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nice try at speed clapping, JoCo! -you are such a dork!
(first!
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Once upon a Monday morning, while I rose all tired & yawning,
I picked my clothes up off the floor.
While I nodded, nearly crashing, suddenly there came a thrashing,
As of someone violently kicking, kicking in my chamber door.
‘Tis some idiot I muttered, kicking in my chamber door-
only Chris and nothing more.
In the dark I hit the crapper but I forgot I had the clapper
But my feet were stuck in sand
Shirley, said I, is that someone eating lettuce at my window
And I only have one hand
Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to thinking
Who the hell is kicking, kicking in my chamber door
Lo & behold I discovered, it aint Chris but Mother Hubbard
huh? oh sorry…gotta go…lp
lol, Kam, that\’s awesome.
thnx, some days I got it, some days I don\’t. Glad to start your day with a lol though.
Joanne, did you say clapping or slapping? Well, welcome back!
speaking of rapping at my chamber door, check out the rap version of the raven.
Maybe you godless liberals call that “clapping,” but to me it’s some sort of Satan-inspired hand undulation.
That was a totally satisfying RB episode. Thanks.
Beautiful!
Now to quoth from Poe’s essay, ‘The Philosophy of Composition’:
“…and all experience has shown that this tone is one of sadness.
Beauty of whatever kind in its supreme development invariably
excites the sensitive soul to tears. Melancholy is thus the most
legitimate of all the poetical tones.”
Now if we could only Send Joanne to CrazyChick\\\’s Flamenco School…
AGAIN! -Goll dargin\\\’ fling-flangin\\\’ Captcha Spam Filter that chokes on the first Unix escape character it catches!!! (AND I was logged in!)
Ahem:
Now if we could only Send Joanne to CrazyChick\\\’s Flamenco School…
AGAIN! -Goll dargin fling-flangin Captcha Spam Filter that chokes on the first Unix escape character it catches!!! FINE – I will use no more apostrophes
Ahem:
Now if we could only Send Joanne to CrazyChicks Flamenco School…
AGAIN! -Goll dargin fling-flangin Captcha Spam Filter that chokes on the first Unix escape character it catches!!! FINE – I will use no more apostrophes
Ahem:
Now if we could only Send Joanne to CrazyChicks Flamenco School…
She would probably come back with a Mean clap!
Though if I would probably prefer to get my clap from the Lovely Ladies of the Gruppo Comp’c3′a0s Flamenco:
Or Sadie:
Or better yet, 5* Rachel Brice, The Snakecharmer:
-enjoy!
(thank ya JeeZUS, It’s Done! (yeesh!))
Um, did you want somebody to applaud now?
Hehe
if you watched the vids, you’d be standing on your chair and hollering!
Yes Mike, I give you special permission to applaud!
What in the heck have I just found on the internet. My head is swimming
when that clip with guy who kicked grandma rolled the track was one from the soundrack cd of film Ghost Dog Way of The Samurai.
The Sound of One hand Clapping
What is the Sound of the Single Hand? When you clap together both hands a sharp sound is heard; when you raise the one hand there is neither sound nor smell. (Smell?) Is this the High Heaven of which Confucius speaks? (I don\’t know, I\’m just a B-man) Or is it the essentials of what Yamamba (…sure that\’s not Yamaha?) describes in these words: \”The echo of the completely empty valley bears tidings heard from the soundless sound?\” (definitely Yamaha-beyond sound’99) This is something that can by no means be heard with the ear. (Unless Kam made an audio version of his poem) If conceptions and discriminations are not mixed within it and it is quite apart from seeing, hearing, perceiving, and knowing, and if, while walking, standing, sitting, and reclining, you proceed straightforwardly (to fall asleep?) without interruption in the study of this koan, you will suddenly pluck out the karmic root of birth and death (man can I use some plucking or ____ing) and break down the cave of ignorance. (oK. I\’m sold) Thus you will attain to a peace in which the phoenix (Joanne) has left the golden net and the crane has been set free of the basket. ( A tisket, a tasket) At this time the basis of mind, consciousness, and emotion is suddenly shattered (it already is); the realm of illusion with its endless sinking in the cycle of birth and death is overturned. (Like the Titanic) The treasure accumulation of the Three Bodies and the Four Wisdoms is taken away, and the miraculous realms of the Six Supernatural Powers ( YES!!!) and Three Insights (YES!!! AGAIN!!!) is transcended.
My humble apologies to: p. 164, Yabukoji, in The Zen Master Hakuin: Selected Writings, Translated by Philip B. Yampolsky, Columbia University Press, New York and London, 1971.
My, aren\’t we in the grove today! right on B-ster.
I think it\’s Yo\’mama….glad somebody caught the \’one hand\’ (clapping) reference in my poem.
Shame on us Rocketboom team, not only do we bastardize the man’s poem, may he rest in peace, but we add insult to injury by misspelling his name.
It’s Edgar Allan Poe, for those of us who noticed.
I think Allep the maven was his kid brother.
This is an example of a perfect episode of RB. Internet culture, literature, humor, information, and lots of Joanne doing what Joanne does best. Joanne, I adore you. To everyone else at RB, I adore Joanne….and great work on today\’s episode.
This episode came to my mind, when I were watching this (tuesday) days show.
http://www.mikontalolights.fi/en/
preview video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FmTWBoQ-jc
Man, it was amazing to play tetris displayed by this big building
I love the words and the rythym of them in this episode. The writer (or modifier in this case) should indulge themselves more often. It was a brilliantly executed, er, execution of one of my favourite poems.
Superb episode! Amusing adaptation to say the least!