The white line's getting longer
Peter Boulding
"The white line's getting longer and the saddle's getting cold
I'm much too young to feel this damn old."
What is the white line of which he speaks?
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Dana Carpender
> "The white line's getting longer and the saddle's getting cold
> I'm much too young to feel this damn old."
>
> What is the white line of which he speaks?
>
The one down the center of the the roads between the towns where he
rides in rodeos.
Since when did you start listening to Garth? I really like that song.
Dana
David J. Martin
> "The white line's getting longer and the saddle's getting cold
> I'm much too young to feel this damn old."
>
> What is the white line of which he speaks?
>
This ol' highway's getting longer
Seems there ain't no end in sight
To sleep would be best, but I just can't afford to rest
I've got to ride in Denver tomorrow night
David
Les Albert
<pjbn...@UNSPAMpboulding.co.uk> wrote:
>"The white line's getting longer and the saddle's getting cold
>I'm much too young to feel this damn old."
>What is the white line of which he speaks?
In addition to the answer you have received, also see:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073896/
Les
Wally Sevits
wrote:
I knew it was going to be that one before even looking.
I like that movie a lot, and it's my favorite JMV flick. When I first
moved to Tucson, finding locations from the movie was one of my first
weekend tasks. In the 35 years since it was made, lots has changed
here. The "Red River Trucking" building is still around, but the
stuff across the street, like the bar, is gone. The airport control
tower with the enormous neon "TUCSON" is still here but maybe not for
long. Tucson rates a larger more technologically advanced tower, and
the FAA is supposed to want one.
Dana Carpender
> On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:25:17 -0800, Les Albert <lalb...@aol.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:30:51 +0000, Peter Boulding
>> <pjbn...@UNSPAMpboulding.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> "The white line's getting longer and the saddle's getting cold
>>> I'm much too young to feel this damn old."
>>> What is the white line of which he speaks?
>>
>> In addition to the answer you have received, also see:
>>
>> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073896/
>>
>
> I knew it was going to be that one before even looking.
>
> I like that movie a lot, and it's my favorite JMV flick.
You actually have a favorite Jan Michael Vincent flick? I didn't think
of him as that big a star. And I say that as a girl who wrote him a
sappy madly-in-love fan letter long about 1971.
Dana
Veronique
> Peter Boulding wrote:
> > "The white line's getting longer and the saddle's getting cold
> > I'm much too young to feel this damn old."
>
> > What is the white line of which he speaks?
>
> The one down the center of the the roads between the towns where he
> rides in rodeos.
My first thought was White Line Disease:
http://www.horses-and-horse-information.com/articles/0197hoof.shtml
V.
--
Veronique Chez Sheep
Peter Boulding
wrote in <hlhr7d$dr8$1...@news.eternal-september.org>:
>Since when did you start listening to Garth?
I haven't, I'm afraid (country doesn't exactly have high profile in
Rightpondia); I just keep bumping into references to "much too young...", so
I looked up the lyrics.
John Hatpin
> On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:39:42 -0500, Dana Carpender <dcar...@kivanospam.net>
> wrote in <hlhr7d$dr8$1...@news.eternal-september.org>:
>
> >Since when did you start listening to Garth?
>
> I haven't, I'm afraid (country doesn't exactly have high profile in
> Rightpondia); I just keep bumping into references to "much too young...", so
> I looked up the lyrics.
I would probably like it were I born several years earlier.
--
John Hatpin
http://uninformedcomment.wordpress.com/
huey.c...@gmail.com
> Wally Sevits wrote:
> > Les Albert <lalb...@aol.com> wrote:
> >> <pjbn...@UNSPAMpboulding.co.uk> wrote:
> >>> "The white line's getting longer and the saddle's getting cold
> >>> I'm much too young to feel this damn old."
> >>> What is the white line of which he speaks?
> >> In addition to the answer you have received, also see:
> >> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073896/
> > I knew it was going to be that one before even looking.
> > I like that movie a lot, and it's my favorite JMV flick.
> You actually have a favorite Jan Michael Vincent flick? I didn't
> think of him as that big a star. And I say that as a girl who wrote
> him a sappy madly-in-love fan letter long about 1971.
Many years ago, I had a boss who, strangely enough, could never seem to
remember the name 'Huey'.
So of course he used to call me either 'helicopter', or 'Airwolf'.
--
Huey "...helicopter! Airwolf! Whatever the fuck your name is!" Callison
Les Albert
At least he didn't call you Stringfellow.
