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Offline Rooster Cruiser

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Do you have some Change?
« on: June 16, 2009, 02:44:21 PM »
I'll try to not get too political with this one...   ::banghead:: ::banghead:: ::banghead::

In 1931, at the beginning of the Great Depression, someone in president Herbert Hoover's administration asked a Broadway songwriting team to write something uplifting to get people to feel better about their plight.  Basically, it was a request for propaganda.  Instead, lyricist Yip Harburg and composer Jay Gourney wrote, "Brother, can you spare a dime?"  It was a huge hit, and helped define the helplessness most people were feeling at the time.  It didn't win them any friends in the White House, but it did become a #1 hit in 1932 when Bing Crosby recorded a version of it.  It helped set the stage for Herbert Hoover's defeat for reelection by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932.

I see that today's propaganda has reached Roost Air, but I don't think it is having the desired effect...  Seems like what is old is new again.

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Offline Mike

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Re: Do you have some Change?
« Reply #1 on: June 16, 2009, 05:20:42 PM »
Wow, that's pretty deep Rooster!  :o

It's almost as if we'd known about what you just wrote and tried to make a statement. But we never went that far. We werejust talking about change (money) and how we never have enough.
But it kinda proofs that history repeats itself, huh?!

I wouldn't mind becoming a #1 hit in the US though!  ;)

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Re: Do you have some Change?
« Reply #2 on: June 16, 2009, 06:15:36 PM »
Anyone who hasn't had to count pennies hasn't been a pilot very long!!!!!!!!    ::)

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Re: Do you have some Change?
« Reply #3 on: June 17, 2009, 06:10:28 AM »
I just figured Chuck was one of the millions who thinks our Governor is HOT!   :-*   :o

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Re: Do you have some Change?
« Reply #4 on: June 17, 2009, 06:13:46 AM »
Quote from: tundra_flier on June 17, 2009, 06:10:28 AM
I just figured Chuck was one of the millions who thinks our Governor is HOT!   :-*   :o

Phil

I know I do!   ;D :P >:D ::drinking::
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Re: Do you have some Change?
« Reply #5 on: June 17, 2009, 06:54:09 AM »
I was wishing for some change while standing at the vending machines at work last night  :-\
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Re: Do you have some Change?
« Reply #6 on: June 17, 2009, 04:37:48 PM »
Quote from: Oddball on June 17, 2009, 06:54:09 AM
I was wishing for some change while standing at the vending machines at work last night  :-\

change you can believe in?   ;) ::whistle::


Seriously, that's as far as our thought process went. But we decided to put the strip up anyways and see what happens.
Should we make a new section in the forum where political discussions ARE allowed??

Also, I promise, the next strip will be aviation related again. Don't wanna strive too far from the original Chicken Wings idea.....
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Re: Do you have some Change?
« Reply #7 on: June 17, 2009, 05:59:27 PM »
Discussions about hot babes are still allowed though right?  ::whistle::  Or does that belong in the fire flyers section?  ???

Phil  ::cowboy::
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Re: Do you have some Change?
« Reply #8 on: June 17, 2009, 07:35:55 PM »
That depends - if they are smokin' hot, it better be there ::whistle::
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Re: Do you have some Change?
« Reply #9 on: June 18, 2009, 03:15:53 AM »
Quote from: Mike on June 17, 2009, 04:37:48 PM
Should we make a new section in the forum where political discussions ARE allowed??



Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!    ::sick::     ::sick::      ::sick::      ::sick::

Then Chicken Wings would be like those other aviation forums........  NOT about aviation, and certainly not about fun......  Say it ain't so!!!

I hung out in one last winter and it was UGLY.......  they couldn't "discuss" anything without being nasty....    it was so pathetic I finally quit looking at it. 

Barf-O-Rama...............    ::sick::

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Offline Ragwing

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Re: Do you have some Change?
« Reply #10 on: June 18, 2009, 03:37:58 AM »
Soccer mom is right.
Keep away from Politics and everybody is soooooo much nicer.

Another site I visit is pretty much out of politics.
Unfortunately, somebody kept bringing in the presidential election and we had to keep beating it down.
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Re: Do you have some Change?
« Reply #11 on: June 18, 2009, 06:52:57 AM »
Dont bring in the P word. this forum would be doomed, doomed I say DDDDDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEDDDDD!!!!!
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Re: Do you have some Change?
« Reply #12 on: June 18, 2009, 09:46:03 PM »
OK! point taken!  ::bow::

no politics it is!

just wanted to see what you guys think. my own brother and I don't agree on a lot of political issues, so that way we can keep CW from splitting up as well.....
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Re: Do you have some Change?
« Reply #13 on: June 19, 2009, 08:37:21 AM »
Quote from: Mike on June 18, 2009, 09:46:03 PM
my own brother and I don't agree on a lot of political issues, so that way we can keep CW from splitting up as well.....

What? I agree on political issues! It's YOU who doesn't!  ;) ;D
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Re: Do you have some Change?
« Reply #14 on: June 19, 2009, 04:43:29 PM »
Quote from: Stef on June 19, 2009, 08:37:21 AM
Quote from: Mike on June 18, 2009, 09:46:03 PM
my own brother and I don't agree on a lot of political issues, so that way we can keep CW from splitting up as well.....

What? I agree on political issues! It's YOU who doesn't!  ;) ;D

Hey!  ::complaining:

I'm the kind of guy who agrees with you . . . unless you're wrong.   ;D ::whistle::
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