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Morning Letty,

Oh well, another Monday is upon us. Italy won the World Cup and I just made it in time to see the penalty shoot out at the end. I was really hoping France would win, so that, mixed with a general weird feeling of tension throughout Saturday and Sunday, sort of made it the type of weekend that I didn't enjoy much, all in all.

Hey ho....one good thing is that I spent some time, looking through old CD's. Found a Cat Stevens album in the cobwebbed recess of the cabinet, and so here are two of my favourite tracks from "Teaser and the Firecat"

Mellow songs for a (hopefully) mellow Monday.

HOW CAN I TELL YOU? (Cat Stevens)

How can I tell you that I love you, I love you
but I can't think of right words to say
I long to tell you that I'm always thinking of you
I'm always thinking of you, but my words
just blow away, just blow away
It always ends up to one thing, honey
and I can't think of right words to say
Wherever I am girl, I'm always walking with you
I'm always walking with you, but I look and you're not there
Whoever I'm with, I'm always, always talking to you
I'm always talking to you, and I'm sad that
you can't hear, sad that you can't hear
It always ends up to one thing, honey,
when I look and you're not there
I need to know you, need to feel my arms around you
feel my arms around you, like a sea around a shore
and -- each night and day I pray, in hope
that I might find you, in hope that I might
find you, because heart's can do no more
It always ends up to one thing honey, still I kneel upon the floor
How can I tell you that I love you, I love you
but I can't think of right words to say
I long to tell you that I'm always thinking of you
I'm always thinking of you....
It always ends up to one thing honey
and I can't think of right words to say







SAD LISA (Cat Stevens)

She hangs her head and cries on my shirt.
She must be hurt very badly.
Tell me what's making you sad, Lee?
Open your door, dont hide in the dark.
Youre lost in the dark, you can trust me.
cause you know thats how it must be.

Lisa lisa, sad lisa lisa.

Her eyes like windows, tricklin rain
Upon her pain getting deeper.
Though my love wants to relieve her.
She walks alone from wall to wall.
Lost in a hall, she cant hear me.
Though I know she likes to be near me.

Lisa lisa, sad lisa lisa.

She sits in a corner by the door.
There must be more I can tell her.
If she really wants me to help her.
Ill do what I can to show her the way.
And maybe one day I will free her.
Though I know no one can see her.
Lisa lisa, sad lisa lisa.................

However, Mondays are notorious for being like this......

MANIC MONDAY (bangles)

Six o'clock already
I was just in the middle of a dream
I was kissin' valentino
By a crystal blue italian stream

But I can't be late
'cause then I guess I just won't get paid
These are the days
When you wish your bed was already made

It's just another manic monday
I wish it was sunday
'cause that's my funday
My I don't have to runday
It's just another manic monday

Have to catch an early train
Got to be to work by nine
And if I had an air-o-plane
I still couldn't make it on time

'cause it takes me so long
Just to figure out what I'm gonna wear
Blame it on the train
But the boss is already there

All of the nights
Why did my lover have to pick last night
To get down
Doesn't it matter
That I have to feed the both of us
Employment's down

He tells me in his bedroom voice
C'mon honey, let's go make some noise
Time it goes so fast
When you're having fun

It's just another manic monday
I wish it was sunday
'cause that's my funday
My I don't have to runday
It's just another manic monday


Have a great Monday, everyone.

Good morning, WA2K listeners and contributors.

First, allow me to salute hamburger for the great goodnight songs. Ah, yes, Canada. Diamonds and gold are wondrous to behold. Pete the prospector was a neat song, and we all know that Norma Jean sang "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend." That was an interesting coincidence that you did that one, because in the connect the picture forum we had just done a picture of both Joe and her.

edgar's terse observation was funny.

It is great to see our Lord back with us and playing Cat, but Brit, I do wish that you hadn't reminded us that it was Monday, and a manic one at that. Thanks, dear, for the music. Hope the air is better now.

