Skip’s Ramblings

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Another share of one of my MP3s. I set up a new one once a week and give you seven days to check it out. After that it will be gone and replaced by a new selection. Please don’t link to this. Just click on the link and save it. Until I can make some money and buy some, if you get the message BANDWIDTH exceeded, just try again tomorrow. For this week:

The Beatles “There’s A Place” or you can try here too!

I just couldn’t get back into things quite yet. I have been trying to catch up, reading mail, paying bills, and all the usual stuff. I thought the time away would see me return with a new zest for life. Instead I find myself just getting by. So I just reached into my pile and pulled out an old album from The Beatles. It was “Please Please Me”. I looked at it and decided to share this weeks tune “There’s A Place”. Maybe it will bring back some memories for you.

The computer swallowed grandma
Yes, Honestly its true!
She pressed ‘ctrl’ and ‘enter’
And disappeared from view.

It devoured her completely,
The thought just made me squirm.
She must have caught a virus
Or been eaten by a worm.

I’ve searched through the recycle bin
And files of every kind;
I’ve even used the internet
But nothing did I find.

In desperation, I asked Google
My searches to refine.
The reply from him was negative,
Not a thing was found ‘online’.

So, if inside your ‘Inbox’,
My Grandma you should see,
Please ‘Copy’,'Scan’ and ‘Paste’ her
And send her back to me.

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Taken from the Highcliffe Community Centre Newsletter

I’m back but as you may have noticed there was no posting last week. I can’t believe how fast time goes by and how little time I seem to have. I will post again soon but for now please just accept my apology for the lack of content. Check back later.

SORRY…………..but I won’t be posting for a while. I’ll be far away from any reliable computer and there is no way I can promise to do regular posts. I’ll be back mid-October and hopefully full of energy to resume normal operations. See you then.
As a farewell here’s a cartoon from a while ago that caught my funny bones, it’s from Speed Bump which I try to see every day. For any one addicted to the net out there I’m sure you will find this funny. Am I right?

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Another share of one of my MP3s. I set up a new one once a week and give you seven days to check it out. After that it will be gone and replaced by a new selection. Please don’t link to this. Just click on the link and save it. Until I can make some money and buy some, if you get the message BANDWIDTH exceeded, just try again tomorrow. For this week:

U2 “Get Your Boots On”or you can try here too!

U2 was in Toronto last week for two shows at the Rogers Centre. It was quite a visit. Everyone was overwhelmed. The press and attendees had nothing but fantastic things to say. Because of all of this I had to choose a U2 song from their newest album called “No Line On The Horizon”. The song I’m sharing is called “Get Your Boots On” which was played at both shows to great audience approval. Hope you enjoy my share. If you do enjoy it you may want to check out the wiki page.

“Avast, me maties! Tomorrow is International Talk Like a Pirate Day! Check out last years entry in the archives for some neat stuff. This year have a little chuckle:
A man with a pegleg, hook hand and an eyepatch went to apply to be a pirate.

Interviewer: How did you get that pegleg?

Pirate: Arrr. I got me leg shot off during the first world war.

Interviewer: How did you get that hook?

Pirate: I got me hand cut off by a big knife.

Interviewer: What about your eyepatch?

Pirate: It was a rainy afternoon and I looked up into the sky and a bird crapped in me eye.

Interviewer: And that put your eye out?

Pirate: No, it was the day after I got me hook.

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Another share of one of my MP3s. I set up a new one once a week and give you seven days to check it out. After that it will be gone and replaced by a new selection. Please don’t link to this. Just click on the link and save it. Until I can make some money and buy some, if you get the message BANDWIDTH exceeded, just try again tomorrow. For this week:

Band of Skulls “Hollywood Bowl” or you can try here too!

Band of Skulls started in England last year and are being compared to bands like the “White Stripes”. You should listen to decide for yourself but I think they deserve to be in the same league. They released their first album early this year called “Baby Darling Doll Face Honey”. The song I’m sharing is called “Hollywood Bowl” which I really like. They released “I Know What I Am”, “Blood” and “Patterns” as singles from the album but not this one so far. Hope you enjoy my share. If you do enjoy it check out the wiki page and buy the album to listen to 12 tracks.