OK, just pointing out it wasn't a start at the east coast and sweep across the continent. They were strategically bombed.

I wonder, since there were apparently many group migrations to the Americas, over thousands of years, could this have happened more than once?

Yeah, that's a good point. It was strategically placed, and strategically timed. Who can blame them for thinking it was the hand of God?

Pierce, with all due respect, you are stuck on stupid on this issue.

What do you mean by timed? The Spanish were running all over the place a hundred years before the Pilgrims.

That's right. That's why the Pilgrims showed up to find cultivated fields and empty villages. Couldn't time it better than that.

There wasn't enough land for them because the locals already had that under cultivation. But just to the South there was plenty of good land so they told Massasoit they wanted to farm that land. Massasoit said have at it, because the village that had been there had been wiped out by disease, and non of the other Indians wanted anything to do with it.

But that village was wiped out in 1617, three years before the Pilgrims arrived. As a matter of fact, it was Squanto's village and they were gone when he came back in 1619. So yes, there were fields that had been cultivated but had laid fallow for several years.

....And then the holiday of Thanksgiving was born. And every November for hundreds of years after that the white man and indian gathered under those tree at those wooden picnic tables and broke bread, and ate colored indian corn, and kentucky fried chicken. And there was peace.

And pumpkins, all children of the Great Pumpkin.

Charlie Brown: I supposed you spent all night in the pumpkin patch. And did the Great Pumpkin ever show up?
Linus: Nope.
Charlie Brown: Well, don't take it too hard, Linus. I've done a lot of stupid things in my life, too.
Linus: [furious] STUPID! What do you mean "stupid"? Just wait 'til next year, Charlie Brown. You'll see! Next year at this same time, I'll find the perfect pumpkin patch and I'll sit in that pumpkin patch until the Great Pumpkin appears. He'll rise out of that pumpkin patch and he'll fly through the air with his bag of toys. The Great Pumpkin will appear and I'll be waiting for him! I'll be there! I'll be sitting there in that pumpkin patch and I'll see the Great Pumpkin. Just wait and see, Charlie Brown. I'll see the Great Pumpkin. I'll SEE the Great Pumpkin! Just you wait, Charlie Brown, the Great Pumpkin will appear and I'll be waiting for him...

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Awwww, I always wanted Linus to see the Great Pumpkin. Then again, I was glad that for once they weren't calling Charlie Brown an idiot. I've always been a sucker for an underdog.

(I got a rock.)

ya know what? i like shawnee. she makes sense. plus, she's a naughty girl.



Like me.

I like you too Bri. Glad to see you back.

We should get a free pass, if for nothing else than surviving living in OHIO.

shawnee-- YOU R SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO RIGHT!

no one, NO ONE! understands the hell that is OFUCKINHIO! esp in the summer!

:notworthy

I love Chrissie Hynde!

Of course we do, that's why we don't live there.

Maybe It's something in the air there in Ohio that makes people funny or witty. I should move there. I'm tired of my analytical self.
Maybe if I had a brain to go around the block with it would be a different story.

Sky, it's just the sheer boredom that causes us to find other outlets.

But seriously, Ohio has some great places, like any state. Cincy and Columbus are wonderful cities. We have beautiful countryside, from lakes to rolling hills. Where I am, not so much. :p It's kind of flat and dull and conservative with a lot of sheep. Not the bleating kind.

S'okay. When I win big I'm living in Maine in the summers, then I'll yacht down to the keys for the winters.

Back on the Chain Gang
 

sounds good :) crab, chowder the cool salt air...then those hot summer nights on a yacht.
:drool: yum



ps. what' ya really trying to say flint?

.....no...don't answer that. The answer will only confuse me.

my favorite
 

Dont get me wrong
If Im looking kind of dazzled
I see neon lights
Whenever you walk by

Dont get me wrong
If you say hello and I take a ride
Upon a sea where the mystic moon
Is playing havoc with the tide
Dont get me wrong

Dont get me wrong
If Im acting so distracted
Im thinking about the fireworks

That go off when you smile

Dont get me wrong
If I split like light refracted
Im only off to wander
Across a moonlit mile

Once in awhile
Two people meet
Seemingly for no reason
They just pass on the street
Suddenly thunder, showers everywhere
Who can explain the thunder and rain
But theres something in the air

Dont get me wrong
If I come and go like fashion
I might be great tomorrow
But hopeless yesterday

Dont get me wrong
If I fall in the mode of passion
It might be unbelievable
But lets not say so long
It might just be fantastic
Dont get me wrong

(excuse the threadjackage)

The favorite parts of Pretenders songs are these bridge sections:
Nerd Trivia: In Homer Goes to College, who used to play what instrument for The Pretenders? Who wrote that episode?

Absolutely! That's running through my head right now!

ok whatever. I can post lyrics too.
 

Entre Nous


I think it's time for us to recognize
The differences we sometimes fear to show
Just between us
I think it's time for us to realize
The spaces in between
Leave room for you and I to grow

We are strangers to each other
Full of sliding panels
An illusion show
Acting well rehearsed routines
Or playing from the heart?
It's hard for one to know

My son would have that answer but he's sleeping right now.
{edit}
I googled it....

Dean Bobby Peterson claims that he used to be the bass player for The Pretenders.

Written by Conan O'Brien

You have to have Flint's expressed written consent. ;)

Dunno. Homer's dad played Sax? Written by Kenny G? :rolleyes:

You're right, of course. I didn't realize you had answered, because edits don't bump threads...