Well, Letty stayed up rather late to watch a rerun of Dr. House, but it was worth it as it was all about a jazz trumpet player.

Coffee time, and I hope it doesn't make me get wired, just awake. <smile>

The children of the city

Music: Linos Kokkotos
Lyrics: Lefteris Papadopoulos
Singer: Popi Asteriadou

The children of the city,
How much I love them…
Not sure if they'll be able to see the sky today.
Like captured birds in golden cages,
They stay silent and sad.

Yet, they are gardens and sea caves.
Lots, orchards and swallow-nests.

The children of the city,
How much I love them…
They are living inside the concrete and the smug.
They are listening to fairy tails from the pickup,
And they have a warm heart inside their bosoms.

Welcome back, Ellinas. What a lovely translation of a very meaningful song, Greece. Love the line, "captured birds in golden cages." Lovely imagery, dear. Reminds me of the song that I used to sing to my daughter.

Thanks for the memory:

There are cages of wire in a dark city store,
Locked in the cages are songsters by score.
But they're trilling there,
Like birds of air,
That fly up high in the sky,
But they never have known,
How it looks in the spring,
Out in the woods,.
Where the wildwood birds all sing.

That, folks, was a song handed down over many years.

Another one about the situation of the city .

The trucks

Music: Christos Nikolopoulos
Lyrics: Manolis Rasoulis
Singer: Georgios Sarris

With the lights tired and heavy,
The trucks are going about Athens.
At the ports, at the stations, at the squares…
You must begin to search what you are seeking in life.

CHORUS
I have seen you many times going around,
in the labyrinth of the city, like you're lost.
You were carrying your jacket in the shoulder.
You were "carrying" too the ones who don't remember.

Like in scenes from a movie which is to come soon,
That's how you look, in the turns of this nostalgia.
Unfortunately, they are two past generations lost…
And Athens is a metropolis of the South.

CHORUS

Lovely, Ellinas. "In the labyrinth of the city." Marvelous translation, Greece. You might want to say, "You were carrying your jacket on your shoulder." I also like "with the lights tired and heavy." That I can feel.

letty, here's a 60's song about birds in cages:

White Bird
In a golden cage
On a winter's day
In the rain
White bird
In a golden cage
Alone

The leaves blow
Cross the long black road
To the darkened skies
In its rage
But the white bird
Just sits in her cage
Unknown.

White bird must fly
Or she will die

White bird
Dreams of the aspen tree
With their dying leaves
Turning gold
But the white bird
Just sits in her cage
Growing old.

White bird must fly
Or she will die
White bird must fly
Or she will die

The sunsets come
The sunsets go
The clouds Float by
And The Earth Turns slow
And the Young Birds Eyes
Do always Glow
And She must fly
She must fly
She must fly

White bird
In a golden cage
On a winter's day
In the rain
White bird
In a golden cage
Alone

White bird must fly
Or she will die
White bird must fly
Or she will die
White bird must fly
Or she will die
White bird must fly

Ah, Mr. Turtle, that was a lovely but very sad song. "white bird in a golden cage" is representative of the uselessness of gold and the absence of color when ones wings are clipped.

Now where did this come from, folks?

A Bird in a Gilded Cage
(Arthur J. Lamb and Harry Von Tilzer)
The ballroom was filled with fashion's throng,
It shone with a thousand lights;
And there was a woman who passed along,
The fairest of all the sights.
A girl to her lover then softly sighed,
"There's riches at her command."
"But she married for wealth, not for love," he cried!
"Though she lives in a mansion grand."
"She's only a bird in a gilded cage,
A beautiful sight to see.
You may think she's happy and free from care,
She's not, though she seems to be.
'Tis sad when you think of her wasted life
For youth cannot mate with age;
And her beauty was sold for an old man's gold,
She's a bird in a gilded cage."
I stood in a churchyard just at eve,
When sunset adorned the west;
And looked at the people who'd come to grieve
For loved ones now laid at rcst.
A tall marble monument marked the grave
Of one who'd been fashion's queen;
And I thought, "She is happier here at rest,
Than to have people say when seen:

She was only a bird in a gilded cage"......

