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Some very soothing pieces by John Phillip Sousa include: The Washington Post March, Semper Fidelis, and Stars And Stripes Forever..... :)

Oh, okay Garth, now I remember, although when I brought it up here, I didn't have anyone in particular in mind other than that it had happened. Glad to hear that you apologized. Yer a good man Charlie Brown...

Ya know Rocky, I just happen to be white, and I resent the racial slur. Actually, I don't mind it at all, but one time I was soundly reproved by a number of our Hispanic brethren here for using the term "wetback". I used it in reference to a very good friend of mine who turned out to be an illegal, and then I was informed that the term "gringo" is equally as hateful which was a surprise to me. Personally, I think of neither as offensive. But there are those who are pretty sensitive about those kind of racial slurs, so, ya best watch yer step around here... And now, back to the topic: Stay Ductape.

Why would you even ask that Rocky? Conscience gettin' to ya? And if so, glad to see that you have one!

Ductape: You should stay. Your brilliance is appreciated by others who posess sound intelligence and common sense. I have seen you viciously attacked in the past by a particular person (yet that person remains?), and I have seen you called "fuctape" when your antagonist was of the opinion that there was no other recourse but to call names. You are one of the good guys. Stay.

Here is one that I used to listen to before I slept at night. "The Ride Of The Valkeries", by Wagner ("Vogner"). And also the "1812 Overture" by Tchaikofsky and also "Capricio Italien" by the same Russian dude.,,,

My son Riley, three years ago when he was 11, rode the "Slingshot" at the Alaska State Fair two times. He loved it. After seeing this video clip of the "home version" of the "slingshot", he said; "I'd pay money to do what that girl just did". Check out this website, and maybe one of you smart people (I only know whut luv is) can post a pic of the "vertical sling shot" that my son rode that is at this site: http://www.funtime.com.au/data/gallery1.htm

I use a cologne called "Grey Flannel". It seems to make the women flock to me and swoon. After shaving I put a hint on my face and on my neck, and then I make sure to rub my hands on my shirt on my chest. I am pretty sure that this is what causes the attraction, but then again, my lovely bride of 23 years assures me that "it isn't just the cologne you handsome dawg you." I used to wear Polo for awhile, and then Tommy Hilfiger, but they both seemed too sweet for me. Reminded me of Aramis and Brut back in the seventies. But my wife likes the Grey Flannel. But when I use up the small bottle that I have, I am going to try something totally different. Don't know what though. Have any of you gals ever had a whiff of "Canoe"? It's an old one also, but I always heard that it was a "lady killer"....

"Extended For Pleasure". It's one of those Christian self help books on healthy marital sex.

Happy anniversary from me too! And, how many years are under your belt?

Thanks for the education Waysider. I have never known what you just said. But I have applied it over and over. Funny thing, that. And Socks, both of those git-tars have the adjustments that you spoke of. I'll give it a go on an amp. And, by the way (another dumb question), just what is the different between a "P.A." and an amplifier? I know that "PA" stands for Public Address, but since it also does "amplify", why is it different from and amplifieP.S. Pray for me. Yesterday at work, I hit myself in the nose with a big old 1 and 1/8 in wrench! I was tightening the bolts on a big flange and the wrench slipped off and whacked me straight on the bridge of my nose! I look like a raccoon! And it's not the pain I need prayin for, it's my self esteem! Haha! :blink:

So nice of you to post this thread RG. You are lovely and acceptable in the sight of our Heavenly Father, and also in the eyes of those who love. Hopefully your tender heart will be healing to those who haven't figured out how to love yet. I'm still workin' on it, but you have been a blessing to me already...

