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I'm sitting here watching my favorite movie. Play Misty For Me. It's my favorite for two reasons. It was filmed where I grew up, and it's a Clint Eastwood movie. This may ramble a bit but let me try to explain (maybe another glass of wine will help). Way back almost 70 years ago I started to learn to play the piano. My teacher was a guy named Howard. He was a bar-room piano player who couldn't read music. He was married to a woman who was a trained concert pianist. What a pair. My mother would take me for lessons to their house in the Carmel Highlands - that's where many of the scenes in Play Misty For Me were filmed. What a place. They had added a music room onto the original house. 12 foot high windows overlooking the ocean below and two back-to-back Steinway 9-foot grand pianos. Howard always told me it's not important to learn to read the music. What's important is to learn to feel the music. And how right he was. After a couple of years of learning to feel the music I found a song I really liked. Something by Eroll Garner called Play Misty For Me. I loved that song and played it almost every day. Fast forward 11 years. I was going to college a couple of hours north and came home most weekends. Mainly to see the girls from "the old days". Sometime in 1962 I took my date (I still remember the night Debbie) to a place called the Mission Ranch. A great restaurant with an even better piano bar. After that first night there I returned on many Friday nights to sit at the piano bar and listen to an incredible piano player. Her name was Jackie. And I really envied how she improvised almost any song requested. After many nights there she knew that what I wanted to hear most was Play Misty For Me. And she played it every time I walked into the bar. Over the months we got to talking quite between sets. She knew I played. And one night she stood up to take a break, pointed to keyboard and said "Play Misty For Me". And I did. Who could have imagined then that Clint Eastwood would not only make a movie called Play Misty For Me but would also own the Mission Ranch. And the piano bar where I played the title song from the film. Life is, indeed, good. And so are the memories.

Well, I just found their "Greatest Hits" album from 2009. 28 songs to make my day. Thanks again.

Thanks so much for this. All I can say is WOW! The only thing I remember is Georgy Girl and I had no idea who did it. The Seekers have a new fan now. I gotta download a bunch of their stuff and really enjoy a musical 4th.............Doug

...sitting here listening to Vera Lynn, I wonder how many of the folks here remember Jesse Callihan. Jesse flew P-51's in WWII. Escorts for the 8th Air Force. He told me that the B-17 pilots called them Little Friends. Jesse is gone now but I'll always remember him. These forums are great to make friends...........Doug

...sitting here listening to Vera Lynn, I wonder how many of the folks here remember Jesse Callihan. Jesse flew P-51's in WWII. Escorts for the 8th Air Force. He told me that the B-17 pilots called them Little Friends. Jesse is gone now but I'll always remember him. These forums are great to make friends...........Doug

And the tears are really flowing now...........

I don't know what happened on the post above but try this: PS: The ability to edit/delete posts on this forum sucks.......

And I forgot to mention. Every time I hear We'll Meet Again I shed a tear. A tear for all those, from all the sides, in all the wars who never returned.

Maybe something here would help: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seekers https://www.theseekers.com.au/ https://www.facebook.com/TheSeekersOfficial Doug

...if I'll share any of this with you. It's all going to the cat shelter. ATTN DEAR BENEFICIARY I am REV. FRANK MARTINS JP, director cash processing unit, united bank for Africa (UBA) the only bank appointed by the O.A.U members led by John Kuffor the former president of Ghana.Due to on going fraud in west Africa countries where some innocent beneficiaries were asked to pay in advance before receiving their money. The above Africa union and I.M.F held a meeting in Benin Republic and resolved to pay all beneficiaries in cash through diplomatic courier service. The union has approved and appointed United Bank For Africa (UBA) to pay you the sum of ($5.500,000,00) but due to on going fraud in west Africa, we have taken (US$10,000) from your fund for handling charges. Therefore the amount you will be expecting from the diplomat is ($5.490, 000.00) instead of ($5.5M). We have set up a plan to conclude this transaction with you; hence you can give us maximum co-operation. We want you to stop further communication with any person, Bank or courier that has promise to pay you through bank to bank, western union, money gram, ATM card, even check, do not listing to them because Benin Republic financial institution has prohibited such payment due to fraudulent activities all over the country. We also understood from the file that you have been dealing with the fraudsters who has been extorting money from you, my dear as a senior bank controlling this cash payment now, I advice you not to waste your hard earn money by paying any body in advance again, and if you just follow my instruction you will receive your money in three days time.Your fund will be package in a consignment box and ship through license diplomatic courier service. I will also send the picture of your box via attachment to you, for you to view how the money was package. I will send you more mails to give you more information with my international passport for you to know the genuine of this transaction. Therefore quickly forward your full name, home address and direct phone number to me at ( **********@gmail.com)for immediate delivery. All the documents will be sent to you, if I am assured that you have stop sending money to those fraudsters. But God will surely judge all of them who live by cheating, my bible says what shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and loose his precious soul? I am waiting to hear from you with the required information. REV. FRANK MARTINS JP DIRECTOR CASH PROCESSING UNIT UNITED BANK FOR AFRICA

