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She's Like the Wind
Patrick Swayze Lyrics

She's like the wind through my tree
She rides the night next to me
She leads me through moonlight
Only to burn me with the sun
She's taken my heart
But she doesn't know what she's done

Feel her breath on my face
Her body close to me
Can't look in her eyes
She's out of my league
Just a fool to believe
I have anything she needs
She's like the wind

[SOLO]

I look in the mirror and all I see
Is a young old man with only a dream
Am I just fooling myself
That she'll stop the pain
Living without her
I'd go insane

Feel her breath on my face
Her body close to me
Can't look in her eyes
She's out of my league
Just a fool to believe
I have anything she needs
She's like the wind

Feel your breath on my face
Your body close to me
Can't look in your eyes
You're out of my league
Just a fool to believe
(Just a fool to believe)
She's like the wind

Well, Try. What do they call her?


- Mariah Carey

Mariah.....Mariah....
They call the wind Mariah
Way out here
They got a name
for rain and wind and fire
the rain is rest
the fire is joy
and they call the wind Mariah

Mariah throws the stars around
and sends the clouds a-flying
Mariah makes the mountains sound
like folks were up their dying

Mariah.....Mariah...
They call the wind Mariah

Before I know Mariah's name
and heard her wail and whinning
I had a girl and she had me
the sun was always shinning
But then one day
I left my girl
I left her behind me
and now I'm lost
Oh God I'm lost
not even God can find me

Mariah...Mariah...
They call the wind Mariah

Out here they got a name for rain
for wind and fire only
But when you're lost and all alone
there is no name for gloomy
And I'm a lost and lonely man
without a star to guide me
Mariah blow my love to me
I need my girl besides me

Mariah...Mariah...
They call the wind Mariah

Mariah....Mariah....
Blow my love to me...

Unique, no?

No reason, folks. Just wanted to read this:


Any Human to Another
by Countee Cullen

The ills I sorrow at
Not me alone
Like an arrow,
Pierce to the marrow,
Through the fat,
And past the bone.

Your grief and mine
Must intertwine
Like sea and river,
Be fused and mingle,
Diverse yet single,
Forever and forever.

Let no man be so proud
And confident,
To think he is allowed
A little tent
Pitched in a meadow
Of sun and shadow
All his little own.

Joy may be shy, unique,
Friendly to a few,
Sorrow never scorned to speak
To any who
Were false or true.

Your every grief
Like a blade
Shining and unsheathed
Must strike me down.
Of bitter aloes wreathed,
My sorrow must be laid
On your head like a crown.

Lost Together
Blue Rodeo

Strange and beautiful
are the stars tonight
that dance around your head
in your eyes I see that perfect world
I hope that doesn't sound too weird
And I want all the world to know
that your love's all I need
all that I need

and if we're lost
then we are lost together
yea if we're lost
then we are lost together

I stand before this faceless crowd
and I wonder why I bother
so much controlled by so few
stumbling from one disaster to another
I've heard it all so many times before
it's all a dream to me now
a dream to me now

And if we're lost
then we are lost together
yea if we're lost
then we are lost together

In this silence of this whispered night
I listen only to your breath
and that second of a shooting star
somehow it all makes sense
And I want all the world to know
that your love's all I need
all that I need

and if we're lost
then we are lost together
yea if we're lost
then we are lost together

Yes, dj. Lost together. What a lovely song, Canada.

And it would follow from your PD...........

Carly Simon
Alone Together


Alone together, beyond the crowd,
Above the world, we're not to proud
To cling together, We're strong
As long as we're together.

Alone together, the blinding rain
The starless night, were not in vain;
For we're together, and what is there
To fear together.

