Verisoph

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  1. Apparently it is either your fate, or your destiny, to try one. SifuPhil might be able to tell you which (fate or destiny). He's put much thought into the difference between these two things.
  2. Don't get me started. Canadian Bacon is one of the greatest frauds of all time - that stuff is ham, not bacon!
  3. Yep, right down to the parish of St. Alphonzo for a pancake breakfast. Although, there were hints that there was an ingredient in St. Alphonzo's pancake batter that didn't seem very wholesome. Oh yes, French Toast is another good one! But, don't mistake the runny egg wash that French Toast is dipped in with the batter that is used to coat a Monte Cristo. Monte Cristo batter is very much like pancake batter. In fact, if you're making them at home, pancake batter is a pretty good thing to use - just do youself a favor and leave out St. Alphonzo's "special" ingredient.
  4. If you like donuts, and you like grilled cheese sandwiches, the you owe it to yourself to someday try a Monte Cristo sandwich. Great poem, BTW.
  5. Oh that - I think another name for that is lard.
  6. Donuts are good, yes, but I tend to agree with Frank Zappa, who said, "there is naught, nor ought there be, nothing so exalted on the face of god's grey earth as that prince of foods - the muffin!"
  7. "Sweet Transvestite" and "I Can Make You a Man" should have been hits.
  8. That would be Shocking Blue. Bananarama did well with a remake, too.
  9. It's a bit schmaltzy, I suppose, but its singalong potential is enormous.
  10. Do you mean Diana Krall? She's a fantastic jazz pianist and vocalist, but as a songwriter, she has yet to prove herself. She's recorded eleven albums, and on one of them she co-authored six songs with her husband, Elvis Costello. Everything else she's released has been covers of jazz standards. If that is who you're referring to when you mention Diana Crawl, which of those six songs that she co-authored do you think qualifies her as a great songwriter, an exception to what else is out there today?
  11. And there's also "The Moonbeam Song," which I think is the best song on the album.
  12. Currently, they're gathering dust. I'm letting them age to perfection, don't you know?
  13. Tainted Love by Soft Cell 99 Luftballoons by Nena (I hated that song)
  14. Oh yeah! That album was a psychedelic masterpiece.
  15. Harry Nilsson doesn't really qualify as a one hit wonder - he also did Everybody's Talkin', which was used as the theme to Midnight Cowboy, in addition to being a hit on its own. He's also an excellent songwriter. On the same album as "Coconut" is the song "Without You," (can't live... if living is without you) which has been recorded by at least a dozen artists, and has been a hit twice. There are plenty of great songwriters around. Maybe you just aren't listening to enough new stuff - you have to separate the wheat from the chaff - it's always been that way. He played at Pat 'N' Nick's, a bar by my house, about a month ago. It's kind of sad to see a musician of that caliber playing bars, but he did a great show. Speaking of great songwriting - Leon's "This Masquerade" is one of the finest songs ever written, IMHO.
  16. He spoke rather fey as he cast it away, "If this were my eye, I'd pluck it."
  17. got a gut feeling that's gnawing at my bones life is a cliché
  18. I have a statement but it's personal

  19. And then there's the Neo-Japanese Haiku: it's all good Okay, I admit, I made that up. The name "Neo-Japanese," that is, not the haiku. On second thought, I made up the haiku, too. Well actually, I didn't make up the phrase which makes up the haiku, but I am perhaps the first to present that phrase in the form of a haiku. Does that count for anything?