Scott Walker died this week. He was a member of The Walker Brothers, who only had two Top 40 hits in the U.S., although they had many more hits in the U.K.
Scott Walker wasn’t actually Scott Walker. He was Scott Engle. John Walker (who died in 2011) was John Maus. And the other Walker Brother, Gary, who is still living, was Gary Leeds. Kinda like The Statler Brothers, none of whom are named Statler, except the Statler Brothers never used Statler as their individual names. Now I want to play a Statler Brothers song.
But I won’t. I’ll stay on topic. Scott Walker’s passing caused me to recall their biggest hit, which didn’t even hit the Top 10. I liked it though.
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Today’s news amusement:
Government grand schemers: is there anything they can’t do?
“I KNEW I ‘shoudinda’ made ‘dat’ left ‘toin’ at ‘Albakoikie.’ ~ Bugs Bunny, bus driver extraordinaire.
Tonight’s history lesson……..
Ever look up thesaurus in a thesaurus? I did(thesaurus.com), but was somewhat disappointed(discontented, disillusioned, unsatisfied). While it listed the definition as “dictionary of synonyms and antonyms” as you would expect, and an alternate definition as, “any dictionary, encyclopedia, or other comprehensive reference book”, “dictionary” was not one of the listed synonyms. Synonyms for thesaurus included words and phrases as generic or ill-fitting in common usage as “glossary”, “vocabulary”, and “word list”; meanwhile, a synonym for dictionary is listed as “thesaurus”. So synonyms for thesaurus skip the most obvious word which is otherwise in it’s definition, but for “dictionary” it is offering the typically more specific “thesaurus” as a synonym. It’s like saying a square is a shape and a rectangle is a square: it’s just…off(substandard, displeasing, unsatisfactory).
The sun ain’t gonna shine anymore. Well at least that solves global warming, which used to be called summer time but CO2 levels rose and it’s real name was Manmade global warming but it was reallly just normal climate change caused by cow farts.