A special dedication for this week’s travelin’ music
This guy I know — I’ll call him “Boose” — is getting married this weekend for the first time, just two days short of his 50th birthday. The man held out for a long, long time, but the once impregnable citadel of his bachelorhood finally met a conquering force it could not resist in the great and powerful Miss LK.
So Boose my man, this week’s Friday Evening Travelin’ Music is dedicated to you, courtesy of the inimitable Miss Nina Simone. And don’t worry, bro, I’ll be standing right there beside you when the deed gets done.
The ceremony, that is.
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stands for decibels
November 20th, 2009
3:55 pm
Been married nearly 20 years. Many of them happy.
Mazel Tov, Boose.
However, I hear “married” and for some reason this Nirvarna thing pops into my noggin…
Normal
November 20th, 2009
3:55 pm
For Boose
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNQRfBAzSzo
Truth
November 20th, 2009
3:56 pm
Congrats Boose… You giving a speech, Jay?
SOUTHERN ATL
November 20th, 2009
3:57 pm
….and he will always be remembered for his sounds…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0oxkwvO4_4
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
November 20th, 2009
3:57 pm
Hopefully it’s to a woman?
Matilda
November 20th, 2009
3:59 pm
Awww… how sweet! Heh… No sale is ever final though, thank goodness!
Here ladies: You can have my husband. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg5QK5OvRT8
Normal
November 20th, 2009
4:00 pm
Here’s anothe for Boose…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCXgwD3tbPM&feature=related
Normal
November 20th, 2009
4:01 pm
Last one…maybe. To Boose!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMfrLFirGWc
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
November 20th, 2009
4:06 pm
There is no shortage of shameful exploits by TSA agents and other airport security personnel in the post 9/11 era. An octogenarian World War II hero was delayed and repeatedly searched when he attempted to board a plan carrying his Congressional Medal of Honor. A planeload of soldiers were forced to remain in their jetliner during a four-hour layover. TSA officials ruled the servicemen posed a security threat because they had weapons stored in the belly of the aircraft. The soldiers were en route home after a tour of duty in Afghanistan. Another soldier, who had his jaw wired shut following surgery for a bullet wound, was prohibited from boarding his aircraft because he possessed a small pair of wire cutters required to cut open his jaw in a medical emergency.-AmSpec
How goes it, ABM?
Normal
November 20th, 2009
4:12 pm
Whiner, it’s music time…relax and give it a break. We can p-ss each other off again on Monday, geez…
Just call me "Herowin" (wink)
November 20th, 2009
4:13 pm
I’ll be standing right there beside you when the deed gets done.
Sounds like this is going to be one kinky affair.
Marriage and work are for chumps.
Common Sense
November 20th, 2009
4:23 pm
Are all of the jurors chosen for the terrorist trial in NYC going into the “witness protection program” for life?
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
November 20th, 2009
4:25 pm
abnormal- There will be dudes in here serenading each other before long and you tell me to knock it off?
@@
November 20th, 2009
4:25 pm
Geez, jay, nothing like putting fear into the heart of a friend. That song will probably make Ol’ Boose booze it up before the “I dos”.
Hope tonight’s choice doesn’t speak to your own marriage experience.
Come to think of it, you did say you had to……?
Nah….not goin’ there. Believe it or not, I’ve forgiven your condescending tone during our exchange.
Have a great weekend. Be the prop.
Normal
November 20th, 2009
4:26 pm
I hope Boose’s wife is a little like this…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYEdezKgbrk&feature=related
Normal
November 20th, 2009
4:28 pm
Whiner, I didn’t tell you to “knock it off”, I just said give it a break. Join in, have some fun, that’s all.
Mrs. Godzilla
November 20th, 2009
4:30 pm
To Miss LK……..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4nglEKk7mA
Normal
November 20th, 2009
4:31 pm
…and hope there is none of this…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyK-hNzz-CI&feature=related
this is fun!!!
Normal
November 20th, 2009
4:34 pm
For ALL the ladies…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy-fVA83gu8&feature=related
DoggoneGA
November 20th, 2009
4:37 pm
Never been married myself, but I do have a cousin who was well into his forties before he fell. As he said, he finally found a woman who likes to fish…AND will take them off the hook and clean them herself!
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
November 20th, 2009
4:38 pm
Serious, deadly times for our great country and all abnormal wants to do is sing and dance, ba-
“The stakes could not be higher,” stated Congresswoman Diana DeGette.
