pdp1@EARTHLINK.NET on sat 13 may 06
Floating on the surface of Water...and maybe Frank Zappa...
Hi Mel,
...chuckle...
Too, unless it is Water with a high Saline
aspect...like some old Inland Seas or the Great
Salt Lake of Utah...
People who posess little to virtually no body-fat,
will merely sink.
It is a negotiation with Specific Gravity...or, a
function of it...far as I know...
When I first lived here, the home had a fine large
Swiming Pool, 8 feet deep on one end, and, a
visiting Aunt was wishing to teach me to 'float'
since she had observed me laying out prone on the
bottom of the pool a few times...or my merely
'standing' upright a foot off the bottom, and a
foot or so below the surface...poised like
that...(which I enjoyed doing..)
Now, she was a 'Butterball', and all she had to
'do' TO float, was to just be in the Water at
all...!
I do not think she could have got TO the deeper
bottom any more than say a Basketball could...or,
unless she wore some serious Diveing Weights or
something...
Where I, at that time anyway, likely had about as
little Body fat as some fellow from Somalia or the
Saraha Desert or something, even if all muscle
from years of out-door hard Work...I would simply
sink to the bottom if I was not swimming to stay
'up'. Well, if I held the BIGGEST breath I could,
I could a-l-m-o-s-t do it, but my legs would
slowly sink and I would revert to a vertical poise
with my eyes above the Water was about as good as
it got...
Anyway, it was so funny, she kept saying, "No,
just relax and lay on your back on the surface!"
and I would relax, perfectly, and sink
slow-motion, down...down...down...like a slowly
falling Leaf...and just lay there on the bottom,
looking 'up'...
She could lay any old way at all, and still float
just fine...
Now, I think it was Frank Zappa, rather than
'need' which gave rise to the 'Mothers of
Invention', if memory serve...
"Do you remember doot-doot...do you remember
doot-doot...had a swimming pooooooooooool..."
Or something like that...was part of some
lyric...might have been the 'Uncle Meat'
album...but this has been a-while of course...
He'd of sunk too...
Lol...
But the 'poise' of being upright, a foot off the
bottom, and a foot from the top of the Water...
"That" was a somewhat delicate matter to achieve,
and all in all, was kind of a matter of 'feeling'
to be able to do and hold it...
Had to have a certain amount of Air in my lungs to
get it right...and when right, I could stay there
for four minutes easily...arms relaxed...used to
freak people out sometimes, if they happenned to
have walked up and did not know me...which was not
my intention, but...
Kinda cool to do...
'Amniotic reminescence'...
Love,
Phil
Las Vegas
----- Original Message -----
From: "mel jacobson"
> there is an old axiom in learning.
>
> you can't teach a person to balance a bike,
> you can't teach a person to float in water.
<<<<<<>>>>>>>>
> you all know, need, the
> `mother of invention` .....
> mel
>
> from: mel/minnetonka.mn.usa
> website: http://my.pclink.com/~melpots3
Steve Slatin on sat 13 may 06
Floating on the surface of Water...and maybe Frank Zappa...
Phil -- it was one of the early Mothers' albums
--
I been checkin it out
Bay-bee.
I checked it out a couple 'a times.
And it CAN'T HAPPEN HERE.
--------misc verses -----------
Who could imagine ...
They would freak out in Kansas
KANSAS KANSAS TO TO TO TO
KANSAS KANSAS TO TO TO TO
Kansas Kansas
Who could imagine
They would freak out in Minnesota...
Mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi Minnesota,
Minnesota, Minnesota, Minnesota!
------misc verses---------
I remember, too too
I remember, too too
They had a SWIMMING POOL
I remember, too too
I remember, too too
They had a SWIMMING POOL
And they thought it couldn't happen here!
No, they KNEW it couldn't happen HERE!
They were sure it couldn't happen HERE!
Segue to Suzie Creamcheese bit.
I may have gotten some of this wrong -- I
transcribed it while watching a Russian
joke-telling competition on TV. ("Does death
come to everyone in a robe with a scythe? No, if
you're a mosquito it comes in boxer shorts with a
newspaper!") Perm edged out Moscow, but in the
music segment, a band of kids from the U in
Tashkent in Zarchapans did an Uzbek rap that
*killed* in the music segment.
-- Steve
--- pdp1@EARTHLINK.NET wrote:
> Now, I think it was Frank Zappa, rather than
> 'need' which gave rise to the 'Mothers of
> Invention', if memory serve...
>
> "Do you remember doot-doot...do you remember
> doot-doot...had a swimming pooooooooooool..."
>
> Or something like that...was part of some
> lyric...might have been the 'Uncle Meat'
> album...but this has been a-while of course...
>
> He'd of sunk too...
>
>
> Lol...
Steve Slatin --
The angel lay in a little thicket. It had no need of love; there was nothing anywhere in the world could startle it ...
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