John Gilbert
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


John GilbertJohn Gilbert (July 10, 1899 - January 9, 1936) was an actor and major star of the silent film era.

Known as "the great lover," he rivaled even the great Rudolph Valentino as a box office draw. Though he was often cited as one of the high profile examples of an actor who was unsuccessful in making the transition to talkies, his decline as a star in fact had as much to do with studio politics and money as did the sound of his screen voice.

Born John Cecil Pringle in Logan, Utah to stock company actor parents, he struggled through a childhood of abuse and neglect before coming to Hollywood as a teenager. He first found work as an extra with the Thomas Ince Studios, and soon became a favorite of Maurice Tourneur, who also hired him to write and direct several pictures. He quickly rose through the ranks, building his reputation as an actor in such films as Heart o' the Hills opposite Mary Pickford. In 1921, Gilbert signed a three year contract with Fox Film Corporation, where he was cast as a romantic leading man. His height was 5'11" (1.80m).

In 1924, he moved to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where he became a full-fledged star with such high-profile films as His Hour (directed by King Vidor and written by Elinor Glyn), [1] He Who Gets Slapped] (co-starring Lon Chaney, Sr. and Norma Shearer, and directed by Victor Sjöström), and [2] The Merry Widow] (directed by Erich von Stroheim and co-starring Mae Murray). In 1925, Gilbert was once again directed by King Vidor in the war epic The Big Parade, which became the second highest grossing silent film in cinema history. His performance in this film made him a major star. The following year, Vidor reunited Gilbert with two of his co-stars from that picture, Renée Adorée and Karl Dane, for the film La bohème which also starred Lillian Gish.

Gilbert married the highly successful film actress Leatrice Joy in 1922. The union produced a daughter, Leatrice Gilbert Fountain, but the tempestuous marriage only lasted two years. The couple divorced in 1924, with Joy charging that of Gilbert was a compulsive philanderer.

That same year, Gilbert made Flesh and the Devil, his first film with Greta Garbo. They soon began a very public relationship, much to the delight of their fans. Gilbert planned to marry her, but Garbo got cold feet and never showed up for the ceremony. Despite their rocky off-screen relationship, they continued to generate box-office revenue for the studio, and MGM paired them in two more silents - Love, a modern adaptation of Anna Karenina, and A Woman of Affairs.

Throughout his time at MGM, Gilbert had frequently clashed with studio head Louis B. Mayer over creative maters. While waiting to see if Garbo would show up for her wedding, Mayer allegedly made a rude remark to Gilbert that caused him to fly into a rage and physically attack the mogul. After that, Gilbert's career began its downward slide. In spite of Mayer's disdain for the actor, Gilbert did have a powerful supporter in production head Irving Thalberg. The two were old friends and Thalberg made efforts to reinvigorate Gilbert's career, but Thalberg's failing health probably limited such efforts.

With the coming of sound, Gilbert's career faltered, due as much to the quality of the projects he was given as the quality of his voice. It is likely urban legend that audiences actually laughed at the sound of Gilbert's voice, but it is true that Gilbert's cultured and refined manner of speech seemed at odds with his he-man image.

In 1932 MGM made the film Downstairs from Gilbert's original story, in which Gilbert played against type as a scheming, blackmailing chauffeur. The film was well received by critics, but did nothing to restore Gilbert's popularity. Shortly after making the film he married co-star Virginia Bruce; the couple divorced in 1934. In 1933, he starred opposite Garbo for the last time in Queen Christina; Garbo was top-billed and Gilbert's name beneath the title. The picture failed to revive his career. By that point, alcoholism had severely damaged his health, and he died of a heart attack without ever regaining his former reputation.

