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Post Number: 1170
Registered: 04-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, October 23, 2008 - 8:24 pm: |    |
Diane: Bravo, Bravo (My fingers are snapping and I'm wearing a beret in a smoked filled coffee house). Wonderful poetry (prose)...seriously
(Message edited by kellyroad on October 23, 2008) |
Diane12163
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Post Number: 412
Registered: 07-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, October 23, 2008 - 9:02 pm: | |
Thank you Kellyroad. That means the world to me. I need to put them on FB. Oh, btw do you think you could post a pic of you on FB or something as your profile pic?
Here's Another Poem:
MY DREAM PILLOW
When I sleep perchance to dream
I float away on clouds of cream
To faraway and exotic lands
Being held in your hands
Through the mosques and citadel
Into the villages where the natives dwell
Mountains and beckoning trees
Lakes, rivers and enormous seas
Over all this I fly with you
Together in my dream we two |
7andkelly
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Username: 7andkelly
Post Number: 1592
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, October 23, 2008 - 9:32 pm: | |
Nice poem, Diane.
KR, In my interpretation, the music this would be set to is not the finger snapping to type. I'm thinking more Gone With the Wind ish. |
7andkelly
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Post Number: 1593
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, October 23, 2008 - 9:48 pm: | |
My wife and I made it to the St. Jude Novena and Mass this evening. It was a joyous, Spirit filled event!
Fr. Liberty said the Mass which was followed by the Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, the Benediction, and the St. Jude Novena prayers.
As an extra bonus, it was my great priviledge to meet two very nice ladies from my old neighborhood whom I haven't seen for such a long, long time. Some of you might know them from St. Jude School, or maybe Campfire Girls. Today, they are very nice, hard working, dedicated helpers to St. Jude Parish. |
Diane12163
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Post Number: 413
Registered: 07-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, October 23, 2008 - 10:15 pm: | |
Thank you 7andkelly. I had thought a rock ballad with snipets of 30's-40's movie music interspersed. Truthfully, I would be in 7th Heaven if David Bowie would sing this as the way I wrote it represents a juxtaposed style reticent of his work. |
Kellyroad
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Username: Kellyroad
Post Number: 1171
Registered: 04-2007
| | Posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 - 1:11 am: | |
7K: The finger snapping is of beatnik style...instead of applause...like Jack Kerouac or James Dean in rebel without a cause or perhaps Maynard G. Krebs...Can you dig man?
Can you dig the scene man? I mean Diane doin what she do man? with the words man. It's a scene man. Can you dig it? |
Kellyroad
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Post Number: 1172
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| | Posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 - 1:56 am: | |
7K: Are you at liberty (no pun intended) to mention the two very nice ladies from the old neighborhood? |
Campfire_girl
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Post Number: 1
Registered: 10-2008
| | Posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 - 8:20 am: | |
KR - shame on you - we shall always remain anonymous! :-)
It was a wonderful novena evening - and a delight to meet 7K and wife. It was a joyous, spirit filled event - and one that is often repeated at St. Jude. Wish you all could have been there! |
Zitro
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Username: Zitro
Post Number: 2247
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 - 10:17 am: | |
Gas is $2.34 in my cornpone neck o' the woods this morn! |
7andkelly
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Post Number: 1595
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 - 10:22 am: | |
On the way in, we stopped at Papa's Coney Island, FKA Tastee's, FKA, Tastee Freeze. In some ways it was much as I remember it. In fact, I think the booths, and window facing counter tops are the same, and the local kids still like to eat there. The most notable difference is the thick counter to ceiling glass separating the customers from the servers, with a little revolving tray to pass money and food from one side to the other. And the bar stools along the window counter are in definite need of reupholstering.
But the hamburgers were delicious, and they are very generous with the french fries when you order the deluxe. The panoramic view from our booth was spectacular! Across Mcormick was my old Dentist, Dr. Shipko's office. On the west side of Kelly we could see Dunn's Inn, FKA Jay's, FKA Paper Station, FKA..., a nice new Wendy's and an Autozone where Calcaterra's used to be. At the southwest corner of 7andkelly, were some of my old favorite stomping grounds including the now vacant Colonial Bank, the old bakery with the delicious giant sugar cookies, and the party store, which I believe is currently open under new ownership.
It also looks to me like the dining area and restrooms for Tastee's were merely added on to the old walk-up Tastee Freeze building. |
Jcole
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Post Number: 4314
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 - 10:23 am: | |
Your 'cornpone' comment just made me think of Li'l Abner.
