One of my favorite songs by The Kingston Trio is Raspberries, Strawberries. I could not find their version, but, here is Bud and Travis on it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru2_Wq_ZVAs
Don't know Bud and Travis, edgar, nor could I find the Kingston Trio doing that version of Rasberries Strawberries, but I did find this, and it seems to match your song, but I think The Kingston Trio didn't quite get the French right.
Spoken: A young man goes to Paris, as every young man should. There's something in the air of France that does a young man good.
Chorus: On the album, Dave sings the beginning of the chorus in phonetic French. Actual French is as follows: Ah! les fraises et les fromboises et les bon vins [que] nous avons bus.
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la. Raspberries, strawberries, the good wines we brew.
Here's to the girls of the countryside, the ones we drink 'em to.
Spoken: Paris nights are warm and fair. The summer winds are soft. A young man finds the face of love in every field and loft.
In every field and loft.
(Chorus)
Spoken: An old man returns to Paris as ev'ry old man must. He finds the winter winds blow cold. His dreams have turned to dust.
His dreams have turned to dust. His dreams have turned to dust.
Ah! les fraises et les fromboises et les bon vins que nous avons bus.
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la. Raspberries, strawberries, the good wines we brew.
Here's to the girls of the countryside, whom we must bid adieu.
One of my favorites by The Kingston Trio, folks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htBR3imbFfI&feature=related
I recently came into a compilation album of most of the Trio's recordings. Noticeably absent was one they did in the early 60s, called, Coplas. It was a take-off on Mexican jokes, which is no longer acceptable humor. It took days to get through every song. Another of my favorites is this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFG1isS6ss8
I love that song, edgar. Guess we all have to walk that lonesome valley by ourselves, Texas.
Time for this monkey to say goodnight.
Here's my goodnight song. Leonard Cohen totally fascinates me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf36v0epfmI
From Letty with love
Leonard Cohen has written two novels: The Favorite Game and Beautiful Losers. Taken from Beautiful Losers is this passage, composed and recorded by Buffy Sainte-Marie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhmeroR20lc
Good morning, WA2K folks.
edgar, that song by Buffy was eerie but lovely. I especially liked the background. Thanks, Texas.
Well my goodness. There's the big island man back. Loved the reggae, M.D. and I hope all is well in Hawaii.
So, I got up and stood up and now I'm sitting again. <smile>
Watched a really good movie last evening called Conspiracy Theory with Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts. Had a surprise ending, all.
Here is one from that movie that I had forgotten.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g-2JqVCubM&feature=related
Harry Carey, Jr.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born May 16, 1921 (age 87)
Saugus, California
Harry Carey, Jr. (born Henry G. Carey; May 16, 1921) is an American film actor. He appeared in over 90 films. He is mostly remembered for appearing in Western films and television programs.[1][2]
Biography
Early life
Carey, Jr. was born in Saugus, California, the son of acclaimed actor Harry Carey (1878-1947) and actress Olive Fuller Golden (1896-1988). As a boy he was nicknamed "Dobe" (short for "adobe", from the color of his hair), by which he is still known to family, friends, and a large number of fans.
