Re: Catching up

[David Yehudah]

I would recommend that any high school student who is serious about
getting an education drop out as soon as legally permissible, take the
GED, and go straight into college. I dropped out in tenth grade and
joined the Navy when I was seventeen. When I got out, still age
seventeen, I took the GED and went to college. Know what? I didn't start
getting new material until I was a junior. The first two years I did in
one, and I tested out of over half my courses because it was the same
stuff I'd had back in junior high.

Perhaps I should explain why I was in the military such a short time.
Originally I went in to get into UDT (Underwater Demolitions Team),
today known as the SEALS, which had a height limit of 6'1". I was 6'1"
when I went in, and within three months I had grown to 6'4". When they
told me I was disqualified for UDT, I opted out.

Yowie wrote:

> Thats not to say each day of my teenage years was sheer hell - some were
> wonderful magical moments too, but the whole thought of repeating highschool
> makes me shudder. And its true - almost all that stuff they forced me to
> learn meant diddly squat in my adult life.
>
> Yowie
>


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My wife comes with instructions--lots of instructions.
I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with "Guess" on it., so I said
"Thyroid problem?'"
You know "that look" women get when they want sex? Me neither.

[Yowie]

"Sherry " > wrote in message
...
> >Nope, I wouldn't go back to 17 if you paid me. I think I'd go back as far
as
> >about 27, then skip the years between 26 and 11, and enjoy my childhood
> >again. Teenage years (and my early adult hood) weren't an easy ride, I
don't
> >think I could stand going through it all again. I'm much more content,
> >grounded and *confident* than I ever was back then. Although I'd take my
21
> >year old body back any time :-)
> >
> >Yowie
> >
> Reading this makes me feel less weird. I get the impression sometimes that
I'm
> the only one who doesn't wax nostalgic for ttheir teens or 20's. I never
have.
> Those years were too hard, for a number of reasons. DH & I were babies
> ourselves when we got married and were poor as church mice. Give me
emotional
> stability, security that a 30-year marriage brings, wisdom that comes only
with
> age, and financial security (well sorta) over a 21-year-old body any day.
> But wouldn't it be nice if we could have it all?

I was with a complete dropkick between 15 and 27, which is why I wouldn't go
back to that period. But it doesn't stop me from buying every single CD I
can get my hands on from that period. My collection of cheesy 80's CDs is
getting scarey. My excuse is that I would have bought these when they were
actually popular (and on vinyl) if I'd had the money back then, but since I
have the money now, I'm just making up for lost time. I think my most modern
music dates back to 1991 :-)

Yowie, 80's music junkie

[Marina]

"Yowie" > wrote
> Amd yes, my favourite type is plinky
> plonky synth-pop, of which the ultimate example is IMHO the song Tainted
> Love, by Soft Cell (remember that back in te 80's Australian Music was far
> more influenced by English music than American, and Soft Cell were
English)

Hey, Yowie, (dare I admit this?) I have that Soft Cell album on vinyl. Not
into vinyl, are you? ;o)

--
Marina

[Cathi]

In message >, Hopitus2
> writes
>Geez. Guess some of my faves from INXS (RIP M.Hutchins!) are not
>"plinky-plonky"....
>
>
Oooh no. I'm thinking Depeche Mode, Soft Cell, Howard Jones .....

Finally got to see Soft Cell live a couple of years back - WOW. Gig of
the year, as far as I was concerned.

And INXS? Definitely not plinky-plonky synthpop. And "Kick" era
Michael Hutchence fell into his own category ..... sorry, I need to go
for a little lie-down here!
--
Cathi

[Kim Walters]

http://photos.yahoo.com/sir_eg_of_bert
"Cathi" > wrote in message
...
> In message >, Hopitus2
> > writes
> >Geez. Guess some of my faves from INXS (RIP M.Hutchins!) are not
> >"plinky-plonky"....
> >
> >
> Oooh no. I'm thinking Depeche Mode, Soft Cell, Howard Jones .....
>
> Finally got to see Soft Cell live a couple of years back - WOW. Gig of
> the year, as far as I was concerned.
>
> And INXS? Definitely not plinky-plonky synthpop. And "Kick" era
> Michael Hutchence fell into his own category ..... sorry, I need to go
> for a little lie-down here!
> --
> Cathi

I was finally able to see Air Supply this spring. Now if only Alan Parsons
was still touring...


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-Kim

owned by Egbert, Niobe, Sekhar and Rocket

one cat just leads to another...

[Dianne]

Ooooooooooh, Air Supply!!!! I lovelovelove them! I got to see them in
concert back in 1984 and again in 1998. They are incredible!

Di

"Kim Walters" > wrote in message
news:HHe0b.146595$cF.53415@rwcrnsc53...
<snip>
>
> I was finally able to see Air Supply this spring. Now if only Alan
Parsons
> was still touring...
>
>
> --
> -Kim
>
> owned by Egbert, Niobe, Sekhar and Rocket
>
> one cat just leads to another...
>
>

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Yowie > wrote:

> The one Album I wold give my eye teeth for at the moment is the
> first album from Real Life (yes, thats the band's name) and the
> album had two big hits, "Catch me I'm falling" and "Send me an
> Angel". Heck, if I could get those two songs on a set of
> compilation albums, I'd be happy

I have Send Me an Angel on a compilation - Richard Blade's Flashback
Favorites, Volume 5. And it's not the 1989 version, but is the original
from '83 or '84. (Can't help with the other song, though - sorry!)

You might try a Google search for the Flashback Favorites series. I've
seen them around in different stores around here, so they're not obscure,
at least not in the USA.

Other songs on Volume 5:

Pete Shelley - Telephone Operator
Tommy Tutone - 867-5309/Jenny (loved this song!)
Men at Work - Overkill (another great one)
Bangles - Hero Takes a Fall (good one)
Psychedelic Furs - The Ghost in You
Bill Nelson - Acceleration (remix)
The Plimsouls - A Million Miles Away (like this one, too)
Polecats - Make a Circuit With Me (club mix)
Joboxers - Just Got Lucky
Bad Manners - Samson and Delilah
Wide Boy Awake - Chicken Outlaw

I have to say I've never heard of some of them (Bill Nelson? Wide Boy
Awake??) but I'm happy there's more than one or two good ones on it.

Joyce

[Marina]

"LOL" > wrote
> "Marina" > wrote

> > I used to *love* the Psychedelic Furs.
>
>
>
> Oooh, me too! I love the lead singer's voice - Richard Butler? Is that
right?
>
> ------
> Krista
> too lazy to go and rummage through the vinyl

I don't know his name, Krista, but that voice... wow.

--
Marina

[Helen Miles]

>
> Nope, I wouldn't go back to 17 if you paid me. I think I'd go back as far as
> about 27, then skip the years between 26 and 11, and enjoy my childhood
> again. Teenage years (and my early adult hood) weren't an easy ride, I don't
> think I could stand going through it all again. I'm much more content,
> grounded and *confident* than I ever was back then. Although I'd take my 21
> year old body back any time :-)
>
> Yowie

Makes two of us Yowie - you have just vocalised exactly how I feel. My
late teenage years and the early part of my 20's were quite possibly the
most miserable of my life.

As you say, I would like the 21 year old body however!

Helen M




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