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That was me, I am he,
Safely back across the sea.

Thank you, Walter, very much for my very own greetings poem, or was it a song? it looks as though it could be set to music.

We had a great reception from the cheering throng in the port of Newcastle when we arrived in the River Tyne yesterday afternoon. The Tall ships have gathered there for a festival. Picked up the pilot at midday and got our tugboats around 14:00- which was later than originally planned (7:00 am) When we eventually got the gangway fixed I had to dash to the train station unfortunately, couldn't hang around for the merrymaking, and got home finally about 9 pm.

Had a good time, lost some weight despite eating like a horse. May have had something to do with being awakened at 11.30 every night to stand the watch midnight to 04:00 (and again from midday to 16:00)

Hey fiddle-de-dee
A sailor's life for me

Hi, McT, good to see you!

Mick Jagger
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.


Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger (born 26 July 1943 in Dartford, Kent) is a British rock musician, actor, writer, composer, record and film producer and businessman. He is most famous for being the lead singer and co-founder (with guitarist Brian Jones) of the British rock and roll band The Rolling Stones. He is also the songwriting partner of Stones guitarist Keith Richards, and the pair have composed almost all the Rolling Stones' original material, as well as numerous songs for other artists including As Tears Go By (for Marianne Faithfull) and Out Of Time (for Chris Farlowe).


Biography

Early years

Jagger was born to Joe and Eva Jagger. He discovered early rock & roll music during his teenage years and formed the band Little Boy Blue & the Blue Boys. In his late teens, he met up with future Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, who he met when both attended the Dartford Maypole County Primary School. They started the band shortly thereafter, due to their mutual love of rock & roll and blues.

Jagger attended the London School of Economics. During the 1960s he was linked romantically with Chrissie Shrimpton, (the sister of supermodel Jean Shrimpton) and then with singer Marianne Faithfull, for whom Jagger and Richards composed several songs, including her signature tune, As Tears Go By. They remained a couple until late 1969, when Jagger and Faithfull traveled to Australia to star in the Tony Richardson film Ned Kelly. Soon after their arrival in Sydney, Faithfull overdosed on sleeping pills and almost died. The relationship was over by the time she was sent home to England to recuperate. Jagger then embarked on a series of liaisons, including rumoured dalliances with Richards' girlfriend at the time, Anita Pallenberg, and singers Merry Clayton and Marsha Hunt.


Drug controversy

In 1967 Jagger and Richards were arrested and charged with drug possession after a highly publicised raid on Richards' country house, during which it was alleged that Faithfull was found naked except for a fur rug wrapped around her. The raid was later revealed to have been prompted by a tip-off to the London Drug Squad by journalists working for Rupert Murdoch's News Of The World, which at the time was running a series of lurid reports about the alleged use of illegal drugs by British pop stars.

In one of these reports, Jagger was alleged to have spent an evening at a London club in the company of a Murdoch journalist, during which he openly discussed his drug-taking and invited others back to his flat "for a smoke." When the report was published, it became obvious that the hapless journalist had mistaken Brian Jones for Jagger -- who promptly sued News Of The World for defamation.

But this legal action was stymied by his and Richards' subsequent arrest. The trial made front-page news around the world. Despite Jagger having credible evidence that the pills allegedly found in his possession had been prescribed to him, both were found guilty.

The severity of the sentences handed down (imprisonment with hard labor) caused a huge public outcry. It was also the subject of the famous leader by William Rees-Mogg, editor of The Times. Titled "Who Breaks a Butterfly on a Wheel," Rees-Mogg asserted that it was Jagger's and Richards' celebrity that made them targets, and that their sentences for first offenses were more harsh than what "any purely anonymous young man" would have received. Their convictions were overturned on appeal, and they subsequently were released, though the other person arrested with them, noted London art dealer Robert Fraser, served six months.

