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01/14/2001 2:36 AM
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THE GREEN-EYED DRAGON
Ah yes, Capital K, what wonderful memories that brought back. I don't remember the Stanley Holloway recording, but JCT's own version was magnificent. A similar clever use of words and verse was in "Open Road, Open Sky", if that indeed was the name of the song. And what a great voice! I had the privelege of hearing him live and his stage performance was an absolute knock-out.
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#15139
01/14/2001 2:51 AM
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I don't know which recording I heard myself. My dad had a 78 which I used to play over and over on the old wind-up gramophone, along with some rendition of "Walk in the Black Forest" and Alan Jones singing "The Donkey Serenade" (on separate 78s). I should have got a life! 
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#15140
01/14/2001 4:09 AM
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yours, with ugging and hugging,
[looking over her shoulder in bewilderment emoticon] There must be another Jackie here somewhere. This could not possibly have been directed at me. Unless--ohmigawd, people, somebody abducted tsuwm and took his place!
All right, who are you and what do you want?
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01/14/2001 5:59 AM
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Did you see "Fargo"? Frightening possibilities!
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#15142
01/14/2001 6:10 AM
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Did you see "Fargo"? Frightening possibilities!
Yes! That's pretty close to him, too, or at least to where he was.
Anna, got your bag packed? Get ready for some heavy-duty
investigatin', Sugar!
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#15143
01/14/2001 6:21 AM
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jackie,
Q: why is the sky blue?
A: there are a trillion dreams out there.
[music note icon]Catch a falling star, and put it in your
pock-et...[music note icon]
C.K., even without knowing the tune, I love that Dragon song! Thanks for posting it. Incidentally, today I found the lyrics to the un-understandable (whoa! Anu, try
beheading that one!) Walk Away Renée, if anybody wants them.
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#15144
01/14/2001 6:42 AM
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even without knowing the tune, I love that Dragon song!Oh, the tune goes, "Once upon a time there was a fair Princess, both beautifoooool and charming ..." Hmmm, this doesn't really work, does it? 
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#15145
01/14/2001 8:05 AM
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THE GREEN-EYED DRAGON
What a wonderful, scary song. After the reading last verse, I am glad that I have moved from my old "local" to a new one. The Boot and Shoe holds no fear for me, but I don't think I will ever again be able to enter The Green Dragon
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#15146
01/14/2001 8:11 AM
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For those unfamiiar with the English Pub, and who wonder about the strange names under which they operate, I should explain that The Boot and Shoe probably is a reference to the high price of alcohol in the UK. You have to be well heeled to drink in the place, especialy if you have your drink laced with spirits, and only buy drink there if your tongue is hanging out.
Because of this, you are frequently the sole occupant.
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#15147
01/14/2001 8:19 AM
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Ah, yes, the Boot and Shoe. Main pub in Dunny-on-the-Wold, isn't it? The beer always tastes like ...
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01/14/2001 3:03 PM
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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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01/14/2001 5:03 PM
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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]
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#15150
01/15/2001 2:24 AM
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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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#15151
01/15/2001 3:05 AM
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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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#15152
01/15/2001 3:17 AM
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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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#15153
01/15/2001 7:14 AM
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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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#15154
01/15/2001 1:20 PM
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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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01/15/2001 2:20 PM
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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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01/15/2001 2:27 PM
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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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#15157
01/15/2001 2:36 PM
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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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01/15/2001 5:04 PM
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TOP SACRED burn before reading ::flames::
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01/15/2001 5:07 PM
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TOP SACRED
Wait, wait! You didn't give me the secret code yet!
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#15160
01/15/2001 5:19 PM
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What I wanna know is, how'd he manage to sneak that font in here?
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01/15/2001 11:33 PM
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The one on the right in the third photo layer down (not wearing glasses) is my guess for tsuwm. Other than that, the whole thing is questionable. Besides, we discontinued Anna.
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01/15/2001 11:34 PM
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Try da "pre" and "/pre" tags for courier.
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01/16/2001 1:33 AM
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...Besides, we discontinued Anna.
Who, zackly, is "we"?
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01/16/2001 1:36 AM
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Try da "pre" and "/pre" tags for courier.
Nuh-uh. You go first.
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01/16/2001 1:43 AM
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>Who, zackly, is "we"?
the kiwi, as it turns out, can be turned. fairly cheaply.
-joe (two beers) friday
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01/16/2001 1:50 AM
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Для участия в игре вы должны ввести свое имя. В дальнейшем вы
будете участвовать в рейтингах игроков под этим именем. -helena h. basquet
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01/16/2001 3:47 AM
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...Besides, we discontinued Anna.
Who, zackly, is "we"?Sorry, that information is on a need-to-know basis, and you're not cleared for it. Why are you asking? Who have you been talking to lately? What guilty secrets could we unravel if we chose to? Hmmm?
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01/16/2001 3:50 AM
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Audie Murphy didn't need no steenkin' handbasket.....
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01/16/2001 3:53 AM
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What guilty secrets could we unravel if we chose to? Hmmm?
Wouldn't *you like to know... as to my recent interlocutors, only those poor befuddled folk at the phrenology museum. But you already know all about that....
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01/16/2001 4:05 AM
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But you already know all about that....
Of course. [Knowing Leer Emoticon]. And we're having the water analysed now, so don't go thinking we hadn't been watching you.
Anyway, wasn't Tonto supposed to have said "Who's this 'we', white man?"
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01/16/2001 5:11 PM
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Finally! This is what Babelfish said you said, Tsuwm:
Äëÿ ó÷àñòèÿ â èãðå âû äîëæíû ââåñòè ñâîå èìÿ.  äàëüíåéøåì âûáóäåòå ó÷àñòâîâàòü â ðåéòèíãàõ èãðîêîâ ïîä ýòèì èìåíåì.==
For the participation in the game you must introduce your name. Subsequently you will retire to participate in reytingakh of players under this name.
Anna--kudos and many thanks for outstanding completion of service well above and beyond the call of duty.
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01/16/2001 5:24 PM
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huh... and I thought it was just drivel... wait a second... it IS just drivel!
-da (babel) fish
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>Äëÿ ó÷àñòèÿ â èãðå âû äîëæíû ââåñòè ñâîå èìÿ.  äàëüíåéøåì âûáóäåòå ó÷àñòâîâàòü â ðåéòèíãàõ èãðîêîâ ïîä ýòèì èìåíåì.==
Ting Tang Walla Walla Wing Wang. Or however the hell it goes.
TEd
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01/09/2002 8:21 PM
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Happy anniversary, blackthorn, wherever you are.
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01/10/2002 3:25 AM
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Oh, Bill, oh, Bill--I LOVE you! Thank you SO MUCH for resurrecting this thread!!! This is my all-time, absolute FAVORITE THREAD that there could ever be. I laughed and laughed all over again! Thanks to you, I just now was able to bookmark it--the only thread in my entire Favorites.
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01/10/2002 2:45 PM
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Dear Jackie: I'm glad you're happy. But I can't take credit for bringing it back It just appeared. Maybe blackthorn is lurking.
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01/10/2002 2:52 PM
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bill, I don't think there was any black(thorn) magic; this is one thread you get with a search for "Museum of Questionable Medical Devices" -- now who's been doing that, hmmmm? <squinting>
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