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Kim Smyth's avatar

They did indeed bring a smile 😁

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Sharron Bassano's avatar

👍🏻

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Richard Blaisdell's avatar

Repeat performance

Mystree Riders of a different kind of hard rock world in ‘69. No progression , more possession; less time = backwards hats , no one bats a highbrow now.

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Sharron Bassano's avatar

👍🏻

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Kate Henry's avatar

Thanks for these. I laughed with both of them. ))))

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Sharron Bassano's avatar

Thanks for the second reading!

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Jill CampbellMason's avatar

You've enlightened my...let me see how to spell that break (without using any of the letters you used? After all I'm a product of that era when names were not just names, but MEANT something) Here goes: Kaughy Break.

A little nuts, but we do need that quite a bit.

My oldest daughter is Terra. Youngest Soleil.

Yeah--that's right...earth mother and sun...my own first name--that's the secret!

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Sharron Bassano's avatar

Hah! Very cool. Italian and French! Why not?

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Jill CampbellMason's avatar

Italian is also Latin and Catalan and we were living in Catalunya, in Barcelona at the time, soooo...there it is. And Soleil was conceived in French Morocco...pretty unremarkable that way but you caught it!!

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Thomas D’Arcy O’Donnell's avatar

.. cheeky cheeky .. 💋💋

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Linda Brown's avatar

Still funny!

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Sharron Bassano's avatar

🤭

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Sue Cauhape's avatar

Oh the irony of Pete's generation. As for strange names, this generation's names are so wei .... creative, I wonder where in the heck did they come from and what were their parents thinking. Khia. Braelyn. Keboa, Maycen, Keani, Pebble Wiggins. I shouldn't complain. I have an ancestor named Capitolia.

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Sharron Bassano's avatar

Those crazy names helped to build character, I guess. Ever heard Johnny Cash's song A Boy Named Sue?

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Sue Cauhape's avatar

HA! I lived that song. Bless his heart. ❣️

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James Ron's avatar

Pretty dang funny, Sharron! Good ones.

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Sharron Bassano's avatar

👍🏻😊

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Jim Cummings's avatar

Two of my favorites, especially #1. The backwards hat thing is a pet peeve of mine.

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Sharron Bassano's avatar

👍🏻🤪

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K.C. Knouse's avatar

The guy with the hat on backwards is no match for an intelligent woman. I have nephews named Cohen, Bennett, and Graham. Collectively, I call them the law firm. They are wonderful boys, by the way. I enjoyed these stories as much this time as the first time, especially the first one. Keep the stories comin', Sharron.

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Sharron Bassano's avatar

You bet! It is all I got going on. Thanks for reading. my Leaves.

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just mud by Ron's avatar

Too funny! 'Not too bright. I like that in a man.' 😂 (however, his face is in the sun, so. . .)

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Sharron Bassano's avatar

Hah! Yes. Thanks, Ron, my friend!

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Mark Starlin's avatar

Classics. Funny stuff. I like that in a 50-worder. 😉

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Sharron Bassano's avatar

👍🏻🩷

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Sharon Hudson's avatar

So fun for my morning coffee! I had read about the backward hat, and loved it, but the name story is new to me. Hilarious, Sharron! It brings out my own memory of having babies during the 1970s. My husband was a Cream fan, and wanted to name our daughter "White Room", and our son "Ulysses"...their names are, as ou know, Kathryn and Benjamin.

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Sharron Bassano's avatar

Glad you won out! White Room! ha ha ha. And somehow I cannot see Benjamin as a Ulysses.

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Joel Wisniewski's avatar

Sharron,

For Pete's sake, it's all about the fashion.

Joel

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Sharron Bassano's avatar

ha ha ha. Thanks

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