1. A friend I made studying abroad TEN YEARS AGO in Australia called last night to remind me today is Australia Day. So Happy Australia Day!
I have lots of good memories (and lack there of) from semester there. PLUS I got a scanner/printer/copier for Christmas and scanned a few photos in last night to share.Sunrise on an island on the Great Barrier Reef
Masters of the obvious, those Australians.
Me feeding a kangaroo!!!
While on the phone with that friend, I mentioned some lyrics from "Land Down Under":
I come from a land down under
Where beer does flow and men chunder
He did not realize these were some of the lyrics, nor did he know "chunder" means "vomit". You learn something new every day!
2. Second unrelated but lyric-related story is that I think I have gotten more emotional in my old age in the sense that I am touched by things easily. Take this song I heard in the car this morning - it made me teary! I am pretty sure it is a dad singing it to his child after a divorce. The refrain is:
2. Second unrelated but lyric-related story is that I think I have gotten more emotional in my old age in the sense that I am touched by things easily. Take this song I heard in the car this morning - it made me teary! I am pretty sure it is a dad singing it to his child after a divorce. The refrain is:
So I'll drive
And I'll think about my life
And wonder why, I'll slowly die inside
Everytime I turn that truck around, right at the Georgia line and I count the days and the miles back home to you on that Highway 20 ride
3 comments:
That second song is the Zac Brown Band and "Highway 20 Ride"
All these years, and I never knew that those lyrics were about barfing.
oh dear.
I had my own made-up lyrics that were really far off the mark.
I did not know chunder meant vomiting either! new word!
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