spendius
 
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Reply Mon 9 Dec, 2013 05:50 pm
@Romeo Fabulini,
Hey Romeo--you can't even get voted down you big wuss. It must be because you're so acceptable to the bourgeois sensibility.
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Mon 9 Dec, 2013 06:30 pm
'Course, I never ate dootie before, so there may be a worse taste in the universe.
Rockhead
 
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Reply Mon 9 Dec, 2013 06:37 pm
@edgarblythe,
okra is part of what makes gumbo gumbo...

maybe you should try it again.

edgarblythe
 
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Reply Mon 9 Dec, 2013 07:36 pm
@Rockhead,
Okra in some creole gumbos is unrecognizable. Those I eat. Okra for okra's sake is an impossibility.
edgarblythe
 
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Reply Mon 9 Dec, 2013 09:30 pm
Pringles: pecan pie flavored.
****
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Tue 10 Dec, 2013 06:22 am
Earworm for an entire week:

Green acres is the place to be
Farm living is so nice and free
Land spreading out so far and wide
Keep Manhattan just give me that countryside

New York is where I'd rather stay
I get allergic smelling hay
Crying or Very sad

But at least it's not:

Welcome back
Your dreams were your ticket out
Welcome back
Welcome back
Welcome back
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Ragman
 
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Reply Tue 10 Dec, 2013 07:08 am
@edgarblythe,
okra = copies of miniature glass coke bottles covered with snot
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Tue 10 Dec, 2013 02:59 pm
And now:
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Wed 11 Dec, 2013 06:46 am
55 and sunny today and tomorrow. Not bad for December.
My son was here for a week. We entertained ourselves one day by watching Tom Hanks in The Terminal, Road to Perdition and such. Wonderful actor.

mrs edgarblythe's computer now will not boot up. The switch works. Seems to power up to the point the hard drive ought to be engaged, but nothing happens.

If dog slobber could be sold at a profit, I would be well off. Squeaky chicken anyone?
glitterbag
 
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Reply Thu 12 Dec, 2013 01:12 am
@edgarblythe,
I loved "Road to Perdition", details like pennies on the dead man's eye. I was only 18 months old when my paternal grandfather died, his body was at his home in the living room. My dad was never fond of flowers, I didn't learn until after he died that his aversion was based on the flower arrangements sent to his parents house, the scent of baskets of flowers and afterwards he always associated the floral scent with his father's funeral. OK, I'm a little off target, but it's late.
edgarblythe
 
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Reply Thu 12 Dec, 2013 06:50 am
@glitterbag,
I watched that movie three times.
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Thu 12 Dec, 2013 07:02 am
They say a deep freeze is likely here around Christmas. Record cold. I hope they are, a little, wrong.

I had pretty much quit doing my side projects, because the concrete and ladder work were keeping me tired. Then the constant rain. A visit by my son. I have a short window in which to get back to it. Perhaps today -

I am reading a touching book, about a man who loses his younger brother to cancer. Gubber's Gate.
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Fri 13 Dec, 2013 06:55 am
Ready to put legs and seat on the table I am making. It's too much labor for the money, so only strong demand and a higher price could induce me to make more. I have to try to finish before afternoon showers move in.

The man who has the lead job at the apartments calls me for the oddest things. Yesterday he wanted a screw extractor. I told him I likely had one among some unsorted tools, but it would be quite the task to look for it. He agreed then that he could run over to the hardware store and get his own. Why he didn't think of that, instead of asking me to expend half an hour driving, is a puzzle.



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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sat 14 Dec, 2013 10:49 am
Holy hell. If no winner on next Mega Millions, the jackpot would reach a billion dollars. That's just crazy. Crazy sweet for me, when I win it. Drunk

China has a new rover on the moon. I hope they don't tip it or something. I believe that's the sort of thing that influenced the John Birch society to morph into the Teaparty.

People have a negative image of Texas, as well they should, I suppose. But, remember Texas also gave us Willie Nelson, Buddy Holly, Janis Joplin, Beyonce, Richie Valens. In fact, I just took this list from Wikipedia:
Famous Texan musicians and groups include Bob Wills/Texas Playboys/Light Crust Doughboys, Milton Brown/Musical Brownies/Light Crust Doughboys, T-Bone Walker, Freddie King, Charlie Christian, Red Garland, Eddie Durham, Albert Collins, Blind Willie Johnson, Johnny Copeland, Z.Z. Hill, Pee Wee Crayton, Harry Choates, Lightnin' Hopkins, Gatemouth Brown, Lead Belly, Big Mama Thorton, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Sippie Wallace, Victoria Spivey, Mance Lipscomb, Scott Joplin, Hot Lips Page, Gene Ramey, Jack Teagarden, Teddy Wilson, Kenny Dorham, Ella Mae Morse, Charles Brown, Ernest Tubb, Lefty Frizzell, George Jones, Leon Payne, Tex Ritter, Roger Miller, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, Don Williams, Johnny Horton, George Strait, Jim Reeves, Waylon Jennings, Buck Owens, Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, Ray Price, Doug Sahm/Sir Douglas Quintet/Texas Tornados, Clifton Chenier, T-Bone Burnett, Edgar Winter, Johnny Winter, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Johnnie Taylor, Lydia Mendoza, Flaco Jimenez, Santiago Jimenez Sr., Beto Villa, Narcisco Martinez, Archie Bell & the Drells, Dustin Adams, Johnny Guitar Watson, Yolanda Adams, Ornette Coleman, King Curtis, Mickey Newbury, Phil Ochs, Townes Van Zandt, Trish Murphy, Selena Quintanilla, Pantera, Steve Miller Band, Boz Scaggs, Charlie Sexton, Janis Joplin, ZZ Top, Eric Johnson, Grammy winning songwriter Glenn Douglas Tubb, Meat Loaf, the metal-neck tandem WhiskeyDick[1] and many others.
cicerone imposter
 
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Reply Sat 14 Dec, 2013 11:42 am
@edgarblythe,
On one of our visits to Austin, our son took us to the restaurant where Janis Joplin frequented. We had lunch there, and I can still picture in my mind's eye the ambiance of the place - a narrow hall with a stage on one end where they play music today.
Romeo Fabulini
 
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Reply Sat 14 Dec, 2013 12:19 pm
Speaking of Texas, 26 Brits fought and died at the Alamo for the Lone Star State (12 English, 10 Irish, 4 Scots) and we can imagine what they said to Santy Anny when he demanded the garrison's surrender- "On yer bike mate!"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Alamo_defenders
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spendius
 
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Reply Sat 14 Dec, 2013 12:26 pm
@cicerone imposter,
With a list as big as ed provided I dare say there is hardy a restaurant in the state that one of them didn't frequent at some time or other. Take your pick depending on which one you visited.

cicerone imposter
 
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Reply Sat 14 Dec, 2013 08:03 pm
@spendius,
Well, edgar did mention Janis Joplin twice! Mr. Green Drunk Drunk Drunk
edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sat 14 Dec, 2013 08:06 pm
@cicerone imposter,
She was twice as good.
cicerone imposter
 
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Reply Sat 14 Dec, 2013 08:13 pm
@edgarblythe,
Maybe more. Mr. Green
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