You load 15 tons, and what do you get?
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the ringo kid
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Darn, I thought this was a quiz where you had to answer with: "Another day older and deeper in debt." From the old Country song.
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THE PILGRIM
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You need one more ton. Then you got a great song written by Merl Travis.
He Was One of the greatest guitar players ever and a pretty good song writer.
He Was One of the greatest guitar players ever and a pretty good song writer.
fat tom
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Article said the driver "self-extricated". If convicted,he may be forced to register as a sex offender. Never mind,it's late.
f.t.
f.t.
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You'd probably get a hernia! 
(Which the VA doctors would find a way to avoid operating on...)
(Which the VA doctors would find a way to avoid operating on...)
I knew a guy that was training a gal how to drive one of our snow plows, they were big IHC's with lousy crash box trannys, dump beds and sanders installed, oversized blades...too wide for city operation. They were a real challenge for those of us with some driving experience and we all told the guy he had no business trying to teach her. She came down a good sized hill in town and as he told the story he told her to slow down for an upcoming curve, she didn't slow down enough and over corrected for the sharp curve, instead of going wide on the corner. He said the truck went over on its side in a roll so slow that at one point he actually thought about opening his door and climbing out to jump off before it hit the center island and flipped over. It was a hell of a wreck, totalled everything on the truck, both of them suffered the effects for years, she never drove anything larger than a floor scrubber after that.
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Darn, I thought this was a quiz where you had to answer with: "Another day older and deeper in debt." From the old Country song.
At least somebody got the joke!
cmort666
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"You load 15 tons, and what do you get?"
Half of one of Rosie O'Donnell's thighs?
Half of one of Rosie O'Donnell's thighs?
BigBill
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Coal, 15 tons of coal, 30,000lbs of coal. TE first song before 16tons.
Comrad
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You load sixteen tons, what do you get
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store
Tennessee Erine
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store
Tennessee Erine
shouldazagged
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The manure content of any episode of "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo", or "Real Housewives Of Any Damn Where".
gdnagle
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OK here it is he sold 20 million copies. He has some good songs 16 Tons and Big Bad John my favorites.
Sixteen Tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford - YouTube
Sixteen Tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford - YouTube
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the ringo kid
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One heck of a great song.
cmort666
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...or pretty much ANYTHING labeled "reality TV" these days.
My best friend's kid has a degree in electronic media. He's chronically underemployed. I think I'll try and get him to pitch "The Real Housewives of Kandahar". It'll be nothing but five "women" wearing burkas spinning yarn and saying nothing for an hour. I GUARANTEE you that three out of five network executives will NEVER come CLOSE to identifying it as a joke... especially on them.
"Victory at Sea", "The World at War", and "The Color of War" are all the "reality TV" I'll ever need...
i think it was the guard rails fault
CAJUNLAWYER
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Actually 16 tons of coal is also known as a plather of coal-old unit of measurement used to calculate wages way back when. One plather was what the average man could work in a given shift and upon which his pay was based. That's where the 16 tons for the song came from.
ordy
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Dang!! The things you learn on this forum. Another piece of trivia to put in the mental bank for the next time I play scrabble. Thanks Caj!
CAJUNLAWYER
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That's what I'm here for my man!
