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Northern Illinois is too Yankee for me. Waffle House has a great ham steak deal*, and for the more health conscious, there's a very light omelet, with orange juice, which I once had in Pensacola late at night when it was too late for their coffee. * Called the Country Ham (steak), and nicely pictured on the menu.

Remember the Simpsons episode at the Sushi restaurant? Homer orders some fish that's mainly poisonous. A novice cook goes over the sections of the thing in the kitchen with a chart: "Poisonous fish, poisonous fish, poisonous fish, tasty fish." Map to hospital on back of menu!

Waffle House does a good version of that. I don't approve of States that don't have a Waffle House.

Favorite breakfast: sausage patties, eggs any style, hash browns, biscuits with sausage gravy, and grits. With a good coffee. I have my grits on a side dish with a pat of butter. None of those horrible, flavored envelopes of "instant grits" - those should be dumped inside the diff of a used car to quieten it. Give me plain Quaker "Quick Grits" in the 1 lb bag. Ready in 7 minutes. Come and get it ...

Following in the tradition of the post asking for the contents of the "Straight No Filter" LP, which was answered by Jim, does anyone know the track order on the first Jones-Lewis LP? I used to have that LP, and the sequence on it worked really well. I have the Mosaic, but it's in chronological order. I remember that the LP ended with "ABC Blues", which made a great finale.

More sense? Whatever does this post mean?

Now, if only we could straighten out the titles on side 1! The selection identified as "Chain Reaction" is obviously meant to have been called "Soft Impressions". There was a mixup when the LP was being prepared.

I bet it was Shorty Baker. By the way, it is Whetsol, without any "sic" needed. Whetsel is wrong. I'm not surprised that Stewart and Williams didn't get on well. Cootie was a nasty old grump. I have seen the way he was toward other members of the band.

I'm glad I started this thread! It would be easier with a stand-alone rig. I have to lug the turntable upstairs to the computer and hook it up to the back of the computer, routing it through a pre-amp to get the signal up to "line" level. I also have to run a ground wire from the turntable to the computer chassis. But it's worth it.

Thanks, Jim. There's nothing like a good debate about Thrology, especially over a campfire in the morning, with sausage, eggs, biscuits and grits.

Well don't include me in those, please. I am saved, but not smug about it - just greatly relieved. I didn't save myself, so I have nothing to feel proud of. I dislike legalism, but we have to have some structure and rules, and we follow the Bible in our Church, as best we can. Any good Church would. Without doctrine, any Church or other organization would be a chaotic mess. It is certainly not "baseless", as it is rooted in the word of God. Re "exclusionary tactics", there is no pleasure or pride involved, but God does say to "mark and avoid" those who teach false doctrine, (Romans 16:17). This is for protection. Humans try to avoid bad things in all our activities in life. I avoid bad cars, as I want a reliable one. (I have a good one, too. It's a Volvo, and it's been great.) I don't believe an Independent Baptist is a hypocrite. A hypocrite is a person who pretends to be something that they are not. How does that apply to us? In the Old Testament days, the people had gone wrong! Such things as worshipping a golden calf, or Dagon the fish "god". No, really! So God had his prophets speak out against such stuff.

If that's a reference to me, may I say that salvation does not come from any Church, including mine. Jesus saves. Our Church does not claim to have a monopoly on salvation - and we don't have a monopoly. But that is not to say that there are not churches with errors in their doctrine. The Bible is the rule of faith and practice in a biblical Church. There are oodles of false churches. It is easy to show, from the Bible, that they have doctrinal errors. I hate legalism, and prefer to be compassionate, friendly and helpful. But I cannot go along with some of the monstrous errors. In a friendly, quiet way, we obey Romans 16:17 and stay clear of them. I wish that there were no false churches. There are, because of what sinful men have done, but it's not God's fault. Each person's job is to take a Bible and decide which church has it right. I went through that when I had just gotten saved - in Victoria, British Columbia. I got me a Yellow Pages and went through the Churches section. They had everything from soup to nuts. I easily narrowed it down to a short-list of four, and it did not take long to realize that an Independent Baptist Church was the way to go. Years ago, the King of the Netherlands asked his advisors to find the most biblical type of church and then make it the State Church. The advisors quickly realized that an Independent Baptist Church was the kind of church taught by the Bible, and they approached some Baptists to set up a State Church. The offer was declined, as it is un-biblical to have a State Church.

