DrW
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First round goes to Leon and the Oilers!
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Does humor belong in music? Nick Mason, Pink Floyd's drummer, certainly thinks so. His 1981 album, "Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports", consists of songs written by jazz great Carla Bley and sung by ex-Soft Machine drummer Robert Wyatt, in general with a funny twist. Example: "Siam", with an Asian-sounding melody and references to tea, opium, and Siamese cats...
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It is sad that Magnus Carlsen (the chess player with the highest Elo rating ever; world champion 2013-2023) decided that he is not motivated anymore to participate. I just hope that he does not follow in Bobby Fisher's footsteps who became world champion and developed later in life increasingly bizarre behavior (although he was never diagnosed officially with a mental illness).
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20 minutes ago, ExiledInIllinois said:
Shot this fella over the lock and dam w/600mm lens. Not sure how I got, but just aimed away!
Severely compressed to get it under for this site.
February 2018:
Great pic! Especially because it shows that even bald eagles sometimes neglect grooming before leaving the roost. The flight feathers are a mess.
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59 minutes ago, Meatloaf63 said:
Just imagine if we were healthy and KC had our injuries how the game would have went.🤔🤔🤔
I completely agree with your statement, but, for Heaven's sake, it is "would have gone", not "would have went".😁
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A view not from TV, but from the sidelines. My son played tuba in the Longhorn band until last fall, and he very much preferred Mitchell over Worthy. In his words
" The reason many people remember Worthy more is because he is the more explosive of the two and played a lot of kick/punt returner as well. He’s a very good receiver and of course very fast, but struggled with drops at times especially on deep routes, which was very frustrating. Mitchell is solid, consistent, and still pretty fast. Best of all he is a big target for contested catches and was a touchdown machine last year."
My vote goes for Mitchell at 33.
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12 minutes ago, Since1981 said:
Any trade with KC is like cheating on your wife. He felt great for a few minutes but next year it's gonna cost you dearly!!
The 10th Commandment in the Bible (Exodus) forbids me to cheat - "Do not ... covet thy neighbors wife". Can you please point me to the verse(s) where the Bills and Chiefs are discussed?
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8 minutes ago, BillsfaninCT said:
I believe the metric is superbowls, so in the aggregate yeah, they draft better and outsmart the bills starting with how they got their QB so for what performance metric or accomplishment do the bills have believe they are smarter than KC? You don't negotiate with an enemy you can't beat.
According to whose rules? In the real world, it happens all the time (USA/Russia, Israel/Hamas,...).
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3 minutes ago, BillsfaninCT said:
if championships is the basis of performance, they got the better receiver than we're going to get because so far the bills haven't won ***** and the chiefs have done a lot of winning the QB we gave them........ and so they took our WR also.
Do you really mean that? According to your logic, because the chiefs have won championships, every one of their moves must be better than every one of ours.
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A 1950s/1960s Western on INSP or GRIT, like Wagon Train or High Chaparral.
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Whenever I see My Cousin Vinny on the schedule, I have to tune in, even if it is just for the last half hour or so .
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Two more recent ones:
1) Wrong present perfect:
"I have went to the store" is wrong; it should be "I have gone to the store" (or "I went to the store").
2) "of" instead of "have", because of similar pronunciation:
"I should of gone to the store" is wrong; it should be "I should have gone to the store".
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Let's go Leon! Let's go Oilers! Well, I am German and he is the best German player at the moment.
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50 minutes ago, Irv said:
DC is not superior to AC in the overall scheme of inventions.
Certainly not, but it is easier to understand the chemistry of a battery that produces a stream of electrons (DC). It is much more difficult to grasp how you can make the electrons go back and forth in a wire (AC).
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4 hours ago, Steve O said:
Seriously Irv? The microwave oven? Let me tell you about the microwave oven. It was invented in 1947 as the radar range. Throughout the rest of the 40's and 50's barely anyone owned them. You know what else was extremely low at the time? The divorce rate. In the 60's and 70's microwave ownership began to pick up. What else did? Bingo, the divorce rate. Microwave ownership steadily rose through the 80's and 90's, then started to level off at the turn of the century. That's right, the divorce rate followed the same trend. If you look at separate graphs of both since 1947, they look eerily similar. Coincidence? I think not!
I assume you wrote this only to get some response from Irv, but the underlying statistics are wrong. According to whirlpool, in 1986 25% of the US households owned a microwave; in 1997, the number had more than tripled to 90%. The divorce rate actually sank slightly from 1986 to 1997.
