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OK, forget Dollar; it was 50 cent. I’m not too clever on American money…
And I can definitely see some Deep Purple. There’s also a rooster; with better resolution I could probably tell if it’s atomic or not.
ETA The Mountains And The Trees (Canadian folk band)
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Well, someone had to:
Small, sleek, cowering, timorous beast,
Oh, what panic is in your breast!
You need not start away so hasty
With a hurrying scamper!
I would be loath to run and chase you,
With a murderous spade!I’m truly sorry that Man’s dominion
Has broken Nature’s social union,
And justifies that ill opinion
Which makes you startled
At me, your poor, earth-born companion
And fellow mortal!I doubt not that you may steal;
So what? Poor beast, you must live!
An odd ear from twenty four sheaves of corn
is a small request:
I’ll get a blessing with the rest,
And never miss it!Your tiny housie, too, is in ruin!
Its feeble walls the winds are strewing!
And nothing now, from which to build a new one
Of foliage green!
And bleak December’s winds ensuing
Both bitter and keen!You saw the fields laid bare and wasted
And weary Winter coming fast,
And cosy here, beneath the blast,
You thought to dwell,
Until crash! the cruel plow passed
Right through your cell.That tiny heap of leaves and stubble
Has cost you many a weary nibble!
Now you are turned out for your trouble
Without house or home,
To endure the Winter’s sleety dribble,
and frosty cold.But Mousie, you are not alone
In proving that foresight may be vain:
The best laid schemes of mice and men
Go oft astray
And leave us nothing but grief and pain
Instead of promised joy!Still, you are blessed, compared with me!
Only this moment touches you:
But oh! I backward cast my eye
On prospects turned to sadness!
And though forward I cannot see,
I guess and fear!The story goes that Burns was ploughing his field when he destroyed a mouse’s nest. He felt so sorry for it (we’re like that in the UK) he composed the poem on the spot.
One of my favourite pieces.
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“I don’t mind helping if the people spend a bit of effort trying to do what you suggest. If people continually ignore any suggestions, then I stop helping.”
Good grief, how many of us have been there?
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Police
The Beach Boys
Dollar
Madonna
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Now she’s a TV star, I suppose you’ll have to speak to her through her agent, Woody.
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