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Mia Hamm Ima Pigg Mia Sara

Good "get" on Brenda Jo! Tom Graham Bobby Moore / Ahmad Rashad Dan Fouts

Slice 9 & Dice Clay Bertha Butt Ralph Waite

I guess so, but damn... have you heard those lyrics?

Farfel Farley Mowat = Burl Ives

I know (and never knew, frankly) nothing about pre-recorded MiniDiscs. All of mine were blanks that I used like cassettes (except that they could be edited, and had better sound, and were more portable, and more durable, and easier to use, and...). I had the AH album on vinyl, and recorded my MD from that. Never knew about the "Audrey" disc until today (I don't really shop for CD's anymore). I hope and expect that you'll enjoy the Telarc recording.

I was never sure why, but I always listened least frequently to the Horizon album. I was just refreshing my memory a bit, and realized that the Horizon album is much brighter/treblier (let me know if that's a word or not) than the others. Maybe too much so (?). I dunno. That right there could be a factor, but I just compared the versions of "Things Ain't What They Used To Be" from Telarc and Horizon, and I strongly prefer the Telarc for the groove and level of inspiration that seemed to be going on. I also listened to "Just Squeeze Me" from the Telarc album, and it's also very inspired. Desmond and Bickert were really doing some nice pushing and pulling (hopefully not on Desmond's chest hair, but let's not even think about that and just move on). I haven't heard the AH album for quite awhile. You just made me realize that I never transferred it to mp3 (I think I still have a MiniDisc of it around here somewhere). Anyway, I always liked that recording also. A LOT. The album that got my attention to begin with in regard to the Desmond/Bickert thing was "Pure Desmond" on CTI, btw. There's also a bootleg floating around of a 1976 concert in Edmonton, which ain't bad at all. Some data, for reference, just because... 1975 Paul Desmond Quartet Paul Desmond (alto saxophone) Ed Bickert (guitar) Don Thompson (bass) Jerry Fuller (drums) "Bourbon Street Jazz Club", Toronto, Ontario, Canada, March 29, 1975 Just Squeeze Me Telarc CD-83319 Tangerine - Meditation - Nuages - Like Someone In Love - Things Ain't What They Used To Be - * Telarc CD-83319 Paul Desmond - Like Someone In Love Paul Desmond Quartet Paul Desmond (alto saxophone) Ed Bickert (guitar) Don Thompson (bass) Jerry Fuller (drums) "Bourbon Street Jazz Club", Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 25, 27, 30 & 31 & November 1, 1975 Wendy A&M/Horizon SP-850 Wave - Things Ain't What They Used To Be - Nancy - Manha De Carnaval - Here's That Rainy Day - My Funny Valentine - Take Five - Line For Lyons Horizon unissued * A&M/Horizon SP-850 The Paul Desmond Quartet Live Paul Desmond Quartet same personnel "Bourbon Street Jazz Club", Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October, 1975 Too Marvelous For Words Artists House AH 2 Audrey - Line For Lyons - When Sunny Gets Blue - Darn That Dream - * Artists House AH 2, AH 9402 Paul Desmond [aka "Audrey", on EuroMusiPorn] It wasn't all one gig. The Telarc recording was seven months prior to the other two. Same club, yes.

I know. I should have just lied.

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Mark Fidrych Brian Wilson Phenomenal Smith

Betsy Palmer Sophie Nicklaus Player

Socrates Zico Garrincha

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Charles Dierkop Larry Dierker Don Wilson

Dick Bass Al Viola viol henchman

adoring fans Dakota Fanning Joe Cool

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Sean Penn Colonel Klink Jo Ann Castle

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I know, and pray that you never have to smell one (or two, or three...) of these motherfuckers. Actually, that's like saying "Pray that your kids never learn about Hitler". You should smell them, but it should be out in the country or on a ranch or a forest or someplace AWAY from home. If ground zero turns out to be 37 inches from your front door, this is a bad thing (then you might find yourself starting a thread on a jazz discussion board of all places, hoping that somebody, anybody might have even the smallest tidbit of experience or advice). But I know now that I probably can't be looking for advice at this point. I can sure as hell give some, though.

Bump/update: I battled these things (pretty much daily during the Spring and Summer) for almost two years. We also planted some ground cover (aptenia and gazania), which seemed to help keep them down, and I gradually felt like I might be winning the battle. The last time I had seen one was July 2013. I had since reflected on how worthwhile all of that effort was. It's hard for me to explain to people what might have happened (and I've read a few horror stories) if these were allowed to spread unchecked. That's unthinkable to me, and yet some family and friends (and neighbors) just don't seem to understand what I'm talking about, and look at me like I'm crazy. Very strange experience, this has been (made all the more strange by the fact that the average person- hell, the majority of people have never even heard of a stinkhorn, let alone seen one). So, fast forward to a couple of weeks ago, when our next-door neighbor removed a shrub from his flower beds, just on the other side of our driveway. This was perhaps 30 feet from the closest spot where I had removed any of them from our own flower beds two years ago. Apparently there were dormant spores released when he did this, and now the bastards are beginning to pop up in that general area (mostly in his lawn, so far). He never seemed to be very worried about it, and he's still pretty passive, but I'm removing them for him (for his own good, and hopefully to prevent the flies from spreading them further onto his property or back onto our property). $%&*!!