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Number 6 is the winner of
Idiot of the year award
Paul B
NJRC Member
Kate Smith just before we got into WW2 singing the first ever airing of God Bless America.
I listen to this all the time and if this doesn't give you chills, you must be some kind of Snowflake or you are not Patriotic enough.
Kate Smith was the most well known singer in the world at the time, even more so than Justin Bieber.
Imagine hearing this just before we entered the war. You can see Ronald Reagan and a bunch of old time stars in here.
Notice the huge orchestra.
I listen to this all the time and if this doesn't give you chills, you must be some kind of Snowflake or you are not Patriotic enough.
Kate Smith was the most well known singer in the world at the time, even more so than Justin Bieber.
Imagine hearing this just before we entered the war. You can see Ronald Reagan and a bunch of old time stars in here.
Notice the huge orchestra.
Paul B
NJRC Member
WE had a "little" scare yesterday and this morning. Yesterday my wife and I took a walk and about 5 minutes into the walk I started to get itchy.
Like all over. I felt like I had fire ants doing the macarana all over me and also in places I didn't know I had.
Of course we walk up to this couple that we always wanted to make friends with and we were talking to them for like ten minutes. I was dying to scratch
"all over" but I didn't want these people to think I had cooties, amphipods or black ich.
The itchyness was unbearable and I know I was squirming so they may have thought I was a Mime, contortionist or Mick Jagger.
I put one foot on top of the other like I was resting my leg, but I was trying to scratch between my toes. It didn't work.
Eventually we left them and I told my wife "We have to go home".
She said Why! Whats the matter? Are you sick? With this virus around everyone is paranoid.
At home I told her what was going on and she insisted on inspecting me. I had this rash all over my body. I generally don't get rashes and I am not allergic to anything. So she rubs this stuff on me which was probably meat tenderizer and the itching subsided a "little".
I figured I would lay down. Yesterday we put this new blanket on the bed, right out of the package.
As I am laying there listening to Vintage Linda Ronstadt, I notice my tongue feels big. I have a big mouth but my tongue usually stays the same size.
My tongue was scraping against the teeth in back of my mouth and It seemed like I was having just a little trouble breathing. Just a little, not enough for me to call a SWAT team or "The Good Doctor" or even "Doctor Who " (it's an English thing, don't worry to much about it)
Now my Girly man emotions kick in and I am getting a touch worried.
I make the mistake of telling my wife who immediately goes into panic mode and wanted to give me CPR and get out the paddles.
She calls our Daughter in Vermont because her husband and Daughter have allergies to everything except air, and not all air.
She tells me to take Bennedril. All I have is our Grand Daughters Bennedril and she is 7. The largest does on the bottle was for a 10 year old so I take about two doses.
In ten minutes I am as Loopy as the people on Circ De Solei . I can't stand up so I go lay on the bed.
My tongue gets bigger. OOOOOooooooNNooooooo. I'm gonna die and Humble won't be able to come here to take my fish. But if he does he will quarantine them in tree stump remover and they will get nightmares.
I look up symptoms of Corona Virus and a big tongue. A rash are about the only things that the virus "doesn't " cause.
So We call my Doctor on the slim chance that he can see me. Here in New York nothing is open, you can't even open a clam.
But the nurse, who I know answered and she said, as long as you don't have Corona Virus symptoms, the Doctor will see you.
Of course If I had Corona Virus symptoms the doctor won't see me and I will have to go to a fortune teller or Lady GaGa concert.
I go there and the guy immediately sees the rash, takes blood, looks in my mouth, listens to my heart and lungs and doesn't have the slightest idea what is wrong with me but says he is getting a lot of patients now that have this from eating meat.
(I have learned that unless you have an arrow sticking out of your head or a crow bar stuck in your nether regions, they won't really know what the diagnosis is)
I almost never eat meat and didn't eat any in a week or so. He gives me a prescription for Prednisone.
