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Re: Can we please return to tech writing? RE: OT: Whaddaya Mean,"The debate that won't die?"
Subject:Re: Can we please return to tech writing? RE: OT: Whaddaya Mean,"The debate that won't die?" From:Herbert van Kampen <music -at- pinc -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 06 Jan 2003 20:07:55 -0800
Hi:
"Cold Missouri Waters" was actually written by James Keelaghan and is
recorded on his "Recent Future" CD.
Herbert van Kampen
Victoria, BC
Emily Berk wrote:
>
> Just wanted to say that the topic of what music we are listening to is profoundly on-topic for me lately.
>
> I am being treated so abysmally at work that I find I have to cry all the stress out before I can drive home.
>
> So, I've found this terrible but beautiful song that makes me just weep buckets every time I hear it. I listen to it before I start the car and, by the time I've gotten through it, I realize that other people do actually have it worse than I do. By the time I get home, I'm almost human again. Sometimes I listen to it on the way to work to, so I can face the day without crying in the office.
>
> The song is "Cold Missouri Waters". It was written and is sung by Richard Shindell and is on a CD appropriately named "Cry, Cry, Cry". The song is in the first-person and is about the first person who figured out that setting a backfire can save your life. Apparently this guy was in charge of 14 people, 13 of whom died in a fire when they refused to follow his order to step into the backfire he set. They died, he lived to regret surviving.
>
> So, anyway, I listen to this and I think -- well, my life is not as bad as this, at least.
>
> Best wishes for a much happier new year, everyone.
>
> --Emily
>
> On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 09:09:54 +0100, Shea Michael EXT <Michael -dot- Shea -dot- extern -at- icn -dot- siemens -dot- de> pleaded,
>
> > C'mon folks. Aren't we getting just a little bit off topic here? I get
> > enough e-mail as it is. Let's get back to tech writing.
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> ~ Emily Berk ~
> ~ www.armadillosoft.com\091101 *** Armadillo Associates, Inc. ~
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