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Post by Doc on May 13, 2011 0:09:20 GMT -5
My grandmother: wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=irisheyes&id=I03459And if you click "FATHER" on her page, and continue clicking "FATHER" on several subsequent pages that will ensue, you will arrive at: wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=irisheyes&id=I02609John O.More from Glasgow, Ireland. And on his page it says: This family is from Scotland and Ireland. By way of a very brief (and simplistic) explanation, Northern Island is, even today, a British 'colony.' English landholders were settled on the land in the seventeenth century, and they attracted Protestant families from the Scottish lowlands to rent and cultivate their holdings. They became the genesis of America's vast Scotch-Irish immigration which began about 1740. END QUOTE. After googling more about this, I came to the realization about the Ulster Scots who were invited to move to Northern Ireland by James I & VI. My "Moore" relatives, who took pride in being Irish, WEREN'T Irish at all. They were lowlands Scots who were invited to County Antrim in Ireland to farm the "Ulster Plantation." When politics turned negative in the next century, in the late 1600's-early 1700's, many of these "Scotch-Irish" (who were specifically Scots "squatting" in Ireland) fled to Pennsylvania, including my Moore relatives! The real Irish were Catholic and lived south and west of these Scots in Ireland. The English were mostly "Church of England." These Scots, my Scots, were "dissenters"; happy in neither church! They were mainly Presbyterians and Quakers! The Irish saw them as interlopers, and foreigners, and invaders. They were not liked by the English or the Irish! They were distrustful of big government, and government controlled church. They came to America for a chance to live the way they saw fit! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypk5mG5JDvk&NR=1It looks like several of my GGGfathers and GGGmothers were, possibly, Scots-Irish. So, I am not Irish-Catholic. Not that any of this matters.....or, could it? ?
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Post by Doc on Apr 25, 2011 14:08:10 GMT -5
A beautiful candle-abra, candle-abra-cadabra!! Thank you, iameye!!
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Post by Doc on Apr 25, 2011 14:07:28 GMT -5
Happy birthday Doc. Make it a good one! (You may not be Jewish, and you're a bit late for First Seder, but go ahead and have that fourth glass of wine!) -j jarface, thank you! And, at dinner tonight with friends, I think I am gonna take you advice and have a fourth glass of wine! I've not attended a Seder, yet, but I'll make it my own!
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Post by Doc on Apr 24, 2011 18:22:34 GMT -5
Jesus came out of his hole today and saw his shadow, so that means six more weeks of Lent. ;D -j Doesn't apply to Presbyterians. Though they WILL appoint a discussion committee.
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Post by Doc on Apr 24, 2011 18:05:04 GMT -5
48. A beautifully complex, highly divisible number. I guess its fitting. I've come to be somewhat complex, and at the rate of my wasteline expansion, highly divisible. Or is it a sort of late mid-early, mid-middle, latently middlin' non-elderly moderate middle age? (I will muddle anything.) Nope. 48. It's simply 48. 48 defies every known category. 48 stands alone as a noteworthy waymark, a resplendant mountain time; a time of fresh awakenings and dew on the forest floor at dawn; a time of regathering, reprocessing and refoisting. And maybe reforesting if you're Brazilian. 48 is the central transition year from the dizzying pace of the 30's and early 40's, to the rhapsodic but reverential composedness of the 50's. 48 is the way forward, the road ahead, the exposed craggy peak of the jagged terrain of a life lived daring to be the first, the best, the loudest. 48 is the time to take out a second mortgage, spend a week on the French Riviera, lease a cutting edge Lexus, and sip top dollar wines while smoking a high-end Dominican cigar at the "Ritz-Carlton Thursday Night Cigar Smoke Out" in the Brasserrie. Be there at 7 sharp. How do you spend your 48th Fabulous, day o'-debauchery? Well, you start by a visit to your tailor, make that first appointment with Jennie Craig (for after lunch tommorrow); listen to the Brandenburg Concertos in front of a roaring fire (somewhere other than the compost heap down at the county waste management facility) and drink like a gentlemen on a romantic night out holding hands with somebody kinda, you know, 'special. Maybe early in the day is when you take a little cash out of that 'stuffed to the gills' savings account and buy yourself a little sump'in' sump'in' as a reward for your dedication and self-control, like a tasteless zebra striped double brested Armani three piece (who cares if the vest is a little restricting) with a flashy pair of oxblood Cole Hahn's adorning your newly manicured pups. (Save Ferragamo for next year.) Two or three hours at the spa; half an hour shopping at the new trendy grocery for an authentic Caesar salad, rack o'-lamb with marinated sauteed veggies, genuine saffron mashed potatoes, some garlic pole beans, a yeast roll or two, for desert, a real "made from scratch" Red Velvet cake shipped from Zabar's the day before yesterday (its been in the fridge) with a luscious scoop of Ben and Jerry's Bovinity Divinity Ice Cream to round off the feast. Cap off with a glass of Dom. The night is young! Plenty of shank for galavanting. So, your pre-reserved limo taxi drops you at a trendy new concept club, "Taffanella's Panic Bistro" where you consort with hot, sexy "on the go", "in the know" people, people who are "making it happen, where it happens, when it happens." But maybe not "why." You down three potent but overpriced designer martini's, do a few lines of something in the bathroom with a bone thin fashion model named Alajouantaient (I can't pronounce it either) visiting from Paris (the powder lines turn out to be some Lancome Face Base, either her purse is a mess or she's a schemer) and then, after coughing up the make-up (and you thought it was the good stuff), and a long smooch with a real "wower" on the patio, you limo home for the home stretch of your féte, the piéce-de-resistance that alone can complete your madcap day, a celebration of selfhood and survival, or orgy of Bachinaillian abandon. Your last act as "Ferris Bueller" is to call Madame Greniard's Escort Service. She sends you a hot man/woman of your verbal description, who arrives unceremoniously at your hot bachelor pad. She/He spends twenty minutes showing you where your erogenous zones WERE (!!!!!), then unceremoniously leaves, not before asking for a check for $300. You've found your zones and can't do a thing with 'em! (But your 48, remember? Should have gotten the Viagra!) Your savings are now shot, your energy is tapped out, but you've just indulged yourself in a day you will never forget, as long as the VISA bills are coming in, anyway. Just as you are getting into bed, Alajouantaient calls (you gave her your card, fool) and in her sinussy French accent, asks you if you have her cell phone by mistake. She really only wants "more to party." You say 'no', but that you've got her number. It's, "au revoir", and a bientot. You dream of buttercups, bluebirds, and the girl with kaleidoscope eyes. So, its my birthday and why did none of this happen? What went wrong? Oh, sh*t. I messed up. I'm only 47, no wonder. Well, next year................. Whaddabunchofbullsh*tblarneyhocum!!!! What was wrong with me back in 2004-2005? Brain Spaz Fever? I can't even think of all that kind of stuff to ponder over nowadays!!! *sigh* OK so my birthday is tomorrow (here, here, fire the plumes!) and I turn the creaky old age of FIFTY-FOUR! 54! Fire the cannon! Send out the alarm! Total the totum! Shake the Casbah! Split the pea soup! Catch your granny in a doozy! 54. I am so amused. Thank you, God, for letting me arrive at 54. It beats the smithereens out of the alternative! And God Bless everybody here, every poster, young or old, here at Nothing is Real!
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Post by Doc on Apr 24, 2011 0:46:57 GMT -5
April 24 1969--A promotional film for The Beatles' song Get Back is broadcast (in black and white) on UK television, on the program "Tops of the Pops." 1969--The lawsuit between The Beatles and Triumph Investment Trust (owners of Nemperor Holdings / NEMS Enterprises) is settled out of court. 1969--Paul McCartney announces there is no truth to the rumors that he is dead. lol 42 years ago today! Excellent; just in time for my 12th birthday the very next day, April 25, 1969!
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Post by Doc on Apr 23, 2011 23:31:11 GMT -5
Found my way downstairs and drank a cup and looking up, I noticed I was late from Marianne Faithfull's Biography: "Although I knew John and Paul quite well by this time meeting The Beatles as a group was always a bit of an ordeal. On top of their Olympian fame was their scouse badgering. They would always run things on you ... Anybody new into the crowd had to be ready to go through a terrible gauntlet of verbal abuse in some way...."Dylan went into the room where the Beatles were sitting all scrunched up on the couch, all of them fantastically nervous. Lennon, Ringo, George and Paul, and Lennon's wife, Cynthia, and one or two roadies. Nobody said anything. They were waiting for the oracle to speak...
"Then Allen Ginsberg came in ... He went over to the chair Dylan was sitting in and plonked himself down on the armrest ... John Lennon broke the silence snarling:
"'Why don't you sit a bit closer then, dearie?'
