Well, I guess I’d burn, that or they could yell it to me. Seriously, you answer to door to all strangers just in case there’s that one in 10 million chance it’s social services?
Right now, they just might!
I answer the door whenever the bell rings , which isn’t all that often. Doesn’t necessarily mean I open it , but you can have the "Knock knock " exchange from the other side of the door. It probably makes a big difference where you live- if I had a mile long driveway, I probably wouldn’t answer. But although the police or fire department haven’t yet banged on my door to evacuate me there have been a few times where some utility has knocked to ask me to move my car (which is parked on the street) so they can do some work on the street ( cable,telephone, sewer) whatever.
Another Allan Sherman parody. Who remembers Billie Sol Estes? (tune of “Billy Boy”)
Oh, what have you done, Billie Sol, Billie Sol?
Oh, what have you done, charming Billie?
You took almost every cent
From the U.S. government
Which you spent on fertilizer, which is silly
And from the Foghorn Leghorn days…
Tourist: “Crosstown buses run all night?”
Cop: “Doo-dah, doo-dah.”
I look thru the peephole, and with the “no soliciting” signs, we get very few knocks or rings anyway. More often neighbors, than Emergency services.
Who remembers “Billy Boy”?
I only know it from an episode of Beverly Hillbillies, which was one of my favorite shows (in reruns) as a kid.
Who (in the younger crowd) remembers Miles Davis?
I don’t have an answer for that, but anyone of any age who considers themself serious about music knows about Miles Davis.
I don’t consider myself serious about music, and while I acknowledge that it is skillfully executed thought the bits I listened to were tedious and couldn’t imagine wanting to listen to 7 1/2 minutes of it.
And I can’t see how, other than the title, it has anything at all to do with the folk song?
I understand why you might think that, but while I was a massage therapist working on older women I discovered that they were quite common as far back as the 40s and 50s, more so in the 60s. Lots of solidarity with friends in the military, and then of course peace and love.
Or the other guy who was portmanteaued into John Candy’s character “Billy Sol Hurok” on SCTV:
I’m in my late fifties and learned “Billy Boy” in elementary school music class, along with “Jimmy Crack Corn” and, for some reason, “O, Canada.” The last would have made more sense if I grew up in the Great White North, but I’m from Western Pennsylvania.
Something like that happened to m when I was nine years old..
My favourite joke was
Q - Where is the Garden of Eden?
A - Behind Number Ten Downing Street.
I was awfully put out when Sir Anthony Eden spoilt it by resigning in 1957.
From the early 60s:
Q: If the Secret Service guards the President, and Scotland Yard guards the Queen - who guards De Gaulle?
A: Jacques Plante.
Tune of “Jesus Loves Me”:
Krushchev loves me this I know, for the Kremlin tells me so, little ones who love him not - all lined up against the wall and shot.
Took me a minute, but that’s pretty good.
Took me longer than a minute… but I got there.
Help me out?
DeGaulle = de goal (the goal)…Plante was a HoF goalie.