I meandered into Paper Source and picked up some table decorations, a cute do-it-yourself tepee pack and some funny paper headdresses, some shaped like pilgrim's hats, some shaped like feathers.
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There is nothing quite like being jetlagged in an In-N-Out store complete with those white tiles, red seats, employees wearing funny paper hats and eating food with Bible citations on the packaging.
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Many at the time were alarmed by the development. In particular, The Economist thought it was a concerning and short-sighted development."You only give me your funny paper - Debt markets turn grouchy as creditors ask for more". The Economist.
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John T. Smith (c. 1890 – c. 1940), variously known as the Howling Wolf, "Funny Paper" Smith, "Funny Papa" Smith, and Howling Smith, was an American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter. He released around ten singles in his own name or variants thereof.
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Haworth started appearing on the radio with George Earle (dropped Wilson for professional name)--no relation to Slim and Aunt Martha. Earle read the Sunday newspaper comics on the air and Haworth sang and played guitar. He was later succeeded on the "funny paper" program by Howard Lee Arthur and "Little Eddie" Smith. His mother, known on-air as "Aunt Martha", Junior (later called "Speedy) and her brother, Slim Wilson, formed The Goodwill Trio with Haworth as "Junior.
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The song was originally titled "On Our Way Home". Ian MacDonald claimed the lyrics (e.g.: "you and I have memories/longer than the road that stretches out ahead" or "you and me chasing paper/getting nowhere") sounded like McCartney was probably addressing Lennon and contractual troubles. "You Never Give Me Your Money", a different composition by McCartney from the previously released album, but recorded after Let It Be, Abbey Road, also refers to The Beatles' contract with Allen Klein as "funny paper".
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Russia has backed Trump by attacking the dossier and denying its allegations, calling it an "absolute fabrication" and "a hoax intended to further damage U.S.–Russian relations". As Putin's press secretary, Peskov insisted in an interview that the dossier is a fraud, saying "I can assure you that the allegations in this funny paper, in this so-called report, they are untrue. They are all fake." Putin called the people who leaked the dossier "worse than prostitutes" and referred to the dossier itself as "rubbish".
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Another oddity was that although Smith called himself "Funny Papa", his record label Vocalion managed to mistake this for "Funny Paper" Smith, and that is how he was billed on his earliest releases. He recorded almost twenty songs for Vocalion in 1930 and 1931, including the aforementioned "Howling Wolf Blues", from which he acquired another pseudonym, "The Howling Wolf". Smith reportedly wore a stovepipe hat with "Funny Papa Smith" stitched upon it. Between September 1930 and April 1935, he recorded forty-one songs, but only half that number were released at that time.
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Prior to Johnson's song, the phrase "hellhound on my trail" had been used in various blues songs. Sylvester Weaver's "Devil Blues", recorded in 1927 contains: "Hellhounds start to chase me man, I was a running fool, My ankles caught on fire, couldn't keep my puppies cool"Okeh Records OK 8534 and "Funny Paper" Smith in his 1931 "Howling Wolf Blues No. 3" sang: "I take time when I'm prowlin', an' wipe my tracks out with my tail ... Get home and get blue an' start howlin', an' the hellhound on my trail".Vocalion Records Vo 1614 The Biddleville Quintette's 1926 religious recording "Show Pity Lord" opens with a religious testimony declaring that "The hell hound has turned back off my trail".Paramount Records Pm 12424 Blues writers, such as Elijah Wald, see Johnson following Johnny Temple (1935 "The Evil Devil Blues"Vocalion Records Vo 02987) and Joe McCoy (1934 "Evil Devil Woman Blues"Decca Records De7822) in adapting Skip James's 1931 song "Devil Got My Woman".
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