Gulf Watchers and friends, TGIF----time to let it all hang out.
For those who are coming by for the first time, this is a free-wheeling community fun time; where you'll find a variety of songs, stories, and tidbits of crazy info. Add your own goodies to help liven up this sometimes quiet group.
Jerry Lee Lewis starts us off
Only the early birds get free drinks: This one is a house specialty:
Louisiana Lullaby Recipe
Ingredients
2 tsp Dubonnet Rouge
3 drops Grand Marnier
1 1/2 oz Dark Rum
Directions
Stir the rum, Dubonnet and Grand Marnier together with ice in a mixing glass. Strain into a cocktail glass, garnish with a sliver of lemon, and serve.
If it's all gone by the time you arrived----next time you'll be prompt, won't you???
Don't be like the White Rabbit
On with the real party....
We'll go back to the old rules; and ask that no pictures or videos be posted---please use links.
Also feel free to bring a news story into here---late developments are always of interest.
One never knows when the Martians might land
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While I'm still in a bit of serious mode here (huh, whad' he say?)---also feel free to to offer ideas on diary posting and scheduling for our MWF & Sunday Wrap news editions. We can use more diarists....
Sometimes the work is like being in the mines
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I'm thirsty--how about a special wine cooler?
4 ozChablis® white wine
6 oz7-Up® soda
1/2 ozgrapefruit juice
1/2 ozpineapple juice
1/2 ozlime juice
1/2 ozlemon juice
First mix lemon, lime, grapefruit and pineapple juice together in a mixing glass. Pour the Chablis white wine into a tall wine glass, and top with 7-Up. Add the juice mixture, and serve.
Makes you feel light & ready to dance---How do you think Fred would fell having Bristol as a partner??? Ha-Ha!!!!
These ladies would be laughing their ass off at fraud Bristol
BP is still dancing around and avoiding the ownership of admitting they fucked up?
All they ever give us is Words
I guess they are frauds like much of corporate America---
Just like these fakes, Pretenders
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Today is notable for some anniversaries:
It is the birthday of both David Nelson..son of "Ozzie & Harriet"....corporate shilling was going on back then:
If you remember all those scenes in the kitchen, that's because up until 1956, Hotpoint, the sponsor, was displaying their products! After that, you probably recall more outdoors scenes. Did you notice the cameras around everyone's necks? Yup, Kodak became the sole sponsor.
Also the birthday of the "Big Bopper" Richardson you KNOW what he likes
Then there are some obituaries on this date---
In 42 BC; Brutus was killed in the Battle of Philippi. And, like many who have committed crimes--he chose suicide as the way out.
..in later years, we lost Al Jolsonwho loved Dixie
Tommy Edwards died on this date...and he likes mountains just the way they are, no MTR
Ha-ha...NOW you get the Rest of the Story:The above is WRONG---- I used the wrong date: the above refers to the 23rd, not today the 22nd. I caught it late---and said "fuck it" I like my references.....sorta like what BP does---ignore the problem....
Here are a couple of notables for TODAY, October 22:
Today is the birthday of one of America's sweethearts of the Fifties--Annette Funicello- Mouseketeer Extraordanaire
--who went on to have a tough life later on. Also born today is Timothy Leary---for whom this song may have been writtenLucy in the Sky with Diamonds (LSD) .....
Also, on this date---some notable deaths....
Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd
was gunned down on this date in 1934--live by the gun; die by the gun.
Legendary baseball announcer "Red" Barber died in 1992,a Southern boy who never changed his voice, but changed his thinking
Last year we lost Soupy Sales rock with him & White Fang
So,in their memory, let's PARTY!!!! Everybody's jumpin'
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Two additional notes; Bob Cavnar's book is out today-check it out at Amazon
(I have no financial interest in any aspect of the book---just passing on some info)
#2--And most important of all: This is Six Months(plus 2 days) after the explosion that killed 11 men......let us remember them tonite:
Jason Anderson
Aaron Dale Burkeen
Donald Clark
Stephen Curtis
Roy Wyatt Kemp
Karl Kleppinger
Gordon Jones (M-I SWACO)
Blair Manuel (M-I SWACO)
Dewey Revette
Shane Roshto
Adam Weise
RIP