 Friends        |  Rjcseven: two old men had been friends for years and they both live to their 90's when one of them suddenly falls deathly ill. His friend comes to visit him on his death bed,and they're reminiscing about their long friendship,when the dying man's friend asks.Listen when you die,do me a favor.I want to know if there's baseball in Heaven. The dying said We've been friends for years,this I'll do for you.and then he dies.. ACouple days later,his surviving friend is sleeping when he hears his friends voice.The voice says I'vegot some good news and some bad news..The good news is that there's baseball in Haven... What's the bad news.........? Your're Pitching on Wednesday !!!! Rjcseven: In this New Year of 2012, on Feb. 2, both the State of the Union address and Groundhog Day will occur on the same day. This is an ironic juxtaposition of events . . . . . One involves a meaningless ritual in which we look to an insignificant creature of little intelligence for prognostication. The other involves a groundhog. Rjcseven: Did you know... Irving Berlin wrote this song in 1917 for use during WWI. Does anyone know why he did not release it then? He thought it "too sentimental" even for the horrific inferno that was WWI. The link below will take you to a video showing the very first public singing of "GOD BLESS AMERICA." But, before you watch, you should also know the story of the song. The time was 1940. America was still in a terrible economic depression. Hitler was taking over Europe and Americans were afraid we'd have to go to war. It was a time of hardship and worry for most Americans. This was the era just before TV, when radio shows were HUGE, and American families sat around their radios in the evenings, listening to their favorite entertainers. And no entertainer of that era was bigger than Kate Smith. Kate was also large in size, and the popular phrase still used today is in deference to her, "It Ain't over till the fat lady sings." Kate Smith, with her voice coming over the radio, was the biggest star of her time. Kate was also very patriotic. It hurt her to see Americans so depressed and afraid of what the next day would bring. She had hope for America, and faith in her fellow Americans. She wanted to do something to cheer them up, so she went to the famous American song-writer, Irving Berlin (also wrote "White Christmas" and asked him to write a song that would make Americans feel good again about their country. When she described what she was looking for, he said he had just the song for her. He went to his files and found a song that he had written, but never published, 22 years before - way back in 1917. He gave it to Kate Smith and she worked on it with her studio orchestra. She and Berlin were not sure how the song would be received by the public, but both agreed they would not take any profits from "God Bless America"-Any profits would go to the Boy Scouts of America. Over the years, the Scouts have received millions of dollars in royalties from this song. This video starts out with Kate Smith coming into the radio studio with the orchestra and an audience. She introduces the new song for the very first time, and starts singing. After the first couple verses, with her voice in the background still singing, scenes are shown from the 1940 movie, "You're In The Army Now." At the 4:20 mark of the video you see a young actor in the movie, sitting in an office, reading a paper - it's Ronald Reagan. To this day, "God Bless America" stirs our patriotic feelings and pride in our country. Back in 1940, When Kate Smith went looking for a song to raise the spirits of her fellow Americans, I doubt she realized just how successful the results would be - for her fellow Americans during those years of hardship and worry, and for many generations of Americans to follow. Now that you know the story of the song, I hope you will enjoy it and treasure it even more. Rjcseven: If you were raised on bologna, drank home made icetea, played in the dirt, got your butt spanked, had 3 TV channels and an outside antenna, school started with "The Pledge", had a bedtime, rode in back of pickup trucks, recorded songs from the radio using cassette tapes, drank from a hose, played in the creek, rode bikes all day without a helmet, said sir and ma'am.. And you still turned out ok? that just proves how out of control things are today...lets get real. View all 4 posts  MsErotic_Goofy: WOW...somebody else in my boat..........I'M ALWAYS LOST!!!!!!!.......*needs a new GPS i think.... Rjcseven: Dad buys a lie detector robot which slaps people when they lie. He decides to test it at dinner. "Son, where were you today?" The son says "at school dad." Robot slaps the son! "Ok, I watched a dvd at my friends house!" "What dvd?" "Toy story." Robot slaps the son again! "Ok, it was a porno" cries the son. "What! When I was your age I didn't know what porn was" says the dad. Robot slaps the dad! Mom laughs "HaHaHa! He's certainly your son." Robot slaps the mom |
stagecoach. Suddenly, a man riding a horse pulls up to the left
side of the stagecoach, and a riderless horse pulls up on the
right. The man leans down, pulls open the door, and jumps off his
horse into the stagecoach. Then he opens the door on the other
side and jumps onto the other horse. Just before he rode off, I
yelled out, "What was all that about?" He replied, "Nothing. It's
just a stage I'm going through."