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Got up early this morning and clocked some Tina Turner videos (God bless You Tube)

Reason I'm posting this is that Mrs Skoob was a singer and bears more than a passing resemblance to Tina Turner. According to Mrs Skoob, Ella Fitzgerald and Aretha Franklin were technically superior. According to moi, Tina Turner is one of the most amazing performers of all time.

I may be wrong on this one, but Tina held the record for a solo artiste in crowd terms when she played the Maracana stadium in Rio in front of 187,000+ fans.

As I respect all you Spoofer's opinions, I just wondered what you think of the divine Miss Turner?

Regards

Skoob.

I liked her in that dog flick...Turner 'n Hooch!

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I liked her in that dog flick...Turner 'n Hooch!

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Buck, 5*

Now fuck off!

Best Regards

Skoob.

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I liked her in that dog flick...Turner 'n Hooch!

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Which one did she play?

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As I respect all you Spoofer's opinions, I just wondered what you think of the divine Miss Turner?

Regards

Skoob.

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I'm not a big fan. In fact, I hate her version of Proud Mary (I prefer the much superior one by CCR).

My favorite female singer of all time was Karen Carpenter. She had a perfect voice. My second favorite female singr, though I don't care for her much as a person, is Barbara Streisand. Third would go to Roberta Flack. My number four may be somewhat of a surprise, but over the past year, I have come to really enjoy the singing of young Hayley Westenra. She is maybe only 20 years old, but has an incredible voice.

J-Man

When Mrs Skoob sang, it was your third choice. Roberta. But the Mrs is a jazz purist who thinks Ella is God(ess) which is why we had to go to 125th Street in Harlem, just to see the Apollo Theatre (English Spelling) bit of a let down actually, I've seen more impressive charity shops.

You seem to be a gentleman of good taste. Mrs Skoob hates me at the moment, probably because I've let my guard down and am currently as drunk as a barrel of monkeys.

We'll be okay. It's love.

Take care guy

Skoob.

Skoob.

J-Man

Having thought about this for a minute in my booze addled brain - what is wrong with you?

Aretha Franklin, Gladys Knight, Roberta, Diana Ross, Martha Reeves,

They have one thing in common, but they're the best singers, and don't give me that anorexic woman crap. Just annoying.

Just my opinion.

Regards

Skoob.

Oh J-Man, just by the way

I think this must be a triple post by now, but correect me if I'm wrong here, but didn't Karen look a little bit too close to Richard? Something weird going on there?

I dunno. You tell me.

Regards

Skoob

Karen was married two or three times. Richard just got married for the first time a few years back (though there have been rumors that he was gay for years).

No incest in the relationship at all.

I enjoy most of the women singers that you mentioned, I just love some of my favorites a little more.

My favorite male singers, by the way, are John Denver, Frank Sinatra, Neil Diamond, and Brian Stokes Mitchell.

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In fact, I hate her version of Proud Mary (I prefer the much superior one by CCR).

My favorite female singer of all time was Karen Carpenter. She had a perfect voice.

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Credence version of Proud Mary still top of the pops in my book too, J-Man.

Karen Carpenter: the loony in her wanted to drum and no amount of persuasion got through to her that it just lessened her 'cool'.

As for her brother the incest jibes were never proven but one helluva lot of other stuff was.

Should have joined the Catholic ministry during its rampage heydays.

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Got up early this morning and clocked some Tina Turner videos (God bless You Tube)

Reason I'm posting this is that Mrs Skoob was a singer and bears more than a passing resemblance to Tina Turner. According to Mrs Skoob, Ella Fitzgerald and Aretha Franklin were technically superior. According to moi, Tina Turner is one of the most amazing performers of all time.

I may be wrong on this one, but Tina held the record for a solo artiste in crowd terms when she played the Maracana stadium in Rio in front of 187,000+ fans.

As I respect all you Spoofer's opinions, I just wondered what you think of the divine Miss Turner?

Regards

Skoob.

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Screach:

Tina was one hell of an entertainer! And a Great Singer! And a Survivor!

With Great Legs!

