# Midnight at the Oasis. Huh? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 30, 2003, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/midnight-at-the-oasis-huh/216084 "2003-11-30T18:32:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2003, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/midnight-at-the-oasis-huh/216084/21 "2003-12-01T00:07:17Z")
It’s worth pointing out that drugs were considered just big fun in the 70s. Here’s my take: Send your Camel to bed –Maria’s lover is out smoking a Camel cigarette while she’s inside getting all hot and bothered. She’s telling him to put the damn cigarette out and come on in and get a little. Cactus is our friend Peyote cactus, specifically. Heaven’s holding a half moon Her lover is doing a pretty good job of feeling up one of her buttocks (a “half moon”) ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2003, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/midnight-at-the-oasis-huh/216084/22 "2003-12-01T00:08:45Z")
Oh, yeah, in real life my name is Dr. Karl Haas. ---
**Author:** ![Joan\_of\_Argghh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/58956e/32.png) [@Joan\_of\_Argghh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joan_of_Argghh)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2003, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/midnight-at-the-oasis-huh/216084/23 "2003-12-01T01:59:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Czarcasm \* > \*\*Yeah, copywrite issues and all that, so I fixed it for you, Buttercu…er… **Joan of Argghh!** \*\* Oh yeah…copywrite issues! Sheesh! I thought the thead was going all prudish on me or something. Wow, that’s about two or three newbie mistakes today! 😃 Thank you, Wesl…Czarcasm. ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2003, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/midnight-at-the-oasis-huh/216084/24 "2003-12-01T04:59:19Z")
Nitpick: That would be copy_right_ issues. Sorry, just one o’ those pet peeves. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2003, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/midnight-at-the-oasis-huh/216084/25 "2003-12-01T05:13:37Z")
Your write, of coarse. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2003, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/midnight-at-the-oasis-huh/216084/26 "2003-12-01T06:05:57Z")
Shirley ewe mint two rite, “Yore rite off curse?” Ide butter schtupp thus. ---
**Author:** ![Satisfying\_Andy\_Licious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Satisfying\_Andy\_Licious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satisfying_Andy_Licious)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2003, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/midnight-at-the-oasis-huh/216084/27 "2003-12-01T06:26:34Z")
I there any place on Earth where a camel _and_ a cactus would be in the same desert? Just asking. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2003, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/midnight-at-the-oasis-huh/216084/28 "2003-12-01T06:58:51Z")
Saudi Arabia and Jordan have both camels and cactuses in the desert. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2003, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/midnight-at-the-oasis-huh/216084/29 "2003-12-01T07:12:32Z")
There’s the [url=http://www.outwestnewspaper.com/camels.html]Camel Corps[/orl] right here in the U.S. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2003, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/midnight-at-the-oasis-huh/216084/30 "2003-12-01T07:13:47Z")
Oh, [why didn’t I preview?](http://www.outwestnewspaper.com/camels.html) ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2003, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/midnight-at-the-oasis-huh/216084/31 "2003-12-01T13:25:45Z")
Maria Muldaur (ex-wife of muscian Geoff Muldaur) has a great catalogue (“Waitress at a Donut Shop” being pretty widely recognized). Midnight at the Oasis was her one hit, but she’s a great interpreter of songs. She also toured with the Jerry Garcia Band as a backup singer (she was dating the John Kahn, the bass player, at the time). ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2003, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/midnight-at-the-oasis-huh/216084/32 "2003-12-01T15:00:51Z")
Plus before all that she was a member of the Jim Kweskin Jug Band. ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2003, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/midnight-at-the-oasis-huh/216084/33 "2003-12-01T15:48:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Thea Logica \* > \*\*'cause if you feel my leg, you’re gonna wanna feel my thigh… > > I love that song. \*\* Hot stuff! I heard it just the other day on a compilation CD called something like “Women in Blues”, but I don’t have it here and can’t find it online under that title. The song title was “Get Me High”. It’s from the 30s, I think. ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2003, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/midnight-at-the-oasis-huh/216084/34 "2003-12-01T20:45:39Z")
Mr. Singular and I saw her in a little Jazz Club in La Jolla in 1990. That woman can really sing. It was a great show, and I loved the intimate setting. And yes, that was the song that Catherine O’Hara and Fred Willard sang for their audition in _Guffman_. It’s also the morning song of the cheesy lounge singer in _Lost in Translation_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/midnight-at-the-oasis-huh/216084.md?page=1)