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[done_got_old]

I know our areas schools reopen on Spet 3rd. The teachers have an all day staff meeting the day prior

Those are the worse. The board expects you to come in on your own time and decorate your room. Some years my friends and I went in early, but it was more of a social gathering than anything else. The year the board had us go in the day before the kids, no one decorated their rooms. It was a protest that principals and kids weren't pleased with.

 

[IrishSprite]

No Im sure the kids were disappointed


I think part of the new school year for them is the newness of the teacher , classmates and what the room looks like as they come through the door

 

[done_got_old]

No Im sure the kids were disappointed


I think part of the new school year for them is the newness of the teacher , classmates and what the room looks like as they come through the door

They were. Some of the rooms were bare for many days because there was no time to do anything.

 

[done_got_old]

Isaac Hayes died today.

He was about to begin work on a new album for Stax, the soul record label he helped build to legendary status. And he had recently finished work on a movie called "Soul Men" in which he played himself, starring Samuel Jackson and Bernie Mac, who died on Saturday.

 

[mousethatpurred]

Isaac Hayes died today.

He was about to begin work on a new album for Stax, the soul record label he helped build to legendary status. And he had recently finished work on a movie called "Soul Men" in which he played himself, starring Samuel Jackson and Bernie Mac, who died on Saturday.

This is a crappy weekend - no?

 

[IrishSprite]

Heres what I found DGO .....A great loss

Isaac Hayes dies at age 65
From Associated Press
August 10, 2008 4:48 PM EDT
MEMPHIS, Tennessee - Isaac Hayes, the pioneering singer, songwriter and musician whose relentless "Theme From Shaft" won Academy and Grammy awards, died Sunday afternoon, the Shelby County Sheriff's Office said. He was 65.

A family member found him unresponsive near a treadmill and he was pronounced dead an hour later at Baptist East Hospital in Memphis, according to the sheriff's office. The cause of death was not immediately known.

In the early 1970s, Hayes laid the groundwork for disco, for what became known as urban-contemporary music and for romantic crooners like Barry White. And he was rapping before there was rap.

His career hit another high in 1997 when he became the voice of Chef, the sensible school cook and devoted ladies man on the animated TV show "South Park."

Steve Shular, a spokesman for the sheriff's office, said authorities received a 911 call after Hayes' wife and young son and his wife's cousin returned home from the grocery store and found him collapsed in a downstairs bedroom.

"The treadmill was running but he was unresponsive lying on the floor," Shular said.

The album "Hot Buttered Soul" made Hayes a star in 1969. His shaven head, gold chains and sunglasses gave him a compelling visual image.

"Hot Buttered Soul" was groundbreaking in several ways: He sang in a "cool" style unlike the usual histrionics of big-time soul singers. He prefaced the song with "raps," and the numbers ran longer than three minutes with lush arrangements.

Next came "Theme From Shaft," a No. 1 hit in 1971 from the film "Shaft" starring Richard Roundtree.

"That was like the shot heard round the world," Hayes said in the 1999 interview.

At the Oscar ceremony in 1972, Hayes performed the song wearing an eye-popping amount of gold and received a standing ovation. TV Guide later chose it as No. 18 in its list of television's 25 most memorable moments. He won an Academy Award for the song and was nominated for another one for the score. The song and score also won him two Grammys.

"The rappers have gone in and created a lot of hit music based upon my influence," he said. "And they'll tell you if you ask."

Hayes was elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002.

"I knew nothing about the business, or trends and things like that," he said. "I think it was a matter of timing. I didn't know what was unfolding."

A self-taught musician, he was hired in 1964 by Stax Records of Memphis as a backup pianist, working as a session musician for Otis Redding and others. He also played saxophone.

He began writing songs, establishing a songwriting partnership with David Porter, and in the 1960s they wrote such hits for Sam and Dave as "Hold On, I'm Coming" and "Soul Man."

All this led to his recording contract.

In 1972, he won another Grammy for his album "Black Moses" and earned a nickname he reluctantly embraced. Hayes composed film scores for "Tough Guys" and "Truck Turner" besides "Shaft." He also did the song "Two Cool Guys" on the "Beavis and Butt-Head Do America" movie soundtrack in 1996.

Additionally, he was the voice of Nickelodeon's "Nick at Nite" and had radio shows in New York City (1996 to 2002) and then in Memphis.

He was in several movies, including "It Could Happen to You" with Nicolas Cage, "Ninth Street" with Martin Sheen, "Reindeer Games" starring Ben Affleck and the blaxploitation parody "I'm Gonna Git You, Sucka."

In the 1999 interview, Hayes described the South Park cook as "a person that speaks his mind; he's sensitive enough to care for children; he's wise enough to not be put into the 'whack' category like everybody else in town - and he l-o-o-o-o-ves the ladies."

But Hayes angrily quit the show in 2006 after an episode mocked his Scientology religion. "There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs of others begins," he said.

One of the creators of the show, Matt Stone, responded that Hayes "has no problem - and he's cashed plenty of checks - with our show making fun of Christians." A subsequent episode of the show seemingly killed off the Chef character.

Hayes was born in 1942 in a tin shack in Covington, Tennessee, about 40 miles (64 kilometers) north of Memphis. He was raised by his maternal grandparents after his mother died and his father took off when he was 1 1/2. The family moved to Memphis when he was 6.

