2020.12.31 07:00 - Auld Acquaintance and All That Jazz

    The Guardian for this meeting was Adams Rubble. The comments are by Adams Rubble.

     

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    One Swan a Swimmin'

    Adams Rubble: Good morning Riddle :)
    Adams Rubble: Sorry I'm late. I was engrossed in a project
    Adams Rubble: Happy Seventh Day of Christmas (my true love gave to me, seven swans a swimmin')
    Riddle Sideways: good morning Adams
    Riddle Sideways: was wondering about the swan
    Riddle Sideways: so, it takes 12 days for the 3 wise guys to get there
    Adams Rubble: seven swans in the pool would be crowded
    Riddle Sideways: and that becomes the 12 days of Christmas
    Adams Rubble: yes
    Adams Rubble: It is a liturgical season
    Riddle Sideways: that whole song gets crowded
    Riddle Sideways: with Lords a-leaping
    Adams Rubble: it would get very crowded in the pavilion starting tomorrow :)
    Adams Rubble: with eight maids and the cattle
    Riddle Sideways: a-milking
    Riddle Sideways: the swan likes you, stays right near
    Adams Rubble: it is working its way around the pond
    Adams Rubble: so happy last day of 2020!
    Riddle Sideways: Yes!
    Adams Rubble: I have my shirt
    Riddle Sideways: ha, had not seen that
    Riddle Sideways: it was the year of the Rat
    Riddle Sideways: tomorrow everything will be better ㋡
    Riddle Sideways: a new year
    Adams Rubble: :)
    Riddle Sideways: singing that song :Tomorrow, Tomorrow, wouldn't be just like today"
    Adams Rubble: the Mummers Parade in Philadelphia has been cancelled and the ball dropping in tiumes square will be virtual
    Riddle Sideways: (hope the typos get fixed)

