I once drilled and drank the milk from a coconut a friend brought back from a sailing trip to Mexico-
Hmmm ... how I shall I put this ...... it was very stimulating to the GI tract--
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Thunderbird Club
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Hmmm ... how I shall I put this ...... it was very stimulating to the GI tract--
Like I said, you have to know what you’re doing. I sure wouldn’t but I’ve had two delish gourmet burgers with kale (among other things) on them.
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It's funny, because as a kid I didn't like coconut. I think it was mostly shredded coconut I didn't like (like in candies) because later as an adult, I can definitely bite into a chunk of fresh coconut and enjoy it. I still might not like shredded coconut. (it's a textural thing...)
Movie? It’s something parents have said to kids for generations.
Front of House — i.e. via the audience facing PA system.
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Sounds to me like you are already a member. And that you should have a Thunderbird somehow or another.
Cal opened eyes through the
I don't remember hearing that one with the "jiggety-jig" attached. There is however a scene in the film Blade Runner where that phrase is used ...
Or Alaskan King as a first course when celebrating a SIL birthday last Friday…
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It's 3 am in the morning and I finally finished it- took about four hours - got a few chuckles out of it in the process. Hopefully some of you will too!
Honey Where’s My Bass?
Cal awoke nauseous and weak having just served the last hour of a 24 hour flu. Out of boredom he scanned his room with a feverish eye, suddenly noting that his prized bass, a one-off custom-made Valkyrie, was missing!
“Honey, where’s my bass?” he called out.
“You mean the one with the satanic symbols?” his wife Elsa replied from the living room.
What ‘satanic’ symbols?
He thought quickly, then remembered the fret markers, runic letters in beautifully-figured abalone.
“Those are runes, not satanic symbols.”
“I know what runes are, after all you are speaking to a Norwegian.”
Her face appeared around the corner, fair-skinned and framed with milky-white hair, her topaz eyes burning with determination.
He recalled first seeing those eyes, crowned with a nurse’s cap, gazing into his hospital room in a far-off country where he had contracted amoebic dysentery. Elsa was one of several Lutheran volunteers serving where that faith had long been established by a sister country.
It turned out to be a difficult, often embarrassing convalescence for Cal, and he might not have survived were it not for Elsa's close supervision at the hospital, then later at home when she insisted on continuing her care.
Therefore, he chose his words carefully.
“So, what’s wrong with them?”
“Runes are the writings of wizards, warlocks, and cults. Have you not heard of a game called Runequest?” she asked, stressing the word “rune”. “Vikings were pagans too, and they used runic writings.”
“But the Vikings adopted Christianity around 900, 1000 AD, and for centuries they continued to use the runic alphabet along with the Latin conceived by the Etruscans before the advent of Christianity. And we continue to use that.”
“Well, what do the symbols on your bass represent?”
“The positions of the fretboard correlating to the notes of the fourth string. They would be ‘G’ at the third fret, ‘A’ at the fifth, ‘B’ at the seventh, C sharp at the ninth, octave E at the 12th, and so on.”
She referred to her smartphone.
“So you mean that the symbol that looked like a capital ‘X’ represented the ‘G’ position, and the symbol that looked like an ‘F’, but with downturned bars, represented the ‘A’ position?”
Looked!
“Honey, what did you do to my bass?”
“Nothing I can’t fix. Now relax, because it may take a while.”
He pondered the fiery spirit inhabiting Elsa’s 6-foot, four inch frame as she walked away, tall and resolute.
No wonder Nordic bards came up with figures like the Valkyrie and the Huldra, along with Freyja, the Nordic goddess of marriage, war, and death!
Weary and discouraged he lay back and closed his eyes as the the tell-tale odor of acetone wafted through the door.
Sometime later he felt a nudge on his shoulder and looked up to see Elsa, beaming and holding his Valkyrie bass intact.
“See, I told you!”
Whatever she had done, he was thankful it had been put to right.
And really thankful he didn’t have to explain the prominent “V” on the headstock.
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Been remiss at submitting this original by Unicorn, having previously submitted David Gilmour's famous cover version-
Btw, Gilmoure produced Too Many Crooks, the album it came off and later invited songwriter Kenneth Baker to pen the lyrics for his eponymous solo album. But Baker declined, citing that he could only write from personal experience. I kind of know that feeling!
Btw, Gilmoure produced Too Many Crooks, the album it came off and later invited songwriter Kenneth Baker to pen the lyrics for his eponymous solo album. But Baker declined, citing that he could only write from personal experience. I kind of know that feeling!
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Jethro Tull T-Bird sighting on Supersonic British TV show early 1976 - plugged and apparently being played for real as the articulation of the bass line sounds different than the studio version-
My pancreas hurt.
The last part is key, but isn't complicated. Don't know about the SW area, but people in the South E. been doing it right for over 150 yrs or so. I even like Poke--yes, the thing than can pop up in yards.
Easy. Just wait will you need to go to the bathroom reeeal bad, then start the song. I know for a fact that would make me move something like that.Can she nail the Peter Garrett dance moves???
