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When you're alone and life is making you lonely You can always go downtown When you've got worries, all the noise and the hurry
Seems to help, I know, downtown Just listen to the music of the traffic in the city Linger on the sidewalk where the neon signs are pretty
How can you lose? The lights are much brighter there You can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares
So go downtown
Things will be great when you're downtown No finer place for sure, downtown Everything's waiting for you Don't hang around and let your problems surround you
There are movie shows downtown Maybe you know some little places to go to Where they never close downtown Just listen to the rhythm of a gentle bossa nova You'll be dancing with 'em too before the night is over
Happy again The lights are much brighter there You can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares
So go downtown Where all the lights are bright, downtown Waiting for you tonight, downtown You're gonna be alright now, downtown Downtown
Downtown And you may find somebody kind to help and understand you Someone who is just like you and needs a gentle hand to
Guide them along So maybe I'll see you there We can forget all our troubles, forget all our cares
So go downtown Things will be great when you're downtown Don't wait a minute more, downtown Everything is waiting for you, downtown
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I found a vintage Slinky in the flea market last month. I chose not to pay $5 for it though.
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You know Petula Clarks song too! Wow! I'm impressed!
I found a site- and I can't believe I just spent 15 minutes looking at toy pictures (thanks Steve)- but there are some fun things there. Makes me smile.
Mr. Potatoe Head Record Player Gumby Jack in the Box Ballerina & Tap Shoes Crayons & Coloring Books Metal Pot Holder Loom Etch A Sketch Wooly Willy Hoola Hoop Bicycle
UGGG! Time to grow up and get back to reading about ticks in China! Thanks for the "fun break" from reality.
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Hey TuTu, Steve- how many times did you topple down the stairs playing with a slinky?
I can hear my mother in the kitchen now after I beat and banged down several steps and would hit the bottom landing- "Are you ok?"
It was so often she didn't even bother to run and check on me after the first 50 times or so. If the noise was really loud she'd say- "Put the slinky away now and come in the dining room and do some coloring".
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OMG - I was one of those kids too, always falling and getting hurt. After so many times/years mom just didn't have the time to worry about it!!!!
silly putty was one of my best play times...
Love this stuff
Steve
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. I'm sorry,,,I can't help it...
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. Never Forget the Time Dan Quayle Misspelled "Potato"
Who knew a simple tuber could do so much damage?
In 1992, Vice President Dan Quayle was visiting Rivera Elementary School in Trenton, New Jersey, and jumped in to help facilitate a spelling bee. William Figueroa, age 12, was called to the board to demonstrate how to spell “potato.”
With a stick of chalk and perfect penmanship, Figueroa carefully spelled the word correctly on the board.
The student stepped back, satisfied—until the Veep himself urged the young man to tack another letter on to the end to make the spelling “correct.”
Despite the ensuing applause from the adults in the room, Figueroa knew he had spelled it correctly the first time. “I kept thinking, ‘How the hell did I spell ‘potato’ wrong?’” he later said.
What most people don’t know (or don’t remember) is that Quayle was looking at a flash card provided by the school that had the “correct” answer on it, spelled incorrectly. So, yes, Quayle did mess up—but so did the school.
Whether Quayle should have known better (yes) or the school should have known better (yes), that one little letter was the vowel heard ‘round the world, damaging Quayle's credibility and adding to the public's perception that the vice president wasn't the brightest crayon in the box.
Quayle was embarrassed, of course. He later wrote in his memoir Standing Firm that “It was more than a gaffe. It was a ‘defining moment’ of the worst imaginable kind. I can’t overstate how discouraging and exasperating the whole event was.”
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There you are! So good to see you!!
And I love your Pez-Pop-Pez picture. I spent a good bit of my babysitting money on them as a kid.
But still, my heart went to thumping when I saw, once again, my Mr. Potatoe Head!
