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It's Summertime - 2003

Monday, June 16, 2003

• TITLE: "It's Summertime - 2003" The Jamies originally released "It's Summertime" in 1958 as a novelty song; the 1962 version was the hit.

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• "... A Trip to Paris ..." Here are the links to

  Chapter 1: I'm My Own Grandpa.
  Chapter 2: What's the Difference between First Class
                  and Coach?.
  Chapter 3: Not Much About Paris.

• "... There's a bathroom ..." A mis-hearing of the Creedence Clearwater Revival 1969 tune, "Bad Moon Rising," the chorus of which is:

  Don't go around tonight
  Well it's bound to take your life
  There's a bad moon on the rise

  CCR started in the 50's as the "Blue Velvets", then (during the British Invasion) renamed themselves "The Golliwogs" and finally became Creedence.

  Mullster Steve Oglesby contributed this link explaining that this is called a "mondegreen".

• "... Scientific American ..." Here's the link to the brief article about global warming and the sun.

• "...Sraits Times..." Here's the link to the Singapore paper's coverage of Secretary Rumsfeld's visit to Europe.

• "... Monkeypox...." Here's a link to the CDC website on Monkeypox.

  I am having nightmares about dying from Monkeypox. Not because I think it's likely, but if I were to succumb to Monkeypox I can imagine my funeral ending up like a Seinfeld episode - all 12 people in the congregation - listening to a eulogy about having died from Monkeypox - first smirking, then smiling, then chuckling, then laughing, finally ending up falling on each others' shoulders as they howled in uncontrollable hilarity over someone dying from something unsympathetically named Monkeypox.

  The CDC, as you can see if you follow the link above, has put an immediate halt to the importation of African rodents.

  Rodents like the Gambian Giant Pouched Rat.

  Maybe it's just me. Maybe modern culture has left me behind. Maybe, because I don't understand why some people think snakes make cute pets, I cannot understand why someone would go to the trouble of actually finding a dealer who can secure for them a Gambian Giant Pouched Rat.

  I can't get around to finding a breeder of King Charles Spaniels - and I've been working on that, off-and-on, for the better part of five years!

  And who created the market for the Gambian Giant Pouched Rat? What if that person used his or her powers for good!

  Anyway, I am willing to make a deal with God: If I don't die of Monkeypox I promise I will be a better person and I will stop using intemperate and immoderate language - especially the Big One.

• "... Margaret Carlson..." Click here to see more about her book at Amazon.com.

  And, here's a line from the introductory material which exhibits Ms. Carlson's enormous talents. Writing about the day her divorce became final:

  "I walked down the aisle of a D.C. courtroom and out the door, struck that in its dissolution, marriage has no equal and opposite reaction. No drama marked the
                     occasion."

• Mullfoto of the Day:
  
  
  The best present I got for Father's Day was a trip to the Air & Space Museum with The Lad. When he was little we went there almost every weekend. This was our first trip there in maybe 15 years.

  On the way out we fell in behind a specimen unique to Washington, DC: The Touristensis Domesticus. Note the suspenders and the belt; note the sneakers and white socks; note the over-the-opposite-shoulder use of the camera case strap.

  We discussed buying him a ticket to France.
  
  
  

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  British World War II Poster
  

•     Mullings' Catchy Caption of the Day:
  
  At the US Holocaust Museum last week:
  Not posing; Just being.

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