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Sirens of the City

By Jimmy Johnson


I haven’t shown this old favorite in a while. It’s from March, 2005. A free tee-shirt to the person who asks the question first.

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68 responses to “Sirens of the City”

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    Circling sharks? Dehydration and starvation? Clothing? Survival and ultimate death?

  2. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    I personally know very few people who were born out of wedlock, but I do know a fair number of bastards.

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    You are from REALLY good Southern families. Mine has a few just plain white trash. And I would say I come from a part and period when things got covered up. I just thought about living here in Oklahoma that I have been invited to showers for no married mom’s to be but a lot of not married ones. I don’t like showers for any occasion but I send nice gifts, no matter. This was however a new social custom for me I had not experienced before.

    No criticism of choices, times are different.

  4. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    Ruth Anne in Winter Haven: http://www.azquotes.com/quote/387979

  5. Ruth Anne in Winter Park Avatar
    Ruth Anne in Winter Park

    Mark: That’s a good one.

    Forgot to come back and comment on the things that schools have cut, like PE and Driver’s Ed. Short answer – most cuts are due to money/politics and have nothing to do with what educators know is best for students. I could give examples, and probably preach to the choir here, but right now anything related to politics is just too depressing.

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    I am reading a magazine devoted to perennial flowers because that is what yard is becoming, a giant flower bed. Jesse is fast and enthusiastically planting. In masses as I like them. The article I am reading is about the top 20 easy no fail plants and interestingly only two we are not doing big beds of right now.

    Gardening brings peace and playing in dirt is therapeutic to politics. I promise. My favorite part is being the hoer and weed puller. I used to run out and do weed breaks when I was dealing with a half dozen salesmen across half of America. It should work on politicians.

  7. emb Avatar
    emb

    Mark, re: http://www.azquotes.com/quote/387979

    I went to both libraries and universities, and benefitted from both. My life’s greatest gift occurred as result of meeting someone at Cornell, but the school itself had little to do with that except that she was brilliant and it was selective. I also had the good fortune to teach at a state U for 36 years, and have scads of good feedback from that. Higher ed can be great, for students who have the smarts and will make the effort. It is also wonderful, partway through a fruitful teaching career, to realize it’s a calling, and rewarding to watch minds blossom [young and old, incl. many faculty]. I suspect c x-p feels much the same.

    Also, colleges are cheaper than prisons, which some politicians would rather fund, especially private ones. It is insane to fund private companies that benefit most when incarceration rates are highest. I’d think it would also compromise the values of the towns they are located in. Peace,

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    I know Mark has a university degree from University of Alabama and I don’t believe is advocating not educating people. I think he believes libraries and books can offer an education to anyone willing to read, even if they have no money to attend a college.

    Looking at the debt young people incur while in college they might think about an alternative such as a trades school. I do know parents who themselves have university degrees who are NOT encouraging their children to attend but go into a skilled trade.

  9. Nancy Kirk in AZ Avatar
    Nancy Kirk in AZ

    Anonymous Anonymous a ways above was me. I guess I sent that from my new phone and it doesn’t know who I am yet. I’ll try to remember to introduce myself to it next time.

  10. Nancy Kirk in AZ Avatar
    Nancy Kirk in AZ

    PS: I like Winslow Homer. Breezing Up, Crack the Whip, and the one of the young lady reading in a hammock all hang at my house.

  11. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Debbe 😉 Remember them?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WROdwlk9_h8

  12. Rick in Shermantown, Ohio Avatar
    Rick in Shermantown, Ohio

    Jackie Anonymous:

    “All y’all care about are the babes.”

    Yep. You’re right.

    That’s why we like you so much.

    You are the Village babe.

  13. Steve From Royal Oak, MI Avatar

    I tell people that a light bulb went off about my Junior year at Purdue when I realized college helped me “learn how to learn” I certainly was taught a lot of facts and basics but at some point I needed to learn how to learn.

    My Dad was an Engineering Technician at WOWO and often Engineering students would stop by to pick his brain. Dad only had a short mail order education in electronics, but a worn out library card. He loved electronics and was always trying to learn more. When I told him of my discovery, he told me that he was impressed as most of his best pupils told him the same thing.

  14. sandcastlerâ„¢ Avatar
    sandcastlerâ„¢

    Today it begins….

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    What have I missed? We already did daylight savings, Ides of March and tomorrow is St. Pats. We did Pi and pancakes and women, all in a week.

    What have I missed?

  16. ToysGeo Avatar
    ToysGeo

    Yea! I win a t-shirt! Want me to come to your studio to pick it up?
    (Kidding, but I’d do that. My wife works for Southwest Airlines and occasionally we fly to other cities just to eat dinner somewhere new.)
    I’ve wanted a shirt of each design, but have been too busy to make the purchase.

    PS: Whatever did happen to the sailboat? That has been a part of my escapist dream for a while…but probably best left to everyone’s imagination.

  17. Nancy Kirk in AZ Avatar
    Nancy Kirk in AZ

    Basketball, Jackie, basketball!!! Through a combination of circumstances, this will be the first time in 15 years that we have not gone somewhere with friends for sightseeing and the first weekend of the NCAA men’s hoops tournament—March Madness. We will be watching on TV, of course. And our big trip for the year will be the Rocky Mountaineer train and bus through the Canadian Rockies next summer.