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Can't get this chorus out of my head. 

If you want[b] it[/b]  -A
Come and get it  -A
Crying out loud  -B
The loving I was  -C
Giving you[b] was[/b]  -C
Never in doubt  -B

Lol.

Okay.  So, this song peaked all my interest o jere: 

1) The rhyming even got me reviewing what I learned in Poetry Class about Rhyming Schemes, and all that ABCD AABBDD Iambic Pentameter, Quatrains stuff.  Amazing what you won't forget. 
http://www.brighthub.com/education/k-12/articles/49445.aspx

2) Got me researching Babylon
"Effects of the U.S. military: US forces under the command of General James T. Conway of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force were criticized for building the military base "Camp Alpha", comprising among other facilities a helipad, on ancient Babylonian ruins following the 2003 invasion of Iraq.  US forces have occupied the site for some time and have caused irreparable damage to the archaeological record. In a report of the British Museum's Near East department, Dr. John Curtis describes how parts of the archaeological site were levelled to create a landing area for helicopters, and parking lots for heavy vehicles." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon

"Babylon occurs in the Christian New Testament both with a literal and a figurative meaning. The famous ancient city, located near Baghdad, was a complete unpopulated ruin by 275 BC, well before the time of the New Testament. In the Book of Revelation, the city of Babylon seems to be the symbol of every kind of evil."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon_(New_Testament)

3) Even got me back on the nerdy website where overly-analytical eggheads drive each other bonkers reading way too much meaning into every word in every line in a simple song
http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/33911/3/ASC/#comment

4) Got me researching Singer-Songwriters on Wiki.  Was royally ticked off 'cos they left out African traditional praise-singing culture, which is where their R&B, Jazz, Country and a lot of other musical roots began.    Mad enough to get a Wiki account and eff them up?     In all seriousness, all the more reason not to rely on outsiders to tell our story.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singer-songwriter

This will be one of the last songs I try to break down to the nitty-gritty.  That is, until I get my Barrister lyrics done.   

Hmm.  Sorry, there's not much to see - I'm very finicky about videos.  Not crazy about them; it often takes away from the enjoyment of the music. 

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DAVID GRAY LYRICS

   "Babylon"

Friday night I'm going nowhere
All the lights are changing green to red
Turning over TV stations
Situations running through my head
Well looking back through time
You know it's clear that I've been blind
I've been a fool
To ever open up my heart
To all that jealousy, that bitterness, that ridicule

Saturday I'm running wild
And all the lights are changing red to green
Moving through the crowd I'm pushing
Chemicals all rushing through my bloodstream
Only wish that you were here
You know I'm seeing it so clear
I've been afraid
To tell you how I really feel
Admit to some of those bad mistakes I've made

If you want it
Come and get it
Crying out loud
The love that I was
Giving you was
Never in doubt
Let go your heart
Let go your head
And feel it now

Babylon, Babylon

Sunday all the lights of London
Shining , Sky is fading red to blue
I'm kicking through the Autumn leaves
And wondering where it is you might be going to
Turning back for home
You know I'm feeling so alone
I can't believe
Climbing on the stair
I turn around to see you smiling there
In front of me

If you want it
Come and get it
Crying out loud
The love that I was
Giving you was
Never in doubt
Let go your heart
Let go your head
And feel it now
Let go your heart
Let go your head
And feel it now
Let go your heart
Let go your head
And feel it now
Let go your heart
Let go your head
And feel it now

Babylon, Babylon, Babylon

Winding down to page 100. lol.

Here's one of my favourite moments on this thread: 

"OMG!  Gigolos have invaded this space!"  https://l.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/24.gif

I paraphrased.    Anyway, who said it? 

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-590933.2464.html#msg8481457

Another favourite moment on NL:
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-675773.64.html#msg8400393

Footy News: 2012 Olympics

A British Soccer Team? What’s That? Say Scots, Welsh and Irish

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English soccer players may be alone in representing Britain.
September 18, 2011
New York Times

LONDON — The plan seems eminently reasonable: field a soccer team to represent Britain at next year’s Olympics, which after all are being held here, the home of the modern game.

