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Caution: risque content ahead.
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An email from Tim B in response to yesterday’s Music Monday post about The Devil went down to Georgia (where Tim resides):
Thanks Otto,I enjoyed revisiting the original song and believe it, I had not heard of the re-match song and enjoyed it even more than the original. I think it was Robert Johnson that popularized the triple O guitar for blues style songs.Thanks for the bluesy Bytes today.Tim
Thanks Tim.
Some more Robert Johnston blues, fantastic:
Sweet Home Chicago (remember this in the Blues Brothers movie?)
Kind Hearted Woman Blues:
Song Collection:
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An email from Ron T, who resides in Kansas City in the US, in response to the Badass post on Geronimo:
Great piece on Geronimo. Thanks.The reverence for this warrior isn't lost. Around WWII times [I think it was back then], when a paratrooper jumped, he would very often yell, "Geronimo!"Some thought is the adrenaline rush and/or to honor this warrior's code.Continued thanks for Bytes. They're always at the top of the day's anticipation and pleasure.Blessing to you and your loved ones.
Thanks Ron, and you are correct.
From Wikipedia at:
Geronimo is a United States Army airborne exclamation occasionally used by jumping paratroopers or, more generally, anyone about to jump from a great height, or as a general exclamation of exhilaration. The cry originated in the United States.
Origins
At least two different explanations place the origins of the exclamation in Fort Benning, Georgia, where some of the first of the US Army's parachute jumps occurred in the 1940s.
According to paratrooper Gerard Devlin, this exclamation dates from August 1940 and is attributed to Private First Class Aubrey Eberhardt, member of parachute test platoon at Fort Benning. The parachute had only recently been adopted for troop drops, and this platoon was the first to test it. On the eve of their first jump, the platoon decided to calm their nerves by spending the day before taking in a film at the Main Post Theatre and a night at the local beer garden. The film they saw was a Western featuring the Native American Geronimo. Its title is uncertain, but it was probably the 1939 film Geronimo with Andy Devine and Lone Ranger star Chief Thundercloud in the title role. On the way back to barracks, Eberhardt's comrades taunted him saying that he would be too scared to remember his name. Eberhardt retorted, "All right, dammit! I tell you jokers what I'm gonna do! To prove to you that I'm not scared out of my wits when I jump, I'm gonna yell Geronimo loud as hell when I go out that door tomorrow!" Eberhardt kept his promise, and the cry was gradually adopted by the other members of his platoon.
In his book Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Richard Winters, Winters offers a different explanation: The 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment at Fort Benning was due to go on the first jump. At the time there was a popular song called "Geronimo" on the radio, which quickly became a favorite amongst the troops. The cry became known to the commanding officer who insisted they would instead jump out and cry "Currahee", the name of a mountain at Camp Toccoa, their first training camp. The paratroopers had run up and down the mountain frequently during training, the run known to the troops as "3 miles up, 3 miles down".
There is also a third explanation. Medicine Bluffs at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, where Geronimo was jailed as prisoner of war and his grave is located, are steep cliffs and have come to be known as Geronimo's Bluff. Tall tales were told about Geronimo while at Fort Sill. It was said that one day Geronimo, with the Army in hot pursuit, made a leap on horseback down an almost vertical cliff, a feat that the posse could not duplicate. The legend continues that in the midst of this jump to freedom he gave out the bloodcurdling cry of "Geronimo-o-o!" when in reality the source of the tale is expected to have come from a famous incident called McColloch’s Leap.
Response
501st Parachute Infantry Regiment Distinctive Unit Insignia
World War II pocket patch and beret flash of the 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment
Initially, the top brass were wary of the cry, claiming that it constituted a lack of discipline. Others said that it showed bravery and should be encouraged. Eventually the latter view won out, and when the Army's paratrooper regiment grew, the cry grew with it. In the early 1940s, the Army's 501st and 509th Parachute Infantry Regiments incorporated the name "Geronimo" into its insignias, with the permission of Geronimo's descendants. By then, the coverage of the paratroopers' exploits during World War II had made the cry "Geronimo" known to the wider public, and its use spread outside the military and U.S. Army.
