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Date: 19 Aug 2007 19:29:54
From: DI
Subject: to many posts to read
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I don't have time to read all this helmet crap, would someone volunteer to
summarize it when it's over in a few months and tell us the results. I'm
guessing how it will end, but just maybe by some outside chance, something
important may be said by someone..
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Date: 09 Sep 2007 04:41:21
From: Tom Keats
Subject: Re: to many posts to read
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In article <llv0r4-qk1.ln1@curare.zuvembi.homelinux.org >,
Dane Buson <dane@unseen.edu > writes:
> landotter <landotter@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Aug 20, 9:16 pm, tkeats2...@hotmail.com (Tom Keats) wrote:
>>>
>>> If not Mel Torme, I'd have settled for David Lee Roth.
>>> That'd be wild.
>>>
>>> Y'know whom I also think could wonderfully lead a belted-out,
>>> heartfelt version of Take Me Out To The Ballgame during the
>>> 7th inning stretch? Etta James. Or Koko Taylor. Or the
>>> Marshall Tucker Band. Or Van (TB Sheets) Morrison.
>>>
>>> Maybe Roger Daltrey, but I'm not so sure he understands baseball.
>>>
>>> Jesse Belvin (God rest his beloved soul) would be perfect.
>>
>> Nahhhh, Tom Waits accompanied by a ball peen hammer on a brake drum
>> from a Bel Aire.
>
> The angle-grinder and steam column version was light years better.
That might be a little overboard for such a traditional
and comfortably familiar ol' tune as "Take Me Out to
the Ball Game."
But maybe Alice In Chains could come up with something?
Nazareth's old "Please Don't Judas Me" kinda sounds to me
like a dirge version of Take Me Out to the Ball Game.
Just turn the major key into a minor, and there you are.
One or two steps away from Pearl Jam & the whole grunge
resentment/sarcastic/bitter/despondent thing.
Anyways, wherever Harry Caray is, I hope he and
everyone around him is having a good time.
Even Howard Cosell.
Cubs fan-ship is such an enigma.
cheers,
Tom
--
Smells like MLB attitude
I'm really at:
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Date: 21 Aug 2007 13:24:08
From: Tom Keats
Subject: Re: to many posts to read
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In article <1187706929.046560.125510@a39g2000hsc.googlegroups.com >,
landotter <landotter@gmail.com > writes:
>> Y'know whom I also think could wonderfully lead a belted-out,
>> heartfelt version of Take Me Out To The Ballgame during the
>> 7th inning stretch? Etta James. Or Koko Taylor. Or the
>> Marshall Tucker Band. Or Van (TB Sheets) Morrison.
>>
>> Maybe Roger Daltrey, but I'm not so sure he understands baseball.
>>
>> Jesse Belvin (God rest his beloved soul) would be perfect.
>
> Nahhhh, Tom Waits accompanied by a ball peen hammer on a brake drum
> from a Bel Aire.
I like that, even better than a Little Richard/Harry Connick Jr duet.
I remember Bel Airs. They were always 4-doors, and mint green.
Nice chrome. Sometimes they'd have that visor thing on the
windshield, and were driven by crusty, chicken-neck'd,
bitter-about-life old farts like Ed Dolan. They were almost as
ubiquitous as slant-6 Valiants and Ramblers, which could easily
be started by simply popping the hood and pushing the button
on the solenoid (not that I ever did that.)
I also recall Hudson Clippers being referred-to as
"Gutless Wonders" and "Rolls Canardlies[*]".
I even remember Stupidbakers.
Boy, am I gettin' old.
I hope I don't end up driving a Bel Air, with the
remnants of my unkempt hair sticking up at weird
angles, brown cordouroy house shoes on my unstocking'd
feet, disapprovingly referring to every kid I see on the
street as a "punk", having to occasionally manually shove
my teeth back in, and smelling like linament, like all the
other Bel Aire drivers I've ever seen.
I'd rather die first.
Some folks go to heaven, and some folks go to hell.
I've decided to go to Hawaii.
Thank Goodness for The Cubs keeping MLB real. Heh.
cheers,
Tom
[*] Rolls down one hill, and canardly make it up the next.
--
Nothing is safe from me.
