OT - The Horror!!!

[vomitbunny]

I wish they would outlaw them here. Or force them to play the theme to Fat Albert. Or give all the fat kids weapons so they hold up the vans and they give up the route.
What his country needs is more and easier ways to get fat.
I swear I'd rather they have Oxy and Crack vans driving around.
Here in the south, you would be supprized how many school age kids are not just overwieght, but morbidly obese. I'ts a constant battle with my daughter over her eating habits. She's almost twice the size she should be. Parents of kids who turn goth, get multiple piercings, smoke dope, or starve themselves should count themselves lucky. Schools and communities fall all over themselves to help parents when kids get into most kinds of problems like that, but when a kid is literally killing themselves eating, they ignore it, or actually help worsen the problem.
Can you imaging having a teen with a drinking problem and they put beer machines in the school? Here in the south, half the students are overwieght and snack machines are lined up in every corner of the school. They can substitute the regular lunch with al la carte junk, and the classes average "treats" about once every three weeks.
And try telling a 300 pound teacher or pricipal about your kid's problem........
Hey, I don't mean to pick on large Americans, but this is a serious problem for my daughter. She is borderline diabetic now and starting to have knee problems. She's 14 and has no willpower when faced with junk food thrust in her face at every corner. Can you imagine being a recovering alcoholic and all the workplaces and public buildings putting in free beer fountains? Yeah, I know, I have that dream every nite too.....

[starman]

Our local ice cream truck has finally quit playing Turkey in the Straw.

You'd think I'd be happy, wouldn't you?

At least "Turkey in the Straw" is ITM isn't it or is that "Turkeys in the Straw" that's ITM?



Mike

[kevin m.]

Albertros! Aaal Berr Tros!!
Get Yer Aaal berr tros!!!!




*copyright Monty Python.

[Pat Cannady]

Wha flavor is it?

[missy]

vomitbunny wrote:
"I swear I'd rather they have Oxy and Crack vans driving around. "

Gee - there's at least ONE ice cream truck a year that gets busted for doing just that around here!

Ours is currently playing "The Entertainer" also - but there's something wrong with the recording, and it keeps changing speeds.

[Daryl]

I haven't seen an ice cream truck around here, but we do have a plethora of mobile hot food vans (aka "roach coaches").

One small group of them was based near an apartment I lived in, and they loved to pull in at the end of the day playing their truck's music at top volume: "La Cucaracha."

(I kid you not!)

[kevin m.]

Wha flavor is it?

Bleedin' Albatross flavour!

[TonyHiggins]

At the risk of seeming culturally insensitive, I will not comment other than to say that we had the Turkey in the Straw guy for about four years.

Weeks, has it been that long? I heard that guy for years. I should point out that it was only part A of Turkey (I abbreviated it by first letter of each word, but had to edit that ) I always wondered what it did to the mind of the poor guy in the turban who drove around all day, every day, listening to part A of Turkey in the Straw. I said a prayer for him every time he drove by. I also fantasized running up to the truck and lilting Part B for him just so he'd know about it. 'da da da daaa daaa, da da da daaaa...'
Tony

[Darwin]

Our local ice cream truck has finally quit playing Turkey in the Straw.

You'd think I'd be happy, wouldn't you?

At least "Turkey in the Straw" is ITM isn't it or is that "Turkeys in the Straw" that's ITM?

It's American!!! I bet that Ireland originally had about as many turkeys as it did snakes.

Actually, I came to love TitS when I first heard Bill Monroe play it on the mandolin. I even have a version (such as it is) on my guitar tab page at http://www.coastalfog.net/flatpick/tabl ... _main.html

That's not exactly the version that the ice cream truck played.

A funny thing happened the first time I was stationed in Japan. It was on a Saturday or Sunday, I guess, because I was home--Grant Heights Family Housing Area, run by the US Air Force. The kids heard music outside, grabbed some change, and rushed out of the house. They came back all disappointed, having learned that, in Japan, it's the garbage trucks that play music. (They apparently decided against trying to buy any garbage.)

[OutOfBreath]

When I was a kid, the ice cream truck played a pleasant little tune that sounded like there was maybe a little man in the back who was doing it by hand. Now the ice cream truck sounds like a cell-phone ring tone "beeping"....and at 2 or 3 bucks for a popsicle it's no longer a sound I want to hear!

Yeah, the one that comes through here makes me darn near homicidal - he parks about 50 feet from my house for five to ten minutes with "home, home, on the range" played on loud tinkly chime sounding crap through a cheap PA horn. He'll sit there even if none of the neighborhood kids come out to buy his stuff.

On top of that the "ice cream truck" is an old broken down van that I wouldn't let my grandkids go near on a bet - it practically screams "pervert!"

[OutOfBreath]

The kids heard music outside, grabbed some change, and rushed out of the house. They came back all disappointed, having learned that, in Japan, it's the garbage trucks that play music. (They apparently decided against trying to buy any garbage.)

[dubhlinn]

Actually, I came to love TitS

Welcome to the Club.

Slan,
D.

[Whistlin'Dixie]

I knew someone would jump on that one......

Mary

[dubhlinn]

I knew someone would jump on that one......

Mary

What stopped ye??
Slan,
D.

[TonyHiggins]

Just don't blame me. I was trying to avoid that sort of thing.
Tony