(#2005-1090) - Topics this issue: 1) How deep is your love?, 2) Obligatory post #016, 3) BBC Radio One - now us dumb yanks can listen in, so..., 4) The original meaning of Saved by the Bell, 5) BBC1Radio, ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 21:27:50 -0400 From: Joseph Brennan Subject: Re: How deep is your love? --On Thursday, August 11, 2005 9:31 PM +0100 Lee Meadows wrote: > I was just listening to my "Spirits having flown "demos cd. The track > which shows the boys laying down the music to HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE in > the early stages ...... > I can hear the voice of an American person talking whilst they are doing > this..he is pretty involved in the decisions and creating of the music.. It was Blue's tape, so It seems to be him and Barry developing the song, with Albhy making some comments. Interesting this ends up as the usual "B R & M". This was the only question I recall Blue not wanting to comment on. Joe Brennan ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 22:26:45 -0400 From: "Anne Simpson" Subject: Re: Obligatory post #016 Brilliant! Thanks for the news, Ann. Anne ----- Original Message ----- > > Sir Paul & Robin recorded a new version of The Bee Gees' "Too Much > Heaven", for a Maurice Gibb Tribute CD Robin is championing. > > A. > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 19:38:59 -0700 (PDT) From: David Garcia Subject: BBC Radio One - now us dumb yanks can listen in, so... Sirius Satellite Radio is now carrying BBC Radio One. So, UK fans, if there's any interesting Gibb-related stuff on BBC Radio One forthcoming, be sure to let those of us who, up to now, frankly didn't give a crap, know all about it ahead of time, okay? Thankx. David Garcia, who has over 65 commercial-free channels of music to listen to, but usually just listens to traffic reports in Staten Island, NY garcia10303@yahoo.com ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 22:06:11 -0700 From: Judy Subject: The original meaning of Saved by the Bell A friend sent me this - Quite interesting, but you have to go to the last paragraph to find out about the bell and it's the best! Judy > LIFE IN THE 1500'S >=20 > The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water > temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be= . > Here are some facts about the 1500's: >=20 > These are interesting... >=20 >=20 > Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in Ma= y, > and till smelled pretty good by June. However, they were starting to smel= l, so > brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor. Hence the cust= om > today of carrying a bouquet when getting married. >=20 >=20 > Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house = had > the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, t= hen > the women and finally the children. Last of all the babies. By then the w= ater > was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it. Hence the saying, "D= on't > throw the baby out with the bath water." >=20 >=20 > Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneat= h. It > was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other sma= ll > animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof. When it rained it became slipper= y and > sometimes the animals would slip off the roof. Hence the saying "It's rai= ning > cats and dogs."=20 >=20 >=20 > There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house. This posed = a > real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could mess up = your > nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top > afforded some protection. That's how canopy beds came into existence. >=20 >=20 > The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt. Hence= the > saying "dirt poor." The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery = in > the winter when wet, so they read thresh (straw) on floor to help keep th= eir > footing. As the winter wore on, they added more thresh until when you ope= ned > the door it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed = in > the entranceway. Hence the saying a "thresh hold.=94 >=20 >=20 > (Getting quite an education, aren't you?) >=20 >=20 > In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that alwa= ys > hung over the fire. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the p= ot. > They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the = stew > for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then s= tart > over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for = quite > a while. Hence the rhyme, "Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas > porridge in the pot nine days old." > Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. Whe= n > visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It was a = sign > of wealth that a man could "bring home the bacon." They would cut off a l= ittle > to share with guests and would all sit around and "chew the fat." >=20 > Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content c= aused > some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning death. Th= is > happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomat= oes > were considered poisonous. >=20 >=20 > Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of t= he > loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or "upper crust= ." > Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. The combination would sometim= es > knock the bibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road > would take them for dead and prepare them for burial. They were laid out = on > the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around= and > eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up. Hence the custom of > holding a "wake." >=20 >=20 > England is old and small and the local folks started running out of pla= ces > to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to = a > "bone-house" and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of = 25 > coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized = they > had been burying people alive. So they would tie a string on the wrist of= the > corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it t= o a > bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the "grav= eyard > shift") to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be "saved by the bell= " or > was considered a "dead ringer." >=20 >=20 >=20 > And that's the truth... > Now, whoever said that History was boring???? >=20 >=20 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 22:56:01 -0700 From: Judy Subject: BBC1Radio For those of you considering Satellite radio subscribtion, Sirius Satellite just added the BBC 1 Radio station and it's synched to run when it runs in the UK. I don't recognize any shows on their list that have been mentiioned on the Words List tho. I would like to hear any comment from Brits who think that any BeeGee would wind up doing a show on this station. http://www.sirius.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=Sirius/CachedPage&c=Cha nnel&cid=1121444083985 Judy Richmond CA ------------------------------ End words@brothersgibb.com Digest [08/12/2005 03:01] ----------------------------------------------------