This thread Will never die!

I’ve come to the conclusion that there isn’t anyone left with an original thought process anymore, or they are far and few in between.

 

The boxcars are all empty
And the railroad bulls are blind.
There's a lake of stew -
And whiskey too-
You can paddle all around them in a big canoe
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains.

 

Warmed up enough to retire the long johns today

 

It's possible you're being a little too optimistic Quig.

 

A literacy test for those that might remember. Who wrote the following?

"--the middle-class non identity which finds its perfect expression in rows of well-to-do houses with lawns and television sets in each living room with everybody looking at the same thing and thinking the same thing at the same time."

HINT: This was written 50 years ago (1956) yet remains relevant if you think about it. Sheeple, anyone?

 

I finally got to see it rain in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com<st1lace w:st="on">Minnesota</st1lace></st1:State>….. Took almost 4 months……. But I see it today……..

 

I do not remember (so I looked it up). It's from the same man who wrote:
"I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion"

What do you know of it's history?

 

You should not have remembered, before your time by some, but you see some of the results of that thought process. It lingers still in many ways. The background is vague to me, but he was seeking something to satisfy his wish for meaning, landed in the area he wrote it in, pounded it out in a couple months. Not at all sure he ever found it, whatever it was. Dissipated philosopher at the end.

 

May you always
give without remembering
and take without forgetting​

 

Froggie went a courtin' and he did ride, unh-hunh --

 

...Sword and pistol by his side

 

un-hunh, ah ha, unh hunh--

 

Welcome to our little patch of the world wide web. If you look around I think you can find about anything you might ever need here. And a lot of things you won't too! LOL

 

Try this one then --

"I hear that train a comin', a comin' 'round the bend --"