BTW, “Peter and Mary” doesn’t refer to Peter, Paul and Mary without Paul, but to the once well-known husband & wife performing duo, Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy.
CRAZY MIXED UP SONG
(Grean / Joan Javits) (another site expanded the writing credits to: –Charles Grean, Joan Javits, Phil Springer–)
The chorus music is: “The Stars and Stripes Forever” written by John Philip Sousa
‘Twas midnight on the ocean not a streetcar was in sight
The sun was shining brightly in the middle of the night
A barefoot boy with shoes on stood there sitting in a tree
And when I put my glasses on I heard this melody
Be kind to your web footed friends
For a duck may be somebody’s mother
Be kind to the denizen of the swamp
She’s a dilly through and through
You may think that this is the end
Well it isn’t ‘cos there is another chorus.
‘Twas midnight on the ocean when the rain began to snow
He hurried to me slowly ‘cos the time had come to go
I said I’d wait forever if it wouldn’t take too long
And silently we harmonised this crazy mixed up song
Be kind to your web footed friends
For a duck may be somebody’s mother
Be kind to the denizen of the swamp
She’s a dilly through and through
You may think that this is the end
Well it isn’t ‘cos there is another chorus.
‘Twas midnight on the ocean on the day I married him
I didn’t know his name was Fred that’s why I called him Jim
We settled down in London, France, beside the pyramids
And raised a little family of crazy mixed up kids
Be kind to your web footed friends
For a duck may be somebody’s mother
Be kind to the denizen of the swamp
She’s a dilly through and through
You may think that this is the end
Well it is.
I like this picture, but I’ve seen it several times lately online, mostly on my phone, and no doubt used without permission, as click-bait for bogus stories…
the kind where you have to click through 60 pages of ads, trying to avoid accidentally clicking on anything, just to read a few sentences on every page.
This one usually purports to tell about a horse that keeps hugging a girl, and “Then her doctors find out…” ….well, I don’t know what, because I don’t read that stuff.
This caption: Resting Dragon captured by Gary Meredith The Great Sandy Desert in Western Australia is home to a wide variety of wildlife, which exists
alongside man-made mining operations.
Comes from HERE. Gary (Gaz) Meredith is indeed an Australian wildlife photographer based in the state of Western Australia.
The history is interesting, but I shut off the sound and just watched the video for the intertitles (the name from HERE. ) because this is not one of Sir Paul’s better efforts.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard Stevie Ray sound better. His rhythm section doesn’t likely get the recognition they deserve. Their ability to vamp and follow the soloists at an extremely slow tempo is phenomenal.
SRV and Mr. Copeland clearly enjoy playing together, and have highly complementary styles. I would hazard a guess, only based on hearing this one performance (i.e. based on zero actual knowledge), that Mr. Copeland was a big influence on SRV’s guitar style.
Stevie Ray sings. Johnny Copeland is a blues singer.
I did not know the harmonica could be so mellow.
I did not know anything about Lee Oskar either, so I went looking. The, short, Wikipedia article on him is HERE. I used this and eight minutes more of his album (next in the YouTube queue) to do my crossword.
A really nice choice for posting, thanks.
That particular collection of side effects may be a joke, and the ailment itself minor…
but it amazes me how many realdrugs can do horrible things at the same time they’re performing absolute miracles.
Some only if taken too long or in the wrong amount, others as necessary collateral damage, alongside their healing benefits.
…
I’m not one of those who refuse to take them… I know we do it because, generally, the good magic outstrips the dark.
The practice of medicine is unlikely to be perfect or all-knowing in anyone’s current lifetime, so if we want the cure, the relief, or the protection, we may have to accept the trade-offs.
…
Sometimes those are evident, and difficult, whether the path to healing is rocky for ourselves, or watching it happen to those we love (sometimes even to strangers).
Other times they’re hidden, and we just do our best to ignore the possibilities, as long as none too blatant occur, and we can celebrate the escape they provide from current dangers.
The alternative is to accept the darn zits… but some “zits” are simply unacceptable.
I once saw a doctor who shared the dark secret of medicine – all drugs will eventually cause side effects. Some minor, some not so much. Some immediately, some after a decade or more – so long after you’ve successfully taken it that you don’t consider some new symptom to be its side effect. Each individual needs to determine the cost/benefit of the equation.
