Well, it happened again. I got hacked and should have never given my credit card info to a site that was offering a whopping sale for a Cable TV extension.
DO NOT fall for HBO Max come-on that offers the service for $2 a year.
Continue readingWell, it happened again. I got hacked and should have never given my credit card info to a site that was offering a whopping sale for a Cable TV extension.
DO NOT fall for HBO Max come-on that offers the service for $2 a year.
Continue readingA Trivia game I played with senior citizens recently focused on musical songs that contained numbers in their titles. The experience stayed with me and later woke me at 3 am while I laid in bed unable to dismiss the songs not mentioned some 12 to 13 hours earlier at the Upper Merion Senior Service Center in King of Prussia, PA.
The songs we played included “One, Two Three” by Len Barry, “Sixteen Tons” by Tennessee Ernie Ford, “Nine to Five” by Dolly Parton, “One is the Loneliest Number” by Three Dog Night, “December ‘63 (Oh What a Night” by the Four Seasons, and “When I’m 64” and “Eight Days a Week” by the Beatles. I began to add more songs in my awakened state of mind and knew I’d get no further sleep until I get the songs out of my system and onto paper.
Here are a few I came up with:
“The First Time I Saw Your Face” Roberta Flack ”5 Will Get You 10” We Five
“10 Things I Hate About You” Leah Kate ”15 Miles on Erie Canal” Seeger
“A Hundred Pounds of Clay” Gene McDaniels “A Thousand Stars” Young
“ Thousand Miles Away” the Heartbeats “A Million to One” Jimmy Charles
“One” was by far the most used number in songs I recalled and double-checked on Google.
Check ’em out:
“One and Only You” the Platters ”Wonderful One” Marvin Gaye
“Once in a While” the Chimes “One Summer Night” the Danleers
“One Hand, One Heart” West Side Story “One of Us” Abba
“One More Night” Phil Collins ”One for the Money” Escape the Fate
“One Fine Day” the Chiffons “One Voice” Barry Manilow
“One Way of Another” Blondie “One Tin Soldier” Billy Jack film
Number songs also included these offerings:
“Beechwood 4-5789“by the Marvelettes ”Do the 81” Candy and the Kisses
“It Takes Two” Marvin Gaye and Kin Weston “1001 Arbian Nights” ChipZ
“Land of 1,000 Dances” Wilson Pickett “1812 Overture” Tchaikovsky
“Five O’Clock World” the Vogues ”Three Blind Mice” Nursery Rhyme
“Five Will Get You Ten” We Five “Fourth of July” Sufjan Stevens
“Ten Things I Hate About You” Leah Kate “Take Five” Dave Brubeck
“Fifteen Men on a Dead Man’s Chest“– Robert Louis Stevenson in Treasure Island
“Twenty-four Hours from Tulsa” Gene Pitney “Eight Miles High” by the Byrds
“19th Nervous Breakdown” Rolling Stones “In the Year 2525” by Zager & Evans
“The 12th of Never” by Johnny Mathis “50 Ways to Leave Lover” Paul Simon
“Ninety-Nine Bottles of Beer on the Wall“ – Traditional drinking song
“I Found a Million Dollar Baby in a Five and Ten-Cent Store“ - Fanny Brice
“60 Minute Man” Billy Ward and Dominoes “High Noon” Tex Ritter
“Midnight at the Oasis” Maria Muldaur ”Cloud 9” the Temptations
“In the Midnight Hour” Wilson Pickett ”Love Potion Number 9” The Clovers
“Midnight Train to Georgia” Gladys Knight ”10,000 Kisses” Jackie Edwards
“A Thousand Kisses Deep” Leonard Cohen
And finally, “Number-Like” Last Titles:
“Save the Last Dance For Me” The Drifters “The Last Song” by Edward Bear
“The Last Thing on My Mind” by Tom Paxton.
While getting together all taxable income documents for 2023 to file with the IRS, I came across something that is quite amazing. The Social Security System keeps a list of all earnings you ever made starting with the first time you ever worked.
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