Songs by individual members outside the group are not acceptable
No duplicate songs
Include the song title in your introduction text so others can see it
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For me, this is the perfect opening song for this concert at my little corner of the world – Lovely to See You
Some may ask, “Pronouns?”, but we at A Frank Angle say, “Why not pronouns!”
A subset of nouns, pronouns serve as a substitute for nouns and noun phrases. These bits of linguistics and grammar are versatile and can almost refer to anything.
Although pronouns can be personal, objective, possessive, indefinite, relative, intensive, demonstrative, interrogative, reflexive, and reciprocal, this musical extravaganza focuses on selected pronouns.
There is nothing impossible to him who will try. (Alexander the Great, Leader)
Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world. (Maria Montessori, educator)
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave. (Martin Luther, theologian)
A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales. (Marie Curie, scientist)
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. (David Brinkley, journalist)
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing – and then marry him. (Cher, entertainer)
Guidelines
Songs must have Him in the title
Cautions
No duplicates songs regardless of artists
Foreign language equivalents unacceptable
Contractions are acceptable at the discretion of The Producer
Production Note
To prevent browsers crashing from loading too many videos, please 1) include the song title and artist in your text, and 2) paste the URL as part of your last line (not a new line). The latter will provide a link, thus not embed the actual video … but I don’t mind unembedding, so apologies are not necessary.
Announcement
Welcome to the latest musical by aFa Productions – Pronouns: The Musical.
Act 5 is all about Him. Songs bring back memories for each of us. This song was not only a mega-hit in 1963, it was one of those songs that I remember as a young lad that stuck with me for many years because it was one of my early favorites. Ladies and gentlemen, let’s have a great aFa welcome to Little (and I mean 4 foot, 10 inches tall) Peggy March with I Will Follow Him.
Some may ask, “Pronouns?”, but we at A Frank Angle say, “Why not pronouns!”
A subset of nouns, pronouns serve as a substitute for nouns and noun phrases. These bits of linguistics and grammar are versatile and can almost refer to anything.
Although pronouns can be personal, objective, possessive, indefinite, relative, intensive, demonstrative, interrogative, reflexive, and reciprocal, this musical extravaganza focuses on selected pronouns.
Program
Act 1: I
I – when the speaker or writer refers to self as the grammar object in a sentence
I – but not me (that’s Act 2)
“I am the greatest.” (Muhammad Ali)
“I shall return.” (US General Douglas MacArthur)
“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.” (Albert Einstein)
“I have a lot to be thankful for. I am healthy and I am loved.” (Reba McEntire)
“I am a strong woman because a strong woman raised me.” (Writing journal title)
Guidelines
Songs must have I in the title
Cautions
No duplicates songs regardless of artists
Contractions are acceptable at the discretion of The Producer
Production Note
To prevent browsers crashing from loading too many videos, please: 1) include the song title and artist in your text, and 2) paste the URL as part of your last line (not a new line). The latter will provide a link, thus not embed the actual video … but I don’t mind unembedding, so apologies are not necessary.
Announcement
Welcome to Opening Night of the latest musical by aFa Productions: Pronouns: The Musical.
Selecting the opening number for any act is difficult, but finding the starter for Act 1 on Opening Night requires extra scrutiny. In the spirit of our leader’s contrarian nature, we at aFa Productions think outside the box – and a Mummers band perfectly fits that criteria. Let’s give a rousing aFa welcome to the Polish American String Band and I’m Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover.
Act 2 – You – Next Saturday @ 1:00 am (Eastern US)
In Science
41, the atomic number of the element niobium (Nb), whose neutrally charged atom has 41 protons and 41 electrons
41 Daphne is a large asteroid
In Music Symphony No. 41, the longest and last symphony of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
#41, a song by Dave Matthews Band.