Awhile back, I got a near mint LP of "Tide", by Jobim. It has a superb sound stage, and is sonically superior to the 24 bit Japanese CD, which I also have - though that is still a fine CD. The CD mix is very different from that on the LP, too. I transferred the LP to CDr with Musicmatch, for convenience, and to save wear and tear on the vinyl. To my ears, there is virtually no difference in sound between that CDr and the LP, and the CDr is better than the Japanese CD. It sounded superb yesterday when I played it again. The house was empty, and I had a rare chance to listen uninterrupted using the speakers. Ahhh! So, my idea is: why not put out some CD reissues taken from a good LP copy, if one can be found? That way, the original mix can be retained and the sound is going to be good. This is not an original idea, and it had to be done when they put out a proper CD reissue of "Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy", as the Columbia klutzes had lost the original tapes when they switched to fake stereo. Just a thought, but don't dismiss it out of hand too quickly. I saw a comment somewhere about the "Peter Gunn" album, and the guy said that he had never heard a CD that had a mix as good as that on the LP. Having the LP, I agree.

Thanks for the reply. I have never bought from them, and won't be bidding on these. These albums, not all Blue Notes by the way, are for those with large billfolds! I enjoyed seeing the pictures, with the inner sleeves with thumbnails of other BN albums. For me, the old TOCJs will do. They are more than reasonably close to LP sound - for me.

Now works for the Halifax Bank in the U.K.

Was lost walking down a concrete staircase, in a high-school in Upper Manhattan, and never seen again. His parts are now dubbed in by Ira Gitler.

No, that was Hank Mobley!

I love 'em in Latino settings, but I find they usually just get in the way when they are tossed as an add-on into a regular jazz group, such as the Red Garland Trio. So often, they just play the same figure for the whole track: a thump on two and a dotted eighth and sixteenth double thump on four.

I noticed these for sale. The time is nearly up, so you'll have to hurry. I am not the seller. It is claimed that some of these LPs are from the collection of Bill Evans and Peri Cousins (as in "Peri's Scope"). http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?View...&sort=3&rows=50

May we assume that Malcolm Addey has again done a fine job with the sound? I sure hope that the culprit reimburses the good folks at Mosaic for the huge expense of sending out replacements for disk 7. A big corporation could easily absorb such an expense, but it has to hurt such a small outfit, especially following the error with the Moncur set a year or so back.

That's a good 'un Chris! I think a person would have to be one of us older fogeys to get that fully, though.

Re the discussions about specific sins (which are a long way from where the thread started ), God does not send anyone to hell when they die because of what they have done, but rather because of what they are. A person is either an unsaved sinner (which is our state when we are first conceived, Psalm 51:5), or they are saved by accepting Jesus Christ as Saviour, in which case God regards them as sinless. It's that simple. You either die with all your sins on you, or with absolutely none in God's sight. With that in mind, there is no need to major on such individual sins as drunkeness or sex perversion. I don't. Anyone is welcome at our Church. I am in no position to look down upon anyone else, as I am a sinner, too. Saved, yes, but I still remember what I was saved from. In passages such as John, Chapter 8, we see Jesus tenderly accepting and forgiving a sinner who will turn to him. Re the comment about "fundamentalists" in services looking like zombies, and waving about, remember that these TV scenes are of "charismatic" churches. The charismatic movement (to do with supposed gifts) is totally unscriptural, so their behaviour does not represent that of a scriptural congregation. In our Church, we don't wave about, and we don't carry on like zombies. We are just ordinary, down-to-earth people who have gathered to do stuff like singing hymns, giving testimonies of blessings that our Lord has given us, hearing a message preached, and praying for the needs of the members and others. Also, we have no ridiculous dress standards or fashion parade. I avoid the terms "fundamentalist" and "Christian" for reasons such as this. They have no precise meaning, and different groups tend to be lumped together under such monikers as these.

Jay Leno was giving some new company slogans, and for French's mustard he offered "We may not be French, but we are yellow." (I don't hate the French either, just French's mustard. Also, "some of my best friends are French".)

I haven't seen Nero 6 (mine is something like 5.5.1.1, or something like that), but the one I use is terrific and is very user-friendly. I'm speaking as an amateur, though its burns of CDrs taken from LPs (using Musicmatch) sound better, to me, that new 24 bit Japanese CD reissues, and WAY better than any McMaster 24 bitters. The editing features are very good, and you can even balance the volume over a whole CDr when making a custom disk from different sources. You can also "pan in" stereo recordings that are too widely panned - a lot of recordings fall into that category.

This is good news. We have a fuzzy videotape of some episodes, taken from a marathon that Channel 9 in L.A. ran in 1992. My son sat there nearly all day taping, and stopping for the zillions of commercials. A clean DVD of all this would be welcome.