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Post by bernard on Jul 23, 2009 1:41:31 GMT -5
You are not the only one.
Regards
Bernard
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Post by bernard on Jul 22, 2009 2:30:33 GMT -5
There was another Patsy Cline Taken from www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=57681&cat=boxerboxer: Patsy Cline Global ID 57681 sex male birth date 1898-06-28 death date 1957-07-09 division lightweight nationality United States alias Irish Patsy; Harlem Phantom residence New York, New York, United States birth place County Longford, Ireland birth name Patrick Clyne won 84 (KO 16) + lost 25 (KO 4) + drawn 8 = 118 rounds boxed 901 : KO% 13.56
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Post by bernard on Jul 19, 2009 2:55:01 GMT -5
Sacramento Country Music Examiner Country 101: Who are the most influential country artists of all time?
7) Bob Wills What Bill Monroe is to Bluegrass music, Bob Wills is to Western Swing, which is how he got the nickname "King of Western Swing." The music was part country, cowboy, blues and folk music, mixed with "swing" music. Some of his best known songs included "San Antonio Rose," "Take Me Back to Tulsa" and "Cherokee Maiden."
6) Bob Wills [sic] Patsy Cline may not have had a long career, but in the short time she was on this earth, she became one of the most influential female artists of country music, recording classic songs, such as "Crazy," "Sweet Dreams" and "Walking After Midnight." In a time where many female artists were looked upon as just "girl singers," Patsy Cline proved that she could compete with the male stars of the era in both record sales and concert tickets. She opened doors for all the female artists that followed.tinyurl.com/kos3jr
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Post by bernard on May 12, 2009 12:40:06 GMT -5
Hi Steve
Yes there are people awake,. I cannot answer your questions as I have never been that interested in getting every possible variation of every track. But in most cases Bear records are the best available quality of the masters they obtain.
But as always re-mastering has a lot of the sound engineers own taste and preferences in the process. So for some people the re-mastered may be less enjoyable than the original.
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Post by bernard on Apr 26, 2009 2:15:54 GMT -5
You hear the voice and it is unmistakably Patsy Cline, the deep-throated country diva who changed the tone of the genre in her day. That voice will offer a rich tone for Ballet Idaho's dancers in "Sweet Dreams," a new ballet by Ballet Idaho artistic director Peter Anastos to be featured next weekend in the company's season-ending concert, "A Spring Collage of Classics." When Anastos began thinking about this piece, he actually started with guitar concerti of Antonio Vivaldi, most known for his violin concerto "The Four Seasons." Then he decided to relate it to American guitar. That meant country and western - and for him that meant Patsy Cline. "It's like they're talking to each other over 200 years," he said. The piece is titled "Sweet Dreams," after one of Cline's biggest hits, which was released after her tragic death in a plane crash in 1963. It is a series of duets that explore facets of romantic relationships. Using these seemingly disparate musical styles adds a tension and a timelessness to the piece, Anastos said. He juxtaposes some of Cline's best-known - and some not-so-familiar - songs with Vivaldi's concerti that were originally composed for lute and mandolin. Now they are mostly played on guitar. The result is seamless, he said, because of what connects them - melody, rhythm and "toe-tappin'," Anastos said. "The Vivaldi concerti are actually catchy tunes. I can imagine people back in the 18th century listening to these and tapping their toes," he said. The mix turned a somewhat typical ballet into something more, Anastos said. "Adding Patsy Cline put it over the top. With her deep, rare, romantic voice she makes it sweet, fun and lively, everything a good ballet needs," he said. The ballet is fun and playful at times, soft and dreamy at others. And expect a dose of humor, which is becoming Anastos' trademark. This is the fourth and final concert for this Ballet Idaho, which is a reformed classical company that started in September 2008. Most of what they've done this season is in the neo-classical style. The work in this concert leans more toward the contemporary side. "This is the most contemporary work we've done so far," he said. For a new company of talented young classical dancers, it's a good challenge. The rest of the program rounds out with ballet master Alex Ossadnik's staging of Igor Stravinsky's powerful 20th century masterpiece "Rite of Spring" and Anastos' elegant classical ballet to Maurice Ravel's jazz-inspired Piano Concerto in G Major. www.idahostatesman.com/entertainment/story/745168.html
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Post by bernard on Apr 22, 2009 2:29:46 GMT -5
Planners give OK for Cline home museum
By Eric Beidel The Winchester Star
Winchester — City planners on Tuesday gave the OK for a permit that would allow the former home of Patsy Cline to become a museum.
