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Title: Gloom, despair, and agony...
Post by: Hutch on September 20, 2007, 09:13:37 AM
Excerpts from the headlines identified on the Drudge Report.


Canada's Dollar Nears Parity on U.S. Weakness...
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Fears of dollar collapse on Saudis concerns...

'De-Peg Inevitable'
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Euro Hits New High, Crests $1.40 Level...
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Gold hits highest level since 1980...

Oil Prices Stay Above $82 a Barrel...



Anybody else having some anxiety?  I'm such a Chicken Little, I'd like some views from smarter people than me?
Title: Re: Gloom, despair, and agony...
Post by: The Rabbi on September 20, 2007, 09:40:37 AM
Not necessarily smarter, just older.

If you had lived through the early and mid-70s you would know what bad is.  We arent nearly there yet.  When Qiana shirts make a come-back then you can start panicking.
Title: Re: Gloom, despair, and agony...
Post by: Brad Johnson on September 20, 2007, 09:43:47 AM

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Gloom, despair, and agony...


I though maybe you were talking about Hee Haw reruns.

Brad
Title: Re: Gloom, despair, and agony...
Post by: mtnbkr on September 20, 2007, 09:44:51 AM

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Gloom, despair, and agony...


I though maybe you were talking about Hee Haw reruns.

Brad

LOL! I remember that bit.

Chris
Title: Re: Gloom, despair, and agony...
Post by: Sergeant Bob on September 20, 2007, 09:51:15 AM
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Canada's Dollar Nears Parity on U.S. Weakness...

It'll be a cold day in h3ll before you'll see a Michigander using a Canadian quarter for anything other than fishing sinkers or slingshot ammo!
Title: Re: Gloom, despair, and agony...
Post by: Brad Johnson on September 20, 2007, 09:55:23 AM

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Gloom, despair, and agony...


I though maybe you were talking about Hee Haw reruns.

Brad

LOL! I remember that bit.

Chris

Sure, but can ya sing the whole song?  grin

Gloom, despair, and agony on me, (WhooOOOOoooaa..!)
Deep dark depression, excessive misery, (WhooOOOOoooaa..!)
If it weren't for bad luck I'd have no luck at all. (WhooOOOOoooaa..!)
Gloom, despair, and agony on me.


Brad
Title: Re: Gloom, despair, and agony...
Post by: Len Budney on September 20, 2007, 09:58:58 AM
Sure, but can ya sing the whole song?  grin

Every word and moan. I miss Hee Haw. And my grampa, with whom I watched it every evening.

--Len.
Title: Re: Gloom, despair, and agony...
Post by: Brad Johnson on September 20, 2007, 10:07:26 AM
There a still a few folks around from the show.  Lulu Roman still sings, making albums and the occasional personal performance.  She's still not a petite little thing, but severe health issues resulted in her pulling off a huge amount of weight over the last decade or so.

www.luluroman.net

*added*  Did a little history check on HeeHaw and remembered all kinds of stuff that used to keep me in stitches as a kid.  The kick fence, the "Saaa-Lute", the Gossip Girls, etc.  But how, oh my how, could any red-blooded American boy forget Gunilla Hutton (Nurse Goodbody)!

Brad
Title: Re: Gloom, despair, and agony...
Post by: The Rabbi on September 20, 2007, 10:20:46 AM
"You met another and pththth you was gone..."
Title: Re: Gloom, despair, and agony...
Post by: mtnbkr on September 20, 2007, 10:47:23 AM
I think I'll sing that tune in my best off-key southern drawl (which comes naturally) while leading the night ride tonight.  I'll either end up riding alone or I'll get a really good workout as I stive to stay ahead of the mass of bikers who want to kill me. Cheesy

Chris
Title: Re: Gloom, despair, and agony...
Post by: K Frame on September 20, 2007, 10:48:45 AM
I LIKED Hee Haw...

I also liked the Porter Wagoner show...
Title: Re: Gloom, despair, and agony...
Post by: Len Budney on September 20, 2007, 10:49:02 AM
"You met another and pththth you was gone..."

Actually, "Where O Where are You Tonight?" was a different song and a different sketch. Same guys usually sang it though. Sometimes both songs get in my head at the same time, and I get all confused which is which.

--Len.
Title: Re: Gloom, despair, and agony...
Post by: charby on September 20, 2007, 12:14:16 PM
ok this has to be one of the best thread drifts ever....  From the dollar going in the outhouse to heehaw

Title: Re: Gloom, despair, and agony...
Post by: Matthew Carberry on September 20, 2007, 01:50:56 PM
It ties together.  Hee Haw was on in the early '70s and, as Rabbi points out, the economy was really in the toilet then.  We ain't that bad off yet.

I'm a pickin'...
Title: Re: Gloom, despair, and agony...
Post by: armchair warrior on September 20, 2007, 04:46:19 PM
And I'm a grinnin' grin
Title: Re: Gloom, despair, and agony...
Post by: BakerMikeRomeo on September 21, 2007, 03:02:54 AM
We now return to

Hee Haw: The Next Generation