Drop what you're doing and get to Denny's NOW

[NightWatcher]

You might be lucky enough to listen in on a conversation like I just did.

Man: everyone in our family done got cancer and died.

Woman: not uh, momma smoke her whole life and didn't get cancer b'fore she died.

Man: that's cause she got hit by that train.

Woman: I reckon so.


That I was able to maintain my composure and not spray Grand Slam out my nose, makes me deserving of a medal or something.

[AnneD]

1. You win the coveted medal....

for Gastronomic Bravery.

[Mopar151]

2. "I was drunk, the day my Mom got outa prision..."

David Allen Coe - on the ideal country song and a bad day (written by John Prine & Steve Goodman, with input from Mr. Coe)

[LiberalEsto]

4. There's also "You're a Detour on the Highway to Heaven"

"YOU'RE A DETOUR ON THE HIGHWAY TO HEAVEN
(tune: The Great Speckled Bird)

When Momma lay a-dyin' on the flatbed,
She told me not to truck with girls like you,
But I was blinded by the glare of your headlights,
And went joy-ridin' just for the view.

(chorus)
You're a detour on the highway to heaven.
I am lost on the back roads of sin.
I have got to get back to the four-lane,
So that I can see Momma again.

Your curves made me lose my direction,
My hands from the steering wheel strayed,
But you were just one more roadside attraction:
It's been ten thousand miles since I prayed.

If you ever get out of the fast lane,
And get back to that highway above,
I'll be waiting for you at the tollbooth,
In that land where all roads end in love."

lyrics copyright 1993 by Joan Hess, Dorothy Cannell, and Sharyn McCrumb

This was written by award-winning mystery author Sharyn McCrumb, with assistance from fellow mystery writers Joan Hess and Dorothy Cannell. I know Hess included it in her 1994 novel "O Little Town of Maggody" and mystery writer Elizabeth Peters included it in her 1994 "Last Train to Memphis".

[vanlassie]

7. What a great song!!! Thanks!!

[monmouth3]

9. I don't usually like C&W but I just loved it...Thanks.

[Mopar151]

16. All 3 (Prine, Goodman, and Coe) operate far outside the "country & western" mainstream.

David Allen Coe spent 20 of his first 28 years in reform school or jail, IIRC, Johnny Cash and others helped him get parole and keep it together.
Another great one:

That's some old school country, right there.
John Prine has written and performed a lot of great songs. This one comes from his childhood, and speaks so eloquently. Jim & Jesse's version here adds those beautiful mountain harmonies, makes my heart ache every time I hear it

John Prine version, nice slideshow vid

Steve Goodman - a medly from Austin City Limits - a true "musicians musican", gone too soon 1984

[monmouth3]

17. Thank you so much, wonderful stuff..n/t

[alarimer]

20. Unlike the other two, Coe is a racist piece of shit.

He has a song called N-Fucker.

And a couple of underground albums that are full of sexist garbage.

[Mopar151]

21. He's a mean drunk, too

Maybe it was growing up in jail?

[KamaAina]

3. VTA light rail is also pure eavesdropping gold

"Um, yeah, I'm on the light rail now. I'm on my way to visit my parole officer, then..."

[Brigid]

5. Are you sure the Coen bothers weren't making a movie in there?

[nirvana555]

6. I love that David Allen Coe song! You don't have to call me darling', darling' n/t

[Gato Moteado]

8. hey.....steve goodman wrote that song!

a short guy from Chicago:

[KamaAina]

10. Is it time for Baconalia already?

[Initech]

11. "If it weren't for my horse I wouldn't have spent that year in college!"

[Incitatus]

12. Damnit

I thought you were going to mention a new bacn dish. Congrats on your restraint, though.

[ashling]

13. Saw a sign at the Denny's in Fredericksburg TX

about 10 or 11 years ago:

Seniors Appreciation Week.
Buy one get one free

Frankly I thought they would be a little tough and stringy . . .

[LiberalEsto]

18. There's nothing quite like a senior

aged to perfection

[Tabasco_Dave]

14. I stopped going there

when the local one stopped making mashed potatoes. They only give you fried potatoes now.

[B Calm]

15. Did you buy any oxycontin at Denny's?

[texanwitch]

19. You can get a free Grand Slam on your birthday.

I got mine.

I heard something about vets getting free pancakes.

Ihop also has a free meal on your birthday.

Just have to sign up on line.

Red Robin has a free hamburger on your birthday, just sign up on line.

Just check out free stuff on your birthday, lots of free food.