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I like the one where Alice Cooper is shopping with "his daughter" and she says "I thought you said 'School's Out!'"

He replied, "No, I said 'School's out for summer.'"

I haven't see that one!

I remember LOVING that song in high school...that is when it first came out...hope I am not dating myself too much here.

Alice

My dad used to blare that song outside on the last day of school as long as I can remember. I swear the pond in the back yard used to ripple!

"Eighteen" by AC was one of the first songs I ever learned on guitar, cept I was fourteen.

We had a ritual at school on the last day, that I later learned wasen't very unique at all. Everyone out the doors and run like it's a prison break. Then for the next several days, the entire world just seemed a little more beautiful. Come September though it felt like going to prison.

LOL! The way he sings those lyrics is SO intense, and that is what is so great about it when you are still in school and hear it at the end of the year!!!

Alice (not Cooper )

For those who don't know, our Alice looks nothing like Mr. Cooper!

I couldn't find her picture to have a comparison.

LOL!

Speaking of Alice Cooper, occasionally I drive through the Richmond, Virginia, area where they broadcast a syndicated radio show "Nights with Alice Cooper." I was amazed to hear him preach "family values", even bashing Hugh Hefner. He's actually said he's a committed Christian...who'd a thunk?

WOW! INDEED, who would have EVER thunk!

GLORY TO GOD!

Alice

"I have never made fun of religion. Religion is something I don't even want to mess with, because I am really afraid of the clouds opening up and my being struck by lightning. Satanism is something else I don't mess with. I think that the heavy metal bands that do are playing with fire. I have never influenced people in a negative way, and I'm not about to start now."
-Alice Cooper

(His stuff was mostly schtick anyway. He wrote "The Man with the Golden Gun" which the James Bond producers let someone else sing instead.)

[About Marilyn Manson] "He took a girl's name as his first and wears a hell of a lot of makeup. I wish I'd thought of doing that."
-Alice Cooper

This thread is officially derailed, I guess since I started it and am contributing to the off topic topics I'm asking that it stay open since it wasn't really about anything to being with.

More About Alice the Christian...from his website (http://www.srfrock.org/why/):
WHY SOLID ROCK
Our Mission
Solid Rock's primary goal is to honor Christ by helping to meet the spiritual, economical, physical, and social needs of teenagers and children within our community.

Our Goals
To honor Christ by providing a facility geared toward teenagers that will help them to negotiate through the turbulent adolescent years. The relationally trained Christian staff, of men and women, and the different venues will create an atmosphere which will make it a place where they will want to hang out. "The Rock" the name of the building will be designed to be a flexable needs structure centered around music. Programs will focus around a multi-use concert hall, coffee house (kitchen/snack bar for concert & other events), indoor basketball/floor hockey court, rock climbing walls, sound room and recording studio, computer/reading/study rooms, game room.

Our goal is to make an everlasting difference in the lives of the teenagers and children we are
dedicated to helping.

I don't care what the popular culture says or does, December is Advent in our house, until the 25th. The tree does not go up until the weekend before Christmas.

Most so-called Christmas music is enough to make me ill. I found on amazon.com last year Catholic Christmas Classics by the Cathedral Singers and Richard Proulx. Except for one song, they are all quite beautiful, especially Puer Natus. I even broke it out on the Feast of the Annunciation.

About that staples.com commercial - I'm 44, and we're expecting our first in January (when Poland is still celebrating Christmas). I graduated from high school 25 years ago last June and I still hate back to school ads.