I got the word...hummingbird!

Does anyone remember where that lyric is from?
I will help you, “Bye, Bye, Birdie!,” The telephone line song. Spreading gossip via the landlines… oh memories…
You see, I was a member of the off, off, off, etc… Broadway cast in Ridgewood New Jersey at the tender age of fifteen with my old chum from up north. The company was the Thunderbird Teen Corporation and we had a ball doing it!

It’s always refreshing to know that you were so wrong when you imagined things that are not right or true to your way of what you really want things to be, huh?

Fairly often I am on the wrong side of some things with how I figure many of life’s glitches out.
Getting things wrong is no fun at all.
But can be rewarding when you thought something bad had happened and find out that you were wrong about that, hmm?

And again I am proud to say that I was very wrong in my thinking that two people I email regularly were out to get me in a negative way, well not get me, but didn’t get me?
My old chum from up north apologized this morning for her computer was not functioning properly and her cell phone was MIA, and so she had to use her other phone to track it down; how many of us have been there and done that, now I ask you?

My French Canadian neighbor across the canal, also apologized for her French name for what we call Spam being even more insulting unbeknownst to us innocent Americans as an ‘undesirable file’ which is the English literal translation, not much we can do about that, oh no! That language is ancient I do believe or really old.
Not that the word for ours ‘SPAM’ sounds any better, perhaps a wee bit though, like that chopped ham canned stuff that some eat, personally I don’t recall ever trying it.
It is a hash is what I do believe it is, which in reality what in the world does that have to do with junk mail ala computer territorial files, really?

WORDS! Semantics, once again and how some misunderstandings, even wars have begun because of them!
Happily I am no warrior here, as we all know just a worrier, and ha to that!

So the home front has been quieter today and we can’t complain for that, but I know I do on occasion… life is a precarious situation when you awake daily to it… But it is never ever boring to the sheer fact that each one we come upon allows for us to make whatever we dare or care to of it, profound, hmm?
Nah, a filler of my word count, kidding; or am I?

Getting back to spreading gossip by teens with use of ye olde telephone in the home that at times was shared with others as ‘party lines’, and no they were no party! We never had one but my aunt and uncle did, with two teenage sons.
Mostly you had to check by listening to make sure some one else was not using the line if you had to make a call.
And the fact that was the only way to know for sure, caused many a person to pick up others gossip, purely by accident, maybe?
Any-who, those were the days, when the operators were alive people who you could ask them to connect them to your party or use your fingers to turn that dial around the base set, not computerized mechanical voices or people sitting in India or the Philippines … Oh no, the times were much different, you usually had only one phone that you had to take turns to use…I know, to kids today that may seem barbaric!
Not at all, we all were using the same simple way to communicate.
Although, there were many problems, since people can err, and human error or wrong connections or numbers were not much different than today…Geez, again the more things change the more they stay the same.
People all know that the game to have the newest and the best and the most of things is not new either… the expression, “Keeping up with the Joneses”, is as old as…1913 from a comic strip that appeared in the New York World and the cartoonist was, Arthur R. "Pop" Momand, how about them apples folks? To read more, copy and paste this site: http://www.answers.com/topic/keeping-up-with-the-joneses

On that my proof of nothing being truly that new in this world, except this offering of mine tonight :-)! Allow me to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you to kindly to count all your blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?