Be sure to get lots of flowers.............

How many times have you tried it?

Hi Paul - Welcome to the forum(s). I think you may want to submit your problem here: https://support.orbxdirect.com/hc/en-us/requests/new . The staff are really good at fixing these types of things.....Doug

Welcome to the forum(s) Graham.......Doug

I never got your PM. I didn't get anything from Roger either. So, I've given the money to the local cat shelter.

Good catch.

This came in my morning e-mail. I really don't need the money so I thought I'd pass it on. Good day, I am Mr. Patrick Benton, the Director Bills & Exchange in FACTO TRUST BANK. I personally discovered a dormant account with a total sum of(TWENTY-NINE MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS) during our Bank's Annual Year Account Auditing. The owner of this dormant account died on 7th Jan 2012. Since the death of the deceased, nobody has operated in this account till date. Moreover this account has NO BENEFICIARY attached to it. Definitely this fund will be confiscated by our BANKING CODE OF ETHICS if it remains dormant for a period of (10) years without any claims. In this regard, I earnestly need your full cooperation in transferring this dormant fund out of our bank to avoid confiscating this fund. If you are willing to cooperate in this project, Get back to me on my private Email ( ***********@*****.com ) for more details. you are free to ask me any question regarding this project. Sincerely, Mr. Patrick Benton.

Of course he said that. I owned a black 1958 348cid 4-speed back in my days-of-romance. And if I had to choose today between my wife (who, like him, I was dating then) and the Impala...............

He lives in Sarasota Rob. If you ever get to Florida, and he can overcome the cease-and-desist order, I'd love to buy a beer (or two). Let me know if you ever get down this way and we'll hookup and have a great night listening to some great music.

He's more than just a "street guy". His name is Dovydas Mascinskas and he's well known both here and in Europe. He does a lot of concerts and even has a couple of albums available. I've seen him a few of time in Sarasota and he's just terrific. The videos don't do him justice. Unfortunately the stupid merchants from the St. Armand's Circle Association got a cease-and-desist order in February so he's not showing up there now. But he's still appearing in other places, both here and in Europe. If you ever get chance to see him live take it.

Happy belated birthday Jack. I'm so sorry I missed you this year. CRS is a terrible disease. I remember so well wising you a happy 43rd birthday all those years ago. And I'll never forget Jackie's smile. Or that wonderful dinner at The Lodge. Or shaking your hand. All I can say is thanks. Both from me personally and from our country. You were on of the good guys.

Party pooper............

For the Mickey Gilley fans................

This is as much math as I can handle. (And, it explains why all the girls get prettier at closing time). Credit to HowStuffWorks. 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 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 recent study conducted by researchers at England's Manchester University, 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: 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 [source: BBC News] The formula works out a "beer goggle" score ranging from 1 to 100+. When ø = 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."

All though I swore I wouldn't, I have to post this subject again. In the United States today it's Memorial Day. That's the day we remember those who gave their lives for our country and world freedom. I never knew my father. He died a month before I was born. He never returned from Guadalcanal. All I can say is, I love you Dad. And God bless the United States Marine Corps. And God bless America.