WA2K Radio is now on the air

I love Lake Woe-be-gone. Used to refer to BoGoWo of Toronto as Bo-Be-gone.

Since many of us here have trouble reading the links due to happenstance and circumstance, we must check them later.

Raggedy, I particularly tuned in to Chris Evert, because I once compared Margo of Australia to that gal.

Time for some music whilst we get caught up on our articles and book reviews.

"Little Saint Nick" (Single Version)
Brian Wilson
Oooooooo
Merry Christmas Saint Nick
Christmas comes this time each year
Oooooooo oooooooo

Well, way up north where the air gets cold
There's a tale about Christmas that you've all been told
And a real famous cat all dressed up in red
And he spends the whole year workin' out on his sled

It's the little Saint Nick
Ooooo, little Saint Nick
It's the little Saint Nick
Ooooo, little Saint Nick

Just a little bobsled we call it old Saint Nick
But she'll walk a toboggan with a four speed stick
She's candy-apple red with a ski for a wheel
And when Santa hits the gas, man, just watch her peel

It's the little Saint Nick
Ooooo, little Saint Nick
It's the little Saint Nick
Ooooo, little Saint Nick

Run run reindeer
Run run reindeer
Whoaa
Run run reindeer
Run run reindeer

He don't miss no one

And haulin' through the snow at a frightenin' speed
With a half a dozen deer with Rudy to lead
He's gotta wear his goggles 'cause the snow really flies
And he's cruisin' every pad with a little surprise

It's the little Saint Nick
Ooooo, little Saint Nick
It's the little Saint Nick
Ooooo, little Saint Nick

Ahhhhhh
Oooooooo
Merry Christmas Saint Nick
Christmas comes this time each year

Ahhhhhh
Oooooooo
Merry Christmas Saint Nick
Christmas comes this time each year

Ahhhhhh
Oooooooo
Merry Christmas Saint Nick
Christmas comes this time each year

Ahhhhhh
Oooooooo
Merry Christmas Saint Nick
Christmas comes this time each year

Back later,listeners

December 22 Birthday people:

Lady Bird Johnson is 92? Happy Birthday Lady Bird:


1696 James Oglethorpe, English general and colonizer of Georgia (London, England; died 1785)
1858 Giacomo Puccini, opera composer (Tuscany, Italy; died 1924)
1869 Edwin Arlington Robinson, poet (Head Tide, ME; died 1935)
1907 Peggy Ashcroft, actress (Croyden, England; died 1991)
1912 Lady Bird Johnson, first lady of the United States (Karnack, TX)
1922 Barbara Billingsley, actress (Los Angeles, CA)
1936 Hector Elizondo, actor (New York, NY)
1944 Steve Carlton, baseball pitcher (Miami, FL)
1945 Diane Sawyer, TV journalist (Glasgow, KY)
1948 Steve Garvey, baseball player (Tampa, FL)
1949 Maurice Gibb, singer/musician and member of the Bee Gees (Manchester, England)
Robin Gibb, singer/musician and member of the Bee Gees (Manchester, England)
1951 Jan Stephenson, golfer (Sydney, Australia)
1962 Ralph Fiennes, actor (Suffolk, England)

Lady Bird Johnson? WOW! Happy Birthday indeed.

Well, listeners, Raggedy has once again touched a nerve with her reference to E.A. Robinson, one of our favorite poets. Shades of Dicken's Scrooge. (sorry for the gap, listeners)










Aaron Stark

Withal a meagre man was Aaron Stark, --
Cursed and unkempt, shrewd, shrivelled, and morose.
A miser was he, with a miser's nose,
And eyes like little dollars in the dark.
His thin, pinched mouth was nothing but a mark;
And when he spoke there came like sullen blows
Through scattered fangs a few snarled words and close,
As if a cur were chary of its bark.

Glad for the murmur of his hard renown,
Year after year he shambled through the town, --
A loveless exile moving with a staff;
And oftentimes there crept into his ears
A sound of alien pity, touched with tears, --
And then (and only then) did Aaron laugh.

-- Edwin Arlington Robinson

Sorry, radio fans, but this one requires some use of your visual abilities. Amusing to say the least.

http://www.dslextreme.com/users/exstatica/psychic.swf

sham!

C.I. I don't get it. I followed the instructions, got 45; thinking of the slivered moon with the star to my right; hit the crystal ball, and it said try again.

I have to add another birthday girl for December 22:

Our very own A2K RAE

Happy Birthday!

Ya gotta get the math right too, you know! LOL

Arthur Godfrey
Begins on radio, becomes a phenomenon on television, ends up back on radio all but forgotten.