Congresswoman DeGette, you can say that again. The stakes absolutely could not be higher, but not for lack of abortions. At stake here is the whole American Experiment; the Founders’ vision of a society governed by ordinary citizens that gives full expression to the ideals of liberty, justice, and opportunity for all. The Founders got it right; the result was America — a strong nation based on responsible citizens, free markets, and limited government. Democrats, who seem to envision a nation of supplicants in the name of compassion, have got it all wrong.- AmSpec
Government dependent robutts.
Mrs. Godzilla
November 20th, 2009
4:41 pm
andy
Do you always have to be a pill?
josef nix
November 20th, 2009
4:41 pm
A classic…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeBiO95Zb4s
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
November 20th, 2009
4:41 pm
Well, I reckon in a few hours old Boose will be as dead as UGA VII. It’s kind of sad he decided to end it all. There’s many a time after a long day of lugging beer and dodging potholes I wished I could just cut loose and stay out boozing it up till 4 in the a.m. Old Boose will be working till 90 and wearing that ball and chain just to pay the shopping debts.
I mean, it seems OK at first. You think you’re marrying an @@. But sooner or later she turns into a Sister Dusty and you’re stuck. It hurts too much to stay married and costs too much to get single.
Anyhow, I’m glad Bookman is standing up for old Boose. Ever notice how people in misery ain’t satisfied till everybody else is miserable?
Have a good night everybody. And to old Boose I say, booze can help some. Not that rotgut fancy stuff josef nix drinks or the cheap table wine Sister Dusty guzzles, but real boose–I mean, booze.
Mrs. Godzilla
November 20th, 2009
4:42 pm
I support inter species wedding……
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0P5FzSe3qw
Normal
November 20th, 2009
4:47 pm
MRS. G,
Andy, I’ll out live you too. I don’t worry about things I can’t control and I control very little, so I worry little. You need to dance a little yourself.
josef nix
November 20th, 2009
4:48 pm
getting sappy, can’t forget this one…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1v84WKC6Pg
Normal
November 20th, 2009
4:48 pm
Josef, Haven’t been ab;e to say “howdy” for a while so…Howdy! Great choice!
Normal
November 20th, 2009
4:53 pm
Josef, I got your sappy…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ggqU71jfRk&feature=fvw
Government Option Dung Deal
November 20th, 2009
4:56 pm
Josef Nix-
The origins of “coonass” are obscure, and Cajuns have put forth several folk etymologies in an effort to explain the word’s origin. Some amateur linguists believe that the word refers to the Cajuns’ occasional habit of eating raccoons, or from the use of coonskin caps by the Cajuns’ ancestors while fighting in the Battle of New Orleans or in the Revolutionary War under Spanish colonial Governor Bernardo de Gálvez. Yet others hold that the term derives from the shape of Cajun women after having children (like a raccoon viewed from above).[2]
The most popular folk etymology, however, stems from late Louisiana congressman and cultural activist James “Jimmy” Domengeaux, who maintained that “coonass” derived from the continental French word “connasse,” which means “stupid girl/woman” (the qualifier for a male is “connard.” According to the French Wiktionary, the French Larousse dictionnary, and the French Wikipedia, “connasse” entered the French language at the beginning of the 19th century and the term translates loosely to dirty prostitute). Domengeaux asserted that Frenchmen used the term in reference to Cajun soldiers serving in France during World War II, and that Anglo-American soldiers overheard the term, transformed it into “coonass” and brought it back to the U.S. as a disparaging term for Cajuns. Citing Domengeaux’s etymology, Louisiana legislators passed a concurrent resolution in the 1980s condemning the word. Contrary to popular belief, the lawmakers did not ban the term.[2]
Research has since disproved Domengeaux’s “connasse” etymology. Indeed, photographic evidence shows that Cajuns themselves used the term prior to the time in which “connasse” allegedly morphed into “coonass.”[3]
Other etymological explanations exist, none of them convincing. The origin of “coonass” remains obscure and uncertain. Two or more causative factors may have been mutually reinforcing in fostering the term coonass.
Matilda
November 20th, 2009
4:56 pm
Normal, thank you so much for the lovely singing beefcake! Haha!
md
November 20th, 2009
4:57 pm
For the hippie generation of free love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KYQj0-Is98
Normal
November 20th, 2009
4:58 pm
Matilda…You are welcome. Don’t you just love sailors?
@@
November 20th, 2009
5:04 pm
Don’t know what the rest have posted, but this one is for my husband.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH0lEVMuzzw
The boy can’t dance, but all he has to do is stand there. I’ll do the rest.
Normal
November 20th, 2009
5:04 pm
md..HGaha great song. Wish I could find Cheech and Chongs skit on soldier sent to clear a pot field in Viet Nam. Classic!
Pogo
November 20th, 2009
5:05 pm
Boose better look into his tax status and his future household income before taking the big leap. “Shacking” may have saved him a lot of money.
Note; Notice how Redneck continues to promote alcohol consumption to further his “day job”. I don’t think you have to worry about Americans not consuming enough of John Barleycorn or Edward Hops or Lito Vino old bean. You are in the RIGHT field of business for this day and age (even though we all know you are probably a janitor at some high school and theres certainly nothing wrong with that!).
Government Option Dung Deal
November 20th, 2009
5:06 pm
Josef Nix-
This was not meant to be disparaging.
I thought that we discussed the origins of this word last week.
I thought it was you, maybe I am wrong.
Normal
November 20th, 2009
5:08 pm
Pogo, you mentioned John Barleycorn…reminded me of this one…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wml3V-maDeA
Normal
November 20th, 2009
5:10 pm
For Andy…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu-YftKYdms&feature=related
josef nix
November 20th, 2009
5:15 pm
In case Boose is a Trekkie…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD5nG2jEVgc&feature=related
josef nix
November 20th, 2009
5:22 pm
G-DD–
I’m not sure, I’ve brought the subject up before…I grew up not being allowed to use the term around my maternal grandparents since they said the word was based on the vulgar term for “a woman’s privates…” A cunnasse was a “big c**t,” The Acadians used the term pretty much a mf, and it was corrupted into Coona** by the English speakers and applied pejoratively to the Cajuns who took the term and wore it with a certain pride…Dad’s folks, Creoles and NOT Cajuns, use the term freely but pronounce it as French and generally pejoratively…I’m real careful using it around Cajuns, myself…just to be on the safe side since I’m not Cajun and really don’t want to offend one, and not for pc reasons or manners–self perservation!
Normal
November 20th, 2009
5:32 pm
Gotta go, but Jay tell your fried Boose, whenever in doubt, do what my wife and I do…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyVjdQXNs9s
SOUTHERN ATL
November 20th, 2009
5:37 pm
Jay, tell your friend that age is nothing but a number and…Congrats!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi-5Goa9W3A
josef nix
November 20th, 2009
5:40 pm
Normal—Gotcha! You and I seem to keep missing each other here…
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
November 20th, 2009
5:42 pm
Joblessness rose in 29 U.S. states last month compared with 22 in September, the Labor Department said today in Washington. Michigan had the highest jobless rate at 15.1 percent, followed by Nevada at 13 percent and Rhode Island at 12.9 percent. – Bloomberg
Go figure, the top three, ate slam up with democrats, mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
Who’d a thunk it?
ain't we got fun
November 20th, 2009
5:56 pm
Japan’s domestic economy has fallen into a deflationary phase for the first time since 2006, the Cabinet Office announced Nov. 20. Deputy Prime Minister Naoto Kan and Finance Minister Hirohisa Fujii made grave statements about the return of deflation in Japan, saying that fiscal stimulus was not sufficient to revive consumption levels and boost prices.
Even though growth returned to the Japanese economy in the second quarter of 2009 due to government stimulus efforts, deflation will jeopardize conditions for a sustained rebound.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
November 20th, 2009
5:56 pm
Two buildings away, at a session of the Joint Economic Committee, Republicans escalated their attacks on Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner, including a call for his resignation.
“Conservatives agree that as point person, you failed. Liberals are growing in that consensus as well,” said Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Tex.). “For the sake of our jobs, will you step down from your post?”
Rep. Michael C. Burgess (R-Tex.) took a different tack. “I don’t think that you should be fired,” he told Geithner. “I thought you should have never been hired.”
Yee haw, ride em cowboy!
mike
November 20th, 2009
5:58 pm
“Hundreds of private e-mails and documents hacked from a computer server at a British university are causing a stir among global warming skeptics, who say they show that climate scientists conspired to overstate the case for a human influence on climate change.
The e-mails, attributed to prominent American and British climate researchers, include discussions of scientific data and whether it should be released, exchanges about how best to combat the arguments of skeptics, and casual comments — in some cases derisive — about specific people known for their skeptical views. Drafts of scientific papers and a photo collage that portrays climate skeptics on an ice floe were also among the hacked data, some of which dates back 13 years.
In one e-mail exchange, a scientist writes of using a statistical “trick” in a chart illustrating a recent sharp warming trend. In another, a scientist refers to climate skeptics as “idiots.””
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/21/science/earth/21climate.html?hp
AmVet
November 20th, 2009
6:00 pm
Well I guess no one can be happy forever…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9eQ8_T1ytU&feature=related
Yo'momma Obama
November 20th, 2009
6:07 pm
Mrs Godzilla, “I support onterspecies marriage”…..like Barack’s mom and dad…..no wonder you voted for him