For my 12,000 posting milestone (with a song)

[Niagara]

I don't have anything profound to say.

I discovered DU back in 2010.

For two years I lurked. I read. I laughed. I shook my head in agreement. Sometimes I sighed in disbelief. I was here all the same.

I couldn't contemplate a DU handle for myself.

Finally on Nov. 6, 2012 the same night that Barack Obama won his presidential reelection. I registered to DU. I wasn't the only one, there's quite a few of us that registered to DU on Nov. 6, 2012.

I really didn't have anything to say until 2017. And here I am still rambling.

I don't have anything profound to say except that I've Got A Name.

Like the pine trees linin' the windin' road
I've got a name, I've got a name
Like the singin' bird and the croakin' toad
I've got a name, I've got a name
And I carry it with me like my daddy did
But I'm livin' the dream that he kept hid
Movin' me down the highway
Rollin' me down the highway
Movin' ahead so life won't pass me by
Like the north wind whistlin' down the sky
I've got a song, I've got a song
Like the whirlpool whirl and the baby's cry
I've got a song, I've got a song
And I carry it with me and I sing it loud
If it gets me nowhere, I'll go there proud
Movin' me down the highway
Rollin' me down the highway
Movin' ahead so life won't pass me by
And I'm gonna go there free
Like the fool I am and I'll always be
I've got a dream, I've got a dream
They can change their minds but they can't change me
I've got a dream, I've got a dream
Oh, I know I could share it if you'd want me too
If you're going my way, I'll go with you
Movin' me down the highway
Rollin' me down the highway
Movin' ahead so life won't pass me by
Movin' me down the highway
Rollin' me down the highway
Movin' ahead so life won't pass me by

[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. Congratulations

[Niagara]

2. Thank you, LetMyPeopleVote

[debm55]

3. Congratulations, Niagara.

[Niagara]

12. Thank you, Debbie

[Harker]

4. Nice pick, Aggie.

And your profundity is prodigious.

[True Dough]

7. And you, Harker,

put the "fun" in profundity.

John Mellancamp, meanwhile, put the ditty in Jack & Diane.

[Harker]

8. You're too kind, TD...

I'd settle for absolving some of the sins of Sinatra.

[True Dough]

21. Is that like

absolving sins of the father?

Are you saying that Frank Sinatra IS your father, Harker? That would explain the adulation!

[Harker]

23. The numbers don't work, TD.

The only time Sinatra was in the same place as my mother was 1944 in Chicago, when she was sixteen, and there were a whole lot of other people there.

I'm (only) sixty-seven. "Only" sounds funny here.

I keep thinking I'll switch to Tony Bennett.

[True Dough]

24. Here, I'm making the number work

with a lesser-known selection by Tony:

[Niagara]

13. Thank you, Harker

[Harker]

16. ...

[True Dough]

5. "I don't have anything profound to say."

Well then, I'm leaving!

[Niagara]

14. lol, True

[True Dough]

20. That's waaaaaaaaaay better than profound!

[True Dough]

6. All right, I'm back

The sentiment is good-natured and you seem nice.

Glad to have you and your second-hand finds adding color to the Lounge!

[Niagara]

15. Welcome back, True

Speaking of nature and adding colors, I put out the hummingbird and the oriole feeder out yesterday.

I've had tons of oriole costumers but it's probably too cold for the hummingbirds just yet.

Thank you!

[LuckyCharms]

9. Congratulations on 12,000, Niagara.

You are a good human, and I always read your posts.

I'm looking forward to the next 12,000!

[Niagara]

17. Thank you, Lucky

Are you sure that I'm human?

I'm only teasing!

I think I'm going to have hit the jackpot winnings to get another 12,000 milestone!

Look at you, almost at 23k!

[ProfessorGAC]

10. Congrats!

Picked a good song.
I didn't appreciate Croce enough back in the day.
Didn't dislike him, just wasn't my thing.
Later I realized that Jim was a terrific songwriter & his partner Maury was a superb guitar player.
I should have appreciated them more before they died in that crash.

[Niagara]

18. Thank you, Professor

Joe Croce was a bit before my time and so I didn't discover his songs until much later in life.

[Marthe48]

11. Congratulations on reaching this milestone

I only regret you didn't start posting sooner

[Niagara]

19. Thank you, Marthe

Better late than never I suppose.

[True Dough]

22. Yeah, you should have been posting

while you were just a wee little tiger cub!