From my friend Norma: With all the sadness and trauma going on in the world at the moment, it is worth reflecting on the death of a very important person, which almost went unnoticed last week.
Larry LaPrise, the man who wrote “The Hokey Pokey,” died peacefully at the age of 93. The most traumatic part for his family was getting him into the coffin.
They put his left leg in. And then the trouble started.
Shut up. You know it’s funny.
Hasta la vista for a while … “Dancing With the Stars” is on! (Shut up)
If clunky Jerry wins just because his football fans call in I’m going to be pissed.
I know!
Okay. True confession: I called last night. And I signed up at the damn Web site to vote there too.
Gave Drew the maximum 6 votes. He’s a better dramatist / actor / performer than Stacy, who’s wonderful but unschooled in the dramatic arts, and perhaps not inclined that way (?).
Jerry is fun but … last week, when he was in the top 2, it was disgusting. And he’s benefited from having a darling, spicy partner. (And, as i told BooMan on the phone, he’s SO good at psyching people into being on his side — he’s a master manipulator.)
Thank god the judges have the final votes on Sunday night.
P.S. Jerry does have the cutest little girl. It was so neat to see her talking to him and helping him learn to dance. She’s a better dancer than he is.
when Jerry bumped off Lisa Rinna who was obviously the better dancer. The look on Stacy’s face was priceless; she looked utterly defeated like, Owow, it’s a popularity contest and I’m not gonna win. I think that’s why she put in such a tepid performance last night. She knows she doesn’t have as many fans as Jerry and Drew is a better performer than she is.
Medicare D, Walmart and insurance companies…here
That’s what it’s all about…
ALSO FROM NORMA:
Must-see video re: a Gold Star Mom’s meeting with Bush
USATourOfDuty.org
The video at this link must be seen to be believed–it was posted some
months ago, but a couple blogs just started to run with it in the last
couple days. It’s of Dolores Kesterson, whose son was killed in Iraq
in November 2003. She got a private meeting with Bush–the first thing
he did was come right up to her face and annouonce “I’m George Bush,
the president of the United States, and I understand you have
something to say to me in private.” Well, she knows who you are, big
shot.
She tried to describe what her son was like–and you won’t believe his
reply. And after that, he had the gall to remind her the we were
attacked on September 11. Is it so bad with this jerk that he really
does just repeat that at every chance?
And then, he left her with this consoling thought: “We won’t know in
our lifetime whether or not Iraq was a success.” (Link found at C&L.)
BLAH3
Lily Tomlin said it best. “No matter how cynical I get, I just can’t
keep up.”
Sometimes I think baseball bats weren’t made just for hitting baseballs.
I’m George Bush,
the president of the United States
Naw, he just repeats it in the hope that people will realize that he is not taking orders from Cheney! Or maybe trying to convince himself of that.
Gosh that was funny and I did laugh. I needed that!
It made me remember doing the hokey-pokey as a kid. Wow good memories and thanks to Mr. LaPrise for writing such a fun song.
Pax
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!
Lost me at “an’ then you shake it all about…” My sweet old auntie once told me never to stay at a wake where the corpse behaves that way…
It’s strange, I thought he died a couple of months ago. Well. I did add his name to the “Hokey Pokey” in one of my music books that seems to think everything was written by elves, but after that I found out that the Hokey Pokey is 90% identical to an older British number called “The Hokey Cokey.” So it goes.