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    @Whos on first....
    Hey ABBOTT! Bombay Sapphire....a straw will do.... I'll bring the women.... We got to right this ship tho.... Cuz...New Orleans is Sinkin' and I don't wanna swim.... .......I don't know, third base? Lions, and Tigers and Bears....oh my....hey where's Dorothy the meek....jumped ship with Pugsley? Now I'm pooped.....
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    Gergelis, you crack me up everyday. My office neighbors must hear my laughing through the walls. Well, quite a few of we biologists are GD lovers so they understand. They know I'm cracked. LOL! Yah, we all need some flexibility and knowing that we all are doing the best that we can as we travel through this land. Like I eluded to yesterday, some sweet Viking mamas or Egyptian goddesses might delay my arrival to said picnic. I did a Google ruler measurement. It's between 0.5-0.6 miles from the museum to the super secret picnic location. Watch out for them teddy bears trying to get on the dus.
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    @all of the above...and the below....
    ba dus is on autopilot and will stop for stray cats, dogs and heads... appreciate the well wishes Totes, and hope you're correct... re. High noon....time is relative and always has been, Totes, Lainie Bear and I will be at the museum in the morning....and after pic a nic.... However we need a window of arrival time, to expect every camper to be there for a photo op at exactly high noon is risky at best....and lacks necessary wiggle room and fluidity.... busy city busy weekend and people from all over....walking, biking, cabbing, ubering, crawling and limping there... Provided tickets are in hand Elaine and I will be there....Scott and Rosalie are a lock.... Hey look it's Brian Setzer....gotta slow down....hop on...there's a seat next to Fester....grab some coffee... you got something to say? The floor is all yours..... Well, we're having a ball just a-bopping on the big dance floor Well, there's a real square cat, he looks a 1974 Well-ell, he looked at me once, he looked at me twice Look at me again and there's a-gonna be fight We're gonna rock this town We're gonna rip this place apart We're gonna rock this town Rock it inside out We're gonna rock this town Make 'em scream and shout Let's rock, rock, rock, man, rock We're gonna rock till we pop We're gonna rock till we drop We're gonna rock this town Rock this place apart after reading back the lyrics...not the best choice of song...let's try Stray Cat Shuffle....it's the bees knees....
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    @FLATTERED YOU ARE CONCERNED WITH MY SCHEDULE
    FONTS, AS SHARED EARLIER TODAY, THE DUS BRIVER HAS MEDICINE THAT CAN REMEDY THAT. I SUGGEST YOU RELAX, ENJOY YOUR OWN RIDE AND EASE OFF THE MICROMANAGEMENT PEDAL. THIS DUS HAS A BRIVER.
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    Simply making sure, Kyle, that you don't miss out on our already calendared Pic-A-Nic and M&G and group picture at our designated spot at Grant Park at high noon on Saturday 7/4. Capice?
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    I see no conflict anywhere fonts. Explain? There is a reason there is "important" information there. Read it again. Stay positive and see the forest through the trees. This forum is for sharing info for planning. Stick it, in an email update if you wish to.
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    Field Museum Important Info for Saturday
    Am I allowed to leave The Field Museum and come back later? Yes, if you come back on the same day and have your tickets handy. So you can leave the museum, make the Pik-A-Nik for lunch, and return to the Museum if so your pleasure tends. I am geeky, so I will be at the museum most of the morning, picnicteer, then return to the museum for some jazzy Dead and Archive/ GDTS exhibit. It's all in the same area (museum is about 1/2 mile from the picnic). For those that missed the ticket link yesterday, there is a link to the event below. Everything is Dead at The Field Museum All The Years Combine: Deadhead Treasures From The Grateful Dead Archive & GDTS Too Drawing on the extensive collection of the band’s own archive, All The Years Combine: Deadhead Treasures From The Grateful Dead Archive & GDTS Too features material from every part of the Grateful Dead’s career that document the special bond between the Grateful Dead family and their family of fans. Visitors will have the opportunity to see band and fan correspondence, decorated ticket request envelopes, newsletters, drawings, posters, tickets, backstage passes, and fan-made concert tapes. Jazz & Colors: Wave That Flag July 4, 12:30pm – 3pm, performances throughout the Museum, included with admission Following the success of Jazz & Colors in New York’s Central Park and Jazz & Colors: The Masterworks Edition at the acclaimed Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jazz & Colors comes to Chicago’s Field Museum with a more focused and intimate experience. Jazz & Colors: Wave That Flag will feature local jazz musicians performing in various parts of the Museum taking on the songbook of the Grateful Dead for two sets of music on Saturday, July 4th. Jazz & Colors is a co-production of The Field Museum and the promoters and performers of Fare Thee Well. http://www.fieldmuseum.org/at-the-field/programs/everything-dead-field-…
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    Thanks, Totes - this is awesome information. Only caution is our Pic-A-Nic and group photo op is Saturday, July 4th at nigh noon. We want to make sure all our peeps are at our meeting spot in Grant Park for that. Also, is there a direct link you can share on how to get to the specific information of this event? Looks like awesome fun...thanks !!
