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A lot better than the iron curtain, edgar.

Good night to all,

From Letty with love.

Florida may have the occasional high wind day, but no blizzards, hey Letty?

A quiz question for your listeners: where did the phrase "Iron Curtain" come from?

(I believe there are two answers: the popular one, and the original one. I only know the popular one, so will accept that. )

The Iron Curtain is a term used in the West to refer to the boundary line which divided Europe into two separate areas of political influence from the end of World War II until the end of the Cold War.

During this period, Eastern Europe was under the political influence of the Soviet Union, and the direct political control of either the Soviet Union or national communist regimes. Western Europe was under the political influence of the United States, and the direct control of national democratic regimes, enjoying sufficient freedom to allow them to oppose United States policies.

Some suggest that the term may have been first coined by Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians1 to describe the situation between Belgium and her country of birth, Germany, in 1914 after World War I. An Iron Curtain, or eisener Vorhang, was an obligatory precaution for all German theaters to prevent a possible fire from spreading from the stage to the rest of the theater. These fires were rather common since the decor was often very flamable. In case of fires, a metal wall would separate the stage and theater, secluding the area ablaze to be extinguished by firefighters.

German politician Count Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk referred to the 'Iron Curtain' coming down, a phrase which was picked up by Winston Churchill in a long speech on March 5, 1946 at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri: After the fall of the Berlin Wall a section of it was transported to and erected at Westminster College.

"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia; all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject, in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and in some cases increasing measure of control from Moscow."

The phrase had been used a year earlier, in an article on "The Year 2000 (http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/goeb49.htm)" by the Nazi leader

Yesss! Whils America sleeps, and shivers, bold Sarah comes up with the answer!

I knew Winston had borrowed it from an earlier source, but was not sure exactly which. Now we all know, and will we ever forget,

Graf Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk

(I wonder if he was related to the Iron Chancellor?)

:wink:

Good morning, WA2K radio listeners.

Whilst America slept I see that you Brits discovered the secret of the bessemer process. I was somewhat dismayed that Harry Truman didn't originate the expression, The Buck Stops here, but I'm certain we'll all overcome our disappointment.

A matin for our wee listeners:

Good Morning






Start the Day With a Smile(and get it over with)

This is the way we start the day
Start the day, start the day,
This is the way we start the day,
So early in the morning.

First we smile and shake a hand,
Shake a hand, shake a hand,
First we smile and shake a hand,
So early in the morning.

Then we sit down quietly,
Quietly, quietly,
Then we sit down quietly,
So early in the morning.

We listen very carefully,
Carefully, carefully,
We listen very carefully,
So early in the morning.

Even kids would say YUK to that one.

Here's a news item, listeners:

Japanese team discovers 3,500-year-old mummy in Egypt

Sat Jan 22, 2:00 AM ET Top Stories - AFP



TOKYO (AFP) - A Japanese research team has found "a perfect mummy" in an undisturbed Egyptian tomb believed to be more than 3,500 years old, the team's leader said.






The mummy was in a sealed wooden coffin unearthed in the archeological site of Dahshur North in northern Egypt, said Sakuji Yoshimura, who headed the team from Tokyo's Waseda University.


The mummified man was believed to be from a period 3,500-4,000 years ago, older than the era of Tutankhamen, the pharaoh of ancient Egypt who ruled in 1336-1327 BC, Yoshimura said, citing characteristics of the coffin.


The mummy, wearing a mask painted blue and red that still retained vivid shades, was of high academic value as it was "a perfect mummy that has escaped robbery and other damage," he said on his website late Friday.


The coffin was painted yellow and inscribed with hieroglyphics in light blue, he said, adding the hieroglyphics showed the mummified man was an administrative officer.

Wouldn't you know it, listeners? An administrative officer lasts...and lasts...and lasts.

Thanks Sarah, a fascinating speech from Goebbels .

The Bangles - Walk Like an Egyptian
All the old paintings on the tomb
They do the sand dance, don'cha know?
If they move too quick (Oh-whey-oh),
they're falling down like a domino.

And the bazaar man by the Nile
He got the money on a bet
For the crocodiles (oh-whey-oh),
They snap their teeth on a cigarette.
Foreign types with their hookwhey pipes sing:

Oh-whey-oh-whey-ooo-aaa-ooo-aaa,
Walk like an Egyptian.

The blonde waitresses take their trays,
Spin around and they cross the floor.
They've got the moves (oh-whey-oh),
You drop your drink then they bring you more.

All the school kids so sick of books,
They like the punk and the metal band.
When the buzzer rings (oh-whey-oh),
They're walking like an Egyptian.
All the kids in the marketplace say:

Oh-whey-oh-whey-ooo-aaa-ooo-aaa,
Walk like an Egyptian.

