[Dixielandjazz] (no subject)

Sat Jul 3 15:03:11 PDT 2010

About as much as Audrey Hepburn's birthday.  (cigarettes to coffee)......Or,
as Stan Freberg once said, "It makes a difference to the
sheep".........better left unexplained, trust me.

Now that I have enough about you to devote an entire chapter in my book, who
would you like to have play you when it's made into a movie?

Glad you never smoked. It's not really much to brag about quitting
cigarettes cold turkey 23 years ago if you were dumb enough to smoke them
for 32 years before that.(which I have to admit I was)  No sense to it, just
wanted to be "one of the guys".and then I was hooked.(but at least they
always had printing on the paper)

Now, for our friends with musical interests, I must brag about my lastest
online acquisition, "Harry Connick: Eleven" which has Harry playing with a
dixieland band in 1978 when he was 11 years old.  He only does one vocal on
it, "Doctor Jazz" and kinda gives it a "Satchmo touch"

I actually bought it to send to my grandson who is just shy of 10 and has
been taking piano lessons for a little over a year.  I like to think of it
as an "incentive album".  Of course, he won't have Ellis Marsalis as his
mentor, so he'll have to work a little harder but he is playing by ear and
my daughter tells me that he is steadily improving.

Grandpa has already designed his first album cover.

On 7/3/10, Marek Boym <marekboym at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> What have cigarettes to do with it?  Never having smoked, I cannot
> understand.
> As to coffee, I drank a lot of coffee wt work, but more as an excuse
> to make a break than for a real need.  We worked crazy hours - I knew
> when I started (in the middle of the night, i.e. - 7:30AM; byt the
> time I woke up I had already been working for some three hours and was
> tired), but not when I'd finish.  It was often 12-15 hours, sometimes
> more.  The longest I worked straight was 32 hours.  But I did not need
> coffee to keep me awake; a glass or two of vodka did a much better job
> in that respect.  And yes, I did drink on the job, and never in my 28
> years with the firm got a complaint because of that (I worked for an
> accounting firm that has become a member firm of the Big Five).
> Actually, once when the managing partner was especially happy with my
> advice - I prevented his writing a nonsense in his letter - he called
> the office messenger and told him to go to the Wine Route (a local
> wine chain) and get me the best vodka they had - and he knew it would
> only leave the office when empty.
> But I drank the most coffee in the army - I did combat military
> reserve duty till age 52.  It was mostly extremely boring - sitting in
> strongholds and observing the area, all the time on the alert lest a
> diversant tries to cross the border.  Coffee was killing time - first
> one called all the positions to ask whther they wanted some, than
> making it, then bringing it to everybody, and then - another 30-45
> minutes were gone.  True, sometimes it got wasted, if anything touched
> the electronic fence and we had to abandon everything (except those on
> guard duty at the time) and rush to the fence to see what happened.
> Thus, in the reserves i often had up to 20 a day.
> I practically stopped drinking coffee as soon as I left the bondage
> and became a free man.  But I did not give up my strong, properly
> brewed (a long process) tea.  I do not drink tea from tea bags nor
> instant coffee, only the real thing.
> With kindest regards
>
> On 4 July 2010 00:09, Harry Callaghan <meetmrcallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Marek:
> >
> > One cup of hot tea with breakfast each morning.  A half-gallon jar of sun
> > tea usually
> > is good for two days.  Haven't had coffee in about 15 years.......was a
> > 10-12 cup a
> > day man back then, constantly "wired" on the stuff., then went cold
> turkey
> > as I did with
> > cigarettes 23 years ago.. We will refrain from the subject of sex as this
> is
> > a "family
> > discussion group"
> >
> > Harry
> >
> >
> > On 7/3/10, Marek Boym <marekboym at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Oh, come on, Harry!  how can you sleep without a good dose of caffeine?!
> >> My wifes grndfather used to say that he could not understand
> >> something: People said they couldn't sleep when they drank coffee.
> >> With him it was the other way round: je could not drink coffee when he
> >> was sleeping.
> >> Jazz content - at our jazz evenings I almost always have at least two
> >> cups of strong coffee (not the dirty water that passes for cofffee in
> >> the States).
> >> Cheers,
> >> Marek the tea drinker (six cups a day, two with each meal, the colour
> >> of good espresso)
> >>
> >> On 3 July 2010 23:44, Harry Callaghan <meetmrcallaghan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> > Funny you should mention that, Bill........lately I've been receiving
> >> > politically-motivated e-mails with TEABAGS attached to them
> >> >
> >> > My daughter told me that there is now also a COFFEE PARTY
> >> >
> >> > I'm thinking of organizing my own party and calling it the
> DECAFFIENETED
> >> > PARTY.  We may not achieve our political goals, but we'll probably
> sleep
> >> > better at night.
> >> >
> >> > Tides,
> >> > HC
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On 7/3/10, billsharp <sharp-b at clearwire.net> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> Tags I attach to emails:
> >> >> Consciousness: That annoying time between naps.
> >> >>
> >> >> Don't take life too seriously, you won't get out alive.
> >> >>
> >> >>
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> > of himself, undisturbed by the facts
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> >             - Finley Peter Dunne (1867-1936)
>

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Alcohol is necessary for a man so that now and then he can have a good
opinion
of himself, undisturbed by the facts

            - Finley Peter Dunne (1867-1936)