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    Submit your FTW necessities for the list! -water bottle -sunscreen - chargers -cash -bubbles, beach balls, balloons, face paint , temporary tattoos, confetti -sunglasses -some surprises -lanyard for GDTS Tix -travel size booze for jazz Colors at the Field Museum -harmonica -frisbee - sunshine dreamers t-shirt -spreadhseets for effigee -source of fire -tickets put in carry on, taped to an inside super secret pocket -party hat for the 4th of July -camera to capture eagles filling the sky -casting searchlight -rain poncho (it never rains on the 4th of July, the sun always shines) -tin foil hat -frankincense -transporter beam -re-entry blanket -oranges for the dus -invisibility cloak -aspirin -walking shoes so I don’t get the walkin’ blues -smiles -band aids -coozy -GD50 clear plastic bag (for Santa Clara) or sensible holder of stuff (for Chicago)
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    said tyhe cat in the hat in the back.... Fine job of steering da dus, rgrrrgrr, and taking those curves at just the right speed. Tis quite a shiny badge you've got there... I like the steelie face logo and Captain Rich tag. Anyone catch the Smithsonian Channel's Aerial America last night? It featured Illinois, and had several majestic aerial flights over Chicago. I was hoping they would fly over Buckingham Fountain, and sure enough they did...the area for our meet-up just to the SE of the fountain loomed right up large in my screen. The trees looked a bit shaggy, the lawn green, and my heart skipped a beat at the vision of deadheads everywhere converging on that area in a couple of short weeks....here is the link, etc: http://www.smithsonianchannel.com/shows/aerial-america/illinois/701/340… As we get closer to our destinations...rggrrgr promised to drive a bit more slowly (right!) or at least slow enough for the deadheads along the way to get on...as we approach California, there may be a sea of people around us...make sure you wave and say high to them... Matter of fact, practice smiling and greeting your neighbors today, here on this ride, at home in your hood, and elsewhere as the opportunities arise. You never know who is needing that special twinkle and smile and you may have one at the perfect time. Make a difference today friends if you can, and if that isn't in the cards, help someone who is. To each and all, the skies are yellow and the sun is blue...I hear music around the next bend...how 'bout some cookies and milk everyone. geolikescookiesandmilkandmusicandsmilesandwavesandpeacemeister
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Anyone planning on bringing a film camera to the shows? 35mm? 120? Why cant we get photo tickets like the tapers. Unless you score 8th row. It does happen and was happly taking pictures the whole show. I'll see you outside the shows taking pictures of your faces so smile smile smile!!! I
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My brothers all rode. But I thought a chopper was the one with the long front forks and high handlebar
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I'll skip the pie and Cherry Garcia for some Ben & Jerry's Phish Food, I'm a total Choc-aholic!
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we all have burdens to carry - but phish. oh brother!
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That's just wrong! Just say no no no no
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Tony, thanks for keeping an eye out for those ticket deals that can help a fellow SDer! It's much appreciated. I PM'd will74, but no dice. He hasn't gotten any other offers, but cheap obstructed view SC tix are not very appealing, even when you sweeten the deal.
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So glad there is late-night pie! Just what I wanted after a long day of driving topped off with a little work. And so many kinds! You guys enjoyed most of it but there's just enough in each little tin. YummmzzNightzzzz
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Please get some sleep. We rejoin the battle when the sun rises. It's 4:15am in Ontario. Where are you Sean?
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jeez get off the bus for a night, and we are going to need weight watchers after this trip....thanks Stella and Geeky.... And thanks for the leftovers....nothing wrong with a little slice for breakfast....
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jeez get off the bus for a night, and we are going to need weight watchers after this trip....thanks Stella and Geeky.... And thanks for the leftovers....nothing wrong with a little slice for breakfast....
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Bye bye Miss American pie.... sorry for the duplicate post there.... Darn pie....Sticky fingers..... have a tremendous Thursday!
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I'll be having coffee, coffee, and more coffee, Up All night scouring the internet for Tickets! Gotta knock out those yellow boxes. Hit 'em hard today SDer's we're over the hump, rounding third and heading for home!!!
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Morning... Coffee is on....hit it my man! Leftover pie in fridge....
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Little mud on the tires... That scratch was already there! Gotta love the pink leopard paint job! Okay maybe that scratch is new...
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My man has gone to The Mothers of Invention !!! He poked and stroked till his wrist got numb but he still didn't feel that dynamo humm...
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That is a Mother of an Avatar there Rich.
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Sorry just got back from inspecting the bus..don't worry about the scratches, and yes ma'am you really know how to off-road...but there nothing wrong with kicking up a little mud every now and then..right? Your fashion sense is impeccable...the fuzzy dice and the doggy whose head goes boing boing boing when you hit a bump really make this bus feel like home...oh yeah, that mean people suck bumper sticker rocks... So Geeky....Bus license reinstated.... Baby you can drive my car ummm bus 8 days a week!!!!! Have a fantastic day! One more thing, Lisa is that a real poncho or is that a Sears poncho... Here fido, fido? ...bark bark bark!
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Pins n needlesNeedles n pins It's a happy man that grins
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Fantastic, brother - THANK YOU !!!
