Alternative Gifts for Guys…

Yes My Friends,

 

As promised I am presenting some unusual gifts for the ladies to present to the guys.

 

The first is something that is totally a you/him experience and well worth the thought.

 

Phil, Bobby, Mickey, and Friends do Obama benefit on Monday‏
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Sent:	Fri 2/01/08 5:42 PM
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To:	Wayward Bill

 You only have a half an hour to get ready, and I presume it will mainly affect people living in the Bay Area, but here goes:

Deadheads for Obama featuring Bob Weir,Mickey Hart,Phil Lesh & Friends
The Warfield , San Francisco, CA
Mon, Feb 4, 2008 07:30 PM

Tickets are only on sale via TicketMaster, and only will call. The price is $35 and limit 2 tix.

Here is the text of the special announcement on dead.net:

http://dead.net/features/news/general-news/deadheads-obama

DEADHEADS FOR OBAMA
featuring
BOB WEIR, MICKEY HART, PHIL LESH & FRIENDS
The Warfield Theatre
Monday, February 4, Doors 6:00 PM/ Show 7:30PM
Tickets are $35.00 general admission (main floor) and $35.00 (balcony) plus applicable service charges…all ages
Two-ticket limit per person.
Tickets will be available through Ticketmaster.com ONLY.
Will Call only event.
::Map The Theater

Deadheads for Obama

Grateful Dead Members to Reunite for Barack Obama

(San Francisco) Members of the Grateful Dead will host a get out the vote concert in support of Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama on Monday, February 4th at The Warfield Theatre in San Francisco.
Mickey Hart, Phil Lesh, and Bob Weir, joined by Jackie Greene, John Molo, and Steve Molitz, will play show together in support of Barack Obama.

(Early Grateful Dead Video  circa 66-67)
  

The video website Iclips will be producing a live simulcast streamed via the Internet on http://www.iclips.net at approximately 7:30pm PST.

This will mark the first time that the members of the legendary band have performed together since 2004. They have agreed to reunite for this one-time-only event in order to lend support to Senator Obama leading into the crucial “Super- Tuesday” series of primaries held on Tuesday, February 5th.

PLEASE NOTE: Tickets will be available through Ticketmaster.com ONLY. Tickets will NOT be available at the box offices, charge-by-phone or Ticketmaster outlets. Two-ticket limit per person. Tickets are non-transferable. No refunds or exchanges. A service charge is added to each ticket price. In the spirit of fair access to tickets for fans, this is a "WILL CALL ONLY" event. UPS and Ticketfast will not be available as delivery choices. You must bring your government issued photo ID and your credit card used to purchase the tickets to the box office window on the day of the show to retrieve these tickets. You and your guest must enter the venue directly upon picking up your order. **Will Call tickets are not transferable and must be picked up by card holder. Alternate names for will call are not allowed. No will call drop-offs permitted.** *** TICKETMASTER, AT ITS DISCRETION, WILL CANCEL ANY AND ALL ORDERS THAT EXCEED THE TICKET LIMIT WITHOUT NOTICE. THIS INCLUDES DUPLICATE ORD
ERS HAVING THE SAME NAME, BILLING ADDRESS OR CREDIT CARD. ***

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Below are some of the links I’ve collected to help find things in the store:

I have created quantity discounts to encourage you to pile more stuff in the shopping carts to take away:

over $50, 5% discount
over $100, 10% discount
over $150, 15% discount
over $200, 20% discount

Other useful sales links:
http://www.gdforum.com/store/blowout.html

new stuff:
http://www.gdforum.com/cgi-bin/shopper?keywords=new_stuff&search=action

close outs and collectibles:
http://www.gdforum.com/cgi-bin/shopper?keywords=closeout&search=action

Now that gift takes "deadication"

I'd love to receive it just on the music alone.  I paid 

air-fare, hotel, rental car, and $350 to be in the 

front row of what I thought 

and what became the last acoustic, Phil, Bobby, and 

Jerry show of the 20th century.  

Gut feeling.  My other premonition was to be 

there for the last official note played by the Grateful Dead.  Yes, I was in 

Chicago, July 8, 1995.  

Plus I have my last note statement on record with 

the Newport News, Newport Beach, VA 

for the Hampton, VA shows in 1986. Anyway just 

reminiscing, back to unusual gifts for the guys.

Here's a link to AskMen.com for the top ten Valentine's 

for the man or 

men in your life. I checked out some of the gift ideas and 

intimate bedroom gifts, #2 was the most intriguing.

