Why????? Why did Billie Joe jump off the Tallahatchie Bridge????

That has worried me since I was 16? years old.

Because Billy Joe got Bobby Gentry pregnant and they threw the baby off the bridge. Billy Joe couldn't live with himself. Now, notice that not only did Bobby Gentry not kill herself, she even wrote and recorded a song about the experience and made a lot of money. She is the greatest example of why I am afraid of womens. Cold.

It's a song Todd.

It's always been the myth/legend about the song that it was a baby they threw off the bridge but I don't think anyone really knows for sure do they?

We are not cold Todd.

There are almost as many interpretations of that song as American Pie. I have heard that one interpretation is that "Billie" Joe, as opposed to Billy Joe is really a girl and that the song tells the story of young lesbian love. Not borne out by the facts however.


Brrr.....

In the event that someone wants to know, below are the song lyrics. And Pio is not even here to ignore them.

It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day
I was out choppin' cotton and my brother was balin' hay
And at dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat
And Mama hollered out the back door "Y'all remember to wipe your feet"
And then she said "I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge"
"Today Billie Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

And Papa said to Mama as he passed around the blackeyed peas
"Well, Billie Joe never had a lick of sense, pass the biscuits, please"
"There's five more acres in the lower forty I've got to plow"
And Mama said it was shame about Billie Joe, anyhow
Seems like nothin' ever comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge
And now Billie Joe MacAllister's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge

And Brother said he recollected when he and Tom and Billie Joe
Put a frog down my back at the Carroll County picture show
And wasn't I talkin' to him after church last Sunday night?
"I'll have another piece of apple pie, you know it don't seem right"
"I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Choctaw Ridge"
"And now you tell me Billie Joe's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

And Mama said to me "Child, what's happened to your appetite?"
"I've been cookin' all morning and you haven't touched a single bite"
"That nice young preacher, Brother Taylor, dropped by today"
"Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday, oh, by the way"
"He said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge"
"And she and Billie Joe was throwing somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

A year has come 'n' gone since we heard the news 'bout Billie Joe
And Brother married Becky Thompson, they bought a store in Tupelo
There was a virus going 'round, Papa caught it and he died last Spring
And now Mama doesn't seem to wanna do much of anything
And me, I spend a lot of time pickin' flowers up on Choctaw Ridge
And drop them into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge.

I don't guess anyone wants to hear about Lucas numbers or Pascal's triangle...

Uh, no.

Anyway, gotta go.

Another lovely day of leave tomorrow. I don't want to give up work (thought I did) but the break is LOVELY.

Kiwi, I was 16 several fews of years before you were, and now I'm depressed. Has it really been that long since I puzzled over that same question myself? In between play times with my pet dinosaurs, of course... <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

The rumor in Hawaii was that it was a baby. We didn't hear the lesbian scenario. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> At least not on the church school campus! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

t&l

Aussie always told me it meant they went bunji jumping <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

Now I'm more confused than the Aussie Minister for Foreign Affairs <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

sigh............. time to go night shopping

Don't ever take a man at his word. We are often wrong.



And you are worrying because?...

Seriously, WOMEN!!!

If you search the US patent documents, it is cleary obvious that Billie Joe took a nose dive at least a decade before the bunji was invented,

Sorry.

Okay I'm back from Bahrain. Because it is the last weekened before Ramadan, there were no 5 star hotels available so I got a 4 star hotel. Only one less star, I am thinking to myself. Kind of like NZ in relation to Austraila and KiwiJ thinks NZ is okat so I go for it. I soon find out that the difference between a 5 star and a 4 star hotel in Bahrain is that a 5 star hotel has in-house doctors and a 4 star hotel has in-house hookers.

It was almost impossible to sleep because they knocked on the door about every 15 minutes up till about 1:00AM. My friend and I went to the Hard Rock Cafe and had a couple of beers and some seriously good pork. We went back to the hotel and looked at the Syrian bar, thought better of it, and decided to try the Russian bar.

Now the Russian bar was just strange - kind of like the hotel. Imagine a Robert Palmer video of "Simply Irrestible" without Robert Palmer. This is more or less the picture. 4 or sometimes 5 Russian women dancing on the stage to rock music. I never really understood what the drill was but there was a waitress walking about with two arms full of plastic phosphorescent Hawaiian leis. We called her over and asked what the leis were for and she said that, for 10 BD, we could buy a lei for a particular girl and it was a "tip" for dancing so well. Well I am somewhat ashamed to say it but I lei'ed two Russian women last night. It sounds a lot worse when you say it.

Anyway, I decided that I missed my DDs very much and I was desperate to get home so I left the Russian women behind and came home. I'll never go back there again. I think I'll stick with 5 stars in the future. And no, I did not cheat on my WW - not even in my heart.

I'm worried because I don't want to become emotionally attached with a man who doesn't envision the same future I do. Simply, I don't want to get hurt nor do I want to hurt him. We could date, enjoy each other's company, VERY tempting. But building a growing attachment to a man who has clearly stated he intends to never remarry looks like I'm begging to be hurt. Let's see, I think I'll run my finger close to this candle flame just to feel a bit of heat...

I would NEVER get involved with the intention of trying to change him. It's disrespectfull. Thankfully I don't have that trait many women seem to have.

I'm battling with my heart & my head, which Todd pointed out. I'd like to share my life with someone, this guy is half what I want so why not test the waters, I say to myself. My other half pipes up to say because down the road this difference will come back, you'll both be hurt, it's wasted time. Back & forth between the but I want...& the but it's a dead end. Big sigh...

"youse guys" is typical N.J. speak.

NO NUMBERS!

You sound surprised Kiwi that American cuture is taking over the world. It's part of a plan to get others addicted to our way of life & our desire for stuff then rake in the money for selling "that". Oh, that & spreading democracy 'cause we know best.

I've always wanted to visit Savanah & the Smokey Mountains but I'm concerned I might be considered cold & rude because I'm from the home of proper English.

Now Todd, this general assumption of women being cold & as a consequence you fear, them has got to stop.

I could [censored] u me all men are idjeots & will grow their hair long, buy motor cycles, get tatoos, have girl friends while married. I could further [censored] u me all men will have a MLC, run away instead of work on a relationship, believe the grass is greener on the other side. But if I do that who's left for me to have a relationship with? Scary <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" />

nams,

you went out with the guy once. Why are you thinking so far ahead?

Okay this is good. I just read an email from WW asking for money. I am tempted to ask her why she can't ask pool boy for money. I didn't. I just asked her how much she needed monthly and whether she had a job yet.

Funny Pio! In the land of all that is holy...religion is frightening unless it's yours then it's just correct. No, I will not discuss religion either.

I have just put into my crock pot:

cubed beef which had been sauteed in olive oil, red wine (Australian Shiraz) & garlic
black beans
red beans
chick peas
secret spices

Later my boys & I will enjoy "chili". I put chili in quotes because I know some people get positively rabid over what constitutes chile. Especially those southern types.

Pio, why do you paint your toe nails?

Pio, if g is returning to SA why does she want money? Did you ask why she wants it? Are you asking her if she's gotten a job in Mexico or SA?

I'm thinking far ahead because I see consequences to the possibility of a relationship. I know it seems premature but I don't want to move forward if there seems a likelyhood for hurt.

nams.

You had what? one date? And you already mapped out all the permutations of your future? Chill already. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

The money request is a non sequitur. If she is coming back soon, she could send her sister the money herself. I think it is an odd request. If she were planning on staying a while, it would make more sense.