Our love is as deep as the sea,
Our love is as great as a love can be,
And we can weather the great unknown,
If we're alone together.

and in a minor key.<smile>

Goodnight

From Letty with love

ALL IN GOOD TIME

It all seems so obvious now
When I look back over my life
There were times that I really felt down
To think it passed me by

But in these hours of serious doubt
Through the coal black lonely night
Something told me, "it'll work out"
Something deep inside
Was comforting me

All in good time
All in good time
It said all in good time
The bad times will be gone

"Hold your horses", a willow tree cried
While the sun called to me, "where's the fire?"
"Run your course my feverish child,"
Came a voice from even higher
Inspiring me

All in good time
All in good time
It said all in good time

We rise and fall
We try and fail
And people may judge us
But angels know us darling
All in good time

It all seems so obvious now
When I look back over my life
There's a need for sorrow and doubt
For darkness and for light
It's how it must be

All in good time
All in good time
It said all in good time
All in good time
The bad time will be gone

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Good morning, WA2K listeners and contributors.

ehBeth, what a haunting song, TO. All in good time, eh? <smile> Well, let's hope so, honey.



Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues
Danny O'Keefe
Written by Danny O'Keefe

Everybody's goin' away
Said they're movin' to LA
There's not a soul I know around
Everybody's leavin' town

Some caught a freight, some caught a plane
Find the sunshine, leave the rain
They said this town's a waste of time
I guess they're right, it's wastin' mine

Some gotta win, some gotta lose
Good time Charlie's got the blues
Good time Charlie's got the blues

Ya know my heart keeps tellin' me
"You're not a kid at thirty-three"
"Ya play around, ya lose your wife"
"Ya play too long, you lose your life"

I got my pills to ease the pain
Can't find a thing to ease the rain
I'd love to try and settle down
But everybody's leavin' town

Some gotta win, some gotta lose
Good time Charlie's got the blues
Good time Charlie's got the blues
Good time Charlie's got the blues

(whistling to end)

Steve Guttenberg
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Steve Guttenberg (b. August 24, 1958), sometimes credited as Steven Guttenberg, is an American actor. Guttenberg was born in Brooklyn, New York and grew up in Massapequa, Long Island, New York.


Movie and Stage History

Although Guttenberg is best known as a film actor, his roots are in the theater. His first film as director/producer/co-screenwriter/star was the adaptation of a Broadway hit, the stage comedy/drama P.S. Your Cat Is Dead (2002) by the late James Kirkwood Jr., co-author of A Chorus Line.

Guttenberg has been the star or co-star in six films that earned over $100,000,000 in the United States, a feat accomplished by relatively few actors. He has also starred in four film franchises: Cocoon (1985), Three Men and a Baby (1987), Police Academy (1984) and Short Circuit (1986), taking his films' box-office grosses into the billions. As well as these he has also appeared in such films as Diner (1982), The Bedroom Window (1987), The Boys from Brazil (1978) and a string of television films.

His studies, which include years with teacher Herbert Berghof and with the improvisational comedy school, The Groundlings, took him to such theaters as the Helen Hayes on Broadway, where he created the lead role in Prelude to a Kiss and "The Comedy" in London's West End, where he starred in The Boys Next Door. He won kudos in the world stage premiere production of Furthest From the Sun, which Woody Harrelson directed and co-authored. Guttenberg has also appeared widely on TV. His television films include the critically acclaimed Miracle on Ice (1981) (TV), To Race the Wind (1980) (TV), Something for Joey (1977) (TV) and the controversial nuclear holocaust picture, The Day After (1983) (TV), which more than 20 years after its original airing remains the highest-rated made-for-television movie in history.

Prior to his becoming well known, Guttenberg starred in a Coca-Cola commercial (1980) that featured him trying to help a woman who did not speak English, whose car had stalled. They share a common bond in their love of Coke.

Other

Guttenberg is also involved with charity work aimed at improving opportunities for the homeless and for young people. He has created Guttenhouse, an apartment complex he has funded to accommodate young people after their graduation from foster child status, with on-site social worker direction to assist their assuming adult responsibilities. The Entertainment Industry Foundation, Hollywood's charity arm, selected him to be Ambassador for Children's Issues because of his work on behalf of children and the homeless. In this capacity, he is spearheading Sight for Students, a $7-million program in which, together with VSP and Altair Eyeglasses, he will help provide glasses for 50,000 underprivileged and visually challenged children throughout their school years.

