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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 18, 2018 - 09:27pm PT
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"Man doth not live by all-girl bands alone."--donini sahib baba
They also move refrigerators in their spare time. TVs, microwaves, even pianos. They're all ace salesmen and clean up nicely.
They always have a blast, no matter what. Guido's the one in the boater.
George and Roy, you're off the train and we miss you.
But it's all right.
Traveling Wilburys - End Of The Line
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMVjToYOjbM
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 19, 2018 - 02:15am PT
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http://m.facebook.com/russell.ragsdale
[click on Rags' pic to enlarge]
Khazakstan? Monterey Peninsula Cool.
Rags and Dee were the ones who rented Larry, Mou, and Jeff space in their place in Monterey till we found Apathy House out in Pacific Groove.
He was a huge-nosed lover of WXY Fields, hmmm, yes he was.
A grader of papers The Ragsdale I knew took himself and Dee off to the land beside the Sea known as Seaside.
I contacted them in Tuscon, AZ, where he was a butcher in the 80s, but we were never reunited.
Too bad, but that's the way of things...
Living with Rags just a few blocks from Cannery Row was an experience which made me a Steinbeck fan and of course, a fan of Fieldsian humor.
Time to dance once again.
[Click to View YouTube Video]Large Screen option.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ockKHzmm16M
"I don't care who those bozos are. Music's for dancin', it ain't for memorizin'."
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 19, 2018 - 03:02am PT
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So Penny left this side for the other.
It happens that that keeps on happening. Hi ho.
Nothing to be done but wait for our turn and count our blessings till it happens to ourselves.
Here is another 80s icon--two of them, actually.
Mork, of course, checked out a lang syne.[Click to View YouTube Video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46cG2foNwiU
We're all candles and dust in the wind.
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Bushman
climber
The state of quantum flux
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Dec 19, 2018 - 04:15am PT
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boo hoo
or
you flew through my day, brand new
Days will come
and days will go
It's more about
the friends you know
Who'll chop yer little
world in two
And how you'll deal
when they are through
So suck it up
and grow a sack
No matter how
you get the whack
And they'll respect you
more my friend
Though you'll be
day-less in the end
-bushman
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Bushman
climber
The state of quantum flux
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Dec 19, 2018 - 05:55am PT
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Farout: Scientists spot solar system’s farthest known object
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronomers have spotted the farthest known object in our solar system — and they’ve nicknamed the pink cosmic body “Farout.”
The International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center announced the discovery Monday.
“Farout” is about 120 astronomical units away — that’s 120 times the distance between Earth and the sun, or 11 billion miles. The previous record-holder was the dwarf planet Eris at 96 astronomical units. Pluto, by comparison, is 34 astronomical units away.
The Carnegie Institution’s Scott Sheppard said the object is so far away and moving so slowly it will take a few years to determine its orbit. At that distance, it could take more than 1,000 years to orbit the sun.
Sheppard and his team spied the dwarf planet in November using a telescope in Hawaii. Their finding was confirmed by a telescope in Chile.
“I actually uttered “farout” when I first found this object, because I immediately noticed from its slow movement that it must be far out there,” Sheppard wrote in an email. “It is the slowest moving object I have ever seen and is really out there.”
It is an estimated 310 miles (500 kilometers) across and believed to be round. Its pink shade indicates an ice-rich object. Little else is known.
The discovery came about as the astronomers were searching for the hypothetical Planet X, a massive planet believed by some to be orbiting the sun from vast distances, well beyond Pluto.
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Bushman
climber
The state of quantum flux
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Dec 19, 2018 - 06:33am PT
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Poor Humphrey
Humphrey the Humpback
Humpback Whale
swam underneath
the ocean swells
Humphrey the Humpback
a nose could tell
was unapproached
because the smell
He swam so lonesome
in his private hell
Until one day
he met Pale Mel
Nose over tail
in love he fell
though Mel vamoosed
post haste oh well
Humphrey the Humpback
beneath the swells
swims all alone
because he smells
not ni...so sad
-bushman
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 19, 2018 - 08:19am PT
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"Farout, not Farouk, dumbass!"--Red "Dwarf" Forman
I've never seen Cosmic's naked pink body, and don't wanna.Home of Lonely Planet guides to the Galaxy.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Dec 19, 2018 - 09:00am PT
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Well thanks fellas, but do you ask Steven Spielberg that?
I was teling my nephew that when you get up above 60 you kinda quit paying much attention to birthdays. Well, I did anyway.
Your start thinking stuff:
"Like if I make it to my mom's age I've got x number of years left.
Where x=18.
Then you kinda wonder, what I'd been doing the first 18.
Anyway, I stole this from Bo Diddley, another guy I never have met.
Jerome, whole 'nother story.
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Anyway, probably not our J, but
J.J. Flemstein
"I think it was Sonny Boy Williamson who burned down his hotel room in England trying to cook a rabbit in a coffee percolator."
Wiki picked it up
Stephen Davis writes in Hammer of the Gods, while in England Williamson set his hotel room on fire while trying to cook a rabbit in a coffee percolator.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 19, 2018 - 01:09pm PT
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Dec 19, 2018 - 02:27pm PT
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There are some who would say National City is more dangerous than Otay, even though Tom Waits used to work there.
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