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Let me add another vote for the wheel. Its invention required a completely new line of thinking, compared to what was used before (such as sleds). It is interesting to note that Native American cultures never got to the wheel as means for transportation, although they clearly were familiar with circular structures, such as medicine wheels made from bent porcupine quills.
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I just finished re-reading Ronald Reng's "A Life Too Short" about the German soccer goalie Robert Enke who was on his way to become the top choice for the German national team for the 2010 World Cup. However, suffering from depression, Enke killed himself in November 2009. Reng's book is powerful testimony how even highly successful individuals can be afflicted by depression. The book won several awards, including British Sports Book of the Year.
For some lighter entertainment, try "The Keeper of Dreams" by the same author. It chronicles the career of another German goalie who, coming from a forth division soccer club in Germany, suddenly ended up in the English Premier League. Especially enlightening are the accounts of day-to-day life in the Premier League, which is not always so glamorous.
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Tag line on the ESPN soccer web site (obviously not meant to be a joke):
Jesus warns Bayern: Arsenal not kids anymore
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Blue Diamond Almonds Smokehouse or Bold
Lays potato chips Barbecue
Ritz bits cheese sandwiches
Ferrero Rochers
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On 3/23/2024 at 11:29 PM, Ralonzo said:
Yeah if that album cover's an issue don't check out the Scorpions catalog with Uli Jon Roth...
The Who are coming up often and rightly so. This is the one track ever written for the band not penned by the band themselves. It was written by Townshend's pal/roadie/chauffeur/hanger-on Speedy Keen, kicking off the 1967 (!!!) Sell-Out album.
And here's the tie-in on your 1969 theme: Speedy would eventually join a band put together by Townshend (who played bass on the track under the pseudonym Bijou Drains) and have this monster #1 chart hit - something the Who never got close to, incidentally.
Andy "Thunderclap" Newman's piano solo is what carries "Something In The Air" for me. Here is a live version. Newman looks as if he is from a different generation than the others, although he was only 27 when the clip was recorded.
Their follow-up single, "Accidents", was also a success in he UK. The lyrics are much darker.
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11 minutes ago, SoTier said:
I find it interesting that a thread about "The 60s Music" doesn't mention Bob Dylan whose folk songs became anthems for the civil rights and anti-war movements or the Beatles who had a profound influence on American music, including sparking the "British Invasion" of the US music.
The problem with the Beatles is that they wrote so many excellent songs in different styles that it is impossible to select one representing the full spectrum of their music. Perhaps the closest to a consensus, at least among professional critics, "A Day In The Life".
My personal favorites (probably not shared by many), "Hey Bulldog"...
...and "The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill" (this one mostly because of the lyrics).
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4 hours ago, Ridgewaycynic2013 said:
I always get a laugh over stations and listeners who think recent Winwood tracks are his crowning achievement, and haven't a clue regarding early work with the Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, and Blind Faith.
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Same with J. Geils Band. The old tracks are the best. Take 'Centerfold' and throw that on the music trash heap.On the other hand, there are certainly some artists who are not proud of the "sins of their youth". Example: David Bowie (1967)
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5 hours ago, Ridgewaycynic2013 said:
Also remarkable that the song qualifies Steppenwolf as an official 'Canadian content' band for the CRTC's music police, due to band members being Canadian as well as the group recording some of their material in Canada. 🙄
Steppenwolf's front man, John Kay, is actually German by birth. He and I have the same first name (which English speakers usually cannot pronounce) and we grew up in the same city in Germany, Hannover.
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If you listen to an album, some songs can appear just to fill the time before the next better-known song. Often, a live version gives you a better appreciation. Example:
King Crimson - Larks' Tongues in Aspic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhudDa3JAyc&ab_channel=Beat-Club
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Rumor has it that Fairport Convention was unsure about the audience acceptance of the band being without their female lead vocalist Sandy Denny. However, they did quite well as five "man" outfit. While Richard Thompson (g, 2nd vocalist in the clip) was the most famous band member, the guy who held it all together was Dave Swarbrick (lead vocals, violin, g).
What's your comfort show?
in Off the Wall
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Excellent choice; how could I forget them? Some of their sketches are just the best you will ever find in this genre. Honestly, I am much less enamored with their movies. "The Life of Brian" is their best IMHO, the others are just meh...