mohamed Saeed al-Sahaf, commited suicide.

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Just an opinion, sir......but I think you need to find something to make you smile from your heart. Forget the politics for a little while.

If this helps, I'm sending you a hug from miles away.

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Took squinney to my gig Friday for her birthday and she got groped and come on to like it was 1985 again.

Meanwhile some drunken woman who was dressed like a Big Hair spandex queen but ravaged by time, hard use and gravity was telling Shelley how she'd been in love with me since 1975, and asked her if she was going home with me. Shelley told her "Well I hope so, I'm married to him" and the girl gasped and gave her a hug. She was also out front pulling up her top in front of me and exposing herself. She didn't have to pull it up far as per my gravity remark. Rolling Eyes

Our young bass players mom, who is very nice looking and IS a rocker, was having a few (too many) cocktails and was up front dancing and fell down much to our bassist's chagrin and embarrassment. This place is like the last bastion of Big Hair Spinal Tap type of behavior.

We've been laughing about it since Friday night.

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the walk-in-the-woods tweety sound of little birds outside saying its spring, finally. i can hear them when i leave my balcony door open, and i could leave my balcony door open most of the afternoon since i woke up, cause its almost kinda warm. well, now its cold and its getting cold inside now too, but just hearing these sounds twitteringly announcing the time soon when i can be outside, and sit outside, it made me not want to close the door yet. (i even did sit outside on my balcony today, wrapped in coat, sweater and scarf, stuboornly having croissants and newspaper).

i guess i have to close the door now, tho. well it is dark outside already, even if its an hour later than normally ... i guess its time to say goodbye for the night to the little sounds again and wait for the next day ... even if tomorrow is monday.

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nimh wrote:

the walk-in-the-woods tweety sound of little birds outside saying its spring, finally. i can hear them when i leave my balcony door open, and i could leave my balcony door open most of the afternoon since i woke up, cause its almost kinda warm......

Hey, I just noticed the exact same thing, the exact same way.

Still didn't smile though.

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I'm this far away from organizing the A2K girl gang into an ILZ love-bombing campaign -- smooches, hugs, tickles, images of teddy bears surrounded by hearts, that sort of thing.

Or is that just too, too cruel?

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