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    Rembering when music was music

    in The Neil Hill Memorial Lounge

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    18 hours ago, wain71 said:

    that's like my spelling lately...I am so glad I have spellcheck...

     

    Careful........

     

    DEAR NEIGHBOR:
    Hi, Fred, this is Richard, next door.
    I’ve got a confession to make. I’ve been riddled with guilt for a few
    months and have been trying to get up the courage to tell you
    face-to-face.  At least I’m telling you in this e-mail. I can’t live
    with myself a minute longer without your knowing about this.
    The truth is that, when you’re not around, I’ve been sharing your
    wife, day and night.  In fact, probably much more than you.  I haven’t
    been getting it at home recently, and I know that that’s no excuse. The
    temptation was just too great. I can’t live with the guilt and hope you’ll
    accept my sincere apology and forgive me.
    Please suggest a fee for usage, and I’ll pay you.
    Regards, Richard.

    NEIGHBOR’S RESPONSE:
    Fred, feeling very angry and betrayed, grabbed his gun, went next door,
    and shot Richard, killing him.  He went back home, shot his wife, poured
    himself a stiff drink and sat down on the sofa.  Fred then looked at his
    computer again and discovered a second e-mail from Richard.

    2ND E-MAIL:
    Hi, Fred.  Richard here again.  Sorry about the typo on my last email.
    I expect you figured it out and noticed that the darned Auto-Correct had
    changed “wi-fi” to “wife.”  Technology, huh?  It’ll be the death of us
    all.

     

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    English is such a strange and inconsistent language...

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     English is such a strange and inconsistent language... e.g.,

     We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes;
     but the plural of ox became oxen not oxes.
     One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese,
     yet the plural of moose should never be meese.
     You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice;
     yet the plural of house is houses, not hice.

     If the plural of man is always called men,
     why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?
     If I spoke of my foot and show you my feet,
     and I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?
     If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth,
     why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth?

     Then one may be that, and three would be those,
     yet hat in the plural would never be hose,
     and the plural of cat is cats, not cose.
     We speak of a brother and also of brethren,
     but though we say mother, we never say methren.

     Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him,
     but imagine the feminine, she, shis and shim.

     Some other reasons to be grateful if you grew up speaking English:

     1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
     2) The farm was used to produce produce.
     3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
     4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
     5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
     6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
     7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to
        present the present.
    8) At the Army base, a bass was painted on the head of
        a bass drum.
     9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
     10) I did not object to the object.
     11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
     12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
     13) They were too close to the door to close it.
     14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
     15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
     16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
     17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
     18) After a number of Novocain injections, my jaw got number.
     19) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
     20) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
     21) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
     22) I spent last evening evening out a pile of dirt.

     Screwy pronunciations can mess up your mind! For
     example...

     If you have a rough cough, climbing can be tough when going through the
     bough on a tree!

     Let's face it - English is a crazy language.

     There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger;
     neither apple nor pine in pineapple.

     English muffins weren't invented in England.

     We take English for granted.

     But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work
     slowly,boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor
     is it a pig.

     And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing,
     grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?

     Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but
     not one amend?

     If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them,
     what do you call it?

     If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?

     If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?

     Sometimes I think all the folks who grew up speaking English should be
     committed to an asylum for the verbally insane.

     In what other language do people recite at a play and play at a recital?

     Ship by truck and send cargo by ship?

     Have noses that run and feet that smell? How can a slim chance and a fat
     chance be the same, while a wise man and a wiseguy are opposites?

     You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house
     can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out,
     and in which an alarm goes off by going on.

     If Dad is Pop, how's come Mom isn't Mop?
     

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    Rembering when music was music

    in The Neil Hill Memorial Lounge

    Posted

    12 hours ago, Rob Abernathy said:

    Just what I needed tonight Adam, thanks.  Back in the mid to late sixties we danced to many of those slower songs when you could hold them tight................

    In the early '60's too. Graduation night 1960. Dancing with Sandi Lee. The Platters, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes. God, I miss her.....

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    Rembering when music was music

    in The Neil Hill Memorial Lounge

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    On 4/14/2024 at 9:56 AM, adambar said:

    Now if I only could learn to spell correctly. 😄

    Spelling, schmelling.....

     

       Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.

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    This Week's Meaningless Topic (#188)(April 10)

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    You should be aware of the Beer Goggles Effect John.

     

    The "Beer Goggles" Effect:

    In 2002, researchers at St. Andrews University and Glasgow University in Scotland took 80 college students and had half of them drink a "moderate" amount of alcohol -- between one and four servings, depending on gender and body weight. The other half, the control group, remained sober. Scientists showed each subject pictures of people of the opposite sex. In all cases -- male and female alike -- the experimental (tipsy) group rated each picture an average of 25 percent more attractive than the sober group did.

    The effect can reportedly be traced to the nucleus accumbens. When you're looking at another human being, the nucleus accumbens is the area of the brain that decides how attractive that human being's face is. If you look at, say, George Clooney or Angelina Jolie, this area of your brain probably experiences increased neural firing. In other words, it's stimulated. As it turns out, alcohol, all by itself, stimulates the nucleus accumbens. So when you've have a few drinks, and you look at a face you may have judged as unattractive when you were sober, your brain, under the influence of alcohol, tells you that this face is in fact somewhat attractive. And the increase in perceived attractive seems to be directly proportional to the amount of alcohol consumed.

