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1812 Overture by Tchaikovsky. Played by the Boston Pops every year at the 4th of July Concert. It has cannons! ETA: While popular for the 4th, it represents the Russian defeat of Napoleon's forces before Moscow. "I vowed to myself to fight against evil more completely and more wholeheartedly than I ever did before. . . . That’s the only way to pay back part of that vast debt, to live up to and try to fulfill that tremendous obligation." Alfred Hornik, Sunday, December 2, 1945 to his family, on his continuing duty to others for surviving WW II. | |||
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| I believe in the principle of Due Process  |
1812 Overture. Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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A Grateful American |
You're not from around here, are you? "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
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| Freethinker |
Much better to ask than not know—especially something like that.  ► 6.4/93.6 “I regret that I am to now die in the belief, that the useless sacrifice of themselves by the generation of 1776, to acquire self-government and happiness to their country, is to be thrown away by the unwise and unworthy passions of their sons, and that my only consolation is to be, that I live not to weep over it.” — Thomas Jefferson | |||
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| His diet consists of black coffee, and sarcasm. |
A very old joke: an intellectual is a person who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of the Lone Ranger.  This is | |||
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Music that includes a 105mm Howitzer has to be good. ____________________________________________________ The butcher with the sharpest knife has the warmest heart. | |||
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Music that was written to commemorate defeating the French in battle has to be good. | |||
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Drug Dealer |
When I was in OCS in the late 60s at Ft. Benning, they actually tried that once. It was Infantry Appreciation Day or something. They set up bleachers, invited all of the brass, etc. They had a display of force (gunships, artillery, firing M-60s until the barrels glowed, etc.) They had a band there to perform the Tchaikovsky 1812 overture. Sure enough, the cannon was a 105mm behind the bleachers. Everyone's ass was elevated about a foot into the air. Combat veterans dived into the dirt. I doubt if they did that again.  Edited to add: If anyone wants to listen to the entire piece, here is the best version I could find on YouTube (it is really excellent). Link to original video: https://youtu.be/3Nyt6MVM3PU When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. - George Bernard Shaw | |||
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Many years ago I attended a July 4th concert by the Richardson Symphony and they had real howitzers firing blanks. It was awesome. They used only 3 guns and their timing was absolutely flawless! You could say we had a blast! (And no one had a heart attack that I know of.) flashguy Texan by choice, not accident of birth | |||
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| Savor the limelight |
That's the music from Caddyshack when Carl Spackler blows up the gophers. He didn't even need a reason. It is not the music from The Bad News Bears.This message has been edited. Last edited by: trapper189, | |||
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At first I thought that was the red M&M. That's worse than not knowing Tchaikovsky. Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well. -Epictetus | |||
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Comic Relief |
It's the jingle from an old commercial. "Quaker Oats - it's the cereal that's shot from guns." Link to original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bn1IYlKiZk | |||
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. Here is the view of the 101st Field Artillery playing with the Boston Pops Orchestra on July 4, 2016... Link: www.YouTube.com/watch?v=DtXUj-09PME | |||
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Delusions of Adequacy |
Heard it at Wolf Trap once when they actually used vintage cannon. And another time when there was a thunderstorm outside. I have my own style of humor. I call it Snarkasm. | |||
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Thanks, excellent performance. This makes me wonder what the spirit was in the minds of the composers of the time? WTF, nothing better to do so I'll write the score on a few thousands pages for an orchestral piece that will last centuries... | |||
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| Slayer of Agapanthus |
Eponym, that is comic relief. "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye". The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, pilot and author, lost on mission, July 1944, Med Theatre. | |||
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