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Mudhooks, hi! I wanted to have a look at you, but I followed your link, only to be told that I "don't have permission" to view the photos. I am interested...

BTW... What is the origin of your nickname, if I may ask?

Sorry, I hadn't noticed this sitting right in front of me.

For some reason the photos can't be accessed by some browsers. Why? I have no idea. I don't have a problem with my home computer or the ones at my other office, but do with the my own one at this office... ...

I never really had a nickname when I was a kid, so I had to think of something. I was looking for a nickname that was not gender-specific, in order to avoid the sharks on-line.

Mudhook is a maritime name for anchor, and slang for feet.

My ex used to be in the Navy and used to refer to my feet as Mudhooks.... As in, "Getcher Mudhooks off the couch!".

I added another link to my page, to a photo on someone else's website. I don't like the photo so much, but it will have to do.

Thanks, I'll check it out when I am at home - here at the library, I can't follow links.
Mudhooks, it's a very logical word/name... Your ex sounds as cultured as mine!LOL!!!

He was actually a pretty funny guy, and very smart, if he gave himself half a chance.

Oh, mine was completely useless... Mind, he could have done well, if he hadn't had a problem with

He drank too much Champagne?

Did you ever see the "Simpson's" episode where Homer and Marge throw a cocktail party?

Homer gets plastered and acts like a complete and utter idiot. The next morning when Marge is really ticked off and he can't understand why. She says "Remember last night?" and he remembers it in this sort of Jeevesian party in which he was the life of said party. In reality he was a slobbering idiot.

Paste my ex's face on Homer's.....

I think he is quite brilliant except his attachment to alcohol....

I was lazy - it wasn't bubbly, but I couldn't be bothered with a proper typed smiley! (In Brunel, there are a number of shortcut smileys below the text boxes - I don't what skin your preference is...) I should have put . Actually, he'd have almost everything, and unlike your ex, he wasn't an amusing drunk, but a mean one! His brother is a successful business man, showing that a low SES background and a mean drunk for a father need not ruin a life!
Which is good. Our son is a successful student, husband and worker, and is, like me, an abstainer from alcohol.
Listening to my favourite summer hit on CD, 'Asereje' (Ketchup song, by Las Ketchup) My younger son bought it for me, he regrets it, but it's too late. I love it and am playing it. So there...

I was kidding... unless they are Liz Taylor, most alcoholics have slightly less expensive tastes.

I rarely drink, myself. On occassion, I have a gin and tonic or two, but that is really all. I quit drinking in high-school for about 8 years. My problem was I was too shy and thought I was a better person when I drank. One rarely, if ever, is.

I have encountered a few mean drunks in my day. Two of them I recall in particular. One was okay unless he drank liquor and then he all but sprouted horns. One drink and he turned red-faced, foul-mouthed.

The other one was the same way on and form of alcohol.

My ex was simply a pathetic drunk.

On the subject of music....

I was in the car this morning and, though I rarely listen to mainstream radio, was doing just that. They played a number of pieces which really piqued my interest, so I went off to my favorite music store (local independent) and picked up a couple of CDs.

Unfortunately, they were out of what I wanted, but I found a few titles which would suffice.

Steely Dan greatest hits, a Latin-American singer who I had never heard of and can't remember her name (CDs are out in the car) but is wonderfully sultry, and Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble... All excellent.

I will have to locate the Steely Dan I heard on the radio, though. It made me cry.

I was lucky, before we had a CD player, to be in a shop, and heard a CD being played - Steely Dan's greatest hits - I asked the man if it was available on tape, and he said no. When he failed to talk me into buying a CD player (this was 1992, and they were way more expensive than they are now) - he agreed to tape the CD for me if I paid $5.00 for the C90 tape.
He took weeks to do it, and kept rushing out of the shop to tell me, everytime I went past, that he still remembered and would do it when he had a moment. I got embarassed to see t=him, then one day he rished ouyt and gave me the tape. What a nice guy! Rather white mouse or rabbit looking, which proves that good looks have absolutely nothing to do with it!
I'd love to get hold of some Burton Cummings/Guess Who stuff - they had a song, 'Glamour Boy', supposedly about David Bowie, that I wrote a story about the Emperor Nero as a time traveller who becomes a rock star, about!
BTW, where is the ?

Was there a tardissmiley? If there was, was there also a daleksmiley?

I wasn't a huge fan of the Guess Who. I lived a very sheltered life when it came to music until my mid-teens. Then, I started with things like Steeleye Span and things. However, I did go to concerts when I was in high school.... Name them and I probably went.

I wasn't able to find the particular thing I was looking for at all. I went to a regular music store and found quite a few more CDs by Steely Dan, but not the one I was looking for. Somehow, I am not sure it was them, but the DJ listed everything she had played and it was the first thing (why do they list them in reverse order? By the time they get to the one you were interested in, you have missed it. Pet peeve.)

All I clearly remember was that the word "stoned" came up repeatedly. I wouldn't have said it sounded like Steely Dan. More like J.J. Cale. But I have everything by him and I know it wasn't him.... It was sort of like Magnolia, but reminising about the "old days" and being stoned.....

Ahhh well... something for me to hunt for.

Well... far from it being Steely Dan...

It is by the Rodeo Kings. I certainly didn't think it SOUNDED like Steely Dan! I just hate it when they don't read what they played in the order they played them.

You can listen to a clip:
http://www.rodeokings.com/bark_cd.htm#stoned

If there are not Tardis and Dalek smileys, there should be! I thought it sounded like Steely Dan, when you said "reminiscing about being stoned..."
I'll have to listen when I get home...

Immediately after work I toddled off to my CD store http://www.compact-music.com/ and bought the CD.... Excellent.

I hope it's all you expected it to be!

Oh, it is!