Hayes wanted to be a doctor, but got redirected when he won a talent contest in ninth grade by singing Nat King Cole's "Looking Back."

He held down various low-paying jobs, including shining shoes on the legendary Beale Street in Memphis. He also played gigs in rural Southern juke joints where at times he had to hit the floor because someone began shooting.

 

[done_got_old]

This is a crappy weekend - no?

Isaac Hayes dies at age 65
From Associated Press
August 10, 2008 4:48 PM EDT
MEMPHIS, Tennessee - Isaac Hayes, the pioneering singer, songwriter and musician whose relentless "Theme From Shaft" won Academy and Grammy awards, died Sunday afternoon, the Shelby County Sheriff's Office said. He was 65.

It has been that. I guess because Isaac Hayes and I are of the same generation it hits close to home. I have this thing for voices and his was great.

It's also that two people in an upcoming movie die during the same weekend. If I were in the movie, I start thinking about how people say things come in threes.

Oh well tomorrow is another day. I'll just keep on smiling.

 

[mousethatpurred]

It has been that. I guess because Isaac Hayes and I are of the same generation it hits close to home. I have this thing for voices and his was great.

It's also that two people in an upcoming movie die during the same weekend. If I were in the movie, I start thinking about how people say things come in threes.

Oh well tomorrow is another day. I'll just keep on smiling.

He did have a distinctive sound, so mellow. Bernie Mac is only a couple of years older than me, surprised completely by his passing. Then the news about Paul Newman too. A reminder that we're more alike than we are different. I too shall keep smiling, a little more wistfully this week though.

 

[done_got_old]

He did have a distinctive sound, so mellow. Bernie Mac is only a couple of years older than me, surprised completely by his passing. Then the news about Paul Newman too. A reminder that we're more alike than we are different. I too shall keep smiling, a little more wistfully this week though.

My god Newman was a hunk when I was growing up.

 

[Papa-Joe]

Good Morning {{{DGO}}}}
how is you ?
I came to shake the thread & wake it up

 

[omahaman2]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKeGzNa6Xzw

 

[done_got_old]

Good Morning {{{DGO}}}}
how is you ?
I came to shake the thread & wake it up

I was wide awake at that time.

 

[done_got_old]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKeGzNa6Xzw

Thanks.........I have no idea who he was/is. The song though I know.

 

[lakesailer_mi]

Good Monday to you DGO!
Hope you had a great weekend!

 

[done_got_old]

Good Monday to you DGO!
Hope you had a great weekend!

I managed to squeak a good weekend out of the days. It was difficult without you. I'm not sure how many more weekends I can take when you don't post.

 

[lakesailer_mi]

I managed to squeak a good weekend out of the days. It was difficult without you. I'm not sure how many more weekends I can take when you don't post.

Oh Dear
Sorry to leave you in such a state...
Glad to see you survived and you are back!

 

[done_got_old]

Oh Dear
Sorry to leave you in such a state...
Glad to see you survived and you are back!

I'm glad you're here. I needed a sailer fix.

 

[lakesailer_mi]

Hey! How are you?
Livid? Horrified? Everything OK?
If nothing else, just gave me a chance to pop through and say hi.

I love the M&M btw. Too cool!
My favorite are peanut though.

 

[done_got_old]

Hey! How are you?
Livid? Horrified? Everything OK?
If nothing else, just gave me a chance to pop through and say hi.

I love the M&M btw. Too cool!
My favorite are peanut though.

I'm good.

I'm glad you like my M&M.......it's not a peanut though. I've developed a new filling - it's a cherry.

 

[done_got_old]

GENEVA (AFP) - A giant inflatable dog turd by American artist Paul McCarthy blew away from an exhibition in the garden of a Swiss museum, bringing down a power line and breaking a greenhouse window before it landed again, the museum said Monday.

The art work, titled "Complex S(expletive..)", is the size of a house. The wind carried it 200 metres (yards) from the Paul Klee Centre in Berne before it fell back to Earth in the grounds of a children's home, said museum director Juri Steiner.

The inflatable turd broke the window at the children's home when it blew away on the night of July 31, Steiner said. The art work has a safety system which normally makes it deflate when there is a storm, but this did not work when it blew away.

Steiner said McCarthy had not yet been contacted and the museum was not sure if the piece would be put back on display.

 

[Papa-Joe]

I'm good.

I'm glad you like my M&M.......it's not a peanut though. I've developed a new filling - it's a cherry.

Comes & licks the M & M
wonder if I can get at the filling
Good Moaning {{{DGO}}}

 

[done_got_old]

Comes & licks the M & M
wonder if I can get at the filling
Good Moaning {{{DGO}}}

It takes a lot of licks to get to the center.

 

[Papa-Joe]

It takes a lot of licks to get to the center.

I got a hot Tongue ~starts licking and waits for the filling
to ooze out

 

[lakesailer_mi]

Howdy DGO!
I thought I'd stop in and see what you are up too...

Ohhhhh...Maybe I shouldn't look...

 

[done_got_old]

Howdy DGO!
I thought I'd stop in and see what you are up too...

Ohhhhh...Maybe I shouldn't look...

Oh you can look. I never do anything naughty.