I will admit I felt a lot worse when I heard of his
death than Pres Reagan's, but then I enjoyed RC
a lot more when he was alive than I did RR.

gloria p

Puester wrote:
> I will admit I felt a lot worse when I heard of his
> death than Pres Reagan's, but then I enjoyed RC
> a lot more when he was alive than I did RR.
>
> gloria p

Awww, man! He was a LEGEND! Geez. A fantastic artist who will be greatly
missed.

Okay, they always come in threes - who's next?

Jill

"Puester" > wrote in message
...
>
>
> I will admit I felt a lot worse when I heard of his
> death than Pres Reagan's, but then I enjoyed RC
> a lot more when he was alive than I did RR.
>
> gloria p

This really dates me because it was the very first rock star I'd ever
seen - Glasgow 1964. So I asked my daughter (now 22) if she remembered the
first concert she'd ever been to........... Of course she remembered -- it
was Green Bay. Somehow I doubt if they will be quite as memorable.

E.

On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 21:56:08 GMT, Puester wrote:

> I will admit I felt a lot worse when I heard of his
> death than Pres Reagan's, but then I enjoyed RC
> a lot more when he was alive than I did RR.
>
> gloria p

I agree.

--
JakeInHartsel

Far as I can tell, someone wrote:
>Okay, they always come in threes - who's next?

I think it's Ted Kennedy's turn.

On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 18:22:38 -0400, "elaine" >
wrote:

> This really dates me because it was the very first rock star I'd ever
>seen - Glasgow 1964. So I asked my daughter (now 22) if she remembered the
>first concert she'd ever been to........... Of course she remembered -- it
>was Green Bay. Somehow I doubt if they will be quite as memorable.

I think you might mean Green Day.

Mine, Iron Maiden.


Denise, Brian & Wyatt (May 31, 02)

How much Healthy Choice ice cream can I eat before it's no longer a healthy choice?

"elaine" > wrote in message news:40c8e015_4@aeinews....
>
>
> This really dates me because it was the very first rock star I'd ever
> seen - Glasgow 1964. So I asked my daughter (now 22) if she remembered
the
> first concert she'd ever been to........... Of course she remembered --
it
> was Green Bay. Somehow I doubt if they will be quite as memorable.
>
> E.
>
>

Ummm...Green *Day*. Sorry, I just thought it was funny. As a daughter
whose mother is not quite up with Pop Culture, I imagine what your
daughter's reaction would be if she knew you had said "Green Bay." My
first concert was Crowded House. I still love them!

I, too, feel worse about Ray Charles' death than Reagan's. Gloria's post
was the first I had heard of it and I was quite shocked.

rona

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"Denise~*" > wrote in message
...
> On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 18:22:38 -0400, "elaine" >
> wrote:
>
> > This really dates me because it was the very first rock star I'd ever
> >seen - Glasgow 1964. So I asked my daughter (now 22) if she remembered
the
> >first concert she'd ever been to........... Of course she
remembered -- it
> >was Green Bay. Somehow I doubt if they will be quite as memorable.
>
> I think you might mean Green Day.
>
> Mine, Iron Maiden.
>
>
> Denise, Brian & Wyatt (May 31, 02)
>
Damn yes, Green Day - but the very best concert I went to was Pink Floyd
"Dark Side of the Moon" -- awesome! (sigh) these were the days.

E.

> >
> >
> > I will admit I felt a lot worse when I heard of his
> > death than Pres Reagan's, but then I enjoyed RC
> > a lot more when he was alive than I did RR.
> >
> > gloria p
>
> This really dates me because it was the very first rock star I'd ever
> seen - Glasgow 1964. So I asked my daughter (now 22) if she remembered
the
> first concert she'd ever been to........... Of course she remembered --
it
> was Green Bay. Somehow I doubt if they will be quite as memorable.
>
> E.

Really dumb blonde moment - it wasn't Ray Charles that I saw but Roy
Orbison --- and he died a few years back! Whew! glad I figured that out.

E.

(Puester) Wrote:
I will admit I felt a lot worse when I heard of his death than Pres
Reagan's, but then I enjoyed RC a lot more when he was alive than I did
RR.
gloria p ---------------------------------------------------------------
Response: I agree with you.
I rather see Ray Charles face on Mount Rushmore
than ronny's boy.

On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 21:56:08 GMT, Puester >
arranged random neurons, so they looked like this:

>
>
>I will admit I felt a lot worse when I heard of his
>death than Pres Reagan's, but then I enjoyed RC
>a lot more when he was alive than I did RR.

