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All I'm seeing is the background at the moment.

I concur, Main Site home page is hung up..

8pm, pacific time, Friday, 17Apr2015

Edit- its backup now, some time later, the same day.

(Insert Scooby-do "dunno"...) or is it only 'ruhh-o' ?

AnotherFairportfan wrote:

meisdadoo wrote:

jayessell wrote:Is that a thing?
I've never heard of it.
It seems if it's a game Atsali is at a disadvantage for the
same reason she can't play the accordion.

Not being able to play the accordion is an advantage, not a disadvantage. . .just sayin.

Did you hear about the terrible thing that happened? Someone threw an accordion out a third story window into a dumpster.

And it missed the banjo.

It damn well BETTER miss the banjo!!! I'll have you know I own a pre-Civil War Roscoe Sweeney five-string that has a BEAUTIFUL voice, one that has earned me my bread and butter on more than a few occasions and has graced the cacophony ... er... HARMONY... of a good many worship bands. My Uncle Clarence taught me the magic of this instrument- I once caught him going through my music books. I could tell he knew what he was reading- this surprised me and I confronted him-
"Uncle Clarence- you CAN read music, can't you-"

"Wahl, yeah Ah kaiyen... but not 'nuff t' hurt mah playin'"

... speak ill of banjos and you tread on thin ice...

"...and we'll be over the primary target at 0815. If unable, our backup targets are a Mime school and an Accordion factory."

Methinks FPF hath touched the Sargent's nerve...

*backs away*

JSStryker wrote:Momma has a squeeze box...

Eww

shadowinthelight wrote:

JSStryker wrote:Momma has a squeeze box...

Eww

Oh, thank goodness I'm not the only one whose mind went into the gutter with that post.
...

Dave wrote:

Ishtar wrote:If you admit you can play the accordion,
you'll never get a job in a rock-'n-roll band.

Happy Three Thousandth Post!

She wears on her chest, and when Daddy gets home, he never gets no rest,
Cause...

There is no ewww there. Classic song, life affirming sentiment, at some point in the future when she's ready and a Mom, Atsali's co-parent (whosoever that might be) will happily and with gentle malice aforethought, gleefully play this (by then, nearly forgotten) chestnut to the delighted embarrassment of all concerned...

So there.

TazManiac wrote:There is no ewww there. Classic song, life affirming sentiment, at some point in the future when she's ready and a Mom, Atsali's co-parent (whosoever that might be) will happily and with gentle malice aforethought, gleefully play this (by then, nearly forgotten) chestnut to the delighted embarrassment of all concerned...

So there.

*blink, blink*

Ok. I just did a bit of googling. I'm guessing I'm too young to understand how this song by The Who, which was written basically as a joke to see if they could get away with singing about sex, (? Unconfirmed, but come on, just read the lyrics, it's plain as day) has anything to do with two girls having a t-Rex fight. I did find out that "Squeeze box" is slang for an accordion as well as a crucial part of the female anatomy. So at least I get that connection...
But I'm also utterly failing to understand why Atsali's partner would play this happily and with gentle malice, and to whom it is being played to.
And what is this "life affirming sentiment" you're talking about?

Ugh, I can't decide if I'm just too much of a youngin or too sleep deprived to figure this out...

Sometimes you lot make it painfully obvious I missed out on some good times back in the day.

GlytchMeister wrote:Oh, thank goodness I'm not the only one whose mind went into the gutter with that post.

Went? That's where my mind lives, only occasionally coming up from the muck.

shadowinthelight wrote:

GlytchMeister wrote:Oh, thank goodness I'm not the only one whose mind went into the gutter with that post.

Went? That's where my mind lives, only occasionally coming up from the muck.

Heh. I kind of have a part of my mind stuck in the gutter, the rest of it is holding on to a tree root, trying to keep from sinking any further.
High school, college, and the Internet aren't really helping in that regard.

GlytchMeister wrote:

shadowinthelight wrote:

JSStryker wrote:Momma has a squeeze box...

Eww

Oh, thank goodness I'm not the only one whose mind went into the gutter with that post.

My mind wnet into the gutter ManyManyYears agone, first time i heard the song...

(Interesting cover version)

shadowinthelight wrote:

GlytchMeister wrote:Oh, thank goodness I'm not the only one whose mind went into the gutter with that post.

Went? That's where my mind lives, only occasionally coming up from the muck.

Get out of the gutter, you're blocking my snorkel!

