Jenny ,'Bring On The Night'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I would like to add, for no reason, that the very typing of the word "Tennessee" immediately starts a song playing in my head -- some days it's "Graceland" ("Memphis, Tennessee, I'm going to Graceland"), some days "Tennessee," but always one of them.
ETA: My traveling companion is nine years old, he is the child of my first marriage...
I was dancin' with my darlin' to the Tennessee Waltz
When an old friend I happened to see
I introduced her to my loved one
And while they were dancin'
My friend stole my sweetheart from me.
I remember the night and the Tennessee Waltz
Now I know just how much I have lost
Yes, I lost my little darlin' the night they were playing
The beautiful Tennessee Waltz.
There's something fleeting about a Snopes-smack. It just doesn't ever seem to take.
I've gotten a few to take. At first I thought they were leaving me off most of the mass e-mails as retribution for my Snopesing (just fine by me), and then one cousin asked me after a mass e-mail if it was true, and then looked it up in Snopes herself before I even had a chance to answer.
two things:
first, Allyson YOU ROCK! You are my newest hero.
second, ita overhears the best conversations.
I think it's finally taken with my mother (that, or she's taken me off the list), but for a while she would include a note asking me if it was true -- on the email she sent to the 15-person list. I felt like saying, "Well, it hardly matters now, does it?"
Aw, man, two CVs with Tennessee references in a row! Now my brain's decided to torture me with "Walking in Memphis".
(Which is particularly unfortunate as out in the real world I'm trying to listen to Bach's Magnificat.)
Anyone here subscribe to TimesSelect? I wanna read today's editorial by Maureen Dowd entitled "To Sir, With Love" - I hear it's really good and snarky.
Never Pay Retail [link] doesn't have it.
I can send you a copy, tommyrot.
Is now the time to bust out the knowledge -- that I gained from pulp novels -- that it's easy to administer a beating without breaking the skin, if you beat someone with a bag of oranges? Now you know.
But could you take out a cheetah with a bag of oranges on a squash court?
And would that be an orange squash?
And from now on I'm gonna think of Nutty as "Bobo".