ITA, kiddo.

The DH and I had tickets for a Ray Charles concert in SoCal a couple
months ago (+?) ago that was cancelled at the last minute due to his
ill health. Dammit! We figured it would be our last chance to see/hear
him in person and, damn, were we right. Rats. What an amazing guy.
What an awesome musician.

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
AAC(F)BV66.0748.CA

"Regime Change Begins At Home."

To reply, remove replace "spaminator" with "cox"

Rona Yuthasastrakosol wrote:

> I, too, feel worse about Ray Charles' death than Reagan's. Gloria's post
> was the first I had heard of it and I was quite shocked.


Yep, me too....

His 1962 album _Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music_ was a *seminal*
album...one of the top 50 albums of all time....

--
Best
Greg

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 04:34:31 GMT, "Gregory Morrow"
> wrote:

>His 1962 album _Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music_ was a *seminal*
>album...one of the top 50 albums of all time....

I prefer the albums he made back in the '50s for the Atlantic label.
Terrific R&B that bordered on jazz, and always with great, soulful
bands backing him. Ray was absolutely the best at what he did.

Leo

jmcquown wrote:

> Awww, man! He was a LEGEND! Geez. A fantastic artist who will be greatly
> missed.
>
> Okay, they always come in threes - who's next?


They may come in threes, but I remember them in twos: Groucho Marx and
Elvis Presley, Mother Theresa and Lady Diana.

--Lia

Julia Altshuler wrote:

> jmcquown wrote:
>
>> Awww, man! He was a LEGEND! Geez. A fantastic artist who will
>> be greatly missed.
>>
>> Okay, they always come in threes - who's next?
>
> They may come in threes, but I remember them in twos: Groucho Marx
> and Elvis Presley, Mother Theresa and Lady Diana.

Spic 'n Span.
Shake 'n Bake.

Oh, the humanity...

Pastorio

Bob (this one) wrote:
> Spic 'n Span.
> Shake 'n Bake.
>
> Oh, the humanity...
>
> Pastorio

Okay, Bob - gotta test your knowledge. Do you remember where that phrase
"Oh, the humanity" originated? And please don't tell me it was on an
episode of WKRP in Cinncinnati!

Jill

jmcquown wrote:

> Okay, Bob - gotta test your knowledge. Do you remember where that phrase
> "Oh, the humanity" originated? And please don't tell me it was on an
> episode of WKRP in Cinncinnati!

Alex, for 400 points, what is Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener?"

--Lia

Julia Altshuler wrote:
>
> jmcquown wrote:
>
> > Okay, Bob - gotta test your knowledge. Do you remember where that phrase
> > "Oh, the humanity" originated? And please don't tell me it was on an
> > episode of WKRP in Cinncinnati!
>
> Alex, for 400 points, what is Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener?"


I think the quote there was " Ah Bartleby! Ah humanity!"


"Oh the humanity" came from the explosion of the Hindenburg. The WKRP
episode was parodying the on-site report of that disaster.




Brian Rodenborn

Julia Altshuler wrote:
> jmcquown wrote:
>
>> Okay, Bob - gotta test your knowledge. Do you remember where that
>> phrase "Oh, the humanity" originated? And please don't tell me it
>> was on an episode of WKRP in Cinncinnati!
>
> Alex, for 400 points, what is Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener?"
>
> --Lia

BZZZZT! No, sorry, wrong answer! The phrase actually came from the
reporter standing outside what was my house (gawd!) at Lakehurst Naval Air
Station, NJ. Herb Morrison reporting. You can hear him he

http://www.otr.com/hindenburg.html

Our house was the former waiting station for the arriving passengers of the
Hindenburg dirigible coming in from Germany on May 7, 1937. She burned and
fell at the airfield just across the way. I've got some military paperwork
from that day you wouldn't believe.

They used this phrase when television character Les Nessman reported as
staff from 'WKRP in Cinncinnati' tossed live turkeys out of helicopters over
a supermarket, not realizing turkeys are flightless birds.
"Oh, the humanity!"

Jill

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 18:00:19 -0500, jmcquown wrote:

> They used this phrase when television character Les Nessman reported as
> staff from 'WKRP in Cinncinnati' tossed live turkeys out of helicopters
> over a supermarket, not realizing turkeys are flightless birds.

Farm bred turkeys are flightless - wild turkey's *can* fly.

