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Tear jerkers.

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October 13, 2018, 05:54 AM
Floyd D. Barber
Tear jerkers.



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October 13, 2018, 10:21 PM
rizzle

October 14, 2018, 12:49 AM
newtoSig765
"Sylvia's Mother" was a tear-jerker? I always thought of it as dry humor, especially since it was written by Shel Silverstein. I heard it most frequently on Dr Demento.

Sorry, it's true.


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October 14, 2018, 05:11 AM
Floyd D. Barber



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Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
Richard M Nixon

It's nice to be important, it's more important to be nice.
Billy Joe Shaver

NRA Life Member

October 14, 2018, 04:27 PM
CoolRich59
quote:
Originally posted by Floyd D. Barber:
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Wow. Very interesting. My grandma lived in Homewood, IL too; just a few blocks from where that was filmed.


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October 14, 2018, 08:59 PM
sig operator
This comes to mind when I hear tear jerker.
Red Sovine - Teddy Bear

A generation of tough truckers had leaking eyes.
October 15, 2018, 07:48 AM
joel9507
From the '70s file



Link to original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flOcEFXrsTQ
October 16, 2018, 07:11 PM
zoom6zoom
I had to take the tape with this one on it out of the car. Hard to drive when you can't see.





I have my own style of humor. I call it Snarkasm.
October 18, 2018, 06:05 PM
RichN
If this isn't the number one tearjerker of all time, it has to be in the top three.

George Jones - He Stopped Loving Her Today



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R2F9f2Cl6Y


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October 18, 2018, 07:17 PM
Jelly
Its lyrics were inspired by the death of Clapton's four-year-old son, Conor, who fell from a New York apartment building in 1991.


October 18, 2018, 09:40 PM
Citadel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIaU94SXj9Y


Goes with the Pat Metheny topic. This scene always crushes me.
October 19, 2018, 08:20 AM
soggy_spinout


Made two years before her diagnosis of cancer, four years before her passing.
October 19, 2018, 05:12 PM
Citadel
quote:
Originally posted by soggy_spinout:


Made two years before her diagnosis of cancer, four years before her passing.



She was Gracious right to the final day. May She and her family be Blessed.
October 19, 2018, 06:35 PM
SIGlord

October 19, 2018, 06:55 PM
TMats



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October 20, 2018, 11:34 AM
Gustofer
Anybody who's raised a daughter...




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October 20, 2018, 01:39 PM
bobtheelf



Link to original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZbN_nmxAGk