[78-L] Are Long Messages OK Here? (within reason)

[Kristjan Saag]

Nothing is more welcome than stories of this kind, as far as I'm concerned.
Kristjan

On 2020-03-03 07:52, DKing wrote:
> Hello All, I hope my long message wasn’t out of line here. But I 
> honestly hadn’t thought about hearing that family story until I 
> listened to “Ten Little Bottles” kindly posted by Peter Muhr. If long 
> messages like mine are frowned upon, please let me know, as I’m still 
> relatively new here. - Dave King
>> On Mar 2, 2020, at 6:04 PM, DKing <ginku_ledovec at att.net.invalid> 
>> wrote: Thanks, Peter. I enjoyed the song. Some of my Irish forebears 
>> would have thought that song was scandalous, lol. True story: when I 
>> was much younger, I remember my older relatives laughing among 
>> themselves - because of the blue air letter one of them received from 
>> one of the cousins back in the “old country”. One of our cousins 
>> lived in the same small town as a woman who’d suddenly lost her 
>> husband after many years. The woman began to go through everything in 
>> what amounted to a “man cave” left behind by her now deceased 
>> husband. She found a locked closet in there that she hadn’t thought 
>> about for years. Managing to finally get the closet open, she went 
>> into shock. She and her husband had been teetotalers for many years. 
>> But the closet was full of empty rye and whiskey bottles. Apparently 
>> the damp Irish climate called for a nip now & then to help ward off 
>> the chill. The wife faced a predicament: if she threw out all the 
>> bottles at once, her neighbors would learn of the dead husband’s 
>> secret. And if she only threw one out at a time, her neighbors and 
>> relatives would hear of it and think she had taken to drink after her 
>> husband’s death. Either choice would have created a minor scandal 
>> back then. I honestly don’t know what she did with the bottles. It 
>> was a long time ago and I don’t remember hearing or being told how 
>> she disposed of the bottles. “Ten Little Bottles” reminded me of the 
>> story. - Dave King
>>> On Mar 2, 2020, at 1:04 PM, Peter Muhr <pemuhr at gmail.com.invalid> 
>>> wrote: Sorry, 1st word of the next to last stanza should be "TWO 
>>> little bottles...", of course….
>>> On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 4:01 PM Peter Muhr <pemuhr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> "Ten Little Bottles" by Ballard MacDonald & James V. Monaco, sung 
>>>> by Jack Norworth on Pathe 20458 b/w "I'm on Strike", released ca. 
>>>> early 1920. "Ten little bottles standing on the shelf, hard luck 
>>>> had only begun for my wife's mother went and got the flu, and that 
>>>> left only one". YouTube: 
>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOYH418LR-0?rel=0 Peter Muhr
>>>> On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 12:44 PM DKing 
>>>> <ginku_ledovec at att.net.invalid> wrote:
>>>>> Hello Everyone, Did any early recorded music refer to the flu 
>>>>> pandemic of 1918-19? Or maybe it was so traumatic that people just 
>>>>> wanted to forget about it ... - Dave King 
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