But there are several problems. For one thing, there is no such thing as a British soccer team. Instead, in a country where devotion to sports is fueled by ferocious regional and political rivalries, there are instead individual teams representing Britain’s fractious, [b]proud and fiercely competitive [/b]constituent nations — namely England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Nor are the hypersensitive soccer federations in the non-English nations exactly clamoring to have their players compete side by side with players from their bitter rival, England. Although they have promised not to stop their players from participating, they have refused to officially sanction the idea of a national team and are actively discouraging anyone from joining it.

So angry were the Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish at the British Olympic Association’s proud announcement in June that it had reached an “historic agreement” to field men’s and women’s soccer teams in 2012 — Team GB, each will be called — that they responded with a proud announcement of their own.

The associations “reiterate our collective opposition to Team GB participation at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, contrary to the media release issued by the British Olympic Association,” their statement said.

The issue is simple, as Stewart Regan, chief executive of the Scottish soccer federation, explained at the time.

“We need to protect our identity, and we have no interest in taking part,” he said.

Still, the Football Association, as England’s soccer federation is known, plans to go ahead and organize Team GB anyway, knowing that the only way to satisfy its non-English counterparts would be to choose no one from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

“With the Olympics in Britain, and football being our national sport, we feel it would be an awful travesty if there were no football team in it from these shores,” said Scott Field, an F.A. spokesman. “It’s like Canada not having an ice hockey team in the Winter Olympics.”

Modern soccer began here in 1863. Through the influence of Britain’s far-flung empire, it spread to become the world’s most popular sport.

But Britain has not played men’s soccer in the Olympics in more than half a century, since the 1960 Rome Games, or even tried to qualify since the early 1970s. The British women have never entered a team since the Olympic tournament for women began in 1996.

While the International Olympic committee recognizes Britain as a combined team in all sports, FIFA, soccer’s world governing body, recognizes England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland as separate teams. And there lies the heart of the controversy.

Soccer officials from the three smaller nations fear that merging a team for the Olympics could pave the way for FIFA to follow suit, forcing Britain’s teams to combine into one entry for soccer tournaments like the World Cup and the European Championships. There is a worry, too, that the nations would lose their individual seats on the committee that determines international soccer’s bylaws.

FIFA has given public assurances that it will still allow all four nations to compete separately apart from the Olympics, but its pledge has failed to convince everyone.

It is sometimes hard for outsiders to comprehend how deeply [size=14pt]tribal[/size] Britain is, and how resistant to the idea that there is a unifying notion of Britishness. Wales and Northern Ireland have separate legislative assemblies. And Scotland has its own parliament, now controlled by the Scottish National Party, whose ultimate goal is national independence.

The rivalry between Scotland and England in particular runs so deep that when England competes in the World Cup, many Scots employ a position of “anyone but England,” actively rooting for England’s opponents, whoever they are.

The soccer associations appear to have no legal right to prevent their players from participating in the Olympics, and have said they will not retaliate against those who do. But they are openly discouraging them.

“We’ve also asked them to bear in mind that the feedback from Scotland fans regarding Team G.B. has been very negative,” Clare Bodel, a spokeswoman for the Scottish soccer federation, wrote in an e-mail.

The issue has divided commentators, with some denouncing the hard-line attitudes of the football associations.

“What sort of football authority would tell their best young players to avoid participating in what is likely to be the greatest sporting festival of their lifetime?” wrote Des Kelly, a columnist for the Daily Mail, who called such a body “a pig-ignorant committee.”

It has also divided players. Some, like Julie Fleeting, Scotland’s career-leading female scorer, have said they will not risk their futures by competing on Team GB. “I am Scottish through and through,” she told reporters in June.

But other high-profile players — including Aaron Ramsey, the captain of Wales’s national team, who plays for Arsenal in England’s Premier League, and his Welsh teammate Gareth Bale, who plays for Tottenham Hotspur — have said they would like to play. (David Beckham, the onetime England star, has also expressed interest.)

“I don’t see why anyone would want to stop a player from playing in a massive tournament like the Olympics,” Kim Little, a top Scottish women’s midfielder, told The Guardian.

One incentive to play for Britain, noted by Bale, could be that the non-English national teams have such woeful international records. Wales, for instance, has only ever qualified for one major international competition: the 1958 World Cup.

