{"id":1743,"date":"2012-11-12T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2012\/11\/12\/funny-but-true\/"},"modified":"2012-11-12T11:01:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T11:01:00","slug":"funny-but-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2012\/11\/12\/funny-but-true\/","title":{"rendered":"Funny But True"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Original Post Content --><br \/>\nJulie Andrews turned 69 and to commemorate her 69th birthday on October 1, actress\/vocalist Julie Andrews made a special appearance at Manhattan &#8216;s Radio City Music Hall for the benefit of the AARP. One of the musical numbers she performed was &quot;My Favourite Things&quot; from the legendary movie &quot;The Sound Of Music.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\tHere are the actual lyrics she used:<\/p>\n<p>\tMaalox and nose drops and needles for knitting,<br \/>\n\t Walkers and handrails and new dental fittings,<br \/>\n\t Bundles of magazines tied up in string,<br \/>\n\t These are a few of my favourite things.<\/p>\n<p>\tCadillac&#8217;s and cataracts, and hearing aids and glasses,<br \/>\n\t Polident and Fixodent and false teeth in glasses,<br \/>\n\t Pacemakers, golf carts and porches with swings,<br \/>\n\t These are a few of my favourite things..<\/p>\n<p>\tWhen the pipes leak, When the bones creak,<br \/>\n\t When the knees go bad,<br \/>\n\t I simply remember my favourite things,<br \/>\n\t And then I don&#8217;t feel so bad.<\/p>\n<p>\tHot tea and crumpets and corn pads for bunions,<br \/>\n\t No spicy hot food or food cooked with onions,<br \/>\n\t Bathrobes and heating pads and hot meals they bring,<br \/>\n\t These are a few of my favourite things.<\/p>\n<p>\tBack pains, confused brains, and no need for sinnin&#8217;,<br \/>\n\t Thin bones and fractures and hair that is thinnin&#8217;,<br \/>\n\t And we won&#8217;t mention our short, shrunken frames,<br \/>\n\t When we remember our favourite things.<\/p>\n<p>\tWhen the joints ache, When the hips break,<br \/>\n\t When the eyes grow dim,<br \/>\n\t Then I remember the great life I&#8217;ve had,<br \/>\n\t And then I don&#8217;t feel so bad.<\/p>\n<p>\tMs. Andrews received a standing ovation from the crowd that lasted over four minutes and repeated encores.<\/p>\n<p>\tGoddess<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>Replies:<\/h3>\n<div class=\"migrated-reply\" style=\"border: 1px solid #eee;padding: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px;border-radius: 5px\">\n<p><strong>Posted by:<\/strong> Stickman on November 12, 2012, 11:39 am<\/p>\n<div>Great post. I think we all need to stop and think about our lives on occasion and when we do we will very probably realize that we should not &quot;feel so bad&quot; about them. Most of us in the United States have lived through some of the greatest times in our country&#8217;s history.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"migrated-reply\" style=\"border: 1px solid #eee;padding: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px;border-radius: 5px\">\n<p><strong>Posted by:<\/strong> Dominator on November 13, 2012, 2:50 pm<\/p>\n<div>So funny!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julie Andrews turned 69 and to commemorate her 69th birthday on October 1, actress\/vocalist Julie Andrews made a special appearance at Manhattan &#8216;s Radio City Music Hall for the benefit of the AARP. One of the musical numbers she performed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}