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Treasured moments, reveries of romance and sentimental soliloquies.

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Favoriting January 15, 2021: Love Is like a Violin

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Lincoln Mayorga And Distinguished Colleagues  We've Only Just Begun   Favoriting The Missing Linc (Volume II)  1974 
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Cal Tjader  What The World Needs Now   Favoriting Cal Tjader Sounds out Burt Bacharach  1968 
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Nina & Frederik  The Many Faces Of Love   Favoriting Lovers Of The World Unite!  1967 
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Johnny Lytle  A Man and a Woman   Favoriting A Man And A Woman  1967 
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Anthony Quinn with The Harold Spina Singers and Orchestra  I Love You, You Love Me   Favoriting In My Own Way...I Love You  1969 
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101 Strings  Never My Love   Favoriting Sounds of Today  1967 
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Claudine Longet  Nothing To Lose   Favoriting 7"  1968 
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Claude Denjean & Synthesizer  Theme from "Love Story"   Favoriting Open Circuit  1973 
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Stéphane Venne  Premiere Nuit   Favoriting 7"  1971 
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Lincoln Mayorga And Distinguished Colleagues  Love Rach   Favoriting The Missing Linc (Volume II)  1974 
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Paul Reid  The Day Is Done   Favoriting A Letter To My Love  1967 
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The Dave Shaw Ten  Aftermath Of Love (From "Bullitt")   Favoriting Themes  1973 
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Listener comments!

Avatar 9:47pm
Leland Meadows:

Good evening and welcome to our home. Please leave your shoes in the front closet. A.L. has a habit of burglarising boots and loafers.
Avatar 9:52pm
Constance De Witt:

Good evening, everyone. We have sweet songs and kind words for you.
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Well Played:

Hello lovers!
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ultradamno:

C&L, flamers!
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Kat in Chicago:

crickets
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ultradamno:

That picture of the dining superspreaders is a delight.
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Scott67:

Hello Lovers & Lover Lovers! ❤❤💋
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chresti:

Good evening Constance and Leland and Roma and torchers!
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ironybread:

I'm in love with love.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:03pm
ultradamno:

It's hard not to be when the lovers in love are this lovable.
Avatar 10:04pm
Constance De Witt:

Hello Solo, ultra, Kat, chresti, irony, Scott ❤️
  10:04pm
CC:

We've Only Just Begun!!!...:)
  10:05pm
Hank D:

this is one of my favorite songs of all time
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Scott67:

Love it!!
  10:06pm
CC:

Absolutely tantric!!!...:)
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chresti:

I jumped when the crashing started.
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Franco Twinkie:

Just to let you know how much I enjoy this show - I was at my mom's house cooking and it got late on me, so I stuffed all the dirty dishes in the refrigerator and drove home 100mph, and here I am!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:07pm
Scott67:

Hello Constance, my lover from another other! ❤
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:08pm
Well Played:

All my pictures fell off the wall to that rockin carpenters song.
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ultradamno:

Not only is it a typo, but there doesn't appear to be a volume 1
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Well Played:

Hoo kers like owls say hoo hoo
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Scott67:

Franco! Great work! 😎
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chresti:

Uh oh, quick, get the lye to wash the television.
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Well Played:

Some Maple Syrup Porn Perhaps
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Franco Twinkie:

I had an owl. He lived on the back porch and ate dead mice. His name was Plywood.
  10:09pm
CC:

Franco... did you have to make any Chicano u-turns???...:)
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Well Played:

Oh! Poor le le
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Kat in Chicago:

I was distracted for a moment, what just happened :(
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ultradamno:

I don't approve of the mixing of fluids intrinsic to the vampire pornography premise.
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Well Played:

I feel some infantile regression
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Scott67:

Nice sooky segway into song!
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Franco Twinkie:

No, but I ran over a blind person crossing the street with a bag of laundry.
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ironybread:

Tonight on a Very Special "Torch Is Burning", Leland Takes a Time Out
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Well Played:

Owl did it get that name Franco?!
  10:11pm
CC:

Hehehe!!!...:)
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Scott67:

They didn't see that coming Franco.
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chresti:

Constance accidently watched a sexy vampire movie.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:12pm
Franco Twinkie:

The person I got him from called him Pliny, but that was not going to work for me.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:12pm
Well Played:

