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Friday is the Birthday of A Certain Not-Nebraskan (but really, he is) Named Larry Jones
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Oct 08, 2009 05:52AM
Happy Birthday, Larry...thank you for all you add to TC...you are a friendly, intelligent presence in a world of airport delays, Cornhusker controversies, and Warren Buffet steak dinners...may your birthday be everything for which you wish, sir!
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A simple celebration, a gathering of friends; here is wishing you great happiness, a joy that never ends.
Happy Birthday Larry!
Larry's from Nebraska?
Happy Birthday, Larry, and many many more!
Happy Birthday, Larry, and many many more!
Nebraska, of all the gin joints in the world.... Oops wrong thing.Happy Birthday Friend! Hope you get that job!
Thanks, everybody. I appreciate it more than you know. Gus, I'm not from Nebraska, I just live there.
I'm not from here
I just live here
grew up somewhere far away
come here thinking I'd never stay long
I'd be going back soon someday
it's been a few years
since I got here
seen 'em come and I've seen 'em go
crowds assemble, they hang out awhile
then they melt away like an early snow
onto some bright future somewhere
down the road to points unknown
sending postcards when they get there
wherever it is they think they're goin'
I'm not from here
I just live here
can't see that it matters much
I read the papers and I watch the nightly news
who's to say I'm out of touch
nobody's from here
most of us just live here
locals long since moved away
sold the played-out farms for parking lots
went off looking for a better way
onto some bright future somewhere
better times on down the road
wonder if they ever got there
wherever it was they thought they'd go
hit my home town
a couple years back
hard to say just how it felt
but it looked like so many towns I might've been through
on my way to somewhere else
I'm not from here
but people tell me
it's not like it used to be
they say I should have been here
back about ten years
before it got ruined by folks like me
we can't help it
we just keep moving
it's been that way since long ago
since the stone age, chasing the great herds
we mostly go where we have to go
onto some bright future somewhere
down the road to points unknown
sending post cards when we get there
wherever it is we think we'll go
I would say, good poetry, Larry, but then you'd tell me it is a song lyric.
Actually ... heh ... it's a song lyric.
Well, you live there now, so technically, you're from Nebraska...
Gus wrote: "Well, you live there now, so technically, you're from Nebraska..."Until I move somewhere else.
But I'll never be a Nebraskan.
No, Larry is of the Hudson River School of Guys. Upstate and all that. Probably lived in what they call villages up thar in NY.
And I'll never be a North or South Carolinian. We're on the same boat, my friend. The blood from the streets of New York City still flow through my hardened veins.
I'm not from here, I just live here ....
Excuses, all of you. Typical northern aggression. hehehehehehe
It's true, I was born there. I live in Kentucky, which was torn apart because flatlanders said, secede! and the mountains said we don't want no part of your flatlander problems! and the river towns were like, no way, and make us the firing line?
Damn fuckin' right. Ya gotta fuckin' problem wit' dat?
And as I like to say to my Southern neighbors, "We kicked your asses before, and we'll do it again."
My neighbors looooooooove me.
And as I like to say to my Southern neighbors, "We kicked your asses before, and we'll do it again."
My neighbors looooooooove me.
LAAARRY!!!Happy birthday, friend! :)
Have a girly ninja cake:
Well, it's like this. I was raised in Texas, and in Texas what was more important than the war of northern aggression, was Texas History! In the fifth grade we had a class called Texas History. That is all we studied. I didn't know anyone still gave a shit about the civil war until I moved to Kentucky.
Well then Larry. Eat it. hehehehehehehehhehehehesnicker
Or, if you love it so much why don't you marry it
Don't you notice the throwing star in her girlie hand? You think she won't slit your throat after burying that throwing star in your forehead? Dude! Knife it, save yourself.
I know this is going to break your collective hearts, but I have to go for a while. Ta ta, happy almost Birthday Larry the not quite Nebraskan but has lived there long enough to be one.
Happy early birthday Larry! Do the waiters at Old Chicago sing for people's birthdays? (heh heh...)Did I miss something in another thread as far as Stephen saying "Hope you get that job!" earlier in post #4?
Thanks, man.Actually, the servers there just make fun of you on your birthday a little more loudly than usual.
And yes, I'm holding my breath (almost literally) after an interview yesterday. But now I don't want to talk about it anymore for fear of causing waves in the space-time continuum.
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Wishing you good luck. I will say no more now.
The train cake theme is very good. However, Larry is turning 97, not 10. Isn't that the right age there Larry? :-D
Age is, after all, just a number. A mile marker or sign post along the way. Like Burma-Shave.
Larry, Larry. I was keeding ewe. I membuh Eeta Eeta Zeeba
THE BIG BLUE TUBE'SJUST LIKE LOUISE
YOU GET A THRILL
FROM EVERY SQUEEZE
BURMA-SHAVE
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Happy Birthday, Larry!
You're welcome, Larry. :D
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