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Gogi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-19-08 08:21 PM
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Anybody else have this song from the musical "'Lil Abner" running thru...
their head during Fred Thompson's lil speech:

Jubilation T. Cornpone
Old tattered and mournpone
Jubilation T. Cornpone
The man who knew no fear!
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Mnemosyne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-19-08 08:27 PM
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1. I have that movie! Now it's running thru my head, thanks.
:)

I can't watch him, but see the similarities. :rofl:
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Gogi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 05:44 PM
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3. Foghorn Leghorn also came to mind...
Now imagine him singing "Jubilation T. Cornpone" and the picture is complete!
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Mnemosyne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 06:53 PM
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5. Ohh, lay off Foghorn!
Fred couldn't wipe his butt. :rofl:
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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 10:21 AM
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2. My first thought of your song:
The Country's in the Very Best of Hands (for our "esteemed" Congress)

Them city folks and we-uns are pretty much alike,
Though they ain't used to living in the sticks.
We don't like stone or cement, but we is in agreement
When we gets down to talkin' politics:


The country's in the very best of hands,
the best of hands, the best of hands.


all the verses and wherever else needed.]


The Treasury says the national debt is climbing to the sky
And govermnent expenditures have never been so high.
It makes a feller get a gleam of pride within his eye,
to see how our economy expands,
The country's in the very best of hands.


You ought to see the congress when it's drawing up a bill,
"Where as"'s and "to wit"'s are crowded in each codicil.
Such legal terminology would give your heart a thrill.
There's phrases there that no one understands.
The country's in the very best of hands.


The building boom, they say, is getting bigger every day.
And when I asked a feller "How could everybody pay?"
He come up with an answer that made everything OK,
"Supplies are getting bigger than demands."
The country's in the very best of hands.


Don't you believe them congressmen and senators are dumb.
When they run into problems that are tough to overcome,
They just declare a thing they calls a moritorium.
The upper and the lower house disbands.
The country's in the very best of hands.


The voters are connected to the nominee,
the nominee's connected to the treasury.
When they ain't connected to the treasury,
They sits around on their thigh bones.


They sits around in this place they got,
This big congressional parking lot.
Just sits around on their you know what.
Up there they call them their thigh bones.


Them bones, them bones gonna rise again,
Gonna exercise a franchise again,
Gonna tax us up to our eyes again,
If we gets them off of their thigh bones.


The farm bill should be 89 percent of parity,
Another feller recommends it should be 93.
But 80, 95 percent, who cares about degree?
It's parity that no one understands.
The country's in the very best of hands.


Them GOP's and Democrats each hates the other one.
They's always criticizing how the country should be run.
But neither tells the public what the other's gone and done.
As long as no one knows where no one stands,
The country's in the very best of hands.


They sits around in this place they're at,
Where folks in congress have always sat.
Just sits around on their excess fat,
Up there they call them their thigh bones.


They sits around 'til they start to snore,
Jumps up and hollers "I has the floor!"
Then sits right down where they sat before,
Up there they call them their thigh bones.


Them bones, them bones gonna rise again
So dignified and so wise again
While the budget doubles in size again,
If we gets them off of their thigh bones.


The money that they taxes us, that's known as revenues,
They compound up collaterals, subtracts the residues.
Don't worry 'bout the principle and interest that accrues,
They're shipping all that stuff to foreign lands,
The country's in the very best of hands.



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Mnemosyne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 06:52 PM
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4. Now I have to watch it again! Great lyrics.
:hi:
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DemBones DemBones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 06:58 PM
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7. Playing my song. . .

"Dem Bones, Dem Bones gonna rise again."

:hippie:
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Mnemosyne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 06:57 PM
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6. "I'll Never Say No to You" from 'The Unsinkable Molly Brown' comes to mind when
I think of Pelosi and * anymore.:crazy:

I do love those old musicals!
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