Coconut

By: Harry Nillson

Brother bought a coconut, he bought it for a dime
His sister had another, she paid it for a lime.
She put the lime in the coconut, and drank them both up
She put the lime in the coconut, and drank them both up
She put the lime in the coconut,
Called the doctor, woke him up, and said,
“Doctor, ain’t there nothin’ I can take,
I say, Doctor, to relieve this belly ache?
I say, Doctor, ain’t there nothin’ I can take,
I say, Doctor, to relieve this belly ache?”

“Now let me get this straight;
You put the lime in the coconut, you drank them both up
You put the lime in the coconut, you drank them both up
You put the lime in the coconut,
called your doctor, woke him up, and said,
‘Doctor, ain’t there nothing I can take,
I say, Doctor, to relieve this belly ache?
I say, Doctor, ain’t there nothin’ I can take,
I say, Doctor, to relieve this belly ache?’

You put the lime in the coconut, and drink them both down,
You put the lime in the coconut, you’re such a silly woman!
Put the lime in the coconut, and drink them both together,
Put the lime in the coconut, and call me in the morning.”

Ok, ok… my poor computer needs an upgrade. Sometime either this or next weekend, I’m going to pop the hood, up the ram, and get a another HD, so I can keep my junk local instead of making a pile o’ zip disks.

Let’s see…

60 gig HD (allocate 10 to redhat, 50 to windows…), 1 gig ram… maybe grab a TV tuner card out of the slush hardware pile, too, just to see how well it works. (Heck if it works well, I’ll did out another and send it to my sweetie…then we can watch the tube together, while chatting in the next window over. 🙂

Still have no real need or desire for a dvd player…*ponder…

I was talking with Chris about fathers and storytelling. Horror, gypsies and scorpions, tall tales about family of never had. Brought back a lot of memories of my father’s study… the smells of cherry tobacco and old leather.

When I was seven or so, my father introduced me to Baron Munchausen… or if you want to get nit-picky, Karl Friedrich Hieronymus, Freiheirr (baron) von Münchhausen. Sort of a superhero, sort of colossal braggart, the Baron quickly became a longtime favorite of mine, and a great topic of storytelling in his own right between my father, myself, and my younger brother… (for about eight years or so… sadly, storytimes diminished after that)

Terry Gilliam made a movie about his exploits, and those of his compatriots in the late 80’s, and I might add, did a fine job of it. (With the exception of Robin Wiliams as lord of the moon… he’s too identifiable. )

One of the cool things about the baron was that he was a real person, sort of like Emperor Norton, or Will Rogers… an entertainer, who told stories. He had a huge beak of a nose, and a braided ponytail that was the fashion of Prussian soldiers of the time. After serving with the Russians against the Turks, the baron retired as a country gentleman at forty, and became well known as a first-class raconteur.The baron told extraordinary tales about his life as a soldier, hunter, and sportsman.

Some of his adventures were : Journeying to the Moon and the Sun, riding on a flying cannonball, lifting the siege of Gibraltar single-handed, finding a floating island made entirely of cheese, escaping from bandits on half a horse, falling through the center of the Earth, seducing the Empress of Russia, meeting Vulcan and Venus, being swallowed by a giant fish. That sort of thing. 🙂

Now, I’m interested in digging up a few books of the old stories… off to amazon I go. ooh! do I have to wait until July to get it? pooties.

of course, I could get a first edition, published in 1859, for big cheap at $285. 🙂 I’ll wait for the $14 reprint.

On that note, I’m going to go to bed… and dream of romancing a fine alabaster-skinned, red haired Empress… I’ve but to braid my hair. 🙂

Good night, fair folk.

some noir, and a *lot* of free pulp bookage.

a gift for ckirkman that I thought I’d share 🙂

Vintage Library http://www.vintagelibrary.com/
The Shadow http://www.shadowpdf.50megs.com/
Doc Savage http://kez.home.texas.net/web_docs/welcome.html
Short Stories http://www.lanset.com/lurch/pulp/bkpages.html
Fu Manchu http://home.HiWAAY.net/~ajohns/retro/Etext.htm
Sci-Fi Pulps http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/vtsf/sf-project.html
The Shadow http://members.xoom.com/brucejackson/
The Shadow http://www.angelfire.com/journal/shrevnitz/index.html
The Shadow http://people.ne.mediaone.net/jpenney/shadow/index.html
The Shadow http://www.deaves.com/The-Shadow-Pulp/

all the free pulp you can digest. 🙂

Enjoy!

Scotto, don’t forget.

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simplicity is what matters. Jenny will be much happier, as a result.

I’m still at work. Where’s my ride?

going to step outside, and look at the stars until it comes.

Later, gator!

do you know where your sweetie is?

… well, ok, 3 people asked….

I’ve archived my fairy pix on my website.

http://scottobear.com/tales/fae/

no thumbnails, no index or nothing, but if you want to go by filename, some of them have the year they were taken, or the fairy name of the girls…

have fun. 🙂

I want chicken

I want Liver

Meow Mix, Meow Mix

Please Deliver

Ahh… good to get that out of my system.

um. good grief.

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eep.

that’s since 2000-05-19 19:47:56….

It’s a brisk 60 degrees Fahrenheit out, but the sun is shining… get my blood a-pumpin’!

Be back in an hour, after my walk and prepping for work! 🙂

Have a great morning.

Fascinating Link to me… Guide to Animal Sounds on the Net.

I’m going to have to mirror this site, and burn it to a CD… I love noises… nature, and slightly weird doo-hickeys.

Brian’s Page of Antique Weirdness

from the page’s disclaimer – What follows is a piece of my collection of antique weirdness. If you cannot enjoy racism, ignorance, nudity, sex, or just plain weirdness within their historical context, then this is not the place for you. If you can see possibilities of the humor, the horror, and plain shock value in some of this material, then click on the following links and enjoy.

(somewhat spicy, I dug out that link for a dear person who thinks antique porn is nifty.)