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Why is there in a lot of buildings, like hotels NO 13th FLOOR? Are the US citizens THAT superstitious?

A REAL STORY:
A European (from Germany), a rich kid was invited with a few friends to jump of a building. It was a bungee jump.
He filmed (with a little camera on his helmet) his own death.
In Europe, a building starts with the GROUND FLOOR while in many buildings in the USA this = 1st floor. They did their homework, and they where going to jump of a 12 store building.
Crowded area, police office 50m from the building, so they went inside and with a kind of laser beam they measured the height. So that poor guy jumped with an elastic chord which was perfect for 12 floors, ground floor = 1st floor resulting in SPLASH. HAPPY BIRTHDAY. This happened a few years ago.

An actor's job is acting
A boxer's job is hitting
A model's job is fitting
George W' job was bombing

A doctor's job is healing
A Thief's job is stealing
A painter's job is 'paint the ceiling'
A band's job is playing.

My job is doing nothing and being lazy
I get my money by acting crazy
I play guitar and I get fuzzy
Especially attacked by a big brown bear, or a grizzly.

THE MUSHROOM AND THE DWARF.

I’m a very little dwarf living in a big, big mushroom
I clean it everyday with my very small sized broom
I have all I need: a few rooms, a kitchen, a bed, and even a small bathroom
I see a lot of people passing by, even those who collect them to consume.

Yesterday I saw an actress; I believe her name was Witherspoon
I am so happy here and my house is out of sight, even for a classroom
Passengers won’t take my house because it has a red roof with white dots, not good to consume
It’s so quiet here, you see trees, flowers and bees flying over with their noise making zoom, zoom

My age?  I’m 233 years old and my daughter already 165 years, wearing a forest perfume
She lives with me, since a “big foot" stepped on her house, and lives now in that spare room
I write this poem to inform you we exist, but we’re so fast, really fast a skill you must assume
My little legs, my red pants, a white shirt and a hat red with a white dot and ready for a ballroom

I wear red shoes, the top pointing to the sky, I look better than Orlando Bloom
Yes indeed I spend a lot of time squeezing out some pimples, and cleaning my long beard in my fancy bathroom
Oh Jesus, I forgot that later on this day, another couple dwarfs, is coming here to see my house I presume
They told to they told me they wanted to buy my house, but doing this I‘ll loose my house, I loose my mushroom.

Why are they so violent?
It is if people go back to ancient Rome, and shouting BREAD and GAMES.
If you see ICE HOCKEY which is indeed probably the most popular sport in Canada & I think in the North (more at the border between US and Canada), is that violence you see on TV reality? I think that dentists and orthopedic surgeons are growing like "mushrooms" there.
ABOUT CARS.
- NASCAR is huge, but what with FORMULA 1?
I know that some guys once big in F1, drive or drove NASCAR later, more money, and probably more spectacular.

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN F1 and NASCAR?
In my humble opinion is the most important difference is VIOLENCE. See RUGBY versus AMERICAN FOOTBALL, see ICE HOCKEY, I heard somewhere that the little thing called "puck"can reach speeds higher than 100 miles = 160km/hour. THIS IS REALLY fast. And we all shouting sport is good for your health, but I don't want to have a puck in my ... with that speed.
And as described in the "close related" topic WHAT IS THAT MUSICAL INTERMEZZO? Really great stars singing before, and in between the game? 
One one of my many trips to the USA, I had to make a long detour, seeing trailers and a lot of people. Asking a police officer what was going on, he told me a RODEO expecting at least 50.000 people for the so called "most dangerous eight seconds in sports"

ISN'T STOCK CAR DRIVING POPULAR TOO? I was told that the really good drivers of these cars earn a lot of money, and that's a sport we don't really know here.

Most important is that most of these games (sport) are originally from the UK and once in the USA they evolved to the sports you have there.
- Cricket --> Baseball
- Rugby ---> American Football

I have to say that there are so many beautiful poems on this thread.
I am often busy to check if "there is an identical" phrase/phrases here.
There are some incredible facts to create a poem, even song writing.
I use it for a few reasons:
- I like it, I love it.
- In fact most of the very great song have great lyrics.
- My mothertongue isn't ENGLISH but DUTCH or FLEMISH in my case.
- I speak fluently 4 languages and some Italian too.

WHAT IS MOST IMPORTANT? MELODY? SONG LYRICS? It is quit interesting:
- To start with poetry followed by adding some chords....and then it should be in "songwriting"
- If you are a less gifted "melody writer" but a great poet, it belongs here.
I am truly amazed that so many chordians write brilliant poetry, but unable to link it with chords
I am proud, because it improves my English, every day better, but concerning songs = I have maybe 100 songs, especially melodies, lyrics aren't that good. 
My point of view is that I listen first to the music, and after listening several times I start to listen to the lyrics. On 100 songs maybe 30% have real great lyrics.
- BOB DYLAN + BOB DYLAN
- ELTON JOHN + BERNIE TAUPIN
-  CAROL KING, a brilliant songwriter, a lot of bands should be grateful to Carole, especially in the 60ties. She started to sing too in the middle 70ties.
DO YOU HAVE SOME SURPRISES IN THE POCKET?