Slide your feet up the street bend your back
Shift your arm then you pull it back
Life is hard you know (oh whey oh)
So strike a pose on a Cadillac

If you want to find all the cops
They're hanging out in the donut shop
They sing and dance (oh whey oh)
They spin their clubs, cruise down the block

All the Japanese with their Yen,
The party boys call the Kremlin.
The Chinese know (oh-whey-oh),
They walk along like Egyptians.
All the cops in the donut shops say:

Oh-whey-oh-whey-ooo-aaa-ooo-aaa,
Walk like an Egyptian,
Walk like an Egyptian.

<listener turns up the radio - they just happen to be playing Miss Cleopatra's song>

Walk like an Eeeeeeeeeeegyptian

edgar, you clever thing. That was perfect timing, as usual, and ehBeth and I love Cleo.

Gonna try something listeners:

Hoshizora no Distance
หนทางแห่งดวงดาวบนฟ้า



ตอนนี้ลมแรงเริงระบำมาในใจ

gSayonara" เพราะความผิดเพียงครั้งเดียวเท่านั้นหรือ

แม้จากไกล 500 ไมล์ จะยังเฝ้าตามหาหัวใจของกันและกันอีกครั้ง

จนกว่าค่ำคืนจะมาเยือนc



แม้หนทางแห่งดวงดาวบนฟ้าอันแสนไกลขัดขวางความรักสองเรา

ในยามค่ำคืนมาเยือนใจฉันยังตะโกนออกไปอีกครั้งว่าc

gBaby Come back!h



gKASHIOPEAh ดาวคาชิโอเปีย ยามเมื่อแลมองขึ้นไป

อันกล่าวถึงความฝันแห่งหนทางของดวงดาวบนฟ้าอันแสนไกล

แม้อุปสรรคแห่งรักมิอาจต้านทาน

แม้ฝันนั้นมิอาจเอื้อนเอ่ยออกมาแต่ฉันเชื่อมั่นและเฝ้าวอนขอให้c

Oops. The only word I got out of the Japanese song was Sayonara.

Can anyone call in a translation?

Where's CI when you need him?

You know, edgar, I think C.I. speaks very little Japanese.

Searched google for the lyrics to Cleo and Meo and the baby crocodile, but couldn't find them. It goes something like this:

Just cleo and meo and the baby crocodile,
We live on the Allegheny River,
Pittsburg 'bout a mile.

Anyone out there know the rest?

Never, never, ever, ever heard that crocodile song. (lol)

But , since you mentioned Pittsburgh:

Here we go
Here we go
Here we go
Steelers, Here we go
Pittsburgh's going to the Super Bowl
Here we go

Cheer the Steelers, Black and the Gold
Here we go
Town of Pittsburgh's, Heart and Soul
Here we go
With Cowher power, will get the job done
This is the year will get that one for the thumb

Here we go
Here we go
Here we go
Steelers, Here we go
Pittsburgh's going to the Super Bowl.

Edgar is going to have explain the "Steel Curtain" to our Letty.

Oh, I think I know that Japanese song. I'll be back.

I assumed we all knew of the vaunted Steel Curtain. The Steelers in their heyday were so awesome that the term was invented to describe the phenomenon. I had never enjoyed football at all, until one day an acquaintance said to me, "I'll bet ten dollars (some team) beats the Steelers." I said, "I'll take it," having barely even heard of them. I won ten bucks and became intrigued enough to watch next time. They were so beautiful out there I became an instant fan.

Oh, my goodness. The football thingy again. Wasn't there a bamboo curtain? I know my curtains are sheer and white and blow in bellows like the night. UhOh. Can't get away from the poetry, listeners.

Ahem. A slight respite from the pigskin.

It seems that Bob Dylan's Memoirs will be a finalist for The Critics Prize, so let's do a song by him.

Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed
Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed
Whatever colors you have in your mind
I'll show them to you and you'll see them shine

Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed
Stay, lady, stay, stay with your man awhile
Until the break of day, let me see you make him smile
His clothes are dirty but his hands are clean
And you're the best thing that he's ever seen

Stay, lady, stay, stay with your man awhile
Why wait any longer for the world to begin
You can have your cake and eat it too
Why wait any longer for the one you love
When he's standing in front of you

Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed
Stay, lady, stay, stay while the night is still ahead
I long to see you in the morning light
I long to reach for you in the night
Stay, lady, stay, stay while the night is still ahead
Top 5 ?- Bob Dylan Lyrics

Now, listeners. Aren't love songs better than stadiums?

You had to get me started on Dylan, an artist I love beyond all reason. Now I've got to post one of his songs also.

You're a Big Girl Now

Our conversation was short and sweet
It nearly swept me off-a my feet.
And I'm back in the rain, oh, oh,
And you are on dry land.
You made it there somehow
You're a big girl now.

