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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Wed Sep-30-09 07:28 PM
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The local Ice Cream truck just passed my house...
It always plays a little melody...

Today?

"Jingle Bells."


:eyes:

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   You're lucky. Mine always plays "White Punks on Dope".  LeftyFingerPop   Sep-30-09 07:37 PM   #1 
   My dear LeftyFingerPop!  CaliforniaPeggy   Sep-30-09 07:41 PM   #3 
   Here you go Peg...  LeftyFingerPop   Sep-30-09 07:45 PM   #10 
      That wasn't an ice cream truck  theNotoriousP.I.G.   Sep-30-09 07:49 PM   #13 
      Yes it was, sizzle.  LeftyFingerPop   Sep-30-09 07:52 PM   #15 
         You're finally taking my proposal seriously?  theNotoriousP.I.G.   Sep-30-09 08:01 PM   #18 
      ROFLMAO!  CaliforniaPeggy   Sep-30-09 07:51 PM   #14 
         Please don't mock the neighborhood kids, Peg  LeftyFingerPop   Sep-30-09 07:53 PM   #16 
   I seen the Tubes live back in 1975 in the Kent State Gym...  WCGreen   Sep-30-09 08:13 PM   #22 
      I'll bet they weren't singing about ice cream!  CaliforniaPeggy   Sep-30-09 08:16 PM   #23 
      Just asking us What Do You Want From Life....  WCGreen   Sep-30-09 08:25 PM   #24 
         Oh, that was cool!  CaliforniaPeggy   Sep-30-09 08:34 PM   #25 
      Tubes  madeline_con   Sep-30-09 10:35 PM   #31 
   LOVE the ice-cream truck! Ah, youth, and Dreamsicles.  WinkyDink   Sep-30-09 07:40 PM   #2 
   My dear WinkyDink!  CaliforniaPeggy   Sep-30-09 07:42 PM   #5 
      There are too few 100% smile-inducing parts of life, but this is one!  WinkyDink   Sep-30-09 07:45 PM   #9 
   A freaking MONTH before Halloween?  liberaltrucker   Sep-30-09 07:41 PM   #4 
   My dear liberaltrucker!  CaliforniaPeggy   Sep-30-09 07:44 PM   #7 
   Ours has been playing "The Entertainer" -- ragtime  Auggie   Sep-30-09 07:43 PM   #6 
   My dear Auggie!  CaliforniaPeggy   Sep-30-09 07:46 PM   #11 
   The ice cream truck around here plays "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"  TK421   Sep-30-09 07:44 PM   #8 
   My dear TK41!  CaliforniaPeggy   Sep-30-09 07:48 PM   #12 
      I'm kidding Peggy!  TK421   Sep-30-09 07:58 PM   #17 
         I did think you were!  CaliforniaPeggy   Sep-30-09 08:03 PM   #19 
            When you put your next poem out, let me know!  TK421   Sep-30-09 08:05 PM   #20 
               I will do that!  CaliforniaPeggy   Sep-30-09 08:07 PM   #21 
   We're getting "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"  azmouse   Sep-30-09 09:01 PM   #26 
   My dear azmouse!  CaliforniaPeggy   Sep-30-09 09:03 PM   #27 
   ours used to play the theme from "the godfather"  GreatCaesarsGhost   Sep-30-09 09:15 PM   #28 
   My dear GreatCaesarsGhost!  CaliforniaPeggy   Sep-30-09 09:17 PM   #29 
   no kids in the neighborhood anymore, so it just drives by  GreatCaesarsGhost   Sep-30-09 09:54 PM   #30 
   which theme?  Lionel Mandrake   Sep-30-09 11:20 PM   #32 
   Less than three months  EastTennesseeDem   Sep-30-09 11:27 PM   #33 
   My dear EastTennesseeDem!  CaliforniaPeggy   Sep-30-09 11:30 PM   #34 
   Maybe next time they'll play God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen  EastTennesseeDem   Sep-30-09 11:35 PM   #38 
