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Re: T'ain't No Big Thing, the Toll of the Bell

#827918
From: vhugofan@gmail.c
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2022 21:22
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Will Dockery wrote:

> On Tuesday, July 19, 2022 at 7:25:14 PM UTC-4, vhug...@gmail.com wrote:
>> Will Dockery wrote:
>>
>> >>> Zod wrote:
>> >>>> Will Dockery wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> > On Monday, May 16, 2022 at 6:20:22 PM UTC-4, Zod wrote:
>> >>>> >> HC wrote:
>> >>>> >>
>> >>>> >> > On Monday, May 16, 2022 at 5:38:47 PM UTC-4, NancyGene wrote:
>> >>>> >> >> On Monday, May 16, 2022 at 9:23:00 PM UTC, george...@yahoo.ca wrote:
>> >>>> >> >
>> >>>> >> >> > T'ain't No Big Thing, the Toll of the Bell
>> >>>> >> >> >
>> >>>> >> >> > Every man's death diminishes me --
>> >>>> >> >> > I call it rotten luck --
>> >>>> >> >> > unless it's someone I don't like,
>> >>>> >> >> > And then it's funny as fuck.
>> >>>> >> >> >
>> >>>> >> >> > ~ by Pastor JD and Pastor HC
>> >>>> >> >> >
>> >>>> >> >> >
>> >>>> >> >> > (Bonus points if you can spot the other allusion in the title.)
>> >>>> >> >> Mini Toll House chocolate chip cookies.
>> >>>> >>
>> >>>> >> > Taint is a vernacular term for the perineum.
>> >>>> >> https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3458764513820550174/
>> >>>> >>
>> >>>> >> "T'ain't no big thing
>> >>>> >> To wait for the bell to ring
>> >>>> >> T'ain't no big thing
>> >>>> >> The toll of the bell..." ---Roxy Music
>> >>>>
>> >>>> > That was the hit that made it to the radio even down here in the sleepy South.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> > Before this, Roxy Music was definitely a "cult" band down here.
>> >>>> One radio station in buffalo played a lot of the new music of the day, it was called the "Rock And Roll Animal" fm station....
>>
>> >>> That radio station was the start one of the first conversations I had with your brother back in 1983 at the Mill, when Jeffrey came into the break room wearing a "Rock and Roll Animal" t-shirt from that radio station.
>>
>> >> They played some good records on that station, every night around Midnight they would have the "album hour" where they would play an entire album....
>>
>> > I used to pick up an Atlanta station WRFG late at night when I lived in La Grange, album hour at Midnight, good album tracks through the night.
>> Radio was mighty back in those times...

> So much pre-programmed stuff these days.

Yes, too much...!

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