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Re: Various things

On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Don Smith wrote:

> Howdy,
> 
> Jessyka wrote: "i also would love to hear "i painted my name" live, although i
> doubt that will ever happen.  *sigh*".  _I Painted My Name_ performed live was
> a mystical experience.  It soared, it flew, it transported us to a bright,
> sunny hillside in the spring, after a light rainstorm.  Well, that's where it
> took me, anyway.  I'm pretty sure I saw a few of you there, too. :-)

Absolutely.  That was a fine song, Don.  I still have bootlegs of that
song from 1993.  One of these days, I should see if I can output that to
my computer...

> 
> Nostradamus was a putz.  Make hundreds of vaguely worded statements, and you,
> too, can be considered a prophet when one of them happens to bear some tenuous
> relationship to current events.  Doesn't anyone take statistics anymore?  What
> do they teach them at those schools?  (That's a quote, and this whole paragraph
> is meant to be partly humorous, not angry, in case the tone isn't clear.)
> 

Absolutely <laughter>.  Myself, I'm a big fan of the litmus test from the
Old Testament - if a prophet is ever wrong about something, they're not a
prophet anymore, cuz the source they got the information wasn't something
other than themselves...

Drew J

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