I'm really at:
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Date: 21 Aug 2007 14:35:29
From: landotter
Subject: Re: to many posts to read
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On Aug 20, 9:16 pm, tkeats2...@hotmail.com (Tom Keats) wrote:
> In article <1187627852.970665.195...@19g2000hsx.googlegroups.com>,
> Ozark Bicycle <bicycleatel...@ozarkbicycleservice.com> writes:
>
> > On Aug 20, 11:12 am, landotter <landot...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Aug 19, 7:29 pm, "DI" <di9...@cox.net> wrote:
>
> >> > I don't have time to read all this helmet crap, would someone volunteer to
> >> > summarize it when it's over in a few months and tell us the results. I'm
> >> > guessing how it will end, but just maybe by some outside chance, something
> >> > important may be said by someone..
>
> >> Jaunty caps: 7R 1E
> >> Helmuts: 4R 2E
>
> >> Fan attendance was spotty, but there was an unusual amount of singing
> >> along to the organ numbers.
>
> > This whole thing sounds like a seventh inning stretch. ;-)
>
> Landotter is filling-in for Harry Caray ;-)
>
> Let's get 'im to sing Take Me Out To The Ballgame.
>
> Anyways, the side with the most 'E's loses every time.
>
> Those Surly /wool/ cycling caps are intriguing.
>
> I always wanted to see Mel Torme up in the pressbox w/
> Harry Caray, supporting him in a belted-out version of
> Take Me Out To The Ballgame. They'd probably have to
> share the single microphone, without fightin' over it,
> 'n tryin' to grab it from each other.
>
> If not Mel Torme, I'd have settled for David Lee Roth.
> That'd be wild.
>
> Y'know whom I also think could wonderfully lead a belted-out,
> heartfelt version of Take Me Out To The Ballgame during the
> 7th inning stretch? Etta James. Or Koko Taylor. Or the
> Marshall Tucker Band. Or Van (TB Sheets) Morrison.
>
> Maybe Roger Daltrey, but I'm not so sure he understands baseball.
>
> Jesse Belvin (God rest his beloved soul) would be perfect.
Nahhhh, Tom Waits accompanied by a ball peen hammer on a brake drum
from a Bel Aire.
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Date: 04 Sep 2007 14:35:17
From: Dane Buson
Subject: Re: to many posts to read
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landotter <landotter@gmail.com > wrote:
> On Aug 20, 9:16 pm, tkeats2...@hotmail.com (Tom Keats) wrote:
>>
>> If not Mel Torme, I'd have settled for David Lee Roth.
>> That'd be wild.
>>
>> Y'know whom I also think could wonderfully lead a belted-out,
>> heartfelt version of Take Me Out To The Ballgame during the
>> 7th inning stretch? Etta James. Or Koko Taylor. Or the
>> Marshall Tucker Band. Or Van (TB Sheets) Morrison.
>>
>> Maybe Roger Daltrey, but I'm not so sure he understands baseball.
>>
>> Jesse Belvin (God rest his beloved soul) would be perfect.
>
> Nahhhh, Tom Waits accompanied by a ball peen hammer on a brake drum
> from a Bel Aire.
The angle-grinder and steam column version was light years better.
--
Dane Buson - sigdane@unixbigots.org
... when fits of creativity run strong, more than one programmer or writer
has been known to abandon the desktop for the more spacious floor.
-- Fred Brooks
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Date: 20 Aug 2007 19:16:09
From: Tom Keats
Subject: Re: to many posts to read
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In article <1187627852.970665.195360@19g2000hsx.googlegroups.com >,
Ozark Bicycle <bicycleatelier@ozarkbicycleservice.com > writes:
> On Aug 20, 11:12 am, landotter <landot...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Aug 19, 7:29 pm, "DI" <di9...@cox.net> wrote:
>>
>> > I don't have time to read all this helmet crap, would someone volunteer to
>> > summarize it when it's over in a few months and tell us the results. I'm
>> > guessing how it will end, but just maybe by some outside chance, something
>> > important may be said by someone..
>>
>> Jaunty caps: 7R 1E
>> Helmuts: 4R 2E
>>
>> Fan attendance was spotty, but there was an unusual amount of singing
>> along to the organ numbers.
>
> This whole thing sounds like a seventh inning stretch. ;-)
Landotter is filling-in for Harry Caray ;-)
Let's get 'im to sing Take Me Out To The Ballgame.
