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My friend Betty bought a bit of butter;
“But,” she said, “this butter's bitter!
If I put it in my batter
It will make my batter bitter.
But a bit o’ better butter
Will but make my batter better.”
Then she bought a bit o’ butter
Better than the bitter butter,
Made her bitter batter better.
So ’twas better Betty Botter
Bought a bit o’ better butter
(Original by Carolyn Wells, 1899)
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Woah! ...never seen that version before - much more interesting than the short one I knew on the same theme:
"Betty bought a bit o' butter
but she found the butter bitter
so Betty bought a better bit o' butter
to make the bitter butter better"
...have to learn that one now!
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Marc Clifton wrote: And 1's and 0's are just a collapsed quantum state
The PHB is correct - it's all in the way that you look at it. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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As is cooking -- just add the stuff together and off you go.
As the old joke goes: "Knowing where to hit, $20,000"
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Ah, but putting them in the correct order is the difficult part.
The less you need, the more you have.
Why is there a "Highway to Hell" and only a "Stairway to Heaven"? A prediction of the expected traffic load?
JaxCoder.com
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... and it was joyous! It took me straight back to my childhood. 
I have one of those clock-radios that doesn't know about weekends - and, mostly, it's pretty annoying. For some reason 6Music seem to think it's 'appropriate' to be playing heavy metal/punk rock/pulsating dance music/etc. at 6:30 am on a Saturday & Sunday. But yesterday we got this:
The Friends Of Distinction "Grazing In The Grass" on The Ed Sullivan Show - YouTube[^]
This has to be one of the most uplifting songs, ever!
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Each to his own
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I guess you have to be 'of a certain age'! For me, 1968/69 was when pop music peaked.
modified 12-Jul-21 6:00am.
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#MeToo
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I was fifteen then and a committed Jimi Hendrix man
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Hendrix, Cream, Led Zep, (the real) Fleetwood Mac. Those were the days.
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Being a guitar player, and having eclectic tastes, I couldn't agree more. I think you left out Van Morrison, Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Zombies, Argent, America, Neil Young, Buffalo Springfield, CSNY, Bad Company, Jackson Brown and many others. Of course the Beatles, Jefferson Airplane, the Rolling Stones, Smith, the Doobie Brothers, Gladys Knight and the Pips, the Four Tops, Todd Rundgren, Hall and Oates, Carol King, Joe Cocker, Spirit, ACDC, Aretha Franklin, and Steely Dan.
I could go on, but I need to get to work.
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Slow Eddie wrote: I think you left out ...
It was a great time for music - and, yes, I left out a lot. Here's a few more: The Who, The Kinks, The Beach Boys, Simon & Garfunkel, The Small Faces, Pink Floyd, Traffic....
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Can't believe that I left them out! 
It's hell getting old.
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The real Fleetwood Mac used to play in one of my local pubs in Chertsey along with the likes of John Mayall, Rod Stewart, Eric Clapton etc etc... - great days
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I envy you. Did Long John Baldry ever make it there?
It really is hell getting old.
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They pretty much all did Eddie - I remember a band cancelled once so they got a standin and it was Desmond Dekker who was very good
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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There is no such thing as the wrong time for heavy metal, but early sunday morning is one of the best. Why? The roads are empty, especially the highways, where we often don't have any speed limits. Time to get the Lamborghini out of the garage and with the right music even that car can go a little faster.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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 If I haven't been to bed yet (and that doesn't happen any more!), heavy metal at 6:30am on a Sunday morning is absolutely fine. It's just not so great being woken up by it. I think I need a smarter radio-alarm clock, (not one that's listening on me!), that understands weekends.
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I think we all like the same music
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Maybe draw on such early calls (4,6)
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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DAWN CHORUS
(Anag of DRAW ON SUCH)
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Yep
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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