On his passing in 1936, John Gilbert was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.

He was married four times, and had two daughters. His daughter Leatrice Gilbert Fountain (from his marriage to silent film actress Leatrice Joy), wrote a biography of her father's life that was published in 1985.

John Gilbert has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1755 Vine Street and in 1994, he was honored with his image on a United States postage stamp designed by caricaturist Al Hirschfeld.

Well, listeners. Our hawkman may be having some probs with his bios, but until he returns with his usually joke, I want to play this one that I just heard, and done by some fantastic black gal on the tube:


Neil Diamond - Love Potion Number Nine Lyrics

I took my troubles down to Madame Ruth
You know that gypsy
With the gold cap tooth
She's got a pad down at 34th and Vine
Sellin' little bottles of Love Potion #9

I told her that I was a flop with chicks
I been this way since 1956
She looked at my palm
And she made a magic sign
She said
"Whatcha need is
A bottle of Love Potion #9"
She bent down and turned around
And gave me a wink
She said I'm gonna make it up
Right here in the sink
It smelled like turpentine
And looked like India ink
I held my nose
I closed my eyes
I took a drink

I didn't know if it was day or night
I started kissing everything in sight
But when I kissed a cop
Down at 34th and Vine
He broke my little bottle of
Love Potion #9

She bent down and turned around
And gave me a wink
She said I'm gonna make it up
Right here in the sink
It smelled like turpentine
And looked like India ink
I held my breath and closed my eyes
I took a drink

I didn't know if it was day or night
I started kissin' everything in sight
But when I kissed a cop
Down on 34th and Vine
He broke my little bottle of
Love Potion #9
Love Potion #9
Love Potion #9
Love Potion #9
Love Potion #9

Hey, Bill. That one was for you!

Good afternoon.

Remembering Fred Gwynne and Nick Adams

and there is our Raggedy. Thanks, PA. It seems as though Fred Gwen's last movie was My Cousin Vinny which was one of the funniest movies that I have seen in a while. "....the two yutes...." loved that line, listeners.

Well, we have played this one before, I think, but let's do it again.

Johnny Cash

Johnny Yuma was a rebel
He roamed through the west
Did Johnny Yuma, the rebel
He wandered alone

He got fightin' mad
This rebel lad
He packed no star
As he wandered far
Where the only law
Was a hook and a draw
The rebel, Johnny Yuma

[Repeat 1st verse]

He searched the land
This restless lad
He was panther quick
And leather tough
If he figured that
He'd been pushed enough
The rebel, Johnny Yuma

[Repeat 1st verse]

Fightin' mad
This rebel lad
With a dream he'd hold
'Til his dyin' breath
He'd search his soul
And gamble with death
The rebel, Johnny Yuma

Good morning radio fans, if MTV can play it, so can we.

Status Quo
Come Rock With Me
( Rossi / Frost )

On again
No I newer knew we could go on and on
They never thought we would be rockin' on
No we never thought we - could be rockin' on

Home again
And it wont be very long before I'm gone again
Now I'm gone again
And it's never really long before I'm home again
If you like what I like come rock with me
If you like what I like - oh, I'm on again
No I never knew we could go on and on
They never thought we would be rockin' on
No we never thought we - could be rockin' on

Take a look again
Is it really very hard to see the signs again
Were you listening
When I said that I was giving up my worryin'
If you like what I like come rock with me
If you like what I like - oh, I'm on again
No I never knew we could go on and on
They never thought we would be rockin' on
No we never thought we - could be rockin' on

Oh, I'm on again
No I never knew we could go on and on
They never thought we would be rockin' on
No we never thought we - could be rockin' on

Hey, Try. When did you give up Three Dog Night for Status Quo.

Well, buddy, we could come rock with you or slip and slide.

