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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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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....