Questions You Ponder in the Middle of the Night

[Gemme]

The usual....work related angst....eyeballing Ebon in the dark as he snores....mentally calculating the remaining bills to pay....squashing the craving for a Nutty Buddy when we have none....until I fall asleep and dream of really weird, discombobulated things.

[foxyshaman]

Maybe I don't have true synesthesia, maybe I really am just weirder than the average fox?? <---- stunned face

[tapu]

Last night's was:

What's the story in "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia"?
Who killed Andy?
What happened to the girlfriend?
Why does it say the Sheriff has blood on his hands?
And whose sister is singing? Was she involved in any way??

[dixie]

Originally Posted by tapu

Last night's was:

What's the story in "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia"?
Who killed Andy?
What happened to the girlfriend?
Why does it say the Sheriff has blood on his hands?
And whose sister is singing? Was she involved in any way??

Incidentally, this is one of the only songs I will sing karaoke style.

A young woman tells the story of her unnamed older brother who returns home after a two-week trip from a place called "Candletop." The brother meets his best friend, Andy Wolloe, at Webb's Bar ("Andy Wolloe said hello, and he said, 'Hi, what's doing, Wo?'"), and Andy informs the brother that his young wife (who is later described as "cheatin'") has been seeing another man in town, Seth Amos. Andy then reveals that he, too, has been sleeping with his friend's wife. The brother is understandably upset, which scares Andy, who leaves and walks home. The brother assumes his wife has left town, gets his gun, and heads out to the back woods to sneak up on Andy and confront him. When the brother arrives at Andy's house, he finds tracks outside ("tracks that were too small for Andy to make") and discovers that someone has already killed Andy. The brother, in a moment of panic ("he started to shake"), fires his gun in the air to summon a passing sheriff. When the sheriff approaches the scene, the brother is immediately accused of murder. A "backwoods Southern lawyer" doesn't keep the sheriff and a judge from convicting the brother in a kangaroo court ("the judge said 'guilty' in a make-believe trial / slapped the sheriff on the back with a smile"), and hang him that same night, effectively lynching him. This was apparently the same night of a statewide electrical blackout, although the phrase "the night the lights went out in Georgia" could refer to the fact that the "light" of justice went out that night as an innocent man was killed by the law.

In the final verse, the singer then reveals that she was the one who killed Andy and that she had also previously killed her promiscuous sister-in-law and disposed of her body ("one body that'll never be found"), and that her brother was lynched before there was a chance to tell anyone the truth.

Beyond simply the typical police corruption, the song relates that the judge is just as corrupt as the sheriff ("...the judge in the town's got bloodstains on his hands"), as well as heartless, when rendering the guilty verdict: slapped the sheriff on the back with a smile, said "Supper's waiting at home and I gotta get to it" (The 1991 music video for the Reba McEntire version suggests that the judge was also sleeping with the wife and wouldn't listen to the truth to protect himself).

[Queerasfck]

Originally Posted by tapu

Last night's was:

What's the story in "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia"?
Who killed Andy?
What happened to the girlfriend?
Why does it say the Sheriff has blood on his hands?
And whose sister is singing? Was she involved in any way??

These are important questions that probably won't be answered in our lifetime.

Such deep lyrics. Hat tip to you Tapu for reminding me how much I loved this cheese. Her other songs paled in comparison.

[sanee66]

the sight of you beside me

has i glance your way

has me floating on air

and brightens my day

the scent of your flesh

has you move closer to me

makes my heart stutter

and sets my desire free

the touch of your hand

has it caresses my skin

makes my spirit burn brighter

and brings me alive from within

the taste of your lips

has they touch mine

is the best aphrodisiac

throughout all of time

the sound of your voice

has you whisper please

crumbles my defenses

and brings me to my knees

my sould reaches outward

and meets yours halfway

heart mind and soul together

forever and a day

.

[dixie]

What is the speed of dark?

If electricity comes from electrons... does that mean that morality comes from morons?

What kind of seeds do seedless watermelons come from?

If Hooters were to become a door-to-door delivery service would they have to change their name to Knockers?

If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?

At a movie theater which arm rest is yours?

Why is there a disclaimer on the Allstate Auto Insurance commericals that says "Not available in all states"?

When does it stop being partly cloudy and start being partly sunny?

How can something be "new" and "improved"? If it's new, what was it improving on?

[asphaltcowboi]

Sick Senior Citizen

So you're a sick senior citizen and the government says there is no nursing home available for you, what do you do?

Our plan gives anyone 65 years or older a gun and 4 bullets. You are allowed to shoot four Congressmen.

Of course, this means you will be sent to prison where you will get three meals a day, a roof over your head, central heating, air conditioning and all the health care you need! Need new teeth? No problem. Need glasses? That's great. Need a new hip, knees, kidney, lungs or heart? They're all covered. And, as an added bonus, your kids can come and visit you as often as they do now.

And who will be paying for all of this? It's the same government that just told you that you they cannot afford for you to go into a home.

Plus, because you are a prisoner, you don't have to pay any income taxes anymore.

Is this a great country or what?

[Tawse]

Originally Posted by cody

Sick Senior Citizen

So you're a sick senior citizen and the government says there is no nursing home available for you, what do you do?

Our plan gives anyone 65 years or older a gun and 4 bullets. You are allowed to shoot four Congressmen.

Of course, this means you will be sent to prison where you will get three meals a day, a roof over your head, central heating, air conditioning and all the health care you need! Need new teeth? No problem. Need glasses? That's great. Need a new hip, knees, kidney, lungs or heart? They're all covered. And, as an added bonus, your kids can come and visit you as often as they do now.

And who will be paying for all of this? It's the same government that just told you that you they cannot afford for you to go into a home.

Plus, because you are a prisoner, you don't have to pay any income taxes anymore.

Is this a great country or what?

From what I hear - what they actually do is end up sick enough to go to the ICU ward of a hospital - where the hospital can't send them anywhere else (due to whatever issue... no insurance, no availability etc) and thus they have to keep them there - taking up a bed in ICU - because of course they can't just kick them out. Thus said individual stays in the ICU for an undetermined time costing the taxpayers probably triple or more for their care than they would have if medicare had just paid for a nursing home in the first place.. (not that I know a bunch of ICU nurses and have to hear about this exact problem all the time lol [in atlanta.. your location may vary])

[Slater]

Okay it's not the middle of the night yet, but I'm still wondering: How come roughly half of all femmes are named Jenn/Jen/Jenny/Jennifer? What does this mean?

[BugsAndKisses]

at night I ponder how can I be so pumped up after working all day and only getting 3 hrs sleep the night before? Just about every night I ask this question!