:hilarious: Too cute, Pm!
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:hilarious: Too cute, Pm!
Cathy, that's hilarious! I love it.
HAHAHA! That's great!Quote:
Originally Posted by Prettymaid
:hilarious: I just don't know if I could exercise with an Eagle in the same room.
I love it too Cathy! I'm familiar with the Mii characters as well. Chris makes them on his Wii.
I was in the local chipper today and the guy behind me in the queue had a sweatshirt with a logo stating
'US Open, Pebble Beach, 2010'
Even with a giddy 6-year old with me, just reading those words made me smile and sent my mind into very nice places....
Ah yes! If only Glenn had been at Pebble Beach in 2010. :( But we always have the memories!
There's a street near me called "Applian Way." Of course not only Rome but LROOE crosses my mind every time I see it, regardless of the extra letter!
Yes! Soda! Wonderful memories I'm sure.
We actually DO have an 'Appian Way' in Dublin.
On Freyday last I saw an advertisement for a benefit night for somebody in the school whose husband had died. Anyway the band playing at it are called 'The Allnighters'
Yesterday we went to lunch in TGI Fridays. On the way in PEF was playing on the radio and when we got in guess what the cocktail of the day was?
Yep! Tequila Sunrise. Of course I HAD to have one.....
I saw today a episode from Deadliest Catch with the name When Hell Freezes Over!
Don Henley is in my English Literature textbook! I was flipping through the pages trying to find my assignment, and much to my amazement, there was a picture of our very own Don! There is only one page about him, and it's pretty interesting. I enjoyed reading about him much more than the stupid story I had to read for homework :hilarious:
Oh my gosh, how cool is that??? What was the article about?
This is the opening paragraph:
"In 1990, the musician Don Henley of the rock group the Eagles founded the Walden Woods Project to protect a part of Walden Woods under threat of real-estate development. Here Henley talks about how Thoreau and Emerson contributed to his "spiritual awakening' and his commitment to the preservation of Walden Woods."
My book is called Elements of Literature Fifth Course if that matters lol.
I used that same textbook in high school. I had totally forgotten about it until I saw your post. I remember looking through the table of contents and being shocked to see Don's name. Of course I flipped straight to it and read the page about him. It was about how Don was influenced by Emerson and Thoreau. I believe the picture was from HFO.Quote:
Originally Posted by EaglesFanatic
How cool!Quote:
Originally Posted by EaglesFanatic
I would have had this book at school also with pleasure! However, in my English Literature textbook were mentioned, at least, Elvis Presley and Phil Collins / Genesis, also not bad!
Wow! I wonder what Don thinks of being mentioned in a textbook? Very proud, I'm sure!
Whitcap-yes I think the pic is from HFO. That's pretty cool that I'm using the same textbook as you did!
Koala-It's fun to have a textbook with him in it. Except for the fact that the book weighs about 100 pounds! :hilarious: That's cool that Elvis and Phil was in yours. I :heart: Genesis
Yet another reminder of the Eagles at school today... So I was in my Book Of Psalms class, and we were studying the 23rd psalm. That in itself reminded me of the LROOE lyrics.
It's great to be reminded of my favorite band on a daily basis :lol:
I also, I'm a huge fan!Quote:
Originally Posted by EaglesFanatic
Today at work I had once more time to make something for the school library and I've found a book about pirates. The pirate ship was called EAGLE and the fearless(this stood really there) captain was called Frey!
Good catch EF!Quote:
Originally Posted by EaglesFanatic
Wow! Cool! That's my kind of pirate book!Quote:
Originally Posted by Koala
I can see this being one of Ticky's fantasy stories! :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Koala
That's so funny! How ironic!Quote:
Originally Posted by Koala
Incredible! But soooo cool!
Our Fearless Leader!
Koala, great find with that book. :thumbsup:
EF, very cool about Don being mentioned in your textbook. That must've been really exciting to stumble upon that. I sure hope you got your assignment finished. I know i'd have a hard time getting any homework done knowing that Don's mentioned in one of my textbooks.