Sum 41, a Canadian rock band
American Skin (41 Shots), a song by Bruce Springsteen
Opus 41, musical compositions by Tchaikovsky (Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom), Elgar (In the Dawn and Speak, Music!), Sibelius (Kyllikki), and Rachmaninoff (Three Russian Songs)
41 Stories, a book of 41 short stories by O. Henry
41: A Portrait of My Father, a book written by George W. Bush for his father George H. W. Bush
In Movies 41, an independent documentary about Nicholas O’Neill, the youngest victim of the Station nightclub fire
41, a 2012 Documentary about on the life of George H. W. Bush, the 41st US President
41, Charlton Heston’s designation as a Roman warship slave in Ben-Hur
41st floor, Morpheus is aggressively questioned about the murder of Amadou Diallo in The Matrix
41, the NYPD precinct number on the police car shown during the earthquake in Ghostbusters
Highway 41, where Cary Grant is attached by a crop-dusting airplane in Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest
In Sports
41, the race number worn by Sir Roger Bannister when he broke the 4-minute mile barrier (1954)
41, retired jerseys – MLB: Eddie Mathews (Braves), Tom Seaver (Mets); NFL: Brian Piccolo (Bears); NBA: Wes Unseld (Wizards); NHL: none
NASCAR #41: 27 wins (most by Curtis Turner, followed by Richard Petty, Kurt Busch, Jim Paschal, and A.J. Foyt)
Super Bowl XLI: Indianapolis Colts 29 Chicago Bears 17 (4 Feb. 2007 Miami, Florida)
In Mathematics
41, a natural number, a prime number, a supersingular prime number, a Newman-Shanks-Williams prime number, a Sophie Germain prime number, and Eisenstein prime number, a Proth prime number, a centered square number, and the largest lucky number of Euler
41st parallel North – crosses Span, Italy, Albania, Macedonia, Greece, Turkey, Armenia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, China, North Korea, Japan, United States, Portugal
41st parallel South – crosses Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Argentina
41st Meridian East – crosses Russia, Georgia, Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and Antarctica
41st Meridian West – crosses Greenland, Brazil, Antarctica
In Culture
41, forty-one, Cuarenta y uno, Čtyřicet jedna, Eenenveertig, Nelikümmend üks, Keturiasdešimt vieną, Afartan mid ka mid ah, XLI, and more
In Mexico “cuarenta y uno” (41) is slang referring to a homosexual
41st book in the bible is the Gospel According to Matthew
41st wedding anniversary, traditional gifts throughout the world include topaz, iron, birch, and nasturtium
In numerology, 41 is conscientious, sensual, quick wit, adventurous, curiosity, and pragmatism
In Organizations
41 Entertainment LLC (“41E”), a privately held American animation company developing, producing, and distributing popular children’s television series
City 41, part of the leading news media group of Pakistan, City News Network
41 Hotel or No. 41, a Red Carnation Hotel luxury hotel in London, England
Foundation 41, a medical research organisation based in Sydney, Australia
In Miscellaneous
The international direct dialing (IDD) code for Switzerland
C-41 process is the film developing process for 35mm color negative film
41 stories, the number of floors in the ONE St. Petersburg building in St. Petersburg, Florida
“41 for Freedom”, the collective term for the 41 ballistic missile submarines of the George Washington class and its successors
STS-41, the eleventh mission of the Space Shuttle Discovery
41, all this in honor of our 41st wedding anniversary. For those wondering, we first met in September 1974. Here’s Dave Matthews singing his song, #41. Happy Anniversary to my long-time love.
