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How's that quote go, again? Something about not learning from them, and as a result, repeating the mistakes of the past?

The Spanish flu - Second wave.

And now it seems like Queensland's worst fears have been recognised...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-29/coronavirus-testing-parklands-christian-college-queensland/12...

Grim news, all round.

Stay well, people...

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We may not have the Coronavirus licked, just yet, but at least we're prepared... ha ha...

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Ennio Morricone, the spaghetti western music master, has passed.

Who can forget his magic music...

"Morricone wrote his first score in 1961, before teaming up with Sergio Leone – with whom he had been at primary school – for A Fistful of Dollars (1964). Leone hadn’t the budget for a full orchestra, so Morricone used Alessandro Alessandroni’s piercing whistle, wordless male vocals, a twanging Fender guitar and a Jew’s harp to create a soundscape that was richly atmospheric, and decidedly eerie...  Leone would shoot scenes based on the music that Morricone had already written, and make them as long as the score dictated. (“That’s why the films were so slow,” Morricone remarked.) For Leone, the music was critical. The dialogue counted for relatively little, he said; it was the music that underlined the mood, the action, the feeling. The soundtrack for their next collaboration, Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), was so powerfully evocative, it sold ten million copies... (The Week UK 18 July 2020)

Once Upon A Time In The West:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we53TOJyt78

It's a truly brilliant idea to fit the movie around the score, rather than try to fit the score to the movie.

And it worked so well, ha ha...

Not that I'm saying there's any truth to this anecdote, after all, it did come from the Internet.. ha ha...

When Steven Spielberg first showed John Williams a cut of the movie Schindler's list, Williams was so moved that he had to take a walk outside for several minutes to collect himself.

When he came back, he told Spielberg that he deserved a better composer.

Spielberg said "I know, but they're all dead"...

High praise, indeed, ha ha...

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The "Magic 8 Ball"... Ever wondered what's inside one?

Apart from the eerie, mysterious blue liquid... ha ha...

There's a 20 sided Die (that's singular for Dice... another word to embiggen your vocabulary, ha ha).

And it looks like this...

At least in the original format, because nowdays you buy "Custom made" ones, or load and program your own, for your home computer... The fun never ends! ha ha...

And the available text, from the original, reads as follows...

Now all you have to do is ask it a "Yes or No" question and give it a shake...

There are people who swear by it as a means of predicting the future, but me, I'm a little too cynical for that...

Is it accurate?

Ha ha...

Something light hearted to help you pass the time...

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That one was a keyboard wipe.