Saturday 9: The Man in Black (1971)
Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.
1) Black is this week's signature color because Friday, November 24, was "Black Friday," when retailers cut their prices and consumers flock to the stores. Did you score any "Black Friday" bargains?
A. Nothing worth writing home about. I think the "bargains" this year were not very good. I did better last year. (I shopped online.)
2) Among the biggest the Black Friday advertisers are Target, Kohl's, Macy's and Best Buy. If you could have a $100 gift card to any one of those stores, which would you choose? What would you buy?
A. Best Buy, to purchase new ink cartridges for my printer. Those things are expensive.
3) Feasting and football are also popular Thanksgiving weekend pastimes. Do your Thursday-Sunday plans include pigging out or watching a game?
A. We had a rather mild Thanksgiving dinner and we don't watch the ball games.
4) Thanksgiving weekend is a major time for travel. How far did you venture from home for the holiday?
A. I never stepped a foot out the door.
5) This week's song, "Man in Black," is about a singer who refuses to wear bright colors. What color are you wearing as you answer these questions?
A. Dark blue.
6) Johnny Cash first performed this song at Nashville's Vanderbilt University. When were you last on a college campus? What brought you there?
A. In October 2015, we went to Virginia Tech and stood at the memorial for the 32 young people shot in a mass shooting there in 2007. We paid our respects to the dead. We are at war here, an undeclared war against one another, and I wonder when "the people in charge" will wake up.
7) The average American man wears a 10.5 size shoe, the average woman wears a 7.5. Johnny Cash wore a size 13. Are your shoes bigger or smaller than the national average?
A. I wear a size 7 in women's shoes, though I need a wide size because I have big flat boat feet. My husband wears a size 13. My nephew wears a 16!
8) He preferred his coffee very strong. To make sure what he was drank was to his liking, he carried a jar of instant coffee with him and would ladle it into his cup in restaurants. What about you? What's your standard coffee order?
A. I don't drink coffee. It stunts your growth. Although maybe if it stunts your girth I should take it up, but I don't think my ulcers would like it.
9) While in the air force, Cash wrote short stories under the pseudonym "Johnny Dollar." Make up a pen name for yourself.
A. I already use CountryDew on this blog. I have published under the pen name Ida Know a time or two. Also Ida B. Knowing. But I think any other pen name I might wish to use, I shall keep to myself for the moment.
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#6 would have made me sad under any circumstances, but especially now. I just got back from Las Vegas. "Vegas Strong" is everywhere as the citizens try to recover.
ReplyDelete#6 When they stop getting paid to look the other way.
ReplyDeleteI got tired of buying ink cartridges for the printer so I bought a laser jet printer, 40,000 copies on one cartridge.
My sister lives in Blacksburg--The VTech shooting was traumatic for her extended family who all work on campus. So shocking and sad.
ReplyDeleteCoffee does not stunt girth. ;)
We are indeed, at war. I’m sure the elites have a five year, or even a fifteen year, contingency plan in place to take advantage of it. They never miss a trick.
ReplyDeleteI wish coffee stunted girth. Dang!
I like your pen names.
ReplyDeleteAs for your answer to #6, I could not agree more. I don't see the end in sight unfortunately.
I didn't even read the Black Friday ads this year. I just did not need another TV etc
ReplyDeleteWow....2007!? I can't believe it's been 10 years since the massacre at Virginia Tech. It was so shocking then. Isn't it sad that we seem to experience one of these attacks so often these days? Maybe things will change when one of these tragedies affects one of the people in power personally, though I would never wish that on anyone.
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