From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V4 #44 Reply-To: shindell-list@smoe.org Sender: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk shindell-list-digest Monday, February 4 2002 Volume 04 : Number 044 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [RS] Courier in Star-Ledger [TRNMT@aol.com] [RS] cover that he didn' [Jimcolbert@aol.com] [RS] Re: shindell-list-digest V4 #43 [Jimcolbert@aol.com] Re: [RS] Re: shindell-list-digest V4 #43 ["Kristen Myshrall" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 17:12:17 EST From: TRNMT@aol.com Subject: Re: [RS] Courier in Star-Ledger Pat wrote: > I have never, *ever* thought that the protagonist in "The Next Best > Western" was a trucker . . . he only mentions truckers once (albeit in > every repeat of the chorus) . . . or that this was a "trucker song". > > I was confused at first, but it all became clear a few years back when we had a SOTW discussion on the list. It is a *driver's* song to be sure, and anyone who has logged miles (and in the heyday of CB radios, even more so) alongside truckers may appreciate it even more. Something about those emergency exit ramps that makes you a little scared and a little humble about reigning in those 18-wheelers when you're driving alongside in a compact car. NT, who has never had a bad Best Western experience ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 19:19:43 EST From: Jimcolbert@aol.com Subject: [RS] cover that he didn' In a message dated 2/3/02 3:56:50 PM Central Standard Time, owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org writes: > >E: ??? Making Plans??? -a cover that he "didn't know" ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 19:22:04 EST From: Jimcolbert@aol.com Subject: [RS] Re: shindell-list-digest V4 #43 In a message dated 2/3/02 3:56:50 PM Central Standard Time, owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org writes: > >E: ??? Making Plans??? -a cover that he "didn't know" > Argh, stupid laptop sent that last one as my fingers fumbled in their indecision... ( an Olney reference, btw.) Okay, making plans? Who was there that knows what song this was? Inquiring mimes want to know... jpc somewhere near steelers country ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 18:44:57 -0600 From: "Kristen Myshrall" Subject: Re: [RS] Re: shindell-list-digest V4 #43 Here are some more lyrics from that song that I so elloquently named..... You say tomorrow you're going, it's so hard to beleive I'm making plans for the heartache cause you're making plans to leave The tears for me will be falling, like the tree shedding it's leaves Oh i'm making plans for the heartace cause you're making plans to leave You're making plans to forget me, i'm making plans to miss you oh i'm getting ready to grieve oh i'm making plans for the heartache cause you're making plans to leave It was a short little "country song" Kristen - ----- Original Message ----- From: Jimcolbert@aol.com Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 6:26 PM To: shindell-list@smoe.org Subject: [RS] Re: shindell-list-digest V4 #43 In a message dated 2/3/02 3:56:50 PM Central Standard Time, owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org writes: > >E: ??? Making Plans??? -a cover that he "didn't know" > Argh, stupid laptop sent that last one as my fingers fumbled in their indecision... ( an Olney reference, btw.) Okay, making plans? Who was there that knows what song this was? Inquiring mimes want to know... jpc somewhere near steelers countryGet more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2002 21:47:41 -0500 From: "Norman A. Johnson" Subject: [RS] Truckin' Pat wrote: >>I have never, *ever* thought that the protagonist in "The Next Best Western" was a trucker . . . he only mentions truckers once (albeit in every repeat of the chorus) . . . or that this was a "trucker song".<< I agree. The narrator wishes he had the protection that the truckers have. Or he's a trucker wannae. ;-) ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V4 #44 **********************************