Staying On Topic

[skeptic 1001]

So, Old Grey Eagle; did you recognize it, or did you have to look it up? Not too many would recognize it, and most younger people here likely do not even know who he is. I will be going to a performance of his in Palm Springs November 8th. Just curious.

[Apache Bob 10]

Skeptic - "A safe place to land" is on my favorites list. Thanks.

 

1.Oh, we grow things mighty big down in Kentucky

But there's nothing in that state that can compare

To a cow that we once had us

And the name of her was Gladys

Boy, you should have seen the neighbors stop and stare.

She stood 10 feet tall and had one purple eyeball

It took eight of us to milk her, here is why:

She had 27 spigots

And the tourists all bought tickets

Just to watch us milk and hear us loudly cry-y-y-y...

(Chorus)

 

 

Oh, pass the udder udder and I'll pass it to my brudder

And I'll pass the udder udder dis-a-way

So we passed the udder udder and I passed it to my brudder

Oh, we really had our hands full every day.

2. We created quite a spectacle, I grant you

But we milked her just as pretty as you please

And while people said "How funny,"

We raked in enough durn money

To go out and order ermine BVD's.

Father turned her on her back one Sunday morning

Gladys said "I'm upside down, now what's the gag?"

"Well, the reason why," said Pop

"is so the cream will be on top."

"Gosh," the cow said, "in that case, it's in the bag!"

 

 

[evmori 11]

Great tune from my youth!

 

Spent some time feelin' inferior

standing in front of my mirror

Combed my hair in a thousand ways

but I came out looking just the same

 

Daddy said, "Son, you better see the world

I wouldn't blame you if you wanted to leave

But remember one thing don't lose your head

to a woman that'll spend your bread"

So I got out

 

Paris was a place you could hide away

if you felt you didn't fit in

French police wouldn't give me no peace

They claimed I was a nasty person

Down along the Left Bank minding my own

Was knocked down by a human stampede

Got arrested for inciting a peaceful riot

when all I wanted was a cup of tea

I was accused

I moved on

 

Down in Rome I wasn't getting enough

of the things that keeps a young man alive

My body stunk but I kept my funk

at a time when I was right out of luck

Getting desperate indeed I was

Looking like a tourist attraction

Oh my dear I better get out of here

'for the Vatican don't give no sanction

I wasn't ready for that, no no

 

I moved right out east yeah!

On the Peking ferry I was feeling merry

sailing on my way back here

I fell in love with a slit eyed lady

by the light of an eastern moon

Shangai Lil never used the pill

She claimed that it just ain't natural

She took me up on deck and bit my neck

Oh people I was glad I found her

Oh yeah I was glad I found her

 

I firmly believe that I didn't need anyone but me

I sincerely thought I was so complete

Look how wrong you can be

 

The women I've known I wouldn't let tie my shoe

They wouldn't give you the time of day

But the slit eyed lady knocked me off my feet

God I was glad I found her

And if they had the words I could tell to you

to help you on the way down the road

I couldn't quote you no Dickens, Shelley or Keats

'cause it's all been said before

Make the best out of the bad just laugh it off

You didn't have to come here anyway

So remember, every picture tells a story don't it

[OldGreyEagle 5]

There used to be a standard Boy Scout reply about knowing and utilizing your resources and I do

 

 

... get a job

 

 

[Apache Bob 10]

Did "23 skidoo" mean more that leaving quickly?

[Vicki 11]

The Silhouettes did that one (get a job)! and, oh my, did the lyrics reflect the times:

[SSScout 1616]

Halloween is coming up...

 

Look up "The Cremation of Sam MaGee"

By Robert Service

 

Too long for here .(This message has been edited by SSScout)

[OldGreyEagle 5]

Now, I CAN recite the Cremation of Sam Macgee from memory and do so quite frequently. Perhaps too frequently but yet, that one I have down cold

 

Also in the repoitore

 

The Ballad of William Sycamore

Casey at the Bat

The Bugville Boys (Casey's Redemption)

Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening

[skeptic 1001]

OGE

 

That just Frost's me............

 

Build any walls lately?

[gwd-scouter 11]

Who could forget Lost in Space? The Jupiter 2? June Lockhart? That Major Don West was hot! OK, I was very young then. Danger Will Robinson. Oh the pain, the pain.

 

Here's another one, anyone remember?

 

It's about time, it's about space,

About two men in the strangest place...

[OldGreyEagle 5]

Build a Wall? Nope, I was to busy on the road not taken to build a wall

 

Loved Lost in Space, in that silver spacesuit June certainly was busting out all over, although my heart, truth to be told, was pledged to Angela Cartwright. Billy Mummy was also in it, be very careful or you could be wished out to the cornfield

[asm 411 10]

Vicki,

 

"My socks! I can't move my socks!"

 

That brought back a lot of memories. Thanks. I don't think I would want to share many those with my younger Scouts or older ones for that matter.

 

Lincoln

[Apache Bob 10]

Have to add one more for friends and buddies to did not make it here. I remember them and miss them.

 

Oh Wall

Phillip L. Woodall

 

Oh wall on wall of granite stone

Not tomb or glory chart

Reflects the pain of shattered bone

And shrapnel in the heart.

 

Mothers moan. Warriors weep.

Abe and George look on

Silent souls would angels keep

Inside the great black stone

 

America, America, see

No shining perfect star.

Your undercoat of memory

Reveals an ugly scar.

 

Remember how the warriors died

In places hardly known.

Remember tears that widows cried

Beside the great black stone.

 

La Drang, Phuoc Yen, Hamburger Hill,

Khe Sanh, hundreds more,

Five thousand days to maim and kill

The victims of the war.

 

Peace comes now upon the mall

Where painful memories start

To would those standing by the wall

With shrapnel in the heart.

 

[skeptic 1001]

While in college in Arizona my ex and I had a 12" bw tv on which I loved to watch Lost in Space and Twelve-o-clock High. I was deprived in the late 50's, most of the 60's, and even early 70's, having little access to tv. We lived in the desert with no reception unless you had an aerial 40+ feet high. Then was just too poor to have one, or working too many hours. So now, I find myself watching any of the "oldie" stations on cable. Think I have finally seen all the MASH ones, and most of the Bewitched, Genie, Beaver, and so on; but some of the really old ones do not show up much.

 

Waiting for the Waltons to come back on someday, as I often was at work or school during their hey day. Still do not think have seen all the Little House episodes, but they tend to replay what must have been the most popular, or maybe they were only allowed to buy so many?

 

Would like FAME to reappear, as well as a few of the more obscure late 50's sitcoms. Also, Reagan's old program, Twenty Mule Team or something like that.

 

Speaking of old programs; I have always found it funny in a way that on the old Gunsmoke radio program, Matt Dillon was played by Robert Cannon; voice fit perfectly, but compare to James Arnett on the TV version. Just is comical to me.

 

Sure there are lots of others.

[Apache Bob 10]

Frodo Lives.

 

Mighty Mouse is alive and well.