Leader of the The Rolling Stones

It was during this period that Jagger took over as the effective leader of The Rolling Stones, as founder Brian Jones became more and more incapacitated by his spiralling drug use. Jones left the band in early 1969 and accidentally drowned in his swimming pool only weeks later (though rumours persist that he was murdered).

Children and marriage

Jagger's first child, Karis (by singer Marsha Hunt), was born in 1970. In May 1971 he married Bianca Perez Morena de Macias, and she gave birth to their daughter Jade later that same year, the same year the band released "Sticky Fingers," one of their most popular albums. Between 1990-1999, he was married to model/TV hostess Jerry Hall, and they had four more children, Elizabeth Scarlett, Georgia May Ayeesha, Gabriel Luke Beauegard and James Leroy Augustine Jagger. A brief affair with Brazilian model and TV presenter Luciana Gimenez resulted in the birth of Lucas Jagger (1999).

Films

Jagger appeared in films such as the Nicholas Roeg cult thriller "Performance (movie)" in 1970.

Today

After the band's acrimonious split with their second manager, Allen B. Klein, Jagger took control of the band's business affairs and has managed them ever since, in collaboration with his friend and colleague, Prince Rupert von Löwenstein.

He also has appeared in the following movies:

1. Mayor of the Sunset Strip, 2003
2. The Man from Elysian Fields, 2001
3. Enigma, 2001
4. Mein liebster Feind (aka My Best Fiend)- with Klaus Kinski 1999
5. Bent, 1997
6. Freejack, 1992
7. D Wings of Ash: Pilot for a Dramatization of the Life of Antonin Artaud 1978
8. Umano non umano 1972
9. Ned Kelly 1970
10. Performance 1970


Mick Jagger was knighted on 12 December 2003, for his "services to popular music" [1]. His fellow Rolling Stone Keith Richards was unimpressed. "I thought it was ludicrous to take one of those gongs from the establishment...it's not what the Stones is about, is it? I don't want to step out on stage with someone wearing a ******* coronet and sporting the old ermine. I told Mick, 'It's a ******* paltry honour.'" [2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Jagger

YOU CAN'T ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU WANT


I saw her today at the reception
A glass of wine in her hand
I knew she was gonna meet her connection
At her feet was a footloose man
You can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
But if you try sometimes well you might find
You get what you need
And I went down to the demonstration
To get my fair share of abuse
Singing, we're gonna vent our frustration
If we don't we're gonna blow a 50-amp fuse
You can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
But if you try sometimes well you just might find
You get what you need
I went down to the chelsea drugstore
To get your prescription filled
I was standing in line with mr. jimmy
And man, did he look pretty ill
We decided that we would have a soda
My favorite flavor, cherry red
I sung my song to mr. jimmy
Yeah, and he said one word to me, and that was dead
I said to him
You can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
But if you try sometimes you just might find
You get what you need
You get what you need--yeah, oh baby
I saw her today at the reception
In her glass was a bleeding man
She was practiced at the art of deception
Well I could tell by her blood-stained hands
You can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
But if you try sometimes you just might find
You just might find
You get what you need
You can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
But if you try sometimes you just might find
You just might find
You get what you need

George Bernard Shaw
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

George Bernard Shaw (July 26, 1856 - November 2, 1950) was an Irish playwright and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925.


Biography

Born in Dublin to Protestant parents, Shaw moved to London during the 1870s to embark on his literary career. He wrote five novels, all of which were rejected, before finding his first success as a music critic on the Star newspaper. Meanwhile he had become involved in politics, and served as a local councillor in the St Pancras district of London for several years from 1897. He was a noted socialist who took a leading role in the Fabian Society.

