Chess for Oldtimers --- Good Idea !

I'm guessing Santa hasn't needed to visit Mars so far, since there are still no children there.  I agree with Elton John's observation on this subject:  Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids.  In fact, it's really, really, really cold there. 

Thanks for the post Motherinlaw. The thought of people going to Mars is quite interesting, mind you I wouldn't want to be one of them.

What?  Stolen Lyrics in the music business?!  What about stolen Tunes?  

Think about the "Alphabet" ("Now I know my ABC's..") song.  The tune is Totally stolen from "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star!"   Same tune Mozart stole, btw, for his "Variations."  Not to mention whatever thief it was who used it for "Baa, baa, black sheep, have you any wool?"

I tell you, just thinking about these kinds of things makes my blood boil(!).

Thanks for the new posts. If memory serves even Geoge Harrison was taken to court over a song that he wrote, perhaps the " My Sweet Lord " number ?

Well I think that the idea of humans stealing from each other is just  awful. I'll be right back, just need to go and find the lyrics to KUM BAH YAH ( I hope that nobody stole that song  lol ). 

Remember the TV theme song of Barney, the purple dinosaur?  First of all, the tune.  It was Totally stolen from the song "This old man ... knick-knack, paddy-wack, give a dog a bone" etc.  

And talk about Stolen Lyrics! -- "I love you. You love me."  How many so-called "lyricists" have stolen Those lines over the years?  If somebody had copyrighted those lines way back, like in the 1890's or something, that person would sure be living on Easy Street now!  Well, OK, maybe not.  Maybe they wouldn't be living on any street now, because they'd actually be dead by now, but still.....

For stolen lyrics, I've got better than that. I was a member of a rock group in England. In the early 70's, the song writer Tony McCauley called us and asked us to put music to a song he had wrote. We took the song away and worked on it for a while after which we played it to McCauley. Fantastic he said, I know that the song is going to be number one. He was right cos a few weeks later it did get to number one in the UK charts. The song was called, "Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes" and it was released by the group, "Edison Lighthouse". The trouble was that it was effectively our version but we weren't the group Edison Lighthouse who immediately became famous while we stayed unknown.

I was at Lanzarote just a few months back, shame I didn't know he was there, I would like to have met him.

I just Loved "Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes!"  You were robbed of a great song.

I've done standup off and on as a hobby for a long time, and I've heard so many comedians' true stories about what happens when famous comics steal material. The famous guy comes to a club, and hears a young guy do a bit he's written, and it kills.  Then famous guy does that bit as part of his next set on TV.  After that, the young guy can't ever use it again -- it will always be assumed he's stolen it.  And if too much of an act gets stolen, it can kill a career.

Thanks a lot for all of the new posts.

I gather that Kirk Douglas recently made age 99, not bad I would say.

Does he play chess?

Thanks also for these new ( or used ? ) posts  lol.

   ---   I don't know much about his life besides the great job that he has done as an Actor. Mind you he also wrote a couple of books some years back but that's about all I know. 

   ---   Well they were new to me  rosl.

Thanks for the post HueyWilliams ( & AC ). I'm still hanging around on the sofa, so I can't roll too far  lol. 

As we age many of us like to observe the Stars from years ago and see if they are aging well  lol. Going back into the 1960's and 70's many of us remember a very slim fashion-model named Twiggy. Well she is now at age 66 and she is a Grandma ! ( & yes she is still quite slim ).

    Ann Margaret and Barbara Eden always worked for me

Thanks for the posts. That does bring up a rather sad fact about the very beautiful Movie Stars from years ago because time does take it's toll. It is of course a well known fact that most Female Hollywood Stars are done by age 40 ( or 50 at the latest ) sad but true.

Thanks for the photo of Betty White, she is quite a character  lol.