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That is kinda of funny when you consider I JUST got off Skype with a child I was helping with their spelling homework for the past 90 minutes. This weeks words...
how growl tough owl drown gown south scout cloud round ground found rough mouth through town clown down brown shout frown plow count
When we get to "potatoe" the child will have to get their parents help. Don't want to cause anyone problems with getting into college!
Never did understand what she was saying in Last Chance Texaco (the hidden meaning)- but I used that quote- Last Chance Texaco- to try to make a point with folks when things weren't going as they should. Tuff, ain't I? HA!
And no one in the whole world knows that. Never told ANYONE what it meant or where it came from. So YOU heard it first. Yippee for you!
Here is Last Chance Texaco by Rickie Lee Jones. Might go nicely with some cannabis oil.
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OK, Mr. Do You Remember.. now you've got me going way back! Fine and dandy if you do laundry and want to stop by and do mine. Otherwise I need help.
If I click Download here on this site, am I getting zapped, virused, scammed or whatever? Or will I get free songs to play on my computer from this album?
A long stretch of headlights Bends into I-9 Tiptoe into truck stops And sleepy diesel eyes Volcanoes rumble in the taxi And glow in the dark Camels in the driver's seat A slow, easy mark
But you ran out of gas Down the road a piece Then the battery went dead And now the cable won't reach...
It's your last chance To check under the hood Last chance She ain't soundin' too good, Your last chance To trust the man with the star You've found the last chance Texaco
Well, he tried to be Standard He tries to be Mobil He tried living in a world And in a shell There was this block-busted blonde He loved her - free parts and labor But she broke down and died And threw all the rods he gave her
But this one ain't fuel-injected Her plug's disconnected She gets scared and she stalls She just needs a man, that's all
It's her last chance Her timing's all wrong Her last chance She can't idle this long Her last chance Turn her over and go Pullin' out of the last chance Texaco The last chance
“ROSIES” IN THE WORK FORCE While women worked in a variety of positions previously closed to them during World War II, the aviation industry saw the greatest increase in female workers.
More than 310,000 women worked in the U.S. aircraft industry in 1943, making up 65 percent of the industry’s total workforce (compared to just 1 percent in the pre-war years).
The munitions industry also heavily recruited women workers, as illustrated by the U.S. government’s “Rosie the Riveter” propaganda campaign.
Based in small part on a real-life munitions worker, but primarily a fictitious character, the strong, bandanna-clad Rosie became one of the most successful recruitment tools in American history, and the most iconic image of working women in the World War II era.
In movies, newspapers, posters, photographs and articles, the Rosie the Riveter campaign stressed the patriotic need for women to enter the work force.
On May 29, 1943, The Saturday Evening Post published a cover image by the artist Norman Rockwell, portraying Rosie with a flag in the background and a copy of Adolf Hitler’s racist tract “Mein Kampf” under her feet. Though Rockwell’s image may be the most commonly known version of Rosie the Riveter, her prototype was actually created in 1942 and featured on a poster for the Westinghouse power company under the headline “We Can Do It!”
Early in 1943, a popular song debuted called “Rosie the Riveter,” written by Redd Evans and John Jacob Loeb, and the name went down in history.
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Very interesting! And from such a brilliant fellow too! Thanks for the good read.
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Never saw the rolling hoops before. Love the kids outfits and those shoes. And I am sorry, that egg salad doesn't look too great to me, and I'm hungry.
Cranberry, maybe?
BTW- I've never been that excited about a new recipe before. Maybe I need to drop to my knees and throw my hands in the air to celebrate when I do try one.
Or maybe its because I am not wearing a dress and heels when I cook?
Hellmans Mayo! Still around. The race in Talledaga last weekend was called the Hellman's 500. Too cute! As was the winner, Joey Logano. That boy has a smile bigger than his whole face.
Thanks for the distractions- nice ones!
Stay tuned this weekend for the Goody's Fast Relief 500 at Martinsville.
Anyone remember the Goody's 500 Headache Powder? It's a southern thing.
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