On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:08:29 -0400, Gene Kearns
wrote:

On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:55:37 -0500, Vic Smith penned the following
well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:


|Sounds like a drug song to me, but since it's you ......

In 1969, what *wasn't* a drug song?

Okie from Muskogee of course.
Merle Haggard - my second favorite voice.

--Vic

On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:33:06 -0500, Vic Smith
wrote:

On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:08:29 -0400, Gene Kearns
wrote:

On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:55:37 -0500, Vic Smith penned the following
well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:


|Sounds like a drug song to me, but since it's you ......

In 1969, what *wasn't* a drug song?

Okie from Muskogee of course.
Merle Haggard - my second favorite voice.

Two of my favorites rolled up in one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxzJAF1BxP4

On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:21:30 -0400, Zombie of Woodstock
wrote:


Two of my favorites rolled up in one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxzJAF1BxP4

Excuse me. I was on youtube for a while. Like a couple hours.
Yep, I watched that one again, then another and another - you know.
Merle and Jewel do great duets, BTW
This one I really get a kick out of, because I was a huge Marty
Robbins fan when I was in the Navy.
It's a shame Marty left us early.
I don't know how or where the poster dug it up, but it's the kind of
clip that makes youtube such a terrific resource.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1EJ0...eature=related

--Vic

On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:55:11 -0400, Gene Kearns
wrote:

On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:33:06 -0500, Vic Smith penned the following
well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

|On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:08:29 -0400, Gene Kearns
wrote:
|
|On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:55:37 -0500, Vic Smith penned the following
|well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:
|
|
||Sounds like a drug song to me, but since it's you ......
|
|In 1969, what *wasn't* a drug song?
|
|Okie from Muskogee of course.
|Merle Haggard - my second favorite voice.
|
|--Vic

Oh, puleeeeeeze.....

http://tinyurl.com/l5utv6

Don't matter. It's what the audience took from it.
I was in the audience. And the words fit me well.
You surely haven't forgotten the Silent Majority?
Or Muskrat Love?

--Vic

On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:24:57 -0400, Gene Kearns
wrote:

(About Okie from Muskogee and Merle being a False Prophet)

|
|Don't matter. It's what the audience took from it.
|I was in the audience. And the words fit me well.
|You surely haven't forgotten the Silent Majority?
|Or Muskrat Love?
|
|--Vic

That same logic has made a lot of satisfied owners of the Brooklyn
Bridge.....

Just because one is a square sure doesn't mean he's a sucker.
Never was into drugs, never burned a draft card, and never bought a
bridge either.
I was a member of the Silent Majority.
And pure blue collar.
Nothing to do with logic. Just was. That was then, this is now.
I'll concede one thing. That song Muskrat Love turned my stomach.
Muskrats having sex?
OMG!!!

--Vic

Vic Smith wrote:
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:24:57 -0400, Gene Kearns
wrote:

(About Okie from Muskogee and Merle being a False Prophet)

|
|Don't matter. It's what the audience took from it.
|I was in the audience. And the words fit me well.
|You surely haven't forgotten the Silent Majority?
|Or Muskrat Love?
|
|--Vic

That same logic has made a lot of satisfied owners of the Brooklyn
Bridge.....

Just because one is a square sure doesn't mean he's a sucker.
Never was into drugs, never burned a draft card, and never bought a
bridge either.
I was a member of the Silent Majority.
And pure blue collar.
Nothing to do with logic. Just was. That was then, this is now.
I'll concede one thing. That song Muskrat Love turned my stomach.
Muskrats having sex?
OMG!!!

--Vic


Where do you think baby muskrats come from? The stork? :)

On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:26:30 -0400, HK wrote:


Where do you think baby muskrats come from? The stork? :)

I don't want to know.

--Vic

On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:50:28 -0400, Gene Kearns
wrote:



ROFL .... the Silent Majority ....was neither.....

This says otherwise, and conforms closely to my memory.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_majority

Oh sure, most of the silent majority expressed their views.
But not on the streets. Left it to the cops to bust heads.
I'll never forget something Ed Zieben, a WWII vet I worked with a few
miles from the Dem convention riots, said at the height of it.
We were hot, sweating, heat treating bull workers at IH, producing the
heavy machinery of America. And damn proud of it.
No time to smoke dope or throw **** at cops.
Pretty much like the Okies in Muskogee, except we lived in Chicago.
We finished a push into a furnace, and Ed ran a rag across his brow,
then looked at me and said...well actually yelled:
"One 500 pounder will scatter them ****ing hippies to hell."
Though I had no problem with the cops swinging their sticks,
I did view that as a mite extreme.
Things are more vocal now, from all sides.
We need more silence. Majorly.

--Vic

On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:50:29 -0500, Vic Smith
wrote:

On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:50:28 -0400, Gene Kearns
wrote:



ROFL .... the Silent Majority ....was neither.....

This says otherwise, and conforms closely to my memory.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_majority

Oh sure, most of the silent majority expressed their views.
But not on the streets. Left it to the cops to bust heads.
I'll never forget something Ed Zieben, a WWII vet I worked with a few
miles from the Dem convention riots, said at the height of it.
We were hot, sweating, heat treating bull workers at IH, producing the
heavy machinery of America. And damn proud of it.
No time to smoke dope or throw **** at cops.
Pretty much like the Okies in Muskogee, except we lived in Chicago.
We finished a push into a furnace, and Ed ran a rag across his brow,
then looked at me and said...well actually yelled:
"One 500 pounder will scatter them ****ing hippies to hell."
Though I had no problem with the cops swinging their sticks,
I did view that as a mite extreme.
Things are more vocal now, from all sides.
We need more silence. Majorly.

--Vic

Those hippies were trying to stop a war that eventually took 50,000
American lives.

What did we get for it?

History isn't on your side.

On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:31:51 -0700, jps wrote:

On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:50:29 -0500, Vic Smith
wrote:

On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:50:28 -0400, Gene Kearns
wrote:



ROFL .... the Silent Majority ....was neither.....

This says otherwise, and conforms closely to my memory.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_majority

Oh sure, most of the silent majority expressed their views.
But not on the streets. Left it to the cops to bust heads.
I'll never forget something Ed Zieben, a WWII vet I worked with a few
miles from the Dem convention riots, said at the height of it.
We were hot, sweating, heat treating bull workers at IH, producing the
heavy machinery of America. And damn proud of it.
No time to smoke dope or throw **** at cops.
Pretty much like the Okies in Muskogee, except we lived in Chicago.
We finished a push into a furnace, and Ed ran a rag across his brow,
then looked at me and said...well actually yelled:
"One 500 pounder will scatter them ****ing hippies to hell."
Though I had no problem with the cops swinging their sticks,
I did view that as a mite extreme.
Things are more vocal now, from all sides.
We need more silence. Majorly.

--Vic

Those hippies were trying to stop a war that eventually took 50,000
American lives.

What did we get for it?

History isn't on your side.

Too bad the history is gone and I'm still here.

--Vic