This is a Valentine's Day gift I heard about on the 

radio the other evening.  Name A Star! 

Give your sweetie his very own star that's named by you.  

Comes in three packages; Custom, Deluxe, Ultimate.  

Perfect gift for that space cadet of yours'!

Have a grateful weekend,

Wayward Bill

(For the record Deadheads United has yet to endorse 

any of the candidates for the 2008 presidental election.)

Quotes New & Old

"We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, 
and celebration and religion in our lives, and music 
is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it." 
~ Jerry Garcia ~
 
 .' 

I had a rose name for me and was very flattered. But I was 

not pleased to read the description in the catalog: 

'No good in a bed, but fine against a wall.' 
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

                     Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen.

I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to withdraw that statement.
— Mark Twain

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible.
George Burns

Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year.
— Victor Borge

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
— Mark Twain

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
— Socrates

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
— Groucho Marx

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.
— Jimmy Durante

I have never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back.
— Zsa Zsa Gabor

Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat.
— Alex Levine

My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying.
— Rodney Dangerfield

Money can’t buy you happiness But it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
— Spike Milligan

Until I was thirteen, I thought my name was SHUT UP.
— Joe Namath

I don’t feel old. I don’t feel anything until noon. Then it’s time for my nap.
— Bob Hope

I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.
— W.C. Fields

We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress.
— Will Rogers

Don’t worry about avoiding temptation. . As you grow older, it will avoid you.
— Winston Churchill

Maybe it’s true that life begins at fifty .. But everything else starts to wear out,

fall out, or spread out.
— Phyllis Diller

By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he’s too old to go anywhere.
— Billy Crystal

Change your world stuff

Dear Wayward Bill,

Recently, many in Washington and the Bush Administration have claimed that the surge has worked. They claim that we are on the path to security in Iraq and that the tables have finally turned in our favor. However, the reality of the situation on the ground tells a very different story. As you will see below, and as the American people should constantly remind themselves, it requires a suspension of belief, or an acceptance of widespread violence, to believe that the surge has worked. For five years this war has raged on and has brought America no closer to a secure future.  As Arianna Huffington has written, with only three of the 18 benchmarks laid out last year met, and a more than 50% increase in deaths of American soldiers over December, "the surge is working" is poised to become 2007-08's "Mission Accomplished." Though many Americans are facing a tough economic future, in the months ahead, American's should force their potential presidential candidates to engage the war again and test the merits of the Biden-Gelb Soft Partition Plan. 
Thanks for your continued support
Saturday January 26: 13 dead
Baghdad: gunmen kill policeman, Bab al-Sharqi; gunmen kill a couple and their son and daughter in their house, Talibiya; a civilian dies in drive-by shooting, Muaskar al-Rasheed; 1 body found.
Muqdadiya: roadside bomb kills policeman. 
Abu Saida: roadside bomb kills governor's guard.
Balad: roadside bomb kills motorist
Sulaimaniya: 2 bodies found.
Kirkuk: man is killed in drive-by shooting.
Friday January 25: 7 dead
Baghdad: 2 bodies.
Saqlawiya: 3 bodies.
Abu Saida: roadside bomb kills 1.
Najaf: gunmen kill Sheikh loyal to al-Sadr outside his house. 
Thursday January 24: 14 dead
Baghdad: roadside bomb kills 2 policemen, Andulos Square; explosion kills 1, Ur; 3 bodies.
Mosul: police chief and 2 other policemen killed by suicide bomber at site of yesterday's blast, while inspecting the damage.
Karbala: attack on Sheikh Abdul Mehdi al-Karbala kills 2 of his bodyguards.
Mahaweel: roadside bomb kills civilian. 
Iskandariya: body found.
Baquba: body found. 
Wednesday  January 23: 49 dead
Baghdad: gunmen kill the dead of dentistry at Baghdad university; 4 bodies.
Mosul: 37 die in explosion that brings down building.
Dibis: car bomb kills 7, including a child.
Tuesday January 22: 21 dead
Baghdad: roadside bomb kills 1; 3 bodies.
Baquba: suicide bomber blows himself up in school, kills 1; gunmen kill man near clinic. 
Buhriz: 7 bodies of men belonging to the same family are found.
Shirqat: gunmen kill police chief's bodyguard. 
Mosul: gunmen kill university professor; body found.
Basra: gunmen kill policeman.
Bardi Bridge: body found.
Hilla: 2 bodies found.
Amara: child killed in missile explosion. 
Monday January 21: 39 dead
Baghdad: man killed by US forces in the course of a raid, Amil; 7 bodies.
Hajaj: suicide bomber blows up 17 people at funeral, in village near Baiji. 
Samarra: explosion near car kills 2.
Qaiyara: car bomb kills 2. 
Mosul: US air strike kills 2 policemen; 2 bodies.
Kalar: gunmen attack house, kill mother and 13-year-old daughter.
Falluja: gunmen attack police patrol, kill 4 Awakening members. 
Sunday January 20: 17 dead
Baghdad: roadside bomb kills 1, Zayouna; 2 bodies.
Saad Camp: roadside bomb kills 2. 
Muqdadiya: man is killed by gunmen. 
Baquba: 2 children die in bomb explosion by their house; gunmen kill Awakening member.
Falluja: teenage suicide bomber kills 6 at Awakening feast.
Hawija: tribesman dies in drive-by shooting.
Samarra: gunmen kill former Baath member.
Saturday January 19: 32 dead
Baghdad: roadside bomb kills 2 in restaurant, Sadr City; 2 bodies.
Ramadi: suicide bombers kill 6 policemen. 
Falluja: 2 bodies.
Balad: mortars target Ashura pilgrims, kill 5, including 2 children.
Tal Afar: rocket kills 7 at Ashura gathering. 
Mosul: bomb explosion kills woman.
Kirkuk: bomb under pile of rubbish kills 2.
Wajihiya: roadside bomb targeting governor's convoy kills 3 bodyguards.
Nasiriya: 2 policemen killed in clashes. 
Friday January 18: 37 dead
Baghdad: roadside bomb kills woman and child, Ur; 2 bodies.
Basra: 7 killed in clashes, most of them policemen; sniper kills doctor.
Nasiriya: 13, including 2 children, killed in clashes with Soldiers of Heaven cult during Ashura festival.
Buhruz: 2 policemen die in booby-trapped house. 
Wajihiya: 2 policemen are killed in clashes. 
Baquba: 2 children die in booby-trapped house. 
Shirween: 3 bodies.