      Ah,it's not the song!  CaliforniaPeggy   Sep-30-09 11:39 PM   #40 
   Bah, humbug! (n/t)  Lionel Mandrake   Sep-30-09 11:32 PM   #35 
   Ours plays "Where The Buffalo Roam".  Forkboy   Sep-30-09 11:32 PM   #36 
   My dear Forkboy!  CaliforniaPeggy   Oct-01-09 12:50 AM   #42 
      yeah, but you got to admit...  Forkboy   Oct-01-09 01:02 AM   #46 
         LOL!  CaliforniaPeggy   Oct-01-09 01:11 AM   #48 
   They HAVE ice cream trucks in Manhattan Beach?  NNadir   Sep-30-09 11:34 PM   #37 
   My dear NNadir!  CaliforniaPeggy   Oct-01-09 12:52 AM   #43 
      Well Peg, I left Hermosa for good in the 1980's, but I don't know that they ever came down  NNadir   Oct-01-09 12:05 PM   #56 
         You left in the 80's?  CaliforniaPeggy   Oct-01-09 04:59 PM   #57 
            I remember it. I assume from your use of the past tense, it is no more.  NNadir   Oct-01-09 06:20 PM   #62 
               I no longer write for it, but it still exists...  CaliforniaPeggy   Oct-01-09 06:37 PM   #64 
                  There's a part of me that misses the Beach Cities still, but truth be told,  NNadir   Oct-01-09 09:54 PM   #69 
   I'm waiting for an ice cream truck to play Chopin's Piano Sonata #2.  Lionel Mandrake   Sep-30-09 11:38 PM   #39 
   My dear Lionel Mandrake!  CaliforniaPeggy   Oct-01-09 12:53 AM   #44 
      Well, how about Haydn's "emperor" quartet, 2nd movement.  Lionel Mandrake   Oct-01-09 01:11 AM   #47 
         Yes, that's very pretty, lol!  CaliforniaPeggy   Oct-01-09 01:14 AM   #49 
            Mom and Dad probably wouldn't get it either.  Lionel Mandrake   Oct-01-09 01:20 AM   #50 
   At least it wasn't playing Orff's "Carmina Burana"...  Swede   Sep-30-09 11:47 PM   #41 
   My dear Swede!  CaliforniaPeggy   Oct-01-09 12:55 AM   #45 
   Here ya go  NewJeffCT   Oct-01-09 06:52 PM   #67 
   Ours alwyas plays "Turkey in the Straw." Always.  Kat45   Oct-01-09 01:24 AM   #51 
   My dear Kat45!  CaliforniaPeggy   Oct-01-09 01:27 AM   #52 
   My local ice cream truck plays Happy Birthday.  Iggo   Oct-01-09 01:55 AM   #53 
   My dear Iggo!  CaliforniaPeggy   Oct-01-09 02:04 AM   #54 
   Is it a rock n roll night tonight?  Sebastian Doyle   Oct-01-09 03:11 AM   #55 
   My dear Sebastian Doyle!  CaliforniaPeggy   Oct-01-09 05:18 PM   #59 
   It should have been playing this song...  gmoney   Oct-01-09 05:00 PM   #58 
   My dear gmoney!  CaliforniaPeggy   Oct-01-09 05:19 PM   #60 
   My dear CaliforniaPeggy!  UrbScotty   Oct-01-09 05:54 PM   #61 
   My dear UrbScotty!  CaliforniaPeggy   Oct-01-09 06:39 PM   #65 
   I wonder how successful ice cream trucks are anymore  elocs   Oct-01-09 06:28 PM   #63 
   My dear elocs!  CaliforniaPeggy   Oct-01-09 06:41 PM   #66 
      Actually where I live I did hear one go by this past summer and there are no children around here.  elocs   Oct-01-09 09:07 PM   #68 
   Why did you hurt that poor ice cream truck driver?  elshiva   Oct-01-09 09:59 PM   #70 
   Good evening, CalPeggy. Our ice cream truck comes around almost  txwhitedove   Oct-01-09 10:23 PM   #71 
   That's the secret signal to start the Liberal War on Christmas!  Odin2005   Oct-01-09 10:32 PM   #72 
   Brings back memories....  Dystopian   Oct-01-09 10:56 PM   #73 
 
