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Author Message   KJ Posted on Friday, June 21, 2002 - 10:19 am:    Here you go, Greg! I wanted to start a thread to try and pull together the best of the already-shown-to-DiscoWeb pictures I can never seem to find. Can someone re-post the "Bud Mall-crawling" pic? And how about one more viewing of the Internet Special Olympics poster? If this thread takes off it can be the Champion of the Long Ass Downloads, especially for we down in the holler who still tune in via dial-up modems! Woo-Hoo!!!! Karen   Michael Noe (Noee) Posted on Friday, June 21, 2002 - 11:22 am:    WTF?? Are you a sadist? It takes me forever just to get to google.com!! Can you hear me now?   Greg Davis Posted on Friday, June 21, 2002 - 12:51 pm:    Thanks Karen. It's nice to know who you can count on.   KJ Posted on Friday, June 21, 2002 - 01:10 pm:    LOL, we're losing Greg! It's "BFP" thread 190, this thread, well, after this post, 4. And I still don't have Bud's mall-crawling pic reposted. Garrett's usually good for those pic posts, but he's out skirt-chasing today. Oh well, shall we sing a while? "Someone's cyber crying Lord, kumbyaaaaaaahhh......." Karen   Greg Davis Posted on Friday, June 21, 2002 - 01:34 pm:    Well Karen, I'd love to stay around and add to the thread count, but the mountains are a callin'. Off camping for the weekend. Take care and have a good one. And thanks for the support!   Paul D. Morgan (V22guy) Posted on Friday, June 21, 2002 - 01:50 pm:    Noee, That picture is my all time favorite of favorites. When people at work get lippy, I send them that!! Thank you for bringing laughter to my hungover day. a hungover paul.....   Paul D. Morgan (V22guy) Posted on Friday, June 21, 2002 - 01:59 pm:    "I'll show that varmit gopher"   Leslie N. Bright (Leslie) Posted on Friday, June 21, 2002 - 02:00 pm:    Okay, here's one.... -L   Paul D. Morgan (V22guy) Posted on Friday, June 21, 2002 - 02:06 pm:    That is awesome leslie.   Paul D. Morgan (V22guy) Posted on Friday, June 21, 2002 - 02:08 pm:    "Excuse me, I think I can help. I speak Jive."   Kyle Posted on Friday, June 21, 2002 - 02:29 pm:    Doesnt that song start with "Kiss my ass" ??? Kyle   M. K. Watson (Lrover94) Posted on Friday, June 21, 2002 - 03:35 pm:    bring back the slinky!!!!!!!!!!NOW flip it! mike w   Glenn Guinto (Glenn) Posted on Friday, June 21, 2002 - 03:42 pm:    Karen, I found Bud's pic... enjoy!!! -glenn   Michael Noe (Noee) Posted on Friday, June 21, 2002 - 04:27 pm:    I hadn't seen that one (bud4)...hilarious, hits all too close to home. Paul, you too huh? Jeez, took me 3 hours to get going this AM...too many margaritas last nite. This one's got to be in the top ten...   KJ Posted on Friday, June 21, 2002 - 04:59 pm:    HAHAHAHA, thanks Glenn! I have to show it to David, it didn't translate well in the verbal form I was presenting. Ewwwwwwww.........MULLETS! Karen   Paul D. Morgan (V22guy) Posted on Friday, June 21, 2002 - 05:00 pm:    All Right Folks, I am off to the hills for a weekend of Campin, wheelin, and beer drinkin. It's the right thing to do on the first official weekend of summer. Paul out......   KJ Posted on Friday, June 21, 2002 - 05:12 pm:    Have fun all y'all already hung-over Pennsylvanians. And watch for the odd boxer wearing bear who may want to hug you, I hear there could be a sighting..... Paul, Leslie and Michael, thanks for the pics, and keep 'em comin'. Not everyone gets to go camping and playing this weekend : ( Maybe Greg will sing Kumbyah around the camp fire this weekend. Karen, out to do more chores.....   Robert Sublett (Rubisco98) Posted on Friday, June 21, 2002 - 05:37 pm:    This is pretty lame so I thought it would fit right in. Check out Bling Bling to the Extreme http://www.watchmedance.com/   Robert Sublett (Rubisco98) Posted on Friday, June 21, 2002 - 05:42 pm:    Ok, another funny pic for ya, inspired by the lovely ladies above./image   Robert Sublett (Rubisco98) Posted on Friday, June 21, 2002 - 05:43 pm:    Ok, I'm a retard, here it is   Robert Sublett (Rubisco98) Posted on Friday, June 21, 2002 - 05:48 pm:    One last one inspired by the special person above as well. http://www.fugly.com/tarddance/   Julia Childs Posted on Friday, June 21, 2002 - 05:56 pm:    Isnt Kumbyah a dish?   