Patsy Cline's former home on South Kent Street is one its way to becoming a museum. (Photo by Scott Mason) Celebrating Patsy Cline Inc. has temporarily abandoned plans to put a museum honoring the late country music star on the Loudoun Street Mall. Instead, they want to turn her former house at 608 S. Kent St. into a museum.
To do that, the group needs a conditional use permit from the city government because the home is in a residential district where private museums are allowed only on a case-by-case basis.
The Planning Commission unanimously recommended approval of the permit, but City Council has the final say on the issue.
Celebrating Patsy Cline Inc. owns the house, which previously had been rented to tenants.
“It’s such a small little house with a great deal of history,” organization President Judy Sue Huyett-Kempf said. “We want to make it work.”
Plans are for the museum to be open every day from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Planners had concerns about the lack of parking to accommodate special events at the house outside of the normal operating hours.
They recommended a requirement that the organization provide a shuttle for guests at these events to avoid parking issues in the neighborhood.
“I think it’s a great idea that’s long overdue,” Commissioner David Shore said.
“I think it’s important that the museum fit in with the neighborhood and be embraced by the neighborhood.” www.winchesterstar.com/showarticle_new.php?sID=6&foldername=20090422&file=Planners%20give_article.html~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It is to be hoped that CPC will this time take proper proffesional and impartial advice on the costs and difficulties of this project. 608 S Kent St was built to be used as a basic dwelling house for a single family. To convert a building of that construction into a public access museum is difficult. To install the necessary services will take out at least one of the rooms. It would have been far simpler and possibly less expensive to have fully re-created the rooms of 608 in the building at 134 N Loudoun St and still have adequate space for the necessary services. While I wish CPC the best of luck with the project I fear they will make ( or be led into making ) the same sort of financial mistakes they made in the 134 project.
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Post by bernard on Apr 18, 2009 10:51:49 GMT -5
Patsy has a level in Winchester's new parking lot named after her. tinyurl.com/cy4gvdEach of the garage’s seven levels bears the name of someone who has contributed to Winchester’s life and history — Patsy Cline, George Washington, Judge John Handley, Col. James Wood, Gen. Daniel Morgan, Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, and Adm. Richard E. Byrd.
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Post by bernard on Apr 4, 2009 3:54:11 GMT -5
BMNN wrote: on Apr. 03, 2009: Nashville, TN -- Nashville's historic Ryman Auditorium has been named Venue of the Year by the Academy of Country Music. The award was voted on by the Academy's professional members and is part of the Industry Awards category which recognizes contributions to the success and longevity of country music. The 44th Annual ACM Awards show will be held this Sunday, April 5, at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Special and Industry awards, including Venue of the Year, will be presented later in the year at the ACM Honors, held annually in the fall. This year's ACM Honors will be held September 22 in Nashville. Other recipients of awards at the September event include Poet Award winner Merle Haggard and Dolly Parton who was honored with the Jim Reeves International Award. The ACM established in 1964, supports and promotes country music around the world to both fans and professional members. This is the first ACM award for the Ryman. The Ryman deserves recognition as an amazing place for any artist to play," says country legend George Jones. "For at least the last 10 years, I have played the Ryman Auditorium annually, and each year it was to a sold-out crowd. I also played there back when it was The Grand Ole Opry. I love its history and tradition and the warm feeling of closeness you get with the audience, and of course the amazing acoustics. It is definitely the Mother Church of Country Music." About the Ryman Auditorium A National Historic Landmark, the Ryman Auditorium was built as a church in 1892, served as the home of the Grand Ole Opry from 1943-74, and was completely renovated in 1994. The Ryman is open as a museum during the day and at night continues its more-than-100-year music tradition by offering the best in live entertainment. The Ryman Auditorium is owned by Gaylord Entertainment (NYSE: GET), a Nashville-based hospitality and entertainment company that owns and operates Gaylord Hotels and the Grand Ole Opry. For more information, visit www.ryman.com. The full news item is at www.cybergrass.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=6153
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Post by bernard on Mar 10, 2009 13:22:08 GMT -5
Thanks for pictures Bill
It is so good to see the Ryman is still kept as it was all those years ago..