LeftyFingerPop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Sep-30-09 07:37 PM
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1. You're lucky. Mine always plays "White Punks on Dope".
:hug:
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Wed Sep-30-09 07:41 PM
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3. My dear LeftyFingerPop!
Oh really?

Can you hum a few bars?

I don't know this one!

:hug:

:rofl:
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LeftyFingerPop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Sep-30-09 07:45 PM
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10. Here you go Peg...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP8nGNbk7oQ
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theNotoriousP.I.G. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Wed Sep-30-09 07:49 PM
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13. That wasn't an ice cream truck
dumb shit. :hide:
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LeftyFingerPop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Sep-30-09 07:52 PM
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15. Yes it was, sizzle.
:D
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theNotoriousP.I.G. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Wed Sep-30-09 08:01 PM
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18. You're finally taking my proposal seriously?
I love you twinkle toes. :rofl:
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Wed Sep-30-09 07:51 PM
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14. ROFLMAO!
I can just see the crowds following the truck, forcing it to stop and getting the ice cream out!

:rofl:
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LeftyFingerPop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Sep-30-09 07:53 PM
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16. Please don't mock the neighborhood kids, Peg
:rofl:
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Sep-30-09 08:13 PM
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22. I seen the Tubes live back in 1975 in the Kent State Gym...
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Wed Sep-30-09 08:16 PM
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23. I'll bet they weren't singing about ice cream!
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Sep-30-09 08:25 PM
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24. Just asking us What Do You Want From Life....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbt2chabdbw


Checvk out the last few seconds....
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Wed Sep-30-09 08:34 PM
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25. Oh, that was cool!
Thanks!

I loved it when he was asking the audience what they wanted from life...

He even mentioned Obama...



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madeline_con Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Sep-30-09 10:35 PM
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31. Tubes
:rofl:
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WinkyDink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Wed Sep-30-09 07:40 PM
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2. LOVE the ice-cream truck! Ah, youth, and Dreamsicles.
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Wed Sep-30-09 07:42 PM
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5. My dear WinkyDink!
Ah, I love it too!

When my daughter was about 3, I used to tell her it was the "music truck"...

We laugh about it now!

:hi:
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WinkyDink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Wed Sep-30-09 07:45 PM
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9. There are too few 100% smile-inducing parts of life, but this is one!
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liberaltrucker Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Wed Sep-30-09 07:41 PM
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4. A freaking MONTH before Halloween?
Sheesh!!

I can assume the ice cream was yummy, eh?


:hug:

:loveya:
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Wed Sep-30-09 07:44 PM
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7. My dear liberaltrucker!
Exactly!

Maybe he figured it would get people's attention?

It sure did mine!

Nah, didn't buy any...don't need the calories!

:hug:

:loveya:
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Auggie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Wed Sep-30-09 07:43 PM
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6. Ours has been playing "The Entertainer" -- ragtime
Edited on Wed Sep-30-09 07:43 PM by Auggie
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Wed Sep-30-09 07:46 PM
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11. My dear Auggie!
I would love to hear that!

Very cool.

I love ragtime!

:hi:
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TK421 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Sep-30-09 07:44 PM
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8. The ice cream truck around here plays "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Wed Sep-30-09 07:48 PM
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12. My dear TK41!
I'm having a hard time believing this!

Tell me you're kidding!


How's the wasp(?) bite doing, sweetie?


:hug:
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TK421 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Sep-30-09 07:58 PM
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17. I'm kidding Peggy!
Oh, the sting is well beyond healed now....no more encounters since the cooler weather has set in ( thank the goddess ) I worked today with zero interruptions and there was a cool breeze blowing off the Delaware ( which is about forty feet away from me there ). Hope you are doing well! :)
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Wed Sep-30-09 08:03 PM
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19. I did think you were!
Glad to hear you're healed and doing well in the cooler weather!

I am well, thanks...

Just started a six week poetry workshop (every Tuesday night) and am on fire with it!

:hug:
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TK421 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Sep-30-09 08:05 PM
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20. When you put your next poem out, let me know!
my computer is functional again!!!!
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Wed Sep-30-09 08:07 PM
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21. I will do that!
Glad to hear it!
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azmouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Sep-30-09 09:01 PM
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26. We're getting "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"
I'll trade with ya! :)
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Wed Sep-30-09 09:03 PM
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27. My dear azmouse!
I would if I could!

Maybe...

;)
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GreatCaesarsGhost (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Sep-30-09 09:15 PM
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28. ours used to play the theme from "the godfather"
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Wed Sep-30-09 09:17 PM
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29. My dear GreatCaesarsGhost!
How did the kids react to that?

I would think something a bit more cheerful would be preferable...