And doctors manipulate numbers – you recall Twain’s statement “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”
Examples:
Tamoxifen lowers the risk of a recurrence of breast cancer by 50%. Sounds great, right? Well, the risk is only 10% and that is lowered to 5%. Tamoxifen’s side effects include the minor (hot flashes) to the major (strokes and heart attacks).
Older mothers have a greater risk of having a child with birth defects – at 40 it’s 31,000 times greater than at 30. (Be Scared “geriatric” mother, be scared.) The actual numbers behind that are: the risk is 1 out of 31,000 at 30 and 1 out of 108 at 40 which is still less than 1% (the risk of amniocentesis is about equal to that so it will harm more “good” babies than “defective” ones). It increases to 12% when mom is 50.
This from a “geriatric” mother who was later diagnosed with breast cancer. Please don’t be scared on my behalf – the cancer was so small (11mm) that it was completely removed during the biopsy! I thank whatever moved me to ask the tech what the docs were worried about to have me come back for more images and the after-biopsy tech to see that image. The worrisome feature was completely gone! And they still talked about lumpectomy/radiation or mastectomy and sheepishly admitted that that might be overkill since the cancer was gone.
Instead of treatment I’m enrolled in a study comparing results after 5 years of standard treatment or watching and waiting. Seems that some breast cancers are like some prostate cancers and do nothing for 20, 30, or more years. I’m 4.5 years in and still nothing.
Thanks, MontanaLady. I refused meds (Tamoxifen) being the self-proclaimed poster child of rare side effects.
Hydrocodone makes me retain water at the rate of one pound an hour!
Extra-strength Acetominaphen leads to fevers – just what one needs post-op.
Blood pressure pills – all sorts – vary from colitis, to The Cough, to diarrhea (2 different ones, one overnight and one after 9 years), problems with balance and propioception (leading to falls, just what an older lady needs to do), rashes, hair loss, gum disease, impaired kidney function, and shut down of blood vessels (fingers and toes were tolerable, core not so much, and had it been to heart, lungs, or brain – fatal).
At least my PCP agrees with me – rather the known side effects (heart disease and stroke, neither of which is inevitable) vs. who knows???
Good post. The bottom line is that you have to be an active participant in determining your medical care. You can’t just listen to the doctor and accept the therapy. The drug studies show what is possible, you need to follow your own progression and decide when to discuss a change.
Deep breath…. well, gang… I made that previous comment, according to WordPress, four hours ago.
For some reason I was feeling very reflective, and not as silly as usual… I wasn’t sure why.
Since then, I’ve found some bad news that I’ve been thinking about, and hesitating about sharing, but I have to.
…
Musing about people I know, and medical problems, made me think of our friend Plods, and his difficult recovery from his lung transplant.
He hadn’t answered any of the 3 or 4 short emails I’ve sent him since his last post here, so I’ve been worried.
I suddenly remembered that I had his real last name on an old list; and that he’d posted a weather page here for the town where he lived… so for the first time, I googled him.
…
Sadly, I discovered an obituary.
Plods passed away on January 10th, 2023.
I know it was him… the obit mentioned his son Shawn, his other kids, grands and great grands, and showed a picture of him with his dog, Turd.
he battled so long to get to the right weight and then waited until a transplant became available and then the difficulty of the surgery and even more difficulty afterwards —
he was a brave soul who still managed to find the time to pop in here and share his story.
he”ll really be missed.
Prayers for Plods family, may he RIP; so sad, this hurts as I have a friend who went into the hospital Friday after fainting and had several episodes over the next two days while in the hospital, she had a temporary pace maker put in Saturday and a permanent one is scheduled for Monday
Thumbs up for your research and telling us those sad, tragic, heart-breaking news.
My heart hurts, my eyes are full of tears – and I’ll break open a bottle of Jameson’s to drink to him.
May the beer be with you, Plods. You are missed.
I’m so sorry to hear that. He was doing so well right after surgery, but one never knows. I hope that his family is at peace and that they know he was loved by many that he (much less they) never met.
I was fearful of that when he didn’t post the Wednesday camel after Tigressy’s birthday.
I knew him only from here, but I liked him.
Thanks, Susan, for letting us know.
While we share sad news, many of you know Impkins&Patsnozzle who post on GoComics; Patsnozzle (John) has lost his battle with cancer and passed away Friday. Impkins is still posting if you’d like to leave a message.
