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Yes, it's sad to lose knowledge which has not been easily acquired. I spoke Arabic fluently 40 years ago, now it's more than rustyYour comments about languages ring true with me, Jack. I studied Latin in high school for 3 years and German in college for 2 years, and 50+ years later, after using neither very often, my vocabulary has shrunken dramatically, and my grammar is almost nonexistent.
And don't even mention mathematics! My mental arithmetic is as good as ever, since I use it all the time. Anything beyond that was forgotten a long time ago That's that quite a coincidence about The High Chaparral Gary!Your juxtaposition of comments about the Beatles and about The High Chaparral TV show were a striking coincidence for me!I mentioned that my wife and I were planning to watch some of the new documentary on the Beatles over Thanksgiving weekend, almost all of it comprised of video footage shot during January 1969 as they tried to put together songs for the Let It Be album. (Many songs that showed up on Abbey Road also appeared in rudimentary form in the documentary.) One amazing scene had McCartney come in at the start of the day and start strumming his bass and humming and occasionally muttering "Get back", while Harrison and Starr sat in a not-yet-awake stupor, half-watching. Then, after a couple of minutes, all of a sudden the song started becoming recognizable, and Harrison and Ringo realized that Paul had something going. Ringo started clapping along, and Harrison started trying to play guitar to complement what McCartney was doing. Throughout the documentary there were various scenes where they continued to work on the song. At one point, Paul was trying to come up with a last name for Jo Jo in the song, and trying out "Jo Jo Jackson left his home in Arizona." Eventually they, decided to ditch the last name of Jo Jo and put in the name of a city along with the state. Paul suggested Tucson, Arizona and John asked if that city was actually in Arizona. Paul confidently replied, "Yes, that's where they make High Chaparral." Must have been a highly-regarded western in the UK at that time!
It was shown here for a number of years, but then so were The Virginian and Bonanza among others. Interesting what you say about the documentary. I spent some time with McCartney's brother as a kid 
Thanks palCongrats on the new camera, Jack!
Unfortunately, the weather has been so foul, I haven't used it outdoors yet, but it seems quite good Good idea!
Thank you very much Gary, I got three meals out of it, and enjoyed it a lotThat's some very appealing curry your HHB is diving into, Jack!
Good ideaThanks, Jack. While they were in York, I had sent them links to a couple of lambsfoot models, and asked that they try to find something similar for me; I was more than pleased with the results!
They did very well though I'm not sure I'd recommend it!
There's a Castle Hill in Huddersfield, whereThanks. I looked at a Great Lakes lighthouse calendar, but there was one picture I knew would irritate me for a month. It looked like a beacon on a pier with nothing like a house attached.
I opened it up. Mostly Maine, a couple other east coasters, one Illinois, and three Michigans. We do have the longest coastline this side of the Pecos, after all.
The cover is Castle Hill in Rhode Island. Kind of nice, because I grew up across the street from another Castle Hill, and some of my early American ancestors came to Rhode Island.
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