His interest in the welfare of youngsters is reflected in his work as a producer and director. He executive-produced Gangs, a CBS School Break Special which earned an Emmy nomination, and he debuted as a director with a CBS School Break Special, Love Off Limits (1993) (TV). Guttenberg's spare time is taken up by his charitable activities for such kids-oriented agencies as Friends of the Children/Bridges, The Starlight Foundation as well as the Entertainment Industry Foundation. He is also a surfer, golfer and devoted dog owner.

In an episode of The Simpsons, "Homer the Great," a satire of the Freemasons, mention his name in a rousing drinking song cataloging how they secretly manipulate society: "Who holds back the electric car? Who makes Steve Guttenberg a star? We do!".

Guttenberg had a recurring role on second season of the television series Veronica Mars.

He also appears as a lead in the NBC made-for-TV remake of The Poseidon Adventure, which aired on November 20, 2005. He played "Richard Clarke," a failing writer having an affair with a massage therapist when the boat tips over.

He is rumoured to play New Zealand's top comedian Tony Martin in a new movie to be based on Martin's book Lolly Scramble. Sources say that upon contacting Guttenberg he was quoted as saying "This movie will fill a yearning void within myself".

His production company, "Mr. Kirby Productions", is named after his high school drama teacher.

Marlee Matlin
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Marlee Beth Matlin (born August 24, 1965) is an Academy Award-winning American actress who is almost completely deaf.

Born to Don and Libby Matlin, a Jewish couple from Morton Grove, Illinois, Matlin lost most of her hearing at the age of 18 months, following a bout of Roseola infantum. She lost all hearing in her right ear, and 80% of hearing in her left ear.

She made her stage debut at the age of seven, as Dorothy in a children's theatre version of The Wizard of Oz, and continued to appear with the same children's theatre group throughout her childhood.

Her film debut, 1986's Children of a Lesser God brought her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Drama and an Academy Award for Best Actress.

She played the lead female role in the television series Reasonable Doubts (1991 - 1993) and won an Emmy Award for an appearance in Picket Fences.

She had recurring roles in The West Wing and Blue's Clues. Other television appearances include Seinfeld and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. She won a 2004 Primetime Emmy Award for the latter.

She is actively involved with a number of charitable organisations, including the Children Affected by AIDS Foundation, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, and the Starlight Children's Foundation, Red Cross Celebrity Cabinet.

Matlin married law enforcement officer Kevin Grandalski, a Roman Catholic, on August 29, 1993 (in Henry Winkler's back yard). They have two daughters (Sarah Rose, born 1996; Isabella Jane, born 2003) and two sons (Brandon, born 2000; Tyler, born 2002).

In 2002, she published her first novel, Deaf Child Crossing, which is loosely based on her own childhood.

In 2004, she starred in the controversial movie What the Bleep Do We Know as Amanda.

It was recently announced that she will be joining the cast of The L Word for the upcoming 4th season. She will play the love interest of Jennifer Beals' character, Bette Porter.

In 2006, Marlee Matlin was honored at AOL's Second Annual Chief Everything Officer Awards.

A fellow tries to cross the Mexican border on a bicycle with two
big bags balanced on his shoulders. The border guard asks,
"What's in the bags?"
The fellow says, "Sand!"
The guard wants to examine them. The fellow gets off the bike,
places the bags on the ground, opens them up, and the guard
inspects...only to find sand. The fellow packs the sand into the
bags, places them on his shoulders, and pedals the bike across
the border.
Two weeks later, the same situation is repeated....
"What have you there?"
"Sand"
"We want to examine it."
Same results...nothing but sand and the fellow is on his way again.
Every two weeks for a year the inspections continue.
Eventually, the border guard retires and one day he happens to
see the guy downtown. He says to the fellow,
"Buddy, you drove me crazy. I know you were smuggling something.
For 30 years I was a border guard and I thought I'd seen
everything, but I was never been able to figure out what you were
up to. I won't say anything, but what were you smuggling?"
The fellow says, "Bicycles."

Love your anecdote, hawkman. Back later to comment after our Raggedy arrives with photo's. Smuggling bicycles.

Good morning WA2K.

Bob: I'm going to send your sand story to a friend without providing the answer and see what answer I get.