Waysider, you asked: I almost always play "cross harp" which is what you referred to as "2nd position". For blues and bluegrass, that works best for me. I had never heard it called that, but what do I know? Haha! Thanks for the education on that. And, mi favorito is the Hohner Marine Band "Special 20". I have tried the Lee Oskars, and although they are very good, on numerous occasions, the reed plate grabbed my mustache and that hurts!. Also one time when playing a Lee Oskar, because the reed plate has a "different slope" to it (less gradual), it wore my lips out and they got numb and I couldn'y play for a while. I guess my lips gad become so accustomed to the Hohners that that slightest difference really made a difference. Funny, that. Maybe it's like a trumpet player's embouchre, and switching to a different mouth piece or something. And, I have never tried a Suzuki. I saw one for the first time just the other day when I bought a new Special 20. It looked nice, but I didn't want to try it when I needed the "tried and true" for that very evening. I will try one some time though...

My oh my! This thread still lives? Amazing! Well, now, all who want to say what ever and discuss whatever here at the GSCafe is fine with me. I was just saying that I myself have had my fill of alot of it, that's all. I do think that it is good for those who have left TWI to have a place to air out their thoughts. I agree with the Amazing Mr. Socks on all of that. And you too Oakspear. On the other hand, it does seem like some (not all) who have been here for years now seem to still be carrying their same bitterness and anger, and that is sad for me to see and is tiresome, that's all. And so, a break has been nice, but I doubt I'll get into any more discussions that turn into "rumbles". Hi to everyone! And Rainbowsgirl, thank you very much!!

Thanks for the insight folks. And, the guitar that you linked for me does look to be one of the two that I played at the music store. However, the one that you linked for me Socks, had a deal going on where the strings would buzz as if the action was too close to the frets. The other one that I played was a smaller box guitar that was ebony black and also a cutaway thing on the neck (it's really cool lookin) and also had the built in pick ups and plug in for an amplifier. I guess I should try them plugged in and amplified too, eh?

Hi my favorite GSCafe people! I am fine and winter is still dumping snow on us. But in that it is March 24th, Spring just MUST be around the corner, and that's a happy thing. Well now, I was looking at git-tars today at Juneau's only music store, and I noticed a plethora (a whole bunch?) of Ibanez acoustic git-tars. In fact, the store seemed to really care a whole lot for Ibanez. And so, I played a nice one with a cut away neck that also had a plug in and pick up deal on it. The action was nice, and the guys want $525.00 for it, and with a 10% discount, I could get it for $475.00 And so, Socks, and the rest of youz, what's you take on Ibanez git-tars? And, by the way, tonight, I have the privilege to play with some bluegrass musicians at a wedding reception at a local bar. The "Sandbar" as a matter of fact. One guy, Mike, has a really old "small box" Martin which is nearly as beat as Willy Nelson's nylon string acoustic. There is no hole in it, but man oh man does it have a nice sound! We practiced today in this guys garage, and they were really happy that I could figure out the tunes that I'd never heard before and play the break just fine. I was playing harmonica by the way, and to me, bluegrass and country is kind of simple to play and they were all excited. And so, we will be playing to an eventually drunken crowd, and so I figure that they will be very easy to please. But any way, wish me luck! And, you Git-tar officionados, tell me about Ibanez. Love you folks.... JL

Did someone mention Beck? I love Jeff Beck! "I'm Goin Down!" Oops, did I just post? Yes, I did. Well now. Speakin of git-tars, my 20 year old son "Keanu" (Trevor) is heading down to Texas to work for my brother in law in construction. But, my brother in law Greg is also an accomplished pianist and git-tar player and has a "home studio" complete with recording gadgets and p.a.'s and amplifiers and all kinds of that stuff that will be just fine for my youngun Trevor. I have been billing the whole deal as "Trevor's Excellent Adventure". Yeah, he just needs to "get outa Dodge" and enjoy a change of venue. We bought him a one way ticket for his birthday which is tomorrow, and he will be getting some sunshine for a change! And, there are plenty of purdy gals down that way also. He'll also be working with his Texas cousin Zach who is also a budding guitarist. There is alot of C and Dubya in "Amarilla" and I am sure that old (young) Trevor will just fit in fine down thataway. And, as a matter of fact, I am looking at his "adventure" as something that will help him "get growed up" somewhat. Yeah, he has been slow to catch on to getting "responsible" and nailing down a job and such, and so I am hoping to God that this will be a "good thing". And, I think that he will be blessed by his Uncle's musical abilities. And, he also has another uncle, Uncle Jack, who just spent the last two years at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore MD studying classical guitar. His Uncle Jack is a retired millionaire who sold his law firm and simply went "back to school" to study his passion which is classical guitar. And so, my boy Trevor will have two different mentors to learn from, and I am praying for him to not only "catch the drift" when it comes to work and responsibility, but also to have some great musical education. And so, keep him in your prayers, will ya? And hey, I love all you folk over here in the "peacefull threads". I guess I just got really tired of the Way bashing and then also the political forum (which I could have avoided but seemed to be unable to avoid), and well, any way, I love you guys over here. JL

