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Francis
 
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Reply Sun 20 Feb, 2005 10:30 am
Letty wrote:
Francis, can you explain your remark?


I like him very much. Add a S.
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Letty
 
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Reply Sun 20 Feb, 2005 10:36 am
Ok, gotcha, Francis.

Thought for Today: ``There is no hope of joy except in human relations.'' - Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French author-aviator (1900-1944).

and from Danny Kaye:

I'm Anatole of Paris; I reek with chic. Laughing
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McTag
 
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Reply Sun 20 Feb, 2005 10:39 am
I heard a spoof blues song one time. Went kinda like this:

(slow blues feel)

Well I woke up this mornin'
Noticed that my two cars were gone
Uh-huh
Yes, I woke up this mornin'
And I seen that two of my cars done gone
yeah, yeah
I got so damn' agitated
Threw my martini clear across the lawn
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ehBeth
 
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Reply Sun 20 Feb, 2005 10:41 am
Letty - if you look at the song you're asking dj about - he refers to the great Kris K in his intro. I believe he's referring to Kris Kristofferson, not Johnny Cash.
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Francis
 
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Reply Sun 20 Feb, 2005 10:45 am
Letty -

To the Thought of the day : I completely agree!

To your other comments : I begin thinking you could be a francophile Laughing
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Letty
 
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Reply Sun 20 Feb, 2005 11:05 am
Ok, ehBeth. Thanks.

McTag, that's funny. Wish more folks would do spoofs and parodys. Keeps the singers humble.

Francis, I ain't a phile at all. Honestly. Danny Kaye just always caused my sister and me to laugh like mad. Wasn't there an Anatole France? Need to check that out, 'cause I enjoy all types of philosophies.
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Francis
 
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Reply Sun 20 Feb, 2005 11:16 am
Letty - Sure that was!

Anatole France was a well-known French writer.

Anatole France wrote:
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them


But my favorite is this :

Anatole France wrote:
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Letty
 
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Reply Sun 20 Feb, 2005 11:22 am
Wow! Francis. That quote takes some mulling over. Would be great in the philosophy forum.

Did a role in La Belle Helene, once. Hey, we don't have any Greeks, here. Razz
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Francis
 
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Reply Sun 20 Feb, 2005 11:29 am
Never mind!

I'm very pleased you know Jacques Offenbach work.

as for the matter, I know a bit of The Illiad (and the Belle Helène).
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djjd62
 
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Reply Sun 20 Feb, 2005 11:55 am
on this show everybody wins

johnny cash did probably the best known version, but kris kristofferson wrote it
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Letty
 
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Reply Sun 20 Feb, 2005 11:55 am
Hey, all. Have some stuff to do. Back later to listen and to report.

Bouncing Achilles signing off for the moment.
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sun 20 Feb, 2005 01:34 pm
Forever my darling our love will be true

Always and forever I'll love only you

just promise me darling your love in return

May this fire in my soul dear forever burn





My heart's at your command dear

To keep love and to hold

Making you happy is my desire dear

Keeping you is my goal





I'll forever love you

For the rest of my days

I'll never part from you

Or your loving ways

Just promise me darling your love in return

May this fire in my soul dear forever burn





My heart's at your command dear

To keep love and to hold

Making you happy is my desire dear

loving you is my goal





I'll forever love you

For the rest of my days

I'll never part from you

Or your loving ways

Just promise me darling your love in return

May this fire in my soul dear forever burn
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sun 20 Feb, 2005 02:29 pm
A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara'd Into Submission)

I been Norman Mailered, Maxwell Taylored. I been John O'Hara'd, McNamara'd.
I been Rolling Stoned and Beatled till I'm blind.
I been Ayn Randed, nearly branded Communist, cause I'm left-handed
That's the hand I use, well, never mind.

I been Phil Spectored, resurrected. I been Lou Adlered, Barry Sadlered.
Well, I paid all the dues I want to pay, and I learned the truth from Lenny Bruce
and all of my wealth won't buy me health so I smoke a pint of tea a day.

I knew a man, his brain so small, he couldn't think of nothing at all,
not the same as you and me- he doesn't dig poetry.
He's so unhip that when you say Dylan,
he thinks you're talking about Dylan Thomas, whoever he was.
The man ain't got no culture. But it's all right, ma, everybody must get stoned.

I been Mick Jaggered, silver daggered. Andy Warhol, won't you please come home?
I been mothered, fathered, aunt and uncled, been Roy Haleed and Art Garfunkeled
and I just discovered somebody's tapped my phone.

Folk rock.

I've lost my harmonica, Albert.
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Letty
 
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Reply Sun 20 Feb, 2005 02:30 pm
Well, edgar, the echos of your love song reverberated right through google. I was searching out Offenbach, and trying to recall the role that I played as a young girl. This led me to Balthazar, Anatole France's story of an Ethiopian who was an extra wiseman, and the library of France's father. (the length of that sentence almost rivals Bryant's last stanza of Thanatopsis)
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Letty
 
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Reply Sun 20 Feb, 2005 02:36 pm
Wow. Love that one, edgar.

Listeners, I see that our Eva is back, after having repaired her machine. I was getting concerned.
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Francis
 
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Reply Sun 20 Feb, 2005 02:39 pm
So, I'm prepared to death!
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Letty
 
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Reply Sun 20 Feb, 2005 02:54 pm
Ah, Francis:

So live that when they summons comes
To join that innumerable caravan
Which leads to that mysterious realm
Where each shall take his chamber in the silent halls of death,
Thou go not like a quarry slave, scourged to his dungeon,
but sustained and soothed by an unfaltering trust
Approach thy grave, as one who wraps the drapery of
His couch about him,
And lies down to pleasant sleep

Hey, I remembered every single word. There is a case to be made for memorizing, listeners. Even in a library. Laughing
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Francis
 
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Reply Sun 20 Feb, 2005 03:02 pm
Great work, Letty!
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Letty
 
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Reply Sun 20 Feb, 2005 03:27 pm
Merci, Francis. Actually, some literary scholars think that Bryant took a very long time to write his poem, and that the last stanza was written when he was older and more experienced with life.

Time for a station break.

This is air space, WA2K radio.

Station identification on the half hour was created when Orson Wells did his radio version of H.G. Welles', War of the Worlds. People actually thought that America was being invaded by Martians, and quite a panic ensued. Well's production contained such verisimilitude, that the FCC, created the new law.
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Letty
 
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Reply Sun 20 Feb, 2005 04:46 pm
Here's a sad bit of news, listeners:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=4&u=/ap/20050220/ap_on_en_mo/obit_dee

I had no idea that Sandra Dee was married to Bobby Darin.
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