On my Etsy email alert for what's trending this morning was an idea titled "Pretty Maids in a Row" . Where's the "ALL"? :hilarious:
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On my Etsy email alert for what's trending this morning was an idea titled "Pretty Maids in a Row" . Where's the "ALL"? :hilarious:
I had to go to a baby shower this afternoon. AND PLAY GAMES. Why on earth do we still do this? Anyway, one was a crossword puzzle we had to fill in, and every clue started with the word 'mother' and it was the word that followed it that you had to fill in (like 'goose'). Of course, I thought about Glenn and what one of the answers would be if we were in Detroit... :D
Too funny, VA!
good one VA:hilarious:
Ok, this reminded me of Don Henley-he has now been proven right on the great toilet paper debate!
http://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/s...per/ar-BBik7hW
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That's so funny......I thought the same thing when I read that yesterday!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Brooke
Our Don was right :grin:
I just came here to post the same thing!! Love it...Quote:
Originally Posted by Brooke
Don was indeed right, and VA I love your one too. We have a restaurant called 'Mother Hubbards' over here. I think I referred to it as 'The Restaurant where Mother is half a word'. Mr Frey has a lot to answer for!!
I was watching 'The Voice' the other night and one of the contestants sang Make You Feel My Love. Of course, it made me think of Timothy. :thumbsup:
I've just read a fawning, droolfest concert revue of a Prince concert/sacrament.
Somewhere down the bottom of the eulogy it's mentioned that His Royal Petiteness had requested a camera/cell phone ban.
that was awesomeQuote:
Originally Posted by Ive always been a dreamer
and then later they sang Hotel California
Yep - I heard that. They had some nice harmonies going on, but, otherwise, I wasn't enamored with the performance. In fairness though, I've never seen anything come close to the original. :thumbsup:
Now every time I see a Duluth Trading Co. commercial, I think of Don, which is pretty often during a hockey game!
I had a very weird phenomenon happen to me this past Friday - weird almost to the point of spooky. I was driving home from work and my car's odometer turned to 60,000 miles. I happened to notice that at the same time, the thermostat was registering the outside temperature of 60°, so I thought that was pretty cool. The next moment I looked up as I was veering onto the entrance ramp of the interstate and saw the sign with the posted speed limit of 60 mph. Just when I was thinking now this is weird, I realized the license plate of the car ahead of me ended in 60. That's when I was actually a little spooked. So, what does this have to do with the Eagles? :shrug: Well, I don't know except the Eagles appeared on 60 Minutes and they are all in there 60's. :fear: :thumbsup:
In the book I'm reading, the writer is living in a squat that they call the Roach Motel named after an insect trap. I wasn't familiar with the brand (luckily!) but the tagline is "Roaches check in, but they don't check out!" If Henley and Frey had been reading Kafka, maybe they'd have come up with something like that.
And Glenn's nickname in the 70's was Roach!Quote:
Originally Posted by UndertheWire
Even better! I'd forgotten that.Quote:
Originally Posted by GlennLover
Dreamer, that's a lot of 60's! :fear:
Love all those 60's co incidences Dreamer
Wasn't sure where to post this but I came across this today and saw that my birth month was a fairly accurate description of me (I'm not sure if that's good or bad :grin:).
Then I decided to look at the guys birth months and found that each one fitted the description of their month fairly well - so they are well in tune with their characters....
Does anyone else think the same ??
http://i1288.photobucket.com/albums/...psm8nbqxqi.jpg
I've added a second slide with the rest of the current/past band members:
http://i1288.photobucket.com/albums/...pskqtafqls.jpg
November lost me when "their" was used instead of "they're"'; the other errors in the descriptions were annoying, but that one's a deal-breaker for me. ;)
I can see some aspects that are applicable and some that aren't. I don't trust such charts, but I like it when they say nice things about me. ;) That's how they work, though; each one is designed to make people born that month feel special, which in turn makes them want to share the result. Still, there's no harm in having fun with it and it gives us something to talk about! :)
My big brother called me up today. He just came back from riding a Harley to & from Costa Rica. He is 68.
We were talking about summer plans & I mentioned going to see the Eagles in Atlantic City. This is the big brother who enlightened me to The Eagles when he smashed my Donny Osmond cassette tape & he gave me his record player to listen to "real" music; Eagles & Linda. I never did miss that cassette after that. Funny that he remembered that from 40+ years ago. Trust me back then I didn't understand a lot of stuff, think I was around 12 or 13. He was on a semester break from college.
He was laughing saying you still like Don Henley! DUH!:thumbsup::hilarious:
But of course! ;)
Fun memory!
JMS, your brother sounds awesome.
Lacken, thank you so much for the additional info - the March description seems to fit Randy pretty well, though I wouldn't know about the great kisser part (tragically!)
My Eagles reminder came Sunday night while watching an episode of Columbo called "How to Dial a Murder." The killer is a film buff who goes to an old movie set where they filmed Westerns. It looked exactly like the Paramount Ranch where the boys did their cowboy shoot 'em up thing for Desperado.
I'm looking at the details of new joiners at work and one has an address on "Glen Eyre Road". I wonder if my tablet would try to auto-correct.
Driving on the motorway the other day I passed a van with the name 'tbs adaptions'.
