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I've Not Seen Merc Here Lately - (aka "A Prior Chatting Blog")

This gal's kinda Out There -- Like measuring you for your coffin ...

I've Not Seen Merc Here Lately - (aka "A Prior Chatting Blog")

Some whisper.

Others have a pleasant voice & are "soft spoken" -- like what you said you do normally -- which is why I say You're A Natural.
Here's Maria doing Soft Spoken ...

The Cool thing is there's No One Right Way of doing it!!

Different folks like different things.
Just look at a few different styles.

Judging by your "audition", yes. You Do have a natural knack for it.

I'll admit to being biased ... But Still!!

I've Not Seen Merc Here Lately - (aka "A Prior Chatting Blog")

MERC!! ... YOU'RE A NATURAL!!

You just did "storytelling" or fact reading. Sorta like Maria teaching Russian.
Here's an example from a Pro -- Aurora Whispers ...

SERIOUSLY ...
What say y'all? Is not Merc gifted at being soothing?
(Soothing sounds better'n "boring" but that's the basic idea.)

Who knew fortunes were to be made boring folks to sleep?

RE: Rushing to end isolation ?

The Supreme Court Justices aren't, technically, Republicans, as a seat on the Court is considered "non-political".
It's kinda a word game, though -- and the make-up of the Wisconsin Supreme Court is right leaning.

I suspect the Court majority reasoned Guv Evers overextended his authority by extending the Lockdown past its original deadline without getting some kind of corroboration from the Legislative Branch.

It's understandable the Guv Didn't go to the Legislature, on account of it being 'Publican controlled.

Mightn't that include Guv Evers for Failing to implement his Stay-At-Home Order in a Constitutional manner? ...
A pandemic doesn't suspend the Constitution & mandate Guvs become dictators.

Wisconsin politics are Utterly Insane & Always Have Been. Don't get me started

I've Not Seen Merc Here Lately - (aka "A Prior Chatting Blog")

Prob'ly should've started by defining the subject ...

... DUHHH!!

I've Not Seen Merc Here Lately - (aka "A Prior Chatting Blog")

We've been Locked Down quite awhile, haven't we?
Yeah. I think we have

Anyway.
ASMR is a pleasant, tingly response people have to certain types of stimulation -- often auditory ... something they hear/listen to.

It was discovered in, I b'lieve, the '90s & now there are ASMR tapes/YouTube Channels that provide ASMR sounds.
Some of these are rolls played/spoken in a soothing manner.

Example: A relaxing Russian language class ...

She's Maria. Note the soothing voice & subject matter.
She's like the Queen Diva of ASMR & she's raking in A Fortune!! REALLY!!

Where am I going with this?
Wellll ... I've heard you on vocaroo & suspect you might be good @ doing ASMR.
Voice is kinda Mezzo-soprano & Aussie accent is pleasant.

Maybe like a slow, soothing ASMR workout class -- something like ...

I suspect you could do at least as well ... Prob'ly Better.

The Russian teacher is Maria Viktorovna. Her YouTube channel is Gentle Whispering.
If you have Any doubt this can be lucrative to beat hell, search ...

Gentle Whispering Maria Net Worth

RE: Rushing to end isolation ?

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DAYUM!! She's RIGHT!!

I've Not Seen Merc Here Lately - (aka "A Prior Chatting Blog")

Hey Merc!
Have you ever heard of Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR)?

I've Not Seen Merc Here Lately - (aka "A Prior Chatting Blog")

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I've Not Seen Merc Here Lately - (aka "A Prior Chatting Blog")

Hey Merc!
Would you do me a favor, li'l Darlin'?

On Boost's homemade mask blog -- put up a pic of that Super DeLuxe covid mask I'm trying to sell ...

RE: VE day 75 years ago Edna was at the party

I'm tellin' ya, mimiart, if Pinky was a mite Younger and/or I was a mite Older ...

She used to to stand-up comedy back in the day.
She's razor sharp & can be devastatingly sarcastic
Suspect she & MiMi would get on well.
Also Viv -- if both survived, of course.