Meanwhile, Scotland looks back with wistful nostalgia to the triumph of 1967, when it defeated England at Wembley Stadium in London a year after England won the World Cup. Its team has not qualified for the World Cup since 1998, and its professional league is struggling financially and performing poorly against top European clubs.

Many soccer fans are far more interested in Premier League and European competitions than in the Olympics; soccer tickets sold poorly in the first round of Olympic ticket sales. The men’s Olympic tournament is seen as a secondary competition, limited to players under 23, with three over-age exceptions per team.

The women’s tournament, though, is considered to be nearly as important as the World Cup.

Supporters of women’s soccer hope that the London Games can lift the sport in Britain in the same way that American women’s soccer was buoyed by the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and the 1999 Women’s World Cup, said Darryl Seibel, a spokesman for the British Olympic Association.

“We know this could be transformational,” Seibel said.

For others, it will be merely uncomfortable. Scotland, for instance, already worries that its soccer federation is “by and large forgotten” and that “for many people abroad, England is Britain,” said Raymond Boyle, a professor at the Centre for Cultural Policy Research at the University of Glasgow. Many Scots, it seems, sympathize with Craig Brown, the former Scotland manager who now coaches Aberdeen. “I would rather lose as Scotland than win as Great Britain,” he told The Guardian.

And in Wales, Neville Southall, the national team’s former goalkeeper, told reporters recently that he could not conceive of supporting a non-Welsh team. “The whole point of going to the Olympics is that special moment when your flag goes up,” he said.

“What flag are they going to put up if Team GB win the football? The Union Jack? Well, it’s not my flag; my flag’s a Dragon.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/sports/soccer/even-for-olympic-soccer-uniting-britain-may-be-tough.html?ref=soccer

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When We Were Kings: 1996 documentary about "The Rumble in the Jungle."

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The singer-songwriter (cont.): Kenny Loggins

"Celebrate Me Home"

Home for the holidays
I believe I've missed each and every face
Come on and play my music
Let's turn on every love light in the place

It's time I found myself
Totally surrounded in your circles
Whoa, my friends

Please, celebrate me home
Give me a number
Please, celebrate me home
Play me one more song
That I'll always remember
And I can recall
Whenever I find myself too all alone
I can sing me home

Uneasy highway
Traveling where the Westerly winds can fly
Somebody tried to tell me
But the man forgot to tell me why

I gotta count on being gone
Come on home, come on daddy
Be what you want from me
I'm this strong, I'll be weak

Please, celebrate me home
Give me a number
Please, celebrate me home
Play me one more song
That I'll always remember
I can recall
Whenever I find myself too all alone
I can make believe I've never gone
I never know where I belong
Sing me home

Please, celebrate me home
Give me a number
Please, celebrate me home
Play me one more song, y'all

Celebrate, celebrate
Celebrate, celebrate
Celebrate, celebrate
Celebrate me home

Please, celebrate me home
Please, celebrate me home
Well I'm finally here
But I'm bound to roam
Come on celebrate me home
Well I'm finally here
But I'm bound to roam
Come on celebrate me home
Well I'm finally here
But I'm bound to roam
Come on celebrate me home
Please, celebrate me home
Please, celebrate me home
Please, celebrate me home
Please, celebrate me home
Please, celebrate me home
Please, celebrate me home.


I previewed several YouTube "videos" of the song above;
this was the least objectionable. lol. Just enjoy listening. 

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"This Is It," with Michael McDonald
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eiq1hih7URE

"Danny's Song"
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Sting, "Be Still My Beating Heart"

Be still my beating heart
It would be better to be cool
It's not time to be open just yet
A lesson once learned is so hard to forget
Be still my beating heart
Or I'll be taken for a fool
It's not healthy to run at this pace
The blood runs so red to my face
I've been to every single book I know
To soothe the thoughts that plague me so

I sink like a stone that's been thrown in the ocean
My logic has drowned in a sea of emotion
Stop before you start
Be still my beating heart

Restore my broken dreams
Shattered like a falling glass
I'm not ready to be broken just yet
A lesson once learned is so hard to forget

Be still my beating heart
You must learn to stand your ground
It's not healthy to run at this pace
The blood runs so red to my face
I've been to every single book I know
To soothe the thoughts that plague me so

Stop before you start
Be still my beating heart

Never to be wrong
Never to make promises that break
It's like singing in the wind
Or writing on the surface of a lake
And I wriggle like a fish caught on dry land
And I struggle to avoid any help at hand

I sink like a stone that's been thrown in the ocean
My logic has drowned in a sea of emotion
Stop before you start
Be still my beating heart


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUYI7kIR0S4


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=021sLSrNzHM
lol. See fan comment about criticism of Sting's songwriting skills (click link above).
"what a shame! His lyrics are beautiful! I will kick their a.s.s!"


