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5-10-15-20 (25-30 Years of Love)

Welcome to Saturday: 9. What we've committed to our readers is that we will post 9  questions every Saturday. Sometimes the post will have a theme, and at other times the questions will be totally unrelated. Those weeks we do "random questions," so-to-speak. We encourage you to visit other participants posts and leave a comment. Because we don't have any rules, it is your choice. We hate rules. We love to answer the questions, however, and here are today's questions! 

Saturday 9: 5-10-15-20 (1970)

Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.

1) In this week's song, The Presidents sing about a long married, very happy couple. Who is the longest married couple you know? Who is the happiest? Are they the same couple?   My friends, Al and Helen, were married 64 years when Al died.  A couple at church are at around 70 years.  They are amazing and are very happy in their healthy 90s.

2) The lyrics ask repeatedly: "Aren't we happy?" Are you feeling happy today? Why or why not?  I am a happy girl most of the time.  Why not be happy?  Find it!!  Unhappy is not the way to live.

3) This happy couple enjoys watching children at play. Is there a park, playground or schoolyard near you?  There are parks, playgrounds, and schoolyards all around me. 

4) This song reminds Crazy Sam of when she used to recite the multiplication tables. Think back to your school days. Was math one of your favorite subjects?  Arithmetic and math are two different things, in my mind.  Math is not a favorite subject.  Adding and subtracting to keep books is easy for me, though.

5) The Presidents seems like a good name for a band formed in Washington DC. What would be an appropriate name for a band from your hometown?  Just the plain old Lakelanders.  

6) DC trivia: The street names are letters, but J was skipped. That's because in the 1700s, the way many wrote their alphabet, "J" looked like "I" and so "J" was passed over to avoid confusion. Tell us something we may not know about your hometown (or state).    Lakeland has 38 lakes in the city limits.  

7) In 1970, when this song was on the Billboard chart, The Mary Tyler Moore Show premiered on CBS. The theme song said Mary could "turn the world on with her smile," yet in real life, MTM was self-conscious about her "wide mouth." Are you comfortable looking at photos of yourself?  No. I am not photogenic at all.  One photo in 100 might be acceptable.  LOL

8) Also in 1970, Dinah Shore became one of the first women to host her own national daytime talk show. Today, Kelly Clarkson, Drew Barrymore, Tamron Hall, Jennifer Hudson and Kelly Ripa all have their own shows, and The Talk and The View are both hosted by women. Who is your favorite talk show host?  I have seen Kelly Ripa a few times back when Regis was with her, but those others are foreign to me. Not my favorite kind of show to watch, especially when they argue and put people down.

9) Random question -- Would you rather have a job that has you on your feet all day, or one that has you parked in a chair?  Parked in a chair, thank you very much!  

Peace and Hugs!

At midnight, in the month of June,

I stand beneath the mystic moon.

An opiate vapor, dewy, dim,

Exhales from out her golden rim,

And, softly dripping, drop by drop,

Upon the quiet mountain top,

Steals drowsily and musically

Into the universal valley.

-- The Sleeper, by Edgar Allan Poe