From: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org (believers-digest) To: believers-digest@smoe.org Subject: believers-digest V6 #72 Reply-To: believers@smoe.org Sender: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk believers-digest Thursday, March 28 2002 Volume 06 : Number 072 In Today's believer's digest: ----------------- the ode in question ["john vavrek" ] Re: the ode in question ["Ron Rosen" ] Re: the ode in question [meredith ] Re: the ode in question [Carolyn Andre ] Re: the ode in question ["Ron Rosen" ] Thomas Kinkade and Billy Joe ["Sally Green" ] Re: Thomas Kinkade and Billy Joe ["Ron Rosen" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 07:08:58 -0800 From: "john vavrek" Subject: the ode in question I "believe" there was a TV movie based on the Bobbie Gentry song. I didn't see it, did any one? john Ps - A great big thank you to all of you that have posted Suze concerts reviews and set lists. She doesn't get to Oregon very often and it helps a lot to read your posts. HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at World Cafe CDs http://worldcafecds.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 07:08:58 -0800 From: "Ron Rosen" Subject: Re: the ode in question > I "believe" there was a TV movie based on the Bobbie Gentry song. I didn't > see it, did any one? I don't remember if I saw it, but the 1976 movie, which caused the 1967 song to hit the charts again, went off in all kinds of strange directions in an effort to "answer" the question. Here's something I pulled off the net about it: "The song is a mystery in which the questions of what was thrown off the bridge (many speculated that it was a baby, a ring, flowers), and why Billie Joe jumped, were never answered. The movie, based on the song, finally gave answers to those questions...a ragdoll was thrown from the bridge, and Billie Joe's alluded to homosexuality as the reason he jumped. In interviews Bobbie Gentry never answered those questions, preferring to leave it up to the listener, though she did say the theme of the song was indifference." The movie, of course, could do anything it wanted to with the song. They could have been throwing a dead space alien off the bridge, and Billy Joe might have killed himself because he had contracted a space alien virus. HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at World Cafe CDs http://worldcafecds.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 18:58:32 -0500 From: meredith Subject: Re: the ode in question Hi, >The movie, of course, could do anything it wanted to with the song. They >could have >been throwing a dead space alien off the bridge, and Billy Joe might have >killed >himself because he had contracted a space alien virus. :) I always thought it was the girl who killed Billy Joe and threw him off the bridge, making it look like he'd jumped. ======================================= Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth ======================================= Live At The House O'Muzak House Concert Series http://www.smoe.org/meth/muzak.html ======================================= (: New England Patriots - Super Bowl XXXVI CHAMPIONS :) HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at World Cafe CDs http://worldcafecds.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 18:17:42 -0600 From: Carolyn Andre Subject: Re: the ode in question At 05:58 PM 3/27/02, Meredith wrote: >:) I always thought it was the girl who killed Billy Joe and threw him off >the bridge, making it look like he'd jumped. ROFL!!!! That's so obviously a great solution!!! (I can now cease my years of pondering the question ...) Regards, Carolyn Andre - --- candre@house-of-music.com Chicago, IL / USA Support Independent Music! Use the Internet http://house-of-music.com HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at World Cafe CDs http://worldcafecds.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 18:32:34 -0800 From: "Ron Rosen" Subject: Re: the ode in question > >:) I always thought it was the girl who killed Billy Joe and threw him off > >the bridge, making it look like he'd jumped. Very good, meth! > ROFL!!!! > > That's so obviously a great solution!!! > > (I can now cease my years of pondering the question ...) But no, it doesn't answer the question. The preacher saw the girl and Billy Joe throwing something off the Tallahachee Bridge. It's quite possible that the girl killed Billy Joe, but that still does not explain what she AND the not-yet-dead Billy Joe were throwing. Wait a minute, it just came to me, how could I have missed it? They were quite obviously throwing a copy of New Non-Fiction off the bridge. ;-) ;-) HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at World Cafe CDs http://worldcafecds.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 23:47:18 -0500 From: "Sally Green" Subject: Thomas Kinkade and Billy Joe Hey folks, I'm in Omaha, Nebraska this week for work, and I was walking down the street in the Old Market, and I saw, you guessed it, a Thomas Kinkade gallery. A whole entire gallery of this stuff. It caught my attention because of what someone posted about what Susie said, and then I read the article about him and was stunned, and I was stunned by the gallery, like the fact that it existed. And all these paintings were there. I just kept thinking of the article and the things it said. The gallery owner said "He's amazing, isn't he?" I said "I read an article on him." An intentionally noncommittal answer. Anyway, I always sort of guessed that the narrator and Billy Joe were throwing a baby off the bridge. I had this whole story going on in my head that she got pregnant and they went up to Chocktaw (sp?) Ridge and induced a miscarriage, and then threw the baby off the bridge, but that Billy Joe was overcome with guilt afterward and killed himself. And that they had planned to get married later in life, but did this thing now because they figured they were too young, or too scared, or something. And the narrator missed Billy Joe and mourned him, but didn't mourn the baby. I can see many different interpretations, though. It's a fascinating song. The first time I heard Susan do it, I hadn't ever heard of the song before, and I thought she wrote it. - --Sally sallyagreen@hotmail.com HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at World Cafe CDs http://worldcafecds.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 20:57:00 -0800 From: "Ron Rosen" Subject: Re: Thomas Kinkade and Billy Joe > I can see many different interpretations, though. It's a fascinating song. > The first time I heard Susan do it, I hadn't ever heard of the song before, > and I thought she wrote it. ;-) The first time I heard her do it was last July at FRFF. When she started it, I thought she was just joking and that she would soon break character and introduce the next song. But it's really a great story song - really well written. 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