Police escort for zebra.
That picture has nothing to do with my post. I just like it.
While I was fooling around today (I’m not working until Wednesday), I was singing Popeye the Sailor Man to myself. I had a realization. (And myself is very fond of that song.) On to the realization
I always thought this song was propaganda deployed by my Mother to get me to eat spinach. Then I got to the verse “Popeye the sailor man lives in the garbage can.” Wow, what’s up with that? I never thought about his super humble abode. I think the subliminal message communicated here does not match the intended propaganda.
I can’t remember a time in which I wanted to live in a garbage can. As a matter of fact the only person I knew who lived in a garbage can was The Grouch over on Sesame Street. He was never happy, so I’m thinking living in a garbage can is less than ideal.
Now I’m thinking this message may have been holding me back. Did my parents inadvertently set my career on a less than desirable path? Am I perchance sabotaging myself?
Does anyone know a career positive song that might reprogram my garbage can size goals?
Mental check: +3.5 on positive side (5 being max)
Feet cold
The song from The Mary Tyler Moore Show???
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I love Mary Tyler Moore and the old Marlo Thomas series too. Thanks. Dee
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But it’s funny – the picture.
One man’s trash is another’s treasure? (Sorry, someone had to say it)
Rather brain dead tonight, but there’s always that Disney song sung by Jiminy Cricket “When you wish upon on a star….” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aafpos35u-s
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Thanks. I’ve listening to it now. Dee. And I thought it was a pretty good picture too.
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Laverne & Shirley theme
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Good one, Deano. Thanks Dee
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Reblogged this on Toward the within… and commented:
Nice!
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Thanks for the reblog. Nice name by the way. Dee
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“Tomorrow” from Annie.. It pretty much says, ‘so what if you screwed up today, you’ll get another chance to do it again tomorrow’.. How uplifting is that?
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That’s my new motto. Who gives a crap if you screw up today. You always have tomorrow to screw up again. Dee
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That’s the spirit.. Every silver lining has a dark cloud..
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Exactly, if it works, I’ll let you know.
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Good luck..
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Thanks, I need it. Dee
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tons of positive songs out there, I like “up” from Shania Twain, and “nothings gonna stop us now” by Jefferson Starship
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Oh, thanks Lorie. I will try those. Dee
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“Safety Dance” by Men at Work, goofy video but the lyrics are carefree and that song reminds me of the 80’s when hair was big and songs were simple… “Say, we can go where we want to
A place where they will never find
And we can act like we come from out of this world”
Leave the real one far behindhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjPau5QYtYs
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Thanks for sharing the link. Dee
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Men Without Hats, sorry. Men at work is more “Who can it be now?”
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LOL … ‘Its raining men’ ??? 😉
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Can’t think of a song–but I do remember that Oscar’s garbage can is actually amazing. It’s like the TARDIS or Mary Poppin’s carpet bag: bigger on the inside. Oscar’s pet elephant is in there, his ice rink, his farm . . . it’s gotta be awesome.
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whaaattt? I don’t remember that lyric. O_O
There’s always this version, https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=61&v=FvPs6A4eyBI, if you want your new aim in life to be “one tough gazookas”.
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“Let It Go!” from Disney movie, Frozen. Learn from the past, let it go and move forward, empowered to your shining destiny. But remember to stop for love.
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♪♫ “My old man’s a pilot
Now what do you think about that?
He wears a pilot jacket
He wears a pilot hat
He wears a pilot raincoat
He wears pilot shoes
And every Sunday morning
he reads the pilot news
And someda-a-ay, if I ca-a-an
I’m going to be a pilot
Just like my old man!” ♪♫ (Blame all those years of camp counseling and leading Girl Scouts 😉 )
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Not sure if this is some kind of meta comment or just a co-incidence, but I know that song as ‘my old man’s a dustman’…
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That could be the same song, not sure. But pilot is a way cooler career ambition than dustman, IMO. 😉
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Oh totally 😉
This is the song I’m thinking of, does it match yours?
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You want songs, I could give you a list… My favourite of course Imagine, John Lennon. He wants us to imagine the world as it could be. I Am Woman, Helen Reddy, I Will Survive, Gloria Gaynor of course there is always the great Aretha Franklin’s RESPECT… I could go on and on but that is a start.
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Sticking with TV shows, the theme from The Greatest American Hero ‘Believe It or Not’. You’ll be thinking you can do anything in no time at all, believe it or not!
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In the photo, to the left of the zebra, on the car windshield…is that your heart birthmark?
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