Welcome to CC5 (200 plus 5=2005)
I'm just glad that I'm alive.



Post Edited (01-01-05 18:57)

It's good to be alive. It's also a good time to care. Happy New Year e-mulers.

Outside Of A Small Circle Of Friends
---Phil Ochs

Oh look oustide the window, there's a woman bein' grabbed,
They've dragged her to the bushes, and now she's bein' stabbed,
Maybe we should call the cops and try to stop the pain,
But Monopoly is so much fun, I'd hate to blow the game,
And I'm sure it wouldn't interest anybody,
Outside of a small circle of friends.

Ridin' down the highway, yes my back is gettin' stiff,
Thirteen cars are piled up, they're hangin' on a cliff,
Now maybe we should pull them back with our towing chain,
But we gotta move, and we might get sued, and it looks like it's gonna rain,
And I'm sure it wouldn't interest anybody,
Outside of a small circle of friends.

Sweating in the ghetto, with the colored and the poor,
The rats have joined the babies, who are sleepin' on the floor,
Now wouldn't it be a riot if they really blew their tops,
But they've got too much already and besides we've got the cops,
And I'm sure it wouldn't interest anybody,
Outside of a small circle of friends.

Oh there's a dirty paper using sex to make her sale,
The Supreme Court was so upset they sent him off to jail,
Maybe we should help the pain and take away his fine,
But we're busy reading Playboy and the Sunday New York Times,
And I'm sure it wouldn't interest anybody,
Outside of a small circle of friends.

Smokin' marijuana is more fun than drinkin' beer,
But a friend of ours was captured and they gave him thirty years,
Maybe we should raise our voices, ask somebody why,
But demonstrations are a drag, besides we're much too high,
And I'm sure it wouldn't interest anybody,
Outside of a small circle of friends.

Oh look oustide the window, there's a woman bein' grabbed,
They've dragged her to the bushes, and now she's bein' stabbed,
Maybe we should call the cops and try to stop the pain,
But Monopoly is so much fun, I'd hate to blow the game,
And I'm sure it wouldn't interest anybody,
Outside of a small circle of friends.

Les

It ought to be
MMV.

It ought to be
MMV.

I think he was going for the rhyme RJ. Alive and CC5. But I suppose it could have been MM5.

Les

I stands corrected in MM5

sounds like a Britiish secret service unit or a bag of candy now.

yeah, but you're still alive and that's really the important thing


Les

Shouldn't we start saying XX O V ?

I like MM 00 iiiii

Les

really, when does it start? I havent heard anyone say Twenty Oh Five or Four etc.

Twenty Ten perhaps?

I remember reading in a history book that the Anglo Saxons, who followed an older style of Roman numerals were particularly happy, after the year 999, to write M instead of DCCCCLXXXXVIIIJ, that they wrote in the previous period. I am not clear what the use of the 'J' was. How they did addition, subtraction, and multiplication is equally unclear.

They did all right with dividing and conquering though !