[Sca-cooks] Re: Toledo was Viking Skillet

[Sue Clemenger]

Yes! That's *it!* Even if all I could remember, after all these years
was "Saturday night, in Toledo, OH....sit in the bakery and watch the
buns rise." <giggle>
Maybe we need a filk version for Medieval Toledo (Spain?).  It's already
got a foody reference in it....<gg>
--maire, feeling wicked, despite a brain full of latin declensions (amo,
amas, amat, amamus, amatis, amant; amavi.......)

"Laura C. Minnick" wrote:
>
> At 07:54 PM 1/19/03 -0700, you wrote:
> >*snort*
> >When I first read your comment, all I could think of was:
> >A Visigoth from _Ohio_???!??!!
> >And then, duh!, the first Toledo popped into my head! ;-)
> >--maire
>
> Oh, I had worse pop into my head- an old rude song sung by John Denver
> (20-25 years ago) about "Saturday Night in Toledo, Ohio..."
>
>                          Saturday night in Toledo, Ohio,
>                          is like being nowhere at all
>                      All through the day how the hours rush by
>                      You sit in the park and you watch the grass die
>
>                      Ah, but after the sunset, the dusk and the twilight
>                      When shadows of night start to fall
>                      They roll back the sidewalks precisely at ten
>                      And people who live there are not seen again
>
>                      Just two lonely truckers from Great Falls, Montana
>                      And a salesman from places unknown - ces unknown
>                      Oh add all together in downtown Toledo
>                      To spend their big night all alone
>
>                      You ask how I know of Toledo, Ohio
>                      Well I spent a week there one day
>                      They've got entertainment to dazzle your eyes
>                      Go visit the bakery and watch the buns rise
>
>                      Ah, but let's not forget that the folks of Toledo
>                      Unselfishly gave us the scales
>                      No springs, honest weight, that's the promise they made
>                      So smile and be thankful next time you get weighed
>
>                      And wive and wet wive
>                      Let this be our motto
>                      Let's let the sleeping dogs lie - ping dogs lie
>
>                      And here's to the dogs of Toledo, Ohio
>                      Ladies, we bid you goodbye
>
>                      (Words and music by Randy Sparkes)
>
> My apologies to any Ohians, of course, but not my fault- not my song- blame
> John Denver for inserting it into my brain- undoubtedly in a place that
> would be better utilized storing things like Latin declensions or wiring
> diagrams, but noooo, it's full of stuff like this...
>
> 'Lainie
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