Gee,

I thought this was a folk song thread, not a computer thread. In American prison work songs, Shorty is a little train that was part of the prison system. The "bottom" referred to the bottom land, more explicitly the flat land typically found along rivers. So Shorty at the bottom simply meant the train was running down along the land by the river where many of the fields which the prisoner's worked were located. See, it is all so simple when you think about it.

So what's all this about networks and hits and all?

Roger in Baltimore (he's in the bottom, whoa)