In 1895, he became the drama critic of the Saturday Review, and this was the first step in his progress towards a lifetime's work as a dramatist. In 1898, he married an Irish heiress, Charlotte Payne-Townshend. His first successful play, Candida, was produced in the same year. He followed this up with a series of classic comedy-dramas, including The Devil's Disciple (1897), Arms and the Man (1898), Mrs Warren's Profession (1898), Captain Brassbound's Conversion (1900), Man and Superman (1902), Caesar and Cleopatra (1901), Major Barbara (1905), Androcles and the Lion (1912), and Pygmalion (1913). After World War I, on which he took a controversial stance, he produced more serious dramas, including Heartbreak House (1919) and Saint Joan (1923). A characteristic of Shaw's published plays is the lengthy prefaces that accompany them. In these essays, Shaw wrote more about his usually controversial opinions on the issues touched by the plays than about the plays themselves. Some prefaces are much longer than the actual play.

Shaw's correspondence with Mrs. Patrick Campbell was adapted for the stage by Jerome Kilty as DEAR LIAR: A Comedy of Letters. His letters to another prominent actress, Ellen Terry, have also been published and dramatised.

By the time of his death, Shaw was not only a household name in Britain, but a world figure. His ironic wit endowed the language with the adjective "Shavian", to refer to such clever observations as "England and America are two countries divided by a common language." [1]

Despite the fact that he was a democratic socialist, in the 1930s Shaw approved of the dictatorship of Stalin and even made some ambiguous statements that could be interpreted as being pro-Hitler. In 1945 in his preface to his play Geneva Shaw claimed that the majority of the victims of the Nazi extermination camps had in fact died of "overcrowding". However, he also stated that Hitler had become a "mad messiah" over time: Shaw contrasted this with the situation in the Soviet Union where, according to Shaw, "Stalin... made good by doing things better and much more promptly than parliaments". Shaw also made numerous anti-semitic comments at this time, although the extent to which he was merely being ironic or provocative is unclear. His (un-ironic) pro-Stalin bias is undeniable, however, although it is rarely commented on in discussions of his work. Perhaps the kindest way of looking at Shaw's political position is that he remained in many ways an Edwardian who never fully understood the politics of a totalitarian age.

Concerned about the inconsistency of English spelling, he willed a portion of his wealth to fund the creation of a new phonemic alphabet for the English language. On his death bed, he did not have much money to leave so no effort was made to start such a project. However, his estate began to earn significant royalties from the rights to Pygmalion when My Fair Lady, a musical based on the play, became a hit. It then became clear that the will was so badly worded that the relatives had grounds to challenge the will and in the end an out of court settlement granted a small portion of the money to promoting a new alphabet. This became known as the Shavian alphabet. The National Gallery of Ireland also received a substantial donation.

Shaw had a long time friendship with Gilbert Keith Chesterton, the Catholic writer, and there are many humorous stories about their complicated relationship.

Shaw is the only person ever to have won both a Nobel Prize (Literature in 1925) and an Academy Award (Best Screenplay for Pygmalion in 1938).

From 1906 until his death in 1950, Shaw lived at Shaw's Corner in the small village of Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire. The house is now a National Trust property, open to the public.

Shaw is the great uncle of author, actor, and filmmaker Scott Shaw.

The Shaw Theatre, Euston Road, London was opened in 1971 to honour G.B. Shaw.

Quotes
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George Bernard Shaw

* "The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."
* "Whilst we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells."
* "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
* "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same."
* "Most people would rather die sooner than think. In fact, they do so."
* "Lack of money is the root of all evil."
* "Youth is wasted on the young."
* "Democracy is a system ensuring that the people are governed no better than they deserve."
* "I can forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize."
* "I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me to possess that assimilating capacity to the changing phase of existence which can make itself appeal to every age. I have studied him - the wonderful man and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ, he must be called the Saviour of Humanity. I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world, he would succeed in solving its problems in a way that would bring it the much needed peace and happiness: I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning to be acceptable to the Europe of today."
* "The main difference between the opposition of Islam to Hinduism and the opposition between Protestant and Catholic is that the Catholic persecutes as fiercely as the Protestant when he has the power; but Hinduism cannot persecute, because all the Gods---and what goes deeper, the no Gods---are to be found in its Temples."
* "Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw

Subject: FOR ALL YOU WORD LOVERS

1. A bicycle can't stand alone because it is two-tired.

2. What's the definition of a will? (It's a dead giveaway).

3. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

4. A backward poet writes inverse.

5. In democracy it's your vote that counts; In feudalism, it's your count that votes.

6. A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.

7. If you don't pay your exorcist you get repossessed.

8. With her marriage she got a new name and a dress

9. Show me a piano falling down a mine shaft and I'll show you A-flat minor.

10. When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.

11. The man who fell into an upholstery machine is fully recovered.

12. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart.

