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   George,   
      
    >  GP> Let me guess, the beans eater was lead reindeer? Either way, poor Santa   
      
    >   They were paid by all the naughty kids.    
      
    GP> That explains so much!   
      
     That it does.  Besides, July is National Baked Bean Month , and   
   they do talk about  Christmas In July. . :P   
      
    >   Or a cockpit was where the male chickens fought...and cockfights are still   
    > done in many areas.   
      
    GP> Not a 'sport' I'd support or be part of. . .   
      
     A waste of good chicken...but with the Cubans in south Florida, it was very   
   popuar.   
      
    GP> Or the gay guy who showed up to a cockfight nude & realized he had made   
    GP> a horrible misunderstanding. . .   
      
     Dueling D***$ at 20 paces. :P   
      
    >   I saw where the Rolling Stones had to quit playing "Brown Sugar", as it   
    > was being decried as racist.   
      
    GP> Those decriers are the racist ones!   
      
     Then, the NCAA is going to drop the SAT and ACT academic tests for    
   athletes, as "it infringes on certain people". What they're doing is    
   giving into their laziness...and rewarding them for being slothful,    
   and not studying.    
      
     One time, Colin Powell (who is black) made a speech, it angered a    
   lot of the black folks, but what he said was true. And, it seems that    
   with most of the crimes, that it is the black folks getting arrested.    
   Now, to me, you shouldn't be doing criminal activity in the first place.   
   But, if you're doing it, you shouldn't be getting caught.   
      
    GP> It's clearly a song extolling a sweet brown skinned girl; how is that a   
    GP> negative?   
      
     They said it amounted to slavery. Well, both the blacks and whites had   
   slaves.   
      
    GP> Whites make up ~90% of the US population, but you've never heard a song   
    GP> called "white sugar" about a stripper!   
      
     This is true.   
      
    GP> Everybody knows to avoid the whites (white bread, sugar, rice, &   
    GP> pompous plantation type of bloated men)   
      
     The late Richard Pryor was right when he complained about the white folks   
   having a fit of all the people of color. He asked "Then, why are the white   
   folks spending all this money in tanning salons??!!".   
      
    GP> There's a difference between noise & music.   
      
     To me, rap is for people who never learned how to sing. Especially when   
   every other word is a profanity. Now, I can deal with it "once in a blue   
   moon", but not every other word. Otherwise, profanity is "the attempt of   
   a feeble mind to express itself forcibly". My late Mom and late wife had   
   enough of a command of the English language, that they didn't have to use   
   that kind of talk. And, I've known women who cussed so bad, that they'd   
   make a sailor blush!!   
      
    GP> I like music. I don't care the genre or era, so long as it's melodious   
    GP> & harmonic.   
      
     My favorites are classical (Brahams, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Mozart,    
   Chopin, Lizst, etc.), big band and swing (Glen Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Bing   
   Crosby, Perry Como, etc.), the classic church hymns (which many church   
   congregations have gotten away from, as they view it as offensive), Black   
   Gospel music, and A Cappella Barbershop Quartet Singing. In the movie   
   "The Music Man", it was "The Buffalo Bills", members of the school board,   
   who did several numbers in the film...such as "How Can There Be Any Sin   
   In Sincere?", "Lida Rose", and "Good Night, Ladies".   
      
    GP> A primitive jungle beat doesn't cover it for me, & that's all rap is: a   
    GP> primitive jungle beat over-punctuated by vulgarity and sexually   
    GP> aggressive threats.   
      
     Exactly. Plus, it's played so loud, that it's as if there's an earthquake   
   from the car next to you...and it's like they've gone deaf for all the loud   
   music, and the tribal beat is the only thing they can understand or feel.   
      
    GP> I'm rediscovering the country greats of the 1970s, too. . .good stuff.   
    GP> . .storytelling, not just trying to be the loudest.   
      
     There is a station locally, KMJX, known as "The Wolf"...105.1 FM -- it   
   originally was "Magic 105", with a hard rock format, but it was sold to   
   new station owners, who changed the format to "classic country western   
   hits". You can find it with the I Heart Radio app.   
      
     The late George Jones (aka "The Possum") hit the nail on the head, with    
   his song "Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes??". The music video of that (you can    
   find it on YouTube) is nostalgia at its best.   
      
   Daryl   
      
   ... Are cranberries healthy?? I never heard one complain.   
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