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MWolfe1963

02-07-2011, 11:31 AM

Haven't started a thread in such a long time and out of sub topics for now, so wonder what my online friends enjoy. So who are your favorite singers, authors, poets, ect...

Feel free to post links.

MWolfe1963

02-07-2011, 11:31 AM

Haven't started a thread in such a long time and out of sub topics for now, so wonder what my online friends enjoy. So who are your favorite singers, authors, poets, ect...

Feel free to post links.

swamprat69er

02-07-2011, 11:49 AM

Favourite singers, right now it is Celtic Thunder
Favourite authors, Jack Higgins.
Favourite poets, Robert W. Service.

Yooperbacker

02-07-2011, 12:19 PM

There is no such word as ect. Does not mean anything.
etc does mean something - et cetera
notice the e is followed by a t then a c

cmdrmoosicvs

02-07-2011, 12:26 PM

Favorite Author, Frank Herbert

Favorite Band, Deep Purple

Favorite Poet, The Guy who writes on outhouse walls.

WernherVonTrapp

02-07-2011, 12:55 PM

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Yooperbacker:
There is no such word as ect. Does not mean anything.
etc does mean something - et cetera
notice the e is followed by a t then a c </div></BLOCKQUOTE>http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-laughing001.gif Get it right, MWolfe.http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-laughing013.gif
Now, hmmm, let me see. Haven't read anything poetic in <STRIKE>years</STRIKE> decades. I like Henry David Thoreau, John Steinbeck, Shakespeare, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Frost, Hemingway and several others.
As for Music, well, there's just too many to name. Just about any of the original Big Bands, the Ink Spots, Billie Holiday, Cole Porter, Richard Rogers, Burt Bacharach, George Gershwin, Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Strauss, Felix Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, Paganini, Schubert, Chopin, Handel, Liszt, DeBussy, Vivaldi, Massenet, Samuel Barber, and then of course, there's all the Classic/Modern Rock. Way too many to name with music. http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/winky.gif

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cgkstealth

02-07-2011, 02:54 PM

Favorite singers/songwriters: ACDC, Bon Jovi, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts (mainly for I love Rock N Roll), Survivor, Jason Aldean, Toby Keith, Charlie Daniels and many, many more.

Favorite authors: H. G. Wells, Gordon Korman (for his series work that I used to read), James Bradley (Flags of Our Fathers), and many other ones I can't think to mention, mostly who have written odd works that I just happened to have read.

Favorite poets: Not really into poetry... http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

For me (if you haven't noticed) I don't really have a "favorite" in any category, I have more of a "favorite works" category. It's more about certain works (songs or what have you) rather than the creator of that particular work. http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/16x16_smiley-wink.gif

andypandy1996

02-07-2011, 04:56 PM

Favorite band: Not really a band but I like ragtime music.

Favorite Author: Stephen E. Ambrose (Wrote Band of Brothers book)

Favorite Poet: Edgar Allen Poe.

Thats me!

denis4510

02-07-2011, 05:33 PM

Favourite Singer: Me Mum (and Cleo Lane)
Favourite Author: Me Daughter (and E "Doc" Smith)
Favourite Poet: Me Dad (and Banjo Patterson)

An example:

“Cold Courage”

There’s one season of the year,
That really leaves me cold,
It’s when winter comes around,
I know I’m getting old.

When chilly winds, turn rain to sleet,
And heaters seem to lose their heat,
With chilly hands, and stone cold feet,
Your nose is frozen, like a lump of meat,
Ears that are red from loss of heat,
I can’t get warm, I face defeat,
“Somehow” I can stand all this,
But one thing has me beat,
To find the ‘nerve’ to sit down,
On an ‘ice cold’ toilet seat.

http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/16x16_smiley-wink.gif Most of his poems have a bit of humour in them.
Here's another:

A Horse's Tale.

The man from snowy river never shifted in his seat ,
It was good to see a horseman, with clean shoes upon his feet,
They had a good appearance, they were polished to a gloss,
They matched the polished crupper, on the saddle of his horse.

He was fussy with the crupper, he cleaned it without fail,
He thought it only proper, when he raised the horse's tail,
And this brought back memories, of a girl he used to know,
He didn’t remember her surname, her Christian name was Flo.

He wondered why he thought of her, when the crupper was in place,
Was something he was looking at, remind him of her face,
But then he knew the answer, to the memory that was there,
The long thick horses tail, was like her flowing raven hair

You might think this a bummer of a rhyme,
But you see funny bottoms all the time
Some are as flat as a bitumen street,
Some are like two boys, fighting under a sheet.

tambor198

02-07-2011, 05:45 PM

Favorite Bands: Yes, Emerson, Lake And Palmer, Jethro Tull and many others.

Individual People would include Frank Mills, Yanni, Medwyn Goodall.

Favorite Authors: Robert E Howard, Katherine Kurtz, Anne McCaffrey, Kenneth R Robeson to name a few.

MWolfe1963

02-07-2011, 06:03 PM

Have many favorite singers. I love lyrics. I think Jewel has amazing skill, writing and singing and she's so sexy........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...re=player_detailpage (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCODAwjqTI8&feature=player_detailpage)

Enjoyed the poems by your father denis, write poetry all the time, he doe's show his humor.

denis4510

02-07-2011, 11:06 PM

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">

Enjoyed the poems by your father denis, write poetry all the time, he doe's show his humor. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Thanks mate - he wrote them when he was only a young fella - about 86 or 87 (he's 91 now) which reminds me I must recover the rest of them from his old HDD which is kaput (if I can).

I must also say that I am a fan of Errol Garner, Ramsay Lewis, Herbie Hancock, Fats Waller, Frank Petty, Dudley Moore, Henry Mancini, Stan Getz, the Gilberto family, Chicago, Blood Sweat and Tears, all the Big Bands to mention but a few.

Books, I've read a few, but then again too few to mention, http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/16x16_smiley-wink.gif Yeah liked some of Sinatra's stuff, Mel Tome et al.

EDIT: Forgot Django Reinhardt http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/16x16_smiley-sad.gif

Anti_Ship_Fella

02-08-2011, 04:40 AM

Blowtanks

02-08-2011, 08:06 AM

Band: NIGHTWISH - though I like lots of different stuff.

Books: History, Military History, Religion. Not into fiction much.

Games: http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/winky.gif SH4 - IL2 - Falcon AF - Wings Over Vietnam/Europe.

LouLewis1967

02-08-2011, 08:17 AM

I'm a fan of James Lee Burke's police/detective series with Dave Robicheaux. Not exactly high-brow reading, but very colorful portrayal of the grittier side of crime in the New Orleans/New Iberia region.

Celeon999

02-08-2011, 09:04 AM

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by cmdrmoosicvs:
Favorite Author, Frank Herbert
</div></BLOCKQUOTE>

One of the true Kwisatz Haderach of Sci-fi http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/11.gif

Everyone who disagrees shall feel the sting of a gom jabbar, his water shall be taken and he be turned into a ghola by the Bene Tleilax afterwards. http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/shady.gif

http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/16x16_smiley-wink.gif

andypandy1996

02-09-2011, 03:55 PM

Hey Cel,
How do you post the actual video on the forum?

WernherVonTrapp

02-09-2011, 04:25 PM

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by andypandy1996:
Hey Cel,
How do you post the actual video on the forum? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>If you're posting something from YouTube, you have to click on the "Embed" code and then in the selection box below it, choose the "Old Embed Code" (or something like that). Copy that code and paste it between the Flash Video tags " ". http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

andypandy1996

02-09-2011, 05:47 PM

Thanks Wernher!

andypandy1996

02-09-2011, 05:56 PM

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I like all this music.
Yea the first one is lego but the song is nice.
Second is jumping peas! Song written for Canada.
Third repeats but its a Simpson slideshow. Who doesn't love that?