Don't know what happened but I guess I like to lie below some Mudcatters twice.

Iconoblast - from the past

Isn't Marde-Gra the same sort of thing - and the Mexican "Day of the Dead?" Today's USANewsweek Magazine March 16, 2009 had two separate articles ... one on death and Goody, the other on dying and American Funeral practices.

If anyone cares to check - Shakespeare has wonderful ironic humor on death...from Mercutio (very very funny fellow) in Romeo and Juliet to of course Hamlet where everyone dies...to King Lear ....and then branch over to Mr. Gay and the "Begger Opera" ... any country that digs up their dead to hang them for public display on the Tryburn Tree...has to have a sense of morbidity. I am beginning to believe it is only the Yank's senses that have been offended. Newsweek commented that they doubt the Goody video show will cross the pond.

I was looking for the "rock climber's song" which has a line "send you home in a body bag" and stumbled upon this DT gem that thumb's its nose at Hollywood's John Wayne movie hit about Vietnam Heroes.

Sorry that Mudcat does not connect into internal posting at the moment - so look under "send you home" for the full detail.

SPECIAL FORCES SONG

Bird shit falling from the sky,
These are men who jump and cry.
One hundred men will shit today,
And wipe their ass with a green beret.

Singing this song in 1969 at Texas A&M - could you imagine the reaction?

Still looking for "Body Bag" done to the tune of Camptown Races

Sincerely,
Gargoyle