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AndyClifton

Hey, that's on the album I'm listening to right now!...

(Amusingly enough, I'm listening to a Dead cut right now!..."Casey Jones") Laughing

AndyClifton

Okay, now it's playing this:

AndyClifton

(Not sure why it is btw that Van the Man tends to have such crappy background vocals on some of his records.)

AndyClifton

And now rounding off the album side with this!  God, I'm in heaven!...

AndyClifton

Hm, for some reason now I feel an almost subliminal urge to watch Bugs Bunny cartoons...

AlCzervik
AndyClifton wrote:

Hey, what the hell are these freakin things anyway? (it's like the Giant Eyeball Plant)...

Mods incognito.

AndyClifton

lol

AndyClifton

Hey, the pizza just got here!...

bronsteinitz

Who let the pizza boy have a slice? Who does he think he is? We have got a party and a lot of mouths to feed...

bronsteinitz

Great, they are playing the new bob dylan record. Love it.

zborg

Good article.  Although the lyrics from a Puffin-Stuff song might suit this occasion just as well.

ab121705
AndyClifton wrote:

Hey, welcome to the club, fellow Saturday night loosers!  This week I thought we could make it John Milton Night...

 

...and share any stories we might have about him.  I know ep's got a bundle that he wants to tell, so I'll just keep my prolegomena brief (I think btw that that's the sort of word choice of which Johnny woulda approved). 

I've just been doing some research on a wiki or two and I've found out a little-known but fascinating fact about JM.  Seems that late in his life he got tired of churning out all those sonnets and epoch-defining epics and all that...and apparently he became a pioneer in Yearbook Literature.  Yes, this was centuries before there even were yearbooks, which just goes to show what a visionary our honoree truly was.

Some anonymous scholar has unearthed a journal, one that Milton kept in his final years, where you can actually see, in his own handwriting, the original version of what was to become a grade-school classic, "The bees kiss the morning skies."  There is also an early draft of the "Wish You Luck" drawing, although apparently anatomical figuring has become rather more explicit since the days of the Restoration.

Fittingly enough, the dedication page contains the following thought, again in JM's hand:  "To a great person...from an even greater one."

it's "losers," not loosers; at least you admit you are one, even if you can't spell it

DrSpudnik

...picky, picky, picky.

netzach

ivandh

I maintain a benevolently armed non-aligned neutrality, although I reserve the right to enjoy netzach's posts, as a hostile belligerent if necessitated by the international situation.

corrijean

I have tinfoil hats all ready. Let me know if you need one.

corrijean
netzach

netzach

corrijean