13. You feel stuck with your debt if you can't budge it

14. Local Area Network in Australia: the LAN down under.

15. He often broke into song because he couldn't find the key.

16. Every calendar's days are numbered.

17. A lot of money is tainted. 'Taint yours and 'taint mine.

18. A boiled egg in the morning is hard to beat.

19. He had a photographic memory that was never developed.

20. A plateau is a high form of flattery.

21. The short fortuneteller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large

22. Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end

23. When you've seen one shopping center you've seen a mall.

24. Those who jump off a Paris bridge are in Seine.

26. Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead to know basis.

27. Santa's helpers are subordinate clauses.

28. Acupuncture is a jab well done.

Fruit flies like a banana. Ho ho.
You´re keeping up the splendid work Letty.
This thread has become enormous.

It's a shanty.

(And for those with realplayer: here is the melody. :wink: )

There are at least three English versions of the shanty .... besides the two German ones (in LowGerman = Platt):


Magelhan

Von Hamborg fohr so'n ohlen Kassen,
Mit Namen heet he Magelhan,
Dor weer bi Dog keen Tied tom Brassen,
Dat leet se all bit Obends stohn:
Refrain:
Rolling home, rolling home,
Rolling home across the sea,
Rolling home to di, old Hamborg,
Rolling home, mien Deern, to di.
2. Bi Dag dor kunn dat weihn un blasen,
Dor wör noch lang keen Hand anleggt,
Doch sleg de Klock man erst veer Glasen,
Denn wör de ganze Plünkrom streckt:
Refrain:

3. Dat weer so recht den Ohln sien Freeten,
Dat gung em öber Danz un Ball,
Harr Janmaat graad de Piep ansteken,
Denn rööp de Ohl: Pull Grootmarsfall:
Refrain:

4. Dat kunn den Kerl verdeubelt ropen,
Dat weer em just so no den Strich,
Man schraal de Wind denn noch sechs Streeken,
Wat weer de Kerl denn gnatterich.
Refrain:

5. Jedoch so recht bi Licht bekeeken,
Dor weer uns Ohl noch lang nicht slecht,
Harr Smutje mol een Swin afsteken,
Trangscheer he sülben dat torecht.
Refrain:

6. De Lüüd de kreeg'n so recht dat Lopen,
Se freiten sik, ik weet nich wie,
Se kregen von dat Swien de Poten,
Un gele Arfensupp' dorbi.
Refrain:

7. O Magelhan, du ohlen Kassen,
Dit Leed sall die en Denkmal sien.
Bi Snee und Reg'n wascht Janmaat Masten,
Un achtern suupt se unsen Kööm.
Refrain:
Vun Hamborg fohr so 'n ollen Kasten,
Mit Nomen heet he "Magelloon",
Do weer bi Doog keen Tid to brassen,
Dat wöhr des Obends allns dohn.
Refrain:
Segler heim, Segler heim,
Segler heim wohl übers Meer.
Segler heim zu deutschen Heimat,
Segler heim Feinslieb zur dir.
2. Bi doog dor kunn dat weihn un blosen,
Dor weern gewiß keen Hann anleggt,
Doch obends, so kort noch veer Glosen,
Do weer de ganze Plünnkroom streckt.
Refrain:

3. Dat weer for 'n Ollen so 'n richtig Freeten,
Dat güng em öber Danz und Ball.
Wull Jan Moot sik 'n Piep anstecken,
Do heet da glieks: "Pull in Mars-Fall!"
Refrain:

