Rosso:
Methinks they are talking about drugs....cooking up heroin by heating
it in a spoon over a candle, and then injecting it with a 45cc syringe.
Didn't you usedta live in NYC? You should know this stuff!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [email protected]
Sent: Mon, 14 May 2007 3:37 PM
Subject: Re: [UC] The future of our City is in Jeopardy
Dude! Will you stop it already with the ice cream analogies? Not only
are you making me feel guilty about my own midnight ice cream habit,
you've got the words to Spoonful running through my head. Not only
that, but in the original song Willie Dixon sings about his
"forty-five", whatever that is, although it sounds like a violent
metaphor to me. Eric Clapton sings "your forty-five" which doesn't make
any sense, and the Allman brothers version says "fortifies" which must
be a mondegreen.
Willie Dixon:
It could be a spoonful of water
To save you from the desert sand
But one spoon of love from my forty-five
Will save you from another man
Men lie about that spoonful
Some cry about that spoonful
Some die about that spoonful
Everybody fight about a spoonful
That spoon, that spoon, that spoonful
That spoon, that spoon, that spoonful
Eric Clapton:
Could fill spoons full of water,
Save them from the desert sands.
But a little spoon of your forty-five
Saved you from another man.
Allman Brothers:
Could be a spoonful of water
Searching from the desert sand
But just a spoon of that fortifies
Saved you from another man
On 5/14/07, KAREN ALLEN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I still don't
think you understand, which is why we need leadership who
does.
I don't think there's any disagreement between us that leadership is
needed
to deal with these issues. I think our only disagreement on that score
is
who the best leader would be.
In the end, I think we want the same things.
Absolutely. But my point is that a problem of this magnitude has to be
fought from both ends. It can't only be a "leader" doing what amounts to
throwing money at the problem and telling people what they want to
hear.
Because unless self destructive behavior is recognized and changed
internally, nothing anyone does externally is going to make a whit of
difference.
To use my ice cream analogy, the leader could open up all of the Fit
Gyms
and Bally's Total Fitnesses he or she wanted, but as long as I'm
continuing
my nightly ice cream binges while simultaneously telling myself that
it's
Ben and Jerry's fault that I'm overweight and that going to the gym is
"acting white", guess what?
A real leader would say: "I'm going to do my part and open up the gyms.
You're going to have to do your part and put down that spoon and go to
the
gym".
Whether I wanted to hear it or not.
Karen
From: "S. Sharrieff Ali" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: "S. Sharrieff Ali" < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Margie Politzer'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "'University City
>listserv'" <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: [UC] The future of our City is in Jeopardy
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 12:04:27 -0400
>>
S
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] On Behalf Of Margie Politzer
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 11:49 AM
To: University City listserv
Subject: Re: [UC] The future of our City is in Jeopardy
>> From: "S. Sharrieff Ali" < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: "'KAREN ALLEN'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,<
[email protected]>
>> Subject: RE: [UC] The future of our City is in Jeopardy
>> Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 11:06:25 -0400
>>
>> Karen, you obviously don't understand the environmental
>> and economic influences on the poor, no matter what race.
>> Many people are trapped in a very warped reality.
>> S
>
> Sharrieff,
> Please don't talk down to me.
>
> I understand why those things exist. But understanding why these
problems
> exist is not the same thing as turning a blind eye to them, making
excuses
> for them, or criticising the people who point them out.
>
> I understand that if I eat a tub of ice cream before bed every
night,
I'm
> going to be overweight. But until I confront the issue and choose to
stop
> doing that, no "understanding" or any other excuse in the world is
going to
> make me one ounce lighter.
>
> I repeat, Nothing Is Ever Going To Change as long as self
destructive
> attitudes prevail, however or wherever they originated from. And
until
> those ideas are challenged, not coddled or "understood", they will
continue
> to prevail.
>
> Karen
>
Well said Karen!
Margie
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