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In honor of the Yankees, who beat the Red Sox yesterday.


Ad Libs
The Boy from New York City

Oo ah oo ah oo oo, Kitty
Tell us about the boy
From New York City
Oo ah oo ah come on, Kitty
Tell us about the boy
From New York City

He's kinda tall
He's really fine, yeah, yeah,
Someday I hope to make him
mine, all mine yeah, yeah

And he's neat and oh, so sweet,
and the way he looked at me just
Swept me off my feet
Yeah, yeah

Oo ee you oughta come and see
How he walks yeah yeah
And he talks
Oo ah oo ah oo oos Kitty
Tell us about the boy from New
York City
Oo ah oo ah come on, Kitty
Tell us about the boy from New
York City

He's really down and he's no
Clown yeah yeah
He has the finest penthouse
I've ever seen in town yeah, yeah
And he's cute in his mohair suit
And he keeps his pockets full of
Spending loot yeah, yeah
Oo ee, yeah we're all right
Yeah, oo oo

Ev'ry time he says he loves me
Chills run down my spine
Ev'ry time he wants to kiss me
He makes me feel so fine.
That's him
Alright he's the boy from New
York City
We call him Jill, we're all right.
Oo ah oo ah Kitty,
tell us about the boy from New
York City
Oo ah oo ah Kitty,
Tell us about the boy from New
York City

Good morning, Edgar. How's life in Houston these days? Are things getting anywhere close to normal yet, or....?

Damn Yankees, edgar.

Reyn, It's great to see you back, dear. Bob is off to form a band. Shall we call it HawkBonding?

I need to invite our navigator to add his avatar to your collection.

Good morning! Just off to have breakfast here in BC.

Until later.....

Life in Houston is mostly normal. A few problems remain, but, in Tomaball, we had little property damage - zero at my home. Well, a banana tree blew down, but a good thunderstorm could do that.

Yes, We Have No Bananas!
Frank Silver and Irving Cohn (1923)

There's a fruit store on our street
It's run by a Greek.
And he keeps good things to eat
But you should hear him speak!

When you ask him anything, he never answers "no".
He just "yes"es you to death,
And as he takes your dough, he tells you...

"Yes! We have no bananas
We have no bananas today!!
We have string beans and onions, cabBAges and scallions
And all kinds of fruit and say
We have an old fashioned toMAHto
A Long Island poTAHto, but

Yes! We have no bananas
We have no bananas today!"

Business got so good for him that he wrote home today,
"Send me Pete and Nick and Jim; I need help right away."
When he got them in the store, there was fun, you bet.
Someone asked for "sparrow grass"
and then the whole quartet
All answered:

"Yes, we have no bananas
We have-a no bananas today.
Just try those coconuts
Those wall-nuts and doughnuts
There ain't many nuts like they.
We'll sell you two kinds of red herring,
Dark brown, and ball-bearing.
But yes, we have no bananas
We have no bananas today."

Have you moved back in your home now? I seem to remember reading that you had moved into an apartment temporarily.

I stayed in that apartment overnight. After the complex lost its power, I went home, where the power had never gone off.

dj, wasn't there a flip side to "Yes, We Have no Bananas"? Thanks for that, Canada.

and listeners, while BC and Big T talk, how about a song from another Hawk:



I took a walk down a country road
I know this might sound dumb maybe
But I was all alone

If you think that I'm gong somewhere
Take my hand I'll lead you there
Don't want to have to call you up from a pay phone

It's a long and longely road
It's a long and lonely road
If you don't like it
Then you don't take it
It's a long and lonely road

I took a walk down a country road
I know this might sound dumb maybe
But I was all alone

If you think that I'm going somewhere
Take my hand I'll lead you there
Don't want to have to call you up froma pay phone

I know it is so hard for you and I to be apart
I'm slowly fading, you're my lady
Taht keeps me moving on

It's a long and lonely road
It's a long and lonely raod
If you don't like it
Then please don't take it
It's a long and lonely road

Honest promise you will be missed

don't know

one more foe edgar, i know he likes harry

Day-o, day-o
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Day, me say day, me say day, me say day
Me say day, me say day-o
Daylight come and me wan' go home

Work all night on a drink of rum
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Stack banana till de mornin' come
Daylight come and me wan' go home