Career
A respected character actor, like his father, he acted in a large number of Western genre films. They both appeared together in the acclaimed 1948 film, Red River, though they never shared a scene. Harry Carey, Jr. served with the United States Navy during World War II.[1][2] Carey made four films with acclaimed film director Howard Hawks: Red River (1948), Monkey Business (1952), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), and Rio Bravo (1959).[1][2]
He also made 10 movies with actor John Wayne, starting with Red River and ending with Cahill U.S. Marshal (1973).[1][2]
Carey was a good friend of, and frequent collaborator with, noted Western film director John Ford. Carey became a regular in what is commonly called the John Ford Stock Company. He appeared in such notable Ford films as: 3 Godfathers (1948); She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949); Wagon Master (1950); Rio Grande (1950); The Long Gray Line (1955); Mister Roberts (1955); The Searchers (1956); Two Rode Together (1961); and Ford's last movie, Cheyenne Autumn (1964). He would later write a book about the Ford "stock company" called: "Company of Heroes: My Life As An Actor in the John Ford Stock Company".[1][2]
In the 1950s, he became familiar to youthful television audiences in the starring role of ranch counselor "Bill Burnett" on the hit serials Spin and Marty, seen on Walt Disney's celebrated Mickey Mouse Club between 1955 and 1957. In the 1960s, Harry Jr. moved into more television work, appearing on such shows as Have Gun - Will Travel, Wagon Train (based on the film Wagon Master), Bonanza, The Wonderful World of Disney, and Gunsmoke.[1][2]
A DVD version of the Adventures of Spin & Marty was released in December 2005 as part of the fifth wave of the Walt Disney Treasures series. On the 50th anniversary of the serial's premiere, Carey is interviewed by Leonard Maltin as a DVD bonus feature about his experiences shooting the hit series.
For his contribution to the television industry, Harry Carey Jr. has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6363 Vine Street. In 2003, he was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.[2]
Carey's new series Tales From The Set aka Horse Tales debuted at the EPONA Festival in France Oct 11-14th, 2007. The series is directed by Clyde Lucas.[1]
Pierce Brosnan
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Born Pierce Brendan Brosnan
May 16, 1953 (1953-05-16) (age 55)
Drogheda, Co. Louth, Republic of Ireland
Years active 1980-present
Spouse(s) Cassandra Harris
(1980-1991)
Keely Shaye Smith
(2001-present)
Official website
Awards won
Irish Film and Television Awards
2004 Outstanding Irish Contribution to Cinema
Other Awards
Saturn Award for Best Actor (film)
1997 Tomorrow Never Dies
Empire Award for Best Actor
1999 The World Is Not Enough
Pierce Brendan Brosnan, OBE (born May 16, 1953) is an Irish-American actor, film producer and environmentalist. After leaving school at 16, Brosnan began training in commercial illustration, but later attended drama school in London for three years. Following a stage acting career he rose to popularity in the television series Remington Steele.
Brosnan portrayed the secret agent James Bond in GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day. He also provided his voice and likeness to Bond in the video game James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing. In 1996, he formed, along with Beau St. Clair, a Los Angeles-based production company named Irish DreamTime. He was married to Cassandra Harris until her death, and is now married to Keely Shaye Smith.
Since leaving the role of James Bond, Brosnan has starred in films such as Evelyn and Seraphim Falls. He became an American citizen in 2004. In his later years, he has been known for his charitable work and environmental activism. As of today, he is working on the projects Mamma Mia!, The Thomas Crown Affair 2, Caitlin and The Big Biazarro.
Early life
Brosnan was born May 16, 1953 to a carpenter Thomas, and May (née Smith) in Navan, County Meath. He was educated in a local school run by the De La Salle Brothers. Brosnan's mother moved to London to work as a nurse after his father had abandoned the family. She left him with her parents, Philip and Kathleen Smith.[1] Brosnan left Ireland on August 12, 1964 and was reunited with his mother and her new husband, a British World War II veteran, William Carmichael.[2][3]
Brosnan quickly embraced his mother's new husband as a father figure.[2] Carmichael took Brosnan to see a James Bond film for the first time (Goldfinger).[4] Brosnan was educated at Elliott School, a state secondary modern school in Putney, West London.[5] When he attended school, his nickname was "Irish".[6] After leaving school at 16, he decided to be a painter and began training in commercial illustration at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design.[7]
At the Oval House in 1969, he came in a workshop to rehearse. A fire eater was teaching women how to put the flames across the chest and they had their tops off. So he thought he'd join in and learnt how to fire-eat.[8] A circus agent saw him busking and hired him for three years.[1] He later trained for three years as an actor at the Drama Centre in London.[9]
Early career
