SUNDAY FUNDAY OCTOBER 27, 2024 GROOVY

SUNDAY OCTOBER 27, 2024

FEELING GROOVY

Hey, Cats, I’m working on a groovy thing this week.  It is really copacetic and far out. I'm on quite a trip.  You know, “If this van is rocking, no need knocking”.

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Slow down, you move too fast

You got to make the morning last

Just kicking down the cobblestones

Looking for fun and feeling groovy

Ba da-da da-da da-da, feeling groovy

(Simon and Garfunkel - 59th Street Bridge Song - 1966

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QwxTXGSLWQ 

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Wouldn't you agree?
Baby, you and me got a groovy kind of love
(Mindbenders 1966)

Link: Mindbenders - Groovy Kind of Love 

Working on a groovy thing baby
Working on a groovy thing
Working on a groovy thing baby
(Fifth Dimension  - 1969)

Link: The 5th Dimension: Working on a Groovy Thing

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SOME THOUGHTS FROM THE 50’S AND 60S

Remember the good old days, when radios plugged in and toothbrushes didn’t?

Pretty soon we’re going to be a transistorized, battery-operated, muscleless society. Yesterday a kid showed up for his first Little League game. They gave him a bat and he wanted to know where to plug it in.

I can see it now. Hundreds of years from now, archaeologists will be poking around in the dust of what once was New York—trying to determine what caused the decline and fall of the American civilization. And all they can find is a battery-operated pepper mill.

Do you know what’s wrong with living in a world that exists on the brink of atomic destruction? When you give up that hour in April—you’re never sure you’re going to get it back again in the fall.

I love the way they keep stressing a low-yield atomic bomb. That’s the military version of being a little bit pregnant.  I don’t know what a low-yield bomb is. Sounds a little like my wife.

The nice part about watching color TV is that if the good guy calls the bad guy a yellow belly, you can verify it!

Watching color TV is nothing new to me. I’ve got a wife who dyes her hair… She’s dyed it so many times. She’s the only woman I know with plaid dandruff!

Would you believe it? Some of these color TV sets sell for $599, and there aren’t enough to go around. Not the sets—the money!! (*$599 in 1969 is about $3,910 in 2016 dollars.)

I know a fella who bought a $99 color TV set. Now every Tuesday night he watches Green Skelton.

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And, to think we lived through it!!!  That’s “far out” folks.  

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Early voting is happening. I voted last Tuesday. (If the amount of money raised and spent on the political campaign was the same, there would be no national debt!!!)

LOVE WINS

Karen Anne White, October 27, 2024