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Darlene Birthday Countdown!!


AALLRIGHT!!!

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Happy Birthday Darlene, I hope its a happy one!

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Brown Eyed Girl!


excellent choice!  



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This is an awesome Birthday GIFT!! 


Now you all can get in the mind of me, and what music makes me happy!




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OLD SCHOOL Aerosmith!! the GOOD STUFF!!

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It feels a bit odd, that Woo's music isn't here today I hope she puts in her songs too.


My birthday is tomorrow, but since I'm sitting here today in the office, this is just spectacular to hear today. 


 



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Happy Birthday a day early and enjoy your:

-- Edited by sgmorrell at 11:25, 2006-12-29

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oh don't feel bad Darling! I didn't send mine in. i didn't even finish the list. I am trying to jot down what I remember now. But we will probably have to do this a little later next week after payroll is done.

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Now its in the right spot...


 


Another mystery of the Diamond, explained at last



The lyrics have nothing to do with baseball.






The composer has no connection to the Red Sox.

The song hit the charts more than 30 years ago.


So why does ''Sweet Caroline" pump from the speakers at Fenway Park in the middle of the eighth inning of every single Red Sox game?


Like all the Sox fans questioned at one of this month's rare sunny home games, Paul Sundeen has no idea. And he attends 10 to 15 games a season.


''It's just one of those things," says Sundeen, 24, of West Roxbury. ''Everybody seems to sing it."


''Maybe one of the player's wives is Caroline," offers Michael McCarthy, 25, a Back Bay resident.


''I think it was all Pedro Martinez's fault," says Marc Schwalb, 32, of Revere, shaking his arms to imitate the way the former Red Sox ace would dance for the crowd when the song was played.


Schwalb says he makes a point to sing along, despite the fact he finds ''Caroline" ''one of the worst songs ever written."


Dennis Doherty, 28, of Hyde Park, also disses the song.


'' 'Sweet Caroline' has nothing to do with Boston," Doherty says. ''I think they should end it; I don't like it."


As April McGann, 30, a FleetCenter employee from Randolph, explains the song has ''something to do with the Red Sox," her friend jumps in with a more detailed answer.


''Boston's supposed to be 'Sweet Caroline,' " says Mairead Finn, 30, of Weymouth, with the voice of authority.


As the question spreads among nearby fans, Lauren Manforde, 21, of Naugatuck, Conn., jumps in, voicing frustration.


''Nobody knows," she says, ''I've been trying to find out for years."


Even Sherrie Levy, press agent for songwriter and singer Neil Diamond, has no clue.


''I'm not sure how it started, but we're very pleased that it happened," Levy says.


Diamond is on tour and not available to comment on the question, according to Levy.


Scheduled to perform at the FleetCenter Aug. 15, Diamond has been asked by the Red Sox to sing at their Aug. 14 home game against the Chicago White Sox. It is not yet known whether he will, Levy says.


Amy Tobey knows the answer to the ''Sweet Caroline" question.


Tobey began working for the Red Sox through her job at BCN Productions, a film and video communications company, having interned for the Boston Bruins.


Her assignment was to decide what music would be played at the park from 1998 to 2004.


She had noticed ''Sweet Caroline" was used at other sporting events, and she decided to send the sweetness over the Fenway speakers.


The song was picked up by fans, and the more it caught on, the more superstitious Tobey became about playing it.


Tobey would play the song somewhere between the seventh and ninth innings if the team was ahead, depending on whether she felt the team was going to win.


She didn't go by any specific margin of runs, but rather who the opponent was, and her gut instincts.


''I actually considered it like a good luck charm," Tobey says. ''Even if they were just one run [ahead], I might still do it. It was just a feel."


In 2002, when new management took over at the park, they requested that Tobey play the song during the eighth inning of every game.


''They liked it and they just loved the crowd reaction with it and stuff," she says.


Though Tobey says she was nervous the change would be bad luck for the team, its appeal to fans ultimately ruled.


And under the song's spell, the Red Sox last season won their first World Series in 86 years.


It was even included in the recent film ''Fever Pitch," starring Jimmy Fallon and Drew Barrymore, that appropriates scenes from 2004's winning season.


To Lauren Rochon, 23, of Quincy, ''Caroline," is the ''epitome of Boston."


''It's just in every bar you go to, it's one of those songs," Rochon says. ''It's Boston's theme song."


''It's just a catchy tune, the words are easy . . . it gets the whole field in one rhythm," says Jackie Davidson, 52, a Taunton resident, standing outside the park on Patriots Day.


''You don't sing 'Sweet Caroline' . . . you didn't go to a game."


© Copyright 2006 Globe Newspaper Company.

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I know, I feel a lil' weird only doing one of your T10's.  I shoulda got on Woo's case to get us a list today


 


Then again, it's probably better you each get your own day, even if the days don't actually line up with the actual birthday.


 


Poor Cheese is MONTHS off her birthday because of our stupid computer crash



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SG thanks for that research here.  I didn't even know the origin of "Sweet Caroline"  But I do have many, many memories of singing that great song, IN FENWAY PARK!!

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That one entry used up all my computer screen's ink. Hippo Birdy! Peaches, rockin' tune. The Pres of the US are one of the most unappreciated bands. Old Man on the Back Porch, etc.

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I'm so HAPPY!

-- Edited by darleneapd at 11:46, 2006-12-29

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darlene, here is your chinese horoscope; happy birthday : )


WOOD SNAKE Horoscope
Feb 4, 1905 to Jan 24, 1906
Feb 2, 1965 to Jan 20, 1966


Snake people enter a room and there is Music, Music, Joy! Everyone dances! Such high spirit! The Snake is so intense and passionate, just as likely to take out the castanets as to climb mountains of snow. Snake year people are charming and romantic, often planning delightful hideaway surprises. Possessing tremendous wisdom, they are deep, quiet thinkers, calm by nature, but most intense. They often get involved in great causes, bigger than life, and often serve as mentors to the young. To paraphrase Confucius, they have a kind of inner beauty that arises, hovers, then comes to nest. They will have an abundance of good fortune and a long and prosperous life.