After graduating from the Drama Centre in 1975, Brosnan began working as an acting assistant stage manager at the York Theatre Royal, making his acting debut in Wait Until Dark. Within six months, he was selected by playwright Tennessee Williams to play the role of McCabe in the British première of The Red Devil Battery Sign.[10] His performance caused a stir in London and Brosnan still has the telegram sent by Williams, stating only "Thank God for you, my dear boy".[11] He continued his career making brief appearances in films such as The Long Good Friday (1980) and The Mirror Crack'd (1980), as well as early television performances in The Professionals, Murphy's Stroke, and Play for Today. He became a television star in the United States with his leading role in the popular miniseries Manions of America.[12] He followed this with his 1982 Masterpiece Theatre documentary that chronicled the life of Lady Nancy Astor - the first woman to sit in British Parliament. His portrayal of the love-deprived Robert Gould Shaw II garnered him a 1985 Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.[13]
In 1982, Brosnan rose to popularity in the United States playing the ruggedly handsome title role in the NBC romantic detective series Remington Steele, starring opposite Stephanie Zimbalist as agency creator Laura Holt.[2] The Washington Post noted that same year that "Pierce Brosnan could make it as a young James Bond."[14] After Remington Steele ended in 1987, Brosnan went on to appear in several films, including The Fourth Protocol (1987), a Cold War thriller in which he starred alongside Michael Caine, The Deceivers (1988) and The Lawnmower Man (1992). In 1992, he shot a pilot for NBC called Running Wilde, playing a reporter for Auto World magazine. Jennifer Love Hewitt played his daughter, but the pilot never aired.[15] In 1993 he played a supporting role in the comedy film Mrs Doubtfire. He also appeared in several television films, including Death Train (1993) and Night Watch (1995), a Hong Kong-set spy thriller.
James Bond
Brosnan's first met James Bond films producer Albert R. Broccoli on the sets of For Your Eyes Only. Broccoli said, "if he can act
he's my guy."[14] It was reported by both Entertainment Tonight and the National Enquirer, that Brosnan was going to inherit another role of Moore's, that of The Saint, Simon Templar.[14] Brosnan turned down the rumours in July 1993 but added, "it's still languishing there on someone's desk in Hollywood."[16]
In 1986, Timothy Dalton was approached for the Bond role; his involvement with the 1986 film adaptation of Brenda Starr kept Dalton from being able to accept it. A number of actors were then screen-tested for the role - notably Sam Neill - but were ultimately passed over by producer Albert Broccoli.[17] Remington Steele was about to end, so Brosnan was offered the role, but the publicity revived Remington Steele and Brosnan had to decline the role of James Bond, owing to his contract.[14]
By then, Dalton had become available again, and he accepted the role for The Living Daylights (1987), which was a box-office success. His second turn, License to Kill (1989) was a disappointment at the American box office, and legal squabbles about ownership of the film franchise resulted in the cancellation of a proposed third Dalton film in 1991 (rumoured title: The Property of a Lady)[18] and put the series on a hiatus, which lasted six years. GoldenEye was originally written with Dalton as Bond, but he turned it down. On June 7, 1994, Brosnan was announced as the fifth actor to play Bond.[14]
Brosnan was signed for a three-film deal with the option of a fourth. He first appeared as Bond in 1995's GoldenEye to much critical praise. Critic James Berardinelli described him as "a decided improvement over his immediate predecessor" with a "flair for wit to go along with his natural charm."[19] GoldenEye grossed US $350 million worldwide.[20] It had the fourth highest worldwide gross of any film in 1995.[21] It was the most successful Bond film at that time.[22]
In 1996, Brosnan formed a film production company entitled "Irish DreamTime" along with producing partner Beau St. Clair. Three years later the company's first studio project, The Thomas Crown Affair, was released and met both critical and box-office success.[23] Brosnan returned in 1997's Tomorrow Never Dies and 1999's The World Is Not Enough, which were also successful. In 2002, Brosnan appeared for his fourth time as Bond in Die Another Day. During the promotion, he mentioned that he would like to continue his role as James Bond: "I'd like to do another, sure. Connery did six. Six would be a number, then never come back."[24]
Brosnan asked EON Productions when accepting the role, to be allowed to work on other projects between Bond films. The request was granted, and for every Bond film, Brosnan appeared in at least two other mainstream films, including several he produced.[6] Brosnan played a wide range of roles in between his Bond film appearances, ranging from a scientist in Tim Burton's Mars Attacks!, to a volcanologist in Dante's Peak and the title role in Grey Owl, a biopic about Englishman Archibald Stansfeld Belaney who adopted the Ojibwa name Grey Owl and become one of Canada's first conservationists.
