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10:38:00 AM EDT

Hi Caption Game players, Val here =).  Time for a  new picture for "What's the Caption? Wednesday" #17!  Before revealing the picture, I would like to once more congratulate last week's winner, Donna of Dust Bunny Protector!  This week's picture, for your submissions, will follow the rules below.  If you have never read the rules, please do.  As always, we will help you along with entries so please keep Magic Smoke on alerts!  We hope you have lots of fun with this picture!!  Thanks for playing!! Val (and Krissy)  =)

         

  * We will place a picture around 9AM EST (or as soon after
     as we are able to) in Magic Smoke each Wednesday morning.

  * After the picture is posted, place a Caption you feel is
     appropriate for the picture in the Comments Section.  Please
     DO NOT email your submission or put it under any other
     Comment Sections.  We will not hunt down your submission. 
     Only submissions placed in the Comment Section under the
     picture will be eligible for judging.  If you do this as an
     entry in your blog, please return to Magic Smoke and put
     your submission in the Comments Section.

  * Only submit one Caption so others can play!! 

  * Submissions are due by Saturday 4PM EDT.  Those
     submitted after this time will not be eligible for judging.

  * A panel of a few Jland judges (3 or 4) will look over the
     Captions and choose what they feel are the best 3 or 4.
     These will be posted on Sunday 9 AM EST (or when we
     can do it - sometime Sunday morning EARLY) by poll.

  * Here comes the fun part!  Where you get to participate!  You
     will be voting for your favorite Caption by poll from Sunday,
     9 AM EST (or as soon as we get it posted) through Tuesday
     9 AM EST!!  At this time we will check the poll and see who the
     winner is!!  Please DO NOT vote after 9AM on Tuesday.  Any
     voting after 9AM on Tuesday will be ignored.

  * We will announce the winner on Tuesday morning with an Award
     for his/her sidebar!!

  * A new picture will appear the next morning (Wednesday) and we
     will have fun all over again!!

  *  "What's the Caption? Wednesday" is run by Val from
       There is a Season and Krissy from Sometimes I Think.

                   

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10:19:42 AM EDT Good morning, Caption Game players!!  Val here =).  Time to announce the winner of "What's the Caption? Wednesday" #16!  Krissy, I, and the judges would like to CONGRATULATE Donna of Dust Bunny Protector!!  Donna received 39 percent of the votes!  Please pay Donna a visit and congratulate her if you are able.  Way to go, Donna!!

This week's photo with Donna's winning submission is below:

              
                        Fiffi hates it when Mommy 
                        won't take her OCD meds.

Here is your award for your sidebar, Donna!   Right click and save as .jpg.  If you have any questions on saving it or posting it in your blog, just pop me or Krissy an email.

                                   

We would also like to congratulate runners-up (in order of placing in poll) Marc, John, and Kelly.  Way to go, guys!

Krissy and I would like to thank everyone who submitted a caption and/or voted this week!!  Congratulations again,Donna!!  See you all tomorrow morning with a new picture for your submissions.  Val (and Krissy)  =)

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8:46:21 AM EDT

Reunion-"Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)" is a 1974 song by a group of studio musicians in a group for this purpose called Reunion, with Joey Levine (bubblegum music pioneer with "Chewy Chewy" and "Yummy Yummy Yummy" to his credit), as the lead singer. The song was written by Paul DiFranco (music) and Norman Dolph (lyrics). The lyrics are a fast patter of '50s, '60s, and '70s disc jockeys, musicians, songwriters, record labels and (incongruously) Jack the Ripper, broken only by the chorus. Alternatively, "Jack the Ripper" could also be "Jack D. Ripper" from Dr. Strangelove, a popular 1964 film by Stanley Kubrick. It is also possible that "Jack the Ripper" could be a nod to the British Rock Star and Political Leader Screaming Lord Sutch, and his 1972 album Hands of Jack the Ripper.

"Life is a Rock (But The Radio Rolled Me) - Reunion

The song appears in the dance scene in the film The Specials.

The song was sampled by the "McDonald's Menu Song" in 1988.

 

Artists Checked

B. Bumble and the Stingers
Mott the Hoople
Ray Charles Singers (a different act than Ray Charles)
Lonnie Mack
Twangin' Eddy
"Take It Easy"
"Liar, Liar"
"The Loco-Motion"
Poco
Deep Purple
"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
Sam Cooke
Lesley Gore
Ritchie Valens
Stories (band)
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Fuji (guitars)
Yamaha
Kama Sutra
"Rama Lama Ding Dong"
Richard Perry
Phil Spector
Jeff Barry
Righteous Brothers
The Archies
Harry Nilsson
"Shimmy, Shimmy, Ko Ko Bop"
Fats Is Back
"Finger Poppin' Time"
Brenda & the Tabulations
Carly Simon
The Rolling Stones
Johnny Cash
Johnny Rivers
Mungo Jerry
Peter, Paul and Mary
Dr. John
Doris Day
Jack the Ripper
Leon Russell
"Gimme Shelter"
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
Slide guitar
Fender bass
Bonnie Bramlett
Wilson Pickett
Arthur Janov
Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Dale Hawkins
Ronnie Hawkins
Kukla, Fran and Ollie
Norman, Oklahoma
John Denver
Donny Osmond
J. J. Cale
ZZ Top
L.L. Bean
"Dede Dinah"
David Bowie
Steely Dan
"CC Rider"
Edgar Winter
Joanie Sommers
Ides of March
Johnny Thunders
Eric Clapton
Wah-wah pedal
Stephen Foster
"Camptown Races"
"Good Vibrations"
"Help Me Rhonda"
"Surfer Girl"
"Little Honda"
"Tighter Tighter"
"Honey, Honey"
"Sugar, Sugar"
"Yummy Yummy Yummy"
CBS
Warner Brothers
RCA
"Baby I Need Your Loving"

"Remember (Walking in the Sand)"
Alan Freed
Murray the K
Fish (dance)
The Swim (dance)
"The Boston Monkey"
Freddie King
Albert King
B. B. King
Felix Pappalardi
Randy Newman
Anni-Frid Lyngstad
Aretha
Tito Puente
Boffalongo
Cuba
War
California
Beatlemania
New York City
Transylvania
S&G
Bobby Vee
SRO

Performed as medley or spoken over the fade-out:

"Uptight (Everything's Alright)"
"Celebrate"
"I Want to Take You Higher"

A "customized" version of the song, "Life is a Rock, but CFL Rolled Me" was the last rock 'n roll song played on the Larry Lujack show on WCFL in Chicago on 15 March 1976 before the station switched from top 40 to a beautiful music format.

As Always

Peace

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3:45:18 AM EDT
Hi folks,

Hope you all had a good weekend. Let's see what we got for blogplugs.

* Beth believes that truth will always win out, and is saddened by people who lie, cheat and steal. She gives us her impressions of Godfather II a movie that she watched recently. She comes away with a great admiration for Mark Twain after reading about him in Time magazine and more about him online.

* Betty's pet Koda has found himself a new den in their bathroom.

* Sherry is back to the grind after a relaxing vacation. She is of the opinion that to lose weight, cutting back on food alone is not enough, you also need to exercise.

* Indigo has taken a pause from blogging after finding out that she has some health issues.

* Robin's reminisces about life and icons from her childhood.

* Sheria does not understand the misconceptions about the Obamas andthinks that the New Yorker cover will not help (although it is a satire).

* Krissy has been having back spasms and is wondering if she will need surgery after all. On top of that her computer has been giving her problems. Add to that, John's been having some medical issues lately. Editor's note: We wish both of you feel better.

* Christopher wants AOL Journals to support Windows Live Writer so that he can make blog entries from within Live Writer. Editor's Note: It's the other way around. Windows Live Writer probably publishes to MSN Spaces, but they need to support publishing to AOL Journals. So, please redirect your request to them :). He has some amusing pictures of what it would look like if women ruled the world. He wants to share a funny email he got from his great aunt.

Contests & Trivia!

* Weekly sentence with Val. This winners for the letters LTRSTM. This week's letters are PASTRN.

Lights, Camera and Action!

* Krissy's JLand Photo Shoot entries for the subject "July fun".