    Doing my best Riddle; got those two anyway

    Riddle Sideways: noted last Thursday the typos did not get fixed
    Adams Rubble: oh my
    Riddle Sideways: and Tuesday the got fixed until the statement that there were not going to be ㋡
    Adams Rubble: this is the last PaB session of 2020
    Riddle Sideways: yep! the next session will be So much better ㋡
    Adams Rubble: hehe
    Adams Rubble: soon the grandchildren will be taking over the world
    Riddle Sideways: ah
    Adams Rubble: I finished reading Obama's and Michele's books
    --BELL--
    Riddle Sideways: both? wow
    Adams Rubble: Obama's was a bit more daunting :)
    Riddle Sideways: have listened to Michele's
    Riddle Sideways: Barrack's book is sitting on the stand
    Riddle Sideways: oh dear, just started wondering about Trump writing a book, in his new spare time.
    Adams Rubble: long nights a good time to get some reading done rather than staring at the interner :)
    Riddle Sideways: smiles at typo
    Riddle Sideways: was going to read a book, but could not find the USB connector to plug it in
    Adams Rubble: :)
    Adams Rubble: they run on their own power :)
    Riddle Sideways: wow
    Riddle Sideways: Tis the season to read all the "Year in Review" magazines, articles, etc.
    Adams Rubble: Obama's book builds strong arm muscles
    Riddle Sideways: ㋡
    Riddle Sideways: like a 12lb. cat, it pins your lap down
    Riddle Sideways: The Time magazine full of who died this year is very depressing
    Adams Rubble: I imagine so
    Adams Rubble: I have not seen a Time Magazine in many years
    Adams Rubble: back in March I was reading the local obituray pages every day
    Riddle Sideways: not a good thing
    Adams Rubble: it was very dangerous to be over 80 this year
    Adams Rubble: or be in a nursing home
    Riddle Sideways: stay away from everybody
    Adams Rubble: or to be a Trump believer
    --BELL--
    Riddle Sideways: there was a newly elected representative who died of Covid
    Riddle Sideways: he was only 41
    Adams Rubble: yes
    Riddle Sideways: and Mary Ann of Gilligan's Island TV show died
    Adams Rubble: yes
    Adams Rubble: and we are still here
    Riddle Sideways: got a text yesterday, saying our hospital ICUs are full! don't get sick
    Riddle Sideways: start watching all the virtual New Years Eve shows
    Riddle Sideways: the Vienna choir
    Riddle Sideways: the Virtual Ball dropping
    Adams Rubble: :)
    Riddle Sideways: Dick Clark?
    Adams Rubble: the late Dick Clark
    Riddle Sideways: he was Forever Young
    Riddle Sideways: That Dorian Grey effect
    Adams Rubble: he left Philly for tinsel town
    Riddle Sideways: tinsel is yet another thing that has gone away
    Adams Rubble nods
    Adams Rubble: typing a poem on a typewriter about the day they decorated the Edsel with tinsel is lost on the younger folks
    Riddle Sideways: oh those kids
    Riddle Sideways: just don't understand
    Riddle Sideways: the 'Undo' key was So hard on a typewriter
    --BELL--
    Adams Rubble: those were the days of correcto-tape and white out
    Riddle Sideways: Liquid Paper was quite a concept
    Adams Rubble: should auld acquaintaince be forgot and never brought to mind
    Riddle Sideways: "We'll drink the cup o'Kindness yet"
    Riddle Sideways: for auld lang syne
    Riddle Sideways: looked up the lyrics, to make sure they would be correct, and got a bio of Mitch Miller
    Adams Rubble: :)
    Riddle Sideways: not thought of him in years
    Adams Rubble: Guy Lombardo and his Orchestra
    Riddle Sideways: oh! and the bubble guy
    Adams Rubble: Lawrence Welk?
    Riddle Sideways: a-one and a-two
    Riddle Sideways: yes
    Adams Rubble: New year's eve has not been the same since Guy Lombardo went off the air
    Riddle Sideways: parents had those shows on all the time
    Riddle Sideways: All those Big Bands
    Adams Rubble: they went away many New Years ago
    Riddle Sideways: First Night celebrations with all the bands has been canceled
    --BELL--
    Adams Rubble: time affects even our PaB sessions
    Riddle Sideways: Time
    Riddle Sideways: don't get me started
    Adams Rubble: hehe
    Adams Rubble: Last session in 2020 is a good time to talk about time
    Riddle Sideways: Time magazine is still around
    Riddle Sideways: Life is not
    Riddle Sideways: and Look is gone
    Riddle Sideways: a lot of Time this year
    Riddle Sideways: a lot of people had to slow down
    Adams Rubble: I used to go to the school library in Junior Hight school and look through old issues of Look for the cartoons
    Riddle Sideways: and the New Yorker cartoons
    Adams Rubble: and Saturday Evening Post
    Adams Rubble: Norman Rockwell covers
    Riddle Sideways: the Life or Look Year in Pictures edition
    Adams Rubble: Once upon a Time
    Riddle Sideways: in a far away
    Adams Rubble: all the little children with so much time on their hands
    Adams Rubble: to explore the world
    Adams Rubble: to appreciate the world
    Adams Rubble: to play
    Riddle Sideways: to play
    Adams Rubble: to wish they were adults :)
    Riddle Sideways: just you wait, when I grow up, I'll show them
    Adams Rubble: adults have the power; children have the joy of time on their hands
    --BELL--
    Riddle Sideways: Time and the little PaB gong wait for no man
    Adams Rubble: :)
    Adams Rubble: nor woman
    Adams Rubble: nor avatar
    Riddle Sideways: nor swan
    Adams Rubble: Happy New Year!
    Riddle Sideways: Happy New Year
    Adams Rubble: 20 more days
    Riddle Sideways: Let the New Year be a good year
    Adams Rubble: yes, Let it be
    Adams Rubble: Biden and vaccines
    Adams Rubble: and Mitch the Grinch
    Riddle Sideways: not a good thought to end on
    Adams Rubble is sorry about that
    Adams Rubble: Nancy the Grinch Slayer
    Riddle Sideways: ㋡
    Riddle Sideways: Time heals all wounds
    Adams Rubble: and Bernie still speaketh
    Adams Rubble: or rather shouteth
    Adams Rubble: :)
    Riddle Sideways: ㋡
    Riddle Sideways: thank you and by All
    Riddle Sideways: start the partay
    Adams Rubble: thank you Riddle
    Riddle Sideways: virtually
    Adams Rubble: :)
    Adams Rubble: masks for all
    Adams Rubble: Heigh Oh Silver
    Adams Rubble: who WAS that masked man
    Adams Rubble: wearing his mask all wrong
    Adams Rubble: bye for now
    Adams Rubble: stay well and joyous
    Riddle Sideways: Time for the fat lady to sing
    Adams Rubble: la la la
    Riddle Sideways: Joy to the World
    Adams Rubble wayes
    Riddle Sideways: in Auld Lang sign
    Adams Rubble waves too

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