Meantime Our Daughter is freeking out because she doesn't want me to go out of the house. It would be hard for the doctor to take blood through my computer screen unless I got really close to it and maybe stuck a USB cable in my arm.
So, I am still alive but the Bennedril is still making me walk like Uncle Festus from the Adams Family.
We think we figured it out. The new blanket my wife put on the bed was the only thing different we did. We bought it last year and one of my hobbies is removing those tags that say "Don't remove under penalty of the law"
So I am not sure where it came from.
Like all over. I felt like I had fire ants doing the macarana all over me and also in places I didn't know I had.
Of course we walk up to this couple that we always wanted to make friends with and we were talking to them for like ten minutes. I was dying to scratch
"all over" but I didn't want these people to think I had cooties, amphipods or black ich.
The itchyness was unbearable and I know I was squirming so they may have thought I was a Mime, contortionist or Mick Jagger.
I put one foot on top of the other like I was resting my leg, but I was trying to scratch between my toes. It didn't work.
Eventually we left them and I told my wife "We have to go home".
She said Why! Whats the matter? Are you sick? With this virus around everyone is paranoid.
At home I told her what was going on and she insisted on inspecting me. I had this rash all over my body. I generally don't get rashes and I am not allergic to anything. So she rubs this stuff on me which was probably meat tenderizer and the itching subsided a "little".
I figured I would lay down. Yesterday we put this new blanket on the bed, right out of the package.
As I am laying there listening to Vintage Linda Ronstadt, I notice my tongue feels big. I have a big mouth but my tongue usually stays the same size.
My tongue was scraping against the teeth in back of my mouth and It seemed like I was having just a little trouble breathing. Just a little, not enough for me to call a SWAT team or "The Good Doctor" or even "Doctor Who " (it's an English thing, don't worry to much about it)
Now my Girly man emotions kick in and I am getting a touch worried.
I make the mistake of telling my wife who immediately goes into panic mode and wanted to give me CPR and get out the paddles.
She calls our Daughter in Vermont because her husband and Daughter have allergies to everything except air, and not all air.
She tells me to take Bennedril. All I have is our Grand Daughters Bennedril and she is 7. The largest does on the bottle was for a 10 year old so I take about two doses.
In ten minutes I am as Loopy as the people on Circ De Solei . I can't stand up so I go lay on the bed.
My tongue gets bigger. OOOOOooooooNNooooooo. I'm gonna die and Humble won't be able to come here to take my fish. But if he does he will quarantine them in tree stump remover and they will get nightmares.
I look up symptoms of Corona Virus and a big tongue. A rash are about the only things that the virus "doesn't " cause.
So We call my Doctor on the slim chance that he can see me. Here in New York nothing is open, you can't even open a clam.
But the nurse, who I know answered and she said, as long as you don't have Corona Virus symptoms, the Doctor will see you.
Of course If I had Corona Virus symptoms the doctor won't see me and I will have to go to a fortune teller or Lady GaGa concert.
I go there and the guy immediately sees the rash, takes blood, looks in my mouth, listens to my heart and lungs and doesn't have the slightest idea what is wrong with me but says he is getting a lot of patients now that have this from eating meat.
(I have learned that unless you have an arrow sticking out of your head or a crow bar stuck in your nether regions, they won't really know what the diagnosis is)
I almost never eat meat and didn't eat any in a week or so. He gives me a prescription for Prednisone.
Meantime Our Daughter is freeking out because she doesn't want me to go out of the house. It would be hard for the doctor to take blood through my computer screen unless I got really close to it and maybe stuck a USB cable in my arm.
So, I am still alive but the Bennedril is still making me walk like Uncle Festus from the Adams Family.
We think we figured it out. The new blanket my wife put on the bed was the only thing different we did. We bought it last year and one of my hobbies is removing those tags that say "Don't remove under penalty of the law"
So I am not sure where it came from.
