Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: Saturday 9: Fool

Saturday, April 01, 2023

Saturday 9: Fool

Sam’s Saturday 9: Fool (If You Think It's Over) (1978)

On Saturdays I take a break from the heavy stuff and have some fun…

Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.

1) Do you have any pranks planned for April Fool's Day?

Nope. And I am totally against pranks.

2) When Crazy Sam was a little girl, she once pranked her mother by putting bubble wrap under the bath mat so Mom heard a POP when she stepped on it. When you find bubble wrap, can you resist popping it?

Nope… I can’t resist it. When I was working and I used to zip over the bubble wrap with my chair and it sounded like a machine gun. But I stopped doing, in today’s climate the sound of a machine guns I think that it would go over like a lead ballon.

3) This week's song is about a wise man counseling a heartbroken younger person. Chris Rea, who wrote and performs this song, says it was inspired by watching his kid sister endure her first breakup. Were you in love at 17? Do you remember the object of your affections?

Nope, in my 20s yes.

4) She's dressed in black as she mourns the end of her romance. Does your wardrobe include a lot of black?

I don’t know about a lot but I do have some black clothes and I have a LBD.

5) He offers to treat her to her first glass of good wine. Do you prefer white or red?

White, my stomach doesn’t like red. Too acidic.

6) Chris' own teenage romance was highly successful. He met Joan Lesley while still in school and they have been married since 1968. Whose was the most recent wedding you have attended?

It has been over ten years since the last wedding that I attended.

7) Chris Rea is a passionate race car fan and once worked as a pit mechanic for a Formula One race. Do you watch auto racing?

Not really, I will watch Formula One races. I used to go up to Lime Rock Part to watch Formula One racing but I don’t like to watch NASCAR just going round and a round.

8) In 1978, when this song was popular, Laverne and Shirley was America's #1 TV show. It's still available via cable and streaming today. Are/were you a fan?

It was okay, I watched it but not regularly.

9) Random question: What are you grateful for this morning?

Being above ground and not pushing up daisy.

5 comments:

The Gal Herself4/1/23, 9:24 AM
The little black dress is classic! Do you wear pearls with it? That would be very Audrey Hepburn.
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Stacy4/1/23, 9:30 AM
Amen to #9! I always say any day I wake up on the right side of the grass is a good day.
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songbird's crazy world4/1/23, 11:39 AM
Agreed, I love your answer to #9
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Kwizgiver4/1/23, 1:27 PM
I'm on too many prescriptions to have wine anymore. Which is a bummer, I occasionally would like a glass with a meal.
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CountryDew4/1/23, 2:39 PM
Waking up makes for a good day if one has that attitude. Good for you (and me).
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Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

A right delayed is a right denied.Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.

Martin Luther King Jr.

No one is born hating another person… People must learn to hate and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Nelson Mandela

We can disagree and still love each other, unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist
James Baldwin

There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.
Newton Lee

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
Albert Einstein

"The point is that there are always obstacles, whether they seem insurmountable or merely bothersome. The question is not how difficult the path, but whether in your heart, you wish to undertake the journey."
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Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

You've Got To Be Carefully Taught
You've got to be taught
To hate
And fear
You've got to be taught
From year
To year
Its got to
Be drummed in your dear little ear
You've got to
Be carefully
Taught
You've got to be taught
To be
Afraid
Of people
Who's eyes are oddly made
And people who's skin is a different shade

South Pacific
Songwriters: Oscar Hammerstein II / Richard Rogers