Anyways, the side with the most 'E's loses every time.
Those Surly /wool/ cycling caps are intriguing.
I always wanted to see Mel Torme up in the pressbox w/
Harry Caray, supporting him in a belted-out version of
Take Me Out To The Ballgame. They'd probably have to
share the single microphone, without fightin' over it,
'n tryin' to grab it from each other.
If not Mel Torme, I'd have settled for David Lee Roth.
That'd be wild.
Y'know whom I also think could wonderfully lead a belted-out,
heartfelt version of Take Me Out To The Ballgame during the
7th inning stretch? Etta James. Or Koko Taylor. Or the
Marshall Tucker Band. Or Van (TB Sheets) Morrison.
Maybe Roger Daltrey, but I'm not so sure he understands baseball.
Jesse Belvin (God rest his beloved soul) would be perfect.
cheers,
Tom
--
At last, my love has come along.
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Date: 20 Aug 2007 09:37:32
From: Ozark Bicycle
Subject: Re: to many posts to read
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On Aug 20, 11:12 am, landotter <landot...@gmail.com > wrote:
> On Aug 19, 7:29 pm, "DI" <di9...@cox.net> wrote:
>
> > I don't have time to read all this helmet crap, would someone volunteer to
> > summarize it when it's over in a few months and tell us the results. I'm
> > guessing how it will end, but just maybe by some outside chance, something
> > important may be said by someone..
>
> Jaunty caps: 7R 1E
> Helmuts: 4R 2E
>
> Fan attendance was spotty, but there was an unusual amount of singing
> along to the organ numbers.
This whole thing sounds like a seventh inning stretch. ;-)
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Date: 20 Aug 2007 16:12:31
From: landotter
Subject: Re: to many posts to read
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On Aug 19, 7:29 pm, "DI" <di9...@cox.net > wrote:
> I don't have time to read all this helmet crap, would someone volunteer to
> summarize it when it's over in a few months and tell us the results. I'm
> guessing how it will end, but just maybe by some outside chance, something
> important may be said by someone..
Jaunty caps: 7R 1E
Helmuts: 4R 2E
Fan attendance was spotty, but there was an unusual amount of singing
along to the organ numbers.
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Date: 19 Aug 2007 18:40:54
From: Tom Keats
Subject: Re: to many posts to read
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In article <7g5yi.126141$zz2.74278@newsfe12.phx >,
"DI" <di9999@cox.net > writes:
> I don't have time to read all this helmet crap, would someone volunteer to
> summarize it when it's over in a few months and tell us the results. I'm
> guessing how it will end, but just maybe by some outside chance, something
> important may be said by someone..
I just had a lovely Montreal-style smoked brisket
on steamed light rye, from Omnitsky's Deli. No mustard,
just the red horseradish. Good slaw, but a somewhat
disappointingly soggy couple of pickle slices
(I wish they'd have half-dones) on the side.
It saved my life. I'm surviving for another day, anyways.
The weather is changing. Autumn winds are rushing in,
and stirring the dead air of summer. The local wildlife
is frantically grabbing whatever's available, in
catch-as-catch-can mode. I think maybe it'll be time
for full-fingered gloves sooner than I'd like.
cheers,
Tom
--
Nothing is safe from me.
I'm really at:
tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca
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Date: 22 Aug 2007 02:57:03
From: Tom Keats
Subject: Re: to many posts to read
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In article <13cj70bb8qdd34@corp.supernews.com >,
"Claire Petersky" <cpetersky@mouse-potato.com > writes:
>> The weather is changing. Autumn winds are rushing in,
>> and stirring the dead air of summer. The local wildlife
>> is frantically grabbing whatever's available, in
>> catch-as-catch-can mode. I think maybe it'll be time
>> for full-fingered gloves sooner than I'd like.
>
>
> Oh goodness, yes. On our ride this last weekend, I could see the vine maples
> already beginning to turn.
And those helicoptery eastern-maple seeds have
been gently gyrating earthwards. And falling
horse chestnuts have been thunking & splattering
on the roofs of parked cars.
How I recall September walks to school when that
was happening.