    In a more recent study, this one conducted by researchers at England's Manchester University in 2005, scientists actually came up with a mathematical formula to calculate the extent of the "beer goggle" effect on a given individual in a given situation. Their reasoning for creating this formula is that alcohol is not really the only factor affecting the drunken perception of beauty. Other factors, according to their research, include:

    How brightly lit the area is
    The observer's eye-sight quality
    The amount of smoke in the air
    The distance of the observer from the observed
    The formula goes like this:

                  (An)2xd(S+1)
           g=      -----------
                   L x (Vo)2


    where:

    An is the number of servings of alcohol
    S is the smokiness of the area on a scale of 0 - 10
    L is the lighting level of the area, measured in candelas per square meter, in which 150 is normal room lightning
    Vo is Snellen visual acuity, in which 6/6 is normal and 6/12 is the lower limit at which someone is able to drive
    d is the distance between the observer and the observed, measured in meters

    The formula works out a "beer goggle" score ranging from 1 to 100+. When g = 1, the observer is perceiving the same degree of beauty he or she would perceive in a sober state. At 100+, everybody in the room is a perfect 10.
     

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    Travel Insurance...be sure you have enough

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    On 3/26/2024 at 3:08 AM, wain71 said:

    Doug I hope you are now on the mend...

    Thanks Wayne. I'm getting better slowly. I'm able to get around now without the walker but I can't walk too far because of fatigue. The head injury (brain bleed) has absorbed so no surgery was needed. I'm still a bit light-headed but I'm hopeful that that, too, will keep getting better. As they say, "Stuff Happens". It could have been worse. I'm 81 years old and, thank God, there was no damage to my hips. And life goes on..........Doug

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    Travel Insurance...be sure you have enough

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    Five months ago I had a major fall while on a Carribean cruise. I turned into a jumble of fractured/displaced bones. Sternum, right scapula, and 14 ribs. The ships medical couldn't handle it so I was put ashore in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. I spent 6 days there in ICU and then it was decided that I was OK to travel home. They arranged for an air ambulance and I flew back to Orlando, Florida (a distance of 1009 miles). Once there I spent another three weeks in hospital. But enough of that.

    The point I want to make is to be sure that you have travel insurance and be sure it will cover the expenses of getting you home. In my case I was able to get home for the low, low price of USD$27,000. And, thank goodness, it was all covered by my insurance. (I can't even imagine the cost if was in Australia). I hope none of you ever have to go through something similar but I thought I'd post this just as a for-what-it's-worth...........Doug

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    Funny thing this brain........

    in The Neil Hill Memorial Lounge

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    On 3/1/2024 at 8:15 PM, gumbypickett said:

    Nothing is worth dumping out your beers.

    How true.....

    Many of us have heard of the so-called "beer goggle" effect. It's the phenomenon that occurs when someone's had a few alcoholic drinks and suddenly, all of those people who looked semi-attractive on entering the bar look really, really appealing. Scientists have shown that it's not just a lowering of standards -- alcohol actually stimulates the part of the brain that judges facial attractiveness.

    The "Beer Goggles" Effect

    In 2002, researchers at St. Andrews University and Glasgow University in Scotland took 80 college students and had half of them drink a "moderate" amount of alcohol -- between one and four servings, depending on gender and body weight. The other half, the control group, remained sober. Scientists showed each subject pictures of people of the opposite sex. In all cases -- male and female alike -- the experimental (tipsy) group rated each picture an average of 25 percent more attractive than the sober group did.

    The effect can reportedly be traced to the nucleus accumbens. When you're looking at another human being, the nucleus accumbens is the area of the brain that decides how attractive that human being's face is. If you look at, say, George Clooney or Angelina Jolie, this area of your brain probably experiences increased neural firing. In other words, it's stimulated. As it turns out, alcohol, all by itself, stimulates the nucleus accumbens. So when you've have a few drinks, and you look at a face you may have judged as unattractive when you were sober, your brain, under the influence of alcohol, tells you that this face is in fact somewhat attractive. And the increase in perceived attractive seems to be directly proportional to the amount of alcohol consumed.

    In a more recent study, this one conducted by researchers at England's Manchester University in 2005, scientists actually came up with a mathematical formula to calculate the extent of the "beer goggle" effect on a given individual in a given situation. Their reasoning for creating this formula is that alcohol is not really the only factor affecting the drunken perception of beauty. Other factors, according to their research, include:

    How brightly lit the area is
    The observer's eye-sight quality
    The amount of smoke in the air
    The distance of the observer from the observed
    The formula goes like this:

                  (An)2xd(S+1)
           g=      -----------
                   L x (Vo)2


    where:

    An is the number of servings of alcohol
    S is the smokiness of the area on a scale of 0 - 10
    L is the lighting level of the area, measured in candelas per square meter, in which 150 is normal room lightning
    Vo is Snellen visual acuity, in which 6/6 is normal and 6/12 is the lower limit at which someone is able to drive
    d is the distance between the observer and the observed, measured in meters

    The formula works out a "beer goggle" score ranging from 1 to 100+. When g = 1, the observer is perceiving the same degree of beauty he or she would perceive in a sober state. At 100+, everybody in the room is a perfect 10.

     

     

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    Kant spel? No problem.....

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    I cluond't bilevee taht I cluod autclaly unednsrtad waht I was rdaenig. Unisg the ilrcndeibe pewor of the hamun biarn, aoccdring to reserach at Cbmairdge Utvinresiy, it dseo'nt mttaer in waht oedrr the ltteres in a wrod aer, the olny iopmtrant tnihg is taht the fsrit and lsat ltteer be in the rhgit pcale. The rset can be a tatol, mses and you can raed it whtiuot a pborelm. Tihs is bacesue the hamun mnid deos not raed erevy ltteer by iesltf, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azamnig, hhu? Yaeh and I aawlys tuohhgt slepilng was iopmtrant!

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