Shortly after the release of Die Another Day, the media began questioning whether or not Brosnan would reprise the role for a fifth time. Brosnan kept in mind that both aficionados and critics were unhappy with Roger Moore playing the role until he was 58, but he was receiving popular support from both critics and the franchise fanbase for a fifth installment. For this reason, he remained enthusiastic about reprising his role.[25]
Throughout 2004, it was rumored that negotiations had broken down between Brosnan and the producers to make way for a new and younger actor.[26] This was denied by MGM and EON Productions. In July 2004, Brosnan announced that he was quitting the role, stating "Bond is another lifetime, behind me"; this is thought by some to be a failed negotiating ploy.[27] In October 2004, Brosnan said he considered himself dismissed from the role.[28] Although Brosnan had been rumoured frequently as still in the running to play 007, he had denied it several times, and in February 2005 he posted on his website that he was finished with the role.[29] Daniel Craig took over the role on October 14, 2005.[30] In an interview with The Globe and Mail, Brosnan was asked what he thought of Craig as the new James Bond. He replied, "I'm looking forward to it like we're all looking forward to it. Daniel Craig is a great actor and he's going to do a fantastic job".[31] He reaffirmed this support in an interview to the International Herald Tribune, stating that "[Craig's] on his way to becoming a memorable Bond."[32]
During his tenure on the James Bond films, Brosnan also took part in James Bond video games. In 2002, Brosnan's likeness was used as the face of Bond in the James Bond video game Nightfire (voiced by Maxwell Caulfield). In 2004, Brosnan starred in the Bond game Everything or Nothing, contracting for his likeness to be used as well as doing the voice-work for the character.[33]
Post-James Bond career
In July 2003, Queen Elizabeth II awarded Brosnan an honorary OBE for his "outstanding contribution to the British film industry".[34] As an Irish citizen, he is ineligible to receive the full OBE honour, which is awarded only to a citizen of Britain or of one of the Commonwealth of Nations member countries. In 2002, Brosnan was also awarded an Honorary degree from the Dublin Institute of Technology[35] and, one year later, the University College Cork.[36]
On September 23, 2004, Brosnan became a citizen of the United States, but has retained his Irish citizenship. Brosnan said that "my Irishness is in everything I do. It's the spirit of who I am, as a man, an actor, a father. It's where I come from."[24] Brosnan was asked by a fan if it annoyed him when people get his nationality confused. He said: "It amuses me in some respects that they should confuse me with an Englishman when I'm dyed-in-the-wool, born and bred Irishman...I don't necessarily fly under any flag. But no, it doesn't bother me."[37]
Brosnan's first post-Bond role was that of Daniel Rafferty in 2004's Laws of Attraction. Garreth Murphy, of entertainment.ie, described Brosnan's performance as "surprisingly effective, gently riffing off his James Bond persona and supplementing it with a raffish energy".[38] In the same year, Brosnan starred in After the Sunset alongside Salma Hayek and Woody Harrelson. The film elicited generally negative reviews and a 17% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.[39] Brosnan's next film was 2005's The Matador. He starred as Julian Noble, a jaded and paunchy assassin who meets a travelling salesman (Greg Kinnear) in a Mexican bar. The film was better received than After the Sunset and garnered more positive reviews.[40] Roger Ebert for the Chicago Sun-Times called Brosnan's performance the best of his career.[41] Brosnan was nominated for a Golden Globe award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy but lost to Joaquin Phoenix for Walk the Line.[42]
Brosnan's first film of 2007 was Seraphim Falls, in which he starred alongside fellow Irishman Liam Neeson. The film was released for limited screenings on January 26, 2007 to average reviews. Kevin Crust of the Los Angeles Times noted that Brosnan and Neeson made "fine adversaries;"[43] Michael Rechtshaffen of The Hollywood Reporter thought that they were "hard-pressed to inject some much-needed vitality into their sparse lines."[44]