Those lovely wooden pews where a few more people could be squeezed in on a busy night.
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Post by bernard on Feb 28, 2009 8:27:38 GMT -5
The tax returns submitted by CPC for year 2007 show they started the year with assets of $ 42,818 and ended the year with a deficit of $ 43,903 $119,080 expenditure $ 32,359 total income -------------- $ 86,721 deficit for the year. This information is taken from the IRS tax form 990 for CPC year 2007 which is a document open to public inspection It seems un-likely that CPC will be able to fund a museum of any style until they are able to recover credibility and potential donors can then once more have confidence in the management of and policies operated by CPC. If CPC do have a revised plan then it would be advantagous for CPC if it were to be shown on the museum website.
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Post by bernard on Feb 26, 2009 4:29:00 GMT -5
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Post by bernard on Feb 23, 2009 14:12:33 GMT -5
Looking from this side of the Atlantic at the public domain information about the museum project it is amazing that they have hung on for so long.
For some reason that is not yet in the public domain CPC choose a very expensive style of museum. Had they not made that decision it is likely the museum would have opened.
Why did they make that decision ? Was it bad advice that was given to them or were they asked to commit to that style without being made aware of the real cost of that style. Or were they jsut over confident of their ability ?
What ever it is a great shame that the project has gone so wrong.
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Post by bernard on Feb 23, 2009 3:24:16 GMT -5
Sandy Kelly is also very close sounding like Patsy but even she cannot quite match the sound.
The Cline voice is unique.
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Husk
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Post by bernard on Feb 22, 2009 3:45:27 GMT -5
I came across this review on seattlest.com/2009/02/21/patsy_cline.phpTo me it goes a long way to explain what it was that was and still is so special about Patsy. Seattlest is a Patsy Cline fan. The woman had range. And not just that, but husk. No matter what note she was unleashing, she never dropped the soul of the song for a second. Sure, if you watch video of her singing through "Walkin' After Midnight," you may see a smile on her face for the camera. But there's something behind that, something in her eyes and the tone of her voice as she delivers lines like "I'm always walking after midnight searching for you." You can hear the lonely despite the smile. Singing like that is harder than smiling through the pain. We can't explain why, it just is. But Patsy could do it, and she made it look effortless. It was her appeal, was what made her such an icon in her so-short-it-was-almost-non-existent career (she was killed in a plane crash at 30 years old).
There's a difference between re-imagining a great song and trying to sound just like one of the most iconic-voiced women in the history of country music. It was Patsy's nuanced Patsy-ness that made her a star,
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Post by bernard on Jan 28, 2009 3:36:29 GMT -5
Winchester Star 28th January 2009 www.winchesterstar.com/showarticle_new.php?sID=6&foldername=20090128&file=Committee%20discusses_article.htmlCelebrating Patsy Cline Inc., the organization that owns the singing legend’s former house at 608 S. Kent St., asked that the city’s Zoning Ordinance be amended to allow museums in the district where the house is located. The organization has plans to turn the home into a temporary museum until it can convert a storefront on the Loudoun Street Mall into a full-fledged museum honoring the late country music star, who was born and raised in Winchester. If the council eventually approves the zoning change, Celebrating Patsy Cline would still be required to apply for a special permit and obtain formal approval from the City Council to enact the switch from house to museum.