:shrug:

:hi:
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GreatCaesarsGhost (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Sep-30-09 09:54 PM
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30. no kids in the neighborhood anymore, so it just drives by
Edited on Wed Sep-30-09 09:55 PM by GreatCaesarsGhost
a little surreal. but once in awhile i'll flag it down and get a toasted almond.
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Lionel Mandrake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Sep-30-09 11:20 PM
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32. which theme?
There are several.
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EastTennesseeDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Sep-30-09 11:27 PM
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33. Less than three months
They're trying to get you into the spirit.
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Wed Sep-30-09 11:30 PM
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34. My dear EastTennesseeDem!
Ha!

And all it did was piss me off!

:rofl:

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EastTennesseeDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Sep-30-09 11:35 PM
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38. Maybe next time they'll play God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Would you be in the spirit then?
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Wed Sep-30-09 11:39 PM
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40. Ah,it's not the song!
It's the timing...

I like "Jingle Bells" just fine...just not now!

November would be soon enough...

I love "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" too!

:hi:
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Lionel Mandrake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Sep-30-09 11:32 PM
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35. Bah, humbug! (n/t)
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Wed Sep-30-09 11:32 PM
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36. Ours plays "Where The Buffalo Roam".
I suppose Cannibal Corpse's song Five Nails To The Neck is right out. x(
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Thu Oct-01-09 12:50 AM
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42. My dear Forkboy!
Now "Where the Buffalo Roam" is a perfectly fine song!

The other one? Um...not so much, sweetie...

Sorry!

:hug:
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Thu Oct-01-09 01:02 AM
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46. yeah, but you got to admit...
Edited on Thu Oct-01-09 01:02 AM by Forkboy
there is a certain comedy factor in a Good Humor man tooling around with that blasting from the speakers. How many kids run FROM the ice cream man?

Clearly, this is one career option I can rule out. ;)
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Thu Oct-01-09 01:11 AM
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48. LOL!
I think you're right about the career option, sweetie!

:rofl:
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NNadir Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Sep-30-09 11:34 PM
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37. They HAVE ice cream trucks in Manhattan Beach?
We had one come to our local park this summer and it felt so nostalgic, as I hadn't seen one in years.

It brought back such memories. One summer, while he was on strike, to put food on the table my father became the ice cream man.

Bungalo bar...

He was such a good father. The last stop was always his kid's house, and the ice cream man always bought his sons an ice cream.

Mind you he was on strike and he didn't have a dime.

Sigh...
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Thu Oct-01-09 12:52 AM
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43. My dear NNadir!
We have ALWAYS had them here!

When we moved into this town, back in 1968, we had them!

There's a fair number of families with kids here...

And I love your poignant story...

Good on your dad. What a sweetheart he was for you...

Thank you for sharing that, sweetie...

:hug:
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NNadir Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Oct-01-09 12:05 PM
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56. Well Peg, I left Hermosa for good in the 1980's, but I don't know that they ever came down
our way. Or maybe I was missing something.

I lived on 10th Street, and before that Beach Dr. I can't recall an ice cream truck, but maybe I wasn't paying attention.
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Thu Oct-01-09 04:59 PM
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57. You left in the 80's?
Do you remember the Easy Reader newspaper?

I used to write for them... ;)

I don't know if the ice cream trucks went into Hermosa...

Maybe there were too many renters without kids then.
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NNadir Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Oct-01-09 06:20 PM
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62. I remember it. I assume from your use of the past tense, it is no more.
We were renters as you say.

I can't say I knew anyone with kids.
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Thu Oct-01-09 06:37 PM
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64. I no longer write for it, but it still exists...
I get it every week!

Here's a link for info and for the paper itself:

http://www.easyreader.info /
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NNadir Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Oct-01-09 09:54 PM
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69. There's a part of me that misses the Beach Cities still, but truth be told,
since moving to New Jersey, I've become a New Jersey fascist.

(I did time in San Diego after leaving Hermosa/Redondo)

I wouldn't want to live in any other place other than New Jersey. It's heaven.
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Lionel Mandrake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Sep-30-09 11:38 PM
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39. I'm waiting for an ice cream truck to play Chopin's Piano Sonata #2.
You know, the one with the funeral march.
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Thu Oct-01-09 12:53 AM
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44. My dear Lionel Mandrake!
LOL!

That would never, ever do!

:rofl:
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Lionel Mandrake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Oct-01-09 01:11 AM
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47. Well, how about Haydn's "emperor" quartet, 2nd movement.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc34Jr9udlU
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Thu Oct-01-09 01:14 AM
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49. Yes, that's very pretty, lol!
The kids wouldn't get it, but the grownups would!

And they would object...

