That was an ode-ious pun.
Hey I crossed the Tallahatchie several times on that bridge this week, going back and forth from Oxford to Holly Springs. Even went to Memphis twice.
Then, when you heard the news about Billy Joe, you probably wondered if he’d sprained an ankle or something.
Sheesh, it’s no wonder nothing ever comes to no good down on Chop Chop Ridge.
The Chop Chop Ridge thing really oughta get submitted to http://www.kissthisguy.com/
I have a coworker named Billy-Jade who has no sense of humor about this. As in zip, nada, none. I think I’ll call up to the hospital right now and see if she’s working tonight.
It reminds me of a gruesome incident that happened in Kentucky in the late 70’s. A guy was having trouble with the law and decided faking a suicide and leaving the area was the best way to handle the problem. He somehow staged a jump off a bridge into a river. Then he got to shore and hid for a few days.
Since there were reports of someone jumping to the river the authorities trolled it for the body. Meanwhile his girlfriend was so distraught she went to the bridge and jumped. She didn’t make it to shore. She drowned.
When the guy heard the news about his girlfriend he came out of hiding and admitted he’d faked his suicide. Since this was roughly 32 years ago I don’t know if any charges were put against the guy or what later became of him.
I do remember in English class we were reading Romeo and Juliet at the time.
::brushes hands and goes home::
No more flowers on Choctaw Ridge…they’re all downstream from the Tallahatchie Bridge.
Never had a lick of sense anyway.
It’s a shame about Chop Chop Ridge, anyhow.
It must be noted that June 3rd is also the day Neil Diamond got lucky with Desiree.
Did he put a frog down her back at the Carroll County picture show?
BTW- thanks to Oakminster for coming up with the idea. It’s quirky little ideas like this that make the SDMB so amusing.
I would add many years ago I was participating in a thread about what Billy Joe threw off the bridge. One of the posters asked if I had picked up that the song was about lesbianism (I hadn’t even thought of that angle) and I was going to argue the point when I saw her signature indicated she was a member of “Chicks with balls”. I decided then to not argue at all. End of hijack.
No, she was much too mature to fall for that. She was, after all, nearly twice his age. But she did make him into a man.
I can’t really claim credit for this idea. We have one of these threads almost every year. May have missed some. The was a virus going around. 'Puter caught it and it died last spring.
There will also likely be an Edmond Fitzgerald thread in November. I did a Skynyrd thread last year on the anniversary of the plane crash, but someone just had to shit all over it. Dunno if I’ll try that one again.
After “Ode to Billy Joe” became such an enormous hit, Bobbie Gentry received literally thousands of invitations to various social events – more than she could possibly have ever accepted, even had she wanted to. So after seeking the advice of the improbable pair of Cole Porter and Ella Fitzgerald, she began declining the invitations with “Miss Odist regrets she’s unable to lunch today, madam.”
Oakminster, please do - I love The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald. I was born almost literally on the shores of Lake Erie, and that song always makes me a little homesick. It - like Ode To Billy Joe, for that matter - is one of the most evocative songs I know; the more so, as it is true. One of the men lost on the Big Fitz was from a town not far from the one in which I grew up.
Walks away singing “The searchers all say they’d have made Whitefish Bay…” to himself.