Hey, dys,

Herb Harari




If I could shammy like my sister Kate
Shake it like jelly on a plate
My mama wanted to know last night
How sister Kate could do it oh so nice
Now, all the boys in the neighborhood
Knew Kate could shimmy, and it's mighty good
I may be late but I'll be up to date
When I can shammy like my sister Kate.
I mean, shake it like my sister Kate.

Now if I could shake it like my sister Kate,
Never stay home, stay out too late
I get my stuff about as high as a kite
You know I do it for you every night.
Now, all the boys in the neighborhood
Knew Kate could shammy, and it's mighty good
I know I'm late but I'll be up to date
When I can shammy like my sister Kate.
I mean, shake it like my sister Kate.

damn C.I. I have to add AND subtract?

That's the plus and minus of that test.

edgar, Egads, Godfrey? I used to play tenor ukulele. Honest, listeners.

Urs. Thank whatever powers that be for a reminder about Rae.

Here's a birthday wish for my surrogate godchild:

Let's here it listeners:

A Hip and a hip and hooray
for our sweet and our dear Cocoa Rae.

and C.I. I forgot my abacus.

What's tha minimum number of rows and slides needed to count up to 99 in an abucus?

with or without batteries?

Totally made of wood and without batteries.

version of the abacus is a limited simulation of the real device because the fingering technique is completely obfuscated by the mouse. With a real abacus, constant practice is indispensable in achieving virtuosity and calculating speed.



The Abacus Today: A store clerk in Beijing, China uses the abacus to settle accounts. (Sep. 1997, courtesy Peter Wouda)

The Abacus Today
The abacus is still in use today by shopkeepers in Asia and "Chinatowns" in North America. The use of the abacus is still taught in Asian schools, and some few schools in the West. Blind children are taught to use the abacus where their sighted counterparts would be taught to use paper and pencil to perform calculations.
One particular use for the abacus is teaching children simple mathematics and especially multiplication; the abacus is an excellent substitute for rote memorization of multiplication tables, a particularly detestable task for young children. The abacus is also an excellent tool for teaching other base numbering systems since it easily adapts itself to any base.

The enduring interest in this ancient device is evident by ever increasing number of visitors to these pages from all around the world.

SEE C-- I knew that answer.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, RAE

I've just received a request for a song dedicated to our dear Letty. And, I've agreed to play it on the air, now.

A do-dooooo. A do-dooooo.
I saw the splendor of the moonlight on Honolulu Bay.
There's something tender in the moonlight on Honolulu Bay.
And all the beaches are full of peaches
who bring their ukes along.
And in the glimmer of the moonlight
they love to sing this song.

If you like a ukulele lady,
ukulele lady like a you.
If you want to linger where it's shady,
ukulele lady linger too.
If you kiss a ukulele lady
while you promise ever to be true,
and she see another ukulele lady fool around with you.
Maybe she'll sigh, maybe she'll cry,
Maybe she'll find somebody else
by and by-y-y
to sing to when it's cool and shady,
where the tricky wicky wackies woo woo woo.
If you like a ukulele lady,
ukulele lady like a you.

Someday I'm goin'
where eyes are glowin'
and lips were made to kiss,
to see somebody in the moonlight
and hear the songs I missed.

If you like a ukulele lady,
ukulele lady like a you, you, you.
If you want to linger where it's shady,
ukulele lady linger too.
If you kiss a ukulele lady
while you promise ever to be true true, true,
and she see another ukulele lady fool around with you.
Well, maybe she will sigh, maybe she will cry,
aah, but maybe she will find somebody else
by and by-y-y
to sing to when it's cool and shady,
where the tricky wicky wackies woo woo woo.
If you like a ukulele lady,
ukulele lady like a you like a me like I like a you
we like a both the same.
I'd like to say this very day
ukulele lady like a you-ooo-oooo.

Ah, Raggedy. Thank your caller on behalf of Letty who is shuffling her feet and fiddling with her abacus.

This is your surrogate DJ who is going to spin a song for all those who are still tuned in to WA2K:

Two and two are four
Four and four are eight
Eight and eight are sixteen
Sixteen and sixteen are thirty-two
Inchworm, inchworm
Measuring the marigold
You and your arithmetic
You'll probably go far
Inchworm, inchworm
Measuring the marigold
Seems to me you'd stop and see
How beautiful they are

For Hans Christian Anderson and Danny Kaye.

Just received a phone call from a WA2K listener thanking Letty for airing one of her favorite songs.