But Ella, Aretha, Eartha Kitt, Peggy Lee,and a few others could set the mood when you were hunkered down in a tin roofed cottage, with the fire stoked, the wind and rain blowing and plenty of Scotch to keep you company......

Curl your toes good....

With Deepest Musical Regards

Morse

I liked Screamin'Jay Hawkins! Wild man before legitimate wild men were allowed on stage....His most popular song was 'I'll put a spell on you'

I've always been a big Marvin Gaye fan. I was fortunate enough to see him perform twice at the Manchester Apollo in Ardwick in the 70s.

Peggy Lee, Sinatra, Nat King Cole, and the others you guys mentioned are all mighty fine in my opinion. I also loved that vid Morse posted a link to with all these people from all around the world doing 'Stand By Me.'

Nice to know that our collective musical tastes pretty much cover all bases.

What a fine bunch you are!

Regards

Skoob.

Skoob:

Thought of you today cruising down the highway of life as Ray Stevens sang
"AHAB THE ARAB'..... circa 1950 something.....laughed my ass off...the lyrics were way ahead of their time! Welcome to the EU....how's that workin out?

Morse/ Retired

(intro: Arabian flute)

Let me tell you about Ahab the Arab
The sheik of the burning sand
He had emeralds and rubies just drippin' off 'a him
And a ring on every finger of his hand
He wore a big ol' turban wrapped around his head
And a scimitar by his side
And, every evenin', about midnight
He'd jump on his camel named Clyde, and ride

[Spoken] Silently through the night to the sultan's tent where he
would secretly meet up with Fatima of the Seven Veils,
swingingest grade "A" number one US choice dancer in
the sultan's whole harem, 'cause, heh, him and her had
a thing goin', you know, and they'd been carryin' on
for some time now behind the sultan's back and you
could hear him talk to his camel as he rode out across the
dunes, his voice would cut through the still night desert
air and he'd say (imitate Arabic speech and finish with "Sold! American)
which is Arabic for, "Stop, Clyde!" and Clyde'd say, (imitate camel
sound), which is camel for, "What the heck did he say anyway?"

Well, he brought that camel to a screechin' halt (verbal screeching sound)
In the rear of Fatima's tent
Jumped off Clyde, snuck around the corner
And into the tent he went.
There he saw Fatima layin' on a zebra skin rug
With
[Spoken in falsetto and possibly with female backups] "Rings on her fingers and
bells on her toes and a bone in her nose ho, ho."

[Spoken] There she was, friends, lyin' there in all her radiant
beauty, eating on a raisin, grape, apricot, pomegranate,
bowl of chittlin's, two bananas, three Hershey bars,
sipping on a RC co-cola listenin' to her transistor,
watchin' the Grand Ole Opry on the tube, readin' a Mad
magazine while she sung, "Does your chewing gum lose
it's flavor?" Yeah, Ahab walked up to her and he say,
(imitate Arabic speech), which is Arabic for "Let's twist
again like we did last summer, baby.!!" Ha, ha, ha!!
You know what I mean! Whew! She looked up at him from off the rug,
give him one of the sly looks,

AND SAID DO ME NOW SKOOBIE, BABY!

Cap/Skip

There's not a great deal I can say to that.

Except (here we go again, he's off...) Just got home from Windsor with Mrs S, very nice, full of tourists, big fuck-off castle and all that Henry the Eighth crap. Lovely down by the river watching the swans peck the shit out of the ducks.

Up at the old castle, which is incidentally big enough to hold four or five football stadiums (or is that stadia) they were flying the flag at full mast, which means somebody's in residence. You know, even though I work 14 hour or more days and pay those Royal fucker's wages, the skinflint bastards never invited me and the Mrs in for a cup of tea and a slice of cake. What a bunch of c**ts!

So we had a burger and went to a pub instead.

(I was the cool dude dressed in black and wearing shades.)

I added that last bit because there were some foxy Americanas out and about and Mrs Skoob warned me about roving eyes and threatened to cut off certain anatomical parts.

