The London Underground

Thanks to Samizdata for the link!

This has got to be one of the funniest things I have heard in quite some time. Two doctors frustrated by the complete cluster f*** that is the service on the London Underground wrote a song expressing their frustration with the situation.

After looking up the benefits that the drivers of the London Underground get (52 days a year off to start as well as a salary of 30,000 pounds or about 81,000 American dollars - TO START!!), I am on the verge of quitting and moving there to try and get a job as a driver or kick their collective asses.

There are also at least two other songs on their album that are well worth listening to, particularly for anyone associated with the medical field, The Drugs Song and Paracetamoxyfrusebendroneomycin (Yes that is spelled correctly).

If you like these selections, you may want to purchase their CD and listen to the rest. According to their website every penny from CD sales goes to the Macmillan Cancer Relief.

Caution - Much Swearing!

Gunner - Update

Gunner went back to the surgeons office on Thursday to have his stitches removed and to get weighed.

I thought that he had lost about 20 lbs or so. Boy was I ever wrong!

Gunner lost 54 LBS in the last two weeks. WOO HOO!!

Memories

My husband sent this to me the other day, he grew up in that area and his family worked in the Peabody and other mines for several generations. His father was the first generation to not work in the mines. We would often drive by the Rochester Dam on the way to see his grandparents.

Paradise©John Prine
When I was a child my family would travel
Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born
And there's a backwards old town that's often remembered
So many times that my memories are worn.

Chorus:
And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

Well, sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River
To the abandoned old prison down by Airdrie Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill.

Repeat Chorus:

Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel
And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken
Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man.

Repeat Chorus:

When I die let my ashes float down the Green River
Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam
I'll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waitin'
Just five miles away from wherever I am.

Repeat Chorus:

Changing World Technologies - Update

Carthage, MO, May 19, 2004 – Renewable Environmental Solutions LLC (RES) today announced that its first commercial plant is selling an equivalent of crude oil No. 4, produced from agricultural waste products. The Carthage, Missouri, plant is currently producing 100-200 barrels of oil per day utilizing by-products from an adjacent turkey processing facility.

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