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You have the cops with their guns, their flashing cars and their swagger, but the more heroic ones, to me, have always been firefighters.  No offense.
Below is a story remembering their valor. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/08/us/sept-11-reckoning/firehouse.html

In the back of a locker in a firehouse in Brooklyn Heights, there is a portal through time. It takes the shape of a leather-bound firefighter’s logbook, where usually the ruled paper is filled with the departure times of the company’s fire trucks as they ferry crews out to emergency calls.

This book is as nondescript as the dozens of other logbooks the firefighters have gone through over the years, but while the usual scrawl is jotted on its first few pages, on Page 16, it shunts the reader to the past.

Page 16 is marked “September 14, 2001.”
“How often we take for granted your service to us and your bravery for our community and city,” a note in cursive reads, written by a visitor to this house, Engine 205 and Ladder 118 on Middagh Street.

Eight people from this house — Capt. Martin Egan, Lt. Robert Wallace, Lt. Robert Regan, Leon Smith, Joseph Agnello, Scott Davidson, Peter Vega and Vernon Cherry — were among the first emergency personnel to arrive at the World Trade Center after they rushed across the Brooklyn Bridge, only to be crushed under the rubble when the buildings began to fall.

No one at the firehouse recalls whose idea it was to turn the logbook into a guest book, only that in the days after the attack on the trade center the company felt something was needed to chronicle the emotions and sentiments of the steady stream of people who stopped by. They fill about 300 pages covering almost two months, with mostly local people writing at first, then, as the weeks stretch away from that day, visitors on pilgrimages from Wisconsin, Spain and Germany.

The book also captures the crescendo of grief after the attack, and the shift in sentiments to expressions of national pride, expansive love and pacifism, and eventually calls for revenge.

Writers at first came hoping for good news — expressing what in retrospect might seem naïve: that survivors might emerge even days later from the rubble.
More than one parent wrote of bringing along a young child to check if the neighborhood superheroes had yet returned. On Sept. 14, a parent wrote: “My son asked if he could be a firefighter for Halloween.”

On Page 193, a few days later, another began: “I am writing this for my 2 ½ yr old son. I will never let him forget the bravery that he has yet to understand.”

One child wrote: “I wood like to thak the fiermen aeg 6 Rebecca.”

Some entries are from people who had barely made it. Sept. 14, already reaching Page 144: “To the Firemen in 205 — Thank you for saving my life from the 56th Floor,” wrote Diane Slade. “Those guys were coming in as I was going out.”

On Page 195, a firefighter from another company wrote of his luck, and agony. He was in the Marriott hotel across from the two towers on Sept. 11.

On Page 253, Sept. 22, a hasty scrawl. “Thank you for helping me down (TWICE) in the W.T.C. (2),” it says, perhaps written by someone who also experienced the bombing of the north tower in 1993. “I feel so bad for my friends,” it continues. “LOVE YOU FOR HELPING ME.”

A number of notes are written to the dead. On Page 87: “Dear Vernon, I miss you so much. Your gift of song was beautiful to me I’ll miss having you as a singing partner was the best thing in my — ” (The note is missing, it seems, the word “life,” as if the writer couldn’t bear to put the distinction between her being alive, and his death, in ink.)
It continues, “I hope you come home real soon.”

On Page 236, Sept. 20, in a pagelong note, one of the company’s firefighters wrote that it was the day they put the body of Captain Egan to rest, while others’ bodies had still not been found. “There has been so much tragedy brought here to the firehouse. Some of us are sad, some of us are angry, and some of us are realizing it could have been us instead of them.” It continues. “We keep thinking you all are going to walk through the door laughing and telling jokes as usual.” It concludes, “Goodnight brothers wherever you may be.”