Pre-production has started on The Thomas Crown Affair 2, the sequel to the 1999 film The Thomas Crown Affair. The sequel, directed by Dutch director Paul Verhoeven,[45] will use Eric Ambler's novel The Light of Day and the 1964 adaptation, Topkapi as a basis.[46] In December 2005, Brosnan was reported to be attached to star in The November Man, an adaptation of Bill Grainger's novel, There Are No Spies,[47] but the project was cancelled in 2007. Brosnan will also be financially backing Caitlin, a film about Caitlin MacNamara, wife of poet Dylan Thomas.[48] The title role will be played by Miranda Richardson and Brosnan will have a small part as Thomas's literary agent, John Brinnin. Brosnan's co-star in Die Another Day, Rosamund Pike, will also appear.[49] Also in 2008, Brosnan will join Meryl Streep in a film adaption of the ABBA musical Mamma Mia!.[50] He will play Sam Carmichael, one of three men rumoured to be the father of lead Amanda Seyfried. Streep will play her mother.[51] Judy Craymer, producer to the film, said "Pierce brings a certain smooch factor, and we think he'll have great chemistry with Meryl in a romantic comedy."[52] He will also narrate the cartoon Thomas The Tank Engine.[53]
In 2009, Brosnan will star in The Big Biazarro, directed by Vondie Curtis-Hall. The film is an adaptation of the Leonard Wise novel of the same name. He plays a card player who mentors a headstrong protégé.[54] Brosnan has also spoke recently of making a Western film with fellow Irishmen Gabriel Byrne and Colm Meaney.[55] Brosnan is also set to narrate "all English language versions of the brand" including seasons 12-14 of Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends, replacing Michael Brandon in North America and Michael Angelis in the United Kingdom.[56] Actor and director Danny DeVito has stated that Brosnan will join Dakota Fanning and Morgan Freeman in his adaptation of the 1990 novel The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle. He will play "Zachariah, the ship's cook, surgeon, and carpenter."[57][58]
Personal life
Brosnan married Australian actress Cassandra Harris in 1980 and adopted her two children, Charlotte (born 27 November 1971) and Christopher (born October 6, 1972) after their father died in 1986.[59] Brosnan and Harris had one son together, Sean (birth 13 September 1983). Harris died of ovarian cancer in 1991.[60] In 2001, Brosnan married American journalist Keely Shaye Smith,[61] and they have two sons together, Dylan Thomas Brosnan (birth 13 January 1997) and Paris Beckett Brosnan (birth 27 February 2001).[1]
Brosnan supported John Kerry in the 2004 Presidential election and is a vocal supporter of gun control and same-sex marriage.[62] An outspoken environmentalist,[63] Brosnan was named 'Best-dressed Environmentalist' in 2004 by the Sustainable Style Foundation.[64] Brosnan first became aware of nuclear disarmament at the age of nine when worldwide condemnation of the 1962 U.S. nuclear tests in Nevada headlined international news.[65] During the 1990s, he participated in news conferences in Washington, D.C. to help Greenpeace draw attention to the issue.[65] Brosnan boycotted the French GoldenEye premiere to support Greenpeace's protest against the French nuclear testing program.[66] From 1997 to 2000, Brosnan and wife Smith worked with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) to stop a proposed salt factory from being built at Laguna San Ignacio.[67] The couple with Halle Berry, Cindy Crawford and Daryl Hannah successfully fought the Cabrillo Port Liquefied Natural Gas facility that was proposed off the coast of Malibu and would cause damage to the marine life there; the State Lands Commission eventually denied the lease to build the terminal.[68] Brosnan is also listed as a member of the Sea Shepherd's Board of Advisors.[69]