* Marie's AOL Community Photo Challenge, entries for the subject "Fireworks"
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Thanks again for the blogplugs this week. Don't forget to tag your best en
tries with "blogplugs". If you want to be a Guest Editor or have some interesting (or useful) blogplugs, send your submissions to JournalsEditor@aol.com and we'll review them. Also, if you would like to host a quiz or a contest or have any fun ideas that you would like to share with the community please send us email at the same address.

~Vish

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10:35:42 AM EDT  

Hi.  It's time for another "What's the Caption? Wednesday" poll.  Let's get right to it! 

 

First let's get the ground rules out of the way.  We want the most popular caption of the poll below to win.  Vote only once.  Consider the caption, not the author of the caption.  And please, nobody campaign for votes.  You are on your honor.

 

Please remember you have until 9 AM Tuesday, EDT, to vote.  That's Tuesday morning at 9, Eastern Daylight Time.

 

On Tuesday morning, after the votes have been officially recorded, the winner will be announced here in Magic Smoke.

 

Now it's up to you.  Go vote!

 

             

 

                   

"What's the Caption? Wednesday" is run by Krissy of Sometimes I Think and Valerie of There is a Season. 

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12:58:34 PM EDT

 "What's the Caption? Wednesday" #16!...

Thanks and good luck!!

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2:01:41 PM EDT
Hi there. I'm Dan, and I'm your Guest Editor this week. I'm also the guy who, everyday, tries to shake his head hard enough to jostle the underused sludge I call a brain into creating something that resembles a somewhat coherent thought to post on my journal, The Wisdom of a Distracted Mind.

Hey! It works for margaritas, and everybody likes those. I mean, when was the last time you heard of someone crying into their margarita?

I mean someone other than Paris Hilton.

So, that's what I shoot for. My blog is a lot like a margarita only more wordy with prettier pictures and no blubbering heiresses.

Anyway, the reason I'm here is to show off a few journals which I enjoy reading. And, I decided to keep the list small-ish and limit myself to no more than five AOL journals which strike me in one way or another as being really very good. Of course, that was pretty close to impossible since there are just so many great, well-written journals out there. And, if I could, I'd put them all on here, I would. But, do you have any idea how long this post would be?

So, let's get this going, shall we?

Here, in no particular order, are five journals I truly enjoy reading:

This first journal makes me go postal --in a good way. It's Waffle and Whinge written by Barry, a letter carrier on the other side of that pond we call the Atlantic Ocean. Barry provides a nice, well-written, glimpse in to the life of an English postal employee. Whenever I sit down to read the latest entry on his journal, I feel like I'm sitting down to have a nice conversation with a good friend over some stiff drinks and a lot of good laughs.

The next journal on my list is the delightful Miss Trickster Mrs. Trickster and her journal Hey! I'm Country! Hey! I Need More Shoes! Hey I'm Engaged Hey! I'm Married.

Amanda's easily one of my favorite people on the planet. Her sense of humor jumps out in every entry she posts, and, now that I think of it, either she's one of those crazy people who's always in a good mood (like that one guy on that one episode of House), or, most likely, she's just someone who doesn't dwell on those bad days and doesn't let them get to her.

That's a good thing. After all, she's only been married a little more than a month, and she's going to need it. But, thankfully, she's also taking the time to share her sense of humor with us all.

After that, I'm going to combine the pleasant English attitude of Barry, and the newlywed-ness (hey! I'm calling it a word) of Amanda, and stir it all up with a mad, little spoon and give you my buddy Gaz's journal Diary of a Podgy Poof.

If you want quiet domesticity and the notion that life is good with large gardens, happy pets, and every dinner cooked perfectly and waiting on the table when you get home, that ain't Gaz. He and Phil just got hitched, and they're holed up and living out of boxes in a tiny apartment that's driving them batty. And yet, somehow, they can still find ways to smile, laugh and love.

Next up is Holly and her journal Welcome to My Life.

No. Holly isn't British (though she does have a somewhat odd attraction to all things Harry Potter). And, no. She's not really a newlywed anymore. But, she writes brilliantly, she's always got a laugh, and she will make you smile widely as you read about what should be, to any normal person, a typical, ordinary day.

But, for some reason, Holly rarely has a typical, ordinary day, and I am thankful for that.

Go ahead. Read it and try not to smile. I dare ya.

Finally, to wrap this up, one journal I most enjoy is that of Dawn --Carpe Diem. I swipe memes from her. I dive into stories about her life, her troubles, her good times, her kids and everything else that she writes about. Dawn is pretty much the older kid sister I never had.

Okay... I lied. I'm going to give you one last journal to look at, and it's one I've just recently started reading.

It's called Just Plain Bill, and though his name is Bill, there really isn't anything plain about this self-titled "Old Timer."

Bill's been reading and commenting on my journal for a long time now, and I could kick myself for not dropping in to read his journal as often as I should have up until now. These days, it's a daily read, and I hope when I hit the age of 77 I'm half as fun, kind and smart. Bill makes me want to take up golf and just live a relaxing life overlooking the tee-box of some golf course somewhere.

Well, there you have it. Five Six journals here on AOL that I believe are things everyone should make a point of reading. 

Of course, there are a million more, but you remember all that talk about margaritas up there at the beginning? 

I think I need to find some ice. 

Take care, and I hope you enjoy my picks this week. 

-Dan


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1:57:21 AM EDT One feature we've had in Journals for a little while is Polls.  It's really easy to add a poll to your post, and it's a great way to get feedback from your users. 

Here's a quick review of 4 Poll sites on the web, that you might find useful.




Here's an example Poll from Sodahead.com :



Have fun!

--Will @ Willspeaking.com



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11:13:18 AM EDT

Last week we had round one of the entries for the Nice Matters logo.  Last week we had 98 votes.  The winning picture is below and won with 30 votes and will be entered into the final round of voting.

For more information on this click here

I have not given reference to the pictures below.  I am trying to keep this as anonymous as possible.  However, if it's killing you and you must know, then you can do your homework. 

Now for this weeks entries

Each picture has a letter next to it.  Just use the poll below to pick your favorite picture.

A.

 

B.

 

C.

 

D.

 

 

E.

 

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9:50:57 AM EDT

Hi Caption Game players!  Val here.  It's time for a  new picture for "What's the Caption? Wednesday"!  Before revealing the picture, I would like to once more congratulate last week's winner, Paul of Aurora Walking Vacation!  This week's picture will follow the rules below.  Please read the rules if you never have.  As usual, we will help you along with entries, so please keep Magic Smoke on alerts!  Have fun and thanks for playing!!  Val (and Krissy) =)

          

  * We will place a picture around 9AM EST in Magic
     Smoke each Wednesday morning.

  * After the picture is posted, place a Caption you feel is
     appropriate for the picture in the Comments Section.  Please
     DO NOT email your submission or put it under any other
     Comment Sections.  We will not hunt down your submission. 
     Only submissions placed in the Comment Section under the
     picture will be eligible for judging.  If you do this as an
     entry in your blog, please return to Magic Smoke and put
     your submission in the Comments Section.

  * Only submit one Caption so others can play!! 
 
  * Submissions are due by Saturday 4PM EDT.  Those
     submitted after this time will not be eligible for judging.

  * A panel of a few Jland judges (3 or 4) will look over the
     Captions and choose what they feel are the best 3 or 4.
     These will be posted on Sunday 9 AM EST (or when we
     can do it - sometime Sunday morning EARLY) by poll.

  * Here comes the fun part!  Where you get to participate!  You
     will be voting for your favorite Caption by poll from Sunday,
     9 AM EST (or as soon as we get it posted) through Tuesday
     9 AM EST!!  At this time we will check the poll and see who the
     winner is!!  Please DO NOT vote after 9AM on Tuesday.  Any
     voting after 9AM on Tuesday will be ignored.

  * We will announce the winner on Tuesday morning with an Award
     for his/her sidebar!!

  * A new picture will appear the next morning (Wednesday) and we
     will have fun all over again!!

  *  "What's the Caption? Wednesday" is run by Val from
       There is a Season and Krissy from Sometimes I Think.

                       

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