Anyway, Royal family, fuck 'em. I'm Manchester Irish anyway. I just thought they might invite me in because of the Spoof thing, but obviously Lowton's influence doesn't extend to such lofty pinnacles.

Sorry for twatting on.

Regards Skip,

Skoob.

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Cap/Skip

There's not a great deal I can say to that.

Except (here we go again, he's off...) Just got home from Windsor with Mrs S, very nice, full of tourists, big fuck-off castle and all that Henry the Eighth crap. Lovely down by the river watching the swans peck the shit out of the ducks.

Up at the old castle, which is incidentally big enough to hold four or five football stadiums (or is that stadia) they were flying the flag at full mast, which means somebody's in residence. You know, even though I work 14 hour or more days and pay those Royal fucker's wages, the skinflint bastards never invited me and the Mrs in for a cup of tea and a slice of cake. What a bunch of c**ts!

So we had a burger and went to a pub instead.

(I was the cool dude dressed in black and wearing shades.)

I added that last bit because there were some foxy Americanas out and about and Mrs Skoob warned me about roving eyes and threatened to cut off certain anatomical parts.

Anyway, Royal family, fuck 'em. I'm Manchester Irish anyway. I just thought they might invite me in because of the Spoof thing, but obviously Lowton's influence doesn't extend to such lofty pinnacles.

Sorry for twatting on.

Regards Skip,

Skoob.

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Skoob: hope you enjoyed the day anyway I'm sure you made Mrs. Skoob feel like "queen for a day"!
Mrs. Morse informed me today that while in Norway Hamburgers cost $25....

Guess I'll have to pack a fucking lunch....this oil thing is pretty awesome...find oil in the desert camel humping illiterates become zillionaires, and then people that fish for eels become billionaires and can charge $25 for a bit of horse meat on a bun!

It does seem strange that hereditary genes can afford one exalted status and vast wealth.....WITHOUT WORKING A DAY FOR IT....

Really no different over here...but in stead of ROYALTY we have perpetual POLITICIANS who again have never had to make a payroll, pay taxes (obviously)....a note this week indicated our legislators are in session 2-3 days a a week and for that they get paid a max of $174k a year....but it costs us almost $6m a year to fly madm Pelosi, speaker of the house back and forth to California...and lets not talk about the side deals....they all leave as millionaires...

cynically yours,

MORSE

Cap,

On a serious note. I've only ever visited New York City in the USA, and prices in larger UK cities such as London are comparable.

In Norway, Sweden, the cost of everything is way inflated. If you drink, expect to pay through the nose, fast food joints and restaurants likewise.

On average it will cost 3 to 4 times NYC prices.

Swedish people used to ferry over to Newcastle, in England, purely to shop, and not for luxuries. It's one expensive place to visit.

Take your wallet.

Just as an aside, I had a Norwegian guy come up to me in Rome in Piazza Barberini, holding a cigarette, and asking me in perfect English:

"Excuse me, do you have a fire?"

Regards Skip

Skoob.

To Skoob Frm. Mdm. Morse

"Hi Skoob.....it would be terrific if there was a way you and Morsie could meet. We're in Portsmouth for only a few hours unfortunately but would enjoy meeting up somehow. I'm only worried that Portsmouth might not be ready for the likes of you two in the same place but then I can just pretend I don't know him.

We've got a driver to bring us down and wait for us and the plan is to get off the ship no later than 9AM and head down. The plans are to see both the Warrior and Victory and some of the museum exhibits at Dockyards before heading back to Southampton to re-board no later than 4PM. Being the nervous nellie that I can be I've got the driver lined up to leave Portsmouth around 2:30, unless you've got a skiff and can run us out to intercept QM2 as she heads out....I'm sure they'd stop for some wayward passengers. You two "unique" gentlemen really should meet!!

By the way, I'm told tea with HM is highly over rated, all those corgis nipping at your ankles and all that nonsense. I'm told you can't even kick the suckers away when they bite. You and Mrs Skoob were probably better off at that pub.

Hope to meet you.....Mrs Morse AKA Penny"

....Now, back to the Gerbil hunt....


Morse