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On Apr 21, 5:59?pm, wrote:

Did Merle Haggard really have a song about people running his cats over?
Or was that a paraphrase?

No. A paraphrase by me. I would not attempt to explain Merle Haggard
to someone from Boston.

Didn't he sing Okie from Muskogee? Or was that someone else?

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GaDragonfly wrote:

Thanks Hoppi, for everything. Yes, Ambien is a sleeping pill and I've
found that after taking one I'm libel to say what is really on my
mind

LOL, pun intended?

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On Apr 21, 8:08?pm, ScratchMonkey

wrote:

Kojak and Captain Picard had big female followings. Makes me want to go
shave my head.

If you do, you can come out here, put on jeans and snap-button plaid
shirt, cowboy hat and scam the restaurant diners out of cash as
discussed a few days ago.

Hon, if he shows up in that getup, the guys will be all over him. Not
sure that's what he wants.

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Joyce ^..^

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On 22 Apr 2009 06:15:24 GMT, wrote:

wrote:

On Apr 21, 5:59?pm, wrote:

Did Merle Haggard really have a song about people running his cats over?
Or was that a paraphrase?

No. A paraphrase by me. I would not attempt to explain Merle Haggard
to someone from Boston.

Didn't he sing Okie from Muskogee? Or was that someone else?

yep that was him. IIRC, he was born in Ok, but was moved to Calif as a
child. I know he lived for years in Bakersfield, Ca, as he and his
family were patients of the doctor I worked for part time while going
to high school.

The paraphrase is from his song, 'fighting side of me' where he sings
'if your running down my country, you're on the fighting side of me.'
It was written as an answer to Vietnam protesters, in the same theme
as Okie from Muskogee.

just as an aside, many credit Johnny Cash with turning Merle's life
around. Haggard was an inmate in Folsom prison when Cash made one of
his famous prison concerts. Supposedly, Johnny talked with a group of
inmates, and impressed Merle enough that he turned into a model
prisoner.

Steve Touchstone wrote:

On 22 Apr 2009 06:15:24 GMT, wrote:

D idn't he sing Okie from Muskogee? Or was that someone else?

yep that was him. IIRC, he was born in Ok, but was moved to Calif as a
child. I know he lived for years in Bakersfield, Ca, as he and his
family were patients of the doctor I worked for part time while going
to high school.

Lots of people migrated from OK to the farmlands of California's
Central Valley during the dust bowl years - was he one of those?

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outsider wrote:
"Adrian" wrote in news:U-

I'm glad things aren't the way they first appeared.


Appeared where?

Jill's original post, the one that started this thread.
--
Adrian (Owned by Snoopy, Bagheera & Shadow)
Cats leave pawprints on your heart
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ScratchMonkey wrote:
wrote in news:08d395ec-e76c-4143-a1d0-952947c4f102
@p6g2000pre.googlegroups.com:

The only thing that ever shocks me is some of that math stuff you
come up with. Drags me mentally back to the formulas for radiation
work (old Al's is a biggie in that stuff) in physics class I had to
pass prob before you were born. When you talk gaming at least I can
understand that.

I'm rapidly coming up on my semicentennial. I was 8 when Armstrong
did his moonwalk. A bit older when Michael Jackson did his. Do the
math.

I'm already the cemetary side of a semicentury. :-(
--
Adrian (Owned by Snoopy, Bagheera & Shadow)
Cats leave pawprints on your heart
http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk

I don't even try and figure the math, just wait for someone to come up with
the answers! Works for me!
"TFM®" wrote in message
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"ScratchMonkey" wrote in message
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wrote in news:08d395ec-e76c-4143-a1d0-952947c4f102
@p6g2000pre.googlegroups.com:

The only thing that ever shocks me is some of that math stuff you come
up with. Drags me mentally back to the formulas for radiation work
(old Al's is a biggie in that stuff) in physics class I had to pass
prob before you were born. When you talk gaming at least I can
understand that.

I'm rapidly coming up on my semicentennial. I was 8 when Armstrong did
his
moonwalk. A bit older when Michael Jackson did his. Do the math.


That would make you 47 unless you've already celebrated the anniversary of
your birthday this year.

On my birthday, The Doors recorded their self titled debut LP.
You do the math.

--
Aloha Nui Loa,
TFM®

"Yowie" wrote in message
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Having watched the two youtube videos,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFURD5dp_QU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QCHIZQmiOY


all *I* see is two cats who seem to be enjoying the outside, and male
voice that seems to hold them in some affection.

Since when was it a crime to let cats outside? When was calling a cat
'Retard' considered abuse?

I know that two youtube videos is hardly the 'whole story' but there is
nothing in those videos to suggest that the owner of those cats is in any
way abusing or neglecting them. They look like healthy happy cats that
have a good relationship with the person behind the camera to me.

If folks have any concrete evidence that Alan is abusing and/or neglecting
the cats, then it needs to be reported to the authorities, not posted
about here. Despite personal opinions of him and his character, posting to
a public newsgroup implying he is an animal abuser is innapropriate at
best and libellious at worst.

Yowie


Plus one.

TFM® wrote in
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"Cheryl" wrote in message
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"TFM®" wrote in message
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As it is, she did too little too late.

She was my best friend and my soul mate.
Whether she drank too much doesn't matter. She was the sweetest,
kindest person I've ever met. She would do anything for anyone.
She always had a smile and a kind word.


And yet here you are telling us her most private things. I don't get
you. If you're angry with her for speeding up her death, I think you
need to go talk with someone, face to face, like a therapist or
support group. Then again, maybe this is how you're dealing with her
death. I sure know I was angry with everyone and everything after my
son died. I will just stop reading the Christy posts for my own
peace of mind. I hope you will too. I'm also going to have to stop
thinking about her cats because I can't do anything about that
either.

She shared a lot of things with this newsgroup and others.
I don't think I'm violating any of her wishes.

A lot of things got dragged out in some heated arguments on the other
NG, so what.

Am I tarnishing her memory? Certainly no more than her family did
with the memorial website.

One story that was repeated to me was the one of her mother saying,
"Christine Ann. You're so ugly. Your hair is so straight."


That is unforgivable and makes her mother the ugly one. My parents
always told me I was sooo beautiful that I grew up believing it. I
still don't know if it's true or not, I doubt it, but I like to think it
is.

Bobble


Yes, I know it's only one side of the story. But it was repeated to
me with such regularity that either it was true or she believed it
was.

I met her mother and sister and father and brother. With the
exception of her father, they're all total assholes. They lived to
put her down.

There's a reason her father left her mother in Wisconsin and moved to
Washington. Same reason Kili left Wisconsin and headed west.

Her mother is a bible thumping bitch.

I believe in God, I don't believe in religion or preaching.


I should end this rant now and just let this go.
Some of you folks have been really nice. Others I can forgive.
If you choose to hold a grudge, that's your problem, not mine.