Snake45

Sorry to hear of your loss. Good to hear she beat the odds for so long.

Here's a hilarious discussion of the topic:

I understand that's something called a 1-4-3 riff, or something of the sort, and is not that uncommon. For example, Steve Miller's "Take the Money and Run" fits the same pattern. (If you want to have some fun, look at the writing credit for Kid Rock's "All Summer Long.) "Surfin' USA" is pretty much a tribute to "Sweet Little Sixteen." Here's one I'll bet not many people here know: Randy Newman's "Follow the Flag" gets its major riff/theme from a Civil War song called "Battle Cry of Freedom." (I only know this because we played BCoF in high school band.) Stevie Nicks herself claims that her "Stand Back" is her ripoff of Prince's "Little Red Corvette." I love both songs but I don't really hear it. Madonna's "Hung Up" is basically an updated ABBA's "Gimme Gimme Gimme." And the first time I heard Lady Gaga's "Born This Way," I immediately recognized Madonna's "Respect Yourself."

"Just Got Paid Today" was ZZ Top. Did Skynard cover it?

Wow, I'd be hard pressed to get my favorites down to 300, much less 30. Three is just about impossible. I've never heard of at least half the songs (or bands) listed so far. Of all those listed, the only one that might make my top three list would be Hendrix's Watchtower. Here's another one that would stand a good chance of making my list:

Sad, sad day. Feel like I need to vomit.

That's how you know you got something GOOD!

This one's been in my head all day...

I've fixed eyeglass frames with both superglue and epoxy. One of these might work for you.

Or, as the prophet Warren Zevon put it: They say Jesus will find you wherever you go, But when he'll come looking for you, they don't know.

This got a little better after I hit the MUTE button. So the big question is, where did he find a deaf girl with Daddy Issues?

My mouth kept me on a first name basis with entire HR departments of almost every place I ever worked. You get used to it. I could tell you HR stories that would curl your hair*, if you still have yours. Handy tip: Get the HR people laughing, too. *One of my favorites: One morning first thing, the office network system was down. I said, "I hope they get it fixed soon. This hot lesbian porn isn't gonna look at itself." It was a joke I'd heard on a popular network TV sitcom a few days before. Couple hours later I was in the HR director's office, where he repeated the joke to me and said, "You're just lucky [name of new girl in the office] wasn't in yet. You know she's a lesbian, don't you?" "I didn't, until you just outed her," I replied. He gave me that "Oh S, I just F'ed up" look and said, "Well get out of here and don't do it again."

BOO-YA! I finally got something right! Chris sent me a pic of the actual Buchon in the pic in question, but I didn't ask his permission to post it, so I won't. Meanwhile, getting back to the topic of Funny Stuff:

Doesn't look like a 51 to me. P-40 is most logical but somehow it doesn't look like that to me either. I'm thinking maybe a Buchon, one of those Spanish-built Bf 109 variants that was used in the Battle of Britain movie in the late '60s. Several of those made their way to the US after the filming, and a few are still around. Maybe Chris remembers/knows what it is and will share. Oh, the one at far left is a B-25. That one I know.

Hmmmmmm....can't say that I do. Looks like something Walter Soplata would do, but the place is much too clean/organized to be his. (Have you read his son's book? It's fabulous.)

I just watched it for the first time in decades. There aren't many movies that can hang with this one for overall creepiness of mood. But the pacing was a bit slow for my taste--how I wish it had been on Netflix, where I could have watched it at 1.5X speed. Also, a pretty unsatisfying ending--a big letdown in the last 10 minutes or so. It's hard to imagine anyone other than Jack Nicholson playing the lead role in this move. But could Shelley Duvall have hammed it up more? Wpw.

According to Professor Theodore Nugent of Motor City University, the blame is to be placed on "the white man, with his thick and empty head. He couldn't see past his billfold; he wanted ALL the buffalo dead." This happened long ago in the New Magic Land, where the Indian and the buffalo existed hand-in-hand. (Guess what? I've got a FEVER. And the only prescription...is MORE COWBELL!)

Congratulations and good luck with everything.