{"id":3633,"date":"2013-06-06T13:29:38","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T18:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=3633"},"modified":"2013-06-06T13:29:38","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T18:29:38","slug":"do-you-know-what-today-is-you-should","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=3633","title":{"rendered":"Do you know what today is?  You should."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, yeah, I know, it&#8217;s been a while.\u00a0 Things are busy, and the usual flow of humor seems to be constipated &#8211; an uncomfortable blockage if ever there was one.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll try to get back here a little more often in the coming weeks.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In any event, that&#8217;s not a reason to miss a decent shout out for Convoy Day &#8211; <a title=\"Happy Convoy Day\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=180\" target=\"_blank\">I posted this once before<\/a>, but hey &#8211; that was 5 years ago.\u00a0 It&#8217;s worth repeating,\u00a0fer\u00a0sure fer sure!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j3VN54M1OXA\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014-<br \/>\nUh, breaker one-nine. This here\u2019s the Rubber Duck<br \/>\nYou gotta copy on me Pig-Pen, c\u2019mon?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Uh, yeah 10-4 Pig-Pen, fer sure, fer sure<br \/>\nBy golly it\u2019s clean clear to Flag-town, c\u2019mon?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, that\u2019s 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\u2019 logs<br \/>\nCabover Pete with a reefer on<br \/>\nAn\u2019 a Jimmy haulin\u2019 hogs\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019s headin\u2019 fer bear on I-one-oh<br \/>\n\u2018Bout a mile out a\u2019 Shaky-town<br \/>\nI sez Pig-Pen, this here\u2019s th\u2019 Rubber Duck<br \/>\nAn\u2019 I\u2019m about to put the hammer down\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cause we got a little ol\u2019 convoy, rockin\u2019 through the night<br \/>\nYeah, we got a little ol\u2019 convoy, ain\u2019t she a beautiful sight?<br \/>\nCome on an\u2019 join our convoy, ain\u2019t nothin\u2019 gonna git in our way<br \/>\nWe gonna roll this truckin\u2019 convoy acress the U.S.A.<br \/>\nConvoy, convoy\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Uh, breaker Pig-Pen, this here\u2019s th\u2019 Duck<br \/>\nan\u2019 a-you wanna back off with them hogs?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>10-4, \u2019bout five mile or so, 10 roger<br \/>\nThem hogs is gittin\u2019 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\u2019s a road-block up on the clover-leaf<br \/>\nAn\u2019 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\u2019 all trucks, this here\u2019s the Duck<br \/>\nWe about to go a-huntin\u2019 bear\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cause we got a great big convoy, rockin\u2019 through the night<br \/>\nYeah, we got a great big convoy, ain\u2019t she a beautiful sight?<br \/>\nCome on an\u2019 join our convoy, ain\u2019t nothin\u2019 gonna get in our way<br \/>\nWe gonna roll this truckin\u2019 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\u2019 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 \u2018em settin\u2019 on the scales\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By the time we hit that Chi-town<br \/>\nThem bears was-a-gittin\u2019 smart<br \/>\nThey\u2019d brought up some reinforcements<br \/>\nFrom the Illinois National Guard\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There was armored cars and tanks and jeeps<br \/>\n\u2018An rigs of every size<br \/>\nYeah, them chicken coops was full o\u2019 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\u2019 trucks<br \/>\nAnd eleven long-haired Friends O\u2019 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\u2019s haulin\u2019 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\u2019t have a doggone dime\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I sez Pig-Pen, this here\u2019s the Rubber Duck<br \/>\nWe just ain\u2019ta gonna pay no toll<br \/>\nSo we crashed the gate doin\u2019 ninety-eight<br \/>\nI sez let them truckers roll, 10-4\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cause we got a mighty convoy, rockin\u2019 through the night<br \/>\nYeah, we got mighty convoy, ain\u2019t she a beautiful sight?<br \/>\nCome on an\u2019 join our convoy, ain\u2019t nothin\u2019 gonna git in our way<br \/>\nWe gonna roll this truckin\u2019 convoy across the U.S.A.<br \/>\nConvoy, convoy\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Uh, 10-4 Pig-Pen, what\u2019s 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\u2019ll catch you on the flip-flop<br \/>\nThis here\u2019s the Rubber Duck on the side\u2026we gone..bye, bye\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, yeah, I know, it&#8217;s been a while.\u00a0 Things are busy, and the usual flow of humor seems to be constipated &#8211; an uncomfortable blockage if ever there was one.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll try to get back here a little more often in the coming weeks.\u00a0\u00a0 In any event, that&#8217;s not a reason to miss a decent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[53,43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3633"}],"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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3634,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3633\/revisions\/3634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}