Besides, it's not perky and funny enough for ice cream trucks!

;)
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Lionel Mandrake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Oct-01-09 01:20 AM
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50. Mom and Dad probably wouldn't get it either.
Grandma and Grandpa would get it. But they don't live in the neighborhood.
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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Sep-30-09 11:47 PM
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41. At least it wasn't playing Orff's "Carmina Burana"...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Thu Oct-01-09 12:55 AM
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45. My dear Swede!
How did I miss that one?

It's hilarious!

Thanks for that great thread!

:hug:
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Thu Oct-01-09 06:52 PM
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67. Here ya go
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9eEwsGPf3s&feature=Play...

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Kat45 Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Oct-01-09 01:24 AM
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51. Ours alwyas plays "Turkey in the Straw." Always.
And I live across the street from a school, so I hear it constantly.
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Thu Oct-01-09 01:27 AM
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52. My dear Kat45!
That's a good song...

But I hope that being across the street from a school doesn't make you crazy!

:hi:
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Iggo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Oct-01-09 01:55 AM
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53. My local ice cream truck plays Happy Birthday.
Pied Piper knows his clientele, yes?
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Thu Oct-01-09 02:04 AM
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54. My dear Iggo!
Oh, absolutely!

If he didn't, he'd be out of business...

And that's a very appropriate song!

:hi:
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Sebastian Doyle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Oct-01-09 03:11 AM
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55. Is it a rock n roll night tonight?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygXefDRoBts
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Thu Oct-01-09 05:18 PM
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59. My dear Sebastian Doyle!
I think it is!

Thanks for David...I used to love him, back in the day...

:toast:
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gmoney Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Oct-01-09 05:00 PM
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58. It should have been playing this song...Updated at 12:16 AM
"Ice Cream Man" by Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu3TvC9CH18
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Thu Oct-01-09 05:19 PM
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60. My dear gmoney!
That's really cute!

Thanks, sweetie!

:hi:
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UrbScotty Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Oct-01-09 05:54 PM
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61. My dear CaliforniaPeggy!
Edited on Thu Oct-01-09 05:54 PM by UrbScotty
I listen to Christmas music year-round!

:D
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Thu Oct-01-09 06:39 PM
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65. My dear UrbScotty!
You do?

How come?

Or are you teasing me?

:D
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elocs (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Oct-01-09 06:28 PM
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63. I wonder how successful ice cream trucks are anymore
since kids don't seem to be allowed to play outside anymore? Seems like they are either indoors and taken by their parents to some organized event.

I've got to say, I wouldn't want to be a kid today.
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Thu Oct-01-09 06:41 PM
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66. My dear elocs!
Well, in my neighborhood, the kids play outside quite a lot...

And they also have lots of organized things to do too...

The ice cream guy must be having some success...he keeps showing up!

:hi:
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elocs (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Oct-01-09 09:07 PM
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68. Actually where I live I did hear one go by this past summer and there are no children around here.
Kids don't seem to be outside all day the way they were when I was a kid. Back then in the summer we would be outside all day long until it was dark and we were called to come home or the curfew whistle sounded. As a boy I seemed to spend a lot of time with my friends looking for boards to make a fort or a go-cart or for a big refrigerator box to roll in down the hill in front of the house. And hearing the ice cream truck was a big deal, with lots of kids trailing along. (We also used to follow on our bikes behind the city truck that was fogging for mosquitoes in the summer as gassed birds fell out of the trees along the way.)
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elshiva Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Thu Oct-01-09 09:59 PM
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70. Why did you hurt that poor ice cream truck driver?
I just saw it on tv. :scared:
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txwhitedove Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Thu Oct-01-09 10:23 PM
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71. Good evening, CalPeggy. Our ice cream truck comes around almost
every evening, and it plays The Entertainer - theme from movie The Sting.
When we first moved to Houston 26-years ago, I was so tickled that the
ice cream trucks run all year round.

:)
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Oct-01-09 10:32 PM
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72. That's the secret signal to start the Liberal War on Christmas!
Oops, did I say that out loud? :yoiks:
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Dystopian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Oct-01-09 10:56 PM
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73. Brings back memories....
For some reason, we knew it as the 'Ding Dong Truck'...
When my children were little....oh the joy!
It was great....my children got their ice cream, and I got to speak with the 'Ding Dong' man..
A really cute young guy with a long beautiful pony tail...
Ah ...those were the days, my friend... :hug:


peace~
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