Little Richard
Slippin' And Slidin'

Slippin' and a-slidin'
peepin' and a-hidin'
been told a lang time ago.
Slippin' and a-slidin'
peepin' and a-hidin'
been told a long time ago.
Baby
I've been told
baby
you've been bold
I won't be your fool no more.
Oh
big conniver
nothin' but a jiver
done got hip to your jive.
Oh
big conniver
nothin' but a jiver
done got hip to your jive.
Slippin' and a-slidin'
peepin' and a-hidin' wonY be your feel no more.
Slippin' and a-slidin'
peepin' and a-hidin'
. . .
Oh
Malinda
she's a solid sender
you know you better surrender
Oh
Malinda
she's a solid sender
you know you better surrender
Slippin' and slidin'
peepin' and hidin' won't be your fool no more.

Jessica Simpson
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jessica Ann Simpson (born July 10, 1980) is an American pop singer who rose to fame during the late 1990s. In the following ten years she starred with her then-husband Nick Lachey in the MTV reality show Newlyweds, released her own line of Dessert Beauty and Dessert Treat beauty products and started a career as an actress, while continuing her music career.

Biography

Early life

Simpson was born in Abilene, Texas and raised in Richardson, a suburb of Dallas, Texas. She is the daughter of Joe Truett Simpson (a former Baptist youth minister) and Tina Ann Drew (a former Sunday School teacher). Her younger sister Ashlee launched her own music career in mid-2004. Simpson started singing at the age of 12 in her Baptist church choir. At the same age, she made an unsuccessful application for The New Mickey Mouse Club, which starred fellow pop singers Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake, among other future stars.

Simpson attended J.J. Pearce High School in Richardson, Texas. She was discovered singing at a church camp by a head of a small contemporary Christian record label and recorded an album over the next three years; however, the label folded before the record could be released. She dropped out in her senior year in order to tour and promote her demo album, which was funded by her grandmother, Joyce (thus the reason for the name of her 2004 holiday album, Rejoyce: The Christmas Album); she later earned her GED. During this time, she toured with the Christian Youth Conference circuit performing with Kirk Franklin, God's Property and CeCe Winans. She and her father sold copies of the album after her performances.

Tommy Mottola of Columbia Records obtained a copy of the album and, thinking she had potential as a pop singer, signed her as such.

1999-2002: Pop music beginnings

Simpson performing in May 2002.In late 1999, Simpson released her debut album Sweet Kisses, which reached a peak of number 25 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart and also made the top 40 of the UK charts. The album proved to be a success, selling two and a half million copies in the U.S. Her first single, the platinum-selling "I Wanna Love You Forever," reached the top five of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and the top ten in Canada and the UK. Her second single, a duet with then-boyfriend Nick Lachey of boy band 98 Degrees, "Where You Are", was a modest radio hit. The last single from the album, "I Think I'm in Love with You", was a top forty hit in the U.S. and a top 20 hit in Canada and the UK. In 2000, Simpson won two Teen Choice Awards for Choice Breakout Artist and Love Song of the Year ("Where You Are"). In 2000, Simpson appeared on the 98 Degrees video My Everything.

Released during the summer of 2001, Simpson's second effort Irresistible reached the top ten of the Billboard 200 and top 20 of the Canadian album chart. Despite this improvement over her debut, the album's sales were less than satisfactory; by late 2001 the album only managed to be certified gold in the U.S. for selling 500,000 copies. In total, to date, the "Irresistible" album has sold a little over 750,000 copies. The title track lead single, "Irresistible", reached the top 20 in the U.S., Canada, and the UK, as well as the top 40 in Australia. A follow-up single entitled "A Little Bit" was also released, but failed to achieve substantial success. In 2002, Columbia Records released a EP remix album titled This Is the Remix containing electro-dance remixes of Simpson's biggest hits.

2003-2005: Marriage and career development

On October 26, 2002, Simpson married Nick Lachey. She famously announced that she remained a virgin until her wedding night.[citation needed] During the summer of 2003, Simpson and Lachey's reality show Newlyweds began airing on MTV. Although Simpson was moderately famous before the series began, the show is considered the crowning glory of her career.