Yes, I’ve been communicating with her on Back In The Day. His last days were pretty rough and I feel so bad for her. So hard to lose a loved one! She is such a good person.
I was hoping we didn’t have to hear this news. I considered him a friend, even though we never actually met. Nighthawks is right ~ he tried so hard to make it all work for him. I will, so very much, miss him! Rest in Peace, Plods!😿
Thanks for letting us know. I was thinking of Plods earlier and was planning on asking if anyone had heard from him. My prayers are with his family. He will be missed very much.
This is awful! I go away for one stinking weekend, and we learn of Plods’s demise, Bambushie’s pace-maker friend, and that Impkins has lost her Patsnozzle. I got an email over the weekend from a friend of fifty years, informing me and others that his 93 year old father had just passed away. My friend and his sisters were there the last few days.
This has to stop, and I mean right now! Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to go get a tissue.
.
,
Funny, I was just watching “Invisible Man” on Svengoolie, where [SPOILER ALERT] his footsteps in the snow were his undoing.
You piqued my curiosity. WIKIPEDIA ON SVENGOOLIE
I preferred Elvira, but we have no choice. But Svengoolie does research the film and actors and provides good info in the breaks.
Wow… they have such big feet!
They probably have trouble finding shoes, or have to special-order them online.
BTW, “Peter and Mary” doesn’t refer to Peter, Paul and Mary without Paul, but to the once well-known husband & wife performing duo, Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy.
CRAZY MIXED UP SONG
(Grean / Joan Javits) (another site expanded the writing credits to: –Charles Grean, Joan Javits, Phil Springer–)
The chorus music is: “The Stars and Stripes Forever” written by John Philip Sousa
‘Twas midnight on the ocean not a streetcar was in sight
The sun was shining brightly in the middle of the night
A barefoot boy with shoes on stood there sitting in a tree
And when I put my glasses on I heard this melody
Be kind to your web footed friends
For a duck may be somebody’s mother
Be kind to the denizen of the swamp
She’s a dilly through and through
You may think that this is the end
Well it isn’t ‘cos there is another chorus.
‘Twas midnight on the ocean when the rain began to snow
He hurried to me slowly ‘cos the time had come to go
I said I’d wait forever if it wouldn’t take too long
And silently we harmonised this crazy mixed up song
Be kind to your web footed friends
For a duck may be somebody’s mother
Be kind to the denizen of the swamp
She’s a dilly through and through
You may think that this is the end
Well it isn’t ‘cos there is another chorus.
‘Twas midnight on the ocean on the day I married him
I didn’t know his name was Fred that’s why I called him Jim
We settled down in London, France, beside the pyramids
And raised a little family of crazy mixed up kids
Be kind to your web footed friends
For a duck may be somebody’s mother
Be kind to the denizen of the swamp
She’s a dilly through and through
You may think that this is the end
Well it is.
and all this time i only thought us girl scouts sang the last chorus.
It was a signature tune for Mitch Miller, and was always used to close his TV program.
Yes, this one was often heard in my house. I think my elder siblinges had picked up a copy when I was but a wee sprout.
My mom would sing the first part of that chorus whenever she heard Stars & Stripes Forever.
This picture is so cute!
.
This is, apparently, one of two postcards made for the British men’s fragrance company Penhaligon’s.
I have found it cited as early as 2014. Penhaligon’s has been around since 1870. LINK TO PENHALIGON’S WEBSITE (well set up, but it is a straight sales site).
We’ve come a long way, Baby!! If they could see us now!
.
I like this picture, but I’ve seen it several times lately online, mostly on my phone, and no doubt used without permission, as click-bait for bogus stories…
the kind where you have to click through 60 pages of ads, trying to avoid accidentally clicking on anything, just to read a few sentences on every page.
This one usually purports to tell about a horse that keeps hugging a girl, and “Then her doctors find out…” ….well, I don’t know what, because I don’t read that stuff.
Yet it’s posted on legitimate sites as well.
Still a super cute picture!
This caption:
Resting Dragon captured by Gary Meredith The Great Sandy Desert in Western Australia is home to a wide variety of wildlife, which exists
alongside man-made mining operations.
Comes from HERE. Gary (Gaz) Meredith is indeed an Australian wildlife photographer based in the state of Western Australia.
