They Say It's Spring: Lounge LC Thread

RIP. He passed away last month. How many former Nats players do we have left?

Yes! That's it! He knocks it out of the park with the first stanza and never stops going.

On a semi-related note, I'm reading a book called The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald. When I read it to myself it's a wry, droll travel book, but when I read it out loud it changes character completely. It becomes a hilarious almost slapstick masterpiece that I have to put every few minutes to compose myself. The sounds and construction of the sentences force a rhythm that make it jump off the page and come to life. Great read. Recommended. Check it out!

John, before you retire, you should invite all the Lounge members to visit Rhode Island and go through graduation because of all the stuff you have pointed out and explained. I'm not wearing a gown, though.

consider me all fired up and stoked to board the uncle john cole retirement train of passing wisdom
reminiscent of the days when those wealthy in knowledge of certain things traveled without a hitch

curious your thoughts on the abrubt ending

I don't know if it's abrupt but maybe a continuation? If love begins with onions, does it continue at the end or stop?

I read it as a love poem, but I'm not sure. Does the speaker follow her up the stairs or is he left in the dark? I think he follows.

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how interesting, my question was in response to this

my default is to read as if speaking it
and after peeling back the layers i heard the tone and pace of onions quickly transform from saute to sod, happy mood to maudlin mud
vocal pace changes with persistent addition of consonants to slog through
and though vowels are present at the end, the odor of the switch still lingers

i never went to any graduation ceremony. i dont go to weddings or funerals either. at some point i got a diploma from college.
i dont know what i did with it as i cant remember. i do know i didn't save it because it wasn't as soft as toilet paper. which by definition is more useful.

I have 2 upcoming hs graduations, a niece and a nephew. Not looking forward to either of them. Thinking of printing off a face sign on a stick and paying a family member to hold it up beside them.

I almost agree about the degree, but it proves that you can finish what you started. I needed the degrees to get my job, but I chalk up the job to luck. Still, without the degrees, I couldn't have had that luck.

My daughter, though, had a high school degree and makes more than I do, even when I served as dean for a few years. But she's smarter than I am.

As far as graduations go, they are for others, not for you. Besides it's only for a couple of hours.

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substituted attendance at my college ceremony for illegal substances and a rousing match of frisbee with friends next to the pioneer cemetery in eugene

always wondered if they called my name more than once

we older graduates tend to have fewer others rooting for our diploma and do not care as much about displaying a certificate of tuition deposit on the wall

Wanted to skip both HS and college graduations. Really not a fan of those sort of things.

However, I was the first person in my family (not just mom & dad, but complete family) to get through college, so it was a big deal to mom & dad. I slept through most of the babbling.

IIRC, one of the speakers was a famous movie person, but I can't find any corroboration of that. Before I was into movies so much, but I knew the name. (Which I can't remember all these years later).

graduations and parades are two thing I really don't understand or enjoy. At all.

and funerals...

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Speaking of Parades, I would give my left nut to experience this live...

Edinburgh castle in Scotland where they hold and annual competition/performance at night for various bagpipe/drum corps groups... it's on my list to do someday.

I liked my town's 4th of July parade when I was a little kid. Basically a bunch of brass bands playing a tune for 3 minutes and then moving on. The whole thing took 20-30 minutes.

I used to like being in the July 4th parade when I was a kid, with my little league team in full uniform. That was fun. But I was out on parades when my Dad took us to see the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in NY. Freezing cold, I was too small to see anything, and since there was no place to go to the bathroom, I peed my pants. Which humiliated me and made me colder.

Oh, and my Dad told me to pee in my pants when he realized there was no bathroom available and we spent another 5 freakin hours standing there.

We don't talk much anymore.

Now its all become so clear...
:p

I totally adore people that are completely truthful and self effacing by the way...

That particular vid is from Glasgow Green, but the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo is held at the castle every August. It’s amazing to hear the pipes and drums in their natural environment

Never been a parade fan myself either. One in particular where I was forced to participate. We were in the shipyards at Bremerton Washington and the town of Bremerton was having a 4th of July parade and asked ships to provide some color guards.

Our Captain of course volunteered our color guard for the parade. Two problems with that. One, we didn't have a color guard. Two, as Gunnery Officer I was put in charge of the color guard.

This is a no win proposition. Either things go well and it is forgotten or **** goes sideways and torture ensues. This means I had to find volunteers and than spend a lot of time training them up so they weren't an embarrasment to the ship. It was a lot of work and then I had to be at the stupid parade all afternoon instead of enjoying a nice holiday off. Luckily they did fine and nobody got reemed. Turned out to be an attaboy when it could have easily been an awshit. And as everyone know it takes 100 attaboys to overcome one awshit.

amazing post bb

currently sitting in a Bozeman bar wishing lazy ray zee would come down from flathead and let me buy him a beer

It used to be just 10. Inflation i guess.

It's been a few decades may be off on the conversion rate 😀

do you have a merry reason for this confession?