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  • tom hanlon
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    You are all *something* else, thanks for that..
    You are all part of that X factor, that unexplainable extra reason why I/we did what we did. I try to explain it to my non dead head wife. "Was it the music she asks"? "Yes" I answer.. "Was it just the music she asks"? "No there was more" I say. Was it the adventure? Yes there was plenty of adventure, hitching, sleeping out doors, making do, waking up covered in dew far away from home, giving things away, having things given to you, meeting strangers/friends, missing class, quitting jobs, following a crazy path that somehow improbably seemed to work out. Was that all? No there was something else, the quest, the music the adventure, the crazy path, the friends all that plus *something* else. This forum, this chat this group.. You are that something else !!! Thanks
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    Everyone sing in the People's Key of G
    and we'll be fine.
  • RatInADrainDitch
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    Caught on a limb no more!
    So glad to be here and see so many wonderful people! Can't wait to meet at the picnic!
  • ASL
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    Spectrum
    Spectrum was a great venue, no doubt. Spent a few evenings there myself!! Love the tee, tfonts! I used to wear a tee to all concerts...sure I made the purchase on the lot somewhere. It read "Who are the Dead and why do they keep following me?"
  • ASL
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    Help on the Pic
    Someone please come up with a pic or logo-thingy for me!!! And I need a name, too??? Okay, sounds good. I'm just not that clever or creative as you can plainly see from my Dead.net name.
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    @ ASL
    You need a pic kiddo. Let's get some cool thingy up there for your name. Can't believe no comments on my Spectrum T-Shirt. That was my "Dead" home....most played venue in this great land of ours !!! And of course was there in '09 just before the wrecking ball tore it down. Unveiled a tie-die 53 in the banners - OMG....CHILLS. And the encore that night? Samson and Delilah of course...."if I had my way....I would tear this ole building down." Alright...I better go see my wife before the divorces me !!! God bless her poor soul....lol
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    tfonts....
    so glad you made it....God this is wearing thin!!!!!
  • tfonts
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    @ Tom and the Hilton..
    Dude - I'm a Hilton whore too but I'm at the one on Michigan Ave... Oh, right across the street from Grant Park :-) Hey gang, the spreadsheet goes out in the AM with Vol. # 5. (Geo likes the Volumes....might be Dick's Picks-ish..). On it, there's hotel info. NO PERSONAL posting stuff here please.
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    tfonts....
    It's ok Justin Bieber ink is Hitler friendly as well... Drums n Space for half the show!!!!!
  • tfonts
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    @ fonts Trey ink...
    NOT !!!! But the man is making a house call tomorrow at 10am for my new steelie 50 tatt :-) Whoo-hoo !!!
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Too much information.... Cmon #88 back to the task at hand C or sssssee you all in Chicago..... Go Hawks....
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Mine is pronounced either like "church" or "sharon." Chandra or Chandra. Both are valid, as long as it's "ah-ndra." How do you pronounce your name Devil's Friend?
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88Eighty eight Ate ate Haight haight Never hate.
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Wait a minute...... Ok.... Hammertime... Break it down..... can't touch this..... Sorry kids disco era Donna does that to me..... Oooohhhhhyeaaaaahhhhh.... Happy Spring yo! Dancin dancin in the streets!!!!! Go Blackhawks!!!!
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"Hate Hate" the first is a verb the second a noun repeat. It is a wonderfully negatively positive thing to chant. or is it positively negative? *note* it should not be taught to children who have not passed the irony threshold, otherwise negativity might win. But to anyone with a touch of Irony, I find it to be an aggressively positive mantra. -- TH
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We may have a problem down the line... Go Wild!!! Hope all is forgotten by July...But, I cannot help but observe that the Blackhawks suck.
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(IMO) I don't see that anyone has been wronged here, and from my perspective you were acting with good intentions. But I was not involved with any part of the alleged agreement so I cannot speak for others who may have been involved. All I can say is you certainly haven't wronged me in any way and I hold no ill-will towards you. I can't speak for the whole group, but you are still welcome here as far as I am concerned. - your Mayor
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And what a good morning it is..... in Busytown.... Coffee is on.... Time to Wake, Time to Bake.... with apologies to Richard Scarry.... brownies are on the table....Huckle cat and Lowly worm made them.... Have a fruitful FourTwenty kids... and Happy Birthday to Tito Puente! Oye Como Va!