Pinky's also Ginger. What's NOT to like?!

RE: VE day 75 years ago Edna was at the party

Cool As Hell, Viv

"Pinky" got her Honor Flight to D.C. just a few years ago ...

Still likes to tell how she was the only woman on a plane with eighty guys

She turned 98 in January & is the Senior Member & "Glamor Gal" of our Vets For Peace Chapter.

It's great that such heroes get the recognition while they're able to appreciate it!

"On A Note Of Triumph" VE Day, 1945. 75 Years Ago.

Viv!

RE: Not a Gardener

Q) Who's the perfect wife for a fisherman?
A) A woman with worms.

A Tapeworm is the Perfect Pet -- Goes where you go ... Eats what you eat.

I've Not Seen Merc Here Lately - (aka "A Prior Chatting Blog")

"'m a party animal between the sheets "

Cacao Nibs ...

I've Not Seen Merc Here Lately - (aka "A Prior Chatting Blog")

DAYUM!!

Ol' Dears ain't even Human!
He's a Party Animal

I've Not Seen Merc Here Lately - (aka "A Prior Chatting Blog")

Belly on up, Dears ...

I've Not Seen Merc Here Lately - (aka "A Prior Chatting Blog")

"Do you drink that whiskey Mic?

...

That's Real Mukun Sippin' Likker!

Favored by Both these gents ...

Johnny Ringo & Doc Holiday
Also --
Abe Lincoln, U.S Grant & Jack Kennedy.
And ME, of course

I've Not Seen Merc Here Lately - (aka "A Prior Chatting Blog")

Here ya go, FEDEX ...

Sung by Brit Vera Lynn

I've Not Seen Merc Here Lately - (aka "A Prior Chatting Blog")

Miss Imas Mom -- Sarah Ann Stinson

I've Not Seen Merc Here Lately - (aka "A Prior Chatting Blog")

MERC NAILS 1,500th COMMENT!

I've Not Seen Merc Here Lately - (aka "A Prior Chatting Blog")

Seems Big Jim had his fingers in a Lotta different pies ...

...
Might explain why Ol' Jim didn't live to see his 55th

I've Not Seen Merc Here Lately - (aka "A Prior Chatting Blog")

Another of Big Jim's claims to fame ...

I've Not Seen Merc Here Lately - (aka "A Prior Chatting Blog")

From Wikipedia --


"(Big Jim) Hogg is often remembered for naming his daughter Ima, an odd name which derived from a poem written by James's brother, Thomas Elisha Hogg. The story that she had a sister named 'Ura' is an urban legend."

Big Jim Hogg -- Cool name.

I've Not Seen Merc Here Lately - (aka "A Prior Chatting Blog")

Prob'ly Not.

Miss Ima's Dad (James "Big Jim" Hogg) was the 'Crat Guv of Texas.

Note in Big Jim's Wikipedia bio -- He's At Least as well remembered for naming Miss Ima as for anything he accomplished during his political career.

It's Miss Ima that's made (and kept) her Ol' Man famous!

RE: "SOME THINGS THAT ARE OLD"..("MICLEE"S 21st CENTURY")

@ 1:38 --
It was Zasu Pitts's final appearance on screen.

RIP Zasu -- And all the rest in that compilation

Zasu Pitts was her real name.
She was named for two of her aunts - Eli-ZA & SU-san ...

Her trademark high quavering voice inspired the voice of Olive Oyl in the Popeye cartoons, though Zasu herself never voiced Miss Oyl.

I've Not Seen Merc Here Lately - (aka "A Prior Chatting Blog")

I've Not Seen Merc Here Lately - (aka "A Prior Chatting Blog")

Patti!

I noted the part @ O:25

I've Not Seen Merc Here Lately - (aka "A Prior Chatting Blog")

I've Not Seen Merc Here Lately - (aka "A Prior Chatting Blog")

^^^^
Miss Ima was going for the Gibson Girl look -- regarded as the personification of femininity & beauty in turn of the 20th Century Murka ...