Bird on the horizon, sittin' on a fence,
He's singin' his song for me at his own expense.
And I'm just like that bird, oh, oh,
Singin' just for you.
I hope that you can hear,
Hear me singin' through these tears.

Time is a jet plane, it moves too fast
Oh, but what a shame if all we've shared can't last.
I can change, I swear, oh, oh,
See what you can do.
I can make it through,
You can make it too.

Love is so simple, to quote a phrase,
You've known it all the time, I'm learnin' it these days.
Oh, I know where I can find you, oh, oh,
In somebody's room.
It's a price I have to pay
You're a big girl all the way.

A change in the weather is known to be extreme
But what's the sense of changing horses in midstream?
I'm going out of my mind, oh, oh,
With a pain that stops and starts
Like a corkscrew to my heart
Ever since we've been apart.



Copyright © 1974 Ram's Horn Music

This is a hard act for the Celebrity Birthdays to follows, but:

1783 Stendhal (Marie Henri Beyle), novelist (Grenoble, France; died 1842)
1832 Edouard Manet, painter (Paris, France; died 1883)
1915 Potter Stewart, Supreme Court justice (Jackson, MI; died 1985)
1928 Jeanne Moreau, actress (Paris, France)
1933 Chita Rivera, dancer/actress (Washington, DC)
1943 Gil Gerard, actor (Little Rock, AR)
1944 Rutger Hauer, actor (Breukelen, Netherlands)
1950 Richard Dean Anderson, actor (Minneapolis, MN)
1957 Princess Caroline, princess of Monaco (Monte Carlo, Monaco)
1974 Tiffani-Amber Thiessen, model/actress (Long Beach, CA)

Happy Birthday Chita:



Now back to that song and what I can remember. :wink:

Sayonara, Japanese Goodbye
Whisper Sayonara
Lover, don't you cry.

No more we stop to see pretty Cherry Blossoms
No more we neath the tree staring at the sky
Sayonara, Sayonara,
Goodbye.

I don't know if Johnny Carson did any radio, but I mourn his passing today.

I saw that, edgar. I'll never forget his deadpan monologues. " It was sooo cold that................................"

Latest Developments
AP Photo
Johnny Carson, King of Late Night, Dies
(AP) - Johnny Carson, the "Tonight Show" TV host who served America a smooth nightcap of celebrity banter, droll comedy and heartland charm for 30 years, has died. He was 79. "Mr. Carson passed away peacefully early Sunday morning," his nephew, Jeff Sotzing, told The Associated Press. "He was surrounded by his family, whose loss will be immeasurable. There will be no memorial service." Sotzing would not give further details, including the time of death, the location or the cause of death.


Raggedy, was that a translation of the Japanese?

Wow! gal. I knew almost all of your celebs except Chita. I love Rudger Hauer, especially in Lady Hawke. The music behind that movie was sensational.

Well, listeners. We had some bad news and some good news today. Stay tuned to WA2K radio where you will hear it first.

Letty: That was my translation of the Japanese. (lol) Actually, the song I posted was performed in the movie "Sayonara". (Brando movie based on a Michener novel)

Chita Rivera:

"Universally regarded as an American national treasure, Chita Rivera is an accomplished and versatile actress/singer/dancer. A recipient of the prestigious Kennedy Center honor presented by the President of the United States, Chita has won two Tony Awards as Best Leading Actress in a Musical and received six additional Tony Award nominations. She most recently appeared on Broadway in the Tony Award winning revival of Nine, starring Antonio Banderas. in 1957, Broadway history was made when Chita's electric performance as Anita in the Broadway premiere of West Side Story brought her stardom. She married dancer Tony Mordente on December 1 of that year. Chita's talent enabled the brilliant Jerome Robbins to realize his groundbreaking choreographic vision for the production. Indeed, her performance was so central to the success of the show that the London production was postoned until after Chita had given birth to her daughter.
Rosie, the starring role in Bye Bye Birdie followed, and Chita returned to the West End in 1960 to reprise her performance in that role as well. Around the nation or on tour, Chita subsequently starred in Born Yesterday, The Rose Tattoo, Call Me Madam, Threepenny Opera, Sweet Charity, Kiss Me Kate, and Zorba. A national tour of Can-Can with the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes took her to Japan as well. Chita also played Nicky in the film version of Sweet Charity with Shirley MacLaine. In a wry tribute to Nicky, Chita's character for her most recent screen appearance, a cameo in the film version of Chicago, is also named "Nicky." Despite the many highlights of her stellar and historic career, Chita always maintains that her most treasured production is her daughter, singer/dancer/choreographer Lisa Mordente."

Does the Sweet Charity song, Hey Big Spender, ring a bell?