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[16Forever]

ive been sober for a week...its highly overrated...

I'm not a fan of C&W music, but the other day I was waiting in line and I heard a song whose lyrics consisted entirely of "Last night I gave up cigarettes and women and drinking. It was the worst fifteen minutes of my life."

15 minutes? That's one LONG song. C&W music is torture.

[cklaurence]

Um, 16--I don't think the song was 15 minutes long--and I'm certainly not an expert on C&W; however, I believe that the humor is, he gave it up "for 15 minutes." Get it now?

[LadyHawk]

Um, 16--I don't think the song was 15 minutes long--and I'm certainly not an expert on C&W; however, I believe that the humor is, he gave it up "for 15 minutes." Get it now?

I concur with that.

[cklaurence]

Thanks, Lady...

[16Forever]

Thanks, Lady...

Hi CK and LH...Yes I figured that's what he meant. It's like the saying "this is the longest week I've ever spent in one day"...

[LadyHawk]

I just wanna go on the record and say that some people have a marvelous propensity for stating the obvious. And its boring as hell. Thank you.

= throws 2 pennies into the jar =

[16Forever]

I just wanna go on the record and say that some people have a marvelous propensity for stating the obvious. And its boring as hell. Thank you.

= throws 2 pennies into the jar =

*** says ditto *** and throws two more cents into the jar. Onto another non-football topic...Jesse Jackson is calling Dan Gilbert a slave mentality owner and likens the situaton to a "runaway slave" scenario. Come on Jesse that's the pot calling the kettle black (no pun intended).

[LadyHawk]

I just wanna go on the record and say that some people have a marvelous propensity for stating the obvious. And its boring as hell. Thank you.

= throws 2 pennies into the jar =

*** says ditto *** and throws two more cents into the jar. Onto another non-football topic...Jesse Jackson is calling Dan Gilbert a slave mentality owner and likens the situaton to a "runaway slave" scenario. Come on Jesse that's the pot calling the kettle black (no pun intended).

Slave mentality? How so? And LeBron was being paid $120 million, wasn't he? Doing something he loves, right?

[16Forever]

I just wanna go on the record and say that some people have a marvelous propensity for stating the obvious. And its boring as hell. Thank you.

= throws 2 pennies into the jar =

*** says ditto *** and throws two more cents into the jar. Onto another non-football topic...Jesse Jackson is calling Dan Gilbert a slave mentality owner and likens the situaton to a "runaway slave" scenario. Come on Jesse that's the pot calling the kettle black (no pun intended).

Slave mentality? How so? And LeBron was being paid $120 million, wasn't he? Doing something he loves, right?

Jesse is just stiring the racial pot as he and Sharpton always do. Reverse racism is just as bad as racism. It's all bad...

[Emeritus]

15 minutes? That's one LONG song. C&W music is torture.

I'll tell you about torture. I went to my dentist for a root canal. Then he turned on C&W in his office. I couldn't even protest with all of that stuff in my mouth. I don't merely hate C&W music, I hate steel guitars. One is whiny music and the other is a whiny instrument. I rank steel guitars right down there with accordions. I can't tell you my opinion of accordions in mixed company.

[16Forever]

15 minutes? That's one LONG song. C&W music is torture.

I'll tell you about torture. I went to my dentist for a root canal. Then he turned on C&W in his office. I couldn't even protest with all of that stuff in my mouth. I don't merely hate C&W music, I hate steel guitars. One is whiny music and the other is a whiny instrument. I rank steel guitars right down there with accordions. I can't tell you my opinion of accordions in mixed company.

Em, I believe you need professional help to assist you with your accordian phobia. Did you crush a bodily appendage in the instraments folds?

[Emeritus]

16, I sent you a private message regarding my opinion of accordions.

[Emeritus]

A Primer for Beginners

Get an accordion. The cheaper the better because they all sound the same. Do not tell anyone what you have done - it will only cause them to worry. They will find out soon enough.

Take the accordion out of the case and strap it on. It is better if the accordion rests on your chest instead of your back but, for the first few weeks, it doesn't really make that much difference.

For sounds to be produced, three things must happen: The bellows must be moving in or out. One or more of the keys or buttons must be pressed. All potential weapons within a one mile radius must be collected and secured. The third is the most important

The buttons on the left side are chord buttons. The "C" button has a dimple or nipple so you can find it without looking. (This is a safety feature. Before it was invented, thousands of accordionists suffered painful and sometimes disabeling injuries - much to the delight of the general public). Never use more than three buttons. "Professional" accordionists appear to be using lots of buttons but they are acutally just desperately trying to find the damned "C". "Professional" means they have learned to smile while they do it.

Play the black and white keys. The high notes are at the bottom and the low notes are at the top. (That arrangement isn't supposed to make any sense. Accept it.) Note: If you find the high notes at the top and the low notes at the bottom, you have either put the accordion on upside down or you have tried to repair it yourself. If the former, turn the accordion over. If the latter, pack your acordion up with thousands and thousands of dollars and mail it far away for a long, long time.

Continue playing until someone begs you to stop or threatens your life, whichever comes first.

[16Forever]

16, I sent you a private message regarding my opinion of accordions.

Em, I don't have any Smail.

[Emeritus]

It said that it was sent. I'll try it again.

[LadyHawk]

I'm so glad that I'm not the one with the most posts here anymore. Heh heh...

[Emeritus]

I forgot that you had to hit submit twice to send mail.

If more people would do their part, I wouldn't have so many posts. Maybe I'll take a week off and let everybody catch up.

[Reecey]

I suck. I haven't cracked one hundred yet.

[Reecey]

I average about five posts a day on weekdays. So, at my rate, I'll break into the century mark some time a few weeks from now.

[cklaurence]

I think that people are just more interested in what is going on over at FB. I wouldn't dare to count everyone's posts over there in a day! I know there are more people there, but there certainly aren't more people over there that love football like we do--not nearly! Perhaps, as I (and others) have said all along, as football season gets closer, like magic, this place will pick up and start jumping.

[Emeritus]

I quit Face Book months ago. I didn't believe their security claims. They offer a lot of options, but most of them I wasn't interested in. All that I used it for was to upload photos to copy to the old Switzerland, but that isn't needed here, since it can be done directly. And while there are people in common, I like the one who are here better. We have an amazing number of smart, funny people.

[Emeritus]

Reecey, perhaps we should start a Houston Texans topic. We could call it something like "The Houston Texans Fans - both of them."

[dredwak]

em...
i think you and reecey should just come home...we'll take y'all back...G O C O W B O Y S. . .

[Emeritus]

But our home is down in the southeast corner of the state. Reecey lives in Houston and I spent most of my life there and now live in the next town to the east. As Houston fans, we're just rooting for the home team. Of course, I was an Oilers fan first.

[dredwak]

im a fan of texas teams...must have been all that texas history force fed to me in grade school...wouldnt it be great to see all texas super bowl...in jerrys new dome...

[Emeritus]

I feel much the same way. I always pull for the team closest to home. If my team isn't involved, I pull for the one the next closest.

[16Forever]

GEORGE STEINBRENNER DEAD AT AGE 80!

[Emeritus]

GEORGE STEINBRENNER DEAD AT AGE 80!

Meanwhile, Jerry Jones and Dan Snyder are trying to become the George Steinbrenners of football. Al Davis isn't dead, he just looks like a corpse.

[OnlyInUtah]

Al Davis is stuffed...lol.

[cklaurence]

GOOD MORNING SWITZERLAND!