Some notes encapsulate the helplessness felt by many, and the desire to do something, anything, to fix the unfathomable wrong. Some writers offered checks, cookies, meals. On Page 49, one woman offered massages, or a yoga class: “Although I’ve been told you guys don’t go in for that.”

A couple visiting from Philadelphia wrote on Sept. 22, the day of their first wedding anniversary: “We had mixed emotions about coming to New York this weekend. Not because we were afraid, but because we feel like NYC is a memorial to people that perished,” their entry begins. It concludes, “We’re glad we came.”

A striking number of the hundreds of notes contain variations of the sentiment that “words cannot express” how the writers are feeling. And yet there they are, word after word of sympathy, fealty, pride and heartbreak. On Page 198 is a near haiku: “Rushing at top speed/across the B. Bridge/Heading for disaster.”

There is little at first of anger. But as the pages go on, it begins. “Love America or Leave it,” is on Page 283. Below it, “Repent, for the kingdom Of heaven is at hand!”

Some visitors kept coming. On Page 278, Oct. 23: “This is my second message. It’s been almost two weeks and the grief still overwhelms me,” wrote Marilyn Mayo.

A writer named Jocelyn, with soft, looping script, returned again and again.
“I’m back,” she said on Page 297. “I could write here everyday and still not express how much good you guys mean to this community.” Less than a week later, on Oct. 27, she returned yet again. “It’s been a while, but I haven’t forgotten you guys.”

More here:
The Reckoning: America and the World, A decade after 9/11
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/us/sept-11-reckoning/viewer.html

9-11

I have my memories.  Of course.  Woke up pretty late that morning.  Wasn't it a Tuesday?  Woke up to NBC Today Show.  Katie Couric talking to someone.  Around 9:20a.m., was it?  Just in time to see to see a plane hit one of the World Trade Ctr Towers.  People awwing and ahhing.  That was the second plane.

Very crazy stuff happening and I'm witnessing it live on tv.  Jeez!  Well, it didn't occur to me to stay home.  It was happening far away.  We don't have things like this happening in my part of USA.  So, off I went to my morning destination.  The building I was in was about 15 stories high.  Nothing remarkable in a city of only half a dozen 50+ storey buildings.  I was one of the last to arrive.  Some hubbub.  Not much being done.  People talking in the halls.  Then we heard another plane hit the Pentagon.  Both World Towers had already collapsed.  Then news drifting in fast and furious: All flights cancelled. . . planes have to land. . . no planes allowed over US airspace. . . another plane may be involved. . . any plane that doesn't land at the nearest airport within minutes will be SHOT DOWN!  On and on.  No one knows how many bomber planes there really were. 

Nothing to do but send everyone home.  No classes or work will get done anywhere in the USA this morning.  Plus, let each person go to his home; if they blow up public buildings it'll be pandemonium.  Doubt we can handle that in this city.

Off we go.  Back home, we get to watch all the coverage.  Dust and people covered in dust.  That's all you see on screen.  Repeated, almost looped images of the 2 planes hitting and the 2 buildings collapsing.  As with live events, valuable information trickles in. . . most others are hearsay and conjecture swelled and dramatised to within an inch of falsehood.  All I can trust is what I see o jare.  Later, we'll get the real story. 

Thank God for reliable and thorough journalists, the likes of the New York Times - invaluable - after all the events are happening there.  I'm reading stories of people a mile  away from "the scene" feeling the impact of the building collapse.  Buildings 60-storeys high are just mentioned as a side note.  I mean, that's the height of the tallest buildings in my location - just imagine how many people are in that building, then extrapolate that by all the "smaller high rises" all feeding off of the 2 World Trade Ctr ones!  I can't remember if NYTimes allowed online comments by regular folk about what they saw on ground.  But I distinctly remember many credible and surreal first-person accounts (were those their reporters?).

Next to call Naija.  Talked to mother.  Assured her it was not affecting us this far from New York.  Yes, God bless the victims and the survivors.  Everything will be fine.  No need to go into international politics and its ramifications at this time.  There'll be plenty recriminations and hand-wringing later.  sigh.