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.... And how does he know I sleep by a Medicine Jar? COSMIC DEBRIS Enter—the transitive nightfall of diamonds. There are crop circles dancing in a wave on Neptune, with corn rows gleaming from the man on Mars. Tail feathers toss toward a flute near Venus. Fly me like a rainbow to the nearest star. Sirius B has nothing for me. Anunnaki women want to dig my scene. Don’t take me seriously; I’m bluffing like a rookie with a pair of queens. Moon Unit lands with a Zappa on Pluto. Yoda on Saturn plays steel guitar. Moses rides in on a doggone quasar. Captain Trips sleeps by a medicine jar. Sirius B has something for me. Hot Nibiru babes try to make my dream. Don’t greet me furiously. I’ll drop you like a comet heading to the east. Exit—the transitive nightfall of diamonds. Frank Zappa
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......what he said..... what did he say? dreamed I was an Eskimo...
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Still no tickets yet. I offered for a Field GA ticket on ebay at $600 and was countered at $650 but that was just before the PPV was announced yesterday so I'm inclined to turn it down at this point.
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I woke up high over ABQ on a jet to the promised land.
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Thanks for the ride! Do have to say you areThe best for riding shot gun to. You share The dial. Keep it right there......
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Ground control to rrrrgrrrr. Ground control to rrrrgrrrr. Keep them on the path! I repeat. Keep them on the path.
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So far found 2 pair of tighty whiteys, a pair of boxers, 2 thongs, a jock a coffee stained wife beater and a speedo on the floor of the bus.... Hey Geeky those weren't here when you took the wheel...I musta missed one hell of a party! Someone has some 'splainin' to do! Next time guys, clean up the remnants....just saying So totes....I ran them all thru the wash for you.... Ask Tony to create a column to keep track of our wares.... must be Commando day here in the mine..... You know it's gonna get stranger...
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Just brought a blueberry-peach out of the brick oven, pass that vanilla bean this way
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don't trip on the undies, waiting on Totes to hang em high! Last time I give up the wheel, gotta do background checks from under the foil from now on....
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we're all bozo's on this bus, EH unbind your mind there is no time.....
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Just don't like living in a sty brah....like the last time I flew to India...first 3 hours fine....but damn those bathrooms ripened quickly....no ma'am no prune juice or bran flakes for me.... Gonna dial in the new Donna Jean channel on SXM..... Oooohhhhhyeahhhhhhhhayyyyyyyahhhhooohhhh.... wow..... jeez I wonder what's next?
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how bout a Donna goo goo j'goob Man, I miss Jerry
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we know.... the preceding announcement was sponsored by Deadheads Anonymous....aka sunshine day dreamers!!!!!! Ooooohhhhhhyeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhoooohhhhh! (sung disaffectley....not)
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My heart still longs for Dastardly Mash. It's been nearly 15 years, and still I dream of Dastardly Mash. WTF was wrong with the raisins? Why did they kill it? Why????? I miss Dastardly Mash. I miss Jerry.
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WTF is WFT.....?????? and we know (disaffectedly) Whoa....double take....it's between the cat n me....
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The one time I get something remotely right....I'm shot down...I don't get no respect.... listen kid...no kidding...need you to take the wheel even for half n hour or so.....we need to have us all brive this dus..... It's easy...eyes on road...hands upon the wheel.... Get to the roadhouse order pie...everyone keep your bloomers on... Just waitin on Totes....
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And I still can't decide if I'm bringing relish or chopped green onions. I saw the GD play Green Onions. I believe it was Rochester. I never saw them play relish, but I think I saw some in Jerry's beard once. May I'll just bring catsup.
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I just got back from a panty raid and scored BIG TIME! Bedazzled bikinis and a polka dot pair of granny underwear. Hit the gas, but please don't leave skid marks.
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Silver stadium brah...opener of second set....Totes....take the wheel....think Kat kid got plans..... rrrrrgrrrrr goin out commando style!!!!!! Just call me Braveheart!!!!! Ohhhhyeahhhhhhh!!!!!
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Take the wheel please....just for a few minutes....Gotta stretch my legs....At the roadhouse, order pie...I will take the humble variety.....
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RRRRRRGGGGGRRRRRRRRR, you still driving this thingy? Being that we are an environmentally friendly group, I have to assume the bus is powered by clean burning no emissions natural gas. So, I am here to help (yes, I'm still here for all of those shaking their heads!) BTW, it is not nice to shake us too much, we might get dizzy. So since I just hopped back on the bus (y'all)(again), there's no need to stop for gas.... ...I had a gigantic burrito for lunch (and it's not the veggie type). "HEY, SOMEONE CRACK A WINDOW OPEN MAN!"
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Dude, I was actually referring to the chick in the bvds... but I'm glad you came along.... Drive like you've never driven before, Mr. Mayor.... to infinity...and BEYOND...... Hopping off now.... looking for a chateau...21 rooms but one will do.... Don't want to buy it..... just want to rent it for an hour or two.....
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Cool and entertaining....
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So glad you made it....when Klang gets tired, take the wheel?