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    @dont forget Sarge.....
    He's on ba dus.... reminds me of an old Harry Nilsson song.... Me and my Arrow straighter than narrow where ever we go everyone knows it's me and my Arrow Me and my Arrow taking the high road where ever we go everyone knows it's me and my Arrow And in the morning when I wake up she may be gone I don't know and if we make up just to break up I'll carry on oh yes I will Me and my Arrow straighter than narrow where ever we go everyone knows it's me and my Arrow Me and my Arrow Me and my Arrow Me and my Arrow Me and my Arrow Me and my Arrow Me and my Arrow straighter than narrow where ever we go everyone knows it's me and my Arrow
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    @ Tonio K
    I had never heard of him and I listened to both of those songs when I looked him up... I was gonna give someone else a chance to get the trivia but I guess we're the only ones on da dus again. I know the pieces fit 'cause I watched them fall away. Mildewed and smoldering. Fundamental differing. Pure intention juxtaposed will set two lovers souls in motion Disintegrating as it goes testing our communication The light that fueled our fire then has burned a hole between us so We cannot seem to reach an end crippling our communication. I know the pieces fit 'cause I watched them tumble down No fault, none to blame, it doesn't mean I don't desire to Point the finger, blame the other, watch the temple topple over. To bring the pieces back together, rediscover communication The poetry that comes from the squaring off between, And the circling is worth it. Finding beauty in the dissonance. There was a time that the pieces fit, but I watched them fall away. Mildewed and smoldering, strangled by our coveting I've done the math enough to know the dangers of our second guessing. Doomed to crumble unless we grow, and strengthen our communication. Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion between supposed lovers, between supposed lovers, I know the pieces fit [8x]
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    @a little kid named Frank.....
    Tonio K! 1978.... Life in the Foodchain..... Must listen beginning to end..... This guy will ever get an ulcer.....he lets it all hang out..... Now i know it's not unusual it's nothing so unique there's probably hundreds of wonderful love affairs that go bad in this town every week but all of them others them sad-hearted lovers could cry in their beer, what the hey it didn't concern me was none of my business i never had nothin' to say ... But suddenly darlin' the table has turned you have left me for somebody new and now it's hard to express the resentment i feel for the years that i've wasted on you but let me put this another way · ok? I know it's not unusual it's nothing so unique there's probably hundreds of wonderful love affairs that go bad in this town every week but all of them others them sad-hearted lovers could cry in their beer, what the hey it didn't concern me was none of my business i never had nothin' to say ... But suddenly darlin' the table has turned you have left me for somebody new and now it's hard to express the resentment i feel for the years that i've wasted on you I'm full of h-a-t-r-e-d i'm bitter and malign you've got me p-i-s-s-e-d off i'm angry most of the time why don't you g-o t-o h-e-double"l" you tramp you philandering bitch i'm going to k-i-l-l one of us baby give me time and i'll decide on which I know i'm acting immature i'm acting like a child i should display some self-control instead of going wild like this and i do wish i could accept all this as simply "life" which includes pain and act upon the actual fact that nobody's to blame ... oh, yes i wish i was as mellow as for instance jackson browne but "fountain of sorrow" my ass mother fucker i hope you wind up in the ground I'm so full of h-a-t-r-e-d i'm bitter and malign you've got me p-i-s-s-e-d off i'm angry most of the time why don't you g-o t-o h-e-double"l" you tramp you philandering bitch i'm going to k-i-l-l one of us baby when i'm sober i'll decide on which (but then again, maybe with the proper counseling, we can work this out)
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    @ Unknown Artist
    I don't win the internets today. I had to look it up... Now my turn, this one is easy! Yes indeed, here we are! At Saint Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast Where I stole the mar-juh-reen An' widdled on the Bingo Cards in lieu of the latrine I saw a handsome parish lady Make her entrance like a queen Why she was totally chenille And her old man was a Marine As she abused a sausage pattie And said why don't you treat me mean? (Hurt me, hurt me, hurt me, oooooh!) At Saint Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast (Hah! Good God! Get off the bus!) Where I stole the mar-juh-reen . . . Saint Alfonzo Saint Alfonzo Saint Alfonzo Saint Alfonzo Ooo-ooo-WAH . . .
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    @a little musical trivia....
