[AT] Country music gripe

[David A. Laughead Jr.]

The part that gets me is the Words International Harvestor and in the video
they are driving a Freightliner Semi....

Yeah welcome to Darke County where no one cares about anything but
themselves.

And I hope you were going to the Steam Threshers and not that other thing at
the Fairgrounds...

If you do goto the Steam Threshers plan for Thursday night as this is
Karaoke Night and you will see Dave and Dave perform...

Dave




----- Original Message -----
From: "Francis Robinson" <robinson at svs.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2008 8:17 AM
Subject: [AT] Country music gripe


>
> A CM station that was on in the wood shop yesterday kept wearing out a
> song that I find particularly annoying... Its the one where the artist (?)
> was singing in a very boastful manner about backing up 3 miles of traffic
> while driving his "International Harvester combine". Most real farmers
work
> our asses off trying our very best to maintain good relations with the
> public and to operate in as considerate of a manner as possible when
> dealing with the our immediate neighbors, users of our roads and the
public
> in general. There are always a few bad apples both in the public and among
> farmers but "most" work at being considerate, at least the ones that have
> grown up...
> I forget exactly how fast he said he was going but I know it was a lot
> faster than any combine I ever owned would travel.   :-)
> His arrogant attitude sure isn't doing real modern day farmers any
> benefit. There are enough miss-perceptions out there now. He should stick
> to singing about how his knocked-up girl friend met his drunken wife in
> prison after she was caught stealing catalytic converters in the K-Mart
> parking lot and hiding them under her house trailer...
>
> A few years ago I did become very put out over some moron pulling a baler
> behind an old M on a curving hilly road as we were going to the tractor
> show at Greenville OH. We had to follow him for almost 10 miles and he
> never even looked back the whole time. I won't list the things I was
saying
> about him by mile 5 but some of it involved his ancestry. I was
complaining
> (to my poor wife) about him giving all farmers a black eye. When he
finally
> turned into the drive of his "mini ranchette"  it became obvious that he
> wasn't even a farmer but sadly everybody else on that road thought he was.
>
>
> --
> "farmer"
>
>
> Francis Robinson
> Central Indiana, USA
> Robinson at svs.net
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