"The insinuation - that Allen had a crush on Dylan - was intended to demolish Allen, but since it wasn't far from the truth anyway, Allen took it very lightly. The joke was on them, really. He burst out laughing, fell off the arm and onto Lennon's lap. Allen looked up at him and said, 'Have you ever read William Blake, young man'
"And Lennon in his Liverpudlian deadpan said, 'Never heard of the man.'
"Cynthia, who wasn't going to let him get away with this even in jest, chided him: 'Oh, John, stop lying.'
That broke the ice.
"'Lovely gig, man,' Lennon offered, as if he were just passing through.
"Dylan just rocked back and forth hypnotically in his chair. Then he said.'They didn't dig "It's All Right, Ma".'
"'Maybe they didn't get it," said John. "It's the price of being ahead of your time you know.'
"To which Dylan said, 'Maybe, but I'm only about twenty minutes ahead as it is.'
Charming. The British, amd the Liverpudlians, and especially, the Beatles, were always so goshdarn charming!
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Post by Doc on Apr 22, 2011 23:12:05 GMT -5
All Along the Watchtower - Turtle Island Quartet -j Turtle Island rocks! Loved that!
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Post by Doc on Apr 22, 2011 23:10:40 GMT -5
There was talk about a "Brown dwarf", but please don't forget the "orange dwarf" or Oompa Loompa.....they have been working overtime, as this time of the year is a busy time for all candy makers, even the little orange ones in the land of Wonka..... And an alternative to petroleum, and the dangerous nuclear energy, Dwarf Flatulence..... excessive amounts of candy intake in little orange men can create enough dwarf flatulence gas or DFG to properly run the Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory for a year..... DOC...am I suggesting that you partake of Willy Wonka candy??? Well, that's up to you to decide if Dwarf Flatulence Energy is the alternative you choose, but know this...that no dwarf gas has affected the atmosphere, the water systems of the world, and no marine life has suffered at the hands of dwarf emissions....however....there hasn't been any extensive research done on the affects on other oompa loompas..... This message has been brought to you by the Alternative to Petroleum Energy Council and the Willy Wonka Worker's Association. or..WWWA Not to be confused with Whaaaa! Looking for Dwarf on the MMT bus....taking pics....too bad he didn't sit at table with the fat lady eating tons of spaghetti... boy has this thread gone down the tubes....or shall I say....digestive tracts.... Well, all I know is, if I ever get a Golden Ticket, I'l be sure to visit the noble candy maker in person to see how our "WWWA" friends are getting along!
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Post by Doc on Apr 22, 2011 1:35:03 GMT -5
Most enjoyable! Where can we get more of the comedy? Comedy is good. We need more comedy. Thank you.
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Post by Doc on Apr 21, 2011 2:54:45 GMT -5
"TKIN was a cool site as a chilling look-behind-you story. It was nice to re-think some of the old "canonized" ideas about what happened." I'm sure there's still something more to be found at TKIN - if you look around a little There's TONS of good stuff - contributed by you guys. I am sorry if anyone thought for a moment I was talking about the FORUM. I was referring to THISremember when the solution was GAS? We really could just do solar panels, lots and lots of modern, contemporary solar panels, well placed, bringing solar in, and taking petrol out; we need alternatives and not too expensive and soon but when? When will they come? Another year? Ten years? Who can say. We need them. Gas is TOO high!!!!!!!!!! Nearly $4.00 american; too much per gallon.
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Apr 21, 2011 1:31:20 GMT -5
Post by Doc on Apr 21, 2011 1:31:20 GMT -5
sorry So you should be. That first photo is NOT Paul. That's Doubleback Fake Paul. He first appeared in '65 and then Paul came back until '66. But Doubleback Fake Paul reappeared in '67. OK so I see those pics of Paul and Faul but I just gotta say, of course, OK I am drunk I had 3 three martinis, mixed in the kitchen and they were really good, but I gotta say that Sir Paul is out there, performing his tuckuss off at all these concerts, and of course his whole band that his great; and Sir Paul is out there now, today, delivering it, really giving it, turning it out for the audience and that is really something to hear and see. I don't know if at this point he might have some dude show up and say, "Hey, I am your life coach from MI5 and Iam gonna coach you in being Fab in 2011" or crazy stauff like that, but he doesn't need it; he is on automatic, out there, on stage, really performing and sellling it to the audience, really working it and keeping the music alive, being energetic and committed to the music whether old or new, solid, really doing the music for us solid and fierce. I heard him twice in ATL and both concerts were tops. He is on top of the game and he is keeping the Beatles, Wings, the Electric Firemen, etc. et alm alive and going and it is fantastic to attend a concert. OK I have had a martini or two but really it is true and amazing so, good for Sir Paul.
