Conference thebay::joyoflex

    Well, there's Abraham Maslow's "Hierarchy of Needs" which I cannot
    recall save that the most NON-basic one was "self-actualization."
    
    Funny story about that:  My wife Debby studied under him at Brandeis
    University in the '60s; her family was/is close to Maslow because
    they're all in the greater Boston med/shrink biz.  A year or two after
    she graduated, my father- and mother-in-law were at a cocktail party
    with Abe, my wife, and me.  Someone introduced my wife to him, asking
    "Do you know Debby?"  He said "But of course; she nursed at my breast." 
    My mother-in-law took pleasure in waxing wroth, drew herself up to her
    full height, and said "Au contraire, Abe -- it was MINE."  And a good
    laff was had by all.
    

    My son says he's looking for a WIFE to supply the essentials...
    
    The rest of this is severely non-PC so please do a NEXT UNSEEN
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    Washing, Ironing, Fornication, Etc.

    A couple from the world of popular music:
    
    The Hollies (at least I think it was them) sang:
    	"All I need is the air that I breathe and to love you"
    
    The Beatles sang:
    	"All you need is love".
    
    My personal view is that I would not place a bet on their survival
    strategy succeeding :o)
    
    Jon

    	"Wine, women and song" is the title of a Whitesnake track, but I
    rather suspect they borrowed it from somewhere. Does anyone know where?
    And then there is the Roman one that I can't remember the Latin for any
    more, panem something-or-other.

>  Bernard Cribbens sang :
>    	Sex and drugs and rock and roll
>  

I allus thought it was Ian Dury...  wasn't Bernard Cribbens
some 50s/60s radio comedian?

    Re .4:
>    And then there is the Roman one that I can't remember the Latin for any
>    more, panem something-or-other.
    
    Panem et Circenses (bread and circus games).
    		Denis.

    	The nice thing about being wrong is that it provokes replies. I was
    fairly sure that the Latin wasn't "pomp et circumstances", but if
    anyone has the Ian Dury/Bernard Cribbens record I would love a copy. I
    can take care of the copulation and cannabis myself - it is just the
    �sthetics that are missing.

    Re .4
    
    `Wine women and song' has been around for a long time; it was
    paraphrased in the Navy version `Rum bum and concertina'. The
    German `Kinder K�che Kirche' [sp?] also comes to mind, but that 
    was more about cultural stereotyping than needs.
    
    And where does `6 (?) acres and a cow' come from?
    
    b

    "Four acres and a mule" (which is how I remember the phrase)
    would have been the minimum for self-sufficient existence 
    in well-watered parts of the US in the late 1800s.
    
    Wasn't there another Beatles song with the refrain below? 
    
    	Just give me money, that's what I want!
    
    Then there's the Earl Butz list of three things, which I won't
    repeat here--it lost him his job, after all!
    
    		-John Bishop

    I think it was forty acres...

    Three acres and a cow.
    
    		- Jesse Collings, in land-reform propaganda, 1885
    
    When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade and no horses are
    kept, a cow is kept for every three acres of land.
    
    		- John Stuart Mill, "Political Economy, a Treatise on
    		  Flemish Husbandry"

	"Forty acres and a mule" was the promise (broken, of course) made to
freed slaves during the Reconstruction after the Civil War.  

	Read in the local (Atlanta, Ga) paper a few weeks ago that, encouraged
by some successful suits by Native Americans, a group is actually contemplating
a class action suit for the promise to be fulfilled. (!)


tlh

Spike Lee's production company is called Forty Acres and a Mule.

    	Thanks to a Christmas present I am enabled to add some more
    quotations.
    
    	Who loves not wine, women and song
    	Remains a fool his whole life long
    
    	(long attributed to Martin Luther, but now corrected to J.H. Voss
    
    
    	Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter,
    	Sermons and soda-water the day after
    
    	(Byron in Don Juan)
    
    	Give me women, wine and snuff
    	Until I cry out "hold, enough!"
    
    	(Keats)
    
    	I may not here omit those two main plagues and common dotages of
    human kind, wine and women, which have besotted myriads of people; they
    go commonly together.
    
    	(Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy)
    
    	In the order named, these are the hardest to control: Wine, Women,
    and Song.
    
    	(Franklin Pierce Adams)

    Re .14
    
    >	In the order named, these are the hardest to control: Wine, Women,
    >and Song.
    
    That one's not true.  He forgot programmers.

    G'day,
    
    
    This Guy went to the Doctor's surgery because he was feeling tired and
    listless...
    
    He was told that were he to give up wine, women and song, then the
    doctor could add thirty years to his life. The man thought for a second
    or too and replied...
    
    
    
    
    I think I'll give up singing and settle for ten...
    
    dj