soul searcher

Yeah, and it's too much and too loud. Now we get LOUD rock music (which I like anywhwere except at the ballpark). I used to enjoy the organ music in between innings, but that's a thing of the past. We even get commercials now (ugh!). There was a Yankee theme song in the 1960s (I believe it was called "Here Come the Yankees") but they don't play it anymore. Now, the theme song (if you can call it that) is "New York, New York" which is played at the end of every game.

I don't listen to the radio anymore.

Thanks, mstar. Great info there.

LOL...not really, not for me, anyway. Just seeing how I like the song and everything, and it is sung by a New York guy anyway. I think most NYers are unaware of this practice at Fenway Park -- I only found only recently during my one and only visit to there a couple of years ago. And, BTW, it's a great place, I must say. And Boston fans are great and Boston is great. But when that 7th inning stretch came around and everybody started singing SW, I turned to my buddy and asked, "wtf"? He didn't have an answer. Not even his dad, who happens to be a BoSox fan and was born in Brooklyn and is very good at trivia. Anyway, I digress... I don't mind that you guys use our song :) It's just that, of all songs, why that one? I do admit that it's better than what we get treated to during 7th inning stretch at Yankee Stadium: Kate Smith singing "God Bless America".

How and why did the Red Sox co-opt the song "Sweet Caroline", which is by Brooklyn, NY-born Neil Diamond? I never got that.

That Vic Chestnut was some freaky ..... Brooding, desolate...

Wow, just wow. My mind reels with the possibilities... But ultimately, it wouldn't matter. What's done is done.

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That's what I thought you said. :) I can't tell you how messed up I think that is.

I have started to believe in recent years that the planet earth, together with various life forms, will survive man. I think humans and most other land-dwelling creatures will die off, much as the dinosaurs did, while other species (perhaps insects and various marine life) will remain. Who knows?

Moscow, by any chance? Wait minute, are you saying...nahh, you can't be saying that. (What are you saying?)

As are most people. Maybe he was right... Never mind! Call off the work crews. Who needs the New Orleans fishing industry anyway? Again, that attitude is hardly unique to TWI.

An environmental nightmare... http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/05/02/little-success-stopping-oil-slick-creeps-gulf-coastline/ http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/05/01/national/main6451392.shtml?tag=stack http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/us/02oil.html?hp http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/05/01/oil.impact.gulf/

I'm clueless.

And what finally turned you off to the doctrine? The fact that VPW plagiarized or made outright mistakes or was it something else?

Oh, Jane...another them are priceless! You go, girl!

Great insight, there, OldSkool.

Close. It was The Godfather.

Thanks, Waysider. I have to say that of all the things I've read on this forum, few sound as "cultish" as that dinnertime routine. I imagine that there weren't many overweight people in that Fellow Laborers program, huh? Didn't anybody ever break out, get a little crazy and say, "Wrong! Water is GOOD for digestion!"?

Glad you liked it, geisha. :) It's one of my favorite JB songs. "before I ever heard of TWI or knew what an unresolved relationship was" Sometimes I wish I was back there again. (That would be 26 years ago.) I wouldn't have the tears I have today. Unfortunately we can't go back in time.

Do tell.

Wha? Huh? LOL He didn't need a reason -- he was a clueless moron. It was probably in his DNA. Oy vey! The horror, the horror... You did what you had to do to survive. Let it go. * * * Jane, your posts are like a fountain of outrage and sorrow...sometimes I chuckle but when I do I immediately feel guilty because I remember the other stories told by you and other forumers who have been victimized, and then it's not funny anymore.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zopbdVv_9so

Wut?

Thanks, Oak. Another story, another outrage... A rather odd choice, judging from all of your posts. LOL So did you tell your kids "never mind" about they learned in PFAL? What was your reaction? Were you Hurt? Relieved? Angry?