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#121940 02/02/2004 6:14 PM
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Carina can mean the keel of a boat. It is also the name of the bone to which the flight muscles of a bird are attached.
I wonder which came first.


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and of course, one of my favorite nebula, in it's namesake constellation:

http://mstecker.homestead.com/etacarina.html




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#121942 02/03/2004 2:18 AM
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O carina! I whistle for boat and bird keels.


#121943 02/03/2004 10:12 AM
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> O carina! I whistle for boat and bird keels.

me too


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I yam what I yam...



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#121945 02/03/2004 12:39 PM
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You bet yer sweet patootie.


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Carina - wasn't that a Toyota?


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a Toyota?

Naw. It was a Bob Dylan song.


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I haven't seen an ocarina for seventy years.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Definition: \Oc`a*ri"na\, n. [Cf. It. carino pretty.] (Mus.)
A kind of small simple wind instrument




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Carina - wasn't that a Toyota?

No, it's a song by Domenico Moduno from 1961:

Carina, Carina, Carina,
Tu voglio piu presto casar..."


Remember?




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Can't say I do. Prob'ly have to hear it!


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Domenico Moduno

He's not the same guy did Volare, is he?


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Toyota Corolla...





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#121953 02/04/2004 6:57 PM
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Toyota Corolla

They also made a Corona.

BTW, speaking of Volare, why's it called that when it's about a gal with a blue Pinto?


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I've played an ocarina in a Camry...



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