Senator Jubilation T. Cornpone |
Zitro
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Username: Zitro
Post Number: 2248
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 - 10:40 am: | |
I've you ever come through here I've got an extra bushel of straws to hang on the side of your mouth so you don't look like tourists |
Kellyroad
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Post Number: 1174
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| | Posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 - 11:16 am: | |
Sorry CFG, I won't do it again. When's confession? |
Jcole
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Post Number: 4315
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| | Posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 - 11:33 am: | |
Z, do we need to pack flannel shirts, or will those be available also? |
Zitro
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Post Number: 2249
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| | Posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 - 11:41 am: | |
As long as red flannel agrees with you we've got plenty |
Jcole
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Post Number: 4316
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| | Posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 - 11:42 am: | |
I love Red Flannel Hash, so I should be fine |
7andkelly
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Post Number: 1596
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 - 12:06 pm: | |
The wholesale price of gas is 1.49. If that holds, we should see pump prices back in the ones sooner than later...another stimulus package I have pre-spent in anticipation.
Wish I had better news about my 201K and CryRA. |
Diane12163
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Username: Diane12163
Post Number: 414
Registered: 07-2008
| | Posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 - 12:20 pm: | |
Ah reckons ah'll have ta go git me a pair o oshkoshbegoshes if'n ah'm gonna go ter yer neck o th' woods Zitro. hey, yew got some a dat der moonshine in yer holler?  |
Zitro
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Username: Zitro
Post Number: 2250
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 - 12:22 pm: | |
Sur do der Daisy Mae |
Jcole
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Post Number: 4318
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 - 12:34 pm: | |
I don't think they have 'hollers' in Iowa, do they?
I thought it was more like this:
"Oh, there's nothing halfway
About the Iowa way to treat you,
When we treat you
Which we may not do at all.
There's an Iowa kind of special
Chip-on-the-shoulder attitude.
We've never been without.
That we recall.
We can be cold
As our falling thermometers in December
If you ask about our weather in July.
And we're so by God stubborn
We could stand touchin' noses
For a week at a time
And never see eye-to-eye.
But what the heck, you're welcome,
Join us at the picnic.
You can eat your fill
Of all the food you bring yourself.
You really ought to give Iowa a try." |
Zitro
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Post Number: 2251
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| | Posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 - 12:36 pm: | |
Nice to see Detroit in the national spotlight again. Thanks KK & CB |
Jcole
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| | Posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 - 12:39 pm: | |
I forgot to credit Meredith Wilson with the above lyrics. |
Zitro
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Post Number: 2252
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| | Posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 - 12:40 pm: | |
Shhhsh TS/Diane, we want to keep what we have going on here a secret.
(Message edited by zitro on October 24, 2008)
(Message edited by zitro on October 24, 2008) |
Jcole
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Post Number: 4321
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| | Posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 - 1:11 pm: | |
Here's the last verse:
Townspeople:
You really ought to give Iowa
Hawkeye Iowa
Dubuque,
Des Moines, Davenport, Marshalltown,
Mason City, Keokuk, Ames,
Clear Lake
Ought to give Iowa a try! |
Campfire_girl
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Registered: 03-2008
| | Posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 - 1:58 pm: | |
KR - not to worry - I hardly think I'm anonymous to most folks out here anyway!
Crazy, day, so once again you all have brightened up the spirits considerably - and i for one love red flannel and would welcome the opportunity for red flannel, a straw hangin' out my mouth - and a nice rocker on the porch over looking the corn fields.
J - LOVE the Iowa cheers!
and Z - I sure have gotten behind on the scoops out here! I need to catch up on my reading! |
Diane12163
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Post Number: 416
Registered: 07-2008
| | Posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 - 2:03 pm: | |
oops sorry Z. My bad. |
7andkelly
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Post Number: 1597
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| | Posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 - 2:18 pm: | |
Meredith Wilson...wasn't she on Petticoat Junction? |
Jcole
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| | Posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 - 2:21 pm: | |
No, HE wrote music. That's from The Music Man
He also wrote the University of Iowa's fight song and Iowa State University's "For I for S Forever".
(Message edited by jcole on October 24, 2008) |
Zitro
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Post Number: 2253
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| | Posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 - 2:43 pm: | |
7: You're thinking of Benji |
7andkelly
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Post Number: 1598
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| | Posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 - 3:16 pm: | |
Well I don't like that poem. I find it both insensitive and offensive to Iowans and other midwesterners...not to mention the run on sentences and other grammatical irregularities and dalliances. Hopefully, he wasn't paid for that scatological dung. |