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I do not remember her and her name but I definitely remember that voice and I know it was well before my time the song was ever made but there’s no doubt the soon as I heard that voice it was like I was a kid again
So now you’re a DJ too
Oh paul you can make me laugh even when I am scrabbling to find out if you're okay. Glad you know it's the blanket. Hope wife washed the sheets it was on too.
I remember that movie! All the re-runs when I was a kid were very old movies...Shirley Temple, Hepburn , Carry Grant, Ginger Rogers, Fred Astera
I remember that movie! All the re-runs when I was a kid were very old movies...Shirley Temple, Hepburn , Carry Grant, Ginger Rogers, Fred Astera
The song I’ve known all my life I really was referring to her Voice
You forgot about Bogart how could anyone forget the African Queen what a great movie
Paul B
NJRC Member
This morning we are going to park at the entrance of Calverton Military cemetery near here to wait for my friend who died of Corona virus last week. I understand they had to pull a lot of strings to get him buried because cemeteries are not working now but maybe because he is a Veteran and retired cop they are doing it. I am not sure............................
Just now as I am writing this my friends wife called to tell us what time they will be at the cemetery.
It was a very tear filled call.
She told us that yesterday she was cleaning out stuff my friend left in the garage and he had this lamp he was fixing. It was still lit on his workbench. She took a video as she was talking to his "spirit" complaining about all the stuff he had and she didn't know what to do with and all of a sudden the lamp started blinking.
She sent us the video. It kept blinking for about 5 seconds as she was talking. The overhead light didn't blink.
This was very weird. Her and my wife are kind of spiritual and figured it was him saying good bye.
Whatever it was, she took it as a good sign so if it makes her happy, it makes us happy.
We now have over 27,000 cases of the virus in my town of Suffolk Long Island NY. I am very happy that much of the country seems to be getting over it.
Just now as I am writing this my friends wife called to tell us what time they will be at the cemetery.
It was a very tear filled call.
She told us that yesterday she was cleaning out stuff my friend left in the garage and he had this lamp he was fixing. It was still lit on his workbench. She took a video as she was talking to his "spirit" complaining about all the stuff he had and she didn't know what to do with and all of a sudden the lamp started blinking.
She sent us the video. It kept blinking for about 5 seconds as she was talking. The overhead light didn't blink.
This was very weird. Her and my wife are kind of spiritual and figured it was him saying good bye.
Whatever it was, she took it as a good sign so if it makes her happy, it makes us happy.
We now have over 27,000 cases of the virus in my town of Suffolk Long Island NY. I am very happy that much of the country seems to be getting over it.
Paul B
NJRC Member
Now they pushed the funeral of my friend back to Thursday, tomorrow. I think at 9:00 am they will pass in front of his house and all the friends, (including one who moved to Hawaii) family and neighbors are going to stand in front of their mailbox at that exact time and take a selfie to send to Sue at that time in Honor of Tommy. Probably 60 or 70 people.
Paul B
NJRC Member
So far here in my town of Suffolk New York we have almost 29,000 cases and almost 900 people already died so far. But the people going into the hospital is a little down.
We are supposed to wear face masks but of course you can't get them anywhere. I have them on order from Amazon for 3 weeks already and they are another two or 3 weeks out, so my wife and I are wearing the same two masks we started with. Two masks came with my 3 D Printer so thats what we use.
I sterilize them after we use them.
Theres an argument in the town now because some officials want to give them to our many migrant farm workers and others want to give them to seniors. I can see both sides because the masks are to protect people from you, not the other way around and the farm workers are out all over the place and in stores.
We are supposed to wear face masks but of course you can't get them anywhere. I have them on order from Amazon for 3 weeks already and they are another two or 3 weeks out, so my wife and I are wearing the same two masks we started with. Two masks came with my 3 D Printer so thats what we use.
I sterilize them after we use them.
Theres an argument in the town now because some officials want to give them to our many migrant farm workers and others want to give them to seniors. I can see both sides because the masks are to protect people from you, not the other way around and the farm workers are out all over the place and in stores.