Tardy, Tardy, Tardy

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It’s waaay overdue time for the June caption contest: pick a quote with the month “June” in it, enter it in the comments, and winner gets their website perma-linked at the top of the rotating link list for the month of June. And because I’m such a tard for posting it so late, I’ll give you, oh, until the end of the week before I declare a winner.

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"June is bustin’ out all over." -- Oscar Hammerstein II, from "Carousel."

"So when he had occasion to be seen, he was but as the cuckoo is in June, heard but not regarded."

--Shakespeare, Henry IV Part I

another bride
another groom
etc.

I'm sitting this one out, it's time for someone else to win.

If I were playing, though, I'd say:

June - she'll change her tune, in restless walks she'll prowl the night. - Paul Simon

So we got married in Venice in June,
So what?
We circled the Earth in a hot air balloon,
So what?
And the rest of our lives
Is one long honeymoon --
Well, that doesn't mean we're in love.

(Magnetic Fields, "Zebra." High time I entered.)

I posted that, and thought: June.
Hong Kong.
2004.

Damn it, where ARE the Cui Jian lyrics translations when you need them?

1) Do you recall that night in June Upon the Danube River; We listened to the landler-tune, We watched the moonbeams quiver. -- Charles Hamilton Aide

2) No price is set on the lavish summer; June may be had by the poorest comer. -- James Russell Lowell

3) It is the month of June, The month of leaves and roses, When pleasant sights salute the eyes And pleasant scents the noses. -- Nathaniel Parker Willis

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