# On a dark desert highway... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 14, 2001, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-a-dark-desert-highway/72504 "2001-07-14T20:18:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pythonzzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9e8a1a/32.png) [@pythonzzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pythonzzz)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-a-dark-desert-highway/72504/1 "2001-07-14T20:18:06Z")
…Cool wind in my hair ---
**Author:** ![hardygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@hardygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardygrrl)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-a-dark-desert-highway/72504/2 "2001-07-14T20:19:22Z")
Warm smell of colitas… ---
**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-a-dark-desert-highway/72504/3 "2001-07-14T20:21:47Z")
rising up through the air ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-a-dark-desert-highway/72504/4 "2001-07-14T20:22:36Z")
Don Henley must die Don’t let him get back together with Glenn Frey… Oops. Wrong song. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-a-dark-desert-highway/72504/5 "2001-07-14T20:27:18Z")
Up ahead in the distance… ---
**Author:** ![BobbySuezQ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/57b2e6/32.png) [@BobbySuezQ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobbySuezQ)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-a-dark-desert-highway/72504/6 "2001-07-14T20:59:01Z")
I saw a glimmering light … ---
**Author:** ![Ferggie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@Ferggie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferggie)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-a-dark-desert-highway/72504/7 "2001-07-14T21:01:29Z")
…my head grew heavy and my sight grew dim… ---
**Author:** ![Dog\_Wonder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@Dog\_Wonder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dog_Wonder)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-a-dark-desert-highway/72504/8 "2001-07-14T21:02:53Z")
What’s a “colita?” \ I mean, “My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim,” ---
**Author:** ![Wicked\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/2acd7d/32.png) [@Wicked\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wicked_Blue)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-a-dark-desert-highway/72504/9 "2001-07-14T22:03:27Z")
I had to stop for the night ---
**Author:** ![DooWahDiddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-a-dark-desert-highway/72504/10 "2001-07-14T22:11:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dog Wonder \* > **What’s a “colita?” \** Not sure if you were seriously asking, but according to Cecil, “the author is referring to “colas”, the tip of a marijuana branch, where it is more potent and with more sap.” ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-a-dark-desert-highway/72504/11 "2001-07-14T22:18:11Z")
There she stood in the doorway… ---
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-a-dark-desert-highway/72504/12 "2001-07-14T22:18:21Z")
[Cecil on _Hotel California_](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_001.html) ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-a-dark-desert-highway/72504/13 "2001-07-14T22:37:37Z")
I heard the mission bell … ---
**Author:** ![Tabeitha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b3f665/32.png) [@Tabeitha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabeitha)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2001, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-a-dark-desert-highway/72504/14 "2001-07-15T01:17:04Z")
and I was thinking to myself… ---
**Author:** ![pesch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pesch/32/4925_2.png) [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2001, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-a-dark-desert-highway/72504/15 "2001-07-15T01:19:31Z")
this could be he-aaaa-van or it could be hel-l-l- l-l-l ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2001, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-a-dark-desert-highway/72504/16 "2001-07-15T01:24:02Z")
Then she lit up a candle … ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2001, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-a-dark-desert-highway/72504/17 "2001-07-15T01:33:42Z")
And she showed me the way . . . ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2001, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-a-dark-desert-highway/72504/18 "2001-07-15T01:35:44Z")
There were voices down the corrido-o-o-o-or … ---
**Author:** ![pesch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pesch/32/4925_2.png) [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2001, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-a-dark-desert-highway/72504/19 "2001-07-15T01:43:11Z")
I thought I heard them sa-aa-ahay . . . (All together now) ---
**Author:** ![hardygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@hardygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardygrrl)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2001, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-a-dark-desert-highway/72504/20 "2001-07-15T01:48:50Z")
Welcome to the Hotel California. Such a lovely place… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-a-dark-desert-highway/72504.md?page=2)