Comments on: Well, you have to laugh http://oldgreypoet.com/2010/03/05/well-you-have-to-laugh/ Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:59:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: novie http://oldgreypoet.com/2010/03/05/well-you-have-to-laugh/#comment-4845 Sun, 07 Mar 2010 04:53:42 +0000 http://oldgreypoet.com/?p=1591#comment-4845 Oh dear. Shades of “Last of the Summer Wine”.

]]> By: AVT http://oldgreypoet.com/2010/03/05/well-you-have-to-laugh/#comment-4840 Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:41:05 +0000 http://oldgreypoet.com/?p=1591#comment-4840 Dear John,

I am that elderly Italian gentleman whose life the breeze of days gone by touches each and every day. The sad side of a memory is disappearance, but the brighter side is the soul inside that lasts till death.

AVT

]]> By: Mage Bailey http://oldgreypoet.com/2010/03/05/well-you-have-to-laugh/#comment-4839 Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:25:20 +0000 http://oldgreypoet.com/?p=1591#comment-4839 Not bad at all.

]]> By: oldgreypoet http://oldgreypoet.com/2010/03/05/well-you-have-to-laugh/#comment-4838 Sat, 06 Mar 2010 07:14:54 +0000 http://oldgreypoet.com/?p=1591#comment-4838 Poughkeepsie? Up-state NY. I was there for a short time, staying in a wooden bungalow, doing software things. The proximity to IBM was useful.

]]> By: Kate & Jim http://oldgreypoet.com/2010/03/05/well-you-have-to-laugh/#comment-4837 Sat, 06 Mar 2010 06:50:03 +0000 http://oldgreypoet.com/?p=1591#comment-4837 Well, if it was the NY Poughkeepsie, what brought you there?

There’s another journal entry for you John…yes?

]]> By: Neva Williams http://oldgreypoet.com/2010/03/05/well-you-have-to-laugh/#comment-4836 Sat, 06 Mar 2010 05:08:19 +0000 http://oldgreypoet.com/?p=1591#comment-4836 Nope … there is no Poughkeepsie here in Arizona, but we do have a Miami.

]]> By: canyon cottage http://oldgreypoet.com/2010/03/05/well-you-have-to-laugh/#comment-4835 Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:03:53 +0000 http://oldgreypoet.com/?p=1591#comment-4835 Oh and the best part I forgot, they were only $6.50!

]]> By: canyon cottage http://oldgreypoet.com/2010/03/05/well-you-have-to-laugh/#comment-4834 Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:03:19 +0000 http://oldgreypoet.com/?p=1591#comment-4834 Oh, yes things change. sometimes its sad sometimes its not. Your last post had me buying daffys today! I got 50 buds!

]]> By: Jim http://oldgreypoet.com/2010/03/05/well-you-have-to-laugh/#comment-4833 Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:25:50 +0000 http://oldgreypoet.com/?p=1591#comment-4833 okay, how did I garble that attempt at typing? Obviously my brain is no longer functioning. I was just trying to say that I do not know of any other places named Poughkeepsie — and since it was based on a local tribal place name, it is unlikely to find another Poughkeepsie in Arizona or some such place (unless some homesick settler from the Hudson Valley brought the name with him).

]]> By: Jim http://oldgreypoet.com/2010/03/05/well-you-have-to-laugh/#comment-4832 Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:21:47 +0000 http://oldgreypoet.com/?p=1591#comment-4832 How many places can be named Poughkeepsie? (The name is based on a Native American phrase — probably from the Wappinger tribe (but I’m really guessing — it could also have been Algonquin confederacy, consisting of the Delaware or the Mohigan tribe — or even the

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