Kosh's Shadow 12/31/2019 5:01:48 PM

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buzzsawmonkey 12/31/2019 5:33:39 PM

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@PBJ3 12/31/2019 6:06:00 PM

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It's good to see we are up and running.  Happy New Year to one and all!!!

Kosh's Shadow 12/31/2019 6:08:55 PM

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Reply to @PBJ3 in 3:

Took a lot to fix the problems after I updated.

Forgot to say, now, if you get logged out when you are on a public thread, instead of the File Not Found error, you will see the posts with a note at the bottom that you must be logged in to comment.

Kosh's Shadow 12/31/2019 6:12:42 PM

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@PBJ3 12/31/2019 6:29:04 PM

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@PBJ3 12/31/2019 6:29:06 PM

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@PBJ3 12/31/2019 6:29:57 PM

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Kosh's Shadow 12/31/2019 6:33:30 PM

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Neil Innes, Monty Python's songman (and who played Sir Robin's minstrel in Monty Python and the Holy Grail), passed away.

Jukebox

@PBJ3 12/31/2019 6:37:36 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 9: That's too bad.  RIP.

Kosh's Shadow 12/31/2019 6:40:03 PM

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Kosh's Shadow 12/31/2019 6:49:23 PM

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I haven't heard this one before:

Blue Suede Schubert

Kosh's Shadow 12/31/2019 6:53:10 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 12:
Best one yet

Kosh's Shadow 12/31/2019 7:02:46 PM

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There IS a New Year's Midnight thread tonight

I just hope next year doesn't go down  the tubes

Long December jukebox

doppelganglander 12/31/2019 7:08:13 PM

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Kosh's Shadow 12/31/2019 7:08:46 PM

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Reply to doppelganglander in 15:

Thanks everyone

@PBJ3 12/31/2019 7:08:54 PM

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I listened to quite a few of the Neil Innes songs and I agree about the favorite.

Kosh's Shadow 12/31/2019 7:10:28 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 14:

Been a very long December.

Friday through today I had some problems to deal with - important things that take a lot of work and are stressful. Still not done, but slowing down.

I just had a vacation and I need one.

@PBJ3 12/31/2019 7:18:30 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 18: I hope January will be less stressful.  Wishing you a great 2020!

Kosh's Shadow 12/31/2019 7:40:32 PM

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Reply to @PBJ3 in 19:

Thanks, but there will still be stress for a few more months. Just not as intense'

Kosh's Shadow 12/31/2019 7:43:14 PM

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@PBJ3 12/31/2019 7:47:50 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 20: Stress is awful.  I've had a lot of it myself, of late.  I hope it doesn't completely wear either of us out.  I went into a panic a few minutes ago.  The cat walked on my laptop and the picture turned sideways.  I googled the problem with my phone and was told to press cntl, alt and the arrows.  That didn't seem to work at first but I must have been too impatient because it finally worked, LOL.

Kosh's Shadow 12/31/2019 7:48:32 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 21:

This has been my favorite when I'm paying bills

Kosh's Shadow 12/31/2019 7:53:32 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 23:

About the time that came out, my daughter said I looked like Jerry Garcia.

I'm still here; he isn't. It probably helped that I never took heroin.

Kosh's Shadow 12/31/2019 7:56:10 PM

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We never noticed back in September that it was 10 years since the great banning at SOB

Jukebox

@PBJ3 12/31/2019 8:02:01 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 25: We had fun at that place, that's for sure.  I was one of about 15 of us that were banned for posting at C2! It was so ridiculous but I was more than ready to get away from that weasel and her ilk.

@PBJ3 12/31/2019 8:06:34 PM

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'Nice that we've got "Nights in White Satin" on now.  I liked the Moody Blues a lot but they did a better job in a recording studio.  We went to see them live once and they didn't seem as good.  It didn't help that they did not play any of their hits.

Syrah 12/31/2019 8:12:40 PM

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Fireworks are sort of legal here on the far side of the Sound. 

Some of my neighbors are a little impatient. No worries though. Everything is soaked from all of the rain  

They have stopped for now.

it will get noisy again in a few hours. 

Syrah 12/31/2019 8:13:01 PM

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Syrah 12/31/2019 8:14:45 PM

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Rain and gale force winds are in the forecast until about 11ish. 