Back to watching live and reading live updates on the newspaper site.  So. . . those are people leaping to their deaths?  What do you do, if there's fire consuming you?  Yes, we all know the answer.  That could be us.  That was probably what made the most indelible impression for the longest time.

Later, they'll dissect every minute detail and many of it still unclear.  Then comes the Patriot Act, the Afghanistan invasion, Iraq invasion either because they harboured Osama or they had WMDs or . . .


Crazy times.  Just a little stream of consciousness from my memory.  That's all.

Just a little bit more W.  Pure comedy gold! 

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OAM4J:
Well in case you dont know, you are not the only one who is in love with him asked after him, there are many of you 

katsumoto is very fine. He has just been appointed as a snr special adviser to the new Japanese PM. So you should understand why he is very busy.

   
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OAM4J:
BTW.

Kilode? got in touch with me today, he is doing fine. He said "Oke ibi ni ko je ka ri ti ohun o!". He is involved with some projects that is taking a lot of his time and he will be back soon to continue doing what he knows how to do best.

I could so pick you apart. 

Sent his regards to all of you Isale.

This is an outrage!   "Regards to" whom?  No one else asked about him!!! 


P.S. Now put on your detective cap, and find out where Katsumoto is hiding/pillaging/lollygagging. 

Wolf+dog=man's best friend. Good job!  https://l.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/41.gif
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-754330.0.html#msg9105805

Never mind about my last post to you from a couple of days ago.  That was [size=4pt]OAM4J[/size] modifying my post.  I know you're not a hater.

BTW, I typed up a short critique of your site - yes, your site, you're an NL moderator afterall - but decided I don't care enough and the owner's probably chuckling all the way to the bank anyway. 

Hmmm.  My submitted writing sample was spontaneous, not well thought out.  Surprised it was rated Shakespearean.  

P.S.  Maybe I misunderstood. . . 

Gotta go now, but will think up some wild stuff for the last 5 pages of this thread.  Woohoo!  Wild meaning https://l.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/26.gif

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-519155.1984.html#msg9104687

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My entry reads nothing like Shakespeare.  More like Mills & Boon, Barbara Cartland. . . lol https://l.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/109.gif 

"My beloved; he promised me the world.  I thought he was the one for whom I have waited all this long while.  But, he came and broke my heart.  I was nothing to him.  Fare thee well, I will love you always."

I don't speakit the "Ebonics."  Prob had a few "ibon" moments in my secondary schools days though. https://l.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/24.gif

Yes, of course.  'Twas sarcasm. 

Invaluable 

William Shakespeare: The Complete Works, from Barnes & Noble

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Don't wish to derail; continue on the other thread.

"Your English is 100 percent Shakespearean.
    You ARE William Shakespeare!"

LOL. I made up some cheesy corny line about "my beloved."      That site must be looking to sell something.  I would love to take a similar test about my Yo'oba.

BTW, shush, I was never here.

hahahahahaha.

Wolf+dog, this is for you. 

https://img185.imageshack.us/img185/612/hatei.gif

::lightbulb smiley::  LOL.

Just realized where you were going with the line of questioning.

I'll save you time.  I am not named Dosunmu or Kosoko either. 

I am not named Oyekan. Someone (K1) else asked me that before.

ola olabiy:
The guy is now a powerful NLander. So, he unstickied our thread?

LOL. No, not at all. I'm just making him feel at home by tormenting him. He moderates the Politics Section. I'm sure he's used to it.

I prefer no sticky no homepage; So, no worries.

Apologies.  I didn't think you were serious; thought you were just throwing out random names.

No, I am not an Akiolu.

Question: Can you recommend OAM4J for a ban?

Native drummers are everywhere in Lagos on special holidays.  LOL.  It's nothing special.

If thread is unstickied, it's good news.  So, maybe K1 K2 etc will come out of hibernation and help us close at 100 pages. 

BTW, are you a mod?  Can you ban OAM4J for a few days?  Why?  Just because. . . 

Unhappy with you?  Why on earth?  No way.  

I found this GIF and can't stop staring at it.  

https://img185.imageshack.us/img185/612/hatei.gif

About Katsumoto.  He's probably in Libya causing mayhem.  Or in Japan.  Or Lagos somewhere.  We still don't know where he's from.  