--

-Jeff B.
yeff at erols dot com

jmcquown wrote:

> Julia Altshuler wrote:
>
>>jmcquown wrote:
>>
>>>Okay, Bob - gotta test your knowledge. Do you remember where that
>>>phrase "Oh, the humanity" originated? And please don't tell me it
>>>was on an episode of WKRP in Cinncinnati!
>>
>>Alex, for 400 points, what is Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener?"
>>
>>--Lia
>
> BZZZZT! No, sorry, wrong answer! The phrase actually came from the
> reporter standing outside what was my house (gawd!) at Lakehurst Naval Air
> Station, NJ.

I actually knew that, growing up in NJ as I did. I visited Lakehurst
on a class trip in high school. We saw the old newsreel footage before
we went on the trip. It was chilling to stand there on the ground
where it happened.

In Bartleby, I believe it's "Ah humanity," IIRC.

Pastorio

> Herb Morrison reporting. You can hear him he
>
> http://www.otr.com/hindenburg.html
>
> Our house was the former waiting station for the arriving passengers of the
> Hindenburg dirigible coming in from Germany on May 7, 1937. She burned and
> fell at the airfield just across the way. I've got some military paperwork
> from that day you wouldn't believe.
>
> They used this phrase when television character Les Nessman reported as
> staff from 'WKRP in Cinncinnati' tossed live turkeys out of helicopters over
> a supermarket, not realizing turkeys are flightless birds.
> "Oh, the humanity!"

jmcquown wrote:

> BZZZZT! No, sorry, wrong answer! The phrase actually came from the
> reporter standing outside what was my house (gawd!) at Lakehurst Naval Air
> Station, NJ. Herb Morrison reporting.

Rats. Well, at least I played it straight and didn't google first.
--Lia

Bob (this one) wrote:
> jmcquown wrote:
>
>> Julia Altshuler wrote:
>>
>>> jmcquown wrote:
>>>
>>>> Okay, Bob - gotta test your knowledge. Do you remember where that
>>>> phrase "Oh, the humanity" originated? And please don't tell me it
>>>> was on an episode of WKRP in Cinncinnati!
>>>
>>> Alex, for 400 points, what is Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener?"
>>>
>>> --Lia
>>
>> BZZZZT! No, sorry, wrong answer! The phrase actually came from the
>> reporter standing outside what was my house (gawd!) at Lakehurst
>> Naval Air Station, NJ.
>
> I actually knew that, growing up in NJ as I did. I visited Lakehurst
> on a class trip in high school. We saw the old newsreel footage before
> we went on the trip. It was chilling to stand there on the ground
> where it happened.

Think about what it was like to LIVE in that place! It was a very weird
feeling. Every time I saw the newsreels I was like, "They are standing in
my front yard!" The place was converted to base housing in the 1950's with
a kitchen added onto the back. The large waiting area was our living room
with the dining area added. I recall having my 6th birthday party there; my
folks gave me a green and yellow parakeet

Mom was the consummate officer's wife; she hosted lovely cocktail parties
and I remember peeking in on them when I was a kid. Everyone all dressed
up, martini glasses in hand.

My bedroom was one of the small "offices" off the long hallway along the
front and my two brothers shared a bedroom on the sunporch at the left end.
There was a garage out back where dad had a funny car - a Metropolitan, old
black & whitething; it was funny. From there the yard sloped down to a golf
course. Across the way, of course, the airfields. My oldest brother tells
me he and his friends used to find scraps of metal and pieces of things they
thought were from the Hindenburg crash. Talk about creepy.

Jill

> In Bartleby, I believe it's "Ah humanity," IIRC.
>
> Pastorio
>
>> Herb Morrison reporting. You can hear him he
>>
>> http://www.otr.com/hindenburg.html
>>
>> Our house was the former waiting station for the arriving passengers
>> of the Hindenburg dirigible coming in from Germany on May 7, 1937.
>> She burned and fell at the airfield just across the way. I've got
>> some military paperwork from that day you wouldn't believe.
>>
>> They used this phrase when television character Les Nessman reported
>> as staff from 'WKRP in Cinncinnati' tossed live turkeys out of
>> helicopters over a supermarket, not realizing turkeys are flightless
>> birds. "Oh, the humanity!"

