Maybe they'll come up with an orgasm day for USians.

I thought that was any day of the year we wanted to. I would hate to have to wait once a year to have a big "O" like the Brits do

Do you really need an entire day for foreplay? Wouldn't "National Foreplay Period of Three or Four Minutes" be just as good?

<bitch>
Three or four whole minutes? Gee, there must be plenty of satisfied women in your past.
</bitch>

Three or four whole minutes?

You'll be pleased to know that in the Northwest this is all celebrated informally as National Foreplay Week

Heavens man, where have you been, have you read none of this erudite stuff, everything from dog training, trams, trains and sexual protestations - I'm surprised that I haven't been approached to make a book of my better quotes.

Music, I've got around 900cd's and 2000 cassettes and LP's that I'm currently transferring to MP3's, I don't know what my favourites are, I'm a bluesman, but I've collected loads of other stuff over the years.
Most memorable albums of the top of my head: 1st Paul Butterfield, Ist James Brown at the Apollo, Albert Lee(Why is he not more popular), North Mississippi All Stars, Otis Blue, Jackson Brown (funnily enough), I may post more as I think of them.
I side stepped the Sting question by criticising Police: Sting, I think that he's indulged and indulgent. If he did a concept album on the life cycle of the pond newt, his record company would put it out, he's made it and can do anything he likes.
I thought after I had posted the criticism that I had only heard tracks on the radio, and that to be fair, I should get some of the stuff and listen to it, but Leeds Public Library, that fount of all knowledge, had none in stock!

Can't make that link work, but it's only my list of posts.

<bitch>
Gee, there must be plenty of satisfied women in your past.
<bitch>

<misogynist asshole>
I dunno, I never bothered to ask them!
<misogynist asshole>

August 1st: National Sit Back And Have A Smoke Day.

August 2, Explain the facts of life to the kids day, after they heard noises in the night!

They didn't have Jordan and her hell plates on the Record website, just the midges make an unusual contraceptive bit.

I don't think I've heard you talk about anything but talk radio and audio books.

Heavens man, where have you been, have you read none of this erudite stuff, everything from dog training, trams, trains and sexual protestations - I'm surprised that I haven't been approached to make a book of my better quotes.

Uhh, oops. That came out wrong. I meant to say that I hadn't heard you mention any music you enjoyed, as all the audio-related stuff you mention has centered around audio books and the radio. IIRC. Which I may not.

Santana's good, but I don't care much for Eric Clapton.

Anyway, it was time for a change, I might do a new Avatar at the weekend:

Bastard!

Only kidding, back to normal!
Always cared a lot for Tom Rush - let's be honest, I'm just living in the past!

The senior citizen - he only knows about talk radio and audio books, you know.

Ha!!!

Bitt, I wasn't going to presume by jumping in and trying to list Boxer's musical interests, but.....

....yeah, he is mired in the blues (so many of us old folks are!) but I just want to say that -- among the many, many pleasures of an Amersfoort pilgrimage (and there were many) -- I have to say that spending a while with a rib-addled Godfrey (as he recounts the many Claptons and Korners he has met or played with -- and who he may now love or not love) ranks way, way up there on the pleasure scale. Completely worth the price of admission all by itself. I was spurred to post this as Butterfield's "One More Heartache" just came up on the shuffle rotation and I remembered that the only way I could hold my spare rib (and head) up in Boxer's presence was by noting that I managed to see Butterfield *twice* before the bloom was off, so to speak.

Anyhow, I am hoping to keep enough United miles alive to manage a trip back next year so I can hear some more stories -- and get a look at that DUKW!

<bitch>
Gee, there must be plenty of satisfied women in your past.
<bitch>

<misogynist [censored]>
I dunno, I never bothered to ask them!
<misogynist [censored]>

<polite Canadian>
I hope you at least dropped them back off at their corner...
</polite Canadian>

<polite Canadian>
I hope you at least dropped them back off at their corner...
</polite Canadian>

They probably never needed to leave their corner

Uh... DUKW? Where???

