Lazarus
(Bethany) | | Posted: Mar 07, 2013 - 12:36 | |
Everybody in my church loves this song...
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nancyco
| | Posted: Jan 03, 2013 - 20:34 | |
lily34 wrote: Very funny! |
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Elroweho
(Cheesehead in Paradise) | | Posted: Dec 03, 2012 - 11:44 | |
I know just how you feel Brother Ray! - R.I.P. we miss you!
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lily34
(GTFO) | | Posted: Dec 03, 2012 - 11:43 | |
richlister wrote: |
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nagsheadlocal
(North Carolina, the new New Jersey) | | Posted: Dec 03, 2012 - 11:43 | |
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richlister
| | Posted: Nov 02, 2012 - 03:34 | |
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ycb661
| | Posted: Oct 01, 2012 - 17:29 | |
I'm stoned right now... thank you.
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martinc
(Ottawa Canada) | | Posted: Jun 29, 2012 - 08:17 | |
iscoot4peace wrote:I first became acquainted with this song via Joe Cocker's excellent rendition on "Mad Dogs and Englishmen". Great tune... and I dig both versions. * Me too ... Joe had a little more conviction in his delivery. Maybe his need was more immediate. |
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lily34
(lexvegas) | | Posted: Jun 29, 2012 - 08:17 | |
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leathepea
(Hickory, NC) | | Posted: Feb 23, 2012 - 07:31 | |
and the hookers sing..."lets go get boned"
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(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas) | | Posted: Jan 22, 2012 - 14:30 | |
helgigermany wrote:Very nice! Yes, I agree... love it... |
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shakitten
| | Posted: Dec 21, 2011 - 20:50 | |
Cynaera wrote: I read in the paper that a guy was busted yesterday for having a quarter-ounce of pot and a protopipe. His bail is set at $17,500.00. The meth problem here is out of control, and law enforcement can't curtail it with their limited resources, so they're fighting the battles they know they can win - namely, busting pot-smokers (never mind the dealers) and playing up the busts in attempts to reassure "the public" that something is being done. It's a joke. I swear, if I wasn't so afraid of ending up in jail (in a state where gambling and prostitution is legal and one can buy a bottle of Jack Daniels in the grocery store!) I'd smoke pot rather than drink Jack Daniels for recreation. I think that, if anything, people are more paranoid than ever, and let the witch-hunts begin. 
I live in Colorado, and MMJ is out in the open here. We've got shops on every freaking corner advertising plants and buds of all varieties, and edibles come in all types of baked forms. It's ridiculous, actually.
Pot's not my thing. Just doesn't react well with me. But if it's your thing, come on over to CO. All you need is a doctor approved MMJ card. They're sadly easy to get. |
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helgigermany
(Germany) | | Posted: Jul 17, 2011 - 03:50 | |
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Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC) | | Posted: Apr 13, 2011 - 07:42 | |
Cynaera wrote:I read in the paper that a guy was busted yesterday for having a quarter-ounce of pot and a protopipe. His bail is set at $17,500.00. The meth problem here is out of control, and law enforcement can't curtail it with their limited resources, so they're fighting the battles they know they can win - namely, busting pot-smokers (never mind the dealers) and playing up the busts in attempts to reassure "the public" that something is being done. It's a joke. I swear, if I wasn't so afraid of ending up in jail (in a state where gambling and prostitution is legal and one can buy a bottle of Jack Daniels in the grocery store!) I'd smoke pot rather than drink Jack Daniels for recreation. I think that, if anything, people are more paranoid than ever, and let the witch-hunts begin. I meant that pot smoking is much more accepted than in the past. The last three US Presidents have admitted to "being around" or using controlled substances - particularly marijuana; that would not have been concievable in the 1950's and 60's, much less "acceptable". I don't think that general "society" is more paranoid about drug use than they were forty or fifty years ago; the people who may be "more paranoid" are the ones who are using or selling controlled substances. |
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a_genuine_find
(not me, Radio P) (3rd stone, sol, orion belt, milkyway) | | Posted: Apr 13, 2011 - 07:21 | |
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Hannio
(Austin, TX) | | Posted: Apr 13, 2011 - 07:19 | |
ThePoose wrote:In Islam, this would be ''Let's go to the stoning.''
Heh. |
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Cynaera
(South of Neanderthal) | | Posted: Mar 12, 2011 - 19:06 | |
Proclivities wrote:
I'm not quite sure that "Society" fears drug use more now than it did in the 1950's and 60's. It seems to me that it's much more accepted now than it was over fifty years ago...
I read in the paper that a guy was busted yesterday for having a quarter-ounce of pot and a protopipe. His bail is set at $17,500.00. The meth problem here is out of control, and law enforcement can't curtail it with their limited resources, so they're fighting the battles they know they can win - namely, busting pot-smokers (never mind the dealers) and playing up the busts in attempts to reassure "the public" that something is being done. It's a joke. I swear, if I wasn't so afraid of ending up in jail (in a state where gambling and prostitution is legal and one can buy a bottle of Jack Daniels in the grocery store!) I'd smoke pot rather than drink Jack Daniels for recreation. I think that, if anything, people are more paranoid than ever, and let the witch-hunts begin. |
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esyoubeelime
(Cincinnati) | | Posted: Mar 12, 2011 - 18:59 | |
Just to be clear, this is was written by Ashford & Simpson.
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Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC) | | Posted: Feb 09, 2011 - 11:31 | |
james_of_tucson wrote:
And I just love it when people try to be genteel about things, to the point where they pretend that a black musician in the late 1950s or early 1960s wouldn't relate to the expression "getting stoned" as meaning exactly, "smoking reefer." Society feared this concept then, and to no sensible reason I can find, fears it even more today.
I'm not quite sure that "Society" fears drug use more now than it did in the 1950's and 60's. It seems to me that it's much more accepted now than it was over fifty years ago. Also, I think this song was originally released later than 1961. |
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vandal
(arriving somewhere, but not here. . .) | | Posted: Feb 09, 2011 - 11:12 | |
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ThePoose
| | Posted: Feb 09, 2011 - 11:06 | |
In Islam, this would be ''Let's go to the stoning.''
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james_of_tucson
(Tucson AZ) | | Posted: Dec 08, 2010 - 13:36 | |
daveesh wrote:actually getting stoned back then meant getting drunk. my dad still uses that term.
And I just love it when people try to be genteel about things, to the point where they pretend that a black musician in the late 1950s or early 1960s wouldn't relate to the expression "getting stoned" as meaning exactly, "smoking reefer." Society feared this concept then, and to no sensible reason I can find, fears it even more today. |
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gratefulgator
(San Francisco CA) | | Posted: Dec 08, 2010 - 13:33 | |
I think Ray's got the right idea... sounds good to me!
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bachbeet
| | Posted: Nov 06, 2010 - 20:13 | |
"er, uh...actually, i think Ray did both..."
I think Ray was actually being sly. He knew that if he said any words like "toke" or "dope" or any other drug reference, his song probably would never have been played. Heck, I think Anslinger was still alive and enforcing his wacky views.
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Rooney
(Near Paradise) | | Posted: Oct 06, 2010 - 08:23 | |
Dgradeworkunit wrote:
"take a little nip" sure fits that definition...
er, uh...actually, i think Ray did both... |
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Dgradeworkunit
(Shenandoah Valley) | | Posted: Oct 06, 2010 - 06:23 | |
daveesh wrote:actually getting stoned back then meant getting drunk. my dad still uses that term. "take a little nip" sure fits that definition... |
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martinc
(Ottawa Canada) | | Posted: Aug 03, 2010 - 06:14 | |
Ray should have done this as a duet with Joe Cocker. It would have been a classic. Ray was one talented man. Too early here to take his advice today.
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jhorton
| | Posted: Apr 29, 2010 - 20:35 | |
released the year I was born. Sounds older.
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daveesh
(birthplace of the american revolution) | | Posted: Mar 29, 2010 - 04:58 | |
actually getting stoned back then meant getting drunk. my dad still uses that term.
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vinv
| | Posted: Feb 25, 2010 - 15:37 | |
but if you happen to know somebody here, who'd like to take a toke, or you happen to be here by yourself - feel free to join ;-))
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