From googling I think the 'tbs' in this case means 'the bathroom specialists'. :grin:
There's a player on the TB Lightning named J.T. Brown and I always hear J.D. Souther instead. I'm in far too deep lol
Of course this reminded me of our guys. It's a tweet from a Pittsburgh reporter regarding the Riverhounds v DC United soccer game last night:
He followed it up with this:Quote:
One thing I learned tonight: D.C. United fans are very adamant that you not say "the" in front of the team name. Not sure how that matters.
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Prob one of those British grammar quirks that soccer has adopted. Sorry, but I'm using American English since I'm speaking to Americans.
Anyone know why the Eagles are adamant about not being called The Eagles? Is it to avoid being confused with the Philadelphia football team? Or maybe for subtle aesthetic reasons we can't discern.
Someone on another music board I visited said that Don Felder's book should properly have been entitled, "Heaven and Hell: My Life in Eagles." :)
Henley certainly gets bothered about almost calling Led Zeppelin "The Led Zeppelin" in the doc, so maybe the band had something against "the".
I've decided that how I'm going to handle it is this... They are a band, not a flock of birds or a football team. So using substitution, when it's appropriate to say 'band', I'll say 'Eagles'. When its appropriate to say 'the band', I'll say 'the Eagles'. At no time will I ever say 'The Eagles' :D
When listing thing alphabetically, The Eagles puts them way down the list. I never know if I should look in the 'E' section or 'T' section, because I never know if the person publishing the list knows they aren't The Eagles.
In general, I think it looks stupid to put the word 'The' in the name of a group. I can see why The Rolling Stones did it, sort of, but the rest that have the word 'the' in the title baffle me. It's not like anyone tries to make it The Philadelphia Eagles or The Pittsburgh Steelers, yet James Harrison plays for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
I think our guys have the right of it, and I doubt it would be such a big issue except Felder made such a big deal of it being 'The' (if I remember correctly).
There is a Mancunian radio presenter who nearly always calls the band Theagles.
Apparently, he saw a local Lancashire band , cover an Eagles tune with the introduction "This next song was originally sung ba't Th' Eagles" :)
It's been pointed out to me that Glenn has never introduced a concert with "Hi! We're Eagles from California"
[quote=Funk 50;303067]There is a Mancunian radio presenter who nearly always calls the band Theagles.
Apparently, he saw a local Lancashire band , cover an Eagles tune with the introduction "This next song was originally sung ba't Th' Eagles" :)
It's been pointed out to me that Glenn has never introduced a concert with "Hi! We're Eagles from California"[/quote]
Well no, he doesn't, because he's talking normally so he uses normal speech. In any case he hasn't done that since the reunion.
For the record NO football (soccer) team is called 'The' because the vast majority of team names are the name of a place. Very occasionally you will hear 'the Arsenal' as in 'one-nil to the Arsenal'. Arsenal are almost alone in having been named for where they were founded (Woolwich Arsenal) & then not changing it to a more specific locality.
I have seen video in which Steve Martin, while reminiscing about the old days at the (The?) Troubadour, recalls Glenn insisting that the name was Eagles, not The Eagles. Steve commented that he thought it should be the former.
There are lots of bands who don't officially have "the" in the name, but they don't get all hot and bothered when "the" gets used/capitalized. I'm not sure why it annoys the Eagles so much.
I will say this: you'd sound a little silly if you didn't use "the" in front of "eagles" in normal speech regardless of whether it's the band name or the animal because like it or not, the band named themselves after those animals and they have to follow the rules that apply to the common noun they chose as a result. As Funk 50 has pointed out, the band members themselves realize this and use "the" when speaking about the band.
The argument about "the" is nothing more than a semantic issue and I truly hope the band considers its misuse nothing more than a mild annoyance (the T-shirts being done as a joke).
What I take away from all the hoopla is this: do not capitalize "the" in written usage as it is not a part of the name officially, and do not put "the" at all when putting the name of the band in isolation such as on a list. Both of these I keep in mind when writing about them, but neither matters when speaking about them.
Funny aside: recently on a Doctor Who forum, there was a multi-page thread heatedly debating whether the character's name was "Doctor" or "The Doctor". It's not just our guys who care! lol
This is true even for the non-geographically rooted club names - north of the border in Scotland I have never heard people refer to 'The Celtic'. Rangers is a bit different but even then it tends to be either 'The Gers' or simply Rangers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Freypower
However, 'the' is very widely used as part of the nicknames of most clubs, with obvious examples from the English Premier League include Liverpool (The Reds), Arsenal (The Gunners), Newcastle United (The Magpies) and Crystal Palace (The Eagles (!)). However there are a few that don't feature 'the' as part of the nickname, such as Tottenham Hotspur ('Spurs' is the near universal nickname) and Wolverhampton Wanderers (Wolves).
Surely this explanation should clear it up! :brickwall:Quote:
Originally Posted by sodascouts
I am currently sitting in my living room with the window open and I can hear the constant chirping of a bird in the garden. It made me think of the Eagles because it reminded me of the bird chirps from Earlybird! :hilarious:
It's typical Irish summer weather here today - Overcast, humid, windy and can't decide whether or not to rain. I heard several people say "Strange weather out".
Made me smile :grin: