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1. DP
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   Anyone care to guess what it has in common with this?

   

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2. kellym
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   dick the guy who used to play the organ at the granada many years ago?

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3. MargL
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   LOL - no, but you caught me with the file name of the headshot .jpg ;-D

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4. ellenater
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   something to do with donating organs?

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5. DP
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   kellym, you are on the right track and the right train.

   Keep on rollin'.
   You'll get there.

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6. DP
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   elleneater: :)

   Very cleaver.
   Er . . . I mean cle-ver.

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7. ToddinWestwood
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   Oh man, if the has the Leslie in it, I call dibs.

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8. Erik
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   Leave it to...DP.

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9. DP
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   One man's treasure is another man's compost . . .

   http://roominate.com/blogg/where/compost.mp3

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10. mirabile
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    That's Roger Williams and his Autumn Leaves. Classic.

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11. DP
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    Bless you, mirabile!! I don't feel quite so lost now, so distant from the [corn]fields of youth.

    Roger Williams was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1924 but was raised in my own home town of Des Moines, Iowa.

    In the early 1950s(?), while he was attending classes at Drake University, Williams played the piano daily at the Younkers Tea Room, while the hoi polloi of Des Moines (such as they were) noshed on such delicacies as the Metropolis had to offer.

    My Grandma Jenny was the chief hostess at the Tea Room, and knew Williams quite well. (I believe she had a crush on him, in fact.) Unfortunately for Grandma, Williams caught a lucky break when he filled in one day as an accompaniest on the Arthur Godfrey show.

    The rest, as they say, is history. But as anyone living in Des Moines can tell you, history never happens there.

    Another enduring Williams classic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHTjWuFSZ_s

     

    

     

    

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12. andrea
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    Super interesting DP! I'm from Seattle, but my mom is an Iowa native (small, tiny town outside of Humboldt/Ft Dodge). All of my extended family has remained in Iowa, so we spent much of my childhood there. I love hearing about those people who 'made it big' from the state...my mom has always mentioned Johnny Carson, and as a kid we had to endure the Herbert Hoover museum tour :). Now I can add Mr. Williams to my knowledge bank!

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