Les
John Hatpin
According to Billy Connolly, "Huey" is the noise made by a vomiting
Glaswegian.
Bill Turlock
>
> Les Albert wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:35:57 -0600, huey.c...@gmail.com wrote:
> >
> > >Many years ago, I had a boss who, strangely enough, could never seem to
> > >remember the name 'Huey'.
> > >So of course he used to call me either 'helicopter', or 'Airwolf'.
> >
> > At least he didn't call you Stringfellow.
>
> According to Billy Connolly, "Huey" is the noise made by a vomiting
> Glaswegian.
or "Earl", or "Ralph"
Sano
news:4B7CB967...@sonnnic.invalid:
eh shit, I gotta go to bed~
Greg Goss
>
>"The white line's getting longer and the saddle's getting cold
>I'm much too young to feel this damn old."
>
>What is the white line of which he speaks?
"This ol' highway's getting longer"
--
Tomorrow is today already.
Greg Goss, 1989-01-27
John Hatpin
> Peter Boulding <pjbn...@UNSPAMpboulding.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >"The white line's getting longer and the saddle's getting cold
> >I'm much too young to feel this damn old."
> >
> >What is the white line of which he speaks?
>
> "This ol' highway's getting longer"
Apparently this is a genuine Irish joke:
A couple were walking home, tired, from the pub one night, and one
said to the other: "I wish this road were shorter". The other replied
"if the road were shorter, how would we get the rest of the way
home?".
Wally Sevits
Without looking at IMDB the only others I can remember are "Buster &
Billie", and the one with Charles Bronson where they are secret agents
in France. Not straining credibility to choose one of three as the
one I like the best.
Now for other values of "actor", the concept lacks meaning:
Adam Sandler
Pauly Shore
Will Ferrel
Ben Stiller
Kevin Costner
Tom Cruise
the list goes on...
danny burstein
>>You actually have a favorite Jan Michael Vincent flick? I didn't think
>>of him as that big a star. And I say that as a girl who wrote him a
>>sappy madly-in-love fan letter long about 1971.
Shirley you recall him in...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075909/
(rot 13) Qnzangvba Nyyrl.
--
_____________________________________________________
Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key
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[to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]
Lee Ayrton
> In <q9eqn59831f09jmpk...@4ax.com> Wally Sevits <rhabdom...@ooltrasw.com> writes:
>
>>>You actually have a favorite Jan Michael Vincent flick? I didn't think
>>>of him as that big a star. And I say that as a girl who wrote him a
>>>sappy madly-in-love fan letter long about 1971.
>
> Shirley you recall him in...
>
> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075909/
>
> (rot 13) Qnzangvba Nyyrl.
Yep, I was going to go there too.
--
"If you can fake verisimilitude, you're home free."
Jon M offers an absolute truth on AFC-A
Wally Sevits
wrote:
>On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:09:40 +0000, danny burstein wrote:
>
>> In <q9eqn59831f09jmpk...@4ax.com> Wally Sevits <rhabdom...@ooltrasw.com> writes:
>>
>>>>You actually have a favorite Jan Michael Vincent flick? I didn't think
>>>>of him as that big a star. And I say that as a girl who wrote him a
>>>>sappy madly-in-love fan letter long about 1971.
>>
>> Shirley you recall him in...
>>
>> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075909/
>>
>> (rot 13) Qnzangvba Nyyrl.
>
>Yep, I was going to go there too.
I barely remember that movie, much less who was in it. What I do
remember is the big bugs, and the strange
three-wheels-per-wheel-position vehicle. I saw that thing IRL once
stashed behind a gas station in Cahuenga pass.
Dana Carpender
> In <q9eqn59831f09jmpk...@4ax.com> Wally Sevits <rhabdom...@ooltrasw.com> writes:
>
>>> You actually have a favorite Jan Michael Vincent flick? I didn't think
>>> of him as that big a star. And I say that as a girl who wrote him a
>>> sappy madly-in-love fan letter long about 1971.
>
> Shirley you recall him in...
>
> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075909/
>
> (rot 13) Qnzangvba Nyyrl.
>
I mostly recall him in pin-up photos in Tiger Beat and 16 magazines.
But I did see his made-for-TV movie Sandcastles.
Dana
Lee Ayrton
I read the title "Sandcastles" and mistook it for this JMV made-for-TV
movie:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066490/
Lee "Over the hill" Ayrton
Shawn Wilson
<RemoveThisjfhop...@gmailAndThisToo.com> wrote:
> Apparently this is a genuine Irish joke:
>
> A couple were walking home, tired, from the pub one night, and one
> said to the other: "I wish this road were shorter". The other replied
> "if the road were shorter, how would we get the rest of the way
> home?".