The history is interesting, but I shut off the sound and just watched the video for the intertitles (the name from HERE. ) because this is not one of Sir Paul’s better efforts.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard Stevie Ray sound better. His rhythm section doesn’t likely get the recognition they deserve. Their ability to vamp and follow the soloists at an extremely slow tempo is phenomenal.
SRV and Mr. Copeland clearly enjoy playing together, and have highly complementary styles. I would hazard a guess, only based on hearing this one performance (i.e. based on zero actual knowledge), that Mr. Copeland was a big influence on SRV’s guitar style.
Stevie Ray sings. Johnny Copeland is a blues singer.
I did not know the harmonica could be so mellow.
I did not know anything about Lee Oskar either, so I went looking. The, short, Wikipedia article on him is HERE. I used this and eight minutes more of his album (next in the YouTube queue) to do my crossword.
A really nice choice for posting, thanks.
Good night people and pets.
good morning…….
Afternoon here now. 🙂
That particular collection of side effects may be a joke, and the ailment itself minor…
but it amazes me how many real drugs can do horrible things at the same time they’re performing absolute miracles.
Some only if taken too long or in the wrong amount, others as necessary collateral damage, alongside their healing benefits.
…
I’m not one of those who refuse to take them… I know we do it because, generally, the good magic outstrips the dark.
The practice of medicine is unlikely to be perfect or all-knowing in anyone’s current lifetime, so if we want the cure, the relief, or the protection, we may have to accept the trade-offs.
…
Sometimes those are evident, and difficult, whether the path to healing is rocky for ourselves, or watching it happen to those we love (sometimes even to strangers).
Other times they’re hidden, and we just do our best to ignore the possibilities, as long as none too blatant occur, and we can celebrate the escape they provide from current dangers.
The alternative is to accept the darn zits… but some “zits” are simply unacceptable.
Susan,
I once saw a doctor who shared the dark secret of medicine – all drugs will eventually cause side effects. Some minor, some not so much. Some immediately, some after a decade or more – so long after you’ve successfully taken it that you don’t consider some new symptom to be its side effect. Each individual needs to determine the cost/benefit of the equation.
And doctors manipulate numbers – you recall Twain’s statement “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”
Examples:
Tamoxifen lowers the risk of a recurrence of breast cancer by 50%. Sounds great, right? Well, the risk is only 10% and that is lowered to 5%. Tamoxifen’s side effects include the minor (hot flashes) to the major (strokes and heart attacks).
Older mothers have a greater risk of having a child with birth defects – at 40 it’s 31,000 times greater than at 30. (Be Scared “geriatric” mother, be scared.) The actual numbers behind that are: the risk is 1 out of 31,000 at 30 and 1 out of 108 at 40 which is still less than 1% (the risk of amniocentesis is about equal to that so it will harm more “good” babies than “defective” ones). It increases to 12% when mom is 50.
This from a “geriatric” mother who was later diagnosed with breast cancer. Please don’t be scared on my behalf – the cancer was so small (11mm) that it was completely removed during the biopsy! I thank whatever moved me to ask the tech what the docs were worried about to have me come back for more images and the after-biopsy tech to see that image. The worrisome feature was completely gone! And they still talked about lumpectomy/radiation or mastectomy and sheepishly admitted that that might be overkill since the cancer was gone.
Instead of treatment I’m enrolled in a study comparing results after 5 years of standard treatment or watching and waiting. Seems that some breast cancers are like some prostate cancers and do nothing for 20, 30, or more years. I’m 4.5 years in and still nothing.
congratulations, dorothea!
i’m a survivor, too. 12 years! the doctors stopped all meds about 5 years ago.
Thanks, MontanaLady. I refused meds (Tamoxifen) being the self-proclaimed poster child of rare side effects.
Hydrocodone makes me retain water at the rate of one pound an hour!
Extra-strength Acetominaphen leads to fevers – just what one needs post-op.
Blood pressure pills – all sorts – vary from colitis, to The Cough, to diarrhea (2 different ones, one overnight and one after 9 years), problems with balance and propioception (leading to falls, just what an older lady needs to do), rashes, hair loss, gum disease, impaired kidney function, and shut down of blood vessels (fingers and toes were tolerable, core not so much, and had it been to heart, lungs, or brain – fatal).
At least my PCP agrees with me – rather the known side effects (heart disease and stroke, neither of which is inevitable) vs. who knows???
Yikes! I hope to appreciate such advice from my PCP at the appropriate time in the future.