Uh... DUKW? Where???

The not-quite Julf-sized DUKW in question is referred to here

(Those odd "Ducks" have always had a special place in my heart. They were always the high point of local Memorial Day and July 4th parades....in the 50s a Grossman's lumber yard in Braintree south of Boston had a few surplus DUKWs and Sherman tanks for sale -- you could see them from Route 3 -- and a seminal high school moment of mine revolved around an unsuccessful attempt to steal a DUKW from a barn. Now DUKWs are everywhere....as tourist vehicles...on the streets of Seattle, and Dublin, I see)

Well, I even saw one swimming past on the canal in the centre of Amsterdam on a Queen's Day a few years ago. Right now my friend is trying to get me to buy a Stolly.

Talking of queen's day, I've just survived Queer Day - the Gay Pride parade on the canals. Unbelievable how much speakers/amps they can pack on a boat, I had my front door rattling in time to the bass a couple of times (my house is facing the canal).

Thinking of retaliating - I can get 3 x 25 A at 230 V, so should be able to put out something like 10 kilowatts of power. Now I just need a big bunch of high-efficiency horn speakers...

"One More Heartache"

Ah, the resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw, a great album, but two things have vexed me this last quarter of a century:

1. A gave a guy a lift years ago who, on hearing "One More Heartache", said: Oh, that's a cover of that motown record by xxxxxxx. Who did originally record it, I've looked in passing at Motown compilations in stores, but never found it? - maybe it wasn't a motown record at all. Anyone know?

2. Who was Pigboy Crabshaw, and why did he need resurrecting?

Small things like this vex me more than the meaning of life, the universe etc.!!!

The model is roughly a metre long and can either be assembled front wheel drive, or if you really want a winter's work, full six wheel drive. I'm going for the latter, and hoping that it's within my modelmaking abilities.
I think that I said to Jim at the meet, I could kick myself, years ago I was offered a perfectly good one for £3,000 - I understand that a mint one commands £20-30k, these days. I haven't seen it lately, but there used to be one knocking around locally with a caravan body mounted on it - all purpose motor home!
A British Company is bringing out a top end of the range amphibian, shortly - 100mph, on the road, rather better than the Amphicar of old.
What's this thread about, foreplay and orgasms?

Marvin Gaye?
One more heartache
Written by: Smokey Robinson/Ronnie White/Pete Moore/Bobby Rogers/Marv Tarplin
Performed by: Marvin Gaye

http://www.mymusic.com/product.asp?muzenbr=185870&myptr=mhsresearch

Apparently Pigboy was Elvin Bishop's stage persona. Elvin sometimes poked fun at his own roots by calling himself "Pigboy Crabshaw." In those days, dress was casual and Elvin frequently would perform onstage wearing his country-boy overhauls and plaid flannel shirt.

Why he needed resurrecting, it doesn't say.

Elvin Bishop

http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/b/bishopelvin-thats.html

Thanks for that, I shall rest more easy in my bed, until I wake perspiring at 4am with an immediate need to hear what the Marvin Gaye original sounds like! - off to the store this lunchtime, more un warranted expense!

Ahh but why wait when you have the instant gratification machine called the internet.

http://www.mymusic.com/product.asp?muzenbr=185870&myptr=mhsresearch

Good Point, I'll have to wait until I get home - I have to set an example in the office!

Hmm... A modern amphicar? Any pointers?

If you mean what's an Amphicar,this should cover. If you want to know what the new thing's like, it's just a whisper, I don't think any more information is currently available.

I have been desiring an amphicar for a long time - so I'll just have to wait for news then

Ah... SWMBO's parents had one of those (except it was powder blue, not orange) when she was (much) younger.

Cheers

You'll need to keep your eyes on this site, in the meantime there's the Dutton, which is fibreglass, based on Fiesta parts, but they don't seem to have a website.

Found another one here!

SWMBO's parents had one of those

Were they professional rust collectors, or just playing at it?