Steve and Marlee:

There's our Raggedy, folks, with her usual high quality photo's. How very lovely Marlee Matlin is. I remember her quite well in Children of a Lesser God. Thanks, PA.

Well, listeners. The only info about Steve that lends itself to a song is his part in The Chorus Line. I am not familiar with the man, however.

Artist: Lyrics
Song: The Music and the Mirror Lyrics
[CASSIE]
Give me somebody to dance for,
Give me somebody to show.
Let me wake up in the morning to find
I have somewhere exciting to go.

To have something that I can believe in.
To have something to be.
Use me... Choose me.

God, I'm a dancer,
A dancer dances!

Give me somebody to dance with.
Give me a place to fit in.
Help me return to the world of the living
By showing me how to begin.

Play the music.
Give me the chance to come through.
All I ever needed was the music, and the mirror,
And the chance to dance for you.

Give me a job and you instantly get me involved.
If you give me a job,
Then the rest of the crap will get solved.
Put me to work,
You would think that by now I'm allowed.
I'll do you proud.

Throw me a rope to grab on to.
Helpome to prove that I'm strong.
Give me the chance to look forward to sayin':
"Hey. listen, they're playing my song."

Play me the music.
Give me the chance to come through.
All I ever needed was the music, and the mirror,
And the chance to dance...

Play me the music,
Play me the music,
Play me the music.
Give me the chance to come through.
All I ever needed was the music, and the mirror,
And the chance to dance...

Letty: Steve Guttenberg was the young lead in the movie "Cocoon", that had all those wonderful character actors; Jessica Tandy, Hume Cronyn, Don Ameche(got an Oscar for supporting actor); Wilfred Brimley, Jack Gilford, Maureen Stapleton, Gwen Verdon and Brian Dennehy. It was just on AMC the other day. The setting is Florida.

George Washington Carver: Top Inventor with some Controversy
Here's a some quick notes about George Washington Carver whose abbreviated list of accomplishments follow:

*Pioneer Botanist, scientist, geneticist, inventor, teacher of former slaves farming techniques for self-sufficiency.

*Early proponent of bio-diversity, who helped to prepare the South from when the boll-weevil took it's toll on cotton crops in early 1900s)

*Peanut and its by-products (made face-cream from peanuts)

*Soybean and its by-products (including Bio-diesel fuel)

*Sweet potato (and sweet potato flour)

*Numerous paints, dyes, plastics, fabrics, fuels, cosmetics, foods, and medicines


Reputed Inventions

"George Washington Carver reputedly discovered three hundred uses for peanuts and hundreds more uses for soybeans, pecans and sweet potatoes. Among the listed items that he suggested to southern farmers to help them economically were his recipes and improvements to/for: adhesives, axle grease, bleach, buttermilk, chili sauce, fuel briquettes, ink, instant coffee, linoleum, mayonnaise, meat tenderizer, metal polish, paper, plastic, pavement, shaving cream, shoe polish, synthetic rubber, talcum powder and wood stain. Three patents (one for cosmetics, and two for paints and stains) were issued to George Washington Carver in the years 1925 to 1927; however, they were not commercially successful in the end. Aside from these patents and some recipes for food, he left no formulas or procedures for making his products[4]. He did not keep a laboratory notebook.

Carver's fame today is typically summarized by the claim that he invented more than 300 uses for the peanut. However, Carver's lists contain many products he did not invent; the lists also have many redundancies. The 105 recipes in Carver's 1916 bulletin [5] were common kitchen recipes, but some appear on lists of his peanut inventions, including salted peanuts, bar candy, chocolate coated peanuts, peanut chocolate fudge, peanut wafers and peanut brittle. Carver acknowledged over two dozen other publications as the sources of the 105 peanut recipes[6]. Carver's list of peanut inventions includes 30 cloth dyes, 19 leather dyes, 18 insulating boards, 17 wood stains, 11 wall boards and 11 peanut flours[7]. These six products alone account for 100 "uses".

Recipe number 51 on the list of 105 peanut uses describes a "peanut butter" that led to the belief that Carver invented the modern product with this name. It is a recipe for making a common, contemporary oily peanut grit. It does not have the key steps (which would be difficult to achieve in a kitchen) for making stable, creamy peanut butter that were developed in 1922 by Joseph L. Rosefield.

