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Friday, October 31, 2008

Down the tubes....

I recall watching a George Carlin stand up comedy bit one time where he was questioning various methaphors, or phrases. At one point he was talking about things 'going down the tubes' and how he'd never seen these "Tubes" before... but just now I found the picture here and now I guess I'm a little worried? It's unfortunate that these tubes appeared after his passing.... but doesn't it always seem to go that way?

Quote from his bit.......
"Down the tubes -- hear that one a lot. People say, "Ah, the country is going down the tubes."

What tubes? Have you seen any tubes? Where are these tubes? And where do they go? And how come there's more than one tube?

It would seem to me, one country, one tube. But is every state all of a sudden have to have its own tube now? One tube is all you need. But a tube that big? Somebody would have seen it by now. "Hey Joey! Get a load of these *****' tubes!"

2 comments:

Ribhard said...

And doesn't everyone remember, over a 10-year recording career, The Tubes scored six singles in the Billboard Hot 100, five of which appeared on three Capitol Records releases, and the biggest of which was the Top 10 hit "She's A Beauty," an April 9, 1983 singles chart entry from Outside Inside. "'She's A Beauty' really opened things up for us," Fee remembers. "Before that, we were strictly a bi-coastal band. But after 'She's A Beauty,' we were welcome in every 'burb on the face of the Earth -- although we were required to post an obscenity bond when we hit town. We even had to switch air brushed body stockings with painted genitalia."

P-Lou said...

Aug's right: Ribhard is a bit of a musicologist.