In article >,
says...
> Bob (this one) wrote:
> > jmcquown wrote:
> >
> >> Julia Altshuler wrote:
> >>
> >>> jmcquown wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Okay, Bob - gotta test your knowledge. Do you remember where that
> >>>> phrase "Oh, the humanity" originated? And please don't tell me it
> >>>> was on an episode of WKRP in Cinncinnati!
> >>>
> >>> Alex, for 400 points, what is Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener?"
> >>>
> >>> --Lia
> >>
> >> BZZZZT! No, sorry, wrong answer! The phrase actually came from the
> >> reporter standing outside what was my house (gawd!) at Lakehurst
> >> Naval Air Station, NJ.
> >
> > I actually knew that, growing up in NJ as I did. I visited Lakehurst
> > on a class trip in high school. We saw the old newsreel footage before
> > we went on the trip. It was chilling to stand there on the ground
> > where it happened.
>
> Think about what it was like to LIVE in that place! It was a very weird
> feeling. Every time I saw the newsreels I was like, "They are standing in
> my front yard!" The place was converted to base housing in the 1950's with
> a kitchen added onto the back. The large waiting area was our living room
> with the dining area added. I recall having my 6th birthday party there; my
> folks gave me a green and yellow parakeet

When speaking of disasters both natural and man made it is sometimes odd
to live in areas where bad things have happened. I walk the very streets
that were under close to ten feet of water during the hurricanes of 1938
and 1954. On some of the buildings are little brass plaques that
indicate the water level in 1938 and 1954.

Luckily we've been saved that fate by the Providence Hurricane Barrier
since the 60's. The barrier is interesting - it basically gates off the
Providence river and then uses five ejection pumps to shoot water back
out into the bay at a rate of a million gallons a minute. This means
communities that have since been built on the shores of the bay get
decimated. Oh well.

I live on a hill - it'd take about ninety feet of water to do anything -
a tsunami would definitely do it but the northeast isn't exactly
geologically active.

jmcquown wrote:

> Bob (this one) wrote:
>
>>Spic 'n Span.
>>Shake 'n Bake.
>>
>>Oh, the humanity...
>>
>>Pastorio
>
>
> Okay, Bob - gotta test your knowledge. Do you remember where that phrase
> "Oh, the humanity" originated? And please don't tell me it was on an
> episode of WKRP in Cinncinnati!
>
> Jill
>


"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." --Mr Carlson

Best regards,
Bob (no relation)

zxcvbob wrote:
> jmcquown wrote:
>
>> Bob (this one) wrote:
>>
>>> Spic 'n Span.
>>> Shake 'n Bake.
>>>
>>> Oh, the humanity...
>>>
>>> Pastorio
>>
>>
>> Okay, Bob - gotta test your knowledge. Do you remember where that
>> phrase "Oh, the humanity" originated? And please don't tell me it
>> was on an episode of WKRP in Cinncinnati!
>>
>> Jill
>>
>
>
> "As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." --Mr Carlson
>
> Best regards,
> Bob (no relation)

I really was a hiliarious episode! Gotta love older TV shows.

Jill

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 22:40:36 GMT, Default User
> arranged random neurons, so they
looked like this:

>Julia Altshuler wrote:
>>
>> jmcquown wrote:
>>
>> > Okay, Bob - gotta test your knowledge. Do you remember where that phrase
>> > "Oh, the humanity" originated? And please don't tell me it was on an
>> > episode of WKRP in Cinncinnati!
>>
>> Alex, for 400 points, what is Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener?"
>
>
>I think the quote there was " Ah Bartleby! Ah humanity!"
>
>
>"Oh the humanity" came from the explosion of the Hindenburg. The WKRP
>episode was parodying the on-site report of that disaster.

I remember that episode of WKRP. The station owner was staging a promo
of some sort that involved turkeys, which he launched out of a
helicopter, IIRC. The station reporter (Les Nessman?) used the line
when everyone realized that turkeys can't fly.

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
AAC(F)BV66.0748.CA

"Regime Change Begins At Home."

To reply, remove replace "spaminator" with "cox"

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 11:23:45 -0500, "jmcquown"
> wrote:

>> Oh, the humanity...
>>
>> Pastorio
>
>Okay, Bob - gotta test your knowledge. Do you remember where that phrase
>"Oh, the humanity" originated? And please don't tell me it was on an
>episode of WKRP in Cinncinnati!
>
>Jill
>
A reporter describing the fire of the blimp Hindenburg (sp) in New
Jersey .
Pan Ohco

So, what food would you cook if you were catering a wake for Ray Charles? ;-)


E. P.

On 13 Jun 2004 18:03:34 GMT, Julian9EHP wrote:

> So, what food would you cook if you were catering a wake for Ray Charles? ;-)

See food.

--

-Jeff B. (Worst. Pun. Ever.)
yeff at erols dot com