Related Polish pilot joke concerning extremely short runway, but at
least it is amazingly wide...
Bermuda999
Here's a recent photo of him:
www.pycomall.com/product.php?productid=16231
Mark Steese
news:q9eqn59831f09jmpk...@4ax.com:
> On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:49:48 -0500, Dana Carpender
> <dcar...@kivanospam.net> wrote:
>
>>Wally Sevits wrote:
>>> On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:25:17 -0800, Les Albert <lalb...@aol.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:30:51 +0000, Peter Boulding
>>>> <pjbn...@UNSPAMpboulding.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> "The white line's getting longer and the saddle's getting cold
>>>>> I'm much too young to feel this damn old."
>>>>> What is the white line of which he speaks?
>>>>
>>>> In addition to the answer you have received, also see:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073896/
>>>>
>>>
>>> I knew it was going to be that one before even looking.
>>>
>>> I like that movie a lot, and it's my favorite JMV flick.
>>
>>You actually have a favorite Jan Michael Vincent flick? I didn't
>>think of him as that big a star. And I say that as a girl who wrote
>>him a sappy madly-in-love fan letter long about 1971.
>
> Without looking at IMDB the only others I can remember are "Buster &
> Billie", and the one with Charles Bronson where they are secret agents
> in France. Not straining credibility to choose one of three as the
> one I like the best.
If there were some reason to have a favorite Jan-Michael Vincent movie,
then I could see the point in choosing one; otherwise it seems a bit
like choosing one particular Michael Bay movie as your favorite.
> Now for other values of "actor", the concept lacks meaning:
> Adam Sandler
He was excellent in the movie Punch-Drunk Love.
> Pauly Shore
> Will Ferrel
No disagreement on those two.
> Ben Stiller
I thought he was good in Mystery Men.
> Kevin Costner
I thought he was good in Silverado.
> Tom Cruise
I thought he was good in Spielberg's War of the Worlds remake (though
I'm apparently one of the only two people on earth who thought that was
a good movie), and he was tolerable in the third Mission: Impossible
movie.
> the list goes on...
I'd rank Rob Schneider much higher than Stiller, Costner, or Cruise on
the anti-acting list. Incidentally, Schneider is even bad by Wilsonian
standards: Box Office Mojo's list of actors ranked by total box office
grosses puts him at # 231, just ahead of Matthew Lillard, who played
Shaggy in the Scooby-Doo movies. How bad is that? Well, it's 122 places
below Cuba Gooding Jr., for starters. (By Wilsonian standards, the best
actor in the country is Tom Hanks, and the second best is...Eddie
Murphy!)
--
Each gull had his preferred attack technique. The Nibbler favored a
sharp bite to the Achilles tendon, while the Shitmeister would swoop
low, unloading his special delivery. And then there was Spike.
-Susan Casey
Lee Ayrton
> Wally Sevits <rhabdom...@ooltrasw.com> wrote in
> news:q9eqn59831f09jmpk...@4ax.com:
>> Kevin Costner
>
> I thought he was good in Silverado.
He was even better in The Big Chill.
QueBarbara
wrote:
>On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:20:10 +0000, Mark Steese wrote:
That line is always funny.
--
QueBarbara
Reunite Gondwanaland (Mary Shafer)
wrote:
> I read the title "Sandcastles" and mistook it for this JMV made-for-TV
> movie:
>
> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066490/
Talk about mistaking words, I was reading a book of stories about
working retail and read "Seaworld" instead of "Sexworld". After a
certain amount of cognitive dissonance, I looked back and found my
error. I think it was the mention of gay porn videos on the second
floor that was my first hint.
Mary "Heard stories about dolphins."
--
Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer
We didn't just do weird stuff at Dryden, we wrote reports about it.
reunite....@gmail.com or mil...@qnet.com
Visit my blog at http://thedigitalknitter.blogspot.com/
Reunite Gondwanaland (Mary Shafer)
<mark_...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Wally Sevits <rhabdom...@ooltrasw.com> wrote in
> news:q9eqn59831f09jmpk...@4ax.com:
>
> > Tom Cruise
>
> I thought he was good in Spielberg's War of the Worlds remake (though
> I'm apparently one of the only two people on earth who thought that was
> a good movie), and he was tolerable in the third Mission: Impossible
> movie.