4. Dat weer for 'n Ollen so 'n richtig Freeten,
Wie het dat Os uns manchmol piert,
Den tweeten Pingstdag heet dat eenfach:
De wart an Bord ditt Schipps nicht fiert!
Refrain:

5. Doch ober dann vun Licht bekeken,
Do weer de Ool gornich so slecht;
He lett von Smutt 'n Swien afsteeken,
Tranchier dat sülben dann torecht.
Refrain:

6. Doch ober dann vun Licht bekeken,
Uns feel nich veel bi blanken to.
Vun ganzet Swien krieg Jan Moot Knoken
Un geele Arfensupp darto.
Refrain:

7. Mien Gott, von düssen olen Kasten
Ward mi noch de Erinnerung sweer,
Bi Sturm un Snee schroopt Jan Moot Masten
Un achter suppt he Köhm un Beer.
Refrain:

He, nice to see you again, hebba!

Good Day to All. Isn't this station the greatest!

And now, the July 26 birthday celebs:

1030 - Stanislaus of Szczepanów, St. Stanislaw (d. 1079)
1678 - Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1711)
1782 - John Field, Irish composer (d. 1837)
1791 - Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, composer (d. 1844)
1802 - Mariano Arista, President of Mexico (d. 1855)
1855 - Ferdinand Tönnies, sociologist (d. 1936)

1856 - George Bernard Shaw, author, playwright, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1925 (d. 1950) (See Bob's bio)

1865 - Philipp Scheidemann, politician (d. 1939)
1874 - Serge Koussevitsky, Russian conductor (d. 1951)
1875 - Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist (d. 1961)
1875 - Antonio Machado, Spanish poet (d. 1939)
1892 - Sad Sam Jones, Major League Baseball player (d. 1966)
1894 - Aldous Huxley, author (d. 1963)
1897 - Paul Gallico, author (d. 1976) (The Snow Goose, et al)

1902 - Gracie Allen, SF Calif, Mrs George Burns/comedienne (Burns & Allen) (d. 1964)

1903 - Estes Kefauver, U.S. Senator from Tennessee (d. 1963)
1908 - Salvador Allende, President of Chile (d. 1973)
1909 - Vivian Vance, actress (d. 1979)
1920 - Bob Waterfield, American football player (d. 1983)
1921 - Jean Shepherd, writer (d. 1999)

1922 - Blake Edwards, film director His most popular films have been comedies, the alcoholism-themed melodrama Days of Wine and Roses being a notable exception. His most fruitful collaboration has been with Peter Sellers in the Pink Panther movies. Efforts to revive the Panther franchise after the death of Sellers met with little critical or commercial success.

In 2004 he received an Academy Honorary Award for cumulative achievements over the course of his film career.

His second wife (from 1969) is Julie Andrews, who has appeared in a number of his films including Darling Lili, 10, Victor/Victoria and the autobiographical satire S.O.B., in which Andrews played a character very similar to herself.

1922 - Jason Robards, actor (d. 2000) After receiving the Navy Cross (the second highest decoration in the U.S. Navy) for his service in World War II, he struggled as a small-part actor in local New York theatre, TV and radio before shooting to fame on the New York stage in Eugene O'Neill's "The Iceman Cometh" as Hickey. He followed that with another masterful O'Neill portrayal, as the alcoholic Jamie Tyrone in "Long Day's Journey Into Night" on Broadway. He entered films in The Journey (1959) and rose rapidly to even greater fame as a film star. Won consecutive Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor for All the President's Men (1976) and Julia (1977) (Magnolia, Philadelphia, Max Dugan Returns, Melvin and Howard, Something Wicked This Way Comes, et al)

1923 - Hoyt Wilhelm, Major League Baseball player (d. 2002)

