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LooseCannon said:
It's sort of a manager-in-training thing.
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Awesome!!!  You are the man, LC!!

Now, you are supposed to spend your first months raise at the bar buying other people drinks!
 
I move into a higher raise bracket, but I don't get a straight raise. It's based on the work I do, since half the time I do my old job.
 
Forostar said:
I heard a lot about this band (and always wondered about the Dutch name!)
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They named themselves after a Van de Graaff generator, and misspelled it.

Mega said:
Foro, listen to Pawn Hearts, it's a classic.
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Pawn Hearts is indeed a remarkable album, mainly because it might be the very first example of ridiculously overdone prog rock in history. I'd go for H to He, Who Am the Only One if I were you - it's a far more focused and enjoyable effort.

Then of course, I'm not a VDGG fan, so what do I know?  ;)
 
OMG! An AMAZING quality audio bootleg of the Blind Guardian show I was at is on dimeadozen! And it's the ONLY one to show up from their N.A. tour! Talk about LUCKY!
 
So what did I miss whilst last here:

LC got promoted. :ok:
Travis got rid of his bouncing boos pic.
EW started talking beer (no surprise there) and mulled wine.
And Deano thinks '39 is a good year to die (I hope to live beyond that year).


But more importantly, we witnessed a special moment in sporting history - in the current Ashes series down under, England got on top of the Aussies and instead of allowing them back in the game, the English turned the screw and annihilated them. Oh the joy. It matters to us English to beat any one of three nations - Germany (football, mainly), France (rugby and football) and Australia (cricket, rugby, football, hockey, swimming.....). :D
 
LooseCannon said:
I move into a higher raise bracket, but I don't get a straight raise. It's based on the work I do, since half the time I do my old job.
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Congrats, Loosey!  :ok:
 
Forostar said:
I heard a lot about this band (and always wondered about the Dutch name!)

Very nice instrumental section, if I may say so. Fantastic album title by the way: World Record!
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Peter Hammill is the man. While the music is excellent, what it really sticks me in that one, is the lyrics. Some highlights:

Slow motion in the quiet of the room;
so potent is the smell of her perfume
that you think she's eternal,
that you think she is everything...
but no-one knows what she is.
Repentance for all you should have said;
her entrance seems to raise you from the dead
and you think she's really with you,
and you think that she'll always stay,
always ready to forgive you,
always ready to grant you her mercy
but in her own way.
When she comes, she'll be a stranger;
struck dumb, you'll try to protest
as the drum beats out the danger...
too late, you should have noticed
that the lady with the skin so white,
like something out of Blake or Burne-Jones
always blocked out the light
and shadowed all you owned.

Still you think she's forever,
yesterday and tomorrow...
but no-one knows where she is.
Still you swear that you can win her

and your prayer is that she'll want you;
aware - once a saint, now you're a sinner
and your sins are going to haunt you
when the lady with her skin so white
like something out of Edgar Allan Poe
holds your hand so very tight
and you hope that she'll never let go.

Easy targets, easy crosswords, easy life:
these key margins leave you balanced on the knife,
bleeding darkly.
In the end it all comes down to sleazy bargains.
That hidden key - you tried so hard to find it,
all you can conceive is the effort to be worthy;
even now you need to be reminded
that La Belle Dame is without mercy.
The lady with her skin so white -
you never did quite catch her name -
now she holds you in the night
and she'll never let go again,
she'll never let go again.


Check how many parts I underlined /marked bold, almost the entire song! So wonderful & mysterious, like something out of Edgar Allan Poe  ;)
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