Thanks! I wasn't aware of John Miles until now.
ABBA wrote a song expressing a similar sentiment ("Thank You For The Music"): YouTube
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Hmm! You've given me an idea. Now I want to try sauteing some chopped onions with some raw peanuts. I bet that would taste good, and I wonder why I haven't tried that already!
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In which case I think you'll enjoy his live performance of 'Music' from 2008. YouTube
P.S. I was fortunate enough to see ABBA perform at the Glasgow Apollo Theatre back in 1979. Great sound, highly professional and, oh, Agnetha!
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Thanks! I found that one minutes after you posted your first link. 🙂 Watching good musicians and singers as they perform pulls me in much more than a contrived music video.
She was still gorgeous in 2013, and still had that incredible voice: YouTubeoh, Agnetha!
I was a schoolboy in elementary school when ABBA first became popular, but that didn't stop me from having a crush on Anni-Frid. So stunningly beautiful, and what an absolutely incredible voice!
That voice is better showcased in her very first TV appearance than in any subsequent ABBA song. Listen for her incredible vocal range here (highest notes at around 6:00, near the very end of the song), as well as the sheer beauty of her voice; she starts singing at about 2:30 into the clip: YouTube
-Gnobuddy
Maybe I have been to Atlanta, I'm not sure. It might have been a Jimmy Buffett concert at the Fox theatre on one of the 25 Peach streets you have. It was either that or for a wedding of my nephew, I'm still trying to remember. Either way, we also ended up at the Whole Foods across the street from that weird market thing in an old converted building that has a lot of good stuff. More stuff for the girls than the boys though, like any mall. I think I like the Whole Foods the best. We don't seem to have that all in one store here north of 49. I mean a place to grab a freshly made pizza from a stone oven, or hot dishes, while enjoying a beer from tap, or if you like, a glass of wine served by a sommelier. What's not to like? Shopping is not this good where I live.
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Wait a minute, IMO the dog, I mean Chimp dog, that rides a bike is way mo betta than a dog sitting at the controls of a plane and uses its paws only, no?
While not identical, the 1969 Chopper is a me-too of the Schwinn StingRay of 1963. Chopper patent is 1967, long before Easy Rider.
Main difference is that Schwinn just fitted-up their existing and paid-off dull little-brother bike with ape-hangers and banana seat. (The sprung fork came later.) Raleigh actually tooled a new and novel frame.
Yes, rim-brakes SUCK in a splash. A coaster brake is ABSOLUTELY wet-proof. If you are in water to your hubs you will slow down already. If you come out of the creek then down the hill (how is there a creek on top the hill??) then water is, like car disk brakes, very quickly squeezed-out of the friction zone. I once built a bike with a coaster specifically because it would stop every time.
Most coaster-brake bikes never got to 40. Hot-heads learned to lean way back to keep traction. This habit served well when hand-brakes invented the possibility of a front-flip. The base rule on a 2-wheel vehicle is to never NEED the brakes.
I had a 3-speed with coaster. Mine was cable-shifted tho maybe foot-shift was another choice. It was absurdly difficult to tune up, and mine always ran with much friction.
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That would be perfectly appropriate for a Buffett concert.
Smart business to keep the men in beer and pizza while the missus shops! I did a few enjoyable years in ATL for college, and those conveniences were very cool. I'm back down south now, where things are slow and quiet.
Because I do a little more food things than the Mrs. I had to go there twice. Once for me and once for her.
No, Toonce's driving really was that cat-astrophic! 😀You've got to be kitten me!
-Gnobuddy
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Just goes to show that one can't trust Wikipedia, which contradicts itself between commenting on the designer on one hand and his creation on the other! 😱
Alan Oakley (designer - Wikipedia)
Raleigh Chopper - Wikipedia
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