ARE YOU ABLE TO LISTEN and TO CONFIRM that the songs listed in the link are in fact a kind of "tribute" to "dark powers"or "HAVING A MESSAGE" playing them backwards.
I am really sorry to write it in this way, but please don't shoot me, I am only the messenger showing you songs with the "famous controversy"linked to what I call dark powers, and some songs are really very well known. Some examples
1) Imagine by John Lennon
2) Stairway to heaven by Led Zeppelin
3) Stairway to heaven
4) Break On Through by The Doors
If you follow the link, you can hear the proper lyrics, and with 1 click you can hear it backwards and read "these lyrics" played backwards.
I have it very difficult, even reading these lyrics to see the connection.
http://jeffmilner.com/backmasking.htm

I really love to hear comments. It is harmless and in a way funny to see and hear it. I really don't understand the people who are busy with looking for hidden messages, a real waste of time

Yes, there is music involved.
I don't understand your different sports, but which one is the most popular?
1) BASKET
2) ICE HOCKEY
3) BASEBALL
4) AMERICAN FOOTBALL
Here in Europe it is SOCCER, BICYCLING (TOUR DE FRANCE won 7 times by Lance Armstrong.
My question was if these 4 sports are also strong connected with music.
In American football, a sport I am not at all familiar, what are they doing standing in the middle of the field, all heads together and those strange signs you see with their hands, same in Baseball).
And here it comes: where, when and why is a famous band playing music?
Isn't there a gig during the game (before, at the pause, and at the end or am I completely wrong?I only know that a famous singer, like Mariah Carey song at the superbowl.
Is this a honor, is this only for big acts?
THESE ARE MY QUESTIONS, after spending a lot of time, because in most cases you get information about that sport, and as being 100% ignorant about US sportevents.
I REALLY WOULD APPRECIATE ANSWERS.
FOR MOST OF YOU IT IS THE MOST NORMAL "THING" but here? NO

SILLY POEM
I told you I was going to a concert, he said U2
I was amazed and asked you too, he said no U2
Oh, I see are you going alone, no he said and you too
I told him no, with a friend, and he asked me who?
No not the who, my words still warm, I coughed he said take that
No, not take that and before I go, I’ll take a bath
Are you from Bath he asked, I told him your ears are bad
Aha! he said, they are not bad I said, no he said, they play a strat
Wait, I said I have the cure, the band he said, a no again they are to fat
I still don’t know what he wanted from me, maybe my cravat
A green one with yellow dots, just disinfected we had a rat
He started again a boomtown rat? I’ve had enough and became mad
So please forgive, he said, just like that Adam’s guy was singing in my flat
So and here it ends, there is no clue, it just for fun, learned it from my dad.

This title means NOTHING, I wanted to tell that I decided to write less, I used to write at least 10 topics a day. I AM HAVING A LOT MORE FUN, READING WHAT OTHER'S  WRITE.
So WHY WARNING:
- To avoid the fact that existing poems from other people here, and I mean other sites than chordie, are placed here.
GOOGLE POEMS or POETRY and you will find 1000nds of poems.
I try to do my duty very "meticulous" and it is time consuming.
Don't shoot me for writing this, I should have written it in the beginning.

I SAY: GO FOR IT FELLOW CHORDIANS, don't be afraid, I am a "5 minutes poet", having a lot of fun with playing with words, and letters. Like "BOOD GYE" in stead of "GOODBYE" which is an example of playing with words.
Or even writing a poem in reverse style, A happy Eastern to you all" will become All you to Eastern happy a.

Dear fellow Chordians I hope you like this.
I'm working hard on my English, so please correct me when I'm wrong. Here my poem.

THE SUN
Isn’t it strange to look into the sky and see that yellow globe
Some days surrounded with a fine blue haze of clouds
Everyday she comes and goes not hanging on a rope
This beautiful phenomenon attracting lots of crowds

The light we see day after day is coming 8 minutes later
We love her, we need her without her there’s no life
She can shine so hard like a million lamps ampere
You have to respect her, to love her as your legal wife

Some people love her, some people hate her because she’s hot
The ones telling you I hate her, don’t blame them for being ignorant
She was a goddess once in Egypt, baptized Ra and adored a lot
She gives life, trees, flowers and hides her when it rains but never constant

Oh sun where art thou when it’s dark and when we see the moon
When the sky is dark, clear and filled with little lights called stars
Well go to sleep, have sweet dreams we’ll see her soon
Then we wake up, we take a shower, fresh cloths and play our beloved guitars.

Is this a brandnew kind of software that you can download on your PC?
In fact it seems to be a "VIRTUAL" amp.
Who knows more about this