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It gets worse Pete.  Jeff comes around my place once a month and he saw the Picks Around the World box just before it went to Alan.

I love that it went across the Atlantic Ocean twice to get fifteen miles down the road. 

- Zurf

Welcome to Chordie Inish!  I look forward to reading your contributions. 

- Zurf

Make no mistake.  They were great men.  Many of them self-educated, or at least partially.  They were zealous learners and intensely curious men.  They were also extremely bold to risk their lives and fortunes for their beliefs.  The women who stood beside them were powerful, smart, and capable businesswomen, handling family affairs, businesses, and households with boldness and creativity.  The stories of Abigail Adams and Martha Washington are as interesting as the stories of John and George.   They were all walking contradictions, as are most of us.  George Washington considered himself first a farmer.  All he really wanted to do was go home and play with his dogs.  Nevertheless, he was a cunning and determined general who won many victories.  Despite that, he was compassionate to his enemies.  When he found the enemy general's dog in his camp after a long day of battle, he sent the dog back along with a gentle note under cover of a white flag.  Given the chance, he'd have killed that general in battle.  At the end of the day, he compassionately returns his dog to him.  Go figure.  As walking contradictions, it should not surprise us that our wise, bold, curious, intelligent forefathers were also sometimes alcoholic womanizing heathens.  It all depends on where you want to focus.  It's also what makes history interesting. 

- Zurf

I had a dog for fifteen years and made a habit of cleaning up after her each time we walked her.  Our neighbors across the street do the same thing.  And our neighbors beside us do the same thing.  So on this street, there are/were a fair number of dogs.  We see folks from other parts of the neighborhood walk through here and allow their dogs to do their business without picking it up.  I have taken bags out to them before, because I've been caught without accidentally and hate having to go back to get it.  But they seemed confused about what the bag was for.  Pitiful.

I wish that treaty still held true.  We'd still have the twin towers and a lot less mourning in this country.  That's got nothing to do with the current topic, so please excuse my thread-jacking.  I was just surprised to see a 1796 treaty with Mahometan (assuming that is Mohamedan) agreeing not to fight over religious differences. 

- Zurf

"Fingerpicking sounds impressive but requires little to no talent."

LOL!  Maybe that's why I learned finger picking first.

Because I want to make Toots feel old, the oldest rock song I can remember listening to was "Crocodile Rock."  I can recall sitting my cousin's bedroom with the record player when he put the 45 on.  My sister had brought the 45 along to my uncle's house, so I must have heard it before then, but I don't recall having heard it until all us cousins were cramped up in Randy's room.  After hearing it, Randy made my sister play it again and at the line "the biggest kick I ever got" he interjected "was from my mother!" 

Now, Randy was a big, big fellow who spent two years as first string linebacker of an undefeated (both seasons) team.  His mother, my Aunt Rose, was a petite country gal best known for her pleasant demeanor and extraordinary skill at pie-making.  Aaaaaaand.  He wasn't lying. 

- Zurf

I created a Pandora station that includes all of the mentioned artists (the ones Pandora found anyway).   

I shared it with the name Chordie Recommendations in my profile.  My profile is under dzurfluh@verizon.net. 

- Zurf

That's not the only overlap.  Remember our fashionable hairstyles.

Guy Clark, Trampled by Turtles, Mark Broussard, The J Band, Ka'apuli (sp?) Brothers, and jump back into some old school stuff too.  Maynard Ferguson, Dizzy Gillespie, Doctor John, C.J. Chenier, nothing wrong with them either. 

- Zurf