Music

03
Aug
2021

toot toot TUESDAY

We have to make choices in life

Translation…

Replacing your potato chips with grapefruit as a snack you can lose up to 90% of what little joy you still have left in your life.

BADA BING!

An engineer and an anti-vaxxer walk up to a bridge. The bridge is the only crossing over a notoriously crocodile-infested river, so the two prepare to cross. Just before they set foot on the bridge the anti-vaxxer halts the engineer. “How safe is it to cross this bridge exactly?” he asks. “99.97%,” the engineer replies confidently. The anti-vaxxer thinks for a moment before turning around. “Guess I’m swimming then.”

How do you properly milk a flock of sheep? Tell them the election was stolen, then ask for money.

A Burglar broke into our house last night. I didn’t shoot him. I just put the red laser dot on his forehead. Our three cats did the rest.

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.

Our government struggles with the decision of whether to cripple an entire generation with debt or tax 3 billionaires a bit more.

Today my daughter called me ‘Birth Person’.I replied, “Yes, Financial Drain?”.

Them: I’d take a bullet for my country.Me: You won’t even take a needle for your neighbors. Sit down and shut up.

I just saw on the news that a man has discovered how to do origami backward!More on this story as it unfolds.

No man is an island. Although my friend Archie Pelago comes close.

If anybody has a good fish pun…Let minnow.

I can’t get over the fact that the word ‘gullible’ upside down looks like a cat.

Broke a light bulb today. So does that mean I will have seven years of bad ideas?

Walmart is opening dental offices in some of its stores. There will be an express lane for people with 12 teeth or less.

When my kid is upset I let her color my tattoo! She just needs a shoulder to Crayon.

What if UFOs are just billionaires from other planets?

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Today is the birthday, in 1926, of Tony Bennett (Anthony Dominick Benedetto). He served as an infantryman in World War II in the European Theater and, after his discharge in 1946, he studied at the American Theater Wing under the GI Bill. After singing with Pearl Bailey at several NY clubs, he was signed to the Columbia Record label by Mitch Miller. He had a number one hit – Because of You – in 1951. He has had an incredibly long and successful career. He recorded this song with Lady Gaga in 2011.

Posted by Tom in Humor, Music
02
Aug
2021

MUNDAI

Whale Watching Fail

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The first Covid test ever.

How to ask for money

Hallelujah brothers and sisters!

Today is the birthday, in 1937, of Garth Hudson, multi-instrumentalist (Lowrey organ, piano, accordion, saxophone). He played with The Band and was the principal architect of their sound. He was, in addition, a much in demand session musician recording with Bob Dylan, Emmylou Harris, Van Morrison, Leonard Cohen and others. Here he is playing with The Band.

Posted by Tom in Humor, Music, sixties and seventies
31
Jul
2021

gare Saint-Lazare

Another Bolero flash mob today, this one by L’Orchestre national d’Île-de-France at the gare Saint-Lazere. I always love to see this piece performed well. Enjoy!!

Posted by Tom in Music
30
Jul
2021

It’s Shore FRIDAY

Meanwhile, in the Senate…

All this nasty stuff….

Happy FRIDAY!

Sometimes we forget all the ‘One Hit Wonders’. Here’s one I found.

Posted by Tom in Humor, Music, sixties and seventies
29
Jul
2021

The first THURSDAY after yesterday

Signsssss

Buggy

An old hillbilly farmer had a wife who nagged him unmercifully.

From morning til night (and sometimes later), she was always complaining about something.

The only time he got any relief was when he was out plowing with his old mule. He tried to plow a lot.

One day, when he was out plowing, his wife brought him lunch in the field.

He drove the old mule into the shade, sat down on a stump, and began to eat his lunch.
Immediately, his wife began pestering him. Complain, nag, nag; it just went on and on.

All of a sudden, the old mule lashed out with both hind feet; caught her smack in the back of the head. Killed her dead on the spot.

At the funeral several days later, the minister noticed something rather odd. When a woman mourner would approach the old farmer, he would listen for a minute, then nod his head in agreement; but when a man mourner approached him, he would listen for a minute, then shake his head in disagreement.

This was so consistent, the minister decided to ask the old farmer about it. So after the funeral, the minister spoke to the old farmer, and asked him why he nodded his head and agreed with the women, but always shook his head and disagreed with all the men.

The old farmer said, “Well, the women would come up and say something about how nice my wife looked, or how pretty her dress was, so I’d nod my head in agreement.”

“And what about the men?” the minister asked. “They wanted to know if the mule was for sale.”

Today is the birthday, in 1953 in Asbury Park New Jersey, of Patti Scialfa, singer and songwriter. She worked with the Rolling Stones and Keith Richards on the Talk is Cheap album. In 1984 she joined the E Street Band a few days before the opening of their Born To Run tour. In 1991 she married Bruce Springsteen. There are not a lot of videos of the two of them playing together, but I found this one recorded in Dublin with The Sessions band.

Posted by Tom in Humor, Music, sixties and seventies