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Post by bernard on Jan 14, 2009 3:31:56 GMT -5
www.winchesterstar.com/showarticle_new.php?sID=6&foldername=20090114&file=Revision%20would_article.htmlJanuary 14th 2009 Winchester — The city Planning Commission plans a public hearing next week on a zoning change that would help plans to turn Patsy Cline’s former home into a museum. Commissioners discussed the action during an afternoon work session Tuesday. The commission last month initiated a zoning amendment that would allow for museums and art galleries in the HR-1 District, the lone residential zoning district in the city that does not allow for such uses. The Patsy Cline house is at 608 S. Kent St. and in the HR-1 District. Celebrating Patsy Cline Inc., the owner of the property, asked the Planning Commission for the zoning change last month. The amendment would allow property owners in the HR-1 District to apply for a special permit to use a structure as a museum, as long as it is in the local or national historic district. Cline’s former house stands just outside the boundaries of Winchester’s Historic District, but is within the National Historic District. The public hearing is scheduled Tuesday.
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Post by bernard on Jan 4, 2009 5:27:48 GMT -5
www.melodika.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5667&Itemid=50"Sweet Dreams" A Patsy Cline Tribute Show Performed by CJ Harding Showcasing at APAP in New York Jan Sunday, 04 January 2009 CJ Harding's authentic rendition of Patsy Cline has been selling out theatres and bringing audiences to their feet for a decade. "Patsy" twirls onto stage in an authentic cowgirl outfit from 1963, complete with white fringe . You are immediately taken back in time to the year just before Patsy's plane went down west of Nashville. From the first note of "Crazy" the crowd is seduced by "Patsy's" voice and stage presence. "Patsy" talks with the audience. She walks through the crowd and brings them on stage. She flirts and she dazzles. She's a little naughty. She captures hearts. And in her second act, "Patsy" mesmerizes the audience in her evening gown and diamonds as she belts out her classic ballads against an elegant backdrop. The audience leaves the theatre in a state of awe, as they try to bring themselves back to the present day. Ms. Harding will be exhibiting at the upcoming APAP Conference in New York City January 9 - 13, 2009. You can visit with her at booth #119 in the Rhinelander Hall. But better yet, you can see and hear "Patsy" for yourself on Friday, January 9, 2009 at 11:00 p.m. and on Saturday, January 10 at 6:20 and at 10:30. Here's the schedule: January 9, 2009, 11:00 p.m. in the Morgan Suite, 2nd Floor of the Hilton January 10, 2009, 6:20 p.m. in the Morgan Suite, 2nd Floor of the Hilton January 10, 2009, 10:30 p.m. in the Regent Parlor, 2nd Floor of the Hilton Page 2 Don't miss this opportunity to see and hear what audiences all across America have been talking about for over ten years. From Winchester, VA, Patsy Cline's hometown, up and down the East Coast and across the country at venues like Kirkland Performing Arts Center in Washington; The Dunn Center for the Performing Arts in Rocky Mount, NC; The Opryland Hotel in Nashville, TN; Tampa Arts Council in Tampa, FL; and on and on…"Sweet Dreams" is a Tribute Show like no other! In our troubled economy, Presenters and Performers alike are looking for ways to fill seats. Ms. Harding is taking a serious approach to making her performance affordable for her loyal fans and for newcomers to her show. "Patsy" puts people in those seats! Talk to us about our Economy Package and let's work together to make 2009/2010/2011 successful, while bringing quality entertainment to your Theatre!