1928 - Stanley Kubrick, born Bronx, N.Y., movie director (d. 1999) (2001, A Space Odyssey, Dr Strangelove, Lolita, The Shining, A Clockwork Orange, Spartacus, Paths of Glory, Full Metal Jacket, Barry Lyndon, Eyes Wide Shut, et al)

1928 - Francesco Cossiga, eighth President of Italy
1939 - John Howard, twenty-fifth Prime Minister of Australia
1939 - Bob Lilly, American football player
1940 - Mary Jo Kopechne, aide to Robert F. Kennedy (d. 1969)
1943 - Mick Jagger, English musician (Rolling Stones) (See Bob's bio)
1944 - Micki King, diver

1945 - Helen Mirren, London, England, actress (Gosford Park, Calendar Girls, Excalibur, White Nights, et al ) Made a DBE (Dame of the British Empire) in the Queen's Birthday Honours, June 2003.
Was twice nominated for Broadway's Tony Award as Best Actress (Play): in 1995 for ' Ivan Turgenev' 's "A Month in the Country," and in 2002 for August Strindberg's "Dance of Death."


1949 - Roger Taylor, musician (Queen)
1956 - Dorothy Hamill, Chicago, Ill., American figure skater
1957 - Nana Visitor, actress

1959 - Kevin Spacey, S. Orange, N.J., Academy Award-winning actor (American Beauty) Beyond the Sea, The Shipping News, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, The Usual Suspects, Se7en, et al)

1964 - Sandra Bullock, American film actress
1965 - Jeremy Piven, actor
1969 - Jonty Rhodes, South African cricketer
1973 - Kate Beckinsale, British actress
1976 - Chad Pennington, American football player
1977 - Rebecca St. James, Australian born Gospel musician
1993 - Taylor Momsen, actress

Good morning, WA2K radio listeners and fans. Really great to see hebba and McTag back in our studios.

I find it quite interesting that John of Virginia talked about the bonnie banks of the Loch, and here is Taggers back with us.

Everyone was a great sport last evening tolerating the pseudo bashing, and we all appreciate your sense of the ridiculous.

To add to Walter's song:











(Gathering of the Clans)



By yon bonnie banks and by yon bonnie braes,
Where the sun shines bright on Loch Lomon'.
where me and my true love were ever wont to gae
On the bonnie, bonnie banks o' Loch Lomon'.


Chorus:
O ye'll tak' the high road and I'll tak the low road,
An' I'll be in Scotland afore ye;
But me and my true love will never meet again
On the bonnie, bonnie banks o' Loch Lomon'.


'Twas there that we parted in yon shady glen,
On the steep, steep side o' Ben Lomon',
Where in purple hue the Hieland hills we view,
An' the moon comin' out in the gloamin'.


(chorus)
The wee birdies sing and the wild flow'rs spring,
And in sunshine the waters are sleepin';
But the broken heart it kens nae second spring,
Tho' the waefu' may cease frae their greetin'
(chorus)


Closing:

Oh the Bonnie, Bonnie Banks

Oh the Bonnie, Bonnie Banks

(Clapping with Rythem)

hebba, when I get awake, I'll think of a tribute for you. OK?<smile>

First, listeners. How about another cup of coffee, then I want to recognize all our contributors

Bob, Thank you for the bios and those great words redefined. Shaw would most certainly appreciate it. I love his observation about the Nobel Prize.

Raggedy, thanks youngun for the celeb updates. <smile> As most of our listeners know, I really adore Kevin Spacey who is one of the finest actors ever to grace the silver screen.

How absolutely rewarding to see a representation of countries once again on WA2K radio:

Denmark/England
Germany
France
Scotland/England

And, of course, the good old US of A.

I have one distressing news item to share with everyone, but I'll read it later.

My word, Letty. How could you have forgotten Canada, and our very own dj.

Well, folks. All news, bad and good news:

Four Boy Scout Leaders Die in Va. Accident

Published: 7/26/05






BOWLING GREEN, Va. (AP) - Four adult Boy Scout leaders were killed Monday in an electrical accident while setting up camp at the organization's 2005 Jamboree, marking with tragedy the first day of a festival that draws thousands of Scouts and Scout leaders from around the world.