Well, here I am. Feel better Grouch, Rocky and Sudo? I hopes this helps your self esteem as far as being "cyberbadgers" goes. And Sudo, I was glad to read that you were " just kiddin". I never thought I had issues wit choo. But damn man, a "toad lickin coward"? Thanks a lot dude. But I will accept your explanation to Cool Chef on that, for, I have always liked you. The real reason that I wanted leave is because I had a zesty liasson with one of our cyber sisters here, and we met covertly in a hotel for a 48 hour lockdown in Spokane while I was allegedly on a business trip. Her name will remain forever anonymous. Just kidding. A joke, that… Okay now really. It seems that there are a few who are concerned about why I chose to leave, and why I posted about our windfall at the same time in the "Polittacks" forum. One person read into it that I posted there "knowing that others didn't have permission to post there", and that because of that, no one except those who post there would have read my "Yeehaw" thread. However, as stupid as I may seem to that person, I do know about "cut and paste" (learned that in Kindygarden and it's newer application during this computer age), and knew full well that that post would probably show up in this goodbye thread after I started the goodbye thread. In fact, to all who be readin’, I didn't even know that only certain folks could post over there. I have always been posting there, and just figured that anyone who wanted to go there could go there, and that those who didn't post there simply did not because they didn't want to. And so, there was no complicity. And so. The night I posted the "Yeehaw" thread, I had been celebrating. Yup, a few cold toddies. I was way happy about the news I had received, and was once again amazed at how (so far in my life) God had sent another blessing to me and to my family. And so, as my manner is (like many of you guys's manners is), I checked into the old GSCafe. I went to the "polittacks" forum, and decided at that time to tell of what had occurred in our lives. I was impulsive, as I have always been. I have always believed in Ephesians 3:20, and when I first heard it in twig, I impulsively really dug it because of it's "quadruple positive” aspects. I still dig it and lots of others of God's Promises. And the “ha ha’s” in that post were not like “nanny nanny boo boo!,” but rather like; “God is so cool! Haha! Yeehaw!” You can take that or leave it, but that’s how it was and is. Some say that I should have been giving my thanks to Big Oil instead of God. Well, I beg to differ. God works in wondrous ways. That’s my belief and I am entitled to it. For those here who hate the Oil industry but hypocritically use its’ products in a thousand ways daily, I guess it might be offensive to you if I said that God blessed us in a manner that involved petro-chemicals. But, “whatever”. I believe what I believe and reserve the right to say it. And why did I post the news and leave at the same time? Well, that was simply the way it was. No devious plan there. I had been seriously contemplating checking out for a week or more prior to that evening, and I had been less than seriously thinking about checking out for an even longer period of time than that. And as I had been excitedly writing in the politics forum, I impulsively made the decision to do what I had been thinking of doing, and since such a major change had come along for us, I guess I figured that “now was the time” to say that I was checking out. And after I finished that post, I at some short time later decided to post over in the Open forum that I was checking out. I thought it would be nice to check out on a positive note instead of after some big fight. Why not include the windfall info there? Well, I think because I had decided that maybe I should not have posted that info over on the Politics forum, because generally, people consider it wise to keeps one’s finances to themselves, and, I can see the wisdom in that philosophy now. But, we all know what they say about hindsight. But to those of you who are happy for us, thanks. Now, for a goodbye thread to turn into what it has, I really did watch with much amusement. And those folks who were very negative on it simply bolstered my thinking for why it is that I wanted to check out in the first place. But I must also say that because of all of the very kind responses and “Pms” that I received, it gave me second thoughts about going away. Thank you all who have been my friends here. I will no doubt come back some time, but, I do need to just take a break from the cyber world all together. It just gets addicting ya know? When I come home from work, I should be hanging with my kids and not sitting here at the keyboards defending my position at the GSCafe or chatting happily at the GSCafe, or, squawking with fellow harmonica players over at the “Bushman Music Forums” (no Rocky/Groucho, that is not a covert place for George Bush supporters). And so, I hope this is good enough. But I know that it will not be for some. But as the song says; "It's all right now. I've learned my lesson well. For ya, can't please everyone, so you got to please yerself". Have a nice day. I have to go to work and do my part in taking care of 121.5 million one inch long Chum salmon who are due to be released into the North Pacific any day now. Part of what I'll be doing is scaring the minks away because they come around during such an operation trying to eat our little baby salmon. I love that job!

