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   Beaver Fever to QueBarbara   
   Re: Elvis   
   09 Sep 20 14:04:25   
   
   From: Beaver_Fever@live.com   
      
   On Sunday, August 16, 2009 at 5:21:48 PM UTC-7, QueBarbara wrote:   
   > On 16 Aug 2009 22:53:54 GMT, Dover Beach    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   > >I'm one of the few people I know who remembers where she was when she   
   > >heard that Elvis had died.  I was working as a lifeguard, and I was on   
   > >break, lying out by the locker room working on my tan, and there were   
   > >some workmen nearby blasting a boombox.  The radio announcer said that   
   > >Elvis had died and proceeded to play a bunch of Elvis hits.  And I   
   > >thought, Oh, Elvis died, that's a shame.  42, that's really old.   
   > >   
   > >Ah, Elvis.   
   >   
   > I remember exactly where I was, riding to work with a sister to our   
   > summer jobs at Indiana Beach.  The DJ on the radio (probably WLS from   
   > Chicago) made the announcement, and at first we thought it was a joke.   
   > I remember looking at each other in surprise once we realized it   
   > wasn't. But yeah, he was OLD and way past his prime, so it didn't make   
   > too much of an impression on me otherwise.   
   >   
   > The Dude remembers, too - today is his birthday.   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   > --   
   > QueBarbara   
   >   
   > Let's go down to the fairground before it's up and gone,   
   > Get your tight blue jeans out and try to get 'em on, get 'em on.   
      
   I don't remember.   
      
   However I remember where I was when I heard QueBarbara died.   
      
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