Carver's original uses for peanuts were mostly substitutes for existing products, such as gasoline and nitroglycerin. These products remain mysterious because Carver never published his formulas, except for his peanut cosmetic patent. Many of them may only have been hypothetical proposals. Without Carver's formulas, others could not determine if his products were worthwhile or manufacture them. Thus, the widespread claims that Carver's peanut inventions revolutionized Southern agriculture by creating large new markets for peanuts have no factual basis.[8] Exaggerations of the number and impact of Carver's inventions are why historians now consider Carver's scientific reputation at least partly mythical [9]

The rise in U.S. peanut production in the early 1900s was actually due mainly to the following: [10]

* The boll weevil's devastation of cotton farming
* The growing popularity of peanut butter after John Harvey Kellogg began promoting it as a health food in the 1890s
* Introduction of a big-selling roasted peanut vending machine in 1901
* The start of major commercial production of peanut candy in 1901
* Introduction of a peanut picking machine in 1905
* Increased demand for peanut oil during World War I due to wartime shortages of other plant oils

Despite a common claim that Carver never tried to profit from his inventions, Carver did market a few of his peanut products. None was successful enough to sell for long. The Carver Penol Company sold a mixture of creosote and peanuts as a patent medicine for respiratory diseases such as tuberculosis. Other ventures were The Carver Products Company and the Carvoline Company. Carvoline Antiseptic Hair Dressing was a mix of peanut oil and lanolin. Carvoline Rubbing Oil was a peanut oil for massages. Carver received national publicity in the 1930s when he concluded that his peanut oil massage was a cure for polio. It was eventually determined that the massage produced the benefit, not the peanut oil. Carver had been a trainer for the Iowa State football team and was experienced in giving massages.
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Carver bulletins

During his over four decades at Tuskegee, Carver's official published work consisted mainly of 44 practical bulletins for farmers.[11] His first bulletin in 1898 was on feeding acorns to farm animals. His final bulletin in 1943 was about the peanut. He also published six bulletins on sweet potatoes, five on cotton and four on cowpeas. Some other individual bulletins dealt with alfalfa, wild plum, tomato, ornamental plants, corn, poultry, dairying, hogs, preserving meats in hot weather and nature study in schools.

His most popular bulletin, How to Grow the Peanut and 105 Ways of Preparing it for Human Consumption, was first published in 1916[12] and reprinted many times. It gave a short overview of peanut crop production but was mainly a list of recipes from other agricultural bulletins, cookbooks, magazines and newspapers, such as the Peerless Cookbook,Good Housekeeping and Berry's Fruit Recipes. Many people mistakenly believe that Carver created the 105 peanut recipes and that Carver was first to promote peanuts as a replacement crop for cotton. Carver's was far from the first American agricultural bulletin devoted to peanuts.[13][14][15][16][17] Nor was it the first agricultural bulletin on peanut recipes, since Mrs. Jessie P. Rich of the University of Texas published "Uses of the Peanut on the Home Table" in 1915.[18] It is notable that Carver's 1916 peanut bulletin did not mention any of the novel industrial uses for peanuts that he later advocated. His 1916 bulletin came right before U.S. peanut production peaked in 1917, and then declined. Peanut production did not reach the 1917 level again until 1927."

Funny joke: "In the 2002 movie Undercover Brother, Conspiracy Brother, played by comedian Dave Chappelle, laments how black people don't get credit for anything. To make his point, he claims, "Did you know that George Washington Carver made the first computer from a peanut?"

My word, Raggedy. This has not been one of my better days. I have spent entirely too much time trying to locate a volcano. <smile>

It has been forever since I watched "Cocoon". I think I recall Don Ameche doing a break dance. I need to check that out, gal. Thanks.

Ragman, Welcome back. Thanks for all the wonderful info on the peanut, and especially the contributions of George Washington Carver.

A computer out of a peanut? Love it!

Anyone remember this kid's song?

Found a peanut song


Found a peanut
Found a peanut
Found a peanut just now
Just now I found a peanut
Found a peanut just now.