Throughout the run of four seasons she epitomized the stereotypical dumb blonde, notably when she asked Lachey whether the Chicken of the Sea tuna she was eating was chicken or fish. She also indicated that she believed that buffalo wings were made from actual buffalo. Her ignorance helped turn the show into a huge hit, making the average rating for each episode about 1.4 million viewers and reaching a series peak of 4 million viewers. (The gaffe was also a running joke in a Pizza Hut commercial, where she was shown to be annoyed at having her intelligence mocked again.) When introduced to Interior Secretary Gale Norton, Simpson responded: "You've done a nice job decorating the White House". It has been suggested that her ignorance is simply an act she has parlayed into various commercial, television and film endorsements.[1]

Banking on the success of her new popularity, she appeared on a variety show with Lachey on the ABC Nick and Jessica Variety Hour in 2004. A pilot for a sitcom on ABC was also filmed, but "The Jessica Simpson Show" was rejected by network executives in May 2004. In June 2006 "The Jessica Simpson Show" was leaked onto Jessica fansite Sweet Kisses.net. The sitcom was about a high-flying and uberly ditzy blonde popstar named Jessica Sampson who became news correspondent of a local TV station. During that summer, Simpson won three Teen Choice Awards for Female Fashion Icon, Hottie Female, and Female Reality/Variety TV Star for Newlyweds. In 2005, the series won a People's Choice Award for Favorite Reality Show and wrapped shortly after.

Simpson's third album, In This Skin, was released during the summer of 2003 to coincide with the premiere of Newlyweds. Though initially the album was not a huge success, debuting at #10 with sales of 64,000 in its first week. It rebounded on the charts when a special collectors' edition was released in April 2004. It subsequently reached a peak of number two on the Billboard 200 and the top 40 of the UK charts, due largely to the success of Newlyweds. The album eventually proved to be her most commercially successful, selling almost three million copies in the U.S.; it also yielded arguably her most successful single to-date, "With You".


Simpson at the premiere of The Dukes of Hazzard (2005).Simpson released a holiday album in late 2004 entitled ReJoyce: The Christmas Album, which sold moderately. The album debuted and peaked at #14 on the billboard hot 100 in November of that year and was certified Gold sometime later. During the summer of 2005, Simpson made her first major film appearance as Daisy Duke in The Dukes of Hazzard. The film debuted at number one on the U.S. box-office chart, grossing more than thirty million USD. One of the songs from the film's soundtrack, "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'", was sung by Simpson. The track won a People's Choice Award for Favorite Song from a Movie in early 2006. The controversial video directed by Brett Ratner rose eyebrows in the summer of 2005 with scenes containing Simpson washing a car in a pink bikini causing a backlash from her Christian former fans. During the filming of Dukes, well publicized rumors abound concerning an alleged affair Simpson had with co-star Johnny Knoxville. Knoxville was even queried about the alleged affair during a 2005 appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman.

In November 2005, after months of speculation, Simpson and her husband Nick Lachey officially announced that they had split. Simpson filed for divorce on December 16, 2005, citing "irreconcilable differences".[2] She has asked the courts not to grant Lachey spousal support. The couple's divorce has been highly publicized worldwide. A spokesperson for Simpson told the press on July 1, 2006, that the divorce had been finalized on June 30, 2006. [2] However, the two sides have not come up with a financial agreement thusfar.

The couple sold their Calabasas mansion to Malcolm in the Middle star Justin Berfield for a little over $3.75 million.

2006-present: A new chapter and A Public Affair

On Friday, June 30, 2006, Jessica and Nick's divorce was finalized. Jessica's name was legally restored to "Jessica Simpson" from her marital name of "Jessica Simpson-Lachey"

Simpson's next album, A Public Affair, is set to be released on August 29, 2006 with Epic Records, ending her ties with co-owned Columbia Records. She has also finished filming her second movie Employee of the Month, with Dane Cook, in New Mexico She launched a shoe collection that was set to be released in department stores across the U.S. from February 2006.