Sgt. Howard wrote:I'll have you know I own a pre-Civil War Roscoe Sweeney five-string that has a BEAUTIFUL voice, one that has earned me my bread and butter on more than a few occasions and has graced the cacophony ... er... HARMONY... of a good many worship bands.

Is "Roscoe Sweeney" a bran name/Maker's name or some kind of colloquial term?

I ask because before this i'd only run across it as the name of Buz Sawyer's WW2 mechanic.

eh chuck berry started it!!! AFAIK...

AnotherFairportfan wrote:

Sgt. Howard wrote:I'll have you know I own a pre-Civil War Roscoe Sweeney five-string that has a BEAUTIFUL voice, one that has earned me my bread and butter on more than a few occasions and has graced the cacophony ... er... HARMONY... of a good many worship bands.

Is "Roscoe Sweeney" a bran name/Maker's name or some kind of colloquial term?

I ask because before this i'd only run across it as the name of Buz Sawyer's WW2 mechanic.

Roscoe Sweeney was a banjo luthier in the 1850's. The idea and execution of the fifth string was his alone. He made approximately four hundred banjos of the five string variety before the outbreak of the American Civil War, when he enlisted with JEB Stuart's Cavalry. He did not survive the war.

I own one.

Bunker diary entry, April 18th, 2015-
Sitting in my bunker, observing nothing of a pool. Atsali and Castela (I almost want to say "Abbot and Costello") are flapping their hands at each other and giggling like mad things, everybody else is wherever they put the sidewalks after they roll them up.
I have returned the serious hardware to the main QM dump and replaced it with my banjo, guitar, dulcimer, fiddle and harmonicas. "Wayfaring stranger" sounds lovely on the banjo... hauntingly so. Then a few stanzas of "Wreck of the old 97", "Never on Sunday", "Dance with the Devil", "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" and "Soldier's Joy". I get tired of the raucous sound against the screaming silence and pick up the six-string- "Dust in the Wind" seems appropriate. It fits my mood.
Coffee machine is broken, so I am using an ancient enamelware camp percolator. This thing was old when my Dad bought it for camping trips back in 1962?3?- still works fine.

No sign of a confrontation between Atsali's forces and Super Prude- IS Super Prude this woman named Lillith?

Been here a week- Blah! At least, the food is good.

Not gonna speculate on how carrying a 5-string banjo would affect a guy's chances of survival in combat.

Sgt. Howard wrote:Roscoe Sweeney was a banjo luthier in the 1850's. The idea and execution of the fifth string was his alone. He made approximately four hundred banjos of the five string variety before the outbreak of the American Civil War, when he enlisted with JEB Stuart's Cavalry. He did not survive the war.

I own one.

DAYUM.

I can't decide if you should pass that on as an heirloom or if it belongs in a museum.

GlytchMeister wrote:

TazManiac wrote:There is no ewww there. Classic song, life affirming sentiment, at some point in the future when she's ready and a Mom, Atsali's co-parent (whosoever that might be) will happily and with gentle malice aforethought, gleefully play this (by then, nearly forgotten) chestnut to the delighted embarrassment of all concerned...

So there.

*blink, blink*

Ok. I just did a bit of googling. I'm guessing I'm too young to understand how this song by The Who, which was written basically as a joke to see if they could get away with singing about sex, (? Unconfirmed, but come on, just read the lyrics, it's plain as day) has anything to do with two girls having a t-Rex fight. I did find out that "Squeeze box" is slang for an accordion as well as a crucial part of the female anatomy. So at least I get that connection...
But I'm also utterly failing to understand why Atsali's partner would play this happily and with gentle malice, and to whom it is being played to.
And what is this "life affirming sentiment" you're talking about?

Ugh, I can't decide if I'm just too much of a youngin or too sleep deprived to figure this out...

Sometimes you lot make it painfully obvious I missed out on some good times back in the day.

- Life Affirming = related to Procreation and/or the practice sessions there of...
(it is a song about Sex*. "but it's Life Affirming!" as a counter to censorship.)
At it's core that song is about good ol family Values.

- 'happily and with gentle malice' = in a lovingly teasing manner.
(Poking one in the ribs, but with a twinkle in the eye)

- I didn't really think it tracked so far as to connect all the dots from the innuendo back to Atsali playing T-Rex w/ Castela.
It was just a rif in ref to the mention of the song's lyrics.

My poetry can trample my prose at any time.

*We thought we were sooooo wise when we thought we had discovered the songs 'secret meaning'...