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2022-01-03 -Great Cultural Revolution

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Posted by Deacon Blues 2022-01-03 07:18|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

Posted by Skidmark 2022-01-03 09:46|| 2022-01-03 09:46|| Front Page Top

#2 Most jazz roots and some blues roots are in the mainly black musicians who were in whorehouses to provide musical entertainment with some "performances". Should this ban most jazz and blues?

Posted by 3dc 2022-01-03 12:15|| 2022-01-03 12:15|| Front Page Top

#3 Oh, and while we are at it... The father in the Trapp, Georg von Trapp, was originally a NAZI supporter. Should this ban all the "Sound of Music" type "BubbleGum" music as NAZI music?

Posted by 3dc 2022-01-03 12:19|| 2022-01-03 12:19|| Front Page Top

#4 It was written by James Lord Pierpont (1822–1893) and published under the title "The One Horse Open Sleigh" in the autumn of 1857. It has been claimed that it was originally written to be sung by a Sunday school choir for Thanksgiving, or as a drinking song. Dashing through the snow
In a one-horse open sleigh
O'er the fields we go
Laughing all the way
Bells on bob tail ring
Making spirits bright
What fun it is to ride and sing
A sleighing song tonight! Oh!

Jingle bells, jingle bells,
Jingle all the way.
Oh! what fun it is to ride
In a one-horse open sleigh. Hey!
Jingle bells, jingle bells,
Jingle all the way;
Oh! what fun it is to ride
In a one-horse open sleigh.

Although less well-known than the opening, the remaining verses depict high-speed youthful fun. In the second verse, the narrator takes a ride with a girl and loses control of the sleigh:

A day or two ago
I thought I'd take a ride
And soon, Miss Fanny Bright
Was seated by my side,
The horse was lean and lank
Misfortune seemed his lot
He got into a drifted bank
And then we got upsot.[a]
|: chorus :|

In the next verse (which is often skipped), he falls out of the sleigh and a rival laughs at him:

A day or two ago,
The story I must tell
I went out on the snow,
And on my back I fell;
A gent was riding by
In a one-horse open sleigh,
He laughed as there I sprawling lie,
But quickly drove away. Ah!
|: chorus :|

In the last verse, after relating his experience, he gives advice to a friend to pick up some girls, find a faster horse, and take off at full speed:

Now the ground is white
Go it while you're young,
Take the girls tonight
and sing this sleighing song;
Just get a bobtailed bay
Two forty as his speed[b]
Hitch him to an open sleigh
And crack! you'll take the lead.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2022-01-03 12:41|| 2022-01-03 12:41|| Front Page Top

#5 I recently read that those light-hearted sleigh upsets often ended with mangled horses and passengers, and often enough either or both dead. The point was that modern cars are much safer than anything horse, not to mention earlier cars that lack modern materials and safety features.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-01-03 15:20|| 2022-01-03 15:20|| Front Page Top

#6 A miniature horse bit me once. NEVER allow a miniature horse to bite you.

Posted by Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 2022-01-03 18:38|| 2022-01-03 18:38|| Front Page Top

#7 Same goes for midgets. It's not so much the bite, but where.

Posted by Hupusomble Cholunter9946 2022-01-03 19:14|| 2022-01-03 19:14|| Front Page Top

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