Her latest single "A Public Affair" hit radio on June 23, 2006.

Public image

Simpson of the July 2006 cover of Maxim magazine.At the beginning of her career, Jessica gained public attention when she claimed to be saving herself until marriage, something that has still gone with much speculation. Since that time her image has become increasingly sexual.

In January 2002, Simpson posed in lingerie for Maxim magazine. The publication also named her #18 in its May 2006 Hot 100 issue. She appeared on Maxim's cover again in July 2006.

Simpson currently is the official celebrity spokesperson for Operation Smile, a charity group that provides free reconstructive surgery for children with facial deformities. She recently sat in on an operation in Kenya to show her support, as well as supporting Operation Smile on Capitol Hill. She has also appeared as a spokesperson for the acne treatment Proactiv Solution. However, she has said that in fact she treated her acne with accutane.

Her public image has become fodder for ridicule and satire. In 2006 singer P!nk released a song called "Stupid Girls" which directly mocked Simpson (as well as many other "stereotyped-dumb" celebrities); in particular a line, "Maybe if I act like that/flippin' my blonde hair back/push out my bra like that" is delivered spoken-word in a fashion that emulates a spoken word section of Simpsons "Walking" cover. In the music video P!nk also mocks the music video for "Walking". However, her mother claimed in an edition of Vanity Fair magazine that she has a 160 IQ [3]. This is, however, completely unsubstantiated.

Simpson and husband broke up in 2005 after a little over 3 years of marriage.

Her father leeringly said about her "Jessica never tries to be sexy. She just is sexy. She's got double Ds - you can't cover those suckers up!"

Simpson also brought attention to herself on March 16, 2006, when she declined an invitation by President George W. Bush to appear at a Republican fundraiser to represent Operation Smile, because that group is non-partisan, and because Simpson preferred to keep her political views private. The decision was seen as a "snub" by some, such as GOP leader John Boehner. [4]

If reports in UK Magazine, Now!, are to be believed, Simpson is currently in talks with Queen of Pop, Madonna. It is alleged that Madonna has approached Simpson and fellow rising star, Lindsay Lohan to appear in a bondage style stage performance at this years MTV Video Music Awards in New York. It is unclear if the reports are true or if Simpson has consented.

These reports follow Madonna's previous on-stage lesbian kiss with Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera at the 2003 award ceremony.

This is a story of two elderly people living in a mobile home park in
Florida. He was a widower and she was a widow. They had known one another
for a number of years.
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One evening there was a community supper in the Club House, and the widower
and widow made a foursome with two other singles.
.
They had a wonderful evening and spirits were high. The widower sent a few
admiring glances across the table, and the widow smiled coyly back at him.
Finally, he plucked up his courage to ask her, " Will you marry me? "
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After about six seconds of careful consideration, she answered, "Yes. Yes, I
will. "
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The meal ended with a few more pleasant exchanges and they went to their
respective homes. The next morning, the widower was troubled. Did she say
'Yes' or did she say 'No'? He couldn't remember.
.
Try as he would, he just could not recall. He went over the conversation of
the previous evening, but his mind was blank. He remembered asking the
question, but for the life of him he could not recall her response.
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With fear and trepidation, he picked up the phone and called her.
.
First, he explained that he didn't remember as well as he used to. Then he
reviewed the lovely evening past. As he gained a little more courage he
then inquired of her, " When I asked if you would marry me, did you say
'Yes' or did you say 'No'?
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"Why, you silly man, I said 'Yes. Yes I will.' And I meant it with all my
heart. "
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The widower was delighted. He felt his heart skip a beat. Then she
continued, "And I am so glad you called because I couldn't remember who
asked me.