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CapK wrote: here's a song that was written by John Charles Thomas and recorded by Stanley Holloway ... In the mid-to-late 1940s, every Sunday afternoon, I sat by the radio and listened to a program with John Charles Thomas. What a singer! And great diction, too. Loved his program. I heard the Green Dragon song once ... and all these years I remembered the phrase "the king was a wicked old thing, with manners most alarming." Thank you  Thank you Thank you for the lyric. Don't know if Holloway sang it as a guest artist ... unlikely as those were the WWII Years. wow
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Don't know if Holloway sang it as a guest artist ... unlikely as those were the WWII Years.
No, Stanley Holloway recorded it, although I've never heard that version. Pater meus tells me that the version I cranked up so often was by John Charles Thomas.
And, as I remember it, one of the choruses went:
"Beware, take care, of the green-eyed Dragon with the fourteen tails,
He'll feed, with glee, on little boys, puppy dogs and big, fat snails.
So hurry up the stairs ..."
I think it was at the end of the first verse. The lyrics I posted have obviously been politically corrected. And since I haven't heard the song sung for probably 40 years, I consider this to be a considerable feat of memory. [polishing fingernails on shirt emoticon] Or I've totally lost the plot, as they say. [dirtying fingernails emoticon]
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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Jo dares: Maybe we could club together for AnnaStrophic (sound mind has she) to fly up/down/across to his lair and suss out if anything dodgy is going on.
Weather wuss though I be,
And fully convinced that only Mad Dogs and Minnesotans go out in the Northern-Tier-of-States winter,
Aceept shall I this dodgy mission,
noblesse oblige* and all that, but.
(Y'all'll foot the bill, right?)
(Can I have Max as a bodyguard?)
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*somebody's gotta do it.
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somebody's gotta do it.
You go, girl! All riiiight, Anna!
She's on the trail, cloak, dagger, and all.
Tsuwm, you will be found, whether you've been in de skies or kidnapped! No aspersions on our Maxie, but perhaps a
Commando would make a more appropriate bodyguard?
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No aspersions on our Maxie, but perhaps a Commando would make a more appropriate bodyguard?
Excellent idea, Jackie. I'll take both, with two olives. Shaken, not stirred. ['donning trenchcoat' emoticon]
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[Shaking Head in Befuddled Bemusement emoticon]
Anna: Having the Olympics in Atlanta has clearly gone to your head, athletically speaking. You'll wind up being frozen solid, dismembered with an axe and then fed through a log chipper by a mad actor while a nine-months pregnant lady sheriff actor watches waving a fake pistol.
Jackie: You are acting as an accessory before the fact to a probable acted murder. And the acting was pretty damned convincing. Vicarious thrills, indeed!
tsuwm may well turn out to be the single voice of a bunch of raving survivalist nutters who have learned English grammar, discovered all sorts of worthless words for every day and then joined the board to lure unsuspecting Southern belles to their lair where all sorts of thrill... unmentionable and degrading things may befall them.
And you're both playing right into their hands! Turn back, girls, turn back - before it's too-o-o-o l-a-t-e! [Praying for your immortal souls with tongue in cheek emoticon]
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And you're both playing right into their hands!
ssh-sh! [whisper emoticon] that's what we want them to think! what is not common knowledge is that anna has had
special training in infiltration tactics. she is teaching them to max and the commando even as we speak.
she can handle anything that comes along, trust me on that--that girl can shoot from the hip, both guns at once. i've seen her in action.
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read and shred: It's early in the snowy Minneapolis morning. Huddled in a snowbank, I train my sights on the Museum of Questionable Medical Devices, where apparently tsuwm -- or someone impersonating him! - is acting out MPD before a befuddled staff, who are attempting to apply Victorian technology to determine if worthless words are indeed a precursor to Tourette's. Send back-up: http://www.mtn.org/~quack/(tell me, is that man on the left tsuwm or is he not??)
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Anna--
I have tears streaming down my face, I am laughing so hard
at what tsuwm really does![stop and wipe icon]
Thanks for the link to that report!
I'll ask Capital Kiwi to come back you up.
CK, how 'bout it? Some of these gadgets look like they'd
be right up your alley.
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Given the name of the proprietor of the Musseum of Questionable Medical Devices, Anna, are you actually asking if tsuwm is "the real McCoy"?
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