I thought he wasn't all that bad in "Top Gun" but I may have been
distracted by all the F-14 air combat maneuvering. He did have that
cocky fighter jock strut, but that's mostly from the torso harness.
Mary "Love the opening of that movie, shooting off Tomcats."
Dover Beach
in news:an0sn55pf8stcci7v...@4ax.com:
> On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:05:52 -0500, Lee Ayrton <lay...@panix.com.nul>
> wrote:
>
>> I read the title "Sandcastles" and mistook it for this JMV
>> made-for-TV movie:
>>
>> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066490/
>
>
> Talk about mistaking words, I was reading a book of stories about
> working retail and read "Seaworld" instead of "Sexworld".
My sister and I intended to rent Butterflies Are Free and accidentally
rented Butterfly.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082122/
Took about 2 minutes before the "WTF?" kicked in.
--
Dover
Reunite Gondwanaland (Mary Shafer)
<ikono...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Related Polish pilot joke concerning extremely short runway, but at
> least it is amazingly wide...
Told as a Marine pilot joke, at least by a Navy pilot.
Mary "Ditto the gear-up landing joke."
Glenn Dowdy
"Mark Steese" <mark_...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9D2387AC...@188.40.43.245...
> Wally Sevits <rhabdom...@ooltrasw.com> wrote in
>
>> Tom Cruise
>
> I thought he was good in Spielberg's War of the Worlds remake (though
> I'm apparently one of the only two people on earth who thought that was
> a good movie),
I never saw the movie but I remember a favorite movie critique that
postulated that hte movie was truly believeable in that aliens would travel
thousands of years and many, many light-years to kill Tom Cruise.
Glenn D.
Mark Brader
> > "The white line's getting longer and the saddle's getting cold
> > I'm much too young to feel this damn old."
> >
> > What is the white line of which he speaks?
Dana Carpender:
> The one down the center of the the roads between the towns where he
> rides in rodeos.
So was it already anachronistic when the song was written, or is it
older than that?
--
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Toronto | refutes a conjecture as effectively as ten... Hands up!
m...@vex.net | You have to surrender." -- Imre Lakatos
Lesmond
My kind of aliens.
--
If there's a nuclear winter, at least it'll snow.
Jesper Lauridsen
I, for one, etc.
Jesper Lauridsen
>
> "The white line's getting longer and the saddle's getting cold
> I'm much too young to feel this damn old."
>
> What is the white line of which he speaks?
Probably not this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsAUL03Xse0
(that's more than 10 years ago? I'm getting old)
Dana Carpender
> Peter Boulding:
>>> "The white line's getting longer and the saddle's getting cold
>>> I'm much too young to feel this damn old."
>>>
>>> What is the white line of which he speaks?
>
> Dana Carpender:
>> The one down the center of the the roads between the towns where he
>> rides in rodeos.
>
> So was it already anachronistic when the song was written, or is it
> older than that?
Huh? Roads around here still have white lines down the middle, and
highways have white lines between lanes. They don't where you live?
Dana
Mary
No - the lines in the middle are yellow, unless you mean the dashes
marking the lanes.
But the line between the opposite-direction lanes are yellow. Aren't they?
Mary
danny burstein
>Huh? Roads around here still have white lines down the middle, and
>highways have white lines between lanes. They don't where you live?
White or yellow?
Snidely
> Dana Carpender:
> > Peter Boulding:
>
> > > "The white line's getting longer and the saddle's getting cold
> > > I'm much too young to feel this damn old."
>
> > > What is the white line of which he speaks?
> > rides in rodeos.
>
> So was it already anachronistic when the song was written, or is it
> older than that?
Scans better.
/dps
Snidely
And the song is alluding to the road, not to whether it's the center
line or the fog line.
/dps
Mark Brader
>> So was it already anachronistic when the song was written, or is it
>> older than that?
"Snidely":
> Scans better.
I have no problem with that; I was just curious about the age of the song.
--
Mark Brader "How many pessimists end up by desiring
Toronto the things they fear, in order to prove
m...@vex.net that they are right." -- Robert Mallet
Mark Brader
>> Huh? Roads around here still have white lines down the middle...
>> They don't where you live?
No, and they don't where you live either. Well, except for one-way
streets (with an even number of lanes).
"Mary":
> No - the lines in the middle are yellow, unless you mean the dashes
> marking the lanes.
>
> But the line between the opposite-direction lanes are yellow.
Exactly. It changed about 40 years ago, a more or less coordinated
change throughout the US and Canada. Before that, each state or
province had its own standards and centerlines typically were white.
