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 Papaver
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#1234540 - 01/20/03 05:11 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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to the first person who can post the correct answer to this question...
There were three conductors, but how many sacks of mail?
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 Re: out on the south bound odyssey [Re: Papaver]
#1234562 - 01/20/03 05:21 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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Papaver
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Re: out on the south bound odyssey [Re: Smack31]
#1234572 - 01/20/03 05:27 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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Damn, son! I think you may have it! 
Can you express that in decimal with arabic numerals, so I can verify your answer?
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 Re: out on the south bound odyssey [Re: Smack31]
#1234610 - 01/20/03 05:47 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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Smack Wins! 
I got an explaination by PM from him. He claims he cheated, though, but I'm not sure how's that's possible. I already gave him a five a long time ago, but maybe I'll write something nice in his comments... 
Monday's folk program, on the local college station, is two hours of Arlo Guthrie tonight, on account he's comming to town. I wish I'd have known -- I would have got tickets! 
The City of New Orleans
by Steve Goodman
Riding on the City of New Orleans,
Illinois Central Monday morning rail
Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders,
Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail.
All along the southbound odyssey
The train pulls out at Kankakee
Rolls along past houses, farms and fields.
Passin' trains that have no names,
Freight yards full of old black men
And the graveyards of the rusted automobiles.
CHORUS:
Good morning America how are you?
Don't you know me I'm your native son,
I'm the train they call The City of New Orleans,
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.
Dealin' card games with the old men in the club car.
Penny a point ain't no one keepin' score.
Pass the paper bag that holds the bottle
Feel the wheels rumblin' 'neath the floor.
And the sons of pullman porters
And the sons of engineers
Ride their father's magic carpets made of steel.
Mothers with their babes asleep,
Are rockin' to the gentle beat
And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel.
CHORUS
Nighttime on The City of New Orleans,
Changing cars in Memphis, Tennessee.
Half way home, we'll be there by morning
Through the Mississippi darkness
Rolling down to the sea.
And all the towns and people seem
To fade into a bad dream
And the steel rails still ain't heard the news.
The conductor sings his song again,
The passengers will please refrain
This train's got the disappearing railroad blues.
Good night, America, how are you?
Don't you know me I'm your native son,
I'm the train they call The City of New Orleans,
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.
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Edited by papaver (01/20/03 07:32 PM)
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 Re: out on the south bound odyssey [Re: Papaver]
#1234739 - 01/20/03 06:36 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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i always like to help people around the shroomery, sooo i guess i'll let you give me his 5 stars 
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Re: out on the south bound odyssey [Re: shroomizzy]
#1234753 - 01/20/03 06:42 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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Done...
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Re: out on the south bound odyssey [Re: Papaver]
#1234799 - 01/20/03 07:19 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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My guess would have been 3 sacks of mail.
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Re: out on the south bound odyssey [Re: Papaver]
#1234912 - 01/20/03 08:00 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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wow...thats cool..too bad you didn't get tickets. My mom met Arlo Guthrie back in the day. She always tells me the story...sounds like it was fun!
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Re: out on the south bound odyssey [Re: Papaver]
#1235077 - 01/20/03 09:32 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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You get 5 stars just for being you, pap
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Re: out on the south bound odyssey [Re: Spiffy]
#1235101 - 01/20/03 09:50 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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I'm kinda sorry I'm gonna miss him. It's not to late to get tickets, but I'm low on funds, and I don't have anyone to go with, as I just moved here, so I have to let it pass...
He is a great story teller, and is very humorous. I'm sure he'll be back, though -- one thing about Western Oregon, is that we get great musical acts all the time because we're cool!
There are a lot of music fairs and folk festivals around here. This summer is gonna be great!
If anyone is gonna be here in July for that great hippie-fest, started by Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, called the Oregon Country Fair, let me know, and we?ll hook up!
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Re: out on the south bound odyssey [Re: Papaver]
#1235631 - 01/21/03 06:33 AM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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hey now don`t forget the dead helped start the county fair. they played a benifit for the kesey creamery in veneta and helped start the tradition  i will definitaly be there ,same as every year. it`s the best family gathering there is, everybody comes. it`s the only time i get to make it out to the west coast all year long
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Re: out on the south bound odyssey [Re: chinacat72]
#1236061 - 01/21/03 09:52 AM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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The bus came by and I got on that's when it all began!
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Re: out on the south bound odyssey [Re: chinacat72]
#1236089 - 01/21/03 09:59 AM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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> don`t forget the dead helped start the county fair
Very true, but then we all know that the Dead and the Pranksters have a very special relationship going back to Palo Alto/La Honda and day one!
> i will definitaly be there ,same as every year.
Hell, Chinacat, if you're gonna be here for the fair, then we got to definitely hook up!
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chinacat72
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Re: out on the south bound odyssey [Re: Papaver]
#1236371 - 01/21/03 11:36 AM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
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Hell, Chinacat, if you're gonna be here for the fair, then we got to definitely hook up!
for sure!! i miss oregon. i spent a couple summers living up at couger hot springs outside of eugene
spent many a sunny afternoon selling weed on 13th st. in eugene
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Re: out on the south bound odyssey [Re: chinacat72]
#1236768 - 01/21/03 01:36 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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Wish I was going too!
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Re: out on the south bound odyssey [Re: Ripple]
#1236851 - 01/21/03 02:20 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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There's still time. The Oregon Country Fair -- just outside of Eugene, Oregon, -- is not until July.
As the time approaches, Chinacat, or I, should start a thread in the gathering forum. There's also Burning Man, in Nevada, after that...
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Re: out on the south bound odyssey [Re: Papaver]
#1236860 - 01/21/03 02:23 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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this could be my mid-life crisis I haven't had one yet!
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Re: out on the south bound odyssey [Re: Ripple]
#1236898 - 01/21/03 02:35 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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ATTENTION RIPPLE1958
the mothership request`s your presence at the oregon county fair
failure to report will result in eviction from the universe!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: out on the south bound odyssey [Re: Ripple]
#1237068 - 01/21/03 03:25 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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To furthur entice you, I have collected some pictures from past Oregon Country Fairs on my web-site here:
http://www.thoughtspam.com/ocf/
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Re: out on the south bound odyssey [Re: Papaver]
#1237122 - 01/21/03 03:43 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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That looks like a whole heap of fun and then some...
Are the fairgrounds anywhere near the Oregon vortex? A few friends and I want to make a pilgrimage there at some point, maybe this summer!
Edited by dee_N_ae (01/21/03 03:43 PM)
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