Take The Money And Run

Just wanted to note that “Take the Money and Run” shares a basic chord structure with “Sweet Home Alabama.”

Don’t forget Tommy Lee Jones.

Also pictured:

Beats by Dr. Dre on-ear headphones, retail 249.95.

I’m sure most preacher’s kids have noise canceling headphones for similar Steve Miller outbreaks. But I’m not cynical; you can probably get those for 80 bucks cheaper on Amazon – No need to steal something to pull together the scratch for that. Whatever.

Boz Scaggs went to St. Marks, as well. The staffer could have played “Lowdown.”

Good to wake up to a Byron reference, Sailor; well done.

Take the Money and Run is epic on a number of levels, not least of which is its insistence on rhyming “Texas” with “facts is,” “justice,” and “taxes”.

It appears that Tuscaloosa News has pulled Mr. Goodbread’s scoop. However, it might be an erroneous interpretation of the following linked message on my part:

The article requested can not be found! Please refresh your browser or go back. (TL,20101129,NEWS,101129616,AR). The article requested can not be found! Please refresh your browser or go back. (TL,20101129,NEWS,101129616,AR). The article requested can not be found! Please refresh your browser or go back. (TL,20101129,NEWS,101129616,AR).

Those darn Bammites could learn a thing or two about contractions. I’m just saying.

Mr. Goodbread also linked the the phantom article on his twitter page that nets the same message at Tuscalooza (sic) News.

UA fires staffer who played “Take the $ and Run” and “Son of a Preacher Man” over PA system at Bryant-Denny http://tinyurl.com/36p4aq9
about 13 hours ago via web

…and a more recent posting:

Wonder if the mystery PA guy played Johnny Paycheck’s “Take this job & shove it” on his way home today?
about 9 hours ago via txt

Crapper. Sorry for the erroneous posting above. Found the linkie via the googlie.

http://www.tidesports.com/article/20101130/NEWS/101129587/1011?Title=UA-staffer-fired-for-pregame-songs

Boz Scaggs and Stevie Guitar Miller were in the same band in high school in Dallas at St Marks—-The Marksmen. They played clubs and frat parties before both leaving to attend the U. of Wisconsin together.

And Rhett Miller. As an alumnus, I’m more impressed that my alma mater produced the Acho Brothers (and Thorntons before them) as the notion that we could produce a D1 footballer would have been laughable in my day. Who is the Marksman contributor to BC/Fantake?

The BC staff is littered with Private School reprobates.

I thought that was one of Sailors requirments for hiring.

Steve Miller is the loser in the “Who sucks worse” contest with Tom Petty.

Andrew, Luke and Owen Wilson. Poor Andrew always gets left out.

Bishop Lynch alum here…Matt Nordgren, holla!!

Well, if Steve Miller writes a song about Alabama’s fired employee, maybe the line about a hassle in El Paso can be replaced by “wearing a noosa in Tuscaloosa.”

@srr50 – where can I apply?

@Art – there’s a reason for that.

@LonghornSS – Samuel L. Bronkowitz presents…Catholic High School Girls in Trouble. Great uniforms, second only to Ursuline IMO.

Get your private schools straight you publicly educated flunkies. You got the Wilsons right. Now here’s a sticker for your Ford Bronco II.

Wes Anderson went to St. John’s in Houston. Archrival of Kinkaid and both lesser conference foes to St. Stephen’s. Wes and the Wilsons met at UT.

Townes Van Zandt went to military school in Minnesota. But he was very private about the whole experience. Partial credit.

Scipio claims he went to Anderson but was actually homeschooled by a rotation of latin enthusiasts, unemployed car salesmen, and volunteers from The Womyn’s League of Austin.

HenryJames never graduated from High School.

But that’s one step better than Magnusbleuveigner, who fled elementary school and still won’t talk about what really happened to this day.

Hopefully that clears things up.

I always loved how Billie Mack “ain’t gonna let those two escape justice” and a couple of lines later those two escape justice and we are informed are still free today. In light of this, maybe it should be changed to:

Billie Mack is a detective down in Texas
You know he knows just exactly what the facts is
He SHOULDN’T let those two escape justice,
BUT he makes his livin’ off of the people’s taxes.

That guy should have received a promotion.

Instead, they’ll replace him with someone who arrives on the job with a three-song thumb drive (Zombie Nation; Welcome to the Jungle; Thunderstruck). Hmmm, maybe our guy will apply for the job . . .

Damn you Sailor…. I can’t get SMB lyrics out of my head now. I still have that album. Vinyl.

Feed the babies
Who don’t have enough to eat
Shoe the children
With no shoes on their feet
House the people
Livin’ in the street
Oh, oh, there’s a solution

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I met you on somebody’s island
You thought you had known me before
I brought you a crate of papaya
They waited all night by your door
You probably wouldn’t remember
I probably couldn’t forget
Jungle love in the surf in the pouring rain
Everything’s better when wet

Shit, I knew Rhett Miller and Boz Scaggs. Too much red wine dulling my recall.

parlin – I hope you enjoyed it. I was worried I might offend you with my rapidly diminishing latter romantic period knowledge.

I was worried I might offend you with my rapidly diminishing latter romantic period knowledge.

If you can’t recall basic facts about the latter romantic period, what good is an English degree?

For that matter, even if you can recall basic facts about the latter romantic period, what good is an English degree?

As a pre-teen, I got my kicks from that album playing Swingtown at 76 rpm.

There is a pleasure in the pathless post.

But that’s one step better than Magnusbleuveigner, who fled elementary school and still won’t talk about what really happened to this day.

I stole off with Shannon Elizabeth riding on my Mongoose (bike). Now you know I’m from Waco, and why I’ve kept it secret. Til now, imo.

I ran around with Owen after he dropped out of USC and enrolled at UT . I knew Wes (Houston St. John’s) through Owen, but Wes was Owen’s alter ego and never participated Owen’s typical Less Than Zero shenanigans. In retrospect, I didn’t participate either so much as I was an abstract player in some wacked character concepts Owen already had in the works. I had Owen’s Ben Stiller foisted on me before they ever met.

One time Owen’s shtick wore so thin that I actually demanded he repay $5 he owed. It wasn’t about the $5. While driving in an Austin neighborhood, I reached over and yanked his shirt over his sternum over the matter for him to snap out of it for a change. Instead of any semblance of getting real, he leans into me struggling to grab the gear changer in the steering column, then began toggling the damn thing into reverse as we’re careening down the middle of the road. That ended real quick but then he went Rain Man on me as I continued driving in disbelief.

The guy could take being an ass to uncharted territory, but it was mostly a put on.

For that matter, even if you can recall basic facts about the latter romantic period, what good is an English degree?

Uh, blog? Hello?

I have a written a song called A Prayer For Owen Wilson, set to the tune of Folsom Prison.

I was always partial to Song forOur Ancestors, myself.

So Bama plays music to shame an opposing player who “gasp” took money under the table? Maybe they should rename it the “Irony Bowl”.

TxTower ftw.

You are having extreme difficulties dealing with the beatdown of Texas at the hands of the Crimson Tide, more specifically, your quitter Colt McCoy after being introduced to Mr. Darieus. Get some therapy.