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We suppose that having played Pomp and Circumstance for the Rev. Jerry why then shouldn’t we offer up the same for on-Decker Lady Bird Johnson?

And here is an interesting snippet from Marianne Means via the Seattle PI:

“I thought she was terrific, and always will. Just imagine abruptly coming onto the national stage sandwiched between Jackie Kennedy, the most elegant first lady of our time — 17 years younger and prettier, to boot — and an emotional, complicated president baffled by a strange foreign war not of his making that he could not control.”

Perhaps President Johnson’s bafflement with the Vietnam war was just too close to home for President Bush and his daddy. Thus instead of attending Lady Bird’s memorial, they chickened out and stayed home sending their wives where they themselves feared to tread.

~~The ODDones for OurDailyDead.com

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Certainly we all need a wee bit o’ help from time to time with and about our chosen careers. Well that is the normal “we” actually as those who are Not One Of Us worry not.

With that ridiculous preamble now safely out of our ODDsystems we provide yet another episode in our continuing series of Self Help and Community Service Announcements.

Tis this, simply and without ornamentation: if you find that your once high flying career has you surfing the bar at the Holiday Inn instead of dancing [butt] cheek to [butt] cheek with Paris, why then no doubt you need to give your flagging career a new launch. We read that one of the surest means is the old bit of a strip for a nude photo shoot. At least according to photographer Motoji Takasu by way of the Mainichi Daily News. But then he does have vested interest in getting you naked so mayhaps his is just another pickup line.

And speaking of naked flagging careers, perhaps the excess exposure explains ol wassernames behavior recently, eh what?

But just think and consider (and ponder too if you are willing to go that far)! Once your career is again stratospheric you can give up some of those old haunts of yours…for example your gig at the Player’s Nightclub at Hobart’s St David’s Anglican Cathedral. Sure the setting is nice, but the tips are probably lousy (unless you finger the collection plates that is). Won’t you be happy to avoid all that leaping from pew to pew and dogma to dogma? We must admit however that we’ll miss your genuflecting.

Naturally if you never really had a career, but still need that another hit of your “Look At Me” drug you can take a cue from Heidi and Seal. Invite the media over for a bit of a bash to show off the nude pictures of you and the family. Surely one of those pics will work later as a donation to raise funds for someone’s school or hospital or church don’t ya think?

And then, when your career just seems like so much T&A we suggest politics. No not Bush politics (although we couldn’t resist that). Our sage advice? Chuck it all and move to Spain. Once there we urge you to consider, especially with your checkered background and vast experience, the position of Deputy Mayor for Economy.

~~The ODDones for OurDailyDead.com

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By way of the Courier News Online web site comes notice that Charlotte T. Reid, former pop singer and U.S. Representative, died at age 93. She once described herself has having five careers.

“She was a pop singer, a wife and mother, a U.S. representative, a member of the Federal Communications Commission and a businesswoman. Add to that a longtime Aurora icon, and key figure in the Fox Valley Republican Party.”

Reid, 93, died this past Wednesday, January 23, 2007. Born Charlotte Thompson in Kankakee, she lived most of her life in Aurora.

“The one thing about my mother is that she was as gracious and nice to everybody, whether it was the president of the United States or a janitor,” said Patricia Reid Lindner, one of Reid’s two daughters. Reid Lindner is a Republican state representative from Sugar Grove. “She always treated everybody the same.”

“That openness and ability to relate to people is what former Aurora Mayor Albert McCoy remembered about Reid on Thursday. McCoy was Aurora mayor from 1965 to 1977, and Reid represented Aurora and five northern Illinois counties for about five years of that time.”

“Reid also studied music and voice in Chicago, and was a featured vocalist with the NBC Radio show, Don McNeil’s Breakfast Club, which originated in Chicago. She appeared under the professional name of Annette King. She also sang on other NBC radio shows, like Club Matinee (1937-1946) and Sunday Dinner at Aunt Fannie’s. “

“Riding on the City of New Orleans,
Illinois Central Monday morning rail
Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders,
Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail.
All along the southbound odyssey
The train pulls out at Kankakee
Rolls along past houses, farms and fields.
Passin’ trains that have no names,
Freight yards full of old black men
And the graveyards of the rusted automobiles.”
~~ by Steve Goodman,
with perhaps the best known version by Woody’s boy Arlo Guthrie

~~The ODDones for OurDailyDead.com

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