Cracked it open
Cracked it open
Cracked it open just now.
Just now I cracked it open
Cracked it open just now

It was rotten
It was rotten
It was rotten just now.
Just now it was rotten
It was rotten just now.

Ate it anyway
Ate it anyway
Ate it anyway just now
Just now I ate it anyway
Ate it anyway just now.

Got a tummy ache
Got a tummy ache
Got a tummy ache just now
Just now I got a tummy ache
Got a tummy ache just now.

Went to the doctor
Went to the doctor
Went to the doctor just now
Just now I went to the doctor
Went to the doctor just now.

Had an operation
Had an operation
Had an operation just now
Just now I had an operation
Had an operation just now.

Died anyway
Died anyway
Die anyway just now
Just now I died anyway
Died anyway just now.

Got reincarnated
Got reincarnated
Got reincarnated just now
Just now I got reincarnated
Got reincarnated just now.

Found a peanut
Found a peanut
Found a peanut just now
Just now I found a peanut
Found a peanut just now.

Good afternoon all. Do you ever get that sinking feeling…

Loves Me Like A Rock
Paul Simon Lyrics


When I was a little boy
And the devil would call my name
I'd say "Now who do...who do you think you're foolin'?"
I'm a consecrated boy
A singer in a Sunday choir

Oh Mama loves me, she loves me
She get down on her knees and hugs me
Oh she loves me like a rock
She rocks me like a rock of ages
Oh loves me
She love me, love me, love me, love me

When I's grown to be a man
Hmm, and the devil would call my name
Say "Now who do...who do you think you're foolin'?"
I'm a consummated man
I can snatch a little purity

My Mama loves me, she loves me
She get down on her knees and hugs me
Oh she loved me like a rock
She rocked me like a rock of ages
She loves me
She love me, love me, love me, love me

If I was the President
Hmm, and the Congress call my name
I'd say now "Who do...who do you think you're foolin'?"
I've got the Presidential Seal
I'm up on the Presidential Podium

Mama loves me, she loves me
She get down on her knees and hugs me
Oh she loved me like a rock
She rocked me like the rock of ages
She loves me
She love me, love me, love me, love me

She love me, love me, love me, love me
She love me, love me, love me, love me
Wo wo
Na na na na na na na
Oo oo
Loves me like a rock

Well, there's our Try, listeners. Ah, buddy, I know that song, and here's a different kind of rock singing from Germany


The Lorelei

I do not know what it means,
That I am so sadly inclined;
A fairy tale of old, it seems,
preoccupies my mind.

The air is cool and darkening,
And peacefully flows the Rhine,
The mountain top is sparkling,
The twilight sunbeams shine.

The fairest maid is reclining,
In wondrous beauty up there;
Her golden jewels are shining,
She combs her golden hair.

She combs it with a golden comb,
And therewith sings a song;
It casts a spell on the gloaming,
Melodious and strong.

The boatman in his little boat
is seized by wild delights;
He looks not upon the rocks,
looks only up to wondrous heights.

Both vessel and man before long
By the waves to their ends were flung;
And none of this if not for the song
The Lorelei had sung.

dan hill is looking for canada !
dan , we are right next to the north-pole !
hbg

DAN HILL Song Lyrics

Canada
(From the album "HOLD ON")

Fancy hotel rooms
Windows with a view
Staring into nothing
I thought I saw you
Your colours dancing in my mind
But they were only neon signs
Oh Canada
I'm trying to find you
Will you wait for me.

There's people on the street
I know I'll never meet
I wonder what they're thinking
What their dreams are
But they just keep on walking by
I can see the questions in their eyes
Oh Canada
You're a tree among towers
Just starting to climb
Please don't grow too quickly now
Don't leave us all behind

Pages of progress start to turn
Too quickly and the pages burn
Let's hope that we don't learn - too late
Let's hope it's never too late to learn
No don't let the madness wash you way.

Life keeps rolling by
Before it goes I'll try
To be stronger - to be wiser
Maybe just understand
What makes people fight to survive
While by themselves they slowly sigh

Oh Canada -
Where are you going
Will you wait for me
Oh Canada
I'm trying to find you
Will you wait for me