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Apr 21, 2011 1:23:57 GMT -5
Post by Doc on Apr 21, 2011 1:23:57 GMT -5
OK, that is like a really really strong and ballsy song there. Good for George! It's like, he says to himself, OK it'a been Lennon/McCartney & McCartney/Lennon all these years; I'm free now to record whatever I want, this is gonna rock their world! Yeah! So, I mean, there he is, really doing it and it's great; good for George Harrison.
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Post by Doc on Apr 14, 2011 23:38:28 GMT -5
Federation Fail. -j I'm looking in Real TIME HOW COOL IS THIS? lol www.paulmccartney.com/news.php#/2147/2011-04Now, following weeks of feverish speculation, Paul today announces that his record breaking Up and Coming Tour will be returning to South America in May for three massive shows in Peru, Chile and Brazil. It’s expected that these shows will contain some special unique moments.
9th May will see Paul’s first ever show in Lima, Peru at the Estadio Monumental. The tour then travels to Santiago, Chile, returning there for the first time since 1993 with a show on 11th May at Estadio Nacional. The run of shows will finish in Rio de Janeiro at the Estadio Olimpico Joao Havelange on the 22nd & 23rd of May with Paul being the first ever artist to perform at this venue. The last time Paul played in Rio, 21 years ago, a World Record was set for the ‘Largest Stadium Attendance’ in history.
Speaking about his forthcoming show in Rio Paul said:
We had a great time in South America. The audiences know how to party and me and the band are looking forward to going back in May for some more rock n’ roll fun! We played three shows in Brazil last year. It was our first time there in some while and we had a blast. We are really looking forward to coming back.”
Paul and his band are currently rehearsing ideas for this new leg of the Up and Coming Tour and it’s safe to say that these shows will feature nearly three hours of the world’s best loved and most known music. Paul’s live show features songs spanning his unrivaled career, from The Beatles, Wings, solo material and The Fireman’s critically acclaimed album ‘Electric Arguments’.
In 2010 Paul performed over 30 shows as part of his ‘Up and Coming Tour’ in North America, South America and the UK, winning unprecedented reviews wherever the band played. Paul rocked over 750,000 people last year and audience members included fans such as Katie Holmes, Dave Grohl, Samuel L Jackson, Quincy Jones, Woody Harrelson, the Jonas Brothers, Kings Of Leon, Kaiser Chiefs, David Walliams, Kanye West, Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow, Tom Hanks, Neil Young, Brian Wilson, John Paul Jones, Jack Nicholson, Steven Tyler, Danny Devito, Jerry Seinfeld, Alec Baldwin, Martha Stewart, Tony Bennett, Ben Stiller, Kevin Bacon, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood, Steve Coogan, Paul Weller, Frank Skinner, Rob Brydon and Chris Moyles.
Sir Paul is having a marvelous hey-day right now and I love it! Congrats to him and his band and entourage; may their upcoming dates all be as stellar as the Milky Way, and may he release many more smashing songs and works. Bravo!
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Post by Doc on Apr 11, 2011 1:07:20 GMT -5
Tears of a Clown-Smokey Robinson and the Miracles recognize this guy? come home? Awesome, awesome track---great remake of a classic.Guitar and vocals, lead and background---right on the money for a very today sound.
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Post by Doc on Mar 31, 2011 23:12:07 GMT -5
Ummmmmm, what? I really don't see what your trying to point out here at all. Well, for me, I can almost see a sort of "cubist" version on Paul's cartoon face in the overlapping layers in the frame. The two large eyes, the teeth, you know, very impressionistic but similar only in that sort of "avant garde" art way. Maybe it's my crazy imagination......I see things sometimes that nobody sees, because I am a little tetched........
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Post by Doc on Mar 29, 2011 22:34:57 GMT -5
"He is the place of the world, the world is not His place." And there we were all in One Place, a generation lost in space. Make for Me a dwelling. lol lol rofl I love a little parody now and then. Who is that?
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Post by Doc on Mar 15, 2011 17:43:24 GMT -5
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Post by Doc on Mar 12, 2011 21:07:58 GMT -5
I was a member of this board under the screen names of paulumbo and 8749. I started a blog about the Paul mystery on April 30, 2009. The blog has alot of original and (as they say on book covers) thought-provoking research that readers here might be interested in. Can I post the web address? ---paulumbo Well, what IS the web address? I would love to read your blog.
