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Post by TKennedy on Jan 18, 2011 17:27:58 GMT -5
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Dub
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I'm gettin' so the past is the only thing I can remember.
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Post by Dub on Jan 18, 2011 17:37:57 GMT -5
At least he wasn't a man from Nantucket... or Moline for that matter.
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Post by dradtke on Jan 18, 2011 18:31:13 GMT -5
Who carried old bones in a bucket?
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Post by sekhmet on Jan 18, 2011 20:07:33 GMT -5
Yes, David, that guy from Nantucket. Of course.  |
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Post by Jawbone on Jan 18, 2011 20:19:03 GMT -5
At least he wasn't a man from Nantucket...
Who carried old bones in a bucket...
As he sat in a plane, visions of gold nugget...
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Post by frazer on Jan 18, 2011 22:37:38 GMT -5
There was an old gaucho named Bruno
Who said, 'About sex, this I do know:
Women are fine
An sheep are divine
But iguanas are numero uno!'
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2011 16:23:11 GMT -5
Frazer, fer pete sakes!
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Post by millring on Jan 19, 2011 18:42:02 GMT -5
I hope you're never iguana say that one again?
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Post by frazer on Jan 19, 2011 20:08:48 GMT -5
Hey! My English teacher always said, "Write what you know." ;D |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2011 11:30:06 GMT -5
Hey! My English teacher always said, "Write what you know." ;D I read that in a Henry James essay called "The Art of Fiction." Here's one I got from the late copy editor Ken Brodney, a wellspring of limericks and good humor, during my Newsweek days. As an art student, you should appreciate this one, Frazer. Titian was mixing rose madder As his model ascended a ladder The position, to Titian Suggested coition So he leapt up the ladder and had 'er. |
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Post by millring on Jan 20, 2011 11:45:11 GMT -5
Hey! My English teacher always said, "Write what you know." ;D I'm reminded of Joel Mabus introduction to his "Duct Tape Blues": Taking a little excursion to the land of the blues...
<blues guitar riff>
..I feel better already.
I haven't always lived in Michigan. I was born in the land of the blues. Illinois. (you probably wondered where that was) down in southern Illinois. I was born not 10 miles from downtown East St Louis. Now I'm not going to say the blues were born in East St Louis...but that is where their mother got pregnant.
So, you see, I do have a right to sing the blues. But with every right comes a responsibility, y'know?. A responsibility to tell the truth.
Great blues man by the name of "Lightin' Hopkins" told me once, he said, "never sing a blues that isn't from personal experience -- something you lived through".
I took that to heart. But it cut down on my repertoire considerably.
But this is something I know all about. It's a song about, well, part of my life. It's a song about the very fabric of America...
You say the world is going to pieces,
Things just fell apart,
You want to put things back together,
But you don't know where to start.
Well, I got your solution,
The stuff you need to use.
It's a thing called Duct Tape,
There ain't nothin' it can't do... |
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