Friday -- Earth Day -- April 22nd

[RGMike]

Dave spilled the beans early, and is soliciting Foghead suggestions. The usual suspects?

Big Yellow Taxi
Where Do the Children Play?
Fresh Air
Out in the Country
Share the Land

[ggould]

I Want to Make the World Turn Around, Steve Miller
The Dolphins, Fred Neil

[Gazoo]

John Denver, "Plant a Tree: Trees for America"

[Beej]

"The Trees"- Rush

[princessofcairo]

in completely unrelated news, walter becker was spotted at virgin last night. he bought a bjork album.

[RGMike]

rather buy me a new car baretta

that's why Robert Blake had his wife killed; she kept nagging him:

"Buy me a new car, Baretta!"

[mshray]

"The Trees"- Rush

You know I love my Rush, but, umm, that's not an environmetnal song.  It's a political allegory about the US pushing Canada around.  And what Canadians would do to the US if they had the wherewithal to turn the tables.

(just for the record)

fwiw, I requested "To the Last Whale: Critical Mass/Wind on the Water" by Crosby & Nash

[RGMike]

It's a political allegory about the US pushing Canada around.  And what Canadians would do to the US if they had the wherewithal to turn the tables.

And they'd do... what? Put a tax on hockey? Take back Niagara Falls?

"Niagara Falls! Slowly I turned...."

[Beej]

You know I love my Rush, but, umm, that's not an environmetnal song. It's a political allegory about the US pushing Canada around.

Well.... dang! You do love your Rush. I never bothered to look beyond the surface of that song.

I just remember back in 10th grade in English class we had to write a poem or short story for a "Collected Works" book thing my teacher wanted us make. Some kid just wrote out the lyrics to "The Trees" and submitted it with a drawing he did of a tree. The teacher never caught it and we all had a good laugh (I think the same kid also submitted "Locomotive Breath" as a poem and didn't get busted for that, either. Good times).

And what Canadians would do to the US if they had the wherewithal to turn the tables.

Damn Canadians. They're just lucky they're women are hot & their beer is tasty or else we'd bomb them back to the Stone Age!  

[RGMike]

Damn Canadians. They're just lucky they're women are hot & their beer is tasty

I heard it was the other way around...

[Beej]

Well, a tasty woman wouldn't be so bad (in a non-cannabalistic sense, of course).

Hot beer, though? Ew.

See, the TV show Smallville is filmed in Canada and many of the guest-star actresses are Canadian and they're all hot.

Also, the woman who owns my neighborhood bar is Canadian and, like, nuclear hot.

[mshray]

It's a political allegory about the US pushing Canada around.  And what Canadians would do to the US if they had the wherewithal to turn the tables.

And they'd do... what? Put a tax on hockey? Take back Niagara Falls?

"Niagara Falls! Slowly I turned...."

They'd cut us down to size (literally, see the bolded part).

There is unrest in the forest
There is trouble with the trees
For the maples want more sunligh
And the oaks ignore their pleas

The trouble with the maples
(and they're quite convinced they're right)
They say the oaks are just too lofty
And they grab up all the light
But the oaks can't help their feelings
If they like the way they're made
And they wonder why the maples
Can't be happy in their shade?

There is trouble in the forest
And the creatures all have fled
As the maples scream `oppression!`
And the oaks, just shake their heads

So the maples formed a union
And demanded equal rights
"the oaks are just too greedy
We will make them give us light"
Now there's no more oak oppression
For they passed a noble law
And the trees are all kept equal
By hatchet,
Axe,
And saw ...

[RGMike]

methinks there are worse things than being referred to metaphorically as an Oak (just ask Ah-nuld! LOL!).

Those "I Am a Canadian" Molson commercials a few years back made the same point far more pointedly (and with humor).

[mshray]

Well, a tasty woman wouldn't be so bad (in a non-cannabalistic sense, of course).

Hot beer, though? Ew.

See, the TV show Smallville is filmed in Canada and many of the guest-star actresses are Canadian and they're all hot.

Also, the woman who owns my neighborhood bar is Canadian and, like, nuclear hot.

Elisha Cuthbert is Canadian.  Hubba Hubba Hubba.

[mshray]

Dave spilled the beans early, and is soliciting Foghead suggestions. The usual suspects?

Big Yellow Taxi
Where Do the Children Play?
Fresh Air
Out in the Country
Share the Land

Who was it that made the really egregious cover of "Big Yellow Taxi"  Train or Counting Crows?  Either way if Dave plays it I promise I'll scream in mortal agony.