Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[GwenOnBass]

...among the first ‘grown up’ books I read...

Of Mice And Men was the first.

My only intersection with A Tree Grows In Brooklyn is from Bugs Bunny

She was the daughter of Rosie O'Grady

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[beans-on-toast]

Your back yard?

One can only dream....

“Everybody wants a little bit of land, not much. Jus’ som’thin’ that was his. Som’thin’ he could live on and there couldn’t nobody throw him off of it.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

 

[GwenOnBass]

I'd swear that's from Grapes of Wrath.

 

[bobyoung53]

The meter guy wears a perpetual frown and stalks for violations with no reported empathy for drivers. Once he begins writing a ticket, it's over, even if the driver is running to correct the situation. I saw him once in the supermarket and the frown/scowl looks like it was burned into his organic EPROM.

Once I took a parking space and chucked my coins in the meter, but did not notice the meter was broken. Returned to find a ticket. Confronted him face to face because I know he was aware the meter was faulty. Went in person to the agency office and made my point. Someone walked with me to confirm the meter was broken, and they voided my ticket.

Today as I took coffee, I watched a gentleman around my age working to figure out how to use the electronic meter that replaced the old coin-op dial meters. They're so difficult to use, the agency has a meter in their office to instruct people who complain. Sometimes the fee is voided, sometimes not. The meters are stupidly engineered (and thus, guaranteed revenue).

The city doesn't see all that revenue. The parking authority is an outside agency on a fat contract. They're embedded here now.

Privatization helps no one except the owners of the company who buy the contracts.

 

[bobyoung53]

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The phone company put a loud squawking tone if you left the phone off the hook for more than a minute in my area so a drummer I used to play with years ago used to put the phone receiver in his refrigerator at night so he could keep it off the hook and sleep. I stayed over his apartment one night and asked him what the hell was he doing with the phone in his refrigerator, I thought it was pretty clever.

 

[beans-on-toast]

I'd swear that's from Grapes of Wrath.

Common literary themes are often a product of the times. Or a case of out-and-out stealing what works.

Songwriters do it all the time. Almost every song that Ringo brought to the Beatles for consideration was met with the comment, “yes, it’s a good song Ring but [fill in the blank] already wrote it.”

 

[ahc]

You mean like "My Sweet Lord"?

Doo lang doo lang doo lang. Doo lang doo lang.

 

[GwenOnBass]

Shakespeare is enough to put me off all royalty. At least that's consistent across time

This is where a more foolish one links the video for The Sex Pistols "God Save the Queen"

 

[bobyoung53]

Shakespeare is enough to put me off all royalty. At least that's consistent across time

This is where a more foolish one links the video for The Sex Pistols "God Save the Queen"

Great tune.

 

[bobyoung53]

You mean like "My Sweet Lord"?

Doo lang doo lang doo lang. Doo lang doo lang.

And it's so obvious but I never "saw it" until the lawsuit, probably because the styles of the two songs are so different.

 

[bobyoung53]

Shakespeare is enough to put me off all royalty. At least that's consistent across time

This is where a more foolish one links the video for The Sex Pistols "God Save the Queen"

This is the foolish link I meant to post:

 

[GwenOnBass]

 

[SoulReflection]

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I remember it like yesterday and my wife still won't go in salt water...

 

[beans-on-toast]

You mean like "My Sweet Lord"?

Doo lang doo lang doo lang. Doo lang doo lang.

I think that was more a case of ripping off a rich guy. People come after you any chance they can hoping that you’ll settle.

 

[beans-on-toast]

The Queen likes Queen’s version of God Save The Queen, she invited them to play it on the roof of the palace. The French play their own version.

 

[shadowtippy]

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I saw that movie two days before my first trip to the ocean. I had a good time on the beach.

 

[the harp unstrung]

This one’s new to me.

Has anyone ever heard anything described as “perfect as a quail’s egg”?

Is it an Alabama turn of the phrase? The guy who used is an Alabamian. Maybe it’s a family thing?

We’ve lived in GA since ‘85...in NC for a few years before that.

I’d never heard it before today, but I really like it.

 

[beans-on-toast]

This one’s new to me.

Has anyone ever heard anything described as “perfect as a quail’s egg”?

Is it an Alabama turn of the phrase? The guy who used is an Alabamian. Maybe it’s a family thing?

We’ve lived in GA since ‘85...in NC for a few years before that.

I’d never heard it before today, but I really like it.

I haven’t heard the expression, but I did used to work with quail eggs. Some eat them hard boiled with caviar.

 

[GwenOnBass]

And some eat them raw with sea urchin

 

[StereoPlayer]

@alaskaleftybass just saw a wolf here at this site. You live in an awesome state!
Rewind a bit for the wolf.
Bears are cool too!

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