You can watch alll the sexy movies you want and still remain versions!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:13pm
Scott67:

The world does indeed now need love, and lots of it!!
  10:13pm
Hank D:

Another monument to American music!!!
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chresti:

And Leland broke down after he confessed he doesn't know anything about flying creatures.
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ultradamno:

Can vampire hookers maintain regular clients?
  10:15pm
CC:

Nothing better than feeling love deep inside!!!...:)
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chresti:

*^@Kat
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Kat in Chicago:

Thank you for the synopsis, chresti. Makes... um... perfect sense.
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Franco Twinkie:

Love? Ha! Right now I would settle for a cup of coffee in the parking lot of the 7-11 with someone who changes their socks more than once a month.
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Scott67:

Eternally, ultraM.
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Scott67:

I don't wear socks Franco, you buy the coffee.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:18pm
Franco Twinkie:

Deal!
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Kat in Chicago:

Frederik doesn't wear socks either, apparently, just fancy sandals
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chresti:

The less you know about creatures, the more innocent you are.
  10:19pm
CC:

It's very important to stay away from people's feet nowadays they walk all over the virus and bring it home put it on a carpet etc etc... rolling around on the carpet nowadays is not all that romantic!!!..:)
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Scott67:

The past year & this, all I have worn is thongs..... on my feet.
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ultradamno:

A cinematic universe of marvels?
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Scott67:

Beethoven is a drool flick!
  10:21pm
Hank D:

Charles Grodin: author of 3 autobiographies
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Kat in Chicago:

HAHAHAHA
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ultradamno:

Grodin was also a talk show host to rival even the great Chevy Chase.
  10:23pm
CC:

I wonder what George Carlin would be saying these days???...:)
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ultradamno:

Good Place? Mr Mayor, is that his new one?
  10:24pm
CC:

Good one..!..:)
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Scott67:

I appear to have misplaced my silk smoking jacket.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:25pm
Scott67:

No smoking silk for me then.
  10:25pm
Hank D:

Rather, you must love triple alcoholic Roma wine to love Beethoven and it's sequels (preferably on mute while listening to this beautiful music)
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ultradamno:

Of course, in The Good Place he softened the image of giant squid demons, which might be an unpalatable fact for some.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:26pm
ironybread:

Landlord sez this is a non-smoking-jacket apartment
Avatar 10:26pm
Constance De Witt:

I just love good movies!
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Scott67:

Hahaha!
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Scott67:

They set off the Satin Detectors.
  10:27pm
CC:

I realize there are so many people we would love to hug and kiss but we must restrain ourselves!!!...:)
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Scott67:

Silk Detectors, works better.
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chresti:

Spanish Eyes?
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ironybread:

Who, o who shall be the lucky recipient of the first post-pandemic hug I shall give? For the hug I shall give shall last a full month. And when I tire of this hug, I shall hand over the lucky hug recipient to Anthony Quinn.
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ultradamno:

Such warmth Mr Quinn communicates when emoting affection
  10:29pm
CC:

I'll be darned I always thought this was William Shatner!!!...:)
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Well Played:

Oh so we’re playing records are we?
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Scott67:

La Strada is a great little film.
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chresti:

I love Zorba the Greek.
  10:30pm
CC:

Victor Mature loves you!!!...:)
  10:31pm
Hank D:

"More cheese more macaroni more you"
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Well Played:

Look in the Bible, I think there’s a slice or two pressed in there
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:32pm
Scott67:

Leland is now in a rush for you to pick up his package.
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chresti:

Brace yourself with virgin Roma wine.
  10:33pm
Mom:

Are your record touching gloves on Con Con?
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ultradamno:

And by law all 101 have to be played at all times.
Avatar 10:33pm
Constance De Witt:

Wearing my gloves, mom.
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Scott67:

67 a very good year.
  10:34pm
CC:

My mom always likes to give everybody banana bread!!!...:)
  10:34pm
Hank D:

This is the kind of music I wanna hear in Sheenas Jungle Room
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Well Played:

There’s like 5 or 6 strings per violin, 101 strings isn’t that impressive really.
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ironybread:

And if you include the harp, well. Practically an empty stage.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:35pm
Scott67:

Rapping Raptor stoops again!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:36pm
ultradamno:

Well, now I feel like skiing
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chresti:

Let's see ...16 violins?
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ironybread:

Fact: most pianos have 230 strings. That means any 101 Strings record that included a piano not only included NO violins, violas, cellos, or basses, it included less than a full piano.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:37pm
Scott67:

A nano piano!
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Well Played:

101 strings de bunked!
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ironybread:

Tonight on FOX 11 News: Can a piano string really kill you?
  10:37pm
CC:

I remember John Lennon saying that there are only twelve chords???...:)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:38pm
Scott67:

CC, that was before chargers.
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Well Played:

Cwawdine Wongey
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Scott67:

Talk to me Lovers!!
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ultradamno:

There are poems with up to 101 letters.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:40pm
Scott67:

What chance has the three legged dog.
In a world of fast cars.
  10:42pm
Hank D:

Like Don Quixote,
Why Do We Fight The Windmill?
Corporate Giants
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:42pm
ultradamno:

Food for thought, that's for certain.
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Scott67:

Thanks guys! I wrote that a long time ago. Now cars seem even faster to me.
  10:42pm
Mom:

Your stepfather has been writing haikus, Constance
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Well Played:

The world is a beautiful place
to be born into
if you don’t mind happiness
not always being
so very much fun
if you don’t mind a touch of hell
now and then
just when everything is fine
because even in heaven
they don’t sing
all the time

The world is a beautiful place
to be born into
if you don’t mind some people dying
all the time
or maybe only starving
some of the time
which isn’t half so bad
if it isn’t you

Oh the world is a beautiful place
to be born into
if you don’t much mind
a few dead minds
in the higher places
or a bomb or two
now and then
in your upturned faces
or such other improprieties
as our Name Brand society
is prey to
with its men of distinction
and its men of extinction
and its priests
and other patrolmen
and its various segregations
and congressional investigations
and other constipations
that our fool flesh
is heir to

Yes the world is the best place of all
for a lot of such things as
making the fun scene
and making the love scene
and making the sad scene
and singing low songs of having
inspirations
and walking around
looking at everything
and smelling flowers
and goosing statues
and even thinking
and kissing people and
making babies and wearing pants
and waving hats and
dancing
and going swimming in rivers
on picnics
in the middle of the summer
and just generally
‘living it up’

Yes
but then right in the middle of it
comes the smiling
mortician


From A Coney Island of the Mind, copyright ©1955 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Poet and translator Lawrence Ferlinghetti is the author of more than thirty books of poetry and the founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers in San Francisco, California.

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Poetry as Insurgent Art [I am signaling you through the flames]

I am signaling you through the flames.

The North Pole is not where it used to be.

Manifest Destiny is no longer manifest.

Civilization self-destructs.

Nemesis is knocking at the door.

What are poets for, in such an age?
What is the use of poetry?

The state of the world calls out for poetry to save it.

If you would be a poet, create works capable of answering the challenge of apocalyptic times, even if this meaning sounds apocalyptic.

You are Whitman, you are Poe, you are Mark Twain, you are Emily Dickinson and Edna St. Vincent Millay, you are Neruda and Mayakovsky and Pasolini, you are an American or a non-American, you can conquer the conquerors with words....


Lawrence Ferlinghetti
2007
A Far Rockaway of the Heart, 2

Driving a cardboard automobile without a license
at the turn of the century
my father ran into my mother
on a fun-ride at Coney Island
having spied each other eating
in a French boardinghouse nearby
And having decided right there and then
that she was for him entirely
he followed her into
the playland of that evening
where the headlong meeting
of their ephemeral flesh on wheels
hurtled them forever together

And I now in the back seat
of their eternity
reaching out to embrace them


Lawrence Ferlinghetti
1997
A Coney Island of the Mind, 11

The wounded wilderness of Morris Graves
is not the same wild west
the white man found
It is a land that Buddha came upon
from a different direction
It is a wild white nest
in the true mad north
of introspection
where ‘falcons of the inner eye’
dive and die
glimpsing in their dying fall
all life’s memory
of existence
and with grave chalk wing
draw upon the leaded sky
a thousand threaded images
of flight

It is the night that is their ‘native habitat’
these ‘spirit birds’ with bled white wings
these droves of plover
bearded eagles
blind birds singing
in glass fields
these moonmad swans and ecstatic ganders
trapped egrets
charcoal owls
trotting turtle symbols
these pink fish among mountains
shrikes seeking to nest
whitebone drones
mating in air
among hallucinary moons
And a masked bird fishing
in a golden stream
and an ibis feeding
‘on its own breast’

and a stray Connemara Pooka
(life size)

