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Starts with two vowels

The following clues lead to words or names that have the unique characteristic of starting with two vowels. Eerie.

1. A rock band from Boston fronted by Steven Tyler

2. The Greek king of Thebes with a thing for his mother

3. Minor character in Oppenheimer who was born in Germany in 1879 and died in Princeton, NJ, in 1955

4. The largest blood vessel in your body

5. Arthur Read is one of these.

6. You might be reading the Brew through this Microsoft service.

ON this date in 1942 - After Bun Man and Mr. Purple gave an impassioned speech at the Actors Guild where they cited their reasons for canceling their daily radio broadcasts to their adoring fans, Glenn Miller ended his broadcasts for Chesterfield Cigarettes so he could go to World War II.

This was a time when all Americans supported the cause of freedom, not just those already in the military--Times have changed.

LOVE BOAT V2

ON this date in 1977 - "The Love Boat" debuted on ABC-TV.

The theme song was sung by Jack Jones and was written by Paul Williams and Charles Fox.

Bun Man and Mr. Purple were supposed to be among the cast but when it came to light they had photos of Lauren Tewes (Julie) in some compromising positions, the ABC geeks kicked them off the set.

The Boyz always thought the show was lame anyway.

They went back to playing cowpokes on 'Rawhide'.

ON this date in 1977 - "The Love Boat" debuted on ABC-TV.

The theme song was sung by Jack Jones and was written by Paul Williams and Charles Fox.

Originally based on 'The Life and Times of Bun Man and Mr. Purple', the show quickly became a sappy sitcom full of cheap, maudlin, and gratuitously cute 'love'.

The Boyz would have none of that and they distanced themselves from the show post haste.

10 years ago, I was in Montpelier VT on a motorcycle trip...

Lunch at Sarduccis in Montpelier...one of my fave restaurants, and

Met Bernie Sanders who was there having lunch also.

GREAT GOOGA MOOGA

L'il Wayne: People all over the world are shouting end the war and the band played on.
Jazzy J: Round and round and around we go, where the world's headed nobody knows.
L'il Wayne: Great googa mooga, can't you hear me talkin' to you, just a ball of confusion that's what the world is today
Jazzy J: Let me hear you, let me hear you, let me hear you
Ball Of Confusion that's what the world is today

(Homage to Temptations)

Environmental injustice carries the DNA of Segregation

Just read an obit where a guy was a Tennessee Titans fan and died at 57 years...

Damn, thought it would have taken him before that.

Ken-Dogger: Morning Cleo, what up?
Cleo: Looking up dangerous words…
KD: Really, what did you find?
C: Happened upon this one, FREEDOM…
KD: Oh yes, heard about it…
C: Is it the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint, or is it the power of self-determination attributed to the will; the quality of being independent of fate or necessity?
KD: It’s both, but seems it depends on where you live.
C: That’s why it’s dangerous, it’s not absolute.

Author F. Scott Fitzgerald born on this date in 1896

"In any case, you mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Tender is the Night"

Morning Peeps,

After we passed Autumnal Equinox day and we weren't teetering left or right, we now are back in the USA where the RIGHT seems to think everything should flow their way in spite of the force of the flow.

Getting a flu shot and covid booster later this AM...

Doing my part for Public Health

MAKE TODAY A SOULFUL DAY, LIKE RAY SAYS...

Historybook: American civil rights activist Victoria Woodhull born (1838); Nintendo is founded as a playing card company (1889); Musician Ray Charles born (1930); Neurologist Sigmund Freud dies (1939); Hurricane Jeanne kills more than 3,000 people in Haiti (2004).

"Soul is when you take a song and make it a part of you—a part that's so true, so real, people think it must have happened to you."

- Ray Charles

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