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POPSDon S. Davis passed away Services for Don S. Davis will be small and private, in both Vancouver and Los Angeles. His Web sites will be updated this week, and his obituary has been published in the Vancouver Sun newspaper. In lieu of flowers or gifts, the family requests that donations be made to the American Heart Association in Don's memory.
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POPSSomebody Should Do Something About All the Problems
DNA fingerprinting—that's what they're doing now. And still strawberries at Bergmann's are $2.99 a quart. It's ludicrous. It's as if we live in the Dark Ages. Cloned genes and fiber optics, but the cat still goes into heat and scratches up my new mahogany coffee table. I kicked that thing as hard as I could with my good leg and it still came back screeching and wagging its fanny like a Broadway showgirl. Isn't there something someone can do about that? I'm sure with all the vaccines and hybrid cells and carbon dating equipment we've got today someone can take a minute to whip up a pill I can force down Pumpkin's throat so I have one decent thing in this shoebox house that I worked like a dog at the phone company for 27 years in order to afford. These are the good years for me? Huh! I'm still watering my flowers and hosing off my driveway. Where is the fiber optics in that? How's superconductivity helping me when my new cotton housedress shrank up to nothing the first time I pu
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POPSKeeping Score She asks, “Does this dress make me look fat?” * You hesitate in responding…..-10 * You reply, “Where?”…..-35 * You reply, “No, I think it’s your ass”…..-100 * Any other response…..-20 When she wants to talk about a problem: * You listen, displaying a concerned expression…..0 * You listen, for over 30 minutes…..+5 * You relate to her problem and share a similar experience…..+50 * Your mind wanders to sports and you suddenly hear her saying, “…well, what do you think I should do?”…..-100 * You have fallen asleep…..-200 IT’S THAT TIME OF THE MONTH You talk…..-100 You don’t talk…..-150 You spend time with her……-200 You don’t spend time with her…..-500 You seem to be enjoying yourself..-1000
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POPSAqua Globe The Aqua Globe keeps my plants watered and healthy. I love this thing! Just set it and let it water your flowers and plants for you.
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POPSMystery Of Infamous 'New England Dark Day' Solved By Tree Rings Damn, there goes another great "mystery!" This is one of the better researched and annotated mysteries as the article says of what people recorded of animal behavior and that Gen. George Washington commented on it in his journal. Tree ring dating is helping us understand many strange atmospheric events. Listen the trees are "talking."
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POPSWherever We Go "We brought the welcome mat... We don't claim any know-how... God help us, we just love our job" Wherever we go, bluebirds sing And the flowers bloom And the grass gets green It's a curious thing But it's just our thing Wherever we go, the bees behave In the treetops, squirrels smile and wave It's a curious thing And it's humbling Where we go, little glow-worms glow Little roadrunners run ahead Gonna tell their friends Little mice, little men Get'em all excited All invited Chorus: Hands up Holler back here Let's throw this party in gear We brought the welcome mat Wherever we go, that's where the party's at Hands up Holler back now We don't claim any know-how We're giving God all that Wherever we go, that's where the party's at Wherever we go, the dumb get wise And the crime rates drop And the markets rise It's a curious thing But it's just our thing Bullies make nice, crooks repent And the ozone layer shows improvement It's a curious thin
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POPSDion sang 'worst ever cover song' Will Young was fourth with his cover of The Doors' Light My Fire, which reached number one in the UK top 40 charts in 2002, and The Mike Flowers Pops rounded off the top five with their cover of Oasis' Wonderwall. In the list of best covers, The Beatles' rendition of Twist and Shout, first recorded by the Top Notes, was in second place, followed by the Guns N' Roses version of the Wings' song Live and Let Die. Nirvana's cover of The Man Who Sold the World by David Bowie, and Muse's Feeling Good, made famous by Nina Simone, also appeared in the top five.