Brosnan also raises money for charitable causes through sales of his paintings. He trained early on as an artist, but later shifted to theatre; during his first wife's terminal illness, he withdrew from acting to be with her and took up painting again for therapeutic reasons, producing colorful landscapes and family portraits. He has continued painting since then, using spare time on set and at home. Profits from sales of giclée prints of his works are given to a trust to benefit "environmental, children's and women's health charities."[70] Since Harris's death, Brosnan has been an advocate for cancer awareness and, in 2006, he served as spokesperson for Lee National Denim Day, a breast cancer fundraiser which raises millions of dollars and raises more money in a single day than any other breast cancer fundraiser.[71]
In May 2007, Brosnan and Smith donated $100,000 to help replace a playground on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, where they own a home.[72] On 7 July 2007, Brosnan presented a film at Live Earth in London.[73] He also recorded a television advertisement for the cause.[74]
Debra Winger
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Born Mary Debra Winger
May 16, 1955 (1955-05-16) (age 53)
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
Spouse(s) Timothy Hutton (1986-1990)
Arliss Howard (1996-)
Debra Winger (born May 16, 1955) is an Academy Award- nominated American actress.
Biography
Early life
Born Mary Debra Winger in Cleveland Heights, Ohio to a Jewish family. In the early 1970s she spent several years volunteering in a Kibbutz in Israel and serving in the Israel Defense Forces. After returning to the United States, she was involved in an automobile accident and suffered a cerebral hemorrhage as a result. She was left partially paralyzed and blind for ten months, although she was initially told that she would never see again. With time on her hands to think about her life, she decided that, if she recovered, she would move to California and become an actress.
Career
Her first acting role was as "Debbie" in the 1976 sexploitation film Slumber Party '57. Her next role was as Diana Prince's younger sister Drusilla (Wonder Girl) in the Wonder Woman television series.
Winger got her first starring role in Urban Cowboy in 1980, opposite John Travolta, for which she received a BAFTA award nomination. In 1982, she co-starred with Nick Nolte in Cannery Row and opposite Richard Gere in An Officer and a Gentleman, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Her voice, digitally altered, was used by Steven Spielberg as that of the extra-terrestrial E.T. in (1982) though she was not credited in the film.[citation needed]
Her acting work has received critical acclaim. Winger was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress twice more: for Terms of Endearment in 1983, and for Shadowlands 1993, for which she also received her second BAFTA award nomination.
In 1995, Winger turned 40 and began a hiatus from the film industry, during which she spent a semester as a teaching fellow at Harvard University. In 2001, a critically acclaimed documentary film titled Searching for Debra Winger was made by Rosanna Arquette and released in 2002 after Winger returned to performing.
Other films include Legal Eagles, Made in Heaven, Everybody Wins, The Sheltering Sky, Leap of Faith, Black Widow, Betrayed, Wilder Napalm, A Dangerous Woman and Sometimes in April. She earned an Emmy Award nomination for her title role in the television film Dawn Anna in 2005, directed by her second husband, Arliss Howard.
In 1995, Winger performed in The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True a musical performance of the popular story at Lincoln Center to benefit the Children's Defense Fund. The performance was originally broadcast on Turner Network Television (TNT), and issued on CD and video in 1996.
Personal life
From 1986 to 1990 she was married to actor Timothy Hutton and is currently married (since 1996) to actor Arliss Howard, and has a son from each marriage: Noah Hutton (born in 1987) and Babe Howard (born in 1997). She dated Bob Kerrey, at the time the Governor of Nebraska, while filming Terms of Endearment in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Outrageous lying
A police officer pulls a guy over for speeding and has the following exchange:
Officer: May I see your driver's license?
Driver: I don't have one. I had it suspended when I got my 5th DUI.
Officer: May I see the owner's card for this vehicle?
Driver: It's not my car. I stole it.
Officer: The car is stolen?
Driver: That's right. But come to think of it, I think I saw the owner's card in the glove box when I was putting my gun in there.