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From friend and protagonist Steve M in response to the post on bookplates:
Good morning Otto,Interesting Bytes re book plates. Got a pic of yours?Steve m
In response I sent him this:
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And another from Steve, who disagrees with my choices of top movies, this email being in response to my selection of the original John Wayne film Stagecoach:
You’re doing it again, Otto…“Fantastic film; great cast; good story and characters that set the scene for many western stories and characters which followed; how could one not like this film. Well, my friend Steve likely wouldn’t but I suspect he is an alien who has taken over a human body.”Every film that John Wayne appeared in he played the same character – John Wayne! Pleased don’t confuse popularity and script reading with good acting!Here’s a good actor…in fact, a brilliant actor who inhabits the character he plays and leads viewers to believe he is a different person entirely: Anthony Hopkins.– have you seen The Father? Wonderful script, superb acting. Please watch it to help further your education when it comes to the silver screen.All the best for a good weekend,Steve m
Thanks Steve, I think. My response is my bookplate.
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And an earlier one from Tim B responding to the Funny Friday about politics and politicians at the time of our Federal election, notab”y the joke about the first Jewish President elected (causing his mother to say at his inauguration: ‘You see that man up there with his hand on the Tanakh? His brother is a doctor!" Alternative version: first woman elected President, her father at the inauguration says to the Supreme Court Justice sitting beside him: 'You see that woman over there with her hand on the Bible, becoming President of the United States? Her brother played football for the University of Alabama.”)
Good Morning Otto,Funny Friday was indeed funny, and I dare say, maybe had some truth to it. I am from Alabama, as you may know, but live in Georgia. My Mother grew up in a little community called Flea Hop, (a story behind that name), close to Eclectic. My older brother, Reg, is a lawyer and I was an airline pilot, but we did not have a brother that played football for Alabama. If we did, he would have been the hero in the family. 🙂I don't know if you heard, but President Trump gave the commencement speech at the University of Alabama yesterday.I also, as you know, am a staunch conservative, maybe derived from my days in the military, and almost always vote "R". The Dems just haven't put up a viable candidate I could vote for since JFK, and I was too young to vote then. Not to get into a long political discourse, but if you really look into the voting base for both parties, the Dems may have a higher IQ, but seem to lack common sense, as in men can be women, women can be men, open borders are good for the country, men can compete against women, and all the other nonsense ideas they espouse. I don't know anything about Australian politicians but here we do indeed have politicians that promise the world but never deliver and that is on both sides of the aisle. Trump is the only President who is actually trying to keep his campaign promises. Our electorate on both sides are too uninformed to primary viable candidates. I think if was Plato that said: If you don't take an interest in the affairs of your government , then you are destined to be governed by fools. That is where we are today.Hope your candidate wins.....mine did. 🙂Have a great day Otto, and keep those funny Friday's coming.Tim B
Thanks Tim
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Some comments on whether to retain On This Day:
Philip and Enid:
Enid and I both enjoy “On This Day”. Like the rest of Bytes, it is always informative and nearly always interestihng.Hope you and te family are all well.RegardsEnid & Philip
Steve M again:
Good morning Otto,In response to your question today, yes, Bytes ‘on this day’ is great. I’m enjoying it, ta!
Tim B:
I like the on this day posts and also the thought for the day. I really enjoy Bytes Daily and look forward to them, and yes I have a life and do a lot of other things, but reading Bytes Daily is one of my evening relaxation favorites. (I receive it every evening around 7 or 8, which makes your funny Friday, my funny Thursday evening .🙂)
Thanks people
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In the Sydney Suburbs post on Dulwich Hill, I posted a watercolour pic of my home.
Some comments from readers:
Tim B:
Cool looking home. Did you do the painting? It looks like a painting and not a photograph.
Steve M:
Interesting info regarding Dulwich Hill…the Wardell story is very interesting! Who did the water colour of the Otto Playboy Mansion? Very nice.
Ron T:
Your home, for real?!? It's magnificent.
Comments:
The house is a 2 storey Victorian residence (c1895) with an additional level as basement.
The watercolour was done by a local artist who had an ad fin the local newspaper or painting from photographs, I had it done as a gift for Kate.
Kate and I bought the house 24 years ago at an inexpensive price in that the vendors had already bought and needed to sell but had no interest from buyers We inspected the night before the auction and exchanged contracts on the spot. It turns out there were other interested parties but they had not expressed any interest for fear of seeming too anxious.
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From David J in response to the post on spoonerisms and the man who gave his name to them, William Archibald Spooner:
A spoonerism I seem to actually recall hearing on a recorded speech by our 31st President Herbert Hoover. He was introduced by "Ladies and Gentlemen, our President, Hoobert Heever.David J
Thanks David.
And a contribution from Tim B:
Evening Otto,Do you know the difference between " a pygmy tribe and a girls track team.....a pygmy tribe is a cunning bunch of runts. Or the difference between a rooster and a lawyer...a rooster clucks defiance. Thought you might enjoy these two Spoonerisms.Hope you are doing well and enjoying the end of summer.Tim
Thanks Tim.
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