Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 01:57:30 -0500
Reply-To: Max/Joyce Wellhouse <maxjoyce@IPA.NET>
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From: Max/Joyce Wellhouse <maxjoyce@IPA.NET>
Subject: Re: (F) old songs with buses...
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Some one showed me the men at work video at some point and when they said
fried out kombi, they did a glimpse of and old clapped out transporter. I
felt enriched and full of texture after that.
Long as we're doing humor, Steven Wright was caught speeding one day and
the officer pulled him over and asked him if he knew the speed limit was
55mph? Steven replied," Yeah, but I wasn't going to be out that long..."
He was pulled over another time for doing 100mph through town and the
officer said, " How come you're going so fast?" Steven wright replied, "
Cause, I had my foot to the floor.........................it makes more gas
go through the carburetor.................that makes the wheels turn
faster.........................ya see this round thing?..........that
steers it......
Dimwitted Moose and Flying Squirrel
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> From: Malcolm Holser <mholser@ADOBE.COM>
> To: vanagon@VANAGON.COM
> Subject: (F) old songs with buses...
> Date: Friday, October 16, 1998 3:35 PM
>
> I was browsing the 50-cent books for sale at the library when I saw a
> songbook of "Men at Work", and started leafing through it. I never
> could understand the words to some of their songs, and was suprised
> to find bus content...
>
> The song "Down Under", which was their most-famous, and spread the fame
> of "Vegemite" worldwide, starts with the line "Traveling in a fried-out
> Kombi". Cool. Now I can read the words, but I still have no idea what
> much of the song is about. The part about beer sounds good.
>
> I remember "Alice's Restaraunt Massacre" had a VW microbus as a feature.
> Any other popular songs come to mind about VW transporters?
>
>
> Malcolm H.
> ...travelling in a bright red, fried out, syncro Kombi (still unconverted
> to the fixed-roof syncro westy I planned...
>
>
> Here's the words to Down Under:
>
> Traveling in a fried out combie,
> On a hippie trail head full of zombie,
> I met a strange lady, she made me nervous
> She took me in and gave me breakfast
>
> And she said "Do you come from a land down under?
> Where women glow and men plunder?
> Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
> ...better run, you better take cover."
>
> Buying bread from a man in Brussels
> He was six-foot four and full of muscles
> I said "Do you speak-a my language?"
> He just smiled and gave me a Vegemite sandwich.
>
> And he said "I come from a land down under
> Where beer does flow and men chunder
> Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
> You better run, you better take cover."
>
> Lying in a den in Bombay
> With a slack jaw, not much to say
> I said to the man "Are you try'n to tempt me
> Because I come from the land of plenty?"
>
> He said "Oh, Do you come from a land down under?
> Where women glow and men plunder?
> Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
> You better run, you better take cover."
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