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Post by bernard on Jan 3, 2009 8:24:33 GMT -5
www.tennessean.com/article/20090103/ENTERTAINMENT01/901030352/1005/ENTERTAINMENTSteel Guitar Hall of Famer Walter Haynes, who also wrote and produced hit country music songs, died Thursday in Tyler, Texas. He was 80, and was known for his work with Jimmy Dickens, Del Reeves, The Everly Brothers, Jeanne Pruett and numerous others. "When you heard Walter play on things like Jimmy Dickens' 'We Could,' the tone was just so beautiful," said broadcaster, musician and historian Eddie Stubbs. "That steel guitar sounded almost like it was breathing." Mr. Haynes' legacy is not solely defined by his steel guitar prowess. He produced Pruett's "Satin Sheets" and Cal Smith's "Country Bumpkin," and also produced artists including Reeves, Marty Robbins and Bill Monroe. And though Mr. Haynes was not a prolific songwriter, he co-wrote (with Hank Mills) Del Reeves' No. 1 1965 hit, "Girl on the Billboard." The inspiration for that song came when he saw a Coca-Cola billboard that featured a swimsuit-wearing model. Without a pen and paper handy, he scribbled ideas for the song in the dust on his car's dashboard. Yet steel players and traditional country music fans speak first of Mr. Haynes' contributions as an instrumentalist. Raised in Kingsport, Tenn., Mr. Haynes moved to Nashville in 1949 as a fiddle player. Two years later, he had switched to steel and was working toward a sound that was complex and intricate for its time. He became a major influence on Buddy Emmons, who would join Dickens' band after Mr. Haynes left the group in 1955. Emmons would later broaden the impact of the pedal steel guitar and would become beloved in doing so. Less celebrated than Emmons, Mr. Haynes was nonetheless crucial in bridging instrumental eras. Mr. Haynes provided a link between the simple lap steel of the 1940s and the more sophisticated pedal steel styles of Emmons, Lloyd Green and others. "There was a time when Walter Haynes was a critical part of steel guitar recording in Nashville," said modern-day steel guitarist Pete Finney. "He's too often overlooked in the history of pedal steel." He gave Elvis hair tips In addition to his time in Dickens' Country Boys group, Mr. Haynes worked the road with Ferlin Husky and Webb Pierce. He also worked for 13 years as a staff musician on the Grand Ole Opry. In the studio, he was versatile enough to play on such disparate recordings as Dickens' rockabilly-fused "Hey Worm! (You Wanna Wiggle)," Patsy Cline's elegant "Walkin' After Midnight" and rocker J.J. Cale's 1971 Naturally album. Mr. Haynes also worked some music-related "day jobs," heading up Moss Rose Publishing and serving as an assistant to Owen Bradley at Decca and as a vice president at MCA Nashville. In young days, he was a dashing fellow, as well: Elvis Presley once asked him for hairstyling advice. "He and I were roommates in the early 1950s," said Bob Moore, the legendary bass player who also spent time as a member of the Country Boys band. "He had a lot of fun, and he was just a plain old nice guy." At the time of his death, Mr. Haynes had been teaching music lessons in Bullard, Texas, where he lived with wife Cindy. Services will be held Sunday at Tyler Metro Church, 7525 Old Jacksonville Highway, Tyler, Texas, 75703. Peter Cooper writes about music for The Tennessean. He can be reached at 615-259-8220.
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Post by bernard on Jan 1, 2009 11:20:50 GMT -5
valleyarts.org/blog/?p=1782Country Music and Cultural History in 1950s Winchester, Virginia: The Life and Times of Patsy Cline Posted on December 15, 2008 Filed Under Arts and Education, Community News, Events, Harrisonburg, Music, Musicians There will be a Shenandoah Valley Regional Studies Seminar on January 16 at 3:35 p.m. in Room 107 of Jackson Hall. Warren Hofstra and Mike Foreman of Shenandoah University will present “Country Music and Cultural History in 1950s Winchester, Virginia: The Life and Times of Patsy Cline.” Sponsored by the JMU Department of History and Lord Fairfax Community College. Free.
