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Canadians...Sheesh!

I agree here. I will endeavor to give all the tracks a serious hearing and all this with so much of my own collection requiring my eartime. So given everyone's time limitations, I think it important tostick with Jazz and its variants.

Excellent point, Dan!!! The author is clearly remiss in not providing the most salient details here.

Certainly my problem too, Lon. But I still enjoy the blindfold concept and wish to continue participating. If I ever get overwhelmed, I'll yell, "Uncle!" But I'm not there yet.

Read in today's paper that the Pats-Dolphins game will be shown on local TV. I am PLEASED to say the least!! Friday's paper said it was only going to be on the radio. The program director's must have seen the light!! Here in Toledo we're stuck with Detroit Lions and Cleveland Browns games all the time. It almost makes you wanna take up KNITTING! It's bad enough I've got to watch the Lions at 1:00 instead of Indianapolis at Tennessee. We live in a lousy area for football here.

I began my participation with Jim R's disc. I skipped the first two because I didn't really understand what was going on. I skipped the third because I thought once you were out of the loop for the first two then you would probably be out of it forever. Then I couldn't resist. Had to join in, and I was very pleased with Jim's disc. Now I wish to participate in them all. It's unlikely that I'll be able to recognize much from anyone's compilations but I'll have fun posting my impressions anyway. Jim introduced me to Vince Guaraldi and I've been buying some of his stuff as a result. These discs will lead me into spending $$$. I'm pretty sure of that, but my ears are open if my pocket is only partially cracked.

The book I'm reading quotes sections from books dealing with some aspect of cannibalism. I've just finished the first two sections. The first deals with Primitive Cannibalism and Human Sacrifice, and there are sections on the Anasazi in SW America, the Aztecs in Cortez' time, and the Fiji islanders. The second section deals with Cannibalism on the high seas. There's a funny bit which I would like to quote. The sloop PEGGY was caught in a storm and was adrift. Starvation set in and a heroic battle was fought on the part of the captain, David Harrison to keep his men from cannibalising each other. Well, one guys gets eaten up (a negro slave) who drew the unfortunate straw (predestined, of course-duh!), but the captain refuses to partake. Days pass and he gets weaker and weaker. He's got a couple of pistols which he barely has the strength to hold up in case the men go for him as they are plotting to do. Straws are drawn and another unfortunate fellow is nominated. He turns out to be the most popular crew member. They defer the moment for a day or two and miraculously they get rescued in the interim. The man who had been expected to die went delirious and never regained his sanity. In the meantime, they are fed on the ship. The captain had no appetite for four days (!) owing to the stresses and horror of events. Eventually, he is able to take some broth and small amounts of food. He gradually improves then one day.... "having an occasion for a particular indulgence of nature, I thought I should have expired performing it. The pain it gave me was excruciating to the last degree and the parts were so contracted, having never once been employed for a space of thirty-six or thirty-seven days, that I almost began to despair restoring them to their necessary operations. I was, however, at last relieved by the discharge of a callous lump about the size of a hen's egg. and enjoyed a tranquility of body, notwithstanding all my disorders, with which I was utterly unacquainted for some preceding weeks."

Mencken was great! Some of those topics had me rolling on the floor!

I think I've got it now, Rooster, Thank you! Still hope Jim give us more smilies...

Show off!

Testing.... http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/laugh2.gif Man, what a palaver! Jimmmmm......! How about some more smilies? Hmm, obviously, I wasn't very successful. BTW, Rooster, I have no ideas how to post pictures either. testing again: Well, I guess I got it, but have instantly forgot how I did it!

That's where Jacknife got my copy: from Hirsohi (bless his heart!) Now he is unable to find one for himself. Imagine a fellow that thinks of others first...

More detailed instructions would be appreciated Claude. Someone taught me how to do it at the BNBB, (Maybe Couw), but I've since forgotten and the Organissimo board works a little differently. I already know the smilie websites but I just don't know how to transfer em here. Now back to the original question: Jim, How about some more smilies?

A grinning South Sea islander with filed teeth would be adequate.

Hey Jim, I know you're busy recording and gigging and playing nursemaid to us boardmembers and all, but would it be possible to add to our smilie catalogue? We need some more tongue-in-cheek smilies; more happy ones; more which show friendship. MORE in general. I'm sure Catesta would be happy to send you a sample of possibilities. In fact, just recruit the guy for the job. He's good at what he does!!

Hey thanks for bringing that back up, JK. It's one of my all-time favorite threads.

Took the words out of my mouth! You know, I've got some grand plans for that thread...

Boy, that's a tough question!

Aarrr! They got me all wrong. Me crew has mutinied and bestowed the landlubber name of RED DOG READ on me neck! What kind of blaspheemy might this be? I sailed round the Horn with old Ahab and we chewed on each other's wooden legs. Aaarr, tis a mutiny for sure!

I knew Knife would get involved in this nonsense.

Not an easy one apparently. Jacknife is looking as well. I've got it in JRVG but I've only heard it a few times. I like it but it got pushed back behind a bunch of other purchases. I can only listen to one at a time!

Hey I have that! Whatever you do, do not ask me to find a song in my own collection. Sheesh!

I like his Black Lion date "42nd Street." "Mamacita" on "Trompeta Toccata" kicks!! I remember him for his sterling work on Hill's "Point of Departure" as well.

That's right Jim A. You and I are on Eastern Standard Time. Johnny uses Moscow Standard...

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