In Mathematics
64 – the square of 8, the cube of 4, and the sixth power of 2
64 – the first whole number that is both a perfect square and a perfect cube
64 – the smallest number with exactly seven divisors (1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64)
64 – a cardinal number, ordinal number, dodecagonal number, centered triangular number, Erdős–Woods number, superperfect number, and the index of Graham’s number
In Science
64 – The atomic number of the element gadolinium, whose neutrally charged atom contains 64 protons and 64 electrons
64 – the number of codons in the RNA codon table under genetic code
Messier object M64 – a galaxy known as the Black Eye Galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices
The New General Catalogue object NGC 64 – a spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus
In Entertainment
The number of squares on a game board for checkers, chess, and Bejeweled
64 – the name of a Russian chess magazine
64 – a dog character in the Donald Duck comics
Catullus 64 – a poem written by Catullus
Sonnet 64 – one of 154 sonnets written by William Shakespeare
64 – Channel number of television stations in Barstow (CA), Brownsville TX, Cincinnati OH, Fulton (AR), Kalamazoo MI, Kannapolis (NC), Kittanning PA, Providence RI, Ridgecrest (CA), San Bernardino CA, Scranton PA, Seaford DE, Stockton (CA),
64 – the number of crayons in the popular Crayola pack
64th Golden Globes – Held in 2007 with Dreamgirls winning the most awards (3)
64th Academy Awards – Held in 1992 with The Silence of the Lambs winning 5 Oscars
64 Zoo Lane – a British-French children’s cartoon
Sixty-four – a web comic
In Music
64 – The subject of the Beatles song When I’m Sixty-Four
“64” – the title of a song by the hip-hop group Mellowhype
Symphony No. 64 – composed by Joseph Haydn in A major
Opus 64, No. 1 – The Minute Waltz in D-flat major by Chopin
Trio 64 – an album by American jazz musician Bill Evans
Sixty-Four – a 2004 album by Donovan of his 1964 demo recordings
My 64 – a song by Mike Jones
64 Spoons – British rock/pop band in the 1970s-80s that was also known as The Legendary 64 Spoons or just The Spoons)
Commodore 64 – one of the pioneer bands for hip hop while being named after the 1980s computer
Fabric 64 – an album by Guy Gerber
Code 64 – an electronic music band from Sweden and Norway
In Computers
64-bit processors
Base64 – a group of similar binary-to-text encoding schemes
Decimal64 – a decimal floating-point computer numbering format that occupies 8 bytes (64 bits) in computer memory
Commodore 64 – an early 8-bit home computers
Nintendo 64 video game console, plus all its games that includes 64 in their title
64 – the maximum stack size in the video game Minecraft
Madden Football 64 – the first game in the Madden NFL series
In Business
Avenue Sixty-Four – a boutique wedding venue in Brisbane, Australia
In Culture and Language
Sessanta quattro, 60 Vier, 60 fyra, Sześćdziesiąt cztery, Шестдесет и четири, -Sáu mươi bốn, Fire og seksti, and LXIV
64 – The maximum number of strokes in any Chinese character
64 – The number of classical arts listed in many Indian scriptures
In Geography
64 – the international calling code for direct dial calls to New Zealand
64 – a US interstate highway from Missouri to Virginia
U.S. Route 64 – a highway from Arizona to North Carolina
Sixty-Four Villages East of the RIver – a group of Russian villages along the Amur River across from China
M64 – a planned but never built motorway in England
64th Parallel North crosses Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, United States, Canada, Greenland, and Iceland
64th Parallel South crosses Antarctica – including land claimed by Argentina, Chile, and United Kingdom
64th Meridian East crosses Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Pakistan, and Antarctica
64th Meridian West crosses Canada, Greenland, Venezuela, Brazil, Bolivia, Argentina, and Antarctica
In History
Year 64 AD
Buddhist calendar 608, Korean calendar 2397, Discordian calendar 1230
Nero is the Emperor of Rome
July 19 – Great Fire of Rome destroying nearly half of the city occurred during the rule of Nero
Persecution of Christians in Rome begins
New urban planning program with wide streets, open spaces, and ornate buildings
Phoenicia becomes part of Syria.
The Kushan sack the town of Taxila (in present-day Pakistan).
The year the First Epistle of Peter is traditionally believed to be written.
Seneca proclaims the equality of all men, including slaves.
Deaths include Peter the Apostle, Paul the Apostle, and Empress Yin Lihua.
Year 64 BC
Berber calendar 887, Assyrian calendar 4687, Byzantine calendar 5445-5446
Servilius Rullus, Roman Republic tribune, proposes an agrarian reform law.
Pompey destroys the kingdom of Pontus, annexes Syria, captures Jerusalem and annexes Judea.
The end of the Seleucid dynasty.
US History Federalist No. 64 – The Power of the Senate by John Jay published on March 5, 1788
The Sixty-fourth United States Congress – met during the third and fourth years (1915-1917) of Woodrow Wilson’s presidency
Miscellaneous
64 – the number of Braille characters in the old 6-dot system
64 – number of sexual positions in the Kama Sutra
64 – number of demons in the Dictionnaire Infernal
64 – refers to Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
1:64 – the traditional scale for models and miniatures
Unfortunately, 1,900 is not divisible by 64. Too bad because that would have been a great coincidence of celebrating the 1,900th post milestone on my 64th birthday. Seems like good rational to bypass the latest edition of Opinion in the Shorts.
Celebrate the events with one of my favorites. Which one to you chose?
A Frank Angle 