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#1 Post by EA01 » Wed Aug 12, 2020 1:09 pm


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#2 Post by EA01 » Fri Aug 14, 2020 8:35 am

.....bu WHAT was it that was thrown off the Tallehatchi (?) bridge?

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#3 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Fri Aug 14, 2020 9:16 am

I had always imagined that Billy Joe had jumped out of shame in getting his girlfriend pregnant or something like that and what was dropped into the river may have been the (aborted) baby but it appears my thinking may have been too florid...

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#4 Post by Boac » Fri Aug 14, 2020 9:24 am

Oh dear - something else to worry about........ :p

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#5 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Fri Aug 14, 2020 9:25 am

Boac wrote:
Fri Aug 14, 2020 9:24 am
Oh dear - something else to worry about........ :p
You couldn't be any more ironic could you? =))

You see EA01 this is what I meant when I said...
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There is a basis of a game here EA01 but who would play I wonder...? ;)))
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#6 Post by Boac » Fri Aug 14, 2020 9:48 am

You couldn't be any more ironic could you?
No chance - Mrs B does all the irony. :YMAPPLAUSE:

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#7 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Fri Aug 14, 2020 9:51 am

Boac wrote:
Fri Aug 14, 2020 9:48 am
You couldn't be any more ironic could you?
No chance - Mrs B does all the irony. :YMAPPLAUSE:
Ah, don't I know the feeling. There can be no worse lot in a poor man's life than to be damned by a woman's "faint" irony! ;)))
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#8 Post by tango15 » Fri Aug 14, 2020 9:57 am

That song has always fascinated me, perhaps because it encapsulates the way of life in the parts of the south. The reason Billy Joe jumped was because in those days there were no signs with a free helpline for anyone suicidal. There would be no point in writing a song like that today =))

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#9 Post by Boac » Fri Aug 14, 2020 10:11 am

There can be no worse lot in a poor man's life than to be damned by a woman's "faint" irony!
Things have, however, been better since she got the new steam irony. :D

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#10 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Fri Aug 14, 2020 10:11 am

tango15 wrote:
Fri Aug 14, 2020 9:57 am
That song has always fascinated me, perhaps because it encapsulates the way of life in the parts of the south. The reason Billy Joe jumped was because in those days there were no signs with a free helpline for anyone suicidal. There would be no point in writing a song like that today =))

Spoiler Alert: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ode_to_Billie_Joe
It is a very evocative song, and far more enigmatic than this, far happier, song, in conjuring up the yellow white languid, or maybe cruel even, heat of an indifferent Delta day.

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#11 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Fri Aug 14, 2020 10:13 am

Boac wrote:
Fri Aug 14, 2020 10:11 am
There can be no worse lot in a poor man's life than to be damned by a woman's "faint" irony!
Things have, however, been better since she got the new steam irony. :D
You are on fire today... =)) :p
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#12 Post by tango15 » Fri Aug 14, 2020 1:47 pm

Never heard that song before. I'd heard of the Doobie Bros of course.
One of my other favourites from that genre is 'Summertime'. Do you think Radio 2 would play it if I sent in a request? =))

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#13 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Fri Aug 14, 2020 2:02 pm

tango15 wrote:
Fri Aug 14, 2020 1:47 pm
Never heard that song before. I'd heard of the Doobie Bros of course.
One of my other favourites from that genre is 'Summertime'. Do you think Radio 2 would play it if I sent in a request? =))
I am sure Ken Bruce would oblige you! ;)))

Good grief I have turned into a TOG!

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