blue canoe

[Blue Canoe]

Anyone ever heard this?


"... a Civil War buff friend of mine told me that "blue canoe" was
Confederate slang for a union bullet (due to the shape it bent into upon
hitting something), and I believe the song is about a southern soldier
reflecting on his fate as he lies dying on the battlefield."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOHLQg4VfqE

WHERE TO NOW ST. PETER?
Elton John
Tumbleweed Connection (1970)

I took myself a blue canoe
And I floated like a leaf.
Dazzling dancing, half enchanted
In my merlin sleep.
Crazy was the feeling,
Restless were my eyes.
Insane they took the paddles.
My arms they paralyzed.

So where to now St. Peter,
If it's true I'm in your hands?
I may not be a Christian,
But I've done all one man can.
I understand I'm on the road
Where all that was is gone.
So where to now St. Peter?
Show me which road I'm on;
Which road I'm on.

I took a sweet young foreign gun.
This lazy life is short.
Something for nothing always ended
With a bad report.
Dirty was the day break,
Sudden was the change,
In such a silent place is this
Beyond the riffle range.

So where to now St. Peter,
If it's true I'm in your hands?
I may not be a Christian,
But I've done all one man can.
I understand I'm on the road
Where all that was is gone.
So where to now St. Peter?
Show me which road I'm on;
Which road I'm on.

I took myself a blue canoe.

[OllieN...@aol.com]

Fuck civil war vets. Both sides.

[A Lurker]

<OllieN...@aol.com> wrote in message
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On Jun 4, 10:53 pm, "Blue Canoe" <b...@canoe.com> wrote:
> Anyone ever heard this?
>
> "... a Civil War buff friend of mine told me that "blue canoe" was
> Confederate slang for a union bullet (due to the shape it bent into upon
> hitting something), and I believe the song is about a southern soldier
> reflecting on his fate as he lies dying on the battlefield."
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOHLQg4VfqE

> I took myself a blue canoe.

Fuck civil war vets. Both sides.

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isn't that necrophilia? And by "both sides" you mean the back door and the
front door? Where is the front door for a vet?

[Tommy Joe]

OllieNort wrote:



> Fuck civil war vets.  Both sides.

People may read, but they don't think. They're still fighting the
civil war, some of them, still taking sides. What they don't remember
- because they weren't there - is that the vast majority of people
fighting on both sides were conscripted into service, same as WW #1
and WW #2. Let's bring back conscription and let these idiots who
won't let the civil war die go at it using weapons from that era or
ones from today, their choice. Bring back the civil war, and lots of
American die-hards, both yankees and rebs, will discover a sudden love
for the country of Canada.

TJ

[Tommy Joe]

"A Lurker" wrote:



> isn't that necrophilia?  And by "both sides" you mean the back door and the
> front door?  Where is the front door for a vet?

Ollie wants to fuck the unknown soldier, who is just a symbol for
the many unknown soldiers who died in all wars. Ollie wants them all
wrapped up and served as one main dish - an invisible body with an
invisible asshole surrounded by an aura of unending stench.

TJ

[Fuck You]

"Tommy Joe" <jo...@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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fuck you.

[OllieN...@aol.com]

Which side was Canada On?

[Tommy Joe]

OllieNort wrote:



> Which side was Canada On?

I knew I went too far when I dragged geography into it. You know
what I mean, if it weren't for conscription, a lot of assholes who
survived whatever war they were in would not have been there in the
first place. They go for their own uniquely selfish reasons - nothing
wrong with that - but they all come back playing the patriot card.
Especially today with the volunteer assholes. I am really really sick
of the word hero being used more and more by our heroic media.

TJ

[OllieN...@aol.com]

Everyone is a hero now. Like every kid on a team gets a trophy. I
was always out of the money when I was a kid. If there was a 1st,
2nd, and 3rd I was at best 4th. Would I be more self confident under
todays rules? Maybe. Would I be any more talented? No.

Heros and Victims. And thrivers.

[Tommy Joe]

OllieNort wrote:



> Everyone is a hero now.  Like every kid on a team gets a trophy.  I
> was always out of the money when I was a kid.  If there was a 1st,
> 2nd, and 3rd I was at best 4th.   Would I be more self confident under
> todays rules?  Maybe.  Would I be any more talented? No.
>
> Heros and Victims.  And thrivers.