Fun times in the great north wet. 

Kosh's Shadow 12/31/2019 8:15:54 PM

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Reply to @PBJ3 in 26:

I was banned, as was Buzz. I went to C2 on blogspot under a different name - never got caught. No high-tech "correlation tool".

Once I used this name there, I was banned in hours. He had his myrmidons searching for people to ban.

Kosh's Shadow 12/31/2019 8:16:51 PM

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Reply to @PBJ3 in 27:

Jukebox

Kosh's Shadow 12/31/2019 8:17:26 PM

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Reply to Syrah in 30:

I'm wiped out from shoveling slush and ice. Not done yet, either.

@PBJ3 12/31/2019 8:18:31 PM

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Reply to Syrah in 29: Aloha!  The song that Kosh played made me think of you.  I believe it's on your blog.  We have fireworks going off as well and even though we've had a lot of rain in the past few weeks it has dried out and we had a Santa Ana howling wind last night.  Our yard is so full of small branches, pine needles, etc.  It's a shame because our daughter came over this past Saturday, mowed and cleaned the yard nicely.

@PBJ3 12/31/2019 8:23:09 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 31: It was all so strange during those banning days.

@PBJ3 12/31/2019 8:24:34 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 32: Thanks!

doppelganglander 12/31/2019 8:32:58 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 31:

I was banned because someone at one of the stalker blogs used doppelganger. I appealed and was reinstated. I guess I was banned when I came here but I never bothered to check. Damn, I've known some of you for a long time - I joined the swamp in 2002.

Syrah 12/31/2019 8:35:56 PM

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Reply to @PBJ3 in 34:

The original is an old Russian song. By the long road

It has a similar feel, about things that were and are now lost in the past.

doppelganglander 12/31/2019 8:36:31 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 14:

I've been thinking of that song, too. I love Counting Crows. Dianna is also a big fan. 

Syrah 12/31/2019 8:37:10 PM

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Reply to @PBJ3 in 34:

it is good that you have someone keeping your yard clear. Fires are no fun. 

@PBJ3 12/31/2019 8:38:27 PM

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Reply to doppelganglander in 37: I joined a little bit later, IIRC, but I had lurked for years.  I knew all about the things that went on during that hurricane, LOL  I guess we do go back quite a few years.

doppelganglander 12/31/2019 8:46:25 PM

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Reply to @PBJ3 in 41: 

Oh, lord, the hurricane! Was that Rita or Katrina? If that happened today, the donations would be handled through GoFundMe,  I guess, and it wouldn't have been so contentious. I threw in $20 and I honestly didn't care if it went astray. I hate being petty about small sums of money.

@PBJ3 12/31/2019 8:50:24 PM

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Reply to doppelganglander in 42: I would have thrown a few dollars at that as well.  I used to occasionally look at a blog some of the folks posted at..Gulf Coast something or another.

Syrah 12/31/2019 8:51:45 PM

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By the long road

They were riding in a troika with bells,

and in the distance there were glimmering lights.

I'd rather go now with you, my dears,

I'd rather distract my soul from the yearning.

[Chorus]

Along a long road, and on a moonlit night,

And with that song that flies away with jingle-jangle,

And with that ancient, seven-stringed one (guitar)

That tortured me so much at nights...

Living this way, without joy, without torture,

I do remember the past years

and your silvery hands

in a troika that flew away forever....

But it turns out our song was futile,

In vain we burned night in and night out.

If we have finished with the old,

Then those nights have also left us!

The days run on, multiplying the sorrows,

it is so hard for me to forget the past.

Some day, my dear,

you shall take me to bury (dead hero to the cemetery)

Out into our native land, and by new paths,

We have been fated to go now!

…You rode on a troika with sleigh bells,

[But] you’ve long since passed by!

doppelganglander 12/31/2019 8:59:17 PM

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Reply to @PBJ3 in 43:

I remember it. Swampwoman  was one of the founders, IIRC, and collected for the relief fund. Even if someone misappropriated the funds, it couldn't have been that much. But maybe others gave a lot more and were upset about the lack of accountability. 

Kosh's Shadow 12/31/2019 9:01:40 PM

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There is a midnight thread tonight.

See you there in a few minutes