I kid I jest.  I don't want trouble o.  Please and thanks. 

ola olabiy:
How Eid nau, Isale?

Not memorable (here).  And I forgot to ask my egbon to record the drummers at home this time around.  But they'll be around again at Ileya.  LOL.  Can't get enough of that.

Hey, Ola.  Didn't see you there.  I was composing while you were posting.

Thanks. 
It's actually Labour (Labor) Day today in USA.  Always the first Monday in September.

P.S. But I'm sure you knew that. Oops! Sorry.

T'was a holiday today.  The day went by too fast.  Anyway, stuff that caught my eye:

1 Sperm Donor, 150 Offspring
By JACQUELINE MROZ 42 minutes ago
As the number of children born through artificial insemination increases, concern is growing about having many children fathered by the same donors.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/06/health/06donor.html?_r=1&hp

Reluctantly, Europe Inches Closer to a Fiscal Union
By LOUISE STORY AND MATTHEW SALTMARSH 11:18 AM ET
While many of the ideas have yet to hit official agendas, officials say there has been a substantial step-up in planning for a closer European fiscal relationship.
German Court Could Complicate Euro Zone Decisions
Central Bankers Warn Euro Zone Leaders
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/06/business/global/reluctantly-europe-inches-closer-to-a-fiscal-union.html?hp

Global Stocks Post Steep Declines
By DAVID JOLLY AND BETTINA WASSENER 12:08 PM ET
Investors continue to fret about Europe’s debt crisis and the health of the United States economy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/06/business/daily-stock-market-activity.html?hp

Obama Challenges Congress in Labor Day Speech
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 19 minutes ago
“We’re going to see if congressional Republicans will put country before party,” President Obama said in a boisterous A.F.L.-C.I.O. rally in Detroit on Monday.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/09/05/business/AP-US-Obama.html?hp

This guy is so full of it!  How about you keep your promises to those who elected you, serve your one term and leave office with your head up high.  But. . . Nooooo.

LOL.  He didn't actually die. 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogBPWQQ7ixU
P.S. Check it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ012gPqkAc

Forever enigmatic, Dave is the best! 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFrz8y5tLvo[/flash]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFrz8y5tLvo

An alternative rocker covers a favourite Chaka Khan classic. 

Sounds better as the song progresses.  Didn't know anything about her other than I now realize she sang the "woo hoo. . .you're not the one for me" song from a few years ago.  So checked out a few more.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiJ4Pb_wr0Y[/flash]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiJ4Pb_wr0Y


Silly/funny video, made by a fan, for a puzzling Tunstall song.  

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L7QuHm4n1A&NR[/flash]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L7QuHm4n1A


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZEXHt7EtuI[/flash]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZEXHt7EtuI

Hmmm.  Is there such a thing as being [i]too [/i]analytical.  Interesting.
http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107858539236/

A little more about the artiste:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KT_Tunstall

http://www.ptypes.com/temperament_test.html

Your temperament type is Idealist
Temperament Score
Idealist                16
Rationalist             6
Traditionalist         4
Hedonist               4

More likely to describe myself as a Traditionalist, but that's more about outlook.  What is a "Traditionalist Temperament"?  Oh well, we won't argue what we don't understand. :::shrug:::  Idealistic?  Okay, I'll take it. 

http://www.ptypes.com/test_comments

Yeah, noticed the view count on another thread went from 29k to 14500. 

Seun:
It's my doing. I divided the view count of all threads by two to allow new threads to progress beyond old ones.

:::Shrug:::

There was never gonna be any video.   Are you kidding me?  lol.  I'm all talk. Shush. 

OAMJ moderator,Omo Eko, I know you're ready for a change.  This here is my football club.  They barely missed being promoted into the Nigerian Premier League this past season. Isn't it a shame?  As big as Lagos is, you'd think we'd have at least 3 competitive teams, top league or not.  Anyway, let's support them.  Anyone asks, I'm a lifelong supporter. OK, I joined yesterday.  

https://bridgefcng.com/modules/mod_image_show_gk4/cache/comm.DSC00476gk-is-122.JPG

http://bridgefcng.com/events/community-support