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Send me your French jokes! I am especially interested in anything involving surrender, cowardice, or body odor. Post as many as you like but please post them one at a time so everybody gets a chance. I'll start with my favorite:

Q. Why did the French plant trees along the main streets in Paris?

A. So the Germans could march in the shade.

Today I have a teenage daughter. Pray for me...

I can't stop watching the video for Johhny Cash's "Hurt". The song was written by Trent Reznor and originally recorded by Nine Inch Nails but The Man in Black clearly owns the song. The song and video have cut me at the soul level. I'd really like to hear how it affects others.

Sometimes other folks have already explained how you feel better than you could have...

Darling when I was your age
I could do anything
There were days of rock 'n roll
And lunar strolls and friendship rings
And baby I told myself
I'd follow my deepest dreams
Knowing if I did my best
Success would always follow me
It was another good lie
Coming down like a freezing rain
From a hot blue sky
Another good lie
Coming in like a crosstown hurricane on fire
Another good lie
Coming down on your Daddy's soul
'Til it made him old
Another good lie
Another good lie
Another good lie

Darling they all told me
That they would do anything
Climb the highest mountain
Swim the ocean
Do the damnedest things
And baby then they took my heart
And vanished like a memory
Leaving it to time and circumstance
To come deliver me

It was another good lie
Coming down like a freezing rain
From a hot blue sky
Another good lie
Coming in like a crosstown hurricane on fire
Another good lie
Coming down on your Daddy's soul
'Til it made him old
Another good lie
Another good lie
Another good lie

Baby I'm just one man
And my world fell apart long ago
I guess I'm still in shock
It shouldn't have been like that
I guess I still hope for deliverance

Darling when I was your age
I could do anything
I could be a restless heart
A social force
Or just genuine
And baby don't our dreams die hard
In the ashes of destiny
I wish that I could lay to rest
The bitterness that keeps telling me

About another good lie
Coming down like a freezing rain
From a hot blue sky
Another good lie
Coming in like a crosstown hurricane on fire
Another good lie
Coming down on your Daddy's soul
'Til it made him old
Another good lie
Another good lie
Another good lie

mark heard - 1991