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

[DKing]

Thanks for that feedback, Kristjan.  After hitting the “send” key I had
second thoughts.  In fact I may have sent this message out already
this morning - but actually did hit the wrong key.
- Dave King


> On Mar 3, 2020, at 2:43 AM, Kristjan Saag <saag at telia.com.invalid> wrote:
> 
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> Nothing is more welcome than stories of this kind, as far as I'm concerned.
> Kristjan
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> 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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