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Sunshine daydreams with a chance of meatballs. 68 until Santa Clara 74 until Chicago Happy Monday!
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Morning and thanks for the countdown as usual.... Load that thermos up with some Java, take a few brownies for the road....
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@ Klang +1. Coffee good, brownie good, must get moving. the salt mines aint gonna dig themself
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And That Means I'm running late,..gotta get down to the mine as well. ...I Am A Deadhead ....And I Miss Jerry!!!
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Thank you Totes - just can't start the day w/o ya !!!!! A few updates hitting your in-boxes this AM. And holy shit, Tim Tebow is an Eagle? WTF, Chip???
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Gotta get down to the coveted mine, that's where I mainly spend my time! Make good money $5 a day, made anymore I might move away... HEEHEE Happy Monday all! (if there is such a thing)
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As a night-owl and artist-type, I recommend you do as I - and EASE into Mondays... what's the rush? So far so good... but then I've only had a couple sips so far... when life seems like easy street, well, you know.
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As yes dearest Stella - ya just can't beat it !! Even right about now here in the east for a mid afternoon jolt on this glorious 420 Day !!! Can't go there yet though....lol
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pass the joe and set up my timbales and pass the tamalis and the salsa Happy B-day
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That's why I celebrate 4 20... without Tito there is no Carlos Santana..... Whether it's... Oye Como Va.... Or GooGoo G' Joob! It's still I miss Jerry!.....
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wish I had some for lunch. For one summer, we had a lady who brought her outta-this-world homemade tamales to our local farmers market. I'd buy a dozen at a time, and be lucky to get half of them home without snarfin' 'em at the market. Then, *poof*. She disappeared, never to return. Most likely got an awesome catering gig, but my heart still yearns for her chicken tamales.
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Big time mail activity today peeps - awesome !! Way to go on the T-Shirts !! Simply amazing !!! Way to go on the tickets, hotels, super boxes, etc... Tremendous networking and SD spirit !! And I had tamales for dinner !! (just kidding K, but man, your post made me hungry)
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we didn't have to wait weeks. me & hubby were just deciding to jump in. Thanks for trying, though!
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this didn't work out but truly I'm determined.
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Can anyone tell me which of the 3500+ emails has the picture of the Pic-a-nic shirt. Like what volume or date was it? Or better email it to me please.
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Could someone tell me how to follow a thread? Also I want to tweet but that is beyond me
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Happy Tuesday folks... Coffee is on, 420 is over.... Brownies all gone.... Steak and eggs this morning, sourdough toast and fresh fruit.... In re. following threads..... confusion...will be my epitaph.... good luck on your quest Don Quixote....aka Saundra.... to dream the impossible dream.....
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Thanks rrrrrgrrrrr for the mornin' menu !! Swan, I'll send it over to you...
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not to lazy to crow today. Tuesday up and at 'ems. going to mark this for day tremendous things, just not sure what yet. Thanks Tony - right there in the inbox. What a beautiful piece of art. Trippin on mid-week positivism.
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It's Another Tuesday on this Bright blue ball, just spinning, spinning free! Post 4-20 haze is lifting and it's time for this cat to hit the road,.. Hope everyone has a good one!
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67 days until Santa Clara. 73 days until Chicago. Rise and shine those rails and patch those sails! Time to get some hot brew and shake it, shake it Sugaree in your coffee!
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Good Morning SD's. Just Grateful to be amongst friends. That is all. Have a wonderful day!
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The birds are chirping away outside my window. Time to get moving and get my coffee buzz on!