And then those blown mute birds
bearing fish and paper messages
between two streams
which are the twin streams
of oblivion
wherein the imagination
turning upon itself
with white electric vision
refinds itself still mad
and unfed
among the hebrides


Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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ironybread:

I saw that poem dollar had a million hands to pass it.
She wrote that poem just for me, but not to keep. She’d only lent it.
And I was hungry, so — I spent it.
  10:43pm
Hank D:

This one's getting riotous
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:44pm
Well Played:

LOL sorry I posted a whole page of poems hahaha
  10:44pm
CC:

I can be I... you can be you... don't step on me and I will stand for you...treat me Fair... I'll treat you true... don't cry babe..I'm you...CC...:)
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ultradamno:

Haikus, very exotic.
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chresti:

Love Story. A beautiful sick girl dies.
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Scott67:

Greedy Solo, are they all yours?
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Franco Twinkie:

I love synthesizers that sound like squeaky rubber toys.
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Scott67:

Well that's tonight show. Brought to you by Solo & his yesterday's bottle of Roma wine.
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Well Played:

No it’s Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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ultradamno:

I believe Ferlinghetti is the kind of pasta they enjoyed with cheese earlier.
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Scott67:

Raindrops dance in puddles
Leaves shed sweet tears
Grass green with drink.
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Well Played:

Yesterday’s wine is today’s salad dressing.
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chresti:

Haha Ultra.
  10:51pm
CC:

I feel so flattered!!!...:)
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Well Played:

I only meant to post one of those poems I swear
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Scott67:

Yesterday wine??
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chresti:

Yesterday's wine is aged wine.
  10:52pm
CC:

I wrote that when I was 17...
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Scott67:

Yesterday's wine was drained yesterday.
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StringOFperils:

That's so much Ferlinghetti. I'm going to need three more bottles of that ROMA. And an astrolabe.
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Scott67:

And an Optometrist.
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chresti:

Did Paul say Grand old bastard?
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StringOFperils:

The Optometrist is waiting tables over in section C. Times are slow.
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Scott67:

I see!
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Well Played:

Unfurl enghetti
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Well Played:

I coulda copy and pasted Beowulf count your blessings
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StringOFperils:

Hold on, I'm gonna post Gravity's Rainbow. Just a sec...
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Constance De Witt:

Beowulf is too violent.
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Franco Twinkie:

I will sit in front of this infernal machine and await a droplet of kindness to appear in the eye of my constant companion.
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ultradamno:

The love theme from Bullitt, it was moment of great tenderness for the Ford Mustang at this point in the film
  10:57pm
CC:

So mellow!!!... great show kids!!...:)
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Scott67:

Thank you young lovers, for once again sharing your precious intimate moments. With us old perverts! ❤❤💋🍾
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Constance De Witt:

String... write one of your own for future weeks, we will read it!
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Mx. Granny (e/em):

Greetings, folx!
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chresti:

Grannykins!
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Well Played:

Feel free to paste all of paul reeds poems in my shows comments for retribution
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Well Played:

Granny!
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Mx. Granny (e/em):

chrestikins!
  10:59pm
CC:

We are going to eat some spaghetti now and watch the news!!!...:)
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Scott67:

Granny! 😎❤
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Well Played:

Beowulf is full of violins!
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Mx. Granny (e/em):

well played!!!! Scott of the future!!!!
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Franco Twinkie:

True love will always sooth the rash of loneliness.
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chresti:

Good night!
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Well Played:

WWYAWAWW
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Kat in Chicago:

Good night, you crazy kids!
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Mx. Granny (e/em):

cuties!!!!!
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Scott67:

Nigh nigh! Until next week too long away! ❤
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ultradamno:

Wait, what's happening? I'm scared!
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Well Played:

Bye bye cuties
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Constance De Witt:

Thank you so much, affectionately, Comstance!
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Scott67:

Whoooo!!!
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Leland Meadows:

Good evening lovers!
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Franco Twinkie:

If you can't find love in this heartless cold world, put on your proudest face and go buy a scratcher and the gas station, and wait for love to appear in a 4x4 with big tires.
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