Might they be looking for husbands?
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See? See!? There’s another side to Florida and it’s pretty nice.
The hell are you talking about AL, none of them skirts brought sammiches.
“The hell are you talking about AL, none of them skirts brought sammiches.”
Maybe not, but it looks like a few of them brought their daughters as a deposit for the clothes.
HIYO!!!!!!
Nice song but I just can’t get past the line “…looking in the sun for another overload” without cracking up.
I thought it was a story about football team groupies.
Any excuse to watch Glen Campbell do Witchita Lineman again!
@Plain Jane: haahaha! No wonder you laugh, it’s “searchin’ in the sun for another overload.” !
“This is the downing of a plate of asparagus. Plate of asparagu-uuus! Aspar-a-gussss!”
Miami.
https://www.facebook.com/ron.magill.5/posts/10214439027514211
FYI. The sixth on in line is pregnant.
A stone by a river might be better but watch out for gators. Cause they are real in Fla.
Just sayin
@Bad_Brad: “Is there anyone…who can make me feel like a woman?”
On a transatlantic flight, a plane passes through a severe thunder storm. The turbulence is awful, and things go from bad to worse when the plane is struck by lightning. One woman in particular loses it. Screaming, she stands up in the front of the plane. ‘I’m too young to die,’ she wails.
Then she yells, ‘Well, if I’m going to die, I want my last minutes on earth to be memorable! Is there anyone on this plane who can make me feel like a WOMAN?’
For a moment there is silence. Everyone has forgotten their own peril. They all stare, riveted, at the desperate woman in the front of the plane.
Then a cowboy from Montana stands up in the rear of the plane. He is handsome: tall, well built, with dark brown hair and hazel eyes. He starts to walk slowly up the aisle, unbuttoning his shirt….
One button at a time….
No one moves….
He removes his shirt….
Muscles ripple across his chest….
She gasps….
He whispers in her ear…’Iron this … then get me a beer.’
Goldenfoxx
Just read that to Mrs Bad. She still laughing.
My dad was an electrical lineman. I think the song is about a telephone lineman.
Words by Jimmy Webb
Great song
I would do the same if lineman were working in my area. Good job women of Florida!
Telephone Linemen are the greatest. Glen Campbell was the greatest. And those women are very sweet and Great Americans.
“Telephone Linemen are the greatest.”
Strong words. Screw those Navy Seals. LOL. And Army Rangers.
GoldenFoxx is on a roll today, that’s great. I have been on a flight where people were crying and saying they didn’t want to die, they’re not fun. What we didn’t have was a girl that wanted to feel like a women, and a Montana cowboy. That could have helped.
@ AA,
Yep, that searching for an overload line… 🙂 ! The lyricist needed some basic electrical training.
Love Glenn! When Texas got hit with that storm I was walking around singing Galveston ohhhh Galveston! Much to the chagrin of anyone around me Lol
Here’s a great article on Wichita Lineman
http://americansongwriter.com/2012/01/behind-the-song-wichita-lineman/
Webb might need electrical training, but he wrote one of the greatest lines ever.
And I need you more than want you,
And I want you for all time.
@BFH – Yes, that couplet is right up there with Zevon’s
Uncle Al
Bull Shit, That’s a haunting line. All I have to say.
Poetic license maybe.
I wonder how many occupations he could have used?
I am the mailman for the county….
I am the milkman….
I am the dog catcher…..
Joe, that line cracks up power distribution and other “highly charged” guys and gals. I suppose “My dad was a mailman…” might turn on a few folks in Ohio.
For Warren Zevon I’ll go with Roland the Headless Thompson gunner
We have a lineman school here. Power poles, the whole enchilada. Many of these students go on to be hired by power companies. A couple of students I know, their grandparents paid for the schooling, but they didn’t want to relocate out of state. Yeah, monkey’s can climb a pole, and they migrate to where the food is, not these snowflakes.
Golden Fox
Can you please give me the name of that school? I have a young relative that want’s to become a linesman. He’s no Snowflake.
Saw a poster recently, with the graphic of a lineman:
“I work the pole, so my wife doesn’t have to”
*snort*
Anyone have a clue how they will do laundry without power? Wash it by the riverside dodging gators?
Fur, funny you should bring up that line. I agree. I’ve been humming that passage all night since you posted this. The best, ever. So poignant — in a good way.
I used to sing at work ” I am a Lineman for the Job shop
Drawing lines all day long……” Love that song,anyway
thought it was nice of the Ladies to step up an take care.It’s what we do. Leave it to Bfh to make it funny for us.So when a song gets stuck in you head here’s what you do. Call somebody up an sing it to them.Pass it on.
@Annie Girl — I do that to Geoff C. all the time! I wonder if it works to just write it out:
“So when we say, OH! Ki yip i yip i yay! Oh! We’re only saying you’re doing fine Oklahoma! Oklahoma, O.K.! L.A.H.O.M.A.!”
@AbigailAdams (at 8:26 pm): I always thought it was:
“This is the spawning of the fish in aquariums,
Fish in aquariums…”.
🙂
@Vietvet — hahaah! Did you just make that up?! Very nice. Now I won’t be able to get that out of my head!
@Vietvet — Have you read the book “The Transitive Vampire”? It’s full of “Lady Mondegreens” — Laid him on the green. And to the republic for Richard Stands. etc. lol