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

[Malcolm]

Long messages here are okay if one actually has something to say.
You did.
Thanks!
Malcolm R

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On 3/3/2020 12:43 AM, Kristjan Saag wrote:
> 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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