    Name this artist? well your mother was there to protect you your papa was there to provide so how in the world did the excellent baby wind up in this hotel so broken inside you lie on your bed in the midnight darkly listening to every sound watching the shadows for anything moving and hoping they don't come around 'cause it's dog eat dog and it's cat and mouse it's watch your step and cross yourself and get back in the house and it's do or die it's push and shove because everybody's hungry and there isn't quite enough that's right, we're talkin' about the good life in the foodchain love among the ruins i guess that you've finally got to accept that there's nothing you can do about it it's kind of like carving the turkey it's kind of like mowing the lawn: everything gets to this certain dimension winds up on a customer's plate and then gone
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    It's a beautiful day in Zamunda
    The rain rain went away so Holly can go out and play! I had a wonderful walk to work today, there was a cool breeze blowin the trees around, the sun is shining and there is blue sky and wispy clouds. Glad I have a window in my office. It's a beautiful morning, ah I think I'll go outside for a while And just smile Just take in some clean fresh air, boy No sense in staying inside If the weather's fine and you've got the time It's your chance to wake up and plan another brand new day Either way It's a beautiful morning, ah Each bird keeps singing his own song So long I've got to be on my way now No fun just hanging around I got to cover ground You couldn't keep me down It just ain't no good if the sun shines When you're still inside Shouldn't hide Still inside Shouldn't hide Still inside, shouldn't hide. Oh, oh, oh Ooh-ah-ah Ooh-ah-ah There will be children with robins and flowers Sunshine caresses each new waking hour Seems to me that people keep seeing more and more each day Gotta say, lead the way It's okay, brand new day Gotta say, it's okay Brand new day, gotta say, lead the way Oh, oh, oh Ooh-ah-ah Oh, oh, oh Ooh-ah-ah Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh Ooh-ah-ah Oh Ooh-ah-ah
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    @ Oh you pretty things...
    a good day indeed The heart is a bloom Shoots up through the stony ground There's no room No space to rent in this town You're out of luck And the reason that you had to care The traffic is stuck And you're not moving anywhere You thought you'd found a friend To take you out of this place Someone you could lend a hand In return for grace It's a beautiful day Sky falls, you feel like It's a beautiful day Don't let it get away You're on the road But you've got no destination You're in the mud In the maze of her imagination You love this town Even if that doesn't ring true You've been all over And it's been all over you It's a beautiful day Don't let it get away It's a beautiful day Touch me Take me to that other place Teach me I know I'm not a hopeless case See the world in green and blue See China right in front of you See the canyons broken by cloud See the tuna fleets clearing the sea out See the Bedouin fires at night See the oil fields at first light And see the bird with a leaf in her mouth After the flood all the colors came out It was a beautiful day Don't let it get away Beautiful day Touch me Take me to that other place Reach me I know I'm not a hopeless case What you don't have you don't need it now What you don't know you can feel it somehow What you don't have you don't need it now Don't need it now Was a beautiful day
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    gonna be a pretty one !
    Good day sunshine, Good day sunshine, Good day sunshine. I need to laugh, and when the sun is out I've got something I can laugh about, I feel good, in a special way. I'm in love and it's a sunny day. Good day sunshine, Good day sunshine, Good day sunshine. We take a walk, the sun is shining down, Burns my feet as they touch the ground. Good day sunshine, Good day sunshine, Good day sunshine. And then we lie, beneath a shady tree, I love her and she's loving me. She feels good, she knows she's looking fine. I'm so proud to know that she is mine. Good day sunshine...
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    @back in the 'hood.....
    grew up in NYC, my brother in law attended SUNY Stonybrook.... house band was the Soft White Underbelly..... Later morphed into these guys..... this one goes out to mkav... thanks for the suggestion..... Too wild to care You got animal stare You got "stay anywhere" in your eyes Think you're leading me on but you can be anyone 'cause I know you'll be gone 'fore I rise And we're going through the motions Yeah, we're going through the motions Yeah, we're going through the motions Going through the motions Staying with you gave us something to do I almost thought it was true for a while 'cause there's love in your lies You're so thinly disguised You couldn't tell right from wrong if you tried And we're going through the motions Yeah, we're going through the motions Yeah, we're going through the motions Going through the motions To thee I dedicate this photograph I'll even sign it "love to you" again And when it's faded and forgotten in some book You'll sometimes look You'll sometimes look You'll sometimes look It's a game, it's a game No let's call it a shame 'cause there's no one to blame just to pay You were a friend for a day So don't cry if I say That you got what you want, it's ok And we're going through the motions Yeah, we're going through the motions Yeah, we're going through the motions Going through the motions Yeah, yeah, we're going through the motions Yeah, we're going through the motions Yeah, we're going through the motions Going through the motions Coffee is on......
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    Going thru motions. Stones.
