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Friday, December 25, 2015

AN OLD ODE




13 comments:

  1. I was in tears, too! Merry Christmas!

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  2. God Bless all here.

    Sir H the Comet

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  3. Merry Christmas to All.

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  4. Good Morning and Merry Christmas to you and yours Rodger, and to the whole Barn Army! May God bless us every one!
    Tim

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  5. God bless western civilization.

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  6. Merry Christmas to you and yours Rodger. I'm up here enjoying the heat in southern Maryland with the northern grand kids. I'll be heading back to Florida in a couple of days for some cooler weather.

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  7. Merry Christmas, Rodger and to the whole Barn Army. Thanks for hosting such a fun house.
    Jim in Texas where it's 80

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  8. John 3:16.

    Merry Christmas, Roger. And thanks for all your gifts.
    .

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  9. Merry Christmas everyone!! :)

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  10. Merry Christmas to Rodger and all that dwell here. It's 19 degrees here in Idaho Falls at 12:30 PM and going down to -8 tonight. Gotta get outside and fire up the snow blower now.

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  11. Merry Christmas to all.


    De Oppresso Liber
    Geo

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  12. Beethoven's piece was used for our Junior High School (JHS 104) song
    [Skoonj, 'Remember this?]:

    We salute thee Blue and Gold
    In our hearts we'll always hold
    Our devotion strong and true
    One-Oh-Four we honor you!


    Those of us in Hans Rittermann's homeroom sang it like this:
    We salute you Red and Black
    At your head we'll always hack
    Teachers may think we are nuts
    Rittermann, we hate your guts!


    (After more than 50 yrs., I can still remember this stuff!)

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  13. Stu, yes I do remember the JHS 104 song. I sang it enough, and played it enough back then. You see, at graduation I was in the school orchestra. At the back. I had a tube, or upright (E flat) bass. Play that enough in rehearsal, and other words naturally come to you. Unfortunately, I still can't write a damned one of them. I wasn't even about to say them loud enough that Miss O'Reilly, head of the graduation ceremony and also my math teacher, could hear. She was already in a fine mood since the day before graduation the US Supreme Court ruled against prayer in public school. She had a temper, that one, and went ahead with the scheduled prayer anyway. I think that was the same year you played Lt. Cable in the South Pacific play they put on.

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