There's a stretch along E 22nd Ave, between Knight Road
& Victoria Drive, alongside Lord Selkirk School, where
many such eastern maples grow. The floral greenness of
that infra-urban area would impress you. This is my
home stompin' grounds -- a backwater part of east
Vancouver that was once known as Cedar Cottage.
They had to give it a name because the Inter-Urban
stopped there, right by Tommy Geer's Drugstore at
the Victoria/Commercial diversion.
Ernie's Corner Grocery Store remains at the
corner of 20th & Welwyn. I guess Ernie himself
is long gone. The sign remains.
I understand a certain Great War veteran took it
upon himself to plant those trees, and many others,
to commemorate his fallen comrades and the efforts
they gave. For a couple of decades I walked beneath
the shade of those trees that were an unacknowledged
gift, on my way to & from school.
Many of 'em are still there.
> It's cool and dampish out there right now, and as
> I sit here drinking tea, I have to get up the motivation to get out, on the
> bike, and on the way to work.
>
> Wah! Wah!
Why is winter so long, and summer so short?
Anyways, at least we can comiserate.
"I'm going back to the ones that I know,
with whom I can be what I want to be!
Just one week for the feeling to go,
and with you there to help me
then it probably will."
-- Jethro Tull
cheers,
Tom
--
Nothing is safe from me.
I'm really at:
tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca
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Date: 21 Aug 2007 20:00:30
From: Tom Keats
Subject: Re: to many posts to read
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In article <13clrovt017rdbc@corp.supernews.com >,
"Claire Petersky" <cpetersky@mouse-potato.com > writes:
> "landotter" <landotter@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1187649447.904659.126460@r29g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
>> On Aug 19, 9:04 pm, Paul Myron Hobson <phob...@gatech.edu> wrote:
>
>>> HA! It's finally getting hot here in Atlanta. Can't wait for the autumn
>>> weather though (all 3 weeks of it).
>>
>> We've had two weeks of 100+ heat here in Nashvile. Dog days indeed.
>> The lawn is crunchy and even the zinnias are fading. Still got the
>> tomatoes and okra hanging in there. ;-)
>
>
> Meanwhile, we haven't had enough sun for even my Early Girls to turn red. As
> usual, it's a race: which will come first, the tomatoes turning red, or the
> first frost?
Fortunately, green tomato recipes abound.
I think many of 'em must've been invented in the PNW.
I'm particularly partial to green tomato pie, which
can be as lusciously sweet and satisfying as apple pie.
Maybe it wouldn't hurt to help the green tomatoes out
with some loganberries.
Then there's pickled green tomatoes, and chutney.
But, yeah. A nice, plump, red, homegrown tomato is
indeed something to behold and admire.
So, I'm rootin' for your tomatoes.
cheers,
Tom
--
Nothing is safe from me.
I'm really at:
tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca
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Date: 20 Aug 2007 18:52:50
From: Tom Keats
Subject: Re: to many posts to read
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In article <1187649447.904659.126460@r29g2000hsg.googlegroups.com >,
landotter <landotter@gmail.com > writes:
> On Aug 19, 9:04 pm, Paul Myron Hobson <phob...@gatech.edu> wrote:
>> Tom Keats wrote:
>> > The weather is changing. Autumn winds are rushing in,
>> > and stirring the dead air of summer. The local wildlife
>> > is frantically grabbing whatever's available, in
>> > catch-as-catch-can mode. I think maybe it'll be time
>> > for full-fingered gloves sooner than I'd like.
>>
>> HA! It's finally getting hot here in Atlanta. Can't wait for the autumn
>> weather though (all 3 weeks of it).
>
> We've had two weeks of 100+ heat here in Nashvile. Dog days indeed.
> The lawn is crunchy
Yeah, after a certain point the "lawn cycling" technique
doesn't work too good.
> and even the zinnias are fading.
Give 'em a drink! Are they at the palliative care stage?
Transplant a few mini sunflowers around 'em. A little shade
doesn't hurt. Maybe bury some sphagnum moss around
their vicinity, to retain moisture. You've gotta be in at
least Zone 2 if not Zone 1, right? Zinnias shouldn't be
fading just yet; they still have a ways to go.