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Post by Doc on Mar 8, 2011 13:10:51 GMT -5
So when I was looking at the thread about Elton's "Circle of Life" video, the video came up and froze on the image on the right. I looked and was astonished; I thought of the Beatles cartoons and there you go. Isn't that bizarre? Attachments:
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Post by Doc on Mar 7, 2011 19:18:46 GMT -5
Out of the country of Greater Arabia Shall be born a strong master of Mohammed, He will enter Europe wearing a blue turban. He will be the terror of mankind. Never more horror. By fire he will destroy their city, A cold and cruel heart, Blood will pour, Mercy to none. Nostra Damus Never more horror. Sounds good. Sometimes When eyes meet you know They have to meet again Sometimes Birds of a feather Got to fly together
From a dingy attic window Candles shine On a perfect table Laid for two who love to dine Now they drink the Highly recommended wine Free at last and feeling fine
I'm so glad My fine young friend Glad for you[/i] [/quote] That second song there, "why so blue", etc, is a Paul McCartney song, through and through. Which Paul I'm not sure--but it serves to highlight one irresistible fact----Sir Paul has kept the music alive for 45 years. If he hadn't have, we wouldn't today have it the way we have it. Which is great------- ALL of the music----Beatles, Wings, Fireman, solo albums, a requiem, soon a ballet-----a lot of great music. Perhaps after studying all the photos that we've studied all these years, they seem a confusing jumble of multi-Pauls that, after all is said and done, one can't draw a firm conclusion; but the music says it best and the music says that some dedicated folk(s) kept the faith.
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Post by Doc on Mar 3, 2011 23:55:05 GMT -5
Could've fooled me! I thought some were there already! What has gotten into Charlie Sheen lately? I have been watching his bizarre TV appearances to no comprehension. Is he just pissed off, angry that the world gets all up in his face and analyzes and judges his activities? Is he high? Is he going certifiably insane? Has he lost it? Has Martin Sheen's parental rhetoric on TV caused him to blow a gourd? Or is it us? Have we done it? Just over maneuvered him to the point of distraction and now he's just serving it all up at us, smart assed and crazy, daring us to flinch? Has Charlie Sheen had it with the media and his public?
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Post by Doc on Mar 3, 2011 19:18:41 GMT -5
www.paulmccartney.com/home.phplol ;D Paul Collaborates On World Premiere NYC Ballet Paul And Peter Martins To Collaborate On World Premiere Ballet For New York City Ballet’s 2011/2012 Season PaulMcCartney.com announces today that Paul and NYCB’s Ballet Master in Chief Peter Martins will collaborate on a World Premiere ballet for the Company’s 2011/2012 season. The new ballet, which will premiere at NYCB’s Fall Gala performance on Thursday 22nd September 2011, will mark the first time that Paul has written an original orchestral score for dance. Paul said: “I am always interested in new directions that I haven’t worked in before. So I became very excited about the idea. When I got back to England after meeting Peter I started writing music and am now in the very final stages of the orchestral score.” He continued, “What was interesting was writing music that meant something expressively rather than just writing a song. Trying to write something that expressed an emotion – so you have fear, love, anger, sadness to play with and I found that exciting and challenging.” I look forward to at least hearing this work; it would be better to see it as well but one never knows if one might be in NYC......... still, I know they'll be a CD--or maybe even---a DVD of the performance. Hmmm...
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Post by Doc on Feb 17, 2011 0:14:48 GMT -5
I HAVE to see that! Looks campily bad in a good way.....
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Post by Doc on Feb 16, 2011 2:09:10 GMT -5
I have ekjoyed being a part of the orchestra for this new show at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta: www.artscriticatl.com/2011/01/theater-review-the-alliance-might-have-a-broadway-hit-with-sassy-and-fun-bring-it-on/It is very very entertaining, and I predict once it has been "refluffed" a bit, some rewrites and sharpening changes, it will make a serious player in the future Broadway line-up in New York City. The cheerleading stunts and acrobatics and tumbling are remendously entertaining. The score is mostly great, and plot and dialogue approaching all the right values for an up-beat, cheerful romp in the world of Cheer Camp and Beyond. We close this Sunday, Feb 20, our last show is at 7:30PM. If you are in Atlanta this week, come give us a look!
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