    Thanks for confirmation that I passed on stones in dallas. What you saw is what I feared. With a finite entertainment budget (which was seriously blown for FTW), I'm glad I passed on the stones. I was regretting it for a while sort of. I'm sure it was fine but I want spectacular!
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Just checking in for the first time this day I am moved by graceful's comments and others' as well. I am generally not a "joiner" but I'm am so grateful I signed up for this ride with this group.
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Monday morning you sure look fine.... Coffee is on.... we dig, dig, dig, dig in a mine... rrrrrgrrrrr gonzo....
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Good Morning all and thanks for getting us to this waypoint so nicely. We got us a fine dusbriving coolhead, a leader who knows how to lead, a timekeeper with up-to-the-second accuracy, rounded to the nearest day, and a whole passel of riders who know how the songs go. Hope your coffee is just right, the son shines down on you, and all your music is crispo and clear. Ice cream,? Why thank you, I like Jerry's Cherry Garcia...miss him tho.. Hey you twiddling with the knobs, could you turn up the bass a bit? Thankee kindly... Ahhh...this is the life. g
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That was a very graceful post!
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Friday I got travelin' on my mind. First you love me, then you get on down the line. I don't mind... Just Klowning around this fine Monday mornin'.
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On a Monday to catch up on the weekend emails (I can't do this 7 days) and now I'm all verklempt,, pass the joe please while I compose myself.....
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It may come to pass that things get a bit clunky with this many posts in a thread, and at some point we might want to launch SSDD 2.0. Or 1.1. Or whatever release number seems appropriate. Lemme know.
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check your PM please
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Thanks, Marye....you're at command and control central so just let us know, please. Right now, it seems, like things are processing pretty fine. Everyone agree?
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fo shizzle.... marye as Mr Fonts said....you feel free to call the shots here...we are ever so thankful for the playpen you provided our travelin band of bozos....and bolos.... speaking of Bozo.... Have you looked in the mirror lately? Mr.Mayor you had some work done I see..... Remind me not to see your cosmetic surgeon..... ;-) ouch.....
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Slow down this dus at the next dusstop, I hopped off to search out some Chicago ducats, I'm dusty and tired and need to rest, my dogs are barking and I need to set for a spellstrawberry rhubarb pie this evening, lil dab of ice cream if you please
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And you know who you are.... Strawberry Rhubarb pie.... Can't slow down and it's too late to stop now, hop out, I will circle back around after walking Sgt Pupper, and thanks to Zeke he has the hots for one Madamoiselle Nobs..... I was in the kitchen, Seamus that's the dog was outside....... Owwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! Werewolves of London...... Draw blood..... I miss Richard Wright.... mmmmbop bop, bop bop..... ooooh ice cream....and I know.
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with the tech folks. I may be worrying about an issue that went away in the '90s.
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Just pm me if we need to change buses...midstream......I will be sure the sheep remain inside their pens....love Peter Gabriel..... thanks kid..... rrrrrgrrrrr back to the mines....
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rrrrgrrr have you tried the yueng ling ice cream? I recommend black and tan, dark chocolate and salted carmel ice cream.........
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.....big words there.... That's..... SuperSoCalisurrealisticpillowexpialidocious......... it's a scrabble word.... 9 gazillion points on the triple word square....
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@ Wegmans, quarts only, they have 4 or 5 flavors, forget them. Black and Tan!
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He's my pimp.... On it like black on tan...... Western NY humor here...bear with us.... Thanks Boo Boo my affair with The Oreo has ended... @jeopardy .... Name that movie in the form of a question .... Goddamned Ape ate all my Oreos....
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Hey, how did you get your avatar to animate?
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You gotta jiggle it a little....that's what Jack Klompus would say.... Search the net for animated avatars....save one and text it to yourself...if it animates, it can be uploaded here and it will animate...or as marye said far in the future, see next post...you can create one, unfortunately I am not that gifted....hence my 2D Grateful bear.... Sorry my response teleported into the past.....
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you can make animated gifs, and they seem to work as avatars, at least if you don't go too nuts.
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...with Jesus and John Wayne.... ....I was waiting on a chariot, they were waiting on a train.... the sky was full of carrion "I'll take the mazuma" said Jesus to Marion "That's the 3:10 to Yuma" Coffee is on..... Happy Tuesday.... ....my ride's here...
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I've taken a hard cold look at the factsLooked at the numbers Seriously weighed the time I would need to commit And I just can't make it work. There's just no way to listen to 80+ shows in that amount of time. I'm gonna have to drive from Maryland. Slowly. Thank you gracious donars.