Thursday January 17: 36 dead
Baghdad: 3 bodies.
Baquba: suicide bomber kills 11 outside Shia mosque.
Diyala River Valley: US forces kill 3 (2 women and 1 man) during raid.
Jalawla: US and Iraqi forces kill 7 during overnight raid -5 of them a family of Kurds living in Shaykh Bawa village. When the family did not open their door out of fear, the forces broke down the door and opened fire.
Mosul: car bomb kills policeman; gunmen kill another civilian and another policeman; roadside bomb kills 2; another roadside bomb kills 3; car bomb outside church kills 1.
Basra: gunmen kill policeman. Policeman killed during clashes.
Tikrit: gunmen kill policeman. 
Wednesday January 16: 26 dead
Baghdad: roadside bomb kills 3 university students, Bab al-Muadham; roadside bomb kills another civilian, Zaafaraniya; roadside bombs kill 2, Nahrawan; gunmen attack Awakening members at checkpoint, kill 2; 5 bodies.
Khan Bani Saad: suicide bomber blows herself up outside mosque killing 8.
Civilian is shot dead by US forces, the 24th this month.
Tuz Khurmato: gunmen kill student; body found.
Shirqat: 2 policemen killed in clashes with gunmen during raid. 
Tuesday January 15: 16 dead
Baghdad: 5 primary school children are struck by official's convoy and are then caught in ensuing gunfight between guards and Iraqi soldiers; Awakening member killed in clashes, Sadriya; 6 bodies.
Mosul: roadside bomb kills policeman; 2 bodies.
Al-Shirqat: suicide car bomber attack police checkpoint, kills policeman. 
Monday January 14: 29 dead
Baghdad: gunmen kill judge along with his driver, Mansour; 5 bodies.
Buhriz: 7 policemen die in booby-trapped house during search; Awakening member is shot dead nearby. 
Dujail: roadside bomb kills 2 policemen.
Mosul: car bomb kills civilian; gunmen kill policeman; 2 bodies.
Haditha: 4 bodies.
Kut: US forces open fire at intersection killing 4 (a bus driver and 3 construction workers). The number of Iraqi civilians killed by US forces in January has now gone up to 23.
Sunday January 13: 12 dead
Baghdad: gunmen kill office worker, Arasat; policeman killed in ensuing clashes; 4 bodies.
Kenzinar: gunmen kill doctor's assistant.
Basra: gunmen kill official at Sadr's office.
Falluja: US forces kill civilian in car, as it approaches their patrol.
Jalawla: body found.
Mosul: 2 bodies found.
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