Thank you for sharing your story. It’s important to see things from multiple perspectives.
Good post. The bottom line is that you have to be an active participant in determining your medical care. You can’t just listen to the doctor and accept the therapy. The drug studies show what is possible, you need to follow your own progression and decide when to discuss a change.
Deep breath…. well, gang… I made that previous comment, according to WordPress, four hours ago.
For some reason I was feeling very reflective, and not as silly as usual… I wasn’t sure why.
Since then, I’ve found some bad news that I’ve been thinking about, and hesitating about sharing, but I have to.
…
Musing about people I know, and medical problems, made me think of our friend Plods, and his difficult recovery from his lung transplant.
He hadn’t answered any of the 3 or 4 short emails I’ve sent him since his last post here, so I’ve been worried.
I suddenly remembered that I had his real last name on an old list; and that he’d posted a weather page here for the town where he lived… so for the first time, I googled him.
…
Sadly, I discovered an obituary.
Plods passed away on January 10th, 2023.
I know it was him… the obit mentioned his son Shawn, his other kids, grands and great grands, and showed a picture of him with his dog, Turd.
He was 71 years old.
So sorry to pass along this news.
….
Goodbye, old friend. Rest in Peace.
he battled so long to get to the right weight and then waited until a transplant became available and then the difficulty of the surgery and even more difficulty afterwards —
he was a brave soul who still managed to find the time to pop in here and share his story.
he”ll really be missed.
That is sad, RIP
Prayers for Plods family, may he RIP; so sad, this hurts as I have a friend who went into the hospital Friday after fainting and had several episodes over the next two days while in the hospital, she had a temporary pace maker put in Saturday and a permanent one is scheduled for Monday
Thumbs up for your research and telling us those sad, tragic, heart-breaking news.
My heart hurts, my eyes are full of tears – and I’ll break open a bottle of Jameson’s to drink to him.
May the beer be with you, Plods. You are missed.
I’m so sorry to hear that. He was doing so well right after surgery, but one never knows. I hope that his family is at peace and that they know he was loved by many that he (much less they) never met.
RIP, Plods.
Dang it!
I was fearful of that when he didn’t post the Wednesday camel after Tigressy’s birthday.
I knew him only from here, but I liked him.
Thanks, Susan, for letting us know.
my heart is breaking!!! we can now count on his friendship looking down on us from heaven! RIP, Plods!
thanks, susan, for letting all of us know!
Thank you Susan. I am so sorry.
While we share sad news, many of you know Impkins&Patsnozzle who post on GoComics; Patsnozzle (John) has lost his battle with cancer and passed away Friday. Impkins is still posting if you’d like to leave a message.
Yes, I’ve been communicating with her on Back In The Day. His last days were pretty rough and I feel so bad for her. So hard to lose a loved one! She is such a good person.
Will do. Thanks for letting us know.
On the other hand: Judging from the comments, Impkins finds comfort in acting like usual.
Still responding to my *bunny!* posts. I got a big Yay from her on The Other Coast.
gee wiz! thanks for letting us know!
thanks! RIP John!
i left a message on Birdbrains.
I was hoping we didn’t have to hear this news. I considered him a friend, even though we never actually met. Nighthawks is right ~ he tried so hard to make it all work for him. I will, so very much, miss him! Rest in Peace, Plods!😿
damn.
Exactly.
Thanks for letting us know. I was thinking of Plods earlier and was planning on asking if anyone had heard from him. My prayers are with his family. He will be missed very much.
This is awful! I go away for one stinking weekend, and we learn of Plods’s demise, Bambushie’s pace-maker friend, and that Impkins has lost her Patsnozzle. I got an email over the weekend from a friend of fifty years, informing me and others that his 93 year old father had just passed away. My friend and his sisters were there the last few days.
This has to stop, and I mean right now! Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to go get a tissue.
I’d like to continue to post these like Plods used to do. It will help keep his memory alive.
Gourmet Bagel Platter
Served with plain or onion & chive cream cheese
Looks a lot like Obatzda (which is of Bavarian origin; most Germans don’t know it): https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/obatzda-german-cheese-dip/
thank YOU, NH!
Thanks from me, too. I don’t think I will forget him, though.
Please do.
Nighthawks, what’s a dotor? Little typo there.
Someone who dotes on you.
I always wanted to be an adotee
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