the smoky life

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the smoky life

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is practiced everywhere
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Five unusual colours kiss old fag face

well done on a very good painting

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attention jarkko!

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solongleonard wrote: Wed May 02, 2018 7:42 pm Fine unusual colouring kisses old fag face

well done on a very good painting

solong
thank you, michael. a kind message is always appreciated. from the middle of june my circumstances will possibly be changing, allowing me to be online a little more often. i am aware of how little i have been able to respond to the messages written to me, and look forward to changing that.

while writing, i bring to jarkko's attention (on the assumption that he monitors these messages), this small error that many years ago crept onto his otherwise fine website.
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while writing, i bring to jarkko's attention (on the assumption that he monitors these messages), this small error that many years ago crept onto his otherwise fine website.
Geoffrey

I'm afraid the error is Leonard's, which leads me to the question whether or not it actually is an error... If you check the back of your lp, cd, cassette or other medium, you'll notice that it has the title of the song listed as "The Smokey Life"...

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I have to admit that this presumed spelling error has always bothered me less than the way Leonard sings the first two lines in the song. Although the printed lyrics that I have seen here and elsewhere are grammatically correct -- "I've never seen..." -- Leonard fails to pronounce the -"ve" part of the contraction, and instead uses the ghastly and horribly uneducated-sounding "I never seen...", which has always been, for me, an intensely nerve-grating grammatical error (regardless of who uses it). I so despise it that I simply cannot listen to this song. Sorry, but one has to have standards.

I do, however, like Geoffrey's painting! It certainly meets or exceeds very high standards, particularly in the way that it so evocatively captures Leonard's soulful expression.
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Geoffrey wrote: Wed May 02, 2018 8:50 pm
solongleonard wrote: Wed May 02, 2018 7:42 pm Fine unusual colouring kisses old fag face

well done on a very good painting

solong
thank you, michael. a kind message is always appreciated. from the middle of june my circumstances will possibly be changing, allowing me to be online a little more often. i am aware of how little i have been able to respond to the messages written to me, and look forward to changing that.

while writing, i bring to jarkko's attention (on the assumption that he monitors these messages), this small error that many years ago crept onto his otherwise fine website.
smoky.jpg

your subject heading is particularly cruel. lacking any sensitivity you have dragged Jarkko back to his 25 year service in the Swedish* army. Every night he would be roughly woken by a group of high ranking officers whistling Tacoma Trailer screaming "Attention Jarkko". He would jump out of bed and then they would laugh at him for exactly 17 minutes each time.

He turned left by mistake at the Finnish roundabout and ended up in bloody Sweden.
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solongleonard wrote: Wed May 02, 2018 7:42 pm Five unusual colours kiss old fag face

solong

what a nasty acronym you addressed to Geoffrey. you should be ashamed of yourself solongbastard (or whatever your name is today)
yeah, well, errrrm, hum, yeah, ok, I dunno, articulation is not my fing, who cares, SHUT IT YOU MUPPET, blah blah blah
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Maarten wrote:I'm afraid the error is Leonard's, which leads me to the question whether or not it actually is an error... If you check the back of your lp, cd, cassette or other medium, you'll notice that it has the title of the song listed as "The Smokey Life"...
hello maarten. yes, leonard would never make an error, and the missing apostrophe in lets be married one more night was probably done on purpose as well ;-)
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LisaLCFan wrote:I do, however, like Geoffrey's painting! It certainly meets or exceeds very high standards, particularly in the way that it so evocatively captures Leonard's soulful expression.
thank you, lisa. a gentleman who runs a german cohen site wrote to me a couple of days ago "with those kind of art you give him a neverending life". that, along with your comment here, are amongst the most precious things i possess. :-)
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much appreciation, michael, for the energy and wit with which you so often decorate this creative area of jarkko's forum. i regard you as a link somewhere between oscar wilde and stanley unwin ;-)
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the Oscar Wilde comparison is often made.

yes, my real identity, including photos, is revealed in Jarkko's Gallery of Beautiful Unwinners.
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Sideways wrote: Mon May 07, 2018 7:36 pm the Oscar Wilde comparison is often made.

yes, my real identity, including photos, is revealed in Jarkko's Gallery of Beautiful Unwinners.

She and I have split but I will still say that her post above is brilliant, one of the best puns ever on this forum
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Re: the hokey cokey life

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solongleonard wrote: Tue May 08, 2018 1:22 am
Sideways wrote: Mon May 07, 2018 7:36 pm the Oscar Wilde comparison is often made.

yes, my real identity, including photos, is revealed in Jarkko's Gallery of Beautiful Unwinners.

She and I have split but I will still say that her post above is brilliant, one of the best puns ever on this forum
Thank you (even though I really dislike you). Yes, I too am disappointed, but not surprised that a man as busy as Geoffrey didn't find time to acknowledge my brilliant response to his Stanley Unwin comparison. I think he probably understood the pun, marvelled at its brilliance, and then forgot to comment. He leads a hokey cokey life and we must accept that. We are blessed to have such a great artist amongst us.
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Does anybody else miss cigarettes terribly?
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abby wrote: Wed May 09, 2018 11:12 pm Does anybody else miss cigarettes terribly?
What do you miss about them? Going to restaurants/bars and being barely able to breathe without gasping and coughing because of the thick haze? Feeling like one's eyeballs have been rubbed with sandpaper as they sting from the assault of toxic smoke? Coming home afterwards with your clothes saturated with the disgusting smell of smoke until they are washed or otherwise fumigated? Staying in a hotel room in which everything, including the bedding, reeks of gag-inducing stale smoke?

Then, there are the people who smoke(d) cigarettes! Kissing someone who smokes cigarettes provides the sensation of licking an ashtray (again, gag...). Nicotine stained fingers and teeth are hardly appealing. The consumptive-sounding smoker's cough is a bit of a turn-off. Oh, and then there's all that cancer.

So, no, I don't miss cigarettes, terribly or otherwise.

Besides, last I checked, people still smoke the damn things: the sidewalks and streets in my city are littered with cigarette butts! People drop them on the ground outside of virtually door of every building, they toss them from their car windows as they drive, and/or they dump their full ashtrays on the ground where they park their vehicles. I could live with missing that!
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