Officer: There's a gun in the glove box?
Driver: Yes sir. That's where I put it after I shot and killed the woman who owns this car and stuffed her in the trunk.
Officer: There's a BODY in the TRUNK?!?!?
Driver: Yes, sir.
Hearing this, the officer immediately called his captain.
The car was quickly surrounded by police, and the captain approached the driver to handle the tense situation:
Captain: Sir, can I see your license?
Driver: Sure. Here it is.
It was valid.
Captain: Who's car is this?
Driver: It's mine, officer. Here's the owner' card.
The driver owned the car.
Captain: Could you slowly open your glove box so I can see if there's a gun in it?
Driver: Yes, sir, but there's no gun in it.
Sure enough, there was nothing in the glove box.
Captain: Would you mind opening your trunk? I was told you said there's a body in it.
Driver: No problem.
Trunk is opened; no body.
Captain: I don't understand it. The officer who stopped you said you told him you didn't have a license, stole the car, had a gun in the glovebox, and that there was a dead body in the trunk.
Driver: Yeah, I'll bet the liar told you I was speeding, too
Wish I were as creative as the guy who wormed his way out of the speeding ticket, Bob. Thanks for the great bio's.
Hey, puppy, wonderful sextet today, and I am amazed at how many famous folks you have met.
Here's a tribute to Henry Fonda, y'all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wmg6Gvn8FnA&feature=related
My favorite was Once Upon a Time in the West.
Here's one song I like, only a bit twisted :
I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear
I like my toast done on one side
And you can hear it in my accent when I talk
I'm a Frenchman in New York
See me walking down Fifth Avenue
A walking cane here at my side
I take it everywhere I walk
I'm a Frenchman in New York
I'm an alien I'm a legal alien
I'm a Frenchman in New York
I'm an alien I'm a legal alien
I'm a Frenchman in New York
If, "Manners maketh man" as someone said
Then he's the hero of the day
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile
Be yourself no matter what they say
I'm an alien I'm a legal alien
I'm a Frenchman in New York
I'm an alien I'm a legal alien
I'm a Frenchman in New York
Modesty, propriety can lead to notoriety
You could end up as the only one
Gentleness, sobriety are rare in this society
At night a candle's brighter than the sun
Takes more than combat gear to make a man
Takes more than a license for a gun
Confront your enemies, avoid them when you can
A gentleman will walk but never run
If, "Manners maketh man" as someone said
Then he's the hero of the day
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile
Be yourself no matter what they say
I'm an alien I'm a legal alien
I'm a Frenchman in New York
I'm an alien I'm a legal alien
I'm a Frenchman in New York
Welcome back, Francis. Is that a poem or a song? I like it, especially the line, "Be yourself no matter what they say". Thank you.
Here's another by Jimmy Buffet and it's not available on YouTube either.
Jimmy Buffett - A Frenchman For The Night
From his driftwood castle
Comes a song I've heard before
A scratchy gramophone cuts to the bone
"La Vie En Rose" arpeggios
So the dream begins
And the song is amplified
Buy the Beaujolais, on Bastille day
He dances in the tide
By the light of the moon
He's a Frenchman for the night
By the light of the moon
It'll be all right
Well it takes him back
To the days of love and war
And the girl he knew with eyes of blue
Waiting on the shore
If he'd only known
How the years would fly on by
Such a simple crime, he's run out of time
So he reaches for the sky
By the light of the moon
He's a Frenchman for the night
By the light of the moon
It'll be all right
Blame it on the Champs Elysees
Blame it on a tune
Blame it on the stroke of Monet
But you can't escape the moon
He sees the stars above
As the floor to heavens light
While the angels taunt "C'est une nuit blanche"
He's a Frenchman for the night
By the light of the moon
He's a Frenchman for the night
By the light of the moon
It'll be all right
From a driftwood castle
Comes a song I've heard before
A scratchy gramophone cuts to the bone
"La Vie En Rose" arpeggios
