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>>>>Now you've gone and done it. The only way I got this song out of my head was to replace it "OOO OOO OOO Looking out my back door"
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>>>Dangerous territory for those of us of a certain age and geographic location circa early 70s. Memories of elephants ...
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>>( and now I can't get Yellow River and Cracklin' Rose out of *my* head )
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>Ok. That does it! From the guy who quoted "Do You Hear the People Sing", we now get "Cracklin' Rosie"????? Jeez. Man, I'm beginning to think you alone were separated at birth. The mere idea of Neil Diamond makes me want to run and hide. Big fan too of
I Am, I Said? Stupidest song ever written... well, ok, maybe not counting
MacArthur Park.
Oh, Cracklin' Rose wasn't exactly the number I was punching on the juke box, but there was a time when you couldn't walk into a bar or a massage parlor in Bangkok, ChiengMai, Vientiene or Saigon without hearing it at least 100 times, sometimes by Neil Diamond, sometimes by a band who had learned the words phonetically. And, of course, Creedance. And Paint it Black will always sound like helicopters and Jumpin' Jack Flash puts me in the Barbarella discoteque in Singapore.
Just Proustian Madelines in an old man's memories of temps perdu
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