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Post by bernard on Dec 31, 2008 15:52:01 GMT -5
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Post by bernard on Dec 25, 2008 3:28:00 GMT -5
HAPPY
CHRISTMAS
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Post by bernard on Dec 10, 2008 3:45:28 GMT -5
www.winchesterstar.com/showarticle_new.php?sID=6&foldername=20081210&file=Patsys%20house%20_article.htmlWinchester — Patsy Cline fans may soon have the opportunity to visit the home where the legendary singer lived with her family from 1948 to 1953. The owner of the house, Celebrating Patsy Cline Inc., asked the Winchester Planning Commission Tuesday to initiate a change to the city’s Zoning Ordinance that would allow museums in the HR-1 District, where the house is located. The district is the only residential area in the city that doesn’t allow museums by-right or with a conditional-use permit. The latter allows a property to be used in a manner not allowed by-right in a particular zoning district. “We have always had plans to open her house at 608 S. Kent St.,” said Judy Sue Huyett-Kempf of Berryville, president of CPC. “Now that it is vacant [the home had been rented], we feel it is the time to begin the process of getting the house open.” A museum couldn’t be considered at Cline’s former house without the amendment, city planners said. Generally, a private entity will sponsor an ordinance change in order to accommodate a certain project. However, the Planning Commission agreed to publicly sponsor this legislation. If the amendment is adopted, the Cline organization would still have to apply to the city government for a conditional-use permit before opening the museum. Part of the vision of the organization, which also plans a museum on the Loudoun Street Mall, is to honor the locally born singer who died in a 1963 plane crash in Tennessee. Accompanying Huyett-Kempf to Tuesday’s commission meeting was CPC board member Scott Andres of Clarke County. “The timing is right,” Andres said. “We have a lot issues to deal with, including accessibility. We want to make the house as accessible to as many people as possible.” The two-story structure contains about 1,700 square feet of space, with three bedrooms, Huyett-Kempf said. “We are just starting the process,” she said. “It will take months to open the house to the public, and we have many steps to complete.” Patsy moved to the home in 1948 with her mother, sister, and brother, Huyett-Kempf said. “She lived there off and on until 1957, when she married Charlie Dick.” The house was the starting point of her stardom, a vital step in how her career was formed, Huyett-Kempf said. “It was from this house that her career blossomed with many performances as a teenager, singing in Winchester and surrounding areas, the Arthur Godfrey show, going to Nashville, and many other events and places.” Cline’s former husband remembers it well. “I first met her when she lived there,” Charlie Dick said during a phone interview Tuesday from Tennessee. “I spent half my time over there when we were dating.” He recalls how Patsy’s mother Hilda Hensley did a lot of work to the interior of the house, moving walls and painting. “Hilda would tackle anything,” Dick said, “and Patsy would go along — she’d get in the middle of it.” Dick said he is very supportive of opening the house to the public. Living in Nashville, he realizes how much fans want to see celebrities’ homes. Some still ride by the Tennessee house where Dick lived with Patsy. “I know people want to see it,” he said. “I’d like for Winchester to have something for people to see when they visit.” The Cline house is listed on the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places. Celebrating Patsy Cline wants to use the structure to help tell the singer’s story, Huyett-Kempf said. “From this house, fans can follow the path left by this famous icon in country music.” ...www.celebratingpatsycline.org
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Post by bernard on Dec 2, 2008 10:38:55 GMT -5
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Post by bernard on Nov 27, 2008 17:14:45 GMT -5
Don't forget there are TWO thanksgiving days, the turkeys that survive also have one and, being the nice creatures that they are, they resist the temptation to roast a human for dinner.
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Post by bernard on Nov 25, 2008 13:22:24 GMT -5
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