Paul Vance is still very much alive, although many in Florida held belief, they'd lost the writer of this perrenial hit. Apparently an imposter with identical name and some music fame maintained false claims throughout his life. His wife, needless to say was shocked but there really was'nt much left to say anymore, except I bet she muttered under her breath "You think you know a guy.....". A ridiculous act in which this guy got his baby sister drunk, a mom that fed her expecting daughter, turpentine, a goose that did a fly-by along a bike rider (no, not the topgun ref.) and a school that spent whole lotta cash on a poodle which took on its duties as a calming influence. If Rip Van had been asleep for the lats 50 years and woken up coupla days ago, logged on to cnn.com to see these headlines on the front page....

Brother gets 3-year-old sister drunk, police say
Cop: Mom made pregnant girl drink turpentine
Goose exercises flying next to Harley biker
School spends $2,300 on poodle to calm kids
'Itsy Bitsy' writer victim of imposter

....he would have promptly gone into voluntary coma. We are the children of this century, quite used to this kind of nonsense. The oddities of this world don’t affect us anymore, we have learnt to ignore it. Interesting point here is that the world might have been this odd to begin with, we're more aware of it now due to better press coverage. But then maybe, that’s a wrong conclusion and this whole thing has to do with global warming affecting human engagement with each other, turning them crazy. I guess we all need a poodle some time or the other to calm us over.