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How Does It Feeeeeeeelllll? ... Mark Steyn
Steyn Online ^ | 15 Oct 2016 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 10/16/2016 11:31:46 AM PDT by Rummyfan

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To: Tax-chick
And me just having moved out of one to become a field hand.

Not Southern though unless you are in Canada. :)

And not a sexagenarian.

41 posted on 10/16/2016 1:20:07 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles!)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

I’ll be happy to spend the rest of my life in my suburb ... although we live on a through street.


42 posted on 10/16/2016 1:31:55 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("So we do nothing as the rendezvous with financial collapse gets ever closer."~VDH)
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To: Tax-chick
The suburbs are not bad places to live. But they don't allow you to keep a cow.

And I wanted a cow.

Now I want a second cow.

And then I will stop.

After I get a pig.

Then maybe some ducks....

43 posted on 10/16/2016 1:39:37 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles!)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
But they don't allow you to keep a cow.

I wanted goats, but DP didn't want to move to Missouri and live in the 19th Century.

Our subdivision doesn't allow farm animals.

44 posted on 10/16/2016 1:42:30 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("So we do nothing as the rendezvous with financial collapse gets ever closer."~VDH)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Actually, I have heard some of his work before he became famous. He has a good melodious voice. Nobody noticed his singing and lyrics until he started to chant his lyrics and became “Bob Dylan.” Janice Joplin had a great voice too, but didn’t make it big until she went “Janice Joplin.”.


45 posted on 10/16/2016 1:50:12 PM PDT by Afterguard (Deplorable me!)
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To: Tax-chick
Bunch of meanies. :)

My husband keeps talking about sheep and goats.

He is allergic to wool and I have had experience with goats. The guy who said "If you have no problems, get a goat" was not kidding.

46 posted on 10/16/2016 1:52:08 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles!)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Well, ducks are nice. One of my daughters volunteers at Waterfowl Rescue.


47 posted on 10/16/2016 2:00:41 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("So we do nothing as the rendezvous with financial collapse gets ever closer."~VDH)
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To: texas booster

Ah to be rich and have a pneumatic supermodel around.


48 posted on 10/16/2016 2:10:54 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: freedumb2003

Quote:

“Positively 4th Street is the greatest put-down song ever....”

Yes, and it’s the perfect song dedicated to the GOP from its voter base.


49 posted on 10/16/2016 2:15:03 PM PDT by TTFlyer
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To: Rummyfan
Steve Allen used to do a routine where he'd stand at a lectern and explain how song writers were the poets of the new generation, and he'd prove it by reciting the lyrics from a top song.

I've seen him do it with the Stone's "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" and with Donna Summer's "Hot Stuff".

Lookin' for some hot stuff, baby this evenin'
I need some hot stuff, baby tonight
I want some hot stuff, baby this evenin'
Gotta have some hot stuff
Gotta have some love tonight
I need hot stuff
I want some hot stuff
I need hot stuff

Clearly poetry for the ages.

50 posted on 10/16/2016 2:15:33 PM PDT by jdege
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To: jdege
The term "hot stuff" is so misunderstood in this brilliant poem.

Most people think the "hot stuff" lyrics are simple and shallow...but there really do have a deeper meaning.

The literal meaning of the words indicates somebody in search of material (stuff) of high temperature (perhaps burning coals to put in a furnace). Perhaps the singer is cold, and wants to warm their body.

But on a more profound level the "hot stuff" refers to erotic experiences with a partner whom the singer barely knows.

It's so deep! I mean mind blown! So amazing!

51 posted on 10/16/2016 2:37:07 PM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: Rummyfan

Very funny piece.... Worth reading for the part about Dave the plumber.


52 posted on 10/16/2016 2:38:01 PM PDT by mumblypeg (We've had a p***y in the White House for 8 years. Make America Macho Again.)
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To: bigbob

Idiot Wind...wonder what he *really* thinks of his ex-wife.
That said, I’ve been a fan for 50+ years.
Great artists are seldom stellar human beings.


53 posted on 10/16/2016 2:44:41 PM PDT by mumblypeg (We've had a p***y in the White House for 8 years. Make America Macho Again.)
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To: Tax-chick
Ducks are much smarter then chickens.

I used to tap on their house and they would line up in a row and march out behind me to the field to browse.

54 posted on 10/16/2016 3:17:51 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles!)
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To: GOPJ
Sometimes Steyn’s wrong... this is one of those times. Congratulations to Bob Dylan - he's earned it.

Totally agree. The test of a poet of "the people" is that vast numbers of people within his culture can recite some part of his poems, even if they don't know the origin of the phrases. Certainly he meets that test.

55 posted on 10/16/2016 4:23:23 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (We will be one People, under one God, saluting one American flag. --Donald Trump (standing ovation)
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To: MUDDOG
Great story. Like the one when Dylan got arrested.

So sweet! Funny to think of the English housewife, being all witty and unruffled about it, like a Python skit.

As an aside, I saw Dave Stewart and Annie Lennox when they first got started, at a tiny club in Philly, maybe '74. Amazing. I've been a Lennox fan ever since. Don't know how Dave dropped off my radar.

56 posted on 10/16/2016 4:37:37 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (We will be one People, under one God, saluting one American flag. --Donald Trump (standing ovation)
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To: Talisker

He is beyond 60.

He turned 75 in May.


57 posted on 10/16/2016 4:43:25 PM PDT by KC Burke (Consider all of my posts as first drafts. (Apologies to L. Niven))
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Elen doesn’t like chickens or geese. She likes ducks.


58 posted on 10/16/2016 4:49:16 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("So we do nothing as the rendezvous with financial collapse gets ever closer."~VDH)
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To: Albion Wilde

I disagree. I don’t think he deserves a Nobel prize in Literature. I don’t think he’s the first winner who hasn’t deserved it. I think it won’t be long before a “graphic novelist” wins. Elen favors Gerard Way, the former frontman of the former emo band My Chemical Romance.


59 posted on 10/16/2016 4:50:56 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("So we do nothing as the rendezvous with financial collapse gets ever closer."~VDH)
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To: Tax-chick
Smart girl.

Geese are mean and chickens are stupid and mean.

Ducks are sweet. And you can make great baked good from their eggs and they are tasty when roasted. What more could you ask from a bird?

Ok, so they are not so good fried.

60 posted on 10/16/2016 4:53:32 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles!)
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