The accident happened between 4:30 and 5 p.m., officials said. Three others were injured.

More than six hours after the deaths, little additional information had been released. The Jamboree is being held on the grounds of the Army's Fort A.P. Hill; Army officials referred questions to Jamboree officials, who declined to detail how the accident occurred.

The Washington Post, citing a source it did not identify, said a pole intended as a support for a tent came into contact with an overhead power line.

All the dead were from an Alaskan troop. One other leader from Alaska and two contract workers were hospitalized in stable condition. All the youths with the Alaska group were fine, said Bill Haines, chief executive officer of the Western Alaska Council.

Anchorage's Troop 711 had brought, along with another troop, 80 Scouts between the ages 13-15 to the event, Haines said. Three other Scout leaders had come with the troop.

The Scouts were relocated to another area, and chaplains and grief counselors were made available. "The Jamboree will go on," said Jamboree spokeswoman Renee Fairrer.

The deaths came a day after a Boy Scouts volunteer from North Carolina was taken to a hospital where he died of an apparent heart attack, Fairrer said.

In 1997, a 16-year-old Boy Scout from Pennsylvania was killed at the Jamboree when an Army Humvee he was not supposed to be driving flipped over. Three passengers were hurt.

Virginia Gov. Mark R. Warner issued a statement Monday night seeking to reassure parents of those attending this year's event.

"A remarkable amount of effort and resources have been brought to bear by the Boy Scouts and their hosts, the Department of Defense, in the planning and safety considerations involved in creating, in effect, a city of 43,000 inhabitants for a 10-day period," Warner said.

Tens of thousands of Boy Scouts, leaders and volunteers from around the world are attending the 2005 National Scout Jamboree. The event opened Monday at Fort A.P. Hill, a 76,000-acre Army training base about an hour south of the nation's capital.

The Jamboree runs through Aug. 3 with President Bush scheduled to speak Wednesday evening. Scouts ages 12-18 are to spend 10 days camping in tents and doing activities that include archery, fishing and a GPS-based scavenger hunt.

The Boy Scouts of America have held the event since 1937 with the next gathering set for 2010, the Scouts' 100th anniversary. It may not be held at Fort A.P. Hill, which has hosted the event since 1981.

A federal judge recently ruled that the Pentagon can no longer financially support the event. If the ruling stands, the Boy Scouts would have to find another location for their next gathering.

A lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois contends that the Defense Department's sponsorship violates the First Amendment because the Scouts require members to swear an oath of duty to God.

Strange, I have never heard of Bowling Green, Virginia, but it must be somewhere near Fredericksburg and I have been there.

Listeners, it has just come to my attention that our Husker is once again in the hospital with a high fever.

You may follow his progress here:

http://www.able2know.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=39648&start=310

The following poem is a welcome back to hebba:

The Lotus Eaters

We stroll the sands.
We are aimless. We have
no purpose. We are as clear
as the blue sea that laps
at the edges of our world.

Castaway we are, with only
waving palms and circling birds
to carry us home.

For fear of rescue, I cray.
Leave us alone, I pray,
alone. Let us live in
crystals of sand, in the

flecks of life floating
in the wide, wide sea.
Never touch us, never
open the ancient wounds.

Lovely, no?

Beautiful Letty. Don't you sometimes wish for just that?

I heard Lou Reed on the radio:
Walk on the wild side

Holly came from Miami FLA
Hitch-hiked her way across the USA.
Plucked her eyebrows on the way
Shaved her leg and then he was a she
She said, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side,
Said, hey honey, take a walk on the wild side.

Candy came from out on the island,
In the backroom she was everybody's darling,
But she never lost her head
Even when she was given head
She said, hey baby, take a walk on the wild side
She said, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side
And the coloured girls go, doo doo doo, doo ...