I had two reminders recently. Well, one of them happened about a month ago. That one would be when I won an eagle from one of those claw machines that you try to win stuffed animals from. My niece, Natalie, wanted to try the game but gave up after two tries then asked me to play for her. I asked her which animal she wanted me to try to get and she pointed out the Eagle and I got it on the first try. That was the first time I have ever won something from the claw machine. Nat was so happy when I won it. She ran to her mom to show her and said "Auntie Jessica won this Eagle for me!!" Since the eagle is the school mascot for my hometown her mom said "Cool, that's like the Weatherford Eagles." Natalie added "And it's like Auntie Jessica's Eagles." :grin: Here's a pic of Nat's prize.
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c9...9-07201804.jpg
My second reminder is from a t-shirt that my mom gave me last week. This is supposed to be for my hometown Weatherford Eagles but I like to think that it's also for our guys too.
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c9...06132449-1.jpg
Cool shirt Peek!!! And what did Nat name the little Eagle? Donny?
So cute, Jess!
I always loved it when one of my textbooks would mention something really cool in it - gave me a whole new respect for it. :thumbsup:
And Jess - that Eagle and tee shirt are both beautiful!!! :lol:
Well I was on the phone talking to Soda last night as she was driving to her friend's house in Mississippi. She passed through Coffeyville. Both of us said something simulanteously along the lines of "hope you don't spot two brothers lyin' dead". Ah - great minds.
Lol! I'm not sure if she named it or not but i'll be sure and run that name by her. Nat named her puppy that she got a few months ago Skittles so there's really no telling what she named the Eagle.Quote:
Originally Posted by TimothyBFan
EF's post about Don being mentioned in one of her textbooks reminded me of an assignment that I had in my English Lit. class in high school. I can't believe I'm only just now remembering this. This was either during my junior or senior year because it was after Don's Inside Job album came out. It was during the poetry section of the class and my teacher had us listen to Taking You Home and They're Not Here, They're Not Coming. I remember we had to write about our thoughts and interpretations of both songs and then discuss it with the rest of the class. I'm wondering if I still have those papers boxed up somewhere in my parents basement with the rest of my high school stuff. I know I kept some of that stuff but the question is where in the basement among the thousand other boxes is it at.
At the time I didn't know anything about Don or who he was but I knew of Taking You Home because it was being played on the radio quite a bit and I really liked the song. Not long after that assignment I bought Inside Job. I wasn't into any of the other songs except TYH but I never really gave the whole album a chance till I really got into The Eagles about 3 years later. After buying The Very Best Of album I was hooked and the rest is history.
I've had a few this weekend. Saturday when we were getting the Sirius hooked up in my car, they were having trouble adjusting the bass and treble etc. There was a comment made about there not being enough bass and I kiddingly said "I really like the 'booming bass' of the Eagles" and Larry came back with "no, you really like the bass player of the Eagles". :hilarious: Glad he's secure enough that that doesn't bother him.
And also, while they were working on that stereo at ABC Warehouse, I decided to head next door to waste some time at the Bargain Book store. I went to the entertainment section and picked up a huge book about singles released the last 30-40 years. The first page I opened to was 1977, one page had a picture of the Eagles and the other page had a picture of Stevie Nicks. :thumbsup: A good combination I thought.
This is kind of silly, but it made me grin. I just got an email back from the headmistress of a local school (I enquired about classroom vacancies) and instead of "Dear Louise", she obviously made a typo, and it said "Lear Louise." Couldn't help thinking of Don's infamous activities in the '70s and how I wouldn't have objected if he wanted to Lear me over to wherever he was! ;) :twisted:
Ooooh I'd say you'd be happy for Don to Lear you anywhere Louise....
And I LOVE your new av!
I was just looking at a Tee-Shirt design company's website and found this
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17...rummer-des.jpg
Guess who sprung to mind??:pimp: :drummer: :grin: :hilarious:
:hilarious: !! I think guitar players are in that category too :rockguitar:!
LOL!!! That's great!
LOVE IT!!! :thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by tequila girl
I was recently listening to one of last weeks episodes of The Bob and Tom Show. Bob mentioned that he went to the Eagles concert in Indy last week said it was a great show. They ended up playing an interview they did with Joe a few years ago.
Oh yeah, Bob and me stood with our arm around each other drinking a beer and belting out Hotel California. We go way back! :lie: :hilarious:
Well, now that I've sufficiently recovered from the trip back from Austin, it's time to reveal my terrifying tale...
