{"id":180,"date":"2008-06-06T08:58:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T12:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=180"},"modified":"2010-08-16T07:17:28","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T11:17:28","slug":"happy-convoy-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=180","title":{"rendered":"Happy Convoy Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, fer\u00a0sure fer sure, it&#8217;s the 6th of June, and you know what that is,\u00a0right?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I just can&#8217;t help reposting the classic C.W. McCall lyrics,\u00a0but you should hunt down the\u00a0song for\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">yourself<\/span> yerownself:<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>\n\u00a0Uh, breaker one-nine. This here&#8217;s the Rubber Duck<br \/>\nYou gotta copy on me Pig-Pen, c&#8217;mon?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Uh, yeah 10-4 Pig-Pen, fer sure, fer sure<br \/>\nBy golly it&#8217;s clean clear to Flag-town, c&#8217;mon?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, that&#8217;s a big 10-4 there Pig-Pen, yeah<br \/>\nwe definitely got the front door good buddy,<br \/>\nMercy sakes alive, looks like we got us a convoy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Was the dark of the moon on the <strong>sixth of June<\/strong><br \/>\nIn a Kenworth pullin&#8217; logs<br \/>\nCabover Pete with a reefer on<br \/>\nAn&#8217; a Jimmy haulin&#8217; hogs\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;s headin&#8217; fer bear on I-one-oh<br \/>\n&#8216;Bout a mile out a&#8217; Shaky-town<br \/>\nI sez Pig-Pen, this here&#8217;s th&#8217; Rubber Duck<br \/>\nAn&#8217; I&#8217;m about to put the hammer down\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cause we got a little ol&#8217; convoy, rockin&#8217; through the night<br \/>\nYeah, we got a little ol&#8217; convoy, ain&#8217;t she a beautiful sight?<br \/>\nCome on an&#8217; join our convoy, ain&#8217;t nothin&#8217; gonna git in our way<br \/>\nWe gonna roll this truckin&#8217; convoy acress the U.S.A.<br \/>\nConvoy, convoy\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Uh, breaker Pig-Pen, this here&#8217;s th&#8217; Duck<br \/>\nan&#8217; a-you wanna back off with them hogs?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>10-4, &#8217;bout five mile or so, 10 roger<br \/>\nThem hogs is gittin&#8217; in-tense up here.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By the time we got into Tulsa town<br \/>\nWe had eighty-five trucks in all<br \/>\nBut they&#8217;s a road-block up on the clover-leaf<br \/>\nAn&#8217; them bears was wall to wall\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, them smokies as thick as bugs on a bumper<br \/>\nThey even had a bear in the air<br \/>\nI sez, callin&#8217; all trucks, this here&#8217;s the Duck<br \/>\nWe about to go a-huntin&#8217; bear\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cause we got a great big convoy, rockin&#8217; through the night<br \/>\nYeah, we got a great big convoy, ain&#8217;t she a beautiful sight?<br \/>\nCome on an&#8217; join our convoy, ain&#8217;t nothin&#8217; gonna get in our way<br \/>\nWe gonna roll this truckin&#8217; convoy across the U.S.A.<br \/>\nConvoy, convoy\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Uh, you wanna gimme a 10-9 on that Pig-Pen?<br \/>\nUh, nega-tory Pig-Pen, yer still too close<br \/>\nYeah, them hogs is startin&#8217; to close up my sinuses<br \/>\nMercy sakes you better back off another ten\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Well we rolled up Interstate forty-four<br \/>\nLike a rocket sled on rails<br \/>\nWe tore up alla our swindle sheets<br \/>\nAnd left &#8217;em settin&#8217; on the scales\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By the time we hit that Chi-town<br \/>\nThem bears was-a-gittin&#8217; smart<br \/>\nThey&#8217;d brought up some reinforcements<br \/>\nFrom the Illinois National Guard\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There was armored cars and tanks and jeeps<br \/>\n&#8216;An rigs of every size<br \/>\nYeah, them chicken coops was full o&#8217; bears<br \/>\nAnd choppers filled the skies\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Well we shot the line and we went for broke<br \/>\nWith a thousand screamin&#8217; trucks<br \/>\nAnd eleven long-haired Friends O&#8217; Jesus<br \/>\nIn a chartreuse micro-bus\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Uh, Rubber Duck to Sod Buster<br \/>\nCome on there, yeah, 10-4 Sod Buster<br \/>\nListen, you wanna put that micro-bus in<br \/>\nbehind that suicide jockey?<br \/>\nYeah, he&#8217;s haulin&#8217; dynamite and he<br \/>\nneeds all the help he can get\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Well we laid a strip for the Jersey shore<br \/>\nAnd prepared to cross the line<br \/>\nI could see the bridge was lined with bears<br \/>\nBut I didn&#8217;t have a doggone dime\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I sez Pig-Pen, this here&#8217;s the Rubber Duck<br \/>\nWe just ain&#8217;ta gonna pay no toll<br \/>\nSo we crashed the gate doin&#8217; ninety-eight<br \/>\nI sez let them truckers roll, 10-4\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cause we got a mighty convoy, rockin&#8217; through the night<br \/>\nYeah, we got mighty convoy, ain&#8217;t she a beautiful sight?<br \/>\nCome on an&#8217; join our convoy, ain&#8217;t nothin&#8217; gonna git in our way<br \/>\nWe gonna roll this truckin&#8217; convoy across the U.S.A.<br \/>\nConvoy, convoy\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Uh, 10-4 Pig-Pen, what&#8217;s yer 20? \u2026Omaha?<br \/>\nWell they ought know that to do<br \/>\nwith them hogs out there fer sure<br \/>\nWell, mercy sakes, good buddy, we gonna back on out a here<br \/>\nso keep the bugs off your glass<br \/>\nand the bears off your\u2026tail<br \/>\nand we&#8217;ll catch you on the flip-flop<br \/>\nThis here&#8217;s the Rubber Duck on the side\u2026we gone..bye, bye\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, fer\u00a0sure fer sure, it&#8217;s the 6th of June, and you know what that is,\u00a0right?\u00a0\u00a0 I just can&#8217;t help reposting the classic C.W. McCall lyrics,\u00a0but you should hunt down the\u00a0song for\u00a0yourself yerownself: &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- \u00a0Uh, breaker one-nine. This here&#8217;s the Rubber Duck You gotta copy on me Pig-Pen, c&#8217;mon?\u00a0 Uh, yeah 10-4 Pig-Pen, fer sure, fer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions\/487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}