> Still got the
> tomatoes and okra hanging in there. ;-)
^^^^
I used to hate okra (or as I used to refer to it:
snotweed.) But that was because for the longest
while, I never had properly prepared & treated
servings of it. I could go for a fine mess o'
fried-up, cornmeal-dredged okra & crawdad tails
right now.
A lot of folks don't like cabbage, but they've
been turned-off by experiences with overcooked
servings that have had the hell boiled out of 'em
until it turns yellow and stinks like sulphur.
A heapin' helpin' of savoy cabbage that has just
been tenderized by steam, and whacked with a big
pat of the unhealthy kind of butter and some S&P,
and I'm in hawg heaven. Although beet tops are
my ultimate favourite green veggie. Some knackwurst
on the side, and yer off 'n runnin'.
In my book, lima beans are still irredeemable and
irrepairable. Ketchup renders 'em choke-down-able,
but that's just a kludge. Cheese sauce might help,
if it's zested-up enough.
Oh, gawd, 'n then there's mung beans. pthththtththth.
I'm sure glad I'm not in jail, being served platefuls
of lima beans or mung beans or garbanzos for dinner.
With no bottle o' ketchup in sight.
Life can be a Leona Helmsley sometimes.
cheers,
Tom
--
Nothing is safe from me.
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Date: 20 Aug 2007 06:50:10
From: Claire Petersky
Subject: Re: to many posts to read
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> The weather is changing. Autumn winds are rushing in,
> and stirring the dead air of summer. The local wildlife
> is frantically grabbing whatever's available, in
> catch-as-catch-can mode. I think maybe it'll be time
> for full-fingered gloves sooner than I'd like.
Oh goodness, yes. On our ride this last weekend, I could see the vine maples
already beginning to turn. It's cool and dampish out there right now, and as
I sit here drinking tea, I have to get up the motivation to get out, on the
bike, and on the way to work.
Wah! Wah!
--
Warm Regards,
Claire Petersky
http://www.bicyclemeditations.org/
See the books I've set free at: http://bookcrossing.com/referral/Cpetersky
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Date: 19 Aug 2007 22:04:22
From: Paul Myron Hobson
Subject: Re: to many posts to read
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Tom Keats wrote:
> The weather is changing. Autumn winds are rushing in,
> and stirring the dead air of summer. The local wildlife
> is frantically grabbing whatever's available, in
> catch-as-catch-can mode. I think maybe it'll be time
> for full-fingered gloves sooner than I'd like.
HA! It's finally getting hot here in Atlanta. Can't wait for the autumn
weather though (all 3 weeks of it).
\\paul
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Date: 19 Aug 2007 20:57:14
From: DI
Subject: Re: to many posts to read
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"Tom Keats" <tkeats2005@hotmail.com > wrote in message
news:6fraaf.bn4.ln@vcn.bc.ca...
> In article <7g5yi.126141$zz2.74278@newsfe12.phx>,
> "DI" <di9999@cox.net> writes:
>> I don't have time to read all this helmet crap, would someone volunteer
>> to
>> summarize it when it's over in a few months and tell us the results.
>> I'm
>> guessing how it will end, but just maybe by some outside chance,
>> something
>> important may be said by someone..
>
> I just had a lovely Montreal-style smoked brisket
> on steamed light rye, from Omnitsky's Deli. No mustard,
> just the red horseradish. Good slaw, but a somewhat
> disappointingly soggy couple of pickle slices
> (I wish they'd have half-dones) on the side.
>
> It saved my life. I'm surviving for another day, anyways.
>
> The weather is changing. Autumn winds are rushing in,
> and stirring the dead air of summer. The local wildlife
> is frantically grabbing whatever's available, in
> catch-as-catch-can mode. I think maybe it'll be time
> for full-fingered gloves sooner than I'd like.
>
>
> cheers,
> Tom
>
This makes sense, sounds really good. But, I hate to hear about the Autumn
winds, they're about 2-1/2 to 3 months away around here, but Tropical Storm
Erin sure dumped on us last night.
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Date: 19 Aug 2007 18:32:35
From: Bill Sornson
Subject: Re: to many posts to read
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DI wrote:
> I don't have time to read all this helmet crap, would someone
> volunteer to summarize it when it's over in a few months and tell us
> the results. I'm guessing how it will end, but just maybe by some
> outside chance, something important may be said by someone..
"Do what you want."
Problem solved; off you go.
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