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Thanks, Mike, for the quick response and beta. Was it ever released on an album when it originally came out, or was it released only as a single? I have a bazillion PF albums, both vinyl and CD, but it isn't on any of them. Edited to add: I just Googled the lyrics. Got that funky chill/tingle on the back of my head when I read them. :shudder: I want that tune!

My sentiments exactly. BTW Jake, I haven't forgotten about your "smorgasbeerd"...

OK, so I dragged out my CD of The Wall today. I haven’t had it in a drive for years, but listening to it made me think of something from way back when the movie came out, like, 25 years ago or so. For those of you that remember/have seen the movie, there is a scene (right before the song Comfortably Numb begins) where the young “Pink” is going through his mother’s dresser drawers and comes upon the trappings of his dead soldier father: the military cover, the medals, etc. Pink puts them on and views himself in the mirror. There is a song playing in the background which is not on the The Wall's CD soundtrack. I have never been able to find it on any medium other than the movie video. Some of the lyrics: "They held the Anzio beachhead, At a cost of a few hundred more lives." (some more lines I can’t remember) "…and that’s how the Royal Command Took my Daddy from me!" The scene changes to outdoors along an English canal, with Pink running to care for his "pet" rat, and Comfortably Numb begins. So my question is: what is the name of that song, and where can I find it?

You bought your 'roids? I heard you could get 'em fer free, up on Capitol Hill...

WTF do you work, and WTF do you do? Ski lift mechanic?

...as in reach-around...?

You appear to be well-versed. Hearin' any crickets lately...?

I think Carl's "Warren Harding Gift Pack" was the funniest (especially with the tagline about adding wine), but then, I'm from that era, and it resonates with me. Honorable Mention goes to NTM (French Trad Rack).

from the article: If he's such a lousy fuck that even his wife won't sleep with him, don't you think he ought to get more than a year for screwin' the pooch? Horrors, think how Fifi must feel right now...

For some reason, this one just cracks me up... no caption required.

Curiosity killed the cat...

Or ipso facto Half-Not-Bee, n'don't you see? couldn't resist a MP moment...

From someone down below... "That was good!!"

And we in the USo'A just passed 300 million this morning.

What the Cheese Guy said. Tip 'em. If you can afford the trip, you can afford to tip!

That's Ilsa, Olga's sister. Yeesh! Those babes had the whole secret police thing covered.

I think, given her lineage, she would by necessity be from the KGB...

mmmmmmmmmmmmmm... Olllllllgaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa... mmmmmmmmmmmm... :slobber:

Damn, he's quick... Heyyyyyyyy, you changed your avatar pic. Where's Olga's yummy little tummy??

Damn! Happens every time!

acetone I'm not a girlie, either, but I've known that acetone = nail polish remover since I was, like, 12. What are they teaching kids in school these days, anyway? More to the point, acetone is the primary (and typically the only) ingredient in nail polish remover. The other ingredients are typically pigments for color and scents to cover the pungency of straight acetone. "Wiki" it... Just don't try to carry it in your nalgene bottle...

I'll have the one in the pink top. She has a tummy like Olga's... which reminds me, where is TreeToad these days, anyway...?

CP say: Walgreen's, K-Mart, Target, Rite Aid; the list goes on. It's nail polish remover, fer chrissakes. slaphappy sez: Works swimmingly on dried nail polish, which is a laquer (a paint) and also quite similar to automotive paints/finishes.

The scene: Arriving at a crag parking lot/base of a route/a bar... The conversation: Me: "Hi, I'm sobo." Them: "Oh, so you're that stoopid motherfucker." Me: "E-yup!" My reputation precedes me.

Went back to Lightning Dome again, but this time with pre-arranged partnership!! Met wazzumountaineer and NYC007 down there Friday night, and climbed a new line with them on Saturday after upper Cretin's Corner proved to be too wet for Kurt to run it out through the pro-less stretch to the fixed pin. So we detoured left on Black Pine Variation to the top of Cretin's Corner, and 3rd classed it to the ledge that houses my old (unfinished) project next to Y Chimney. Kurt spied a line that looked possible on the far left of this ledge, and we geared up for it. I didn't do any of the heavy lifting for the FA, but I was there to supply the necessary bolt kit and shout encouragement, and serve as belay bitch. Three brand new pitches later, we were standing on top of the Dome. The UberDuo called it hard 5.9, with lots of cleaning required. A single bolt was placed on lead with a hand drill early on the second pitch to link a traverse from a crack system to a lieback arch, and a knifeblade was placed near the top of the same pitch, also on lead, as well as all the wire brushing and gardening, true to the established area ethic. They're still thinking of a name for it. On Sunday, the WunderKinder did another new line through a roof at the Road Warrior area, and we watched as pup on the mountain and his partner got waaaaaaaaaaay off-route on Sticky Fingers and verified that the "possible traverse" over to upper Brown Sugar does in fact go. We can fix that little inaccuracy in the guidesheet now... Then we did some vertical bolted slab at the roadside upstream, and repeated a forgotten roof further up the road. Then we all shuffled back downstream and did Midnight Fright and the first pitch of Fat Albert to call it a weekend. I got a TR from Kurt so I could prove to myself that this fat old geezer could still do Fats Waller, a steep 5.10 slab, even if I can't see my toes when I stand up! I had a great weekend with these two. They and can climb some pretty hard shit while still being hungover. Ahhh, youth... Und ve all hat a gut time und it vas uber fun, ya! Acknowledged!