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Perhaps you can hoof it ala Forrest Gump...wear your Walkman If you leave this weekend you'll make it in time....it will also afford you the ability to listen to each show chronologically from 5/5/65 through 7/9/95....
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means 2 more days closer to the shows! 5 weeks, 4 days, and 14 hours until Santa Clara! 6 weeks, 3 days, 12 hours until showtime in Chicago! If MadSwan starts humping to the shows a day early (meaning he needs to wear his humping pants today), can he listen to all those shows? Some would say, "Yes, but only if we convert all them there flacs to mp3 so they fit on an iphone." LOL, and they're probably right! This is like one of those math problems I always got wrong in school. If MadSwan has 80 shows and needs to walk from Timbuktu to Santa Clara, how many days until he runs out of Jerry if he walks at 5 mph? Four questions: 1) who is doing the math to see how many days of music that is, 2) how much 'space' is needed to fit all the shows on one portable listening apparatus?, 3) If the bus comes by, will you get on?, and 4) How much wood could a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood? Yous y'all had better start Patchin' those sails and Shinin' those rails!
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If the Daydreamers crack this egg of a forum before it hatches, do we all get stuffed Dead50 bear or something as a carnival prize?
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TY brother !! I was wondering what happened to you and the countdown yesterday. I think there's a app on my iPhone to calculate Swan's required walking speed for his journey - brb with the answer :-) Greets from San Fran !!
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I just provided the question in my edit. lol!!!
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Okay, he might need to take a hot air balloon part of the way from Timbuktu.......That makes things a bit more complicated. I hope he has a good tail wind.
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The Grateful Dead performed 2314 shows from 5/5/65 til 7/9/15 with an average duration of 2 hours and 51 minutes excluding noodling tuning set breaks take a step backs and getting everything just exactly perfect.... That figures out to 395,694 minutes or 6594.9 hours of continuous music... Get a humping Swannie! Morning Totes
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So 80 shows are only 3.46% of the total number of shows. So 3.46% of 6,594.9 hours of music comes out to 228.2 hours of music or 9 1/2 days of goin down the road feeling bad. Considering Swannie needs to sleep 8 hours a day and lay in a field staring at the sky Sunshine Daydreaming 4 hours a day, the music will never stop for 19 days! Okay, it's gonna take longer the that to travel from Timbuktu by hot air balloon. WE NEED MORE SHOWS!
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Everyone can use some good tail and more music..... Talk amongst yourselves....
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.....6594.9 hours of music.... Gonna go back to live archive.... And listen sequentially.... Kinda like the Bible on acid
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Put on some of that Legion of Mary in the coffee house. Let's roll the FLAC for crispy Tuesday morning joe. That's some great sounding betnikky stuff to start anyone's day. Cheers Marye, grab a cup!
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Step right up, step right up... Guess your weight within 10# and birthday within 3 months for only $10..... Can't stop laughing.....maybe you can help animate Mr Mayor... (You are messing with my mind brother....and I like it) Love you Totes..... To all who missed the opportunity.....que sera sera..... What will Bee will Bee Back to business.... you didn't hear? the grand prize ifor breakin' eggs is a Mayor Klangstone Bobblehead..... The Good Samaritan he's dressing, he's getting ready for the show.... He's going down to the Carnival tonight on Desolation Row.....
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hmmmm...that is 275 days...just about 9 months...or the typical human gestation...I guess you could say Grateful Dead have given birth to something.or in the case of many of us...is it "jest-ation"?
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I ain't clowning around here.... But I venture to guess that we are the fruits of all that hard labor....
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Coffee good. MadSwan I get it. Hopefully I get to go to all 5 shows - but I've been doing the math on how many tacos I'd have to sell and with the days getting shorter - it's a lot!!!
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I wonder how many tacos can be laid end to end around Soldier Field.
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depends, soft shell or hard shell?
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Soft - always soft for eating. But for math, let's say hard shell? I like hard shell for vintage family get togethers though.
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Hey. I've been intermittently MIA on here and the email threads. I am endeavoring to get all caught up, and update our intrepid leader on all things SD: tickets, itinerary, and all of the things. And respond where requested and where there is otherwise light or dark that I can contribute to or help with... I am also getting more serious about shining rails and patching sails, so sometimes it takes me a minute!! Love to all.
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Makes soft and hard shell tacos better..... Acquired taste.....add Greek yogurt to the mix....smooth....
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you can tripe mine
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Gonna boogie my scruples away!!!! It's a hype face boogie....