Let's sing!

[BMAONE23]

Oh my dear, Dr Seuss
is apparently on the loose
wearing his Cristmas suite of Puce
drinking up his nogged egg juice

[Beyond]

<California>

The smog is so thick,
It'll make you quite sick.
Because of the quakes,
The earth tilts and shakes.
The valleys of wine,
Make you feel so fine,
That you forget all it's faults real quick.

[owlice]

Should auld...

[orin stepanek]

acquaintance

[neufer]

Click to play embedded YouTube video.

<<"Auld Lang Syne" is a Scots poem written by Robert Burns in 1788 and set to the tune of a traditional folk song. It is well known in many English-speaking (and other) countries and is often sung to celebrate the start of the New Year at the stroke of midnight. By extension, its use has also become common at funerals, graduations, and as a farewell or ending to other occasions.

The song begins by posing a rhetorical question as to whether it is right that old times be forgotten, and is generally interpreted as a call to remember long-standing friendships. Thomson’s Select Songs of Scotland was published in 1799 in which the second verse about greeting and toasting was moved to its present position at the end. The tune to which "Auld Lang Syne" is now commonly sung is a pentatonic Scots folk melody, probably originally a sprightly dance in a much quicker tempo.

The song's Scots title may be translated into English literally as "old long since", or more idiomatically, "long long ago", "days gone by" or "old times". Consequently "For auld lang syne", as it appears in the first line of the chorus, is loosely translated as "for (the sake of) old times".

The phrase "Auld Lang Syne" is also used in similar poems by Robert Ayton (1570–1638), Allan Ramsay (1686–1757), and James Watson (1711) as well as older folk songs predating Burns. Matthew Fitt uses the phrase "In the days of auld lang syne" as the equivalent of "Once upon a time..." in his retelling of fairy tales in the Scots language.

____ History

Robert Burns sent a copy of the original song to the Scots Musical Museum with the remark, “The following song, an old song, of the olden times, and which has never been in print, nor even in manuscript until I took it down from an old man". Some of the lyrics were indeed "collected" rather than composed by the poet; the ballad "Old Long Syne" printed in 1711 by James Watson shows considerable similarity in the first verse and the chorus to Burns' later poem, and is almost certainly derived from the same "old song". It is a fair supposition to attribute the rest of the poem to Burns himself.

Singing the song on Hogmanay or New Year's Eve very quickly became a Scots custom that soon spread to other parts of the British Isles. As Gaelic Scots (and Cymric Britons and Germanic English) emigrated around the world, they took the song with them.

Canadian band leader Guy Lombardo is often credited with popularising the use of the song at New Year’s celebrations in America, through his annual broadcasts on radio and television, beginning in 1929. The song became his trademark. However, earlier newspaper articles describe revellers on both sides of the Atlantic singing the song to usher in the New Year:

* "Holiday Parties at Lenox" (Massachusetts, USA) (1896) – The company joined hands in the great music room at midnight and sang “Auld Lang Syne” as the last stroke of 12 sounded and the new year came in.

* "New Year's Eve in London" (London, England) (1910) – Usual Customs Observed by People of All Classes… The passing of the old year was celebrated in London much as usual. The Scottish residents gathered outside of St. Paul's Church and sang “Auld Lang Syne” as the last stroke of 12 sounded from the great bell.

It is common practice that everyone joins hands with the person next to them to form a great circle around the dance floor. At the beginning of the last verse, everyone crosses their arms across their breast, so that the right hand reaches out to the neighbour on the left and vice versa. When the tune ends, everyone rushes to the middle, while still holding hands. When the circle is re-established, everyone turns under the arms to end up facing outwards with hands still joined.>>

[Sam]

be

(thanks, neufer)

[BMAONE23]

Forgot

[owlice]

...aa-and never brought...

[neufer]

Forgot

• --------------------------------------
  • Finnegans Wake: Page 55
  The scene, refreshed, reroused, was never to be forgotten,
  the owl and Yogi everintermutuomergent, for later in the century
  one of that puisne band of factferreters,
  --------------------------------------
  • Finnegans Wake: Page 614
  What has gone? How it ends?
  
  Begin to forget it. It will remember itself from every sides, with
  all gestures, in each our word. Today's truth, tomorrow's trend.
  
  Forget, remember!
  
  Have we cherished expectations? Are we for liberty of
  perusiveness? Whyafter what forewhere? A plainplanned liffeyism
  assemblements Eblania's conglomerate horde. By dim delty Deva.
  
  Forget!
  --------------------------------------
  • Finnegans Wake: Page 617
  Impossible to remember persons in improbable to forget position places
  --------------------------------------

[Beyond]

...to mind...

[owlice]

Should auld acquaintance...

[Sam]

be

[BMAONE23]

forgot..

[owlice]

.... aa-and auld ...

[bystander]

Click to play embedded YouTube video.

[neufer]

.... aa-and auld ...

Long Sam.

<<Al Capp approached Bob Lubbers, who had been handling the Tarzan strip for United Feature since 1950 and was noted for his ability to depict beautiful women, to draw the new strip, with Capp writing the scripts.

Sam was similar to an earlier Capp character, Cynthia Hound-Baskerville, aka Strange Gal, who had emerged from the Great Swamp near Abner's Dogpatch to participate in the 1938 Sadie Hawkins Day race. Like Strange Gal, Long Sam was raised in isolation, by a man-hating Maw; and like Strange Gal, Long Sam was irrevocably changed when she did come into contact with civilization.

The first story concerned the outside world's discovery of the remote, uncharted valley where Sam and Maw lived; and consequently, Sam's discovery of the outside world, which Maw had assured her did not exist. Maw's strategy immediately backfired — instead of protecting Sam from the wiles of men, her lack of experience had rendered her exceptionally vulnerable to their charms. Throughout the strip's run, Sam would alternate between visits with Maw in her valley, and excursions outside; and a recurring schtick was that when outside, Sam would usually fall in love with the first man she met.

Al Capp didn't stick with Long Sam very long. The second writer was his brother, Elliot Caplin, whose many other comics writing gigs included Big Ben Bolt, The Heart of Juliet Jones and Little Orphan Annie. By the end of the 1950s, tho, Lubbers was writing it himself. By that time, tho, Long Sam wasn't long for this world. It ended on Saturday, December 29, 1962.>>

[Sam]

[quote]Long Sam[/quote]
laaa-aaang syyyyne !!

[Beyond]

New song that goes with this bird.

When...

[owlice]

the red, red...

[neufer]

Click to play embedded YouTube video.

Click to play embedded YouTube video.

the red, red...

Who killed C*ck Robin?
I, said the Sparrow,
with my bow and arrow,
I killed C*ck Robin.

Who'll dig his grave?
I, said the Owl,
with my pick and shovel,
I'll dig his grave.

All the birds of the air
fell a-sighing and a-sobbing,
when they heard the bell toll
for poor C*ck Robin.

Art (sparrow) Neuendorffer

[Beyond]

Robin...

[BMAONE23]

Yummmmmm (couldn't resist)

[Beyond]

Yummmmmm (couldn't resist)

Couldn't resist WHAT??

[BMAONE23]

The commercial
'Red Robin...............Yummmm'

[owlice]

Yummmmmm (couldn't resist)

Couldn't resist WHAT??

Raptors have to eat, too, you know...