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So I'm sitting by the window, catching up online when the Ice Cream Man makes his first pass through the neighborhood. And get this: He has bells! No pre-recorded "Fur Elise" on a tinny speaker, or some other obnoxious repetetive electronic garbage. Bells!
 I love the Ice Cream Man. Another sign that spring has sprung. Now, $1.50 for a Chocolate Eclair? Not so much love there....  Had to get one anyway. Gotta support the dude with bells on his truck.PH |
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Too funny!
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"Mooooooooom! Mooooooooom! Throw down some money! The Ice Cream Man is coming!"
 "It's easy to grin, when your ship comes in, and you've got the stockmarket beat, but the man worth-while, is the man who can smile, when his shorts are too tight in the seat." -Judge Smails |
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I'm your ice cream man; stop me when I'm passing by..... (name the artist).
Personally, I am very happy to have kids, since I now have a better excuse for flagging down the ice cream man and getting a frozen treat. Before I was a father, it was harder to justify to my wife running out of the house liggity split to make sure he didn't pass us up. Now I can say "the kids wanted Ice cream". ----------------------- www.VinoCritic.Com |
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I got a stern talking-to from my wife when the ice-cream man came by ringing his bells, and my 6-year-old said, "It's the Crack-Man, Daddy!"
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tough one...
----------------------------- "religion ='s thought disorder" - sigmund freud |
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No sh!t...... Romeo and Juliet are together in eternity.... |
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Van Halen?  |
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"I got good lemonade, ah, Dixie cups;
all flavors and Push-ups too." "It's easy to grin, when your ship comes in, and you've got the stockmarket beat, but the man worth-while, is the man who can smile, when his shorts are too tight in the seat." -Judge Smails |
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I can deal with sarcasm and I certainly don't mind being made fun of, but if you guys are going to belittle me, you should at least make sure you know what the he## you're posting about  . Every moron on the planet has heard David Lee Roth/Van Halen butcher the song and turn it into an almost top-40 AM radio hit. The answer I was looking for was John Brim, who wrote the song in 1953. It remains an all time Chicago blues classic, and blows the doors off the Van Halen kiddie-pop version. When I asked who is the artist, perhaps I should have specified who was the original artist/songwriter. On the other hand, if I asked who was the artist behind "Hey Jude", would you answer Toots and the Maytalls, just because they covered it?Another great version of Ice Cream Man was by the late great Screamin Jay Hawkins, although his version was really a whole new song, and not a cover of the Brim version. If any of you have not heard the John Brim version, you should listen to it. ----------------------- www.VinoCritic.Com |
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what happens when we knew all of that and were still laughing AT you?
----------------------------- "religion ='s thought disorder" - sigmund freud |
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Cool, thanks for the reminder gang. I just bought 1984 off Itunes and gave Van Halen my money. I hope Mr. Roth gets the cash, not that poseur Cabo Wabo.
I did check out the Brim remake though, yawn! -B "You should always read the label, you should always read it well"-Mrs. Featherbottom, AKA Tobias Funke |
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Bomb Pops rule!
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Cherry Clan, Lemon Heads, Alexander the Grape! There was way more to the ice cream man than just ice cream.
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I get lauged at daily by my wife. I'm used to it. ----------------------- www.VinoCritic.Com |
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Mr. Roth will get the money. 1984 was his last Van Halen album, then Hagar took over with the 5150 album which came out in 1986. So here's the next trivia question: Sammy Hagar was Van Halen's 2nd choice for a lead singer after David Lee Roth left the band. Who was the first choice (who declined the job offer)? ----------------------- www.VinoCritic.Com |
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Indy,
Hint: It was a chick. MIZ...ZOU |
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Me thinks you know the answer Mr. Snipes..... ----------------------- www.VinoCritic.Com |
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Patty Smyth declined; Jimmy Barnes was also considered. "It's easy to grin, when your ship comes in, and you've got the stockmarket beat, but the man worth-while, is the man who can smile, when his shorts are too tight in the seat." -Judge Smails |
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Patty Smyth (of Scandal) was the correct answer. You win the grand prize. The rumour is that she (Patty Smyth) was a friend of Eddie's wife. I was not aware of the Jimmy Barnes offer.
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This reminds me of the ice cream man when I was growing up. His name was "Jingle Joe" and he doubled as the friendly neighborhood dope dealer. Anybody that had a star on the inside of their envelope of weed got a free joint. He eventually got busted.
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Go figure. Mine growing up was an ex WW II POW who had no fingers or tongue due to torture. Needless to say, everyone in North Dallas knew him and his terrible story. |
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makes sense. party on.
----------------------------- "religion ='s thought disorder" - sigmund freud |
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