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  • Music [trivia] question: Green Acres theme

    08/12/2015 1:22:10 AM PDT · by re_nortex · 66 replies
    Way too early on April 12, 2015 | Self
    In another thread, I came across Donald Trump doing a passable job of the Green Acres theme. Here in the Dallas area, the Ticket sports station has their own variation of the theme. My question to the vast collection of musicologists out there in FReeperland is about the instrumentation deployed on that familiar theme. What in the heck are those instruments that gave it such a distinct, rustic flavor? Was it Moog synthesizers or traditional string and woodwinds? I'll admit to being pretty much of an idiot when it comes to the "behind the scenes" stuff involved in creation of...
  • Hillary Clinton 2008 Confirmed?

    01/17/2005 4:38:09 PM PST · by yoe · 51 replies · 6,759+ views
    National Ledger ^ | Jan. 16, 2005 | Staff
    New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) has long been rumored as desperately seeking the democratic nomination for president in 2008. And while many political observers fully expect the power hungry former First Lady to hit the campaign trail within only a few months of being re-elected as a US Senator in 2006, US News & World report claims to have a confirmation of sorts. From USNews.Com's Washington Whispers: Hillary's in… You don't have to take it from us about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton 's desire to run for president. Her brothers, Hugh and Tony Rodham, say it's true. Friends...
  • Hole-Digger the Perfect Woman for New Zealand

    10/02/2002 8:59:16 AM PDT · by Bear_in_RoseBear · 10 replies · 162+ views
    Reuters Odd ^ | 10/2/02 | Reuters
    WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A remote bar in New Zealand's mountainous South Island is searching for the perfect woman -- a southern belle who can back a trailer load of hay, change a car tire and dig in a fence post.Publican Stew Burt, who runs the Bullock Bar in the town of Wanaka, said he has 15 entries for his Perfect Woman competition, which offers a cash prize of $474 and a trip for two to a rugby game or other sports event in Auckland, New Zealand's largest city around 620 miles to the north.Competitors must also throw a set of...