Some clown I met at the cab company here 15 or more years ago sort
of disappeared shortly thereafter but would call me now and then, but
he was a fly by nighter, his email address and phone number always
changing, until finally he just flat out disappeared. Well, the other
day he emails me. Tells me he worked as a paramedic in NYC for 8
years. I really laid into him about. "So what?", I said, "it doesn't
matter how big a city is, you can only be in one place at a time." So
instead of answering with words he replies with a link to a local
paper, the one from the town of his birth - Salisbury NC, and it
mentios that he has received a "hero" award for his participation as a
paramedic during the WTC event. Now I really went ballistic. He got
all defensive and said he never considered himself a hero (after I
told him I hate people who use that label). He says he never even
tells anybody he worked as a paramedic in NYC. I said, "Well, you
just told me." Anyway, point is, even if he doesn't go around talking
about it, the opportunity is there any time he wants it. So he drove
around in an ambulance for a living and one day just by chance a
national day of mourning event occurs and suddenly he's a hero. I
wonder how many people were dubbed heroes from that one experience. I
also wonder how many people who needed ambulances in other parts of
the city were made to wait forever as all the units responded to the
juicy calls coming in from lower Manhattan. Anyway, I let him have it
good. I hate heroes. I want to start a war against heroes and defeat
them, then become the biggest hero of all.

TJ

[OllieN...@aol.com]

Little known fact is that the taxi drivers of NYC were the true first
responders. When the first plane hit the Trade Center a man was
hailing a cab in front of it. He got into the cab just as the plane
hit and was whisked to safety.

Now you know the rest of the story

[Tommy Joe]

OllieNort wrote:



> Little known fact is that the taxi drivers of NYC were the true first
> responders.  When the first plane hit the Trade Center a man was
> hailing a cab in front of it.  He got into the cab just as the plane
> hit and was whisked to safety.
>
> Now you know the rest of the story

I heard a different story. I heard the cab stopped outside the
building about 5 minutes after the plane hit, but the guy driving
didn't know what was happening, he was stuck in traffic. Just as in
your story, he whisked a survivor away - but unlike your story, it was
not to safety. They were on their way to safety, yes - but before the
cab could go even half a block a jumper from the smoke filled roof
slammed into the hood of the car, his head bouncing into the window,
followed by his entire body, now dead, which acted as a bullet as it
tore into the cabbie and his passenger and ripped them to pieces.
They were killed by a corpse.

TJ

[OllieN...@aol.com]

That sounds like an urban legend. One day the WTC will be a legend
with all kinds of made up stories. Even more fanciful than the ones
already being told.

[Bambi]

<OllieN...@aol.com> wrote in message
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That sounds like an urban legend. One day the WTC will be a legend
with all kinds of made up stories. Even more fanciful than the ones
already being told.

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My penis is now a legend. They made a movie about it, with Will Smith.

[Tommy Joe]

OllieNort wrote:



> That sounds like an urban legend.  One day the WTC will be a legend
> with all kinds of made up stories.  Even more fanciful than the ones
> already being told.

Somewhere in the future two guys will be arguing about the history
of the WTC, what really went down that fateful day. As the argument
escalates and both sides get more loud and stubborn, the inevitable
happens - one of them puts a stop to the stalemate by screaming with
all the emotion he can muster, "Don't tell me about the WTC, man - my
great grandfather died in that building." That ends the discussion.
It's like two guys arguing over the Vietnam war, one way or the other,
and it escalates into a loud stalemale that finally ends with one of
them screaming, "Hey man, my brother died in Vietnam", as if that
alone makes him an authority on the subject.

I was there man, I was fucking there

TJ

[OllieN...@aol.com]

One upmanship. It is in everything. I been trying to come up with a
reply that would 1 up yours but I can't.

[Tommy Joe]

OllieNort wrote:



> One upmanship.  It is in everything.  I been trying to come up with a
> reply that would 1 up yours but I can't.

I hope one upmanship does not apply to me. I like to think I'm too
modest for that. In fact, I am probably the most modest human who has
ever lived. It is true though, as time goes by more and more people
will claim to have "been there" for the WTC thing, same as they have
for years with other things. And "being there" will take on a certain
poetic license the further away from the actual event we get, to the
point where just living in the city, even 25 miles from the hallowed
site, qualifies as having been there, and after even more time goes
by, just being in the same state is enough - then the same country.
Just as the jews keep the holocaust forever alive, so too will people
use the WTC as their personal introduction into their own personal
hall of fame. Too young to have been there? That's ok, they can
always say their grandfather or great uncle died as heroes in the
tragic destruction.

We must rebuild the WTC or the terrorists have won,

TJ

[Nobody61]

"Tommy Joe" <jo...@bellsouth.net> wrote in message

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OllieNort wrote:



> One upmanship. It is in everything. I been trying to come up with a
> reply that would 1 up yours but I can't.



I hope one upmanship does not apply to me.

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Dewd.... he was talking about one upping something up your ass! Ollie is
all about butt humor.

"I been trying to come up with a reply that would 1 up yours"

Fuck, are you dense?

btw, nice to see you again back on your feet. How did the meeting with the
SS (hopefully not Nazi's) go?

PS Fuck you!