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Just in from "Those Who Keep Track of Things Important" Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye! We are one month old today!!! Yes, on March 21st, our fearless founder and seeker of truth, TFont, announced our new Name: The Sunshine Daydreamers! Here's his email from that fateful morning: "GROUP NAME: Well gang, nearly and I mean nearly ALL of you voted and the final tabulations are in. Right now, you can break out your 1973 release of the late, great Jim Croce’s “I Got a Name” on 45 (shit, I’m guessing there are folks here who weren’t even born in ’73 and may need an explanation as to what a “45" is? lol…). Anyway, I digress…or as we like to say in the Dead vernacular, I’m a Ramblin’ - sorry, Rose. So the vote was cast wide and deep. Reflective of our coast-to-coast and sea to shining sea group. We had, incredibly, 20 creative names to pick from (thanks, again, to all of you for that). And while the voting did indicate a critical mass around a few prospective names, the one undisputed leader and the one that received the most #1 votes (there were no ties here) was………modest snare drum roll now over-dubbed to that Croce classic you have spinning in the background: SUNSHINE DAYDREAMERS \o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/ Lift a glass, stand in front of a mirror and sing a selfie-toast, "We are the Daydreamers and we are one month old. We Miss Jerry but we will get by, because we are friends and the music never stopped." Then tuurn and take a bow, for you are Someone Who Counts. Take care one and all! geopartymeister
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If I knew you were comin I would have baked you a cake... thanks for stopping by...have a cup of java jive.... One month an 1,237 posts... and I know said disaffectedly....
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Geo - I love ya man !! I'm in near tears :-) And now you have another hat to wear, the "grand historian!!" Wow...it's only been a month? Seems like a year ! lol... Kinda like the way we measure our marriages too, if ya know what I'm sayin'.... Well hey, we may be going to hell in a bucket, but at least we're enjoying the ride !!
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Thanks for everything Tfonts & company. Also, a very special thanks to Tom H.!!! See you in California! Eternally Grateful
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seems shorter and longer at the same time. thanks to all for turning our group from a granfalloon into a community. special thanks to Tom, for making SC possible for many of us. it will be show time before ya know it
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I love Spring! But, this definitely seems like so much more than a month.... the folks here are a special breed....can't wait for Chicago.... Baked you all a cake....after you blow out the candles...have a piece.... It's on me.... oh well, coffee breaks over.....back to briving this dus.... it's a privilege ..... wanna take the wheel, just ask.....cuz I do believe we are on autopilot..... To infinity and BEYOND! Right Stella?
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Happy birthday, deeeaaaarrrrrr uuuuuuuuhhhhuuuuuhhhs, happy birthday to us! All I ate this morning was a hard-boiled egg. No cake, no other culinary delights--so unDaydreamer-like. Fueled by delicious coffee and yolk, lol. Oh, well, all in the name of shining sails and patching rails at work. See you all around our third anniversary and I hope the honeymoon never ends . . . . PS - thanks again, Tom!
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Happy Birthday Anniversary and happy unbirthday to us all of the other days. We certainly have put a lot of mileage on this bus and by the time we "get there" we'll be experts (at being beginners). Today I'll have coffee before taking the wheel but the wheels know where we're going so... until then.... I'm trying to imagine post-CHI SD land. Silly? Where's my coffee.
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No way, Stella - ain't happening. We'll always have and forever be the SD'ers. Next time Bobby in whatever iteration comes down here to So Fla, you're all invited down. Plenty of room at the ranch. No reservation needed. We'll be dancing amongst the palm trees in our flip-flops, SD T's and tin foil hats baby !! BTW, it's Taco Tuesday here - who's hungry?
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Post 9/11..... errr 7/5/15..... nothing changes.....but the names to protect the innocent..... Bobby or Phil come Truckin up to Buffalo..... Always welcome....have extra parka and mukluks..... Coooo Roooooo Coooooo Cooooooo..... Gets a might chill here at times.....
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Time does fly...I feel like I've known some of you guys for years already! What a group! Can't wait to laugh with y'all in person!! And what a laugh (or two or three...) it will be!! I started my day with a hard boiled egg, too. Think I'll end it with a glass (or two...) of chardonnay! Have a good evening, Birthday Peeps! ASL
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That avatar doesn't suck..., Happy Birthday kid!
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Wow, thanks! Got it from some cool Deadhead a while back...
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Who's with me on the committee?