> > > > THANKS Howard. Now you've got that song stuck in my head. As soon as I saw the word Chatanooga, my brain started tapping along and shortly my whole body was resonating with Chatanooga Choo Choo.
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> > > > I played this song when I was learning Trombone.
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> > > > It WAS a great song. But having it stuck in my head for hours on end is not fun.
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> > > > ladada(had the Summer Lovin' stuck for THREE MONTHS)dada
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> > > You know, Roy Rogers once had some trouble with a mountain lion that used to come in to the ranch at night and gnaw on his cowboy boots outside the door. One day he finally got tired of it and went out and shot the critter. The next morning his wife found the dead mountain lion outside the door and asked, "Pardon me Roy, is that the cat who chewed your new shoes?"
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> > *sigh* Enough people have now asked me what the heck this joke means that I guess I should explain it. The song "Chattanooga Choo Choo", referenced above, contains the line "Pardon me, boys, is that the Chattanooga Choo Choo?" OK. It's a very old song. It's not a very good joke. And there are too many people here who make me feel really, really old. But *I* thought it was funny, OK?
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> > Brunnen-"so there"G
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> I got it. It was a real groan. Sorry you had to explain it to the youngsters. Don't you just hate doing that!
> Howard

It seems like I told about the Chattanogga Choo Choo on this forum before, but maybe a quick run down is in order. Back in the old days, trains had colorful names like, the Hummingbird, the Orange Blossem Special, the Superchief and the Chattanooga Choo Choo. Many of them had songs written about them. Not too many years ago when the age of passenger trains was ending and AmTrac hadn't been formed, there were grand old railway stations in cities and quaint little ones in small towns, all falling into ruin. But the preservationists stepped in an turned them into things like hotels, shopping centers and tourist attractions. The one in Chattanooga is now a hotel with some of it's rooms built in old Pullman cars. You get half a car instead of a bunk. The old baggage rooms and waiting rooms are now shops and you can ride a vintage trolly car to the other end of the rail yard and back. If you can stand under that massive dome in the main building and look upward without a ripple down you spine, you have no soul. The old station now goes by the name Chattanooga Choo Choo. They couldn't have called it anything else.
Howard