Little Joe never once gave it away
Everybody had to pay and pay
A hustle here and a hustle there
New York city is the place where they said:
Hey babe, take a walk on the wild side
I Said hey Joe, take a walk on the wild side

Sugar Plum Fairy came and hit the streets
Lookin' for soul food and a place to eat
Went to the Apollo
You should have seen him go go go
They said, hey Sugar, take a walk on the wild side
I said, hey honey, take a walk on the wild side

Jackie is just speeding away
Thought she was James Dean for a day
Then I guess she had to crash
Valium would have helped that dash
She said, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side
I said, hey honey, take a walk on the wild side
And the coloured girls say doo doo doo, doo ...

While My Guitar Gently Weeps

I look at you all see the love there that's sleeping
While my guitar gently weeps
I look at the floor and I see it need sweeping
Still my guitar gently weeps

I don't know why nobody told you
how to unfold you love
I don't know how someone controlled you
they bought and sold you

I look at the world and I notice it's turning
While my guitar gently weeps
With every mistake we must surely be learning
Still my guitar gently weeps

I don't know how you were diverted
you were perverted too
I don't know how you were inverted
no one alerted you

I look at you all see the love there that's sleeping
While my guitar gently weeps
I look at you all
Still my guitar gently weeps

Oh, oh, oh
oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
oh oh, oh oh, oh oh
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
yeah yeah yeah yeah


While this a Beatles classic, by George Harrison (sorry to all Stones fans, especially today :wink: ), this is the link to the video (in Quicktime, Letty :wink: ) of "While my ukulele gently weeps"

Diane, I read that poem and loved it, but I'm not certain why I did.

Did that every happen to anyone out there?

The song is captivating, Lady Di. and reminds me of Pal Joey's "The Lady is a tramp" which is, of course, the antithesis to your wild side.<smile>

Walter, "....a guitar gently weeping..." really struck a chord. The song must reflect George Harrison's animistic days, and all of us here will try your quick time reference. I hope I can access it, as I have never heard that song played here before (nor elsewhere, for that matter)

Thank you, Germany.

Listeners, I use to play ukulele, both the toy type and the larger tenor uke. It was the closest that I could come to guitar.

I love that song too "While my guitar gently weeps"
but I have to say, the ukulele did nothing for me. You
hardly can recognize the otherwise beautiful song.
It was played all over the world in all radio stations when
George Harrison died. Still gives me goosebumps .....

Thanks to Miss Letty, I have come to appreciate
the songs of Diane Krall. Her lyrics are in particular
meaningful, and a lot of people can relate to it.

Here is my choice for today

You know I live a charmed, charmed life
I look out to my left and I look to my right
It's simple but in front of me, in back of me
Is nothing more than ecstasy
A charmed, charmed life

You know we live a charmed, charmed life
A little breath of magic and we roll the dice
Now, my darling, I'm for you and you're for me
We are each other's luxury
A charmed, charmed life

Come on over, baby
Kiss me once then twice
Whisper to me softly low, that makes me feel so nice
Come on over darling, and take me to that place
The one that puts a smile upon my face

That says we lead a charmed, charmed life
Just take a little look into each other's eyes
Our biggest little fantasy has turned into reality
You know we live a charmed, charmed life

Come on over, baby
Kiss me once, then twice
Whisper to me softly low, that makes me feel so nice
Come on over darling, and take me to that place
The one that puts a smile upon my face

That says we lead a charmed, charmed life
I look out to my left and I look to my right
It's simple but in front of me, in back of me
Is nothing more than ecstasy
A charmed, charmed life

You know we live a charmed, charmed life
That's it, a little charmed, charmed... life!

Jane, my dear. Thank you so much for playing that Diana Krall song. That's one that I have never heard either.

Regardless of what our listeners may think, there are lots of lyrics of which Letty has no knowledge, and that is the purpose of our radio station.

Walter, once again, I must admit to quicktime failure. I think something may be amiss with all of my internal apparatuses.