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Alice's Restaurant?

No envelopes in the pile?

:)
Wish someone would have hipped me to this song before I done dumped me a mess of stuff in a most likely non dumping area.

Now I am nervous... they are coming to get me... :nailbiting:

:help:

I just needed to use the bathroom.

:bag:
I saw the other end of that kind of story.

Came to work one day and a huge pile of crap was dumped behind our building. A couple of us looked through the pile and found, Ta-Da! an envelope with a name and address on it :)

It was from a guy that had been fired a few months back. The job called him and he said that he didn't know anything about it. That he hired someone to haul off his junk to the dump. Funny they dumped it behind his old job ;)

They give him 24 hours to clean it up before they reported it to the police.

:D
 
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Atlanta used to be able to hear it on Z93 (92.9) and/or 96 Rock (96.1). These days classic rock is split between 97.1 the River and Rock 100.5, and I'm not certain that either one of them play it (i've not been able to find it on either one of those anyway...). I try to keep the tradition going with help from youtube and spotify. It's a great song that tells a great story.
Yep, I recall 96 Rock playing it on repeat for much of the day (back when it was cool to have a 96 Rock plate on upside-down on the front of your ride, and before digital tuning put decimals on radio station frequencies).

It was particularly memorable for me one Thanksgiving, when teenaged me had forgotten to put out the household trash (as was part of my chore duties), thus causing our house to miss the holiday-schedule-adjusted garbage truck pickup. My father told me there was no way we were having a week's worth of garbage sitting around the place while another week's worth accumulated, so I would have to figure out a way to dispose of it myself, that very day.

So, I loaded all our garbage bags into the trunk and back seat of my car, and set out driving around town, looking for an out-of-the-way dumpster where I could chuck the bags (because as much as I like Arlo, I wasn't trying to get arrested for "being a litterbug.") The whole time, "Alice" was looping on 96 Rock, providing some amusing parallels to my predicament.

To quote another Arlo classic, "I was lookin' for the cops." I did eventually find a dumpster in the back corner of a city park, though, where I was able to get rid of the garbage, and get away clean.

Then, I went back home, where we "had a Thanksgiving dinner that couldn't be beat..."

:thumbsup:
 
I now live in and grew up in Greater Cincinnati. Each Thanksgiving day at noon the local rock station plays Arlo Guthrie's epic story/song.

Listened to it today and I wonder; is that "tradition" a Cincy thing or do other markets have a station that does it too?
WEBN used to do an April Fool's Day "Parade" every year. Some amazing classic comedy stuff.
 
I was just in time for Leftovers, it's on now.



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Arlo Guthrie’s Alice’s Restaurant has been a KINK Thanksgiving tradition for more than 30 years.
Catch it twice on Thanksgiving Day (November 25th) this year, 12pm and 5pm.
 
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I haven't listened to FM/music radio by choice in probably 10 years or so, but listening to Alice's Restaurant at least once on Thanksgiving Day was a much looked-forward to tradition growing up. Neither the song nor roasted Turkey was to be seen until the next Thanksgiving Day.
 
I now live in and grew up in Greater Cincinnati. Each Thanksgiving day at noon the local rock station plays Arlo Guthrie's epic story/song.

Listened to it today and I wonder; is that "tradition" a Cincy thing or do other markets have a station that does it too?

I'm probably too young to notice the tradition or not, but as a fellow Cincinnati low ender, I had to say hello to your post!
 
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Growing up and living in Massachusetts for most of my life I can truly appreciate this song. Especially the puritan ways Arlo described about the authorities. Also it was written about a very different era of time that will never ever be lived again. So my advice grab a piece of pumpkin pie and your favorite beverage and listen to one hell of a good song. I do ever year and laugh ever time.