A ps note: This is the first new thread that I've started in a while, does that mean I'm now like an old sewing machine that has run out of thread ? ( Hmmm, I wonder ).
Where have all the flowers gone ?
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May 14, 2015
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So a few weeks back there is this Lufthansa Co-Pilot who is in a bad mood and he crashes a plane loaded with people into a mountain. In the same week a plane is attempting to land at the Halifax airport in a snowstorm ( yup, not a good idea ). They hit the ground a few hundred feet short of the runway but they are in a solid machine that slides along the ground and makes it onto the pavement. Nobody is killed but a few passengers spend 2 or 3 days in the hospital. Why were the people on the Halifax bound plane so much luckier that the ones on the Lufthansa ? Does this mean that you have to be lucky to be lucky ?
May 14, 2015
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Nearly forgot --- Re the title of this thread. " Where Have All The Flowers Gone " comes from a rather sad old song. Several versions were put out of this tune but Peter Paul & Mary have the one that I like best ( and can be found on YouTube of course ).
Cabby, you might also like Those Were The Days by Mary Hopkin.
May 15, 2015
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kaynight wrote:
cab: The co- pilot of the German place was hell bent on killing people. The crew on the Halifax flight were hell bent on saving lives. Big difference in the angle of descent, deployed flaps, airspeed and attitude.
--- Thanks for these posts.
Good points Kaynight. Some folks from Transport Canada went to Halifax to look things over and said a lot of good luck was involved in avoiding any loss of life ( the plane was a writeoff tho ). One good thing was that the fact that the ground was still frozen so the ground was about as hard as pavement.
May 15, 2015
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fathamster wrote:
Cabby, you might also like Those Were The Days by Mary Hopkin.
--- Thanks for mentioning one of my very favourite songs, along with " The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down " done by Joan Baez.
May 16, 2015
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#8
Well it is Saturday, time for the evening meal and since I'm staying home tonight it is nearly time for one of my guilty little pleasures. A local radio station here plays 4 hours of rather old music every Saturday night, Polkas, Waltzes and such ( so let the fun begin ! ).
Cabby dancing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YTizJcKUlE
Let's see if we can guess which one is him.
May 19, 2015
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AlCzervik wrote:
Cabby dancing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YTizJcKUlE
Let's see if we can guess which one is him.
--- Thanks for the limk AlCzervik.
Just thinking about some fun lyrics: Roll out the barrel and we'll have a barrel of fun. Or how about: In heaven there is no beer that's we have to drink it here. Or perhaps the very nasty: You can have her I don't want her she's too fat for me.
May 24, 2015
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#11
Today we come to the question of what to do with a dead horse. In the work place or in business we often come across a dead horse ( ie: as in baeting or flogging a dead horse ). We could :
A ) Buy a stronger whip
B ) Say things like: " This is the way we always have ridden this horse "
C ) Appoint a committe to study the dead horse
D ) Change the requirements declaring that " This horse is not dead "
E ) Harness several dead horses together for increased speed
F ) Declare that " No horse is too dead to beat "
G ) Purchase a product to make dead horses run faster
H ) Declare that the horse is " Better, faster and cheaper " dead
I ) Form a quality circle to find uses for dead horses
J ) Promote the dead horse to a supervisory position
At the place where I worked for many years it was most often option J .
May 25, 2015
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kaynight wrote:
Eh... Leave us horses alone please.
--- Thanks for the post Kaynight
The same piece also said that we could:
AA ) Increase the standards to ride dead horses
AB ) Appoint a tiger team to revive the dead horse
AC ) Provide additional funding to increase the dead horse's performance
AD ) Revisit the performance requirements for dead horses
May 27, 2015
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batgirl wrote:
Gone to graveyards, every one.
--- Thanks for the post Batgirl. You must also be a fan of good old " Folk Music ".
Brand New Key
May 30, 2015
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For your brand new pair of rollerskates? Melanie was more talented than generally given credit for being. "Look what They're Done to my Song" is pretty a cool song.
May 31, 2015
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batgirl wrote:
For your brand new pair of rollerskates? Melanie was more talented than generally given credit for being. "Look what They're Done to my Song" is pretty a cool song.
--- Thanks for the new posts.
Batgirl: I'm lucky enough to own a 4 music cassette set from Reader's Digest entitled " Those Were The Days ( 30 years of Great Folk Hits ) ". Mind you as there are 83 songs in this collection they had to cast a wide net. Also included is a 48 page booklet that gives a bit of info on each song etc. The song " Look What They've Done To My Song " is indeed in this collection and was written the one and only Melanie Safka ( & was first a hit for the New Seekers back in 1970 ). Reader's Digest nearly went under recently due to financial problems but I'm glad to see that their magazine is back in print and I hope that their music products will also be brought back soon.
May 31, 2015
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Melanie even performed at Woodstock, though she was one of the lowerest paid performers.
I don't know anything about Reader's Digest, but their cassette set sounds neat. I have mostly old 33rpm albums. I have two (I think) old albums featuring Pete Seeger and the Weavers, some Kingston Trio, Peter Paul and Mary, Ian and Sylvia, Bob Dylan of course, Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Arlo Guthrie (though no Woody Guthrie), John Denver ... I can't remember who else offhand.
Or perhaps I should ask where have all of the long-term members gone ? When I sign onto the " Off Topic " forum for example and check on who has been leaving some posts I do not see very many usernames that I have often seen before. I've been at this site for a few years now but not all that long and yet many of the people that used to be here seem to have gone away. Kind of sad I guess and that makes a person feel alone in a crowd. Where is everyone ? ( is there an echo in here ? ).