Sharkfin Soup and Chinese Cabbage are among keys to good health!!




Wood Snakes dream of success, fame, and fortune, but without really having the wherewithal to make things happen. Even though they are strongly career minded, they have trouble making goals and too many opportunities pass them by. Dreams of better jobs lead them into changing positions several times through their working years. Despite it all, life is good for the Wood Snake. They generally have good fortune and they have "abundance" through other means, such as good health, wonderful friends, strength of character, an elegant lifestyle, and resilient spirit. What about Romance? Hmmmm? Of all creatures, Wood Snakes are most in need of knowing how to tango (as in,"it takes two"to do so!). Relationships always have cracks. Snakes have to learn how to give a little and how to hold back in order to accommodate the needs of the partner as well as themselves. A stubborn streak and a tendency towards self-absorption make communication difficult. Through the cracks, flowers grow and when they do, Wood Snakes are very responsible and sensual lovers and beautiful to behold.


Famous Snake People: Mao Tse-tong, Mahatma Gandhi, Indira Gandhi, Ferdinand Marcos, Abraham Lincoln, Lady Pamela Mountbatten, Martin Luther King, Grace Kelly, Jacqueline Kennedy, Edgar Allen Poe, Prime Minister Tony Blair, Bob Dylan


 



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disco strangler wrote:



darlene, here is your chinese horoscope; happy birthday : )


WOOD SNAKE Horoscope
Feb 4, 1905 to Jan 24, 1906
Feb 2, 1965 to Jan 20, 1966


Snake people enter a room and there is Music, Music, Joy! Everyone dances!


Sharkfin Soup and Chinese Cabbage are among keys to good health!!


Wood Snakes dream of success, fame, and fortune, but without really having the wherewithal to make things happen. 


 


Relationships always have cracks. Snakes have to learn how to give a little and how to hold back in order to accommodate the needs of the partner as well as themselves.


Famous Snake People: Mao Tse-tong, Mahatma Gandhi, Indira Gandhi, Ferdinand Marcos, Abraham Lincoln, Lady Pamela Mountbatten, Martin Luther King, Grace Kelly, Jacqueline Kennedy, Edgar Allen Poe, Prime Minister Tony Blair, Bob Dylan


 







I chopped this apart to comment, first of all, "thank you"


When I enter a room, "everyone dances"...well, my co-worker surely does do her share of dances here every day, listening to my FFR play.


Sharkfin soup and chinese cabbage are totally missing in my diet, I better start em' up.


"Relationships always have cracks. Snakes have to learn how to give a little and how to hold back in order to accommodate the needs of the partner as well as themselves."


----->  I truly have to live by this every day w/ the partner I am with now!!!  He sure knows how to test me!   Along w/ his 3 year old daughter!



-- Edited by darleneapd at 13:58, 2006-12-29

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Hey Happy Birthday Darlene, hope u get everthin u asked for...including the SUPERBOWL Trophy!  



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Jeremy Riggs wrote:



I know, I feel a lil' weird only doing one of your T10's.  I shoulda got on Woo's case to get us a list today


 


Then again, it's probably better you each get your own day, even if the days don't actually line up with the actual birthday.


 


Poor Cheese is MONTHS off her birthday because of our stupid computer crash




Thanks for noticing, Riggs.  I did feel a little jipped!

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Cheeselvr wrote:

Jeremy Riggs wrote:



I know, I feel a lil' weird only doing one of your T10's.  I shoulda got on Woo's case to get us a list today


 


Then again, it's probably better you each get your own day, even if the days don't actually line up with the actual birthday.


 


Poor Cheese is MONTHS off her birthday because of our stupid computer crash




Thanks for noticing, Riggs.  I did feel a little jipped!




I know Cheese I'm sorry.

Did you save the email in your "SENT" folder? If you can find it again I wanna do the countdown, but since the crash I haven't been able to recover it on our hard drives.

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I might have it at work. I'll try to remember to check next week. That, or next year will have to be doubley-special

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As far as my Birthday countdown goes, I just want to take this time to thank Jeremy Riggs for the best birthday present that has been given to me in a long time.  That was awesome!  I truly hope you know how much I appreciate how you were able to do that for me!


And I appreciate all of you as my friends too of course!! Thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!



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Happy Birthday Darlene-  May I see that if you feel as young as you look, you must be feeling very feisty!!  Did I say that backwards, "If you look as young as you feel, you must be feeling very feisty?".  Oh what the hey, I'm trying to say this, From one 80's chick to another, "You look marvelous!!" (that was in my best Billy Crystal imitation.  Did the accent come across with this font?)  Who knows, by the time my (k)id protecting software picks through my comments, they're usually unreadable anyway.

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Best Wishes for your birthday Darlene!   Hope you have a happy day!




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Tennessee Gal wrote:


Happy Birthday Darlene-  May I see that if you feel as young as you look, you must be feeling very feisty!!  Did I say that backwards, "If you look as young as you feel, you must be feeling very feisty?".  Oh what the hey, I'm trying to say this, From one 80's chick to another, "You look marvelous!!" (that was in my best Billy Crystal imitation.  Did the accent come across with this font?)  Who knows, by the time my (k)id protecting software picks through my comments, they're usually unreadable anyway.


  Thanks Tenn Gal!! 

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Happy Birthday Darlene!





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Happy Birthday Darlene!!! I truly really didn't forget!!


 


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