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He better be careful or he might be charged with "a salt in battery" Notes

It might have been plane theft. The re-percussions can be heard for miles.

Easy to get wet reverb there

Good point! Getting around the auto-censor can be a pain in the ***** sometimes. ;)

Perhaps gender would get by the auto-censor. If not $ex should do, but that opens another can of worms

He says I Know A Place where You Won't See Me.

Thanks. That's one I hadn't seen. I loved it. Notes

Near the "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams"?

Is that near "Highway 61"?

The actual luter is living "Life In The Fast Lane" and has to "Ride Like The Wind" but he is a "Highway Star" and hopes to get "South Of The Border" soon.

Down here in Florida it was My Way, In The Mood, or New York New York. Actually I never got sick of playing them, just calling the tune. Once the music starts the 'right brain' turns off and I get lost in the enjoyment of making music. Familiar tunes are like comfort food, and challenging tunes are like fine cuisine. The retirement, yacht club, country club end of the business here in South Florida is more reliable and profitable than the club gigs. There are so many open mic nights, karaoke nights, football nights, and so on, they only want to hire a band for 2 or 3 nights a week and the pay is terrible. A duo is lucky to get 200/night there. I can do 2 nights in "God's waiting room" and make more than I would doing 4-6 nights in a club. We charge up to 600/night depending on the gig. And we're married so the money goes to the same family. I met her when she was in another band, we ended up in a band together when both our bands broke up, then we were in a trio, another 5 piece, and in the late 1980s we went duo and never looked back. I make my own backing tracks (I play sax, flute, wind synth, bass, drums, guitar, and some keys). When we started doing the seniors in the 1990s it was Sinatra and Big Band tunes. Nice stuff, we would mix in some Ellington, Goodman, and Basie songs with the Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Glenn Miller tunes. But like I said, God's waiting room. They all 'graduated'. Before long it was Elvis and 50s rock, then early Beatles, and now its 60-80s with some contemporary pop crossover to the retirement market. So the songs we need to play a lot are Brown Eyed Girl, Old Time Rock And Roll, Whiter Shade of Pale, and anything by Dylan, Janis, Clapton, or Motown and the others. It's a nice way to make a living. I'm not a wage slave working for some faceless corporation (I'm free). I wake up in the morning, go to bed at night, and in between do what I like to do (I'm successful). I'm not rich, but contented. I guess I'm doing life My Way aaaaaaarrrrrrrrgggggghhhhhhh 😀😀😀 I went a long way for that one, didn't I? Seriously, I love my life! Notes

The cartoon is much bigger, but I guess the forum software shrunk it, which is why I went through the explanation. Notes

I'm getting them too. Since I come here almost every day it's a bit of an overkill, but I don't mind the reminder at all. Insights and incites by Notes

BTW, it is implied that the rat clobbered the cartoonist. It's his hand you can see under the star in the middle of the last panel. Whenever the cartoonist makes bad puns, and he makes a lot of bad puns, the rat usually does something. Usually he just threatens. I never read this comic in the paper because I didn't like the looks of it. It looked like juvenile stuff. Then I rented a movie about cartoonists, and I liked the interview with Stephan Pastis, the 'artist'. Now that I read the paper online this one often gives me a grin. (I like bad puns) Notes

English is a weird language because it has words borrowed from just about every other neighboring language. It also has more words by far than any other spoken language on the planet. I'm sure that makes it difficult. But every language has it's problems. As Spanish speaking people started moving here, I'm making an effort to learn Spanish. Nouns with 2 genders aren't bad because if I call something wrong, most people still know what I'm saying. It's the verbs. In English we have 3 conjugations, past, present and future tense. In Spanish there are plenty more, most of which I can't wrap my middle-aged brain around: Present, Imperfect, Preterite, Future, Conditional, Present Perfect, Pluperfect, Preterit Perfect, Future Perfect, Conditional Perfect, Present Subjunctive, Imperfect Subjunctive, Present Perfect Subjunctive, and Pluperfect Subjunctive. That's more tenses than we have definitions for the word score ;) OK, not quite, here is all the meanings of score: https://www.thefreedictionary.com/score There are more than a score of meanings for score. Whew! Insights, incites, and a lame attempt at humor by Notes

I got so tired of playing this song when I was playing retirement developments 20 years ago; thankfully it died.

A guitarist fretted when the cops came in so he decided to slide out on the Freeway of Love but got caught in a bottleneck. When he was asked "Question's 67 & 68" he went mute, except for repeatedly saying "Set Me Free". By "25 or 6 to 4" his alibi checked out, he was at "Ray's Rock House" so they said you can "Go Now". (Thanks to Aretha, Counting Crows, Chicago, Ray Charles, and the Moody Blues for the song titles I abused)

What Jimbo88 said. That oboist Jimbo mentioned might also call his piece of music a "chart" but never a "score", that is what the conductor looks at. Notes

Upon investigation they found the bandits made it out with saks of phones.

The fuzz followed a few leads with their sirens wailing, but someone was just stringing them along.

Police are still looking for the luters. They say they are part of a mid-evil crime ring.

Thieves made away with the lute. (Groans appreciated) Lame humor by Notes

Sorry to hear that. Keep the good memories in your heart and it will help time heal you.

"I was in a band of gypsys. I avoided the manic depression caused by the purple haze I had while living in the red house. I admit a foxy lady helped me by burning the midnight lamp. Hey Joe, if that ain't experienced, I don't know what is. And let me add, no employer had ever had to fire me."

Where will you be in 6 months? Where will I be in 6 months? I don't know. I don't have 2020 vision.