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Then you haven't lived in Oklahoma.
You have no idea how glad I am of that fact!
I have been there twice, that was plenty.
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Thunderbird Club
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You have no idea how glad I am of that fact!
I have been there twice, that was plenty.
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
Absolutely. Especially when it was snowing. Did I mention that the top wouldn't stay on so I didn't use it? Or the hole in the floor? Weight savings!
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
No. Did it have a bulldozer?
Not that I remember, but some excellent acting and driving, with Minis. Michael Caine, Noel Coward....
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
One of the more bizarre events in my past happened in a more or less bar in Oklahoma. I say more or less bar because you buy alcoholic beverages at gas stations there. Because drinking and driving is not unbiblical perhaps. Then you take those beverages to a place that charges a cover and then serves your beer or booze back to you for a price. There were pool tables, lots of Oklahoma girls in cowgirl clothes and hats, a country band in the corner, and a succession of strippers who walked around on the bar wearing high heels and nothing else. Talking to a cowgirl while the stripper was strategically posed on the bar, right behind her head, was a different kind of confusing than normal. Especially because the cowgirl was trying to be romantic. Deciding where to look was challenging. That was 35 years ago. Things may be different now.
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
Original Minis were lots of crude fun. I cannot imagine a new one is anything but another modern car.
I don't recall. But it did have one of the most annoying songs ever to be recorded by some of the worst singers. ...
Ah, but who were the more toffy, MG owners or Triumph TR owners ?
Especially if they are the same strippers
Yesterday the Uni Medal winner got to make a speech.
An American girl originally, a couple of pronunciations I found unusual.
She spoke about all the animals that can kill you over here (@Gaolee !) and told a story about driving on the freeway home and having a Huntsman Spider crawl onto her lap... and then onto the steering wheel.
Nowhere to pull over so she had to remain calm. But calm was not like any other calm I’ve heard. Sounded more like ‘cawlm’.
I was wondering if that was a regional pronunciation?
It fascinated me enough to ask my daughter about her, I wasn’t even sure she was American by then. Anyway, a Mormon girl. I assumed Utah but daughter thought she was originally from Washington state, but had grown up in Syria! Then married an Aussie bloke and ended up living here (and Nationalised Australian now - from her speech).
An American girl originally, a couple of pronunciations I found unusual.
She spoke about all the animals that can kill you over here (@Gaolee !) and told a story about driving on the freeway home and having a Huntsman Spider crawl onto her lap... and then onto the steering wheel.
Nowhere to pull over so she had to remain calm. But calm was not like any other calm I’ve heard. Sounded more like ‘cawlm’.
I was wondering if that was a regional pronunciation?
It fascinated me enough to ask my daughter about her, I wasn’t even sure she was American by then. Anyway, a Mormon girl. I assumed Utah but daughter thought she was originally from Washington state, but had grown up in Syria! Then married an Aussie bloke and ended up living here (and Nationalised Australian now - from her speech).
That was pretty horrible.
The new ones are BMWs.
Sounds like a huge amalgam of accents.Yesterday the Uni Medal winner got to make a speech.
An American girl originally, a couple of pronunciations I found unusual.
She spoke about all the animals that can kill you over here (@Gaolee !) and told a story about driving on the freeway home and having a Huntsman Spider crawl onto her lap... and then onto the steering wheel.
Nowhere to pull over so she had to remain calm. But calm was not like any other calm I’ve heard. Sounded more like ‘cawlm’.
I was wondering if that was a regional pronunciation?
It fascinated me enough to ask my daughter about her, I wasn’t even sure she was American by then. Anyway, a Mormon girl. I assumed Utah but daughter thought she was originally from Washington state, but had grown up in Syria! Then married an Aussie bloke and ended up living here (and Nationalised Australian now - from her speech).
Hole in the floor aka emergency braking system.
Have I ever related the tale of my visit to Seattle? There was a bar downstairs in the vaguely seedy hotel I was staying in and I wanted a couple of beers.
Now, in Australia at that time, alcohol was only sold on licensed premises - either a pub or attached bottle shop and you could buy 'take away' over the counter at pubs with no bottle shop.
So I saunters up to the barmaid and asks her for a couple of take aways and she booms 'certainly NOT, we have liquor laws in this state young lady'. Upon enquiring where one might purchase a couple of mildly intoxicating beverages, she directed me to a 'grocery store'. Yeah, liquor laws ... right.
I still can't buy booze at the local supermarket ... not that I think that's a bad thing.
Intriguing indeed.
This morning at ~07.30 our first auditionee of the day pulled out, 3.5 hours before she was due.
That left the one we were certain we wanted as the last woman standing ... and ... she's bloody fantastic! Coming to a full 3 hour session next week. Tralalalalaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
The Trace 215 was in use for a recording session, so it was the Hartke 410 today, poor weedy sounding little thing.
That left the one we were certain we wanted as the last woman standing ... and ... she's bloody fantastic! Coming to a full 3 hour session next week. Tralalalalaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
The Trace 215 was in use for a recording session, so it was the Hartke 410 today, poor weedy sounding little thing.
Just excellent!!!!
Firebird sighting!
Yeah, I quite like Rival Sons. On record anyway. They were the support on the Black Sabbath “the end” tour. I made sure to get in early enough to catch them as I liked them. Very disappointed.
That has happened a few times with bands I’ve caught up with that we’re supporting bigger names. Pretty lacklustre.
I’m wondering if it is a ‘support band’ thing. They have the annoys about it and don’t put in ? Or they get a substandard go through the PA ?
Any theories anyone ?
Ugh!, to bad. i really dig this. Shame they disappointed.
If I had 45 minutes to play before a large crowd, I'd play my guts out. Seems every time I go to see an international band it's the same support. Don't much like 'em so I'll refrain from naming them.
I have heard the same about Rival Sons in different settings, even when they were headlining. And this was from people that are/were fans.
