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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 - Jan 15, 2016 - 10:51am PT
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That looks almost positively like 4th St.
"But that's not where it's at," is it?
Just for one moment I'd like to stand under your overpass,
University Avenue just above me.
"And look, mama, is that Sierra Designs I see?"
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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 - Jan 15, 2016 - 11:08am PT
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JEleazarian, this is for calling Fresno the "Big Raisin" this morning on the "YNP names litigation thread."
http://www.peterthorne.com/big_raisin.htm
Do you know any of these guys, since you are musically inclined and local since WAY before '91?
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Bushman
Social climber
Elk Grove, California
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Jan 15, 2016 - 11:21am PT
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A Woman's Touch
I glanced upon my morning view
With nothing missing or askew
And saw the trees and morning sky
And light reflected to my eye
With racks of movies and of song
That we've collected all along
And there aligning window sill
Are boxes some with hopes we've filled
And some contain the dear remains
Of pets like children's tears that stain
Our hearts until the day comes near
They're cast in river's waters clear
Flowing from the glaciers melt
Where we'll hold sacred how we felt
When warm soft puppies tumbled forth
Warmed to our hearts for all their worth
And we can say goodbye to those
Of loyal paws and cold wet nose
Until then they'll stay on the shelf
Revered like spirits of woodland elf
But something there in window frame
Occurs to me and calls to name
The one whose feel for craft and art
Captured my eye and stole my heart
My wedded partner and my spouse
Whose touched in every part this house
Someone I treasure more I think
As time goes by with every blink
Reflecting on our lives I see
The love that she has brought to me
The warmth of family and of hope
Through darkened days I've learned to cope
And nurse to health my lifelong friend
Till I would see her smile again
And share once more her wants and wiles
Her mystery and how she beguiles
Like that which frames my morning view
As fleeting as the morning dew
And holds to promise dreams of such
The whispering of her woman's touch
-bushman
01/15/2016
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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Jan 15, 2016 - 11:33am PT
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What's the Flames new name?
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jan 15, 2016 - 11:37am PT
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Aw shucks:
The New Flames
Next?
Now I could lie and say I made this or I could lie and say it is one of Cosmic's birds of the paradise, but I won't. Just some old stained glass I found near the West Berkeley Mound.
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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 - Jan 15, 2016 - 11:40am PT
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Ain't changin', bro.
We're supposed to be like "outlaws," see.
We don't have no stinkin' Board of Directors, don't hold lawyers on retaining leashes, and nobody owns no stock.
We "borrowed" the name originally, I guess, from James Brown and the Famous Flames--didn't pay nobody for the "rights."
We're WAY too cheap to pay for usin' the name, even if we thought we could afford to buy it.
Bushman, yer killin' me! That was so personal to me. I thank you.
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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 - Jan 15, 2016 - 11:44am PT
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Yeah, that, too!
And we wanna be able to take out the window glass in the sunroof while driving eighty with one hand with nobody ratting us out to The Man.
Ain't that right, hooblie?
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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Jan 15, 2016 - 12:59pm PT
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Fook the Man! Down with Fuzz!
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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 - Jan 15, 2016 - 01:23pm PT
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[Click to View YouTube Video]
We could have tried to appropriate "The Gypsies."
We didn't know any back then.
Listening to this WEDNESDAY'S Musical Migrations TODAY!
Technology's sometimes a benefit. Sorta like a good snort of brandy or a couple of hits of exorbitantly priced weed. All are best when freely given.
http://www.ashevillefm.org/musical-migrations
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Țara Moților (German: Motzenland), also known as Țara de Piatră ("The Stone Land") is an ethnogeographical region of Romania in the Apuseni Mountains, as if you didn't know that already, Gypsy.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jan 15, 2016 - 01:28pm PT
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Merced County seems to be taken, but how about
Hells Angels City of Merced
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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 - Jan 15, 2016 - 01:43pm PT
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RICO laws, dude.
And Sonny's Boys wouldn't cotton to it, as we say.
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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 - Jan 15, 2016 - 08:21pm PT
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Instead of watching Revenant at today's theater prices, I pulled up Royal Flash from 1975 out of the films available at Tzar Media (free 5-day trial).
I'll be checking out a free trial at videostripe.com later this month, too.
Malcolm McDowell and Alan Bates and Britt Ekland are directed by Richard Lester. Oliver Reed plays Otto von Bismarck.
Mouse sez, "Check it out."
Fun, cheeky, and oh so period! Four of five stars--could have been longer, but the author of the Flashman series, George MacDonald Fraser, wrote the screenplay himself.
I'm glad that things worked out this way or I would not have run into Julia Parker at my bank's ATM.
She told me she's working harder at being retired than she did when she was at the Yosemite Museum, what with cooking and so on.
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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 - Jan 17, 2016 - 02:59am PT
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Bushman
Social climber
Elk Grove, California
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Jan 17, 2016 - 06:34am PT
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God Yam
Don't you think it's fairly odd,
That tubers sacrifice their bod,
But n'er do ever get the nod,
For their relationship to god?
Though some are deadly,
Taste like rot,
Some quite delicious,
Some do not,
The sweet potato,
Served up hot,
Though just a root,
It hits the spot,
So spare the rod and spoil the child,
Of carbohydrate you'll beguiled,
Served up spicy, sweet, or mild,
A veggie can be something wild,
This monocot,
And holy lamb,
If you don't like it,
Eat some spam,
But never curse them,
You'll be damned,
To hear them cry out,
"God I Yam!"
At holidays I would abide,
A sweet potato on the side,
It's sanctity I must confide,
A question only you decide.
-bushman
01/17/2016
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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 - Jan 17, 2016 - 06:36am PT
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Timing is all, Gnome.
It so happens I'm reading R.V. Burgin's Islands of the Damned: A Marine at War in the Pacific. Burgin, like Eugene Sledge, another Marine veteran who wrote a popular book on his own experiences during the invasions of Peleliu and Okinawa, was a native of Mobile.
Very heavy fighting on Peleliu and for no really good reason, as it turns out.
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