IconoclasT wrote:
] NASHVILLE, TN The interstate trucking industry,
] already beset with rising fuel prices and a shortage of
] qualified workers, was dealt another blow last month, with the
] release of the agonizingly sorrowful country ballad "She's
] Gone Back To What She Calls Home," by Cole Hardin.
] ...
] "We're especially worried about routes through trucking's
] Golden Triangle: Atlanta, Memphis, and Nashville," National
] Highway Traffic Safety administrator Dr. Jeff Runge said. "The
] high volume of country stations in that area, many of which
] confess to playing the song almost hourly, has created a
] depression hot-spot. Almost nothing's getting into or out of
] that area."
]
] Fearing for the financial and emotional safety of their
] workers, industry leaders have asked President Bush and the
] FCC to remove the song from the airwaves, as President Carter
] did during the "He Stopped Loving Her Today" crisis of
] 1980.
]
] Too Funny...
OMG!!!

RE: Onion: Country ballad paralyzes trucking industry