Ontario, for example, used yellow for warning lines at the side of
a highway with no shoulder, and for "don't drive here" hash marks;
in some states, yellow was used for the solid "don't pass" stripe
that might either accompany or replace the centerline. The present
system is much better.
(In Europe, on the other hand, centerlines are white no matter whether
the street is one-way or two-way, and yellow is reserved for lines
at the side of a road that mean "no parking".)
--
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Toronto | the Goto. I use it. I use a revolver too, but
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My text in this article is in the public domain.
groo
> Wally Sevits <rhabdom...@ooltrasw.com> wrote in
> news:q9eqn59831f09jmpk...@4ax.com:
>
>
>> Tom Cruise
>
> I thought he was good in Spielberg's War of the Worlds remake (though
> I'm apparently one of the only two people on earth who thought that was
> a good movie),
Are you assuming that Tom liked it?
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Mark Steese
news:Xns9D27BCA6496B394...@188.40.43.213:
> Mark Steese <mark_...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Wally Sevits <rhabdom...@ooltrasw.com> wrote in
>> news:q9eqn59831f09jmpk...@4ax.com:
>>
>>
>>> Tom Cruise
>>
>> I thought he was good in Spielberg's War of the Worlds remake (though
>> I'm apparently one of the only two people on earth who thought that was
>> a good movie),
>
> Are you assuming that Tom liked it?
Nope, I know the other person who thought it was a good movie. I just
didn't drag her name into the discussion because she doesn't post here.
Didn't seem fair, somehow.
--
The Alps are grand in their beauty, Mount Shasta is sublime in its
desolation. -William H. Brewer
Xho Jingleheimerschmidt
> Mark Brader wrote:
>> Peter Boulding:
>>>> "The white line's getting longer and the saddle's getting cold
>>>> I'm much too young to feel this damn old."
>>>>
>>>> What is the white line of which he speaks?
>>
>> Dana Carpender:
>>> The one down the center of the the roads between the towns where he
>>> rides in rodeos.
>>
>> So was it already anachronistic when the song was written, or is it
>> older than that?
>
> Huh? Roads around here still have white lines down the middle,
I only see yellow ones down the middle of the non-high-way road. The
white ones are on the edge of the road.
> and
> highways have white lines between lanes. They don't where you live?
white stripes. Again, the white lines are generally on the edge.
Xho
Greg Goss
Keep the orange line to your left. It either marks the edge of the
driving area or the division between directions. White lines mark the
division between lanes going the same direction, or the right edge of
the road.
I hate it that all malls seem completely unable to master this, and
just use orange for everything.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_surface_marking
--
Tomorrow is today already.
Greg Goss, 1989-01-27
Greg Goss
>Dana Carpender:
>> No - the lines in the middle are yellow, unless you mean the dashes
>> marking the lanes.
>>
>> But the line between the opposite-direction lanes are yellow.
>
>Exactly. It changed about 40 years ago, a more or less coordinated
>change throughout the US and Canada. Before that, each state or
>province had its own standards and centerlines typically were white.
>Ontario, for example, used yellow for warning lines at the side of
>a highway with no shoulder, and for "don't drive here" hash marks;
>in some states, yellow was used for the solid "don't pass" stripe
>that might either accompany or replace the centerline. The present
>system is much better.
Sometime around 1968, I saw a book about the Trans Canada Highway,
which opened (I think) in 1962. The cover of the book showed a two
lane stretch of highway in a forest somewhere, with the stripe
markings opposite to what I'd become used to. (as observer. I wasn't
driving at 11). The book showed yellow shoulder markings and a white
centerline.
Greg Goss
>I have no problem with that; I was just curious about the age of the song.
Some songs are just written old. I'd always thought that "King of the
Road" was from the thirties, with fifty cent room rental and an
assumption that a "road" is a railway. The song is from the sixties.
Snidely
> groo <afcag...@gmail.com> wrote in with ...
> > Mark Steese <mark_ste...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> I thought he was good in Spielberg's War of the Worlds remake (though
> >> I'm apparently one of the only two people on earth who thought that was
> >> a good movie),
>
> > Are you assuming that Tom liked it?
>
> Nope, I know the other person who thought it was a good movie. I just
> didn't drag her name into the discussion because she doesn't post here.
> Didn't seem fair, somehow.
One of the sci.space.* denizens was eagerly awaiting the other version
that came out about the same time, because it promised to be true to
the book. And apparently it was, but the results were horrible --
IIRC, Pat even said Speilberg's was better.
/dps