Come, Mister tally man, tally me banana
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Come, Mister tally man, tally me banana
Daylight come and me wan' go home

Lift six foot, seven foot, eight foot bunch
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Six foot, seven foot, eight foot bunch
Daylight come and me wan' go home

Day, me say day-o
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Day, me say day, me say day, me say day...
Daylight come and me wan' go home

A beautiful bunch o' ripe banana
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Hide the deadly black tarantula
Daylight come and me wan' go home

Lift six foot, seven foot, eight foot bunch
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Six foot, seven foot, eight foot bunch
Daylight come and me wan' go home

Day, me say day-o
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Day, me say day, me say day, me say day...
Daylight come and me wan' go home

Come, Mister tally man, tally me banana
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Come, Mister tally man, tally me banana
Daylight come and me wan' go home

Day-o, day-o
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Day, me say day, me say day, me say day
Me say day, me say day-o
Daylight come and me wan' go home

Just kidding, dj. Yes, we have no bananas was listed in the ASCAP book that we used to get when we worked in radio. Some of the funny songs were listed that no one remembers, because they were on the flip side of hit songs.

Talk about funny songs - Regular songs become funny when Lim Whitman does them.
Ack ack ack.


I'll take you home again
Kathlee-een
Across the ocean
Wild and wi-ide
To where your heart
Has ever bee-een
Since first you were
My bonnie bride

The roses all
Have left your cheek
I watched them
Fade away and die
Your voice is sad
When you speak
And tears bedim
Your lovin' eyes

Oh-oh-oh-oh-I will take you back
Kathlee-ee-een
To where your heart
Will feel no pai-ain
And when the fields
Are fresh and gree-een
I-I'II take you to your home
Kathleen
[whistle]
Mm-mm, mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm

And when the fields
Are fresh and gree-een...
I-I-I'II take you to your home
Kathlee-een...

Slim Whitman. hehe he

Oh, my gorsh, edgar. The only left handed guitar player in the business.

Anyone remember the movie Mars Attacks?

Box Car Willie:


(traditional)

I ain't gonna work on the railroad
Ain't gonna work on the farm
Gonna lay round the shack
Till the mail train comes back
Roll in my sweet baby's arms.

Roll in my sweet baby's arms
Roll in my sweet baby's arms
Lay around the shack
Till the mail train comes back
Roll in my sweet baby's arms.

Where were you last friday night
While I was laying here in jail ?
You were walking the streets with another man,
Wouldn't even go my bail.

Roll in my sweet baby's arms
Roll in my sweet baby's arms
Gonna lay around the shack
Till the mail train comes back
Roll in my sweet baby's arms.

I ain't gonna work on the railroad
I ain't gonna work on the farm
Gonna lay around the shack
Till the mail train comes back
Roll in my sweet baby's arms.

Roll in my sweet baby's arms
Roll in my sweet baby's arms
Gonna lay around the shack
Till the mail train comes back
Roll in my sweet baby's

Roll in my sweet baby's
Roll in my sweet baby's arms.

Thought for Today: ``I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.'' - Alfred North Whitehead, English philosopher and mathematician (1861-1947).



10/01/05 20:00

Well, listeners, tomorrow is Rosh Hashanah, so let's observe it in advance:

For our Jewish friends

SHANA TOVA (2)
The traditional New Year song

Shanah halcha, shanah ba'ah
ani kapai arimah;
shanah tovah lecha, Aba,
shanah tovah lach, Ima,
shanah tovah, shana tovah!

Shanah tovah ledod gibor
asher al hamishmeret
ulechol noter, ba'ir, bak'far,
birkat "chazak" nimseret.
Shanah tovah, shanah tovah!

Shanah tovah, yayes amitz,
rochev bimerom shamaim,
verov shalom melach ivri,
oseh darko bamayim.
Shanah tovah, shanah tovah!

Shanah tovah lechol amel
benir vegam bemelet,
shanah tovah umetukah
lechol yaldah veyeled!
Shanah tovah, shanah tovah!

Erev shel shoshanim


Erev shel shoshanim
Nitzeh na el habustan
Mor, besamim ulevana
L'raglech miftan.

Laila yored le'at
Veru'ach shoshan noshvak,
Havah elchash lach shir balat
Zemer shel ahava.

