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Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22
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Subject: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22 From: karen k Date: 21 Jan 01 - 03:19 PM Just wanted to be the first to wish a huge Happy Birthday to one of my favorite people in the whole world even if he does try to make me eat brocolli!! Sandy, my wish for you is that you have a great day and many, many more years to come. I wish you good health, good friends, great family and thank you for recording and sharing the most amazing music. You have made my life worth living for almost 35 years. Happy birthday, my friend. Much love always, k |
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Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22 From: Jeri Date: 21 Jan 01 - 03:33 PM Sandy, I hope you can sit back and think about how much you, and all do matters to people - me included. Happy Birthday, friend! Love, Jeri |
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Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22 From: kendall Date: 21 Jan 01 - 03:40 PM What can I say to one of the dearest best friends I ever had? I'll tell you what...STICK AROUND! |
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Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22 From: Little Neophyte Date: 21 Jan 01 - 04:14 PM Sandy its your Birthday! Time for the mountain minor, sawmill, suspended G modal tuning banjo Birthday song!!!! Okay here we go..... Twang, twang, twang, twang, twang, Twang, twang, twang, twang, twang, Twang, twang, twang, Dear Sandy, Twang, twang, twang, twang, twang Make sure you get that corner piece with all the icing. All the best Bonnie |
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Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22 From: wysiwyg Date: 21 Jan 01 - 04:32 PM "Happy Birthday" just doesn't seem like enough. Sandy... well, he shows us how important each and every human being actually is. "Glad you was borned...." what an understatement! ~Susan (AKA Praise) |
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Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22 From: sophocleese Date: 21 Jan 01 - 04:35 PM Great news! What a wonderful day for the planet when you were born. Happy birthday Sandy. |
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Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22 From: katlaughing Date: 21 Jan 01 - 04:47 PM HAPPY BIRTHDAY!SANDY! May you have many, many more, filled with fine music, dear family and friends, and the best of health! Thanks for all you do! luvyaLOTS kat'leen |
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Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22 From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 21 Jan 01 - 05:11 PM SO GLAD you were born!!! Happy, happy days, dear friend! |
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Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22 From: SINSULL Date: 21 Jan 01 - 05:16 PM Happy Birthday to one of my heroes. Make sure they put the biggest rose on your corner piece with all the icing! Mary |
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Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22 From: Deckman Date: 21 Jan 01 - 05:43 PM Sandy ... MERRY BIRTHDAY from the West coast and your olde stompin' grounds in Seattle ... Bob Nelson |
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Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22 From: Lin in Kansas Date: 21 Jan 01 - 05:58 PM Sandy-- Have a GREAT birthday and many more--You're a treasure! Lin |
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Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22 From: Dani Date: 21 Jan 01 - 06:13 PM Happy Birthday, Sandy! I haven't forgotten about those Southern-style beans, either. You and Caroline come and get them anytime. Well, maybe I COULD bring a crockpot to the next Getaway.... Was that WITH fatback, or WITHOUT? With best wishes for many more celebrations, Dani |
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Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22 From: Rick Fielding Date: 21 Jan 01 - 06:32 PM Thanks for your sense of humour Thanks for getting me enthusiastic about folk music again Thanks for letting me soak up your record collection Thanks for asking me to record for Folk Legacy Thanks for the "library room". Thanks for telling me to get on Mudcat Thanks for gettin' the "Acoustic Harvest" going in Scarborough Thanks for introducing me to soooo many wonderful folks Oh it just goes on and on. HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Love Rick |
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Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22 From: Sandy Paton Date: 21 Jan 01 - 08:03 PM Thanks, youngsters! That's WITH, Dani. They ain't southern without the fat. Karen, I bet you'd even like brocolli, if Dani fixed it like southern green beans get fixed. Where is Kansas, Lin? Y'know I used to live in Salina? Worked the harvest from Larned up to Russell and Hayes. First guy I ever met who played guitar was a harvest stiff from Henrietta, Oklahoma, with whom I worked and sang. You kids do realize, don'tcha, that folks my age try to FORGET birthdays, rather than remember 'em, but I truly do appreciate your kind words. Y'all shoulda heard the musical greeting left on our answering machine while we were out playing taxi driver for a grandchild. Rick even got Heather ("Duckboots") to sing along. Top forty potential! Give Maggie a hug for me, Animaterra. It's mutual, Karen, from me and from Caroline. Never forget that. See you soon? Stay well, good people, and warm. Sandy |
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Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22 From: Barbara Date: 21 Jan 01 - 08:10 PM And dry! Happy Birthday Sandy. You and Caroline have been a delight to "meet" on line and on phone. Perhaps this year I'll make the getaway or something back east. Recommendations? Love, (and of course, blessings,) Barbara |
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Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22 From: GUEST,Lorrraine Date: 21 Jan 01 - 08:52 PM Happy Birthday Sandy. Much love, Lorraine |
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Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22 From: Alice Date: 21 Jan 01 - 09:10 PM Many, many happy returns of the day, Sandy. Have a great time on YOUR day! Alice |
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Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22 From: Big Mick Date: 21 Jan 01 - 09:31 PM Sandy, It is simple. I goes like this. I love you. In a very short time you have become one of the most important people in my life. I love the life you have lived and still live every day, I love the person you are, I love what you do for others, I love the friends you keep (are you listening KarenK, Kath, Rick, et al, I love what you have done for our music, and I damn sure love with all my heart the woman you had the good sense to marry. When I speak with people about this legacy that we keep and carry on, it is with every bit of pride that I am allowed to possess that I tell people that you and Caroline are my friends. Now bring on the chicken fried steak and let's get this party on the road. Mick |
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Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22 From: Sorcha Date: 21 Jan 01 - 09:43 PM Never "met" you, Sandy, (but boy, the stuff you hear!) You are a Treasure of the First Order.......Have many more good ones!! |
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Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22 From: Mark Clark Date: 21 Jan 01 - 10:22 PM Sandy, All the best on your birthday. - Mark |
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Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22 From: catspaw49 Date: 21 Jan 01 - 11:11 PM Well damn......Here I am late as usual. 'Course I notice its not THE day yet so at least I ain't a day late and a dollar short........uh, check that......I mean like I'm always a dollar short! I'd like to say that you're not getting older, you're getting better, but the plus side is that I can't imagine you gettin' much better....... so that leaves the down side as bein' that you're just gettin' older! This is goin' pretty bad so far ain't it? Geeziz......lemmee see here................ They say though that old wine just gets better with age and that's true unless its been mishandled and had to go through the everyday cycles of things in which case it may have gone flat and turned bitter. You have faced the best and worst of all that life has given you and now like that mishandled wine.................. well hell, this still ain't workin' out!.............wait a minute....wait a minute.......I got it now................. Sandy, on this special day I want you to look back over all the people you've touched with the blessings of folk music and the freedom of thought that comes from the mingling of the old and the new; to see how far things have come in folk and the arts as well. Now you can look forward to the continued growth of the arts, of folk, and of that freedom which...................aw damn.......I forgot........ We got at least 4 years of the friggin' "shrub" who'd like to put freedom in a cod-lock..........'course on the other hand, it might help folk music a bit..................Well anyway this ain't what I wanted to say either..................... I guess the real problem here is that the wonderful karen k. has summed it up beautifully in the first post and I can't think of a way it could have been better said: Sandy, my wish for you is that you have a great day and many, many more years to come. I wish you good health, good friends, great family and thank you for recording and sharing the most amazing music...................She done good didn't she? Happy Birthday Sandy.....and a hug for Caroline too. All The Best Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22 From: Lonesome EJ Date: 21 Jan 01 - 11:40 PM Happy Birthday to one of the best! LEJ |
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Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22 From: DonMeixner Date: 21 Jan 01 - 11:55 PM Congratulations Sandy. Happy birthday and warmest regards. Don |
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Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22 From: georgeward Date: 22 Jan 01 - 03:35 AM Here's to many more, dear friend. All the best from both of us. -Vaughn & George |
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Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22 From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler Date: 22 Jan 01 - 03:39 AM Many happy returns ,Sandy, and thanks for filling those gaps in my record collection! RtS |
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Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22 From: alison Date: 22 Jan 01 - 05:15 AM Happy birthday Sandy, and big hugs from all the way down here in Australia..... slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22 From: bbc Date: 22 Jan 01 - 05:40 AM Love to you & the missus. As others have said, words don't adequately express the warmth of our feelings for you. Best on your day! hugs from bbc & Duane D. |
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Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22 From: CarolC Date: 22 Jan 01 - 06:12 AM I don't really know anything about you, but a very lovely lady I know, Maddie McNeil, tells me that you and Caroline are good people. If she says so, that's good enough for me. Happy Birthday! Carol |
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Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22 From: folk1234 Date: 22 Jan 01 - 09:43 AM "May the roads rise with you......." Sincerely, Phil |
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Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22 From: bill\sables Date: 22 Jan 01 - 10:06 AM All the best Sandy from one of your many UK friends. Bill |
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Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22 From: dick greenhaus Date: 22 Jan 01 - 10:12 AM Damn. I was trying not to notice. Or count. |
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Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22 From: MMario Date: 22 Jan 01 - 10:13 AM Believe me, Carol they are *truly* good people! yppaH yadhtriB, Sandy! |
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Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22 From: Firecat Date: 22 Jan 01 - 10:33 AM HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SANDY!!! Hope you have many more just as happy as this one. Love and butterflies FIRECAT. Oh whatever, seeing as it's your birthday you can have rainbows, stars and diamonds as well! :-)))))))))) |
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Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22 From: Melani Date: 22 Jan 01 - 01:01 PM Happy Birthday! And remember, getting older beats the alternative! |
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Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22 From: Dave (the ancient mariner) Date: 22 Jan 01 - 01:08 PM Many Happy Returns Mate. Yours, Aye. Dave |
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Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22 From: KathWestra Date: 22 Jan 01 - 01:15 PM Sandy, dear -- Echoing what Karen, Spaw, Mick, Rick, and others have said so well, Happy, happy birthday to someone who has made -- and continues to make -- a world of difference in this girl's life and in the world at large. Personally, I'm glad you and Caroline rescued me from the Calvinists, introduced me to the big bad world of folk music, and offered your friendship and a place in your wonderful circle of friends. The world at large is a better place because you work so hard to make the music we love accessible to everybody (not only through Folk-Legacy, but in your performances), go out of your way to be friendly and inclusive with strangers and beginners, care about social justice, and generally live what you believe. You have my thanks, my admiration, and especially my love. Happy Birthday to You! Kathy |
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Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22 From: Hollowfox Date: 22 Jan 01 - 03:15 PM Sandy, do you remember what you and Caroline sang at Fox Hollow the day after Nixon resigned? It was "Only Remembered For What They Have Done." This applies to you and yours as a compliment and a blessing. May you continue to have that happy combination of patience and enthusiasm as you generously share your knowledge and wisdom with both scholarship and entertainment to all. A little verbose, I know, but I wanted to get all the elements in. See you next June at Old Songs. Love, Mary |
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Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22 From: Jeri Date: 22 Jan 01 - 05:47 PM Thread creep: Damn, Mary - I remember that! (And didn't until just now. The festival stopping for a bit...watching the resignation on a tv hauled to the campsite on the back of a truck, with extension wires stretching for yards...the Patons singing a song that was oh-so-appropriate...) |
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Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22 From: GUEST,Art Thieme Date: 22 Jan 01 - 08:01 PM Sandy, What Rick said, I say "ditto"---but with fewer words. Art |
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Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22 From: Nancy King Date: 22 Jan 01 - 08:08 PM Hi Sandy! Don't worry -- having birthdays beats the alternative! Hope you'll have a fantastic day, and keep on having 'em forever. I have many fond memories of our sojourns in Sharon, and it's been great to see you at recent Getaways. Hope you'll be at the next one! Meanwhile have a super birthday! Love to you and to Caroline -- -- Nancy
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Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22 From: Gorgeous Gary Date: 22 Jan 01 - 10:24 PM Happy Birthday Sandy! See you and Caroline at the Getaway! -- Gary |
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Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22 From: lamarca Date: 23 Jan 01 - 03:46 PM Well, dang - haven't been on the 'Cat much lately, so I'm a day late with this one...
Happy Birthday, Sandy! |
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Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22 From: Tinker Date: 23 Jan 01 - 04:33 PM Whoops, I'm a day late too.. Sandy, seeing you and Caroline perform at Getaway was a rare and fine thing. Seeing your birthday here brought to mind something a friend shared with us several years ago regarding numerology (Okay, it actually took a day to find the book and blow the dust off...) 22 is a master number and indicates a departure from the average mode of human existance. Those who can meet the high frequency of 22 can demonstrate baffling artistic and mental productivity...They are visionary and dreamers and think up big deeds ...they produce beauty inspirationally...expanded into a univeral scope of love for mankind...Sandy thank you for the lives you have touched. Tinker |
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Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22 From: annamill Date: 23 Jan 01 - 04:48 PM I MISSED IT!! How did I miss this thread?? Well, anyway, my very best wishes and love go with you into this next year, Babe! Happy, happy birthday Sandy! Love, annamill |
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Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22 From: Joe Offer Date: 23 Jan 01 - 04:50 PM Say, let's extend Sandy's birthday to cover the whole week. We can have a Broccoli Birthday Brunch and shame Karen into some healthy food. Happy birthday, Sandy. Keep eating that green stuff, and you'll have many more! -Joe- |
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Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22 From: catspaw49 Date: 23 Jan 01 - 05:25 PM Yeah, but then he might start to look like you Joe! And that's not to mention the reduction in sex drive and the like...................... Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22 From: Guy Wolff Date: 23 Jan 01 - 07:18 PM Happy Happy birthday Sandy, Just back from NYC and the gift show world.. All the very best wishes from Litchfield!!! Love Guy |
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Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22 From: Peter Kasin Date: 23 Jan 01 - 10:28 PM Happy Birthday, Sandy. We don't know each other, but I've known of you and Folk-Legacy for years. Thank you for your work and vision. -chanteyranger |
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Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22 From: Don Firth Date: 24 Jan 01 - 01:53 PM Dear Sandy, I haven't had a chance to check in for a couple of days, so I missed the birthday party! But it got me to reminiscing. . . . Weel do I mind in the days of lang syne (Seattle, late summer or early fall of 1954, if my memory serves me) a big party and songfest at the old store-front down on Brooklyn Avenue. I had just traded in my $9.95 plywood guitar on a new Martin 00-18, my first really nice guitar, and this was the first party I took it to. The occasion (as if we needed an "occasion" to get together and sing) was that you were about to return to the East by means of thumb. The singing was fantastic that night! And then came the sermon. As a child, Donnie Logsden (at the time, the pearl-diver at The Chalet restaurant, itself the scene of many a song-fest) had been a street-corner preacher. He had long since been defrocked, but he still remembered how to do it. Concerned about your rather slim state of finances for the trip, he delivered an impassioned twenty-minute sermon (so impassioned that he could barely squeak at the end) and passed a collection plate. I remember you, sitting there with your face in your hands, shaking your head. But we couldn't send our brother minstrel out into the world without at least a little traveling money. You've traveled far and accomplished much since those lean but glorious days! How far that little candle throws his beams! - William Shakespeare Happy Birthday, Sandy! Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22 From: GUEST,kytrad Date: 24 Jan 01 - 07:39 PM Of COURSE you can keep on celebrating your birthday, at least all the month- still celebrating my 50th Wedding Anniversary and it was back in September! Didn't we all have fun at Stone Soup, Sandy & Caroline? And Bennett Hammond's making a great recovery...SO, life is good. Happy Belated Birthday! Jean and George |
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Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22 From: Susan A-R Date: 24 Jan 01 - 08:23 PM Thanks Joe, I'm glad you extended it to the Birth Week. Best wishes from Vermont. Much love, Susan A-R |
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Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22 From: Big Mick Date: 24 Jan 01 - 10:12 PM Those last three posts demonstrate what is so absolutely wonderful about this place. I don't get here as often as I would like these days, but the posts from Don Firth, as well as Jean and George, just knock me out. I hope my fellow 'Catters realize what a treat we have just been given. That glimpse into our dear friends life by people of this stature is what it is all about. Passin' it on. All the best, Mick |
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Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22 From: Sandy Paton Date: 24 Jan 01 - 11:37 PM Made it all the way to the Big Apple without having to stop along the way for some pearl diving of my own, too, Don, thanks to the generosity of my considerate friends! Got a ride just east of Spokane with an engineer from Anaconda Copper who wanted to get plastered. First he asked if I had a gun in the guitar case (I didn't -- it was a guitar!). Then he asked if I had a driver's license (I did, Ohio, from my earlier stay in Toledo). Then I took the wheel and we stopped at every bar between Spokane and Butte, Montana, where I poured him into the arms of his loving wife at his own front door. In every bar, he wanted to buy me a drink,. I reminded him that I was driving, so settled on buying me a hamburger. I kept smiling, strumming and singing, and stuffing the burgers into my pack. Ate the damn things all the way to New York! Amazing how you manage to bring back memories for me, Don. I hadn't thought about that particular trip for years! Thanks again, folks, for all the good wishes and kind words. I finally told Caroline about this thread, and now she wants me to read it to her. I'm thoroughly embarrassed! Sandy (the old solivagant) |
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Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22 From: GUEST Date: 25 Jan 01 - 03:10 AM As they say in the Rugger tradition: Why was he born so beautiful? .... KC King |
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Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22 From: Jon Freeman Date: 25 Jan 01 - 03:23 AM Opps, I missed a birthday.. Happy Birthday Sandy, Jon |
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Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22 From: RoyH (Burl) Date: 25 Jan 01 - 08:19 AM SANDY! Sorry to be a bit late but what Rick and Art say- I say ditto too. And so does Elaine. And Lie-Hue would if only he were aliveth. Cheers, BURL |
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Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22 From: Sandy Paton Date: 25 Jan 01 - 05:58 PM Hell, Burl, most of this stuff could have been written by Lie-Hue, if he could write, which is doubtful. He was known to stretch things a bit, you know. Sandy (curmudgeon in residence) |
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Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22 From: GUEST Date: 25 Jan 01 - 09:30 PM Hurrying to get my Happy Birthday in before the door closes. Not been checking threads lately. Hope it was a great Day with many more to follow. All the memoirs made me a bit nostalgic. All the songs, the Dictionary games, the Thanksgivings, the good times and old friends. We go back a way. Much love to you, and hugs for Caroline, too. Joan |
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Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22 From: GUEST,Art Thieme Date: 25 Jan 01 - 11:41 PM This is yet another thread I'm gonna keep on a floppy so when the computer melts down (or California takes all the electricity) I can put a stylus (needle)into the tone arm of a wind-up player and hear all these wondrous sentiments and stuff I never knew before. This is a grand site in a fantastic world---and I say that with all that the root word "fantasy" can conjur up in our mind's eyes and ears too. Thanks to you for all of it, old friend--on this, your 72nd---am I right ? Love, Art |
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