Michael Noe (Noee) Posted on Friday, June 21, 2002 - 08:57 pm:    ROTFL...Ha! No camping this weekend, heading to the outerbanks, however, first time ever to Kitty Hawk the fun way. Anyway, can't remember where this came from... How to win friends and neighbors   KJ Posted on Friday, June 21, 2002 - 10:42 pm:    OMG, I'm howling here! Here's a moldie oldie, a song my farrier used to sing to me (though he doesn't sound like a chipmonk) long before I ever saw the web site: http://www.jesusdance.com I'm SO glad I don't have neighbors TOO close Michael, because they'd give JD8 a run for his money. They are close enough as it is.... Karen   Leslie N. Bright (Leslie) Posted on Friday, June 21, 2002 - 11:22 pm:    Well, I'm off to Chesapeake in the morning, gone for a week, so..... y'all hold down the fort, okay? -L   Anonymous Posted on Monday, June 24, 2002 - 08:55 am:    WTF does Kumbyah mean? I'm embarrassed to put my name up as we used to sing this in preliminary school for years and I never did understand what it meant. And its not on disctionary.com either!   Anonymous Posted on Monday, June 24, 2002 - 08:41 pm:    Come by here, my Lord   Anonymous Posted on Monday, June 24, 2002 - 08:42 pm:    For those who are intrested Oh Lord, kumbaya. Also spelled kum ba yah, cumbayah, kumbayah, and probably a few other ways. If you look in a good songbook you'll find the word helpfully translated as "come by here," with the note that the song is "from Angola, Africa." The "come by here" part I'll buy. But Angola? Someone's doubtin', Lord, for the obvious reason that kumbaya is way too close to English to have a strictly African origin. More likely, I told my assistant Jane, it comes from some African-English pidgin or creole--that is, a combination of languages. (A pidgin is a linguistic makeshift that enables two cultures to communicate for purposes of trade, etc.; a creole is a pidgin that has become a culture's primary language.) Sure enough, when we look into the matter, we find this conjecture is on the money. Someone's grinnin', Lord, kumbaya. Kumbaya apparently originated with the Gullah, an African-American people living on the Sea Islands and adjacent coastal regions of South Carolina and Georgia. (The best known Sea Island is Hilton Head, the resort area.) Having lived in isolation for hundreds of years, the Gullah speak a dialect that most native speakers of English find unintelligible on first hearing but that turns out to be heavily accented English with other stuff mixed in. The dialect appears in Joel Chandler Harris's "Uncle Remus" stories, to give you an idea what it sounds like. In the 1940s the pioneering linguist Lorenzo Turner showed that the Gullah language was actually a creole consisting of English plus a lot of words and constructions from the languages of west Africa, the Gullahs' homeland. Although long scorned as an ignorant caricature of English, Gullah is actually a language of considerable charm, with expressions like (forgive my poor attempt at expressing these phonetically) deh clin, dawn (literally "day clean"); troot mout, truthful person ("truth mouth"), and tebble tappuh, preacher ("table tapper"). And of course there's kumbayah. According to ethnomusicologist Thomas Miller, the song we know began as a Gullah spiritual. Some recordings of it were made in the 1920s, but no doubt it goes back earlier. Published versions began appearing in the 1930s. It's believed an American missionary couple taught the song to the locals in Angola, where its origins were forgotten. The song was then rediscovered in Angola and brought back here in time for the folksinging revival of the 50s and 60s. People might have thought the Gullahs talked funny, but we owe them a vote of thanks. Can you imagine sitting around the campfire singing, "Oh, Lord, come by here"?   KJ Posted on Monday, June 24, 2002 - 11:47 pm:    Isn't that what gp sings when his brew is getting low and he's too unsteady to get his own? Just something I heard........ Karen   Greg Davis Posted on Tuesday, June 25, 2002 - 10:31 am:    Hey Anon, thanks. That was really interesting. Seriously.   Dee Posted on Tuesday, June 25, 2002 - 12:02 pm:    I posted it, Thought i would get flamed for showing my senstive side   KJ Posted on Tuesday, June 25, 2002 - 12:48 pm:    I thought it was interesting, too, and I'm never concerned about showing my sensitive side Now, you guys have never seen my seriously smart-mouthing side. That's the one *I* keep out of sight : ) Karen o' the sharp tongue.....