Awfully Quiet Here

[Rutabaga]

Seems like the cat has got a bunch of tongues.

R

[Merkin]

Working on getting my eyes fixed.  Reading with difficulty.  Writing a no-go.  Thinking of hiring a lithesome boy secretary with strong spelling skills to help with dangling participles. 

[Cole Parker]

We could all use a skilled boy.  

And I wish we'd have a bit more vigor here.  This used to be such a lively place.  Could be again if people would get off their duffs.  Maybe that's another place a skilled boy could come into play.

[Altimexis]

1 hour ago, Cole Parker said:

We could all use a skilled boy.  

And I wish we'd have a bit more vigor here.  This used to be such a lively place.  Could be again if people would get off their duffs.  Maybe that's another place a skilled boy could come into play.

Wait a minute - did you say you'd like a skilled boy to play with your duff?

[Cole Parker]

Ambiguity is the soul of wit.

[Jason Rimbaud]

Just so everyone knows/understand, I am down to help anyone with whatever ailment what I don't know with book learning, I make up for with enthusiasm 

[Homebase]

It is awfully quiet here. Nobody has commented yet on my latest story in The Bull Pen forum. Someone please do so soon, that'd be much appreciated. Thanks heaps.

[Jason Rimbaud]

5 hours ago, Homebase said:

It is awfully quiet here. Nobody has commented yet on my latest story in The Bull Pen forum. Someone please do so soon, that'd be much appreciated. Thanks heaps.

Homebase, this week is our Independence celebration, for us Americans, it's a time to spend with friends and family hanging out outside, drinking too much beer, watching people blow their fingers off with illegal fireworks. 

So if things are a bit quiet, that could be a reason.

J

[Homebase]

I didn't mean right now/today per se, I meant in general. John, the site owner, mentioned to me that the forums aren't as lively as they used to be.

 

Speaking of July 4th, on 4 July 2002, a group of nurses from the Ministry of Health came to my school to conduct health checks. Besides eye tests, they also had to check our backs for spinal abnormalities. The nurse who saw me coerced me to take my shirt off so she could do the spine check on me. Back then, I was very shy about taking my shirt off, I was well-known for it at school. Thankfully I had privacy from my classmates, but I kept glancing to the side to see if anyone was peeping. It was an awkward experience all round, one that left me feeling strange.

[Jason Rimbaud]

We were a bit quiet for a long time, but as someone mentioned here or over there, we have to get off our back there place and start engaging again. I'm attempting to do my best to help that get started. 

J

[TalonRider]

It's normal for websites to slow down during the summer time. It will pick up again.

[Jason Rimbaud]

I think to get this party started we need a group round robin sing along...

 

Jason got on a northbound train

 

 

What you got?

 

[Talo Segura]

The sun will shine in my back door someday, March winds will blow all my troubles away, I'd shine my light through cool Colorado rain, I'm getting on that northbound train!

 

[Camy]

I'm on the train of life, going nowhere fast
Got a ticket to ride, don't know how long it's going to last
Gotta get off this train, sort out my life it's time
Put my troubles behind me and get on the up-life line...

 

[Merkin]

You leave the Pennsylvania station 'bout a quarter to four
Read a magazine and then you're in Baltimore
Dinner in the diner, nothing could be finer
Then to have your ham and eggs in Carolina

When you hear the whistle blowing eight to the bar
Then you know that Tennessee is not very far
Shovel all the coal in, gotta keep it rolling
Whoo, whoo, Chattanooga, there you are

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdrYYUuT07Q

 

[Cole Parker]

Tracks are getting rusty now

Traffic's kinda rare

Slow old train don’t quite know how

Or maybe it don’t care

 

Whooo ooo ooo the whistle sighs

Even it sounds old

A track tie rotting where it lies

Its stories already told

 

Then young men with hammer and tong

Scurring ’bout laying new rails

Gleaming silver straight and long

Each will have their own new tales

 

Out with the used, its faults and quirks

In with the new, shiny and strong

Forever and ever that’s how it works

The old having already sung their song

 

[Rutabaga]

Just a small town girl
Livin' in a lonely world
She took the midnight train going anywhere

Just a city boy
Born and raised in South Detroit
He took the midnight train going anywhere

[Rutabaga]

I hear the train a-comin', it's rolling 'round the bend
And I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when
I'm stuck in Folsom prison, and time keeps draggin' on
But that train keeps a-rollin' on down to San Antone

When I was just a baby, my mama told me, "Son
Always be a good boy, don't ever play with guns"
But I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die
When I hear that whistle blowin', I hang my head and cry

I bet there's rich folks eatin' in a fancy dining car
They're probably drinkin' coffee and smoking big cigars
Well, I know I had it coming, I know I can't be free
But those people keep a-movin', and that's what tortures me

Well, if they freed me from this prison, if that railroad train was mine
I bet I'd move it on a little farther down the line
Far from Folsom prison, that's where I want to stay
And I'd let that lonesome whistle blow my blues away

[Jason Rimbaud]

Okay, when you put Journey lyrics, I rolled my eyes, don't like them. 

But then you paid homage to the original man in black, okay, I can get behind what you're putting down. 

J

[Rutabaga]

Night train, that took my baby far away
Night train, that took my baby far away
Tell him, I love him more and more each day

My mother said I'd lose him
If I ever did abuse him
Should've listened
My mother said I'd lose him
If I ever did abuse him
Should've listened
Well, now I learned my lesson
My sweet baby was a blessin'
Shoulda listened

Night train, the whistle tore my heart in two
Night train, the whistle tore my heart in two
He's gone and I don't know what I'm to do

Well, my mother said I'd lose him
If I evеr did abuse him
Should've listenеd
Yes, my mother said I'd lose him
If I ever did abuse him
Should have listened
Now I learned my lesson
And my baby was a blessin'
Should've listened

Night train, bring my baby home to me
Night train, bring my baby home to me
He's gone, the blues he left me won't set me free

[Jason Rimbaud]

At first I thought it was Guns n Roses, but without googling the lyrics, I can't figure out who sang this song.

To make if fun, can you name the decade it was released, and no helping from the peanut gallery, this is between me and that no good rascally tooting varmint that goes by the name of Rutabaga *bang bang*

 

J

[Rutabaga]

1950s.  Originally an instrumental jazz tune co-written by Duke Ellington and others released in the early 50s; then in the late 50s lyrics were added and a vocal version came out.  

R

[Altimexis]

This one is such a cliche, so I’ll only use the very last line of the song:

…I’d rather live in his world, then live without him in mine.

[TalonRider]

2 hours ago, Altimexis said:

This one is such a cliche, so I’ll only use the very last line of the song:

…I’d rather live in his world, then live without him in mine.

I hear that line occasionally on SiriusXM's 70's on & channel.

 

[Jason Rimbaud]

So after racking my tiny brain, talking to others much older than myself, I am still completely lost and have given up that I'll ever find out. 

So I will just wait here until we invent some kind of technology, something that stores an unlimited source of knowledge, much like the Library of Alexandria, where I could find this information at my fingertips. Until then, I will be over in the corner weeping....thank you all for breaking my brains

J