LOST IN LINDEN!!!
Heading back from Austin to Memphis takes you right by Linden. Since I was driving alone, there was no reason why I couldn't cruise around and get a good look at the "fertilizer of Don's genius." Maybe I could even get my courage up to ask a local about him.
The only problem was that I left later than planned, and by the time I hit Linden, the sun was setting. I wouldn't be able to see a thing! Oh well, at least I'll stop and eat something there, I thought.
I used my GPS, which I have named "Bridget", and did a search for food. A place called "Music City Pizza" came up. That sounds promising! I thought. I remembered Don's buddy Richard Bowden had done some kind of Music City thing near Linden and I wondered if this was affiliated. If so, surely they'd love to talk about Don there!
I set "Bridget" to find "Music City Pizza" and before you know it, I was in downtown Linden, cruising by the courthouse and a couple churches.... but when Bridget said "Destination on Right" there was no pizza place there! There were some shops there but they looked closed. Oh well, guess I missed it, I thought. I'll just circle back and try again.
And here is where my heartache began. There was a lot of construction and there was a car behind me, so I was reluctant to just turn around in a parking lot. I figured I would just drive a couple more blocks back to Highway 59 and then pull back around.
So I did.... but it was really dark - the moon was nothing more than a sliver - and it was hard to make out streets to turn onto. Finally I saw one - "Center Hill Road" - and drove onto it expecting to see lovely little Linden houses in the dark. Instead, somehow, I found myself on a gravelly road, surrounded by trees, barely able to see the road in the pitch black, with large ditches on either side. Bridget kept telling me to do a U-turn, but the street was narrow and I had a nightmarish vision of my trusty Honda winding up in a ditch in Linden. NOT a happy thought. So I kept driving, looking for a road - Bridget kept claiming I was passing roads, but I never actually saw them, just driveways - unless those were the roads?? I just kept going deeper into the woods.
How did this happen? I didn't go THAT far! I thought unhappily. Only I could get lost in a town this size while in possession of a GPS.
I inched along - no problem with a car behind me this time, there was NO ONE around - and finally made out a street sign that said "Rush." There were signs of civilization here, so I reprogrammed Bridget to just take me back to freaking Music City Pizza please. However, once again, she let me down and it wasn't where she said it was.
No longer willing to keep driving like last time, I just kept u-turning using various parking lots and even a couple driveways. "Who knows, maybe I just u-turned in the driveway of Don's old house!" I muttered after the second or third one. "Wouldn't THAT be cool... NOT!"
At this point a car seemed to be following me. I wondered if some local was thinking I was a crazy drunk or whatever. I was so embarrassed and I just was grateful that it was too dark for people to see my Eagles license plate and know exactly what kind of buffoon I am!
Then I saw it... a sign glowing in the dark invitingly, like an old fluorescent friend.... DAIRY QUEEN! Ah yes, an Oreo Blizzard would make me feel MUCH better. Screw "Music City Pizza" - screw all of this crap - I'm outta here! I pulled in the parking lot, had myself a nice big dose of ice cream, and decided that it was time for me to leave Linden and return at a time when I could actually see what I was doing.
But at least I got a gas receipt with the name of the town on it. lol
(BTW, Dairy Queen is really happenin' in Linden. The admittedly small parking lot was so full I had to circle the building to find a space, and there were people of all ages inside, including three cops who were apparently in no hurry to go out and patrol the crime-ridden streets of Linden, lol. At least I got that part of the "Linden experience"! ;) )
Oh my, Soda! At least you tried! I'm glad you made it out of there safely.
As for gps', mine has quit working. Last Sunday we had to drive to Alton, IL and it never could find a satellite. Luckily we knew where to go, but Tom Tom has been sent in for a replacement! :rolleyes:
Soda, I just went back and reread the dream you had about visiting Linden, forgetting that I was in it! (So were you, Brooke!) No visit to Dairy Queen in your dream (wouldn't that have been freaky!) - in fact, no food at all, which is unlike your usual Soda Eagles Dream but a fine dream regardless.
Even though you got lost in Linden and didn't get to see or hear about any Don stuff, I still wish I could have been with you. We probably wouldn't have gotten as lost, and I could have enjoyed an Extreme Chocolate Blizzard with you! :wink: