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Subject: RE: BS: What's over the rainbow? From: Peace Date: 15 Mar 05 - 10:23 AM "bah to all that technical lingo. we all need hopes and dreams" True to that. But sometimes the technical lingo helps people present their dreams in a form other than words. Simple and pretty 'nother |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's over the rainbow? From: Big Al Whittle Date: 15 Mar 05 - 10:26 AM ----ing bluebirds! don't you lot ever listen to anything! |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's over the rainbow? From: Peace Date: 15 Mar 05 - 10:29 AM LOL And crows. Crows too. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's over the rainbow? From: GUEST Date: 15 Mar 05 - 10:36 AM It's written on the rainbow - in letters made of gold Watch the doughnut - not the hole! |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's over the rainbow? From: Stephen L. Rich Date: 15 Mar 05 - 11:38 PM What's over the rainbow? Clouds, mostly. Perhaps a few stray birds? |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's over the rainbow? From: GUEST,*Laura* Date: 17 Mar 05 - 06:39 PM Over the rainbow there is a lovely place where grass is green and the sky is blue - like the Diesal advert! Yes - that Diesal advert ('Hate something, Change something, Hate something, change something, make something better - hate is a good thing') that advert - THAT is what is over the rainbow! Really. And the song as well. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's over the rainbow? From: Blissfully Ignorant Date: 18 Mar 05 - 05:08 PM Care bears. I know, i've been. :0) |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's over the rainbow? From: LilyFestre Date: 18 Mar 05 - 05:37 PM I took a photo of a rainbow a number of years ago in Rhode Island. The rainbow is bending slightly over the Newport Bridge and promptly ends at the toll booth where each car must pay $4.00 to cross the bridge. It's not a pot of gold but it sure is close!!!! Michelle |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's over the rainbow? From: Azizi Date: 19 Mar 05 - 01:18 AM I had to think about it, but I did finally figure out what brucie 's 14 Mar 05 - 12:08 AM post means "and if ya've ever seen a double rainbow, notice that they are mirror images. One goes ROY G BIV and the other goes VIB G YOR" Did anyone else get it?? |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's over the rainbow? From: beardedbruce Date: 19 Mar 05 - 01:40 AM of course. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's over the rainbow? From: Azizi Date: 19 Mar 05 - 03:06 AM Because I was curious to see what others would say first, I decided to wait for a while before sharing my belief about what is over the rainbow. When I was a child I thought that HEAVEN was on the other side of the rainbow. I also thought that when a person died a rainbow appeared somewhere-perhaps not where we could see it, but in another place within that city or country...And that person who had jsut died would use that rainbow as a bridge to walk up through the clouds until tehy arrived at heaven. The rainbow would then dip back down to the ground so that another person could start the walk up to heaven from that direction. It's funny how some parts of our childhood beliefs stay with us. I still associate rainbows with my ideas about death, and dying and heaven. However, my basic ideas about heaven itself have changed. I used to think that heaven was a place in the sky that where God lived and where angels dressed in white robes flew around all the time playing small harps..Thanks to books I have read on on auras and reincarnation and other such subjects, I have very much revised this image of heaven. Another thing that reinforced the ideas that these books provided about heaven was this psychic reading that I experienced when I was in my early twenties. An acquaintance who I didn't know very well raved about this psychic reader that he had gone to and I decided to make an appointment with this reader. This was the first psychic I had ever gone to and wasn't sure what "a psychic reading" would be like. I thought that the psychic would be some New Age type women dressed in a flowing robe with a turban on her hair..Instead she was the epitome of what I imagined a very well to do White woman would look and dress like. The woman greeted me in a nicely decorated room that had no incense, dim lights, crystal ball, or spiritual music playing. She then told me that she had to sit quietly for a few minutes to "concentrate her energy". Then this psychic began the reading by telling me that she saw a man who had just entered the room. She then said that the man was from 'the other side'. She proceeded to describe him to me as a tall, distinquished, bald headed man who was either my father or my grandfather. She also said that the man told her that he had died in great pain. I immediately knew that the psychic was describing my beloved grandfather who was,indeed,THE father figure in my life. The psychic then said that the man she saw {and I could not see} wanted me to be sure of his identity. He therefore imitated doing different things that I would remember about him-like pretending to take a coin out of his ear, and folding paper and then cutting it out in such a way that there would be a string of dolls holding hands. The psychic also repeated my grandfather's decription of a piano that he had in his parlor that played without anyone touching it..{As a child I thought that was very magical. Now I know there was some kind of paper thingys that you put in somewhere and these player pianos would play music..but I still don't really know how they work} After he had established his identity, my grandfather then described being in a place of learning located in a grassy area. He tld the psychic that he wanted me to know that he was fine. He also made this "Hooray!" gesture that is performed by putting both fists over one shoulder and then over the next shoulder. In doing so the pyschic wanted me to know that my grandfather was saying that he was pleased with what I was doing and wanted me to keep up the good work. Obviously I was emotionally moved by these words. And if that had been the end of the psychic reading I would have considered the session to be worth much more than the $20.00 it had cost. But the psychic proceeded to tell me some things that I knew already {like my time of birth. My mother had told me that I was born around 12 o'clock in the morning-this pyschic said that she saw a clock and the hands showed 11:27 PM changing to 11:28PM}. The woman also told me some things that have since come to pass {for instance, she saw a lot of Black babies in the sky smiling down at me..At the time I thought it meant that I was going to have alot of children..Now I think that those babies probably represented the work that I eventually did in adoption as well as the work that I did with homeless pregnant women and new mothers}. Furthermore, the psychic gave me an explanation for some phobias I had at that time. For example, I always had a fear of heights and I had a recurring dream as a child about "pie face people" chasing me. When I asked the psychic about any of my past lifes, she tells me that she sees this scene of me as an Asian man who is running for my life away from these other Asians who are a different ethnic group than me..But, in my haste to get away from these men, I fell off of a mountain and died. That psychic reading was such a profound experience for me..Thinking back it's interesting that I never went back to that woman for another reading. I have even forgotten the woman's name...Maybe it was supposed to be a one time thing. But there is no doubt that this psyschic reading reinforced my image of heaven as a place of rest & recuperation & learning for souls before they reincarnated again. Since I still associate rainbows with heaven, I believe that it would not be off topic to ask others to psot on this thread their ideas about what heaven might look like or be like. Anyone? |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's over the rainbow? From: Peace Date: 19 Mar 05 - 06:22 PM Heaven will be lots like parts of my youth that I spend in wilderness areas, countryside places and peaceful lakes with just-so water for swimming and drinking. If that ain't Heaven after death, it sure was after life. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's over the rainbow? From: beardedbruce Date: 19 Mar 05 - 06:37 PM from a post above... "The Wizard of Oz was written in 1915. " This is an incorrect statement. "Having this thought in mind, the story of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" was written solely to please children of today. It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are left out. L. Frank Baum Chicago, April, 1900." |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's over the rainbow? From: honolulu baby Date: 19 Mar 05 - 11:05 PM azizi, i think people write about rainbows a lot because there is still a lot of mystery to/in them here in hi, we have a LOT of them.they come mostly when there is a lot of rain, but it is not cloudy or gloomy. but rather bright and sunny-just raining very hard. in fact, the rainbow was the name of the uh football team, and is the logo on the license plate. i am so facinated by them, i have a collection of rainbow pictures that i have taken myself. one of the most popularly updated song is the 'brother iz' version of 'somewhere over the rainbow'. it is used in the current hallmark commercials, and has been used in many other commercials and movies. brother iz was a legend in his own time in hawaii. he was one of the (or the only) very few to be laid at rest in the state capital rotunda. check out brother iz on the internet for more info. if you could get to the other side of YOUR rainbow, youd be in hawaii with me! we can dream, cant we? honolulu baby |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's over the rainbow? From: honolulu baby Date: 19 Mar 05 - 11:11 PM an interesting photo of a double rainbow i took when i first got to hawaii, is what caused me to win an international photo contest. i didnt think it was all that, but who was i to argue with the judges? |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's over the rainbow? From: Azizi Date: 19 Mar 05 - 11:13 PM Hi Honolulu Baby! Welcome to Mudcat's BS section! And thanks for your comments!! I'll have to read up on brother iz. So much to learn, so few active brain cells... :o) |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's over the rainbow? From: dianavan Date: 20 Mar 05 - 05:15 AM I was once gazing at the rainbow and perceived the form of a woman sliding into my being. I then very distinctly heard a hello from within my womb. I realized, I was pregnant! Everybody wondered how I could be so sure that the child would be a girl. During a very long labour with this child, I felt weak and exhausted. I managed to look out the window to see a rainbow shining over the sea. I was immediately energized and gave birth a few minutes later to a daughter who seemed ancient even then. I now think the rainbow is the path for souls waiting to be born. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's over the rainbow? From: GUEST,*laura* Date: 20 Mar 05 - 11:43 AM Has anyone ever seen a triple rainbow? I have, just once. It was pretty impressive. xLx |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's over the rainbow? From: robomatic Date: 20 Mar 05 - 02:05 PM Maybe pay a visit here: Lucky Charms - Do You Think It's Too Much? |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's over the rainbow? From: Azizi Date: 20 Mar 05 - 04:19 PM dianavan, I like your belief that rainbows are path for soul waiting to be born. It's the opposite of the idea I had as a child that rainbows are the path that people who died use to walk to up to heaven. But both of them can be true. **** And since we're speaking of rainbows, here's a is a 1940 song called "Playmate" {words & music by Saxie Dowell}: Play-mate, come out an play with me, And bring your dollies three Climb up my apple tree. Look down my rain pipe. Slide down my kitchen door, And we'll be jolly friends For ever more. {quoted from Opies's "The Singing Game", 1985 Children in the USA, Great Britain, and elsewhere have transformed this song into a rhyme called "Say Say My Playmate {Cee Cee My Playmate}. This rhyme is often chanted while doing handclaps. Instead of saying "look down my rain pipe", children often say "slide down my rainbow"; open my cellar door..any we'll be jolly friends for ever more.." That's the folk process at work!! "Slide down my rainbow" makes more sense than "look down my rain pipe" any day! |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's over the rainbow? From: Layah Date: 20 Mar 05 - 04:46 PM I used to sing that song slightly differently. I think it started hey hey my playmate. And for the rain pipe part we sang "shout down my rain barrel, slide down my cellar door" There was also a song, I'm not sure if one of my friends made it up or if it was generally known, but it was an immitation of that song only it was about my enemy instead of my playmate. "Hey hey my enemy, come out and fight with me, and bring your drangons three" I can't remember the rest. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's over the rainbow? From: GUEST Date: 20 Mar 05 - 05:04 PM dianavan that is a wonderful tale. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's over the rainbow? From: Azizi Date: 21 Mar 05 - 10:48 AM Layah, Here are two versions of the take-off of "Say Say My Playmate" [also known as "Cee Cee My Playmate" & "See See My Playmate" "my little enemy come out and play with me and bring your dollies 3 climb up my apple tree slide down my rain barrel into my dungeon floor and we'll be faithful enemies for ever more more more" posted by Jill at July 31, 2003 Wheee! Blog "My little playmate Come out and play with me And bring your dollies, 3 Climb up my apple tree Slide down my rain barrel Into my cellar door And we'll be jolly friends Forever more! My little enemy Come out and fight with me And bring your ..., 3 Climb up my poison oak Slide down my razor blade Into my dungeon door And we'll be horrible enemies Forever more! I can't remember what the enemy was supposed to bring 3 of...I'm guessing it wasn't dollies though." posted by Kari at August 1, 2003 Wheee! Blog {These posts used with permission from that blog members} For more contemporary children's rhymes, particularly those of the "Miss Susie Had A Steamboat" variety, click here Wheee Blog Enjoy!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's over the rainbow? From: Azizi Date: 21 Mar 05 - 04:58 PM Since I cited Wheee! Blog as a source of "Say Say My Playmate" versions, it is only fitting that I refer anyone interested to this Mudcat thread Children's Street Rhymes One example from that thread was provided on March 11, 1998 by Marc B. Playmate Say say my playmate Come out and play with me and Bring your dollies three Climb up my apple tree Slide down my rainbow and we'll be playmates forever more. Enemy Say say my enemy Come out and fight with me And bring your devils three Climb up my poison tree Slide down my razor Slam! into the dungeon door And we'll be enemies forever more. **** Thanks, Marc!! |
