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#73890 06/22/02 04:42 PM
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Dear Geoff: I don't know much about horses, but had them for my girls. And I
was very grateful to learn that they have a sense of humor. The first time I
encountered this was when my uncle let me take the reins when he was
plowing a field. The instant I took ahold of the reins, the horses knew I was
a beginner, and they started misbehaving. And going into the wind, they both
passed flatus, and then turned around and gave me horselaughs.
A pinto I got for my daughters got loose, and when I went to try to grab
her halter, turned on a dime, and kicked me on the sternum with both hind
feet. If she had wanted to hurt me, I could have been killed. But she was
just making fun of me, she just barely touched me.


#73891 06/22/02 04:50 PM
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LOL!!! Dr. Bill! But is that really where the term horse laugh came from?


#73892 06/22/02 05:38 PM
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Here you go, Dr. Bill--one of Irving Berlin's finest.

All alone, I'm so all alone
There is no one else but you
All alone by the telephone
Waiting for a ring, a ting-a-ling
I'm all alone every evening
All alone, feeling blue
Wond'ring where you are and how you are
And if you are all alone too

Nice, but not the thing to cheer you up. Try this for balance:

Happy talk, keep talking happy talk
Talk about things you like to do
You got to have a dream, if you don't have a dream
How you gonna have a dream come true?
Talk about the moon floating in the sky
Looking at a lily on the lake
Talk about a bird learning how to fly
Making all the music he can make!
Happy talk, keep talking happy talk
Talk about things you like to do
You got to have a dream, if you don't have a dream
How you come not have a dream come true?
Talk about the sparrow looking like a toy
Picking through the broaches of a tree
Talk about the girl, talk about the boy
Counting all the ripples on the sea
Happy talk, keep talking happy talk
Talk about things you like to do
You got to have a dream, if you don't have a dream
How you come not have a dream come true?
Talk about the boy saying to the girl
Golly, baby, I'm a lucky cuss
Talk about the girl saying to the boy
You an' me is lucky to be us
Happy talk, keep talking happy talk
Talk about things you like to do
You got to have a dream, if you don't have a dream
How you come not have a dream come true?
If you don't talk happy, and you never have dream
Then you'll never have a dream come true!



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I don't know Sparteye's reasons for choosing the name, and I'm not even sure I'm
spelling it her way. But in the pulp magazine cowboy stories, there were brags
about the Indian ponies by that name, which were noted for their endurance.
and so prized as cowboys' saddle horses. The ones I have seen had large white
and black areas in their coats.


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It's Saturday night!
"Saturday night is the lonliest night of the week..."
Hey I thought I'd be the only woman here and I'd get some much desired attention, but ah shucks ewein's here too. But for me that's great because I enjoy her company and her humanity.
After my hot date with Borders, time to go read a book, then off to S.F. en la manana, and then the unknown midwest following Lewis and Clark's trail.
Hot cha cha.


#73896 06/23/02 11:17 AM
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My initial thought on the term 'Wordappaloosa' was from the 'Lollapalloza' (sp?) music festival that was initiated in the 90's featuring several 'alternative' bands in the all-day kind of setting.

http://trident.mcs.kent.edu/~cstone/lolla/lol91.html




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I'd forgotten "Lollapaloosa" but I think it is derived from "Appaloosa".


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Yeah gang, its a slow night a the Dry Gulch saloon, we seem to be quibbling about the name of the party that we were unable to attend. Maybe we would all have attended if they had named it after something we could remember, I for one think it was named the Word-be-bop-a-loo-la, and the password was "she's my Baby". That's a joke. Yes, I know it's silly, but like I said, it's a slow night at the Dry Gulch Saloon.


PS: Hey chem, do I remember you saying you lived in Wetumpka? Yesterday my pal Andy and me went to Wegufga, Alabama, about thirty miles from Wetumpka. Three things of interest...

(1) Wegufga is a Creekian word for "muddy water". A muddy creek sill flows though the town.
(2) After the Creeks were removed to Oklahoma, forty families of Cherokees were led by a half-breed named John Rice to Wegufga to escape their own removal to Oklahoma from Tennessee.
(3) The only store still extant in Wegufga is a coke and gun store run by a young man whose mother was a full-blooded cherokee. He showed me her picture. She was very pretty. As a young girl she had lived in Birmingham for a short time in the mid-fifties. She was the first girl I ever kissed. Unbelievable!



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a coke and gun store

I din't know coke was legal in 'bama!


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