Shachar homa yonah,
Roshech ma'ale t'lalim
Pich el haboker shoshana
Ektefenu li.

Laila yored le'at
Veru'ach shoshan noshvak,
Havah elchash lach shir balat
Zemer shel ahava.

English lyrics:

Evening of roses
Let's go out to the grove
Myrrh, spices, and incense
Are a carpet to walk on

The night comes slowly
A breeze of roses blows
Let me whisper a song to you quietly
A song of love

At dawn, a dove is cooing
Your hair is filled with dew
Your lips to the morning are like a rose
I'll pick it for myself.

The night comes slowly
A breeze of roses blows
Let me whisper a song to you quietly
A song of love

edgar, that translation is beautiful, my friend.

News update:

French Quarter Cathedral Holds Sunday Mass By AMY FORLITI, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 5 minutes ago



NEW ORLEANS - The bells of historic St. Louis Cathedral rang out across New Orleans on Sunday, calling the faithful to the first Mass since Hurricane Katrina hit more than a month ago.


The Mass had a dual purpose: to mourn the more than 900 who perished, and to bring hope to those who remain behind and face the task of rebuilding.

"The St. Louis Cathedral is a symbol that really unites all of our city, and this is what we're going to need to move forward," said archdiocesan spokesman the Rev. William Maestri.

Katie Mello, 30, came to church with her fiance and mother. Mello grew up in New Orleans and now lives in Orlando, Fla., with her fiance. The couple plans to get married at the cathedral in June and returned to the city to bring back relatives who had evacuated.

"This is the heart and soul of the city, so this is where it all starts," Mello said.

Located in Jackson Square, the triple-spired cathedral was originally built in 1727. The first Church of St. Louis lasted 61 years, until it caught fire and was rebuilt in the same location. Since then, it has withstood hurricanes and hailstorms. It was left virtually untouched by Katrina's fierce winds and high waters.

Pope John Paul II celebrated Mass there in 1987. And after the famed and raucous Mardi Gras celebration, penitents head to St. Louis Cathedral to receive ashes on Ash Wednesday, to repent as the Lenten season before Easter begins.

It is featured prominently on postcards and paintings of Jackson Square, and is a regular stop for tourists, attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors each year.

The Mass was being held while relief workers and crews continued the massive task of continuing to remove the floodwaters. Water was still being pumped out of the heavily flooded lower Ninth Ward. Officials expected the pumping to be completed by midweek, said Mitch Frazier, spokesman for the Army Corps of Engineers.

Police reported few problems as tens of thousands of residents poured into the city Saturday, a day after Mayor Ray Nagin reopened some neighborhoods.

Electricity had been restored to about 28 percent of New Orleans and about 98 percent of Jefferson Parish, said Amy Stallings, a spokeswoman for Entergy Corp.

As of Friday, the state health department reported 932 deaths in Louisiana from Hurricane Katrina. Mississippi's death toll was 221.

hehe, That's rather ironic, isn't it?

Here are some "fun facts" that I'd like to read out to listeners:

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

The average secretary's left hand does 56% of the typing.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.

Almonds are members of the peach family.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.

The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.

When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.

The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life."

On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.

The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away.

In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.

The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.

If your eyes are six feet above the surface of the ocean, the horizon will be about three statute miles away.

The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters is its plural, pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses.

Ben and Jerry's sends the waste from making ice cream to local pig farmers to use as feed. Pigs love the stuff, except for one flavor: Mint Oreo.

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.

The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die, they need gravity to swallow.

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.

Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.

Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy. The skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on their radio's newscast about the wreck.

Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.

Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been overmixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since.

Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.

The saying "it's so cold out there it could freeze the balls off a brass monkey" came from when they had old cannons like ones used in the Civil War. The cannonballs were stacked in a pyramid formation, called a brass monkey. When it got extremely cold outside they would crack and break off... Thus the saying.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.

Charles Lindbergh took only four sandwiches with him on his famous transatlantic flight.

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.

Reindeer like to eat bananas.

My goodness, listeners. Reyn can not only create, he can come up with creative trivia.

Amazing, my friend.

Stewardesses....Wow. typing is so automatic, that one never notices, right folks?

Sooo. That Egyptian was prolific, no? I believe you about the squid: