All women or all people?

I enjoyed spending money today Bought the new Incubus CD (hope i can listen to more than the one song i love), Neil Young's Live Rust ( i still have the album) and Jeff Buckley's Grace (lost my old one). Bought lots of nice fruit from the market, included TOMATOES! There was no shortage of fresh tomatoes at my grocery store. Also "very" happy my friend feels better.

Lung cancer, emphysema, heart disease, stroke....sorrry quit!

LOL, that's funny. Well you made your point. You are not the homebody type.

That's what i call getting what you deserve. Legal or not, i think prostitution is disgusting.

Well i didn't write any of that. I'm guessing the person who interpreted that was going by the year the album was released and wasn't thinking about when recording took place, or yes, they would have realized it was written in 1970. Anyway, i liked the thoughts others presented, and since i don't need to come up with the "true meaning" to enjoy the song, i haven't given it much thought over the years. Feel free to disregard what i posted. It wasn't researched for more than a few minutes. You definitely have a passion for what you discuss, i'm not trying to take away from that in any way. I know you are well informed.

40 more days until my vacation! Sounds like a long time, but will be so very worth it. :)

Haven't they made smoking on many beaches illegal? Well i agree people should pick up their butts. It's disgusting to litter them all over. I never took a qualude, but my friend sold them in High School one year, lol. I liked the Black Beauties and Christmas Trees she sold. Wow, people on ludes were very chilled out!!!

I didn't say i don't have a clue. Everything i posted was copied from other interpretations. I don't need a clue. I take the lyrics as they sound and don't need to find a deep dark secret meaning in them. Not everything is "mysterious". But some things do remain that way.

I was joking. I agree with you totally. btw...my best friend in my teens used rorer714 and lemon714 as her nicknames, lol. I was tangerine.

Hey, you need a lude, lol. Seriously, smoking is gross, so people who do it should make sure they are as respectful of the environment and the people around them as possible, imho. The beach should be kept immaculate by all humans lounging on it.

Some other interpretations (found from various websites) and not my words. I felt like contributing to this thread, lol. I have never taken the lyrics seriously, myself, but seems so many do. Hey Place, nice to see you back! 1. The members of Led Zeppelin were great fans of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings series - as many as 5 of their songs have direct references to Tolkien's literary masterpiece - the most evident song being "Ramble On." It's possible that Stairway to Heaven also makes many references to Tolkien's story. The phrase, "In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees" could be a reference to the smoke rings blown by the wizard Gandalf. Some say the song itself was inspired by the novel - and that the lady spoken of in the tale is Lady Galadriel, the Queen of Elves who lives in the golden forest of Lothlorien. In the book, all that glittered around her, was in fact, gold, as the leaves of the trees in the forest of Lothlorien were golden. 2. I just realized this but Tolken wrote a poem saYing "All that is gold does not gliter" and in this song they say "there's a lady who shure all that gliters is gold." There is a resembleance 3. I've been putting this off for 30 years. Time to bite the bullet. You understand that rock lyrics, like the quantum mechanical universe, are subject to a sort of Heisenberg uncertainty principle, meaning we can't really know the truth but merely glimpse it, as through a glass darkly, etc. (And no, I'm not reprinting the words to "Stairway to Heaven"--anybody who can't remember them after more than three decades of steady airplay probably can't read anyway.) With that caveat out of the way, some theories about the song: (1) It doesn't mean anything. The song was written in 1971, which culturally was pretty much still the '60s, and you know what that means. According to band lore, Robert Plant composed most of the lyrics in a single day during sessions at Headley Grange, a former poorhouse in Hampshire, England, then being used by rock groups as a rehearsal space and studio. To give you a feel for Plant's range as a writer, here's an excerpt from "Black Dog," which appeared on the same side of Led Zeppelin's untitled fourth album as "Stairway": "Hey, hey, baby, when you walk that way, watch your honey drip, can't keep away. / Ah yeah, ah yeah, ah, ah, ah. Ah yeah, ah yeah, ah, ah, ah." In sum, we've got the well-known psychosociochemical influences of the era, we've got an extremely compressed compositional time frame, and we've got a poetical sensibility that, to be objective about it (and believe me, I like "Stairway to Heaven"), probably rates between 2 and 3 millishakespeares. So I think it's safe to say that what we're hearing aren't so much lyrics as the unmediated pulsations of the reptile brain. (2) It means something really deep. Browsing on the Web, I find the following commentary, allegedly extracted from a 1991 Esquire article and attributed to Robert Walser, professor of musicology at UCLA and author of the 1993 book Running With the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music: "Musically, 'Stairway' fuses powerful 'authenticities'--which are really ideologies. . . . We find a set of concepts (that pretty much sum up the central concerns of all philosophy): signs, words, meanings, thoughts, feelings, spirit, reason, wonder, soul, the idea that 'all are one and one is all.' We find a set of vaguely but powerfully evocative symbols: gold, the West, the tune, white light, shadows, paths, a road, and the stairway to heaven itself. At the very end, we find some paradoxical self-referentiality: 'To be a rock and not to roll.' The words . . . are resonant, requiring no rigorous study in order to become meaningful. Like the music, they engage with the fantasies and anxieties of our time; they offer contact with social and metaphysical depth in a world of commodities and mass communication. 'Stairway to Heaven,' no less than canonized artistic postmodernism, addresses 'decentered subjects' who are striving to find credible experiences of depth and community." Translation: I have no frickin' clue. (3) It means whatever you want it to mean. Continuing our peregrinations on the Internet (OK, so I'm not exactly busting my hump this week, but honestly, can you think of a better place to research this?), we find the following theories: The lyrics recall the bumbling efforts of one Erma Rees-Gwynn, a divorcee and aspiring contractor, to build a three-story deck--with a stairway leading up from the garden--at the rear of a castle that guitarist Jimmy Page owned in Wales. Presumably meant satirically, but one never knows. When played in reverse the lyrics are a paean to Satan. Que stupido, you say. Compared to what? It's about drugs. Just like every other rock song. Plant had this bimbo girlfriend, see, and she took his Visa card and went to the mall, and got the idea of buying the escalators. Another satire. Unfortunately, that's about as funny as it gets. "A bustle in your hedgerow" refers to menstruation, and when taken in conjunction with the reference to "the May Queen" signifies a woman's coming of age. Plant has denied this, but he's obviously unfamiliar with semiotics. Have a seat, Bob. We know what you wrote. Now let us explain what you meant. --CECIL ADAMS http://www.straightdope.com/columns/030425.html

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Pink and Black...Robert Plant edit: Hold me - hold me I know I used to run around Now I'm sure I'll settle down Maybe what they say is true All those times I had with you People said that I won't change The song will still remain the same I know what you need and so Hold me tight and don't let go Don't start saying goodbye to me Don't start saying goodbye to me I owe you - hurt a thing or two Love me truly - love me do I only hope that I'm around Well, that's just something downed I don't think that lie is true But I'll just leave that up to you But I know what you need and so Come on hold me tight - don't let go Better stop saying goodbye breaking my heart Don't start saying goodbye breaking my heart When I tell you that I love When I tell you that I care When I tell you that I love you When I tell you that anyway When I tell you that - when I tell you that -- You know, you really wanna know Will you try - remember me What I've got is what you need 'Cause I know what you need and so Hold me tight and don't let go Stop saying goodbye breaking my heart Stop saying goodbye breaking my heart --

^^ two weirdos above me, lol charisma edit: make that three, someone snuck in...

Awesome and very interesting. I love nature and just shows you how much man still have natural "animal" instincts. I think the women who are complaining about their messy men would be happy with the first "nest"...lol. We can't all be as civilized as Spats.

eewww...bugs are bad enough, but super bugs

A really good Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band concert from the Boardwalk Hall in AC 3/7/03...gets my blood pumping (at 3am)...

^ To the best of my recollection "The Lemon Song" as well. I remember Zeppelin II being my first Zep album, but then i bought Zeppelin I very soon thereafter, and that whole album blew me away for months! I used to put on my headphones and sleep to it.

There are many sites that will explain MRSA. It's very common in hospitals, but also on the rise in the community. I have heard about 50% of humans are born with it on their skin. Unless you become immuno-compromised, it probably won't hurt you or others you are in contact with. But it can be very serious. Been around forever, but recently getting alot of attention. The story i heard about it being found in flies and of course you can imagine how much "dander" they leave in their wake, scary to know it can be in your food, too. Here is a bit of information from the link: MRSA infection is caused by Staphylococcus aureus bacteria — often called "staph." MRSA stands for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. It's a strain of staph that's resistant to the broad-spectrum antibiotics commonly used to treat it. MRSA can be fatal. Most MRSA infections occur in hospitals or other health care settings, such as nursing homes and dialysis centers. It's known as health care-associated MRSA, or HA-MRSA. Older adults and people with weakened immune systems are at most risk of HA-MRSA. More recently, another type of MRSA has occurred among otherwise healthy people in the wider community. This form, community-associated MRSA, or CA-MRSA, is responsible for serious skin and soft tissue infections and for a serious form of pneumonia. Causes MRSA is a strain of staph that's resistant to the broad-spectrum antibiotics commonly used to treat it. Staph infections Staph bacteria are normally found on the skin or in the nose of about one-third of the population. If you have staph on your skin or in your nose but aren't sick, you are said to be "colonized" but not infected. Healthy people can be colonized and have no ill effects. However, they can pass the germ to others. Staph bacteria are generally harmless unless they enter the body through a cut or other wound, and even then they often cause only minor skin problems in healthy people. However, staph infections can cause serious illness. This most often happens in older adults and people who have weakened immune systems, usually in hospitals and long term care facilities. But in the past several years, serious infections have been occurring in otherwise healthy people in the community, for example athletes who share equipment or personal items. Antibiotic resistance Although the survival tactics of bacteria contribute to antibiotic resistance, humans bear most of the responsibility for the problem. Leading causes of antibiotic resistance include: Unnecessary antibiotic use. Like other superbugs, MRSA is the result of decades of excessive and unnecessary antibiotic use. For years, antibiotics have been prescribed for colds, flu and other viral infections that don't respond to these drugs, as well as for simple bacterial infections that normally clear on their own. Antibiotics in food and water. Prescription drugs aren't the only source of antibiotics. In the United States, antibiotics can be found in livestock. These antibiotics find their way into municipal water systems when the runoff from feedlots contaminates streams and groundwater. Germ mutation. Even when antibiotics are used appropriately, they contribute to the rise of drug-resistant bacteria because they don't destroy every germ they target. Bacteria live on an evolutionary fast track, so germs that survive treatment with one antibiotic soon learn to resist others. And because bacteria mutate much more quickly than new drugs can be produced, some germs end up resistant to just about everything. That's why only a handful of drugs are now effective against most forms of staph. http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/mrsa/DS00735

Can't Find My Way Home...Blind Faith

Song lyrics can be inspirational. Life changing, nah. My best friend and i sang some of these lyrics to the guy at the record store because we didn't know the name of the song. He told us right away and they had a copy of the album (which i still have many years later). The middle of the song is the part i find so touching... Question...The Moody Blues Why do we never get an answer When we're knocking at the door With a thousand million questions About hate and death and war? 'Cos when we stop and look around us, There is nothing that we need, In a world of persecution That is burning in its greed. Why do we never get an answer When we're knocking at the door Because the truth is hard to swallow That's what the war of love is for It's not the way that you say it When you do those things to me It's more the way that you mean it When you tell me what will be And when you stop and think about it You won't believe it's true That all the love you've been giving Has all been meant for you. I'm looking for someone to change my life, I'm looking for a miracle in my life And if you could see what it's done to me, To lose the love I knew Could safely lead me through. Between the silence of the mountains, And the crashing of the sea, There lies a land I once lived in, And she's waiting there for me, But in the grey of the morning, My mind becomes confused, Between the dead and the sleeping, And the road that I must choose. I'm looking for someone to change my life, I'm looking for a miracle in my life And if you could see what it's done to me, To lose the love I knew, Could safely lead me to The land that I once knew, To learn as we grow old The secrets of our soul. It's not the way that you say it When you do those things to me It's more the way you really mean it When you tell me what will be Why do we never get an answer When we're knocking at the door With a thousand million questions About hate and death and war? 'Cos when we stop and look around us, There is nothing that we need, In a world of persecution That is burning in its greed.

The rain storm that swept through quickly, but dropped the temps about 30 degrees. Feels so nice now.

I am happy if i'm having fun. LOL.

I have cut back on trips to Chick-Fil-A, the only fast food place i will go to. I hate fast food! As for Chick-fil-A, i like their chicken nuggets and so does my daughter. Chick-Fil-A use the best quality of any fast food place. I don't know if it has to do with their being Mormon or not. But it's real white meat chicken, versus the strange stuff all the others use. I also love their Unsweetened Iced Tea and have purchased it by the gallon to have for the house. At breakfast, i love their biscuit with egg, cheese and bacon also. If you want reason to stay out of all fast food places, a recent report i heard on the news says that the flys found in these places often carry MRSA. That means we are ingesting it with our meal, YUCK on so many levels. Potentially very dangerous.