On Feb 9, 7:47*am, wrote:

You remain as clueless and self absorbed as ever.

Ever since my divorce, I've greatly missed annoying someone.

Thanks for being there.

--
Roger Long

On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:16:58 -0500, wrote:

On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:43:45 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 18:56:24 -0800 (PST), Roger Long
wrote:

Peter Chepulis of Thomaston; Chris Walters of Florissant, Missouri,
and Roy Rushton of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, were killed in the
blast, according to a release from the Middletown Police Department.
Colchester resident Ronald Crabb, 42, and Old Saybrook resident
Raymond E. Dobratz, 58, were also killed.

No Mike Manners. Somebody is pulling our leg. Is it Salty?

My bet would be on Dobratz from Old Saybrook since the "Dog" seemed to
know a lot about that area.

I can't believe that you goonies believe anything that
Neal/Wilbur/Ellen posts. Just how gullible are you?

I'll be darned, now we're getting fake obituaries?

Or are we getting resurections, fake or otherwise?

As a famous (real) person once said: "Rumors of my death have been
greatly exagerated".

Salty, if you really are alive, I want you to know that we were so
pleased to hear that you'd finally been able to get a real job. :-)

On Feb 9, 4:16 am, wrote:


I can't believe that you goonies believe anything that
Neal/Wilbur/Ellen posts. Just how gullible are you?

I'm glad to hear you're not dead yet. Tom

On Tue, 9 Feb 2010 16:52:27 -0800 (PST), tom wrote:

On Feb 9, 4:16 am, wrote:


I can't believe that you goonies believe anything that
Neal/Wilbur/Ellen posts. Just how gullible are you?

I'm glad to hear you're not dead yet. Tom

Thanks, Tom. That's good news to me as well!

Tom Dacon wrote:
"Armond Perretta" wrote ...
Tom Dacon wrote:

Any of you guys know what the terms candy man and salty dog actually
mean?

Terms like this typically derive from the so-called "race music" of
the early 20th century. Many of the black artists who recorded
blues and country music were able to use terms that combined sexual
double meanings and humor. "Candy Many" refers to a person whose
sexual prowess was not disputed. There were quite a few recordings
of the song "Candy Many" that included lines like: "You must be
stuck on the candy man's stick" and so on. Not sure about "salty
dog" but Google will probably be a good friend in this regard.

A candy man was a prostitute's first trick of the day (or first sex,
if it was with her pimp), and a salty dog was her last trick of the
day.

I guess you _can_ teach an old dog some new tricks (multi-puns copyrighted).
I have been listening to "Candy Man Blues" by van Ronk, Gary Davis, John
Hurt, and many other performers for probably 50 years, and never knew this
meaning. I don't, however, seem to be having any luck digging up a
reference about this meaning on the Web or elsewhere. Do you perhaps have a
reference or two I can take a look at to learn a bit more? Thanks.

--
Good luck and good sailing.
s/v Kerry Deare of Barnegat
http://home.comcast.net/~kerrydeare

Sorry, Armond. This is something that I seem to have known so long that I no
longer remember where I learned it.

Tom

"Armond Perretta" wrote in message
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Tom Dacon wrote:
"Armond Perretta" wrote ...
Tom Dacon wrote:

Any of you guys know what the terms candy man and salty dog actually
mean?

Terms like this typically derive from the so-called "race music" of
the early 20th century. Many of the black artists who recorded
blues and country music were able to use terms that combined sexual
double meanings and humor. "Candy Many" refers to a person whose
sexual prowess was not disputed. There were quite a few recordings
of the song "Candy Many" that included lines like: "You must be
stuck on the candy man's stick" and so on. Not sure about "salty
dog" but Google will probably be a good friend in this regard.

A candy man was a prostitute's first trick of the day (or first sex,
if it was with her pimp), and a salty dog was her last trick of the
day.

I guess you _can_ teach an old dog some new tricks (multi-puns
copyrighted).
I have been listening to "Candy Man Blues" by van Ronk, Gary Davis, John
Hurt, and many other performers for probably 50 years, and never knew this
meaning. I don't, however, seem to be having any luck digging up a
reference about this meaning on the Web or elsewhere. Do you perhaps have
a
reference or two I can take a look at to learn a bit more? Thanks.

--
Good luck and good sailing.
s/v Kerry Deare of Barnegat
http://home.comcast.net/~kerrydeare

35 hours a week and I am not sure they even have my
home phone number.

If you're actually working 35 hours a week, you must be putting 1/2 a dozen
normal gov't types out of a job!

On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:32:38 -0500, "mmc" wrote:



35 hours a week and I am not sure they even have my
home phone number.

If you're actually working 35 hours a week, you must be putting 1/2 a dozen
normal gov't types out of a job!


Compared to my career, this really doesn't seem like work. It was a
huge adjustment, that's for sure.

wrote in message
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On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:32:38 -0500, "mmc" wrote:



35 hours a week and I am not sure they even have my
home phone number.

If you're actually working 35 hours a week, you must be putting 1/2 a
dozen
normal gov't types out of a job!


Compared to my career, this really doesn't seem like work. It was a
huge adjustment, that's for sure.

Enjoy it!

On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:32:38 -0500, "mmc" wrote:



35 hours a week and I am not sure they even have my
home phone number.

If you're actually working 35 hours a week, you must be putting 1/2 a dozen
normal gov't types out of a job!

I had a gov't job once. I remember one occasion when I worked twelve
hours a day, six days a week, for two weeks. Those were 72 hours
weeks. No overtime pay. A magnificant $145 I got for those two weeks.

Casady