Thanks NiKa, and all of the rest of you "friendlies....."

I never saw this until today, Lisa. I am so sorry that this happened, for, George was a very fine man. I am glad that you all enjoyed the salmon. Thank you for toasting me and my family. How kind of George. And I toast you and yours and you all are in my prayers... God bless you, and, we'll see him again down Life's eternal highway.... Kevin

Mark said; I said at the beginning:

Thank you all! :)

Love all of yous folks. But, it is time to move on. I had long since said good bye to The Way International before I came here, and I have decided that even though this place is addicting, and hard to stay away from, it is time for me to go. Being here many times, has stirred me up about my past, and sometimes that has been good. And at other times that has been bad. I have learned a great many things here, and some of those things were hard to come to grips with. I didn't believe at first that the upper leadership of The Way actually took advantage of women who didn't know to say "No". But I have found through communications with many of you that it is true. And that was so wrong man....so wrong! But as I have stated many times, I don't believe that The Way started out as a "sex and money farm", but rather, VPW started out wanting to help people and wanted to see a radical change in the Christian Church which would actually help people. However, I do believe that he succumbed to the "pleasures of sin for a season" ( a long season), and that he brought a wonderful ministry down into the "usual cess pools of sin and iniquity" where Mankind has preferred to snorkel about with unmittigated glee, therefore hurting many many people in an insidious manner... But, I need to go on. Need to leave the past behind and keep on going to take care of my wife and kids. God has blessed us with unbelieveable blessings and, well, it is just TIME. God bless you all. I won't name a one of you in a "thank you", for there are so many and I don't want to leave any one out. This is not a "I'm taking my toys and going home!" thing (which I have done before-I confess) but rather a "I just gotta go" kind of a thing. Just time to leave it in the past is all... I will not ask Pawtucket to "erase me" for awhile yet, for, in my vanity, I guess I want to hear a goodbye from you. I love you all though. I know that when we all got involved in The Way, it was because we wanted to change the World, and that we thought that we had found the way to do just that. And ya know what? That was a beautiful thing for us to want to do!! You all are beautiful people and beautiful in God's eyes. I think of the song by Hope Somebody (I Got Outs wife) who sang; "I'd like to thank each one of you and hold you in my arms....." (da da dee da....) "And I love you so, the words you hold just melt my soul, and I want you to know, your my Famil-eeee....(da da dee da) "I'm so glad your my Family. My Fam-il-ee. I'm soo glad you're my Family....." Damn I'd love to hear that song just one more time....

I would imagine that, just like a good hotel they would take care of things like that. You have stayed in hotels before, haven't you? And if so, you can rest assured that thousands have preceded you, doing the Wild Thang in that very bed where you laid your little head to rest....

Yes, definitely hilarious! Good one Cowgirl! And yes, weightless sex, now that really would be interesting. And, speaking of the Mile High Club, no doubt some of you have seen National Lampoon's Vegas Vacation with Chevy Chase? There is a scene in it where Chevy Chase and his wife (Beverly D'Angelo) try to make it into the Club. Really really funny, that scene...